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Simeon Deming, priv., Co. G, 30th N. Y. Inf. ; enl. 1861 ; re-enl. in 2d N. Y. Vet. Cav. ; disch. at close of the war; living in Edinburgh.
James B. Douglas, priv., Co. D, 4th II. Art .; enl. Dec. 25, 1861; wounded at Spottsylvania, and died of wounds in 1864, at Washington, D. C.
Anson J. Downing, priv. ; enl. 1861; discharged ; living in Edinburgh. Geo. T. Downing, commissary ; living.
Morris J. Dryman, priv., Co. C, 115th N. Y. Inf .; enl. Ang. 8, 1862; died on the battle-field.
Wm. Dullard, sergt., Co. G, 30th N. Y. Inf .; ent. 1861; deserted at Bull Run ; re-enl. in the regular army.
Geo. M. Evans, priv., Co. C, 115th N. Y. Inf. ; enl. Ang. 11, 1862.
-- Flack, priv., 21 N. Y. Vet. Cav .; enl. 1861 ; died in service, of disease.
George Fox, priv., Co. D, 4th II. Art .; onl. Jan. 1, 1864; discharged ; living in Edinburgh.
John Freeman, priv., U. S. navy ; eul. Ang. 31, 1864; disch. at expiration of term of service ; living at Conklingville, N. Y.
Leman Frost, priv., Co. D, 93d N. Y. Inf. ; enl. Aug. 30, 1864; disch, June, 1865 ; substitute for Leman Partridge; living in Edinburgh.
Otis Frost, priv., Co. D, 93d N. Y. Inf. ; enl. March 15, 1865; disch. with regi. ment, July 9, 18G5 ; living in Edinburgh.
John G. Graves, priv., Co. G, 30th N. Y. Inf. ; enl. Sept. 21, 1861 ; killed Ang. 30, 1862, at second battle of Bull Rnn.
Julian W. Graves, priv., Co. D, 4th II. Art. ; enl. Aug. 28, 1862 ; trans. to Co. E ; disch, with regiment ; living at Greenfield.
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Wm. Graves, priv., Co. G, 30th N. Y. Inf. ; enl. May 7, 1861 ; killed Aug. 30, 1862, at second battle of Bull Run.
Win. Greenfield, priv., 4th H. Art .; enl. Aug. 9, 1862 ; disch, with regiment ; living at Huntsville.
Abner Hall, priv., Co. E, 4th HI. Art .; enl. Aug. 13, 1862.
Wni. B. Hall, priv., Co. E, 4th H. Art .; en1. Aug. 13, 1862.
Emery W. Hosley, priv., Co. C, 115th N. V. Inf .; cul. Aug. 5, 1862; died of dis- case while in the service.
George L. Hayden, priv., Co. D, 77th N. V. Inf .; enl. Oct. 7, 1861 ; fell overboard from U. S. steamer " Knickerbocker" and was drowood; the body was re- covered, and buried May 17, 1862.
Charles D. llerrick, corp., Co. D, 4th II. Art,; enl. Dec. 25, 1861; pro. to be 2d lient. ; disch. with the regiment; living in Michigan.
Jus. M. Herrick, priv., Co. C, 115th N. Y. Inf. ; enl. Aug. 5, 18G2; pro. to be 1st lient. ; disch. with the regiment, and living in Michigan.
W'm. Douglass Herrick, priv., Co. D, 4th II. Art. ; enl. July 29, 1862; pro. to be Ist lient. ; disch. with regiment ; living in Ohio.
Charles J. Houghtalin, priv., 193d Inf. ; enl. April 4, 1865.
John H. Hulburt, corp., Co. C, 77th N. Y. Inf. ; enl. Oct. 1, 1861 ; disch, with the regionent, Dec. 13, 1864 ; living near Albany.
George W. Hutchinson, priv., Co. C, 115th N. Y. Inf .; enl. Aug. 8, 1862.
Chas. W. Jenkins, priv., Co. C, 115th N. Y. Inf. ; enl. Aug. 8, 1862; discharged with regiment; living in Day.
Wm. H. Jenkins, priv., 77th N. Y. Inf .; cul. 18GI ; died of disease at Saratoga Springs soon after enlistment.
Nicholas Jensser, priv., Co. E, 4th II. Art .; enl. Sept. 3, 1862 ; died in hospital from wounds received in battle.
David W. Jones, priv., Co. C, 115th N. Y. Inf .; enl. Ang. 6, 1862; was wounded and left on battle-field; taken prisoner, and has not been heard from since ; supposed to have died from wounds.
Willard Jones, priv., Co. E, 4th II. Art .; enl. July 25, 1862; died of starvation at Andersonville prison, Ga.
George B. King, sergt., Co. G, 30th N. Y. Inf .; enl. 1861 ; disch, with regiment; died in Edinburgh since.
John S. King, priv .; enl. Feb. 16, 1862; captured at Gettyslnirg and paroled ; he was again taken prisoner, Aug. 19, 1864, and confined in prison at Salisbury, N. C .; exchanged Feb. 27, 1865 ; disch. at close of the war, and lives at Conklingville.
Sammel W. King, priv., 115th N. Y. Inf. ; enl. Aug. 31, 1862; disch, at close of war; living in Edinburgh.
Warren E. Kinney, priv., U. S. Navy ; enl. Ang. 31, 1864; disch. at close of war ; living in Batchellerville.
Charles W. Knight, sergt., Co. M, 4th H. Art. ; en1. Dec. 26, 1863; he enlisted early in the war, served two years, and re-enl. for three years ; served till he was dischi. for disability ; living in Edinburgh.
Jesse Lewis, priv., Co. E, 4th Il. Art .; enl. Sept. 3, 1862; discharged ; living in Edinburgh.
Wm. HI. Lewis, priv., Co. D, 4th H. Art .; enl. Aug. 30, 1862; disch. Oct. 18, 1863, for disability, caused by an affection of the spine; living in Edinburgh.
James Lockwood, musician, 4th H. Art. ; enl. Dec. 12, 1861; re-enl. Jan. 4, 1863; disch. at close of war ; living in Edinburgh.
Jesse Low, priv., Ist Metropolitan Regt .; enl. Sept. 4, 1862; disch. at close of war; living in Stony Creek.
David E. Lyon, priv., 4th H. Art .; enl. Sept. 10, 1862.
Louis Mackay, priv., Co. D, 77th N. Y. Inf .; enl. Oct. 8, 1861 ; was taken pris- oner at the seven days' fight before Richmond; exchanged ; re-enl. Dec. 21, 1862; wounded at Antietam; participated in abont twenty different battles ; disch. July 7, 1865; lives in Edinburgh.
Henry C. McCuen, priv., 14th H. Art. ; enl. Aug. 25, 1861; disch. at close of war ; lives in Edinburgh.
James McLean, musician, Co. D, 4th II. Art .; enl. 1862; disch. with regiment ; died in the west since the war.
Jonas McLean, sergt., Co. D, 4th II. Art .; enl. 1862; enlisted nhout 145 recruits, mostly for three years; disch, at close of war; lives near Northville, Ful- ton Cu., N. Y.
Jesse Moore, priv., Co. D, 93d N. Y. Inf. ; enl. Feb. 3, 1863; was wounded in the knee-joint, nt the Wilderness, and made a cripple for life; disch. May 30, 1865; living in Batchellerville.
Franklin Morrill, priv., 115th N. Y. Inf .; enl. Aug. 8, 1862; discharged ; living nt Saratoga Springs.
Edward Mott, priv., 192d N. Y. Inf .; enl. April 5, 1865.
Levi Myers, priv., Co. (, 115th N. Y. Inf .; enl. Aug. 8, 1862; disch. with regi- ment ; living in Edinburgh.
John H. Noyes, priv., Co. D, 4th N. Y. II. Art .; enl. Aug. 26, 1862; served with his regiment as infantry at Cold Harbor and Petersburg; disch, at close of war; living in Edinburgh.
Newton S. Noyes, priv., Co. C. 77th N. V. Inf .; enl. Oct. 1, 1861 ; served in the ambulance corps of the Army of the Potomac; disch. with regiment, Dec. 13, 1864 ; living in Brattleboro', Vt.
Charles A. Perkins, priv., U. S. Navy ; enl. Aug. 31, 1864.
Henry P. Perry, musician, Co. D, 4th Art. ; enl. Dec. 14, 18GI ; disch. Dec. 25. 1865; living at Batchellerville.
Franklin Priest, priv., Co. E, 4th II. Art .; ent. Ang. 5, 1862; served with regi- ment, participating in several battles; disch. June 10, 1865; living in Edinburgh.
George R. Priest, priv., 4th H. Art .; enl. Aug. 12, 1862; disch. for disability in 1863 ; living in Gloverville, Fulton Co.
Peter S. Putnam, priv., Co. E, 4th H. Art .; enl. 1862 ; mustered out with regi- ment; living in Batchellerville.
Edwin C. Resseguie, priv., 4th H. Art .; enl. Sept. 3, 1862; he lost his health while in service, and became an invalid ; disch. with the regiment; died in Edinburgh of disease contracted in the service.
Henry Rhodes, priv .; enl, 1861.
Samuel Rhodes, priv., Co. D, 4th HI. Art .; enl. 1862; disch, with the regiment ; living near Northville, Fulton Co.
Wm. Rhodes, priv., Co. D, 4th HI. Art .; en1. 1863.
Fraocis Rice, priv., Co. 1, 115th N. Y. Inf. ; enl. Aug. 11, 1862; living.
Michael Rice, priv., 115th N. Y. Inf .; eul. Aug. 9, 1862; living in Schenectady. John Ross, priv., 2d H. Art .; enl. Sept. 2, 1864; living in Day.
Hayden Shew, priv .; enl. 1861. -
Mahlon Robinson, priv., Co. D, 4th II. Art .; enl. Dec. 25, 1861 ; living at Glover- ville, N. Y.
Amasa D. Shippey, priv., Co. (, 77th N. Y. Inf .; enl. Oct. 15, 1861 ; trans. to Vet. Bat. 77th Regt.
Robert P. Smith, priv., Co. D, 4th H. Art. ; enl. July 24, 1862; dischi. with regi- ment; living at Huntsville, N. Y.
Joseph Il. Snow, priv., Co. C, B5th N. Y. Inf. ; enl. Aug. 9, 1862; disch, with regiment; living in Albany,
George Steele, sergt., Co. G, 30th N. Y. Inf .; en1. 1861 ; at the expiration of his term of enlistment he re-enlisted in the 2d N. Y. Vet. Cav. ; pro, to be 1st lieut. ; disch, at close of the war ; living at Gloverville, N. Y.
Lyman Steele, priv., Ist Metropolitan Regt .; enl. Sept. 4, 1862; died in the service.
Wm. F. Stewart, priv., Co. C, 115th N. Y. Inf .; enl. Aug. 7, 1862; died of disease in hospital at New York.
James Tahor, priv., Co. D, 4th H. Art. ; en !. Sept. 3, 1862 ; disch, at close of war; living in Edinburgh.
Foster Taylor, sergt., Co. G, 30th N. Y. Inf .; enl. 1861 ; served till expiration of tinie; re-enl. in 2d N. Y. Vet. Cav. as q .- m .- sergt .; disch. at close of war; lives at Batchellerville.
Charles E. Thorn, priv., Co. C, 115th N. Y. Inf .; enl. Aug. 9, 1862.
Smith Travis, priv., 115th N. Y. Inf. ; col. Aug. 13, 1864 ; disch. ut close of war ; lives in Hope, Hamilton Co., N. Y.
James Varney, priv., 4th H. Art .; enl. 1862; disch. at close of war; living in Nebraska.
Russell Varney, sergt , Co. G, 30th N. Y. Inf. ; en1. 1861 ; was wounded at second battle of Bull Run, Aug. 30, 1862 ; disch. with regiment ; lives in Batch- ellerville.
Thomas J. Wheaton, priv., IT. S. Navy; col. Aug. 27, 1864; disch. at close of war; living in Northampton, Fulton Co.
John II. Whitaker, priv., Co. E, 77th N. Y. Inf .; enl. Aug. 28, 1862; was taken sick, came home on furlough, and died March 27, 1865.
Henry Win. Whitaker, priv., U. S. Navy; enl. Aug. 27, 1864; served on U. S. steamer " Mahopac ;" participated in battle of Dutch Gap; disch. Nov. 16, 1864, for disability ; living in the west.
Myron White, priv., Co. D, 4th H. Art. ; enl. Aug. 25, 1862; wounded at tho Sonth-Side Railroad, and died from effects of wounds, April II, 1865, in Army Square hospital, Washington, D. C.
Wing A. White, priv., Co. C, 115th N. V. Inf .; enl. Aug. 31, 1862; disch. at close of war; living in Ballston.
Frank Whitney, priv., Co. C, 77th N. Y. Inf. ; enl. Oct. 1, 1861 ; participated in the battles of Yorktown, Mechanicsville, Antietam, South Mountain, first and second battles Fredericksburg, Wilderness, and before l'eters- hurg; disch. Dec. 27, 1864 ; living in Batchellerville.
Hartwell H. Whitney, priv., Co. D, 4th II. Art. ; enl. Dec. 28, 1863; wounded in front of Petersburg; died in hospital.
John II. Wickus, priv., 115th N. Y. Inf .; enl. Aug. 31, 1862 ; re-enl. in 2d N. Y. Vet. Cav. ; killed in Inttle.
Paul R. Williams, priv. ; enl. Aug. 16, 1864; substitute for Henry Wadsworth. John Wood, priv., Co. K, 14th H. Art. ; enl. Aug. 28, 1864 ; disch. June 26, 1865; living in Edinburgh.
Norman B. Wood, priv., Co. E, 4th II. Art .; enl. Sept. 3, 1862; disch, with regi- ment ; living in Northampton.
Theodore Worden, priv .; enl. Ang. 30, 1864; substitute for Chas, Il. Barker; disch. at close of war; lives at Carthage, Jefferson Co., N. Y.
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH.
JAMES PARTRIDGE.
James Partridge, Esq., was born May 28, A.D. 1797, in Edinburgh, Saratoga Co., N. Y. (formerly the town of Northfield), and is now in the cighty-second year of his age, having from childhood resided on the farm he now oceupies. He was married March 28, 1819, to Miss Clarissa Colson. They have lived together over fifty-nine
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years, and have had born unto them fourteen children, two of whom have died. Her first-born son, Heman, died August 27, aged two years seven months and eleven days, having been born Jan. 8, 1820. Arnold P., an- other son, was born Feb. 23, 1830, and died Jan. 3, 1874, leaving a wife and three children. The remaining twelve are living, and all reside in the vicinity of their parental home.
Mrs. Partridge believed the death of her first child to be the result of the bad management of the physician ; she therefore dismissed him, and treated the others, siek with the same disease, herself, and their lives were all saved, and for the succeeding fifteen years no doctor was ealled to visit any of the family.
The father of Mrs. Partridge was Wm. Colson, of Ru- pert, Vt., where she was born Dee. 3, 1798. He was a farmer by occupation, and a native of that State. He subse- quently removed to Edinburgh, and died Aug. 13, 1845, aged seventy-six years one month and nineteen days, leaving a wife and eleven children, his wife having outlived him about nine years. She died April 25, 1854, aged seventy- seven years nine months twenty-one days. Mrs. Partridge is now in the seventy-ninth year of her age, and in excel- lent health for a matron of her great age. Her mother's name was Huldah Fraker.
The father of Mr. Partridge, whose name was also James, was born in Connecticut, March 9, 1748, and subsequently removed to Greenbush, N. Y., and afterwards to Northfield, now Edinburgh, where he raised a family of nine children.
The grandfather, Thomas Partridge, was born in England, and with a brother removed to America and landed in Phila- delphia, about two hundred years ago. His wife's name was Geers, who also was born in England. The mother of the subject of this sketch, whose name was Ama, was a daughter of Nathan Herrick, of Connecticut. They were married Feb. 8, 1776, and of the nine children James was the youngest.
The oldest sister of James, whose name was Rebecca, was born Jan. 4, 1778, and was married to Mareus Goodin, and became the mother of eight children.
The second, a sister, whose name was Ruama, was born Nov. 14, 1780, and married Stephen Jackson, and became the mother of six children.
The third, a son, and oldest brother of James, was born May 23, 1782 ; his name was Thomas, and married Miss Katie Bank, but had no children.
The fourth, a sister, whose name was Polly, was born April 8, 1784, and married Augustus MeKay, and became the mother of six children.
The fifth, a son, whose name was Frederick, was born Feb. 4, 1786, and married to Hannah Burnette, by whom he had two children.
The sixth, a son, whose name was Angustus, who was born April 8, 1789, and married and had eight children born unto him.
The seventh, a sister, whose name was Roxa, was born Oet. 5, 1790, and married Samuel Walsworth, and became the mother of six children.
The eighth, a sister, whose name was Eunice, was born March 28, 1795, and was married to Solomon Demming,
and became the mother of five children. James was the ninth and last.
The surviving children of Mr. James Partridge and Clarissa Colson are as follows :
Truman, born Jan. 1, 1821, and married Miss Pamelia Brundage, of the town of Hope, by whom he has had four children, two of whom have died. Truman is a farmer.
Ruama was born Jan. 24, 1822, and married John C. Olmsted, cabinet-maker and undertaker. Eleven children have been born unto them, three of whom have died.
Huldah was born July 11, 1823, and married Jacob W. Ellithorp, of Edinburgh. They have had five children, one of whom has died. Mr. Ellithorp was a farmer, and died April 22, 1866.
Leman was born Nov. 27, 1824, and married Miss Grace Ann Gorthy, by whom he had three children. She died May 25, 1863, and the three children survive her. He subsequently married Miss Isabel Gorthy, sister of his first wife, by whom he has two children.
James S. was born May 28, 1827, and married Adelina Little, of Orleans county, by whom he had three children.
Emily M. was born Nov. 21, 1828, and was married to Wm. Jenkins, a farmer, of Edinburgh, by whom she has had no children.
The wife of Arnold P. was Miss Lillie Cook, of North- ampton, by whom he had three ehildren.
William was born July 6, 1831, and married Lorancy Mason, by whom he had seven children, three of whom, with his wife, have departed this life. She died July 1, 1873. Ile married Susan A. Waleh, of Day, Nov. 27, 1875, by whom he has had one child.
Darius Wright was born April 10, 1833, and married Anna W. Mackay, by whom he has had three children, one of whom has died. He is a farmer by occupation.
Jane was born Aug. 19, 1835, and was married to John A. Cole; they have no children.
John H. was born Mareh 8, 1837; is not married, but resides at the parental home in care of his aged parents.
Hollis Augustus was born Sept. 2, 1838, and married Miss Martha J. Wemple. No children survive.
Polly was born Aug. 23, 1840, and married Henry Goodin ; they have no children.
The mother of James Partridge, and grandmother of the above children, Ama Herrick, lived to the great age of ninety-nine years nine months and twenty-nine days, and her companion died at the age of eighty-two.
Mr. Partridge has been a prominent business man and active citizen of Edinburgh for many years. In his carlier life he was engaged in farming and purchase and sale of eattle,-often driving large herds to Stonington, Conn., and mules to New Haven, for the West India market.
He has shared largely the confidence of his fellow-citizens, having been elected to the office of constable for eighteen years, and for seventeen years of this time he served in the office of town collector.
He held the office of assessor for eight years, and was justice of the peace for four years. He has held the offices of school-commissioner and poor-master. He was super- visor for the town of Edinburgh for one term, and held the office of deputy sheriff for twelve years. For years he was
MRS. JAMES PARTRIDGE
JAMES PARTRIDGE.
RESIDENCE OF JAMES PARTRIDGE EDINBURGH, SARATOGA COUNTY NEW YORK.
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appointed one of the judges of the State fair, and elected a member of the Democratie State Convention. For the last twenty years he has been afflicted with rhenmatism, and compelled to use erntehes, and yet most of his life he has possessed a strong constitution and enjoyed excellent health.
Mr. Partridge had the contraet for building the bridge aeross the Saeandaga at Bachellerville, and also at Day Centre, and was mail-contractor from Ballston to Northamp- ton in 1840, and ran the first stage over the route. He had the route also from Northampton to Luzerne, and also from Galway to Schenectady, and over these routes carried the United States mail.
He is a Royal Arch Mason, and has been connected with the order fifty-nine years. His sons are also members of the order, and seven of them are members of the Fish House lodge of Free and Accepted Masons, No. 298, and the father and six of the sons belong to the Saeandaga Chapter, No. 116.
There were no deaths in the family for fifty-five years after the death of the first, and on the mother's side there were no deaths for the same length of time among her brothers and sisters.
It has been the eustom of his children, grandchildren, and great grandehildren to observe the anniversary of his birth, and also of his marriage, by a gathering of all these, together with the wives of his married sons, at the parental home. For the year 1875 there were present sixty-four persons, whose united ages amounted to one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five years.
At the last anniversary of their marriage the venerable patriareh lay upon a bed of siekness, from which it was feared he would not reeover. On the evening of that day he was surprised to find all his children gathering around him. The pastor of the church near by was invited, and, after an earnest conversation with the venerable man, he requested that prayer should be offered. The elergyman, after a few appropriate remarks, bowed with the children around the bed of the aged father, and offered up an earnest prayer to God for his blessing upon the aged couple and their children. The table was spread, and refreshments provided, at which the venerable matron sat at the right hand of the minister, but the father could not leave his bed. Since the above gathering he has been partially restored, and able to sit at table with his family.
MALTA.
I,-GEOGRAPHICAL POSITION.
THE town of Malta includes a part of Saratoga lake, and is southeast of the centre of the county. (This ex- pression, centre of the county, is used so often, it may be well to indicate it, as the centre of a tract with an irregular outline is perhaps open to some question. Draw diagonals upon the map of the county, and they will inter- sect near Jamesville ; draw perpendiculars, and their inter- section will be only a little farther east. In either case the centre will be found about on the north line of Milton, and not far from the central point of that line.) Malta is bounded north by Saratoga Springs, east by Stillwater, south by Clifton Park and Half-Moon, west by Ballston. It contains thirteen thousand nine hundred and three acres of improved land, three thousand one hundred and six acres of unimproved, and of this last amount one thousand nine hundred and ninety-six are woodland. The Kayad- rossera creek forms the northeru boundary line, though several maps in use erroneously give Drummond creek as part of the north line, and include Malta Ridge in Saratoga Springs. Malta includes a small portion of the Saratoga pateut, but is mostly within the Kayadrossera patent. Popu- lation in 1875 was twelve hundred and fourteen.
In the revised statutes of the State this town is described, and its boundary lines defined, as follows :
" The town of Malta shall contain all that part of said eonuty comprehended within the following bounds, to wit : beginning in the north bounds of the town of Ilalf-Moon, at a place where a small creek, known by the name of Dwaas Kill, empties into Anthony's Kill, and running thence northerly on a straight line to a place where the most easterly small creek empties into the south end of the Saratoga lake; then northwesterly through the middle of said lake to the sonthwesterly corner of Saratoga; thenee westerly along a continn- ation of the north tine of Stillwater to the casterly bounds of Milton; then south along the easterly bounds of Milton and Ballston to the southeast corner of Ballston ; then on a straight line to the place of beginning."
II .- NATURAL FEATURES.
Its surface is chiefly an undulating upland, sixty to eighty feet above the level of the lake, and broken some- what by the deep gulleys of the small streams.
The principal stream is the Kayadrossera, which forms part of the northern boundary.
The Mourning Kill is the main tributary from the south, though its course in this town is only for a short distance aeross the northwest part. There are two smaller creeks flowing into the Kayadrossera at points below the entrance of the Mourning Kill. Near the upper end of Saratoga lake there are no less than five small creeks flowing in from the town of Malta, not of sufficient importance to be given names. But north of these Drummond creek, a long, winding stream, flowing across a large portion of the town, finds its way into the lake.
The ontlet of Ballston lake, flowing into Malta at East Line, becomes an inlet of Round lake. There are also five small rivulets that empty into Round lake. And Anthony's Kill, a more important stream, the outlet of the lake, forms a part of the southern boundary of the town. Round lake derives its name from the fact that it is very nearly circular. It is about one mile in diameter, and in the dense forest of olden times must have been a sparkling gem of rare beauty, as it is indeed even now.
III .- EARLY SETTLEMENT.
It is stated in gazetteers that the first settlements within the present limits of the town of Malta were made by two men named Drummond and MeKelpin. They were here before the Revolution, were loyalists, and obliged to leave during the war. Little is known of them, and it is believed they never returned. The name of Drummond creek is no doubt derived from the settler of that name, and suggests also the part of the town where they located.
It is by no means certain, however, that they were here in advance of John Hunter and Ashbel Andrews. John Ilunter came with the Connecticut colony to Stillwater as early as 1764, and settled near Round lake, on what is now the Scotland place. Robert IIunter was, no doubt, a connection, and settled in the same neighborhood about the same time. From the frequency of the name of Andrews in the early annals of that Connecticut church, and from other circumstances, it is inferred that Ashbel Andrews, Sr., was also with the Hunters a pioneer at that early date. Unless, therefore, the loyalists were really here before, or in the year 1763, the members of the Connecticut colony pushing back from the Hudson were, no doubt, the earliest, especially as the colony very likely came in 1762.
Michael Dunning, with six sons and three daughters, came from Connecticut in 1771 or 1772, and settled on the site of what is now Dunning Street Corners, or Malta Post-Office. His pioneer farm included a large tract of land at that point, and his first house was erected on or near the site of the present store of Zachariah Seddon. Michael Dunning joined the Presbyterian church at Ballston Centre at an early day.
John Rhoades was an early settler on Malta Ridge.
Timothy Shipman settled northwest of Malta Ridge, on the present farm of Joseph Rowley. Hiram Shipman was a son of Timothy.
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