Hudson-Mohawk genealogical and family memoirs, Volume IV, Part 57

Author: Reynolds, Cuyler, 1866-1934, ed
Publication date: 1911
Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company
Number of Pages: 660


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(VI) Dean, youngest child of Herman B. and Jane E. (Bodley) Best, was born in Car- mel, New York, November 21, 1865. He was educated in the public school and at Drew College, Carmel.


Dean Best early became interested in man- ufacturing, a business he has followed all his life. He was superintendent of the Bailey Knitting Mills Company of Fort Plain for two years and since 1895 has been super- intendent of the carding department of the Acorn Knitting Mills at Philmont. He is a Republican in politics and has always taken an active interest in public affairs. Since Feb- ruary 5, 1910, he has been postmaster of Phil- mont, New York, his home. For ten years he has been a member of the county committee. For four years he served in the New York National Guard in the Twenty-first Separate Company of Hudson. He is a member of the Protestant Episcopal church; Agawamuch Lodge, No. 841, Free and Accepted Masons ; Cascade Lodge, No. 197, Knights of Pythias, and of the order of Maccabees. He married, in Hudson, New York, July 20, 1887, Mary A., born in New York City, daughter of John


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Edward Hetherington. Child, Henry B., born August 21, 1892.


COPELAND Lawrence and Lydia (Town- send) Copeland, of Brain- tree, Masachusetts (1651), had a family of nine children. Three of their sons. Thomas. William and John, lived to manhood and are the progenitors of nearly all the Copelands in the United States.


(II) William, son of Lawrence and Lydia (Townsend ) Copeland, was born September 15. 1056; married. April 3. 1698, Mary, widow of Christopher Webb, Jr., and daugh- ter of John and Ruth ( Alden) Bass. Ruth was the daughter of John Alden, the Pilgrim. William and Mary Copeland had eight sons and one daughter.


(III) William (2), son of William (1) and Mary (Bass) (Webb) Copeland, was born March 7. 1695 : married, June 15, 1718, Mary, daughter of Richard and Rebecca (Micall ) Thayer. They had seven children.


(IV) William (3), son of William (2) and Mary ( Thayer ) Copeland, was born De- cember 6. 1730: married. May 3, 1753, in Brooklyn. Connecticut. Sarah Smith, and lived in Thompson. Connecticut. They had prob- ably twelve children.


(\) Jonathan, son of William (3) and Sarah (Smith ) Copeland, was born September 29, 1757: married ( first). March 9, 1780, Esther Chapman, of Hampton, Connecticut ; she was born January 12, 1761, died April 15, 1795. Jonathan married (second), May 22. 1795. Sally Chollar (or Collar), who died June II, 1826. Children of first wife: 1. Jonathan, born November 15. 1781. 2. Esther. April 11, 1783. married Daniel Corbin, died November 21, 1870. 3. Jonathan, October 16. 1786. died December 5. 1858. 4. David, Sep- tember 8. 1788. 5. Eunice, March 8, 1791, married Harvey Adams, died September 5. 1864. 6. Royal, March 20, 1793, married Har- riet Hyde, died March 2, 1866. 7. Elizabeth, March, 1795. Children of second wife: 8. Sally, born April 10. 1798, died October 30, 1843. 9. Abigail. April 19. 1800, married Ichabod Upham, died January 2 1882. 10. Asa, October 26, 1801, died August 26, 1820. II. Abiel, May 3. 1803. died May 10, 1863. 12. Elizabeth W., January 26, 1805, died Septem ber 29. 1869. 13. Daniel, November 13, 1806, married Pamelia Hibbard, died May 22, 1882. 14. Cynthia, November 14, 1808, died Decem- ber II. 1808. 15. Joel, November 20. 1809. died June 24, 1886. 16. Amasa, January 7. 1812. died May 22, 1859.


(VI) David, son of Jonathan and Esther (Chapman) Copeland, was born September 8,


1788. died June 10, 1878: married, June 29, 1814. Martha Shepard. \hildren: 1. Jona- than, born February 20, 1816. 2. Gerry Shep- ard. July 2, 1819, died December 10, 1873. 3. Martha. July 26, 1821, died August 4, 1821. 4. William Eaton, June 15, 1823. diedl May 10, 1882. 5. Mary May. December 5. 1825, died June 23. 1827. 6. Mary, February 19, 1825. died March 15. 1828. 7. Mary Jane, January 30. 1830, died November 20. 1905. 8. David, August 17, 1832, died September 10, 1800. 9. Martha, June 28, 1835. died September 7. 1843.


(VII) Jonathan (2), son of David and Martha ( Shepard) Copeland, was Torn Febru- ary 20, 1816, died December 9, 1890: mar- ried, January 30, 1844, Kezia, daughter of John and Kezia (Failing ) Clark, of Schen- ectady. New York. Kezia (Clark ) Copeland died August 8. 1885. Chillren: 1. Martha E., born February 21. 1845, died October 16. 1846. 2. J. Clark, April 26, 1847; married (first), July 20, 1869. Lottie A. Schenck, who died May 25, 1870; child, Grace Augusta, born May 24. 1870: married (second ). April 5. 1882, Adella M. Billings. 3. Edward Pay- son, October 9. 1849, died September 13. 1876. 4. William Henry. September 5. 1852: married, October 12, 1881, Julia Burchard. 5. Emma Catharine, April 3, 1854. 6. Mary Kezia, October 18, 1856: married. December 29, 1886, Frank Holley : children : Ralph, born January 20, 1889, and Alma Kezia. February 8, 1803. 7. Alice Moore, October 26, 1861. died September 23, 1889: married. May 6, 1885. J. R. Hawley : child, Kathleen Alice. born February 27. 1887.


HARTT The English ancestry of the Hartt family of America is un- questioned hut difficult to 111- ravel. From the will of William Harte of the parish of St. Thomas the Apostle, Lon- don, England, proved in 1632, it is learned he had three sons, William, Richard and Thomas Hartt. (He wrote his name Harte. but the will gives the sons' names as Hartt. ) Three of the name, Samuel Hartt, John Harte and Nicholas Hart, came from London, Eng- land. to America between 1631 and 1642, and may have been sons of one or each of these three sons of William, as they are believed to have been brothers or cousins. Samuel Hartt in 1653 called himself thirty-one years of age and said he was sent over from England to the Iron Works at Lynn, Massachusetts, in 1640. He married Mary How, a widow, and is the progenitor of the New Hampshire branch. Nicholas Hart, supposed son of Richard of London, England, was the progen-


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itor of the Dutchess county, New York, branch from whom Arthur Hartt, of Ravena, New York, descends, spelled his name Hart. Where or when the tt came into use does not appear, probably this was at first a local spell- ing, as is Harte. Nicholas was of Taunton, Massachusetts, 1642; in 1643 was of Boston, remaining there until 1648, then settling at Warwick, Rhode Island, where he was a mer- chant. He served in the colonial wars of 1643 as a soldier in Captain William Pool's company. He married Joanna. youngest daughter of Edward Rossiter, of Rhode Island, who came from London, England, with and was assistant to Governor John Win- throp, of Massachusetts. There are no rec- ords of the death of Nicholas Hart or his wife. Austin's "Genealogical Dictionary" says they left one son only.


(II) Richard, only son of Nicholas and Joanna (Rossiter) Hart, was born in Eng- land about 1635; came to America with his father and lived at Portsmouth, Rhode Island. He was a sailor and lost his life at sea, near Boston harbor, in January, 1695. The last vessel he sailed on was the sloop "Dragon," Captain Robert Glover. He had a grant of eight acres in Portsmouth in 1657. half of which he sold in 1662. He married Hannah Keen. Children born in Portsmouth, Rhode Island: Alice, married George Reace : Rich- ard (2), of further mention : Mary, married John Tripp; Nicholas, lived at Little Comp- ton, Rhode Island; William, lived at New Bedford, Massachusetts; Samuel, lived at Tiverton, Rhode Island.


(III) Richard (2), son of Richard (I) and Hannah (Keen) Hartt, was born in Ports- mouth, Rhode Island, in 1667; made his will April 19, 1745, probated June 10. 1745. He lived at Little Compton, Rhode Island, near the Tiverton line. Tradition says his wife Amy long outlived him. There was a path on his farm to five graves of Hartt families, with plain granite gravestones that was called "Amy Hartt's Path," so worn was it by her frequent visits to the graves. He married (first) in 1693, Hannah Williams; married ( second) at Little Compton, October 31. 1708, Amy Gibbs. Children, born in Little Comp- ton (vital records) : Alice, married Nathan Closson : Mary, married a Mr. Peacham ; Sarah, married Daniel Wilcox: Richard (3), of further mention. Children of second wife : Comfort, married John Gifford; Stephen, born August 2. 1712.


(IV) Captain Richard (3) Hartt, son of Richard (2) and Hannah (Williams) Hartt, was born in Little Compton, Rhode Island, where he died July 22, 1792. He was a farmer


and gained his title in the militia service dur- ing the Indian wars. He married (first), Feb- ruary 4, 1725, Mary Taber, who died Novem- ber, 1760 ; married ( second), October 18, 1761, Abigail Fabee. Children, born in Little Comp- ton (vital records) : I. John, born April 4, 1729. 2. Hannah, December 5, 1730; mar- ried John Macomber, of Dartmouth. 3. Wil- liam, January 3, 1733, lived at Tiverton, Rhode Island. 4. Phoebe, May 15, 1735; married a Mr. Howard, of Little Compton, and had twelve children. 5. Richard, of fur- ther mention. 6. Mary, July 28, 1739; mar- ried Nicholas Lapham, of Dartmouth. 7: Lombard, February 3, 1742; married Re- becca Sheldon. 8. Susannah, April 9. 1744; married Philip Macomber. 9. Jeremiah, April 5, 1745, lived at Saratoga, New York. 10. Philip. January 12, 1749, lived at Hart Vil- lage, Dutchess county, New York.


(V) Richard (4), son of Captain Richard' (3) and Mary (Taber) Hartt, was born in Little Compton, Rhode Island. About 1760' he settled in Dutchess county, New York, and bought a large farm on the "turnpike," leading from Poughkeepsie to Sharon, Connecticut. Here he built a large stone house about fif- teen miles east of Poughkeepsie, which was. later occupied by his brother Philip and is still standing. About 1767 he executed sev- eral deeds signed by himself and wife Ruth. He styled himself a "clothier." He afterward removed to Albany, New York, where on January 7, 1783, he deeded his interest in the farm to his brother Philip. On September 18, 1793, Abigail Hartt, widow of Richard Hartt, of Little Compton, Rhode Island, deedled her right to the same Philip Hartt, making him exclusive owner of the Dutchess county farm. Soon after 1770 a large population from Dart- mouth, Massachusetts, settled at this point, among them several Hart families, and it be- came known as Fart Village, now Mill- brook. Richard Hartt married (first) at Tiv- erton, Rhode Island, March 8. 1759, Ruth Borden: married (second) Abigail Irish ; among their children was a son John.


(VI) John, son of Richard (4) and Ruth ( Borden ) Hartt, was born in llart Village, Dutchess county, New York, about 1767. He was a farmer ; married and had issue.


(\'11) John (2), believed to have been the son of John (1) Hartt, was born at Hart Village, Dutchess county, January 5. 1792, died at Norton Elill, Greene county, New York, April 20, 1868. He was one of the old- time shoemakers, a good workman, an indus- trious and upright man. He worked in Al- bany county, New York, when a young man, following his calling from house to house aft-


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er the manner of the olden-time shoemaker, this method being known in the trade as "whipping the cat." In 1819 he settled at Norton Hill, Greene county, and opened a shop, where he did a good business. About 1820-21, he kept a tavern, said to have been the first or one of the first kept in the village. He lived to a ripe old age, dying in the com- munion of the Christian church of Freehold, New York, of which he had long been a member. He married Salome, daughter of Ezra Miller, who survived him many years. Children: Mary A .: Franklin A. ; James S., merchant : Edgar, now a merchant of Green- ville, New York : William B., a farmer: John G., of further mention: George A .: Edgar and George A. Hartt, of Albany, New York, being the only survivors (1911).


(VIII) John G., son of John (2) and Sa- lome (Miller) Hartt, was born at Norton Hill, Greene county, New York, October 3, 1829, died April 6, 1901. In 1856 he began business as a general merchant at Greenville, Greene county, New York, in partnership with his brother, Edgar. They continued in suc- cesssful operation as partners for fifty-five years and the firm was only dissolved by the cleath of John G. Hartt. Edgar still survives (1911) and continues the business, making sixty-five years in the same business in the same town (see "Greene County History"). He was a Republican in politics, and a sup- porter of the Greenville Presbyterian church, of which his wife was a member. He married Jane .A. Talmadge, born in Greenville, New York, April 4. 1837, died May 8, 1906. Child, Arthur, of further mention.


(IX) Arthur, only child of John G. and Jane .\. ( Talmadge) Hartt. was born in Greenville, Greene county, New York, July 23, 1865.


He was educated in the public schools ; spent nine years at Greenville Academy and one year at Riverview Military Academy at Poughkeepsie, New York. Ile learned the printers' trade, and for two and one-half years was foreman of the printing offices of the Greenville Local. September 28, 1896, he es- tablished in business at Ravena, Albany coun- ty, New York, where he still continues a suc- cessful general store. He is a director and stockholder of the First National Bank of Ravena ; was one of the organizers and vice- president and director of Ravena and Med- way Telephone Company, now merged with the State Telephone Company ; also an organ- izer, vice-president, and director of the Atlan- tic Light and Power Company of Coeymans, New York. He is a public-spirited citizen, interested and helpful in all that concerns the


welfare of his community. He is a Republi- can in politics : in 1898 he was appointed post- master at Ravena and is still the incumbent of that office. He is a prominent member of James M. Austin Lodge, No. 557. Free and Accepted Masons, Greenville, of which he is past master ; charter member of Russell Lodge, No. 850, Ravena ; charter member of Green- ville Chapter No. 283, Royal Arch Masons ; member of Temple Commandery, No. 2. Knights Templar, of Albany : Albany Con- sistory, thirty-second degree, Scottish Rite : Cyprus Temple, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. Albany: charter member of Ella C. Perry Chapter, No. 461, Order of the Eastern Star. He is also an Odd Fellow, belonging to Hud- son River Lodge, No. 817, Ravena ; a member of Pulver Council, No. 14, Junior Order Am- erican Mechanics, and of Kaa Rheu Vahn, Gralto No. 20, of Albany, Mystic Order of Veiled Prophets. His religious membership is in the Christian church, which he serves as trustee and treasurer. He married, June 12, 1890, Rose A., daughter of Isaac I. and Fliza M. (Gifford) Willsey, of Freehold, New York. Child, Harold A., born July 19, 1898.


The name Den or Dene, which is DEANE the ancient way of spelling what is now written Deane, makes its appearance in England soon after the intro- duction of surnames. John and Walter Deane, who are the progenitors of many of those now bearing the name Deane and Dean in the United States, came to this country ahout 1637. After stopping in Boston a year they settled at Taunton, Massachusetts. It has been a tradition in the family that John and Walter Deane came from Taunton, England, but an authority states they were from Chard near Taunton. Another tradition is that a younger brother of theirs came to this country after them and settled in Connecticut, and that from him, Hon. Silas Deane, of Connecti- cut, descended. (This is the line of the Deanes of Catskill, New York ). There was a Thomas Deane in Connecticut in 1643 who possibly may have been the brother referred to. ( See "Hinman's First Puritan Settlers," p. 21). The earliest ancestor of Hon. Silas Deane, who is probably the most prominent public character of the Deane family, is his great- grandfather, James Deane, of Stonington, Connecticut, who may have been a son of Thomas Deane, the emigrant, 1643, to whom Hinman refers. There is, however, abundant evidence that James Deane, of Stonington, was a son of Walter Deane, of Taunton, Mas- sachusetts. This evidence is so convincing that Arthur D. Dean, compiler of a history of


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the descendants of Ezra Dean, of Plainfield, Connecticut, so places him in that work.


(I) Walter Deane was born in Chard, Eng- land, between 1615 and 1620. He took the freeman's oath in Massachusetts, December 4. 1638. He settled in Taunton, Massachu- setts, was deputy 1640, and selectman of Taun- ton 1679-86. He was by trade a farmer. He married Eleanor, daughter of Richard Strong, of Taunton, England. Children : Joseph, Ezra, Benjamin, James, perhaps two others.


(II) James, son of Walter and Eleanor (Strong) Deane, was a blacksmith and iron worker at Taunton, later of Scituate, Massa- chusetts. February 26, 1676, the town of Stonington, Connecticut, at a town meeting voted to donate a home lot of twenty-four acres of land to James Deane to induce him to settle there and follow his trade of black- smith. One hundred acres of farm land was also included in the offer. He accepted and followed his trade in Stonington until 1698, when he removed to Plainfield, Connecticut. There he was elected the first town clerk in 1699, filling that office many years. He was a large land owner in Plainfield and in Volun- town. He died at Plainfield, May 29, 1725, his wife, April 26, 1726. Children: James, born October 31, 1674; Sarah, September 4, 1676; John, of further mention ; Onecephorus (twin), died in infancy; Mary (twin), born March 28, 1680, married Thomas Thatcher ; Francis, September 8, 1682; William, died young : Hannah, baptized April 4, 1686: Wil- liam, born September 12, 1689: Nathaniel, baptized April 2, 1693, married Joanna Fish- er : Jonathan, baptized April 22, 1695, married Sarahı Douglas.


(III) John, son of James Deane. of Ston- ington and Plainfield, Connecticut, was born May 15, 1678. He married Lydia Thatcher, June 10, 1708.


(IV) Silas, son of John and Lydia (Thatch- er) Deane, married, and among his children was Silas.


(V) Hon. Silas (2), son of Silas (1) Deane, was born at Groton, Connecticut, De- .cember 24. 1737, died at Deal, England, Au- gust 23, 1789. He was graduated with high honors at Yale College in 1758, when twenty- one years of age. Ile entered public life, was an ardent patriot and skillful diplomat. He took a prominent part in equipping naval forces, and was elected a member of the first continental congress in 1774 and was regarded as an able member. Ile was sent by congress to France as political and financial agent of the government. He arrived at Paris in June, 1776, with instructions to ascertain the temper of the French government concerning the rup-


ture with Great Britain, and to obtain military support and supplies. When in September it was determined to send ministers to negoti- ate treaties, Franklin and Arthur Lee were commissioned to join him in Paris. He assist- ed them in the negotiation of the important treaties with France, and enlisted the sympa- thies of Lafayette. In consequence of the ex- travagant contracts he had entered into, not authorized by his instructions, he was re- called November 21, 1777, John Adams be- ing appointed in his place. He left Paris, April 1, 1778, and returned to America. On his return he was called before congress and required to give an account of his contracts with foreign officers and to make a detailed statement of financial transactions on the floor of the house. He evaded a complete explana- tion and disclosure of his accounts on the ground that his papers were in Europe. He memorialized congress, but did not succeed in removing the suspicion from himself of hav- ing overstepped his authority and of having misappropriated the public money. He re- turned to France, but the French government declining to receive him he went to Holland, where he spent his entire private fortune in procuring proofs and in preparing an address backed by irrefutable evidence that none of the public money had been appropriated to his own use. This was published in 1784, but he had so bitterly attacked congress and his fellow commissioners, for the suspicion they had thrown around him, that they refused him justice and would do nothing to right the wrong they had done him. He had said he would vindicate himself if it took every dollar and it did. He returned to England, where he died in poverty. He was the soul of honor, as is shown by the testimonials from his neigh- bors and acquaintances. Says the historian, Hildreth : "No proof appears that he had been dishonest, or had employed the public money in speculations of his own, but he had occupied the unfortunate position of having large sums of public money pass through his hands be- fore any proper system of vouchers and ac- counting had been established, and he fell be- fore the same spirit of malignant accusation which presently assaulted Wadsworth, Greene, Morris, and even Franklin himself, but which they had better means of warding off." In 1842 congress at last adjusted Deane's ac- counts and paid to his heirs about $37,000. Yale College conferred the degree of A. M. in 1763. He is the author of "Paris Papers, or Mr. Silas Deane's late intercepted letters to his brother and other friends (1751) and pub- lished in his own defence"; "An address to the Free and Independent Citizens of the


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United States of North America" (1784). He married and had issue.


(VI) Zephaniah, son of Hon. Silas (2) Deane, settled first in Pennsylvania, where he owned a large farm of four hundred acres. This he sold to a syndicate who later opened upon it one of the first coal mines. Other members of his wife's family (Abbott), hold- ing smaller areas of land, leased their coal lands on a royalty that made them very wealthy. After selling his Pennsylvania lands he settled in New York on the shores of Lake Skaneateles on a farm, now the site of a large papermaking plant. He later settled in Cox- sackie. Greene county. New York, and still later in Connecticut, where he died. Ile mar- ried Catherine Abbott. of Brooklyn, New York. They had sons, Zephaniah and Silas. (VII) Silas (3), son of Zephaniah and Catherine ( Abbott ) Deane, was born July 24. 1798, died at Athens. Greene county, New York, August 24, 1849. from Asiatic cholera. He was a carpenter and contractor, and set- tled in Coxsackie, New York. IIe was the first "square rule" carpenter in Greene county. He made the screw hay presses that were used in this country. He traveled south in the winter time and erected sugar ginns and other farm machinery. Ile married Eleanor Salis- bury. born October 8. 1804, died December 20, 1884. daughter of Francis and Persis (Wright ) Salisbury, of Leeds, Greene county, New York. Children : Phoebe Ann, born Oc- tober 12. 1823, died September 3. 1907 : Fran- cis William, June 26, 1825 ; Jeremiah. April 3, 1829 ; Elvira, June 3, 1831, died May 18, 1887 ; Hannah, October 30, 1833, died January 24. 1901 : Mary, December 9, 1834: Emmeline, September 10, 1837. died November 16, 1871 ; James A., of further mention : Eleanor D., November 8, 1843, died February 13. 1870; Louisa, November 1. 1846: Silas Wright, February 20, 1849, died in 1880. Eleanor (Salisbury) Deane was a direct descendant of Silvester Salisbury, born about 1629, in Eng- land or Wales, came to New Netherlands in 1664. Ilis will was probated March 24, 1680. He married Elizabeth Beck. (For an ex- tended account of Silvester Salisbury and de- scendants, see Salisbury family in this work ). Francis, son of Silvester and Elizabeth ( Beck) Salisbury, was born 1679. died about 1755. He married Maria Van Gaasbeck and had eight children. William, son of Francis and Maria (Van Gaasbeck ) Salisbury, was bap- tized at Kingston, New York. December 25. 1714. died 1801 : married. March 27. 1740. Teuntje (Eunice) Staats, daughter of Barent and Neeltje Garritse (Van Denberg) Staats. and had eleven children. Sylvester, son of


William and Eunice (Staats) Salisbury, was baptized in Albany, January 27. 1741, died 1815 or 1816 at the home of his brother Abra- ham at Leeds. Greene county, New York. He married, in 1764. Neeltje Staats and had elev en children. Francis, sixth child and fifth son of Sylvester and Neeltje ( Staats) Salisbury, was born December 5. 1775. die 1 May 23. 1823. lle married Persis Wright, who sur- vived him until December 10, 1800. Children : Sylvester, born April 3. 1802, died September 8. 1840: Sophia, born July 14. 1803: married Jeremiah Gay ; Eleanor, born October 8. 1804, married Silas Deane : Ruth, born November 11, 1805, married Casper Van Hoesen ; John, August 31. 1807: Eunice, born February 3. 1809, died December 23. 1851. married Casper Spoor : Elizabeth, born February 2, 1811. mar- ried Michael Hallenbeck : Ann, March 15, 1812, married Madison Parker : Melinda, March 3. 1814. died December 21. 1897. mar- ried Warren Howland : Mary, born July o. 1815. married William Beatty : Lydia, Febru- ary 19, 1817, died October 31. 1808, married Reuben Coffin : Catherine, April 7, 1820, died August 2, 1849. married Evens Backus : Em- meline, born March 27, 1823, married William Il. Shaw.




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