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Thus, at the very outset, Brooklyn suffered loss and annoyance from the error the world long ago im- bibed, that sovereigns, even though beyond the sea, own the soil, as well as the right of jurisdiction in pro- tecting its occupants, and that the increase in the worth of idle lands adjoining other lands whose value is raised by the civilizing labors of its tillers, justly belongs to idle speculators !
The following is a chironologic list of pioneer and other deceased or removed residents : 1
1787. Wm. Conrad (escaped Hessian soldier), Eve, his wife; John (to Lenox), Polly (Forsyth of Har-
1 The heavy figures denote date of coming (or of birth if born here), as near as can now be ascertained ; families are put together, though the wife may not have come at same time and children may have been born afterward ; the first name is that of the husband ; if the name of an ancestor is referred to, it is put often only by initials, in parenthesis; age or date of birth is separated from date of death by a dash ; the sec. ond name is the wife's; names of children, if known, after the semi- colon ; present occupant of homestead given last, and by referring to this name the whole chain of occupancy may be found (and by looking on the ground the old apple-trees, the patches of tansey and live-forever, may often be seen near the spot where the settler's cabin stood) ; length of residence, if not stated, can be computed from date of coming and date of death ; former and subsequent residence, in parenthesis ; if a daughter married, husband's name often put after in parenthesis.
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ford), Kate (Felton of Nicholson), Geo. (to Gibson), Wm., Andrew (to Lenox), Jacob. [Kate born here 1787, doubtless the first birth in township and county. ] Res. 11 yrs., and went to Harford. Ansel Sterling- upper house.
Adam Miller (Protestant Irish) a. 66-d. 1831, Eli- nor Nicholson (sister of John,-Welsh and English), 61-1816 ; W.m., Chas., Anna (Wells). Res. 12 yrs. and went to Clifford. E. S. P. Hine.
John Robinson-Res. 11 yrs. (went to Lenox). See Thos. West.
Richard McNamara (Scotch) - Res. 12 yrs., (Lenox). See A. J. Smith.
Mr. Page (German), children, John, Betsey, Peggy and 8 more. Res. 13 yrs. Returned to Philadelphia. See Village.
Mr. McIntyre settled on " McIntyre Hill," now oc- · cupied by A. R. Gere and D. B. Packer.
Among other Nicholson settlers of this year were Robert Patterson, Mr. Trout (see Luther Benjamin). Mr. Dennison (see M. L. Lemon), and Mr. Fox (see L. B. Tiffany).
1790. John Jones (Welsh), (91-1834, Elizabeth Milbourn, formerly Bloomfield ; Polly, Betsey (Sweet), Nancy (Howard) .- O. Bailey, J. W. Adams, and H. M. Williams.
Richard Milbourn (Long Island-never here), Elizabeth Bloomfield, - Bloomfield, and Sally (Jotham Oakley).
Bloomfield Milbourn, (R. M.), 68 -1839, (North- umberland, Pa.), Hannah Tewksbury (Isaac T.), 78- 1854; Eliza (Lyman), Sarah B. (Tiffany). See L. B. Tiffany.
1792. Mark Hartley (Scotch-Irish); children, Mark, Wm., James .- Lenox.
1793. Prince Perkins (Ct .- colored), Judy, his wife; Wm. See Freeman Bennet, Chas. Kent and Napoleon Dennis.
Wm. Harkins-went to Springville. See Wm. Cameron.
1795. Wright Chamberlin (Ct). Res. 1 summer, (Gibson).
1798. Joseph Chapman, Jr. (Norwich, Ct.), 76- 1845, J. C., Sr .- (See Dimock), Betsey Leffingwell, 69-1846 ; George (gone to Florida), Jas. W. (Mon- trose), Lydia (Adams), John H. (Scranton), Joseph, decd .- Thos. West.
Andrew Tracy, Sr., 1742-1801 (Norwich, Ct). 1st Molly Clement (not here) ; Peleg, Leonard, Zebediel, Eunice, Betsey, Harriet, Edwin, Sidney : 2d Mary Weston (formerly Cady) ; Sally (Hayden), Andrew, -Ansel Sterling.
1799. Peleg Tracy, (A. T.), Hannah Leffingwell; Betsey, Maria, Danl., Chas., Vernet, Martha, Mary, (Wilkes-Barre). Res. 5 yrs. O. Bailey and Wm. Cameron.
Thos. Giles (now set off in Dimock, but many years considered in Brooklyn), 79-1851, Betsey Demin, 48-1821, Polly (Jer. Spencer), Daniel,
Fanny (lost), Jabez, Lucinda (J. R. Ely), Bathsheba (L. Ely), Wm., Geo. H., Betsey (S. Maryott).
Joshua Sabin (Otsego Co., N. Y.) ; children, Jona- than, Aaron, Lyman, Betsey, Ezra, Ezekiel, Polly, and 4 others. Res. 4 yrs .- A. J. Smith.
Jonathan Sabin (J. S.), Mrs. Raynale. Res. 10 .- A. J. Smith.
Mr. Webber, a neighbor of P. Tracy.
Saml. Weston (Norwich, Ct.) 1st Julia Horton ; Chas., Wm. L., Julia : 2d Eliza Baker ; Ann (Bagley), Jane .- Res. 28 (Clifford).
James Coil and Edward Goodwin-time uncertain. -(Lenox) .- E. S. P. Hine.
EDWIN A. WESTON descended from Puritan stock. His earliest ancestor in America was Edmund Weston, who came from London, Eng., at the age of thirty years, to Boston, in the ship "Elizabeth and Ann," Roger Cooper, master, in the year 1635, and settled at Duxbury, near Plymouth, Mass. One of his four children was Edmund (1660-1727), who married a granddaughter of one of the " Mayflower " Pilgrims, and lived at Plympton, Mass. Of his six children, the second was Zechariah, born 1690, lived in Plymp- ton and had five children, the oldest of whom was Jonathan (1718-90), who married Elizabeth Bosworth, of Norwich, Conn., and lived at Tolland, Conn. He had eight children, the fourth of whom was Amaziah (1754-96). He married, in 1786, Mary Cady (1762- 1856), of Brooklyn, Windham County, Conn., and lived at Norwich, Conn. Their children were Samuel (1787-1840), merchant of Clifford, Pa. ; Mary, married Elias Hoyt, of Kingston, Luzerne County, Pa .; Wm. Williston (1791-1853) ; and John Norris (1794-1848), physician at Towanda, Pa.
After the death of Amaziah Weston his widow . married Andrew Tracy, and came with him and her children to Brooklyn in February, 1799. They settled on the clearing which Esq. Tracy had bought of Wm. Conrad, made in 1787, just north of what is now Brooklyn village, an account of which will be found in the history of the township.
William W. Weston married, in 1819, Eliza Cone (1802-36), a daughter of Daniel Cone (1767-1847), of Middletown, Middlesex County, Conn., who came with his family to Brooklyn in 1813, and afterward removed to Ohio. William Weston was a thoughtful man, of sterling integrity, of genial nature and liter- ary tastes, but lacked robust health, and spent much of his time in light mechanical work, and in raising garden-seeds. Eliza Weston was a devoted Christian woman and an early and faithful member of the Presbyterian Church of the township. They settled on a lot just north of the one taken by Esq. Tracy. Their children were Mary A., born October 21, 1820, and now a widow, resides with her son at Menomonee, Wis .; and Edwin A., the subject of this sketch, born January 8, 1826. William Weston subsequently married Lovinia Smith, a daughter of Latham Smith,
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au early scttler of the township, and had one son, William L. Weston, dentist, of New Milford.
In 1851 E. A. Weston married Mary Elizabeth Jackson, daughter of Ruel Jackson, a native of Ver- mont, and Lodusky (Holdridge) Chamberlin, who is a daughter of Dea. Wright Chamberlin, one of the first settlers of Gibson, and Sally Holdridge, of the same township. Dea. Chamberlin was from Connecticut, and the Holdridges were also of New England extrac- tion. Mr. Jackson was a blacksmith. He had two children,-Mary E., born at Great Bend October 17, 1832, and her sister Charlotte. During Mary E.'s childhood they lived near Chicago, Ill., and then in Marcellus, Onoudaga County, N. Y. After Mr. Jackson's death, in 1847, his widow married Henry Miller, of Cooperstown, N. Y., who is also deceased, and his widow lives at Susquehanna. Mrs. Weston is a woman of fine intellectual ability, of generous impulses aud cheerful and ingenuous disposition, and has been a successful teacher of elocution at Keystone Academy and iu private classes. She is also favora- bly known as a public reader.
After the death of William Weston his son Edwin came to live on the homestead, and engaged quite ex- tensively in fruit-growing. He also practices survey- ing. He has four children,-E. Eugene, Edwin Le- land and two younger daughters, Jennie and Mollie. Eugene was a teacher for several years. He was edu- cated, in part, at West Newton, Mass., by the eminent teachers, Nathaniel Allen and brothers, and at the normal schools at Millersville, Pa., and at Cortland, N. Y. He read medicine with Dr. Hollister, of Scran- ton, received a diploma at the Baltimore Medical College and is a practicing physician at Taylorville, Lackawanna County, Pa. Leland was also a student at West Newton and Cortland, and is also engaged in fruit-raising on the homestead.
Edwin A. Weston may truthfully be ranked among the self-educated men of Susquehanna County. In his childhood he was always fonder of fields and woods and books than of conventional restraints, but attended the common schools and schools of other instructors of superior ability and worth, and was a diligent scholar at Franklin Academy, under the veteran and efficient teacher, Lyman Richardson, and at Wyoming Seminary, under Dr. Nelson. He was himself, for many terms, a teacher of district and select schools, and also for years was a school director, and his experience and ability in educational affairs, and his interest in and love for the work led to his unsought election to the office of superintendent of schools for the county of Susquehanna in 1863; and though the energies of all were absorbed in the war and its patriotic duties, he sought to give to public in- struction a higher standard of efficiency and useful- ness. In 1856 he was elected a justice of the peace, which office he held for fifteen years, when he declined further service. In this official capacity he sought to be a peace-maker rather than a promoter of litigation.
He was always a close student, not only of books, but of the realm of nature and of the ueeds of the people of the county, state and nation. For two or three years he voted with the Whigs, but warmly es- poused the Republican cause in all its struggles for human rights and human liberty through its primitive days of ignominy and popular disfavor, and he be- came a stanch member of the party at its organiza- tion, in 1856, and stood with it in all its contests for the preservation and restoration of the Union.
Since 1873 he has been firmly intrenched in anti- monopoly reform and in the effort to secure a sound and constant government money for the people, which he has advocated through the press and by public lec- tures ; and he is the author of a concise work on the subject, entitled, "Specie Basis," which thoroughly covers the fundamental principles of monetary science. He has always been identified with the total abstinence cause, and has used every honorable means to urge its popular adoption. He was a Pro- hibition candidate for legislative honors in 1886, and received a flattering vote.
In hygiene and religion he has learned to recognize and trust the laws of nature-the great laws that the All-wise has ordained to rule the universe of life, of matter and of spirit, and that govern human mind and human sympathy, human action, human account- ability and human destiny, written and inspired by Deity Himself in the hearts and consciences of His children, and emphasized the golden rule of Christ- as being far above the formulas of schools and the creeds and rituals of sects.
His political faith aspires to the carrying out in America of the ideal which the fathers and founders of our government set up, by which they hoped to avoid the production here of great classes, involving the masses in indigence and bestowing vast wealth on the few. To this end he has firmly urged the spread of knowledge and intelligence-urged all financial, and industrial, and socı , and political reforms, and reforms in transportation and in limitation of land ownership, which shall more effectually preclude debt and usury, idleness and intemperance, and periods of bankruptcy, and bus _ ss panics, and shall secure to industry a just and sure reward, and give every prudent family a home.
He believes that the vast progress the world has made in arts and sciences, and in labor-saving ma- chinery, has revolutionized the condition of things in our social and political relations, and requires of us very different and very urgent and correspondingly progressive duties and efforts to secure therefrom the good and reject the evil-a vital need now being keenly felt all over the world; and hence that a prosperous and successful people can no longer trust to leaders and to heroes-to corporations, rings or invet- erate parties ; but every man must become a hero and every woman a heroine and a peer, and all must work together bravely and lovingly, with sturdy ardor, iu
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the broad fields of human usefulness and human wel- fare.
FRANKLIN TEWKSBURY .- The progenitors of the family from New England were from Tewksbury, England, where one of them, John, was burned at the stake for adhering to the Protestant religion. Jacob, son of Isaac Tewksbury, came from Vermont in 1800 and bought of Mr. Page the land where Brooklyn Centre is now located. In 1808 Putnam Catlin, as agent, claimed title to this land and sold it to Deacon Joshua Miles, and Tewksbury removed one-half mile west, where he bought a farm and built a frame house prior to 1820, which is standing, in 1887, near the creamery. His father, Isaac, visited him in 1803, and in 1804 came with his family and located on the clearing of one of the original forty settlers of Brook- lyn-McIntyre Hill. In 1805 Isaac and Jacob built · a saw-mill, the first in town, just below the Centre, opposite the present Methodist Episcopal Church. Isaac Tewksbury and wife were buried in the church- yard there. Jacob's brother Sargent came to the town in 1802 and settled on the farm afterward owned by John Bolles. He died in 1842, aged sixty-eight. Jacob resided on his farm until about 1841, sold it to his son Samuel, and resided with his children the remainder of his life. His wife was Mary Reed, of Vermont, who bore him children,-Nancy married Alden Seeley and died in Auburn; Betsey, wife of William Sterling, of Brooklyn ; Lovinia, wife of Ste- phen Smith, of Brooklyn-all natives of Vermont ; Daniel (1802-65); Samuel, 1804, resides in Auburn ; Maria married Nelson Williams and died in Corry, Pa .; Jacob, a farmer in Bridgewater; Alpha married Beach Earle, of Springville, and after his death Joseph Rider, and resides in Dunkirk, N. Y .; Mary was the wife of Fitch Resseguie, of Gibson, whose . son George served in the State Legislature in 1886; John, a farmer in Auburn. The mother of these children, a devoted Christian woman, was one of the Methodist class of four, first formed by the early mis- sionaries, and one of the founders of the Methodist Church of Brooklyn. The Tewksbury house was the stopping-place and home of the early ministers, and a welcome was extended to all, more than equal to their means. Jacob was a member of the church at his death. The eldest son, Daniel, married, in 1821, Prudence (1799-1880), a daughter of Anthony and Mary Chipman Fish, who was a native of Stonington, Conn., and had removed to Brooklyn with her pa- rents. In 1826 they settled on one hundred acres of land bought of Samuel Weston, in the northeast part of Brooklyn, added one hundred acres adjoining, and resided on the last purchase until their deaths. The former is the homestead of their son Franklin, and the latter of their grandson, Lester. Both himself and wife were devoted members of the Methodist Church at Brooklyn. Daniel Tewksbury was known for his piety, active practical benevolence, and as an honest man. He was a good farmer and dairyman.
Formerly a Democrat, he voted for Fremont in 1856 and was afterwards a Republican. Their children are Franklin, born September 26, 1822; Sally, 1826, wife of Christopher Thayer, of Scranton; Henry, 1827, a farmer near the homestead; and John, 1835, a car- penter in Scranton.
Franklin Tewksbury attended the home district school (Tewksbury) in boyhood and learned farming. He married, in 1845, Frances A. Burch, and settled on the homestead, to which he has added by purchase, making a total of four hundred acres in one body. He built his present residence in 1847, and, at various times, commodious out-buildings. He is a thorough- going and intelligent farmer, and surrounds himself with all the appliances to lessen labor and make more attractive farm-work. He has taken little interest in politics, save as a voter, yet has served as school director and supervisor. His eldest son, Lester, married Estella J. Ballard, of Brooklyn, and has children,-Glen E. and Grace R. He began breeding thoroughbred Holstein stock in 1883 and has, in 1887, a herd of nine. One cow, "Vere L.," registered, has a record of seventy-two pounds of milk daily and five hundred pounds weekly. His only daughter, Allie, is the wife of Charles M. Craver, a merchant, of Brooklyn Centre, and has two children-Arthur W. and Lillian-and his youngest son is Edson P. Tewks- bury, at home. Mrs. Tewksbury's father, Powell G. Burch (1795-1879), a native of Warren, Herkimer County, N. Y., married, at Guilford, N. Y., Lovinia Y. Palmer (1804-74), of Chenango County, settled in Auburn township in 1840, and in 1860 in Brooklyn, where both died. He served in the War of 1812 and was at Buffalo and Black Rock. Their children were Rensselaer H., of Auburn; Caroline P., wife of N. J. Coggswell, of Bradford County; Frances Amret, born July 1, 1826, wife of Franklin Tewks- bury; Morgan R., of Brooklyn; Abigail S., wife of Bradford Watrous, of Brooklyn; Rev. Oliver E., a Methodist minister in Illinois; Clarissa P., wife of T. I. Lacy, of Binghamton; Mary S., wife of Christo- pher Rogers, of Brooklyn; Caleb C., of Brooklyn Centre; and Curtis Y., a painter at Tunkhannock, Pa.
Chas. Gere (Hartland, Vt.), 65-1842, Sally Deni son, 64-1841 ; Sarah (Kintner), Lucy (Merrill), Deni- son, Robert, Julia (Adams) .- J. W. Tiffany.
Ebenezer Whitney (Vt.), 1st Elizabeth Eaton; Ros- well, Triphena (Titus), Orange : 2d Sally Pratt; Isaac, Ebenezer, Amarilla (Maxon), David, Ephraim, Reu- ben .- H. L. Bailey and C. S. Perkins.
Saml. Howard, Nancy Jones (J. J.); John, Polly, Olive (Robinson), Samuel, Chas., Nancy .- N. R. Mack and H. M. Williams.
Chas. D. Gere (C. G.), 27-1822, Fanny Baker (E. B.) 24-1831; Emeline (Ayers).
Roswell Whitney (E. W.), Sally Squier ; Permelia (Tiffany-Hawley), Harvey, Geo., Polly (Gorton) Martin .- M. Underwood and C. S. Perkins.
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1801. Joshua Saunders, R. I., Mary his wife; Richard, Nathan (killed by falling tree), Joshua, Lyman, Thos., Phally (Bagley), Benjamin, Aaron .- I. A. Bailey.
CAPTAIN AMOS BAILEY .- Obadiah Bailey, born in Groton, New London County, Conn., in 1728, mar- ried, in 1747, Azubah Rogers, of the same county. The family homestead was at Groton, where the former died, and an old-time grave-stone marks the place there where they were buried. The latter died at nearly one hundred years old, at Whitestown, N. Y. The same old well, with its long sweep, is used on the Bailey homestead that the family used over a hundred years ago. Their children were Jabez, born 1748; Obadiah, Jr., 1750-1843; Simeon, 1754; Temperance, 1756; Azubah, 1758; Elizabeth, 1760; Dorathy, 1763; Michael, 1765; Rhoda, 1768 ; Vine, 1771. Of these, Obadiah, Jr., married, in 1774, Esther Williams (1746-1833), and resided upon the old Bailey homestead, at Groton, where he reared a large family of children, as follows : Giles, 1775- 98; Captain Amos, 1777-1865; Eliphalet, 1778-82; Colonel Frederick, 1780-1851; Esther, 1782-1843; Sally, 1784; Lodowick, 1785-1873; Mary (1788-1881), unmarried; a teacher and member of the Methodist Episcopal Church ; and Isaac, born in 1790.
Three of these sons-Captain Amos, Colonel Fred- erick and Lodowick Bailey-settled in Brooklyn, in the early part of the century, and were among the most enterprising in building roads, establishing churches and schools, and in the encouragement of everything to improve the county and make it de- sirable for habitation.
Captain Amos Bailey married, in 1801, Prudence Gere (1768-1854), a daughter of Robert Gere, and sis- ter of Charles and Ebenezer Gere, also of Groton, Conn. The ceremony was performed at Groton, by Amos Gere, justice of the peace.
In March, 1801, Captain Bailey and Ebenezer Gere came to Bidwell (then Nicholson), Luzerne County, and spent the summer with Captain Peleg Tracy ; and it is related that Captain Bailey killed the first deer he ever saw the morning after his ar- rival. He and Mr. Gere split lumber from a cherry log and made them a table and bedstead-the table being in 1887 the property of one of his children, Miss Eunice G. Bailey. In the fall they returned to Connecticut ; Captain Bailey returned the next sea- son, 1802, and worked the summer on his farm, which he had bought of Captain Tracy the year before, on which was a log house built in 1790, by Jones & Milbourne. In the fall, after a journey of seventeen days from Connecticut, he arrived at his new home with his wife. On this farm, which is situated about two miles southeast of Brooklyn Centre, this couple spent their lives, and, with their united industry and economy, made a comfortable home for themselves and family.
The early minister of the Universalist Church,
after his long journey from Lisle, N. Y., found with them a welcome and cheer known only to the early settlers ; and this hospitality to their neighbors and the stranger were impressive characteristics of their nature. Captain Bailey was among the first to create a feeling among the neighbors for the establishing of a Universalist Church, and was one of the building committee in the erection of the church edifice on the hill east of Brooklyn Centre, where the family wor- shipped afterwards. He erected his frame house in 1809, and during his life cleared a large part of his farm of one hundred and eighteen acres. The orch- ard, a part of which is now standing, was planted from seeds which he brought from Connecticut. His
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early recollections ran back to the taking of Fort Griswold, at Groton, by the British, and he remem- bered being sent to his grandparents on that occa- sion for safety. He was commissioned captain of Third Company, One Hundred and Twenty-ninth Regiment Pennsylvania Militia, in 1806, by Gover- nor Mckean, in the Second Brigade, Ninth Division, composed of the counties of Northumberland, Ly- coming and Luzerne.
He cast his first vote for President for Thomas Jef- ferson, in 1804, and followed closely the principles of the Whig and Republican parties after their organi- zation.
He served continuously as assessor of Brooklyn for nine years, enjoyed the entire confidence of all who knew him, both publicly and privately, and his ex- ample as a man of correct habits, Christian character and genial and social disposition were well worthy of emulation. Their children were Prudy, 1804-63, wife of Robert Kent, resided in Bridgewater ; Amos G. (1806-55), married Rowena Kent, and was a farmer in
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Brooklyn, and for many years a justice of the peace ; Eunice G., born in 1808, never married, resides on the homestead in 1887, a woman of high moral senti- ment, Christian character and benevolence. The in- cidents of her girlhood are fresh in her memory, and the writer owes much to her care in the preservation of data for the facts for this sketch. The youngest,
OBADIAH BAILEY, was born Sept. 14, 1810, where he resides, and succeeded his father in the ownership of the homestead. With the other children, he at- tended the early private school of Miss Sally Kings- bury, who afterwards became the wife of the well-
ous official capacities, and he was chosen an elder ir the church in 1868, which office he still retains.
When a young man he was a member of a cavalry company-the Susquehanna Troop-with Hyde Crocker as captain, Asa Hammond major and Judge William Jessup colonel of the regiment. He has voted at every Presidential election, save one, since his first vote for John Quincy Adams; and during the trying years of the Rebellion gave his influence and means freely in support of the Union cause. He erected his present residence in 1859, and his build- ings and other appointments of his farm show the
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known teacher and public instructor, Rev. Lyman Richardson ; then taught at the home of his uncle, Colonel Frederick Bailey. From youth he has been a member of the church of his parents, and contrib- uted largely in the erection of the present church edi- fice. In 1832 he married Annis Palmer (1807-84), a daughter of Esek H. and Amy Smith Palmer, who settled on an adjoining farm from Groton, Conn., in 1811, a woman devoted to the church and to her family. They lived happily together over a half- century, and celebrated their golden wedding, hon- ored by their children and made happy by their many friends. Mr. Bailey has served his township in vari-
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