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Daniel Ball, the pioneer, was born December 27, 1769, and was the son of Josiah Ball, who came to Berkshire in 1794 and settled on lot 337. Both had large families. In fact the Ball family has been prolific in the county, and the name has always stood for respectability and integrity. Josiah's children were Willian, Daniel, William (2d), Stephen, Clarissa, Samuel, Henry, Josiah, Isaac, Electa, Charles, Cynthia and Mary. Josiah Ball died July 26, 1810.
Daniel Ball, the settler, was born Dec. 27, 1769. He returned to Stockbridge in the fall of 1791, and at Lenox, married with
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Lucia, the daughter of Col. William Wells. He came back to the settlement in 1794 and located on lot 336. In 1820 he removed with his family to Victor, N. Y., and thence to Michigan, where he died about 1833. His ten children were Ann, William W., Hora- tio, Henry, Hester, Sophia, Chester, Calvin, Davis and Myron Ball.
Stephen Ball, son of Josiah, canie to Berkshire in 1793 to pre- pare for the coming of his father's family. He was then 19 years old, but he made a clearing, built a log house, planted crops, sowed a field with wheat, and then returned east. He came again in February, 1794, driving a cow the entire distance, and lived alone until June, when the family arrived. In later years Stephen Ball was equally thrifty and became associated with many of the most important events of town history. His home was on lot 337 and here he built the hotel which for more than three-quarters of a century has stood in Berkshire village, and he also built the house on the opposite side of the street. His wife was Polly Leonard, who bore him these children : Olive L., Mary, Harriet, Eliza, Ann, Richard L., James W., Caroline, Levi, Anson, Asa, Mary, Robert Henry, and Frances Calista Ball.
Daniel, Jesse and Joseph Gleazen, Jr., came to Berkshire about 1794. They were sons of Joseph Gleazen, Sen., who also came to the town, but at a later date. The other children of Joseph, Sen., were Caleb, Sarah, Ebenezer E., and Samuel Gleazen, all of whom were settlers in the town and identified with its early history.
John Brown, son of Capt. Abraham Brown, and Consider Law- rence came to the town in 1796. Mr. Brown was one of the first justices of old Tioga town, and also was the builder of one of the first saw mills in the region. He had six children, of whom John, the eldest, was a surveyor and millwright. Mr. Lawrence was a farmer on lot 338, and died Feb. 20, 1857. His six children were Maria, Isaac P., Miles L., William, Betsey, and Josiah Lawrence.
Asa Leonard was a prominent person among the early settlers in Berkshire, and his tannery was of much benefit to the com- munity. He started for the town in 1793, but at Choconut the illness of his wife compelled his return to Massachusetts, and it was not until 1797 that his permanent settlement was made. His was one of the largest families in the town, the children number-
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ing thirteen, viz : Polly, Solomon, Lucy, Anna, Levi, Nancy, Louis G., Henry, George W., Sabrina, Amanda, Chester and Leonard. Solomon, the eldest son, was partner with his father in the tannery and he, too, had a large family.
Ebenezer Cook, who was brother-in-law to Asa Leonard and who was also his first partner in tanning and shoemaking, came to Berkshire in 1797. He was justice of the peace many years and was dignified with the title of "Squire." In his family were eight children.
Azel Hovey, and his son Azel, and the families of both, came to the town in or about 1793. Both had children, the father eleven and the son thirteen.
Jeremiah Campbell settled in the north part of the town, about 1798, and set up a blacksmith shop. Ephraim Cook, Benjamin Olney, Josiah Howe and Josiah Seeley also came to Berkshire in the same year, as near as can be determined at this time.
David Williams and his family came in June, 1800. He built both saw and grist mills on the village site, and was a man of note in the locality. He died in 1867, aged 92 years. Judge Williams, as he was for many years known, was elected associate judge of the Broome county common pleas and served until this town was restored to Tioga in 1822, and thereafter in the same position in this county to 1826. He was supervisor nine years, and in 1827, and again in 1831, was elected to the assembly. His children were Lucinda, John C., and George Williams.
Ransom and Heman Williams, brothers of Judge Williams, were also early residents in Berkshire, and are recalled, Ransom as the singer of early days, while Heman met an accidental death in 1816, at a bridge raising.
Artemas Ward, Edward Paine, Elijah and John Saltmarsh and William Gardner came to the town as early as, or perhaps before, the year 1800, and were identified with the subsequent history of the vicinity. Elijah Saltmarsh kept a store near the Isaac Brown house and also made potash.
Dr. Joseph Waldo, who came to Berkshire in 1800, was in many respects one of the most prominent early settlers of the north part of the county. He was not only a pioneer physician but his
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acquaintance was general in the country east of Owego creek and even west of that stream. However, the record of Dr. Waldo's life and death are so fully written in the medical chapter of this work that a repetition of its events at this time is unnecessary. His wife was Ann Bliss, with whom he was married July 17, 1788. Their children were Mary, Naney Ann and Joseph Talcott Waldo, the latter also a physician of prominence half a century and more ago.
Colonel Absalom and Deacon Nathaniel Ford, brothers, and Wil- liam Dudley, came to Berkshire in or about the year 1801, al- though the statement has been made that Colonel Ford did not settle here until 1820. The first wife of Mr. Dudley, who was Abi- gail Hovey, is said to have been the first woman buried in Brown cemetery.
Joseph Freeman and Nathan Ide were settlers here in 1802. Mr. Freeman hanged himself while suffering from sickness. He had a family of seven children.
Daniel Carpenter came in 1803, and as shown by Dr. Patterson's "Folk Book," was the only settler in that year. He had a large family of eleven children.
Samuel Collins and Noah Lyman were the settlers of the year 1805, and were a desirable acquisition to the town. Mr. Collins had a family of seven children. He died July 4, 1840, on the very day previously foretold as the date of his death. Mr. Lyman re- moved to Rawson Hollow in 1814 and died there in 1815. In his family were six children.
Captain Heman Smith, Henry Griffin and his brothers John and Osmyn Griffin, and also Peleg Randall, came to Berkshire be- tween the years 1803 and 1806, although not all remained perman- ent settlers. Captain Smith had a family of twelve children. Henry Griffin had been a sailor, and after the war of 1812-15 re- turned to seafaring life. Osmyn Griffin died in Canada, but Mr. Randall lived in Berkshire. He had four children.
Joseph and Elijah Belcher, both New Englanders, were added to the town population in 1805. Joseph then had a family of nine children and three more were born here. In Elijah's family were five children.
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Samuel Hutchinson came in 1805 or 1806, but after a few years removed to Wilson creek valley. Eight children comprised his household.
Samuel Johnson and John Gregory came to Berkshire in 1806, and in the next year Ichabod Brainard and his family also came. All were from Connecticut, and all had children.
Isaac Goodale and Captain Bill Torry came in 1808, and are be- lieved to have been the first arrivals in the town after Berkshire was separated from old Tioga. Mr. Goodale was a substantial citizen, and the same was also true of Captain Bill, though the latter was a great wag in the town. In Goodale's family were twelve children, and in Torry's were nine.
In Berkshire, which town originally comprised all that is now the town so called and also the present towns of Newark Valley and Richford, the several preserved records and publications give accurate information as to the pioneers, but it is difficult to deter- mine definitely when pioneership ceased. All past writers of local history have given attention to the pioneers of the town, and one au- thority, concededly better than all other- the late Dr. D. Williams Patterson, of Newark Valley has written exhaustively of the pioneers, and as well of the early settlers on the Boston purchase within Tioga county. The results of Dr. Patterson's long and arduous work are published and numerously distributed through- out the region, in view of which it seems unnecessary to refer at much length to the personal history of settlers in the town after its civil organization unless the subject of mention was in some manner prominently identified with the events of his time. How- ever, it is appropriate in this connection to at least recall by name the later settlers in the town down to the time when pioneership and early settlement alike were known to have been lost in what may be termed modern local history.
In the year 1820 Chester Patterson, of Union, Broome county, made the census enumeration of inhabitants and industries in the county. Through the thoughtfulness of Dr. Patterson this record has been preserved to the use of future readers, and is of such value in recalling the names of old residents of Berkshire that we pro- duce here the list, giving full credit therefor to Dr. D. Williams Patterson, historian and genealogist.
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In the year 1820 the heads of families in Berkshire, as now con- stituted, according to the census enumeration, were as follows :
Roswell H. Brown.
Daniel Jenks.
Isaac Goodale.
Jed Chapman.
Reuben Legg.
Stephen Butler.
Daniel Gleazen.
Larned Legg.
Asa Leonard.
Jonathan Belcher.
. Daniel Carpenter.
Alden Baker.
John W. Bessac.
Isaac Bunnell.
Solomon Leonard.
Elisha Jenks.
Samuel Haight.
John S. Thorp.
Calvin Jenks.
Eleazer Lyman, Jr.
Isaac Hitcheock.
Luther Hamilton.
Thomas Keeny.
Anna Griffin.
Joel Smith.
Joseph Gleazen.
Selick Paine.
Jesse Smith.
Thomas Bunting.
William Moore.
Ephriam Reniff.
Joseph Belcher.
Andrew Reese.
Samuel Osborn.
William Whiting.
Anna Collins.
Schuyler Legg.
Eleazer Valentine.
John Ayres.
Amos Peck.
William S. Smith.
Lyman Hull.
Leman Case.
Ezra Landon.
Henry Ball.
Samuel Ball.
Abraham Hotchkin.
Stephen Ball.
Levi E. Barker.
Jeremiah Campbell.
William Ball.
Isaiah G. Barker.
Asahel Royce.
Elizabeth Cook.
Edmund Barker.
Deodatus Royec.
Ransom Williams.
Erastus Benton.
John Gregory.
David Williams.
Consider Lawrence.
Thomas Langdon.
Ichobod Brainerd.
Lyman Durfee.
Samuel Collins.
Ichobod Brainerd, Jr.
John Durfee.
Ebenezer E. Gleazen.
Samuel Hutchinson.
Samuel Torry.
Joseph Cook.
Marcus Ford.
Jesse Gleazen.
Peleg Randall.
Polly Gardner.
Moses Stanley.
Clarissa Smith.
Samuel Smith.
Hooker Bishop.
Cicero Barker.
Aaron Livermore.
Eleazer Lyman.
Sarah Ide.
Seth Akins.
Elias Walker.
Phineas Case.
Luke B. Winship.
John Rounsville.
Mehitabel Brown.
Joseph Waldo.
Nathaniel Ford.
Barnabas Manning.
Ratph Manning.
Isaac Ball.
FIRST EVENTS .- Refering briefly to some of the first events of local history, nearly all of which took place before the separate organization of the town, there may be noted the fact that in 1795 Josiah Ball built a large double log house, in which he al- lowed new arrivals to live while they were erecting cabins for themselves. To this extent Mr. Ball was the first tavern keeper.
1795-Isaac Brown was married with Clarissa Ball.
1797-Isaac Brown died, April 10.
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1797-John Carpenter died, April 13.
1800-Ebenezer Cook built a tannery on the site where in later years stood C. P. Johnson's store.
1800-This year also witnessed a law suit between Edward Edwards and Elijah Dewey.
1802-Thomas Paine set up a loom and began weaving.
1803-Captain Leonard began making boots and shoes.
1804-Large frame barns were built by Josiah Ball and Isaac Brown.
1806-Dr. Waldo and John Brown raised frame houses on the same day.
1806-A carding machine was put in operation by Elijah Belcher, Barnabas Man- ning, and Isaac Ball, and for the next 40 years it was an industry of the town.
1807-A distillery was built by Capt. Leonard, Ebenezer Cook and Stephen Ball, and
was thereafter in operation for 20 years. An earlier distillery was over on the west creek.
1808-Ebenezer Cook and Stephen Ball established a blacksmith shop.
1812-Stephen B. Leonard brought the first mail to Berkshire ; and at the same time Mr. Leonard also brought copies of the Gazette to the people of the town.
1814-A tavern was opened by Josiah Ball.
1817-Samuel Ripley began making harnesses.
1827-Luke Winship began carrying the mail from Owego to Berkshire.
1827-Stephen Ball opened a brickyard on his farm.
Josiah Ball also enjoyed the distinction of being an excellent schoolmaster, but David McMaster is credited with being the first teacher. Judge David Williams, built the first saw and grist mills on or near the village site. Luke Winship began keeping tavern in 1816 and was landlord twenty-five years. Josiah Ball opened a house for entertainment in 1814.
POPULATION .- Twice during the period of its history has the town of Berkshire suffered loss in population by reason of the re- duction of its territory. Westville was set off in 1823 and took from the mother town more than 1,200 of its inhabitants, and again, in 1831 Arlington was created and took nearly 800 more in- habitants. However, we may refer to the census reports and note the changes in population, that being a fair index of growth or decrease in the town's interests.
In 1810, two years after the town was erected, the inhabitants numbered 792 ; 1814, 1,059; 1820, 1,502; 1825, 1,404; 1830, 1,711 ; 1835, 964 ; 1840, 956 ; 1845, 878 ; 1850, 1,049 ; 1855, 1,068 ; 1860, 1,151; 1865, 1,073; 1870, 1,240; 1875, 1,302 ; 1880, 1,304; 1890, 1,162 ; 1892, 1,157.
ORGANIZATION .-- In 1791 the Legislature passed an act erecting
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Tioga county and dividing its territory into towns. Under this act all that district known as the Boston purchase, although not so described or designated, together with other territory, was erected into a town by the name of Union, and so remained until 1800 when the present eastern boundary of this county was made the eastern line of a new town created from Union and called Tioga. The region commonly called by the pioneers Brown's settlement was of course within the tract referred to. In 1806 Tioga county was divided and Broome county erected and in- cluded all the territory of old Tioga which lay east of Owego creek, and therefore the town of Tioga. Again, on February 12, 1808, the town of Tioga, in Broome county, was divided, and all that now comprises Berkshire, Newark Valley and Richford was set off as a separate town, and was called Berkshire. In 1822 these towns, and also the town of Owego (for on 1813 the towns of Owego and Tioga exchanged names), were restored to Tioga county, and from that time Berkshire has been one of the civil divisions of that county.
When created in 1808 Berkshire was a splendid jurisdiction and was one of the most important and well settled of the civil divis- ions of the region. Within its original boundaries were more than 59,000 acres of land, or its equivalent in square miles a little more than ninety-two. Taken altogether no more fertile region was to be found in the county outside the rich bottom lands in the river val- leys, and few indeed of the towns at that time were peopled by more thrifty and prosperous settlers than were found within the broad limits of Brown's settlement or its successor, old Berkshire.
In accordance with the creating act the first meeting of inhabi- tants of the new town for the purpose of electing local officers was held Tuesday, March 1, 1808, and was presided over by pioneer Ebenezer Cook in the capacity of moderator. The officers chosen were as follows :
Supervisor, John Brown ; town clerk, Artemas Ward ; asses- sors, Ezbon Slosson, Ebenezer Cook ; poormasters, Henry Moore, Elijah Belcher ; commissioners of highways, Noah Lyman, Hart Newell, Samuel Haight ; collector and poundmaster, Peter Wil- son ; poundmaster, Elisha Jenks ; fence viewers, Asa Bement,
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Nathaniel Ford, Asa Leonard, John Bement, Lyman Rawson, Elisha Jenks ; constables, Jesse Gleazen, Adolphus Dwight.
However, hardly more than a short half score of years had passed before the inhabitants of the south part of Berkshire were clamorous for a new town, and the result was an act passed April 12, 1823, by which the legislature took from the mother town 19,751 acres of her territory on the south side and erected a town by the name of Westville as then called, but now known as Newark Valley. Again, in 1831, the inhabitants in the north part of the town had recourse to the legislative power, and on April 13 another town was formed, and called Arlington, but changed in name to Richford, in 1832. This last division of Berkshire took 21,835 acres of land, and there were left to the old town 17,443 acres, considerably less than one-third of its original area.
From the time of its earliest settlement to the present, Berk- shire has been distinctly and peculiarly an agricultural town, and as such has always ranked among the best in the county. Dur- ing the long period of its history little attempt has been made to make the town a manufacturing centre, as its geographical posi- tion and its relation to the railway lines of the region have been such as to preclude the possibility of success as the result of ef- forts in that direction. True, the pioneers were nearly all lum- bermen until their lands were cleared, after which the peaceful arts of general agriculture engaged the almost entire attention of the town's people. Nature has dealt generously in making this a farming town, for the principal streams, the east and west branches of Owego creek, and their larger tributaries, thoroughly. drain the land surface. The soil itself in the valleys is a rich gravelly loam, while on the hills it is tough and hardy, with the average of hardpan. The highest elevations are from 1,200 to 1,600 feet above tide water.
Half and even three-quarters of a century has worked few changes in the town. The institutions of to-day are much the same as seventy-five years ago ; the old farms are about as they were then, and what is agreeably noticeable is the presence there of the descendants of the pioneer occupants. To be sure, for the last half score and more of years agricultural pursuits in the east have
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been unprofitable, but the conditions in Berkshire are no worse, in fact are better, than in the majority of towns similarly situated ; and the statement has been made that there are perhaps less mortgaged farms in this town than in the average of towns in this part of the state.
The first settlers in Berkshire were thrifty, energetic and deter- mined men and women, and while a future comfortable home was perhaps a prime object with them they were also watchful of both the educational and spiritual welfare of their children and fami- lies ; and at once after the completion of the family log house the settlers provided a school and also a place for religious worship. At length, as the population increased the town was divided into school districts and provision was made for schools in each. The first step in this direction was made while Berkshire was a part of the older town from which it was formed, and after Newark and Richford were set off it became necessary to re-form the districts in the remaining territory. While not important, it would be diffi- cult to follow the numerous changes in school districts during the last half century. We know that David McMaster taught the first school in Josiah's Ball's shoe shop, and afterward in Josiah Wilson's humble house ; and we also know that after the educa- tional system of the town was established the taxpayers always voted generously for the maintenance of the schools. In this con- nection mention must also be made of the once famous Brookside seminary, which was founded in 1845 by Rev. William Bradford, and which soon afterward passed into the hands of Rev. Frederick Judd and became a noted training school for boys. This school was discontinued about 1859.
So far as the records disclose, the first action by the town in relation to public schools was taken in 1813, at which time the dis- tricts were established. The first commissioners were Asa Leon- ard, William Henry Moore, and Edward Edwards ; the inspectors were Nathaniel Ford, Solomon Williams, Peter Wilson, and Joseph Waldo, 2d. In 1814 the commissioners divided the town into twelve districts, and established a school in each.
As now constituted the town comprises eight districts, of which No. 3 is joint with Caroline and Richford, and No. 7 with Caroline.
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During the school year ending July 31, 1896, the town received of public moneys, $985.45, and raised by tax $1,628.38. The amount paid to teachers was $1,961.35. School population, 294. The school property is valued at $6,600.
SUPERVISORS.
1808-9-John Brown. 1833-Wm. H. Moore.
1854-Henry A. Payne.
1810-Edward Edwards.
1834-36-David Williams. 1855-John F. Judd.
1811-John Brown. 1837-Lyman P. Akins.
1856-57-Ezekiel D. Smith.
1812-17-Solomon Williams. 1838-42-Harris Jewett.
1858-59-John T. Kimball.
1818-20-David Williams. 1843-Lyman P. Akins. 1821-23-William H. Moore. 1844-Josiah Lawrence.
1860-Robert H. S. Hyde. 1861-65-J. W. Leonard.
1824-David Williams.
1845-46-John C. Williams. 1866-67-Chas. S. Manning.
1825-Gad Worthington.
1847-J. Talcot Waldo.
1868-73-Lueien Horton.
1826-27-William H. Moore. 1848-John C. Williams. 1828-Gad Worthington. 1849-F. H. Gould
1874-Chas. Laning. 1875-79-Walter Jewett.
1829-Wm. H. Moore.
1850-Henry A. Payne.
1880-Stephen Darbonnier.
1831-Joseph Beleher.
1852-Harris Jewett.
1889-96-George A. Barr.
1832-David Williams. 1853-James Chapin.
ECCLESIASTICAL .- The religious history of Berkshire is equally interesting with its other institutions, and had a beginning as humble and as early. It was a custom among the pioneers to meet for religious exercises before the itinerant ministers visited the region, but the meetings then held were assembled in dwelling houses and barns. The first congregational church of Berkshire dates back in its history to the early years of the century when that pioneer missionary laborer, Seth Williston, visited the region and held religious meetings in the houses and barns of the settlers. In 1803, the inhabitants set to work and erected a meeting house in the north part of what is now Newark Valley, but then about half way between the settlement at Newark Valley village and Brown's settlement. This is said to have been the first house for public worship erected in the county. In 1822 the congregation- alists of Richford formed a church society, and early in 1833 steps were taken to organize a new one in Berkshire. This was done at a meeting held at the schoolhouse in Dist. 4 on July 24 of that year, and then fifty-six persons assented to the articles of faith and the covenant. The society secured a lot in the village on land of Stephen Ball, and in 1834 a brick church edifice was erected ; and was dedicated December 4 of that year. The old building stood the
1830-David Williams.
1851-H. G. Leonard.
1881-88-Walter Jewett.
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storms and wear of more than half a century but at last its walls were deemed unsafe, and in 1889 it was torn down, and in its place was built the large attractive brick structure which now adorns the old site. The new edifice was dedicated December 19, 1889. This church now numbers 191 members, and in the Sunday school are nearly 200 attendants.
The society had no regular pastor until January, 1839, when Rev. William Bradford was ordained. The later pastors, with the year in which each came to the church, have been as follows: Revs. P. Lockwood, 1843 ; O. P. Conklin, 1848; C. F. Miles, 1856 ; Wil- liam Bradford, 1859 ; O. P. Conklin, 1860 ; S. R. Griffith, 1866 ; E. S. Palmer, 1869 ; S. A. Whitcomb, 1875; Frank H. Coffran, 1880 ; James W. White, 1881 ; Joel J. Hough, D. D., pastor since April 1, 1885.
Methodism in Berkshire was one of the primitive institutions of pioneer days and from the little devoted gatherings of early years there have grown into prosperous life in the town two strong so- cieties of this faith. The first class was formed soon after the town was organized but not until 1825 was a society brought into existence. In 1827 a frame meeting house was erected, and was thereafter used until replaced with the substantial modern edifice built in 1889. Its members number 150 persons. Auxiliary to the church at the village is the branch society at East Berkshire which is under the pastorate of the mother church. The branch society was incorporated in 1888, and in that year the present edifice there was built. In succession the pastors of the Berkshire churches have been as follows; Revs. Gaylord Judd, 1828-29 ; David A. Shepard, 1830-31 ; Silas Comfort, 1832 ; Matthew Westcott, 1833 ; John B. Benham, 1834 ; David Holmes, 1835 ; Gaylord Judd, 1836 ; Selah Stocking, 1837 ; J. D. Warren, 1838 ; A. Hamilton, 1839 ; E. G. Bush, 1840 ; P. S. Worden, 1842 ; Walter Hare, 1844 ; W. S. Titus, 1845 ; Mr. Young, P. S. Worden, 1848 ; A. C. Sperry, 1850. Asa Brooks, 1852 ; E. Breckenridge, 1854; W. B. Thomas, 1855 ; T. D. Walker, Thos. Burgess, 1856 ; C. W. Judd, 1857 ; Rodney Rose, 1858; W. W. Welch, 1861 ; R. Van Valkenburg, 1863 ; Nelson Rounds, 1864; Jas. Madison, 1868 ; Chas. A. Ward, 1869 ; Geo. Peck, 1871 ; N. S. Reynolds, 1872 ; E. M. High, 1873 ; J. D. Blood-
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