Landmarks of Orleans County, New York, Part 58

Author: Signor, Isaac S., ed
Publication date: 1894
Publisher: Syracuse : D. Mason
Number of Pages: 1084

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Abner Hopkins came to Clarendon in 1811, and located on lot 180, west from Clarendon village. Jerah Hopkins, his brother, lived in a log house west from Abner's, and the names of both appear on the highway roll of 1821 in that road district. Another brother, Joseph, owned land still farther west. Abner built the first framed barn on this road.

Levi Preston settled on lot 181, opposite to Mr. Hopkins, and his descendants lived in this vicinity till recently. He died in 1857 at the age of seventy-four.

Samuel Knowles came here from the place where he first settled, and died in 1872 at the age of seventy-three. Several by the name of Knowles are interred in the cemetery near this vicinity.

Benjamin Thomas came soon after the advent of Mr. Farwell and located about three miles east from the village of Clarendon. He built a stone house there about 1820.

Alanson Dudley came to Clarendon in 1812, and purchased from Mr. Farwell a piece of ground on which he erected a log house. Two years later he established a tannery, and carried on the business of a tanner and shoemaker.

David Church was a native of Connecticut. He lived in different parts of the State of New York, and in 1812 came to Clarendon and purchased a farm a mile and a half south of Clarendon village. The next year he erected a house on this place and brought his family from

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Bergen to it. He continued to reside on that place till his death. His wife was Lucinda Martin of Otsego county, N. Y. They brought with them to Clarendon three children. Two more were born here. Mrs. Church died in 1826, and he afterward married Elizabeth Alvord, by whom he had two children, of whom William died in the Union army.

John Stevens was born in Saratoga county, N. Y., in 1774. He first removed to Oneida county, N. Y., and in 1813 to Clarendon and set- tled in the southern part of the town, where he died in 1861, and where his son Merrick Stevens also died. His wife, to whom he was married in 1800, was Elizabeth Lewis, of Oneida county. They reared four sons and three daughters. The other sons were Samuel, who died in 1888; Edward, who removed to Nebraska, and Rev. Schubael, who died in 1873.

Chauncey Robinson, a native of Coanecticut, was born in 1792. When he was two years of age his parents removed to Oneida county, N. Y. In 1813 he came to Clarendon and located about two miles south of the village on lot 5, where he remained till 1851. He then re- moved to Holley where he died in 1866. In 1814 he was several months in military service, and was at the battle of Fort Erie. He was a prominent and influential citizen and was supervisor of the town in 1829.

Henry Jones, the first blacksmith in Clarendon lived, in 1813, where an old stone house now stands, about half a mile south from the village. Here Thomas Foster once lived.

Elisha Huntley came from New Hampshire to Clarendon in 1813, and located south from the village. The log house which he built that year was then the only one between the "Mills" and John Stevens's in the south part of the town.

John Cone came in 1813, and settled on lot 158, north from Claren- don village, and in 1821 he had come to be the largest landholder in that part of the town. The name of Erastus Cone appears on the town book of 1821.

William Lewis came to Clarendon in 1813, and settled on lot 17, south from the village. On the organization of Orleans county he was made its first sheriff, and two years later, or in 1826, he died, at the age

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of thirty-nine. In the cemetery in that part of the town stands the memorial stone of Ebenezer Lewis, who died in 1828, aged seventy- five ; also that of Col. Shubael Lewis, who was born in 1795, and died 1861. During many years Col. Lewis kept a hotel on lot 29, where also William Sheldon and Horace Peck were landlords. Many of the Colonel's peculiarties are still well remembered. Of the Lewis family here there have been some distinguished members. The late Dr. Lewis, of Albion, was one, and James P. Lewis, LL.D., who has held almost every important office in the State of Wisconsin and has declined many honorable federal offices, is another. Governor Lewis was a school teacher in Clarendon village and slept in the loft of a log house " where he could look through the roof and count the stars as they twinkled over him, and in the morning brush the snow from the quilts that covered him." He is a brillant example of what ability, industry, and self reliance can accomplish.

Daniel Gleason, from Herkimer county, N. Y., was a settler on lot 29, in the south part of the town, in 1813.

Abijah Dean, from New Hampshire, came to Clarendon in 1813, and located in the southeast corner of the town. He removed to Holley in 1831.

Reuben Lucas was a settler in Clarendon in 1813. He built a saw mill in the north part of the town, on lot 69, in that year, and two or three years later a grist mill near.

Jacob Andrews, a native of Massachusetts, came from Oneida county, N. Y., to Clarendon in 1814, and located on lot 44 in the southern part of the town, remaining there till his death in 1854. In 1816 he re- moved his family to this place One of his children, Enoch Andrews, was born in Westfield, Mass., in 1809. He became the owner of the farm which his father took up, and resided on it till his death in 1886.

Mr. Andrews was married in 1832, to Hannah Hammond, by whom he had one daughter, Mrs. Sarah Ann Crossett. In 1848 he married Abigail Peabody. His first wife died in 1833, his second in 1886.

Samuel Coy became a resident of Clarendon in 1814. He purchased 100 acres of land about a mile south from the village. Here his wife, Bethia, died in 1847. His sons, Lucius B. and Martin, were residents of the town. The former was supervisor in 1856.

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Leonard Foster came also in 1814 and took up 100 acres a short dis- tance north from Clarendon village. He was a cooper, and supplied the settlers with whatever they required in his line. He was born in 1785 and died in 1853.

Jacob Oman was born in 1784 His wife, Amelia, a Maryland woman, was born the same year. They came to the western part of Clarendon in 1814 He died here in 1868 and she in 1871.

Asa Glidden was born in Vermont in 1772, and removed to Lower Canada. Immediately after the close of the war of 1812 he came to Clarendon with his family and a brother-in law. They came each with a span of horses, a yoke of oxen, and a few household goods, and were a month on the road. Mr. Glidden settled on lot 3, in the eastern part of the town, and remained there till his death in 1827. He married, in Vermont, Sarah Sims, a native of that State. She died in Clarendon in 1846. They brought with them four sons and two daughters, all of whom lived to maturity, and most of them exceeded the allotted period of three score and ten. One of the sons, Asa Glidden, jr., at the age of eighty-four died on the homestead. Andrew Glidden,a brother of Asa, sr., came with him. He never married. Jacob Glidden, another brother, came in 1817 and settled south from Clarendon, but in 1819 removed to a place about two miles southeast from that village, where his son, Thomas Glidden, afterward resided. He erected a rude log shanty at first, but two years later built a large house of hewed logs, with a loft that was reached by a ladder. He died on this farm about 1848. He reared six sons and five daughters, all of whom lived to manhood and womanhood, all married, and ten reared children.

Simeon Glidden and his brothers-Jeremiah and David-were natives of Vermont and cousins of Asa Glidden, sr. Simeon came to Claren- don in the spring of 1814 and took up a farm on lots 106 and 107, a mile southeast from Clarendon village. He came at the same time with David Matson, sr., and they went together to locate their farms. He brought his family here not long afterward and passed the rest of his life on the farm which he took. His first house was the usual log structure of those times. It is said that in 1818 he had not a dollar in money and no accounts on which anything but barter could be collected. His wife, Lucy, was the daughter of a Newfoundland fisherman. It is

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said that a codfish hook that she inherited from her father was utilized for hanging the meat which she roasted before the fire. This hook is still in the possession of her descendants. They were succeeded on the farm where they settled by their son, Simeon Glidden, and he by his son of the same name. Jeremiah Glidden settled about a mile east from the village of Clarendon, and made the first improvements there. He was the supervisor of the town in 1823 and 1824. The Glidden family has been numerously represented in Clarendon, and its represen- tatives have been prominent members of society. Joseph J., a son of David Glidden, emigrated to Illinois and there invented barbed wire for fence, for which he received a patent that made him wealthy.

Jacob Owen and Jeremiah Ward were settlers in Clarendon in 1815.

David Matson, a native of Connecticut, was born in 1778. When a young man he removed to Vermont, where he married Betsey Calley, a native of that State, born in 1784. In 1814 he came to Clarendon and took up lots 84 and 85, southeast from Clarendon Village. Simeon Glidden at the same time selected his farm next west from this. Mr. Matson made some improvements and built a log house-the first in

this vicinity. In the autumn of 1815 he brought his family, consisting of five, to their wilderness home, coming in a wagon, with a few house- hold effects, drawn by a span of horses .. He was compelled to cut his road a portion of the way to his house, and his wagon was " stuck in the mud " in crossing the creek. He took possession of his shanty, which had only a blanket for a door and a hole in the roof for a chim- ney, and this was his residence for fifteen years. In after life they re- lated the stories of their pioneer life, of their adventures with wild ani- mals, their privations and hardships, the frolics and merry-makings of the settlers, and the gradual development and improvement of the country. Both died at this place ; she in 1872 and he in 1876. Of their ten children Mrs. Juliana Patterson, of Lockport, born in 1813, is the only survivor. David, born in 1811, died in 1892 at the old home- stead.

Gideon Salisbury, a descendant of one of three brothers who, tra- dition says, came at a very early date in the history of this country from Salisbury Plain, England, to Rhode Island, was the progenitor of the Orleans county branch of the family. He came very early to On-

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tario county, where he married and reared three sons and three daugh- ters. Joseph Salisbury, one of these sons, was the ancestor of the so- called Clarendon Salisburys. He reared a family of eight sons and five daughters, all of whom grew to manhood and womanhood. The sons were Abraham W., William L., Guy M., Royal S., Hermon L., Sam - uel, Sampson, and George S. The daughters were Priscilla, Amanda, Melinda, Miranda, and Phoebe. A majority of these settled in or near Clarendon, where their numerous descendants reside. Superior intelli- gence is a distinguishing characteristic of this family.

Isaac Cady, who was born in New Hampshire in 1793, came on foot from Kingston, Vt., to Clarendon in 1815. The next year he married Betsey Pierce. He became prominently identified with the town. David Mattison was another settler of 1815. With his family he came from Vermont in a covered wagon drawn by a horse team, and located on lots 84 and 85, where he died in 1876. On this place Mrs. Matti- son planted a quantity of apple and pear seeds soon after their arrival, and from these was made one of the first orchards in town.

Linus Peck, the father of the Peck family in .Clarendon, came from Onondaga county in 1816 and built a log house about two miles south from the village. To this place he brought his family the next year. Luther Peck, his son. worked on his father's farm when a young man, but afterward adopted the legal profession, in which he became em- inent. While a law student he taught school in Clarendon, but re- moved to Pike, Wyoming county, N. Y., and afterward to Nunda, where he died. Horace Peck was born in Farmington, Conn., in 1802. He had been hired to go with a drove of animals to Buffalo, came back to Farwell's Mills, and staid with Leonard Foster three weeks, at the end of which time the family arrived. Mr. Peck commenced his ca- reer as a pedagogue in the winter of 1819-20, and continued to teach each winter during ten years, working for his father and others sum- mers. His first wife, to whom he was married in 1829, was Miss Anna White. She died in 1834, and in 1836 he married Miss Adaline Nich- ols.

Frederick Main, who was born in Connecticut in 1797, came to Clar- endon in 1816 and located on lot 4, in the southern part of the town. In 1819 he married Nancy Jewett. George Thomas and Leander Hood

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came in 1816 and located in the south part of Clarendon. They were from Rensselaer county.

Elizur Warren, the brother of David and the father of Nathan O. Warren, took up 100 acres in 1816, two miles west from Clarendon village. The brothers made the brick for the dwelling which, in 1828, took the place of the original log house that Elizur built in 1816. They were natives of Connecticut. David was born in 1780 and died in 1841. Elizur was born in 1790 and died in 1862. Nathan O. War- ren, who died in 1887, was the son of Elizur. Stephen Warren took up 100 acres farther west.

Charles Lee, in 1816, built a small log house on lot 30, south from the village of Clarendon. Joseph and Ezekiel Lee came soon after- ward.

T. S. Maine at first settled on a farm two miles southwest from Clar- endon village in 1816. He had been drafted in the war of 1812 and did duty as a teamster.

Eli Evarts, a native of Connecticut, was born in 1773, came with his family from Monroe county to Clarendon and purchased lot 256, two miles west from the village, where he died in 1834. Martin Evarts, a native of Riga, Monroe county, N. Y., was born in 1812 and came with his father's family to Clarendon in 1817. He settled two miles west from the village, where he died in 1887. He was supervisor of Clar- endon in 1863. His wife, to whom he was married in 1835, was Char- lotte Burnham. She died in 1862.

Alexander Annis settled on lot 256, near what is now Manning, in 1817. It is said that he brought here the first sleigh on this road. His wife brought and planted the first currants in this vicinity.

Benjamin Pettengill was a native of Maine. In 1817 he started from Portland to Boston, and walked thence with his pack on his back to Og- den, Monroe county. During that summer he worked by the month, and in the autumn purchased a place in what was then Sweden, now Clarendon.

William Tousley came to Clarendon prior to 1817 and located about two miles.southwest from the village. He was born in 1761, and it is said was a soldier in the Revolution. Copeland says : "It would be truly interesting if Tousley would walk in for a few moments and give

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us a full account of his actions during the service, and we would be sure to get the whole truth, now that he has sojourned in a region where yarns and lies have no market value." He died in 1827. Zardius Tousley was born in 1787, and died in 1866. He was supervisor of Clarendon in 1834. Valentine Tousley was born in 1804, and died in 1842. Orson Tousley, for many years a resident of Clarendon, removed to Albion, where he died. He accumulated large wealth.

Nathaniel Warren was a native of Connecticut. His wife, also a na- tive of that State, was Polly Smith. In 1818 they came to Clarendon and settled on lot 12, the northeast corner lot of the town. Here he died in 1828 and she in 1860. They had six children who lived to adult age.

Leander S. Warren was born in Connecticut in 1817. He came with his father's family to Clarendon, and here, at the age of twenty- four, he was married to Caroline Lambert of Clarkson. She died in 1860, and in 1861 he married Amelia Spencer of Sweden. By his first wife he had four sons. By his second marriage he had two children. He died in 1892.

Daniel Brackett took up land in the northwest part of the town in 1819. His place was afterward owned by Deacon Lemuel Pratt. He was born in 1784, and died in 1865. His wife, Lydia, died in 1871. His father, Daniel Brackett, sr., a Revolutionary soldier, came with him and died here.

Amos Salmon was a resident in a log house a short distance south from the Christian Church at Manning. It is said that his wife was quite as expert in the use of an axe as her husband.

Zebulon Packard was born in Massachusetts about 1788. He mar- ried Althea Bannister, also a native of Massachusetts, and in 1815 they removed to Ontario county, N. Y. In 1819 they came to Clarendon, and located on lot 232, half a mile north from Manning. Here he died in 1827, and she in 1831. Their children were Edward, Althea, Orrin, Wealthy, Mary, Manning, and Christopher B , all born in Massachusetts, and all dead. Christopher B. died in 1893 on the old homestead. He was born in 1813. His wife was Rachel Johnson, a native of Schoharie county, N. Y. She died in 1890. They had two children. Manning Packard, born in 1811, died in 1888. He was a blacksmith, a

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shoemaker, a worker in wood, and one of the most ingenious men in the town.

Jacob Sawyer became a resident of Clarendon in 1819.

John Russell, from Massachusetts, was an immigrant in 1819 and made his residence south from Manning in a log shanty with a flat basswood roof.

John French, who was born in 1779, came to Clarendon from Herki- mer county in 1819 and settled on lot 27, in the southwest part of the town. He was a soldier in the war of 1812, and participated in the battles of Chippewa and Lundy's Lane. He was also present at the taking of Fort Erie, where he was disabled, He died in 1863.

Ralzman Thomas took up land in the eastern part of the town prior to 1820.

Hiram Frisbee was born at Granville, N. Y., in 1791. In 1821 he located in Clarendon village where, in company with his brother-in- law, William Pierpont, he engaged in mercantile business and also in the manufacture of potash and pearlash. In 1828 he removed to Holley, where he was a merchant and an active business man. He did much toward the development of that village.

Elnathan Johnson was, in 1821, a shoemaker in a log house just east from Farwell's Mills. Nathaniel Huntoon, in 1821, lived about a mile east from Clarendon village, and was familiarly called Nat. He after- ward removed east to a place that was called from him "Natville." Chester Brace lived in the northeast part of the town in 1821.

Elijah L., Stephen, Sharley, and Alfred Williams were brothers and natives of Connecticut. Their father died in that State, and the family removed to Onondaga county, N. Y. About 1821 they came to Clar- endon and settled in the east part of the town. Stephen died in 1845, and Alfred in 1881, both in Clarendon. The others emigrated and died elsewhere. Samuel, a son of Elijah, relates that his grandfather, Stephen Williams, was a Revolutionary soldier; that he was wounded in battle, and that the bullet which was cut from the wound is still in his possession.

Angustus Sturges, the father of David Sturges, was a resident on a portion of the Williams property in 1821. He was born in 1759, and died in 1826. Anson Bunnell, in 1821, resided some two miles south

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from Clarendon village on a place that had been taken up by Levi Dudley. Asahel Clark lived in the south part of the town in 1821. He died in 1824. Ebenezer Smith owned lands on lots 68 and 80 near the south line of the town, in 1816. Fuller Coy, the brother of Cyrus, owned, in 1821, a farm two miles south from the village. John Hamlin lived, in 1816, in a log house some two and one-half miles southwest from the village. Zaccheus Fletcher and Elias Palmer lived in the same part of the town in 1816, as did also Abner and Bradley Bishop. Asdel Nay, a justice of the peace, who is remembered as a very tall man, resided in the west part of the town in 1821. He died in 1831 at the age of thirty-three. Jeremiah Wood resided in the same vicinity in that year.

Seth Knowles was a resident just north from Farwell's Mills in 1821. It is not known when he came to Clarendon, but probably it was quite early. He was born in 1762, and died in 1832. His wife, Lucy, was born in 1763, and died in 1836. Their sons, Remick, Samuel, and William, were buried in the cemetery near Manning. Remick died in 1855, Samuel in 1872, and William in 1871.

The Slocums, Elijah, Eleazer, and Peleg, were settlers about a mile west from Farwell's Mills some time prior to 1822.

John Nelson came from Seneca county in 1823 and located on lot 43, east from Clarendon village. Peter Downs had preceded him and Nel- son purchased his improvements. John was the father of John and James Nelson.

John Millard and his son Alfred came from Fabius, Onondaga county. in 1823, and first located two or three miles east from Clarendon village ; afterward on the road that leads south from the Christian church, where the father died in 1864, His wife, Betsey, died in 1855.

Stephen Wyman was born in 1787. His wife, Nancy, was born a year later. They came from Yates county to Clarendon about 1824, and located on lot 16, in the southwestern part of the town, where she died in 1831 and he in 1847. His son, Stephen, jr., was born in 1809, and died in 1852.

Dan Polly, in 1825, built the hostelry which was long known as the Polly Tavern. It was near the east line of the town.

Samuel Wetherbee was born in Washington county, N. Y., in 1800.

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In 1814 he removed, with his father's family, to Wayne county. In 1825 he came to Clarendon and located on lot 203, where he remained till his death, in 1879. His father, John Wetherbee, a native of Massa- chusetts, came here with him, and died here in 1836. Mr. Wetherbee married first Polly Wetherbee. She soon died and he was married to Hannah Pettengill, a native of Maine. They reared eight children.

Silas Wadsworth was a native of Massachusetts, born in 1770. In early life he removed to Cortland county, N. Y. There, in 1798, he married Judith Barrett. About 1801 they removed to Sweden, Monroe county, and in 1825 to Clarendon. They settled on lot 45, east from Clarendon village, where he died in 1847 and she in 1859. Of their nine children seven lived to adult age. A son of Silas was born fn 18II. He came with his father to Clarendon and died on the farm where they settled. His wife, to whom he was married in 1833, was Hannah S. Wilder, of Sweden, born in 1815. She died in 1866. They reared to maturity five children.

Col. Hubbard Rice, Daniel Keyes, Mr. Hughes, and Mr. Van Deuzen were residents in the south part of the town in 1825.

Thomas Templeton was born in Saratoga county in 1797. In 1823 he married Lydia Cook, of the same county, and in 1827 they came to Clarendon and settled in the southeastern part of the town. She died in 1829, and in 1830 he married Minerva Langdon, of Genesee county. Mr. Templeton died in 1869, and his last wife in 1889.

Alexander Milliken, who was born in 1799, and died in 1853, became a resident north from Clarendon village in 1827, and remained there till his death. The grave of his wife, Sally, is also in the cemetery near Clarendon, and that of Mary, wife of Samuel Milliken. She was born in 1766, and died in 1854.

Henry Hill was an early resident in the east part of the town, and was supervisor in 1828. In the old cemetery in that vicinity are the re- mains of Deacon Ebenezer Hill, who was born in 1758, and Ebenezer B. Hill, born in 1797. William B. Fincher was an early settler in the eastern part of Clarendon, and was a blacksmith there. John Sturde- vant and Peter Prindle were residents in the southwest part of Claren- don in 1829. Isaac H. Davis and Ira Glidden resided south from Clarendon village in 1829. James Lusk was born in Onondaga county,

Joseph Trutt

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N. Y., in 1811. In 1829 he came to Clarendon, and afterward pur- chased a farm on lot 23, three miles southeast from Clarendon village. He died on this place in 1883. He first married, in 1834, Charlotte Bennett. She died in 1836, and in 1837 he married Susannah Williams, a native of Onondaga county. She died in 1860. He had four chil- dren. Hull Lusk, a brother of James, came to Clarendon soon after- ward. After a residence here of some years he removed, with his family, to Michigan.

Joseph Pratt was born in Massachusetts in 1802. In 1806 his father started to remove to Jefferson county, N. Y., but died on the way. His mother, with her three children, completed the journey, and Joseph was, in 1812, bound out to a farmer. Not being well treated he became dissatisfied and ran away to the west. In Rochester he paid his last six- pence for something to eat. He encountered an uncle and came with him to Sweden, where he engaged as a farm laborer, and at the same time studied surveying with a private instructor. He also learned the trade of a carpenter. He purchased a farm on lot 43 in 1829, and re- moved to this place, where he remained till his death in 1881. He fol- lowed the business of farming and of surveying, and during many years was a justice of the peace. In 1828 he married Alinda Howard, of Sweden. She died in 1849, and in 1851 he married Chloe Hill.

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Landmarks of Orleans County, New York, Part 58

Author: Signor, Isaac S., ed Publication date: 1894 Publisher: Syracuse : D. Mason Number of Pages: 1084

Author: Signor, Isaac S., ed
Publication date: 1894
Publisher: Syracuse : D. Mason
Number of Pages: 1084