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Samuel Wadhams, the only sou of Calvin and Esther ( Waller) Wadhams who grew to maturity, was born in Plymouth August 21, 1806. "He inherited," says Colonel Wright, "the business qualifications and the even temper and kind disposition of his father. Stepping into the occupation of a large estate he exhibited great skill and judgment in its management, and made many valuable additions to it. * * He died as he had lived, a man of unblemished integrity ; upright in his dealings, and a worthy Christian member of society." He resided in Plymouth all his life, and was a man of much influence as well as of large wealth. He was a member of Plymouth Lodge, No. 332, F. and A. M., having been one of the first men admitted to membership in the Lodge after its constitution in April, 1859.
Samuel Wadhams was married April 7, 1824, to Clorinda Starr (born October 23, 1795), daughter of Dr. Elijah and Hannah (Starr) Catlin. Elijah Catlin was born in Harwinton, Connecticut, October 13, 1762, the son of Jacob and Hannah ( Phelps) Catlin. He was married December 16, 1790, to Hannah (bori August 13, 1764 ; died August 8, 1847) youngest child of Capt. Samuel and Chloe ( Cruttenden) Starr inen- tioned above, and they settled in New Marlboro, Massachusetts, where Elijah Catlin died in June, 1823.
Samuel Wadhams died at Plymouth, Pennsylvania, December 15, 1868, and his wife died there April 28, 1870. The children of Samuel and Clorinda Starr (Catlin) Wadhams who grew to maturity were the following-named, all born in Plymouth : (i) Elijah Catlin, born July 17, 1825; died January 18, 1889. (ii) Esther Waller, born December 13, 1826; married October 10, 1848, to Lazarus Denison Shoemaker, meil- tioned in the note on page 469 ; died at Wilkes-Barre August 4, 1889. (iii) Calvin, born December 14, 1833; died July 20, 1883. (iv) Moses, born November 23, 1836. He was married (Ist) May 24, 1864, to Jane Chapinan (born June 6, 1838), daughter of Seth and Harriet (Douglass) Starr of Canaseraga, New York.
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necticut. He came in response to an informal invitation from some of his former parishioners, or neighbors, who were settled at Wyoming and who desired to have him remove from Litchfield County and take up his abode in their midst as their pastor. Mr. Wadhams remained at Wyo- ining for a few weeks and then returned to his home.
During all the exciting and important events which took place at Wilkes-Barré subsequently to September 22, 1770, and prior to the last days of August, 1772, Maj. John Durkee, the founder and namer of Wilkes-Barré, was languishing in the City Jail at Philadelphia. (See page 671.) At that period the jails in this country were, as a rule, noisome, loathsome places, and the life led by the majority of their in- mates was little more than beastly. The jail in the City of Brotherly Love was no exception to this rule. In confirmation of this statement read the following item from the Pennsylvania Packet (Philadelphia) of January 4, 1770.
"Who would expect to hear of objects amongst us whose sufferings and miseries are beyond the power of words to describe? But such in reality is the miserable condition of the unhappy criminals in our gaol every Winter ; not so much for want of food, as from cold and nakedness, for private familes daily send them more or less [food], and in hard Winter the religious societies make public collections."
As we have previously noted (see page 726) the weather in eastern Pennsylvania-particularly in the locality of Philadelphia-was ex- treinely severe in the Spring of 1772, and in the Pennsylvania Packet of March 16, 1772, we read the following :
"We hear that three of the prisoners confined in the gaol of this city died during the last week, and the Coroner's Inquest have found that they perished through want of necessaries. Think of this, ye who dissipate the bounty of Heaven in idle amusements ! *
* These poor sufferers, like Lazarus of old, ask for nothing but the crumbs which fall from your tables. The very refuse of your kitchens, beds and wearing apparel would
She died December 28, 1867, leaving two children : (1) Marian Starr Wadhams, born September 5, 1866 ; married September 25, 1894, to Samuel R. Maynard of Utica. New York. (2) John Starr Wadhams, born December 16, 1867; died November 10, 1868. (iv) Moses Wadhams was married (2d) to Jennie Fenn Morse, daughter of Aldson and Marcia (Kendall) Morse of Wilkes-Barre. Moses Wadhams died March 28, 1878, and some years later his widow became the wife of George S. Dana of Utica, New York.
(i) Elijah Catlin Wadhams was educated at Dickinson College, Pennsylvania, and the University of New York-being graduated at the latter institution in 1847. For twenty-five years he was a successful merchaut in Plymouth ; for upwards of twenty years he was a Justice of the Peace there ; he was the first Burgess of the Borough of Plymouth, and, by successive re-elections, held the office for seven years. In 1873 he removed with his family to Wilkes-Barré, where he continued to reside till his death. In 1876 he was elected, as a Republican, to represent the 21st Senatorial District (comprising a large part of Luzerne County, including Wyoming Valley) in the Pennsylvania Senate for a term of four years. For upwards of thirty years he was a Director of The Wyoming Bank and its successor, The Wyoming National Bank, of Wilkes-Barre, and for a number of years prior to his death he was President of The First National Bank of Wilkes-Barre. For many years he was Superintendent of the Sunday School of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Plymouth, and for a long time previous to his death filled a similar position in the Central Methodist Episcopal Church of Wilkes-Barre. Mr. Wadhams was a zealous and influential Free Mason for over thirty years. He was initiated into Lodge No. 61, F. and A. M, Wilkes- Barré, April 16, 1855. He withdrew therefrom in 1859 and became one of the charter members of Ply- mouth Lodge, No. 332. He was the third Worshipful Master of that Lodge. He was a charter member and the second M. E High Priest of Valley Chapter, No 214, Royal Arch Masons, instituted at Plymouth August 8, 1867, and a charter member and the first T. I. Grand Master of Mt. Horeb Council, No. 34, Royal and Select Masters, constituted April 6, 1868 He was also a Knight Templar, and was for years an active member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
Elijah Catlin Wadhams was married at Plymouth October 7, 1851, to Esther Taylor (born at Plymouth February 12, 1830), eldest child of Samuel French (born at Stratford, Connecticut, July 6, 1803; died at Plymouth July 25, 1866) and his wife Lydia Wadhams (born October 23, 1803 ; married May 21, 1829; died January 2, 1890), younger daughter of Moses and Ellen (Hendrick) Wadhams previously mentioned. Samuel French was the son of Samuel French (horn at Weston, Connecticut, February 17, 1774) and his wife Frances, daughter of William and Eunice ( Burr) Holberton of the parish of Stratfield, now a part of Bridgeport, Connecticut. Elijah Catlin and Esther Taylor (French) Wadhams hecame the parents of three sons and four daughters, namely : Samuel French, Moses Waller, Ralph Holberton, Ellen Hen- drick, Cornelia Frances, Stella Catlin and Lydia French. Elijah Catlin Wadhams died at Wilkes-Barre January 18, 1889, and was survived by his wife and the children named above.
(iii) Calvin Wadhams was graduated at Princeton College in 1854 with the degree of A. B. He was admitted to the Bar of Luzerne County April 6. 1857. and located in Wilkes-Barre as a practising attorney. In September, 1858, he became a member of The Wyoming Historical and Geological Society, and from 1861 to 1872 was Secretary of the Society, and in 1873 and '74 was its President. He was one of the cor- porators and early managers of the Wilkes-Barre City Hospital. Calvin Wadhams was married at Wilkes- Barré October 8, 1861, to Fanny D .. daughter of John W. Lynde (born at Putney, Vermont, in 1788; died at Wilkes-Barre July 17. 1875) and his wife Mary Ann Cleveland (born in 1809; died at Wilkes-Barre September 21, 1837). Calvin and Fanny D. (Lynde) Wadhams became the parents of four children. Cal- vin Wadhams died at his Summer home at Harvey's Lake, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, July 20, 1883, and was survived by his wife and one son-Raymond Lynde Wadhams For further interesting references to Calvin Wadhams see, in Chapter XXX, "Memorial Presbyterian Church."
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be received by them with joy and thankfulness. We hope the humane part of the in- habitants of this city will guard for the future against accidents of the like nature, and thus wipe off the dishonour which the above melancholy catastrophe has done not only to Christianity but to Humanity. The inclemency of the present season still calls upon the public to afford relief to numbers who are now under confinement and in great dis- tress in our gaol."
One week later the Packet printed the following :
"Since our last we have the pleasure of informing the public that large contribu- tions of victuals, bed-clothes, wearing apparel and wood have been sent to the prisoners confined in our gaol."
It was not alone the vicious and the criminal inmates of the Phila- delphia jail who suffered from cold, hunger and other ills, but also those helpless and hopeless individuals who were incarcerated for no other reason than that they were absolutely unable to pay their honest debts. All suffered alike-John Durkee with the rest. Finally, at a meeting of the Provincial Council held in Philadelphia August 21, 1772, Gov- ernor Penn laid before the Council a petition from Major Durkee, set- ting forth that he was indicted for a riot on the lands at Wyoming at the Sessions for the county of Northampton in April, 1770, and that from September following he had been closely confined in jail. Con- tinuing, the petitioner stated : "That sometime afterwards he was sued for a large sum of money due to a gentleman in New York, with whom he has now compounded and obtained a discharge from his suit; that he has a wife and children in Connecticut who are in great distress, oc- casioned by his imprisonment, &c., * and therefore humbly pray- ing for relief by means of a nolle prosequi or otherwise." * The * said petition being read and considered by the Board, it was their opinion that, "in consideration of the prisoner's long confinement, and that he has now obtained a discharge from his creditors-at whose suit he has hitherto been detained in prison, as well as at the suit of the Crown, a nolle prosequi should be entered on the indictment, and the petitioner be discharged from his confinement-which the Governor accordingly directed to be done."* After his release from this confine- ment of twenty-three months Major Durkee returned to his home in Norwich, as stated on page 483.
In an original list of the settlers at Wyoming in July, 1772, prepared by the Committee of Settlers at the time, we find the following names which do not appear in the May or the June list previously mentioned. Cooper, Thomas Hutchins, John Rollen, William-Home 3d.
Colt, Harris Heath, Thos
Silsberry, Elijah
Cady, Manasseh-28th.
Keyes, Timothy
-Home 18th for 10 days.
Ells, Thonias
Marvin, Uriah
Swift, Elisha
Dart, Nathan
Minor, Thomas-26th.
Staples, Samuel-2d.
Gallup, William
Pixley, David Sill, Jabez
Goss, Solomon
Pixley, Ely Sill, Shadrack
Hunt, Austin
Root, Stephen-28th.
Worden, Caleb Yale, Ozias-12th.
Hedsall, James-Jr. Died Dec. 31, '72.
Upon his return home from Wyoming the Rev. Jacob Johnson gave the matter of his removal to the new settlements much consideration, and shortly afterwards wrote the following lettert :
"Groton August 18th 1772.
"To the Comte at Wilks Barre and People there and in the Towns on the Susquehanna.
"Gentlemen and christian Friends.
"All Love & Respect unto you. I lately received a Letter from Capt Zn. Butler as also one from Col Elpt Dyer and Comte at Windham with an enclosed copy of a letter front Capt Butler to sd Conte Signifying the unanimous Request & Desire of the settlers
* See "Pennsylvania Colonial Records," X : 52.
¡ The original is in the collections of The Wyoming Historical and Geological Society.
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on the Susquehanna that I would come among them in the character of a Preacher & Minister of christ. I have taken the very Important Request into the most serious con- sideration And find a complyance therewith is like to be attended with almost Infinite difficulty both in my Family & People under my present care & charge. However this notwithstanding ( upon the whole view of the case) I am of the mind 'tis the voice of God in his Holy wise & aldisposeing Providence that I should come to you. Shall therefore endeaver by the Will of God to get things in Readiness for that Purpose as fast as con- veniently may be.
"You will therefore I hope take some care to provide a House or some convenient place for Religious Worship that may best commode the whole Body of the People for the present, some where near to which you will please to provide me a House or Place of Residence for my selfe & what small part of my Family I shall bring should any of them come with me. As to any other Provision I shall leave the ordering of that to the Comte & People as they may think fit or as occasion may call for.
"In the mean Time I pray you not to ferget the Principle end & design of our Fathers coming into this wilderness-Nor be off your watch & guard & so be exposed to your spiritual or Temporal enemies. But above all by your Holy Lives & conversations Interest yourselves in the Divine Favor & Protection that God Himselfe may dwell with you & bless you and prepare the way for the Blessing of the Gospel Ministry & ordinances among you.
"So wishes so prays & most sincerely Desires your real Friend & humle sert for christs sake with all affection,
"To the People in the )
[Signed] "JACOB JOHNSON."
Several Towns on the
East Branch of the
Susquehanna.
"P. S. Possibly the Rumer of Peace & counter orders to Gover! Peen [Penn] may be a Devise to put you off your Guard to make you a more easy Prey, be the more watch- ful that you may not be betrayed. 'Sure bind sure find' Is a Proverb as True as it is old. 'Trust not an Enemy too soon,' Make no man a Friend but upon sufficient Tryal, 'Such as have broken their Promise twice Dont believe tho' they should swear Thrice.' Never trust a Fox out of a cage-or a serpent 'till His Head is broke. When thine Enemy speaketh fair believe Him not, For there are Seven Abominations in his Heart .- Proverbs of Solomon. The Lord give understanding in all things .- St. Paul."
About the middle of August, 1772, Zebulon Butler, who, it is hardly necessary to state, was then the principal man in the Wyoming settle- ments, set out from Wilkes-Barré for Connecticut to visit his family at Lyme, and, at Hartford and Windham, to attend to important affairs concerning the settlements. At Groton, under the date of September 1st, the Rev. Jacob Johnson wrote to Captain Butler at Lyme as follows :
"I have sent Letters to you both as being at Lyme & Susqha Have received Letters from you & Comte at Windham. If you come into N. End & I dont see you before you return Please to let the People know I have determined to come there & winter there by the Leave of Divine Providence Yea & if it be the will of God to spend the Remnant of my Days in the work of the ministry among them I think it my Duty & hope it may be the salvation of many of their souls.
"I propose to be on my Journey the beginning of the next month. I shall likely be some time a coming for I propose to Preach on my Road there at all the Principal Towns & Cities. Perhaps I may go round by the way of New Haven, N. York, Philadelphia, East Town [Easton] & so by the way of Shamokin to Wyoming, tho I am not fully determined.
"I have wrote more at large & now a line by the Judds passing-who am Yrs. &c., [Signed] "J. JOHNSON."
"P. S. I tho't of bringing some Part of my Family but I am at Present undeter- mined about that. We hear the Indians are troublesome beyond you & there may pos- sibly be some danger on the Susqha It may be best not to bring my Family excepting one or two or so-or may be none but my selfe. I feel a weight of concern for the D! People. My Love to them."
Immediately upon receipt of the foregoing letter Captain Butler journeyed from Lymne to Groton to see Mr. Johnson, and the next day the latter wrote the following letter* to the Wyoming settlers.
"Groton Septr 4th, 1772.
"To the People, Setlers in the Towns, on the East Branch of the Susquehanna.
"Brethren & Christian Friends
"The Country where You are now Settleing is undoubtedly within the claim of Connecticut Charter And of vast importance to the Colony and more particularly so to * The original letter is now in the possession of Dr. Frederick C. Johnson of Wilkes-Barré, a great- grandson of the Rev. Jacob Johnson.
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you that are Settleing there not onely on account of your Temporal Interest but more especially so as it Respects the Kingdom of Christ & the Interest of the Christian Religion This hath lain with great weight on my mind for a number of years past that I could have no Rest in my Spirit 'till I made you a visit And I hope my Labors were not in vain in the Lord-
"And whereas You have been pleased to Request & Desire me to come again-as also the Comte at Windham have Sliewn their approbation thereof & full concurrence therein-And having opportunity the Day past to Confer with Capt. Butler on these things As also to receive from him a Subscription for my Temporal Support the Present year I do now in Addition to my other Letters Send you this Further to let you know my Purpose & Determination is to come & See you To preach the Gospel of Christ unto you Provided my Way be made plain by the Advise of Counsel & Concurrence of church & People here which I Shall next attend to-Our People have had it under considera- tion for Some Time past-I have conferd with Some & had the minds of others in the Ministry who all as far as I can learn well approve of & think it my Duty to Remove I have conferd with Several of our Principal People both of church & Society who much Desire my Continuation in the Ministry here But yet appear willing to Submit to my Re- move if it may be for the greater benefit & enlargement of Christs Kingdom elsewhere which I doubt not will be sufficiently plain & Evident before a Counsel If anything Should fall out to the Contrary I shall let you know by the first opportunity In the mean time shall be makeing all convenient Readiness to be on my Journey to you at least by the Middle of the next month or sooner if I can get the way open for my Remove
"You will I hope provide Some Convenient House or Place for Public Worship that may best commode the Several Towns for the Present near unto which a House or Place for my Residence untill things are further Settled I heartily thank you one & all for your Regards Shewn & kindnesses bestowed on me when with you As also for the Pro- visions you have generously made by Subscription Should I again come among You I . heartily & Sincerely pray a Blessing may descend down from Heaven upon you that the God of all Grace & everlasting consolation may be with you That He would multiply seed to the Sower & Bread to the eater that you may encrease & fill the Land be a Terror to all your Enemies a comfort to all your Friends Yea that You may be for a Name & Praise in all the Earth So wishes So prays Yours in
"To the People "our Lord Jesus Christ
at Wilks Barre &
The other Townis on .
[Signed] "JACOB JOHNSON."
The Susquehanna
East Branch.
Under the date of September 5th Mr. Johnson wrote to Captain Butler at Lyme, in part as follows (the spelling and lack of punctuation in the original letter not being adhered to, however):
"Inform me whether you purpose to return again to New England this Fall & re- move your family, and if you do, when and what road you will take. Please to let Mr. William Gallup* know I waited on his wife yesterday and delivered his letter with my own hand ; * * that she doesn't see how it is possible for her, with two pair of twins, and the youngest at her breasts, &c., to remove this Fall. However, that she and all her children are quite willing to remove as soon as they can."
On September 7th Mr. Johnson wrote from Groton to Captain Butler-still at Lyme-as followst :
"SIR-Since my Letters of ye 4th & 5th Instant I have laid the Proposal of ily Re- move to the Susgh more publickly before our church & congregation which appeared very striking & affecting to them Because they saw I was in earnest about it which they didn't really believe before, thinking I had only talk'd about leaveing them but now they become sensible I was really agoing away An universal silence by way of objection seised them -- Only proposals of calling a meeting to make some settlement with me in case I was determined to leave them As also to call a counsel for my Renioveal &c which I was ready to do And these steps will speedily be taken excepting we should come to this agreement viz. that I preach to you at Susqh this winter & make a settlement & finally remove next Spring which way may be most adviseable I anı not certain but one or the other I ain persuaded will take place so that the people at Susqh may be pretty sure of my coming.
"There are many have their Faces that way. My wife since she saw you seems to be much more reconcild to my coming & her going, tho' not as yet untill things are more settled and more safe going & being there. Perhaps I may not come before the sitting of the Assembly in october next &c. "Yours, [Signed] "JACOB JOHNSON."
"P. S. The Reason of iny enquiring whether you proposed to remove your Family this fall & when &c., was that I miglit know whether we should be company on the Road. Several I hear have lately gone & going."
* Mentioned on page 629.
+ See the original letter in the collections of The Wyoming Historical and Geological Society.
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Within a few days after the receipt of the foregoing letter Captain Butler set out from his home at Lyme on his return journey to Wilkes- Barré, and September 16th, at Hartford, en route, he wrote to Colonel Talcott at Glastonbury as follows* :
"I have seen Mr. [Benjamin] Harvey that came from Susquehanna eight days ago. All was well then. Shall proceed there as fast as possible."
October 2, 1772, the Rev. Mr. Johnson wrote from Groton to Cap- tain Butler at Wilkes-Barré that he purposed being at New Haven in the second week of the session of the General Assembly, "and from thence," he wrote, "on my way to the Susquehanna. * I believe I shall bring none of iny family with me as yet. I shall have the company of William Williams, whose father is a proprietor-an old man living in the North Parish of New London." Unaccompanied by any of the members of his family, Mr. Johnsont arrived at Wilkes-Barré towards the end of October.
* The original letter is now in the possession of Mr. James Terry, previously mentioned.
+JACOB JOHNSON was born at Wallingford, New Haven County, Connecticut, April 7, 1713, the tenth and youngest child of "Sergeant" Jacob and Abigail (Hitchcock) Johnson. "Sergeant" Johnson was a second cousin of "Deacon" Samuel Johnson (1670-1727) of Guilford, Connecticut, who was the father of the Rev. Samuel Johnson, D. D., the "father of Episcopacy in Connecticut" (as mentioned in the note on page 478)-the paternal grandfathers of the "Deacon" and the "Sergeant" having been brothers, and immigrants to Boston from Kingston-on-Hull. England, about the year 1638. Thomas Johnson, the grandfather of "Sergeant" Jacob Johnson, settled in New Haven, where, in 1640. he was drowned in the harbor. He was survived by his wife, Helena, and four sons, the youngest of whom, William, a native of England, settled in New Haven, where he was married in December, 1664, to Sarah Hall. He was a mason by trade. In 1670, with some thirty-seven other men, he signed the original compact for the settle- ment of Wallingford, and thus became one of the original proprietors of that town. However, he con- tinued to reside at New Haven, where he died in 1716. William and Sarah ( Hall) Johnson were the parents of thirteen children, the sixth of whom was "Sergeant" Jacob Johnson (previously mentioned), who was born at New Haven September 25, 1674 He was married December 14, 1693, to Abigail (born 1674; died Jannary 9, 1726), daughter of John and Abigail ( Merriman) Hitchcock of Wallingford, and settled in that town, where he became an extensive land owner. He was a Deputy from Wallingford to the General Court of Connecticut in 1721, 1732, 1733 and 1736, and for some time was Sergeant of the Wal- lingford train-band. He died at Wallingford July 17, 1749.
JACOB JOHNSON, "Sergeant" Johnson's youngest child, as previously noted, was graduated at Yale College in 1740, in the same class with Eliphalet Dyer, mentioned on page 393, Vol. I. At that time Mr. Johnson's home was at Wallingford, and he attended, as a "messenger" from the Church in that town, a Congregational Church council at Northbury, Connecticut, in May, 1740. Subsequently, having studied theology, he was ordained to the gospel ministry, and in 1749 was installed pastor of the "First Church of Christ" in Groton. New London County, Connecticut, as the successor of "ye Revd & Pious Mr. John Owen, the second ordained minister" of that Church, who had resigned his pastorate on account of ill health, and who died January 14, 1753, in the fiftieth year of his age. In 1755 Mr. Johnson was married to Mary (born November 28, 1730), daughter of Capt. Nathaniel and Mary ( Williams) Giddings of Preston, New London County, Connecticut.
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