History of Chautauqua County, New York, Part 110

Author: Edson, Obed, 1832-; Merrill, Georgia Drew, editor
Publication date: 1894
Publisher: Boston, Mass. : W.A. Fergusson
Number of Pages: 1068


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In the southeastern part of the town Elilm Barber settled on lot 3. At an early day a sawmill and gristmill was built in the northeastern part of the town at Waterboro. The gristmill was burned and the sawmill went into disuse. Josiah Miles and Daniel Wheeler built a sawmill near Conewango which was rebuilt and owned by Charles Clark. John Merrill built a saw- inill on Mud creek on lot 3. Nicholas Dolloff built a sawmill on the Cone- .


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wango in the southern part of the town which is operated at present. Dr. Samuel Foote, brother of Judge E. T. Foote, is said to have been the first physician in Poland, and Dr. Nelson Rowe to have come next. Dr. Win. Smith came about 1840, and died at Kennedy. His son, Sumner A., was a druggist and postmaster at Kennedy, and served three years in the late war. His son Henry died in the late war. Three other sons reside in the town. Later physicians were Drs. James H. Monroe, Ingraham, J. W. Button and Early. The citizens of the town, during late years, have been increased by many good and respectable people from Sweden.


George W. Stilson is a son of Benoni Stilson, who was born in 1791 in Connecticut, and came to Jamestown about 1828, married Hannah Brown, formerly of New Hampshire, March 3, 1831. He worked at building and painting in Jamestown until within a few years of his death. Of his child- ren five are now living : Mary A., (Mrs. W. F. Hale) of Ellery, Geo. W., of Poland, Amos C., of Bradford, Pa., Henry H. and Elias B., of Jamestown. Benoni Stilson died October, 1857. Hannah Stilson died March 31, 1857. George W. Stilson married a daughter of Ichabod Sparks, who was born March 29, 1807, in Argyle, Washington county, and came to this county about 1830, married Katherine Bain from Argyle, Washington county, November 10, 1831, and settled in Carroll at the head of Frew Run, cleared the land and made a home. Of their 6 children three are now living : Eliz- abeth, (Mrs. G. W. Stilson), of Poland, Sarah J., (Mrs. E. B. Stilson), of James- town, and Robert I. Sparks, of Larned, Kansas. Ichabod Sparks died May 13, 1853. "Katharine Sparks died April 2, 1858.


CHURCHES .- The Kennedy Baptist Church was organized January 30, 1836, with 22 members. Rev. B. Braman was first pastor. A meeting house was built in 1868.


The Methodist Protestants were here early. In May, 1839, Rev. James Covell organized a society at the schoolhouse in district No. 4, and the next year Rev. O. C. Payne from Fredonia formed one in district No. Ir. For a time they were very flourishing.


Poland Free Church at Kennedy, organized in 1856, built a church the next year.


The Wesleyan Methodist Church at Levant was early organized by Rev. Emory Jones. A church was built in 1872.


SUPERVISORS. - Nathaniel Fenton, 1833 ; Sumner Allen, 1834-5-6-7-8-9-40-1-2-6-64; W. W. Chandler, 1843-4; Henry N. Hunt, 1845-54-5 ; David Tucker, 18.47-8; Pierce Woodard, 1849-50- 7-8; Eliakim Crosby, 1851-2; M. W. Smith, 1853; Galusha M. Wait, 1856; Wm. M. Falconer, 1859 60-1-2-3 ; Daniel Griswold, 1865-6-7-8; Harvey S. Elkins, 1869-70-1-2 ; Josiah H. Monroe, 1873-4-7-8-9 So-1-2: Amos Bill*, 18;5-6-83 ; Ira C. Nichols, 1884-6-7-8 90-2-3 ; Lyman F. Weeden, 1891 ; Newell Cheney, 1885-9 ; E. F. Rowley, 1894


Of these supervisors, the first, Nathaniel Fenton, was born in New England


*Mr. Bill is commissioner of highways,


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in 1763, came to Poland about 1823. Fanny, one of his daughters, married Gen. Horace Allen, and Fluvanna married Sumner Allen. Sumner Allen was born in Otsego county, February 3, 1804, and came to Poland in 1818. He was the son of Phineas Allen and brother of Gen. Horace Allen. Wood- ley W. Chandler was born in Virginia, February 14, 1800. He resided suc- cessively in, Tennessee, New Orleans and Cincinnati and early came to Poland. He married Phebe, the daughter of Abraham Winsor. He died April 22, 1854. Eliakim Crosby was born in Oneida county, removed to Poland in 1829 and settled on lot 37, at Poland Center, where he kept a pub- lic house. He held nearly every town office. Harvey S. Elkins was born in Poland, Nov. 26, 1835. He was a merchant of Kennedy for 5 years. He has been superintendent of the poor of the county and supervisor of Poland four years. His first wife was Maria Nichols. After her death he married Jennie Stratton. Daniel Griswold was born in Wyoming county, N. Y., Feb. 18, 1830, came to Poland in 1831 or 1832. In 1868 he married Martha, daughter of John Townsend. He is an extensive lumberman, and has been supervisor of Poland and Ellicott and Jamestown, and is president of Chau- tauqua County National Bank.


CARROLL CHAPTER LXXX.


C ARROLL was formed from Ellicott, March 25, 1825, and Kiantone was set off November 16, 1853. Carroll is in the southeast corner of the county, and contains 20,658 acres. The surface is rolling in the south and southwest parts with soil of a gravelly loam ; broken and hilly in the east and northeast with a clay loam soil. The highest summits rise 1,400 feet above tide water. The principal stream is the Conewango, which enters the town from the north on lot 48, and meanders in a southwesterly course into Kiantone, then running south along the west line, it flows nearly southeasterly, forming the boundary between Carroll and Kiantone to the state line. Case run in the north part, and Frew's run, flowing northwest and west, and emptying into the Conewango west of Frewsburg, through which it flows, are the principal tributaries of the Conewango. The town was given its name in honor of Charles Carroll, the last surviving signer of the Declaration of Independence. The D. A. V. & P. R. R. crosses the west side of the town1.


The first settlers were John Frew on lot 61, and Thomas Russell on wes


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half of lot 53, at the mouth of Frew's run in the spring of 1809. John Frew paid $2.25 an acre for all this land, built a log cabin, and put in crops in 1810. A few months later George W. Fenton sold his farm on Chada- koin river and located on lot 52, south of and adjoining the lands of Frew and Russell. (See pages 200 and 201). Frew and Russell built a sawmill in ISI0 and commenced sawing the next spring. This mill formed the nucleus of a brisk manufacturing center. They ran the boards they sawed in 1811 to Pittsburgh. James Frew was connected with them in the building of the mill, and purchased Russell's interest in 1814. In 1817 with their father, Hugh Frew, they built an " overshot " gristmill, using the gearing and stones of their father's old mill in Farmington, Pa. They cleared up good farms and prospered. George W. Fenton developed a large farm and raised excellent crops, which readily sold at high prices. He opened the first store in Frewsburg. Other settlers soon came. Jolin Tyler was on lot 51 by June, ISO8. (His son Hamilton, born in 1810 was the first white child born in the present town). Isaac Walton on lot 41, and Charles Boyles on lot 42 in the summer of 1809. (The first marriage of the town was William Boyles to Terusha Walton in 1811). Young says that Benjamin Covel, born in Harwich, Mass., in 1761, was at the taking of Burgoyne, at Sullivan's defeat, and at the battle of Monmouth. He married Sibyl Durkee, and removed in 1810 with a large family to Carroll, where he died Nov. 27, 1822. At that time all of his sons and daughters, his brother Seth and nephew Sim- eon, were living near him, and the settlement was called "Coveltown." They " were active in getting the first bridge built across the Conewango at Coveltown." Benj. Covel took up in December, 1810, lot 2, T. I, R. II, in Kiantone. They went in canoes to Warren to trade, and to Work's mill with " grists." The early settlers were mostly from eastern Pennsylvania and New Jersey, who came up the Sinemalioning and across to the Allegany near Olean, and then down the river. Lumbering commenced early, and a transient population came to work in the woods, in the mills and in rafting, sometimes bringing a family. There was boating on the Conewango and traveling on lands by prospective land buyers and others, and taverns were demanded. John Myers opened one in 1814 on the Conewango about a mile from Frewsburg, and the same year William Sears one on lot 11, (Kiantone). In 1816 John Owen opened one at Fentonville, and also kept a ferry. In the rafting seasons these were centers of great mirth and enjoyment, the raftsmen more than filled the houses, and would quarrel for the privilege of lying on the bar-room floor in order to hear Owen tell his stories, and in the morning would declare themselves "thoroughly rested and refreshed, and that his stories would soften the hardest plank on the Conewango."


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with game that made it a paradise for hunters. "The whole section looked like a beet bed, so thick were the trees." (See page 176.) Perhaps no other township in the county has had so many sawmills in operation at the same time as Carroll. Within about a mile above Fentonville in 1854, were the mills of L. Forbush, D. Wiltsie, J. Brokaw, another one and S. Smith's mill. On Frew's run was Frew's sawmill. Above this were James Wheeler's, Otis Moore's, Job Toby's, John Myers, Jr.'s, John Townsend's, Henry Bennett's, James Frew's, N. Gavitt's, Cowan's, and others. On Case run were the mills of Smith Cass, D. Harrington, G. W. Fenton, Jr., J. & C. Pope, Charles Pope ; and on its branches the mills of A. Comstock and L. Cowan. There was also a steam sawmill owned by Franklin Baker.


John Frew was a valuable citizen. He assisted Edward Work to build his sawmill at Work's Mills in 1808, and the first lumber was cut by Frew. It was plank for eight flat boats which Frew built, and took to Mayville for salt which he run to Pittsburgh. "The same Jolin Frew brought on his back from Dunkirk a bushel-and-a-half bag of salt for the settlers who were in perishing need of it. It was this same John Frew, who, in 1813, killed the last deer killed at the great deer lick in the four corners of Main and Third streets of Jamestown." He was supervisor from 1816 to 1822, and was selected for higher offices but would not accept them. He had sound judgment, strict integrity, and was the active man of the community. He died in 1865 aged 76. His brother James was a quiet, unostentatious man of great worth. He was a good marksman and hunter, and a good mechanic. In 1812 he served with General Harrison's Indian campaign. He married Rebecca, daughter of Josiah H. Wheeler, and was accidentally killed August 24, 1834, at the age of 43, at a " raising." His sons were Jolin H., Miles, Josiah, Jefferson, David, (who lived to a good old age and had the respect of all). Jolin and James Frew were sons of Hugh and Mary (Russell) Frew, native of County Down, Ireland. Hugh was a miller and came to Frewsburg in 1817 to operate the new gristmill. He died in 1831 aged 73.


George W. Fenton, son of Roswell Fenton, was born in Hanover, N. H., December 20, 1783. In 1804 he went to Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Louis- ville. Returning to Pittsburgh Mr. Fenton made canoe trips for several years with goods and provisions up the Allegany river and to French Creek. In the winter of 1805-6 lie taught the first school ever taught at Warren, became acquainted with John Owen and family, and, November 2, 1806, married Elsie Owen. The next spring (1807) they settled near Levant, one of the first three families of Ellicott. Joseph Ellicott, who came in 1807 to survey the township into lots, engaged Mr. Fenton to help him survey Carroll. While earning good wages he gained thorough knowledge of the town. Sell- ing his Levant home to John Arthur he purchased 627 acres, and made a per- manent residence here in 1809, and died March 3, 1860. His children were :


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Roswell O., born September 6, 1807 ; he was the first white child born in Chautauqua south of the ridge ; George W .; William H. H .; John F .; Reu- ben E. (See page 453).


John Owen was a native of Windsor, Conn., and a soldier of the old French war and the Revolution. He came from the Susquehanna valley to Warren in 1806, and, in 1808, located on lot 57, town 2, range 10, in Poland. In 1816 he sold his farm and located in Carroll on lot 41 where he resided 27 years. He kept a tavern which was on the road that crossed the Conewango at the state line. He also kept a ferry. Many a man has laughed at the old man's stories and jokes till his sides were sore. He had a kind of stutter which added to the point of his jokes. His teeth were all double ones. He claimed that in his early days he never found but one man that got the bet- ter of him in a fair "stand-up" fight. Owen served with the English in the attack-on Quebec in the old French war, and was under Col. Ethan Allen May 10, 1775, at the surrender of Ticonderoga. He died in Carroll Febru- ary 6, 1843, aged 107 years, 10 months, 8 days. Ira Owen came with his father John to the Conewango and settled east of him. He was with the Chautauqua militia at the battle of Buffalo, and was both a brave soldier and an excellent marksman. While formed in line several of his company had been shot by some foe in their rear ; presently the third man to his right was shot. Mr. Owen turned partially around and discovered an Indian lowering his rifle from the head of a flour barrel 80 yards distant. Drawing his rifle to his face when the Indian's head appeared in view the dusky intruder fell back to trouble them no more. On the retreat from Black Rock he killed a pursuing Indian who was trying to pick off our men. Seeing him fall, Owen ran to rescue his rifle, belt and powder-horn, but the bullets whistled so close that he only succeeded in getting the rifle. Reuben Owen, second son of John, lived on the old homestead until his death. He married Hannah Clark. Alvin, youngest son of Jolin, lived at Fentonville, married Miss Haley, had three children, and was drowned in the Conewango by the upsetting of his skiff.


John Myers and his 13 children became closely connected with Carroll. Six of his sons, John, Jacob, Robert, Lyman, William and James, and two of his daughters, became permanent citizens. The good-natured hotel keeper enjoyed life while having a shrewd eye to business, and transmitted his cheery temperament to his children. His sons have been active in business and men of ability.


" Hiram Dickinson, son of Gideon Dickinson, a soldier of the Revolution, was born in 1800, in Williamstown, Vt. In 1818 he married Sally Pierce, of Hoosick, Rensselaer county. In February, 1819, they started for Chau- tauqua county, arriving here after traveling just one month with an ox team, over almost impassable roads, there being only a sled track most of the way. They came with a wagon as far as Nunda, where they found the snow su


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deep they were forced to load their goods on a sled, for which they paid five dollars. Their load, which weighed 3,000 pounds, consisted mostly of house- hold goods and farming utensils, also a box containing two very fine pigs, of a kind superior to any in this county, and at that time sought after far and near. They were known as the " Dickinson breed " for many years. When the family arrived at Jamestown, they stayed all night in one of the first hotels of the place, and it was nothing but a shell built of rough boards, with loose partitions and floors. From there they started with their load for their new home. There were then but very few families for miles around, and 110 store nearer than the "Prendergast store" at Jamestown, and that hardly worthy of the name. On arriving at their destination, the place now owned and occupied by A. Hiller in Carroll, they commenced housekeeping in the usual manner of those days, with no conveniences of the present, always cooking by the old-fashioned fireplace. They were in the heart of a wilder- ness filled with bears, deer, wolves and other game, and rattlesnakes, which were so plenty they could be found at any time and place. Mr. Dickinson killed one under his doorstep that measured over four feet in length and had nine rattles. They were obliged to yard their sheep every night for several years to protect them from the wolves, as they were so bold as to come close to the house. Mrs. Dickinson often went after the sheep at night when her hus- band was away. Once she stopped to gather some hickory nuts, and hearing a noise near by, on looking up she saw a large wolf within a few feet. She did not stop to gather any more nuts ; knowing if she did not find the sheep that night they would all be destroyed before morning, she persevered in hunting until she found them on the land now owned by Samuel Townsend, on Frew run. Mr. Dickinson and one of his neighbors, Joseph Waite, father of Gov. Davis H. Waite, hired a horse (if I remember right the only one in what is now Carroll) of Capt. Josiah Wheeler, to go to Mayville after salt. This was the nearest place where it could be had. The men went on foot and brought a half-barrel of salt (for which they paid $8) home on the horse.


Mr. and Mrs. Dickinson's children were : Sarah, married Chester Pope ; Syrena, died aged nine ; Minerva An, married Clark Washburn,* and Car- oline, married John Dempster Scudder June 12, 1849. It was a double wed- ding at the home of Mrs. Pope. The ceremony was performed by Jedial Pope, justice of the peace of Carroll. Dewitt C. Dickinson, the son, after he attained maturity, went west, married there and returned with his family, was drafted into the army, served his time, was honorably discharged, receives a pension and resides in Kane, Pa. Harte S., married John, son of Phineas Annis, an early settler of Carroll. (John Aninis was a soldier in the 9th N. Y. Cav.); Louisa M., married Stephen Thomas of Frewsburg and died November 14, 1882.


* Clark Washburn died in April, 1891. He was a pensioner of the Civil War, having served in the 9th N. Y. Cavalry.


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John D. Scudder enlisted in Carroll, Sept. 4, 1864, in the 188th Regt. N. V. Vols. He was killed October, 1864, in the battle of Thatcher's Run, when only 35 years old. He left a wife, Caroline Dickinson Scudder, and five children. Mrs. Scudder lives on the farm that they owned when Mr. Scudder enlisted. The children are Imogen, (Mrs. Churchill) lives in Wash- ington, D. C. ; Isadore, (Mrs. Black) in Venango county, Pa. ; Delevan M., in Lewis Run, Pa. ; Rose, (Mrs. Smedley) in Carroll ; John D. in Poland. Hiram Dickinson died in Carroll Sept. 12, 1848. In December, 1856, Mrs. Dickinson married Jolın Myers, Sr. He died December 19, 1877, in his 90th year. Mrs. Sally D. Myers died Oct. 13, 1891, in her gist year. Mrs. Minerva A. D. Washburn resides in Spring Creek, Pa. Mrs. John Annis resides in Frewsburg. Mr. Annis was in the 9th N. Y. Cav., and receives a pension."


"About 1825 James Cowan settled on Case run. He was a noted hunter, and while in search of game he penetrated the dense wilderness of South Valley in Cattaraugus county." There was then a well-worn Indian trail leading from the Conewango along Case run, through Covey gap and down Bone run to the Allegany river near Onoville. On the north side of this trail, near the boundary line of Carroll and South Valley, a fence had been made by the Indians, or a lattice-work woven of brush and small poles, which ran northerly for a mile and a half over a high ridge to the north branch of Bone run. It was sufficiently high to intercept the passage of deer and elk. Gaps were left in this hedge for game to pass through where it could be watched for and shot with bow and arrows. This fence was to be seen as late as 1840. Mr. Cowan relates that an old Indian told him that when he was a boy his parents lived in a camp on lot 57, town 2, range 10, near the mouth of the Cassadaga, and that his father traded some fur for a rifle ; that his father, two brothers and himself " took turns " in hunting with the gun, and that the best day's hunt he ever made was accomplished by setting out early one morning from home with the old flint-lock rifle, crossing the Conewango in his canoe at the mouth of Case run, hunting up one side of that stream and back on the opposite side. He killed that day three deer, two bears and a wild turkey. James and Hannah (Pope) Cowan had sons : 1. John Milton, who was a life-long resident of Carroll and a well-known and esteemed citizen. He was born July 3, 1835, and died July 3, 1894 ; his wife was Mary, daugh- ter of Phineas Annis ; his children are Irwin L .; Erie L .; W. Mearle of Carroll ; and Mrs. Edith Eldridge of Portland. 2. George M. of South Val- ley ; 3. Clarence M. ; 4. E. Melvin.


EARLY SETTLERS .- Rev. Paul Davis, a Baptist clergyman, came from Vermont in 1816. His efficient labors bore good fruit until his death 10 years later. His son, Simeon C., was locally prominent for years. He came in 1814. He has many descendants. Consider Benson, a soldier of 1812,


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came from Vermont in 1816, and died in Falconer in 1855, aged 89. Hiram Thayer from Massachusetts came to this county in 1816 and to Carroll in 1820. He bought part of lot 39 and lived here 60 years until his death. He was an esteemed citizen, acquired wealth and left numerous descendants. In 1816 Joseph Waite, father of Hon. Davis H. Waite, governor of Colorado, came from Vermont and engaged in lumbering until 1821 when he removed to Jamestown. Josiah H. Wheeler from Vermont brought a large family here early and purchased the Matthew Turner sawmill on Frew's run (lot 53, town I, range 10). His sons worked harmoniously with him, and they acquired wealth. His children married into the best families of the section. Otis Moore settled carly on lot 45 and owned and operated the sawmill one mile east of Frewsburg. Luther Howard, a native of Wardsborough, Vt., came about 1830 and settled on the farm he bought of Charles Wolcott, who had made a small clearing, and where his son Jedialı lived after his father's deatlı. Of his six children only Mrs. James Parker and Jedialı survived in 1892.


Case run took its name from the first settler, James Case, who did not remain long in town. Moses Taft, from Vermont, was an early settler and part owner of a sawmill on Case run. Dutee Herrington settled ou lot 32, and was a mill owner for years. Orsino Comstock lived on lot 31, Richard Hiller on lot 30, Goodwin Staples on lot 8. John Townsend bought the Thayer mill, which he and his sons owned and operated many years. Chris- topher Whitman and sons, Arthur and Dexter, resided here many years. Vernon Eaton came about 1823 from Vermont, and lived a long life in Car- roll. Edmund White was early on lot 27. Pliny Cass was a resident here from about 1820. This early emigration from New England brought others later. Luther Forbish came from Newton, Mass., in 1829, and resided many years on lot 34. He had a large family. His brother-in-law, Jacob Adams, and Leonard Adams, came from Newton, about 1847. Cyrus Adams, son of Jacob, died a soldier in the civil war. In 1827 Rufus Green, from Vermont, came, settling first in Kiantone, and, in 1830, on lot 51. He was a justice for many years. H. N. Thornton came from Ripley in 1828, and subse- quently lived in Kiantone and Carroll. Otis Alvord was an early settler at Fentonville. Dorastus Johnson, about 1845, settled on lot 45. Ira and Cal- vin, two of his six sons, lost their lives in the civil war. George W. Brown came in 1828. He was a farmer and mill owner. His sons, George W., Amos and Lewis were union soldiers in the civil war. Adam Vandewark in 1834, Albert Fox in 1835, J. D. Bain in 1838, Reuben Niles in 1839, were other settlers whose dates of coming we are able to give.


The first townmeeting was held at the house of Win. Sears, March 6, 1826, and these officers were elected : supervisor, James Hall ; town clerk, John Frew ; assessors, James Parker, Levi Davis, James Frew ; commission-


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ers of highways, E. Kidder, Geo. W. Fenton, Simeon C. Davis ; overseers of poor, E. Kidder, Geo. W. Jones ; collector, Asa Moore; constables, Asa Moore, Hiram Dickinson ; commissioners of schools, John Frew, James Hall, James Parker ; inspectors of schools, Win. Sears, Simeon Covell, Levi Davis ; pound-keepers, Geo. W. Fenton, Win. Sears.


For a small town Carroll has done much manufacturing. Its sawmills have been numerous and active, steam supplanting water as a motive power as water failed. Jefferson Frew's mill has cut from half to three-quarters of a million feet annually during many years. Edward Hayward, Edwin Moore, the Myers, Edwin Eaton, E. W. Scowden, Wood & White, Moore, Spink & Co., and others have produced millions on millions of staves, butter tubs, paint kegs, etc., laths, hand-sleds, baskets, (of which the " Frewsburg Basket Factory " has made from 500,000 to 750,000 a year for the last three years), soap and seed boxes, have been some of the products. The "Non- pariel Creamery," established in 1889, in 1893 received 2,053,535 lbs. of milk, produced 22,7901/2 lbs. of butter which sold for $29,131.14. In 1892 it received a contract for supplying butter for the U. S. navy. F. E. Thayer has been salesman since the creamery was founded, and it owes a large degree of its prosperity to his untiring efforts. Mr. Thayer is a native of Carroll, and resides on the fine farm near Frewsburg which his father tilled before him.




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