History of Ontario Co., New York, Part 94

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Richard Dodge Phillips, enlisted in Company B, Eighty-fifth New York In- fantry, Sept. 26, 1861 ; in battles of Yorktown, Williamsburg, Fair Oaks, Seven Days' fight before Richmond, Kingston, Whitehall, Goldsboro', Lee's Mills, Sav- age Station, Blackwater, raising siege of Fort Anderson, Blount's Mills, raising the siege of Little Washington, Gardner's Bridge, Foster's Mills, and was cap- tured at the battle of Plymouth, North Carolina; conveyed to Andersonville, where he died, July 17, 1864.

Alva Phillips, enlisted in Company B, Eighty-fifth New York Infantry, Oct. 14, 1861 ; at the siege of Yorktown ; taken prisoner at the battle of Fair Oaks, May 31, 1862; exchanged and returned to duty Oct. 6, 1862; at the battles of Kingston, Whitehall, Goldsboro'; in the skirmishes at Lee's Mills, Savage Sta- tion, raising the siege Fort Washington, and Gardner's Bridge; discharged in order to re-enlist Dec. 31, 1863; re-enlisted Jan. 1, 1864; killed in action near Har- oldsville, Hartford county, North Carolina, Jan. 21, 1864.

Melvin Myron Phillips, enlisted in Company K, Ninety-eighth New York In- fantry, Nov. 7, 1861 ; at the siege of Yorktown, battles of Williamsburg, Bot- tom's Bridge, Savage Station, Seven Pines, Fair Oaks, Seven Days' fight before ·Richmond, Swift Creek, North Carolina, Tar River ; discharged in order to re- enlist, Dec. 31, 1863; re-enlisted Jan. 1, 1864 ; was credited to Monroe county on second enlistment; came home on furlough ; deserted ; returned to regiment under provisions of President's proclamation April 6, 1865 ; honorably discharged Sept. 16, 1865.

Charles Perkins, enlisted in Company H, Sixteenth New York Artillery, Dec. 28, 1863; discharged Aug. 28, 1865.

John Pestle, enlisted in Company H, Fourth New York Artillery, Feb. 16, 1864; in battles of the Wilderness, Spottsylvania Court-House, North Anna River, Tolopotomy Creek, Bethsaida Church, Petersburg, Deep Bottom, South- side Railroad, Hatcher's Run, Patrick's Station, and at the surrender of General Lee, April 9, 1865 ; discharged Oct. 5, 1865.

Abram Clement Quackenbush, enlisted in Company B, Fourteenth U. S. In- fantry, Nov. 28, 1862; in battles of Gettysburg, Mine Run, Wilderness, Laurel Hill ; wounded at Spottsylvania Court-House ; discharged for disability occasioned by wounds, June 23, 1865.

Oscar Perry Rogers, enlisted in Company D, Thirty-third New York Infantry, May 17, 1861; at the siege of Yorktown, battles of Williamsburg, Mechanics- ville, Seven Days' fight before Richmond, Antietam, first and second Freder- :icksburg; discharged at expiration of his term of service; re-enlisted Dec. 22, 1863, in the Sixteenth New York Artillery ; discharged Aug. 28, 1865; rank, corporal.

Alanson Hudson Reed, enlisted in Company H, Fourth New York Artillery, Sept. 9, 1862; detailed as clerk at headquarters, defenses of Washington, Sept. 4, 1863; detailed as clerk in adjutant-general's office, war department, April 29, 1864; discharged July 19, 1865.

George William Smith, enlisted in Company H, One Hundred and Twenty- sixth New York Infantry, Aug. 12, 1862; in battles of Maryland Heights; taken prisoner at Harper's Ferry ; exchanged Nov. 20, 1862; wounded at Gettysburg; in the battles of the Wilderness, Cold Harbor, Spottsylvania Court-House, and before Richmond; was detailed for duty in commissary department ; discharged June 6, 1865.

Charles Joseph Simmons, enlisted in Company B, Eighty-fifth New York In. fantry, Oct. 8, 1861; promoted to sergeant February 11, 1863; in battles of

Yorktown, Williamsburg, Lee's Mills, Savage Station; wounded at Fair Oaks ; in battles of Black water, raising siege of Fort Anderson, Blount's Mills, Gardner's Bridge, and Foster's Mills; discharged in order to re-enlist, Dec. 31, 1863; re- enlisted Jan. 1, 1864; taken prisoner at Plymouth, North Carolina ; conveyed to Andersonville, where he died, Aug. 20, 1864.

Horace Sisson, enlisted in Company K, First Mounted Rifles, Aug. 7, 1862; promoted to corporal Aug. 10, 1863; in battles of Joiner's Ford, Blackwater Bridge, Edentown Road ; sick and sent to hospital ; in the battle of Laurel Hill ; discharged June 12, 1865.

William Judah Sisson, enlisted in Company K, Ninety-eighth New York In- fantry, Aug. 16, 1861 ; rank, sergeant : at the siege of Yorktown, battles of Wil- liamsburg, Bottom's Bridge, Savage Station, Seven Pines, Fair Oaks; taken sick and sent to College hospital, Brooklyn ; was removed to the residence of Edward Anthony, where he died, Sept. 28, 1862; buried at Bristol Centre.

Daniel Sisson, enlisted in Company F, Third New York Cavalry, Aug. 28, 1861; in battles of Ball's Bluff, Kingston, Goldsboro', Whitehall, Newbern ; wounded at the battle of Swan's Quarter ; discharged for disability, Aug. 12, 1863.

John Shirley, enlisted in Company G, Eighteenth New York Infantry, May 7, 1861 ; had previously served in the United States army from 1840 to 1845; in first battle Ball Run, and discharged for disability, date unknown.

Burton Smith, enlisted in Company -, First New York Mounted Rifles, Jan. 4, 1864 ; in the battle of Darbytown Road; deserted Aug. 7, 1865, and came home.

George Whiting Simmons, enlisted in Company C, First New York Mounted Rifles, Jan. 4, 1864; in battles of Chapin's Farm, Darbytown Road; discharged Nov. 29, 1865.

Solomon Sullivan, enlisted in Company G, One Hundred and Forty-eighth New York Infantry, Sept. 11, 1862; rank, sergeant; in the battles of Poco- hontas, Proctor's Creek, Drury's Bluff, Port Walthall, Cold Harbor, Petersburg, June 15, June 28, and July 30, 1864; Fort Harrison ; taken prisoner at Seven Pines; discharged May 23, 1865.

John Shay, enlisted in Company H, Eleventh United States Infantry, March 25, 1862; in battle of Williamsburg; wounded at Malvern Hill; sent to hos- pital ; discharged for disability Dec. 13, 1862.

John Shirley, enlisted as substitute, Company I, Ninety-seventh New York Infantry, Sept. 4, 1863; in the battles of the Wilderness, Cold Harbor, Peters- burg, White Oak Swamp, Weldon Railroad, Hatcher's Run, and Five Forks ; discharged July 18, 1865.

Seymour Smith, enlisted in Company B, Eighty-fifth New York Infantry, Sept. 26, 1861 ; at the siege of Yorktown; battles of Williamsburg, Fair Oaks, Seven Days' fight before Richmond, Kingston, Whitehall, Goldsboro', raising siege of Fort Anderson, and Little Washington; in the skirmishes at Lee's Mills, Savage Station, Blackwater, Blount's Mills, Gardner's Bridge, and Foster's Mills; mustered out in order to re-enlist Dec. 31, 1863 ; re-enlisted Jan. 1, 1864; killed at the surrender of Plymouth, North Carolina, April 20, 1864.,

James Kennedy Sisson, enlisted in Company F, One Hundredth Illinois In- fantry, Aug. 5, 1862; rank, sergeant; in the battles of Stone River, Stuart's Creek, and Lavorn ; discharged for disability Feb. 27, 1863.

Harold Fortunatus Tubbs, bugler; enlisted in Company M, First New York Cavalry, Feb. 3, 1863; in the battles of Brandy Station, Aldie, Upperville, Bristoe Station, Mine Run, Vaughan Road, Boydton Plank Road, Petersburg, and the surrender of General Lee ; discharged Aug. 4, 1865.

Warren Owen Tabor, enlisted in Company M, First New York Cavalry, Feb. 3, 1863; transferred to Tenth New York Cavalry ; in the battles of Gettysburg, Todd's Tavern, Cold Harbor, Hawes' Shop, St. Mary's Church, Aldie, Middle burg, Upperville, Bristoe Station ; wounded at Trevillian Station; in the battles of Hatcher's Run, Dinwiddie Court-House, and at the surrender of General Lee; discharged Aug. 4, 1865. -

Janna Porter Taylor, enlisted in Company H, Fifteenth New York Engineers, Sept. 7, 1864 ; in the battles in front of Petersburg; wounded in the battle of Hatcher's Run; at the surrender of General Lee; discharged June 13, 1865.

Levi Ward Totman, enlisted in Company K, First New York Mounted Rifles, Aug. 12, 1862; in the battles of Joiner's Ford, Blackwater Bridge, Edentown Road, Laurel Hill; discharged June 12, 1865.

Henry Harrison Tubbs, enlisted in Company E, Twenty-eighth New York In- fantry, May 18, 1861 ; in the battle of Winchester ; sick and sent to hospital; discharged June 2, 1863.

Rufus Whitmarsh Travis, enlisted in Company H, Fourth New York Artillery, Sept. 9, 1862; in the battles of the Wilderness, Spottsylvania, Cold Harbor, siege of Petersburg, Deep Bottom, Reams' Station ; taken prisoner; confined on Belle Island ; exchanged Dec. 24, 1864; clerk in commissary department, Annapolis ; clerk in Jervis Hospital; discharged Aug. 3, 1865.

George W. Trafton, enlisted in Company M, Fourth New York Artillery, May

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15, 1863; taken sick and sent to hospital; died Jan. 17, 1864; buried at Bristol Centre. Luther Tubbs, enlisted in Company G, Eighteenth New York Infantry, May 7,1861. Henry Thayer, enlisted in Company E, Fourth New York Artillery ; re-enlisted for three years; accidentally killed at Washington ; no further record can be obtained.

Horace W. Tiffany, enlisted in Company E, Fourth New York Artillery, Jan.

19, 1864; in the battles of the Wilderness ; on detached service till discharged May 22, 1865.

Mortimer Vincent, enlisted in Company G, Eighteenth New York Infantry, May 7, 1861 ; re-enlisted.

Andrew P. Young, enlisted (not known) ; re-enlisted Jan. 4, 1864.

William Gage Ingraham, enlisted in the United States naval service as master's mate, on the steamer " Ceres," May 6, 1861.

PERSONAL SKETCHES.

WILLIAM THOMAS,

son of David C. Thomas, was born in Franklin county, Massachusetts, April 16, 1804. His father's family consisted of four sons, viz. : David, born September 16, 1802; William, April 16, 1804 ; Lowell B., December 25, 1806; Zimri D., September 16, 1809.

William Thomas, whose name appears at the head of this sketch, was married to Anna Abbey in March, 1824. They had eleven children, viz. : Nathan W., born February 25, 1825. Anna, born November 5, 1826; died July 4, 1851. Sally, born September 17, 1828; married James Reed; and died January 15, 1850, leaving one child,-Mrs. Horace Case, of Bristol. Olive, born November 20, 1830; died March 16, 1850. William, born April 7, 1833. David, born June 15, 1835. Melvina A., born September 22, 1837. Mary A., born January 15, 1840 ; died in Alton, Ill., September 12, 1872. Lucy L., born May 10, 1842; died February 6, 1843. Lucy L., born January 8, 1844; married W. H. Dusen- berry. George W., born August 12, 1846; died in February, 1869.

Mr. Thomas settled in the town of Seneca, Ontario County, in 1809, and, upon the death of his mother, in about the year 1814, he went to reside with Mr. Nathan Whitney. Soon after his marriage he moved to Bristol, where he articled a tract of land, and remained about eight years, when he disposed of his land and made an extended tour through the western country, and finally returning to Bristol, bought a farm near his original purchase, upon which he resided until 1870. November 19, 1866, Mrs. Thomas died; and, on November 18 of the following year, Mr. Thomas married Mrs. Mary Wales, his present wife.

Mr. Thomas resides at Baptist Hill, in the town of Bristol, and is well preserved for one who has passed threescore years and ten. At thirteen years of age he was a " drummer boy" in a company under the command of Joel A. Whitney, and, at the early age of sixteen years, was drum-major of the regiment. He was fond of music and the common sports of the day. He was celebrated as a violinist and a wrestler, and, in the latter capacity, was champion of the country round about, although weighing but one hundred and twenty pounds. When but twelve years old he was a crack shot, and in later years devoted much time to deer-hunting. He has been chosen to many official positions within the gift of his townsmen,-among which may be mentioned those of justice of the peace, assessor, and commissioner of highways. In the latter capacity he has served for the long period of twenty-seven years. He was originally a Whig; but, since the organization of the Republican party, has been a Democrat. In religious matters he is liberal. Though never having learned the carpenter's trade, yet he has done much of that kind of business, in the construction of mills, factories, etc. Mr. Thomas is one of the progressive agriculturists of the county, and has trans- formed a barren tract to one of the most productive farms of which old Ontario can so truthfully boast. For the above memoir we are indebted to Mr. Graves, of Bristol.

FRANCIS MASON.

He that sits down calmly to review his life for the admonition of posterity may be presumed to tell truth, since falsehood would not appease his own mind and fame is not known in the grave. With this inducement of veracity, we essay to follow the life of Francis Mason, who was born in Bristol county, Massachusetts, on April 15, 1798. His father, John Mason, had been born in the same county, in January, 1767, and in the year 1795 had married Sarah Francis, whose natal day was in March, 1771. John Mason had occupied the summer season upon a farm, and had a sloop with which he trafficked along the coast at other periods of the year. He had much toil and little remuneration, and, hoping to better his condition, emigrated with his family, consisting of his wife and two sons, John and Francis, to Ontario County, New York. The exodus from the old home was

made in February, 1801, and his western farm numbered one hundred acres of forest land. Time and labor cleared the land, whose tillage occupied the remain- der of the pioneer's life. He died February, 1836, aged sixty-eight years, leaving a family of seven children. The ownership and occupation of the farm was in- trusted to a son Francis, who has continued a resident of the old homestead to this time. The widow lived with her son Francis until her death, which trans- pired in July, 1860, at the ripe age of eighty-nine years. Mr. Mason has twice married. His first wife was Chloe, daughter of Aaron Wheeler, of Bristol, who died in 1829, one year after marriage. In May, 1830, he married Maria, daugh- ter of Richmond Simmons, and widow of Harold Hayes. The previous life of the second Mrs. Mason was fraught with toil and hardship. She married Mr. Hayes in 1822, and moved with him to Clinton, on the Wabash river, Indiana. The journey was accomplished by flat-boat from Olean, New York, down the Allegheny and Ohio rivers to Evansville, and thence on through the heavy forests to their destination, where, for three years, discomfort, privation, and sickness were endured, and then. Harold Hayes died, leaving the wife a widow, with two infant children,-Richmond, two years of age, and Pliny, but five months. In an unhealthy country, with limited means, her condition was not enviable, and she wisely proceeded to close up her late husband's business affairs, and then, taking passage in one of the heavy wagons in use at the time, returned overland to her father's house in Bristol. The journey occupied six weeks, and was made over roads in many places barely passable and through streams to which there were no bridges. As Mrs. Mason, she became the mother of five children, three of whom are now living, to wit, Francis O. Mason, resident at Geneva and present judge of Ontario County ; Eleanor A., wife of Dr. W. Scott Hicks; and Celeste N., wife of John Kent, of Bristol. For many years life on the farm passed pleasantly. Francis Mason, as means permitted and opportunity afforded, added considerably to the extent of his possessions, and found his highest aspiration in successful farming. The object of existence is the enjoyment of a beneficent gift, -life. Happiness comes as the reward of industry, and the honors of our neigh- bors from their esteem. Mr. Mason did not look for a harvest upon ground not plowed, nor despise innovation in improved farm machinery. For three-quarters of a century his fields have been tilled, his stock improved, his children educated, and his resources increased. What more could be asked of a citizen ? Mr. Mason united with no one church, and has a regard for them all as so many avenues to the same goal. He had been accustomed to attend the Congregational church in company with his second wife, who, having become one of that denomi- nation at the age of sixteen, continued a devoted and worthy member till her . death, October 9, 1874. Believing that every good citizen should take part in the political concerns of this country, he of whom we write identified himself with the old Whig party as a conservative, and later has been known is a Repub- lican. A sound thinker, he early noted that an indiscriminate license for sale of liquor did not make men of superior character vendors of that human ill, and, therefore, in 1835, as supervisor he was the first to place restrictions upon the traffic and curtail license. That his action was regarded with favor is shown by his election for several terms to the office of supervisor, and also the positions of assessor and justice of the peace. At the age of seventy-sight, Mr. Mason finds that the farm upon which he has passed so much of his life is possessed of attrac- tions which furnish content, and upon it his closing years will be spent. If it be asked what has he done in life, his answer would indicate some disappointment, for our expectations are seldom realized ; but we find that his days and years have gone by in useful labor ; he has lived, and does live, adding to the sum of human good ; the transition from youth to old age has been made without an ambition for distinction. He has improved the means of good afforded him, and kept his abili- ties in continual activity ; he has lived worthily, and will die conscious of having advanced the happiness of his fellow-creatures, and that the world has been the better for his presence in it.

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PLATE XCIII.

WH. E. LINCOLN.

MRS. W. E. LINCOLN.

RES. OF WM E. LINCOLN , SOUTH BRISTOL , ONTARIO CO., N.Y. [ BARE HILL IN DISTANCE )

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PLATE XCIV.

GEORGE CRANE.

MRS. GEORGE CRANE.

OLD HOMESTEAD

RES. OF GEORGE CRANE, SOUTH BRISTOL, ONTARIO CO ., N. Y.

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TOWN OF SOUTH BRISTOL.

Grain, herbs, and plants the woods knew not, throve in the sun and rain. Smoke-wreaths stole curling o'er the dell, were heard the low and tinkling bell, And soon the settler's ceaseless toll had wrought a wondrous change.

THE town of South Bristol comprises the whole of No. 8, fourth range, and part of No. 8, third range. Its eastern boundary is Canandaigua lake. It was formed from Bristol, March 8, 1838. The surface is an elevated upland, very uneven, yet rich and highly productive; it is divided into four ridges by Mud creek and smaller streams. These ridges vary in height from five hundred to one thousand feet, and extend north and south through the town. The valleys between vary in width, and bear local appellations, one of which is " Burbee's Hollow," so called from a settler, early in that locality.

In 1788, about the time that Oliver Phelps was holding his treaty with the Indians, Gamaliel Wilder, Joseph Gilbert, and others, visited the Genesce country, prospecting for settlement. Mr. Wilder purchased the town of South Bristol of Phelps and Gorham, in the name of Prince Bryan, of Luzerne, Pennsylvania, and platted it off into lots, save a few lots reserved to himself. Bryan released his interest to Wilder. The reserved lots were sold to Charles Williamson, who had recently opened a land office at Bath for the sale of lands obtained of Sir Wil- liam Pulteney. Williamson transferred them to an agent of John Hornby, of England. Hornby was then buying towns and parts of towns, as he could get them at low prices. A later and well-known agent of this landed proprietor was John Greig, whose widow is a present resident of Canandaigua.

In 1794, James Smedley, of Canandaigua, was employed to survey the town into lots in accordance with a plat made in 1789 by Wilder. His work, like that of many another surveyor operating in a hilly country, was very inaccurate, more especially his north and south lines. Uneven surface, heavy timber, and cheap land were causes of error. A few acres upon a lot more than was called for was a matter of slight moment. The work was done late in the fall, and finished on November 19, in the midst of a snow-storm. It. had been designed when the first plat was made to have a grand avenue, eight rods in width, through the centre, from east to west, and a strip that width is not included in the lots. They evi- dently knew little of the surface of the town, as this grand highway was to have crossed the road now leading from Mud creek to Bristol springs, on the north line of a farm formerly owned by John Trembly, and continuing westwardly up the hill to its summit, and thence descending an almost perpendicular hill-side, into South Hollow, near where S. Crouch resides; thence up another, almost moun- tain-side, over to a saw-mill at Frosttown. In the year (1789) following his pur- chase, Mr. Wilder started from Hartland, Connecticut, then his residence, with his family of wife and four sons, Daniel, Jonas, Joseph, and Asa, to settle on his land. He was accompanied by Theophilus Allen and wife, Jonathan and Nathan Allen, Jeremiah Spicer, Jared Tuttle, Elisha Parrish, and others. Their route was up the Mohawk river, which they traversed in small boats hauled over the portage at Fort Stanwix to Wood creek, thence down to Oneida lake. Thence down to its outlet, along this to the Clyde river, then to the Canandaigua outlet, upon that to the lake. They coursed along the shore until they came to the old Indian orchard at Wilder's Point. The wife of Theophilus Allen was Wilder's daughter, and the only white woman in Bristol for several months after their arrival. Wilder and his men set to work, and soon had erected a comfortable log house on the point, whip-sawing what lumber they needed. The process of whip- sawing, a method employed by the first settlers to make the boards used in build- ing their houses, is thus briefly described : " A place was selected near a bank or sideling piece of ground, and skids placed, one end on the ground, the other on a bench as near horizontally as the ground would permit; logs were drawn to the ends of the skids, and hewed on two sides, then rolled upon the benches, the hewed sides top and bottom, and the thickness of boards marked by chalk-lines. A saw somewhat thicker than a cross-cut, with holes in each end for stick-handles, was held by two men,-one stood upon the log, the other beneath. The saw was worked vertically, and in this hard way two or three hundred feet of boards were made in a day." The reasons which induced Wilder to choose a residence in

this locality betoken some degree of climatic knowledge. He had noticed at Geneva a general unhealthy condition of the level country. Fevers, in some in- stances fatal, prostrated most of the early settlers, and there were localities where there were not sufficient well ones to take care of the sick. He decided that a hilly country with rapidly-flowing streams of. pure soft water, devoid of swamps and marshes, must be healthy. He was further induced to locate here by the apple orchard at what is now Seneca Point. The Indians had planted orchards at almost every village, but this one at the point was among the largest. The deprivation of fruit was a hardship to the pioneer. A roasted apple to the sick was a luxury, and not unfrequently some one would come fifteen or more miles to procure a few apples to roast for some ailing neighbor or relative. The Bristol apple-orchard, which had not been found by Sullivan's raiders, contained both apples and peaches in fair quantities. "A ride to Wilder's apple and peach eating and cider drinking, on horseback, ox-sled, or horse sleigh, was not uncommon. South Bristol, hilly and broken, could once have been exchanged for East Bloom- field, but the Indian orchard caused the bargain to be declined."

Wilder built the first mill in the town and on the Purchase. It dates from 1791, and settlers came from Farmington and other distant towns for grinding. A distillery and a saw-mill were constructed, of which later mention will be made.

Wilder approved himself a go-ahead business man. He set his men to work clearing what was later his old homestead. A house was built, a large farm cleared and under cultivation, barns and other buildings, including saw- and grist- mills, went up rapidly. Most of the men who came on with Wilder purchased of him small tracts of land, and mainly paid for them in work. Others arriving followed the same course.

The topography of the country is such that settlers were brought into localities, and the history of the pioneers is thus better known under the head of early set- tlements. One of these was known under the title of the " Mud Croek settle- ment." The sons of Wilder, partaking of his energy and enterprise, soon scattered and located upon the most eligible tracts. His daughters married Elisha Parrish, Theophilus Allen, Nathan Hatch, and - Hoag. Allen located on the farm now owned by his great-grandson D. P. Allen. His wife was the first white woman in town from spring until late in the fall. Their son, Eli Allen, born December, 1791, was the first native white in the town. Mr. Allen, the pioneer, was a prominent citizen and an early office-holder. He lived many years upon the farm before death called him away. Eli Allen became a leading citizen in his time, and died at the age of seventy-six. Eli W. Allen is a resident upon the old Rice farm purchased by his grandfather. Theophilus Allen had two brothers who became residents contemporary with him, Nathan and John. Nathan lived on lot 16, east of the creek, on the farm now owned by Elias Allen. He had worked by the day for Wilder previous to his removal to this farm, and paid for it in work. He was well known in the town in later years; served as constable and collector ; passed his life upon his farm, and his children have mostly gone a like course. The other brother, John Allen, became an early occupant of the place on the south end of lot 16. Here he remained year in and year out until at a ripe old age he was gathered to his rest. Here where he had resided came Allen Brown, to whom he left the farm, and who tilled it until his change came, and then it passed to its present owner, Russel Brown. The next farm south of Brown's was first settled by Pliny Hayes, a wagon-maker by trade. His shop stood on the east side of the highway, and there was done a fair business' for the times and place. Hayes was the builder of the house now occupied by R. Brown. Munford Hayes, a son, has become a prosperous carriage-maker in East Bloom- field. The farm upon which Seymour Smith now resides was also settled by a man named Hayes, probably a brother, although uncertain. He put up and ran a small carding-machine propelled by water-power, and later moved to Steuben county, where soon after his death occurred. The next early settler south of the carding-machine was known as Erastus Hill, who came in soon after Wilder, for whom he worked for some time. He was a man of good natural ability and fair education, which he utilised as one of the first teachers in the town. He lived

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