USA > New York > Erie County > Sardinia > History of the original town of Concord : being the present towns of Concord, Collins, N. Collins, and Sardinia, Erie County, New York > Part 31
USA > New York > Erie County > Collins > History of the original town of Concord : being the present towns of Concord, Collins, N. Collins, and Sardinia, Erie County, New York > Part 31
USA > New York > Erie County > Concord > History of the original town of Concord : being the present towns of Concord, Collins, N. Collins, and Sardinia, Erie County, New York > Part 31
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Nettie, born Nov. 19, 1861.
Mary, born Oct. 19, 1862 ; died April 24. 1876.
Emma. born Jan. 10, 1866.
John, born Aug. 2, 1868.
Peter, born July 5, 1870.
Victor, born June 16, 1873.
Helen, born June 21, 1878.
Lettie, born Jan. 8, 1881.
The Foote Family.
Ransford T. Foote was born in Litchfield county, Connecti- cut, Jan. 6, 1806. Susan Foote, his wife, was born in the same county, Dec. 2, 1805. They came to Otto, Cattaraugus county, in 1826, and to Concord in 1838. In his younger days Mr. Foote worked at shoe making as well as farming. He now owns, occupies and conducts a large dairy-farm in the north- east part of Concord.
They have one son. Harry Foote, who was born in Cattar- augus county, March 22, 1832. He was married Feb. 11, 1864, to Jane Rollo Calkins, who was born Aug. 23. 1838. They have no children. He resides near his father. They are indus- trious and prosperous farmers and are highly esteemed in the community.
Mrs. R. T. Foote's father's name was Wheeler Atwood and her mother's maiden name was Susannah Stoddard. I learn from the history or her native town in Connecticut, that her ancestors on both sides, were among the earliest settlers in Massachusetts and Connecticut. Some of them coming over
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as early as 1639 ; and I also learn from the same book that they were among the first families in the communities in which they lived. Several of them were graduates of Harvard Col- lege and some of them were clergymen, and some were doctors.
STATEMENT OF MRS. RANSFORD T. FOOTE.
We came to Otto, Cattaraugus county, from Connecticut, in November, 1826. It took us four days to go from Buffalo to Otto. Mr. Foote went to Otto because he had relatives there. The first winter we lived in a log-house with another family, named Butterfield. The house was eighteen by twenty feet. The floor was split out of bass-wood logs, and there was but one six-lighted window. The sash were small slats nailed together and paper was pasted over the sash and then greased and used as a substitute for glass ; and in the center there was a small piece of glass, as large as the palm of your hand, fitted so that we could look out. The chimney had a stone back
up a few feet but no jambs; the top was finished out with sticks. Some time during the first winter, about ten o'clock one night I was up and at work hetcheling flax, all the others in the house having gone to bed, when I heard my geese squall fearfully outside, near the house. I went out and saw a long, low animal near the geese. I tried to scare him away but he stood there some time, and when he turned up his head to look at me, his eyes shown like two balls of fire ; he finally went away. I told Mr. Butterfield what I had seen and he went the next morning and examined the tracks and said it was a cata- mount. The wolves then were very numerous. I have often listened to their howlings in the night and they very often killed sheep in the neighborhood and in different parts of the town, and the inhabitants generally turned out at different times to hunt and destroy or drive them out of town.
Deer were very thick then. I have frequently seen them in the fields and near the house. One morning I looked out and saw five fine looking deer feeding beside the garden fence.
The second year after we came to Otto, we had managed to get two cows, and I made butter and had saved up a consider- able quantity. I wanted some groceries and Mr. Foote took his oxen and carried me and several of the neighboring women
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to Lodi, ten miles, to trade. We started before daylight and forded the Cattaraugus, and when we arrived at Mr. Plumb's store he asked us what we wanted to get for our butter. I told him I would like to get some groceries ; he said he could not sell groceries for butter, but would let me have shelf goods ; hs said he was then paying six cents for butter (just previous he had paid but five cents). So I had to sell my butter for shelf goods and go home without any groceries. Since that time we have sold butter for fifty cents per pound cash, and have kept and milked between thirty-five and forty cows at a time.
The second year after we came to Otto our tax was one dol- lar and fifty cents, and when Mr. Allen. the collector, came for it Mr. Foote told him he had no money and he knew of no way that he could get any. Mr. Allen said to him that he had some money that he had received from the town, and that he would pay the tax, and Mr. Foote, who was a shoemaker, might come over to his house and make up some shoes for his family, which he did. One year in the time of the Rebel- lion, Mr. Foote paid as much as $140 tax, and he said he could pay that tax easier than he could raise that one dollar and fifty cents in money at that time.
W. Wallace French.
W. W. French was born in the year 1828, in the Town of Bennington, Vt .; came to Concord in 1831 ; is railroad agent ; was married to Celestia Pratt, who was born in Willink, Erie county, N. Y., September, 1837. His father's name was Rus- sell French ; his mother's maiden name was Julia Catlin ; both living at Waverly, Cattaraugus county, N. Y. His grand- father's name was William French; his grandmother's maiden name was Lydia Esterbrook: both buried in Springville ceme- tery ; grandfather died Jan. 27, 1840, aged sixty-one years ; grandmother died May 21, 1849, aged seventy years.
They had one daughter, Nettie D. French, born at Buffalo, N. Y., Oct. 26, 1862 : died at Springville, June 13, 1881.
Frederick Fox.
Frederick Fox was born in 1833. in Erlah-Baden, Germany, and worked at farming until he came to this county. He
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started to come here Nov. 7. 1860; his brother Leo and sister Mary M. came with him. They embarked at the City of Havre, in France, and were forty days on the ocean to New York. They came from New York to Buffalo, and from Buffalo to his brother Christian's, in Ashford. He worked for him one year and for George Hughey three years. He was married June 1, 1865, to Mary M. Utrich, of Ashford (her native place was North Collins). They moved to Springville and com- menced keeping hotel in 1865. They have since re-built and enlarged the hotel, and continued to keep the same until 1883, when he sold out to Theodore Frew.
Their children are : Frank G., Mary I .. , Clara L., and Fred- erick William.
Casper Faurling.
Casper Faulring was born May 27, 1839. in the State of Sax- ony, 'Germany ; is a farmer by occupation ; was married March 1, 1868, to Barbara Foster ; his father's name was Frederick Faulring ; his mother's maiden name was Margaret Taff ; his father's family came all together from Germany in 1854; shipped on a sail vessel at Hamburg, Germany, for New York. and landed in New York Jan. 9, 1854; they were sixty-four days in making the passage ; it was a long, cold and rough time. They settled on the farm where he now lives.
They have seven children : John, born Dec. 9, 1868. Frederick, born April 9. 1869. Mary, born Jan. 1, 1871. Ferdinand, born Sept. 4, 1873. Chris, born March 6, 1876. Casper, born Jan. 1, 1878. Louisa, born May 7. 1881.
James D. Fuller.
Mr. Fuller's father, John G. Fuller, was born in Dryden, Madison county, N. Y., May 11, 1805 ; from there he went to Pennsylvania ; from Pennsylvania he came to Ashford, N. Y., in 1825 : he died in Sardinia Sept. 24, 1881. He was married to Florilla Studley.
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James D. Fuller was born in Ashford, Cattaraugus county, N. Y., Feb. 28, 1845 ; about 1850 his father's family moved to Sardinia. In 1868 Mr. Fuller moved to Concord, where he has since resided ; his occupation is farming. Mr. F. enlisted Aug. 9, 1862, in Company F, One Hundred and Sixteenth regiment, New York State volunteers, and participated in all the battles and campaigns in which his regiment took part ; he was mus- tered out of the service June 26, 1865. Mr. Fuller was married in 1866, to Emily N. Crosby. They have four daughters :
Alice M., born Feb. 10, 1870.
Myrtie, born Feb. 3, 1873.
Gertie E., born Sept. 5, 1874.
Nettie, born March 29, 1876.
Benjamin C. Foster.
Benjamin C. Foster came and located on lot fifty-one, town- ship seven, range six, before the war of 1812, and was the first on that lot ; he set out the orchard that still stands a short dis- tance up the side-hill on the old Amos Stanbro place, and there is where his log house was located. His children were Otis, Susan, who married Stukely Stone, Polly, Adaline, Lucy, Delia, Benjamin and Samuel.
Benjamin C. Foster and Stukely Stone went from this town to Cambria, Niagara county, sixty years ago, and finally to Hume, Allegany county.
John S. Foster.
John S. Foster, brother of Benjamin C., came here after the close of the war and built him a house beside his brother's on the same lot and remained a few years and then removed to Hartland, Niagara county, where he died. His children were :
Frelove, who married Whitman Stone.
Lovica, who married Levi Palmer.
Sally, who married Ephraim Needham, and now resides in Brant, this county.
Amanda, who married Uriah Chappel and lives in Kendall county, Ill.
John S .. lives in Brant.
George W., lives in Elkhart, Ind.
Amy and Alma, dead.
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Theodore Frew.
Theodore Frew is a son of Joseph Frew and Christina (Bru- der) Frew, who emigrated from Baden, Germany, in 1831. Theodore was born Oct. 13, 1833, in Boston, Erie county, N. Y' .; at fifteen years of age he went to Boston, Mass .; was there six years, and in 1858 he went to New Orleans, where he remained until the occupation of that city by the Union army, under General Banks, in 1863, when he joined Banks' army as member of the engineers' corps, and returned north at the close of the war. Mr. Frew was a merchant and Postmaster at East Eden, N. Y., for eight years, and removed from that place to Springville, N. Y., in 1883, where he became proprietor of the Farmers' hotel. He was married Jan. 10, 1865, to Frances Webber; they have five children.
Seth W. Godard.
Seth W. Godard, a son of Nathan Godard and Bertha Briggs Godard, was born in Massachusetts, in 1814, and was brought to this town by his parents in 1816. In his boyhood days he worked at farming, and chopping and clearing land. He after- wards learned the shoemaker's trade and worked at that several years. He bought and sold cattle, and he also drove cattle to the eastern market. He also owned and bought and sold farms, and he was for a time in the dry goods trade.
He studied law, and was several times elected to the office of Justice of the Peace. He was elected to the office of Super- visor of Concord for ten terms, and in 1855 he was elected a member of the Legislature. He was a good financier and acquired a good property. He was liberal and public spirited, and was highly esteemed by all who knew him. He never married.
James Goodemote.
The Goodemotes came to Ashford, Cattaraugus county, from near Kinderhook, Columbia county, N. Y., where James' father, Philip Goodemote, was born in 1796. He came to Ash- ford about 1816, and bought land of the Holland Land com- pany near the Cattaraugus creek. He was then unmarried and was accompanied by his brother John. In the Fall of 1820, their father, John Goodemote, and their brothers, Baltus, Harry and William came, all settling in Ashford.
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Philip, father of James, a soldier of 1812, was married in 1820 to Harriet Vosburg. They had four sons and four daughters: James, Eliza, Philip Jr., Ann, John, Sally, David and Sophia.
James Goodemote was born in Ashford in 1821 ; was mar- ried in 1846 to Maria Wilcox. They have two children living : Linda married Warner Bond, and James P. Mr. Goodemote lives on the first farm cleared in the Town of Ashford ; it was cleared about 1815 by Nathan Sanders. Mrs. Goodemote's father owned the farm fifty years ago, and it has been in pos- session of the family since.
Cornelius Graff.
Cornelius Graff was born in Concord, in 1837, where he now resides. He enlisted August, 1861, in company F, One Hun- dred and Sixteenth New York volunteers; was with the regi- ment until he was mustered out at Washington, in December, 1863. He took part in the storming of Port Hudson, the Red River expedition, etc. In August, 1863, while crossing the Shenandoah river, he was wounded.
He was a son of Barney Graff, who was born in 1796, and came to Concord from Montgomery county, N. Y., about sixty- six years ago, and settled in the vicinity of East Concord where he lived until his death, in 1867.
Archibald Griffith.
Mr. Griffith came to this town from Rhode Island in 1815, and located in the northeastern corner of lot thirty-five, and was the first settler on that lot. Although he was by occupa- tion a farmer he also taught school in early times and also sur- veyed some for the settlers. He was a successful business man and acquired quite a large property, and at one time held the office of Justice of the Peace. In 1867, he made a liberal dona- tion to the Springville Academy, in consideration of which its name was changed to Griffith Institute. Mr. Griffith after- wards bequcathed over ten thousand dollars to the institution as a permanent fund, to be used mainly for the education of orphan and indigent children of the Town of Concord.
He had no children, and died Jan. 8, 1871, aged seventy-nine
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years and four months. His wife Sarah died March 13, 1875. aged eighty years and seven months.
David E. Griffith.
David E. Griffith's father, Hezekiah Griffith was born in 1790, in Stephentown, Rensselaer county, N. Y., from which place he came to Concord about 1830, and settled at Waterville, on lot thirty-eight, where he lived until 1865. He died in West Seneca, in 1872.
He was married in Stephentown to Millicent Beers ; she died in 1870, aged seventy-seven years. They had ten children, viz .: Jonathan, William, Esther, Lydia, Simeon, Robert, Electa, David E. Peter and Alvira.
Esther married Arnold Wilson, and died in Boston, Erie county.
Lydia married Philander Flint ; died in 1843, aged twenty- four years.
Simeon-dead.
Electa died in 1849, aged twenty-one years.
Alvira died in 1841, aged four years.
The remaining five are living at the present time.
David E. Griffith was born Sept. 3, 1830 ; he has always been a resident of Concord. He has been twice married ; first, in 1857, to Sarah Ackerson, of Orleans county ; she died in 1869, aged thirty-four years, leaving two daughters, Flora and Alice. Mr. Griffith was married a second time to Gelana Farman, by whom he has six children-Fred, Nina, James, Hattie, Robin and Susie.
Yates Gardinier.
Y'ates Gardinier was born Dec. 12, 1839 ; his father's name is Abram Gardinier ; his mother's maiden name was Anna Yates. They came to Concord from Fultonville, Montgomery county, N. Y. His wife's maiden name was Selinda Smith, daughter of Calvin Smith; was married July 23, 1862. Their children are
Stephen A., born June 16, 1865.
Hattie B., born Jan. 25, 1866.
Leslie, born Oct. 26, 1868.
Mr. Gardinier was called in the military service in the war of the rebellion, at the time Gen. R. E. Lee invaded Pennsyl- vania ; was on duty but a few weeks.
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Albert S. Gaylord.
Albert S. Gaylord, son of Horace and Rebecca Gaylord was born in Broome county, N. Y., Sept. 1. 1839. When young his parents removed to Concord, where he has since resided, now owning and conducting the saw mill west of Springville, known as the Gaylord mill, and is also engaged in farming. He built the mill in 1867. At one time the mill was principally used for manufacturing cheese boxes ; a planing mill is now connected with it. Mr. Gaylord was married May 8, 1861, to Mary Jane Fuller, daughter of Ira H. Fuller.
They have a family of five children :
James G., born Sept. 8, 1862.
Vinton D., born May 27, 1864.
Clinton D., born Oct. 7, 1869.
Albert, born June 7, 1872.
Mary Grace, born Oct. 21, 1878.
Stephen B. Gaylord.
Stephen B. Gaylord was born in Homer. Cortland county, N. Y., April 11. 1807. At seventeen he was apprenticed to the cabinet makers' trade in his native town ; at the close of his term of service he set up in business for himself, which he fol- lowed until 1847, when he came to Springville and engaged in an extensive cabinet and undertaking business which he carried on until a few years since, when he relinquished it. He was married in 1830 to Huldah Brewer.
They have had six children :
Henry, married to Mary Belden; is a book-keeper in Chi- cago.
Caroline, died in Cortland county, N. Y.
Franklin S., married Louise Shankland ; is a farmer and fur- niture dealer at Brighton, Mich.
Manley, married Maria Butterworth ; is a photograph artist at Medina, N. Y.
Mary E., married Harry Townsend, a dentist at Pontiac, IIl.
John B., married to Ella Webber; is a commercial agent in Chicago.
Allen Goodemote.
Allen Goodemote was born in Ashford, Cattaraugus county,
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Feb. 12, 1831. His father's name was David Goodemote, and his mother's maiden name was Caroline Vosburgh ; his grand- father came from Columbia county, N. Y .; his father died in Ashford in 1833; his mother married J. G. Searle and went to Illinois in 1844. In 1850 he went across the plains to Califor- nia, and returned in 1862; went back in the Fall of 1863 and came home in the Fall of 1864; he built the first mill in Ne- vada for crushing the quartz of the Comstock lode ; he built a steamboat at LaCrosse, Wis., on the Mississippi, in 1865, and commanded it for a while, and then sold it and removed to this place. In the Fall of 1865 he came to Springville and bought the farm of W. P. Mills, lying south of the village and moved on to it in July, 1866; in June, 1879, he went to the mining regions of Colorado; returned in January, 1880. Was married June 10, 1866, to Miss Aurelia I. Golden, of Hancock county, Ill. Their children are Jessie, Lysander C., Gracie and Cora (twins), and Greely R.
Abram Gardinier and Family.
Abram Gardinier was born in Fultonville. Montgomery county. N. Y., May 9th, 1800. His father's name was Thomas Gardinier and his mother's maiden name was Mary Harden- burgh. In 1828 he was married to Anna Yates. Eight years later he came to Concord and after casting about for some time in search of a desirable location he purchased of Reuben Wright. 240 acres of land situated one and one-half miles north-east of East Concord, on lot twenty-nine, township seven, range six. about fifty acres of which had been partially cleared. He set vigorously to work, making improvements, clearing land, etc. He built what was considered in those days, a model residence, in which he resides at the present time. Their children were : Thomas, born Oct. 11, 1830. Joseph Y., born Oct. 13, 1832. Mary E., born Sept. 5, 1834. Isaiah H., born May 3, 1837. Yates, born Dec. 12, 1839. Elias, born April 7, 1842. Robert, born July 31, 1844. John H., born Nov. 13, 1846.
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Mrs. Anna Gardinier died Nov. 12, 1882, aged seventy-five years, five months and eight days.
Isaiah Gardinier.
Isaiah Gardinier was born in the town of Concord, May 3, 1837. His boyhood days were spent in his native town, of which he was a resident until the year 1861, when he went west and purchased land located near Blue Earth City, Fari- bault county, Minn. In the Fall of 1862, occurred the mem- orable Sioux outbreak, which was the signal for a general and immediate exodus of the settlers from the scene of danger. His description of the affair is very vivid.
This outbreak was the most bloody of any that ever occurred in the United States. It is estimated that a thousand or more whites were slain. Ten days after the outbreak a company of Wisconsin soldiers were sent to the relief of the settlers and under their protection Mr. Gardinier, with others, returned to his and their farms.
After securing his crops Mr. Gardinier came to this town, of which he has since been a permanent resident. He resides one mile north-east of East Concord, on what is commonly known as the Freeman farm. He was married March 18, 1868, to Harriet E. Hemstreet. They have two children, Annie and Allie.
Mr. Gardinier has been Assessor of Concord two terms.
George W. Goodell.
George W. Goodell was born Feb. 22, 1816, near Lake George, N. Y .; came to Concord in 1823. He was a farmer and was married Sept. 15, 1847, to Martha A. Luck, who was born in Buffalo, May 7, 1829. His father's name was Ezekiel Goodell ; his mother's maiden name was Lydia Carpenter. George W. Goodell died March 30, 1879. His father came to Concord in 1825, and lived there until the time of his death, which occurred August, 1857. Mrs. Martha A. Goodell, his wife, survives. Their children are :
Charlie E., born April 11. 1852 ; died July 28, 1878.
Ida L., born Oct. 25, 1855 ; died Nov. 5, 1862.
Leighton M., born Sept. 20, 1857.
Mary A., born April 18, 1859 ; died Oct. 24, 1862. Henry, born Sept. 5, 1864.
John W., born Feb. 5, 1865.
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Elijah Graves.
Elijah Graves was born in Hatfield, Mass., in the year 1814, and came to this state from Amherst, Hampshire county, Mass., in the year 1841. His father's name was Elijah Graves ; his mother's maiden name was Eunice Smith. His occupation is farming ; was married in the year 1837, to Miss Sally A. Sanderson, who was born in Massachusetts. He removed to the town of Burton (now Allegany) Cattaraugus county, N. Y., forty-one years ago. It was then a wilderness. He says, " my farm was all woods. Cleared a small place and built a log-house. We had a hard time ; made shingles for a while and then built a saw-mill, and after running it for a while sold out and came to Erie county, where I now live." Family record :
Jane E., born April 21, 1839, in Amherst, Mass.
Matilda A., born Nov. 29, 1845, in Allegany, N. Y .; married to Daniel Tarbox Oct. 16, 1866.
Hattie A., born April 26, 1853, in Concord, N. Y .; married to Luzerne D. Hemstreet.
Horace Gaylord.
Horace Gaylord was born Nov. 15, 1847, in the town of Con- cord ; he is a farmer. Was married April 3, 1869, to Candace M. King, who was born in the town of Collins, May 29, 1847. His father's name was Horace Gaylord, his mother's r, aiden name was Rebecca Powers, his grandfather's name was James Gaylord, his grandmother's maiden name was Experience Law- rence. He says: " My father, Horace Gaylord, came to Con- cord from Broome county, N. Y., June, 1839. Was married in Broome county, May 20, 1829, to my mother, Rebecca Powers. They had ten children, seven of whom survive. Father died the 19th of August, 1880 ; my mother survives. My brother James enlisted in the hundreth New York regiment ; served three years ; was wounded at Fort Wagner, and also on Morris Island. Died April 11, 1870, of consumption, induced by his wounds and exposure in the service."
George H., born Aug: 9, 1830 ; married Jane Woodbury, and resides in Missouri.
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Joel, born April 17, 1833 ; married Eupheme Louk; resides in Springville.
Charles, born Feb. 9, 1836 and died in the state of Kansas.
Albert S., born Sept. 1, 1838 ; married Mary J. Fuller, and lives in Concord.
Juliette, born Aug. 5. 1843 ; married Ansel Blasdell and resides in Concord.
Mary E., born Aug. 27, 1850 ; died Nov. 15, 1865.
Paoli M., born Jan. 12, 1854; married Church Harris, resides in Springville.
Jennie, born Sept. 30, 1858; married Court Harris, and resides in Concord.
Horace has one child, James A., born March 5, 1872.
Benjamin Gardner.
Benjamin Gardner came here at a very early day and built the first grist mill ever built in this town in 1814. He lived on East Hill on the south side of the street where Orange Parmenter lived for a long time. He died about three years after he built the mill.
John Griffith.
John Griffith was born in Stephentown, Rensselaer county, N. Y., in 1796. Came to Concord about 1833 and settled in Waterville, where he died about 1864. He was Justice of the Peace in Concord at one time. He was married in 1827 to Harriet Sanford.
They had nine children :
Catharine, married Henry Stanbro.
Cyntha Eudora, born 1839, married Charles Cornell.
Nancy Eveline, born 1831, married John F. Morse. Martha Esther, born 1832, married Fayette Treat.
Elnathan, born 1835, married Thankful Meyrs. Sarah Ellen, born 1838, married Charles Spencer.
Caroline E., born 1841, married Corydon Steele. William Henry, born 1844, married Cora Tabor. Eugene, born 1850.
Horton Brothers.
Truman and John Horton, brothers, came on foot from New Lebanon, Columbia county, N. Y., where they were born, to-
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Concord in 1817. They located land on the northwest corner lot in Concord, which had been articled at the land office sev- eral years before by Jacob Horton, their father, who never resided here, but returned to Columbia county. The brothers, Truman and John, went back on foot, and on Feb. 1, 1818, they set out for Concord with their families, with two ox teams. They were twenty-five days in making the journey, and it snowed every day but one, the snow having fallen to such a depth that the last stage of the journey was made with diffi- culty. When they reached their destination they found by measurement that the snow had accumulated on the fallen trees to the depth of four feet. The only settler in Concord in the neighborhood of their new home was Comfort Knapp, who had been there four or five years. Sylvester and William Knapp came the same year. William Owens lived just across the line in Boston. The first school was taught on Horton hill in 1823, in a log school house. The Hortons built log houses on their land and lived there four years when they moved across the town line into Boston. Truman died in Boston in 1869. He married Betsy Carr, who now lives in Boston.
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