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James Smith, enl. Ang. 9, 1862, 115th Regt., Co. F; served through ; disch. with regiment, June 30, 1865.
Reuben Sherman, eul. Aug. 9, 1862, 115th Regt., Co. F; died of typhoid fever at Yorktown, Jan. 7, 1863.
Levi Shaffer, enl. Ang. 9, 1862, 115th Regt., Co. G ; pro. to 2d lient. ; killed at the battle of Olustee, Fla., Feb. 20, 1864.
Jacob A. Sisson, en1. Aug. 1, 1862, 115th Regt., Co. G; served through; disch. June 30, 1865.
George H. Skym, enl. Ang. 8, 1862, 115th Regt., Co. G; served through; disch. with regiment, June 30, 1865.
James C. Smith, enl. July 27, 1862, 115th Regt., Co. G; killed at the battle of Olostee, Fla., Feb. 20, 1864.
Ira Scott, enl. Ang. 11, 1862, 115th Regt., Co. G ; served through; disch. with regiment, June 30, 1865.
George Sumner, enl. Feb. 21, 1864, 25th Cav., Co. B.
George Scott, enl. Aug. 22, 1862, Co. G, 77th Regt .; wounded, secood battle Fredericksburg, in left thigh ; disch. soon after.
Martin Snyder, ent. Sept. 10, 1864, Co. G, 51st Regt. N. Y. S. V .; taken pris- oner before Petersburg; died while a prisoner ; date unknown.
Fraoklin Smith.
George Sleight, en1. 77th Regt .; lost io action ; never heard from.
George Storer, en1. 77th Regt.
George C. Tucker, enl. Sept. 26, 1861, 77th Regt., Co. G.
Jesse Thompson,-died soon after returning home.
James C. Vandenburg, enl. Sept. 26, 1861, 77th Regt., Co. G; killed in the battle of the Wilderness, May 10, 1864.
Lyman Vandenburg, enl. Oct. 26, 1861, Co. G, 77th Regt. ; sergt .; trans. to Vet. Bat., 77th Regt .; served through; disch, with regt., July 7, 1865.
Elias Waalborn, enl. Aug. 9, 1862, 115th Regt., Co. F; served through; disch. with regt., June 30, 1865.
C. Frank Winship, enl. Oct. 20, 1861, Co. G, 77th N. Y. S. V. ; taken prisoner at battle of Chantilly, Va., Oct. 15, 1863; exchanged, Dec. 1, 1864 ; di-ch. with regt., Dec. 20, 1864.
James White, enl. Dec. 26, 1863, Rattery 1, 16th Heavy Art., N. Y. S. V .; disch. Ang. 28, 1865.
Loyd Weston, enl. July 28, 1862, Co. F, 115th N. Y. S. V .; missing in a skir- mish, Feb. 8, 1864, near Olustee, Fla.
Wm. Il. Yattaw, enl. Ang. 11, 1862, 115th Regt., Co. G; disch. July 9, 1863. Lieut. John J. Yattaw, eul. Sept. 6, 1862, Co. E, 92d N. Y. V .; trans, to 96th N. Y. S. V., Oct. 30, 1864; served through; disch. June 18, 1865.
Christopher Yattaw, enl. June 25, 1863, Co. C, 18th Corning Light Cav., N. Y. S. V .; served through ; disch. June 20, 1866, with regt.
Robert Yattaw, enl. Nov. 1863, in U. S. Navy ; disch. by writ, under age.
Hiram Yattaw, enl. Aug. 9, 1862, Co. A, 118th Regt., N. Y. S. V; wounded in left leg, at Hanover Junction, Va., July 4, 1863; served through ; disch. with regt., June 23, 1865.
GREENFIELD.
I .- GEOGRAPHICAL POSITION.
THE town of Greenfield lies just north of the centre of the county. Indeed, the exact geographical centre may be stated as being upon its southern boundary. Greenfield is bounded north by Corinth, east by Wilton, south by Sara- toga Springs and Milton, west by Providence and Edin- burgh, and lies wholly within the Kayadrossera patent. Its area includes 27,955 acres of improved land, 9790 of un- improved, and of this last amount 7997 is woodland. The population in 1875 was 2690.
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The legal description of this town and the definition of its boundaries as given in the revised statutes of the State will be valuable as a matter of convenient reference :
" The town of Greenfield shall contain all that part of said county beginning at the southeast corner of lot number seven, in the seven- teenth allotment of the patent of Kayadrossera, and running thenee westerly along the north bounds of the sixteenth allotment of said patent te the southeast corner of Providence ; then north en the east line of the same to the southwest corner of Corinth ; then easterly along the south hounds of Corinth to the west bounds of the twenty- third allotment ; then along the same southerly to the north bounds of the seventeenth allotment : then along the same southwesterly to lot number seven in said seventeenth allotment; then southerly along the east hounds thereof to the place of beginning."
II .- NATURAL FEATURES.
The soil is generally a sort of gravelly loan, in some parts mixed with clay. The principal streams are the Kay- adrossera creek and its branches. From the northern boundary of the town the Kayadrossera range of moun- tains runs in a southwesterly direction to the southwest corner. The eastern part is occupied by broken hills forni- ing a part of the Palmertown range. They are mostly rough and rocky on their summits. Between the two a valley of some six miles in width stretches across the town.
III .- EARLY SETTLEMENT.
From the most reliable data now obtainable it seems that this town was first settled permanently about the spring of 1786. There is a supposition, however, that it was first settled previous to 1778 by Anthony Haggerty and Thomas Root. To lend color to this theory it is stated that in the Haggerty IIill cemetery, which is undoubtedly the oldest in the town, were two pieces of common, rough sandstone set up at the heads of two graves, one of which bore the inscription " T. R., Sept. 5, 1778," and the other, " A. H., 1789." These inscriptions were roughly cut, evidently with some crudely-formed instrument, and are believed to have marked the resting-place of the original settlers or some members of' their families. But this rests mainly on tradition. The first settlements that we know to have been made were started in the spring of 1786 by Gershom
Morehouse, Charles Deake, Charles Deake, Jr., William Deake, John Deake, and Benjamin Deake, near Middle Grove ; William Scott, at Scott's Corners, now North Greenfield ; Isaac Reynolds, near Greenfield Centre ; and the Fitch family at St. John's Corners. The settlements at Porter's Corners and South Greenfield were commenced in the following year.
Among the earliest settlers were many men of eminent character, ability, and worth ; and while we cannot under- take to give a detailed history of them all, we do not mean thereby to diseriminate against any of them.
Isaac Reynolds was a native of Dutchess county, and in 1774 moved to Peru, Clinton Co., and settled; but being driven off by the Indian forays during the Revolu- tion, he never returned there, but, after peace was declared, determined to settle in this section, and purchased a farm a little north of Greenfield Centre. He moved on to this farm in the spring of 1786. Here, with his five sons, Isaac, Darius, Stephen, Jeremiah, and David, he began the work of creating a home in the wilderness. He lived till 1800, when he died, and his remains found a resting-place on Haggerty hill. The farm has latterly passed out of the family. Of the sons, Isaac, Stephen, and Jeremiah lived and died in Greenfield; Darius was a Quaker preacher and went to Jefferson county.
Gershom Morehouse had a brother who settled in the town of Ballston at an early day. He saw the many fine water-privileges furnished by the Kayadrossera creek, and sent word to Gershom, who was a young man of twenty-two and a millwright by trade, to come here and settle. He was then living at Greenfield, Litchfield Co., Conn., and came to Greenfield, at Middle Grove, in 1786. Daring that summer he built Gordon's mill, at Milton Centre, and a saw-mill at Middle Grove, on lands he had purchased upon his arrival. This was the first saw-mill in the town. At the end of two years he returned to his native place after the lady of his choice, Miss Hannah Smith, whom he married, and with her returned to his home, near Middle Grove. In 1792 he erected a grist-mill on his land on the Kayadrossera creek. This was the first grist-mill in town. He sold the saw-mill, grist-mill, and land to Dr. Isaac Youngs in 1792, and then settled on the farm now occupied by George Bishop. Here he lived till 1850, when he left the farm and lived with his children till his death, which occurred in 1857. Ile was during his life the leading millwright of this section and a superior workman. His work was performed in a very careful and conscientious manner, and very few mills were built in the vicinity which did not bear the impress of his work. Four of his chil- dren still survive him. They are Mrs. Esther Turrill, of Greenfield ; Mrs. Henry Clute, of Providence ; Mrs. John
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Crawford, of Galway ; and Mrs. Mary A. Haner, of Wis- consin.
Charles Deake, with his four married sons, William, Charles, John, and Benjamin, settled about a mile and a half north of Middle Grove, in 1786. Near the place was a fine large spring of deliciously cool and sparkling water, and here were found large quantities of bones of animals, showing that at some past time it had been used as a camp- ing ground by some one, either Indians or Tories, probably, during the Revolutionary war. The family came originally from Rhode Island, but removed here from White Creek, Washington Co. The original settlers are all dead, and the only member of the family, of the second generation, now living in town, is Mrs. Joel B. Gardiner, who was a daughter of Charles Deake, Jr. Calvin W. Deake, who was commissioner of the United States deposit fund in 1848, and again in 1865, and Alvah Deake, who held the same office in 1843, were grandsons of Charles Deake. Warren Deake, a grandson of Charles Deake, Jr., is now holding the same position. He was elected supervisor in 1866, when he was but twenty-nine years old. A cousin, Starks Deake, was elected justice of the peace in 1876, when he was only twenty-four years old. These are the youngest men on whom such responsible offices have been conferred in the history of this town.
William Scott was an Irishman, and emigrated to this country a few years before the breaking out of the Revolu- tionary war. Becoming interested in the fortunes of his adopted country, he joined the American forces at the battle of Bunker Hill, and served through the war with distinction. For meritorions service he was promoted to the different grades, until the close of the war found him bearing a colonel's commission. It is related of him that once the fortunes of war brought him in friendly contact with a British colonel, who was desirous to leave his horse in some one's charge for a short time. Riding up to Scott, he said, in a haughty tone, " Hold this horse." Said Scott, with Irish wit and brogue, "Does it take two to hould 'im ?" " No!" said the officer. "Then hould him yer- self," said he, turning on his heel and leaving the officer to bitter reflections over his discomfiture.
He left his eastern home after the close of the war, and settled in .Greenfield in 1786, locating near the north line of the town on the farm now occupied by Samuel Bailey. Upon the erection of the town of Greenfield he was elected to the office of supervisor, and received an appointment as justice of the peace, which latter office he held for many years. He was a prominent member of the Masonic fra- ternity, and his son, Lewis, was one of the charter men- bers of the Greenfield lodge, and at the time of his death, in 1866, the only survivor of the founders of that organiza- tion. William Scott died in 1814. Six of his grand- children are still living in the town.
James Vail came to Greenfield in 1787, and settled at Porter's Corners. He was an early merchant there, and subsequently removed to St. John's Corners, and from there to Saratoga Springs, where he died in 1832.
Isaac Demmon settled at Locust Grove, on the farm now occupied by Mrs. F. G. Chamberlain, in 1787. At one time there was a remarkable mortality among the members
of this family, some seventeen deaths occurring in the short space of three weeks.
Benjamin Clinch eame to Porter's Corners in 1787, and started the first store in the town. Nothing further is known about him.
Caleb Sherman, a native of Rhode Island, came from Washington county to Greenfield in 1787. and settled a little north of Middle Grove, on the farm now occupied by Joel B. Morehouse. He died about 1812. Mrs. J. B. Gardiner is a granddaughter of his.
In the south part of the town, on the Gardiner farm, John Benedict settled in 1787, and, when he sold to Howell Gardiner in 1799, he removed to the Black river country. Next northeast of him, on the road to Green- field Centre, Nathaniel Seymour settled at about the same time. One of his sons, Thomas H. Seymour, is still living, and resides at Saratoga Springs. Alexander H. Scott, whose wife is a granddaughter of Nathaniel Seymour, now occupies the homestead.
The next farm was taken up by Benjamin Ingham in the same year. He had a son, who afterwards settled in the north part of the town. His name was Rufus, and his wife and one son and daughter still live on the farm he bought. Benjamin Ingham's farm is now occupied by S. W. Hoyt.
Joel Reynolds settled at Greenfield Centre in 1789, and kept the first iun in the town. The place is now owned by Dr. Ianthus G. Johnson.
Peter Robinson came from Washington county in 1792 or 1793, and settled near Greenfield Centre. He was fol- lowed at different intervals by his four brothers, Peleg, Sanford, Giles, and Benjamin, and his brother-in-law, Silas Gifford. All settled in the Haggerty hill neighborhood. The farms purchased by Sanford and Benjamin are still retained in their respective families and occupied by their descendants. Benjamin purchased the Haggerty farm of Anthony Haggerty's son William, and his grandson, Ben- jamin S. Robinson, the present clerk of the board of super- visors, now occupies it.
Esck Tourtelot came from Thompsontown, Conn., abont 1795, and bought a large tract of land two miles north of Porter's Corners, where he lived till his death, which oc- curred in 1850. Mrs. Phoebe Allen, Miss Lydia Tourtelot, and Mrs. Cornelia Morehouse, three of his daughters, are still living in town.
Rev. Elias Gilbert was living in Newport, R. I., at the breaking out of the Revolution, and when that place was occupied by the British he removed to Stockbridge, Mass., from there to Great Barrington, and then to Manchester, Vt. From there he came to this State, and lived for a time at Pittstown, Rensselaer Co., from whence, about 1789, he came to Greenfield, and settled near the southern line of the town. He was a cabinet-maker by trade, and con- tinued to work at that business, more or less, throughout his life. Ile was an intellectual but not a highly-educated man, and first began to preach while living at Pittstown. Coming to Greenfield, he was principally the means of or- ganizing the Congregational church, and was called and installed as its first pastor. Ile continued to hold this relation to the church till his death, in the fall of 1814, a
RES. OF MRS. T. H. TOMPKINS. GREENFIELD, SARATOGA CO.,N. Y.
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period of twenty-one years, and by his faithful preaching and careful, consistent Christian walk and conversation en- deared himself to all the members of his congregation. He left no family, never having been blessed with children. He was one of the founders of the Greenfield Temperance Society, and its first president.
Jonathan Hoyt was an early settler previous to 1790. One daughter, Mrs. Lydia Darrow, is still living in the southern part of the town. She is the oldest surviving member of the Congregational church.
Jonathan Wood, who lived about one mile east of the Congregational church, settled there before 1790. IIe had two sons, James and Jeremiah, who graduated from Union College and became ministers of the gospel. Jeremiah was pastor of a church at Mayfield, Fulton Co., for up- wards of fifty years.
Walter Hewitt, among whose descendants are found many sterling business men, settled on a part of the farm now occupied by Seneca Weed in 1790. IIe sold this farm to Noah Weed in 1793, and moved on to the farm now occupied by Nelson D. Morehouse. He was an esti- mable Christian man, and enjoyed the respect and confidence of all who knew him. Three of his sons, Richard, Alex- ander, and Christopher, are still living; the two former in Greenfield and the latter in Saratoga Springs. He was a deacon of the Congregational church and one of the founders of the Greenfield Total Abstinence Society.
Dan Cronkhite was a plain, substantial farmer, a consci- entious, consistent Christian, and was respected by all his fellow-townsmen for his sterling qualities of head and heart. Formerly from Hillsdale (then in Dutchess county), he settled two miles east of Greenfield Centre, on the farm now occupied by bis son, Justus A. Croukhite, April 19, 1791. He voted at seventy consecutive town-meetings, and missed but one general election in the time. The first town- meeting he attended was in 1792. Ile then lived in the town of Saratoga, and the polls were located at the old Force place, about six miles east of Saratoga, near Stafford bridge. He died April 25, 1863. At that time there were three persons lying dead within a radius of two miles, whose united ages aggregated two hundred and seventy- three years,-Dan Cronkhite, aged ninety-five years, two months, and sixteen days; Elihu Anthony, aged ninety- four years, eleven months, and eighteen days; and Mrs. Lydia Billings, aged eighty-three years.
John Pettit was born in Berkshire county, Massachusetts, in August, 1764. Being of a studious turn of mind, he early began to study, and his first lessons in writing were taken with a coal for a pencil and a strip of birch-bark for a copy-book. As soon as he was old enough to do so he cnlisted in the Continental army, and served till the elose of the Revolution, and then returned to his Massachusetts home. Ilere he soon after married Mary Barnes, and in 1793 emigrated to New York, and settled a little north of Greenfield Centre, on the farm now occupied by Hiram T. Lawton. Upon the erection of the town he became, by appointment, one of the justices of the peace, and held that office for forty-one consecutive years. He was elected su- pervisor four times, and was a member of the Assembly in 1817 and again in 1823. ITis family consisted of eight sous
and five daughters. Three of his sons, John, James, and Paris, were soldiers in the War of 1812. Paris was killed in battle at Sacket's Harbor. John was taken prisoner, and carried to Quebec. James passed through the war un- harmed. Another son, William R. Pettit, removed to Gorham, Ontario Co., where he still lives, at an ad- vanced age. Hle was a member of the Assembly, from the first distriet of Ontario county, in 1852. The only other surviving child is Alexander H. Pettit, of Fairweather, Adams Co., Ill. John Pettit dicd, full of years and honors, Jan. 1, 1840.
Nathaniel Daniels was a prominent and honored mem- ber of the Methodist Episcopal church. He located on the north branch of the Kayadrossera creek, sometimes ealled " Ellis' ereck," about a mile north of the southern boundary of the town. Hle came from New England in the spring of 1794, and built a cloth-dressing and fulling- mill soon after, which was the first mill of the kind in the town.
Elihu Anthony was a settler of 1792 on a farm in the north part of the town, and lived in Greenfield until April 23, 1863, when he died at the advanced age of almost ninety-five years. He was a member of the denomination of Orthodox Friends and a preacher. He was pastor of the church in North Greenfield for many years.
Isaac Youngs came to Greenfield in 1792, and purchased the farm and water-power owned by Gershom Morehouse. Ile was a physician and practiced a little, but not much. One of his sons was also a physician. About the year 1810, or before that year, he built the first carding-mill in town. But one of his descendants is now living in town, Mr. Edwin R. Youngs, who is a great-grandson.
Asahel Porter was a prominent business man of this town. Ile was born in Massachusetts in 1768, and settled at St. John's Corners, in Greenfield, in 1793 or 1794, and em- barked in the mercantile business. He also kept a taveru in 1795 and 1796. After a few years he traded property with a merchant at Porter's Corners (so named after him), and removed there and kept store till his death, in April, 1821. He was very successful in his business ventures, and rapidly accumulated wealth until he became the richest man in the town. He was supervisor for five years, and was the only citizen of this town who was ever honored with the position of chairman of the board of supervisors. He was sheriff in 1807, and again in 1810, by appoint- ment of the council of appointment, and served two years in the State Assembly in 1805 and 1806. Ile was a prom- inent member of St. John's Lodge of F. and A. M., and was buried at the Greenfield Centre burying-ground wirli Masonic ceremonies. The funeral was the largest ever wit-
nessed in the town. Mrs. William A. Beach, wife of the eminent New York lawyer, is his only surviving child.
Noah Wced came from Cambridge, Washington Co., in March, 1793, and bought three hundred acres of land in South Greenfield, of Walter Hewitt, Daniel Crawford, and James Dunning, who were the original settlers. Forty-eight years after, on the same day of the month, March 11, 1841, he died. Ilis son, Seneca, still lives on the homestead where he was born.
One of the most highly respected of the citizens of this
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town was Ilowell Gardiner, who settled in the south part of the town in 1799, buying the farm of John Benedict. He left bis wife in East Hampton, Long Island, and re- turning east in the fall, in the spring of 1800 brought her with him to their new home. He was a descendant, in the fifth generation, of Lyon Gardiner, who purchased Gar- diner's island of the Indians in 1639. Ilis father was Jeremiah Gardiner, of East Hampton, and he was the youngest of eight children. He was born Jan. 6, 1776, in East Hampton, L. I., and died in Greenfield, Feb. 26, 1866, aged upwards of ninety years. He was a man of thoughtful habit, yet full of nervous energy, and having formed a careful opinion on any subject, was earnest and untiring in its advocacy. These traits of char- aeter brought him into prominence in whatever position he was placed, and he filled many offices of trust and responsi- bility. He was one of the mainstays of the Congregational church, which owed much of its prosperity to his indefati- gable efforts in its behalf. At a time when it required great moral courage to be even a moderate temperance man, he came out firm and strong on the ground of " total abstinence," and was mainly instrumental in the formation of the Greenfield Total Abstinence Society in 1809, and remained an honored and influential member of it till death closed his career. Appointed to the office of justice of the peace, he held that office for twenty consecutive years. He was elected to the State Assembly in 1815, 1827, and 1831, and was a presidential elector in 1820, and cast his vote in the electoral college for James Monroe. His family con- sisted of six children, four of whom are still living,-Mrs. B. N. Loomis, of Binghamton ; Joel B. Gardiner, Henry L. Gardiner, and Juliet Gardiner, of Greenfield. The two last named occupy the old homestead.
John Prior was an early settler near King's Station, and a prominent man in public affairs. He was the recipient of several public offices, among which were member of As- sembly in 1813, and associate judge of the court of com- mon pleas, to which latter position he was appointed in 1818.
Salmon Child was one of the pioneer settlers of Green- field, and one of its most highly honored citizens. He was born in Connecticut in the year 1762. His father was a captain in the Continental army, and in 1791 Salmon joined the army, and participated in the march to Virginia, and the final triumph at Yorktown. He was a farmer, pos- sessed of a large fund of plain common sense and good judgment, and his character as exemplified by his life was above reproach.
With his father he came to Greenfield soon after the close of the Revolution, and located in the south part of the town. In 1794 he was appointed as one of the first justices of the peace for Greenfield. His upright life and weight of moral character brought him into publie life, and kept his record pure and unsullied throughout his career. IIe was a member of the State Assembly at the sessions of 1808 and 1809. In the latter year he was appointed first judge of the court of common pleas by Governor Daniel D. Tompkins, and held that responsible position until the reorganization of the court in 1818, when he yielded his seat to llon. James Thompson (a son
of Hon. John Thompson, whom he succeeded in office), and accepted a seat on the same bench as associate judge, and held it for five years. Ile was a member of the Con- stitutional Convention of 1821, and a member of the elec- toral college in 1828, and cast his vote for John Quincy Adams. This was his last public office. He was repeat- edly elected supervisor of his town, and enjoyed the fullest respect, confidence, and esteem of all who knew him. In 1836 he removed to the west, and died in Walworth Co., Wis., Jan. 28, 1856, in the ninety-fifth year of his age. As a tribute to his worth, we append the words written of him by one of his pastors, Rev. Thomas Powell, who says : "He was one of the most conscientious and consistent Christians I ever knew." Can words express more ?
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