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itself " The Tioga and Barton Baptist Church." In 1848 they constructed a new church edifice, at a cost of $8oo.oo, which will seat 300 persons. The society now has fifty members, with Rev. Franklin J. Salmon, pastor.
The First Presbyterian Church of Waverly, located on Pennsyl- vania avenue, was organized with twenty-two members, June 8, 1847, by the Revs. Thurston, Carr and Bacchus, a committee from the Chemung presbytery. They erected a church edifice in 1849, enlarged it in 1860, and in 1886 the society erected at a cost of $30,000 a handsome brick church of a modern style of architecture. It will seat 600 persons, has large parlors, pastors study, etc., in the rear of the anditorium, over which is the large Sunday school room. Rev. Nathaniel Elmer was the first pastor. Rev. John L. Taylor is the present pastor.
The Methodist Episcopal Church of Waverly, located on Waverly street corner Chemung, was first organized as a class at Factory- ville, in 1828, with five members, namely : Elisha Tozer (leader), Rachel Tozer, Philena Tozer, Joshua Wilcox, and King Elwell. The first church edifice was erected in Factoryville in 1840, and dedi- cated the same year by Rev. Horace Agard, pastor. The trus- tees were Jacob H. Russell, Alpheus H. Tozer, and Gilbert H. Hallett; presiding elder, George Harmon. The society sold the church building to the Baptist society of Waverly, who took it down and erected their present commodious house of worship. The Methodist society removed to Waverly and built a frame church edifice, which was dedicated in March, 1864, by Bishop Janes. It was destroyed by fire in 1865. The present substan- tial and attractive brick building was erected, and dedicated in 1867, by Rev. Hiram Mattison, D. D. Rev. James O. Woodruff is the present pastor.
The First Baptist Church, located on Park avenue, corner of Tioga street, was originally organized at Ulster, Bradford county, Pa., June 24, 1824, at the house of Joseph Smith. Elder Levi Baldwin, from Smithfield, Dea. Asa Hacket, F. Perkins, Eliphalet Barden, and Selah Finch, from Chemung Baptist church, Tioga county, N. Y., and Isaac Cooley, formed the council. Deacon Asa Hacket was chosen moderater, and Levi Baldwin, clerk. The following named persons, sixteen in number, composed the original organization : Elder Thomas Bebe and Betsey Bebe, his wife, Joseph Smith and his wife, Euphenia Smith, Lockwood D. Smith, Alexander Hibbard and his wife Polly Hibbard, Abei J. Gerold and Nancy Gerold, his wife, Cornelius Quick and his wife,
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Margaret, Sisters Simons, Holcomb, Weriot and Lucretia Norton. It was first styled the " Athens and Ulster Baptist Church," and meetings were held at Athens, Ulster and Milltown. The name was changed March 10, 1832, to the " Athens and Chemung Bap- tist Church," and again, on May 14, 1836, to " Factoryville Baptist Church." Finally, in 1865, it was established at Waverly. The society have a neat and commodious church edifice, which will comfortably seat 500 persons. The present pastor is Rev. Daniel H. Cooper.
The Chemung Old School Baptist Church, located at Factoryville, was organized January 7, 1846, with nine members, as follows: Moses Slawson, David Proudfoot, Henry Rowland, Nathan Carey, Mary Carey, Fanny Carey, Betsey A. Slawson, Mary Slawson and Sarah Rowland. They met for worship in the houses of mem- bers and in the school-house until 1864, when the brick church erected by the New School Society, about 1830, was purchased by them at a cost of $1, 100.00. The building will seat about 250 persons. Elder M. W. Vail is the present pastor.
The Grace Episcopal Church, located on Park avenue corner of Tioga street, was organized December 28, 1853. The certificate of organization is signed by Rev. George Watson, the rector of St. Paul's church, of Owego, Levi Gardner, Arthur Yates, Thomas Yates and A., P. Spalding. The society has a very tasty church building, erected about 1855. The first rector was Rev. Horatio Gray. The present rector is Rev. George Bowen.
The Church of Christ, located on Providence street, was organ- ized July 8, 1877, with seven members, and a Sabbath school with twenty-one teachers and scholars was established at the same time.
St. James Roman Catholic Church is located on Chemung street corner of Clark. The first Roman Catholic church erected in Waverly was built in 1852. The lot whereon the building stood on Erie street, was deeded gratis to the Rt. Rev. John Timon, first bishop of Buffalo, by the late Owen Spalding, who also gave the lots for all the protestant churches first erected in Waverly. The affairs of the parish were attended to by Rt. Rev. James T. Mc Manus, the present Vicar General of the diocese of Rochester. The pastor's residence was in Owego, as there were not enough Catholics in Waverly to support a pastor. The parish priest of Owego was the only one in Tioga county. The money to build the first church was collected by the late John Sliney. The seating capacity was about three hundred, but at the time the
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church was built and for several years after, the building was too large for all the Catholics of Smithboro, Barton, Chemung and Waverly. The present house of worship is a handsome, como- dious edifice, with elegant memorial windows of stained glass, given by the members of the congregation. The lot is finely laid out. The pastoral residence, an elegant house, stands on the northwest corner of the lot. This building was erected about twenty years after the first church was built. The lot was pur- chased by the late John Sliney, and held in trust for the congre- gation for years, until they were able to build thereon. The first resident pastor was Rev. James Brady, now located at Arcade, Wyoming county. The present pastor is Rev. Edward McShane.
The North Barton Methodist Episcopal Church was organized in 1869, with eighteen members. The church was erected in 1870, at a cost of $1,500.00. The first pastor was Rev. William H. Gavitt. The present pastor is Rev. Ziba Evans.
The Methodist Episcopal Church of Barton Village was organized about 1805, at the house of Peter Barnes. Benjamin Aikens, Peter Barnes and his wife, Gilbert Smith, his sister Betsey Smith, and Samuel Mundy were among the earliest members. Peter Hoffman, Selah Payne, and Daniel Bensley joined soon after. For many years the society was supplied by circuit preachers,, who, traveling long distances, were able to hold meet- ings but once in four weeks. Rev. Timothy Lee and Rev. Hor- ace Agard are mentioned as among the earliest circuit preachers. Benjamin Aikens was the first local preacher. The society held the first camp-meeting in the county, at Smithboro, in 1807, and their regular meetings were held in private houses, the woods, and the school-house, until 1836, when the present church edifice was completed, costing $1, 100.00. It has sittings for about 400 persons. Rev. William H. Pearne was the first resident pastor, and Rev. Luther Peck is the present one.
The Methodist Episcopal Church of Lockwood was organized at an early date, the society first holding services in private houses, often at Charles Bingham's residence. In 1854 a church building was erected, which gave place to the present structure in 1886. It will seat 250 persons and is valued at $4,000.00. The society now has sixty members, with Rev. Ziba Evans, pastor.
The Methodist Episcopal Church at Ellistown is an old building, but we have been unable to collect any reliable data from which to compile a sketch. The society has now no organization there.
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B ERKSHIRE lies in the northeastern part of the county, and is bounded on the north by Richford, east by the county line, south by Newark Valley, and west by Caroline and Candor, containing an area of about 17,443 acres, 12,474 acres of which is improved land. The surface of the town is pleasingly diversified by lofty hills and fertile valleys, the former attaining a mean elevation of rom 1,200 to 1,400 feet. East and West Owego creeks, with their tributaries, form the water. courses of the township, the former entering on the north, near the center, flowing a southerly direction through the town; the latter forms the dividing line on the west between Berkshire and the towns of Caroline and Candor. The soil of this territory is principally clay-in the valley of East creek yellow loam, with clay underlying ; on the east, gravelly loam. The valleys and west hills were timbered with beech, maple, and iron-wood, the east hills with pine and hemlock.
Settlement .- The story of the " Boston Purchase," or "Boston Ten Townships," we have already detailed in chapter two. It devolved upon some of the proprietors therein named to found the township of Berkshire, a town that takes its name from the region of the famous Berkshire Hills of Massachusetts, and which it, indeed, in physical contour, greatly resembles. From these pioneers of the Puritan East, also, seems to have fallen upon their descendants of to-day, and to them is due, much of the prosper- ity, the integrity, character and intelligence for which the citizens of Berkshire are so justly celebrated. Nowhere have the man- ners of a people, their customs, their high sense of duty, their strict observance of the Sabbath, their love for the church and the school followed the line of descent more closely than in the township of Berkshire. These pioneers came not empty-handed nor empty-headed, for aside from their native New England thrift they were possessed of some means and had availed them- selves of a fair opportunity in the school-room.
Until 1808 the locality was known as " Brown's Settlement," after the pioneer family of that name. Brown's Settlement, then, was begun on the first day of April, 1791, by five men who left Stockbridge, Mass., on February 23d, spending thirty-seven days on the way, and bringing their tools and provisions on two leds, drawn by ox-teams. These pioneers were Isaac and Abra- ham Brown, brothers, Daniel Ball, Elisha Wilson, and John Car- Denter, the latter coming as the hired man of the Browns. Two
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other men, Messrs. Dean and Norton, came in the party as far as Choconut, now Union, where they remained.
Thus in brief is the story of the pioneer settlement of the town of which we write. Of these early ones and many who followed them we will speak, under the head of
EARLY HOUSEHOLDS OF BERKSHIRE .*
Isaac Brown, b at Stockbridge, Mass., 25 Oct., 1766, second son of Capt. Abraham and Beulah (Patterson) Brown, came to Brown's Settlement with the pioneer party in 1791, leaving Stock- bridge, 23 Feb. and reaching their destination I April. He probably worked with his brother, Abraham, till 1793, when he began to make a clearing for his own home. He married with Clarissa Ball, who was born in Stockbridge, 14 Nov., 1775, daughter of Josiah and Esther (Ward) Ball, and settled in a log house on the east side of the road on the south half of lot 305, a little south of where the railway crosses the road. Here he had just fairly started a pleasant home, when he died, 10 April, 1797, the first adult to die in the settlement. His widow died 12 Feb., 1844. Their children were :
I. Brown, a daughter, died in infancy.
Il. Isaac Brown, b 4 Oct., 1797, six months after his father's death, was brought up by his grandmother, Beulah Brown, and married, 5 July, 1820, with Eleanor Branch, daughter of Levi and Electa (Lyman) Branch. She was born in Richmond, Mass., 29 Nov., 1796, and died 4 July, 1867. He died at Newark Valley. They had a family of ten children, several of whom are yet living.
Josiah Ball, b at Watertown, Mass., 16 Dec., 1742, son of John and Lydia (Perry) Ball, a shoemaker, m 26 Feb., 1768, with Esther Ward, who was born in Worcester, Mass., 7 March, 1750-51, daughter of Major Daniel and Mary (Coggin). Ward. They settled in Stockbridge, Mass., and of their thirteen children all were born there but the youngest. In June, 1794, they came to Berkshire, and settled on lot 337, where their son-in-law, Luke B. Winship, dwelt for many years after them. He died 26 July, ISIO. She died 9 March, 1836. For some years he had an extra log house, which, in the season for moving, he kept to accommo- date those settlers who needed a temporary shelter while' pre-
* Extracts from an unfinished work, in manuscript, entitled, Folk Book of the Boston Purchase, by D. Williams Patterson, of Newark Valley.
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aring their houses. At other times it was used for a school- house, or for his shoe shop. Children :
1. William, died when two years old.
11. Daniel, b 27 Dec., 1769.
III. William, b 18 Oct., 1771.
IV. Stephen, b 29 Jan., 1774.
V. Clarissa, b 14 Nov., 1775, m Isaac Brown.
VI. Samuel, b 13 Nov. 1777.
VII. Henry, b 21 Nov., 1779.
VIII. Josiah, b 28 Jan., 1782.
IX. Isaac, b 27 Dec., 1783.
X. Electa; b 9 June, 1788, d 6 Sept., 1869.
XI. Charles, b 4 Sept., 1790, d 9 Jan., 1814.
XII. Cynthia, b 24 April, 1793, m with Luke Bates Winship.
VIII. Mary, b in July, 1801, and died when eighteen months old, about II or 12 Jan., 1803. The mother was over fifty years old when this child was born.
Daniel Ball, b at Stockbridge, Mass., 27 Dec., 1769, son of Josiah and Esther (Ward) Ball, has been called one of the pio- neers of Berkshire. He came here as one of the pioneer party of five who began the work in Brown's Settlement, I April, 1791, but did not work in the present limits of Berkshire toward clear- ing a home for himself or his father. He returned to Stockbridge in the fall, probably before his comrades did, and married at Lenox, Mass., 31 Oct., 1791, with Lucia Wells, daughter of Col. William Wells, of Lenox. In June, 1794, he returned to Berk- shire with his father's family, bringing his wife and daughter, and settled in a log house on lot 336, near the present home of Charles S. Manning. They moved, about 1820, to Victor, N. Y., and thence to Michigan, where they died ; he about 1833 ; she about 1840. They had ten children :
I. Ann, b at Stockbridge, in 1792.
II. William Wells, b in Berkshire, S Sept., 1794, the first white child born within the limits of the town, married in February, 1820, with Harriet Cook, daughter of Ebenezer Cook, Esq., and was living in Dec., 1820, where James Cross now lives. He afterward bought the farm of Abraham Brown, where his son Rodney A. Ball now lives, in Newark Valley, and died there 15 Jan., 1880.
III. Horatio. IV. Henry. V. Hester. VI. Sophia. VII. Chester. VIII. Calvin. IX. Davis. X. Myron. William Ball, b at Stockbridge, Mass., 18 Oct., 1771, a cloth-
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dresser, m with Phebe Bement, daughter of Asa and Ruth (Neal) Bement, and settled in Berkshire about 1794. They afterward moved to Tioga. and thence to Victor, N. Y., where they died; she about 23 April, 1847 ; he some years earlier. It is supposed that he built the first cloth-dressing works in Berkshire. He left there before Dec., 1820. Their children were :
I. George. II. William, a physician, settled in Victor, N. Y. III. Asa. IV. James. V. Albert. VI. Mary.
VII. Charles, a physician, b in Tioga, N. Y., 19 July, 1824, set- tled in Victor. VIII. Phebe.
Stephen Ball, born in Stockbridge, Mass., 29 Jan., 1774, son of Josiah and Esther (Ward) Ball, is entitled to rank among the leaders in the settlement of Berkshire. He came in 1793, when nineteen years old, to prepare a home for his father's family, on lot 336, on which he cut the first tree. Here he made a clearing, built a log house, raised a little corn, and perhaps a few potatoes, turnips and beans, made some provision for keeping a cow, and, in the fall, sowed a piece of wheat, and returned to Stockbridge. In February, 1794, he came again, bringing with him a cow, and lived alone till his father's family came, in June, 1794, and only on Sundays meeting his nearest neighbors, Isaac Brown and Daniel Gleazen. He married, in 1801, with Polly Leonard, daughter of Capt. Asa and Olive (Churchill) Leonard, and settled on the northeast corner of lot 337, where the hotel is now kept. Here they spent most of the remainder of their lives. She died 3 Oct., 1850, and he died 19 Feb., 1857. Their children were :
I. Olive Leonard, b 2 Nov., 1801, m with Robert Akins. II. Mary,b 12 May, 1803, died 21 March, 1815.
III. Harriet, b 19 July, 1805, m with Aaron P. Belcher.
IV. Eliza Ann, b 7 Oct., 1807, m with Charles Brown.
V. Richard Leonard, b 9 June, ISog, died 21 May, 1848.
VI. James Ward, b 24 May, ISII, m with Sypha Matson, and settled at Ottawa, Ill.
VII. Caroline, b 14 May, 1813, m with Carlisle P. Johnson.
VIII. Levi, b 26 March, 1815, m 28 Oct., 1841, with Betsey Ann Royce, and lives on the line between lots 385 and 416.
IX. Anson, b 19 March, 1817, m 5 Jan., 1848, with Caroline Moore, and died at Berkshire, 27 April, 1884.
X. Asa, b 26 April, 1819, m 15 Oct., 1845, with Esther Maria Manning, who died 15 May, 1887. He resides in Berkshire, a deacon of the Congregational church.
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XI. Mary Sophia, b 2 Feb., 1821, m with Dr. Edward H. Eldredge.
XII. Robert Henry, b 5 Feb., 1823, m 19 Dec., 1850, with Maria Henrietta Conklin, and lives in Berkshire.
XIII. Frances Calista, b 2 Jan., 1825, m with George Clark Royce, and d 21 Oct., 1853.
Samuel Ball, b at Stockbridge, Mass., 13 Nov., 1777, son of Josiah and Esther (Ward). Ball. came to Berkshire in 1794, m about 1803, with Jerusha Slosson. They dwelt at one time on lot 103, in Newark Valley, but in 1818 sold to Ezekiel Rich, re- turned to Berkshire village, and thence to the west border of the town, and settled on the east side of the road, opposite the house of Phineas Case, on southwest quarter of lot 380, and was living there in Dec., 1820. Afterward they went to Lawrenceville, Pa., where they died ; he, 12 Sept., 1841; she, 5 February, 1870, aged ninety-six years. Children were :
I. Nancy, b 18 May, 1805, m with Joseph Weaver.
II. Lodema Farnham, b6 May, 1806, m with Charles Frederick Akins.
III. Frederick William, b 6 June, 1808, d 9 April, 1835.
IV. Adeline, b 1 April, ISTI, m with her cousin Clark Slosson. V. Ball, b 7 Dec., 1813, died young.
VI. Cynthia Winship, b 10 March, 18IS, m with Amasa Daily, and second with her cousin, Ezbon Slosson.
Henry Ball, b 21 Nov. 1779, married with Sarah Judd Moore, daughter of Henry Moore, and settled in Berkshire. He bought for fifty dollars, the old house of Dr. Joseph Waldo, 23 May, 1808, and moved it up to the place where his sons afterward lived, on the west side of the road, near the northeast corner of lot 337, second house below the hotel. He died 22 Sept., 1837 : she died 7 June, 1856. Their children were :
I. Henrietta, b 14 Oct., 1811, died 16 Sept,, 1862, according to her gravestone, " aged 49 years and II months," which is a year too little, if the date is correct.
II. Gilson; b 29 Dec., 1812, married with Rhoda Ann Johnson, and was killed by a falling tree, 4 March, 1871.
III. Sophronia, b 1814, died 14 April, 1824, aged nine years.
IV. Franklin, b 25 Sept., 1816, m 29 March, 1859, with Marga- ret Meagher, and died at Newark Valley.
V. Eliza, b 7 June, 1819, died 19 Nov., 1840.
VI. Martin Henry, died unmarried, 28 July, 1875.
VII. Susan Sophronia, died in Berkshire, unmarried.
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VIII. Alvah Moore, resides in Berkshire on his father's home- stead.
Josiah Ball, b 28 Jan., 1782, was an excellent school-teacher, and a maker of wooden pumps. He married with Lucy Leon- ard, and settled in Berkshire village, where they died ; she 5 Oct., 1856 ; he 23 Oct., 1862. Children :
I. Emily, b 12 Aug., 1804, m with Horatio Collins.
II. Sabrina, b IS Dec., 1806. m with Addison Collins.
III. Julia, m with Dwight Waldo, and died 20 Jan., 1843.
IV. Mary, m with John Waldo, and settled at Portage, N. Y., where she died 13 May, 1887.
Isaac Bali, son of Josiah, came to Berkshire with his parents in June, 1794; m 20 Oct., 1808, with Cassandra Johnson. They set- tled on the east side of the road, on lot 336, where Charles O. Lynch now lives, and died there ; he 20 Nov., 1856; she, 19 Sept., 1858. Their children were :
I. Francis Augustus, b 17 Aug., 1809, d 14 April, 1819.
II. Abigail, b 15 Jan., 1811, m with Nathaniel Bishop Collins.
III. Plandon Halsey, b 20 May, 1813.
IV. Eunice, b 17 Nov., 1815.
V. Margery, b 23 June, 1818, m with Theodore Leonard.
VI. John, b 31 July, 1820, married with Mary Ann Ralyea, daughter of Dene and Mercy (Bradley) Ralyea, of Union, N. Y.
VII. Francis, b 14 April, 1824.
IX. Jay, b 10 May, 1827.
Joseph Gleazen lived in Stockbridge, Mass., till after his sons came to Brown's Settlement, after which he and his wife came to live with them, but never had a separate household in Berkshire. He died 9 March, 1816, aged seventy-five years. During the last years of her life she was not of sound mind. They had children, perhaps not in the following order :
I. Daniel, m with Rebecca Barnes.
II. Jesse, m with Mercy Adsel.
III. Caleb, had three wives, and lived at Richford.
IV. Sarah, m with -- Doud, and second, 21 Oct., 1802, with Nathan Ide.
V. Joseph, b about 1772, m with Lovice Bailey.
VI. Ebenezer Ede, a tailor, m with Susanna Scott, who came to Berkshire with the family of Noah Lyman, and in Dec., 1820, they dwelt in Berkshire, on the west side of the way, a little below where Nathaniel Bishop Collins afterward built his brick house, and after that he moved to Newark Valley, and died there
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in the old Lincoln tavern house. His wife, born 25 July, 1784, married (2d) 5 March, 1832, with Samuel Gleazen, his brother, and died in Richford, 5 Feb., 1853.
VII. Samuel, b in Stockbridge, Mass., 4 April,. 1783, was brought up by Silas Pepoon, Esq. He came to Berkshire later than his brothers, and settled in Richford.
Daniel Gleazen came to Brown's Settlement, probably, in the spring of 1794. He was a son of Joseph Gleazen, of Stockbridge. Mass. Tradition says that he first settled on the southeast quar- ter of lot 377, on the hill road, but afterward built a brick house on the road that lies in the hollow. He married at Berkshire, 26 Jan., 1805, with Miss Rebecca Barnes. They had seven chil- dren :
I. Luke. II. Eli, b perhaps about 2 June, 1808. III. Ruth. IV. Rebecca, b perhaps about 3 Dec., 1813. V. Joseph.
VI. William, b perhaps about 15 March, 1820.
VII. Barnes, b perhaps about 12 Feb., 1822.
Jesse Gleazen, brother of Daniel, probably came at the same time. He joined the church in Stockbridge, Mass., in 1790, was dismissed 2 Oct., 1803, to the church about to be formed at Tioga, N. Y., of which he was a constituent member, and con- tinued a member till 3 Oct., 1813. He married at Berkshire, 29 Oct., 18-, with " Miss Mercy Adzdil," as John Brown, Esq., recorded it; but the name may have been Adsel, or Hadsel. Their children were:
I. Sarah, bap 20 Nov., 1803.
II. James Adsel, bap 20 Nov., 1803.
III. Mercy, bap 4 April, 1805.
IV. Betsey Ruth, b 22 May, 1810, bap 2 Sept., 1810.
V. Huldah Ann, b 2 March, 1813.
Joseph Gleazen, Jr., was born in Stockbridge, Mass., about 1772, son of Joseph Gleazen. The date of his advent to Berk- shire is not known, but he probably came with his brothers. He was taxed for highway work three days in 1798, and married 16 May, 1803, with Lovice Bailey, (or " Vicey," as John Brown recorded the name) sister of Levi Bailey. He first settled on West Owego creek, west of the road, on the southwest quarter of lot 380, where Eleazer Lyman and his son, Daniel Lyman, afterward lived, just north of where the towns of Candor and Caroline corner together on the creek. In April, 1820, he left this place and settled in a log house on the southeast quarter of lot 342, on Berkshire Hill. Afterward they moved to Newark 9*
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Valley, and died there ; he 21 Sept., 1849, in his 77th year ; she 15 Oct., 1850, in her 65th year. Their children were :
I. Silas Pepoon. II. Emeline, d 3 July, 1863, aged 54.
III. Sabrina.
IV. George Densmore, b 27 Feb., 1814, resides in Newark Val- ley; m with Mary Ann Benton.
V. Lavina. VI. Julia.
VII. Semantha, m with Amasa Day Durfee.
Consider Lawrence was born at Canaan, Conn., 8 Feb., 1777 ; m 11 Sept., 1796, with Wealthy Peck. who was born 27 Oct., 1775. His name appears in John Brown's book 24 May, 1797, and he was taxed for work on highways, three days in 1798, and his name was in the tax list of 1802. He dwelt on the southwest quarter of lot 338, where Charles Backus Ford has since lived. He died 20 Feb., 1857, and his obituary notice said that he " came to Berkshire sixty-one years ago," which indicates 1796 as the year in which he came. He probably spent the summer before his marriage in preparing his home. Their children were :
I. Maria, b 30 Aug., 1797, m with Thomas Langdon, of Berk- shire.
II. Isaac Peck, b 8 Feb., 1799, m 20 Jan., 1821, with Catharine Cole.
III. Miles Lewis, b 6 Nov., 1800, m 26 March, IS34, with Syl- via C. Foote and settled in Berkshire.
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