History of Chautauqua County, New York : from its first settlement to the present time : with numerous biographical and family sketches, Part 40

Author: Young, Andrew W. (Andrew White), 1802-1877; Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation. fmo; Huntington Free Library. fmo
Publication date: 1875
Publisher: Buffalo, N.Y. : Printing House of Matthews & Warren
Number of Pages: 948

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In the north-east part, John Tompkins, about 1824, settled on lot 3, tp. 3. Amos D., a son, is on the farm. His daughters were : Betsey, wife of Eras- tus Hooper, of Gerry ; he is deceased ; Jane, wife of John Denike, both de- ceased ; and Tamar, widow of Nathaniel T. Barger. John De Motte, on lot 5, bought in 1809, where his son Lorenzo S. resides. Stephen Kibbe and Arkinzo Norton reside on Henry S. Barrows' farm. In 1816, Adam S. and James Pickard settled on lot 3, and, after a short residence there, removed to lot 22, where, in 1825, Joseph, Jr., and in 1826, Adam S. also settled. Their descendants reside on the same and'adjacent lands. Abraham Becker, on lot 5 ; James, a son, lives on the farm.

In the north part, Henry Coe settled on lot 39 ; his sons Finley H. and Charles are on the farm. Samuel Young, about 1816, settled on lot 54. His sons were : Samuel, David, Zenas C. and Enoch, of whom only David resides in town. Zenas C., a lawyer, resided many years at Westfield, where 'he died a few years ago, and where his widow and family reside. Ezra Fuller settled on lot 46, where Abel Lockwood formerly resided. John W., his son, resides in Kiantone; Jane is the wife of E. D. Strong; Louisa, deceased, was the wife of Corydon Putnam ; Almira, wife of Geo. W. Belden ; Agnes, wife of Edwin A. Harvey. Sylvester A. Higbee, a Baptist preacher, settled on lot 46, where Valorus Maxham resides. Harvey Hale, from Otsego, settled first on lot 36, and removed to 38, where he now resides. His son Asahel is on the same farm ; Hartwell H. also on lot 38. Festus Jones, an early black- smith at Bemus Point, removed to the north part of the town on lot 37, where he died. His brother Luther C., lived long and died in town. He was an early surveyor.

In the central part of the town, Orrin Hale, a native of Connecticut, from Otsego Co. in 1839, settled on lot 36, where he and his son Oscar now reside. He had 7 sons and 3 daughters ; of whom, 4 sons and 2 daughters attained maturity. The sons are : John ; Albert, who resides in Cattaraugus Co .; Oscar, and Henry. Oscar has held the offices of supervisor and justice

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of the peace. Three of the sons and the two daughters have families; Henry is unmarried. Elhanan Winchester settled early near the Center, on the place lately owned by Orra Wood. His brothers, Marcus, Jonadab, Jotham, Francis, Ebenezer, Heman, Harford, and others, settled in the town ; but the descendants of none of them remain. Ebenezer was early associated with Horace Greeley in publishing the New Yorker, in the city of New York. The father came later than his sons ; was married twice, and, it is said, had 23 children. Lewis Warner settled on lot 34; had sons, Albert and Harri- son ; Albert is now on the homestead. Morrison Weaver, from Washington Co., settled on lot 42 ; had 2 sons, Samuel and Simeon B., residents of the town. Peter R. Brownell, from Rensselaer Co., settled on lot 42 ; has a son, Smith H., in town. Jacob R. Brownell, on lot 43 ; has a son, William O., in West Ellery. Wm: C. Benedict, son of the late Dr. Odin Benedict, was born in the town, and resides on lot 35; has 5 sons : Willis O., Warner, Walter, William, and Washburn. Willis is a lawyer. All reside at home except Walter. William C. Benedict was supervisor of Ellery 9 years. His father held the same office 14 years. Thos. Parker, from Otsego Co., in 1812 settled on lot 27, tp. 2, and resides in town ; had no grown up children. Philip Barker, on lot 20, is deceased ; his only son living, Aaron H., resides in town, where F. Griffith lived. An only daughter living is the wife of James Hale. Clark Parker, a brother, in 1810 settled on lot 27; was ensign in Capt. Silsby's company in the war of 1812 ; was one of the founders of the Baptist church at the Center, and one of the earliest deacons. He had no children. James Newbury, near the Center, lot 18, now owned by Harrison Warner. His sons, Sylvester B., Horace, and James L., reside near the Center. Amos Wood, from Otsego Co., settled on lot 36, about 1830, and still resides there. His only son died while on a visit in the West, and his body was brought home for interment.

In the western part of the town, Luther Barney settled I m. westerly from the Center, and died there. His sons were: Milo, who resides at the Center, and is a prominent member of the Baptist church ; and Zee, on lot 31, town- ship 2. James and Joseph Farlow settled near West Ellery, where they now reside. George W., Charles H., and Luther, sons of James, reside in the county. Joseph's sons : Daniel H., in Jamestown ; Eber, in Ellery. Ezra Horton, Jr., in 1818, on lot 18, where he died July 20, 1874. His son, Charles R., now resides on lot 57, tp. 3, near the lake ; David is a merchant at the Center. -

In the north-west part of the town, Barnabas C. Brownell, from Rensselaer Co., settled on lot 7, tp. 3, r. 13, where he now resides ; was son of Joseph Brownell, an early settler at West Ellery. Joseph L. Brownell, Sr., on lot 35, tp. 3, r. 12, where he still resides.

The first town-meeting was held in 1821 ; but the names of the officers elected have not been ascertained.

Supervisors from 1821 to 1875.

Almon Ives, 1821, 1824 to 1827, '32-6 years. Peter Loucks, 1822.

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Abijah Clark, 1823. Jonadab Winchester, 1828, '31. Robertson Whiteside, 1829. John Hammond, 1830. Odin Benedict, 1833 to '39, 1841, '42, 1844 to 1847, and 1849-14 years. Minot Hoyt, 1840. George F. Vandervort, 1843, '48, '50. Wm. S. Aldrich, 1851 to '53. Ira Haskins, 1854. Elias Clark, 1855. Leman Picket, 1856, '57. Wm. C. Benedict, 1858 to '63, 1865, '66, '72-9 years. James Hale, 1864. John R. Russell, 1867. John S. Bemus, 1868, '69. Oscar Hale, 1870, '71. George W. Belden, 1873, '74. Oscar Hale, 1875.

William Bemus built a saw-mill in 1808, the first in this town, and the first grist-mill in 1811. Where the saw-mill was, are now a planing-mill and a shingle-mill, owned by Andrew Brown; and a saw-mill is where the grist- mill was. Joseph and David Loucks, about 1830, built a saw-mill in the south-east part of the town, which was long since discontinued. Another was built by Henry Martin a short distance below. Nathan Wilmarth built a saw-mill 2 12 miles north-west from the Center, afterwards owned by Andrew Haskins. A grist-mill was built by Thomas Wing, in 1832, a little below Haskins' saw-mill, afterwards owned by Liscom Weeks, and destroyed by a freshet in 1865. The most valuable flouring-mill in the town was built in 1832, by Seth and Samuel Griffith, in the south-east part of the town, now owned by Wm. B. Griffith.

A carding and cloth-dressing establishment was early erected by Tubal C. Owens, on Bemus Creek, 112 miles north-west from the Center, but which long ago disappeared.

Bemus Point Cemetery .- William Bemus deeded to the town of Ellery one acre of land for a burial ground. Matthew P. Bemus since purchased 712 acres, and conveyed the same to the Bemus Point Cemetery Association. The ground was surrounded by a fence, the front of which was iron, at a cost of $3,000. The association was organized in conformity to an act of the legislature. It is one of the most tasteful burial grounds in the county, and contains many fine monuments. A large portion of the dead from this town and many from Harmony, are buried here.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND GENEALOGICAL.

WILLIAM BEMUS was born at Bemus Heights, Saratoga county, N. Y., Feb. 25, 1762. About the beginning of the Revolutionary war, he removed with his father to Pittstown, Rensselaer county. He was married Jan. 29, 1782, to Mary, daughter of Wm. Prendergast, Sr. "Mr. Bemus and his family were a part of the company of emigrants composed chiefly of Pren- dergasts, who journeyed to Tennessee, and returned to this state, and settled in Chautauqua. [See Prendergast Family, p. 264.] He came to Ripley in the fall of 1805, and spent the winter in the present town of Westfield, near Arthur Bell's, in the west part of the town, on the Buffalo & Erie road. The next spring he settled on the east side of Chautauqua lake, on land bought in January, 1806, at what has since been known as Bemus Point, in Ellery, where he resided until his death. He died of dropsy, Jan. 2, 1830, aged

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nearly 68 years. He purchased other lands in the neighborhood of his resi- dence; also, early in January, 1806, on the west side of the lake, where his son Thomas settled, who is believed to have been the first occupant of land in the town of Harmony, though he remained several years unmarried. The wife of Mr. Bemus, born March 13, 1760, died July 11, 1845, aged 85 years. They were buried in Ellery, in the Bemus Point Cemetery. They had a large family, all of whom removed to Chautauqua county. Their children were : 1. Daniel, who was a physician, and removed to Meadville, Pa. He married a Miss Miles, and died at Meadville. 2. Elizabeth, wife . of Capt. John Silsby; they removed to Iowa, where they died. 3. Tryphena, who married John Griffith. [See Griffith Family.] 4. Thomas. 5. Charles. 6. Mehetabel, wife of the late Daniel Hazeltine, of Jamestown, where she still resides. 7. James, who married Tryphena Boyd, and resides at Bemus Point.

THOMAS BEMUS, son of Wm. Bemus, settled in the town of Harmony, on lot 54, tp. 2, r. 12, bought by his father, in January, 1806, and was probably the first settler in that town. He built his cabin and commenced clearing, soon after the purchase, though he was not married until several years after. He married Jane Atkins, and had 7 daughters and 2 sons ; all of whom lived to mature age and were married, as follows : I. Eliza, who was married to Samuel C. Barney, of Harmony, deceased. 2. Ann M., to Simon Smiley, of Ellery. 3. Mindwell, to Horace Rice, of Harmony, both deceased. 4. Mary, to Horace Cullum, of Meadville, Pa. 5. William, to Ann J. Jackson, of Hartfield, now in Silver Creek. 6. Jane, to Wm. Hosmer, of Meadville, Pa. 7. Thomas A., to Ann E. Barnes, of Buffalo, now residing in Ripley. 8. Sarah, [deceased,] to Wm. A. Strong, of Ellery, now in Portland. 9. Martha, of Chautauqua, now at Saratoga Springs.

CHARLES BEMUS, son of William Bemus, was born in Pittstown, Rensse- laer Co., N. Y., Aug. 31, 1791. He came to Chautauqua with his parents in 1805. [See sketch of Wm. Bemus.] He was married, Feb. 28, 1811, to Rephelia Boyd, who was born July 20, 1790. He lived at Bemus Point, on land originally bought by his father, until his death, October 10, 1861. Mrs. B. died Jan. 2, 1843. He had 10 children : 1. James, who resides in San Francisco, and is superintendent of powder works. 2. Ellen, wife of Daniel Smiley, in Wisconsin. 3. Matthew, who married Marcelia Walters, and re- sides in Mayville. 4. Daniel, in Ellery, who married, first, Adaline Strong ; second, Jane Griffith. 5. Jane, [Mrs. Edward Copp,] who resides in May- ville. 6. John, who married Catharine Howell, and died at Bemus Point, July 24, 1862. 7. William P., married, first, Helen Norton ; second, Sarah E. Prather, and is a practicing physician. 8. Mehetabel P., the wife of P. A. Strong, and resides in Iowa. 9. Dr. E. M., who died in Wisconsin. 10. George H., a lawyer in Meadville, Pa.

ODIN BENEDICT was born in Skaneateles, Onondaga Co., August 20, 1805. His father, Dr. Isaac Benedict, was a native of Connecticut, and removed to Marcellus about 1803. He was in the United States service as a surgeon

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in the war of 1812 ; came home from Sacket's Harbor sick, and died in a few weeks, in 1814. Dr. Odin Benedict read medicine in his native town, and graduated at Fairfield Medical College. He was licensed by the Her- kimer Co. Medical Society, in January, 1826, and came the same year to Ellery Center, and commenced practice. He was the first resident physician in the town, and is said to have had an extensive practice, which he con- tinued. until 1850. He was elected supervisor of Ellery in 1833, and was continued in that office by reelection until 1849, inclusive, excepting the years 1840, 1843, and 1848 ; making a service of 14 years. He was a member of assembly in 1840 and 1843. He also held the office of postmaster in Ellery for about 20 years. In the spring of 1850, he removed to Ann Arbor, Michigan, and started the Government Stock Bank, and remained there un- til September, 1851, and came to Dunkirk, and was in the Dunkirk. Bank for two or three years ; after which he kept a broker's office in that place for five or six years. He then resumed the practice of medicine, in which he con- tinued until his death in 1874. He was married in December, 1826, to Sally Ann Copp, of Ellery. They have a son, William C., a farmer in Ellery, who has served his town as supervisor from 1858 to 1863, inclusive, a period of 6 years. He has 5 sons : Willis, a student at law, in Jamestown ; Warner, a farmer, at home ; Walter ; William ; Washburn.

ABIJAH BENNETT was born in Connecticut about the year 1764. After a residence in Delaware and Cayuga counties, he removed, in 1806, to Chau- tauqua, on the east side of, and near the lake. It appears, however, from the Company's books, that Bennett contracted for his land, June 22, 1805, lot Io, t. 3, r. 13 ; and the day previous, contracts appear to have been made with Alanson Weed, for lot 9; with Filer Sacket, for lot 14; and with John Hersey, for lot 17 ; all of whom had come together on an exploring tour from Cayuga county. An event in the early life of Mr. Bennett, will be read by many with interest. At the age of about 12 years, he and his father, while residing in Delaware Co., N. Y., were, in 1776, taken captive, with other inhabitants of that place, by the Indians, and marched to Fort Niagara, being about 2 months on the way. Here the father and son were separated. The father, Daniel Bennett, was sent to Detroit; Abijah, to Montreal. Both were forced into the British service. The father being by trade a tailor, was put to making clothing for the army. The son was taught to beat the drum, at which he soon became such a proficient as to attain the rank of drum-major. After the close of the war, both returned, after an absence of about six years and a half. Their sufferings while on their march to Detroit, were extreme. The country was most of the way unsettled; they were obliged to live on short allowance, for a time, until their stock of provisions was entirely exhausted, when they had nothing to live on but roots and barks. Abijah became sick and helpless. He was rolled in a blanket, and carried by his father and another man on their shoulders. In this condition they marched seven days, when all were nearly exhausted, and without the hope of relief. Fortunately, they were met by a British officer on a fat mare. The officer

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alighted, and told them the mare was at their service; and in a few moments the animal was entirely devoured. They were soon after met by provisions from the fort, and in three days they got through. This bite from the mare, they have often been heard to say, was the sweetest morsel they had ever tasted. Daniel Bennett followed his son to Cayuga Co., where he died in 1807. Abijah removed to Rising Sun, Indiana, where he died Feb. 7, 1846, aged about 82 years.

JEREMIAH GRIFFITH was born at Norwich, Conn., July 28, 1758. He was married to Mary Cropsey, who was born Feb. 8, 1764. An account of the removal of Mr. G. and his family to Ellery has been given, [p. 315.] They had 6 children : John, Seth, Samuel, Polly, Jeremiah, and Alexander H. All were married and had families.

JOHN GRIFFITH, son of Jeremiah Griffith, Sr., was born June, 1785, and married Tryphena Bemus, Feb. 8, 1809, and had 12 children. 1. Mary B., wife of John Arnold, whose children were: Tryphena; Annette, wife of Joseph Phillips, whose children are Pauline and John; Edward, who married Eliza Russell, whose children are Florence, John Q., Monroe, David, and Odin B. ; Minerva, who died at 14; and Mary Ann. 2. William B., who married Mary Dunton, and had 2 sons, Charles, and Albert, who married Mary Walkup. 3. Martha P., unmarried. 4. Clarissa, wife of Nelson Bird, in Poland, who had a number of children, of whom Amos was killed in the late war, in Sheridan's army. 5. Minerva, who died unmarried., 6. John, who married Harriet Smiley, and whose children are Caroline V., Sarah Jane, and Leonard E. 7. Jedediah, who married Jane Ames, and had a daughter, Isadore, who died at 24 ; parents also deceased. 8. Nancy, deceased. 9. Catharine, wife of Asa Cheney, who had 11 children: Frank, Mark, Beecher, Miles, Morris, Martha, Lydia, Jennie, Alta, Eva, and John C. Lydia, Jennie, and Alta, not living. 10. James B., who married Mary Howells, whose chil- dren were : George, deceased ; Adaline, Howell, and inf. 11. Martin, who married Sarah Bixby, and has two children, Addie and Andrew. 12. Ophelia, unmarried. John Griffith died Sept. 23, 1868. Tryphena, his wife, died Feb. 19, 1851. The daughters, Martha and Ophelia, reside on the homestead, and superintend the labor on the farm, which has become somewhat exten- sively known as "Martha's Vineyard," from the name of its senior conductor. On the farm is a pleasant grove, a resort of picnic parties.

SETH GRIFFITH, 2d son of Jeremiah Griffith, was born Dec. 20, 1787; died June 10, 1839. He married Polly Runnells, and had 3 children : I. Nelson, who married Emily A. Shaw ; whose children were Frank, Mary, Frederic, Emma Minerva, who died at 6, and Warner. 2. Sarah A., wife of Henry A. Whittemore, who have 3 children, Luella A., Jennie H., and Carrie. 3. Minerva, deceased, wife of Edward S. Crosman, who had a daughter, Josephine.

SAMUEL GRIFFITH, 3d son of Jeremiah, was born May 8, 1791, and was married to Eliza Simmons, and had by her 4 children : 1. Franklin, who married, first, Eliza Griffith, who had 2 children : Emily, wife of James G.

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Cone, who has 3 children ; and Julia, wife of Andrew J. Pickard, who has a son, Frank. He married, second, Sally Young ; married, a third wife, Jen- nette Garfield, who has one child, Geo. S. 2. Alexander, 2d son of Samuel Griffith, married Martha Martin, and had 4 children : Merritt, who married Polly Reed ; Ella ; Edna, wife of George Robbins; and Marcus A. 3. Jen- nette, daughter of Samuel Griffith, married Wm. H. Atherly, whose children are Everett ; Willis, who died at 17; and Jerome. 4. Christiana, 3d daugh- ter of S. G., is the wife of Simeon Wilber, and has 2 children, Charles A., who married Abby Damon, of Gerry ; and Franklin S.

POLLY GRIFFITH was born July 28, 1793; died, 1858. She married, first, Amos Bird, who had 5 children : 1. Philander, who married - - Foster, and lives in Illinois. 2. Nelson, who married Clarissa Griffith, whose children were: Amos, killed in the late war; Adelaide, deceased; Willard F .; Charles, deceased ; Albertie, and Dora. 3. Juliette, who married Wm. Boylston, and died in Ill. 4. George. 5. Jennette, deceased. Polly Bird married, second, Parley Fairbanks, who had 3 children : 1. Minerva, deceased, who was the wife of - Pitcher, of Poland, and had a daughter, Eva ; 2. Emeline, wife of -- Hambleton, who had a son, Leander ; and, 3. Caroline, deceased, twin sister of Emeline.

JEREMIAH GRIFFITH, JR., fifth child of Jeremiah, born October 22, 1795, married Margaret Loucks, and had 6 children : I. Wellington, who married Rhoda Bucklin, and whose children were: Isabel, wife of Willie H. Shaw, at Corry; have a son; Georgia married, and lives at Corry; and Lawrence. Mr. W. Griffith married, second, Lydia Atwood; and third, Lois Strong. 2. George W., second son of Jeremiah, Jr., married Catharine Peterson, and resides in Gerry, and has 5 children: Adelaide, unmarried; Adaline, wife of Burt Palmer; Adella; George L .; and Emerson. 3. Jane, wife of Daniel Bemus, who have a daughter, Mary. 4. Mary, wife of Wm. C. Benedict, whose children are : Willis, Warner, Walter, William, and Washburn. 5. Amarett, wife of Fernando Atherly, whose children are: Clara, Minnie, Frank, Florence, and Mark T. 6. Cordclia, who died at 18.

ALEXANDER H. GRIFFITH, sixth child of Jeremiah, born July 17, 1805, married, first, Maria Strickland, and had 5 children: 1. Ellen, wife of Delos Chamberlin; whose children were, Alice and Burton. 2. Robert, unmarried. 3. Guy C., unmarried. 4. Alsina, wife of George Bedient; their children, May, Christina, Erwin, and Blanch. 5. Richard, who was in the army in the late war, and lost. A. H. Griffith married, second, Martha Sackett, who had 3 children : Sackett, Norman, dead, and Hattie. Sackett married Louisa Smith; they have a child, Lillie.

CHARLES G. MAPLES was born February 20, 1818, in Milo, Yates county, ·N. Y. His father was Dea. Josiah Maples, a native of New London, Conn., who early emigrated to Otsego county, N. Y .; thence to Yates county, then a wilderness. Charles was the youngest of 18 children, all of whom lived to have families. He was the eleventh child of his mother, who was Esther Rogers, of New Jersey, the second wife of his father. In February, 1826,

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he moved with his father's family to Aurora, Erie county, where he received a common school education, and where his mother died in 1831. At the age of 18, he removed with his father to Ellery, where his father died July 4, 1847, aged 85 years. He worked on the farm, and attended and taught school ; and in 1838 he was married to Ruth Barney, the youngest daughter of Luther Barney, Esq., who emigrated early from Connecticut to Cayuga county, and thence to Newstead, Erie county. In 1830, he removed to Ellery, where he died in 1845, aged 88 years, and where his second wife died in 1848, aged 71 years.

Charles G. Maples and his wife have had 8 children, all of whom are now dead, except a daughter, Florence, the wife of S. Morris Whicher. He set- tled on a farm in Ellery, in 1838, and has been mainly engaged in agricul- tural pursuits, and had the reputation of a good farmer. He was elected a justice of the peace in 1848, and was several times reelected, and served as such for many years. He spent much time in acquiring a practical knowl- edge of legal business matters, and of the laws relating to real estate. In 1862, he was appointed United States assistant assessor of internal revenue, and for several years satisfactorily performed the duties of that office. In 1870, he was elected surrogate of the county of Chautauqua, the duties of which office he has discharged with fidelity and to the general acceptance. He removed, in 1871, to Mayville, the county seat, where he now resides.

WILLIAM SMILEY, an early settler in Ellery, was a son of Wm. Smiley who, in Ireland, was pressed into the British naval service. After about seven years, the vessel anchored in Long Island sound, and Smiley, with two cousins, companions in misfortune, "escaped from service" by swimming ashore, in Connecticut. Within a year he married, and, after many years, removed with his wife and son, William, Jr., to Savannah, Ga., where he died within a year. Soon after, the mother also died; and the son returned to Farmington, Conn., the place of his nativity. He was apprenticed to the tanner and currier's trade. The war came on; and he and his master were called into the field. After the war, he married Hannah Wilcox, of Exeter, R. I. After several years' residence in Vermont, and about a year's sojourn in Broome county, N. Y., he removed with his family to Chenango county, and in 1810 to Ellery. He had previously [1808] divided his prop- erty among his children, Joseph, the eldest, assuming the care and support of the parents. Wm. Smiley died Jan., 1825; his wife, March, 1831. His son Joseph had II children, of whom John, the oldest, resides on the prem- ises bought by his grandfather, Wm. Smiley, in 1810. Joseph and William, the sons of William, served in the war of 1812, in Capt. John Silsby's com- pany, and participated in the battle of Black Rock, in which William was killed. John Smiley, the eldest of Joseph's children, was born April 2, 1808, and resides on the old homestead. William J., son of James, and grandson of William who was killed at Black Rock, was a soldier in the late war, and killed in the battle of the Wilderness.

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married to Hannah Wilcox, in Rhode Island. He removed to Vermont ; thence, in 1778, to Broome Co., N. Y., and in 1779 to Chenango Co .; and in 1810 to Ellery. He had 11 children : 1. Joseph, who married Sarah Lewis, in Chenango Co., and had a son, John, who married Eliza M. Briggs, and has a daughter, Rosa Belle. 2. Asel, who married Charlotte Johnson, and had 6 children who attained maturity : Freeborn L., who married Ann Brown; Edwin, in Michigan; Laura Jane, wife of Willard T. Denslow, of James- town ; George W .; Marion, who married Georgia Brightman, of Mass. Asel Smiley married, second, Mehetabel Currier, and is deceased; she resides at Fluvanna. 3. Hannah, who married Arnot B. Hopkins, whose children were : Lewis, Charles, Sarah, wife of David W. Perrigo, Wisconsin. Han- nah married, second, Jonas Cloys, deceased ; she resides in Busti. 4. Daniel, who married Ellen Bemus, and removed to Wisconsin. 5. Lydia, wife of Asa Comstock, in Wisconsin. 6. Lucy, who was married, first, to McNaught ; second, to Wm. Dunn; they reside in Wisconsin. 7. Mary. wife of Joseph Bert, and is deceased. 8. Martha, wife of Samuel Robb, in Kansas. 9. Sarah, wife of Freeborn Lewis, who died in Wisconsin. 10. Harriet, wife of John Griffith, who has 3 children, Carrie V., Sarah J., and Leonard E. 11. Jane, who died in 1847, aged 16.

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