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Many of the early settlers of Pittsford had considerable property. As the chief and earliest settlement in this section, it attracted men of wealth. To this is due the fact that several sLives were held here at an early day. One belonged to Dr. Ray's family,-a slave woman, the property of Dr. Ray's sister Alice, and removed with her to Brighton, when she married Oliver Culver. Caleb Hopkins owued a slave named Titus Lord, whom he bought about 1813, in Canandaigua, for one hundred and fifty dollars. Titus was then thirteen or fourteen years old, and as black as a cual. He went to sellout with the white children, in No. 1 district, but never learned much. He died soon after the slaves were freed in this State, in 1824. The Whitbecks had two slaves, called " Big Juck" and " Little Jack," whom they brought from New Jersey. Big Jack had a wife and several children, also slaves. He had a log house built for him across the brouk Dear Edgar l'arson's residence. When freed by law. Big Jack at first declined to use his freedom. He said he had as much to eat and to drink as Mr. Whitbeck, al didn't work any harder than he. But he did go wwn after. Little Jack Went as soon as he was old enough. Nathan Calhoun had a slave boy a number of years. Julin Mano, at the Embankaunt mills, award a slave woman, who had a tuale slave child barn to her December 15, 1812. The registry appears as ful- lows vo the town-books:
" This may certify that on the 15th day of December, 1812, was born one male slave at my house, in Boyle, county of Ontario, and State of New York, and now resides with me in said towo. JOHN MANY.
" BorLE, Stb October, 1413.
" Attest, SAMUEL MI. KEMPTON, Towa Clerk."
This is believed to be the only slave born in what is now Pittsford, and the above are the only slaves known to have lived in town. The popular feeling w. strongly against slavery, and the owners of slaves were compelled to give some educational advantages to slave children, as a preparation for their expected free- dom. Whitbeck's slaves attended & houl in No. 2.
Northfield suffered several changes in name and territory before being called Pittsford. The name of the entire town was changed to Boyle, April 6, Isus. Penfield, including Webster, was set off in 1810, and Perrinton in 1812. April 12. 1813, the remainder of the town of Boyle was called Smallwood. In 1:14. Brighton, including Irondequoit and all of Rochester east of the river, was taken off, and the remainder of the towa was named Pittsford by Colonel Hopkins, then in the flush of military honors, and the most popular man in the settlement.
The supervisers of Northfield, Boyle, and Smallwood, from 1796 to 1814, were as follows: Silas Nye, 1796-7-9; Noah Norton, 1798, 1808; Ezra Patterson, 1800-1804, also 1806, 1807, 1811, and 1813; Augustus Griswuid, a merchant at the head of Irondequoit bay, in 1805; William MeKinstry, of Penfield. in 1808; Caleb Hopkins, 1809 ; Stephen Lusk, 1810; and Samuel Spafford. of Brighton. now Rochester. in 1812. Dr. John Ray was towa clerk from 1796 to 1813, inclusively. In 1813 the town voted to make good to the town clerk a twenty-dollar counterfeit bill which, as a town officer, he had taken. The next year Samuel MI. Kempton was chosen clerk one year; but in 1815, De. Ray was again elected, and continued until 1820. Pittsford, in 1814. comprise'l Henri- etta, then beginning to be called West-town. The following were town officers that year: Supervisor. Ezra Patterson ; Town Clerk, John Ras: Assessors, Vi- than Nye, William Griffin. Stephen Lusk ; Commissioners of Highways. Ilenry Bailey, Hutchinson Patterson, James Sperry ( Henrietta); Overseers of the Pont. Glover Perrio, Jonas Sawens; Collector, Nathan Kingsley ; Constables. Ebenezer Gooding ( Henrietta ), Nathan Kingsley, Calvin Kingsley ; School Commissioners, Jared Barker, Nathan Nye, Lyman Hawley ( Henrietta) ; Schoul Inspectors. Si- mon Stone (2d), a lawyer in Pittsford village. Claudius V. Boughton. a merchant in the village, Dr. John Ray. The three following were school inspectors for West-town: James Sperry, Silas Dunham, and Dr. Jonah D. Simonds.
There was much sickness in the early history of Pittsford, chicky typhoid fevers and fever and agne. In the winter of 1812 an epidemic prevailed. attack- ing old people almost exclusively, and nearly always proving fatal. The doctors at first tried bleeding; but after this the patient died invariably in a few hours. They never learned how to manage it. Among those who died with it were Captain Silas Nye, Major Ezra Patterson, Noah Norton, Mrs. and Mrs. Alexander Chobh (both the same day , Jobo Armstrong, Sr., Robert Heath, John Rowerth, Mrs. Parrott, and Mr. Miller, ovar the Brighton line. Nathan Nye had the disease, and was one of the very few who recovered. It disappeared as warm weather came. Those who died were all heads of families, and there was much suffering.
A number of the earliest pioneers were Revolutionary subliers. Among these may be mentioned Ebenezer Graves and Captain Henry Gale, who lived and died on Eist street. Captain Silas Nye was a captain in the Revolution. Deacon Samuel Stone, father of Eber Stone, was a soldier, though only a young lad at the time. Thomas Cleland was another, and there are doubtless others where records are forgutten. The towo took a leading part in the wac of 1812. Caleb Hopkins volunteered, was made eulunel of the Fifty-second Regiment, and went to the lines. He took a good many young oven with him. Wm. Jones, a young man eighteen years oldl, who worked for $. Stone, went to the lines, and was killed. Gallagher, who lived in the village, was a staff officer. Ammon Dunn was killed and scalped by the Indians. Jowl Dunn, a brother, went as a substitute. He was taken prisoner, and kept in Halifax till the close of the war. Colonel Hopkins, after the battle, visited the field to look for his missing men. He wrote home that be found Ammon Dunn's body, but Joel could not be fontwel. His fate was unly queved at until he returned, broken down in health. Claudius Victor Benighton mustered a company of cavalry in Pitt-ford in the war of 1512. They had their tents several weeks in the village, while the men were training hores to jump teners. One Pittsford man. Sammel Wile Hopkins, went to Canula in the war, either to trade or, more likely, to evale the draft. Ho was tried and hung as a -py. Hopkins was a winthhss, drunken Fellow, and no complaint was made alamt his execution. His wife was a stepdaughter of tilover Perrin. She afterwards marriedl John Lane, a village blo komth. James Merrill, another blacksmith, was in the war of 1912. His lop was wrath of where Thomas Woord lives. Kendrick and luggett sueccedel him.
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Distilling was a leading business in early days N. Nye had one of the first in the town, about 1804. Much of the whisky was sont west and trade with Indiana for furs ; but too much found a market at home. Tudians were still numerous here- abouts, but were quite peaceful, except when too much whisky made theor parnl among themselves. When drunk they would go amund nights and try to get into tettless' houses. Augustus Elliott came to Pittsford in 1810. He had a store where the Methodist church stands ; also a distillery and ashery opposite Squire Goss'. He made money rapidly during the war. All the potash that could be soraggled into Canada during this time sold at enormous profits. He also furnishe -! whisky for the army. After the war he built the Hargons House, expecting to take to it the daughter of' Daniel Penfield. She disappointed him, and he lived . bachelor. Failing in business, he removed to Pennsylvania and retrieved his fortunes. He was living ton or twelve years ago. The place was sold to James K. Guernsey. J.ine Penfield afterwards married Brown of Rochester, the original owner of " Brown's racc."
Israel Stene br ught some goods to Pittsford at an early day, but more as patroc 'of the settlement than as merchant. Atter Elliott, John Hanwell and Samuel Hildreth were for a time the leuchng business men in the settlement. Hartwell was in Canada through the war. urade money. atid was rich when he came. He parchasyl Elliott's ashery and distillery, and also of Chleb Hopkins the farm wbich he occupied (the old Porter place, south of the village), containing theo one bondred and sixty-three acres, for which he paid eight thousand dollars in gold. Hartwell was an amateur farmer, and in 1520 received a premium of ten dollars from the Ontario County Agricultural Society for the best farm in Pitt-ford. Hartwell with Sylvanus Lathrop took the job of making the great erubank ment across the Irundequoit for the canal. and made enormous profits. He also made canal bridges in 1822-23, for the new canal. He afterwards took a contract on the Wellaod canal, lost all he had made, and his Pittsford farm was sold to Mr. Porter, of Falwyra, to pay a mortgage of four thousand dollars.
Samuel Hildreth was a prominent early merchant, landlord, and stage proprietor. He came in November, 1514. set up a store, and the next spring Heury S. Potter, Dow living in Rochester, cause as office-boy amt cleik. Potter was a merchant in Pittsford from 1821-22 until November. 1550, when he removed to Rochester. In 1816, Hildreth established the first stage route from Cauauduigua to Rochester. Pittsford was a leading point on this route. and large numbers of horses were kept in Hildreth's barna, between II. H. Crook's and the railroad. Mr. Hildreth built the house now owned by Hon. Jarvis Lord. He also built the Pittsford House, wow occopied by S. Whitbeck, and kept tavern there. His store was the one oreu- pied by Lockwood Ariustrong, which he built. He was also one of the first post- masters of Pittsford. He died io 1324. His daughter married Charles Richardson, an early merchant with Thomas Beuediet, Another married Ales. Babcock, after- wards sheriff of this county.
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Wait Martin was an early hatter in Pittsford. About 1816 he had a stock of goods come from Canada which were seized by Colonel Hopkins as revenue collector and confiscated to the government. The bes ruined Martin financially.
Elihu Doud had a brick-yard at a very early day west of Fraukiin Lu-k's house. Elliott gut the bricks there for his house; al-o Lathrop. for his residence now owned by Colonel L. S. May. At a later day, John Brown, father of the present J. Brown, made brick on his farm, north of the village. near the Westemans farm.
Ja IS14, Dr. Archelaus G. Smith, Nathan Nye. Colonel Caleb Hopkins, and John Acer established a large store, which they kept four years, but were unsuccessful through some mixmanagement. Dr. Swith practiced his profession, and the last two years had Dr. Hartwell Carver as partner. Dr. Sunth left in 1815, went to Rochester, and afterwards in New York. Ilon. E. Delatield Smith, of New York city, is a son. Dr. Smith's widow, M. Boughton Smith, the first white child in Vietor, is still living, aged nearly eighty-eight.
Sylvanus Lathrop came about ISIS, with nothing but his profession as civil engineer and a chest of tools. The clust aml contents were burned with the hotel owned by Heath Ellridge, where it was stored. Lathrop secured the confidence of Hartwell, the most considerable capitalist in the town. Lathrop and Hartwell took the job of bridging the Ironlepunit valley for the Erie canal. Lathrop's idea was to make a huge munden trough across the valley ; and this the canal com- missioners approved. With Hartwell's orney. Lathrop experimentel to the ex- tent of two or three thousand dollars in getting out timber. The plan of a worden aqueduct was then abandoned ; but, in consideration of what they had done, the contract for the earth embankment was let to Hartwell and Lathrop at fourteen ants per cubic yard. They sablet most of it at nine cents per yard, and these contracts were afterwards sublet as low as five cents. At this but price the con- tractors but money. Hartwell was rich to fore, and Lathrop was at mare a capitalist. He, with Henry S. Potter, built the store occupied by I. M. With-ie & Co. Almost 1825, Lathrop built the block owned and wespid by fleury A. Parker, and kept store there several years with Lesstard IL. Clapp.
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About 1831, Lathrop foond Pittsford too small for his enterprise, went to Ohio, and took contracts on the canals there. He was successful in every undertaking, aud in a few years removed to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where, in the proprietor. ship of coal and iron mines, he breamue worth several tuillions of dollars. Ile was living ouly a few years ago.
The E'rie canal was a great help to Pittsford in common with all western New York ; but few of its early settlers umlerstood the cost of digging and moving earth. The eastern sections were first built, and ca-tern wien wistly took the con- tracts here, which they -uldet at much -. edneed prices. The men like Lasthron. who could estimate the cut of construction, made large profits. The men who sublet usually did well. Farms were paid for, and the foundations of many -nb- atantial fortunes laid, in this way. U'util the Erie canal came, money was exerrd. ingly scarce ; but the large numbers of men employed mule a home market for nearly everything at goud prices. For one or two years the canal was un- Gnished arross the Irundequoit valley, and in those days Bushneil's Basin wa- a thriving village. Pittsford grew rapidly in these years, and protuised to beeror a place of much importance. The old canal warehouse- of Pittsford were mainly built iu those days. Hartwell built the warehouse on the vid canal on State street in 1822-23, and afterwards the stone warehouse of Wiltsie's. long owned by Ilo ury S. Potter. The new canal superseded the first warehouse on State street. It'still bwals the names of Brooks & Clapp, who formerly dil bu-iness there. Brooks & Wil- liants also kept the old " White Tavern." near by, built by John Hartwell. Peter Hopkins for many years kept a hotel where Wm. Agate's new house is. He slo settled the large farin owned by Robert Wilcox, in the north part of the town. John I. Cole, John Brown, Tunis and Peter Brezee were among the carly settlers in northern Pittsford. The sandy, light soil loug retarded settlement ; but the fine houses and barns there oow show that this soil, with good management. is quite as profitable as any. A similar character of soil on East street long grave it the name of "+ Johnny-Cake street," from the idea that the soil there was not strong enough for whent.
Besides Drs. Ray and Rool, previously mentioned, the early physicians were Dr. Monroe, now living in Rochester, aod Dr. Bowen, who formel a parther- ahip with Dr. Ray about 1814, but did not stay long. Dr. Andrew Hunting. ton came in 1815, formed a partnership with Dr. Riy, and soon bought out buth Dr. Ray's farm and practice. His son, Dr. Wales Montue Huntington, was a>- sociated with him many years.
" Dr. Huntington" has been a household word in Pittsford for more than sisty years.
Dr. Hartwell Carver came to Pittsford in 1816, practiced nearly fifty years. and died at an advanced age in 1875.
Dr. J. E. Camp was here from 1824 to 1831. when he remove I.
Dr. R. C. Reynolds came in 1831, and is still active and successful in his pro- fession.
Dr. Charles Came did not begin medical practice until about thirty years agu. He is widely known in all neighboring towns, having delivered more than liftern hundred lectures on scientifie subjects.
Dr. C. H. Thompson. a homeopathist, who practiced from 1865 to 1875. an.l Drs. Carpenter and Johnstone, now resident, close the brief list of Pittsford physicians.
The first lawyer, or pettifugger rather, was Jahez Hull. before 1800. He wa- succeeded by Sition Stone 2d), for 1800 to 1527. William G. Taylor, 1-1" to IS18. Ira Bellows came in 1816. and for nearly forty years was a kanlin: man in the village, town, and county. Firmu his uthice went a long line of kur- students, many of whom have become eminent. Hon. Ephraim Gross, president in Pittsford, studied here in 182G. Among others were Hon. Elias B. 11 .. Fr -. afterwards member of' Congress; Mortimer F. Delamo, elected surrogate, atvi moved to Rochester ; William C. Ronley. of Rochester; Watson $. Hinckley . M. B. Champlin, afterwards State attorney general ; William F. Cogswell. and James A. Guernsey. Hon. Ashley Samson, afterwards Judge Sauron, sadedd m Pittsford in 1818, before it was yet certain that the village would not compete with Rochester. He soon after removed, and became identitied with the youthe etry The present Lawyers of Pittsford are Hon. Ephraim Gross, Julia B. Vielnur ha. and John MI. Strele.
The churches of Pittsford are seven : Presbyterian, Baptist, Metheali-t Fri- copal, Protestant Episcopal, Lutheran, Free Methelist, and Roman Catholic The Grat seroum in town was on Capitain Nye's farm, by James K. Guernes man of culture and ability, but not a regular preacher. A contribution ws taken after the sermon, and Greet Stone dropped in the hat a counterfeit writer dollar, made for trading with Indians. Guernsey offered the silver-piece a davor two after in Canambigua, and, when it was retin d, explained that he took it 1. r " preaching the gurjat in the woods of Northfehl." " No doubt," said the other. " the money is un good as the sermin."
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LYDIA VINTON.
PLIN VINTON.
Rts of MRS. L. P. VINTON, MAIN ST, PITTSFORD, MONROE CO.N Y.
FORMER RES. of MRS. L.P. VINTON, 4 OF LATE PLIN VINTON, PORT WASHINGTON, TUSCARAWAS CO , OMIO.
JOHN REEVE.
MAS. JOHN REEVE.
Ris or JOHN REEVE, PITTSFORD , MONROE COUNTY, NEW YORK.
PLATE X CVIII.
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"Guernsey was a trader and merchant in Lima several years. He bought gin- scog of the early settlers, paying in goods, and exporting it to Europe. Ile be- came very wealthy, and about 1818 retired to Pittsfordl. where he lived till his death in 1841, aged seventy-two years. He Always said that he preached the first serinon in Northfield. It must have been before 1708, for in that year Rev. Mr. Billinghurst came to the town, and he preached occasionally wherever he had a chance. Religious meetings preceded this date in private houses and the log school-house in No. 1. Rev. James H. Hotchkiss, then a licentiate of the Pres- byterian church, preached six sermons between November 8, 1801, and February 1, 1802. These were the first sermons preached by any Presbyterian clergyman.
THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHL.
In 1807 the Presbyterian church was organized at the house of Glover Perrin, with the following trustees . Orange Stone and Thomas Kemp-hall for one year, Abraham Bronson and William Spear for two years, Glover Perrin and Samuel Stone for three years. The name of the society was " the Congregational Society of Northfield." Thomas Ramsdell was chairmao of the meeting, and Josiah J. Kellogg clerk. In February, lous, the betty view to mette Rer. John Stewart aa preacher of the gospel, if enough money could be raised. Daniel Wilson and Henry E. Dennise were elected trustees in 1800, and in this year Rev. Solomon Allen was employed as pastor, at a salary of two hundred and fifty dollars. Jabez Sanboorn was chosen trustee for 1810. In 1811 Rev. Silas Hubbard was em- ployed on trial for two Sabbaths, at five dollars per Sabbath. Among the names of those who signed the call for Mr. Hubbard are the following not before men- tioned : Nathan Norton, Silas Packard, Jesse Perrin, Michael Beach, and Isaae Barnard.
February 10, 1825, the following names are given as members of the church : Samuel Stone, Glover Perrin, Robert Shearer, Uriah Parker, Stepben Lusk, James Hopkins, Charles Kinter Nathan Vre James K. Guernsey, Elisha Beach, John Acer, David Acer, John I. Cole, Simoo Stone (2d), Sammuel Hop- kins, Jonas Linnell, Marvin Hopkins, Lyman Poweil. Epaphroditus Stone, Elijah Rose, Elijah Lindell, Henry B. Stoddard, Ira Bellows, Sylvanus Lathrop. Elias Smith, Samuel Crosier, Solomon Stone ( 2d ). Nichols West. Thurlow Leaveos, Silas Nye, Joseph Shepard.
Succeeding pastors after Mr. Hubbard were Rev. A. C. Collins, of Bloomfield, 1817; Rev. Ezekicl J. Chapman, 1818. In the fall of 1818, Rev. Chauncey Cook came, and continued two years. From 1820 to 1824, Rev. John Taylor. In 1824, Rev. Ralph Cushman, at a salary of' two hundred and seventy dollars. The spring of 1875, Rev. Wm. F. Curry, a Southerner, preached, and continued one year. He complained of the cold meeting-honse, in which no store was used during the coldest weather, aod for some weeks the next winter be preached in a room in the theo new " White Tavern." In 1527, Rev. Homer Adams was em- ployed, and preached two years. He was succeeded by Rev. Asa Mahan from 1829 to 1831. Rev. A. E. Campbell followed for one year, and Rev. Elijah Buck aine months. Rev. John B. Richardson commenced his services June 2, 1833, and was installed pastor February 16. 1834, and left in 1830. He is still living, in Genera, New York.
Succeeding Mr. Richardson. besides occasional supplies, have been the following pastors : Rev. Job Pierson, Hev. A. North, Rev. Mr. Crittenden. Rev. H. M. Morey, obout 1865-68, Rer. G. 11. Hamilton, Rev. George G. Smith, and since September, 1874, Rev. Lewis H. Morey.
Io early years the Presbyterian society niet at the house of Glover Perrin, or in the log meeting-house north of the village. In 1816 a frame building was erected on the hill a mile south of the village. In 1826 this was sold to the Baptists. The same year the church built the large stone oncetiny-house in the village. Lathrop was one of the builders, and he used in it some of the timbers originally intended for his Irondequoit aqueduct. This house was borned io November, 1861, and the present editice creered io 1862, and couscerated May 13, 1863.
At one time the church and parsonage grounds and buildings were sold to sat- isfy a mortgage of five hundred dollars, something less than one-twelfth its value. Solomon Stone, then a member of the church, bid it in for the society at two thousand dollars. After that the stone church was often jocularly called "Solo- mon's temple." The church has always been a strong one, especially in wealth. Originally constituted with teo members, in 1818 it bad thirty-seven ; in 1826, forty-two; in 1531, one hundred and fifty-nine; and in 1$16, one hundred and oinety.five. The present number is eighty-six. Originally a Congregational society, it soon became Presbyterian, and April 20, 18tt, it was received into the presbytery of Geneva, and io t-19 into the Rochester presbytery. The present elders are George W. Farnham, William IT. Cook, James F. Rogers, L. L. Nichols, Lyman D. Welch, and Ephraim Gives ; church clerk, E. Goss.
THE BAPTIST CHURCH.
The Baptists in early days were less wealthy but more numerous than their Presbyterian co-laborery. In 1804 some Baptist meetings were held in private houses and school-houses, Daniel Brown, of Ouden, being the preacher, and coming once in two weeks. He forded the river, often in serious danger, and was some- times compelled by high water to go and return by way of Avon, where there wr.14 a bridge. On the 20th of October, 1809. a council was called, and " The Second Baptist Church of Boyle" was organized, with the following members . Richard Priestley, Ann Priestley. Robert Heath, John Roworth, and Daniel Brown Ebl. r Jeremiah Irons, of Palmyra, was chosen tuoderator. Representatives at the council came from the first and second churches in Williamson, tirst church in Boyle ; Pen- feld), the church in Farmington, and the church in Palmyra. Frotu the latter came Samuel Bennett, the primitive blacksmith in Northfield in 1704 Daniel Brown was ordained November 30, 1509. at Dr. Juhu Ray's house. Jeremiah Irons was moderator, and Noah Porter, of Palmyra, clerk. William Hill and Jacob Mann were received for baptism October 20, and the same evening Tri- phena Webster. Alana Gardner, Bethuel Blodgett, Sabra Ray, Sila Patterson. William Griffin, Dr. John Ray. Fanny Dunn, Mary Parker, Noah Norton. Mar- garet Norton. Jabez Hall, and Elizabeth Roworth were received. All these were baptized at Mann's mills, Novetuber 3, 1809. Robert Heath and Noah Norton were elected the first deacons. The following meuibera were added, mostly by baptism, within a year after organizing the church, and must before 1810: Caleb Nye, Richard Priestley, Jr., John Gardner, Alida Brown, Sabra Robbins, Raus- ford Webster, Joshua Armstrong, Elizabeth Oloistead, Sabra Farr, Nathan Hull, Henry Bailey, John Welch. Aaron Adler, Benjatuin Olmstead, Aaron Quick, Richard Welch, Michael Parker, Thomas More, Latin Albrough and wife, Olive Beach, Lewis Jones, Martha Hull, Robert Holland, Prudence Holland. Robert Katheart, and Elizabeth Roworth.
Ia IS19 Elder Turney closed his labors, having served fifteen years, and the membership having increased to eightty-nine. He was succeeded by Rev. Reuben Tenney, who remained till 1828, when the church excluded him for being a Mason.
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