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By a change of the Constitution making the Judiciary elective, his seat became vacant in 1851. During the same year he was elected an Associate Justice of the Su- preme Court, being the only one of the former incum- bents who was nominated by the Democratic party. He discharged the functions of his office until attacked by his last illness. Ile died in Philadelphia, May 3, 1853. As a jurist he stood among the highest in the land. At home
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and abroad his transcendent legal ability was universally acknowledged. His judicial opinions are among the richest treasures of the country.
During the time (from January Term, 1813, to May Term, 1816, inclusive), Judge Gibson presided over the courts of Bradford county, Northern Pennsylvania was a vast wilderness with only a few wagon-roads, gen- erally following the Susquehanna and larger streams. In making the rounds of his circuit in the five counties Judge Gibson either came on horseback or by stage. He visited Towanda four times a year and held court for about a week during each visit. In 1813 and '14 the regular time of convening court was on the third Mon- day each of January, April, August and November. Be- ginning with 1815, the terms of court were changed to February, May, September and December and our terms of court have continued in this order ever since. Upon the erection of the county in 1812, the " Red Tavern," which stood on the corner of Franklin and Main streets, was established as the place of holding courts and so con- tinued till the old courthouse was built and occupied in 1816. The courtroom was on the second floor, and the prisoners kept in side rooms adjoining, during trial, the jail (log) then being located at Monroeton. In May, 1816, Judge Gibson held the first term of court in the courthouse, which was also his last in the county.
Judge Gibson possessed many accomplishments. IIc was an expert violinist and usually carried a violin with him on his circuit. After the adjournment of court he hied himself to his room at the hotel and found both pleasure and recreation with " his fiddle and the bow." Upon the announcement of the death of Mr. Gibson, Chief Justice Jeremiah S. Black, his succesor, said : " It
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is unnecessary to say that every surviving member of the court is deeply grieved by the death of Mr. Justice Gib- son. In the course of nature it was not to be expected that he could live much longer, for he had attained the ripe old age of seventy-six. But the blow, though not a sudden one, was, nevertheless, a severe one. The inti- mate relations, personal and official, which we all bore to him, would have been sufficient to account for some emo- tion, even if he had been an ordinary man. But he was the Nestor of the Bench, whose wisdom inspired the pub- lic mind with confidence in our decisions. By this be- reavement the court has lost what no time can repair, for we shall never look upon his like again.
" We regard him more as a father than a brother. None of us ever saw the Supreme Court before he was in it ; and to some of us his character as a great Judge was familiar even in childhood. The earliest knowledge of the law we had was derived in part from his luminous exposition of it. He was a Judge of the Common Pleas before the youngest of us was born, and was a member of this court long before the oldest was admitted to the Bar. He sat there with twenty-six different associates of whom eighteen preceded him to the grave. For nearly a quar- ter of a century he was Chief Justice, and when he was nominally superseded by another, as the head of the court, his great learning, venerable charcter, and over- shadowing reputation, still made him the only chief whom the hearts of the people would know. During the long period of his judicial labors he discussed and decided innumerable questions. His opinions are found in no less than seventy volumes of the regular reports.
" At the time of his death he had been longer in office than any contemporary Judge in the world ; and in some
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points of character he had not his equal on the earth. Such vigor, clearness, and precision of thought was never before united with the same felicity of diction. His writ- ten language was a transcript of his mind. It gave the world the very form and pressure of his thoughts. It was accurate, because he knew the exact boundaries of the principles he discussed. His mental visions took in the whole outline and all the details of the case, and with a bold and steady hand he painted what he saw. He made others understand him, because he understood him- self. His style was rich, but he never turned out of his way for figures of speech. He never sacrificed sense to sound or preferred ornament to substance. If he rea- soned much by comparison, it was not to make his com- position brilliant, but clear. He spoke in metaphors often ; not because they were sought, but because they came to his mind unbidden. The same vein of happy illustration ran through his conversation and his private letters. I was, most of all, struck with it in a careless memorandum, intended, when it was written, for no eye but his own. He never thought of display, and seemed totally unconscious that he had the power to make any.
" His words were always precisely adapted to the sub- ject. He said neither more nor less than just the thing he ought. He had one faculty of a great poet ; that of ex- pressing a thought in language which could never after- wards be paraphrased. When a legal principle passed through his hands, he sent it forth clothed in a dress, which fitted it so exactly that nobody ever presumed to give it any other. Ahnost universally the syllabus of his opinion is a sentence from itself ; and the most heedless student, in looking over Wharton's Digest, can select the cases in which Gibson delivered the judgment, as readily
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as he would pick out the gold coins from among coppers. For this reason it is, that though he was the least volumi- nous writer of the Court, the citations from him at the Bar are more numerous than from all the rest put to- gether. Yet the men who shared with him the labors and responsibilities of this tribunal, (of course I am not referring to any one who is now here), stood among the foremost in the country for learning and ability. To be their equal was an honor which few could attain ; to ex- cel was a most pre-eminent distinction.
" The dignity, richness and purity of his written opin- ions, was by no means his highest title to admiration. The movements of his mind were as strong as they were graceful. His periods not only pleased the ear but sunk into the mind. He never wearied the reader ; but he always exhausted the subject. An opinion of his was an unbroken chain of logic, from beginning to end. His argumentation was always characterized by great power, and sometimes it rose into irresistible energy, dashing opposition to pieces with force like that of a battering- ram. He never missed the point even of a cause which had been badly argued. He separated the chaff from the wheat almost as soon as he got possession of it. The most complicated entanglement of fact and law would be reduced to harmony under his hands. His arrangement was so lucid, that the dullest mind could follow him with that intense pleasure, which we all feel in being able to comprehend the workings of an intellect so manifestly superior.
" Yet he committed errors. It was wonderful that in the course of his long service he did not commit more. A few were caused by inattention ; a few by want of
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time ; a few by preconceived notions which led him astray. When he did throw himself into the wrong side of a cause, he usually made an argument which it was much easier to overrule than to answer. But he was of all men the most devoted and earnest lover of truth for its own sake. When subsequent reflection convinced him that he had been wrong, he took the first opportunity to ac- knowledge it. He was often the earliest to discover his own mistakes, as well as the foremost to correct them. He was inflexibly honest. The judicial ermine was as un- spotted when he laid it aside for the habiliments of the grave, as it was when he first assumed it. I do not mean to award him merely that common-place integrity which it is no honor to have, but simply disgrace to want. He was not only incorruptible, but scrupulously, delicately, conscientiously free from all willful wrong, either in thought, word or deed.
" Next, after his wonderful intellectual endowments, the benevolence of his heart was the most marked feature of his character. He was a most genial spirit ; affectionate and kind to his friends, and magnanimous to his enemies. Benefits received by him were engraved on his memory as on a tablet of brass ; injuries were written in sand. He never let the sun go down upon his wrath. A little dash of bitterness in his nature would, perhaps, have given a more consistent tone to his character, and greater activity to his mind. He lacked the quality which Dr. Johnson admired-he was not a good hater. His accom- plishments were very extraordinary. He was born a musician, and the natural talent was highly cultivated. IIe was a connoisseur in painting and sculpture. The whole round of English literature was familiar to him. He was at home among the ancient classics. He had a
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perfectly clear perception of all the great truths of natural science. He had studied medicine carefully in his youth and understood it well. His mind absorbed all kinds of knowledge with scarcely an effort.
" Judge Gibson was well appreciated by his fellow-citi- zens ; not so highly as he deserved, for that was scarcely possible. But admiration of his talents and respect for his honesty were universal sentiments. This was strik- ingly manifested when he was elected in 1851, notwith- standing his advanced age, without partisan connections, with no emphatic political standing, and without man- ners, habits, or associations calculated to make him pop- ular beyond the circle that knew him intimately. With all these disadvantages, it is said, he narrowly escaped what might have been a dangerous distinction, a nomi- nation on both of the opposing tickets. Abroad he has, for many years, been thought the great glory of his native State. Doubtless the whole Commonwealth will mourn his death ; we all have reason to do so. The profession of the law has lost the ablest of its teachers, this Court the brightest of its ornaments, and the people a steadfast defender of their rights, so far as they were capable of being protected by judicial authority. For myself I know no form of words to express my deep sense of the loss we have suffered. I can most truly say of him what was said long ago, concerning one of the few among the mor- tals who were yet greater than he : 'I did love the man, and do honor his memory, on this side idolatry, as much as any.' "
BRADFORD COUNTY PIONEERS
MEN WHO FIRST ENTERED THE WILDER- NESS AND CARVED OUT HOMES.
[Names in each township are arranged in most part in the order in which settlers came thereto .- C. F. HEVERLY.]
Albany-Settled 1801, the first permanent settler being Ephraim Ladd, a native of Connecticut, with his sons, Horatio, CharlesW., John C. and Ephraim, Jr. The next settlers were Sheffield Wilcox and his sons, Rowland, Freeman and Sheffield, Jr. Other pioneers were Daniel Miller, Jonathan Frisbie, Williams Lee, Archelaus Luce, Samuel Smith, Shadrach Miller, Matthias Scriven, Simeon Chapman, Moses Miller, David Sabin, Dyer Ormsby, John Nichols, Jacob Eddy, Stephen Edwards, Matthias VanLoon, Abraham Waltman, Maltiah Hatch, Reynolds Babcock, Benjamin Corson, Timothy Coon and Samuel Brown.
Armenia-Settled in 1808 by a Mr. Williams, the first permanent settler being Newton Harvey, in 1822. Other pioneers were George Hawkins, Samuel Avery, Heman Morgan, Samuel Moore, Joseph Biddle, Alexander Casc, John Lyon, Alba Burnham, Daniel Crandall, Andrew Monroe, Wrightman Pierce, William Covert, Daniel Story, Eber Story, Abiezer Field, Timothy Randall, John S. Becker, Jacob Y. Dumond, George Webber and John P. Smith.
Asylum-Settled in 1770 by Peter Shoefelt, a Palati-
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nate German, from New York, the first permanent settlers being Samuel Cole and his sons, Solomon, Samuel, Elisha, Abisha and John, in 1775. Other pioneers were Amos Bennett, Richard Benjamin, Benjamin Acla, Samuel Gil- bert, the French refugees from 1793 to 1801, Anthony Vanderpool, Isaac and Richard Wheeler, Nicholas John- son, Ambrose Vincent, Henry Cornelius, Sartile Holden, Charles Homet, Bartholomew Laporte, Benjamin Cool- baugh, Christopher Cowell, Moses Warford, Jabez Sill, William Coolbaugh, Samuel Seeley, Samuel Chilson, Robert Chilson, and Jonathan Stevens.
Athens-Settled in 1783 by Benjamin Patterson, a Revolutionary soldier. The pioneers were John Shepard, Jacob Snell, Col. John Franklin, Prince Bryant, Elisha Satterlee, Ira Stephens, Elisha Mathewson, Jonathan Har- ris, Col. Julius Tozer, Daniel McDuffee, Noah Murray, Capt. Joseph Spalding, David, Clement and Enoch Paine, Dr. Stephen Hopkins, Daniel Elwell, John Saltmarsh, Major Zephon Flower, Joseph Tyler, Thomas Wilcox, John Redington, Nehemiah Northrup, Francis Snechen- berger, Isaac Morley, Daniel Orcutt, George Welles, Wright Loomis, Dr. Amos Prentice, Hon. Edward Her- rick, John Watkins, John Griffin, Lodowick Green, Sam- uel Ovenshire, Benoni Hulett.
Barclay-The history of this mountainous town begins with 1812, when coal was accidentally discovered there by Absalom Carr, a hunter. Being entirely a mining and lumbering section, only temporary settlements have been made from time to time ; the first of these was in 1856, by the Towanda Coal Company.
Burlingtons-Settled in 1790 by Isaac DeWitt, Abra- ham De Witt, and James McKean. Other pioneers were
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William Dobbins, James Ward, James Campbell, David Campbell, Derrick Miller, Bethuel Swain, Jeremiah Tay- lor, Benjamin Saxton, William Nichols, Levi Soper, David Soper, James Braffit, David Ross, Lewis Moffit, John Gamage, Paul De Witt, Moses Calkins, Ezra Goddard, Stephen Ballard, John Ballard, Nathaniel Ballard, Joseph Ballard, John T. Clark, Alexander Lane, Eliphalet Gustin, Amos Abbott, George Head, Jehial Ferris, Jesse Beach, Beriah Pratt, Ebenezer Kendall, George Bloom, Joseph Bloom, Elisha Bloom, Jesse Marvin, Nathaniel Phelps, Tilley Leonard, Jeremiah Travis, James McDowell, James Wilcox, William Knapp, David Rundell and Ga- maliel Jaqua.
Canton-Settled in 1796 by Ezra Spalding, a Revolu- tionary soldier from Connecticut, Jonas Gere, Jonathan Prosser, Gersham Gillett and a Mr. Cook. Other pioneers were Zephaniah Rogers, Zephaniah Rogers, Jr., Orr Sco- vell, Dr. Moses Emerson, John Newell, Isaiah Grover, Ebenezer Bixby, John Crandall, Daniel Bailey, Benj. Babcock, Nathaniel. Babcock, Samuel Griffin, Nathan Roberts, Samuel Griffin, Jr., Laben Landon, Jacob Gran- tier, Henry Van Valkenburg, Dr. Joseph Van Sick, Noah Wilson, Samuel Rockwell, David Pratt, Jeremiah Smith, Kilborn Morley, Levi Morse, Augustus Loomis, Abraham Tabor and sons, Nathan B. and Reuben M., Stephen Sell- ard, Samuel Rutty, John Watts, Thomas B. Miles, John Haxton, Isaac Rundell, David Lindley, Dr. Sylvester Streeter, Elisha Bloom, Jerome Wright, Elias Wright and Esau Bagley.
Columbia-The first attempt at a settlement was made in 1795, by a Mr. Doty ; the first permanent settlers were Nathaniel Morgan, Eli Parsons and Eli Parsons, Jr.,
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all from Connecticut, in 1799. Other pioneers were David Watkins, Oliver Canfield, Jeremiah Chapman, Aaron Bennett, Samuel Lamphere, Solomon Soper, Wil- liam Rose, Elnathan Goodrich, David Palmer, Calvin Tinkham, Chas. Keyes, Nathaniel Merritt, John Bixby, Asa Howe, Comfort Peters, Moses Taylor, Rev. Joseph Beeman, David R. Haswell, Sheldon Gibbs, John Peter Gernert, William Furman, John Lilley, Reuben Nash, John McClellan, Jacob Miller, Michael Wolf, Samuel Baldwin, John Benson, William Webber, John West, Sam- uel Ballard, Cyprian Stevens, Oliver Besley, Phineas Jones, Silas Smith, John Havens, Amos Alexander, Dr. Stephen Fowler, John Budd, Cornelius Mosier, Joseph Gladding, John Calkins, Philip Slade, Asa Bullock, Benj. McKean, Peleg Kingsley and Stephen Peckham.
Franklin-First improvements made in or before 1795 by Nathan Wilcox ; the first settlers were David Allen, Isaac Allen and Stephen Allen, brothers, in 1796. Other pioneers were Daniel Allen and Daniel Allen, Jr., Benja- min Stone, Rev. Thomas Smiley, Joanna Latimer, Stephen Wilcox, Absalom Carr, Edsall Carr, William Blancher, Daniel Stone, William B. Spalding, Noah Spald- ing, William B. French, Daniel Webber, Allen Rockwell, Widow Pladnor, John Holford, James Brisse, Gilbert Gay, and Major Oliver W. Dodge.
Granville-Settled 1799 by Jeremiah Taylor from Massachusetts. Other pioneers were Lewis Moffit, Scovil Bailey, David Bailey, Oliver Bailey, Thomas Bailey, Ezra Bailey, Benjamin Saxton, Oliver Nelson, Uriah Baxter, Zoroaster Porter, Philip Packard, Abraham Park- hurst, Benjamin Avery, Chas. Butterfield, Abijah Ayers, John Putnam, Alvah Churchill, John Pratt, Josiah Vro-
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man, David Ross, Elisha Andrus, John Loomis, Simeon Chelsey, Samuel Gee, Nathaniel Clark, Malachi Shoe- maker, John Ferguson and Joel Packard.
Herrick-Settled in 1808 by Ephraim and Nathaniel Platt, brothers, from Connecticut. Other pioneers were Zopher Platt, Fredus Reed, Asa Matson, John Haywood, Elihu Buttles, Isaac Park, James Himes, Henry W. Camp, Calvin Stone, Isaac Camp, Charles Squires, Charles Stevens, Micjah Slocum, Ezekiel Mintz, Martin Angle, Daniel Durand, Adam Overpeck, Reuben Atwood, Nathan B. Whitman, James Clark, William Nesbit, Nathaniel Nesbit, Alexander Daugherty, James Lee, James Wood, William Hillis, Richard Hillis, John Erskine, David Armstrong.
LeRoy-Settled in 1795 by Hugh and Sterling Hol- comb, brothers, from Connecticut. Other pioneers were Seeley Crofut, Dennison Kingsbury, John Knapp, Elihu Knight, Joel Bodwell, George Brown, Peter Gordon, Isaac Chaapel, David Andrews, Truman Holcomb, Isaac Wooster, Luther Hinman, Miles Oakley, George Head, Aaron Cook, Alpheus Holcomb, David Wooster and Jesse Morse.
Litchfield-Settled 1788 by Thomas Park, a native of Connecticut and Revolutionary soldier. Other pioneers were Josiah Park, William Drown, Eleazer Merrill, Jr., Solomon Merrill, Eleazer Merrill, Sr., Silas Wolcott, Ruloff Campbell, Samuel Campbell, Josiah White, George Hadlock, Thomas Munn, Alsup Baldwin, James Brown, Daniel Bush, Joseph Green, Peter Turner, Jolin Cotton, Christopher Schoonover, Samuel Ball, Zenas Cleveland, Joseph Nichols, Russell Marsh, Paul Apgar, Absalom Adams, Orson Carner, Na-
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thaniel Hotchkiss, William Loomis and Mckinney broth- ers, Samuel, David, Joseph and Henry.
Monroe-Settled in 1779 by Henry Pladnor from the Wyoming Valley, the first permanent settler being Sam- uel Cranmer, a native of New Jersey. Other pioneers were Noadiah, John and Stephen Cranmer, Usual Carter, Peter Edsall, the Millers, Daniel, Jacob, Moses, Shadrach and William, George Head, Henry Salisbury, William Dougherty, John, James, Bijah and Nathan Northrup, Gordon, Jonathan, Russell and Austin Fowler, Timothy Alden, Abner C. Rockwell, John Schrader, John Wagner, Eliphalet Mason, Amos V. Mathews, James Lewis, John B. Hinman, Rev. Elisha Cole, Jared and Urial Woodruff, George and Welch Irvine, Charles Brown, Thomas Cox, Job Irish, Amasa Kellogg, George and Selah Arnout, Ebe- nezer Mason, Daniel and Truxton Lyon, William Day, Solomon Talladay, Judson Blackman, Chester Mason, Libeus Marcy, Thomas Lewis, Dr. Benoni Mandeville, Eleizer Sweet and Burr Ridgway.
Orwell-Settled in 1796 by Dan Russell, a native of Connecticut. Other pioneers were Asahel and Truman Johnson, Capt. Josiah Grant, Francis Mesusan, Samuel Wells, Zenas Cook, Capt. Samuel Woodruff, Uri Cook, Adarine Manville, Joel Barns, Levi Frisbie, Abel and Theron Darling, Joel Cook, Joel Cook, Jr., John Pierce, Alpheus Choat, William Ranney, Lebbeus Roberts, Capt. John Grant, Eleazer Allis, David Olds, Chester Gridley, John Cowles, Nathaniel, Aaron, Jacob and Ebenzer Chubbuck, Nathaniel Chubbuck, Sr., James Newell and the Brownings.
Overton-Settled in 1810 by Daniel Heverly, a Penn- sylvania German, and his sons, John, Daniel, Jacob,
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Christian and Henry. Other pioneers were Leonard Streevy, Henry Sherman, Philip Heverly, Jacob Heverly, Jacob Hottenstein, John Clark, James Daugherty, Lud- wig Rinebold, Chas. Deiffenbaugh and Daniel Slotery.
Pike-Settled in 1790, the first permanent settler being James Rockwell from Connecticut. Other pioneers were Seth P. Rockwell, Dimon and Benajah Bostwick, Nathan Abbott, Darius and Elijah Coleman, Eleazer Russell, Ezekiel Brown, Ephraim Fairchild, Elisha Keeler, John Bradshaw, Aden, Nathan, Jonathan and Samuel Stevens, Abraham Taylor, Samuel Luckey, Salmon, Josiah, Alba and Joseph Bosworth, John and Bela Ford, Thomas, James and William Brink, Joseph Preston, Daniel, Jesse and Joseph Ross, William Johnson, William Buck, Gould and Isaac Seymour, Isaac Hancock, Edmund Stone, Dr. Reuben Baker, Jesse and Samuel Edsall.
Ridgebury-The first improvements were made pre- vious to 1805 by Adam Rindebar. The first settlers were Isaac Fuller and sons, Isaac, William, Abial, Lemuel and Peter, and Joel Campbell and sons, Joshua, Ezekiel, Joel, Jonathan, Nathaniel, Benoni and William, and Benjamin Campbell, natives of Orange county, N. Y., in 1805. Other pioneers were Samuel Bennett, Vine Bald- win, Griswold Owen, John Cummins, Calvin West, Jonathan Kent, Samuel Green, James Covell, Alpheus Gillett, Peter and Sturgis Squires, Job Stiles, John Buck, Green Bentley and Joseph Batterson.
Rome-Settled in 1796 by Nathaniel P. Moody, a Revolutionary soldier from Massachusetts. Other pio- neers were Henry Lent, Godfrey and Achatias Vought, Frederick Eiklor, Russell Gibbs, William Elliott, Reuben Bumpus, John Parks, Elijah Towner, George Murphy, David Ridgway, John Woodburn, Matthew Cannan, Simeon
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Rockwell, James Moore, Silas Gore, Peter Johnson, Arunah Wattles Jacob Wickizer, Sylvester Barns, Ernest Forbes, Benjamin Taylor, Eliphalet Clark, John Horton, John Hicks, Stephen Cranmer, Isaac Strope, Lewis Goff, Ephriam, Samuel and Isaac Parker, Edward Griffin David Weed and Eli Morris.
Sheshequin-Settled in 1783 by Gen. Simon Spalding, and a band of patriots from the Wyoming Valley, consisting of Joseph Kinney, Thomas Baldwin, Capt. Stephen Fuller, Hugh Forseman and Benjamin Cole. Other pioneers were Arnold Franklin, John Newell, Obadiah and Sam- uel Gore, Jeremiah Shaw, Moses Park, Peter Snyder, Wil- liam Witter Spalding, Elijah Horton, Ichabod Black- man, Benjamin Brink, William Ferguson, Josiah Mar- shall, Hugh Rippeth, Timothy Culver, Joseph Kings- bury, Matthew Rogers, Josiah Tuttle, James Bidlack, James Shores, Samuel Bartlett, Adrian Post, Jesse Smith, Nathan Fuller, Ebenezer Segar, John C. Forbes, William Presher, Jabez Fish, Samuel Hoyt, John Elliott, Peter Barnard and Isaac I. Low.
Smithfield-The first improvements were made in 1792 by Isaac Grover, the first settler being Reuben Mitchell from Rhode Island, in 1794. Other pioneers were James Satterlee, Col. Samuel Satterlee, Oliver Hays, Michael Bird, David Couch, Elias Needham, Samuel Kellogg, Solomon Morse, Samuel Dart, Jabez Gerould, Phineas Pierce, Joshua Ames, John Scott, Constant Wil- liams, Nehemiah Tracy, John Bassett, Jabez Fletcher, Noah Ford, Abner W. Ormsby, Alvin Stocking, Samuel Wood Asahel Scott, Isaiah and Sloan Kingsley, Isaac and Zephe- niah Ames, John Phelps, David Titus, Jared Phelps, Edmund Lockwood, Reuben Beals, Enos and William
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Smith, Duty Rice, Jesse Sumner, Ezra and Stephen Califf, Dr. Darius Bullock, Asa Hackett, Chauncy and Samuel Kellogg, Benjamin Hale, Asa and William Farnsworth and David Forrest.
South Creek-Improvements were made previous to 18Q4 by Benjamin Seeley, Solomon Bovier and a Mr. Potter. The first permanent settler was Jesse Moore in 1804. Other pioneers were Aaron Stiles, Asa Moore, Hosea and Ezekiel Baker, James VanKuren, Joseph Chase, Henry Jones, Philo Fassett, Samuel Sample, John Pitt, William Goldsmith, James Dewey, Benjamin Inman, Linus Williams, Asa Gillett, William Thompson and William Burke.
Springfield-Settled in 1803 by Capt. John Harkness, a Revolutionary soldier from Massachusetts. Other pio- neers were Austin and Ezekiel Leonard, Abel and Wil- liam Eaton, William Harkness, William Brace, Joseph Wing, Oliver Gates, James Mattocks, Joshua Spear, Joseph and Gurden Grover, James Harkness, Luke Pitts, Henry Stever, Stephen Bliss, Amaziah Thayer, Joseph Green, Abel Fuller, Nehemiah Wilson, Isaac Cooley, Gaines Adams, Elihu Spear, Samuel Kingsbury, Samuel Camp- bell, Thomas Pemberton, Abner Murray, Aden Brown, John Parkhurst, William Evans, William Faulkner, Elisha Fanning and Charles Phillips.
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