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In 1805 Joseph Bailey, James Jerrett, Ira Foot, David Easton, and Andrew Place became settlers. The first named, from Vernon, N. Y., located on the Andrew Coe farm west of New Haven village. He was the first postmaster in town, justice of the peace in 1810, 1814, and 1816, and performed the marriage ceremony for Capt. Ephraim Van Valken- burgh, the first white child born in what is now Volney. He was a sol- dier in the British Army, as was also Mr. Jerrett, who came from Paris, Oneida county, and settled opposite Mr. Bailey. Both deserted from Burgoyne about the time of the battle at Saratoga. Mrs. Polly Coe and Richard Jerrett were children of Mr. Jerrett. Ira Foot, from Kirk- land, Oneida county, located at Cheever's Mills, where he built the first saw mill in town in 1805. Prior to raising the frame he sent to Rome for a cask of whiskey, which was drunk up, and a second trip for an- other cask had to be made before the building was raised. David Easton was one of the early prominent men and held several positions of public trust, was supervisor six years and justice of the peace, and held both offices at the time of his death in 1823 ; he was appointed justice in 1807, 1809, 1811, 1814, 1820, and 1823, and became an asso- ciate justice of the Common Pleas in 1816. He was the first justice of the peace in the present town and the first supervisor of New Haven, and was also elected to the last named office in Mexico in 1809. He located on the Willis Johnson farm one mile south of Butterfly Corners. Andrew Place was another early comer and a noteworthy citizen. He first settled on the Ira D. Smith farm and later at May's Corners, two miles east of New Haven, where he opened and kept a log tavern. Afterward he had an inn where his son Andrew G. subsequently resided. He also lived in Richland and in New Haven village, where he died suddenly in his wagon November 15, 1852, aged sixty-five. He was a shrewd man, a good speaker, and an active Jacksonian Democrat. Andrew G. Place was born here in December, 1819, and since 1837 has lived in this town.
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Roswell Farman came from Vernon, Oneida county, in the spring of 1806, accompanied by his eldest son, Zadok, then fifteen years old. He settled three-fourths of a mile west of the present village of New Haven, opposite the place now owned by Charles Davis, and lived there until his death, in October, 1839. The country, on his arrival, was an al- most unbroken forest, and he came the greater part of the distance from Oneida county by following a line of blazed trees. There were only two small clearings between the place where he settled and Oswego, one that of Mr. Bailey, now known as the Coe farm, and the other the Burt and Stone place, at Scriba Corners. The first summer he cleared a few acres of land, planted and raised a small quantity of corn, built a log house, and went back, in the fall, to Oneida county. In the fol- lowing winter he returned with a cow, a few sheep, a yoke of oxen, a sled, and his family, which then consisted of a wife and five children (one daughter and four sons), the youngest five years old.
One or two incidents will suffice to show the wildness of the country. On the journey from Oneida county they stopped for a night at a log house, which served them as a "tavern." The cow, sheep, and oxen were placed in a log barn. In the night a pack of wolves, attracted by the animals, surrounded the buildings, and not only made the forests echo with their howlings, but also made an onslaught upon the doors doors of both the house and barn with such fury as to create serious alarm. On arriving at their rude cabin the sheep were put into a log pen, that had been prepared for the purpose the previous summer. It was covered with poles and brush, and supposed to be secure against wolves. The family went on, for the night, a mile farther, to the Bailey place. On their return, in the morning, they found their sheep pen had been broken into, and their little flock all killed by the wolves. To- day, when the great majority of the people have an abundance of the necessaries of life, and live in comparative luxury, it is difficult to appre- ciate such a loss to a family, almost wholly dependent upon the fleeces of their flock for their clothing and bedding, in their new forest home.
George Farman, son of Roswell, was born in this town July 4, 1812, and is the oldest living native resident.
Among other arrivals of 1806 were Daniel Hewitt and Joseph Boyn- ton. Mr. Hewitt settled southeast of the village of New Haven. He
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had two sons, Palmer and Elihu. Palmer Hewitt was a prominent man and a colonel in the old State militia. He had two sons, Abram W. and Mahlon. A. W. or " Wood" Hewitt, as he was familiarly called, was supervisor and justice of the peace, and has two sons living in town, C. B. and George. Mr. Boynton located on the T. S. Dowd farm, where he kept a tavern, the locality being named from him, Boynton Hill.
From 1808 to 1810 Jonathan Wing, Ezra May, Waldo Brayton, Daniel Hall, and Anson and Warner Drake came in. Mr. Wing, who settled near David Easton's, on the Warren Johnson farm, was the first town clerk and was appointed a justice of the peace in 1811, 1814, 1816, 1823, and 1827. Ezra May took up his residence in New Haven vil- lage, where he opened in 1810 the first tavern in the town; it stood just east of the brick house, which was also erected by him in 1824. He was at one time a pilot in Commodore Chauncey's fleet on Lake Ontario in the war of 1812, and during a severe storm, because of a drunken captain's refusal to attend to his duty, left the vessel, was rescued by another boat which was soon captured by the British, and was taken a prisoner to Kingston. With others he succeeded in bribing the sentinel and escaped ; he finally reached Sackett's Harbor and was paid $50 by Commodore Chauncey on account of his courage and shrewdness. Warner Drake was the father of Butler S. Drake, a farmer and teacher. Anson Drake located in New Haven village, where he opened the first store in town in 1809. Waldo Brayton, who settled at Cheever's Mills, erected the first grist mill in New Haven the same year. Daniel Hall became a resident on the A. B. Tuller place and a very in- fluential citizen.
In 1810 came Nathaniel Marvin, Almon Lindsley, Peleg Davis, Will- iam Taylor, Reuben Halliday, and Herman Hitchcock. Mr. Marvin lived at the " Hollow," where his son Orton O. afterward resided. With Hezekiah Nichols, he erected the second grist mill in town, at the " Hollow," about 1815. Orton O. Marvin was born in 1816 and died November 15, 1892. A brother, Rozelle, aged eight years, was drowned about 1837. Almon Lindsley located near Jonathan Wing in the eastern part of the town and held several important positions. George N. Lindsley was born here in 1838. Peleg Davis had three
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wives and twenty two children. His youngest son resides on the home- stead on the State road. Mr. Taylor settled on the hill west of the " Hollow," on what later became the S. O. Wilmarth place, and was town clerk in 1820 and a justice of the peace the same year. Mr. Hitch- cock located one and one-half miles south of New Haven village, and Reuben Halliday in the east part of the town. The latter was the first Methodist class leader and for many years a local preacher.
In 1811 Henry Hawley located south of the village of New Haven and was killed at the raising of Robert Jerrett's barn in 1815. He had three sons, Philander, John, and Henry, jr. Mrs. H. J. Daggett is a daughter of Philander Hawley ; she has three nephews, Charles, Elmer, and Henry Hawley, living in town. .
Between 1810 and 1813 Seth Severance, Ezra Bromley, Mitchell Crandall, William Griffin, Ansel Snow, Crandall Kenyon, Dr. Eliphalet Colt, John Walcott, Elias May, Lyman and Daniel Hatch, Samuel Cherry, Israel Ransom, Philip Delano, and Lyman Blakesley became residents of the town. Seth Severance came from Leyden, Mass., and served as justice of the peace several years, beginning in 1821. He was supervisor seventeen years-longer than any other man in New Haven. He settled east of Butterfly and died there March 8, 1856. He was twice married, his wives being sisters, and had seven children. Hon. Avery W. Severance, son of Seth, was born in New Haven on Febru- ary 23, 1819, and died here February 15, 1874. He was elected justice of the peace in 1841, was for several years supervisor and chairman of the board, long president of the Oswego County Agricultural Society, and a member of assembly in 1865.
Dr. Colt was the first physician in the town, and remained until about 1830.
The war of 1812, followed by the cold season of 1816, checked immigration, and for three or four years few settlers arrived. About 1815 the prominent arrivals were Orris Hart, Hezekiah Nichols, Lu- man Cummings, John Parsons, Dr. Stephen H. Kinne, Calvin Eason, Peter Kelsey, and Harvey Tuller. Mr. Nichols, from Oneida county, located west of New Haven village, and owned a grist mill at the " Hollow." He was a justice of the peace in 1819-21, and died here over thirty years ago, leaving three sons, Samuel, John, and Henry E.
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John Nichols is living in Michigan and Henry E. is a prominent lawyer in Fulton. Samuel Nichols served as captain of Co. E, 110th N. Y. Vols., and is the proprietor of Pleasant Point, subsequently noticed.
Orris Hart was one of the leading men of the town and ably filled a number of important offices. He was appointed associate judge of the Common Pleas in 1817 and 1819, surrogate of the county in 1819 and 1845, and sheriffin 1821, and was elected to the latter office in 1822. He was also a justice of the peace in 1817 and 1831 and member of assembly in 1827-28. He built the first ashery in town, of logs, in 1816, and in 1823 replaced it with a frame structure. 1818 he started a distillery just east of New Haven village. He came from Paris, Oneida county.
Luman Cummings settled northeast of the village of New Haven, whence he removed in 1818 to the locality that took his name, Cum- mings Mills, on the Catfish, in the south part of the town, where he died October 29, 1876, aged eighty years. He built the mill at that place about 1861, and rebuilt it three times. This was the fourth saw mill in town. He was a soldier in the war of 1812, and is survived by one son, Orlando R., who was born here in 1827, and who resides on the home- stead.
Dr. S. H. Kinne was the second physician in New Haven and re- mained till about 1839. He was justice of the peace two or three years and prominent in local affairs. Peter Kelsey, John Parsons, and Calvin Eason settled near Butterfly. The latter came from Vermont and died in 1863, aged eighty-seven. He served in the war of 1812, and was the father of Charles G., who was born here in 1839. Mr. Parsons was appointed a justice of the peace in 1819 and served as postmaster at Butterfly about twenty years. He was the father of John Parsons, of Mexico, and the grandfather of N. W. Parsons, of Demster.
Abiathar Millard and Simeon Wells were two settlers of 1816. Carmi Millard, a son of the former, is living here at the age of ninety-four, be- ing the oldest resident of the town.
Norman Rowe removed from Paris, Oneida county, and settled north- west of New Haven village in February, 1817. He was born in Litch- field county, Conn., January 2, 1795, and came with his parents to this State in 1803. He was a self-educated man and possessed a large
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amount of useful knowledge. He served a short time at Sackett's Har- bor in the war of 1812. In 1836 he settled in the village, where he died October 28, 1887. In 1827 he was elected assessor and in 1828 a justice of the peace. He held the latter office almost fifty years. He was sheriff of the county six years from 1840 to 1842 and 1848 to 1851, justice of sessions in 1835, supervisor several terms, chairman of the board in 1839 and 1840, and town clerk for more than twenty years, holding office longer than any other man in Oswego county. He was first a Whig and later a Republican, and became lieutenant- colonel of militia in 1828. He was long a trustee and deacon of the Congrega- tional church of New Haven, and ever an upright, influential, and re- spected citizen. He was married twice and had eleven children.
Among other settlers prior to 1820 were Theodore Gridley, Peter Tyler, Orrin Wilmarth, and B. G. Sherman. Mr. Gridley was from Paris, Oneida county, and settled northwest of New Haven village at a place long known as " Gridley's," now " Daggett's," where he built a saw mill and wool carding-mill, both of which long since ceased to exist. He was a justice of the peace several years, beginning in 1823, and was the grandfather of Lewis Gridley, who resides in this town. Silas O. Wilmarth was the only son of Orrin Wilmarth and now re- sides in the village of New Haven. He has three sisters in town, one of whom is the wife of A. F. Rowe. Mr. Sherman was a native of Her- kimer county.
The population of the town at this period (1820) numbered 899 per- sons, but this included the half-mile strip along the lake shore in what is now Mexico. During the next five years Deacon Samuel Allen, Hervey Simmons, Simeon Gilson, Charles Nichols, William O. Guile, John M. Howard, Thomas H. Austin, Milo A. Mack, and Joshua Mark became residents of New Haven. Deacon Allen, long an active member of the Congregational church, came in 1821 and settled in the village. He had sons Warren, George W., Samuel, jr., Silas O., and Joseph H., all deceased. Henry B. Allen, a son of George W., is one of the present justices and lives at the " Hollow." Mr. Nichols, a brother of Hezekiah Nichols previously mentioned, moved here from Oneida county and located north of New Haven village the same year. He was a deacon of the Congregational church, from 1834 until his death
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on July 23, 1872, at the age of seventy-two. His grandson, C. H. Nichols, occupies the old homestead. Hervey Simmons came in 1823, settled in the east part of New Haven village, and died June 15, 1876, aged eighty years. His son Henry resides on the home- stead at the age of sixty one. Simeon Gilson was a native of Hamp- shire, Mass., and C. C. Gilson was born here in 1829; the former had four sons and three daughters, of whom two daughters and two sons are living. Milo A. Mack came here with his father, Joshua, when about seven years old. His son Fred A. was born in 1853 and has always lived on the homestead. William O. Guile came about 1820 and died August 12, 1876, aged seventy-six years. Four of his sons, O. O., P. K., Luke, and John, are living in New Haven. Joshua Mark arrived prior to 1825. His children were Harmon, William, Norman, Milo, Wallace (all deceased except Norman, who resides in town), Charlotte (Mrs. Parkhurst), Lucinda (Mrs. E. G. Parsons), and Elizabeth.
Other settlers prior to 1830 were :
William M. Cheever, Job Dowd, Deacon House, Uzel M. Barker, Stephen Luce, Ches- ter R. Wells, B. J. Hale, T. S. Daviel, Michael Fenneron, Archibald Forbes, Cyrus L. Head, Oramel Law, G. L. Lyons, William Bullen, Capt. G. A. Smith, A. J. Stacy, and E. A. Taylor.
William M. Cheever, from Whitestown, N. Y., located at Cheever's Mills, in the north part of the town, about 1827. He was a wealthy man for those times and gave each of his children a farm or its equiv- alent. He was also a land agent, and died in 1843 aged nearly seventy years. He had seven daughters, and sons William, Edward, Charles S., and Henry J .; the latter died September 30, 1893, aged about sixty- eight. Charles S., the youngest of the family, was born in 1818 and died on the homestead, where his son William M. now resides. Jcb Dowd came here in 1828 with his family of nine children, and settled on the farm now owned by a grandson. His three sons were Albert J., Titus S., and Thomas, of whom the last two have children living in town. Titus S. Dowd was born in 1819 and died in 1883. Deacon House settled near Boynton Hill, and has a son Benjamin residing near the old homestead.
Uzel M. Barker, born in Albany county in 1791, located in 1829 a mile and a quarter southeast of New Haven village. He served as
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poormaster many years, and died March 28, 1879. Of his four sons, James, Avery, John, and Schuyler M., the latter, born in 1828, is a farmer and surveyor, and has been supervisor, and justice of the peace. Chester R. Wells came in about 1830, and for many years was chorister of the Congregational church. He was a plane maker by trade, and served as town clerk four years and as justice of the peace some time. Mr. Hale was an undertaker here for about fifty-five years, and is still living. He was born April 22, 1812. E. A. Taylor, son of Cyprian, was born in Chenango county in 1827 and came to this county with his parents while a babe. Stephen Luce was for ten years a merchant at the " Hollow," town clerk in 1833, deputy sheriff under Norman Rowe, and finally moved to Oswego. William Bullen was first a clerk and later a partner of Orris Hart, whose daughter he married. He was supervisor in 1830 and justice of the peace in 1827 and 1830.
During the period between 1830 and 1840 the following, among others, became residents of the town :
Alexander H. Barton, Abram Bartlett, Samuel G. Merriam, John Barlow, Lincoln Battles, Richard Cross, Nathaniel Ball, Lyman B. Legg, Nicholas Chesbro, the Tanner family, Abram Fones, A. S. Greene, G. L. Jones, Arthur Keefe, Alonzo Lee, Joseph Patten, Charles Rosseter, S. H. Reed, and M. G. Stevens.
The Tanner family, William, Lorenzo W., and Charles A., came to this town in 1832, as did also Lyman B. Legg. William Tanner died August 18, 1839, aged twenty-five, from a broken back caused by wrestling. Lorenzo W. lives in Oswego and Charles A. died April 25, 1851. Mr. Legg was impressed into the British service in the war of 1812, escaped and enlisted in the U. S. army. He died De- cember 14, 1879. Richard Cross died here in 1885, aged eighty years. His son Henry was born in New Haven in 1836, in which year Nathaniel Ball and Nicholas Chesbro located in town. Mr. Ball was long one of the leading men; his son Charles resides on the home- stead. Mr. Chesbro served as assessor, justice, etc., and died here in 1872 ; he was the father of Schuyler Chesbro, who was born in Otsego county in 1827.
Samuel G. Merriam settled in the village of New Haven in 1832 and the next year was appointed commissioner of deeds. He was a very prominent and highly respected citizen, and died April 13, 1889. He
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served as town clerk in 1836 and 1837, and was elected a justice of the peace in 1837. William H. Merriam was town clerk in 1854, 1855, and 1856.
Alexander H. Barton came into the town for the second time and settled permanently in 1838. He was born in Marshall, Oneida county, June 1, 1805, and died here April 27, 1854. He was a farmer, nursery- man, justice of the peace eight years, school teacher, and one of the first to engage in growing strawberries for market in Oswego county. He has two sons, Henry L. and David, living in Mexico.
Prominent among other early settlers of New Haven may be men- tioned here the names of James H. Wright, who served as justice of the peace in 1841 and 1849 and as superintendent of common schools ; Charles, Nelson, and Albert Davis, of whom the former is still a resi- dent at the age of eighty ; Levi Booth, and Nehemiah and Rhodes Sheldon, all of whom have children living in town; Alanson May, a millwright, a soldier of the war of 1812, and the father of Erastus and Charles ; Stanton P. Wheeden, who was justice of the peace in 1835 and 1847; John C. Gillespie, who was elected to the same office in 1842, moved to Fulton about 1870, where his widow and son now re- side, and who died there April 13, 1886, aged seventy-five ; Levi Rowe and George S. Thrall, town clerks, the former in 1830-31 and the latter in 1838-42, and 1845-47; John J. Ayer, who held the same position in 1834-35 ; Edmund E. Wells, likewise town clerk two years ; Robert S. Kelsey, who held the office in 1850-51 and 1857-58; A. M. Andrews and James Talmadge, justices of the peace ; Rev. W. C. Johnson, a native of New Haven, son of Seth, and born in 1829; Henry Stacy, who died in 1862, and whose son Henry, born here in 1828, lives in town ; Sterling Newell, who died in Mexico in 1888, and whose son, Sterling A., born in New Haven in 1848, married a daughter of Milo A. Mark, served as secretary of the New Haven Strawberry Growers' Associa- tion for seven years, and was one of the originators and incorporators of the New Haven Cheese and Butter Association, of which he was secretary and president, each, five years; and Wright Sherman, originally from Rhode Island, a soldier of the war of 1812, and a very early settler, whose son, Samuel S. Sherman, was born in 1824 on the homestead on which he still resides, and where he has always lived, being one of nine children.
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Amos King, a ship carpenter, came from Jefferson county to this town in 1840. He was married three times and had seven children, of whom George R., born in 1824, is also a ship carpenter by trade, and resides in New Haven. The same year Jacob Marshall, father of Jacob L., became a resident.
Capt. Henry J. Daggett, son of Henry and Mary Daggett, came to Oswego village (now city) with his parents in 1838, and in 1842 re- moved with them to New Haven, where the father died in April, 1870, and the mother in September, 1871. Captain Daggett, born in Boston, Mass., August 16, 1826, early became a sailor on the lakes and rose to commander, from which he retired in 1863. He served his town in various capacities, was chairman of the Board of Supervisors in 1876, and in 1875 represented his district in the Assembly. A brother, George W. Daggett, is deceased.
Solomon White became a resident of New Haven as early as 1844. He was a general in the old State militia, and died in town July 17, 1857. His son Solomon resides on the homestead with his son Charles. He was formerly a merchant and postmaster. Daniel B. Van Buren and Avery O. Brown were settlers of the town in 1845. During the same year the former built, with John D. Reed, the first stave mill in New Haven, at the " Hollow." He was the father of ex-Sheriff John Van Buren and of Ernest Van Buren, and died May 6, 1891, aged seventy, survived by his widow. Mr. Brown moved to Oswego city, where he died May 22, 1885. leaving there two sons, Frank L., and Horace. Philetus Lee settled hear Cheever's Mills in 1846, and died in Septem- ber, 1882, aged seventy-five. Two sons, A. C. and Edward Lee, reside in town.
Zadoc W. Stevens, born in Hillsborough, N. H., in April, 1793, was a schoolmate of Franklin Pierce, came to Oswego county in 1835, and in 1845 settled in New Haven, where he died February 26, 1858. His sons William, M. G. and Calvin J. reside in town, the former on the homestead. M. G. was' the father of Frank V. Stevens, the present supervisor.
The following notice appears in Barber and Howe's Historical Col- lections of the State of New York, 1846: "New Haven, taken from Mexico in 1813; from Albany 157 miles. Pop. 1,735. New Haven,
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IO miles E. from Oswego, and 12 S. W. from Pulaski, has about 20 dwellings. Butterfly is a post-office."
Pierce Squires removed from Madison county to Martinsburg, N. Y., in 1838, and in the spring of 1846 came thence with his family to New Haven, settling one and one-half miles northeast of the village. He died January II, 1861, at the age of over seventy five. W. W. Squires, his son, occupies the homestead. Francis W. Squires, another son, was born in Lebanon, Madison county, October 22, 1820, followed the for- tunes of the family to their settlement in this town, and early engaged in teaching school. October 9, 1851, he married Sarah R. Rice, and in the spring of 1853 removed to North Volney, where he officiated as postmaster from October, 1861, till about August 21, 1883, when he returned to New Haven. He enlisted in Co. A, 184th N. Y. Vols. in the Rebellion, and served as clerk of the company. He has been justice of the peace, in all twelve years, beginning in 1859, and was elected justice of sessions in 1874. His wife died March 8, 1860, leaving three children, and on August 29, 1875, he married Mrs. Maria L. Coe. Mr. Squires is a local historian of recognized ability. He has kept a daily diary since January 1, 1843. Visiting every town in the county, he has searched records and collected valuable data, much of which is incorporated in the present volume. He is accurate and painstaking, and has preserved a large amount of information which would other- wise have passed into oblivion. Since August 20, 1883, he has resided at Demster.
Jonathan E. Robinson came here in 1852, and died October 14, 1872. His father, Rev. Ralph Robinson, was a preacher for half a century. Daniel L. Nichols was born in this town in 1828, and has held several offices of trust. William B. Searles was born in 1827, removed with his parents in 1837 to Williamstown, and finally became a resident of New Haven. N. W. Parsons was born in Mexico in 1843, served in the Civil war four years, and was long a mail carrier between Mexico East Palermo and Fulton.
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