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By virtue of the power and authority to me given, in and by the Royal CHARTER, to the Governor and Company of the said Colony, under the Great Seal of England. I do by these pres- ents, reposing especial trust and confidence in your Loyalty, Courage and Good Conduct, constitute and appoint you, the said LEVI WELLS, to be FIRST LIEUTENANT of the second company of a Regiment of Foot, raised within the Colony, to proceed and co-operate with a body of the King's British forces, and under the supreme command of his majesty's Commander- in-Chief; in America, against Canada, in order to reduce Mon- treal and all other posts of the French in those parts, and fur- ther to annoy the enemy in such manner as his majesty's Com- mander-in-Chief, of which regiment NATHAN WHITING, Esq., is Colonel. You are, therefore, carefully and diligently to dis- charge the duty of a Lieutenant in leading, ordering and exer- cising said company in arms, both inferior officers and soldiers in the service aforesaid, and to keep them in good order and discipline ; hereby commanding them to obey you as their Lieutenant, and yourself to observe and follow such orders and instructions as you shall from time to time receive from me, or the Commander-in-Chief of said Colony, for the time-being, or other of your superior officers, according to the rules and dis- cipline of war, pursuant to the trust reposed in you.
GIVEN under my hand and the public seal of the said Colony,
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at Norwalk, the twenty-fourth day of March, in the thirty-third year of the reign of his majesty King GEORGE the Second, Annoque Domini 1760.
By His Honor's command. THOS. FITCH.
GEORGE WYBLYS, Secretary.
William Waite.
William Waite, born in the Town of Alexander, Genesee county, N. Y., Dec. 25, 1830 ; is a farmer and came to Concord in 1834; his father's name is Weston Waite; his mother's maiden name was Calista Snow. William Waite was married in 1852, to Sarah Mayo, daughter of Hiram Mayo, who was one of the old settlers. She died in 1871. Two of Mayo's sons, Sam- uel A. Mayo and John H. Mayo, enlisted in the army Aug. II 1862, both were wounded at the battle of Donaldsonville and died soon after. Mr. and Mrs. William Waite have four children, viz :
Henry E., born Aug. 24, 1850.
William W., born July 21, 1854.
Elmer M., born March 1, 1859.
Luzerne C., born Nov. 10, 1862.
Mrs. Sarah A. Waite died July 19, 1882, aged fifty years.
William J. Wiley.
William J. Wiley was born in Concord, April 1, 1831 ; his wife, Lucretia Vosburg, was born in Kinderhook, Columbia county, N. Y., Feb. 9, 1831 ; her father came to Concord in 1856; his father's name was David Wiley, he came to Concord in 1813; lived in the town until his death, which occurred June 9, 1879 ; his mother's maiden name was Alyda Vosburg, she is still living, aged seventy-nine years. William J. Wiley was married Aug. 2, 1865, to Lucretia Vosburgh. His wife's father, Matthew Vosburg, who now lives on the old " Saxe " farm, one and one-half miles east of Springville, fell and injured him- self on the 15th day of March last, and is seriously ill. His eighty-third birthday occurred on the previous day. Her mother was seventy-three years of age Jan. 13, 1882. Their children were :
William V., born Nov. 13, 1857.
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Thomas S., born Dec. 23, 1859.
Alyda J., born Nov 20, 1862 ; died in September, 1863. Nelson E., born Sept. 15, 1867.
Carlos Waite.
Carlos Waite was born in Concord, in the year 1840; his father's name is Weston Waite and was born in Washington county, in 1802 ; his mother's maiden name was Calista Snow, she was born in Connecticut in 1804 ; he learned the profession of a dentist and commenced business in 1868, in Springville, and has carried it on to the present time. He enlisted in the One hundred and sixteenth Regiment, N. Y. Vol., Aug. 11, 1862, E. P. Chapin, Colonel, and served till the close of the war. He was' at Port Hudson, in the Red River expedition, at Winchester and Fisher's Hill, and in the Shenandoah Valley in 1864. He was married in 1862 to Miss Augusta Wilcox.
Their children were Allie, Ralph and Angie, who died at the age of two years.
Allie is married to David Hernden, of Bennington, Wyoming county, N. Y.
William H. Warner.
Mr. Warner was a son of Samuel Warner and Mary (San- ders) Warner. He was born in Collins, N. Y., in 1840 and came to Concord in 1867, where he engaged in farming until 1881, when he removed to Springville. His maternal grand- father, Joseph Sanders, was a soldier of the war of 1812. Mr. Warner entered the army as a private, July 20, 1861. In 1864, he was promoted to Captain, which position he held until he was mustered out of the service July 1, 1865. He has three times represented the Town of Concord on the Board of Supervisors, 1878, '79 and 'So. He was married in 1866 to Adeline L. Scoby, who was born in Ashford, N. Y., in 1840. They have four children living :
M. Alice, born in 1867.
Fred S., born in 1873.
Glenn S., born in 1871. William H., born in 1881.
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John E. Wright.
John E. Wright was born in the town of Durham, Greene county, N. Y., April 2, 1808. His father's name was Ambrose Wright and his mother's maiden name was Elizabeth Patterson. He resided with his parents in his native town until he had attained his twenty-third year, when he went to Canada and purchased land situated at or near Niagara Falls. Here he resided between seven and eight years. During that time the Patriot war occurred, in which he participated. In the year 1839 he disposed of his farm property in the dominion and returned to New York State and located in the town of Boston, on "West Hill," where he resided until the year 1850, when he came to Concord and purchased of Levi Vaughn one hundred acres of land, located at East Concord, where he resided until his death, which occurred Feb. 26, 1883. He was married July 5th, 1831, to Betsey Buehner. Their children are :
Mary J. and Peter B
Samuel Warner.
Samuel Warner was a son of Roswell Warner and Lorain Randall. His grandfather, Pliny Warner, came from England and was one of the first settlers in Massachusetts.
Mr. Warner was born in the year 1808, in Barneston, Mass. He came to Collins in 1830 and to Concord in 1868, where he now resides. He was married in 1829 to Mary Sanders, who was born in Vermont in 1810 and died in Collins in 1864. They had a family of eight children :
Hannah M., born July, 1829 ; married in 1853 to Arthur White ; died, 1875.
Ezra N., born Feb., 1831 : married in 1852 to Lucy A. Pratt ; died, 1865.
Mary J., born Oct., 1833 ; married in 1858 to H. V. Hicks ; died, 1859.
Sumner C., born Jan., 1836 ; married in 1856 to Jeanette Mun- ger ; died in 1865.
Cynthia P., born Oct., 1838 : married in 1865 to Albert H. Cary.
William H., born July, 1840: married in 1866 to Adalin L. Scoby.
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Alfred S., born Oct., 1843 ; married in 1864 to Louisa Col- burn.
James L., born Aug., 1846 ; married in 1868 to Mary Rolfe. Mr. Warner's children were all born in Collins, N. Y.
David J. Wilcox, Esq.
Mr. Wilcox's father, Elihu Wilcox, was a Vermonter of Puritan stock, as was his mother also. They came from Ver- mont to Leon Cattaraugus county, N. Y., in 1827, being some of the earliest settlers of that town. Here the subject of this sketch was born Oct. 27, 1848.
He attended school eight terms at Chamberlain Institute, Randolph, N. Y., after which, during the years 1872 and 1873, he was three terms at the Fredonia State Normal School, and the three succeeding years at Cornell University. In 1877 he began the study of law with King & Montgomery, at Ithaca, N. Y. He remained there one year and then entered the Albany Law School, graduating with the class of 1878.
He was admitted to the bar as Attorney and Counselor, at Buffalo, June 14, 1878, and began the practice of law in Spring- ville, N. Y., the subsequent December.
Before entering the legal profession he taught school eight terms and during the year 1873 was President of the Cattarau- gus county Teachers' Association.
In 1878 he was Clerk of the apportionment committee of the State Assembly.
Mr. Wilcox was married in 1878, to Miss Happie Stowell, daughter of Charles Stowell, Esq., of Ashford, N. Y. She is a graduate of Chamberlain Institute and Female College.
Mr. Wilcox was elected to the State Legislature in the Fall of 1882.
P. H. Warner.
Mr. Warner's father, Milo Warner, was born in Ira, Vermont, about 1790; was married to Lucina Sikes, about 1812 and moved to Strykersville, Wyoming county, N. Y., in the winter of 1813, with two yoke of oxen. He resided on the land he first took up until his death, in his eighty-second year. He organized the Congregational Church at Strykersville and served as a soldier on the Niagara frontier.
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He had a family of eleven children, nine of whom are now living and married-five brothers and four sisters. Two of the brothers are graduates of Yale College. One sister, Mrs. Mor- ril, was educated at LeRoy Seminary, taught twelve years in Packard Institute, Brooklyn, and has since traveled in Europe two years.
Phileton H. Warner
Was born in Strykersville, Wyoming county, N. Y., Jan. 31, '1822. He taught school eleven terms in his native town and Concord. Was married in 1845, to Allathea H. Mann. They came to Springville in 1847, and engaged in the millinery trade, which they continued until 1867, when they retired from busi- ness.
Mrs. Warner was a daughter of Nathan M. Mann, Esq., one of the most prominent and respected citizens of Aurora and Wales at an early day. He was for many years Supervisor from the town of Wales and was a personal friend of Millard Filmore. He had a family of ten children-three sisters and one brother only are living :
George Mann, resides at Aigora, Iowa.
Mrs. Alice Sanders, of Sheridan, Mich., (she is now, 1881, Vice-President of the Michigan State Bee-keepers' Association).
Mrs. Fanny Eddy, of Aurora and Mrs. Warner.
William Mann, one of the brothers, who died in Buffalo, Oct. 31, 1880, aged forty-four years, was a very enterprising and suc- cessful business man. He was for several years extensively engaged in the drug business in Buffalo. At the time of his death he was conducting the business at the Black Hills, where he was also engaged in mining.
Edward Wyatt.
Edward Wyatt was born in Somersetshire, England, July 31, 1844. His father's name was Joseph Wyatt ; his mother's maiden name was Martha Light. When fifteen years of age, Mr. Wyatt was apprenticed to a wheelwright. In 1865 he was married to Sarah Jane Davey. He came to the United States in 1869 for the benefit of his health ; his first year was spent in the Michigan pineries. The next year he sent to England
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for his family, and located on Townsend Hill, where he has ever since been engaged in farming. Their children were :
Edwin, born in England.
Joseph, born in England.
Arthur P., born and died in England.
George and Frank.
Moses White.
Moses White came from Connecticut to this town about 1811, and located on lot eighteen, township six, range six, by the ' Cattaraugus creek. He remained about twenty-five years, and then removed to Jamestown, Chautauqua county. His first wife's name was - Tuttle ; his second wife Sally Cheeny. Their children were :
Daniel, who died in Tennessee.
Almira, Hiram, Frederick, John and Welles, all of whom are supposed to be living.
Joel White.
Joel White, brother of Moses, Truman and Frances, came to this town from Connecticut, and located in Springville. He was the first wagon-maker in the town of Concord. His wife's maiden name was Phœbe Blakesly. They had no children. He removed to Ohio many years ago, and died there about 1872.
Frederick White.
Frederick White, younger brother of the others, came to this town with his parents. He married Malvina Albro, and removed from here to Cincinnati, Ohio, where his wife died. He was a soldier in the Mexican war, and is supposed to be dead.
John Wells.
John Wells was born Dec. 25, 1807, in the town of Sharon, Schoharie county, N. Y., came to Concord April 19, 1816 ; is a farmer. He was married Jan. 24, 1836 to Laura E. Ballou, who was born in Tinnemouth, Vt., April 10, 1817. His father's name was Azzan Wells; his mother's maiden name was Anna Turner.
John Wells has lived in Concord sixty-six years, and if he
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was given to story-telling he could tell much of the trials and hardships endured by the early settlers of the present thriving and wealthy portion of the Holland Purchase, then a wilderness, inhabited largely by wild animals. He tells only one bear story : " They had a pig and a pig pen, and a bear came for the pig. The family, armed with fire-brands, shovels, pitch- forks and other implements, made a vigorous attack on his bearship and put him to flight, and the pig was saved. Family record :
William J., was born April 24, 1838 ; was married July, 1863, to Calista Wilson ; is a farmer.
John B., was born March 2, 1840: married March, 1864, to Annie Pierce.
James F., was born May 16, 1842 : married in 1866 to Emma Blakeley.
Cornelia O., born August 18, 1851 ; died Nov. 23, 1852.
Ambrose Wright.
Father of Edwin Wright, was born at Saybrook, Conn., Oct. 2, 1773. He came of Revolutionary stock, his father serving in the Continental army, during the struggle for American Independence. After reaching the years of manhood he was united in marriage to Miss Betsy Pattison, who was born in the town of Barrington, Conn., June 12, 1779. Soon after this event he migrated to the town of Durham, Greene county, N. Y., and was one of the carly pioneers of that place. He loca- ted on the very farm that proved ever after to be his home. Here he devoted his energies to the improvement of his own surroundings, and the building up of every cause that tended to better the condition of his fellow beings. He was a man of generous and liberal views and for a few years he permitted the Presbyterian Society of his town to occupy his dwelling upon the Sabbath for religious meeting. Under these circumstances he too became convinced of the truths of Christianity, and soon after he united with the M. E. Church and for over forty years he was an active, zealous lay-member and class-leader in that church. Mrs. Wright died April 4, 1835, aged fifty-five years, nine months and twenty-two days. He survived her
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nearly sixteen years, dying January 12, 1851, aged seventy- seven years, four months and sixteen days. Thirteen children were the fruits of this union, viz :
Phila, born March 12, 1795. Caroline, born Sept. 5, 1797. James, born Oct. 29, 1799.
Patterson, born Sept. 4, 1801.
Wealthy, born Nov. 19, 1803.
Ambrose, born Jan. 19, 1806.
John Ely, born April 2, 1808.
Mary Jane, born June 20, 1810. William Clinton, born Aug. 25, 1812.
Zelia Diana, born Jan. 6, 1815.
Edwin, born March 11, 1817.
Betsy, born May 12, 1819. Ezra, born Oct. 27, 1821.
Edwin Wright.
Son of Ambrose and Betsy Patterson Wright, was born in the town of Durham, Greene county, N. Y., March 11, 1817. In the year 1835 he was married to Miss Catherine Schultes, and in the year 1840, the young couple migrated to the town of Boston, Erie county, N. Y. After a residence there of four years, Mr. Wright and family came to the town of Concord, and this has been their home ever since. He owned and con- ducted a farm for several years at East Concord. And he was engaged for a while in trade in Springville, but for many years past he has been engaged in agricultural pursuits.
He is a public spirited citizen, and takes an active interest in the political affairs of the town and the county. He is an agreeable associate and companion, and lives to enjoy the soci- ety of his friends and the comforts of his pleasant home. Six children have been born to them, viz :
Ezra, born July 19, 1836 ; died Sept. 24, 1852.
Isabella, born Aug. 17, 1842 ; died Dec. 30, 1861.
Edna, born Aug. 25, 1847 ; married C. R. Wadsworth.
Edwin, born Aug. 25, 1850; died Dec 4, 1855.
Ida M., born July 27, 1854.
Ward, born Oct. 6, 1858 ; died Jan. 28, 1863.
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Daniel Shultus.
Was born in the town of Rinebec, Dutchess county, N. Y., Dec. 26, 1786, and consequently is in the ninety-eighth year of his age. February 10, ISto, he was united in marriage to Miss Isabella Griffin, who was born in Rensselaerville, Albany county, N. Y., Dec. 2, 1793, and died in Springville, April 26, 1881, after a wedded life of seventy-one years and two months. Nearly forty-two years ago they came to this town and up to within two or three years, this venerable couple had been active and useful members of Mr. Edwin Wright's home ; but death called the venerable wife, and now the aged and devoted hus- band only awaits the summons that will unite him again with the bride of his youth.
Isaac Woodward.
Isaac Woodward's father, Levi Woodward, came in 1811 to. what is now North Collins, and located one and one-half miles south of Shirly postoffice. He came from Warren county, N. Y., where he was born in 1788 ; he moved to Woodward Hol- low in 1849, where he died in 1876. He was married in 1812 to Hannah Southwick.
They had eleven children :
Eliza M., James Roberts, William, Isaac, Josiah, Lydia M .. Jesse Taft, George, Stephen, Joseph, Job, Phœbe, Jane M .. Chandler Briggs and James.
They are all living but William, who died in 1862, and Job, who died in 1882.
Those living reside in some part of the West, except James, in Pennsylvania, and Isaac and Lydia, in Woodward Hollow.
Isaac Woodward was born Sept. 19, 1816, in what is now North Collins. He came to Woodward Hollow in 1842. Dur- ing the administration of Franklin Pierce a postoffice was insti- tuted at the Hollow, and Mr. Woodward appointed Postmaster, which position he has since held with the exception of about six years.
Mr. Woodward was married in 1840 to Emeline Morehouse. who was born in Warren county, N. Y., in 1820.
They have three sons and three daughters :
William, Jennie M., Fred. Warner, Philo, Josiah, Melissa M .. Henry Fathy and Florence M. Forest Matthews.
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All reside near the Hollow except William, now a resident of Dakota, and Florence, who resides in Collins. The three sons all served in the Union army.
Mr. Woodward has served two terms as Justice of the Peace and has been Assessor.
George W. Weeden.
George W. Weeden, son of William Weeden, was born May 26, 1832, in a log house standing on the same spot where his present residence now stands in Springville; this is the home- stead farm where Mr. Weeden has always lived. He was mar- ried in 1854 to Cornelia Stone, by whom he had one son :
Willis L., born Nov. 22, 1855.
He was married a second time, in 1863, to Jane Eaton, who was born Aug. 7, 1837.
Mr. Weeden has been Assessor of Concord one term, and also Assessor and Trustee in Springville four years.
His son, Willis L., graduated at Griffith institute in 1878, and at Hamilton college in 1882.
Mr. W. L. Weeden is Principal of the Leonardsville Union School and Academy, the duties of which he discharges with credit and ability, and he has won by his gentlemanly and scholarly deportment the cordial support of the entire com- munity where he is teaching.
Willard Weeden.
Mr. Weeden was born in Rutland county, Vt., July 1, 1792. When the war of 1812 began he enlisted in the service and was sent to the Niagara frontier, where he took part in the battles of Lundy's Lane, Chippewa, Queenston Heights, and was at Buffalo while its ruins were yet smouldering from the effects of the torch applied by the British and Indians. One morning after he had stood sentinel all night, for a very trivial offense he was struck with a sword by one of his superior offi- cers. Deeming himself grossly misused he thought as did Hamlet :
" Who would bear the whips and scorns of time, The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely
The insolence of office, and the spurns
That patient merit of the unworthy takes."
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And he decided, "rather than bear those ills we have, to fly to others that we know not of."
He became a deserter and made his way southward from Buf- falo into the almost unbroken wilderness which stretched south- ward to Olean, then called Olean Point. A reward was offered for his capture, and when he reached Hamburg he and two fellow deserters were overtaken and captured. And while stopping at a hotel on their return Mr. Weeden escaped the vigilance of the sentinel, and being a swift runner he secreted himself in the forest before he could be recaptured. Hunger would some- times compel him to ask for food at the scattered log cabins of the pioneers ; he was at one time about to stop at a cabin what is now Boston, when the woman came out, who recognized his true character, with a loaf of bread, which she gave to him and admonished him to exercise caution in his movements, as a large party were in pursuit of him, her husband among the number. He acted upon the advice. Several days afterwards he took dinner at a Mr. Plumb's, who had settled in the Chafee neighborhood near Springville; on land which Mr. Weeden afterwards located on. From Mr. Plumb's he made his way eastward up the Cattaraugus creek, when near the vicinity where George Richmond, Sr., grandfather of Nelson Rich- mond, of Springville, had located : he climbed a bluff to get a better view of his surroundings ; looking down on to the flat at his feet, he saw Mr. Richmond's clearing and Mr. Richmond engaged at work, and recognized him at once as a man he had known well in Vermont, but he dare not make himself known for fear of being apprehended. He continued castward along the creek until he struck the Indian trail leading from Olean Point to Buffalo; he took this and directed his steps south- ward ; after several days he came in company with a per- son dressed in full uniform; they became boon companions, but each said nothing to the other of their past life ; doubtless they both thought as did Hamlet when he said to his friend Horatio :
" Nor shall vou do mine eur that violence.
To make it truster of your own report Against yourself."
Reaching Olean they bought a boat in company and rowed
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down the river to some point in Ohio where they sold their boat for a quart of rum which they drank and then separated. Mr. Weeden remained in Ohio until a proclamation was issued declaring deserters free from further molestation, when he returned to Vermont, where he was married in 1815, to Amy Chafee, by whom he had three children :
John W., who died young.
Deliza J., married Elikum Shultes.
Alzina S., married Peter Widrig.
Early in the Spring of 1817, Mr. Weeden loaded his family and all his effects on an ox sled and started for Concord. He found good sleighing all the way. After a year's pioneering he located on lot thirteen, township six, range six. In 1830 he moved into a log-house on the premises now owned by George Weeden, where he lived until his death.
His first wife died in 1822, at the age of twenty-four and he was married a second time to Anna Paine, in 1827, by whom he had one son, George W. Weeden. She died Oct. 28, 1878, aged seventy-three years. Mr. Weeden died March 18, 1867.
As before mentioned, Mr. Weeden brought all his effects when he came to Concord upon an ox sled ; he added to his meagre foundation until at the time of his death he had prop- erty probably worth $30,000.
Mr. Weeden was for a number of years Captain of militia.
Willard White.
Mr. White's father, Nehemiah White, was born in Vermont, Aug. 6, 1775, where he died Sept. 27, 1816; he was a farmer by occupation.
Willard White was born in Vermont, June 24, 1806 ; he came to Zoar, in Collins, when fifteen years of age; he resided there and in East Otto, until 1863, when he moved to Springville, where he lived until his death, July 16, 1882. Mr. White had five brothers, all of whom died in Vermont, and four sisters ; two are still living, (1882):
Mrs. Sophia Pine. who resides near Binghamton, N. Y.
Mrs. Cynthia Wilber, of Danby, Vermont.
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Mr. White was married Nov. 25, 1827, to Mary Cox. They had four daughters :
Cynthia, born Aug. 30, 1828 : married in 1852 to Leonard Utley.
Lorinda, born Oct. 8, 1830 ; married in 1865 to Clark Wells.
Lucinda, born March 6, 1833 ; married in 1852 to Daniel W. Ticknor.
Lucy J., born March 8, 1837 ; married in 1868 to Lorenzo Cook.
Willard White died July 15, 1882, aged seventy-six years and two months.
William Wilcox.
William Wilcox, son of Samuel and Deborah (Smith ) Wilcox, was born in the town of Sardinia, Sept. 8, 1826, but the family soon moved to Concord and after some shifts located on the east part of lot forty-four, township seven, range six, which he (William) now owns and occupies. He was married to Miss Avina Barker in 1854. Mr. and Mrs. Wilcox are both mem- bers of the Free Baptist Church, Mrs. Wilcox having joined that church in 1854 and retained her membership ever since. They have five children, viz :
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