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(V) Benjamin, son of Eleazar and Susanna (Hinkley) Crocker, was born in Willington, Tolland county, Connecticut, July 4, 1788,
died March 10, 1874. Ile was an infant in arms when his parents migrated to New York state, where he was educated and grew to manhood. His father gave him a farm con- taining between two and three hundred acres which he cultivated, being principally a wheat grower. He was prosperous and influential in his town. For many years he was justice of the peace ; was supervisor and member of the state legislature. Ile was an elder of of the Presbyterian church and actively inter- ested in its advancement. He married, June 13. 1811, Cyllinda Norton, died March 9. 1882, aged eighty-nine years, daughter of William Norton, of White Creek, an officer of the revolutionary war. She traced her de- scent to Thomas of Waters, born 1582, died 1648. The line traces through George (II ), died 1659; George (III), born 1641 ; George (IV) : George (V), born March 6, 1697: George (VI), born September 12, 1724, served in the revolution, wounded at the bat- tle of Trenton, New Jersey, 1776, died Feb- ruary 15, 1777. William (VII), born April 13, 1754. also a soldier of the revolution, married Lurana Kimberly, widow of a Mr. Morehouse. Their daughter, Cyllinda, of the eighth generation, married Benjamin Crock- er. Children: I. Nathaniel Scudder Prime, born May 19, 1814, died October 30, 1889 ; he married (first) January 4, 1837, Sarah Jane Day ; (second) October 3. 1843, Helen Jea- nette Wilder ; (third) Elizabeth Norman. 2. Mary Wood, of whom further. 3. Benjamin P., born July 22, 1817, died January 22, 1896; a merchant of Cambridge, Washington coun- ty, New York, postmaster for sixteen years, an organizer and director of the village bank and prominent in the church. lle married. June 18, 1868, Sarah Josephine Weston, of Cohoes, New York, born in New Hampshire. 4. Rufus King. born August 16. 1819. died November 2, 1891 ; a lawyer and editor and member of the New York legislature. Ile married (first ) Sarah J. Meyers, October 18, 1848, he married (second), October 22, 1874. Abbie Sherman Taylor. 5. Celinda Ann, born April 27, 1822, died March 2, 1894. 6. Har- riet Maria, born October 31, 1824; married, September 6, 1865. Frederick Julian. 7. James Norton, born May 13. 1827. married, June 17. 1852, Mary Ann Dillon. 8. William Harvey, born April 1, 1830, died October 24. 1831.
(VI) Mary Wood, daughter of Benjamin and Cyllinda (Norton) Crocker, was born in the town of White Creek, Washington coun- ty, New York, November 24. 1815, died June 24. 1896. She married. October 18, 1837, Nelson Reid Simpson, born September 17,
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1806, son of David and Rachel (Reid) Simp- son. David Simpson was born October 26, 1762, Rachel born December 3, 1773. Nelson Reid Simpson was a farmer of Washington county, an elder of the Presbyterian church and a man of high character. Children : Hetty Cornelia, of whom further: Mary Francis, married Alexander Marshall Sher- man ; Annie Harriet, deceased.
(VII) Hetty Cornelia, daughter of Nelson Reid and Mary Wood (Crocker) Simpson, married William Stanley Gilbert, born in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, January 21, 1841, died August 18, 1885 in Cohoes, New York. He was a graduate of Beloit College, Wiscon- sin. He served in the civil war in Company D, Forty-ninth Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry. He was one of the "for- lorn hope" that made the charge on the Con- federate works at Port Hudson that resulted only in the loss of many brave men. He ranked as sergeant and came through without serious injury. After the war he was in busi- ness for several years at Cohoes, New York, a member of the manufacturing firm of J. H. Parsons & Company. He was a Repub- lican in politics and served as alderman for several terms. He was a member and most generous supporter of the Dutch Reformed church. He stood high in his community as an able business man and exemplary citizen. His widow resides in Cambridge, New York.
WOOD "Jeremiah Wood was married unto Dority Benett the 29th March 1709," is the first record found of the progenitor of the Wood family of Hoosick Falls, New York, herein recorded. This record is found in Lyme town records, Vol. 2, page 354. According to the tomb- stone record of Jeremiah Wood he was born in May, 1678. "Dorete" Benett was born May 16, 1688. While the parentage of Jere- miah can be traced no further, we find that his wife, Dorothy, was the granddaughter of Henry Champion, who was born in Eng- land in 1611. He came to New England and was one of the first settlers of Saybrook and East Saybrook (Lyme), Connecticut. H married and had five children, the eldest of whom was "Saraw" (Sarah), born in 1649. Herriman, in his "Early Puritan Settlers of Connecticut." says: "Few families in the Connecticut Colony have been more pros- pered than that of Henry Champion." His descendants bore an important part in the revolution, among them Colonel Henry and General Epaphroditus Champion. Henry Champion removed to Lyme many years be- fore his death at great age, February 17,
1708. The papers concerning the final set- tlement of the estate are on file at the pro- bate office, New London, Connecticut. Among the heirs who signed a paper declaring them- selves satisfied with the distribution of the estate, is "Henry Benet."
Sarah Champion, eldest daughter of Henry Champion, married Henry Benett. De- cember 9, 1673. He died in 1726, leaving three sons. and four married daughters. "Dorete," the sixth child and fourth daugh- ter, was born May 19, 1688. A "Deed of Gift" to his daughter "Dorathy" is found among the papers of her husband.
(I) Jeremiah Wood, the American an- cestor, married Dorothy (as the name came to be spelled) Benett, March 29, 1709. He lived in Stow, Massachusetts, where his first four children were born; the other eight were born in Littleton, Massachusetts, which may mean that the establishing of the boundaries of the town threw his residence in Little- ton. The birth of his daughter Luce is re- corded in Stow, the birth of the next in Lit- tleton, and it seems probable that he remained on the same estate from marriage until death. He is styled in his account books and papers a "Weaver," a "Yeoman" and "Gentleman." He was constable, collector, selectman and treasurer at different times of the town of Littleton. He was a member and supporter of the church at Littleton. He purchased his farm from the town, January 13, 1717, a part being still in possession of his descend- ants. He died July 15, 1730. aged fifty-two years, two months and eight days. His wife Dorothy was appointed administratrix; the estate inventoried one thousand pounds. Dor- othy Wood survived her husband twenty-two years and two days. She was left with a large family, but she cared for them and im- proved the estate left her by her husband. In the inventory of her estate is sixteen barrels of cider and a gold necklace appraised at fourteen pounds. She died July 17, 1752, and was buried in the Littleton churchyard by the side of her husband where grave- stones mark the resting place of five genera- tions of their family. Children of Jeremiah and Dorothy ( Benett) Wood: Sarah, Eliza- beth, Joseph, see forward ; Luce, Benett, John, Jeremiah, Sarah (2), Jonathan, Elephalet.
(II) Joseph, eldest son of Jeremiah and Dorothy (Benett) Wood, was born in Stow, Massachusetts, May 22, 1713. He married Grace Whettemore, of Concord, Massachu- setts, daughter of Benjamin and Esther ( Brooks) Whettemore, and sister of Rev. Aaron Whettemore, for many years min- ister at Suncook, (now Pembrooke) New
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Hampshire. He first settled at Littleton where his first child was born. In May, 1738, Joseph and his wife were dismissed from the church at Littleton to the church at Suncook, New Hampshire. The births of some of his children are recorded at Concord, Massachu- setts, and Cambridge records show transfers of land. His wife survived him and married (second) Ephraim Stow, of Concord, Janu- ary 14, 1745, which would place the date of Joseph's death between 1741 and 1744. Chil- dren: Benjamin, born September 17, 1734; Aaron, see forward : Grace, born in Concord, Massachusetts, December 1, 1741, married William Wheeler, January 18, 1763.
(III) Aaron, second son of Joseph and Grace (Whettemore) Wood, was born in Suncook, New Hampshire, in 1739. He was a blacksmith. He settled at Pepperell, Mas- sachusetts, upon land bought of Jonas Wheel- er, as per record of 1762. He married Re- bekah Wheeler; children: Rebecca, Lucy, Halah, Lydia, Grace, Hepzibah, Aaron (2), see forward; Susanna, Benjamin, Joseph, Hannah and Sarah.
(IV) Aaron (2), son of Aaron (I) and Rebekah (Wheeler) Wood, was born at Pep- perell, .Massachusetts, May 30, 1776. died at Rensselaerville, New York, June 4. 1848. He removed to Mason, New Hampshire, where he resided many years and engaged in trade with marked success. By reason of unwise endorsements he lost heavily and returned to Massachusetts, for a time, from thence remov- ing to Rensselaerville, Albany county, New York, where he made wagons and was among the first to manufacture the celebrated "Jeth- ro Wood" cast iron plow. He carried on a successful manufacturing business, but his greatest success was in training and develop- ing in his machine shops, the founder of a great business, the product of which is adding to the world's comfort and wealth somewhere, every month and week in the year. Like the shot fired at Lexington, the click of the reaper is "heard round the world." Aaron Wood married (first) Eady Curtis, born January IO, 1778, died at Mason, New Hampshire, August 13, 1811. Children: Beckey, Mary, Aaron Curtis, Suky, Benjamin F. and Eady. He married (second) February 2, 1812, Re- beckah Wright, of Westford, Massachusetts. Children : 1. William Anson, a manufacturer and for fifteen years associated with his brother, Walter A. Wood, as head of a de- partment, later of the William Anson Wood Reaper and Mower Company, of Youngs- town, Ohio. He died November 18, 1884. He married Jane Dodge, daughter of Judge Luther Carter, and had two children, Mary
Janette, Frank, who married Alice Cranford Thayer, of Hoosick Falls, New York 2. Walter Abbott, see forward. 3. Elijhalet, merchant of Albany, New York, partner of Gaylor Sheldon & Company, later Sheldon & Wood. In 1854 sold his Albany interests and removed to Chicago, where he engaged in the lumber business under the firm name of the Newaygo Company. There he became an exceedingly wealthy and prominent man. He was well known in business and political circles, was nominated for mayor of Chicago. in 1860, but declined the honor; was of in- calculable value to the government, and the. Union cause, through his work on the Union defence committee ; was active and liberal in. church relation; was trustce and treasurer of the Presbyterian North West Theological Seminary, retaining his interest until 1869, when he retired to Irvington-on-the-Hudson. He associated with the Walter A. Wood Com- pany and was manager of their New York City office. He married Mary J., daughter of Swelton Grant, of Hobart, Delaware county, New York, and had eight children, seven dy- ing in infancy. Caroline Whitely, the only surviving child, married Joseph Ormsby Rut- ter, of Chicago, Illinois, a banker of that city. 4. Rebeckah Ann, born May 16, 1821,. died unmarried February 5, 1851. 5. Sarah- Jane, born March 18, 1823; married E. D. Selden, of Saratoga Springs; no issue. 6. Harriet Newell, died in infancy. 7. Susan, died in infancy. 8. Luther Wright, died at the age of five years.
(V) Walter Abbott, second son of Aaron (2) and Rebeckah (Wright) Wood, was born at Mason, Hillsboro county, New Hampshire, October 23, 1815, died at Hoosick Falls,. Rensselaer county, New York, January 15,. 1892. He was of a mechanical turn of mind and until he was twenty years of age re- mained with his father in his wagon and plow manufacturing works, where he hecame an expert machinist. In 1835 he went to. Hoosick Falls and worked at his trade in the machine shops of Parsons & Wilder, where- after a few years, having acquired a small capital, he established a like business of his own. He devoted his great mechanical skill and inventive genius to the improvement of the then crude and unsatisfactory farming machinery. The first result of his work was the introduction of the Manny Harvesting Machine with Wood's Improvements, and in the year 1852 over a hundred of these ma- chines were sold. In 1853 he had still fur- ther improved the machine, and the sales ran up to five hundred machines that year. He had now convinced the farmer of the great
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value of his inventions, and half-satisfied him- self that they were practical and saleable. He now set about to increase his manufac- turing facilities to meet the demand he had created. In 1859 he made and sold six thou- sand machines for harvesting and mowing ; in 1869, 23,000; in 1879, 25,000; in 1884. 48,000. In the meantime other companies had entered the field and the great war of the rival companies was under full headway. Mr. Wood conducted his great and growing busi- ness until 1865, when he organized a stock corporation under the laws of the state of New York, and in 1866 began business as the Walter A. Wood Mowing & Reaping Machine Company, with a capital of $2.500,000. Mr. Wood was the first president of the company and the only one up to the date of his death. In 1860 and again in 1890 the entire works were destroyed by fire, but in each case were quickly rebuilt on a greatly enlarged scale. The Wood mowers and reapers were of su- perior design and construction, and up to the period of consolidation of several of the lead- ing makers, his sales surpassed in volume any single competitor. In field trials and com- petition events he easily was first and received from county, state, national and international expositions, medals and certificates of first merit and far in excess of any rivals. He developed the foreign trade, established a London office, and sent abroad fifty machines, the first like shipment ever made. They were ·soon sold and a foreign trade assured. He met all comers in the foreign field as he had at home, and received the highest awards in England, 1861, at Leeds, London. At Paris, in 1876, he took leading rank, receiv- ing the gold medal of honor, also the cross of the chevalier of the Legion of Honor. At the French international field trial, he took first prize against the world. At the Vienna International Exposition in 1873, after a sharp contest, he was awarded the highest prize, the ·Grand Diploma of Honor, and knighted with the Cross of the Imperial Order of Francis Joseph. It was at this trial that he first brought into the field his celebrated harvester and binder. At the World's Paris Exposition of 1878, he won the highest prize and honor, the prize being "an object of art," the honor consisted of being promoted to "The Cross of an officer of the Legion of Honor." His prizes numbered in 1885 over one thousand five hundred, many of them of great intrinsic value ; his home at Hoosick Falls being a ver- itable museum of rewards of merit. He con- tinned his successful career, and in perhaps the most bitter and costly war ever raged be- tween rival companies, upheld the honor of
the Walter A. Wood Company, and fairly fought a winning battle. At last peace set- tled over the scene, and the efforts of the various companies turned to the legitimate ambition of furnishing the world with Amer- ican-made harvesting machinery. In this they have succeeded and brought untold wealth to their own country ; a white loaf to the count- less millions of our own and foreign lands, and everlasting honor and fortune to them- selves. In this great work the inventions of Mr. Wood have led, and he may justly be considered not only a benefactor to his own country, but to the entire agricultural world.
During his absence in Europe attending the Paris Exposition in 1878 he was nomina- ted by the Republicans of the seventeenth New York congressional district, composed of Washington and Rensselaer counties, as their candidate for congress. On his return in Oc- tober, he acceded to the wishes of his friends and accepted the nomination. Although the district had elected a Democrat by five hun- dred majority the previous election, Mr. Wood was elected to succeed him, by a ma- jority of seven thousand. He was renomina- ted in 1880, and elected by seventeen thou- sand majority. He served creditably during his four years in congress but expressed no regrets when his term expired, politics being less congenial to him than his business. He was a warm and liberal friend of the church, belonging to the Episcopal denomination, and serving as senior warden of St. Mark's par- ish, Hoosick Falls, contributing largely to the building of the church edifice and to its sup- port. During the civil war he rendered val- uable service, and saw that no soldier's fam- ily was in need. At the immense works of his company at Hoosick Falls, a great many hundred men were constantly employed and there existed between them and Mr. Wood the utmost harmony and good will.
He married (first) in 1842, Betsey A., born at Hoosick Falls, New York, June 19, 1821, died May 24, 1867, daughter of Hon. Seth Parsons, of Hoosick Falls. Children : James S., died at the age of five years : Lyn P., born April 30, 1850, at Brattleboro, Vermont, died April 22, 1877; married August 28, 1873, Mary E. Jack ; child, Bessie Lyn, born De- cember 20, 1876. Mr. Wood married ( sec- ond) September 2, 1868, Lizzie Warren, daughter of Rev. George Huntington Nich- olls, rector of St. Mark's Episcopal Church, Hoosick Falls (see Nicholls IX). Children : Walter Abbott (2), see forward: Julia Nich- olls, born in London, England, June 9. 1874, she was educated at Miss Peebles School for Young Ladies, New York City. married, No-
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vember 16, 1898, Hugh P. Blackinton, of Massachusetts, now of Hoosick Falls, treas- urer of Noble & Wood Machine Company, no issue.
(VI) Walter Abbott (2), only son of Walter Abbott (1) and Lizzie Warren (Nich- olls) Wood, was born at Hoosick Falls, New York, January 2, 1871. He prepared for col- lege at St. Paul's School, Concord, New Hampshire, and entered Yale University where he was graduated Ph.B., 1892. He traveled in Europe for a year before entering Yale, and after graduation entered his fath- er's business at Hoosick Falls, where he con- tinued four years. For several years there- after, until 1907, he was not engaged in busi- ness. This interval was spent in travel at home and abroad, and in various phases of public political life. He is a director of the Walter A. Wood Company ; vice-president of the First National Bank of Hoosick Falls, di- rector of Noble & Wood Machine Company. of which he was one of the founders, and has other and varied business interests. He enlisted in the New York National Guard, was promoted December, 1893, second lieu- tenant of the Thirty-second Separate Com- pany, and served until 1898. He enlisted for the Spanish-American war as first lieutenant of Company M, Second Regiment, New York Volunteers, and served during the war, was mustered out 1899; was elected captain of the same company, serving until February, 1908, when he resigned. He is an active Republi- can; served as trustee of the Village Cor- poration of Hoosick Falls three terms; was supervisor 1904-08, and chairman of the county board, 1907-08. He is a frequent dele- gate to county and state conventions of his party, and prominent in party councils. He is a member of the Episcopal church and ves- tryman of St. Mark's. He has attained the thirty-second degree in Scottish Rite Mason- ry, and is now (1910) serving his second term as master of Van Rensselaer Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, of Hoosick Falls. He is a member of the Berzelius Society of Yale, and of the Hoosick Club, the Troy Club of Troy, the Graduate of New Haven, and the University of New York City. He is interested in all that pertains to the welfare of his town; is public-spirited, charitable and a good citizen.
He married, October 6, 1906, Dorothy Lieb Harrison, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, daughter of Charles Custis, and Ellen Nixon (Waln) Harrison. Charles Custis Harrison, LL.D., was born in Philadelphia, May 3, 1844, son of George Leib Harrison, LL.D., and Sarah Ann (Waples) IIarrison. George
Leib Harrison was an honorary ernduate of Harvard, where he received his A.M., 1878; was the founder of the Franklin Sugar Re- finery; President of Pennsylvania State Board of Charities, trustee of the Protestant Episcopal Divinity School, Philadelphia, and author of works on sociology and philan- thropy. Charles Custis Harrison was grad- uated at University of Pennsylvania, Greek salutatorian, A.B., 1862; A.M., 1865. IIe was senior partner of Harrison Frazer & Company until the dissolution of that firm. He was elected a trustee of the University of Pennsylvania, 1876; chairman of the com- mittee on ways and means, 1885; acting pro- vost, 1894; provost of the University, 1895, to present time. He was manager of the Pro- testant Episcopal Hospital ; member of Amer- ican Academy of Political and Social Science ; Pennsylvania Historical Society ; American Philosophical Society ; Numismatic and An- tiquarian Society. He endowed the "George Leib Memorial Foundation," of the Univer- sity of Pennsylvania by a gift of $500,000, and later, in connection with Mrs. Harrison, gave another $250,000 to the general purposes of the University. In 1895 Columbia Univer- sity conferred LL.D., and Princeton the same, in 1896. He married, in 1870, Ellen Nixon, daughter of Edward Waln, of Philadelphia, and great-granddaughter of Robert Morris.
(The Nicholls Line).
. Mrs. Lizzie Warren (Nicholls) Wood was a descendant of that ancient English family of whom Burke says: "The origin of the an- cient family of Nicholls has been by antiquar- ians variously and largely treated upon. It is stated that at the time of Edward the Con- queror, one, Nicholas de Albine, alias Ni- gell or Nicholl, came over from Normandy and was the common ancestor." The founder in America, from whom Mrs. Wood de- scends, was Francis Nicholls, born in Eng- land before 1600, son of Francis and Mar- garet (Bruce) Nicholls, and brother of Gov- ernor Richard Nicholls, who commanded the British fleet to whom the Dutch surrendered New Amsterdam. He received the surrender of the Dutch authorities, proposed the name New York for the new province, was gov- ernor of New York in 1664, and returned to England in 1667. Margaret Brice was a daughter of Sir George Bruce, of Carnock, Scotland, and tenth in descent from King Robert Bruce, of Scotland. Francis Nicholls came to America prior to 1636, bringing three sons : John, Isaac and Caleb, and a daugh- ter, Mrs. Richard Mills. In 1639 he appears at Stratford, Connecticut, where he died 1650.
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There is no mention of the first wife, and she is believed to have died in England. Francis was one of the original proprietors of Strat- ford, Connecticut, and one of the first band of seventeen families to settle there. He was sergeant and captain of "ye Train Bande." His second wife was Anne Wynes, daughter of "Saintly Deacon Barnabas Wynes," born in Wales, who was one of the original pro- prietors of Southold, Long Island.
(II) Isaac, son of Francis Nicholls, was born in England, 1625, died at Stratford, Connecticut, 1695; was deputy to the general court, 1662-64. He married Margaret
and had issue. One of his daughters mar- ried Rev. Israel Chauncey, army surgeon dur- ing King Philip's war; pastor of the Strat- ford church, one of the founders of Yale College, and elected its first president.
(III) Isaac (2), son of Isaac (1) and Mar- garet Nicholls, born in Stratford, died 1690, aged thirty-six years. He married Mary -, and had issue.
(IV) Richard, son of Isaac (2) and Mary Nicholls, was born in Stratford, November 26, 1678, died September 29, 1756; married, June 3, 1702, Comfort, daughter of Theophilus Sherman, and granddaughter of Hon. Samuel Sherman, ancestor of General William T. Sherman, the famous military genius of the civil war.
(V) Theophilus, son of Richard and Com- fort (Sherman) Nicholls, was born in Strat- ford, March 31, 1803, died April 7, 1774. Magistrate, deputy to forty-one sessions of the Connecticut general court, 1736-72; ves- tryman of Christ Church, Stratford, 1746- 69; built the first store and opened the first trade on the harbor of Bridgeport, Connecti- cut. He married, January 2, 1732, Sarah, daughter of Lieutenant Ebenezer Curtis, and granddaughter of Captain William Curtis, captain of "such forces as shall be sent from Fairfield county (Connecticut) against the Dutch of New York."
(VI) Philip, son of Theophilus and Sarah (Curtis) Nicholls, was born in Stratford, January 2, 1726, died May 15, 1807. He was captain and chairman of the committee to re- lieve the suffering poor under the Boston poor hill, 1794; vestryman of Christ Church, 1769- 85 ; first lay delegate from Connecticut to the general convocation of the Protestant Epis- copal church. He married (first) Mehitable, daughter of William Peet, who died Septem- ber 23, 1756; married (second) Mary, daugh- ter of Joseph Prince, and nicce of Rev. Thomas Prince, pastor of Old South Church, Boston, 1718-58. "The most assiduous annal- ist of New England history since the first
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