Centennial history of Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, Part 132

Author: Stocker, Rhamanthus Menville, 1848-
Publication date: 1887
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa. : R. T. Peck
Number of Pages: 1318

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Physicians .- -- Caperton (1787), Samuel Bissell, Mason Denison, Palmer Way, E. B. Slade, B. Richardson, J. Merrill, A. W. Munger, Enoch Mack ; - Hatch (1835), Isaac Meacham, W. L. Richardson, E. L. Blakeslee. Present .- A. Chamberlin, A. J. Ainey.

ALBERT WATROUS KENT is third in regular line of descent from Justice Kent (1771-1858), a native of Massachusetts, who, with his wife, Anna Stuart, (1779-1858) and children, settled in the northern part of Brooklyn township in 1811, a more detailed account of whom may be found elsewhere in this volume. His father, Ezra S. (1812-74), fifth son of Justice Kent, was born in Brooklyn, and spent his

life here, a farmer, a merchant and a dealer in stock. In 1836 Ezra S. Kent purchased a farm adjoining his father's homestead, and the following year married Harriet Watrous, eldest daughter of Joseph (1794- 1875) and Dolly Benjamin (1795-1835) Watrous, of Southeast Bridgewater, who was born July 30, 1817, near the present site of Mott's woolen-mills, where her father first settled in Bridgewater. Mr. Kent managed his farm and made improvements thereon until 1848, when he purchased the store and residence of Judge Rollin T. Ashley, at Brooklyn Centre. Here he removed, erected the present store building of S. B. Eldridge, in 1851, and carried on a general mercantile business until 1865. Twice a year during this time he regularly went to New York and purchased goods, conveying them via Binghamton, and afterwards to Great Bend by railroad, and thence by team to Brooklyn. His journey, in the early days, was made by the old stage-line on the Milford and Owego turnpike, the most direct route to the great me- tropolis. For several years before and subsequent to his retirement from mercantile business he was quite largely engaged in buying sheep and cattle in West- ern Ohio, which he drove and sold in Eastern markets. In his boyhood he had obtained a fair education for the opportunities then at hand, and was for several terms a teacher in the district schools, both before and after his marriage. He was an active business man, possessed marked individual characteristics, and, by his industry and judicious management, accumulated a fair competence. He was formerly a member of the Whig party, afterwards a Republican, but in the Presidential campaign of 1872 he gave his vote to Horace Greeley, a man whom he had for many years admired. Both himself and wife were members of the Universalist Church at Brooklyn. She survives in 1866, and gave many of the facts for this sketch.

ALBERT W. KENT was born on the homestead in Brooklyn, February 4, 1838. He was educated at the home schools and at Harford Academy. Upon reaching his majority he entered the store of his father as a clerk. Three years afterwards, in 1862, he took a one-half interest in the business, and in the spring of 1865 became sole owner. From this date (with the exception of two years, 1866-67) until 1881, the firm of Kent & Eldridge continued a successful mercantile business, when, Mr. Kent retiring from the firm, Mr. S. B. Eldridge, his partner and brother- in-law, became sole manager and is the present owner of the business. Since his retirement from mer- chandising he has been engaged in improving his farm and other property. In 1886, in connection with O. D. Roberts, he placed upon a solid financial basis the creamery that had been erected the previous year at Hopbottom, which he manages, and during the past season has shipped therefrom its products of one hundred thousand pounds of butter, besides cream, to New York and other markets. Mr. Kent is an active,

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thorough-going business man, a supporter of religious and charitable works, and indorses the highest moral sentiment in the community. While yet in his minority Mr. Kent took an active interest in town- ship matters and local politics. He has been officially identified with the township as constable, clerk, treas- urer, assessor and auditor, and, for one term, he served on the Board of County Auditors. He has passed through the various offices of the Odd Fellows' Lodge, No. 313, at Brooklyn, of which he lias been a member for many years.

He married, in 1865, Mary J. (born February 7, 1840), a daughter of Frederick W. Bailey (1809- 46), a merchant, at Derry, N. H., and granddaughter of Colonel Frederick Bailey (1780-1851), who was one of the early and prominent settlers of Brooklyn, and of whom a further account will be found in this vol- ume. Her mother was Elizabeth Merrill (1805- 42), whose parents resided at Salem, N. H. She has one brother, Frederick H. Bailey, of Bradford, Pa., and a half-brother, Milton A. Bailey, of Lawrence, Mass. Mr. and Mrs. Kent have no children. The other children of Ezra S. and Harriet Kent are Mary E. (1840-85), was the wife of S. B. Eldridge, herein mentioned, a merchant; Willis L., born in 1845, succeeded his father on the homestead; and Joseph L. Kent, born in 1851, of Somerville, Mass.

AUTHORS AND WRITERS .- Anna L. Muzzey, M. M. Quick ("Miss Dekin Spavin.").

SCHOOLS .- The first school-house was built of logs in the fall of 1800, and stood by a babbling brook, northwesterly from the house of Andrew Tracy, on the southeast part of what was afterward the Charles Perigo lot. The teacher the following winter was Leonard Tracy. He died in 1802 and is buried be- side his father in the old cemetery. Schools were often taught in summer on barn-floors, and when haying came they would move into the stable. The following list contains most of the teachers for the next forty years :

Samuel Weston, Eunice Otis, Nancy Howard (a private school at lier house-N. R. Mack's-her scholars being Polly and Ezekiel Sabin, Daniel and Polly Giles and Sally Tracy), Wm. Weston, Edward Chap- man, Edith Case, Edward Paine, Mary Weston, Henry Parke, Julia Weston, George Catlin, Dana Fox, Ebenezer Paine, Frederick Bailey, Joshua Miles, Matilda Mack, Thaddeus Palmer, Alice Bibbins, Asa Crandall, Edward L. Paine, Mott Wilkinson, Augustus Birge, Benjamin Parke, James Lewis, Cyril Giddings, Jacob Wilson, Jesse Bagley, Ruth Cone, Sally Kingsbury, George M. Gere, Williston Kingsbury, S. B. Blake, F. W. Bailey, Abel Hewitt, James W. Chapman, Fanny Hall, Phebe Bonney, Mrs. Joseph Chapman, Eliza Milbourn, C. M. Gere, Lu cretia Kingsley, Sarah Gere, Verie Ann Safford, Miriam Worthing, Ca- lista Tiffany, Mary Kingsley, Margaret Parke, Julia Gere, Nancy Mor- gan, James Palmer, E. S. Kent, A. G. Bailey, Wm. Belcher, Eliza Parke, Anna Bronson, Mehitabel Blakeslee, Lucy Gere, Enoch Mack, Aunie Smith, Warren Guernsey, Asahel Carpenter, Lymau Ely, Alfred Mack, Lucy C. Miles, Wm. C. Tiffany, Dudley Smith, E. T. Tiffany, Azur La- throp, Robert Carr, Betsey Miles, Elsie Dikeman, Nancy Kingsley, Clarinda Babcock, Elhanan Smith, Isaac Bailey, Jonathan Merrill, Lydia Chapman, Amos Tewksbury, A. B. Merrill, Olive Corey, Simon Lusk, Daniel C. Thatcher, T. S. Bartholomew, Daniel Sterry, Emily Fuller, Susan Parke, Julia Packer, Louisa Parke, J. O. Bullard, Nelson Doo- little, S. W. Breed, A. W. Main, Loami Hinds, Mary Newton, Sally Fish, Louisa Robinson, Rodney Jewett, E. N. Loomis, Nancy Cushing,

Hannah Follet, Eliza Kingsbury, Willard Waldron, Alonzo Kennard, Mary Aldrich, J. R. Ely, Nelson Tiffany, Carey Worthing, Judson Tif- fany, Y. L. Culver, O. G. Hempstead, Betsey Sweet, G. B. R. Wade, James Robinson, Eliott Aldrich, Emily Tiffany, Sarah Milbourn, Alsie- mina Case, Betsey Thatcher, Mary Hall, Lucy Loomis, Elizabeth Rog- ers, Charles Mack, Diadama Hewitt, Lydia Tiffany, Gurdon Rogers, Joanna Passmore, Elizabeth Robinson, Wm. Yaple, Eleanor Farrar, Margaret Parke, Mariette Fuller, Lydia Mack, William Allworth, T. Hempstead, William Smith, Julia Fish, Sylvester Munger, Addison Newton, John F. Deans, Eliz. Bissell, Lucy M. Giddings, Owen Ely, Fanny Fish, Denison Randall, Emily Gere, Sarah Giddings, Matilda Robinsou, Charlotte Root, Elizabeth Babcock, Charles Stephens, Miles Spencer, Nancy Giddings, Sarah Miles, Adaline Skidmore, Levi Fair- child, Nancy McMillan, Mary Skidmore, Alonzo Taylor, George Ste- phens, Sophronia Wilson, Emeline Tiffany, Judd Wilson, William Main, William Pride, Abia Lane, George Tupper, Sally Kennard. At a little later period S. A. Newton, Sylvester Cooke and John Rounds taught select schools.

Such are among the men and women, few of whom are now living, whose educational influence, some- times of the ruder sort, mingled with that of the home circles of the township, left its impress on suc- ceeding time, which is well worthy kindly and hon- orable remembrance. The first books used were Columbian Speller, English Reader and American Preceptor, and Daboll's Arithmetic.

CHURCHES-Some of the oldest records having been lost, the essential facts are here given with as 'com- plete lists of the oldest, longest-standing members of the first half of the century as can now be obtained. The New England people began attention to religious affairs from the very first. In August, 1801, sermons were preached at the house of Andrew Tracy by Ja- cob Crane and Mr. Thompson.

The Congregational people seem to have instituted public services as early as 1799, Joshua Sabin and others taking an active part. For a number of years several of them joined with the Harford Church, or- ganized in 1800. The names on the Harford record are Elizabeth Jones, Patty Gere, Elizabeth Whitney, Eliza Sweet, Nancy Howard, Mary Tracy, Lucy Fol- let, Lucy Miles, Arunah Tiffany, Olney Tiffany.

August 7, 1810, the church was organized here, as the Second Congregational Church of Bridgewater, under the ministerial direction of William Lock- wood and M. Miner York, with the following-named members :

Joshua Miles, Sr., and Noah Tiffany, deacons ; Olney Tiffany, Eleazer French, Josiah Lord, Sr., Patty Gere, Nancy Howard, Betsey Mack, Mary Lord, Mary Miles, Elizabeth Whitney, Phebe Wilkinson.

Members added during the next eight years were :

Ebenezer Whitney, Lyman Doolittle, Lucinda Doolittle, Taphena Mack, Mary R. Weston, Ephm. Whitney, Jacob Wilson, Cyril Giddings, Samuel Wright, Sr., Mott Wilkinson, Mary Tiffany, Lucy Miles, Alsie- mena Case, Seliuda Wilson, Azuba Wright. In 1815 Jacob Wilson was chosen deacon in place of J. Miles, deceased, and in 1818, Cyril Giddings, in place of N. Tiffany, deceased.

In 1818 the following names were added :

Joshua Jackson, Sr., Eleanor Jackson, Gabriel Ely, Mehitable Ely, Erastus Ely, Theresa Ely, Horatio Ely, Joshua Fletcher, Wm. Squiers, Lewis Follet, Thaddeus Palmer, Artemasia Case, Milly Wilson, Clarissa Tiffany, Betsey Squiers, Joshua Jackson, Jr., Joseph Jackson, Sr., Esther Jackson, Caleb Jackson, Jere. Gere, Chas. V. Gere, Edw. L. Gere, Patty Palmer, Lois Wright, Naucy Giddings, Polly Howard, Sarah Miles, Eliza

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Morgan, Hannah Follet, Mary Jackson, Isaac Brown, Silas P. Ely, Lydia Brown, Eden Brown, Sophia Breed, Roena Case, Stephen Breed, George Chapman, John Tiffany, Sarah D. Gere, Lucy F. Gere, Betsey Jackson, Clarissa Oakley, Elizabetlı Jones, Eliza Sweet ; and (1819-22) Lucius Robinson, Lucy Brown, Matilda Tiffany, George M. Gere, Desire Wilson.

September 20, 1823, at a meeting in the school- house, Gideon N. Judd presiding, the form of church government was changed to Presbyterian, and Joshua Jackson, Jacob Wilson, Cyril Giddings, Stephen Breed, Jeremiah Gere and Chas. V. Gere were chosen and ordained as ruling elders.

Subsequent members-Mary Gere, Lydia Chapman, Sarah C. Gere, Frances Giddings, Phebe Randall, Anna Rose, Louisa Parke, Lucy Beardsley, A. R. Tiffany, Cbloe Tiffany, Isaac Van Auken, Eliza Wes- ton, Esther Morgan, Fanny Tiffany, Harriet Parke, Olivia Cooke, Da- vid Morgan, Lebbeus Rogers, Fanny Rogers, Alfred Mack, Mary A. Wilson, O. C. Ely, Henry Gere, Joseph Farrar, Lucy Parke, Fanny M. Tiffany, Eliza A. Latbam, Eliza Wilson, David N. Wheeler, Ferdinand Whipple, Julia A. Gere, Mary A. Weston, Ezra Crofoot, Almira Crofoot, Jared M. Ely, Nancy Morgan, Gilbert M. Lee, Phebe Lee, N. Judd Wilson, Amasa Knight, Sarah Giddings, Joseph Peckham, James S. Peckham, John Robinson, Olive Robinson, John Stroud, Elvira Stroud, Rebecca Ely, Eunice J. Newton, S. Jane Wilson, Hannah Wbeeler, Harriet Gere, Emeline Seeley, A. Eliza Hyde, Sarah Rogers, Mary E. Gere, Angeline Gere, Abner Stanton, Albert R. Gere, Robert F. Breed, Isaac Newton, Charles Babcock, Samuel A. Newton and wife, Mary Wbipple, Ursula Mack, Sarah Townsend, Horace Little and wife, Catha- rine Titsworth, Sarah Ely, Abigail Little, Conger Tiffany.

The first church edifice was dedicated November 6, 1829. It still exists, remodeled into the dwelling of J. H. Stanton. The present house was dedicated February 14, 1872. Ministers: From 1810-18, Messrs. Lockwood, Treat, Bascom, Hill, Ebenezer Kingsbury and Joseph Wood conducted occasional services ; in 1818 Mr. York preached steadily a few months; 1818-21, Gideon N. Judd preached one- fourth the time ; 1823-24, Messrs. Conger and Beach, occasionally ; 1824-30, Messrs. Kingsbury, Burr, Baldwin and Deerwell, occasionally; 1830-44, Syl- vester Cooke (see " pioneers"), one-half time-rest in Springville and Dimock; 1844-48, Orris Fraser ; 1848-51, B. Baldwin, half-time; 1851-54, Samuel Shaffer ; 1854, T. S. Britton, five months ; 1858-68, Wm. H. Adams ; 1868-75, George Spaulding ; 1875, Jacob Best (see "present inhabitants"). In 1849 Mr. Best went a missionary to the west coast of Africa, and his wife went in 1853; both returned in 1861.

The Methodist Episcopal Church Building of 1813 was the first in the township. It was taken down in 1830, and a larger one built, which was remodeled in 1867, as it is now. The wrought-iron door-latch of the first old church is still preserved on the house of A. R. Gere. In 1817 Joshua and Caroline Miles deeded the church lot (six by twelve rods) to Stephen Bagley, Ebenezer Paine, Jedediah Lathrop, Jonathan Tewksbury, Samuel Yeomans, John Wilson, Eli Meeker and Benj. Hayden, trustees.

In 1804 a Methodist class was formed, consisting of Jacob Tewksbury and wife, Mary Tracy and Silas Lewis. Nicholas Horton (of Nicholson) was leader,

and afterward Frazier Eaton and Jacob Tewksbury. The following is the class of 1811 just as recorded :

Edward Paine (leader), Charlotte Paine, Hannah Milbourn, Silas Lewis, Orlando Bagley, Dorcas Bagley, Betsey Saunders, Jacob Tewks- bury, Mary Tewksbury, Isaac Tewksbury, Juditb Tewksbury, Abigail Saunders, Mary Saunders, Isaac Sterling, Meliscent Sterling, Nancy Seeley, Dorcas Bagley, Jr., Jacob Worthing, Sally Fuller, Jolin Seeley, Alden Seeley, Polly Catlin, Jesse Bagley, Fally Bagley, Jonathan Tewksbury, Josiah Crofoot, Eliza Crofoot, Alice Lathrop, Varnum Saunders, Dolly Bagley, Betsey Tewksbury, Polly Seely, Sabra Tingley, Stephen Bagley, Mary Bagley, Samuel Yeomans, Huldah Yeomans, Sheffield Saunders, Thomas Bagley, William Sterling, Lucinda Fuller, Jonatban Worthing.

The following are among the early preachers and elders from 1804 to 1841 :

Morris Howe, Rebert Burch, Christopher Frye, Elisha Bibbins, John Hazzard, Elijah Warren, Wyatt Chamberlin, George Peck, Edwd. Paine, Dana Fox, George Lane, Benj. Bidlack, Loring Grant, Gideon Draper, Noah Bigelow, John Kimlin, Wm. Brown, George Harmon, Marmaduke Pierce, "Father " Davy, Benj. Ellis, Silas Comfort, V. M. Corayell, Joseph Towner, Chas. Harris, Geo. Evans, Lyman Mumford, Isaac Park, Alanson Benjamin, Horace Agard, Peter Wentz, Wm. Red- dy, C. T. Stanley.

THE FIRST UNIVERSALIST CHURCH was built on the hill east of the village in 1824, and was dedicated November 25, 1825. It stood in a conspicuous spot, and could be seen from a large surrounding territory, even from points in other counties. In 1854 it was remodeled and supplied with a bell, the first church- bell in the township. In 1872 the old church was taken down, and the memorials under its corner-stone, after having lain there forty-eight years to a day, were re-deposited under the corner of the new church, built in Gothic style, at large cost, in the village. This was dedicated September 2, 1874, on the occa- sion of the meeting there of the Susquehanna Asso- ciation, on the fiftieth anniversary of its formation.

The following is an imperfect list of earlier mem- bers :

James Smith, Amos Bailey, Rufus Kingsley, Frederick Bailey, Esek. H. Palmer, Fremond Peck, James L. Gray, Joshua K. Adams, Annis Smith, Prudence Bailey, Lucina Kingsley, Betsey Chapman, Almira Wright, Latham Smitb, Epbm. Howe, Obadiah Bailey, Ezra S. Brown, Isaac Smith, Elisha Lord, Dalton Tiffany. Jonas Adams, Alfred Tiffany, Deborah Newton, Preston Tiffany, Eliza Tiffany, Pedy E. Gere, James Adams, Sr., Polly Packer, James E. Howe, Daniel Wood, Stephen Wil- Iams, Lodowick Bailey, Robert W. Gere, Edward Otto, Isaac Tewksbury, Elibu Smith, James Munger, Richard Williams, Pelatiah Tiffany, Chas. Perigo, C. S. Brown, Samuel B. Blake, Elijah Newton, Justice Kent, Lucinda Bailey, Sally Smith, Amy Howe, Eunice G. Bailey, Amy Pal- mer, Elmina Palmer, Rhoda A. Palmer, Sally M. Bailey, Annis Palmer, Polly Wood, Hannah Bailey, Polly Williams, Julia E. Gere, Selina Packer, Francis M. Otto, Sally R. Munger, Sarah Williams, Peddy Perigo, Mary Brown, Alsiemena Blake, Amos G. Bailey, C. R. Palmer, J. J. Roper, Eliza Roper, II. L. Bailey, Nelson Tiffany, H. W. Kent, Robert Kont, David Kent, Betsey Kent, Roena Bailey, Sophronia C. Tiffany, Charles Kent, Henrietta Kent, Elizur Tiffany, M. L. Mack, Sarah L. Weston, Prudy Bailey (Kent), Francis Fish, Ezra S. Kent, Harriet Kent, Emily Waldie, E. T. Stephens, Mary A. Stephens, L. A. Smith, Judson Tiffany, H. N. Smitb, O. G. Hempstead, Eliza Hempstead, Mary Smith, G. W. Palmer, P. E. Palmer, Deborah Smitb, C. M. Gere, Emma Gere, Skidmer Tompkins.

These are the ministers from 1820:

B. Streeter, Amos Crandall, Charles R. Marsh, George Rogers, Alfred Peck, Thomas J. Crowe, T. S. Bartholomew, James R. Mack, J. B. Gil- man, A. O. Warren, Nelson Doolittle, L. F. Porter, H. Boughton, Asher Moore, J. M. Getchell, J. M. Clark, N. Snell and Mr. and Mrs. L. F. Porter (see "Pres. Inh.")

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Each church maintains its Sunday-school, and each has the efficient help of its ladies' aid society.

BAPTIST people have resided here, and Baptist clergymen have often preached-Wm. Purdy as early as 1808-and Joshua Baker was a stanch Baptist minister. The Episcopalian, Catholic and Unitarian beliefs have had representatives. George F. Breed entered the Episcopal ministry. All shades of relig- ious opinion have existed, including simple believers in the principles of humanity and justice, the spirit of forgiveness and works of righteousness and peace, as paramount attributes of character and action-hu- man and divine.

OLD OFFICERS.

Supervisors .- David Sutliff. Frederick Bailey, Jacob Tewksbury, Ste- phen Breed, Thomas Giles, Amos Bailey, George Cone, Elisha Mack, Stephen Williams, Samuel Weston, Enoch Mack, David Morgan, Chas. Gere, Joseph Peckham, David Bissell, Amos Tewksbury, David Kent, Pelatiah Tiffany, Charles Perigo, Lodowick Bailey, Ezek, H. Palmer, S. D. Townsend, Gurdon Ely, George L. Tewksbury, J. E. Howe, Amos Van Auken, Daniel Tewksbury, Francis Fish (1850).

Township accounts were first settled by-

Freeholders .- Jeremiah Gere, Joseph Chapman, Thomas Giles, Fred- erick Bailey, Elisha Mack, Edward Paine, Charles Gere, Cyril Giddings, Charles Perigo, James Smith, Edward Packer, Justice Kent, Samuel Yeomans, Augustus Burge, Stephen Breed, Joshua Miles, Henry Mitchell, M. L. Mack, Daniel Tewksbury, Ammi Ely, Jacob Wilson, Thomas Gar- land, Charles V. Gere, Nathan Jewett.

After 1830-

Auditors .- Frederick Bailey, Edward Packer, Joseph Chapman, Ed- ward Otto, A. G. Bailey, Abel Hewitt, Elijah Newton, B. Richardson, A. B. Merrill, Henry Bagley, David Kent, Horace Thayer, Anson Tiffany.

Town Clerks .- Frederick Bailey, Ebenezer Gere, David Bissell, Elijah Newton, William Weston, Daniel Bagley, John Stroud, Samuel Kellam, Edwin Tiffany, Abel Hewitt, R. T. Ashley, L. W. Kellam, Ansel Sterling.

Assessors and Assistants .- Amos Bailey, Justice Kent, Charles Perigo, Samuel Yeomans, Cyril Giddings, David Bissell, Stephen Williams, Wm. Weston, George Chapman, E. H. Palmer, Joseph Peckham, Amos Tewksbury, I. H. Sterling, Anson Tiffany, Richard Williams, A. B. Merrill, John Stroud, E. G. Williams, Daniel Torrey.

School Directors (hegan 1836) .- Frederick Bailey, Amos G. Bailey, Amos Tewksbury, George Chapmau, Nelson Williams, Joshua Miles, Lyman Ely, Ferdinand Whipple, Eli B. Goodrich, Rodney Jewett, J. H. Chapman, Nelsou Tiffany, Samuel Townsend, Richard Williams, J. R. Ely, J. H. Sterling, S. B. Blake, A. B. Merrill, Anson Tiffany, C. C. Daley, C. M. Gere, Braton Richardson.

Justices .- Edward Paine, Edward Packer, Samuel Bissell, James Noble, Ahel Hewett, Marvin L. Mack, Ehenezer Gere, A. G. Bailey, R. O. Miles, A. E. Tewksburys, Chancy Tingley, E. A. Weston, G. B. Rogers, E. G. Williams, and present, M. Caldwell, A. S. Waldie.

Constables. - Cyril Giddings, Asa Crandall, Thaddeus Palmer, Samuel Yeomans, David Morgan, Jeremiah Gere, William Weston, Thomas Gar- land, Lyman Ely, Jonas R. Adams, Joseph Lines, Abel Hewett, Jesse Bagley, Elijah Newton, J. H. Chapman, Washington Bagley, Daniel Bagley, John B. Mack, John Stroud, C. M. Gere.

OLD ROADS .- (As first used but now abandoned) From near the present Breed house down through the old orchard, by the spring and cabin of Goodwin and Miller, by the old school-house, and cabin of D. G. Smith, across Dry Creek and by the Harkins spring and cabin, and then west to join the present Charles Kent road ; from above A. R. Gere's, run- ning south of Old Orchard down near the Noble Ashery, and crossing the Village Brook east of O. W. Fool's house; from Sabin's place to Edmond's place, higher up the side-hill than now; from near the first "old factory school-house, south by B. S.

Saunders's, Caleb Crandall's and Isaiah Hawley's (afterward H. Caswell's), by Mason & Thad. Pal- mers' (now C. Brewster's), crossing the Hopbottom, and up by Joshua Baker's ; from village across creek near Mrs. Loomis's, and (near the present new road) toward Edward Paine's; from near the spring and Fuller and Sutliff cabins, the Mott Wilkinson cabin, and second cabin of Daniel Lawrence (in sugar or- chard of Harvey Tewksbury) toward Methodist Epis- copal Church ; from O. Bailey's, near Wise Wrights and Edmond Miles's, to Hopbottom; from H. L. Bailey's east by his old barn, by Ebenezer Whitney's, across creek to Harford; from Jacob Tewksbury's north by Thomas Sterling's, Joseph Chapman's and David Morgan's; from David Cushing's (W. R. Page's) across Martin Creek to Richardson's mills, Harford. That once famous thoroughfare, the Milford and Owego turnpike, with its lines of four- horse stages and loads of passengers and freight, went through the township from southeast to north- west. It is still in use as a township road, and is described in the general history of this volume.

CEMETERIES .- There are three; the "Old," on Page's "Dutch meadows"; the "Hill," McIntyre; and the "New," just east of the Old. Some early settlers were buried in private grounds, as on the Mil- bourn place, the Adam Miller place and Lyman Saunders' place. It is not now known to whom most of these belong. The first burial in the Old ground was that of " Aunt Molly "-McLaughlin. The first death among New Englanders was doubtless that of Andrew Tracy, November 1, 1801. The cemetery was not then established, but he was afterwards re- moved to it. Other monumental dates in Old ground are Joshua Miles, July 6, 1815; Isaac Tewkesbury, also about 1815-16 ; Nancy Morgan, April 20, 1817 ; Noah Tiffany, July 19, 1818; Edward Paine (drowned), July 8, 1820; Barnard Worthing, July 13, 1820; Elizabeth Jones, April 27, 1822. The first burial in the Hill Cemetery was that of Charles R. Marsh, died March 10, 1828, though Amos Crandall is buried beside him who died July 2, 1824, but was removed.

POST-OFFICE .- Hopbottom Post-office was estab- lished October 1, 1813, Putnam Catlin, postmaster. In the house where the office was kept there is a brick in the arch over the fire-place inscribed : "P. Catlin, 1812." Henry Catlin was appointed postmaster Janu- ary 10, 1815, and Gabriel Ely, 1816, in same house ; Noah Tiffany in 1817, and Arunah Tiffany 1818, in "Old Abbey ;" Thomas Garland, 1821 (see village) ; James Noble, 1824, in his store; Thomas Garland, 1826 (see L. A. Townsend) ; name changed to Brook- lyn, March 20, 1830 ; Daniel B. Bagley, postmaster, 1838 (see A. Chamberlin) ; R. T. Ashley, 1841 (store); D. B. Bagley, 1842 ; Sally Bagley, 1843 ; J. L. Adams, 1861; Ammi Ely, 1885.

MONTROSE DEPOT OFFICE, established March 11, 1852, Javan B. Salsbury, postmaster ; Loami B. Hinds,

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postmaster, 1853 ; William McMillan, 1854; John C. Lee, 1855; Edward S. Hinds, 1857; Fernando A. Tiffany, 1867; Manzor J. Goodrich, 1868; Joseph D. Richardson, 1868; L. F. Rosengrant, 1869; William H. Tiffany, 1870 ; name changed to Tiffany February, 1877 ; and to Alford, March, 1877. East Dimock post-office established June 9, 1862, George L. Wil- liams, postmaster ; George H. Giles, postmaster, 1864, and office discontinued July 16, 1883.

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Centennial history of Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, Part 132

Author: Stocker, Rhamanthus Menville, 1848- Publication date: 1887 Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa. : R. T. Peck Number of Pages: 1318

Author: Stocker, Rhamanthus Menville, 1848-
Publication date: 1887
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa. : R. T. Peck
Number of Pages: 1318