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L. 172, Charles Kelly, 83, 81 a., Apr. 5, 1831.
L. 186, Joshua Garrison, 101, 44 a., Sept. 1, 1838.
L. 187, Joshua Garrison, 50, 37 a., Oct. 1, 1853;David Carpenter, 50, 37 a., Oct. 1, 1853.
L. 188, D. Carpenter, 20 a., Nov. 1, 1855.
L. 189, Warren Webster, 106, 26 a., Nov. 1, 1836.
L. 190, Warren Webster, 25 a., Jan. 1, 1839; Horace Balcomb, 20, 34 a., May 1, 1851 ; Jeffrey A. Harwood, 60 a ., May 1, 1851.
L. 191, James Budd, 10 a., Sept. 1, 1845.
L. 191 and 192, Skilman D. Dickinson, 89, 75 a., Sept. 1, 1845 ; Cornelius Thomas, 108, 07 a., Dec. 1, 1853.
L. 193, David Moore, 4 a., July 1, 1853 ; David Moore, 30 a., Dec. 1, 1851; Polly Mansfield, 11, 91 a .. Sept. 1, 1858.
L. 194, Samuel M. Harwood, 4 6, 50 a., July 1, 1853; Chauncey Harwood, 58, 54 a., Nov. 1, 1849.
L. 195, Samuel M. Harwood, 57, 43 a., July 1, 1853 ; Chauncey Harwood, 45, 19 a., Nov. 1, 1849.
L. 196, Thomas E. Hooker, 103, 28 a., Dec. 2, 1861.
L. 197, Daniel Young, 78, 94 a., March 1, 1849.
L. 210, Fortunatus Hubbard, 50, 04 a, Nov. 1, 1880; Caleb Hallock, 50, 04 a., Aug. 1, 1850.
L. 211, Wm. W. Woodworth, 50, 34 a., Oct. 1, 1853.
L. 212, Isaac Smith, 50, 85 a., May 1, 1840; Aretus Pierce, 25, 41 a., May 1,
1847; Joshua Garrison, 25, 43 a., Nov. 1, 1849.
L. 213, John Caswell, 96, 74 a., Aug. 1, 1833.
L. 214, Elijah Root, 102, 80 a., Feb. 1, 1836.
L. 215, Martin Loomis, 111, 34 a., Aug. 1, 1839.
L. 216, Joseph F. Lee, 101, 35 a., Dec. 1, 1834.
L. 217, Horace Balcom, 50 a., May 21, 1817; Horace Balcom, 50 a., Sept. 22, 1826.
L. 218, Gurdon Balcom, 97, 40 a., Sept. 9, 1815.
L. 219, Alanson Mansfield, 117, 17 a., June 12, 1832.
L. 220, Aaron Warren, 26, 04 a., Sept. 1, 1840; Hiel Brockway, 25 a., Sept. 13, 1835 ; Oliver VanKirk and Andrew Weld, executors, 51, 05 a., June 30, 1836.
L. 221, Daniel Young, 51, 14 a., Sept. 29, 1841; Abner Balcom, 29, 09 a., Jan. 7, 1859; Jonathan Church, 25, 05 a., April 23, 1853.
L. 222, H. D. Williams, 25 a .; Justus W. Williams, 53, 30 a., May 3, 1822.
L. 235, Amos W. Rowley, 49, 81 a., Aug. 1, 1850.
L. 236, Abraham Cantine, 100, 70 a., Feb. 1, 1826.
L. 240, Esther Brockway, and others, 25 a., Dec. 1, 1837; Levi Smith, 78, 31 a., Nov. 1, 1837.
L. 241, Ira Ducett, 49, 37 a., July 1, 1835; Warham Whitney, 49, 37 a., Apr. 1,1836.
L. 242, Francis Love, 107, 70 a., Nov. 7, 1825.
L. 243, Jonathan Church, 46, 29 a., Nov. 1, 1845; Jacob Hinds, 45, 54 a., Jan. 1, 1861.
L. 244, Jonathan Church, 47, 31 a., Nov. 1, 1845; Ziva Martin, 51, 31, Nov. 1, 1837.
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L. 246, Franklin Hinds and others, ex- ecutors, 95, 31 a., Oct. 1, 1853.
L. 247. Nathanial P. Rhodes, 72, 80 a., Oct. 1, 1840.
L. 260, Oree Crittenden, 49, 43 a., Nov. 1, 1853; Daniel P. Baldwin, 49, 44 a., Nov. 1, 1849.
L. 261, James L. Prouty, 71, 01 a., Sept 1, 1854; Warham Whitney, 30 a., Dec. 1, 1838.
L. 262, Sylvester Brown, 79, 29 a., Nov. 1, 1849.
L. 263, Ira M. Randal, 42 a., June 1, 1861.
L. 265, John Lyon, 50 a., March 22, 1832 ; Caleb Thayer, 54, 70 a., March 1, 1841.
L. 266, Samuel Clark, 70, 56 a., Jan. 1, 1845; Dan. Stockdale, 25 a., Aug. 23, 1821.
L. 267, Joel Hinds, 58 a., Sept. 11, 1832; P. G. Child=, 34, 41 a., Ransom Rowley, 15, 17 a., May 12, 1827.
L. 268, Samuel N. Othout & Richard Thorp, 3, and Wm. Mansfield, ¿ of 91, 51 a., Jan. 16, 1838.
L. 269, Samuel Mansfield, 108, 07 a., March 23, 1815.
L. 270, Dan. Stockdale, 103, 57 a., Ang. 19, 1831.
L. 271, E. Harris, 50, 86 a,. Sherman Dibble, 50, 88 a., Ang. 8, 1844.
L. 272, Dan. Stockdale, 50 a., July 13, 1832; Oliver VanKirk, 29, 71 a., June 12, 1832.
The first town meeting in the old town of Murray was held in the barn of Johnson Bedell, about four miles south from Brockport. The names of the officers chosen cannot be learned, for the records prior to 1880 are lost. The supervisors since the formation of Orleans county have been :
Asahel Balcom, 1826; William Allis, 1827; Amos Randall, 1828; Hiram Frisbie, 1829; William James, 1830; Asa Clark, 1831, '32, '33, '34; Robert Nicholson, 1835, '36; George Squires, 1837, '38; Joshua Garrison, 1839, '40; Cornelius Thomas, 1841, 42; John Berry, 1843; George Squires, 1844; Alijah Reed, 1845 ; Hercules Reed, 1846 ; Abner Balcom, 1847, '48; Harrison Hatch, 1849; Benjamin F. Van Dake, 1850; Jabez Allison, 1851, '52; Ezra N. Hill, 1853 ; Danly D. Sprague, 1854, '55; Benjamin F. Van Dake, 1856; Jabez Allison, 1857, '58, '59; Ezra N. Hill, 1860; Jabez Allison, 1861; Linus J. Peck, 1862, Roland Farnsworth, 1863, '64, '65, '66, '67, '68, '69, '70, '71 ; Danly D. Sprague, 1872, '73; Edwin Bliss, 1875, '76; Danly D. Sprague, 1877; Burton Keys, 1878, '79, '80; Robert McCargo, 1881; Ira Edwards, 1882; George N. Bowman, 1883, '84; Hoffman Ruger, 1885, '86; John Alderson, 1887, '88; Lott Farns- worth, 1889,'90 ; Nathaniel Rhodes, 1891, '92; Harry O. Jones, 1893 ; Nervill E. Cole, 1894.
The first settlements in the town were made on the great natural thoroughfare, the ridge. Sandy Creek, where it crosses the ridge, af- fords eligible mill sites, and mills were erected there soon after settle- ment commenced. The establishment of these mills attracted mechanics and business men to the place, and a village sprang up there called
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Murray. It was the chief business center of the town till the construc- tion of the Erie Canal brought Holley into existence.
The first permanent settler in the town was Epaphras Mattison, who came in 1809 with his family. He located on the ridge near the town's east line, where he built the first log house and afterward opened it as a tavern.
In 1810 Peleg Sisson, Daniel Wait, Joshua Rockwood, Samuel Dag- gett and Channcey Woodworth were settlers. Mr. Sisson located on lot 244, Mr. Daggett near Sandy Creek, and Mr. Woodworth on lot 286.
John Johnson and John Stivers were settlers in 1811. The former came from Vermont and located on lot 38 ; he left ten years later. The latter settled on lot 57. He remained about two years and then re- turned to Cayuga county, whence he came. In the same year Ira Car- ter came and built a house on lot 74, near Holley. He remained only two years. William Rice and Stephen Lewis, brothers-in-law from Onondaga county, came and took up lots 72 and 73. The latter passed the winter of 1812-13 in the house with Mr. Carter.
William Rice came from Pompey, Onondaga county, in 1812, and settled on a lot near Holley. There he remained till about 1830, when he went to Ohio and afterward died there. Mr. Rice was a native of Massachusetts, where his wife, Polly Anger, was born. Hubbard Rice, their son, was born in Onondaga county in 1795, and came with his father to Murray in 1812. In 1813 he was a volunteer in the party that went to Lewiston to repel the British forces, but the village had been burned before their arrival. He married Irena Day, of Murray, in 1819. She died in 1831, and in 1833 he married Mrs. Mary Van Winter. In 1825 he removed to Clarendon, where he had purchased a farm of 100 acres. In 1863 he returned to Holley. He was known as Colonel Rice, a title which he acquired in the militia.
Artemus Daggett located on lot 163 in 1813. Ebenezer Fox came in 1815 and settled east from Murray Station. In the celebrated cold season of 1816 his family suffered greatly for want of food. Charles Kelly, from Delaware, and Aaron Warren, from Vermont, settled near Balcom's mills in 1815 and 1816, and David Tryon, William Alexan- der and Holden Eldred were early settlers at or near Hulberton.
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Horace Styles was born in Massachusetts in 1791. In 1816 he came with his father and brother from Vermont, and all settled near Sandy Creek. Horace purchased 100 acres of land on which they lived till, late in life, he retired from active business and resided in the village of Sandy Creek. In 1817 he married Hannah Shaffer, of Murray. She died about 1820, and he afterward married Hannah Stedman.
Horace Balcom was born in Ontario county, N. Y., in 1791. In 1812 he came to Murray and purchased land a mile and a quarter west from Hulberton. The dangers of the war induced him to go back, but he returned the next year and remained till his death, in 1861. He was one of a party of volunteers to start for Fort Niagara. He was mar- ried in 1813, and reared to maturity seven children, of whom Darwin resides on the farm which his father originally took up, and Julia, wife of Hon. Marcus H. Phillips, resides in Hulberton.
Abner Balcom was born in 1796, and was reared in Ontario county, N. Y. In 1812 he came to Orleans county and settled first in Ridge- way, but removed to Murray prior to the construction of the Erie Canal. In company with Hill Brockway he built the saw mill and grist mill on the west branch of Sandy Creek, since known as Balcom's Mills. He was a prominent citizen of the town and, it is said, held every town office except that of clerk. He was supervisor in 1847-48, and was a member and a deacon of the Transit Baptist Church. He was three times married ; to Ruth Williams, in 1816; to Philotheta Baker, in 1822; and late in life to Mrs. Philina Waring. His son, Fran- cis, was a volunteer in the Civil War, and was killed in battle.
Solomon Carpenter, born in Rensselaer county, N. Y., in 1787, came early to Murray, and took up land joining Holley on the east. In 1823 he moved to Wisconsin, where he died in 1846. Of his eight children only David is living.
Elijah W. Wood, born in Pelham, Mass., in 1782, removed to Murray at an early day, and for many years served as constable and justice of the peace, and during a term of five years he was a judge in the old Court of Common Pleas of Orleans county. "He was a shrewd and successful pettifogger in justices' courts, where he made up in wit and natural sagacity any lack he may have suffered in legal attainments." He died in Murray at the age of eighty years.
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Abijah Dean, a son of Luther Dean, was born at Danbury, Mass., in 1800, and removed with his father's family to New Hampshire. Dur- ing his residence in that State he worked by the month eight years. On the breaking out of the war with England he volunteered in the United States service, and at Portsmouth was a waiter to Capt. Kimball. In 1813 he came to Murray. In 1818 he married Susan Clough, of Brattleboro, Vt., and they had one child.
John Lake came to Murray from Hoosac, N. Y., at an early day, and purchased a farm of 140 acres on lots 35 and 36, where he remained till his death, in 1871, at the age of eighty-five years. His wife died in 1876, aged eighty-six. Mr. Lake was a soldier in the War of 1812. His character through life was that of a good man.
Abram Bradley was a native of Vermont. In 1814 he came to Mur ray and located on the Ridge, near Sandy Creek. He was a millwright and worked on many of the mills in this region. He died in Michigan about 1840. His eldest daughter became the wife of Epaphrias Pennel, and another daughter, Elvira, is the wife of Clinton Sheldon, of Holley.
Joshua Vincent, a native of Rensselaer county, N. Y., settled in Holley in 1816, when the site of the village was mostly covered by the forest, which he aided in subduing. He was a carpenter and in 1819 he built a saw mill on Sandy Creek, near where the pumping station now is. He was a public spirited citizen. He organized the first mili- tary company in town, and at a later day he became a brigadier general of militia. He had charge of the cannon here when the completion of the Erie Canal was celebrated.
Linus Jones Peck was born in Onondaga county, N. Y., in 1816, and in 1817 his father's family removed to Clarendon. In his childhood he was subjected to all the privations incident to pioneer life. He was educated in the common schools of his town, and in the Middlebury Academy at Wyoming, N. Y. He read law in the office of his brother, Luther Peck, of Nunda, N. Y. In 1848 he first became a canal con- tractor, and he followed the business of jobbing till 1861. In 1856 he became a resident of Holley.
George W. Peck was born in Onondaga county, N. Y., in 1811, and came with his parents to Clarendon in 1817. In 1834 he married Anna A. Peck, of Clarendon, a native of Connecticut. In 1844 he be-
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came a hotel keeper in Clarendon village, and in 1853 a contractor on public works. When the canal was enlarged the construction of the embankment over Sandy Creek at Holley was awarded to him. He removed to Holley in 1855, and twenty years later to a farm some dis- tance west from that village.
Aaron Baldwin was born in Connecticut in 1790. In 1806 he came alone to Churchville, Monroe county, and apprenticed himself to a tanner and shoemaker. He continuel till the breaking out of the war of 1812, when he became a government express messenger between Clarkson and Fort Niagara. In 1817 he purchased and located on a farm a short distance southwest from Sandy Creek, where he remained till his death, and where his son, D. C. Baldwin, succeeded him. Soon after he came here he built a tannery and for many years carried on tanning and making shoes for the Canadian and western markets.
David Arnold was born in Saratoga county, N. Y., in 1803. At an early age he was left an orphan and was reared by an elder brother. At about eighteen years of age he came to Murray and settled about a mile north from Sandy Creek, where he died in 1877. His wife was Sally Webster, a native of Saratoga county. She died at the age of eighty-two. Three of their sons are now living: William resides in Sandy Creek, and John and George W. live in Holley.
Judson Downs was born in Scipio, N. Y., in 1797. With his father's family, he removed to Clarkson, Monroe county, in 1809, and to Sandy Creek in 1819. He learned the trades of tanner and shoe- maker and carried on both till his health failed, after which he was for several years a constable. In 1814 he enlisted in a company of cavalry and served in the U. S. army on the Niagara frontier till the close of the war of 1812. He afterward became an active officer in the militia and was for a time a brigade inspector of cavalry, with the rank of major, from which he was called Major Downs. On the breaking out of the Rebellion, notwithstanding his sixty-four years, he raised a com- pany of cavalry at the head of which, as captain, he served some time in Maryland and the vicinity of Washington, shrinking from no hard- ship or danger. Failure of his health compelled him to resign and re- turn home, where he died in 1864.
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Major Downs was of a proud, ardent spirit, always ready to do what duty required. He was thorough and energetic as a constable, and was always entrusted with all the business he could do. As a military officer he was beloved by his men. Though a strict disciplinarian, resolute and wideawake when anything was to be done, he would never require his men to go where he would not lead. As a citizen he was affable, courteous, and obliging, and he gained and kept many friends.
Austin Day was born in Vermont in 1789. He married Polly Chap- man in 1810, and moved to Murray in 1815. He was made a constable and prior to the advent of professional lawyers he did quite a business pettifogging in justice's courts. For some years after the completion of the Erie Canal he was engaged in buying and shipping wheat. He held the office of judge of the Court of Common Pleas five years, and was elected sheriff of Orleans county in 1847. He removed to Albion in 1848, and was supervisor of Barre in 1852. His wife died in 1858. He died in 1874. His son, Ferdinand Austin Day, served one term as sheriff and nine years as under sheriff of Orleans county.
Oliver Day came from Bennington, Vt., in 1815, when he was twenty-one years of age. He came with his brother-in-law, Paphyrus Beebe, and at first lived with him. In 1817 he purchased lot 119, ad- joining that on which Mr. Beebe settled, and resided there during the remainder of his life. In 1818 he married Lydia, daughter of Thomas Stedman, who came in the spring of that year.
Ambrose Ferguson was a native of New Jersey, and the son of Eph- raim Ferguson, who was killed and scalped by the Indians while scouting. When about fifteen years of age Ambrose became the ser- vant of an officer in the Revolutionary army, and drifted into Vermont, where he was followed by the rest of the family after the close of the war. In Vermont he married Hannah Perry, a native of Massachusetts, and they removed to Murray in 1815. They settled a mile and a half east from Sandy Creek, on the Ridge, and there he died in 1823. Mrs. David Hatch is a granddaughter of Ambrose Ferguson.
Capt. Paphyrus Beebe and his family removed from Bennington, Vt., to Murray in the spring of 1815. His brother-in-law, Oliver Day, came with them. They came with two yoke of oxen and a horse, drawing a wagon which bore the family and their goods. They were thirty days making the journey. They left the Ridge road about a mile east from Sandy Creek, and cut their road through the woods to where Mr.
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Beebe had purchased a lot, No. 97, a mile northwest from Holley. On this there had been partly built a log house, into which they all moved. This was the permanent residence of Mr. Beebe.
Reuben Bryant was born in Massachusetts in 1792, and graduated from Brown University, R. I., about 1815. He removed to Livingston county, N. Y., studied law in Caledonia and became the pioneer lawyer in Holley in 1823. He was appointed a master in chancery and held that position when the Court of Chancery was abolished in 1846. He removed to Albion in 1849, and in 1855 to Buffalo, where he died in 1863. He was a thorough classical scholar. Judge Thomas says of him : " As a lawyer he had a clear perception of the law and the facts, and their bearing on his cases ; but he was too exact, cautious and dif- fident of himself to be an advocate. All his life he suffered from a mal- ady which was a perpetual burden and cross to him, and annoyed him in his business."
Augustus Southworth, born in Massachusetts in 1801, came from Palmyra to Holley in 1822, as an assistant engineer on the canal under Myron Holley, who was commissioner of the western division. In 1823 he engaged in mercantile business here and continued about fifteen years. He was an active and useful citizen of Holley, and died here in 1879. His first wife, also a native of Massachusetts, was Marilla Bull. They were married in 1823, and she died in 1867 at the age of sixty-nine. Of their seven children William Southworth died in Holley in 1889. In 1868 Mr. Southworth married Margaret Lothrop, of Rochester. She died in 1874.
Harley A. Bushnell was born at Starksborough, Vt., in 1796. At the age of fifteen he was apprenticed to his brother, a clothier, in Connect- icut, and served five years. In 1817 he came to Batavia, Genesee county, worked at his trade, and did business as a constable and justice of the peace till 1823, when he removed to Holley and located just north of where the canal now runs. He at once built a house, and by the first of May, 1824, he completed a saw mill. In company with Samuel Clark he built a clothiery, and in 1828 purchased the interest of his partner. He conducted the business till 1833, when he sold the clothiery and purchased a farm. After a few years he sold his farm and removed to Holley, where he followed the business of an insurance
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agent. He was one of the founders and for many years the president of the Orleans County Pioneer Association. He was genial, kind- hearted, benevolent and philanthropic. He died in 1868.
Isaac H. S. Hulbert was born at Pittsfield, Mass., in 1804. In 1824 he removed to Murray and located at Sandy Creek, whence he went to Hulberton in 1825. At the latter place he was a dealer in produce, etc., in which business he was prosperous. His wife, to whom he was married in 1825, was Margaret Plumb, of Albany. Mr. Hulbert was a prominent citizen and was for many years a justice of the peace. From him the post-office at Hulberton received its name, which has also been applied to the settlement there.
Bishop Cramer was a native of Connecticut, born in 1776. He mar- ried, in 1805, Charlotte Raymond. They removed to Granville, N. Y., where they had ten children, all born in the same house and the same room. In 1826 he came to Holley, where he followed his trade as a cabinetmaker. He died in Holley in 1857. His wife died in 1848.
James Miller was born in Cooperstown, N. Y., in 1797. He removed to St. Lawrence county, where he kept a hotel; and in 1826 to Holley where he was a grocer and farmer. He died in Holley in 1871. In 1826 he married Caroline Cramer. They had three sons, of whom James H. Miller resides in Holley. His first wife died in 1837, and in 1838 he married Adeline Cramer, a native of Washington county, N.Y.
Chauncey Robinson, a native of Durham, Conn., was born in 1792. In 1794 his father's family removed to Oneida county, N. Y., and in 1813 he came to Clarendon. In 1851 he removed to Holley and re- sided there till his death in 1866. In 1814 he was in the military ser- vice and was in the battle and sortie of Fort Erie. He was active in public matters, was an advanced thinker, and was zealous in the pro- mulgation of his views. He was industrious, frugal, and temperate. In his old age he said : " I have never used one pound of tea, coffee, or tobacco, and but little liquor ; none for the last thirty years. My con- stant drink at home and abroad is cold water."
Levi Smith was born in Oneida county, N. Y., in 1801. In 1826 he married Laura Chase, a native of Oneida county and the same year they removed to Murray and settled three-fourths of a mile west from Murray Station. There Mr. Smith died in 1872. Seven of their children lived to adult age.
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Hannibal Hitchcock was born in Herkimer county in 1799. He removed to Ontario county and thence in 1827, to Murray. He pur- chased a farm on lot 143, where he remained till his death in 1838, which was caused by the falling of a tree. He married, in 1825, Margaret Newman. His son, Hannibal N. Hitchcock, succeeded him on the farm where he settled.
H N. Keys was born in 1805 in Windham county, Conn. He went thence to Waterville, Oneida county, N. Y., and in 1827 came to Holley. He was a tailor, and carried on his business there till 1870, when he retired to a farm a mile northwest from that village. His first wife, to whom he was married in 1832, was Marietta Beebe. She died in 1836, and in 1837 he married Althea Beebe. His son, Ezra, was killed in the battle of Fredericksburg ; and another son, Paphyrus, was captain of a company of Illinois volunteers.
Thomas E. Hooker was born in Oneida county, N. Y., in 1813. In 1818 he removed with his father's family to Tioga county, thence in 1823, to Ontario county. In 1827 they came to Murray and settled six miles northwest from Holley. On this place his father and mother died in 1856. In 1839 he married Lucy Hyde, a native of Wayne county. She died in 1861 at the age of forty two, leaving eight children. In 1863 he married Susan Brown of Rochester. She died in 1886, leaving three children.
John B. Fuller, of English descent, was born in Connecticut, and was a soldier in the war of 1812, in which he was wounded and made a prisoner. About 1828 he came to Murray and settled on lots 80 and 102, where he remained till his death, in 1848. His son, Nelson Fuller, became the owner of the paternal farm and died on it in 1862. His son, John B. Fuller, is now the owner of this place.
Sherman Dibble was born in Connecticut in 1807. In 1830 he was married to Caroline Holcomb of the same State, and on the day of their marriage they started for Orleans county. After their arrival he pur- chased a farm in Murray on the Transit line, one and a fourth miles south of the Ridge, where he died in 1867. Their children were John A., Thomas T., James L, and Judson.
Sylvester Brown was born in Broome county, N. Y., in 1807. His wife was Betsey Maxson, a native of Vermont. Soon after their mar-
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riage they came to Murray and settled on the Transit road in the south- west part of the town. There they made their home in the woods, cleared their farm, and remained till their deaths. She died in 1869, he in 1873. They had nine children.
James Dalton, a native of Ireland, was born in 1789. In 1830 he came to America and settled at once in Murray, three-fourths of a mile east from Sandy Creek, where he remained till his death, in 1867. He was married in Ireland to Margaret McNamara, who died in 1877. They reared six children : One son, James, was a soldier in the civil war and lost a leg at the battle of Cedar Creek.
William Alderman was born in Westmoreland, England, in 1810. In 1835 he came to America, and in the same year located half a mile south from Hulburton. His father, Jonathan Alderman, came a year later and settled on the same lot, where he remained till his death, in 1878. Some eight years after he came here Mr. Alderman married Mary Kerr, a native of Scotland. They reared seven children.
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