History of Seneca Co., New York, with illustrations descriptive of its scenery, palatial residences, public building and important manufactories, Part 51

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Publication date: 1876
Publisher: Philadelphia : Everts, Ensign & Everts
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John R. Brown, enlisted in Company I, One Hundred and Twenty-sixth Regi- ment, August 9, 1862, and died in the service.


Thomas Ryan, enlisted in Company C, Thirty-third Regiment, April 26, 1861, and was discharged with the regiment.


Joseph B. Hooper, enlisted in Company I, One Hundred and Twenty-sixth Regiment, August 6, 1862.


Philip Garnett, enlisted iu Company I, One Hundred and Twenty-sixth Regi- ment, Angust 5, 1862, and was discharged with the regiment.


John P. Williamson, enlisted in the Thirty-eighth Regiment, May 28, 1861.


John Tressler, enlisted in Company G, One Hundred and Twenty-sixth Regi- ment, in August, 1862, and died at Washington, September 17, 1863.


Lafayette M. Dillinbaugh, enlisted in Company D, One Hundred and Forty- eighth Regiment, August 25, 1862, and was discharged June 22, 1865.


David Wheater, enlisted in Company K, First Veteran Cavalry, July 5, 1863, and was discharged July 20, 1865.


Abram VanOstram, enlisted in Company B, Fiftieth Regiment, August 14, 1861, and was discharged October 6, 1862; re-enlisted in Company E, First Veteran Cavalry, July 27, 1863, and was discharged July 20, 1865.


John Y. Twist, enlisted in Company C, Nineteenth Regiment, in April, 1861. George K. Marshall, enlisted in Company D, Third Light Artillery, December 16, 1863, and was discharged July 8, 1865.


Reuben D. Wilkinson, enlisted in Company M, Sixteenth Heavy. Artillery, January 26, 1864, and was discharged June 16, 1865.


Charles E. Rorison, enlisted in Company I, Fourth Heavy Artillery, May 4, 1863, and was discharged September 26, 1865.


George B. Feagles, enlisted in Company B, One Hundred and Eleventh Regi- ment, September 10, 1864, and was discharged June 15, 1865.


William F. Lane, enlisted in Company H, Thirty-eighth Regiment, in -1861, and was discharged June 23, 1863.


Henry Bell, enlisted in Company L, Fifteenth Regiment, September 1, 1864,' and was discharged June 13, 1865.


Peter Heckman, enlisted in Company M, Sixteenth Heavy Artillery, January 1, 1864, and was discharged May 23, 1865.


Charles D. Chamberlain, enlisted in Company H, Seventy-sixth Regiment, ;. September 16, 1861, and was discharged in February, 1863.


Webster L. Marshall, enlisted in Company L, Sixteenth Heavy Artillery, Jan- uary 1, 1864, and was discharged August 21, 1865.


John H. Youndt, enlisted in Company K, Fifteenth Regiment, September 12, 1861, and was discharged October 27, 1862.


Benjamin Ritter, enlisted ia Company D, One Hundred and Forty-eighth Regiment, August 25, 1862, and was discharged June 22, 1865.


John F. Crobaugh, enlisted in Company M, Sixteenth Heavy Artillery, Jan- uary 11, 1864, and was discharged May 23, 1865.


Henry S. Ruthrauff, enlisted in Company D, Third Light Artillery, February 9, 1864, and was discharged August 2, 1865.


Thomas Kennedy, enlisted in Company H, Third Light Artillery, in September, 1864.


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Aaron Henry, enlisted in Company B, Twenty-first Cavalry, July. 22, 1863, and was discharged June 17, 1865.


William Henry, enlisted in Company B, Twenty-first Cavalry, July 22, 1863, and was discharged June 25, 1865.


David Freidly, enlisted in Company I, One Hundred and Forty-eighth Regi- ment, in January, 1864, and died in hospital in 1865.


Aaron Brown, enlisted in Company F, Fourteenth Regiment Michigan Vol- unteers, November 22, 1862, and was discharged January 5, 1864. Re-enlisted in same regiment and company, February 5, 1864, and was discharged July 18, 1865.


John Hoffman, enlisted in Company D, One Hundred and Forty-eighth Regi- ment, August 28, 1862, and was discharged in June, 1865.


Benjamin Scott, enlisted in Company A, Ninth Heavy Artillery, December 30, 1863, and was discharged September 29, 1865.


Henry D. VanRiper, enlisted in Company H, Seventy-fifth Regiment, October 11, 1861, and was discharged December 31, 1863. Re-enlisted in Company A, Seventy-fifth Regiment, January 1, 1864, and was discharged July 4, 1865.


James M. McDonald, enlisted in Company M, Sixteenth Heavy Artillery, Jan- uary 4, 1864, and was discharged August 21, 1865.


Ishmael Comstock, eulisted in Company D, Fiftieth Regiment, February 6, 1864, and was discharged June 13, 1865.


Charles Comstock, enlisted in Company D, Fiftieth Regiment, January 15, 1864, and was discharged June 13, 1865.


William Spears, enlisted in Company L, Fiftieth Regiment, January 15, 1864, and was discharged June 13, 1865.


Benjamin Zimmers, enlisted in Company M, Second Artillery, December 16, 1863, and was discharged September 29, 1865.


Nicholas J. Slout, enlisted in Company E, Third Light Artillery, in August, 1864, and was discharged with the regiment.


David Sabin, enlisted in Company H, One Hundred and Forty-eighth Regi- ment, August 29, 1862, and was discharged with the regiment.


Henry C. Hendricks, enlisted in Company K, First Michigan Cavalry, August 12, 1861, and was discharged February 5, 1865.


Charles R. Peterson, enlisted in the First Cavalry, August 21, 1861, and was discharged December 31, 1863. Re-enlisted in same regiment December 31, 1863, and was discharged June 27, 1865.


Michael Woods, enlisted in Company A, One Hundred and Forty-eighth Regiment, August 15, 1862, and was discharged August 6, 1863.


Henry H. Sheridan, enlisted in Company K, Fiftieth Regiment, August 28, 1862, and was discharged June 13, 1865.


Ralph Carey, enlisted in Company E, One Hundred and Forty-eighth Regi- ment, January 17, 1864, and was discharged August 28, 1865.


John Carey, enlisted in Company I, One Hundred and Forty-eighth Regi- ment, February 24, 1864, and was discharged April 4, 1865.


George Carey, enlisted in Company I, One Hundred and Forty-seventh Regi- ment, July 25, 1863, and was discharged in August, 1865.


Stephen A. Odell, enlisted in Company K, First Veteran Cavalry, September 18, 1863, and was discharged July 20, 1865.


James D. Huff, enlisted in Company L, Fifteenth Regiment, September 3, 1864, and was discharged June 13, 1865.


Warren Lore, enlisted August 19, 1864, and was discharged June 24, 1865.


Marcellus A. Lore, enlisted in Company C, Eighty-first Regiment, April 5, 1865, and was discharged September 17, 1865.


William H. H. Poorman, enlisted in Company H, One Hundred and Forty- eighth Regiment, December 4, 1863, and was discharged June 17, 1865.


Theodore F. Poorman, enlisted in Company B, Seventy-fifth Regiment, and was discharged August 31, 1865.


William H. Shirley, enlisted in Company M, Fourteenth Heavy Artillery, and was discharged June 21, 1865.


Joseph W. Hendricks, enlisted in Company A, Thirty-third Regiment, April 20, 1861, and was discharged June 2, 1863.


William Greesmar, enlisted in Company K, First Veteran Cavalry, September 3, 1863, and was discharged July 20, 1865.


Peter H. Cadmus, enlisted in Company M, Sixteenth Heavy Artillery, January 1, 1864, and was discharged August 21, 1865.


Amos O. Hendricks, enlisted in Company E, One Hundred and Twenty-sixth Regiment, August 6, 1862, and was discharged June 3, 1865.


William Oliver, enlisted in Company G, Twenty-fourth Veteran Reserve Corps, August 22, 1862, and was discharged June 28, 1865.


Milton Mathews, enlisted in Company L, Sixteenth Heavy Artillery, Decem- ber 22, 1863, and was discharged August 21, 1865.


Thomas B. Walker, enlisted in Company K, One Hundredth Regiment, De- cember 17, 1863, and was discharged August 28, 1865.


James F. Wright, enlisted in Company C, Twenty-eighth Regiment, April, 1861, and died February 27, 1863.


Lewis E. Ireland, enlisted in Company D, Third Light Artillery, February 26, 1864, and was discharged June 14, 1865.


William F. Hecker, enlisted in Company F, Twenty-second Cavalry, November .30, 1863, and was discharged June 28, 1865.


George P. Shirley, enlisted in Company L, Sixteenth Heavy Artillery, January 1, 1864, and was discharged August 21, 1865.


Minor T. Johnson, enlisted in Company A, First Veteran Cavalry, September 28, 1863.


Peter Hartsuff, enlisted in Company K, First Veteran Cavalry, August 1, 1863, and was discharged August 1, 1865.


James H. VanHouten, enlisted in Company M, Fifteenth Regiment, Septem- ber 3, 1864, and was discharged with the regiment.


The following are the names of those who entered the naval service :


William Crenall, James Doherty, Charles Perkins, John McCasey, Jeremiah Sullivan, Richard Cooney, John Meehan, Martin Costello, Thomas Gibbs, James Groggin, Thomas Ford, Thomas Fagin, Henry Smith, Michael Gilligan, William Jones, Henry Anderson, William Herbert, William Lawrence, John V. Jones, Emil Tanseloo, Abram Bankster, Johan Cramer, Thomas McMann, Michael Carroll.


The following were credited to this town, but the record gives neither the number of the regiment, the date of enlistment, nor discharge:


James Dailey, James Daley, John Seabird, Mathew Donelly, Aaron Jones, John Campbell, George Smith, James Miles, Michael Harrison, James Hughes, John Kidder, Thomas Knight, Louis Parent, John Allen, Frank Fagan, Daniel Murray, Thomas Murphy, Henry Darris, John Loftis, James Cullen, Andrew Henderson, William Hill, Thomas Lane, Edward Darris, Alfred Brevier, William Evans.


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Isaac Billes


Harriet & Belles


RES. OF ISAAC BELLES, FAYETTE, SENECA CO., N. Y.


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RES. ST ANDREW J. SHERIDAN , FAYETTE, SENECA CO, N. Y.


PLATE LX


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JUNIUS.


THE formation, upon virgin territory, of a government of equality, composed of delegates from all uations, and constituting a fraternity of States united by common interest, is a spectacle regarded with doubt of success and admiration of its system. Events now common are fraught with future interest, and those who in the next Centennial learn of early settlement, given by the men who cleared away the original forest, and quietly organized, from time to time, new and smaller towns, will with us unite to render their acknowledgments therefor to such as Orin and A. D. Southwick, Lewis Braden and wife, and others-immediate successors of the first settlers of this portion of the original Junius, and to the manor born. The town of Junins was formed from Washington, on February 12, 1803. Its area was reduced in 1807, by detaching Wolcott, in 1812, by forming Galen, and in 1829, a division of four portions being made, the name of Junins continued with the northwest quarter. Upon the original formation of Junius, an election was held for town officers, and among those chosen from the arca of the present town were Asa Moore for Assessor, Jesse Southwick for Highway Commissioner, Heman Swift for Overseer of the Poor, and Severus Swift for Pound Master. Among the early legislative acts are found especial orders in regard to road im- provements, which at this late day are not sufficient to make the highways passable at all times.


ROLL OF PIONEERS.


The pioneer settlement of present Junius was made on Lot No. 54, by Thomas Beadle, some time in 1795. With that forethought which characterized those pioneers, Beadle at onee set ont an orchard, and when settlers eame in, about 1804, they found bearing trees. Little is known of him, and none of his family reside in the town. The Southwieks, David and Jesse, and Ebenezer H. Moore, three young men from Springfield, Massachusetts, made improvements on Lot No. 29, some time in 1798. Two years later, Samuel Southwick, a brother to David and Jesse, came on and located with them on the same lot. These parties purchased five hundred aeres, and soon after, James Fisk, from the same State as the others, settled on the ' State's IInndred," and completed the lot's settlement. David South- wiek was by trade a carpenter, and it was not long before his attention was occa- sionally oceupied in taking and filling contraets for framed buildings. No. 41, lying on the south side of Lot 29. was carly settled by John MeMillen, Simeon Reynolds, M. Sherman, L. Ober, Luther and Nathaniel Betts, Mr. Belknap, and James Scofield, all of whom, after having made considerable progress in clearing up land, were obliged to leave, on account of poor title. It is instructive to observe that the same fraudulent, speculative spirit which has stirred the depths of present society,


RES. OF. HENRY 1. LONG, JUNIUS TP., SENECA CO., N.Y.


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THE STONE CHURCH, JUNIUS.


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are all church members, as are also forty-six of the scholars. The library con- tains six hundred volumes, and about one hundred Advocates and Journals are taken. On Lot No. 40, in the southwest part of the town, is located a Methodist Church, which may be considered as a branch of the First Methodist Episcopal, and when meetings were held at that point, the same pastor officiated in both. A church was built some twenty-eight years ago, but regular religious services have not been held there for several years. However men may live, they acquiesce with custom in au acknowledgment of religion hy Christian ceremonies at their departure, hence the old-time association of the grave-yard with the meeting-house. At this date the cemetery is located adjacent to, and at times remote from, the church, and the olden-time villages of the dead give way to the necropolis like that which meets the eye at Restvale.


CEMETERY-FIRST DEATHS.


The oldest grave-yard in the town of Junius is located upon No. 29, opposite the Southwick school-house, and the first interment therein was of the remains of Mrs. Submit Southwick, who died on May 22, 1802. Hers was not the first death which occurred in the town; that of a Mrs. Sampson had taken place some time previous, and her resting-place was situated upon Lot 15. The second burial in this cemetery was that of Richard Reynolds, who departed this life July 30, 1806, and in November of the same year Thankful Reynolds followed. Up to 1820, the following-named, together with several others whose dates of death it is im- possible to ascertain, were buried in this old-time grave-yard : Jesse Southwick, June 7, 1807 ; Mary Swift, August 24, 1807 ; Parthenia Moore, mother of Mrs. Lewis Braden, one of the earliest pioneers of Junius, died August 1, 1810, and one of her children during the same year; George Woodworth, son of the early storekeeper, Philander Woodworth, died September 21, 1811; Abigail Roberts, March 24, 1812; Norman King, May 6 of the same year ; Heenan Swift, one of the pioneers on Lot 17, February 26, 1813; Margaret Brown, July, 1813. Mrs. Brown was the wife of Bostwick Brown, who at an early day had settled near Dublin. Huldah Moore, second wife of the pioneer E. K. Moore, died the 24th of July, 1814, and was followed during the same year by one of the children. In 1815 a son of John Stewart was buried here; August 1, 1817, HI. W. Bartle; March 23, 1818, Marquis Martin, and on June 4, 1819, Mr. Berialı Redfield, who had reached the age of seventy-five years. There are many uumarked graves in this old cemetery, but there are many more where stand the pale, cold marble slabs, bearing fitting emblems and touching inscriptions connected with the brief record of the departed. Here repose all that is mortal pertaining to names loved and honored; here, in this olden-time grave-yard, sleeps the dust of aged pioneers, the matron, and the maid, side by side. Softly the night air moves through the foliage of the musical pines overshadowing their humble graves, while the moon- light, flashing from the smooth tomb-stones, signals a happier than earthly days, on the morning of the resurrection.


POST-OFFICE ESTABLISHED.


While the postal department had been extended to Geneva, Canandaigua, and many other western points, the facilities of carriage had not been increased beyond the more thickly and older settled sections lying along main thoroughfares. In consequence, we do not find a post-office established in the town of Junius until 1831. At this date an office was commissioned, to be held by Mr. Thomas Howe, then a resident npon Lot 30, in that part now inhabited by Mr. C. Hampton. This initial office received the name " Junius," and on account of Mr. Howe's living off the road, and in a part of the town little traveled, was removed'in 1841 to the village of Dublin, and Stephen Carman appointed Postmaster. About twenty years ago there was a post-office established on Lot 52, called. " West Junius," with J. S. Vandemark, Postmaster. It has since been removed across the line into Ontario County.


INITIAL TRADE AND MANUFACTURES.


Philander Woodworth kept the first store in Junius as early as 1808, where Mr. Fisk now lives, on Lot No. 29, and Messrs. West and Martin the sec- ond, in Dublin. They were succeeded by Joseph Moody, an Irishman, in 1821; who, desirous of establishing a reminder here of Ireland's capital, gave the little hamlet the name Dublin. In 1815, George Sloan carried on blacksmithing in this place, which also boasted a tavern-stand, and the store above mentioned, which was kept in a small frame building. A small tannery, with a shoe-shop in connection with it, was operated by Norris, Root & Co., in 1820. Joseph Badger, from New Hampshire, was their successor, and built a new tannery, which he ran but a short time, and sold to Mr. Moody ; the latter soon disposed of the property to T. D. Herbert, who, in his turn, sold to one Brice, a very en- terprising Englishman, by whom tanning was made a success for a time, when the business was abandoned. ' A short distance east of Dublin waa a small distillery,


operated by Severus Swift, who had also a " still-house" on No. 17 in the year 1812. About the year 1820, Thomas Howe bought and ran a "still" on Lot No. 4. These are but things of the past, and recollected by few. Then it seemed a matter of chance just where the centres of trade would rest, but finally the cur- rent set in towards Waterloo, and heavy business has been conducted in the manu- facture of liquors from the foundation of that village down to the present time. Dublin has, at date, one store, a tavern, two blacksmith-shops, two wagon-shops, and consists of twenty-five houses and about one hundred inhabitants.


The first Saw-mill in Junius was built and run by David Southwick, on Lot No. 29, as early as 1805. Southwick also built at Niagara Falls a saw-mill which is said to have been the first building erected for manufacturing purposes at that famed locality. It is thought that Southwick also erected the first frame barn in Junius. It bears date " 1808," and was constructed as the property of Heman Swift. Previous to 1813, a saw-mill had been erected on the place now owned by Robert Bostwick on Lot No. 40. It was designated as " Van Auken's Mill." Jesse Southwick built the pioneer frame house of Junius, on Lot No. 29, where it yet stands; and Thomas Beadle was the first to ereet a brick house, which may be seen on Lot No. 54. In those early days taverns were plenty along the main routes of travel, and weary pedestrians had no trouble in finding lodgment and refreshment, food and drink. Among the earliest of these was that of Severus Swift, who kept a tavern in 1805, on Lot No. 17, at the " Corners," opposite the present Presbyterian church. Soon a tavern-stand was established at Dublin, and about the same period a public house was kept by Henry Vande- mark, on Lot No. 52. Previous to 1818, a Mr. Kepp served as landlord in his house, on the same lot where now resides William Terbush. Clark Puffer, a mason by trade, was a popular host, and kept a good tavern in 1823, on Lot No. 30, now held and occupied by Peter Traver. The County had constantly been receiving accessions of population, brought forward by convenience of travel, and held by manifest local advantages, and in consequence becoming thickly settled and wealthy, and hospitable farmers living on all the routes of travel, the need of the country taverns ceased. They were therefore changed to private dwellings, and now there is but one in the town, -. that being at Dublin. First the canal, then the railroad, swept to their line the tide of emigration, the rush of travel, and the transportation of produce, and a Sabbath quiet has settled along roads once resonant with the crack of whip, the loud shout, and the creaking of heavily laden wagons.


Junius has not to any appreciable extent been afflicted with physicians, still the profession were not at all strangers to the locality. As early as 1812, Dr. Welles, practicing medicine, lived in the town, and will long be remembered as a skilled and trusted physician. In 1814, Dr. Lyman Ely began in Junius a practice which continued with growing success several years. At various times physicians have located in the village of Dublin, but inasmuch as the town is to a great extent high and dry, it is quite healthy, and finding little to do, their stay has been transient, and there is not at present a physician resident in the town.


EARLY JUSTICES.


Among the earliest Justices of the Peace of Junius were Jesse Southwick and Samuel Cosad, who were appointed to the position by the Governor. Under the " New Constitution," the office having, been made elective, David Southwick, 8 major in the war of 1812, was the first person elected, and was an incumbent of the office when the town of Junius was divided. It may be said of the town, that its distance from the main route of travel prevented an early settlement ; but later it became the abode of many prudent, cautious men, many of whom have been enumerated. The territory apportioned to Junius is sixteen thousand five hundred acres, divided in 1850 into one hundred and ninety-nine farms, of which seventy-six comprised fifty acres and less, fifty-nine ranged from one. hun- dred to one hundred and fifty acres, and forty farms between the latter number of acres and two hundred. Main attention is bestowed upon agriculture. The town has many orchards, and thousands of bushels of apples are raised annually. The stock is of the best, and in 1865 over seventy thousand pounds of butter were made. Sheep-raising is a feature of farming, and quite an income is derived from eggs and poultry. By way of contrast, we offset the return of dwellings made in 1865, to that of ten years later. In 1865, Junius had two hundred and ninety-eight dwellings, and four of these were of logs. July 12, 1875, the enumeration shows but two hundred and eighty-tbrec dwellings, two hundred and ninety-six families, and a population of one thousand three hundred and eighteen. As evidence of salubrity of climate producing longevity, we find on July 12, 1875, that the united ages of Junius's five oldest inhabitants was four hundred and ten years, viz., Jacob Mills, eighty-six; Russell Richards, eighty-four ; Lewis Grote, eighty ; Joseph Strang, eighty, and Job Godfrey, also eighty. There were then thirty-two persons resident who were each over seventy years of age. With reference to the surface, there are many low, detached gravel


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was as fully rife in that earlier day, although, from obvious reasons, less widely made knowo. Surely it was sufficient for settlers to toil upon these wild lands, seeking to reclaim them to production, without undergoing such disappointment as befell the settlers on Lot 41. And this incident illustrates the sordid spirit of a class which hung upon the borders of settlement and fattencd upon the labor obtained by deception, regardless of feclings or suffering.


Purchase Roberts settled on No. 16, and carried on blacksmithing in a small, log-built shop which stood east of Dublin, where Goslinc's gate now is. The arrival of Roberts in 1808 had been preceded by that of John Wood, a sea- faring man, who had bought himself a piece of ground on this lot of one Mathews, a resident of Cortland County, and had moved upon it in 1802. Sumner Chap- man and a Mr. Cass were among the first to settle on Lot No. 16. . Later. Cass is known to have sold to Bostwick Brown. Among the earliest settlements made was that on Lot No. 30, by one King and a Mr. Freeze. On No. 31, Nicholas Kiog, Timothy Rouse, and Mr. Wilcox were among the first to settle. Rouse occupied the farm now the home of W. W. Vandemark. Joseph Gillespie lived on the northwest part of No. 18, where Enos Cutteback now resides; and William Brown, a "hardshell" Baptist preacher, located himself where Butler O'Dennis now lives ; also a man named Mathews was carly a resident in that locality. Asa Moore, Jonah Hopkins, John Dryer, and a man named Thorn were early occupants of Lot 4; a later settlement was made by two Mills brothers about the year 1810 on the same tract. Nos. 4 and 16 were drawn by Oneida Indians,-two brothers, whose father had fought for the Colonies during the Revolution, and so gained a vantage spot where the Iroquois had for unknown centuries owned a realm of nature. One of these Indians, swift to imbibe the trickery of the pale-facc, sold his claim several times over, while the other was content to hold possession. A school-teacher named Gillett finally bought a half- interest in the lots, and sold his right to one Peter Smith, who brought suit to eject the various claimants, and failed. Lot 40 was early settled by Anthony Van Auken and John Buchanan. Luther Redfield was one of the first upon No. 18. In the year 1801, improvements were made upon No. 3 by Benjamin and Jabez Reynolds, who had become its owners. A few years later a Mr. Morris had located himself npon the same tract. As has been previously meu- tioned, the first settlement upon No. 54 was made in 1795; but at a later date John Maynard, from Maryland, Elijah Pounds, and Ephraim Maynard became residents on the lot ; while on No. 55, Mr. Brightman, Richard Thornton, and Belden Rich were the early settlers. A later group of inhabitants was composed of the families of David Pound, Denison Mason, and John Harper. North of Junius Corners, about 1810, there resided Mr. Bartles, John Rich, and two families known as the Nelsons. Messrs. Woodward and Seth Barnes located upon No. 5 in 1800, and cleared a portion of its surface. It was afterward owned by Caleb Barnum. Passing to No. 6, we learn that Samuel L. Ilart, one of the early Justices of the Peace, was among its first owners. Jesse and Jonathan Pierce, Norman Hill, and a man named Nicholson were pioncer set- tlers on No. 15, and on No. 17 the first were Heman Swift and Nathaniel French ; Severus Swift could also claim the honors of an early residence upon this spot. Mr. A. Shear and a Mr. John McMullen are recollected as old-time farmers in the southwest part of the town, while in the southeast were the families of N. Smith, George Porter, Standish Howard, Tyler Smith, John Griffin Andrews, Clark, Dunham, Groat, Mills, and McLean, most of whom lived upon No. 56 during 1810 to 1815, and later. To those who glance over this array of names and question of the meagre detail, we reply that even this scanty knowledge is possessed of few and gladly gathered up. The lesson taught therein"is swift oblivion of a generation of whom to know their simple names will be a future legacy.




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