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USA > New York > Tioga County > History of Tioga, Chemung, Tompkins and Schuyler counties, New York > Part 35
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John H. Lush, private, 137th Regt., Co. II ; enl. Aug. 1862, three years; disch. by reason of sickness.
John C. Elmendorf, private, 137th Regt., Co. H ; enl. Ang. 1862, three years. Judson A. Olmstead, private, 137th Regt., Co. H ; enl. Aug. 1862, three years. Sidney E. Morse, private, 137th Regt., Co. H ; enl. Aug. 1862, three years ; dis- charged.
Charles Chambers, private, 137th Regt., Co. H ; enl. Aug. 1862, three years. Geo. J. Drum, private, 137th Regt., Co. H; enl. Aug. 1862, three years; died in service in 1863.
Walter S. Fuller, 137th Regt., Co. H; enl. Ang. 1862, three years; died from disease contracted in army.
Merritt N. Way, private, 137th Regt., Co. H ; enl. Ang. 1862, three years; disch. from service by sickness.
Levi Vanetten, private, 137th Regt., Co. Il ; enl. Aug. 1862, three years. Daniel M. Johnson, private, 137ths Regt., Co. HI ; enl. Aug. 1862, three years. Geo. F. Lusk, private, 137th Regt., Co. H ; enl. Aug. 1862, three years. David J. Cross, 137th Regt .. Co. II ; enl. Aug. 1862, three years.
Ilenry Cronk, private, 137th Regt., Co. H; enl. Aug. 1862, three years; disch. by reason of sickness.
Enos S. Smith, private, 137th Regt., Co. 1I ; en1. Ang. 1862, three years. Emery Terwilliger, 169th Regt .; enl. Dec. 19, 1863, three years. Cassins M. Cinnamon, 5th N. Y. Cav .; enl. Dec. 23, 1863, three years. Henry V. Smith, 5th N. Y. Cav. ; en]. Dec 23, 1863, three years. Ephraim Jordan, 109th Regt .; enl. Dec. 23, 1863, three years. Wm. J. Baker, 21st N. Y. Cav. ; enl. Dec. 23, 1863, three years. Andrew Pinkham, 5th N. Y. Cav .; en1. Dec. 23, 1863, three years. Daniel C. Vanetten, private, 16th N. Y. Art .; enl. Dec. 25, 1863, three years; drowned.
Joseph B. Strong, 137th Regt., enl. Dec. 25, 1863, three years. Stephen Lynch, 5th N. Y. Cav .; enl. Dec. 31, 1863, three years. David Decker, 16th N. Y. II. Art. ; enl. Jan, 1, 1864, three years. Oscar J. Lnsk, 20th Regt. ; enl. Jan. 1, 1864, three years. John A. Eastman, 16th N. Y. II. Art .; ent. Jan. 1, 1864, three years. Sammel O. Decatur, 5th N. Y. Cav. ; enl. Jan. 1, 1864, three years. Wm. Lehr, 5th N. Y. Cav. ; en]. Jan. 2, 1864, three years. A. M. Cortrighi, 21st N. Y. Cav. ; enl. Jan. 5, 1864, three years. llerman . Wall, 21st N. Y. Cav. ; enl. Jan. 5, 1864, three years. Frank R. Hewett, 5th N. Y. H. Art .; enl. Jan. 5, 1864, three years. Wm. A. Rarrich, 5th N. Y. H. Art. ; enl. Jan. 5, 1864, three years. W'm. H. Miracle, 109th Regt., Co. B; enl. Jan. 5, 1864, three years. Ilorace E. Brainerd, 5th N. Y. Cav. ; enl. Jan. 5, 1864, three years. Harry A. Prince, 5th N. Y. Cav. ; enl. Jan. 5, 1864, three years. Rufus A. Chaffee, 5th N. Y. Cav .; enl. Jan. 5, 1864; three years. Erastus Doane, 16th N. Y. Art. ; enl. Jan. 5, 1864, three years. Harrison Atwood, 14th N. Y. Art. ; enl. Jan. 6, 1864, three years. Thomas Decker, 89th Regt .; enl. Jan. 26, 1864, three years. Philip Delong, C4th Regt .; enl. Feb. 1, 1864, three years. Thomas Sullivan, 5th N. Y. Cav. ; enl. Feb. 2, 1864, three years. Alamanza A. Perry, 5th N. Y. Cav .; enl. Feb. 8, 1864, three years. Charles R. Smith, 5th N. Y. Cav .; enl. Feb. 8, 1864, three years. Egbert D. Cadwell, 5th N. Y. Cav .; enl. Feb. 9, 1864, three years. John Mix, 16th N. Y. Art. ; enl, Feb. 9, 1864, three years. Ilenry Winfield, 5th N. Y. Cav. ; enl. Feb. 9, 1864, three years. Geo. R. Whaling, 50tl N. Y. Eng. ; enl. Feb. 9, 1864, three years. Frederick Barney, 50th N. Y. Eng. ; enl. Feb. 10, 1864, three years. Demosthenes Romine, 89th N. Y. Inf .; enl. Feb. 12, 1864, three years.
James S. Wiggins, 50th N. Y. Eng .; enl. Feb. 12, 1864, three years. Smith L. Nichols, 50th N. Y. Eng ; enl. Feb. 12, 1864, three years. Nicholas D. Ilallenback, 50th N. Y. Eng .; enl. Feb. 12, 1864, three years. Wm. H. Brant, 5th N. Y. Cav. ; enl. Feb, 12, 1864, three years. Justus E. Barton, 50th N. Y. Eng. ; enl. Feb. 12, 1864, three years. John B. Lewis, 50th N. Y. Eng. ; enl. Feb. 12, 1864, three years. Wm. Holland, 50th N. Y. Eng .; cnl. Feb. 12. 1864, three years. Squire A. Kimber, 50th N. Y. Eng .; enl. Feb. 12, 1864, three years. James Mead, 109th N. Y. Iuf. ; enl. Feb. 12, 1864, three years. Loudon A. Brown, 50th N. Y. Eng. ; en]. Feb. 13, 1864, three years, Robert A. Watts, 50th N. Y. Eng. ; enl. Feb. 13, 1864, three years. Henry Martiu, 5th N. Y. C'av. ; enl. Fet. 13, 1864, three years. Ralph Howe, 5th N. Y. Cav. ; enl. Feb. 13, 1864, three years. Elmer N. Brown, 5th N. Y. Cav .; en1. Feb. 13, 1864, three years. Jolin Oshorn, 8th N. Y. Art .; cul. Feb. 13, 1864, three years. Gro. Strause, 3d N. Y. Cav .; enl. Feb, 13, 1864, three years. Geo. Fields, 50th N. Y. Eng. ; enl. Feb. 13, 1864, three years. John H. Lyous, 50th N. Y. Eng. ; enl. Feb. 13, 1864, three years. Rufus E. Lyons, 50th N. Y. Eng .; enl. Feb. 13, 1864, three years. Wm. F. Newell, 50th N. Y. Eng. ; enl. Feb. 13, 1864, three years. Wm. M. Allpaugh, 9th N. Y. Art .; enl. Feb. 15, 1864, three years. Silas M. Bristol, 9th N. Y. Art. ; enl. Feb. 15, 1864, three years. Joseph Lindsey, 50th N. Y. Eng .; enl. Aug. 16, 1864, one year. Ward Burdick, 21st N. Y. Cav. ; enl. Ang. 25, 1864, one year, Charles Haudy, 179th N. Y. Inf .; enl. Sept. 2, 1864, one year. Henry Sawyer, 179th N. Y. Inf. ; enl. Sept. 2, 1864, one year. Norman A. Hull, 1st N. Y. Cav. ; enl. Sept. 2, 1864, one year. Caleb S. Green, 1st N. Y. Cav. ; enl. Sept. 2, 1864, one year. Washington llead, 1st N. Y. Cav .; enl. Sept. 2, 1864, one year. George Carroll, 1st N. Y. Cav. ; enl. Sept. 2, 1864, one year. Stephen Ferris, 179th N. Y. Inf .; enl. Sept. 2, 1864, one year. William Lewis, 179th N. Y. Inf. ; enl. Sept. 2, 1864, one year. Woodbridge Kelsey, Ist N. Y. Cav. ; enl. Sept. 2, 1864, one year. John J. Barber, 1st N. Y. Cav. ; en]. Sept. 2, 1864, one year. Wm. Barnes, 12th N. Y. H. Art. ; enl. Sept. 2, 1864, one year. Roderick B. Whitney, 137th N. Y. Inf. ; enl. Sept. 2, 1864, one year. Francis M. Bartow, 179th N. Y. Inf. ; enl. Sept. 2, 1864, one year. Norman Lane, 179th N. Y. Inf. ; enl. Sept. 3, 1864, one year. Peter Patria, 179th N. Y. Inf. ; enl. Sept. 3, 1864, one year. Josiah C. Strong, 6th N. Y. H, Art. ; Co. O, enl. Sept. 3, 1864, one year. Geo. W. Vanderwert, 1st N. Y. Cav., Co. HI ; enl. Sept. 3, 1864, one year. Josephi B. Shaw, 1st N. Y. Cav., Co. II ; en]. Sept. 3, 1864, one year. James Veitch, 1st N. Y. Cav., Co. Il : en]. Sept. 3, 1864, one year, Joseph M. Knapp, 1st N. Y. Cav., Co. II ; enl. Sept. 3, 1864, one year. Geo. L. Throop, 13th N. Y. H. Art., Co. G; enl. Sept. 3, 1864, one year. Amos H. Brundage, 179th N. Y. Inf. ; enl. Sept. 3, 1864, one year. Thomas Easton, Ist N. Y. Cav., Co. H ; enl. Sept. 3, 1864, one year. Lewis M. Vanwert, Ist N. Y. Cav., Co. II ; enl. Sept. 3, 1864, one year. Albert P. Kirk, Ist N. Y. Cav., Co. H; en]. Sept. 5, 1864, one year. John Langlin, 1st N. Y. Cav., Co. Il ; enl. Sept. 5, 1864, one year. Wm. P. Ketchum, 6th N. Y. Art., Co. G; enl. Sept. 5, 1864, one year; first enlisted May 14, 1861, in 26th N. Y. Vols., for two years; served ont time.
Edward F. Johnson, 6th N. Y. H. Art., Co. D ; enl. Sept. 5, 1864, one year. Lewis J. God dard, 1st N. Y. Cav., Co. H; en]. Sept. 5, 1864, one year. Calvin Green, 5th N. Y. Cav., Co. G ; cnl. Sept. 1861, three years. Delos Green, 5th N. Y. Cav .. Co. G; enl. Sept. 1861, three years. Theodore Derenas, 5th N. Y. Cav., Co. G ; enl. Sept. 1861, three years. Albert Hayden, 5th N. Y. Cav., Co. G; enl. Sept. 1861, three years. John Wright, 5th N. Y. Cav., Co. G; enl. Sept. 1861, three years. James B. Caryll, capt., 26th N. Y. Vols., Co. K; ent. May 14, 1861, two years. Emmet llarder, 2d lient., 26th N. Y. Vols., Co. K ; eul. May, 1861, two years, Wakefield Booth, corp., 26th N. Y. Vols., Co. K ; enl. May, 1861, two years. Chas. W. Lamphier, corp., 26th N. Y. Vols., Co. K ; enl. May, 1861, two years. Sam'l Rightmirc, corp., 26th N. Y. Vols., Co. K ; enl. May 14, 1861, two years; died from wounds received at the second battle of Bull Run, Sept. 1862; buried on field.
Nathan C. Cowen, private, 26th N. Y. Vols., Co. K ; enl. May, 1861, two years. Robt. C. Fuller, private, 26th N. Y. Vols., Co. K ; enl. May 14, 1861, two years. Leander Lynch, private, 26th N. Y. Vols., Co. K ; en] May 14, 1861, two years; killed at the battle of Fredericksburg, Dec. 1862; buried on field. Uri h Lynch, private, 26th N. Y. Vols., Co. K ; enl. May 14, 1861, two years.
Jesse O. Barnes, lieut. ; enl. 1861, three years; died of sickness at Antietam ; buried there.
Peter B. Ilyde, private, 137th N. Y. Inf .; enl. Sept. 25, 1862, three years; died. Geo. G. Hyde, private, 137th N. Y. Inf .; enl. Sept. 25, 1862, three years; died at City Point, Dec. 1, 1864.
IIenry Mix, private, 143d N. Y. Inf. ; en1. Feb. 15, 1864, three years; died July 14, 1864, at Nashville, Tenn. ; buried there.
Joseph W. Cleveland, private, 109tb N. Y. Inf., Co. K; enl. Aug. 1862, three years.
Frederick M. Phelps, private, 137th N. Y. Inf., Co. K; enl. Aug. 1862, tbree years.
Frank S. Jocelyn, 1st Michigan ; enl. July 13, 1863; died July, 1864, at City Point, Va.
John S. Starkweather, private, 114tb N. Y. Inf .; enl. 1862; died at New Or- leans, Sept. 1868.
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Oliver Williams, private, 10th N. Y. II. Art .; enl. March, 1864, three years; died at Petersburg, July 13, 1864, and buried there.
James Winfield, private, 5th N. Y. Cav. ; enl. Feb. 9, 1864, three years; killed in the battle of the Wilderness, May 6, 1864 ;- buried on the field.
Abram Winfield, private, 137th N. Y. Inf. ; enl. Sept. 25, 1862, three years ; died Dee. 6, 1862, at Ilarper's Ferry, of typhus fever.
Thomas Tidd, private, 18th N. Y. Vols .; enl. Ang. 1862; killed June 3, 1864, in Shenandoah Valley.
Joseph C. Hoyt, private, 109th N. Y. Inf., Co. B; enl. Ang. 1862, three years ; killed May 6, 1864, at Spottsylvania.
Chas. Whitmarsh, private, 26th N. Y. Art .; enl. Feb. 1864; killed in the battle of the Wilderness, May, 1864.
Jacob T. Allison, private, 50th N. Y. Eng. ; enl. Feb. 20, 1864, three years; died May 30, 1865, at Washington.
Wallace Chandler, 86th N. Y. Inf .; enl. Sept. 1862, three years; died April 16, 1864, at Washington.
Frederick A. Peters, private, 105th N. Y. Inf .; cul. Dee. 6, 1861, three years ; killed March 25, 1865, at Petersburg.
Alfred Evlin.
John Evlin, private, 149th Pennsylvania; enl. Ang. 1862, three years ; wounded in left side at Gettysburg, July 5, 1863.
Orange T. Galpin.
Kelly G. Galpin.
Horace Chandler.
Thomas R. Thorn, enl. Sept. 1864 ; died in Salisbury prison, Oet. 1864.
llarvey Root, 109th N. Y. Inf .; enl. March, 1864; died at Elmira, Dee. 1864.
Franklin N. Manly, private, 26th N. Y. Vols., Co. K ; enl. May 14, 1861, two years.
Thomas J. Matteson, private, 26th N. Y. Vols., Co. K ; enl. May 14, 1861, two years; killed at second battle Bull Run, Sept. 1862.
Cornelins Rightmire, private, 26th N. Y. Vols., Co. K ; enl. May 14, 1861, two years.
Elezer Valentine, private, 26th N. Y. Vols., Co. K ; enl. May 14, 1861. two years. James W. Winchell, private, 26th N. Y. Vols., Co. K ; enl. May 14, 1861, two years.
Amzi W. Wright, 26th N. Y. Vols., Co. K ; enl. May 14, 1861, two years. John 11. Wheeler, 26th N. Y. Vols., Co. K ; enl May 14, 1861, two years.
Mieron Spies, sorgt., 26 h N. Y. Vols., Co. K ; enl. May 14, 1861, two years; died in hospital from wounds received at Antietam.
Angustns Cortwright, corp., 26th N. Y. Vols., Co. K ; enl. May 14, 1861, two years.
James R. Barrett, private, 26th N. Y. Vols., Co. K; eul. May 14, 1861, two years; wounded in foot at second battle of Bull Run, and discharged.
Nelson 11. Degroat, private, 26th N. Y. Vols., Co. K; enl. May 14, 1861, two years.
Edwin A. Johnson, private. 26th N. Y. Vols., Co. K; enl. May 14, 1861, two years; killed at second battle of Bull Run.
Amos Mullen, private, 26th N. Y. Vols., Co. K ; enl. May 14, 1861, two years; killed at second battle of Bull Run.
Byron Pitney, private, 26th N. Y. Vols., Co. K; enl. May 14, 1861, two years. Elijah Smith, private, 26th N. Y. Vols., Co. K; enl. May 14, 1861, two years. John Vandermark, private, 26th N. Y. Vols., Co. K ; enl. May 14, 1861, two years. Chas. Wheat, private, 26th N. Y. Vols , Co. K ; enl. May 14, 1861, two years. llenry Dennis, private, 26th N. Y. Vols., Co. K; enl. May 14, 1861, two years. Wm. Delong, private, 26th N. Y. Vols , Co. K ; enl. May 14, 1861, two years. Alonzo Bunnel, private, 26th N. Y. Vols., Co. K ; enl. May 14, 1861, two years.
CHAPTER XXVIII.
NEWARK VALLEY.
THIS town lies upon the east border of the county, and, according to the eensus of 1875, contains an area of 28,679 acres, of which 19,751 aeres are improved. Its surface is mostly hilly uplands, with a mean elevation of about 1200 feet above tide. The hills are largely covered with timber, and the soil is moderately fertile. The valleys are fertile, and yield abundant erops. The soil consists of fine gravelly loam. The facilities afforded by the Southern Central Railroad furnish a good market for the butter, cheese, and lumber that constitute largely the business interests of the town. Maple-sugar is manufactured the whole length of this valley, and fine maple-groves are numerous.
The east and west branches of Owego Creek are the
principal streams, and both flow southerly, the former nearly through the centre, and the latter forming the western boundary of the town.
EARLY SETTLEMENTS AND FIRST SETTLERS.
In 1790, the proprietors of the " Boston Ten Towns," of which tract this town is a portion, engaged Amos Pat- terson and Colonel David Pixley to re-survey the whole tract of the Ten Towns, for the purpose of correcting some errors in the original survey. Besides the two named above, there were also employed in the work Walter Sabin, as principal surveyor, Captain Abram Brown, Elisha Willson, and three or four others. The force of surveyors and assistants earried their packs on their backs filled with provisions, and eamped out whenever night overtook them, for a week at a time.
When on West Owego Creek, they ran a line up the stream the width of a lot, and then parallel to some dis- tance on the hill, when they found they had left some of their instruments where they had stopped the night before. Captain Brown went back, thinking he could find the place without following the line, but did not go far before he lost his way, and was several days in the woods, subsisting on roots. Finally, reaching a stream, he followed it down. In the mean time the company ran a line through to the Chenango River, and down towards Owego, and found Brown five or six miles below where they parted.
Captain Brown and David Willson, ever watchful of the advantages of the different localities through which they passed, and attracted by the rich alluvial along the rivers and ereeks in this valley, decided to locate here.
Upon their return to Stockbridge, their native place, Willson purchased of Elisha Blinn, one of the sixty pro- prietors, lot 184; and upon the 23d of February, 1791, in company with Daniel Ball, Captain Abram and Isaae Brown, and two other young men, Dean and Norton, left Stock- bridge, and sought homes in this newly-opened frontier. Their means of conveyance were two sleds drawn by oxen. Their route was direct from their homes to the Hudson at Coxsackie, then through Durham, across the Catskill mountains, through the old towns of Harpersfield and Franklin to the Susquehanna, at the mouth of the Ou-le-out. Instead of erossing at Wattle's Ferry, which was situated very nearly where the Unadilla bridge now stands, they pursued their journey down the east bank of the river to Oquaga. Thus far upon their journey their course had been for much of the way through a wilderness, over a road not yet deserving the name of a highway, and relieved by the sight of a cheerful log cabin only at intervals vary- ing from ten to twenty miles. At Oquaga, a quantity of their stores and movables were left, and retaining only such as were indispensable for their comfort, they continued their journey, erossing the river, taking a course directly across the highlands which separate the Susquehanna from its western branch, the Chenango. They reached the Chenango at a ferry a little more than a mile above the present site of Binghamton. Here they were unexpectedly detained for several days, the iee having become too weak for erossing. As soon as the breaking-up occurred, canoes were procured, and all of the party, except Willson, elu-
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barked with the goods, and were rapidly borne to Owego. The teams and sleds were left by Willson at General Stod- dard's, near Nanticoke, for safe-keeping, until they eould be conveniently sent for, while he pursued his journey alone, meeting his friends at Owego, except Dean and Norton, who remained at Choconut, now Union, where they permanently settled. From this point the four young men commeneed the task of eutting a road through an un- broken forest up the valley of the East Owego Creek to a point about three miles above the present site of Newark Valley, where they arrived the first day of April, having been thirty seven days on the journey from Stoek- bridge. They established a eamp upon what is now the homestead of Jules Fivaz. Within two or three days after their arrival, three of the party started for Oquaga for the goods that had been left, bringing with them also the goods and teams that were left at General Stoddard's, accomplish- ing the journey in about eleven days. Willson remained entirely alone, except his dog, but busily engaged in making maple-sugar, and upon their return exhibited about 150 pounds as the fruits of his industry.
He settled upon lot 184, where Levi Hammond now lives, and erceted the first log house, and covered the roof with bark. Abram Brown went up to lot 257, where Wm. Ball now lives, and Daniel Ball and Isaae Brown went far- ther up the valley. This little settlement was the begin- ning of what was known, until the formation of Berkshire, in 1808, as " Brown's Settlement."
Willson kept house alone until 1797, when his mother and two sisters eame out and lived with him. In 1799 he married Electa Slosson, a daughter of Enoeh Slosson ; they had two sons, who moved West. He died in 1857, ninety-four years of age. She died in 1862, over ninety years.
Abram Brown lived a bachelor all his days, and followed his profession as surveyor many years, in which he was eon- sidered good authority. His mother lived with him after 1796.
During the year 1791 these sturdy pioneers were making the forests ring with the sound of the axe, and the mighty monarchs of the woods fell beneath their swift blows. Early and late they worked, each one elearing a little spaee around him, leaving the trees where they fell, trimming, piling, and burning the brush,-the familiar terms of " Gee! Haw! Buek !" resounding through the forests as each in turn guided the slow-plodding oxen between the stumps and around the logs, plowing up the mellow soil ready for eorn and other grains.
The party, except Willson, returned to Stockbridge in the fall of this year. In the spring of 1792, Daniel Ball, Isaae and Abram Brown, Esbon Slosson, Asa Bement, Daniel Gleazen, John Carpenter, John Ruey, and others came into the settlement, Ball and the Browns continuing their improvements, and Slosson settling on the bank of the creek, near Sturtevant's mill. He here built a shanty and prepared a home, and sowed in September of that year eight bushels of wheat, and worked a week for the Browns, for which he received twelve shillings, and returned to Massachusetts in the fall. Asa Bement settled where Edwin Smith now lives. He sowed six bushels of wheat
that year, and again in the spring of 1793 made further improvements and put in erops, but did not remove his family until 1794, in February. He built a log blacksmith- shop near the house of Ichabod Ford, eighteen by twenty feet, with one forge. Daniel Gleazen settled up in Berk- shire. John Ruey was learning the trade of a blacksmith of Mr. Bement, and returned to Massachusetts, was mar- ried, and came baek with his family in 1808. His son, Oliver Ruey, lives on the corner opposite the Methodist Episcopal church. Carpenter did not take up any land, but worked for the settlers as they needed. It was not uncommon to be visited by Indians while they were upon their hunting excursions. Some of them were old acquaintances in Berk- shire County, and they received the generous hospitality of the settlers, and assisted in passing away the tedium of many a long hour in the fall and winter evenings, as that was generally the season they made their appearance. They were uniformly kind and disposed to be friendly. These valleys seem to have been favorite hunting-grounds of the Indians, as many artieles have been discovered in plowing. " A tree was found by the early settlers at Newark Valley, upon the blaze of which were painted certain pictures, which were supposed to be a means by which the aborigines communieated their ideas, and to belong to their system of picture-writing. One of these figures was an accurate representation of an Indian in full costume for war, facing southerly, with tomahawk uplifted. It was put on with black paint, continuing for many years after the valley was settled."
In the spring of 1793, Peter Willson, a brother of Elisha, settled on lot 217, where Daniel Chamberlain now lives. He remained a bachelor until 1802, married Lydia Salt- marsh, was a deaeon in the church many years, and died April 23, 1845, aged seventy-five years. Enoch and Esbon Slosson, with their wives, and the daughter of Esbon, two years old (now Mrs. Ezekiel Rich, and still living at Rieh- ford), arrived in the settlement Mareh 4 of this spring, and settled ou lot 138, where Esbon had built a bark-covered shanty the year before. Enoch and Sarah Slosson, Esbon's father and mother, lived with them two years, when Enoch built a house where Dr. Heaton now lives, and afterwards built a house on the exact spot where Mr. Davidge's house now stands. John Carpenter lived with the Slossons, and died April 13, 1797, the same day that Isaae Brown was buried. Mrs. Ezekiel Rich remembers distinetly seeing her mother riding up to the house on the same horse with Rev. Seth Williston, from attending the funeral of Isaae Brown. When Carpenter heard of Brown's death he said, " Now I will go and work Brown's farm;" but in three days he too had passed to the Beyond, and he was ready to lie side by side with his pioneer neighbor, with whom he had thus lived and worked. There were no women in this valley until this year. The Mrs. Slossons lived here from the 4th of March without seeing another woman until Dr. Tinkham's wife eame from Owego, on horseback, to visit them, in September.
Caleb and Jesse Gleazen eame in 1794, but afterwards removed to Richford. Beulah Brown, the mother of Cap- tain Abram, Isaae, John, and Joseph Brown, eame in February, 1796, and lived with Abram the remainder of
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Anson Miglia
ANSON HIGBE was born in Stockbridge, Mass., April 10, 1780, whence he moved with his parents to Union, Broome Co., N. Y., in October, 1795. Although not among the earliest settlers, he was an early resident of Newark Valley, and was so iden- tified with the development and well-being of the town as to deserve some mention in its history.
That he was an honest, capable, energetic man, and of the sturdy "stuff" of which pioneers are made, no one could doubt who knew him.
Leaving home to seek his fortune, he had little to aid him but his strong hands and resolute spirit. After a few years of faithful service in the employ- ment of others, he sought a home of his own. He came to Newark Valley in 1809, buying a farm at the junction of the Union and Valley Roads. He made this choice, having the option of a farm within the present limits of the city of Rochester, which he
described as then being little else than a malarious bog. If he thus narrowly escaped opulence and possible ague, he found competence and health.
On May 7, 1811, he married Ann, daughter of Hon. Amos Patterson, who was an efficient helpmate. Their well-earned thrift was worthily and unselfishly directed to the best interests of home and society. In mental qualities he was characterized by that happy balance which, with good executive ability, constitutes the practical mind.
Under a somewhat grave exterior, and with natu- ral dignity, he had an abiding sense of humor, and was genial and social.
He served the town acceptably for many years as supervisor and justice of the peace, and in all the relations of a good citizen and neighbor acted well his part. He died at the homestead August 27, 1854.
JONAS MUZZY,
elder son of John Muzzy, was born in the town of Spen- ecr, Woreester Co., Mass., April 2, 1775. He received but a meagre education, the services of his youth being required on his father's farm, so that little of his time was devoted to scholastie attainments. In the year 1796 he, in company with three others from the same town, came to Newark Valley, where they arrived on the 12th of August of that year. He settled on the place where his son, Charles Muzzy, now resides. In August, 1801, he was married to Thersey, daughter of Henry and Lucy Moore, of Newark Valley, Tioga Co., N. Y. He belonged to a numerous family, and did himself keep up the record of his ancestors in that direction. His grandfather, of Lexington, Mass., had a family of fifteen children, his father thirteen, and he had thirteen, four of whom died in infaney. The names of those who reached maturity are as follows :
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