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Stephen Taylor, William Rice,
Joseph Hubbard, Elisha Scovil,
Gideon Shepard.
"TURIN, December 19, 1803.
" At a special Town Meeting held at the house of Mr. Jeduthan Higby this day for the purpose of choosing three delegates for the purpose of meeting at Mr. Freedom Wright's in Harrisburgh on the Ist Tuesday in January next, for the purpose of conferring with other towns down the river about dividing the county, &c."
"Voted. That this meeting will pro- ceed to choosing three delegates for the purpose above mentioned."
Chosen. Jonathan Collins, John Ives,
For the Dele-
Ezra Clap, above purpose.
Attest Samuel Hall Town Clerk.
804. Eleazer House Supervisor."
"At a Special Town Meeting held at the house of Deacon Jeduthan Higby's in the town of Turin agreable to a petition of the inhabitants of said town, Jonathan Collins Moderator. Voted, that three delegates be chosen to meet at Capt Nodiah Hubbard's in Champion on Wed- nesday the 7 Feb'y 1804."
" Voted that Jonathan Collins, Esq., Capt Ezra Clap, and Maj Zaceriah Bush be the delegates for the before mentioned meet- ing. Meeting dissolved.
Jabez Foster, Clerk.
Levi Collins Town Clerk."
"Convened at the house of Deacon Jeduthan Higby's agreable to notice for
a special Town Meeting, Jonathan Col- lins Moderator. Voted that the town send delegates to meet the delegates of the several towns on the Black River, agreable to Notification and Petition. Voted that the town send three delegates for the above purpose. Voted that
Jonathan Collins -
John Ives & Esqr's Elijah Wadsworth
be the delegation. Voted that this meet- ing adjourned.
Turin 17 Novr 1804.
Levi Collins, Town Clerk."
The location of the State road in this town between Holliday's tavern and Dan Taylor's, (one mile north of Turin vil- lage), excited the most active opposition of conflicting interests, and led to several town meetings, at one of which the Town Clerk was directed not to record the road, and the town voted to indemni- fy the Clerk and Road Commissioners in any suit that might be brought in conse- quence of said road not being recorded. They resolved " that this meeting views with indignation and concern, the shame- ful and improper conduct of the commis- sioners in laying and establishing the State road through Turin, in which they have neither consulted the inter- ests of the inhabitants generally nor the town of Turin in particular."
The present village of Turin has since been built upon the prescribed section, and more than a mile of the new road led over a causeway through swamps, which were not brought under cultiva- tion until many years after. A line of well cultivated farms, owned by substan- tial farmers, had before this been estab- lished along the East and West roads, and the location of a road that was to become an important thoroughfare, by the Commissioners between them was very naturally regarded as hostile to almost every resident interest in town. Their opposition however was unavail- ing, and the new section of road was
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soon found to offer a more central and convenient point of business than had before been found in the town.
The same year it was voted to remove all foreigners from the town, unless they gave bonds with two sureties to indem- nify the town against all charges dur- ing their natural lives; to apply to all who had not gained residence.
In 1812, a fine of $10, and in 1816, of $5, was voted for allowing Canada thistles to go to seed.
The division which gave a part of this town to Martinsburgh in 1819 ex- cited active hostility. A special meeting was called, and George Davis, John Ives, Levi Hart, Oliver Bush and Elea- zer Baldwin were appointed a committee to draw up a petition to the Legislature to regain the lost territory.
In 1823, a committee, consisting of Levi Hart, Heman Stickney and Leon- ard House, was appointed to circulate a subscription for a town house at the Four Corners, and another, consisting of Jonathan Collins, James McVickar and James Miller, 2d, for a like purpose, the location to be near the Episcopal church, north of Constableville. In May, a special meeting received the reports of these committees, and decided in favor of the former, which united the plan of a town house and church. This resulted in the union meeting house hereinafter noticed. In 1824, the wishes of the voters upon a division of the town were tested by a vote which gave 40 for, and 200 against, the measure.
In 1836 a bounty of $5 was offered for wolves; the only instance in which this town has offered these premiums.
Turin embraces parts of Townships 3 and 4, or Pomona and Lucretia of Con- stable's four towns. They were sur- veyed by Benjamin Wright in 1795, and by a deed executed December 29, 1795, William Constable conveyed to Na- thaniel Shaler an undivided half of
these towns at $2 per acre, and made him his attorney for selling the remainder in farms of 100 or 200 acres, for which he was to have the profits over the price above named.
Settlement was begun at No. 4, at the village of Constableville in 1796, as will be more fully mentioned in our history of West Turin. As Mr. Shaler's mills, house and agency were located there, we have only to notice in this connection the settlement of that portion now em- braced in this town. The early pur- chasers paid $4 to $4.75 per acre, and in 1803 new lands were held as high as $17 per acre in favorite localities. The first improvements were made on Township 4, or the more eastern of the two, about 1797, by emigrants from Meriden and Middletown, Ct., who were joined in one or two years by quite a number from Westfield and towns adjacent in Massa- chusetts, among whom during the first three years were Edward Johnson, Zac- cheus and Amos Higby, Elijah, Justus and Reuben Woolworth, Thomas Kil- ham, Levi and Stephen Hart, Giles Fos- ter, Zaccheus Bush and sons, Oliver, Walter, Edward, Henry, Enoch and Charles, John Salmon, John Wilkinson, Winthrop and Gideon Shepard, Judah Barnes, Daniel Taylor, Consider Willis- ton, Jonathan Bush, Thomas Ragan, Levi Benedict, Beekman Sabin, George and Thomas Hoskins, Elias Sage, Ben- jamin Dowd and others. The Johnson and Higby families were from Middle- town, Ct., the Bush, Woolworth, Shep- ard and Kilham families from Westfield, Mass., and Salmon, Wilkinson, Ragan, Benedict and Sabin, from Pawling, Duchess county, N. Y.
CENSUS OF TURIN IN 1800.
The following census of heads of fami- lies in Turin, (then including a small part of Martinsburgh and the whole of
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West Turin,) in 1800, will recall many familiar names of old inhabitants, not one of whom is now living. The de- scendants, many of them bearing the same name, are among those still resid- ing in the town. For convenience of reference, we place them in alphabetical order, and add after each name, the num- ber of males and of females in each family :--
Allen, Ebenezer, 2, 2. House, Eleazer, 3, o.
Allice, Oliver, 2, 3.
Bale, Hendrick, 1, 3.
Hubbard, Ashbell, 2, 4. Hubbard, Joseph, 5, 3.
Barnes, Amos, 2, 2.
Hubbard, Wm., 5, 5.
Barnes, Amos, Jr., 1, 2. Ives, John, 5, 3.
Barnes, Joel, 3, I.
Ives, Levi, 4, 3.
Birdseye, Gershom.
Hart, Stephen. Hawkins, Jonathan.
Bliss, John.
Bradford, Joseph. Higby, Amos.
Brainard, Samuel. Higby, Benjamin.
Burnham, Joseph.
Higby, Daniel.
Bush, Charles.
Higby, John.
Bush, Edward.
Higby, Jeduthan.
Bush, Enoch.
Higby, Moses.
Bush, Oliver.
Bush, Walter.
Bush, Zaccheus.
Higby, William W.
Cadman, William.
Higby, Zaccheus.
Carter, Charles.
Higby, Zaccheus, Jr.
Chalker, Joseph.
Hills, Selah. Hill, Timothy.
Clapp, Ezra. Clark, Cephas.
Hoadley, Lyman.
Clear, Joseph.
Hoadley, Philemon.
Clowbridge, Chris'r.
Hooker, John.
Cone, Elisha.
Hoskins, George. Hoskins, Thomas.
Collins, Jonathan.
Hough, John.
Collins, Levi.
House, Ebenezer.
Collins, Selden.
Hovey, Cilphy.
Cooley, Alexander.
Hubbard, Ashbel. Hubbard, Eliphalet. Hubbard, Joseph. Hubbard, William.
Crofoot, Elisha.
Crofoot, Isaac.
Daniels, Enoch.
Daniels, William.
Day, Daniel. Dewey, Israel. Dowd, Benjamin.
Johnson, Ebenezer.
Johnson, Edward.
Johnson, Timothy.
Kendall, David. Kendall, Elijah.
Kentner, John P.
Kentner, John P., Jr.
Kilham, John.
Kilham, Thomas. Lane, David.
Cone, Elisha, 2, 4. Cook, Peter, 2, 2. Crofoot, Elisha, 5, 2. Daniels, William, 3, 5. Dowd, Benj., 3, 5. Dowd, Titus, 4, 3. Hall, David, 4, I.
Hall, Salmon, 1, 2.
Hall, Samuel, 6, 2. Hart, Levi, 1, 3. Hart, Stephen, 4, 3. Higby, Amos, 3, 3. Higby, Benj., 4, I.
Stephens, Elizur, 2, 3. Tyler, Frederick, 2, I. Underwood, T., 1, 2. Higby, Daniel, 5, 3. Higby, Johan, 2, I. Higby, Noah, 4, 4. Higby, Zacheus, 1, 3. Hill, Thomas, 4, 4. Wadsworth, Eben'r, 2, 2. Wadsworth, Elijah, I, 2. Wadsworth, T., 1, 2. Ward, Ethamore, 4, I. Hoadley, Philemon, 9,3. Williston, C., I, I. Hoskins, Thos., I, 2. Hough, Levi, 3, I.
The total summed up as follows :- White Males, under 10 years, 85. Females, 82.
Io to 16 27. 21.
66 66 16 to 26 59. 39. Erven, William.
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26 to 45 59. 39. Fairchild, Liberty. Ferry, Aaron.
66 45 and upwards 15. II.
Free colored, three; of whom one was in the family of C. Williston, and two with Oliver Allice. General total, 440.
CENSUS OF ELECTORS IN TURIN IN 1807.
(Including the present towns of Turin and West Turin, and a small part of the southern border of Martinsburgh.)
[JOHN IVES, Census Taker. ]
Alford, Abner. Foster, Chauncey.
Allen, Ebenezer.
Foster, Giles.
Allen, William. Foster, Timothy.
Baldwin, Ebenezer. Giles, David.
Barker, Grove. Goodrich, Alvin.
Barnes, Amos. Hall, David.
Barnes, Judah. Halladay, William.
Barnes, William. Hancock, Jothan.
Benedict, Levi. Hart, Levi.
Barnes, Judah, 4, 4.
Barnes, William, 3, 5.
Benedict, Levi, 3, 2.
Birdseye, G., 2, I.
Miller, Jesse, 2, 2.
Brainerd, Samuel, 1, 2.
Miller, Seth, 6, 3.
Minnick, Barnard, 9, 5. Moore, John, I, I.
Coe, Nathan, I, I. Coleman, Wni., 3, 2.
Collins, Jonathan, 7, 4. Rice, Abner, Jr., 2, 4. Rice, William, 3, 3. Rockwell, Joshua, 7, 4. Rockwell, J., Jr., 3, 2. Sabins, Beekman, 3, 4. Sage, Elias, 2, I.
Salmon, John, 2, 5.
Scovill, Elisha, 3, 2.
Scovill, Lemuel, 4, 2. Shepherd, Gideon, 2, 3. Shepherd, W., 3, 2. Smith, Levi, 4, 3.
Coe, Nathan.
Cooley, Jonathan. Cone, Richard. Crane, Jesse.
Hulbert, Hezekiah. Hutchinson, James. Ingersoll, Daniel. Ives, Levi. Johnson, Ebenezer.
Emms, Joshua.
Emms, Joshua, Jr.
Field, Jeremiah. Field, Pardon. Foster, Aaron.
Higby, Noah.
Higby, William.
Bush, Jonathan, 5, 2. Clap, Ezra, 5, o. Clowbridge, Chris'r, 7, 6. Moore, Nathaniel, 2, I. Parsons, Aaron, 6, I. Rice, Abner, 2, 4.
Johnson, Edward, 3, 3. Merwin, Heman, 8, 3. Miller, James, 2, 2.
Wilkinson, J., 3, 2.
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Linsey, Luke.
Robinson, Fenn.
Loomis, Joshua.
Rockwell, Caleb.
Lyman, Ezekiel.
Rockwell, Joshua.
Markham, Benjamin.
Rogers, Abner.
Markham, Ebenezer.
Rogers, Eli.
Markham, Ebenezer, Jr. Rowley, Daniel.
Markham, John.
Sabin, Beekman.
Merwin, Heman.
Sacket, Monardus.
Metcalf, Samuel.
Salmon, Beverly.
Miller, David.
Salmon, Charles.
Miller, James.
Salmon, John.
Miller, James, 2d.
Scovil, Elisha, Jr.
Miller, James W.
Scovil, Hezekiah.
Miller, Jesse.
Scranton, Hamlet.
Miller, Sylvester.
Searl, Stephen.
Minech, Barnabas.
Shepard, Gideon. Shepard, Winthrop.
Milchel, Abner.
Smith, Samuel.
Moore, Nathaniel.
Stickney, Heman. Taylor, Dan.
Munger, James.
Murdock, James.
Taylor, Stephen.
Nimocks, Noble.
Truman, Elijah.
Nimocks, Rowland.
Tuttle, Ichabod.
Palmer, George.
Upford, Nathaniel.
Parsons, Aaron.
Wadsworth, Ebenezer.
Parsons, Johnson.
Wadsworth, Elijah.
Parsons, Stephen.
Wakefield, Matthew.
Payne, Nathan.
Walker, Zebulon. Waters. Aaron.
Payne, Reuben.
Phelps, David.
Waters, Joseph.
Phelps, Obadiah.
Pitcher, Reuben.
Weller, Winthrop.
Platts, Abel.
Welter, Royal.
Plumb, Samuel. Poor, John.
Porter, Joseph.
Wilcox, Jeremiah. Wilkinson, John. Williams, Ephraim. Williams, Thomas.
Porter, Renben.
Preston, Joshua.
Ragan, Amos H.
Williston, Consider. Woolworth, Justus.
Raymond, Josiah P.
Woolworth, Levi.
Rees, William.
Wright Eleazer.
Roberts, Calvin.
Wright Joel.
OBITUARY DATES, AND BRIEF NOTES CONCERNING EARLY SETTLERS AND WELL KNOWN CITIZENS OF TURIN AND WEST TURIN.
Having at hand a considerable num- ber of names of former citizens of the southern part of the town of Turin, some of them pioneers, and others long resident, we will place them below in alphabetical order, with dates of death and occasional notes. In doing so, we wish to disclaim any selection, or prefer-
ence; and the absence of names that should have been mentioned, simply indicates that the data were not in our possession at the time of writing. Names mentioned in connection with Houseville, will not here be repeated :-
Baldwin Edmund, died May 3, 1861, aged 57. Member of Assembly at the time of his death. Lived in West Turin.
Barnes Judah, died February 23, 1821, aged 67. Son of Amos, who came into town afterwards. Assisted in building first mill, in . Turin, in 1798. Judah Barnes was a County Judge, and in the Assembly in 1808-'09.
Barnes Martin, died February 13, 1862, aged 78.
Benedict Ebenezer, died January 21, 1870, aged 70.
Benedict Levi, died June 11, 1833.
Budd Dr. David, from Schoharie coun- ty, where he was born September 30, 1798. Came to Collinsville in 1821 ; died in Turin village, November 4, 1848 ; was for some years a County Judge.
Budd Dr. Charles D., son of preced- ing. Began to practice about 1846, and died October 12, 1881, aged 59. He held a diploma from the State Medical Society, of which we believe, he was a member.
Burdick Benjamin, died September 24, 1865, aged 76.
Bush Jonathan, died July 3, 1825, aged 80.
Bush Jonathan, died May 29, 1863, aged 88.
Bush Abner P., died June 14, 1880, aged 70.
Carpenter James, born January, 1795, died November 21, 1879.
Case Pardon G., died March 15, 1874. Church Artemas M., died June, 1855 ; formerly from St. Lawrence county.
Clark Milo, died September 27, 1868, aged 68.
Clobridge Charles C., a soldier, died at Brattleboro, Vt., in hospital, August 23, 1864, aged 34.
Clapp Ezra, born May 28, 1760, in Westfield, married Grace Mather, Feb- ruary 22, 1781. Settled one mile south of Houseville, and kept inn for thirty years ; died in Westfield, June 17, 1838. Clobridge Christopher, was a Hessian
Mix, James.
Way, Russel. Webster, Eli.
Ragan, Thomas.
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soldier in the Revolution ; died May 8, 1844, aged 98. His son, Adam, a pioneer, died November 2, 1849.
Clobridge John, died January 1, 1881, aged 95.
Cornish Dr. Josiah, died January 2, 1876, aged 58. Practiced medicine thirty years.
Crittenden Dea. Artemas, died May 9, 1843.
Crofoot James, died February 7, 1861, aged 74.
Crofoot Oliver, died February 13, 1858, aged 82.
Cummings Dr. Morgan L., died April 7, 1851, aged 45.
Devoe Rev. David, died April 10, 1844.
Dewey Cadwell, died April 25, 1882. Many years a cloth manufacturer and mill owner.
Dewey Ether W., died February 20, 1879, aged 67.
Dewey Chester, died May 23, 1844.
Dewey Royal Dwight was born at Westfield, Mass., October 3, 1791. His father, Aaron Dewey, afterwards re- moved to Franklin, Delaware county, N. Y,, where R. D. Dewey resided until the year 1809, when he commenced the study of medicine with Dr. Walter Dewey, in the town of Turin, (at Collins- ville). Was licensed to practice as a physician and surgeon, by the Medical Society of the County of Lewis, July 13, 1812, (Jonathan Bush, President, John Safford, Charles Squire, and Horatio G. Hough, Censors for the County of Lewis.) Practiced his profession with Dr. Walter Dewey, under the firm name of W. & R. D. Dewey, at Collinsville, until early in the year 1816, when he removed to Turin village, and continued the practice of medicine there until a short time before decease. Was married to Melin- da Hart, daughter of Stephen Hart, of Turin, March 10, 1818, by whom he had ten children-six sons and four daugh- ters. His wife died May 8, 1838, and he died November 13, 1839. While in practice with Dr. W. Dewey, at Collins- ville, the epidemic raged in this section, at which time they were the only phy- sicians in the then town of Turin. Dr. R. D. Dewey was appointed a Justice of the Peace in March, 1818, which office he held for a number of years. And in the same year was appointed
Postmaster at Turin. He was elected Supervisor of the town of Turin for the years 1836-'37-'38-'39.
Dewey Walter, first physician in the present limits of Turin, son of John D. Dewey, of Leyden, born in Westfield, August 20, 1795. He built the first house in Turin village, in 1803 ; removed soon after to Collinsville, where he died February 28, 1821.
Dominick John I., died July 29, 1875, aged 65.
Dowd Benjamin, died January 6, 1852. Fenton Aaron, died April 29, 1853.
Fisher John, died September 29, 1859, (by suicide).
Foot Dea. Adoniram, died April 27, 1866. Lived many years in Martins- burgh.
Foster Giles, died January 1, 1844, aged 87.
Foster Lyman, died April 2, 1861, aged 81.
Foster Rev. Sylvester, died April 2, 1861, aged 81.
Gaylord Joseph, died June 1, 1871, aged 79.
Goff Duell, died September 8, 1852, aged 68. He was for some years a county judge.
Hart Levi, an early and prominent settler ; in 1818 in Assembly, and many years a judge. He died June 30, 1834, aged 61.
Hart Nathaniel, died August 8, 1873, aged 75, at Port Leyden.
Hart Stephen, died August 13, 1859, aged 90. Mrs. H. died May 16, 1848.
Hart Sylvester, died April 13, 1874, aged 70.
Higby Amos, died at Holland Patent, June 14, 1848, aged 95.
Higby Amos, Jr., whom we elsewhere notice as Town Clerk and keeper of the Turin Social Library, deserves at our hand a kindly notice. He was a mer- chant in a very small way, and being in- genious in the use of tools, spent much of his time in the manufacture of such items as axe-helves, ox-yokes, hickory whip-stocks and the like, that formed a part of his stock in trade. Exact in all things, he filled so completely the duties of a Town Clerk, that his name was mentioned from year to year, as the man for the place, and nobody thought of running against him. At length, a few
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[CADWELL DEWEY. ]
CADWELL DEWEY.
The first that is known of the ancestors of the Dewey family was Thomas Dewey, who came in 1633 from Sandwich, Kent, England, near the ancient town of Dover, and settled in Dorchester, Mass, He married the widow Frances Clarke, in 1638, by whom he had five children. He died April 27, 1648.
Aaron Dewey 4th, grandfather to Cadwell, was born January 26, 1750. He married March 12, 1777, Sybel Cadwell, born August 7, 1755, daughter of Abel Cad- well, of Westfield, and Anna Dwight, great-aunt to President Timothy Dwight, of Yale College. They had eight children.
Aaron Dewey 5th, father of Cadwell, was one of this number, and was born October IO, 1777. He married in 1807 for his second wife Betsey Vail, of Long Island, N. Y. He moved from this State to Ohio, and from there to Wisconsin, where he engaged in farming. He died August 20, 1849.
Cadwell Dewey was born in the town of Franklin, Delaware county, N. Y., October 5, 1809. In that town his earlier years were passed at the home of his grandparents until about the age of thirteen, when he came to Turin, with his uncle, Dr. Royal Dwight Dewey, who wished him to study for the practice of medicine. With this uncle he remained a few years attending school, but preferring an active business life to the medical profession, he returned to his home, and soon after went to the town of Unadilla, Otsego county, N. Y., where he learned the trade of cloth dressing and manufacturing, with the firm of Crooker & Williams.
In 1831, at the solicitation of his uncle, he came to Turin, and engaged in business with Lyman Lane, as partner, and began the manufacture of woolen goods. Coming to this town when the country was compara- tively new, he entered actively into the pursuit of busi-
ness, and for many years carried on a successful enter- prise.
Mr. Dewey was identified both in business and social interests with the people of this vicinity for more than fifty years. He was a man of great activity, of pleasing address and affable manners. His family as- sociations were pleasant and tender. He was for a num- ber of years a member of the Methodist church, and was held in esteem by all with whom he came in con- tact. He died at his home in Deweyville, April 25, 1882, aged 72 years 6 months 20 days.
Cadwell Dewey married in Turin, January 8, 1835, Frances C. Foster, who was born February 22, 1818, in the town of Islip, Suffolk county, Long Island, and who came with her parents to Turin, in 1830, where she has since resided. Their children were, William C., born December 6, 1835, (married in New York, February II, 1859, Sarah D. Hammond, who died in Brooklyn, July 7, 1866, and who married for his second wife Louise B. Neff, November 6, 1872, and resides in New York ;) Charles D. Dewey, born May 12, 1838, (married in Lowville, February 27, 1861, Amanda C. Foster, who died September 13, 1869, and who was again married, in Medina, N. Y., September 5, 1877, to Nancy L. Johns- ton, and lives now in Batavia ; ) S. Foster, born June 14, 1840, resides in New York ; John S., born September 24, 1842, resides in Batavia, N. Y .; R. Dwight, born April 8, 1850, married in Brockport, N. Y., October 22, 1879, Alma Bann, and lives in Batavia ; Albert A., born May 17, 1845, died April 3, 1850 ; Frances E., born May 27, 1860, died March 16, 1863.
Of these children William C., is a prominent whole- sale grocer and produce merchant, in New York. Fos- ter is known upon Wall street, and in the Stock Ex- change. Charles D., is general manager of the cele- brated Johnston Harvester Works, of Batavia, N, Y., and also connected with that manufactory are John S. and R. Dwight Dewey.
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votes were cast for someone else at a town meeting. It must have been done from mischief-it could not have been from malice, for he was a man that had no enemies. He resigned however, the office, to which he had been elected twenty-two years in succession, by an overwhelming majority, because he was not unanimously elected. From this time till the end, he remained in the post of honor-a private station. Few men have lived a more blameless life, or have passed through the world with fewer conflicts with the interests of others. He died February 17, 1857, aged 63 years. Mr. Higby was of the Unitarian faith, and published two editions of a small book, which set forth his peculiar views in theology.
Higby Benjamin, died February 22, 1866, aged 68, at Phoenix, N. Y., formerly of West Turin.
Higby James H., died April 1, 1878, aged 62.
Higby Philander, died December 16, 1862, aged 44.
Higby Zaccheus, died February 13, 1816, aged 82.
Higby Zaccheus, died September 14, 1861, aged 98, in Illinois.
Hoadley Lyman, died in West Turin, February 4, 1861, aged 79.
Holden Emory B., died August 2, 1878, aged 62.
Hoskins George, died August 22, 1848, aged 66.
Howard James, died July 18, 1860, aged 83. Spent most of his life in St. Lawrence county, where he was a prom- inent citizen.
Hutchinson James, died of cancer, November 22, 1847, at an advanced age.
Ives Selden, died September 11, 1874, aged 57.
Jones Evan R., died March 25, 1872, aged 66.
Jones Rowland, died February 22, 1858, aged 82.
Kendall Edwin, died February 20, 1869, aged 77.
Kent Henry, died June 1, 1855.
Kentner David, died near Rochester, October.17, 1855, aged 73.
Kentner John P., died November II, 1836, aged 86.
Kentner Warren H., died December 30, 1879, aged 70.
Kilham Thomas, born March 23, 1752, died April 25, 1825, from an opiate given by a drunken physician. His wife, Mary, died March 18, 1845, aged 93. Their sons were :-
Kilham Heman, died October 14, 1847, aged 64.
Kilham John, died April 21, 1870, aged 79.
Kilham Samuel, died March 20, 1863, at Sandy Hook, Md.
Kilham Solomon, died September 14, 1874, aged 74.
Lee Enoch, died March 11, 1874, aged 77. Mrs. Lee, died August 10, 1856.
Lewis Owen, died September 21, 1872, aged 76.
Lyman Dea. Mitchel, born February 14, 1800, died December 27, 1875.
Mickel Andrew, died August 2, 1841, aged 60.
Miller Abram, died November 28, 1858, aged 79.
Miller Halsey, died October 25, 1877, aged 77.
Millard Benjamin, died March 6, 1870, aged 97.
Mott Joseph O., died December 21, 1843. Was a lawyer and Member of Assembly in 1830.
Page Henry, died July 15, 1843, aged 48. Was a lawyer.
Phelps Obadiah, died September 10, 1860, aged 94.
Ragan Egbert, died July 26, 1880, aged 81.
Ragan Henry, born November 12, 1793, died December 14, 1865, aged 63 years, 6 months.
Ragan James, born November 13, 1793, died December 14, 1865.
Ragan John, died August 19, 1868, aged 68.
Ragan Thomas, died May 13, 1820, aged 63.
Rockwell Jabez, died April 28, 1867, aged 75.
Rockwell James, died October 12, 1847, aged 51.
Sacket Chester, died June 16, 1848, aged 56.
Salmon John, died July 26, 1813, aged 56. Salmon John, died August 11, 1857, aged 56. Salmon Rev. Martin, born in Pawling, N. Y., October 8, 1794 ; preached many
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