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Early Settlers .- Elisha Wilson, eldest child of Elijah and Mary (Curtis) Wilson, was born at Stockbridge, Mass., 13 Aug., 1767, went over the Boston Purchase with the surveying party in 1790, selected lot 184 for his future home, and bought it of Elisha Blin, on his return to Mass. Starting again from Stockbridge, 23 Feb., 1791. with several companions, they reached their destination I April, 1791, and he spent the summer in preparing his land for culture, and raising a crop of corn and vegetables. He built a log house, with a single roof of bark, near the bank of the creek, west of the road and nearly opposite the site of his home in after years, where Levi B. Hammond now lives ; and this house, which some years later had a better roof, was standing, and sometimes occupied as a dwelling till 1830. After spending two winters at his old home in Stockbridge, this became his permanent home. He married 9 Dec., 1799, with Electa Slosson, who died 19 Nov., 1862, aged more than ninety years. He died HI Nov., 1857, aged over ninety years. Their children were :
I. Elijah, b 11 Oct., ISoo, died at Detroit, Mich.
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II. Mary, b 17 Jan., 1802 ; d 21 April, 1819.
III. Susan Maria, b 16 July, 1807; m with Chester Leonard, who died 25 Nov., IS41.
IV. Charles Frederick, b 10 Sept., 1810; m 22 Sept., 1833, with Elnora Woodford, daughter of Giles and Eunice (Wilcox) Wood- ford, of Burlington, Conn., where she was born 13 June, 1815. He died at Prescott, Wis., 17 Feb., 1881, in his 7ist year, without children, and she returned to Newark Valley, where she still resides.
Abraham Brown, b at Stockbridge, Mass., 28 June, 1768, was a farmer and surveyor. He visited the Boston Purchase in 1790, with a party of surveyors, and had probably been with them as an assistant in the previous year of their labor, and it is said that on one occasion he was detached from the party to verify some work, lost his way, and was out four days before he found his comrades. He came in the pioneer party, in 1791, and began his settlement on lot 257, which had fallen to his mother, in the divi- sion, about on the same spot where the Congregational meeting- house was built a few years later, and where John Harmon, after buying the south half of the lot, built his brick house, which still stands there. After his mother came to Brown's Settlement he lived with her, where Rodney Ball now lives, on the north half of the lot, and died there, 19 September, 1828, unmarried.
John Carpenter, born at Stockbridge, Mass., 24 Oct., 1772, eldest child of Abner and Lydia (Brown) Carpenter, was employed as an assistant to Isaac and Abraham Brown, and was one of the pioneers in Brown's Settlement, in 1791. He was probably here every year till his marriage, at Stockbridge, about the first of January, 1797. He had bought land on lot 302, in Berkshire (where his brother Daniel Carpenter afterward lived) and intended to settle upon it. Six weeks after his marriage he started again for Brown's Settlement to prepare a home for his wife, and the first news which she had from him was of his death and burial. He was the second adult person who died in the colony, and the first in the limits of Newark Valley. He was boarding with Ezbon Slosson's family in the log house where the lecture room of the Congregational church now stands, and was apparently, in as good health as ever, when he heard of the death of Isaac Brown, 10 April, 1797, and said: " Now I will go and take Brown's farm to work," but three days later, 13 April, 1797, he died, and was ready to join his neighbor Brown in the new cemetery.
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Ezbon Slosson, b at Stockbridge, Mass., 28 Jan., 1769, (son of Enoch Slosson) married there 26 Aug., 1790, with Electa Williams, daughter of Azariah and Beulah (Brown) Williams of Stockbridge, where she was born 20 Sept., 1772. He came to Brown's Settlement early in 1792, with the returning pioneers, and began his new home on lot 138, building a cabin of logs with a bark roof, about where the mill-house stands, in which Philander M. Moses now lives. In Feb. 1793, he again left Stockbridge, bringing with him his wife and daughter, and his parents with some of the younger members of their family, arriving at their . new home 4 March, 1793. In the fall of 1795, a heavy storm raised the water so as to float the puncheon floor of their house, and the bark roof slid off, compelling them to go in the night, through the water to his father's log house, where they dwelt till he could build a new one on the spot where the lecture-room of the Congregational church now stands. In :806 he built the first framed house in Newark Valley, which, as the south end of the old hotel, was torn down in April 1887. Later, he built a house on the spot where Mrs. John Davidge now lives. He died 2 June, 1838. She died at the house of Otis Lincoln, 12 Feb., 1853. Those who followed them to the settlement were made welcome to a part of their log house, while getting their own ready for use, and it sometimes sheltered two families at once, besides their own. After building this framed house he kept an inn, a small store, and also built a distillery about where Mr. Caldwell now lives. Their children were :
I. Caroline, b at Stockbridge, Mass., 23 Feb., 1791 ; married in 1812, with Ezekiel Rich.
II. Sarah, b 2 Aug., 1796; m with Otis Lincoln.
IlI. William, b 3 July, 1800; m 1 July, 1824, with Maria Benjamin, and two of their children, George W. Slosson, and Mrs. Phebe Elizabeth Todd still live in Newark Valley.
IV. Franklin, b 20 Feb., 1805 ; m 19 Jan., 1832, with Nancy Rich, and settled in Owego.
V. Semantha, b 20 Sept., ISos ; m with Simeon Rich Griffin.
Enoch Slosson, b at Wilton, Conn., 13 Aug., 1733, son of Na- thaniel and Margaret (Belden) Slosson, married at Sharon, Conn., 9 Aug., 1757, with Sarah St. John, daughter of Mark and Han- nah St. John, of Wilton, where she was born in 1738. They set- tled at Kent, Conn., where they joined the church : she, 4 June, 1759, by letter from Sharon ; he, by profession, 29 March, 1761 ;
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but soon moved to Stockbridge, Mass., where they joined the church, 7 Nov., 1762, by letter from Kent.
In February, 1793, they left Stockbridge with part of their children, in company with their son, Ezbon Slosson, and his fan- ily, and came to Brown's settlement, arriving 4 March, 1793, and dwelt in the house with their son till 1794, then built a log house where Dr. R. B. Root afterward lived and died. She and her daughter in-law saw no other woman till September, when Dr. Tinkham's wife came from Owego, on horseback, to visit them. She was dismissed from the church at Stockbridge, 2 Oct., 1803, and became a member of the new church, 20 Nov., 1803, the first Sunday after its organization, her name standing first on the list of admissions. She died 10 March, 1819, in her Sist year. There is no record of his admission to the church of Newark Valley, but tradition says that he became a member in 1820. He died 21 Feb., 1827, in his 94th year. Many years of his life were clouded by mental derangement. Their children were :
1. Mabel, b at Kent, Conn., 5 Oct., 1758; married with Abra- ham W. Johnson.
II. Lucinda, bat Kent, Conn., 8 Jan., 1761 ; m 26 Nov., 177S, at Stockbridge, Mass., with Abijah Williams, son of Joshua Will- iams. She died at Stockbridge about June, 1782, leaving an only child, Enoch Slosson Williams, who was born at Stockbridge, 13 Dec., 1781, who was brought up by his grandparents, and came with them to Brown's settlement in 1793.
III. Sarah, b at Stockbridge, Mass., 4 March, 1764 ; m there 4 April, 1782, with William Holley, and died there about 1783, without children.
IV. Electa, b at Stockbridge, Mass., 7 Sept., 1766; died young.
V. Ezbon, b 28 Jan., 1769 ; see under 1791.
VI. Electa, b at Stockbridge, Mass., 3 March, 1772 ; came to Brown's Settlement in 1794, and married with Elisha Wilson, the pioneer settler.
VII. Jerusha, b at Stockbridge, Mass., in Nov., 1774; came to Brown's Settlement in 1794, and m with Samuel Ball.
VIII: Ruth, bat Stockbridge, Mass., 24 Aug., 1777; came to Brown's Settlement in 1794, and married with Joel Farnham.
IX. Enos. b at Stockbridge. Mass .. 24 May, 1780, came to Brown's Settlement with his parents in 1793 : m S Aug., 1805, with Rebecca Culver, and moved, about 1816, to Lawrence- ville, Penn.
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Asa Bement, bat Stockbridge, Mass., 10 June, 1764, son of Asa and Ruth (Neal) Bement, was a blacksmith and farmer. He mar- ried 19 Jan., 1786. with Abigail Brown, daughter of Samuel and Abigail (Burr) Brown, of Stockbridge, where she was born 31 July, 1762. He was one of the sixty associates who bought the ten townships, and in the grand division he drew lot 177. In the summer of 1792 he began to fit it up for a home, by clearing some land, building a log house, and sowing some wheat. John Brown, of Stockbridge, charged him, 5 Sept., 1792, with "six bushels of seed wheat delivered at Union, at 4s. 6d .- £1. 75." This wheat, without doubt, was part of the first crop raised in the valley by Brown's brothers, Isaac and Abraham, yet it was sold to him at the very low price of seventy-five cents a bushel, or just what it was then worth in Stockbridge. Having sown his wheat, he went back to Stockbridge to spend the winter with his family. He bought boards for a sled-box at Stockbridge, 12 Feb., 1793, and started a day or two later, in company with Enoch and Ezbon Slosson, and their families, to come again to the land of promise, and arrived 4 March, 1793. John Brown again charged him with " Sundries paid by Isaac at Owego, viz .:
" 1793, March 13. To one bushel of ears of corn, Is. od. To two bushels & 12 of ears of corn, 2s. 6d.
April 13. To eight bushels of wheat, a 4s. 6d. 36s. od. May 10. To five bushels of oats, 9s. 43d. To three bushels of potatoes, 4s. 6d. To keeping a swine ten weeks, 3s. 9d.
£2. 175. I&d.
At the end of this second summer he returned to Stockbridge, feeling that his new home was ready for his family, so after spending most of the winter enjoying the privileges of settled society, he bought of John Brown another lot of " board's for a Sleigh box, 2s.," 4 Feb., 1794. He soon started with his wife and four children for this sylvan paradise. The place on which he settled had natural beauties and advantages equal to any in the valley, and two of its beautiful maple groves yet grace the land- scape. His wife died 14 Nov., IS14. He married (2d), 18 Oct., 1815, with Lucy Bishop, widow of Noah Lyman, and daughter of Judge Nathaniel and Ruth (Bartlett) Bishop, of Richmond, Mass., previously of Guilford, Conn., where she was born 4 Sept .. 1774. He died 21 April, 1847. She died 19 July, 1852. He had by his first wife, eight children, and by the second, one.
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I. Parthenia, b at Stockbridge, 9 Feb., 1787, m with Abraham Hotchkin.
II. Betsey, b at Stockbridge, 28 Nov., 1788, m with Jonathan Belcher.
III. Frances, b at Stockbridge, 18 Dec., 1790, m with Zina Bushnell.
IV. Abigail, b at Stockbridge, 18 June, 1793, m with Henry S. Granger.
V. William Brown, b at Newark Valley, 29 May, 1796, a very enterprising, capable man, long a deacon of the church at New- ark Valley, where he died 21 March, 1870.
VI. Emily, b 23 Sept., 1798, m with Deodatus Royce.
VII. Mary, b 8 March, 1801, m with George Williams.
VIII. Frederick Burr, b 14 Nov., 1804, m with Mary Ann Armstrong, and m (2d) with Mary Elizabeth Williams.
IX. Jane, b 14 Aug., 1816, m with Major Frederick Theodore Wells, and still lives in Newark Valley.
Peter Wilson, (a brother of Elisha Wilson) was born at Stock- bridge, Mass., 29 Nov., 1770 ; came to Brown's Settlement in the spring of 1793, and made his home on lot 217, west of the creek where Daniel Chamberlain now lives. He married 28 Feb., IS02, Lydia Saltmarsh, daughter of William and Elizabeth (Patterson) Saltmarsh, formerly of Watertown, afterwards of Richmond, Mass., where she was born 26 Nov., 1775. At the first town meeting of Berkshire, I March ISos, he was elected collector and poundmaster. He and his wife joined the church 7 Jan. 1816, he receiving baptism the same day ; and he was elected one of its deacons, 16 Oct., 1817, serving till his death, 23 April, 1845, " uni- versally respected and beloved, and his death as generally and deeply lamented." She died 9 March 1846. Their children were :
I. Phebe b 3 Feb., 1803, m with Joseph Westfall, and had three children, of whom the eldest, Dea. Joseph Frederick Westfall now lives on her part of her father's homestead.
II. Eliza Abby, b 5 Oct., 1805 ; d 3 March 1807.
III. Eliza Abby, b 22 Oct., 1807 ; m with Derick Ralyea.
IV. Laura, b. 11 May. 1810.
V. William, b 30 July, 1812; m with Clarissa Cook Corsaw, and both are dead.
VI. Mary Elizabeth b 31 March, 1816; died 24 April 1839.
Abraham W. Johnson, a laborer said to have come from Cheshire, Mass., married with Mabel Slosson, and came to Brown's Settle- ment in 1794. His name first appeared on the account book of
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John Brown, Esq., 3 April 1798, and it was on the highway tax- list for that year. He probably worked for Mr. Brown, who charged him with a cow, at sixteen dollars, 13 Nov., 1798; and " Feb. 26, 1799, to the use of a house 15 months, 16s." They dwelt at one time on the bank of Spring brook, not far from the head of Waring's trout pond, and down to a late date. their old tansy bed could still be found there. At one time they owned a house and some land, but her mental infirmity, a heritage from her father, increased, perhaps by the opium habit, and his unfortunate appe- tite confirmed by many years of labor in a distillery, brought them to poverty, and their last home in Newark Valley was in a log house built by the poor-master for them, in the hollow north of the road, between the house of Hiram Griffing, and the brook that comes down from Glen Echo. Later one or both of them were taken to the poor-house, and probably died there, but the dates have not been ascertained. They had two children Lyman Johnson and Lucinda Johnson.
Levi Bailey, a hatter, was here in 1795 ; went back to Stock- bridge, Mass., where, as of Union, N. Y., he married 19 Nov., 1795, with Pamelia Brown, daughter of Isaac and Elizabeth (War- ren) Brown, of Stockbridge. He brought his wife to Brown's Settlement early in 1796, and in the winter of 1796-97 he lived in the log house which stood on the west side of the way, between Bement & Wilson's mill house and Wilson creek, and just below where Beriah Wells afterward built his house and chair factory. Possibly he dwelt, in 1798, near the home of John Brown, Esq., and it is said that he once lived on the West Owego creek. Af- terward he owned and lived on the place now occupied by Egbert Bement, living at one time, according to Judge Williams, on the east side of Whig street. He was one of the constituent mem- bers of the church, 17 Nov., 1803. She joined it in August, 1804, having been dismissed from the church at Stockbridge, 5 June, 1803, " to the church about to be formed at Tioga." They were dismissed, in Feb., 1816, and moved to Greene, Trumbull Co., ' Ohio. Their children were :
I. Isaac Brown. II. Lewis. III. Eliza, m in Ohio.
IV. Pamelia, m in Ohio. V. Edwin, bap. in Aug., 1804.
VI. -- , an infant, d between 14 May and 29 June, 1807 ; name not recorded.
VII. Orin Martin, b 24 Sept., 1808; bap. 27 Nov., ISOS.
VIII. Abby, b 18 June, ISIO.
Beulah Brown, widow, one of the sixty associates in the pur-
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chase of the ten townships, came to Brown's Settlement, in Feb- ruary, 1796, with her sons, John, Joseph and Lemuel, and settled on lot 257, where Rodney Ball now lives. She was born at Watertown, Mass., 20 Jan., 1741 or 1742, daughter of Joseph and Lydia (Marean) Patterson, and married about 1764, with her cousin, Abraham Brown, who was born at Watertown, in 1740, youngest child of Dea. Samuel and Mercy (Patterson) Brown, afterward of Stockbridge. He served in the early part of the revolutionary war as a captain of militia, and died S Jan., 1777, of small-pox, which was communicated to him by a letter. She was dismissed from the church at Stockbridge, 5 June, 1803, and be- came one of the constituent members of the first church in Tioga, (now Newark Valley) 17 Nov., 1803, her name being fifth on the list. She was a woman of good mental powers, with a kind heart and benevolent disposition. She died 6 July, 1820, and a trust- worthy tradition says that in the last year of her life she had made eighty cheeses and taken care of them with her own hands. Her children were:
I. John, b at Stockbridge, 18 July, 1765 ; settled in Berkshire. II. Isaac, b at Stockbridge, 25 Oct., 1766; settled in Berkshire.
III. Abraham, b at Stockbridge, 28 June, 1768; settled in New- ark Valley.
IV. Joseph, b at Stockbridge, 16 March, 1771 : settled in New- ark Valley.
V. Lemuel, b at. Stockbridge, I Feb., 1775 ; settled in Owego.
Joseph Brown came to Brown's Settlement with his mother, Beulah Brown, in February, 1796. He married early in 1797, with Experience Stafford, who was born in Vermont. 8 Feb., 1778, daughter of Abel and Rebecca (Short) Stafford, afterward of the town of Owego, now Tioga, N. Y. His name is not on the high- way tax-list of 1798, which seems to indicate that he was not then a separate householder. He owned the north half of lot 98, and built his house on the gravelly knoll, just north of Hope Ceme- tery, and between that and the residence of David W. Noble. His blacksmith shop was on the opposite side of the way, in the cor- ner of the old orchard, a few feet south of William T. Noble's old store. He died 20 Jan .. 1808, and was buried in the Brown cemetery, at Berkshire. His widow married with Daniel Chur- chill, and died 26 June, 1864, though her gravestone erroneously says 6 June. Their children were :
I. Laurinda, b 23 Oct., 1797; m with Nathan Slosson.
II. Rebecca Short, b 4 April, 1799; m with Frederick Belcher.
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III. Beulah Patterson, b 22 Jan., 1801; m with Lester H. Fuller.
IV. Experience, b 26 Sept., 1803; m with Ephraim Munson Clark.
V. Joseph Patterson, b 15 June, 1805; m with Lura Matilda Rus- sell, and his descendants live at Little Rock, Ark.
VI. Amos Patterson, b 8 April, 1808; died on his father's home- stead, 10 Sept., 1865, and his widow and daughter still live in Newark Valley.
William Solomon Lawrence, b at Canaan, Conn., about 1757, son of Jonas and Tryphena (Lawrence) Lawrence, married 12 Oct., 1780, with Esther Dutton, and they dwelt in Canaan till 1796, and in the early part of that year came to Brown's Settle- ment, and settled in a log house on the east side of the way, on the south half of lot 63, where Hart Newell built the framed house that was burned in November, 1856, while owned by Ly- man Barber, whose daughter, Mrs. W. T. Loring, has more re- cently occupied the same spot with her new dwelling. In the latter part of the summer of 1797, he went to buy wheat at She- shequin, Penn., and on his way home, at Tioga Center, his horses, frightened by the violent barking of a dog, became unmanageable, overturned the wagon and threw him out, crushing his head against some heavy drags of wood that had been drawn together by the roadside, and killed him at once. His widow married 20 Sept., 1801, with Abel Stafford, and afterward moved to Canada, where she drowned herself in a trough of water. Their chil- dren, all born in Canaan, were :
I. Experience, b 28 July, 1781; m with Joel Gaylord.
II. Jonas, b 25 Nov., 1782, d in 1785.
III. Rebecca, m with David Hammond.
IV. Erastus, d unmarried at Natchez, Miss.
V. Cyrus, m with Olive Dewey.
VI. Sophia Lawrence, m with Russell Fowler.
VII. Charlotte, m with John P. Housc.
VIII. Betsey, m with Austin Fowler.
IX. Orange, b 23 Feb., 1796; m with Sarah House, and settled at Orangeville, Canada West (now Ontario), which was named for him.
Three of these children, Cyrus, Betsey and Orange, took their own lives.
Abel Lawrence, b at Canaan, Conn., 22 Sept., 1763 ; son of Jonas and Tryphena (Lawrence) Lawrence ; married 6 Oct., 1783, with Abigail Rockwell. He married (2d) in 1790, with
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Lucina Granger, daughter of Joel Granger, who was born 19 Dec., 1770. They came to Brown's Settlement in April, 1796, soon after his brother, William Solomon Lawrence, and settled on the east side of the way, on lot 58, next north of that piece on which John Freeman settled. The two pieces had been owned together, and in the division it is said that an advantage of five acres had been given to that which Freeman had, because of the broken land along the little stream which came down through it. Their log house sheltered them here till the winter or spring of 1822, when they moved into the framed house, still standing (between that of Lucius W. Spaulding and that of William Floyd Monell), which was raised 12 Oct., 1821. He died 26 July, 1835. She died 8 Feb., 1837. His children were (by first wife) :
I. Jonas, b at Canaan, Conn., died young.
II. Tryphena, b at Canaan, Conn., died young.
III. Abigail, b at Canaan, Conn.
(By second wife).
IV. Tryphena, b at Canaan, Conn., 22 April, 1793 ; died 31 July, 1871, unmarried.
V. Jonas, b at Canaan, Conn., 14 Sept., 1794; married with Ann Thomas.
VI. and VII. Twins, b in the spring of 1796, soon after the family came to Brown's Settlement ; died very young.
VIII, William Solomon, b 19 Oct., 1797.
IX. Bersheba Lucina, b 16 Jan., 1800; married with Anson Miner Howard. She d 3 June, 1887.
X. Joel Granger, b 2 Jan., 1801.
XI. Charlotte, b 26 Dec., 1804; married with Pomeroy Gors- line.
XII. Susan, b 26 Aug., 1806 ; married with James L. Gorsline.
XIII. Wealthy L., b 30 Sept., 1808; married with Elisha For- syth, of Owego.
XIV. Abigail Salome, b 7 Feb., ISIo; died at Mrs. Forsyth's, in Owego. Feb., 1876.
Solomon Williams, b at Stockbridge Mass., 21 or 23 July. 1763, son of Azariah and Beulah (Brown) Williams; married there, 24 Nov., 1794, with Hephzibah Hart, who was born 28 March, 1772, youngest daughter of Job and Eunice (Beckley) Hart. They came to Brown's Settlement in February. 1796, and lived in the log house with his brother-in-law, Ezbon Slosson, till their own plank house was ready for use. This was built on the Knoll, or hillside, directly east of the first bark-covered cabin. A few
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years later he built a house on Whig street, (where Fred W. Richardson now lives) in which they died ; she, 17 Aug., 1831 : he, 10 or 12 June, 1838. They both joined the church, 3 April, 1831, and he was then baptized. Their children were.
I. Elisha Williams, b in 1798 ; died when eight years old.
II. George, b 2 May, 1801 ; a printer, author, bookseller, and later, a lumber merchant; m with Mary Bement; dwelt in Hamilton, N. Y., till 1839, at Owego, till May 1844, then at Bel- videre, Ill., where he d 9 Jan., 1856.
III. James, b 23 June, 1803; moved to Belvidere, Ill., in 1844 ; m in June 1852, with Emily Royce, and died in Belvidere.
IV. Nancy, b 11 April, 1807; died at Hamilton, N. Y., 13 Feb., 1845, unmarried.
V. Sabrina, b 3 Sept., 1809.
VI. William Hart, bio or II Dec., 1811 ; a jeweler ; resides now in Albany, N. Y,
VII. Robert, b8 Oct., 1813 : m 9 May 1844, with Jane Elizabeth Royce, and settled at Belvidere, Ill.
VIII. Sarah, b 28 Feb., 1816; m with Warren Pierce.
IX. Mary Elizabeth, b 2 Dec., 1818; m with Frederick B. Bement.
, Joseph Hosford, son of Joseph, was a soldier in the war of the revolution. The date and place of his birth have not been found. He married at Stockbridge, Mass., I Aug., 1793, with Mary Williams, (often called Polly) daughter of Azariah and Beulah (Brown) Williams, and grand-daughter of Dea. Samuel and Mercy (Patterson) Brown, of Stockbridge, where she was born about 1772, baptized 1 Aug., 1773, and joined the church in 1783. They came to Brown's Settlement in the spring of 1796, arriving before Solomon Williams had his house ready for use, and for some weeks they also lived in the log house with Ezbon Slosson's family while he was building one for himself. Probably the name recorded " Joseph Hufford," in the highway tax list of 1798, for three days of work, was intended for his name. The clerk may have mistaken the long s, then in common use for an f. The Hon. Amos Patterson of Union, who then owned lot 103, gave him twenty-two acres of the southwest corner of the lot. lying west of the creek, as a token of regard for his fellow-soldier. On this land he settled. His log house stood west of Spring brook. and a few rods southwest of the wheel factory, or turning shop, successively occupied by Enoch S. Williams, Jesse Truesdell, Samuel Moses, and at present by Aaron C. Stevens. The street
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which lies about twenty rods south of his little farm was named Hosford street, as a memorial of him. This land he sold to Enoch S. Williams. His wife was dismissed with several others, 5 June, 1803, from the church at Stockbridge, to that about to be formed at Tioga, now Newark Valley, which she joined 20 Nov., 1803, the first Sunday after its organization, her name being the eighth on the list of members. She was dismissed in 1809, remained here till after the middle of Feb. 18to, and then with her husband and children went to Hunts Hollow, Livingston County, N. Y., where she died in 1841. He died there in 1843, of apoplexy. There children were :
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