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Isaiah Pike.
23
50
s-e pt
e m pt.
Dec. 4, 1838. . July 18, 1839. Sept. 21, 1836. July 1, 1838. . July 1, 1838. .
Lewis Trevitt. A. Van Tuyl
23
53
n-w pt ...
July 1, 1838 ..
A. Van Tuyl.
24
50
24
50
s-w pt.
A. Van Tuyl.
24
41
e m pt.
Samuel Fosdick. Wm. Curran.
24
50
wm pt.
John S Fosdick.
24
25
n-e pt .
Ebenezer Ellis
2.4
50
n-w pt.
F B. Marvin.
25
100
s pt.
Pliny Wheeler.
25
50
n-e pt.
James Tyrer.
25
50
n-w pt. .
James Quinn.
25
50
n m pt.
Joseph Dennison.
26
150
s pt. .
Horace U. Soper.
26
50
n-e pt .
T. M. Briggs. James Tyrer, Jr.
26
50
n-w pt .
Benjamin Trevitt, Jr.
27
45
e pt .
A. Van Tuyl. Carlos Emmons.
27
79
e m pt
27
100
m pt.
27
100
w pt.
28
III
s-e pt .
28
So
28
100
28
46
s-w pt ..
28
45
n-w pt.
29
148
s pt. .
A. R. Trevitt & Levi
29
202
n pt.
30
115
s pt.
July 1, 1838. . Jan. 3, 1837 . . . Dec. 31, 1838. Nov. 15, 1841. Jan. 7, 1836 . . . Jan. 12, 1839. . Nov. 1, 1841 ..! Oct. 20, 1855 . . Nov. 24, 1855. Oct. 9, 1844 . . Jan. 7, 1839. . . July 12, 1851. Nov. 2. 1855 . . Mar. 17, 1855. July 1, 1838. . . July 26, 1856. . Jan. 7, 1839. . . Aug. 11, 1812. Jan. 28, 1857 .. Dec. 31, 1836 . Oct. 15, 1835 . . Feb. 6, 1836 . . April 1, 1839. . Dec. 14, 1820 . Jan. 15, 1842. . Aug. 23. 1851.
P. C. Sherman.
23
IO3
23
99
s-w pt .
w m pt.
A. Van Tuyl.
23
50
s pt.
22
123
22
IO0
n pt.
Isaiah Pike.
25
71
w mpt.
26
107
m pt
II. U. Soper. Samuel Eaton. Carlos Emmons.
n-e pt . m pt ..
Asa R. Trevitt.
Everett Fisher.
Emery Sampson.
T. A. Canfield. John Andrews.
Ballou, Jr. Andrew Adams.
s m pt ...
263
FROM THE HOLLAND COMPANY.
TOWNSHIP SEVEN, RANGE SEVEN-Continued.
LOT. ACRES. SUBDIVISION.
DATE OF DEED.
NAMES.
30
108
mpt ...
July 1, 1838. . . A. Van Tuyl.
30
53
n-e pt .
Dec. 18, 1835 ."
Ezek. Adams.
30
53
n-w pt.
April 1, 1839. . D. H. Chandler.
31
50
s-e pt ....
Sept. 21, 1836.1 Lewis Trevitt.
31
50
31
60
s-e m pt .. em pt ... n-e pt .. . .
Aug. 11, 1845. Mar. 27, 1834. . Jan. 23, 1839. .
Lewis Trevitt. Alphonso Cross.
31
47
31
51
s-w m pt.
Sept. 13, 1845
Jacob Le Roy.
31
50
s-w pt ....
Nov. 19, 1853. Truman Vanderlip.
31
100
n-w pt ...
Aug. 1, 1838. .
D. Burr and T. T. Sherwood.
32
100
s pt .
April 1, 1839. .
Daniel H. Chandler.
32
49
s m pt ...
Jan. 10, 1857 . .
Truman Vanderlip.
32
60
n m pt ...
Oct. 14, 1842 ..
33
120
spt .
e m pt .
Sept. 16, 1822. Dec. 29, 1836. . Dec. 29, 1836 .
Joshua Steel.
33
129
n pt.
Ezekiel Goodell, Jr.
34
100
s pt .
Israel Sly. Zeb. Simmonds.
34
79
34
21
Luke Simonds.
34
55
A. Van Tuye.
34
52
Phineas Peabody.
35 35 35 36 36
50
s-e pt
P. C. Sherman. Emery Sampson. Jacob Le Roy.
36 36 36
101
e mi pt . .. w m pt ...
July 1, 1842. .. May 24, 1843 . .
Lagrand W. Douglass.
36 37
100
37
50
s pt.
Feb. 2, 1855 . . Dec. 15, 1855 .. Dec. 15, 1855 .
Christopher Brick. Thomas Thiel.
37 38
122
n pt. s-w pt . n-e pt ..
Sept. 8, 1855 .. Jonathan Stearns. Gilbert C. Sweet. Feb. 2. 1855. .
38
52
Mar, 31, 1854. Truman Vanderlip.
38
119
38
1 150
s-e pt .
n-w pt. . April 11, 1845 .. Nov. 1. 1840. .
Urial Torrey.
Ezekiel Adams.
33
60
Calvin Johnson.
33
60
wm pt.
e m pt. wm pt ... m pt . .
Aug. 18, 1825. June 25, 1838. July 22, 1833 . . . July 22, 1833 . .. July 1, 1838. . . Sept. 10, 1840. Nov. 29, 1836. July 8, 1839. . . July 18, 1839. . Mar. 20, 1833 . Oct. 20, 1843 . .
William Sampson.
115
w pt.
50
n-e pt . em pt
July 18, 1839 . P. C. Sherman.
Thomas Pound.
87
So
w pt. n pt.
Dec. 17, 1839 . Emery W. Sampson.
Gilbert C. Sweet.
37
30
s m pt
100
n m pt ... e & n-e pt s m pt .
200
Emery Sampson.
50
100
M. M. Tattu. | Francis H. Tattu and 1 Lewis Nichols.
Joseph Hawkins.
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NAMES OF PARTIES TAKING DEEDS
TOWNSHIP SEVEN, RANGE SEVEN-Continued.
LOT,
ACRES
SUBDIVISION.
DATE OF DEED).
NAMES.
39
372
es & w pt
Feb. 3. 1834 . .
Benjamin Dole.
39
50
n-e pt . .
April 1, 1839 . . March 5, 1810.
Thomas M. Barret.
40
50
s-w pt ..
Sept. 1. 1855 .. Oct. 24, 1851. . Jan. 5, 1856. .. Jan. 26, 1853 . .
George Barrett. Jacob Myers.
41
100
e pt .
July 1, 1838 . .
Abraham Van Tuyl.
41
80
e m pt
Feb. 11, 1856. .
William S. Fessenden.
41
62
w m pt. .
July 18, 1839. .
Pardon C. Sherman.
41
70
w pt.
Nov. 5, 1855 . .
John Nichols Luke Simonds.
42
40
s-c pt
Dec. 21, 1836. .
Zebedee Simonds.
42
40
sm pt.
Dec. 21, 1836 .
Ira N. Fuller.
42 42
307
wm pt.
April 8, 1856. . Oct. 5, 1853 . . . Dec. 21, 1841.
Jasper Tabor.
43
87
e pt
Nov. 1. 1841. . Nov. 1, 1841 ..
J. How.
43
63
m pt .
Nov. 1, 1841 . . Feb. 19, 1853.
William Bates.
43 44
50
wm pt.
James Collvil.
44
52
wm pt.
Alexander Richley.
44
121
e pt
D. H. Chandler.
44 44
50
empt.
William Andre.
45 45
50
sw pt
Zacheus H. Preston
45
50
m pt
Thomas Thiel.
45
50
m pt .
John L Unger.
45 45
50
n pt s-e pt.
George Roth.
46
58
em pt
Ira Stebbins.
46 46 46
75 50
wm pt .. .
Orvilla Kirby.
46 47 47 47
50
s & m pt .
Michael Hagelberger.
50 11-e pt . ..
George Myers
47
75
n-e pt .
Abraham Van Tuyl.
48
67
s-e pt
Oct. 3, 1841 . . . Nov. 1, 1841 .. April 1, 1839 . . Dec. 27, 1837 .. Aug. 31, 1853 . Jan. 20, 1855 . . Sept. 6, 1851 .. May 3, 1856 . . Oct. 11, 1856 .. Sept. 6, 1851 .. Oct. 10, 1837 . . Sept. 1, 1856. . March 17, 1855 March 27, 1852 April 14, 1855. Oct. 29. 1849 . . Nov. 1, 1841 .. July 18, 1839 . . July 8, 1842 . . Dec. 16, 1842 .. July 1, 1838. . April 1, 1839 ..
Truman Vanderlip.
46
55
47
n-e pt .
Ira Stebbins.
s-w pt ...
Nicholas Reading.
William Horton.
235
52 n-w pt ... s & w pt . .
P. C. Sherman.
D. H. Chandler.
40
50
s-e pt
George Myer.
40
50
wm pt. .
P. Hagelbergier & wife.
40
93
n-e pt.
40
100
n-w pt ..
42
10
n-e pt .
Ezra H. Heath.
100
w pt .
John Healands.
43
32
e m pt.
Isaac Woodward.
107
w m pt.
m pt.
George Vance. Jacob Heavy.
100
s pt .
50
n mn pt.
Jonathan Stevens.
50
Daniel H. Chandler.
265
FROM THE HOLLAND COMPANY.
TOWNSHIP SEVEN, RANGE SEVEN-Continued.
Lor
ACRES.
SUBDIVISION.
DATE OF D ED.
NAMES.
48
50
s-e pt ...
April 5. 1839. .
48
50
n-e m pt.
April 5, 1839 . .
48
50
n-wm pt
48
50
n-w pt.
Dec. 20, 1838. . April 1, 1839. .
Ira Woodard. Benjamin Rathbun, Jr. Daniel Horton. D. H. Chandler.
SOCIETIES.
Concord has eight beneficiary and secret societies besides a lodge of Free Masons located as follows: five at Springville, two at Woodward Hollow and one at East Concord. The fol- lowing statistics relate to the several lodges :
E. A. U., SPRINGVILLE UNION NO. 36.
This society was instituted in December, 1879, with twelve charter members ; present membership, 112. The following is. a list of the original officers ; James N. Richmond, President ; Mrs. A. Blackam, Vice-President ; Mrs. E. S. Van Valkenburg, Auxiliary ; William Stone, Treasurer ; A. R. Taber, Secretary; A. J. Moon, Accountant ; George B. Clark, Chanc .: A. L. Vaughan, Advocate ; Rev. E. T. Fox, Chaplain ; P. A Van Valkenburg, Watchman ; William Blackam, Warden.
A O. U. W., SPRINGVILLE LODGE, NO 155
The lodge was organized Jan. 28, 1878, with seventeen orig- inal members: charter members, forty-one; present member- ship, fifty-seven. The following were the original officers : W. H. Warner, M. W .; R. W. Tanner, G. T. R .; Philip Herbold, O .; George H. Barker, R .; George B. Clark, T .; John P. Myers, Receiver.
R. T. OF T., SPRINGVILLE COUNCIL, NO. 51.
Organized June 21, 1878, with fourteen charter members ; present membership, 135. The original officers were; J. W. Reed, S. C .; L. D. Chandler, V. C .; W. H. Jackson, P. C .; A. F. Bryant, Chap .; Miss Ida Reed, Sec .: N H. Thurber, Treas .; J. B. Flemings, Herald ; Miss Lizzie Billings, Guard ; N. G. Churchill, Sen.
266
BENEFICIARY SOCIETIES.
C. M. B. A. (Catholic Mutual Benefit Association), LOCATED AT SPRINGVILLE.
The Association was organized in the Spring of 1879, with twenty-one charter members; present membership, the same. The original officers were: Peter Weismantel, Pres .; Frank Weismantel, First Vice-Pres .; Nicholas Rassell, Second Vice- Pres .; Fred Fox, Treas .; John Bolender, Cor. Sec .; Camille Hugel, Fin Sec .; Marshall Demult, Marshal ; Jacob Heire, Guard ; Victor Collard, Nicholas Rassell, Peter Heire, Matthew Metzler and Sigismund Schewrtz, Trustees.
G. A. R .- CRARY POST, NO. 87, LOCATED AT SPRINGVILLE.
Organized Aug. 15, 1881 ; charter members, eighteen ; pres- ent membership, twenty. The original officers were: H. P. Spaulding, Commander; J. P. Meyers, S. V. C .; J. Oswald, J. V. C .; O. M. Morse. Adj't; E. L. Hoops, Q. M. George H Barker, O. D .; S. E. Spaulding, O. G .; W. H. Agard, Chap. C. Waite, Surgeon ; E. D. Bement, S. M .; W. H. Warner, Q. M. Sergt.
E. A. C., EAST CONCORD UNION, NO. 150.
Instituted Sept. 14, 1880 ; charter members, sixteen ; present membership, forty-six. The original officers were James Crans- ton, Chan .; Sterling Titus, Advocate; George L. Stanbro. Pres .; Charles Spencer, Vice-Pres .; B. E. VanSlyke, Aux .; L. A. Stanbro. Treas .; Libbie M. Van Slyke, Sec .; Amelia Hor- ton, Acct .; Annis Titus, Chap .; Sarah Baker, Warden ; Morris Baker, Sen .; Edward Bayless, Watchman.
E. (). M. A., LAST CHANCE LODGE, NO. 93, WOODWARD HOLLOW.
Instituted May 28, 1879 ; charter members, twenty-seven ; present membership, thirteen. Original officers; George W. Briggs, Pres .; Job Woodward, Vice-Pres .; Charles Hartley, Rec. Sec .; Layton M. Goodell. Fin. Sec .; Philo Woodward, Treas .; C. C. Alger, Chap .; Charles Knowles, C .; Myron E. Palmerton. I. G .; Josiah Woodward, O. G .; W. M. Woodward, P. P.
E. A. U., CONCORD UNION NO. 103, WOODWARD HOLLOW. Instituted May 28, 1880 ; charter members, twenty ; present
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membership, thirty. Original officers: William Woodward Chan .; Isaac Woodward, Advocate ; Perry T Scott, Pres. James L. Tarbox, Vice-Pres ; Mianda Tarbox. Aux .; Philo Woodward, Treas; W. G. Clark, Sec ; Mrs. Viola Woodward. Acct .; Mrs. Susan Scott, Chap ; Albert Potter, Warden ; Mrs, Anna Woodward, Sen .; Andrew Geiger, Watchman.
NEWSPAPERS.
The first newspaper in the town was the Springville Express, published by E. H. Hough, commencing in 1844, continuing four years.
The Springville Herald was started May 4, 1850, and had a long and influential career, ardently advocating the principles of the Whig and Republican parties. E. D. Webster & Co. were the founders, but after the second week Mr. Webster assumed the sole proprietorship, holding it until December. 1856, when he disposed of the establishment to J. B. Saxe. The latter continued to publish the paper until 1863, when, on account of the excessive cost of publishing in war times and to devote himself to the ministry and to agriculture, he discon- tinued the paper.
The American Citizen, started in 1855, was published during the presidential campaign of 1856 by L. C. Saunders.
The Penny Weekly, a local paper, diminutive in size, was pub- lished by W. A. Ferrin several months in 1858.
In January, 1864, Augustine W. Ferrin, who formerly had assisted Mr. Saxe in editing the Herald, returned discharged from the army, in which he had served faithfully until physi- cally disabled. Leasing Mr. Saxe's office and procuring con- siderable new material, he started the Chronicle, which he pub- lished until March, 1865, when he was attracted to Buffalo to fill the position of city editor of the Express.
The establishment was then leased by N. H. Thurber, who from March, 1865, until January, 1866, published the Tribune. Mr. Ferrin then bought the material and took it to Ellicott- ville, founding the Cattaraugus Republican.
W. W. Blakely started the Springville Journal March 16, 1867, and has continued the publication ever since. Receiving from Mr. Saxe the old files of the Herald, he resolved to per-
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petuate the name of the respected predecessor, and therefore re-christened his paper Journal and Herald. J. H. Melven be- came a partner in the enterprise in November, 1867, and con- tinued as such until March, 1873, when he sold his interest to his partner.
The Students' Repository was for several months, beginning in 1867, published in the interest of Griffith Institute by W. R. De Puy and J. H. Melven.
The Local News, edited and published by J. H. Melven, long connected with the Herald and other papers, and F. G. Meyers, was started in Springville, Nov. 9, 1879, and is still published by the same parties.
The first power printing press arrived in Springville in August, 1881, for printing the Journal and Herald. In Octo- ber, 1883, Melven & Meyers procured one for the Local News.
The people of this and surrounding towns have shown their appreciation of local papers by giving a generous support. One of the strongest indications of the town's growth, prosper- ity and intelligence is the fact that about three thousand copies of these local papers, the Journal and Herald and Local News, are issued every week.
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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
CHAPTER XVI.
FAMILY HISTORIES OF THE TOWN OF CONCORD.
FAMILY HISTORIES.
The family histories that follow the general history of each town in this volume have been compiled at an expenditure of much time and labor. Diligent care has been exercised to make them correct, but, notwithstanding, in some cases desir- able data has not been obtainable, and some errors and omis- sions seem unavoidable.
It has been the general aim not to indulge very much in eulogy, but to present the facts and let the reader draw his own conclusions.
Much space has been allotted to family records, not only to furnish general information, but to enable successive genera- tions to trace their genealogy.
Much of the matter relating to pioneer times and other topics has been placed in connection with the family histories, as the relations of the persons with it seems to make it a more suitable place to insert it.
Amaziah Ashman.
Amaziah Ashman was born in Connecticut, in 1783. From there, he removed to Ontario county, and resided in the Town of West Bloomfield some years. He came from that place to this town in 1809, and located land on lot 4, township seven, range seven, on Townsend hill. He moved his family here in May, 1810. John Stuart and his wife, another young married couple, came out with Ashman and remained one year and then went back. It took them three days to come from Buffalo to Townsend hill. They had to cut their own road part of the way. They built a small house or shanty, covered with bark. and moved into it-without floors, door or windows.
At that time, there were no families either east or west nearer than ten miles, and the nearest on the north were at
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Boston, and, on the southeast, at or near Springville. Mr. Ashman taught school occasionally in early time. He also kept hotel for a few years on his farm on Townsend hill. He served as a soldier on the Niagara frontier in the war of 1812- 15, and was in skirmishes and engagements on both sides of the river. He was once taken prisoner. He was at the burn- ing of Buffalo. He was Town Clerk the first year after the Town of Concord was organized, and when it contained Con- cord, Sardinia, Collins and North Collins, and was elected to that office sixteen years in succession. He also held the office of Justice of the Peace for eighteen years, and frequently pre- sided at town meetings. For the first twenty-five years after its organization, he was one of the leading men of the town. He cleared and owned a large farm, on which he resided until he died, in 1851. He was seventy-eight years of age at the time of his death.
His wife, Thankful Ashman, died March 14, 1881, in the ninety-fourth year of her age. She was a resident of this town about seventy-one years, which is a longer period than any other person ever lived here who was twenty-one years of age when they came.
Their children were :
John H., born 1811 ; married Frelove King; for second wife, Sally Turner, died in Illinois, September 1874.
Hannah, born 1813; married Augustus Bonnel; lives in Illinois.
Alonzo Curtis, born 1815 ; married Hannah Tyrer ; lives in Brooklyn, N. Y.
Ariette, born 1818; married first, Thurber, second, Saunders ; died in 1854.
Malvina, born 1820; married John Warren ; he is dead, she lives in East Otto.
Sarah, born 1822; married Samuel Wheeler; lives in this town.
Levi, born 1825 ; died young.
Alma, born 1828; married Cyrus Hurd ; lives in Elma, this county.
Alzora, born 1832 : married Norman Cook : died in 1855.
Helen, born 1834; died 1845.
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BIOGRAPHICAL. SKETCHES.
John Albro.
John Albro, one of the two first settlers in this town, was born in Rhode Island, in 1776; in 1792, he removed to Sara- toga county, N. Y., and from there he emigrated to the Town of Concord, in 1807. He first located on lot forty-one, town- ship seven, range six, by the big spring where Luzerne Eaton now lives. When he first came to this town, his family con- sisted of his wife and three children-Emery D., Malvina and Maria. In the Summer of 1808, Mrs. Albro died ; at that time there was only one other family in the Town of Concord, that of Christopher Stone, who lived about where Mr. Joslyn's family live now, and there were no families living in any of the adjoining towns except Boston. At that time, there was no minister living anywhere in this part of the country, and the best that could be done to give Christian burial to the departed was to send to Boston for Deacon Richard Cary, who came ten miles through the woods, accompanied by some of his neigh- bors, to lead in the funeral services.
After the death of his wife, Mr. Albro went East and re- turned the second Spring. He married a second wife in Pitts- ford, Monroe county, N. Y. He did not remain on lot number forty-one but a short time, when he purchased the north part of lot eight, township six, range six, now within the corpora- tion, and moved onto it. He built him a log house near where the old hay-barn now stands, on the east side of Buffalo street, just south of the forks of Sharp street and the Townsend Hill roads. He kept tavern there and cleared up a farm. The first . town meeting held in the Town of Concord, when it contained Sardinia, Concord, Collins and North Collins, was held at John Albro's log tavern, in 1812. The first school ever taught in the Town of Concord was taught by Anna Richmond, in the Summer of 1810, in a small log barn of Mr. Albro's that stood on the west side of Buffalo street. nearly opposite his house.
Mr. Albro lived in this town over twenty years, when he sold out his farm to Mr. Hewett and removed to Gowanda, where he kept hotel several years. From there he removed to Wayne, Du Page county, Illinois, in 1853, where he died Feb. 2, 1861, at the age of eighty-five years. His second wife died at the
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house of her daughter in Buffalo, Jan. 4, 1862, aged seventy- five years. Her children were Ira, Eliza C., James R .. Augus- tus G., Almyra. Jerome B. and Harriet C.
Emory D. Albro resided in this town, but died in Wyoming county.
Malvina died in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Maria married Harry Keeny, and died in Warsaw, Wyoming county.
Jerome B. went as a soldier, and died in the hospital in Annapolis, Md.
Ira Aibro is a prosperous farmer in Wayne, Du Page county, Illinois.
James R. is a farmer and lives in Clymer, Chautauqua county, N. Y.
Augustus G. is a farmer and lives in New Brighton, Beaver county, Penn.
Harriet C. married John Benson and died in Buffalo.
Almyra died in Gowanda, Cattaraugus county.
Emory D. Albro.
Emory D. Albro was born in Saratoga county, in 1802, and was brought to this town by his parents in 1807 ; he was married to Polly Seymour, May Ist, 1824, and removed to Warsaw, Genesee county. In 1828 his wife died. He returned to Springville in 1851; married Caroline C. Cochran, Feb. 14 1847. She died April 1, 1879, aged sixty-six years, one month and seventeen days.
Emory D. Albro's children were Elaenor, married to Mr. Bris- tol. Lives in Gainsville, Wyoming county.
Hellen M., died in Buffalo, in 1854, aged twenty-five years.
Cary R., married Olive S. Smith, in Illinois, in 1861 ; died in 1864; left one child.
Plumb Albro, born March 26, 1841 ; Dec. 25, 1866, was mar- ried to Ella L. Richardson, at West Concord, by Rev. B. C. Vanduzee ; have one child-Ellen E. Albro. He died at Gainsville, April 16, 1881.
Rollin J. Albro, was married to Francena Barnett, May 5. 1871. He died May 13, 1879, in this village, aged thirty-six years and six months. Left one child.
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Lora, married C. C. McClure, Jr. They live in Buffalo. Charles N., lives in Springville, at the old homestead. Byron C., lives in Canada.
Joshua Agard.
Joshua Agard was born April 16, 1789, in Connecticut, where he was married in March, 1814, to Lucy Sibley, who was born June 18, 1792. He came to Concord in 1816, and located on lot sixty-three, township seven, range six, where he lived until his death, Sept. 18, 1860. His wife having died June 9, 1831 he married a second time, Nov. 15, 1831, Mrs. Electa Canfield, who died Feb. 23, 1880, aged seventy-eight years. By his first wife he had five children.
Maria, born July 12, 1818 ; married in 1840 to Ira E. Drake.
Mary, born July 25, 1821 : married in 1842 to Luman Churchill.
Amelia, born Nov. 9, 1822 ; married 1847, to Horace Lan- don ; 1861, to Judson Wait.
Austin, born Jan. 9, 1825 ; married in 1852 to Emily Field.
Hannah, born Oct. 21, 1828; married 1857 to John Hill ; 1870 to Marvin Field.
By his second wife he had one daughter, Mellisa, born April 4: 1839 ; married Marvin Field in 1863 ; died April 27, 1865.
Mr. Agard was a prominent man in the early history of the town. He was assessor for many years and was an officer in the militia and Deacon of the Baptist church. He was also Supervisor of Concord.
Ezekiel Adams.
Ezekiel Adams, son of Joseph Adams, was born in the town of Old Salisbury, Mass., on the 16th day of Oct., 1719. His father was a ship-carpenter by trade, but dying when Ezekiel was but fifteen years of age, he was left to shift for himself. When he had reached the age of eighteen years he was appren- ticed to a Mr. Hale, to learn the carpenter and joiner's trade The terms of his services were that at the end of his apprentice ship of three years he was to receive a freedom suit and a set of tools. Both the agreement and the reward were faithfully carried out. In the meantime his widowed mother moved to Plymouth, Grafton county, N. H. As soon or soon after his
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term of service expired he joined her there. In 1812, he was married to Miss Mary Hickok. In 1816, on the first day of May, he left Plymouth in company with a brother-in-law for the Holland Purchase. They came through horse-back. After their arrival here and after visiting a few days among friends, both went to Buffalo to find employment Mr. Adams found work at his trade on the old Court House, then in course of construction, He received one dollar per day. After his day's work was done his evenings were spent in sawing wood for the villagers, making nearly as much at this as he received for his daily wages. Mr. Hickok hired out to work on the brick-yard and by performing the work of two men he received double pay. After the close of the building season they returned to Concord and invested their summer's wages in securing a home. They bought James Pike's claim of 200 acres on the north part of lot thirty, paying him some $400 for the same On it a few acres were cleared and he had built a small log-house.
That Fall both returned to Plymouth. Early in the new year Mr. Hickok was married to Miss Roda Pike and soon after they both set out for their home on the Holland Purchase, where they arrived on the twenty-eighth day of Feb., 1817. They put their horses together and came through with a wagon. Adams and Hickok divided their claim soon after their return. Adams taking north one-hundred acres and on this the remain- der of his days were passed. He died Sept 2, 1847, aged fifty- five years. His venerable wife survives, aged at the present writing, nearly ninety-six years. The fruits of this marriage were four sons and one daughter. Three are living to-day, viz : Abner C., born April 6, 1820 at Concord.
Andrew, born March 16, 1823, at Concord.
William L., born Sept. 13, 1824, at Plymouth, N. H.
Caroline, born April 28, 1826, at Concord ; died March 2, 1870. Ambrose, born Aug. 10, 1829, at Concord ; died July, 1882.
A. C. Adams.
A. C. Adams, son of Ezekiel Adams, was born April 6, 1820, on lot 30, township 7, range 7, and lived with his parents until he was twenty years of age, when he went to Black Rock and hired out to drive team for ten dollars per month. In the Fall
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of 1841, he attended school at the Sibley settlement to Augus- tine Sibley, teacher. In the Fall of 1842, he taught school at Morton's Corners, after which he followed teaching Winters and working at home Summers until 1850, when he married Elsie A. Chase, of Boston. He then moved onto the old home- stead and lived there two years, after which he moved to Bos- ton, where, in company with Truman Vanderlip and Seth T. Newell, he ran a tannery and dry goods store. In 1858, he commenced surveying, which he has followed ever since. Soon after he sold out and in company with George A. Moore, of Buffalo, bought the William Adams place of five hundred acres, where Norman Moore now lives, which place they ran for eight years. This he sold and bought the Mills' place, where he now lives. His children are :
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