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The early life of Mr. Merrill was passed upon his father's farm and in attendance upon the distriet schools of his loeailty. Notwithstanding his limited educational advantages, Mr. Merrill proved an apt and ambitious scholar, and at the age of twenty-two he began to teach school. His first beginning was at West Belmont, where he labored faithfully and successfully for the modest stipend of ten dollars a month. From that time on Mr. Merrill passed a large number of years as a public instructor, teaching in turn, for longer or shorter periods, at Ellenburgh Centre (Clinton County), at East Behnout, in the "old stone school- house," in Chateangay ; at Ellenburgh Corners, west of Mooer's Forks (Clinton County), in Chateaugay, west of
the tunnel, in the Webb district, same town ; in the " Mul- len district," Chateaugay ; at West Ellenburgh, in the Holcombe district, Chateaugay; and at Brainardsville (town of Belmont). During a portion of these periods Mr. Mer- rill also taught training-schools for teachers, a calling in which he was especially successful.
Near the close of Mr. Merrill's career as a teacher he engaged in farming, working out by the day, and in manu- facturing sugar during odd seasons. His enterprises were carried on upon fifty acres of land, which he had purchased of his father, and to which he added twenty-eight and a quarter acres, bought of Amasa C. Moore, of Plattsburgh. Gradually Mr. Merrill gave up teaching, and devoted his entire time to farming and sugaring. By repeated addi- tions he has enlarged his farm to more than two hundred and fifty acres of beautiful and productive land ; besides this, he owns one hundred and twenty-five acres of land in another part of the town, and a small farm in Oswego Co., N. Y., of seventy-six acres. On his home-farm are a sub- stantial and comely dwelling-house, large barn, numerous outbuildings, and a sugar-house sixty feet long and thirty- four feet wide.
In political affairs Mr. Merrill was an adherent of the Democratic party prior to the administration of President Lincoln. Since that time he has been a member of the Republican party. He has never been a seeker after office, and has held only the ordinary town offices. He has been superintendent of the public schools of the town during nearly the entire existence of that office. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church ; has filled the offices of trustee and steward, and has served as superintendent of the Sabbath-sehool a great deal.
Mr. Merrill has been twice married. His first wife was Mrs. Clarissa L. Daggett, of Diekinson, to whom he was united Jan. 22, 1864, and who died Jan. 10, 1865, leav- ing one child, Sherman William Merrill, born the same day, and who resides in Oswego Co., N. Y. His present. wife was Mrs. Catharine Johnson, widow of William John- son, and daughter of George Smith, formerly of Chateaugay, to which town he went from Canada. The marriage was cele- brated on Jan. 20, 1866, and the children of the union have been Hannah Marion, born Dec. 28, 1866; Ency Ann, born July 18, 1868; and Charlotte Cyressie, born Oct. 2, 1872. These little daughters are all living, and reside with their parents. Besides the children that have been mentioned, Mrs. Merrill has a son-George W. Johnson-living, who was born March 20. 1858.
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River. The fulling- and carding-mill was operated by George W. Douglass where Calvin Douglass now is.
The present industries of the town are somewhat nu- merous.
Seriver & Roberts have a flouring-mill (" Globe Flouring- Mill") on Chateaugay River ; Calvin S. Douglass another. Willard S. Alvord has a grist-mill on Boardman Brook. The latter has also recently ereeted a steam saw-mill on the same brook.
H. A. Douglass & Co. have a large tannery in operation at Chateaugay village, and also have a finishing department and employ over a seore of men.
Don A. Seabury has a cabinet-shop, undertaking estab- lishment, and planing-mill on the same brook at the village. The same gentleman also has a large butter-factory just above, on the same stream. Adam M. Bennet, on Bailey Brook, a mile south ; Selden Phelps, Wm. S. Douglass, a mile east of village; Porter W. Douglass, two miles north ; W. L. Collins, three and a half or four miles northeast,- all have butter-factories.
On Marble River, William P. Douglass has a stareh- factory ; also - Jenkins and George T. Hall. H. H. Hill operates a saw-mill on the same river.
On Chateaugay River, Osear F. Chase has a stareh- factory and saw-mill ; the Chateaugay Iron Company, a saw- mill ; Christopher Briggs, a stareh-factory. On the same dam with the C. S. Douglass grist-mill is a earding-mill, eloth-dressing establishment, and a tannery. D. W. Miteh- ell has a saw-mill ; also Ezra Sweet and Samuel Cook.
W. W. & H. E. King have a stareh-factory and saw- mill on Hinehon Brook ; Wm. Philps has a saw-mill on the same stream ; Dr. John Swinburne, of Albany, also has a cheese-factory on the same stream.
MILITARY.
The military history of the town is quite important. During the summer of 1812 the inhabitants, for their own protection and by voluntary labor and contributions, erected a block-house on a commanding elevation on the bank of the Chateaugay River, three miles northwest of the village. Upon the representation of Gates Hoit to Governor Tomp- kins, the sum of $100 was applied as a partial remuneration for the expense of erection. During the war it was oeeu- pied a part of the time by the troops stationed in town, and towards the elose of the war, or soon after, it was privately burned, as was supposed, by parties from Canada.
In 1812 a detachment of regular troops, under Cols. Wool and Snelling, were stationed a short time at Chateau- gay. They were eneamped near the north part of the town. Gen. Wade Hampton, with an army consisting mostly of new recruits from Vermont, and intended to co-operate in the unsuecessful enterprise of Gen. Wilkinson against Mont- rcal, marehed from Plattsburgh in August, and eamped in the vicinity of Chateaugay village. In November he returned to Plattsburgh. 'A quantity of flour, with a small guard for its protection, was left. While he lay eneamped near the village, small bodies of troops occupied positions nearer the province line, and one of these eame near having an engagement with the enemy. One of the sentinels was shot and a small show of force was made, which retreated,
and it was believed that an ambuseade had been laid in hope of decoying the party into it. On this occasion they took Salmon Smith a prisoner into Canada, but he soon eseaped and returned.
For some years previous to the war a settlement of New England people existed in Canada near Chateaugay River, but on the occurrence of hostilities they abandoned their improvements and moved into the State. Few if any of these cver returned or received any compensation for the property left, which was subsequently sold by government to European emigrants. Soon after the arrival of Gen. Wilkinson at French Mills, a regiment under Col. Bissell, which had formed a part of his foree, proceeded to Cha- teaugay and remained during the winter. On the evaeua- tion of French Mills, the greater part of Wilkinson's army passed through on their way to Plattsburgh, and were soon after followed by a detachment of the enemy under Col. Scott, who pressed whatever teams they could find, and succeeded in finding and carrying away a considerable amount of provisions which had been left by the American army. On returning, the British destroyed the bridges to prevent pursuit. At the time of their ineursion they pro- eeeded as far as where the road crosses Marble River, to- wards Plattsburgh, and succeeded in intereepting an express which had been dispatched to carry information to the American forces at Plattsburgh. Upon finally receiving information a detachment started, and had proceeded about a dozen miles when they were met by the intelligenee that the invaders had returned. The enemy were joined at this place by a company of Indians under a white eaptain, who eame up the Chateaugay River from Canada. Mueh com- plaint was made by the inhabitants about the seizure of private property by the enemy, who were said not to have been over-partieular in selecting publie from private stores.
After this oeeurrenee no military operations occurred in town during the war. A portion of the citizens, in eon- mon with other parts of the county, was called out on the eve of the battle of Plattsburgh to assist in the defense of that place, and proceeded under the command of Gen. Alrie Man, by a southern route near Chateaugay Lake, to avoid being intereepted by the enemy. This detachment did not arrive until after the action. On approaching the village a firing of cannon was heard, and they hastened on to afford any aid they might be able, but aseertained that it was the firing of minute-guns at the burial of the dead.
Among those who served in the war were Augustus Douglass, Samuel Beeman, Bethuel. Martin, David Percy, Zebedialı Baxter, and John Day.
In the war of 1861-65 the town took an active part, and contributed her quota of men, which was large, with patriotie promptitude. The town records are filled with special meetings held for war purposes, at which stirring resolutions were passed, and appropriations of money for the payment of bonnties were made. Some reference to these has already been made.
The record of the soldiers of the town is incomplete, chicfly through the remissness of the town itself, which failed to comply with the provisions of an act of the Legislature passed in 1865, requiring a careful list of the soldiers to be made, one copy to be forwarded to the Burean
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of Military Record at Albany, and the other to be kept in the town.
The following list of soldiers who enlisted from the town of Chateaugay under the eall for 300,000 men was gathered from the records of the town and by personal inquiry made of citizens of the town :
Timothy H. Martin, Francis Bell, Isaac M. Warren, Michael Kennedy, John Brennan, Ira S. Ingraham, Levi Ayres, Prentiss P. Cook, Pliney Sey- mour, Peter Denio, Moses Motrie, Joseph Gremore, Patrick llarrica, Jr., Benjamin Muusell, Isaac Baker, Benjamin J. M. Bristol, Eli 11. Lamson, Francis W. Maxim, Jared Prindle, Alexander Anderson, Daniel Brayton, Jolin Jarvis, Randolph C. Goodrich, Levi Cogswell, George W. Leggett, John M. Washborn, Philander E. Smith, Nathan Hammond, Joseph Aldridge, Geo, D. Wilcox, Martin V. Conger, llenry J. Ormsby, Edward Lovell, Milton E. Roberts.
Ruel T. Nash, Ist N. Y. Eng .; enl. Nov. 5, 1862.
Daniel Brayton, Co. 1, 106th N. Y. Regt .; enl. July 23, 1862.
Horace P. Avery, Levi Cogswell, Ist N. Y. Regt .; John Il. Kelley, Gilman Sar- gent, Sanford C. Goodspeed, Nelson lby, Ist N. Y. Eng .; James H. Chase, Benjamin Cook, 106th N. Y. Regt .; Marvin Bracy, Co. 11, Ist N. Y. Regt. John Bracy, Co. 1, 16th N. Y. Vols. ; enl. Sept. 6, 1862.
C. M. Hilliker, Nelson Patriot ; L. B. Austin, Co. 11, 106th N. Y. Regt .; Brice Blair, Co. A, 96th, N. Y. Regt .; Benjamin Cook, Co. 11, 106th N. Y. Regt. ; Ezekiel White, Co. A, 96th N. Y. Regt .; Jesse Green, Patrick Fitzgerald, James Boner; Cassius A. Knight, Co. L, Delano's 2d Ill. Cav .; A. W. Stoughton, Co. C, 1st N. Il. IL. Art.
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
DANIEL GOODSPEED,
son of Joseph and Dorcas (Harrington) Goodspeed, was born in Guilford, Windham Co., Vt., May 24, 1794. The paternal great-grandfather of the subject of this sketch
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DANIEL GOODSPEED.
came from Ireland and settled in Rhode Island a great many years before the Revolutionary war. His maternal great-grandmother, Douglass by name, came from Seotland and settled in Rhode Island. Joseph Goodspeed was a native of Rhode Island, and settled in Guilford, Vt., at an early day. He married Doreas Harrington, and to them the following children were born, viz. : Anna, Gardner,
Joseph, Stephen, Charles, Sarah, Daniel, and Mariba, all of whom were born in Vermont, except the youngest, and she was born in Washington Co., N. Y., where Joseph Goodspeed and family settled about 1795.
In 1805 he settled in Chazy, Clinton Co., N. Y., and continued to reside there until his death. Mrs. Goodspeed died in 1813. Mr. Goodspeed was a farmer by occupation. In polities he was a Whig. He held some minor town offiees. Daniel Goodspeed settled in Chazy with his parents in 1805. He was a soldier in the war of 1812, and took an active part in the battle of Plattsburgh. He was honor- ably discharged, and now receives a pension for his services. He married Mary, daughter of George Douglass. Their children are George, Minerva, Anna (deceased), Calvin (deceased), Platt, Sarah (deceased), Chester, Ann, and Aurelia. Mr. Goodspeed has always been a farmer. He settled in Chateaugay in 1843, on the farm where he now resides. Mrs. Goodspeed was a native of Washington Co., N. Y., and settled in Chazy with her parents, who were early settlers there. She was a member of the Baptist Church. She died in November, 1858.
Mr. Goodspeed has been a life-long Democrat. He has held various town offices. He is now in his eighty-sixth year, and retains all his faculties. His son Platt is a farmer, and married Sarah Andrus, of Burke, and has four children, viz. : Charles C., Albert D., George W., and Alice May.
HON. HENRY B. SMITH
was the second son of Col. Thomas and Sally (Boardman) Smith, and was born in Chateaugay, Franklin Co., N. Y., Jan. 5, 1805.
His grandfather (Maj. Jacob Smith) was of English origin, and was a native of Litchfield, Conn. Jacob Smith removed to near Bennington, Vt., where his son Thomas was born Jan. 27, 1776.
Mr. Smith settled in Grand Isle, Vt., about 1783, and followed the occupation of tanner and currier. He settled in Chateaugay in 1797, and coutinucd to reside here until his death, in the year 1831.
Col. Thomas Smith settled in Grand Isle, Vt., with his parents, in 1783. He came to Chateaugay in 1799. He was a farmer and proprietor of a public-house for a num- ber of years in Chateaugay. He married Sally Boardman, by whom he had a family of five sons and three daughters, one of whom died in infancy. He was a man respected by his neighbors. His wife died in May, 1830, and he died May 9, 1840, and both were buried in the cemetery at Chateaugay.
Henry B. Smith received a common-school education. He worked for his father on the farm and in the hotel till he was a young man. He tlien commenced business for himself as a merchant in Chateaugay. He then became ex- tensively engaged in the manufacture of lumber with his brother Elisha B. Smith and a dealer in real estate.
He was very successful in all his business relations.
. He married Margaret A., daughter of Hiram and Mary (Dayton) Roberts, of Plattsburgh, Feb. 21, 1834, by whom he had one daughter, Sarah D., who married Uri Win- chester, and is now residing in Chicago, Ill. Mrs. Smith was born in Plattsburgh, Clinton Co., N. Y., March 10,
Henry B. Smith
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1811. She taught school several terms before her marriage. She was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. She died June 7, 1837, and was buried in Chateaugay, N. Y.
Hiram Roberts was a son of John Roberts, who was a very early settler in Plattsburgh, N. Y.
Mr. Smith married for his second wife Jennette, daughter of David and Lydia (Love) Crippen, of St. Albans, Vt., Sept. 7, 1843. She was born there July 1, 1820.
David Crippen was a son of Alpheus Crippen, who was a native of England, and came to America and settled in Connecticut, and from there went to St. Albans, Vt., where all his children were born, among whom was David Crippen.
Of this union of Mr. and Mrs. Smith three daughters were born, viz. : Margaret A., who married Thomas W. Cantwell, and now resides in Chateaugay, N. Y. ; Jennette M., who married Robert W. Cantwell, and is now residing in Malone, N. Y .; and Cornelia L., who married Rodolphus W. Anderson, and now resides in Chatcaugay, N. Y. Mrs. Smith is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Chateaugay.
Mr. Smith died Aug. 22, 1863, and was buried in the cemetery at Chateaugay, N. Y. We annex the following from the pen of a personal friend of Judge Smith:
" Judge Smith was a remarkable man-remarkable for his mental powers, for his sagacity and untiring energy, for his success in whatever he undertook, for his even temper, his playful spirit and companionable qualities, and his clear and comprehensive supervision and management of exten- sive and multifarious business operations. Added to these, aud crowning them all, was his character as a husband, a father, a neighbor, and a friend, in which he exhibited virtues and displayed qualities which make his loss irrepar- able, and will endear his memory to thousands. In his own family he was one of the most affectionate and indulgent of men ; to his neighbors he was ever courteous and obliging ; to the poor charitable; and to that vast throng with whoni he had daily dealings his was always the helping hand and the encouraging word, and by his advice and assistance he had saved thousands from want, or helped them on in the world to competency and independence.
" Judge Smith was an active politician from early man- hood to the time of his death, and always acted with the Democratic party. In his own town he held all the offices which he could be indueed to accept,-assessor, justice of the peace, and supervisor, the latter for nearly or quite thirty years. In 1833 he was appointed one of the assis- tant judges of the old court of Common Pleas, and in 1843 he received the appointment of first judge of that court for this county, which position he held until the court was abolished by the adoption of our present State constitution. In 1852-53 he represented the counties of Franklin and St. Lawrence in the State Senate. For some ten years he was a deputy collector of customs, and during the adminis- trations of Presidents Pierce and Buchanan held the office of collector of customs for the district of Champlain.
" Ile discharged the duties of all these offices with ability and credit, and evineed his capacity for still higher posi- tions. But he had no ambition for political distinction. To serve in local offices within the county, and attend to his own home concerns, seemed to be all that he desired."
CHAPTER LXXXVIII.
CONSTABLE.
Geographical and Descriptive-Natural Features-Early Settlement and Settlers-Pioneer Taverns-Stores-Physicians-Highways- Civil Organization-First Town-Meeting and Town Officers-Sketeh of William Constable-Supervisors and Clerks, 1807-79-Notes from the Records-Statistics-Villages and Hamlets-Constable- Trout River (P. O.)-Education-Early Schools-Religious History -Presbyterian-Baptist-Methodist-Catholie-Free-Will Baptist -Burial-Places-Societies-Cholera, 1832-Industrial Operations -Military History-War of 1812-15-War of 1861-65.
GEOGRAPHICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE.
THE town of Constable is one of the central towns of that tier that forms the northern boundary of Franklin County and of the State of New York. On the north lies the Province of Quebec, in the dominion of Canada, on the south lies the town of Malone, the most important in the county, on the east is the town of Burke, and on the west the town of Westville. The town lines are straight, and correspond very nearly with the cardinal points. The population, as given in the census of 1875, is 1584, and the superficial area 20,105 acres.
NATURAL FEATURES.
The surface of the town is rolling, with an inclination towards the north. The soil is principally a light sandy loam, fairly productive, and under careful cultivation capa- ble of producing good crops. A strip of sand lies along the southern border, and considerable swamp-land is to be found in the north part of the town. There are no eleva- tions of special note in the town.
Trout River flows north and south through the western part of the town. Little Trout River is an important trib- utary, flowing in a northwesterly course through the central portion of the town. Both streams afford excellent water- power. Salmon River flows through the southwest corner of the town, in a northwesterly direction. Several smaller streams drain the other parts of the town.
EARLY SETTLEMENT AND SETTLERS.
The first settlement of the town was made near the south line, on Trout River, by Jonathan Hapgood and Christo- pher Austin, from Milton, Vt., in the year 1800. They were related, and formed but one family. They came as far as Chateaugay in March, and in June procceded to the place they had selected for a settlement.
Jonathan Hapgood had one of the first orchards in town. His son, Wesley, lives near the old homestead, on the Ma- lone side of the line.
Dr. Solomon Wyman came in early, and located where Lucius Wyman now resides. He was the first physician to practice in town.
William Cooper, from Salem, N. Y., settled very early where John Mckenzie now resides. He owned 100 acres of land, and had one of the first saw mills in town. Some of the descendants of the family still reside in town.
Ebenezer Titus, from Rutland, Vt., lived very early near where Woodbury Wentworth now lives.
James Welch located in 1803, half a mile above the cor-
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ners, where A. O. White resides. He had the first saw- mill ever operated in town.
Artemas and Thomas Sinith located prior to 1805. The former settled in the southeast part of the town. Thomas Chipman was an early settler in the same locality. He died of cholera in 1832, at Fort Covington.
William and Harmon Buell, carpenters and joiners, eame from Connecticut about 1808, and located about a mile west of Constable Corners, where Cyril Hutchins, Sr., re- sides. William removed to Connecticut in 1813, and sub- sequently removed to Michigan, where he died in 1829. Harmon accompanied his brother, and died in Conneetieut a few years ago. Williamn Buell, being an infant and too young to be removed, was left in care of Oliver Bell, and raised by him. He still resides in town at a good old age.
Other early settlers who located in town about 1805 were Solomon Cook, Saul Clark, Peleg Austin, James Ly- man.
Oliver Bell came from Vermont about 1807-8, and lo- eated first on Salmon River, but a few years later removed to where Seth Bell, his grandson, now resides. Freeman and Samuel Bell were his sons. The three kept an early tavern (1812) at that point for a number of years. They had to go to Montreal for a barrel of rum, and to Fort Covington (French Mills) to get their grist ground.
Aseph, Ebenezer, and Norman Perry settled early in the town. Aseph resided where Wmn. Buell (1st) located. Ebenezer and Norman settled later.
A Mr. Tubbs was an carly settler in the north part of the town, and lived near where Melvin Martin now resides.
John Cadwell settled early where Wm. Lynch now re- sides, a mile east of the Corners.
Esek Sprague and Sylvester Langdon settled on the same road early.
Jacob Hart, an early preacher, lived on the old Cadwell place.
David MeMillin operated Coburn's mill very early, and had a son, Arthur, drowned in the stream. Duncan was another son.
Samuel Sanborn lived very early in the east end of the Corners, on the Comley place.
Daniel I. Comley was an early settler at the Corners, and carried on a tannery and shoe-shop, the first in the town.
Peter B. Davenport kept an early inn, prior to 1820, at the Corners.
Samuel Esterbrook settled early on the cast-and-west road prior to 1812. He served in the war of 1812. His son, Horatio N., now resides on the place.
Alvin Chipman was an old settler on the same road. His grandson, Norman Griggs, resides on the old liome- stead.
Jonathan Bellows eame from Bellows Falls at an early day, and located on the road leading from the Corners to the lines. He was an old hunter and trapper, and subse- quently removed to Chateaugay Lake.
Jacob Settle was one of the first settlers west, of Oliver Bell's residence. George Upham occupied the place after Settle's removal from town.
George Cooper lived early on the road leading west from
the Corners. His nephew, bearing the same name, now occupies the place.
Jacob Child was an old settler on a eross-road in the south part of the town, near the line. John, his brother, was an old settler where Abner White now lives. He ope- rated the mill there at an early day.
Samuel P. Niins resided in the south part of the town over forty years ago, a half a mile east of Jonathan Hap- good.
- Lawrence settled at an early day at the Corners, but removed at a later day to the Burke line.
Alden Haskell kept an early tavern, in 1817, where Robert Wilson now resides.
Lewis Dubois was an early settler in Westville, and owned some land in this town.
Silas Ward settled prior to 1820 where Samuel Blake now resides.
Moses Wentworth settled quite early on the road to Malone, where his grandson, Woodbury, now resides.
Joel Esterbrook settled early two miles northeast of the Corners, where Milo Esterbrook, his grandson, now resides.
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