History of Clinton and Franklin Counties, New York : with illustrations and biographical sketches of its prominent men and pioneers, Part 127

Author: Hurd, D. Hamilton (Duane Hamilton) 1n; Lewis, J.W., & Co., Philadelphia
Publication date: 1880
Publisher: Philadelphia : J. W. Lewis & co.
Number of Pages: 922

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RELIGIOUS.

Religious services were held in the town as early as 1800. In that year, or the year following, one Hunting- don, a Presbyterian, held the first meetings at the house of Judge Bailey. About 1802, Henry Ryan, a Methodist eireuit preaeher, visited the town. In 1804 a revival oceurred, and in 1806 a class of about six was formed, with Benjamin Emmons as leader.

From that time Methodist meetings were held at irregu- lar periods, forming part of a large eireuit until about the year 1830, when the present church was organized. Burke and Chateaugay then formed one eharge, and the pastors resided part of the time in Burke, part of the time in the north part of Chateaugay, and again in Chateaugay village. Some of the early meetings were held in barns, sehool- houses, blacksmith-shops, private dwelling-houses, and in an old school-house that stood near the residence of Putnam B. Fisk. Quarterly meetings were sometimes held in Orlin Smith's barn.

The Methodist church edifiee was built in the year 1854, but was considerably damaged by the tornado of 1856, and rebuilt in part.

The line of pastors of the church, as nearly as they ean be aseertained from imperfect records, and evolved from the inner consciousness of the pastor in 1879, is as follows :

1833, - Emms; 1834, Charles L. Durning ; 1835 or 1836, James Irving ; 1839, Henry O. Tilden, R. E. King, assistant ; 1840-41, Jehial Austin, John Wallaee, assistant ; 1842-43, Franklin Hawkins, received $216 salary, $50 table money, and $25 traveling expenses ; 1844, James II. Wilbur ; 1845-46, Ebenezer Pease ; 1847, Allen Miller ; 1848, John N. Brown; 1850, Alonzo Wells ; 1852-53, David Ferguson ; 1854, David Ferguson, William H. Haw- kins; 1855, John B. Cocagne ; 1856-57, Alonzo Wells ; 1859-60, Seymour C. Goodell; 1861-62, Lester Brown ; 1863-64, J. H. Merritt; 1865-67, Ebenezer Briggs ; 1868-69, W. P. Hall; 1870-71, Sardius F. Kenyon; 1872-74, Jonathan B. Hammond; 1875-77, Lucius L. Palmer; 1878-79, Wilson F. Ball.

The church parsonage was bought of Hiram M. Roberts in 1866. East Belmont is connected with the charge.

The present membership of the church is 190; size of Sabbath-schools, 150 at Chateaugay, and 100 in Belmont.

The officers of the church and society are : Stewards (Chateaugay), Isaae Holeomb, Oel Sanderland, Sidney Mit- ehell, John MeCoy ; Trustees (Chateaugay), John W. Roberts, Wallace F. Hoyt, John McCoy, Truman C. Hall, Albert Barbe ; Stewards (Belmont), Selden Phelps, Daniel Kirby, William Wallbridge, William Miles; Leaders (Cha- teaugay), Albert L. Collins, Rufus P. Copps ; Leader ( Bel- mont), Selden Phelps ; Distributing and Receiving Steward, John McCoy.

PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.

The Presbyterian Church was organized as a Congrega- tional Church in 1816 by Rev. Messrs. James Johnson and A. Parmelee. It united with the Champlain Presbytery in 1827, and on April 25, 1842, perfeeted its organization as a Presbyterian Chureh.

At a meeting of the inhabitants of Chateaugay, held Sept. 19, 1825, to take into consideration the necessity and praetieability of building a meeting-house in said town, Rev. Jacob Hart was called to the chair, and Charles D. Baekus was chosen secretary. The following trustees were appointed to solicit subscriptions : Isaac Sebring, Warren Botsworth, and John Backus. The first-mentioned gentle- man took an aetive part in the matter, collected a large number of subscriptions, and attended to the construction of the building and the disbursement of the funds. His

THE CHATEAUGAY ACADEMY

and Union Free School was opened September 15, 1879, with the following corps of instructors : Henry W. Hill, A.B., Principal; Miss Mary H. Burt, Preceptress; Miss Cora N. Baldwin, First Assistant; Miss Minnie E. McCoy, Second Assistant.

Synopsis of instruction given in the Academic Department :

ENGLISH COURSE.

FIRST YEAR. First Term .- Arithmetic, completed, Political and Physical Geography, Composition, and Gram- mar, completed. Second Term .- Algebra, Natural Philosophy, History of the United States, Higher English. Third Term .- Algebra, Botany, History of Greece, Rhetoric.

SECOND YEAR. First Term .- Higher Algebra, completed, Zoology, General History, Rhetoric, and Specimens of English Literature. Second Term .- Geometry, Physiology, History of Rome, Study of Language. Third Term .- Geometry, completed, Geology, Chemistry, History of English Literature.

THIRD YEAR. First Term .- Trigonometry, Intellectual Philosophy, English Authors, History of General Literature. Second Term .- Trigonometry, Astronomy, Logic, Philosophy, History of Modern Europe. Third Term .- Astronomy, Moral Philosophy, Philosophy, Science of Government.

Original Essays and Declamation are required throughout the course.

CLASSICAL COURSE.

FIRST YEAR. First Term .- Arithmetic, completed, Latin, Physical Geography, Grammar, completed. Second Term .- Algebra, Latin, Physics, Higher English. Third Term .- Algebra, Latin, Botany, Rhetoric. SECOND YEAR. First Term .- Higher Algebra, completed, Caesar, Greek Reader, Rhetoric, and Specimens. Second Term .- Geometry, Sallust, Greek Reader, Study of Language. Third Term .- Geometry, com- pleted, Cicero, Anabasis, History of General Literature.

THIRD YEAR. First Term .- Trigonometry, Cicero, Anabasis, History of General Literature. Second Term. -Trigonometry, Astronomy, Virgil, Iliad, History of the United States. Third Term .- Astronomy, Virgil, Iliad, Science of Government.

Original Essays and Declamation are required throughout the course.

Upon the completion of either of the prescribed courses, the student will be awarded with a Diploma, pro- vided he pass a satisfactory examination in all the studics thereof.

The POST-GRADUATE COURSE, designed to fit students for the Sophomore Class in college, will comprise French, German, Herodotus, Odyssey, Livy, Tacitus, Horace, and such elective studies as the pupil may select.

A daily record of all the pupils is kept, and parents are from time to time appriscd of their standing.

This new building was erected during the summer of 1879 upon the sightly grounds donated by Mr. Eli B. Smith, of Malone, which comprise four acres in area, and is located about one hundred rods east of the business portion of the town. The building is provided with the latest improvements in heating, lighting, and ventilation, and the class-rooms are large, comfortable, and attractive. Everything has been done by the people of Chateaugay to make this one of the finest educational institutions in northern New York.

CHATEAUGAY ACADEMY AND UNION FREE SCHOOL, CHATEAUGAY, FRANKLIN CO., N. Y.

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personal contribution to the cause was large. Other con- tributors to the eause were Theodorus Bailey, James Bailey, Henry Rutgers, John Rankin, Dr. Platt Williams, Stephen Van Rensselaer, John Woodworth, and Christian Miller.

The whole length of the building from front to rear was 53 feet, and width 37 feet. The frame was raised on Mon- day, July 21, 1828, as Mr. Sebring states in his complete record of the affair, " in great harmony, without aceident, dispute, or intoxication." The total cost of the building was $697.42, of which Mr. Sebring* paid $469.42 of his own money. It was rebuilt in 1856, after the tornado, by which it was destroyed.

The line of pastors of the church has been : 1822-27, Jacob Hart, stated supply; 1830-33, Moses Parmelee, stated supply ; 1835-42, James Millar, stated supply ; 1843-48, Andrew M. Millar, pastor June 18, 1844; 1849-50, E. B. Baxter, stated supply ; 1850-61, Andrew M. Millar, stated supply ; 1862, J. H. Beekwith, stated supply ; 1863, John Turbit, stated supply; 1864-66, Andrew M. Millar, stated supply ; 1866-67, Simeon Gil- bert, stated supply ; 1868-69, Thomas Thompson, pastor May 14th ; 1870-72, Charles D. Flagler, stated supply ; 1872-76, James W. Grush, pastor Feb. 11, 1873; 1878, Henry T. Scholl, supply.

Deacons .- Warren Botsford, Erastus Douglass ; 1835, Timothy Beman ; 1842, Benjamin Miller ; 1846, Robert Bennett, Samuel Farnsworth, William V. Derby ; 1867, I. P. Warren.

Elders -1842, Timothy Beman, Warren Botsford, Erastus Douglass, Robert Bennett, Oscar F. Brewer, Wil- liam V. Derby, Samuel Farnsworth, Benjamin Miller, Samuel Stoughton, James J. Webb; 1860, Arunah S. Bryant, Joseph Shaw; 1861, Joseph C. Miller; 1868, James Danskin, S. S. Clark.

The membership of the church is 80; size of Sabbath- school, 79; superintendent of Sabbath-school, James B. Millar.

BAPTIST CHURCHI.

A Baptist Church was formed Feb. 12, 1817, by Elder Isaae Sawyer. Israel Thayer was chosen deaeon, and George W. P. Beman elerk. The erection of a house of worship was begun in 1820, on land donated for the purpose by Gideon Collins, and the building was dedicated in 1838. The dedication sermon was preached by Elder Farr. The original number of members was 11, and the largest acecs- sion to their numbers occurred in 1830.

Rev. Mr. Sawyer was succeeded by Rev. Mr. Johnson, who remained but a few months, Rev. David Byington, who remained a year, and Rev. Ephraim Smith, who was employed at short intervals for many years. Rev. Jeremiah Dwyer was employed about a year during that period. On

the formation of the town of Burke, about two-thirds of the members formed themselves in the new town and or- ganized a separate church. The church in Chateaugay is quite small, and without a regular pastor.

ROMAN CATHOLIC.

Catholic worship was held in the town early in the cen- tury, and was presided over by priests from Malone, and before that by priests from Montreal.

A church edifice was built on land donated by John Roberts. This was destroyed by the tornado that occurred in June, 1856. The present edifice was commenced in 1858, and finished by Father Edmund M. De Pauw in January, 1863.

Father De Pauw was the first resident priest, and took charge of the parish in January, 1863.

Father De Pauw pursued his studies in Rome, and was made a deacon by the present pope, Leo XIII., on June 10, 1854, he being then cardinal bishop of Perugia. He was ordained priest by the Bishop of Foligno during the same year.

Father De Pauw's first station was over the Church of the Assumption, where he remained twenty months, and then came to Chateaugay, where he still remains. He was appointed to the charge by the present cardinal, John Me- Closkey, then bishop of the diocese of Albany.

The parish is in a prosperous condition, and comprises 2000 souls at Chateaugay.

Connected with the parish are the stations at Burke and Belmont. At Burke is a house of worship, purchased of the Baptists in 1874, and dedicated the same year.

The parish formerly ineluded the churches at Clinton, Ellenburgh, and Altona.

An Episcopal society was formed in the town a few years ago, and the erection of a church edifice begun. The building was never completed.

In 1835 there were classes of Protestant Methodists formed in town, and formerly ineluded a large number of members, but the movement is now extinet.

BURIAL-GROUNDS.

The two principal burial-grounds in the town are located at Chateaugay village, and are known as the "old" and " new" cemeteries.

The former was laid out many years ago, and contains the remains of a large number of the old inhabitants. The yard is large and neatly fenced, but the more aneient part of it is in bad condition.

Among the numerous inseriptions in this yard the fol- lowing were noted :

"Sacred to the Memory of Amasa Darby, died March 2, 1$12, in his 39th year."

" Jesso Ketchum, died May 15, 1816, Aged 81 years."

" Gates Hoit, died June 1, 1859, Ae. 81 yrs."

"Obed Rust, died Mar. 6, 1850, in the 75th year of his age."

" George Washington Douglass, died July 8, 1851, Ac. 72 years."

" Hiram Paddock, Sen., died Oct. 18, 1839, in the 41st year of his age."

". In memory of the lon. Salmon Smith, who departed this life in the triumphs of faith, Muy 24th, A.D. 1823, in the 38th year of his uge."

# In the year 1798, Theodorus Van Wyck and Isaae Sebring, in company with Judge Zephaniah Platt, purchased n large tract of land in Franklin and Clinton Counties, at ono dollar and a quarter per aero. Of this amount Mr. Sebring owned 7500 aeres.

In the month of May, 1824, Mr. Sebring took up his residence in tho village of Chateaugay, and opened a land-offico at that point, for tho purpose of selling his own land and that of others for whom he was appointed ngont. llo left town in 1829. Ile had grent strength of character, was methodical und systemntio to a nicoty, and was a momber of the Legislature in 1811, 1812, and 1813.

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" Col. Thomas Smith, died June 2, 1840, Aged 64 years. "' Praises on tombs are titles vainly spent.'

A man's good name is his best monument.'"

"Sacred to the Memory of Benjamin Roberts, who died Aug. 6, 1828, in the 67th year of his age.

" Rest here my body until the great archangel (more sonorous far than nine-fold thunders) rouse the sleeping dead; then rise to thy just sphere, and be my soul immortal.'"

" Rev. Ephraim Smith, died April 26, 1863, Ae. 80 y'rs."

" Samuel B. Roberts, died Apr. 12, 1875, Ae. 85 y'rs."

" Dr. Erastus Douglas, died Dec. 17, 1861, Ae. 76 yrs."

"Thomas Hall, died Sept. 20, 1855, Ae. 70 yrs."

The new cemetery was laid out about thirty years ago, and is well fenced and in good condition.

Among its inscriptions are the following :

"Cassius A. Knight, died Sept. 29, 1862, Ae. 24 y'rs. Of Co. L, Delano's 2d Regt., Ill. Cav.

" He gave his life for his country."

" A. W. Stoughton, died at Fort Williams, Va., Nov. 21, 1864, Aged 20 yrs. and 8 months. Member of Co. C, Ist Regt., Heavy Art., N. HI. Vols."

" Rev. James Millar, born in Palmont, Scotland, 1792, died in Cha- teaugay, N. Y., 1854. Pastor of the Pres. Cb., Cbateaugay, from 1835 to 1843.

" Jesus lives, and so shall I."

CHATEAUGAY IN 1813.

The following description of the town, published in Spaf- ford's " Gazetteer of New York," in the year 1813, will prove of interest at this late day :

"Chateaugay, a Post-Township on the E. line of Franklin Co., 10 mile E. of Malone, 32 miles W. of Plattsburgh, on L. Champlain, and 210 N. of Albany ; bounded N. by Canada; E. by Clinton County ; S. by Essex County ; W. by Ezraville and Constable. It is abont 30 miles in length, N. and S., and 10 miles wide, comprising the town- ships or great lots, numbered 7, 8, 9, and 10, of the old Military tract. Saranaek River or Creek runs aeross the S. E. corner, and the central part sends some small waters into St. Regis and Salmon Creeks of the St. Lawrenec, and also furnishes the head of Cbazy, of Lake Cham- plain. The northern part is watered by Chateaugay River, which runs N. into Canada. This is the largest stream, and there are now ereeted upon it 2 graiu-mills, 3 saw-mills, a fulling-mill, paper-mill, and carding-maebine. In 1810 the whole population was 625, with 69 senatorial eleetors. The Village of Chateaugay is in the N. Town- ship, on the E. side of Chateaugay River, 8 miles S. of Canada line, and has some roads of considerable travel. The southern part is broken by the range of mountains that pervade this country, and the northern is more level. The soil of the arable traets is principally a rich loam, timbered with maple, beech, ash, elin, bass-wood, intermixed with pine and hemloek, and with some oak. There are several natural ponds, which abound with trout, as do tbe streams also."

NOTES AND INCIDENTS.

By an act of March 20, 1843, the sum of $500 per annum for three years was applied towards the construc- tion of a bridge over Chatcaugay River, near Douglass' Mills, out of the tolls collected on the Military road from Plattsburgh. It was to be constructed under the joint direction of the Military road commissioners in Franklin County and the road commissioners in Chateaugay.

SOCIETIES.

Rainbow Lodge, No. 12, A. F. and A. M., was organ- ized in 1809. The regalia are said to have been stolen by the enemy in 1814, bought up by Montreal Masons, and returned. During the anti-Masonic excitement, the charter, regalia, and furniture of the lodge disappeared, and the organization was not revived.

On June 30, 1856, a terrible tornado swept through the town from the southwest, unroofing houses, razing build- ings, and committing great damage. The tornado was about a mile in width. In the course of six miles 185 buildings were destroyed, unroofed, or moved.

The Catholic church at Chatcaugay was completely de- molished, and the Methodist and Presbyterian churclics were badly damaged.

In Burke, Jeremiah Thomas was killed.

Bounties for noxious animals have been voted as follows : For panthers, $10, in 1815 ; $30, in 1818-21. For wolves, the " unborn young" excepted, $10, in 1807-8, 1815 ; $15, in 1817-18 ; $20, in 1819-20, 1826. For bears, $10, in 1818-21. For foxes, $2, in 1817; $4, in 1818-19 ; $5, in 1820-21. For squirrels, 25 cents, in 1817 ; $1 for every 12, in 1820, to residents of the town only. For wolverines, $15, in 1819. For blackbirds, 25 cents, in 1817. For crows, 50 cents, in 1817-18; $1, in 1820-21.

Feb. 12, 1821, at a special meeting, " held upon appli- cation of 12 freeholders, to see if the inhabitants will agrce to drop these bounties," it was decided by ballot that no proceeding should be had in the matter. At a subsequent special meeting they were discontinued. The speculation in the heads of these animals, and especially wolves, became a source of much fraud, a erowning disgrace to the town and county, and a serious draft upon the public revenues. Dogs' heads were repeatedly substituted for wolves', and one head was frequently certified to several times. Even Cana- dian territory was freely drawn upon for supplies. The town of Chateaugay is said to have harbored the foremost of these " speculators."

EAR-MARKS.

Israel Thayer, hole in the right ear.

Simcon Reed, half-penny under the right ear.

Azur Hawks, half-penny under each side of each ear.

Nathan Beman, slit in the left ear and a nick on the under side of the right ; transferred to Joshua Clamber- lain.

Benj. Roberts, hole in the right ear ; slit in same.

INDUSTRIAL ENTERPRISES.

The industrial enterprises of the town have been chicfly limited to agricultural pursuits, although the ordinary manufactures of the period have engaged the attention of some of the inhabitants.

A forge was erected by William Bailey about 1803-4, about three miles above Chateaugay, on the river, but never made but a few tons of iron. Ore was derived from swamps in the vicinity of Chatcaugay Lake, but this proved to be limited in quantity. Some ore was afterwards drawn from Constable and from Clinton County, but the manufacture, under the circumstances, was found to be a losing operation, and was, after a trial of two or three years, abandoned. A large paper-mill was also begun by Mr. Bailey in the vicin- ity of the forge, but never completed.

The early grist- and saw-mills have already been referred to.

In 1813 there were two grist-mills, three saw-mills, a . fulling-mill, paper-mill, and carding-mill, on the Chateaugay

Photos, by Fay & Goodell, Malone.

OEL SUNDERLIN.

MRS. OEL SUNDERLIN.

OEL SUNDERLIN,

of Chateaugay, is the eldest son of Noah and Mary (Haynes) Sunderlin, and was born in the town of Middletown, Vt., Oct. 18, 1801. His grandfather (Samuel Sunderlin) was born on an island situated between England and Scotland. He eame to America in company with two brothers, John and --- (name not known), some time before the Revolutionary war. They all took part in that war, and located in Middlebury, Vt., at the elose of the war, and all married and had large families.

Samuel Sunderlin married a Miss Clark, and to them were born ten sons and four daughters, the eldest of whom was Noah. Samuel removed to Shoreham, Vt., where he was en- gaged as a farmer and shoemaker. He died at the age of seventy-seven years.

Noah was reared a farmer, and continued to follow it through life. He married Mary, daughter of Jonathan Haynes, a Revolutionary soldier, who was wounded at the battle of Bennington, Aug. 16, 1777, and was taken from the field nearly dead, but by kind treatment recovered, married, and reared a large family, of whom Mary was the eldest. She was born about 1782 or 1783.

Mr. and Mrs. Noah Sunderlin had the following children, viz. : Oel, Waterman, Russell, Lydia (deceased), Aminda, Elvira, and Noah.

Noah Sunderlin, Sr., removed to Bridport, Vt., where sev- eral of his children were born. He was a soldier in the war of 1812. He died in 1815, in the prime of life, leaving a large family of children. Mrs. Noah Sunderlin, by great executive ability and prudent management, succeeded, by the aid of the older children, principally Oel, to rear her children to manhood and womanhood. She was a Christian mother, and left the impress of her memory as a precious legacy to her children. She was a member of the Baptist Church. Later in life she removed to Westfield, N. Y., where she died in the year 1875, at the ripe old age of ninety-two years and six months.

Oel Sunderlin removed with his parents from Middletown, Vt., to Poultney, Vt., thence to Shoreham, Vt., and finally to Bridport, Vt., about 1811 or 1812. As his father died when he

was but fourteen years of age, the care of the family rested on him and his mother. Manfully did he perform his duty, re- maining at home on the farm till he was twenty-five years of age.

In September, 1826, he went to St. Albans, Vt., and worked at the mason trade. In 1827 he ran a canal-boat from Crown Point, N. Y., to Albany. In 1828 he ran a saw-mill and farm, and in 1829 went to St. Lawrence County, and on the 1st of April, 1830, commenced to drive on one of the stage lines from Canton to Parishville; continued one year; from Middlebury, Vt., to Larrabee's Point, Ticonderoga, and Lake George, one summer ; from St. John's to La Prairie, from Middletown to Castleton, Vt., then from Chateaugay to Old Gate, in Clinton County, for Jonathan Thompson. During this time he made the acquaintance of Catherine, daughter of Benjamin Roberts, one of the earliest settlers in Franklin County. He married her in January, 1837. She was born in 1810, in Chateaugay, N. Y. To them were born five children, viz .: Mary A .; William H. H., was a soldier in the Rebellion from Massa- chusetts (deceased) ; Benjamin (deceased) ; an infant; and Waterman. All of these were born on the farm where Mr Sunderlin now resides, in Chateaugay, N. Y.

Mrs. Catherine Sunderlin was a member of the Episcopal Church. She died Sept. 6, 1852, and Mr. Sunderlin married for his second wife Ann Witherspoon, in April, 1853. She died in March, 1854, leaving one daughter,-Catherine A. Mrs. Sunderlin was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. On the 3d of December, 1862, Mr. Sunderlin married Elvira E., daughter of David and Lois (Marcey) Brown. She was born in Waitsfield, Vt., Feb. 9, 1823, and settled in Platts- burgh, Clinton Co., N. Y., in 1826, with her parents. She married for her first husband Richard N. Ostrander, of Platts- burgh. To them were born, Hulda A., Laura E. (deceased), Mary J., and Charlotte B. Mr. Ostrander died in March, 1860.

Mr. Sunderlin is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and Mrs. Sunderlin is a Baptist. He settled on his present farm March 15, 1837. He has a fine farm of some three hundred acres. In politics he is a Republican.

CYRUS MERRILL.

MRS. CYRUS MERRILL.

The subject of this sketch is a grandson of Paul Mer- rill, who emigrated to this country prior to the Revolu- tionary war, and located in Gilmanton, N. H. There he passed the greater part of his life, engaged in farming and in operating a grist- and oil-mill. His wife was Abigail Melcher, by whom he had children,-John, Enoch, Paul, Samuel, Bela, Joseph, and three daughters.

Paul Merrill, the third of these children and the father of our subjeet, was born in the year 1796. He passed his earlier years at home in Gilmanton, N. H. There he mar- ried Hannah, daughter of Samuel Shepard, Esq., of Gil- manton, and about the year 1824 emigrated to Belmont, Franklin Co., N. Y. (then a portion of the town of Cha- teaugay). He brought with him his family, consisting of his wife and his children,-Cyrus, Mary, and William,- and became one of the earliest settlers of the town. Other children were afterwards born in Belmont, namely,- Abbie, Eliza, Darius W., J. Wesley, and Joseph Merrill, who died young. Of these children, Mary (deceased) mar- ried Calvin Douglass, of Chateaugay ; William served in the war of the Rebellion, and now resides at Hannibal, Oswego Co., N. Y .; Abbie is the wife of Alanson Roberts, of Cha- teaugay ; Eliza is the wife of Jason Wallbridge, of Bel- mont ; and Darius W. and J. Wesley Merrill reside in Belmont, the latter occupying the old homestead, a view of which appears in this work. Paul Merrill dicd March 3, 1877, aged eighty-one years, and his wife, Dec. 29, 1871, aged seventy-nine.

Cyrus Merrill was born Feb. 4, 1818, in Gilmanton, N. H. When five or six years of age, he removed with his father to the town of Belmont, then a wild and unset- tled section of Franklin County, and where his father took up twenty-five acres of land belonging to the old William Bell estate.

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History of Clinton and Franklin Counties, New York : with illustrations and biographical sketches of its prominent men and pioneers, Part 127

Author: Hurd, D. Hamilton (Duane Hamilton) 1n; Lewis, J.W., & Co., Philadelphia Publication date: 1880 Publisher: Philadelphia : J. W. Lewis & co. Number of Pages: 922

Author: Hurd, D. Hamilton (Duane Hamilton) 1n; Lewis, J.W., & Co., Philadelphia
Publication date: 1880
Publisher: Philadelphia : J. W. Lewis & co.
Number of Pages: 922