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This surname is derived CHITTENDEN from the corrupt British and Welsh word chy, meaning "house." and tane, "lower," and din or dun, "hill," the lower house on the hill. The name is quite common in England, and the spelling, which has been greatly varied, is
almost always Chittenden at the present time. Only two families of the name were early immigrants to America. Thomas Chittenden, a linen weaver, came with his son Isaac from Wapping, in county Kent, and settled in Sci- tuate, Massachusetts, where his descendants are still found. It is not known whether he was related to William Chittenden, mentioned below.
(I) William Chittenden, the immigrant an- cestor, came from the parish of Cranbrook, Kent, England, and is believed to have been the son of Robert Chittenden. In the record of baptisms in the parish of Marden, near Cranbrook, there is an entry of William, son of Robert, March, 1594. He was an original settler of Guilford, Connecticut, and one of the six persons selected to purchase lands there from the native owners. He was also one of the four magistrates who received "full power and authority to act, order and dispatch all matters respecting the publick weale and civile government of the plantation until a church is gathered amonge us." He was the chief military man of the plantation, and bore the title of Lieutenant. Savage says that he had been a soldier in the English army in the Thirty Years War in the Netherlands, and had received the rank of major. He was a magistrate and deputy to the general court until his death. His lands in Guilford com- prised about one hundred acres, the most of which is still in possession of a descend- ant. He married, in England, Joanna, daugh- ter of Dr. Edmund and Joanna Sheaffe, of Cranbrook, Kent. She survived him, and married (second) as his second wife, Abra- ham Cruttenden, of Guilford. She died there August 16, 1668. Her mother, Joanna Shcaffe, emigrated with the family from Eng- land, and died in Guilford August 1, 1659. William Chittenden died in February, 1660-1. Children : Thomas, Elizabeth, Nathaniel, John, mentioned below ; Mary, Hannah, born November 15, 1649; Joseph, April 14, 1652, died June 22, 1652; Hannah, twin of Joseph, died September 13, 1674; Deborah, Decem- ber 12, 1653.
(II) Sergeant John Chittenden, son of William Chittenden, married, December 12, 1665, Hannah, daughter of John Fletcher, of Milford, Connecticut. He died in Guilford, in April, 1716. Children: John, born Octo- ber 19. 1666; Elizabeth, January 26, 1670; Joseph, mentioned below ; Gideon, September
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23, 1678, died 1679; Abel, May 14, 1681 ; Ly- dia, March 30, 1684.
(III) Joseph, son of John Chittenden, was born March 26, 1672, and married, August 26, 1692, Mary, daughter of Nathaniel and Mary Kimberly, of New Haven; she was born April, 1671, and died January 14, 1748. He lived in Guilford, and died September II, 1787. Children: Deborah, born January 28, 1695 ; Patience, January 19, 1696; Gideon, mentioned below; Daniel, March 15, 1700; Joseph, January 25, 1702; Thankful, January 27, 1704.
(IV) Gideon, son of Joseph Chittenden, was born February 3, 1698, and married, March 21, 1721, Abigail, daughter of Samuel and Abigail ( Wetmore) Bishop. of Guilford, born April 19, 1701. He removed to New Milford, Connecticut, in 1762. He was living May 29, 1781. Children: Abraham, born February 16, 1723; Millicent, April 5, 1725; Abigail, March 17, 1727; Prudence, October 14, 1729; Giles, December 8, 1731 ; Miles, June 15, 1734; Ruth, May 15, 1737 ; Stephen, mentioned below ; Catharine, May 9, 1747.
(V) Stephen, son of Gideon Chittenden, was born May 9, 1739, and died in Kent, Con- necticut. He moved with his father from Guilford to New Milford, and from there to Kent. He married, September 26, 1765, Lucy Bardsley, of New Milford. She was a widow in 1808, and married (second) Asahel Stone, being a widow again in 1812. Children : Miles, born March 28, 1767; Stephen, 1768; Lucy : Ruth; William; Nathaniel; Dolly ; Erastus.
(VI) Erastus, son of Stephen Chittenden, was born in March, 1784. and died in Sep- tember, 1820. He married, 1805, Nancy Bis- sell, who was born in Goshen, Connecticut. Children : Sarah Bissell Chittenden, born June 18, 1806, married Jared Pratt, of Platts- burg, New York; William Erastus, of whom further.
(VII) Rev. William Erastus Chittenden, only son of Erastus Chittenden, was born July 6, 1808, at Goshen, Connecticut, and died at Cleveland, Ohio, February 13, 1880. He was educated in the schools at Litchfield, Connecticut, and was ordained deacon in the Protestant Episcopal Church, but preferring the Presbyterian faith, he was ordained in that denomination at Belleville, Illinois, in 1839, and was pastor for a number of years there. He left the ministry about 1847 to engage in
business as a banker in New York, but con- tinued active and prominent in the church, and was elder of the North Presbyterian Church of Buffalo. Before the civil war he had banks (of which he was president) at Holly Springs, Bank of Northern Mississippi ; Bank of Eastern Tennessee, at Knoxville, Tennessee ; Bank of Woodbury, at Woodbury, Connecticut. At one time he was associated in business with J. Pierpont Morgan, New York City, in the firm of Chittenden, Morgan & Church. During the panic of 1853 these banks shared the general disaster to business. He then became secretary of the Niagara Car Works, and afterward manufactured hot- air engines, the patent on which he controlled. In politics he was a Republican. He was a member of Niagara Lodge, No. 2, of Masons.
He married (first) May Bebee, of Jackson, Michigan ; (second) Agnes Kraft; (third) in September, 1846, Ann Eliza Smith, who was born September 14, 1820, and died De- cember 27, 1907, daughter of John Smith, and granddaughter of Whitman Smith. Whitman Smith's father and grandfather bore the same name before him. Her mother was Ann (Chapin ) Smith. Children of first wife: I. William Frederick, deceased ; was a broker in Brooklyn, New York. 2-3. Twins died in infancy. Children by third wife: 4. Mary Adelia, born in Prattsburg, New York, 1847; resides at Niagara-on-the-Lake; mar- ried John Henry Wilson. 5. John Smith, of whom further. 6. Anna Elizabeth, born Sep- tember 10, 1855; unmarried. 7. Gertrude, born June 12, 1857, died January 6, 1896.
(VIII) John Smith, son of Rev. William Erastus Chittenden, was born at Holly Springs, Mississippi, June 18, 1850. He came to Buffalo, New York, with his father in May, 1861, and finished his education there in the public schools. He entered the hardware busi- ness, and was also a general merchant at Al- den for some years. From 1873 to 1880 he was secretary and treasurer of the Fletcher Furnace Company, of Black Rock. He is now ( 1911 ) retired from active business. He served a term of enlistment in Company B. Seventy-fourth Regiment, New York Na- tional Guard. He is a member and deacon of the Presbyterian church. In politics he is a Republican. He is a member of the Acacia Club, and of Era Lodge, No. 161, Free Ma- sons, and Keystone Chapter, Royal Arch Ma- sons.
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He married Annie Pratt ( see Pratt), De- cember 3. 1869. Children: 1. John Lorenz, mentioned below. 2. Phebe, born December 4, 1873 ; married Thedore L. Richmond, presi- dent of Buffalo Scale Works. 3. Anna Pratt, born November 29, 1877; resides in Buffalo. 4. Lorenz Pratt, born July 13, 1884: living at Milwaukee, Wisconsin : dealer in automo- biles : married. January 1. 1907, Claribel, daughter of Dr. Clarence A. Tyler, of Alden.
(IX) John Lorenz, son of John Smith Chittenden, was born at Knoxville, Tennes- see, January 24, 1871. He received his early education in public and private schools of Buffalo. He began his commercial life as clerk in the Manufacturers and Traders' Bank of Buffalo, and won promotion from time to time to the rank of teller. In 1902 he en- gaged in business as a dry goods dealer in Buffalo. Since 1910 he has been in the gen- eral brokerage and bond business, represent- ing Berton, Griscom & Jenks, of New York City. In politics he is a Republican. He is a member of the North Presbyterian Church of Buffalo, the Chamber of Commerce of Buffalo and of Landmark Lodge, No. 441, Free Masons : and the Buffalo, Park, Elmira City Club of Elmira, the Sons of the Amer- ican Revolution : the Buffalo National Service Society, the Black River Valley Club, of Watertown.
He married. September 26, 1894. Amelia Frederica Lautz. daughter of John Adam Lautz and Catherine ( Bardol), daughter of Joseph. Her parents were married Novem- ber 16, 1845. Children: Hortense Pratt. Es- ther, and Ruth, born in Buffalo.
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John Pratt, the immigrant ancestor, was the son of Rev. William Pratt, and was bap- tized November 9, 1620, at Stevenange, Hert- fordshire, England. The exact time when he came to America is not known, but is believed to have been in 1632, with the company of Rev. Thomas Hooker. April 7. 1634. he was granted two acres of land by the old burying- place in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and in 1635 he "owned a house on the northerly side of Mt. Auburn street, between Brighton street and Brattle Square, which he sold to Joseph Isaac." Ile was made freeman May 14, 1634. On May 31. 1636, he went with the company of Rev. Hooker to Hartford, Connecticut, where they arrived in June, 1636. His name
occurs in the list of proprietors there and fre- quently afterwards in the town records. On January 14, 1639, he was elected representa- tive ; April 11, 1639, one of the committee to elect magistrates ; February 18, 1640, one of a committee to appoint and lay out lands ; January 26, 1641, he was chosen to order the affairs of the town; September 15, 1643, one of the grand jury; February 3, 1644, con- stable. He is supposed to have been a car- penter by trade, as he made repairs on the "Prison howse" in 1651. He afterwards pur- chased two adjoining lots on Main street, of Governor Haynes. Pratt street derived its name from him, and was cut through his home lot. The record of his marriage has not been found. The Christian name of his wife was Elizabeth. His will was dated Oc- tober 14, 1654, and he died in Hartford, July 15, 1655. Children: John, mentioned below ; Daniel. born about 1639: Hannah, Novem- ber 25. 1648.
(II) John (2), son of John (I) Pratt, was born about 1638, in Hartford, and died November 23, 1689. He married (first ) Han- nah, daughter of Lieutenant James and Alice Boosey, of Wethersfield, Connecticut, born in 1641. Lieutenant James was clerk of the train band. Mr. Pratt married (second ) Hep- sibah, daughter of John Wyatt. He was was made freeman February 26, 1656, chosen constable for the years 1660-69-78-82, and was chosen "to order the affayres of the town from 1653 to 1665." His name also appears on the list of freemen on the north side of the river, taken October 13. 1669. His will was dated April 19. 1689. His widow Hep- sibah married (second ) John Sadd, who was a tanner from Earl's Colne, England, and settled in Wethersfield, 1674. She died De- cember 20, 1711. Children, born in Hart- ford: Hannah, November 25. 1658; John, May 17, 1661 ; Elizabeth, October 7, 1664; Sarah, June 20. 1668: Joseph, March 6, 1671 ; Ruth, December 21, 1677 : Susannah, October 2, 1680: Jonathan, mentioned below.
(IH ) Jonathan, son of John (2) Pratt, was born in Hartford, October 6. 1683, and died there December 6, 1755. In 1730 he was listed as a tanner. His will was dated Au- gust 21, 1751, and proved January 6, 1756. He married ( first) - -: (second) Mary Benton, born 1690, daughter of Andrew Ben- ton. They lived on the west side of Main street, in Hartford. She died February 8,
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1781, aged ninety-one, and was buried in East Hartford, where he also was buried. Children : Elizabeth ; Jerusha, born 1717; Daniel, baptized June 10, 1722; Moses ; Jona- than ; Eliab, 1724; Aaron, mentioned below ; Mary; Hepsibah, 1732.
(IV) Aaron, son of Jonathan Pratt, was born in East Hartford, Connecticut, in 1742, and died in Buffalo, New York, at the home of his son Samuel, February 9, 1807. About 1770 he moved with his family to Westmin- ster, Vermont, where for many years he kept a tavern, which in 1899 was still standing. He married, in 1757. Mary Clark, born in East Hartford, 1744, died in Buffalo, Novem- ber 20, 1809. Children, baptized in East Hartford: Elizabeth, December 24, 1758, died July 24, 1764; Aaron, September 7, 1760; Mary, August 22, 1762; Samuel, mentioned below ; William, June 1, 1766, died in in- fancy ; William, January 10, 1768.
(V) Samuel, son of Aaron Pratt, was born in East Hartford, Connecticut, and baptized July 29, 1764. About 1770 he went with his father to Westminster, and in the spring of 1775 returned to the old home at East Hart- ford, where he enlisted in the revolution, July IO, 1775, in the Third Company, Eighth Regi- ment, Huntington's Brigade. Until Septem- ber 14, 1775, they were stationed on the Sound ; they were ordered by Washington to Boston camps, and took post at Roxbury, in General Spencer's brigade, where they re- mained until the expiration of his service ; he was discharged December 14, 1775. He en- listed again July 2, 1777, in Captain John Harmon's company, Fourth Regiment, Con- necticut line, and was discharged January I, 1778: this regiment camped at Peekskill, and in September joined Washington's army in Pennsylvania ; they marched in the Connecti- cut brigade under General McDougall. and fought in the battle of Germantown, October 4, 1777 ; they were closely engaged at the bat- tle of Monmouth; they were in Varnum's brigades and defended bravely at Fort Mif- flin on the Delaware. In 1801 Captain Pratt left Westminster and went to Montreal, where he made arrangements for a long expedition into the west, and in 1802 with a small com- pany he started the undertaking, leaving his family at home. He was well fitted for lead- ing such an expedition, being courageous and firm in character ; in appearance he was broad- shouldered, thickset and stout, capable of
much endurance of hardships. In 1803, when near Sandusky, he was stricken with small- pox, and his companions, either from fear or hopelessness for his case, left him in the woods among the Indians who nursed him through the disease. His return home was a great surprise, as he had been given up for dead after his long absence. He had deter- mined to settle in Buffalo, and in 1804 sold out his village store and started with his fam- ily for his destination. They reached Buf- falo in September, 1804. A small cabin and store building were built until the larger one should be made. Most of his trade was with the Indians, exchanging his goods for furs. His family was always on good terms with the Indians and never had trouble except on one occasion ; one day, while they were eating dinner, Devil's Ramrod, an infuriated, half- intoxicated Indian, came chasing Benjamin, a son, through the rooms, brandishing a knife; it seems that Benjamin had been teasing the Indian until he became so angry that it was hard to pacify him, but finally he said: "Will not kill Ho-da-ni-da-oh's boy," and left the room. Mrs. Fox (Esther Pratt ) says : "I took my little sister, Lucy Ann, then a baby, into father's store one day, and placed her on the counter. My attention was directed from her for a moment, and when I turned towards the child I beheld to my horror a Tuscarora squaw come into the door, and, like a flash, catch up my little sister in her blanket and instantly disappear with her. I ran screaming with all my might after her ; and brother Asa, who was near by, gave chase after her, and with great difficulty succeeded in getting Lucy from her grasp. When ques- tioned as to her motive for stealing the child, she replied that she had just lost her own and wished to possess another." In 1805 Cap- tain Pratt and his wife went to New Eng- land, and on their return brought their aged father and mother from Westminster: the father. Aaron Pratt, did not live long after the trip, and died in 1806, his wife dying in 1809; they were both members of the Con- gregational church. Captain Pratt died Au- gust 30, 1812, and was buried in the Frank- lin Square burying ground. A short time after the burning of Buffalo, Mrs. Pratt re- turned to Westminster to the old homestead. She went again later to Buffalo and died there in 1830. Captain Pratt married, about 1785, Esther Wells, born in Hatfield, Massa-
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chusetts, April 20, 1766. Children: Samuel, mentioned below; Asa, born 1788; Permelia, 1792; Pascal Paoli, 1794; Benjamin Wells, 1796; Esther, 1798; Hiram, 1800; Mary, 1802 ; Lucy Ann, 1805; Marilla Adaline, July 13, 1807.
(VI) Samuel (2), son of Samuel (I) Pratt was born in 1787. He was seventeen years of age, in 1804, when his father moved to Buffalo, and he remained in Townshend, Vermont, where he was a clerk in Mr. Bige- low's store. In August, 1807, with his wife and infant son three months old, he went to Buffalo, in company with his brother Asa, who was taking Indian stores to his father. He and his family were very fond of music. He kept a store, as well as his father, nearly opposite him on Exchange street, with Ben- jamin Caryl and others, but he soon retired to become sheriff of Niagara county, March IO, 1810. Later he joined his brother-in- law, Elijah Leech, under the firm name of Pratt & Leech. At the time of the Buffalo fire he lived on what is now the northwest corner of Eagle and Main streets, and back of his house was a stretch of forest land. "On the night of Dec. 30, 1813, a little past midnight, the weather being raw and dis- agreeable, Mrs. Leech (Capt. Pratt's daugh- ter, Pamelia), who, with her husband, was sojourning at Wid. Pratt's farm homestead, upon the creek, heard the booming of a dis- tant cannon. She was at once aroused to the fact that it was the signal for the Brit- ish and Indians to commence attack upon Buffalo, which had been anticipated as retal- iatory measure for the burning of Newark, now Niagara, which had been done by Gen- eral McClure two weeks previous. She aroused her husband, and no time was lost in rescuing the family of her brother Sam- uel from impending danger. The family was aroused and all packed in a wagon and driven to the homestead. Samuel stayed behind to watch and protect property. He put out many fires kindled in the buildings by the enemy. The family was severely pressed after the war, and the strictest frugality was required to secure even the necessaries of life for a home formerly habituated to every seasonable luxury." On December 24, 1812, the Buf- falo Gasette printed: "Samuel Pratt, Esq., has been appointed Adjutant of the Volun- teers." In 1818 he took charge of the store belonging to Mr. Bigelow, for whom he had
formerly worked, in St. Thomas, Canada. He married, aged nineteen, in 1806, Sophia Fletcher, aged eighteen. He was about five feet 9 inches tall, rather slender, and delicate in appearance. He died August 7, 1822, and his wife died March 19, 1862. She was daughter of General Samuel Fletcher, who was at Crown Point in 1762 and served there until November ; he fought at Ticonderoga and Bennington; was lieutenant ; appointed captain in March, 1776, major in August, 1777; brigadier-general of state militia in 1781, and afterwards major-general for six years ; he married a daughter of John Hazel- tine. Children : Samuel Fletcher, born May 27, 1807; Lucius Hubbard, January 6, 1809; Sophia Charlotte, January 1, 1811; Pascal Paoli, mentioned below.
(VII) Pascal Paoli, son of Samuel (2) Pratt, was born in Buffalo, New York, Sep- tember 15, 1819. He was educated in Buf- falo, studying at Hamilton Academy, Madi- son county, New York. in 1833, and then spending a year at Amherst Academy. In 1836 he began work for his brother Samuel F. in the store, and five years later became a partner, with the firm name of Pratt & Co. They had a prosperous business which became one of the best known wholesale and retail hardware houses in Western New York. They added to the business a large plant for manufacturing iron, building a blast furnace and rolling mill at Black Rock, New York. In this they employed as high as two thou- sand men. They had several large vessels for bringing the iron ore from the Lake Supe- rior region. In 1846 he and his brother Sam- uel F., with Mr. William P. Letchworth, or- ganized a firm under the name of Pratt & Letchworth, to manufacture saddlery hard- ware, wood hames, malleable iron and steel castings, and a corporation bought them out in 1896, now calling itself The Pratt & Letch- worth Company. For over thirty-five years this firm has employed from five to eight hundred men continually, and Black Rock as a result stands as a monument of the industry. Mr. Pratt was one of the originators of the Buffalo Park system, and has always been prominent in making the city beautiful. He was first president of the Park Commission, and served from 1869 to 1879, when he re- signed. He served on a commission to ap- praise lands at Niagara Falls, New York, for an international park, and the commis-
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sion made awards of one and one-half mil- lion dollars, satisfying both land-owners and state, and being approved by the supreme court and accepted by the legislature. In 1872 he was presidential elector of the Re- publican party, but he has always refused other offices. From the time of its organi- zation in 1856 until 1885, when he became its president, he was vice-president of the Manufacturers and Traders' Bank, and for years he held the office of president. He was generous in charity, both with his time and his money. Because of his great busi- ness ability he gained the confidence of all his fellow citizens. He was president of the Bankers' Association, a director in the Com- mercial Bank, and the Buffalo, New York & Philadelphia Railroad, president of the Buf- falo Iron and Nail Company, the Young Men's Christian Association, and the Buffalo Seminary, trustee of the Buffalo Gas Light Company, the Buffalo Orphan Asylum, and the North Presbyterian Church.
He married, September 1, 1845, in Pitts- burg, Pennsylvania, Phebe Lorenz, daughter of Frederick and Catherine (Impson) Lo- renz, of Pittsburg. She was born May 3, 1824, and died in Buffalo, May 26, 1887. Children: I. Katherine Lorenz, born Sep- tember 5, 1847, in Buffalo ; married, June 24, 1869, John Miller Horton, born February 18, 1840, in Mellenville, New York, son of Man- deville and Sarah (Miller) Horton. 2. Fred- erick Lorenz, born September 17, 1848. 3. Mary Beals. 1850, died 1852. 4. Annie Lo- renz, February 23, 1852; married John S. Chittenden (see Chittenden). 5. Melissa Dodge, March 5. 1854: married Robert L. Fryer. 6. Pascal Paoli, born 1855, died 1856. 7. Samuel Fletcher, born June 17, 1857. 8. Emma, born November 28, 1858; married Dr. Charles S. Jones. 9. Edward Pascal, born. August 26, 1860: married Annette Perrin.
The surname Scott is one of the SCOTT oldest and most numerous of Scotch names. Its derivation as a surname is obviously from Scot, and is similar to English. Irish, German, French and Wales, used as surnames. Before the year 1200 this surname was in use in Peeble- shire, Fifeshire, Roxburgshire, Selkirkshire, Kincardshire and other shires in Scotland. Before 1619 some of the family settled in Ulster province, Ireland, which was granted
to Scotch and English settlers. The name is very numerous in the Protestant counties of Antrim, Down and Londonderry, province of Ulster, Ireland. Like all the Scotch set- tlers this family was opposed to union with the Catholic Irish and hence intermarried only with other Scotch families, and although called Scotch-Irish are still pure Scotch in blood, customs and religion. They were Cov- enanters, rigid Presbyterians, devout and faithful. From William Scott, of Roxburg- shire, England, and of Ulster province, Ire- land, came General Winfield Scott, the hero of the Mexican war, the war of 1812, and commander-in-chief of the Union army at the beginning of the great civil war. A numer- ous branch settled in Virginia and a branch in New England, from whom sprang Phineas Scott, the founder of the family in Erie county, New York.
(I) Phineas Scott was a resident of Danby, Vermont, coming thence about 1816, settling in the town of Concord, about three miles south of Springville, on Cattaraugus creek. He was unmarried, and building a log cabin kept a very rude sort of "bachelor's hall." He cleared some land from which he raised sufficient for his needs, supplementing his lar- der with the results of his skill with rifle and rod. Later he removed to what was known as the "Post place" on lot eleven, township six, range six, and about the same time took unto himself a wife. He lived on the latter farm about ten years, when his wife died leaving four children. He married a second wife and then moved to Townsend Hill, where he died in May, 1872, aged about sev- enty-eight years. He was an energetic, ca- pable man of business and accumulated a handsome estate. At one time he owned a number of unencumbered farms, containing in all over one thousand four hundred acres.
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