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hand of a thrifty agriculturist. His eldest son, Wil- liam Pitt, for two years assessor of the township, for six terms a teacher, born in 1834, resides on and owns the homestead ; married, in 1862, Charlotte D., daughter of David Frick, of New Milford, who died in 1872, leaving two daughters,-Clara L. died in 1886, aged nineteen, and Annis C. In 1874 he mar- ried Celia A., daughter of Gurdon Abel, of Gibson, by whom he had one child, Albert A. Bailey, who died at the age of seven years. The second son, Esek P., born in 1837, married Mary E. Terry, and resides in Brooklyn. He is an ex-county commissioner, was among the first to enlist for nine months in 1861, sub-
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sequently enlisted in the marine service for four years, was wounded by a shell at Fort Fisher, taken to the hospital, after lying on the ground from eleven o'clock A. M. till evening, and afterwards honorably discharged. The only daughter was Prudy R. Bailey (1840-74), the wife of Freeman T. Powers, who died at Scranton.
COL. FREDERICK BAILEY, a prominent and influ- ential factor in many of the early enterprises of Sus- quehanna County, a native of Groton, Conn., settled in Brooklyn, where his son, Henry L., now resides, in 1807. He bought of Amos Lawrence his title to the improvement first begun by Mark Hartley, Sr. (father of Esquire Hartley, of Lenox), one of the original Nicholson settlers, and afterwards purchased from the State land adjacent, making a large and valuable farm. Here he spent his life, and reared his family of six sons and four daughters. His early opportunities at school were well improved, and for several terms while a young man he was a teacher, possessing thorough discipline, and a happy faculty of inspiring his pupils with a laudable ambition in laying the foundation for all their attainments in after-life. He was the early counselor and adviser for his neighbors, drew most. of their contracts, deeds, wills and other instruments of writing, and was an apt and correct accountant, and many of his writings now to be seen show method and accuracy.
During his forty-four years' residence in Brooklyn, he was the trusted public servant of his fellow-men. He was one of the projectors of the old Milford and Owego turnpike road, one of its stockholders and a director, largely controlled its contracts, and served as its treasurer from 1824 until his death, in 1851. In. the War of 1812, being drafted, he went out as cap- tain of a company, was elected colonel of the regi- ment, and proceeded as far as Danville, when, after about one month, the war being ended, the troops re- turned. Col. Bailey was subsequently for many years identified with the old State militia, and frequently delivered the Fourth of July oration upon invitation. He was also one of the founders of the Universalist Church of Brooklyn, and, with his family, members of it. He was an active, Old Line Whig, and influen- tial in the councils of his party. As early as 1814 he served as supervisor, and in 1820 was clerk of the township. Col. Bailey was widely known, highly respected and liberal in his sentiments and actions. He was a thrifty, prudent and industrious farmer and obtained a competence, with which he was liberal to those in need and for church and charitable objects. He married, in 1806, Polly Witter (1789-1828), who bore him children,-Mary Witter (1808-67), first the wife of Zina Roberts, of Bridgewater, and after his death married Simeon Tyler, of the same township; Frederick Witter (1809-46), was a merchant at Derry, N. H .; Lodowick T. (1811-36), died at home; Sally Maria (1813-51),,wife of Rodney Jewett, of Brooklyn ; Isaac, died young; William Pitt (1816), died at
eighteen; James Whiting (1818), a manufacturer near Haverhill, Mass .; Esther W. (1820), wife of William B. Stevens, of Le Raysville, Pa .; Robert Morris (1822), a manufacturer of Boston, Mass .; Henry L., born March 8, 1824; Eliza Ann (1826-53), was the wife of Moses L. Cole, of Orange County; and Lavinia Bailey, who died young. Col. Bailey's second wife was Lucinda Morgan (1780-1869). The burial-place of the Baileys is in the cemetery on the hill east of Brooklyn Centre.
HENRY L. BAILEY, son of Col. Frederick, has spent his life on the homestead, and succeeded his father in its ownership. He had the usual advantages offered in his boyhood for obtaining an education from books in the private and home district-school. Upon reaching his majority he spent two years in the store of his brother, Robert M., at Derry, N. H., and returned; has since been a farmer. The long frame house, with dormer windows, erected by his father prior to 1829, he remodeled in 1882, and the original purchase of four hundred acres he retains, situate on the Milford and Owego turnpike, about two miles east of Brooklyn Centre, where he farms and breeds thoroughbred stock, having now some twenty-five Jersey cows. Following the belief of his parents, lie is a Universalist, and a contributor to the worthy objects needing support about him. During the late Rebellion, as a member of the Board of School Directors, he assisted in filling the quota of soldiers, and formerly, as a Whig, and later a Republican, he stands firmly upon the platform of reform. Character- istic of the family, his hospitality, sociability and integrity of purpose are no exception to his ancestors.
Henry L. Bailey married, in 1851, H. Miranda Guernsey, who was born July 8, 1830. They have one daughter, an only child, Anna Eliza, born 1854, who was married, in 1882, to Milton W. Palmer, a son of Isaac N. Palmer, of Brooklyn, and grandson of Esek H. and Amy Palmer, before mentioned. A second daughter, Emma Lavinia, died in 1870, one year old. Mrs. Bailey's father, Hiram C. Guernsey (1802-71), was the son of Joseph and Sarah Rexford Guernsey, who resided near the Bridgewater and Brooklyn line in 1811. Her mother, living in 1887, is Maria R., a daughter Benjamin, (1772-1820) and Lucy Spencer (1770-1839) Watrous, was born at Mid- dleburg, N. Y., in 1807, was the twin sister of James, and removed to Bridgewater with the family in 1818, and settled where her brother, Spencer Watrous, now resides. The Watrous parents removed from Chester, Middlesex County, Conn., in 1797, to Middleburg, Schoharie County, N. Y. Hiram Guernsey and wife were life-long members of the East Bridgewater, Methodist Episcopal Church.
LODOWICK BAILEY, the younger brother of Capt. Amos and Col. Frederick, settled in Brooklyn town- ship in 1818, where his son Lodowick resides in 1887. He married in 1813, Hannah Avery (1789-1860), a native of Groton, Conn. He made the improvements on
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his homestead, from a wilderness tract, was a worthy citizen, an industrious farmer, and an upright Chris- tian man. His children are Hannah, born 1815, widow of Joseph McKeeby, Brooklyn; John L. (1817-79) resided and died adjoining the homestead, married Huldah T. Youmans, of Brooklyn ; Eliphalet, 1819, died a young man ; Caroline, 1821 ; Eliza, 1823, wife of Mark.Quick, of New Milford, resides in Scran- ton; Adeline, 1825 ; Isaac Avery, 1828, of Brooklyn, married Maria A. Grannis, of Orwell, Pa. ; Lodowick succeeded his father on the homestead, was born 1831, married Louisa A. Giles, of Dimock; and Lucinda M., 1834.
Daniel Lawrence; chil. Lucy, Wm .- see. H. C. Fairchild and H. A. Tewksbury.
Amos Lawrence-see H. L. Bailey.
. Wm. Lawrence (D. L.), Amy, his wife ; 42-1827; . Phebe (Geo. Bagley), Clark.
Dan'l Tewksbury-Sketch and L. Tewksbury.
Benj. S. Saunders (J. S.), Dolly Bagley (O. B.); Lydia, Ruth, Mary, Henrietta, Catharine, Emeline, Eliza, Perry. See "old roads."
1802. Jeremiah Gere, 1769-1842 (son of Rezin G. of Wyoming Massacre), Martha (" Patty ") Morgan ; Charles, Edward, Geo. M., Harriet (Wheeler), Wm. D., Henry .- I. W. Wright.
Sargent Tewksbury (I. T.) 68-1842, 1st, Nancy Worthing (B. W.); Amos, Reuben, James, Louisa (Robinson) : 2d Fanny Kellam (formerly Bush); Abi- gail, Emily (Ely), Franklin, Irving .- Jno. Bolles.
Mott Wilkinson, Phebe, Lawrence; Elisha, Jas., Lucy, Phebe .- H. C. Fairchild.
Edward L. Gere (J. G.) 80-1879, 1st Mary Follet 66-1870 ; Mary E. (Park), Angeline M. (Stanton), Jeremiah, Robt. L .: 2d Pauline Wilmarth .- R. L. Gere.
Amos Tewksbury (S. T.) 66-1864, 1st Harriet Robinson, 39-1842; Nancy (Palmer), Benj. F., Fanny M., Ellen (Frost) : 2d Rebecca Gates .- B. G. Sterling and M. Caldwell.
Chas. V. Gere (J. G.), Theressa Ely (G. E.); Har- riet (Davison) .- C. A. Williams and Joseph Stanton.
Geo. Chapman (J. C.), Lydia Palmer (E. P.) ; Bet- sey, Chas. M. Res. 82 .- Wm. Mead.
Andrew Tracey, Jr. (A. T., Sr.), Abigail Lobdell ; (Marathon, N. Y.)-L. M. Benjamin.
1804. Barnard Worthing, 1744-1820 (Amesbury, Mass.), Doratha Bagley (Sister of O. B.); Jacob, Win- throp, Jonathan, Miriam (Otto), Nancy (Tewksbury). -Lived mostly in Lathrop.
Orlando Bagley (Vt.), Dolly (or Dorcas) Taylor ; Jesse, Stephen, Thos., Geo., Washington, Dolly (Saun- ders) Sally (Williams) .- H. McCoy.
Isaac Tewksbury (Hartland, Vt.), Judith Sargent ; Jacob, Sargent, Ephraim, Jonathan, Abigail (Saun- ders), Huldah (Yeomans), Hannah (Milbourn) and Judith (Wood) .- Village and D. B. Packer.
John Sceley ; ch., Polly, Alden, Reuben, Justus,
Olivia (Adams), Laura, Cynthia (Austin-Oakley), Eliza, Samantha .- A. L. Warner and A. J. Smith.
Consider Fuller, Ruth Elms; Sarah (Belcher), Alfred, Ruth, Isaiah, Susanna, Lucinda (Tewksbury). -I. Van Auken.
Jacob Worthing (B. W.), 1st Lydia Carey; Carey : 2d Mary Hall; Lydia,-E. N. Mckinney and Asa Fish.
Jesse Bagley (O. B.), 1768-1874, Phally Saunders (J. S.) 55-1845; Henry, Daniel, Horace, Lorin, Ed- ward, Jesse H., Wm. A., John, Jas. E., Alice (Kel- lam), Harriet, Mary E., Caroline .- J. O. Bullard.
Geo. Bagley (O. B.), Phebe Lawrence (W. L.) ; Amy (Jackson), Sarah, Orlando, Elizabeth,-Chas. A. Hewett.
Washington Bagley (O. B.), 45-1848, Lydia Wil- liams (S. W.), 39-1853; Roxena (Gavitt), Ellen, Mary (Brewster), Eliza .- J. J. Roper.
Jonathan Tewksbury (I. T.), 77-1860, Lucinda Fuller (C. F.); Geo. L., Lucy (Thayer), Isaac S., Sarah (Gere), Ansel, Hannah (Mudgett), Jesse W., Mary (Kingsley) .- A. R. Gere.
Alden Seeley (J. S.), Nancy Tewksbury (Jac. T.)- T. J. Tiffany.
James Tewksbury (Sar. T.), 76-1880, Emeline Sut- liff (Z. S.) ; Abner, Harvey .- H. A. Tewksbury.
1806. Stephen Gere (bro. Jer. G.), 75-1847, 1st Martha Weed; Mary (Fletcher), Peter : 2d Abigail Olney (H. O.) 68-1849; Cornelia (Packer), Albert. -W. R. Caswell.
Samuel Yeomans, Sr. (Vt.), Sarah Bromley ; Sabra (Tingley), Samuel, Jr., Joseph .- S. B. Eldridge.
Sam'l Yeomans, Jr., 1st Huldah Tewksbury (I. T.); Sally (Munger), Sam'l H .: 2d Anna Adams.
Joseph Yeomans (S. Y., Sr.), 84-1870, Anna Ting- ley ; Moses, Keziah (Kittle), Sally, Dan'l, Huldah (Bailey), Eliza (Reynolds) .- J. A. Van Auken.
J. H. Chapman (J. C.), Louisa Jones ; Elizabeth (Johnson), Jos. L., Ann, Clara (Rockwell), Fanny, Edith M. (Palmer) .- E. S. Eldridge.
Amos G. Bailey (A. B.), 49-1855, Roena Kent (J. K.), 64-1872; Chas. R., Edwin, Emily (Giles), Rhoda (Van Auken), Robt. K .- J. M. Kent.
Alfred Tiffany-see sketch and G. N. Smith.
Fredk. Baily-see sketch.
1808. Joshua Miles (Brooklyn, Ct., via Litchfield, N. Y.), 61-1815, 1st Lucy Cady; Joshua, Jr., Lucy (Giddings), Mary (Coe), Ebenezer, Jonathan, Sarah (Stone) : 2d Mary Tracy (wid. A. T.) .- See Village.
Anson M. Tiffany (A. T.), 73-1881, Sarah B. Mil- bourn (B. M.); Lyman, Hannah (Tewksbury), Lucy. -L. B. Tiffany.
Daniel B. Bagley (J. B.), 35-1843, Sally Fish (Amt. F.); Chas. V., Levira (Chamberlin) .- A. Chamberlin.
1809. Noah Tiffany (Attleboro', Mass.), 66-1818, 1st Hannah Carpenter ; Jemima (Farrar), Hannah (Stanley), Arunah : 2d Mary Olney; Olney, Mary
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(Perigo), Noah, Jolın, Clarissa, Malinda (Lindsey) .- Win. Cameron and Village.
Edward Paine, Pomfret, Ct., 1777-1820, 1st Judith Lathrop; Edwd. L .: 2d Charlotte Lathrop (J. L.) .-- C. A. Hewett.
Clas. Perigo, 1784-1867, Mary Tiffany (N. T.) 29- 1819; John T., Mariett : 2d Peddy Foster, 74-1866 ; Eliza (Helm), Chas. F., Geo., Lydia (Craver), Wm· Henry, Manning .- J. M. Kent and M. Perigo.
Edward L. Paine (E. P.), Eleanor Ross .- (Oshkosh, Wis.)-C. A. Hewett.
1810. Joshua Miles, Jr., 84-1863, Caroline Cas- well ; Lucy C. (Richardson), Mary, Chas., W., Sally, Jane, Harriet, Alice, Lovinia, Adelaide (Sterling, Ill., 1843.)-D. C. Perry.
Bela Case, 57-1832, Roena Moore 90-1865; Edith (Kingsby), Fredk., Catharine (Britton), Louisa (Wis- well), Artemisia (Thatcher), Orson, Wellington, Jane, Alsiemena (Blake), Julia (Baker), Mary (Millard) .- I. Van Auken and C. A. Williams.
Isaac Sterling, 1st Urena Johnson; Isaac H., Brad- ley : 2d Meliscent Bonney ; Rositer, Harmon, John .- L. A. Townsend.
Josiah Mack, Lyme, Ct .- not here, Betsey Bennet ; Elijah, Elisha, Enoch, Nancy (Noah Pratt), Fanny (Elihu Smith), Polly (Josiah Lord).
Elijah B. Mack, 89-1861, (J. M.), Elizabeth Rice ; Josiah, Betsey (Lines), Jemima (Lathrop), Elijah, Polly (McKinney), Nehemiah, Eliza (Blakeslee), Amanda .- N. R. Mack.
Putnam Catlin (land agent), Polly Sutton; Chas., Henry, Geo. (Indian painter), Eliza (Dart), Mary (Hartshorn), Julius, Richard, John, Francis, James .- J. C. Miller.
Bristol Budd Sampson (colored), 1st Phebe; Susan (Underwood), Wm., Amma : 2d Phebe, Joanna, Char- lotte, Judy, Hannah .- M. Underwood.
Pelatiah Tiffany (Mass.) 1786-1862, 1st Hannah Miller ; Elizur, Emily, Thos. J., Lucy (Spencer), Or- ville, Polly, (Bloomfield) : 2d Hannah Sutliff, 3d Lucy Chase .- A. Blake and T. E. Shadduck.
CAPTAIN DAVID MORGAN (1785-1866), a native of Litchfield County, Conn., settled in what is now Brooklyn township, in 1810. He was dependent en- tirely upon his own resources to carve out a fortune, or even a subsistence, for himself in this new county ; but being a man of great industry, and possessed of a will to overcome every obstacle, he made for himself a home, and during his active business years amassed a fair competence. With his own hands he cleared off a large part of the original forest from his farm, and brought its fields in due time to yield plentiful crops. He was a man of unswerving fidelity to his word, a friend and supporter of public schools, and used his influence in the support of a high moral sentiment in the community. For thirty-five years he was one of the main supporters of the Presbyterian Church at Brooklyn, of which he was a member and constant attendant, until disabled by the infirmities of age. In
this home, fashioned by his own and wife's hands, they spent their life together, surrounded by a large family of children, whom they carefully trained and reared up under Christian influences, and in all that makes true manhood and womanhood. They lived to see all their children settled in homes of their own, who had not died while young. Captain Morgan's wife was Esther (1794-1872), a daughter of Thomas and Mary (Marsh) Brink, of Wyalusing, Bradford County, who was a devoted Christian wife and mother, and left the impress of lier life-work upon her chil- dren. Their children are, Nancy, wife of Moses La Grange, of Union, Broome Co., N. Y .; Sarah, wife of J. L. Mercereau, of Binghamton ; Thomas, of Dix- on, Ill .; James, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa; Mallory, whose residence is in Iowa; Ellen, wife of C. R. Bailey, of Brooklyn township ; Mary E., widow of the late A. J. Gerritson, of Montrose; Addison, of Scran- ton ; Martha, deceased, was the wife of L. T. Burch- ard ; and William Morgan, who died young.
I. H. Sterling (I. S.) Goshen, Ct., 83-1882, Har- riet Emmons; Amos, Ansel, James, Harmon, Ralph, Harriet (Babcock), Charles, Julia, Ursula (Roper) .- A. G. Sterling.
Geo. M. Gere (Jer. G.), Sarah Parke, (Min.) .- E. P. Bailey.
1811. Thos. Sterling (bro. I. S.) 61-1828, Mehet- able Norton, 60-1827. (Fairfield, Ct.) ; Jas. W .- F. M. Sterling.
Nathan Jewett (E. Haddam, Ct.) died 1860, Electa Fox ; Francis, Rodney, Betsey (Mack) Allen, Lavinia. -N. R. Jewett.
Asa Bonney ; children, Phebe, Meliscent (Sterling), Polly (Sutliff), Anna (Har. Sutliff), Ruth (Barron),
Cyril Giddings (Franklin, N. Lon. Co., Ct.) 72- 1853, Lucy Miles (J. M., Sr.) 83-1865; Lucy M. (McAlpin), John, Sarah, Deborah (Champlin) .- J. B. Quick.
Jedediah Lathrop (Lisbon, Ct.), Sarah Tracy ; Judith (Paine), Charlotte (Paine), Alice (Bibbins) .- Henry Aten.
Wise Wright, Ct., Louise Shepherd; Francillo, Loomis, Minerva, Ruth (Miles), Alanson, Orlando, Lucinda, (Geo. Miles), Lydia (J. Brown) .- T. E. Penny.
Silas P. Ely (Ga. E.) 81-1865, 1st. Mehitable Church, 61-1847; Fanny (Tiffany), Orrin C., Jared, Harriet (Titus), Sarah (Peckham); 2d Betsey Peck- ham .- G. M. Ely.
JUSTICE KENT .- Among the families which set- tled permanently in Brooklyn township was that of Justice Kent. He was born in Massachusetts in 1771, and while yet a young man went to Windsor, Broome County, N. Y., where, in 1795, he married Anna Stuart (1779-1858). In 1810 he thought to better his prospects for a home for himself and growing family of six children, and came to this township prospect- ing for a new home. Here he engaged a log house on what is now the Jewett farm, and made arrange-
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ments to settle. In 1811, with his wife and chil- dren, he returned, and finding his log domicile occu- pied by the Guernseys, both families shared the meagre accommodations for a time. In 1813 he pur- chased one hundred acres of land in the northern part of the township for five dollars per acre, of Putnam and Polly (Sutton) Catlin, then a woodland tract. He was a carpenter by trade, and soon after his purchase erected a frame house on his property, and out-buildings. He also erected a grist-mill (where Jewett's saw-mill is), near the Bridgewater line, which was tended by his sons, and where the neighbors used to get their grain ground for domes-
Josiah Mack, of Brooklyn ; Rowena (1807-72), was the wife of Amos G. Bailey, son of Captain Amos Bailey; Emily, 1817, wife of James Waldie, of Brook- lyn ; and Eliza, 1819, wife of John Roper, of Brooklyn.
The eldest son, David, with his brother Robert, bought the homestead of their father in 1822, of which David became sole owner in 1839. He built the present residence in 1847, and at different times commodious out-buildings. He was a careful busi- ness man and an intelligent farmer, and a man of strict integrity in all his intercourse with his fellow men. He was politically a Whig and a Republi- can, and held the offices of supervisor and school
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tic use. On this farm he reared his family of eleven children, and spent the remainder of his days, dying in 1858, the same year of the death of his wife. This couple well knew the hardships of pioneer life, but met its obstacles with commendable energy, and reared their children to habits of industry and economy. Their children were David (1799-1886); Robert (1801-78), settled in Bridgewater; Elijah (1803-81), died in Carbondale; Harry W. (1809- 81), was a farmer in Brooklyn; Ezra S. (1812-74), a farmer and merchant in Brooklyn ; Charles, born in 1814, a farmer in Brooklyn ; George J., born in 1823, a resident of Brooklyn; Almira, 1805, wife of
director in the township. During the early days he was one of the board of managers of the Milford and Owego turnpike, of which he was a stockholder. In 1826 he married Betsey Miles, who was born at Hartwick, Otsego County, N. Y. She had come to the settlement with her parents, Captain Rowland and Betsey (Ashcraft) Miles, from Otsego County, about 1822, and for two terms had taught the neigh- borhood school, then situate on the homestead, now known as the Morgan District. For over sixty years David and Betsey Kent lived together on this home- stead, and during the Centennial year, with their many friends and relatives, some eighty in number,
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they celebrated their golden wedding. She survives her husband and is cared for by her son, Justice M., who succeeds his father in the management of the homestead. Both herself and husband were mem- bers of the Universalist Church of Brooklyn, and supporters of religious and charitable interests in the community. Of their children,-Lucina (1829- 84) was the wife of Ansel Sterling; Malvina and Miles L., died young; Justice M., born June 17, 1839; William D., died young; Angelia, born in 1844, is the wife of A. S. Waldie, a justice of the peace of Brooklyn; and Ansel M., who died in 1864, at the age of eighteen. Captain Rowland Miles was a native of Rhode Island ; married in Otsego County, N. Y. After the death of his wife, in 1809, leaving two children,-Charles, of Carbondale, and Mrs. David Kent,-he married Clara Rice, who bore him children,-Reuben Orson; Harriet, wife of Hugh Stone, now of Illinois; Henry ; and James L. Miles, who, being wounded at the battle of Gettysburg, died soon afterwards. Rowland Miles settled first in Brooklyn, then in Abington, but died at the home- stead of his son-in-law, David Kent, at the age of eighty-two.
Henry W. Kent (J. K.) 71-1881, Rhoda A. Palmer (E. H. P.) ; Amy L. (Sterling) Richard, Nel- son .- Wm. Cameron.
Samuel Wright (bro. W. W.), Almira Sweatland. See-Napoleon Dennis.
Latham Williams (Groton, Ct.); Ch., Nelson, Eve- line (Ross), Luke, Thankful (Miles), Amanda (Wm. Giles), Lucy (G. H. Giles), John S .- Chas. Kent.
RODNEY JEWETT .- His father, Nathan Jewett (1783-1861), came from East Haddam, Conn., in the spring of 1811 ; bought the Guernsey improvements on one hundred acres of land near the Bridgewater" line, paying for his purchase in gold, and erected a log house. He had been a comb manufacturer in Boston, and later a ship carpenter at East Haddam. In the fall of the same year (November 3d) he removed with his wife, Electa Fox (1790-1865), and two chil- dren),-Francis (born 1808, died a young man in New Orleans) and Rodney (1810-1877),-and settled at their new home in Brooklyn. He added some two hundred acres more of land by purchase in after-years; built a barn in 1813, and the present residence, owned by his grandson, Nathan R. Jewett, in 1822. He cleared a large part of his land, was an industrious and judi- cious farmer, and identificd himself with early enter- prises for the bettering of the condition of the settlers. His wife was a member of the Methodist Church from eleven years of age, and one of the early devoted members and founders of the church at East Bridge- water. Their house was the stopping-place for the early Methodist preachers, and their hospitality and generosity were fully commensurate with their means. Both were buried at East Bridgewater. Their other children were Betsey (1816) is the wife of Alfred W. Mack, of Eagle Harbor, Orleans Co., N. Y .; Allen
(1819-63) served in the late Rebellion, was wounded in a cavalry fight at Beverly Ford, and died shortly afterward in the hospital; Lavinia (1823-86) re- ceived her preparatory education at Harford Academy, was graduated at Wyoming Seminary, under Dr. Nel- son, in 1854, and was a teacher of high repute in the public schools for many years. She established a se- lect school at her home, which she continued for six years, when she taught the higher branches, and to her careful instruction many of those in the vicinity trace their better knowledge of an English edu- cation.
Rodney Jewett, second son of Nathan, was fifteen months old when his parents settled in Brooklyn. He had the usual advantages of the district school in the neighborhood, but even in boyhood learned that in- dustry and economy must be characteristic of those who would gain a competence in a new country. How well he studied these principles was well illus- trated in his after-life in the large property that he accumulated and divided among his children. He was self-reliant as a young man, and his parental training had been no detriment to laying the founda- tion for his success as a business man. Although he had little to begin with, upon reaching his majority, his ambition, his judicious management and will to accomplish whatever he undertook, together with his sagacity, made him one of the most successful men of his time in the county. His homestead was where his son, Frederick B., now resides, contiguous to his father's, and comprised some four hundred acres at his death. His residence, built in 1841, together with a dozen out-buildings, were burned in 1873, and the present fine residence was erected on the same site soon afterwards by himself and Frederick. The latter is his successor on this property, and is the owner of some six hundred acres of land in one body, and keeps a dairy of sixty cows. Rodney Jewett married, in 1836, Sally Maria Bailey (1813-51), a daughter of Colonel Frederick (1780-1851) and Polly Witter (1789-1828) Bailey, who came to Brooklyn in 1807, -- whose sketch may be found elsewhere. The children are Mary E., born in 1838, is the wife of Rev. Charles Blake, a Methodist minister at Rome, Pa .; Nathan Rodney, 1839, before mentioned; Jane A., 1841, wife of Hon. B. Wood, a lawer of Effingham, Ill .; Harriet E., 1842, the wife of Jonathan F. Gardner, a large farmer in East Bridgewater; Gertrude E., 1844, wife of Major H. W. Bardwell, of Tunkhannock; Lavinia A., 1846, wife of William Stark, of Bridgewater; and Frederick B. Jewett, born in 1848, before mentioned. His second wife, now his widow, residing at Montrose, is Sarah B. Kennard, whom he married in 1852. She was born in East Bridgewater January 17, 1811; is a woman of marked intelligence and Christian charac- ter. Her father, Abraham E. Kennard, a native of Bucks County, removed with his mother and step- father to Harmony, this county, when he was a boy. Upon reaching manhood he married Sally Bird, who
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