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I. Electa, bap at Stockbridge, Mass., 18 Oct., 1795.
II. Charles, bap at Newark Valley, 14 Feb., 1810.
III. Eunice Williams, bap at Newark Valley, 14 Feb., 1810, died at Bloomfield, N. Y.
IV. Mary, bap at Newark Valley, 14 Feb., 1810; m with Parker, and settled in Hebron, Ill.
V. Abigail, bap at Newark Valley, 14 Feb .. 1810.
VI. - , an infant, died at Newark Valley, 14 May, 1807.
VII. Franklin, bat Newark Valley, 22 Feb., 1809, bap there 14 Feb., 1810; dwelt at Hunts Hollow, N. Y., on his father's homestead.
Joseph Hosford, aged 84 years, died in Newark Valley, I May, 1806. He was the father of the preceding, and probably lived with him. There is no evidence that he had a separate house- hold, after he came here, nor is the time of his coming known.
Michael Jenks was taxed in 1798 to work four and a half days on the highway. He came to the Boston Purchase, 12 Aug., 1796, in company with Jonas Muzzy and two others from Spencer, Mass., and settled on lot 261, now the N. W. corner lot in the town of Newark Valley. Perhaps Laban Jenks and Elisha Jenks men- tioned below were those two companions. The postoffice and hamlet of Jenksville were named for him. He was born 16 Aug., 1773, eldest son of Isaac and Ruth Jenks, of Spencer, Mass .. and married there 2 March, 1797, with Sarah Hunt, who was born in Spencer, Mass., 31 Oct., 1774, daughter of Aaron and Lavina Hunt, of Spencer, and previous to 1770, of Paxton, Mass. The father of Mr. Jenks was one of the sixty associates in the purchase of the ten townships.
. In connection with the name of Michael Jenks Judge Avery gave the names of Laban Jeaks, Elisha Jenks, Captain Scott, and Thomas Baird, as "early pioneers, well known and much re- 15*
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spected," but their names do not appear in the early tax list. Michael Jenks built the first saw-mill at Jenksville, and a few years later went down the Susquehanna river, sold his lumber, received his pay for it, and since that day no tidings of him have ever reached his family and friends. They had two sons :
I. Otis, bat Jenksville, in the latter part of the year 1797 ; lived to be over fifty years old, and died unmarried.
1I. Michael.
Jonas Muzzy, b at Spencer, Mass., 2 April, 1775, at noon, sou of Jonas and Sarah (Draper) Muzzy, came to the Boston Purchase 12 'Aug., 1796; stopping first on the West Owego creek, with his old acquaintance, Michael Jenks. Afterwards he came over to Brown's Settlement and worked for Elisha Wilson, as a farm hand and miller. As he was not a householder, nor an owner of land, his name does not appear in the highway tax-list of 1798. He married 27 Aug., 1801, with Thersey Moore, daughter of Henry and Lucy (Churchill) Moore, and began housekeeping the next winter on a farm of fifty-five acres on the south part of lot 58, which he bought of John Freeman, 5 Dec., 1801, for four hundred dollars. From the spring of 1806 till the spring of 1810, they dwelt in a small house just north of her father's house, then re- turned to his farm, which they finally left To Sept., IS12. He then dwelt for some years on the place with her father, after which he bought a farm on the north part of lot 218, on which he lived till the spring of 1824. . He then lived in Wilson's mill-house, and attended the grist-mill till April, 1826, when he moved again to the farm on which her father had died, remaining there till 20 April, 1830, when he settled on the farm on Muzzy brook, on the south half of lot IS3, where they died, she, 31 Aug., 1861 ; he, 17 Dec , 1864. He never forgot the fact that he was born at noon, for his father required his service till noon of the day on which he attained his majority ; and he often told of that last half day, spent in building rail fence in a snow storm, without mittens. Their children were :
I. Lucy, b 17 July, 1802; m with Frederick Bean.
II. Sarah, b 13 May, 1804; m with Giles Slosson.
III. Henry Moore, b 20 Dec., 1805 : m 25 Feb., 1829, with Mary Ann Farrand, who died 14 May, 1843. He died 22 Sept., 1886.
IV. Gilbert, bri or 12 May, ISos.
V. Sabrina Leonard, be Jan., 18to; m with Henry B. Slosson, and died 6 Jan., 1867.
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VI. Mary Edwards, b 30 July, 1812; married with Marshal Hotchkin, and still lives in Newark Valley.
VII. William Henry, b 28 Feb., 1814.
VIII. Alvah, died IS March, 1816, aged four weeks.
IX. John, b 20 May, 1817; died 5 Dec., 1817.
X. Emily, b 5 Nov., 1818; resides in Newark Valley.
XI. Charles, b 25 Nov., 1820; m 30 Dec., 1860, with Helen T. North, and now lives on the homestead of his father. Two other children died when a few days old.
Uriah Simons, (or Simonds as the name was sometimes writ- ten), was the son of Francis and Zipporah (Cleveland) Simons, of Brooklyn, Conn., where he was b 2 April, 1768. according to his family record. He married I Aug., 1793, with Olive Tucker, daughter of John and Thankful (Eggleston) Tucker, of Stock- bridge, Mass., where she was born 10 Feb., 1770. They dwelt in Stockbridge till the early months of 1797, then came to Brown's Settlement and dwelt, for a few years, on the west bank of the creek, on lot 224 (now called the Branch lot), then moved to lot 218, on the Muzzy brook, (now owned by Riley Tappan), where they died ; he 26 Sept., 1844 ; she, 26 Jan., 1860. Their children were :
I. Ebenezer Francis, b 21 March, 1794, settled in Cortlandville, N. Y.
II. John Tucker, b 15 Jan., 1796; d 22 Sept., 1796.
III. Thankful Eggleston, b 30 Sept., 1797 ; went to Stock- bridge and dwelt with her grandparents.
IV. Joseph, b 25 June, 1799 ; d 13 Jan., 1800.
V. Emeline, b 11 Oct., 1800 ; d 6 Oct., 1847, unmarried.
VI. Catharine Huff, b 10 April, 1802 ; m with Alfred Belcher Prentice.
VII. Frederick, b 16 Sept., 1804; a genial, pleasant, happy man ; captain of a military company ; d 23 Jan., 1863, unmarried.
VIII. Lucy Newell, b 20 Oct., 1806; d 2 April, 1839, unmar- ried.
IX. Mary, b 16 Jan., 1808 : d 19 Oct., 1880, unmarried.
Thomas Thayer is not remembered in the local traditions, and probably soon left Brown's Settlement. His name is in the first highway tax-list, 1798, between the Wilsons and Asa Bement, which position leads to the supposition that he lived in their 1.1. mill-house, on the west side of the road, and that he came here about 1797, as a millwright, to assist in building their grist-mill, in that year, yet there is a possibility that he dwelt on lot 185,
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where John Hedges afterward settled, as his tax was as large as many of those who owned farms.
John Freeman, whose origin has not been learned, was living, in 1797, on the east side of the way, in a log house on a long nar- row farm of fifty-five and a half acres, on the south side of lot 58, and was taxed in that year to work three and a half days on the highway. In 1800 he was one of the nine postmasters in the new town of Tioga, and was elected one of the commissioners of highways, I April, 1801, and on the sixteenth of that month, he and Henry Moore laid the highway now known as Whig street. He sold his farm for $400 to Jonas Muzzy, 5 Dec., 1801, his wife, Ame Freeman, signing the deed, which was witnessed by Peter Wilson and John Freeman, Jr., who was probably their son. He moved to Spencer (now Caroline, in Tompkins Co.), and settled on the north half of lot 11, in the northwest quarter of township number 11, of Watkin's and Flint's " Twelve Townships," which he mortgaged 24 April, 1806, to Oliver Huntington, to secure him from any claims for dower which might be made by Frec- man's daughter, Sally Steward, the widow of Henry Steward, upon certain land which Steward had sold to Huntington. The farm which he sold in Newark Valley has since been occupied by Jonas Muzzy, Samuel Addis, Samuel Johnson, Mrs. Nancy(John- son) Rich, George E. Rich, and lastly by William Floyd Monell. John and Amy Freeman had children :
I. John. II. Barney. III. Sally, m Henry Steward.
IV. Amy, m with Aaron Legg.
Barney Freeman, a son of John and Ame Freeman, lived with his parents or near them, probably on the same lot, in 1797, and was taxed to work three days on the highway in 1798. He was baptized and joined the " First Church in Tioga," now Newark Valley, 20 Nov., 1803, on the first Sunday after its organization ; he being its tenth member, and the first to join it "on profession of faith." He died in November, ISO8, according to the church record, perhaps at his father's house, in Caroline. He was long remembered as having unusual ability in vocal music, and as being "quite a singing-master." No record of wife or children has been found.
" About this time (1797) a Mr. Fellows, of Spencer, Mass., came here with his son to locate a lot for him. They selected the lot Jonas Muzzy afterwards purchased, now owned by George Rich, of Owego, and in the town of Newark Valley. After complet- ing his arrangements, Mr. Fellows started for Massachusetts, and the son commenced chopping, feeling that now he was commenc-
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ing life in good earnest, and that every stroke was for his own future good. Some time during the day a limb fell from a tree he was chopping, by which he was killed. That night Jonas Muzzy, who worked for Elisha Wilson, taking one of his horses. started to overtake Mr. Fellows. After a long and terrible ride he ar- rived, about daybreak, at a tavern where Colesville now is, just as Mr. Fellows was preparing for breakfast. After getting some refreshment and rest, they returned to the settlement, and the son was buried in the Brown Cemetery."
The foregoing account, quoted from page 126, of the history of four counties, is based wholly on the memories of the children of Jonas Muzzy, who often recited the particulars to them. There is reason to doubt its truth, as to the names of the persons, for on that point their memories differed, some calling the name Fellows, while others thought another was the true name.
Mrs. Daniel James Borthwick, a granddaughter of Abel Law- rence who lived on the next farm, has many times heard the tra- dition as handed down in that family ; which says that John Free- man lived on the farm at the time the accident occurred ; that the young man was about seventeen years old and was the son of Mrs Freeman's brother, who had just made her a visit, and left the lad there hoping that a few weeks of life in the woods would benefit his health which was not good. He was not at work, but feeling homesick, had gone out to see Mr. Freeman at this work, and, when as a tree was about to fall, and he was told where to go, took a contrary course and was caught by the tree which crushed him to death. She thinks the name was Lavett or Leavett. Perhaps the real name may never be fully decided.
The year 1797 must have been one of peculiar sadness to the early settlers; Isaac Brown and John Carpenter having died sud- denly, in April, and William Solomon Lawrence and this young man having been accidently killed in the summer.
David Sherman Farrand, b at Canaan, Conn., 9 Jan., 1769 ; son of the Rev. Daniel and Jerusha (Boardman) Farrand, and grand son of Rev. Daniel and Jerusha (Sherman) Boardman of New Milford, Conn., married at Stockbridge, Mass., 5 May, 1796, with Mary Bacon, daughter of the Hon. John and Gertrude (Rousby) Bacon, who was born on her mother's plantation on the Pacomoke river, in Somerset county, Md., 11 Dec. 1769. Her father, at her marriage, lived in Stockbridge, and gave her lot 265, on which . they settled, as early as the spring of 1798, (see first highway dis- trict) though the family chronicle makes it two years later, and possibly Mr. Farrand did not bring his wife and children till
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the later date. She died 25 Feb. 1844. He died 1 April, 1849. Their children were :
I. Lucia, b at Stockbridge, in Jan., 1798; changed her name to Jerusha, and married with William Pierson, who still lives on the homestead. She died 15 June 1880, without children.
II. Elizabeth Bacon, b at Newark Valley, I Sept., 1800, and died there, unmarried, 17 April, 1856.
III. Esther, b at Newark Valley, 18 Jan., 1803 ; and still resides there with her husband Daniel Chamberlain.
IV. Mary Ann, b at Newark Valley, 15 April 1805, married with Henry Moore Muzzy.
V. Francis Henry, bat Newark Valley, 12 Dec., 1809; d 25 Jan., 1835, unmarried.
Benjamin Sparrow was born at East Haddam, Conn., 9 Nov., 1762, was baptized at Millington, Conn., 9 Jan., 1763, son of John and Anna Sparrow, from Eastham, Mass. He was in Brown's Settlement as early as 1798, (see first highway district, ) and in 1804 lived in the north part of Owego, where George Southwick afterward lived, and it was at his house that Dr. Tinkham, of Owego, died, while on his way home from a pro- fessional visit to Dea. Peter Wilson. Nothing is known of his family, except from Dr. Waldo's accounts for attendance on some of them. His place of residence in Brown's Settlement has not been identified.
William Stow was taxed in 1802. He died 14 Sept., 1808, aged sixty years. He lived where Philander M. Moses built the house in which Henry Sprague now lives, on the east side of Owego street. He choked to death at table, if tradition says truly.
In 1798, according to the town records of Union, vol. I, p. 5, Abraham Brown was pathmaster of the " 16th District from S. W. cor. of Lot 432 to North line of Js McMasters half township." This included the whole of the present towns of Berkshire and Newark Valley, and the list which follows probably includes the name of every man who was settled in the two towns in the spring of 1798. A few of the names can not now be located, and some of them do not otherwise appear. In Newark Valley. all of the settlers, at that time were probably in the valley, while in Berkshire some dwelt on the West hill, and some on the West Owego creek. The number opposite each name represents the number of days which each man was to work :
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Joseph Gleason, Jr 3
* Thomas Thayer. . 3
Josiah How 33
Josiah Ball.
Ephraim Cook 33
Stephen Ball. 3
Jesse Gleason ..
5
William Ball. .
3
Josiah Seeley
3
Josiah Harris
.
3
Benjamin Oney 3 .
Zelotes Oney . 3 .
*Abraham Brown
Jeremiah Cammel .
3
*Asa Bement
63
*Enoch Slosson
63
*Ezbon Slosson . .33
*Solomon Williams .4
*Joseph Hufford .
3
#John Freeman. .33
*Barney Freeman
.3
*Abel Lawrence
33
34 *Michael Jenks.
.43
These names which have the * before them were probably all in what is now Newark Valley, and possibly one or two more. There is evidence that two of the names are incorrect: Josiah Harris should be Elisha Harris, and Joseph Hufford should be Joseph Hosford.
Henry Moore, b at Simsbury, Conn., 30 Jan., 1755, son of Henry and Elizabeth ( --- ) Moore, settled in Stockbridge, Mass., where he married 21 Nov., 1782, with Lucy Churchill, daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth (Curtis) Churchill of Stockbridge, where she was born, 22 Nov., 1762. In the begining of 1799, they came to the Boston Purchase and settled on lot 178, in a log house which stood a little south of where Mr. Loveland now lives. Afterwards he built a small framed house, and later a larger one, which, after being remodeled is now owned by Mr. Loveland. In the later years of their lives they lived on the corner, named from him, in the house now occupied by Mrs. Asher C. Tappan, and there they died ; he, 5 July, 1824; she, 22 June, 1846. Their children were :
1. Thersey, b at Stockbridge, 14 Oct., 1783 ; taught school in Asa Bement's barn in the summer of 1799; m with Jonas Muzzy.
II. William Henry, b at Stockbridge, Mass., 23 May, 1785 ; m 8 Dec., 1814, with Caroline Ford. He built the house now
Daniel Gleason .4
Daniel Ball 43
Caleb Gleason 53
Azel Hovey
53
Asa Leonard.
43
Ebenezer Cook.
33
Consider Lawrence.
3
Abraham Johnson.
3
John Brown
5
*Levi Bailey. 3
Benjamin Sparrow
3
*David Sherman Farrand
*Uriah Simons. 3
*Elijah Wilson. 43
#Peter Wilson.
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occupied by George Dohs, on the east side of Whig street, and moved in 1816, to Berkshire, where he died 11 Dec., 1845.
III. Sarah Judd, b at Stockbridge, 22 March, 1787 ; m with Henry Ball, of Berkshire.
IV. Peter, b at West Stockbridge, 15 Jan., 1789; m 1 Jan., 1824, with Eliza Harper Hyde, who was born in Virginia, 13 Jan., 1798, daughter of Henry and Elizabeth (Harper) Hyde. They settled on the east side of Whig street in the first house above Moore's corner. She died 3 May, 1858. He m (2d) 27 Sept., 1860, with Mary Almira (Smith) Copley, who it still living. He died 23 May, 1861.
V. Alvah Churchill, b at West Stockbridge, 2 Feb., 1791 ; died IO Oct., 1813.
VI. Olive Leonard, b at Stockbridge, 21 March, 1794: died 6 Aug., 1862.
VII. Daniel, b at Stockbridge, 18 Nov., 1796; a farmer and teacher ; m at Lenox, Mass., 7 Oct., 1821, with Electa Porter, who was born at Colebrook, Conn., 18 Sept., 1797, daughter of James and Jerusha (Lucas) Porter. They settled on the north side of the road at Moore's Corner. He died 6 July, 1859. She died at Williamsburgh, L. I., (Brooklyn, E. D.) 23 April, 1868.
VIII. Elizabeth, b at Newark Valley, 20 Oct., 1801 ; died.
IX. Sophronia, b at Newark Valley, 14 June, ISO8; died.
Timothy Williams, son of Stephen Williams, came to Brown's Settlement, as the pioneer of his father's family, in the early part of 1800, bringing with him his younger brother, Stephen Williams, Jr., and settled on lot 103, which his father had bought of Hon. Amos Patterson. They boarded with Ezbon Slosson, in the log house where the Congregational lecture-room now stands, while building their own log house, which stood on the site of the first house south of the Methodist parsonage. He married 12 Dec., 1803, with Phebe Hedges, and settled in the original log house, with his father. In iSog, they moved to Victor, N. Y., where she died about 1815, or 1816. He married (2d) with a widow Keyes of Royalton, N. Y. He died at Grass Lake, Mich., about 1860, aged nearly eighty years. His children were :
I. . Prudence, b in 1804 ; died at Victor, N. Y., about 18to, from an accidental injury to the head. She was commonly called " Dency."
II. Nathan, b 9 Sept., 1806; settled at Grimsby, Canada West, where he m 15 Jan., 1827, with Rachel Wilcox, and died there, 29 Oct., 1881.
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III. Elisha, b 3 Aug., 1808; was brought up by Ezekiel Rich. He was at New Berlin, N. Y., about 1835, and his friends have never heard from him since that time.
IV. Nancy, b at Victor, N. Y .; a very energetic and useful teacher, spent most of her active life in Newark Valley, and now lives at Ontario. She was brought up by her grand-father, Jonathan Hedges.
V. Lydia Selina, b at Victor, N. Y .: was brought up by Dea. William B. Bement. She m with John McGregor, of Grimsby, Canada West, where she d about 1860.
VI. Emeline, b at Victor, N. Y., m with Henry Robinson, of Grimsby, C. W., and died there about 1865.
VII. Maria, b at Victor, N. Y., m with John Raynor, and m (2d) with Ezra Parney, and is still living at Townsend, Norfolk Co., Ont.
Children by second wife.
VIII. Sally, b at Grass Lake, Mich , m with Jackson Simpson. IX. Eunice, b at Grass Lake, Mich., married, and she and her husband died in Iowa.
Lyman Rawson was in Newark Valley as early as 1800, and was taxed there in 1802. He lived on the farm, since owned for many years by Dea. Elijah Curtis, and his brother-in-law Lemuel Blackman, dwelt there with him. He owned a distillery, in the hollow, west of Whig street, just below the place where Jules Fivaz now lives, and the well at that place was dug. to supply it with water, and was referred to in the survey of Whig street, 16 April, 1801, as " Lyman Rawson's well." He . married with Deborah Keith, daughter of Eleazer Keith .* After leaving Newark Valley, they settled in the valley of the West Owego creek, in Caroline, and the place is now known as Rawson Hol- low. He died 25 July, 1826, aged 51 years. She died 16 March, 1851, aged 75 years and II days.
Isaac Rawson, was also an early settler of Newark Valley, liv- ing at the place where Egbert Bement now lives, and was taxed in 1802. He sold the place, probably to Levi Bailey, about 1807.
Nathaniel Blackman and wife, Sarah, lived and died in Peru, Mass. They had ten children :
*Eleazer Keith, m with Mary Green: they dwelt in Marlborough, Conn., where he died during the revolution. She died at Lyman Rawson's, aged gg years. Children:
. I. Eleazer, settled in Pera, Mass. IT. Deborah. b 5 March, 1776; m with Lyman Rawson, see text. [II. Eunice, m with Lemuel Blackman. IV. Rhoda, m with Abra- ham Blackman. V. Luther, m with Mary Hooker, of Geneseo, N. Y., and settled at Rawson Hollow, in Caroline, where he died II April, 1812, aged 36 years.
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I. Eleazer, remained in Peru.
II. Nathaniel, remained in Peru.
III. Abraham, b about 8 Oct., 1766; married with Rhoda Keith, and settled in Caroline, where his grandson, Henry Black- man, has since lived. She died 9 July, 1839, aged 67 years. He died 19 July, 1853, aged 86 years, 9 months and 11 days.
IV. Martha, married with James Tracy.
V. Leonard, married at Peru, Mass., with Eunice Keith ; they came early to Lisle, and thence, soon after, to Newark Valley, and .settled on the north half of lot 143, in company with his brother-in-law, Lyman Rawson. They sold the farm to Edward Edwards, and moved to Caroline. In 1812 they returned to Newark Valley and dwelt till 1824, on the southwest quarter of lot 261, about forty rods east of the West creek road, and on the south side of the hill road. In 1820, he managed the saw-mill there, which was rated at thirty thousand feet per year. In 1824, he moved to a place on Berkshire hill, which he afterward sold to Marble Cushman.
VI. Sarah, m Ezekiel Jewett, of Caroline.
VII. Lydia, m with -Blanchard, of Marathon, and died at the house of her sister, Mrs. Tracy, about a year after her mar- riage, without children.
VIII. Levi, lived with Eli, and died unmarried.
IX. Esther.
X. Eli, m with Susan Jenks, daughter of Elisha Jenks, of Jenksville.
The children of Lemuel and Eunice (Keith) Blackman were : I. Russell, b before 1800. II. Horace. III. Mary.
IV. Silence, m with - Durand, and lives at Jackson, Mich., a widow.
V. Julia Ann, b 10 Jan., ISOS; m with Elizur B. Chapman, and in May, 1830, removed to Jackson, Mich.
VI. -- , b 20 July, 1810, a daughter.
Stephen Williams, b at Hartford, Conn., about 1743; married with Rachel Halliday, and settled in Stockbridge, Mass., where he made wooden plows, wagons, carts, and did some carpenter's work. In the beginning of Iso1, in the very early days of the present century, they came to the "promised land," and settled in the log house which their sons had prepared for them in the preceding year. After a few years he built a small framed house, which has been rebuilt, and has been for fifteen years the home of the Rev. Jay Clizbe. She joined the church at Stockbridge,
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in 1792; was dismissed 5 June, 1803: became a member of the new church in Tioga, now Newark Valley, 20 Nov., 1803, the first Sunday after it was organized, and died 20 June, 1826. He died 15 Oct., 1823, aged eighty years. Their children were :
I. Nathan, b at Stockbridge, Mass., and died there when six- teen years old.
II. Roxa, b at Stockbridge, 7 July, 1776; m 4 July, 1804, with Pynchon Dwight. See Dwight genealogy, p. 726.
III. Timothy, b about 1778.
IV. Lydia, b about 1782 ; died in 1811, aged 29 years.
V. Stephen, b at West Stockbridge, Mass., 19 Aug., 1783.
VI. Henry, b at West Stockbridge, Mass., in 1786.
VII. Oliver, b at West Stockbridge, Mass., 12 Oct, 1788.
VIII. Eliza, bat West Stockbridge, Mass., about 1792 ; she was commonly called Betsey, and perhaps her full name was Elizabeth. She taught school in ISI8, opposite the east end of Silk street, the first school in that district. She married with Leander Hooper, and settled in Royalton, N. Y.
Jonathan Hedges was born about 1749, probably at East Hamp- ton, Long Island. It is probable that he moved first to New Jersey, where he married with a Miss -- Russell, who may have died before he left New Jersey. He settled on lot 183. as early as ISoI. He was a weaver. The road from Berkshire street to his house, two hundred and twenty-eight rods long, was laid in 1805. He m (2d) with Catharine Bowen. She was born at New. port, R. I .. and dwelt there till after the war of the revolution, and died at Newark Valley, 18. Jan. 1833, aged 72 years. He died 10 April, 1835, aged 86 years. His children were :
I. Jason, a mason, no records of him have been found, except the birth of one of his children, 9 Dec., ISOS, and another, 24 July, ISIo. He seems, in 1820, to have lived on the farm with his father, and to have had four children. In 1827 he lived in a small framed house that stood till 1840, where Philander P. Moses built the house in which Henry Sprague now lives; and not long after that he moved to Flamborough, Wentworth Co., Canada West, where he died.
II. Phebe, m with Timothy Williams.
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