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L. 121, Nathaniel A. Brown, 65, 84 a., Aug. 18. 1838; Obed Westgate, 30 a., June 20, 1836; John H. Thomas, 10 a.
L. 122, Benjamin Morse, 81, 85 a., Sept. 27, 1833; Benjamin Morse, 20 a., Oct. 8, 1829.
L. 123, Fanny Randall and others, 112, 65 a., Apr. 12, 1837.
L. 124, Hard, Goff and Sears, 101 a., Sept. 1, 1835.
L. 125, Franklin Hinds and others, executors, 95, 34 a., Oct. 1, 1833.
L. 126, William H. Merrick, 45 a., Apr. 1, 1854; Nathaniel S. Bennett, 49, 81 a., July 1, 1845.
L. 127, Simeon B. Jewett, 94, 85 a., May 1, 1845.
L. 129, James Weed, 50 a., July 1, 1837 ; S. Blodgett and others, 20 a., Sept. 1, 1835 ; Silas Blodgett, 31. 02 a., March 17, 1824.
L. 130, John Farnsworth, 52, 57 a., Apr. 10, 1835; Anson Beebe, 40 a.
L. 131, Nathaniel M. Requa, 50, 11 a., Sept. 21, 1840; Alexis Crane, 50, 11 a., Oct. 3, 1846.
L. 132, Daniel Stewart, 48, 21 a., Apr. 5, 1831; Robert Clark, 48, 06 a., Apr. 20, 1842.
L. 133, Henry Whitney, 99, 39 a., Aug. 18, 1857.
L. 134, George C. Goodrich, 94, 84 a., Feb 24, 1833.
L. 135, Alfred F. Cox, 30 a., Oct. 11, 1832; Philip Leonard, 68, 47 a., March 31, 1857.
L. 136, Hard, Goff and Sears, 91, 61 a., Sept. 1, 1835.
L. 137 and 138, Hiram Frisbie, 181, 02 a., Apr. 1, 1853.
L. 139, Simeon B. Jewett, 93, 34 a., May 1, 1835.
L. 140, William Parker, 45, 16 a., March 1, 1861; David Jones, 45, 87 a., Dec. 1, 1859.
L. 141, Ebenezer Raymond, 96, 78 a., Dec. 1, 1832.
L. 142, Felix Auger, 50 a., Aug. 9, 1828 ; Lewis L. Peet, 40, 87 a., Sept. 30, 1835.
L. 143, Lewis L. Peet, 49, 39 a., Sept. 30, 1835; Alanson Whitney, 49, 39 a., Apr. 30, 1833.
I. 144, Felix Auger, 48, 28 a., Feb. 18, 1823 ; Robert Clark, 48, 29 a., Apr. 20, 1842.
L. 145, George Balcom, 99, 61 a., May 3, 1822.
L. 146, Vine Balcom, 47, 31 a., Jan. 7, 1848; Guy Bridgman, 46, 78 a., Oct. 24, 1845.
L. 147, George S. Pierce, 55, 45 a., Aug. 28, 1844 ; Asahel Balcom, 55, 45 a., May 3, 1822.
L. 148, Hard, Goff and Sears, 98, 67 a., Sept. 1, 1835.
L. 149, John R. Hodges, 98, 35 a., July 1, 1836.
L. 150, Alden R. Pemberton, 95, 37 a., Apr. 1, 1853.
L. 151, 98, 18 a., and L. 152, 99, 14 a., Simeon B. Jewett, May 1, 1835.
L. 153, Tyler B. and Ethan A. Thompson, 50, 95 a., July 1, 1851 ; Elias Thompson, 47, 72 a., Oct. 1, 1839.
L. 154, Cyrenus Wellman, 48, 19 a., Sept. 27, 1833 ; Lewis L. Peet, 48, 18 a., Sept. 30, 1835.
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L. 155. Addison M. Wood, 50 a., Aug. 24, 1848 ; Daniel McConnell, 50, 62 a., March 28, 1853.
L. 156, Robert Clark, 48. 33 a., Feb. 9, 1853; Daniel Stewart, 48, 33 a., Oct. 28, 1839. L. 157, Levi A. Ward, 100, 48 a., Jan 7, 1848.
L. 158, Guy Bridgman, 46, 78 a., July 20, 1847 ; Guy Bridgman, 46, 78 a., Oct. 24, 1845.
L. 159, Asahel Balcom, 105, 46 a., Feb. 11, 1824.
L. 160, Hard, Goff & Sears, 101, 10 a., Sept. 1, 1835.
L. 161, Benjamin F. Johnson, 50, 71 a., June 7, 1855 ; Samuel Chadsey, 50, 71 a., June 1, 1855.
L. 162, Hiram Cowles, 96, 37 a., Jan. 1, 1836.
L. 163, 100, 20 a., and L. 164, 98, 78 a., Simeon B. Jewett, May 1, 1835.
L. 165, Ethan A. Thompson, 50, 91 a., July 1, 1851; Epentus A. Reed and Edward Mulford, 50, 95 a., Apr. 1, 1836.
L. 166, Nathan Fisk, 99, 51 a., June 12, 1832.
L. 168, James E. and Robert Clark, 48, 71 a., March 31, 1854.
L. 169, 103, 29 a., and L. 170, 96, 94 a., were sold Dec. 8, 1820.
L. 171, Asabel Balcom, 109, 69 a., Feb. 11, 1824.
L. 172, Edwin S. Spaulding, 50, 17 a., Sept. 1, 1859 ; Joel Harrington, 50, 17 a .. Nov. 1, 1858.
L. 176, Ansel Frost, 100, 63 a., Dec. 1, 1835.
L. 177, Sylvester Richmond , 103, 07 a., July 1, 1836.
L. 178, James R. Lowry, 51, 55 a., July 14, 1860 ; William Ward.
L. 179, Levi A. Ward, 102, 11 a., Jan. 10, 1837.
L. 180, Wm. McCartney, 4 a .; H. S. Dickinson 3, 06 a .; Geo. S. and Obed W. Clough, 94, 31 a., Jan. 1, 1852.
L. 181, Joseph Hart, 51, 38 a., Aug. 24, 1848.
L. 182, William T. Torrey, 98. 90 a., Dec. 8, 1820.
L. 183, John Smith, 60, 60 a., Nov. 4, 1857.
L. 191, Abraham Cantine, 48, 62 a., June 1, 1839.
L. 192, Levi A. Ward, 47, 22 a., Jan. 10, 1837.
L. 194, Ezra Spicer, 49, 20 a., Aug. 21, 1851 ; Ezra Spicer, 49, 20 a., Oct. 3, 1846.
L. 195, Harry Perry, 99, 22 a., July 11, 1836.
L. 196, Asahel Balcom, 98, 10 a., June 4, 1819.
L. 197, Ebenezer K. Webster, Jan. 1, 1835; Salmon Webster, March 8, 1831, each un- divided half of 109 a.
L. 203, Charles L. Sprague, 102, 70 a., July 1, 1864.
L. 204, Daniel Smith, 30 a., March 3, 1858; Arthur Harris, 10 a., Apr. 8, 1861.
L. 205, Nathaniel W. and Isaac Perry, 51, 87 a., Dec. 30, 1835; Timothy Ruggles, (part L. 214), 48, 67 a., Oct. 1, 1859.
L. 206, William Drew, 4 a., Dec. 17, 1855; A. B. Townsend, 10 a., Dec. 20, 1850; Christopher C. Ruggles, 20 a., Dec. 20, 1860.
L. 207, Moses B. Gage, 44, 74 a., May 1, 1856.
L. 208, Asahel Balcom, 106, 55 a., Dec. 8, 1820.
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L. 209, Samuel and Ebenezer K. Webster, 113, 16 a., May 1, 1839.
L. 212, Roswell S. Burrows, 87, 77 a., Nov. 1, 1861.
L. 213, Philemon Allen, 99, 02 a., Apr. 12, 1856.
L. 214, Nathaniel W. and Horace B. Perry, 46, 49 a., Dec. 30, 1835; Timothy Ruggles, 48, 67 a. (part lot 205), Oct. 1, 1851 ; David Arnold, 20, 80 a., Jan. 1, 1857.
L. 216, Lucy Perry and others,23, 27 a., Dec. 1, 1849; Calvin Kingman, 25 a., Nov. 1, 1855.
L. 217, Asahel Balcom, 96, 72 a., June 4, 1819.
L. 218, Harry Perry, 106, 01 a., July 1, 1836.
Settlement here was retarded for several reasons, some of which have already been mentioned. The land, belonging jointly to the State of Connecticut and the Pultney estate, was not divided between these owners till 1811. In 1810 Dr. Levi Ward was appointed agent for the sale of lands by the State of Connecticut, and in 1811 Joseph Fellows became the agent of the Pultney estate. Land offices were opened and settlers were invited ; but few came into Kendall for some years. The lands of the Holland Land Company had been in market, and the fore- most wave of the tide of emigration had passed west beyond this re- gion. During some years it was difficult to procure a good title to the lands of the Pultney estate, and prior to 1816 but few came into the town.
The earliest settlers were mostly Vermonters, and so great was the change of climate and surroundings on coming here that much illness was experienced by them. At times nearly all were sick, and although the kindness which always characterizes the early settlers of a country prevailed among them, yet there were times when so few were well and so scanty were the facilities for treating and caring for the sick that great suffering was experienced.
The first, and for some years the principal settlement in the town was on the eastern border, about midway between its north and south boundaries. . The first settler was Samuel Bates, who came in the spring of 1812, and located on lot III. Mr. Bates was a private in a New Hampshire regiment during the last three and a half years of the Revolutionary war, wintering with Washington at Valley Forge and participating with Sullivan in his famous expedition against the Indians in Western New York. While serving in the latter capacity Mr. Bates had occasion to cross to the west bank of the Genesee River, and the
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appearance of the country impressed him so favorably that he resolved to locate here. Leaving the army he resided for a time in Randolph, Vt., and then in Burlington, where he left his family to come here in 1812. Mr. Bates cleared a small plat the first year, erected a log cabin, and in the fall of 1813 sowed two acres of wheat, after which he re- turned to Vermont for his family, whom he brought to Kendall in June, 1814. He never became acclimated, and after suffering for several years with malarial fever died August 21, 1822. His son, Capt. Henry W. Bates, was nearly twenty-one years of age when he came with the family to Kendall in 1814. The father, on account of illness, having failed to make the necessary payments on his purchase, Capt. Bates took out an article in his own name and went to work for Dr. Levi Ward by the month to pay for it. He subsequently secured a deed of the farm, upon which he died in 1887.
In the spring and summer of 1815 Amos Randall, Adin Manley, David Jones, John Farnsworth, Benjamin Morse, Nathaniel Brown, and Zebulon Rice came. Randall, Morse, and Manley located near East Kendall, Jones and Rice in the north central part of the town, and Farnsworth a short distance south from the center.
Amos Randall was born in Massachusetts in 1788. His wife, Fanny Tabor, was born in Vermont in 1793. They were married in 1814, removed to Avon the same year, and in the spring of 1815 came to Kendall and settled on lot 123, near East Kendall, where he died in 1830. The first school house in the town was built on his land and the first cemetery was located on his farm. He was a public spirited man and a prominent and useful citizen. He was supervisor of Murray be- fore the county of Orleans was organized. His children were Charles T., Gideon, Dr. James W., Fanny E., (Mrs. O. M. Green), George W., and Amos S.
Adin Manley was born in Taunton, Mass., in 1793. In 1815 he came to Kendall and located in the "Black North " at a place then called "Yanty Creek." He remained through the summer of 1816, but in the autumn of that year sickness and discouragement induced him to return to Massachusetts. Health and'courage renewed, in the winter of 1817 he married Miss Miriam Deming, and in the spring of that year he and his brother and wife and child, Eri Twitchell and wife, and
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Nathaniel Brown returned with three yoke of oxen and a large covered wagon and entered on the realities of new country life. , They reared ten children, all of whom grew to manhood, and accumulated a com- petence. Mrs. Manley died in 1857 at the age of sixty-four years. Mr. Manley died in Albion in 1867.
John Farnsworth was born in Franklin county, Vt., in 1795. In 1815 he removed to Kendall and took up lot 130, where he died in 1873. When he first located there he was three miles from any settle- ment. The first school house in that section was built on his land.
Benjamin Morse was born in New Hampshire in 1786. In 1814 he married Elizabeth Thomas, who was also born in New Hampshire in 1793. They removed to Avon, N. Y., thence to Rochester, and in 1815 to Kendall, settling on lot 122, a mile east from Kendall village. They remained there till their deaths. He died in 1880, she in 1885. They reared to maturity seven children, of whom Franklin M. is a harnessmaker in Kendall village. Bartlett B. Morse, the second son of Benjamin, was born November 23, 1816; he was the first white child born in the town of Kendall. In 1843 he purchased a farm on lot 30, in the western part of the town, and there he died in 1890. His wife, whom he married in 1846, was Eunice Barton. She still resides on the homestead. Franklin M. Morse was born in Kendall April 6, 1821. He was long a justice of the peace and for some time a pettifogger in justice courts. As a hunter, perhaps no man in the town is better known.
In 1816, the celebrated "cold season," but few families came to Kendall. Among them were Felix Auger, Rev. Stephen Randall, Asahel Balcom, George Balcom, Stephen Bliss, and James Weed. Mr. Auger located a mile south from Kendall village, Mr. Randall south from East Kendall, and the Messrs. Balcom about midway between East Kendall and Kendall Mills. Asa Ross, a son-in law of Asahel Balcom, came the same year and settled on the next lot south. Mr. Bliss located on lot 129 southwest from Kendall village, and Mr. Weed on the next lot north from his. Felix Auger was a Revolutionary soldier.
Asahel Balcom was a native of Connecticut, as was also his wife, Asenath Martin. In 1816 they came to Kendall and settled on lot 147, where they both died. They reared five sons and two daughters. Their grandson, Martin A. Balcom, resides in Kendall.
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James Weed was born in 1790 in New Hampshire, as was also his wife Hannah Currier, in 1793. In 1816 they came to this town and settled one mile west from Kendall village, where he remained until a few years prior to his death, which occurred at Sandy Creek in 1850. His widow resides near the old homestead.
Zebulon Goodrich, Ethan Graham, Reuben Wellman and many oth- ers came in 1817, and located in various parts of the town, and from that time forward immigration was more rapid.
William R. Bassett was born in Rhode Island in 1802. He first came to Clarkson, where during several years he kept a hotel. He next removed to Kendall village, where he purchased the shop built by Roblee & Spicer and conducted the business of blacksmithing. In 1840 he bought a farm on lot 23, and remained there till his death in 1889. He represented Kendall four years on the board of supervisors. His wife, a native of Connecticut, was Olive Munger, born in 1807. They were married in 1829, and she died in 1877. They reared five sons and five daughters, of whom Frank Bassett, Mrs. Harriet Mulford (who resides on a part of the old homestead), Mrs. Ira Bates, and Mrs. Os- car Munn live in Kendall.
William Clark was of English descent. His ancestors came to America in the seventeenth century. He removed from Lisbon, Conn., to Chenango county, N. Y., in 1805, to Utica in 1810, and to Ken- dall in 1817. He settled about three miles from the lake at a place then called Clark's settlement, because two others by that name were there, Caleb and James Clark who came the year before. Mr. Clark, with the help of his neighbors, built the usual pioneer log house with bark roof, puncheon floor, blanket door, ground fireplace, and no chimney. His wife died in 1819. He married again in 1820 and removed to Le Roy. but in 1824 returned to Kendall, which was afterwards his permanent residence. Robert Clark, his son, was born at Lisbon, Conn., in 1801. In the autumn of 1818 he returned to Oneida county and learned the art of distilling whiskey. He afterward worked at that business in Rochester, and in 1820 built the first steam distillery ever erected in Canada. In 1824 he marrid Anna Auger a native of Vermont, and a daughter of Felix Auger. Mr. Clark purchased land in Kendall and built a distillery, which he sold in 1830, and made farming the business
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of his life afterward. In the " sickly season " of 1828 he and his family, as well as other settlers, suffered severely.
John H. Thomas, born in Otsego county, N. Y., in 1794, came to Kendall in the autumn of 1818, purchased lot 107 west from Kendall village, and partly built thereon a log house. He then went to Geneva, where he had left his family, and in February of the next year they came with their effects to their western home. Pending the completion of his log house he made his home in the house of Jefferson Goodrich, who had settled with his family on lot Io, in the spring of 1817. Mr. Thomas died on his homestead in 1841.
James Whitmore was born in New Hampshire in 1786. Prior to the war of 1812 he removed to Canada, where he was drafted in the British service, but, with other Americans, refused to fight and was employed in the transportation of ordnance. As soon as peace was concluded he removed to Henrietta, Monroe county, and in 1817 to Kendall, locating on lot 93, just east from West Kendall, and died there in 1861. His first wife was Susannah Nutter, a native of New Hampshire. She died in 1827, and in 1828 he married Mrs. Nancy Wilcox, of Murray. She died in 1888.
Lyman and Orman Spicer were natives of Washington county, N.Y. In the spring of 1821 Lyman, with Reuben Roblee, came from there and located on lot 119, at Kendall village. After they had built a double log house and cleared a few acres of land Lyman went to Clarkson and engaged in the manufacture of brick. Orman Spicer, who was born December 7, 1804, came to Kendall in 1822 and pur- chased Lyman's interest in lot 119. He remained at Kendall village during the rest of his life. He was an early and leading member of the M. E. church at that place and was a prominent and influential citizen. He died December 12, 1893. Mr. Roblee returned to Wash- ington county in the autumn of 1821, and married Mary Spicer, the sister of Lyman and Orman. In the spring of 1822 he and Orman came to Kendall, and they occupied the double log house which had been built the previous year. They built a framed addition to this, and in 1823 opened it as a hotel. About 1825 they built and carried on a blacksmith shop, but soon afterward sold it to William R. Bassett. These were the first two industries of the kind in town. Mr. Roblee became a farmer and resided here till his death, in 1871.
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David Arnold came from Saratoga county, N.Y., to Kendall in 1824, and located on lot 214, in the south part of the town. Two years later he sold fifty acres of his farm to E. K. Webster, but afterward repur- chased it and in 1832 built a saw mill on his place, which was tra- versed by Sandy Creek. This mill was afterward operated by his sons.
About 1825 a colony of Norwegians, about fifty in number, settled in the northeast part of the town, near the lake. The road which passes south from the lake, about a mile west from the county line, ran through their settlement; and the name-Norway street-still clings to it in common parlance. After a residence of a few years there the most of them removed to Illinois.
Isaac Soule was born in Columbia county, N.Y., in 1874. He was a farmer and mechanic, and during his youth and early manhood he re- sided in different parts of Eastern New York. In 1825 he came to Kendall and purchased a farm about two miles north from Kendall village. His wife, whom he married in 1803, was Cynthia Carter, of Dutchess county,, N. Y., born in 1780. They removed in 1826 to the farm which he had purchased the previous year, and remained there till their death. She died in 1849; he in 1864.
Levi Hard came to Orleans county in 1825 from Washington county, N. Y., where he was born in 1810. He at first worked in the clothiery of Bushnell & Clark, at Holley, but in 1843 he purchased a farm on lot 27 in the northeast corner of Kendall, which he made his permanent residence. He married, in 1834, Rosetta Lake, of Murray. She died in 1844, and in 1845 he married Mary Hopkins, of Clarendon. She died in 1866, and in 1867 he married Polly I. Dutton, of Murray. He was a prominent citizen and served the town of Kendall as supervisor and assessor.
Alanson Whitney was born in Massachusetts in 1797. In 1808 he removed with his father to Chenango county, N. Y., and in 1813 to Rochester. In 1826 he came to Kendall and located on lot 133, south- east from Kendall village, where he remained till his death in 1855. In company with Robert Clark he built the first and only distillery ever erected in the town. He was a prominent and influential citizen. He was the first supervisor of Kendall, and was again elected to that office in 1851. His wife, whom he married in 1822, was Catherine Vorce, of
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Rochester. She died in Kendall in 1877. Henry Whitney, eldest son of Alanson, was born in Rochester in 1824, and removed with his father to Kendall in 1826. In 1850 he married Rowena Crane of Kendall. She died in 1857, and in 1858 he married Susan A. Douglass. They had two children.
Ose Webster was one of the earliest and most prominent settlers at Kendall Mills, which was locally known for many years as Webster's Mills. He was a millwright by trade, and came here about 1819. His wife was a pupil of Noah Webster, of dictionary fame. Ose Webster, soon after his arrival, erected a saw mill and a grist mill (the first in town), on the north bank of Sandy Creek, at Kendall Mills, near where the present mills stand. These he subsequently sold to one of his sons, and removing down the creek into Monroe county he erected two saw mills, which he soon sold. He then built a saw mill at Arnold's Mills, which he sold to E. K. Webster and David Arnold. After this he erected two saw mills lower down the stream and finally a grist mill on lot 119; all these have disappeared. The mill property at Kendall Mills has always remained in the Webster family, the junior proprietor of the present grist mill-which was erected in 1840-representing the fourth generation in successive ownership.
Philo F. Prosser was born in Albany county, N. Y., in 1796. In 1820 he married Celeste Willsey, a native of Albany county, born in 1800. In 1826 they came to Kendall and settled on lot 51, on the line between Orleans and Monroe counties. He finished a log house that had been commenced there and resided on this farm till his death in 1882. His wife died in 1857. They reared to maturity eleven children, of whom Mrs. Alfred Bassett resides on the old homestead. Mr. Prosser erected on his farm the first brick house in the town.
Alexis Crane was born in Vermont in 1786. He came to Kendall in 1829 and located on lot 131, half a mile south from Kendall village, where he remained till his death, in 1850. His wife was Rowena Farns- worth, of Kendall. They reared eight children.
Hiram Acker was born in Rensselaer county, N. Y., in 1812. In 1829 he removed to Murray, where, in 1833, he married Rhoda Sisson. In 1843 they removed to Kendall and purchased a farm on lots 3 and
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4, where they remained till their deaths. He died in 1874, she in 1887. Of their seven children five lived to maturity,
Reuben McDonald was born in Washington county, N Y, in 1796. He first removed to Tompkins county, N. Y., and in 1832 to Kendall. He located a mile and a half west from West Kendall, and died there in 1886. His first wife was Sally Fenner. She died in 1864, and in 1865 he married Mrs. Margaret Fenner.
Joseph Corbin was born in Washington county, N.Y., in 1800 He was first married to Eliza Spicer. She died a year after their marriage and he afterward married her sister, Mrs. Eunice Comstock. She died in 1870, and he married for a third wife Mrs. Rhenhama Smith. Of his six children, all by his second wife, four are still living. A son, Joseph, resides on the farm which his father first purchased, on lot I, at the northwest part of the town. Mr. Joseph Corbin, sr., came to Kendall in 1836 and settled on this lot, where he died in 1888.
George W. Holmes was born in Westchester county, N.Y., in 1816. In 1837 he married Abigail S. Fountain. In 1838 they came to Ken- dall and purchased lot 63 and a part of lot 70. Mr. Holmes has long been, and now is, one of the most prominent citizens of Kendall
Joseph Mann, a native of Saratoga county, N. Y., was born in 1804. In 1825 he removed to Clarkson, Monroe county, and in 1833 he mar- ried Delia Eveline Barrows, of Hamlin, who was born in 1815. They removed to Kendall in 1838, and in 1841 located on lot 74, northeast from Kendall village, where he died in 1881. He served the town of Kendall as supervisor three years. His wife died in 1866. Their children were: James, William, Joseph (now living on the old home- stead), and Frances Ellen, wife of William Spencer.
Caleb H. Barnum was born in Dutchess county, N. Y., in 1807. In 1827 he married Pamelia Winship. In 1829 they removed to Avon, N. Y., and to Kendall in 1847. They located on lot 100, half a mile east from Kendall village. Mr. Barnum was a mechanic, a farmer, and a surveyor. He died in 1853. His wife died in Kendall in 1884. Their six children lived to adult age, and of these Mrs. Caroline Towns- end resides in Kendall.
Albert Burnett was born in Ontario county, N. Y., in 1823. In 1839 he removed to Brockport, Monroe county. In 1847 he married Nancy
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Ann Vandermark, of Ontario county, and the same year they removed to Kendall, locating on lot 96, half a mile north fron Kendall village. Their children were Madison A., Harry S., and Henrietta.
Patrick Burnett was born in Ontario county, N. Y., in 1814. In 1840 he removed to Brockport. In 1845 he came to Kendall, where he had previously purchased a. farm on lot 24, near the lake, where he remained till his death, in 1862.
Andrew Smith was born in 1797. In 1847 he removed from Rensselaer county, N.Y., to Kendall and settled on lot 8, where he re- mained till his death in 1858 His wife, whom he married in 1827, was Rachel Furman. She died in 1880. They reared ten children. Three of the sons were volunteers in the War of the Rebellion.
Marvin Harris, a son of Benjamin Harris, and fifth in descent from James Harris, a merchant and surveyor of Saybrook, Conn., was born in Connecticut in 1815. In 1844 he married Jinnet Lyell, daughter of Philip Lyell, of Lyell street, Rochester, N. Y. He settled in Mon- roe county, where he was a teacher, farmer and surveyor. In 1849 he removed to Kendall, where he has been a farmer; he was post- master during sixteen years, a justice of the peace over twenty-five years, supervisor for Kendall in 1861 and 1862, and member of Assembly for Orleans county in 1869. He was during seven years a director of the Lake Ontario Shore Railroad, now known as the Rome, Watertown and Ogdensburg Railroad. He resides at Kendall village.
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