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WILLIAM WHITMAN ROOT, Standing in Front of Noble Store.
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North 24 30 E
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20 to Small Creek
9 at 7 chains to the above creek 13 up the creek
Down along the banks of the River
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N 75 30 E
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14 the south bank of the Bouquette 7 ch 10
N 73 deg 25 E
8 through a beaver meadow!
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1 The beaver meadow referred to is now the Meagher flat. The Meagher place has long been known as the Beaver Meadow Farm. There are at least three other beaver meadows in Elizabethtown-The Four Mile Beaver Meadow just east of Rogers Mountain, the Two Mile Beaver Meadow on the Nigger Hill Lot and the one just east of Lobdell Hill, so-called.
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Windsor Farm Fish Pond is located)
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N 35 E 47 to Mile No 96 Auger Pond brook at 40 ch 80 to Mile 97
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N 15 30 W
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3 50 to the Great Ausable River on the south bounds of Clinton County at the High Bridge ; there is generally at the termination of each of the preceding courses a monument on which is marked with red chalk the letters G. N. T. P. and the line is further designated with two notches and a blaze and is to be considered the center of the road as laid out by the Commissioners appointed for that purpose by his Excellency the Governor of the State of New York forma- ble to an act of the Legislature of said State passed the 4th day of April, 1805.
WILLIAM BEAUMONT, -
GEORGE NELSON,
BERIAH PALMER, S Commissioners.
SAMUEL YOUNG, Surveyor.
This route, it will be recalled, was surveyed just sixteen years after Platt Rogers and party had surveyed and cut through the Schroon and Boquet valleys. A map of the route was made at the time and is now on file in the Essex County Clerk's office. And it happens that Young's survey of the Great Northern Turnpike route was made just a century ago. It is indeed a long way back to 1805-an even 100 years -and those who inhabited this region at that period have all plunged into the interminable wilderness lying on the opposite slope beyond the Great Divide and as there are no human links to connect the present with the far away past-no chance to get spoken words from them to weave into history their acts, it is refreshing to students of history to find occasionally
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a written record of achievement-an oasis in the desert, so to speak.
In connection with the Great Northern Turnpike is found the first mention of toll-gates and mile-posts in Northern New York.
(Explanatory matter in parentheses inserted by author.)
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The Forming of Lewis and Essex and the Arrival of Pollaus Aurelius Newell in Elizabethtown.
The town of Lewis was formed from Willsborough April 4, 1805, being so named in honor of Governor Morgan Lewis. Governor Morgan Lewis owned land in the town of Lewis, having purchased it from General Philip Schuyler, whose death occurred only a few months before the town of Lewis was "set off" from Willsborough.
The town of Essex was also formed from Willsborough April 4, 1805. The name Essex, as applied to county and town, was taken from Essex, England.
Search of records in the Essex County Clerk's office reveals the fact that Azel Abel conveyed three acres and thirty-three rods of land to Pollaus Aurelius Newell, the warranty deed bearing date September 18, 1805, the consideration being $1,400. Pollaus Aurelius Newell followed Azel Abel as a hotel keeper, being located on the bank of the Little Boquet. The Newell hotel stood between where the old log hotel of Azel Abel stood and where the present Maplewood Inn stands, The hotel of Pollaus A. Newell was built of brick and wood and the barn stood near where the front piazza of Maplewood Inn is now located. Pollaus A. Newell's wife, the accom- plished lady of the old Valley House, was in her maiden days Anna Calkin. Their children were Rosamond Amelia, Julia Ann, Helen, Annette, Rosetta and Henry.
Rosamond Amelia Newell married Captain Hall of Ver- gennes, Vt.
H.H.NICHOLS;
THE OLD GRIST-MILL BLOCK, Now Occupied by Harry H. Nichols and John S. Roberts, Jr.
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Julia Ann Newell married Harry Adams, a son of Friend Adams of Adams Ferry (Lake Champlain) fame. Harry Adams put up the building on the Plain in Elizabethtown vil- ' lage which is to-day owned and occupied by Mrs. Ellen R. Bur- bank and the Misses Perry. The building was put up for a store and as such was occupied by Harry Adams for several years. Julia Ann Newell survived her husband many years, dying recently in extreme old age.
Helen Newell never married.
Annette and Rosetta Newell, both died in the west.
Henry Newell was a bright pupil, a leader in the old spelling school events of three-quarters of a century ago. He died in early manhood. There is living in Elizabethtown village one man-Alonzo McD. Finney-who remembers Henry Newell well, having taken part in the old fashioned spelling school events way back in the latter 20s when Joel Emmes was teacher here.
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Settlement of Simonds Hill.
That portion of Elizabethtown known as Simonds Hill is a plateau located in the southeastern part of the township. Si- monds Hill is about 500 feet above the Boquet River. The name Simonds Hill is from the first settler of the locality, Captain Gardner Simonds. The date of the settlement of Si- monds Hill has been erroneously given as 1792. On page 467 of the History of Essex County edited by H. P. Smith and published by D. Mason & Co., Syracuse, N. Y., in 1885, one finds the following :
"Simonds Hill derived its name from Gardner and Erastus Simonds, who located there about 1792."
Again, on page 301 of the Gazetteer of New York by J. H. French, LL. D., (issued in 1860) one finds that Gardner Si- monds came into Elizabethtown "about 1792."
However, by referring to page 32 of this book it will be seen that Dr.Asa Post credits Gardner Simonds with first locating on "the south 100 acres of lot No. 6," in the Boquet Valley. The Gardner Simonds referred to by Dr. Asa Post is the old Cap- tain after whom Simonds Hill was named. And it is probably true that he came into the Boquet Valley "about 1792." However, the Gardner and Erastus Simonds mentioned in the Essex County history were sons of Captain Gardner Simonds and were mere boys, as it were, in 1792. Inasmuch as Cap- tain Gardner Simonds moved from the farm (lot No. 6) in the Boquet Valley after about 12 years residence there and located
of
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at the top of the hill on the road leading east from what is now known as New Russia, on a lot in Morgan's 500 acre Pat- ent, Iron Ore Tract, it must have been about 1805 that he "went up higher."
Captain Gardner Simonds' wife was a Titus, a sister of the noted hunter Titus of Moriah, and it might be added here that the old Captain was himself something of a hunter.1
Captain Gardner Simonds' children were Erastus, William, Gardner, Jr., Willard, Lloyd, Direxey.
Erastus Simonds married Lydia Rowe, a sister of Leland Rowe. Their children were all born on Simonds Hill as fol- lows, the dates being taken from the family Bible in posses- sion of Clinton H. Simonds :
Barlow, born Sept. 23, 1805.
William, born Sept. 10, 1808.
Jenks, born April 25, 1812.
Lynds Willard, born Oct. 18, 1813.
Leland Rowe, born May 14, 1817.
Elijah, born Feb. 10, 1821.
Almira, born May 30, 1823.
Lydia, born May 22, 1824.
Erastus, Jr., born June 24, 1829.
Melissa, born August 12, 1833.
Barlow Simonds married and lived in Vermont. He had a son Andrew who married Sarah Lewis, daughter of David Lewis and sister of the late Ira Lewis.
William Simonds married Lydia Minerva Hanchett,a daugh- ter of Squire Hanchett. They became famous as Landlord
I It would be base ingratitude on the part of the author of Pleasant Valley not to acknowl- edge that a large part of the material regarding the settlement of Simonds Hill was furnished by the venerable Alonzo McD. Finney, who was born in a log house on that plateau Febru- ary 20, 1816, and who still lives, being the last survivor of a large family of children. Again, the information furnished by Mr. Finney is supplemented by the result of an intimate per- sonal acquaintance on the part of the writer with the late Elijah Simonds covering a period of over a quarter of a century.
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and Landlady in this section, operating no less than four dif- ferent hotels, beginning with the house at Black or Simonds Pond, later the Valley House in Elizabethtown village and when that burned Feb. 21, 1859, they moved across the Lit- tle Boquet into what was locally known in the spring of 1861 as Fort Sumpter, (generally later known as the American House) and finally, in connection with Orlando Kellogg, built the Mansion House in 1874, to-day known as Deer's Head Inn. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Simonds were Sarah Jane, who married Theodore C. Lamson, and Helen Ann, who mar- ried Orlando Kellogg, proprietor of "The Windsor," Elizabeth- town's largest hotel.
Jenks Simonds died young.
Lynds Willard Simonds married Elizabeth Wise, daughter of Deacon Enos Wise.
Leland Rowe Simonds married Phebe A. Hanchett, a daugh- ter of Squire Hanchett. After her death he married Mrs. Almira Gaft, a daughter of Samuel B. Pratt of Lewis. Leland R. Simonds' children by his first wife were Lomira A., who married E. O. Wait; Marcia, who married Fayette L. Miller ; Victoria, who married John Liberty ; Alonzo W., who married Elizabeth Darrah.
Leland R. Simonds' children by his second wife were Clin- ton H., who married Emma Pratt, Phebe, who died young, and Hattie, who married Carl Hodgkins.
Elijah Simonds married Rosamond Gowett. Their children were Mary and Nellie.
Lydia Simonds married in Vermont.
Captain Gardner Simonds' son William left Elizabethtown early in life and little is known of his history after his depart- ure from this section.
Gardner Simonds, Jr., married Betsey Brown. They had no children. His family being broken up, he lived an irregu-
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lar life, spent mostly in hunting, trapping and fishing. He went over into the Tupper Lake region where he camped for several years. A pond in that region was called Simonds Pond, being named after him.
Willard Simonds married Lucy Brownson, daughter of Selah Brownson. Their children were William, Nancy, Elvira, Almira.
William Simonds, the son Willard Simonds, married Cynthia Phinney.
Nancy Simonds married Chauncey Denton.
Almira Simonds married for her first husband Dana Wake- field. Her second husband was Collins Titus of Moriah.
Elvira Simonds married Frank B. Deyoe.
Lloyd Simonds married Eliza James and moved to Michi- gan.
Direxey Simonds married Luther Wait and moved west with a family of several children.
The Simonds family had a great love for the woods. Most of the male members of the family were natural mechanics, there being several carpenters and coopers. At least six members of the Simonds family played the fiddle and some were drum- mers and fifers.
Ithai Judd, Elizabethtown's pioneer surveyor, married Achsah Noble, and came here from Oneida County and with Moses Noble (brother-in-law) first settled on the east side of the Boquet River where the trail from Lake Champlain, by way of Little Pond, came down into the Boquet Valley. After a few years residence on the trail mentioned Ithai Judd moved up on to an Iron Ore Tract lot where he lived the remainder of a long and useful life, being a farmer and surveyor. He was employed in allotting the Iron Ore Tract. He had two daughters ; Olive, the eldest daughter, died young ; Achsah
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moved with her mother to Oneida County and married Thomas Bishop. She died in old age, leaving several children.
David Brown, adopted son of Ithai Judd, took the name of his benefactor and grew to be one of the most active, useful men who ever lived in Elizabethtown. He too went "up higher," settling on Simonds Hill where he became the "first citizen." The David Judd farm (Lots 195 and 196, Iron Ore Tract,) is to this day easily distinguished from the other farms on Simonds Hill, owing to the long lines of maple trees on the roadside which were planted by Mr. Judd's own hands. David Judd married for his first wife Ruth Shelden, daughter of Isaac Shelden of Essex, by which union a son William Shel- den was born.
David Judd's second wife was Harriet Sheldon, a daughter of Timothy Sheldon of Westport. He had one daughter by the second wife, Caroline Lomira, who married Grove M. Harwood.
David Judd's third wife was Elizabeth Brydia, a daughter of William Brydia of Ferrisburg, Vt. No children were born of this union.
"Uncle David," or "Squire Judd," as he was often called, was "a hustler from the ground up." He had an extensive practice as a surveyor throughout Essex County in early days. He filled numerous appointments of a public character, lo- cating roads, establishing boundaries, etc. He was associated (in 1841) with Nelson J. Beach and Nathan Ingersol, as com- missioners, in laying out and constructing a road through the Adirondack wilderness from Cedar Point on Lake Champlain to Carthage in Lewis County. This road passed through Essex, Hamilton and Herkimer counties. In 1846 Elizabeth- town and Moriah were taxed $750 to improve the road con- necting the towns, David Judd and Nathaniel Storrs being commissioners.
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William Shelden Judd, son of David Judd, married Mary A. Bishop, daughter of Jared Bishop of Moriah, and was for many years extensively engaged in the iron and lumber busi- ness in Elizabethtown in partnership with James S. Whallon of Essex. He subsequently moved to Minnesota and for some years was in the banking business at Fairbault but removed to Minneapolis, where he was for a time engaged in the flour business. He finally turned his attention to lumbering, pur- chasing a large tract of pine land on the upper Mississippi and tributaries, floating logs and timber 400 miles down to Minneapolis to be sawed into lumber and prepared for mar- ket. He was at one time reputed to be the most extensive lumberman in the State of Minnesota but owing to too great expansion and change in the markets he finally became in- volved financially. He had two children-William, married, and engaged in lumbering in Wisconsin, and Ella H., who mar- ried a man named Dibble, and is now a widow, living in Min- neapolis with her widowed mother.
Andrew Goodrich, who married Susan Miller, daughter of Philip Miller, was the pioneer shoemaker of the Simonds Hill section. He located on lot No. 146, Iron Ore Tract. He kept a shoe-shop but in many cases he went around, doing the work for different families at their homes, technically called in those early days "Whipping the Cat." The children of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Goodrich were Harriet E., James, who be- came a Baptist minister, Erastus, Hiram and another daugh- ter. All moved west in the fifties. The Goodrich farm is to- day known as the Matthew Spellman place.
Erastus Goodrich, Baptist deacon, married Susan Brown. He was a farmer and lived and died across the corner of the road from the Simonds Hill school house. His widow mar- ried for her second husband Manoah Miller.
James Goodrich, farmer, married Amanda Mason, daughter
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of Judge Ambrose Mason of Moriah. He eventually moved to Lockport.
Odle Hoose, who fought valiantly in the War of 1812, was an early settler at the south end or head of Black Pond where he resided for several years. The place was afterwards occupied by Andrew and Leonard Bates with their aged wid- owed mother and elderly maiden sister. Andrew Bates re- mained a bachelor. Leonard Bates subsequently married Lydia Brownson, a sister of Ashbel, Selah and Roman Brownson. The place was afterwards occupied by one Parks and later temporarily by various families but has been abandoned for many years. That locality is now generally known as "the Parks place." The Parks Brook which flows into Black Pond from the west was named after the man mentioned above.
Christopher Bartlett, who married a Stoddard, came from Waitsfield, Vt., in the early part of the settlement and located at the outlet of Black Pond. He did some farming but more hunting and fishing. He made a specialty of trapping for furs, being quite successful. He was a man six feet in height, pos- sessing well developed muscles and a well formed body. Hav- ing heard of the celebrated strong man "Jo" Call, the wrestler, he expressed a desire to try titles with him. At a public gathering in Elizabethtown village Call and Bartlett were brought together and it was arranged that they should wrestle "at arms length." Facing each other they took hold. Call asked "Are you ready ?" Bartlett answered "All right, ready," whereupon Call, with extended arms, raised Bartlett from the ground and holding him suspended with his legs and feet dangling in the air, suggested that he do his wrestling. Bart- lett soon became satisfied that further effort on his part was useless and was never afterwards known to boast of wrestling, especially of his meeting with "Jo" Call, the modern Hercules.
WILLIAM SIMONDS, So Long Prominent as a Hotel Man in Elizabethtown.
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This incident was reported by those present in illustration of Call's wonderful strength and good humor.
Christopher Bartlett's children consisted of three sons and four daughters-Stoddard, Horace, Judson, Anna, Emeline, Julia Ann and Harriet. The Bartlett family moved to Ohio or Michigan, then called the "far west." The Bartlett place was subsequently occupied successively by Milo Durand, Edward Ames, Moses Swinton, Riley Wolcott, William Simonds, Horace Lincoln and is at present occupied by Richard Christian, Sr. Stoddard Bartlett is said to have been quite a prodigy, being credited with having read the whole Bible during his fourth year.
Moses Noble, brother of Mrs. Ithai Judd, lived several years on Simonds Hill. His children were Philo, Edward, Richard, Seth and Aaron. Moses Noble moved to Wisconsin late in life.
Ezra Nichols also settled on an Iron Ore Tract lot. He married Polly Brown. Their children were Samuel, Joseph, Edmund Brown, Charles D., Chauncey, Haschal, Judson, Mi- nerva, Melinda and Eliza.
Samuel Nichols was drowned, being carried over the dam in a boat at New Russia when about 12 years old.
Joseph Nichols married Lovina Miller, daughter of Philip Miller. Their children were Charles Henry and Edwin who were in the union army during the civil war. Mariette, a daughter, wentto Iowa and married Scott Hall.
Edmund Brown Nichols married Mary Gates, a daughter of Willis Gates. Their children were Dr. Calvin Nichols of Troy, Clifford, a farmer of Chazy, N. Y., and one daughter.
Charles D. Nichols married Adeline Miranda Finney, daugh- ter of Anson Finney. Their children were Charles, Clarence, William, Alonzo F., Ernest E., Dr. Frank E., Marion and Addie.
, Charles D. Nichols and allof the children went west. Dr.Frank
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E. Nichols practices medicine in Quincy, Ill. Dr. Nichols visited Elizabethtown about three years since, being the guest of his uncle, A. McD. Finney, several days.
Marion Nichols married Edwin L. Ames.
Addie Nichols married George M. Hanchett, by which union several children were born.
Chauncey Nichols died on the overland route to California. Haschal Nichols moved to Iowa.
Melinda Nichols married Manoah Miller.
Eliza Nichols married Benjamin Franklin Perry and moved to Ill., several children being born of the union.
Leland Rowe, a veteran school master who served five years in the regular army as a musician, married Lucy Durand, a daughter of Joseph Francis Durand. Their children were William, Jesse, Clarinda, Barlow, Eleanor and Lucy.
William Rowe never married.
Jesse Rowe, carpenter and builder, married Amny Storrs and moved to Iowa. He visited Elizabethtown last year.
Clarinda Rowe married Nathaniel Miller.
Barlow Rowe married in Vermont, where he resides.
Eleanor Rowe married Jasper Miller. They live in Vermont. Lucy Rowe married Sidney Brydia and moved to Ill.
James Reynolds married Polly Durand, also a daughter of Joseph Francis Durand. Their children were Eunice, So- phronia, Betsey and Madison, the latter being a young boy when the family left town and the farm came into the posses- sion of David Lewis about 1828, the place now being owned by Martin Spellman.
Eunice Reynolds married Andrew Kile and moved to Ill.
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