Centennial history of Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, Part 67

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

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rector. He was elected justice of the peace in 1865 on the Democratic ticket, and is serving by re-election his fifth term of five years cach, consecutively. He was one of the original members of the County Agricultural Society, and has taken an active part in the educational interests in the community in which he resides, and in all other matters pertaining to the wel- fare of its citizens.

He erected his present commodious barn dur- ing the centennial year, and his residence is the one built by his father, herein alluded to. Both himself and wife are members of the Presbyte- rian Church at Montrose, and he has served as treasurer and a member of the board of trustees of the Methodist Church at East Bridgewater, on the part of the society, since its organization, in 1877.

Daniel Austin came in 1810 and lived near the line, in the edge of Silver Lake township. His children were Andrus, who went to Potter County ; Nicholas died in Liberty township ; Dana lives near the fair-grounds ; Electa was the wife of Edmund Meeker, of Silver Lake; Harriet, wife of Elijah Backus, of Montrose. Orrin Stevens lived adjoining, in Bridgewater. Elder W. J. Parker married a daughter of Thomas Scott, who lived in that neighborhood. Jonathan Vaughn lived in that vicinity ; he came in 1810, and died in 1869, aged ninety. His son Crispen has the homestead. Avery Vaughn moved to Binghamton ; Lucinda was the wife of Mr. Carter, of Rush ; Jane married Calvin Griffis; and Ann married Milton Griffis. Benjamin Fancher married one of Samuel Scott's daughters, and had a large family .. David has the homestead. The other children were Richard, Nehemiah, Sally, Polly, Ann, Caroline, Alvira and Abigail. Sally mar- ried Wm. Thode, a German, and moved to Ger- many-something unusual for American girls. Thomas Pickering, an Englishman, also located there. His sons were John, Jacob, Ralph and George. The former resides on the homestead.

Samuel Fessenden came early and cleared up a farm. His sons were Henry, Samuel B., Asa, John, Thomas, Isaac, and Harriet, wife of Luke Jagger. Henry married Martha Lathrop. Their sons were William, Charles, Samuel, Edward

and Theodore. S. B. Fessenden married Han- nah Harris. Asa married Esther Backus. Their sons, Newell and Frederick, reside at Montrose. Thomas married Caroline Backus. Of their five children, George lives at Montrose; Joseph Beebe lived in the west neighborhood. Their children were Orrin, Hiram, (an editor in Owego, N. Y.), William, Ezra, Edward, Owen. Ezra and William settled in the vicinity. O. S. Beebe son of Orrin, was county surveyor. Angeline, Hannah and Elizabeth were the daughters. Obadiah Green was a pioneer settler; of his children, David retained the homestead and George lives in Auburn.

John Darrow came to Bridgewater at an early day in its history ; he was ninety-seven years old when he died. Of his children, John lives at Nicholson ; Phebe was the wife of David Green ; William lived in New Milford; Amos in Brad- ford; Herrick in Forest Lake; Denison in Michigan ; Daniel lived where his son Augustus now lives, on the Wyalusing, in Bridgewater. He is now eighty-one years old and a resident in Montrose. Mrs. D. Green is eighty-five years old.

Captain Jarah Stephens, an old Revolutionary soldier, and his son-in-law, Joseph Williams, came from Otsego County and located their lands about three and one-half miles from Montrose, on the New Milford road, and in 1810 they rolled up a log house. Joseph Williams' children were Orrin, Frederick M. and Eleanor, wife of Rev. Albert L. Post. Orrin retained the homestead. His only son, Joseph, resides with his Aunt Eleanor at Mont- rose. Frederick M. married Clarissa Lathrop ; Clarissa, their daughter, was the wife of Perry Barnhart. Anna, the efficient clerk at the post- office, is their only daughter.

Philander Stephens was a politician and held several offices of trust. He was commissioner in 1818, State Representative in 1824, and a member of Congress two terms, from 1828 to 1832. He married Myra Thatcher ; his sons were Reuben, George and Almon; and daughters Henrietta, Huldah, Clarissa, Charlotte, Ellen and Elizabeth. Almon is still living at Great Bend. He has been State Representative twice. Nathan Brewster, a native of Massachusetts,

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and Simeon Tyler, a native of Vermont, came in together from Connecticut with their fami- lies in February, 1807, and halted five weeks at the house of Joseph Raynsford. Mr. Brew- ster being disabled by a cut in the foot, Mr. Tyler erected a cabin for the accommodation of both families, one mile north of the court- house, on the farm now owned by Hon. J. B. McCollun. The 1 great snow-storm delayed their removal until April. The cabin was three miles north of Raynsford's ; and a hole in the roof served for a flue to two fires built upon either side of a pile of logs that were rolled up in the centre. Mr. Tyler married Betsey, a sister of Nathan Brewster. Their children were Simeon, Betsey, Ansel, Harvey, Abigail, Lu- cena, Ozias and Brewster. Betsey married Harry Clark, a printer. Harvey Tyler, a car- penter, is the only son living in the village, now eighty years of age; he was county treasurer in 1847. Nathan Brewster built opposite his brother-in-law, where his son Zachariah now resides ; he cleared up the farm, and lived and died there when he was sixty-six years old. Their children were Nathan Waldo, removed to Clarion County ; Zachariah M., lives on the homestead ; Polly Ann, wife of Hugh McCol- lum ; Harriet, wife of Peter McCollum.

Jonah Brewster settled on a farm now occu- pied by Mr. Kent. He was something of a politician and held several offices ; he was the first commissioners' clerk, in 1813, and was State Representative four years, from 1816 to 1820, and State Senator in 1822. He had five wives and ten children ; he was a very bland man, as may be inferred from his political and matrimonial success. Hugh and Alexander McCollum came in 1810 and settled in Bridge- water, near Heart Lake, on farms adjoining. They built cabins and cleared up their farms. Hugh had a family ; his son Daniel lived and died here. Alexander married Mary Trumbull, and after residing in Bridgewater many years he removed to New Milford, and finally to Lanesborough, where he died, aged ninety-one

years. He had five sons,-John, Hugh, George, Alexander and Peter. George moved West; the rest of the family settled here. Hugh McCol- lum, (second) was born in 1805. He came to Bridgewater with his parents, and suffered the privations and hardships of the pioneers. He married Polly A. Brewster in 1832; they now live quietly at Montrose, and recently celebrated the fifty-fifth anniversary of their wedding at Hon. J. B. McCollum's house; Joseph Brewster and Alexander H. are their only children. They are both lawyers, the former being pre- siding judge of the courts.

Bela Jones came fromn Colchester, New Lon- don County, Conn., in 1810. He purchased a place on the lake, which bears his name, and, in connection with Joseph Backus, erected a card- ing-machine on its outlet, in 1814. He subse- quently built a grist-mill and saw-mill. He was a prominent Democrat, and often presided at public meetings. He was town clerk in 1816; assistant teacher in the academy in 1818-19; took the census of Susquehanna County in 1820 and was State Representative in 1833 and 1835. He married Polly, sister of Nathan Brewster. Their children were Julia, wife of Henry Cruser ; Louisa, wife of John Chapman ; and Betsey, wife of Albert Wey, of Binghamton.

William Shipman came from Saybrook, Conn., in 1813, and located in the West neigh- borhood, where Edward Pickering now lives. He was a farmer and carpenter. He married Sarah Vaughn, and their children were Henry E., a carpenter in Scranton ; Joseph W. resided on the farm now occupied by his son Harry ; Joanna, of Montrose ; Stephen V. is an architect of considerable celebrity in Chicago (he was in the late war and rose to the rank of colonel) ; Albert removed to Towanda; Sarah E. is the wife of Daniel Langstaff, of Scranton; Worden J. is a moulder.

Edward Fuller came from Connecticut to Bridgewater in 1806. He was a wrought nailmaker. He built a large frame house, which became a central point, being the place for hold- ing elections, and, from the Christian character of Mrs. Fuller, the place where early religious meetings were held. 2" As yet no man of the

" The great snow-storm in 1807 and the total eclipse the year previous are notable events in the annals of the pioneers. The snow is said to have been five feet on the level, and the eclipse produced a condition similar to night.

2 Blackman's " History."

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South neighorhood was a professed Christian. Determined to impress npon her children her estimate of the Sabbath, she always dressed them in their best that day, even if that were no more than a clean apron to each one. They learned to be less boisterous than on week-days ; so praying mothers could meet and sing the songs of Zion, and occasionally listen to a ser- mon read by Mr. Fuller or Mr. Raynsford." In 1812 Mr. Fuller was appointed sheriff. He

GARDNER .- Perry Green Gardner was at the Wyoming massacre in 1778, with his son Jona- than, then a lad of twelve years. They returned to Connecticut subsequently, where the father spent the remainder of his life. Jonathan, many years afterwards, visited the site of the battle, and found secreted the "pewter," which his father had hidden under some rocks, and which he used, as long as he lived, on his table. He married, at New London, Connecticut, Eunice

Latham Gunder

married a sister of Elias West. Their children were Charles, who moved to Kingston and sub- sequently to Scranton, where he was engaged in the insurance business; Mary ; Edward W., who resides at Cohoes, aged eighty-six ; George resides in Scranton, and is mentioned in con- nection with the press. Edward Fuller died at Montrose, aged eighty-five, and his wife died at Scranton, also eighty-five. She was the last of the original ten members of the Montrose Presbyterian Church.

Latham (1771-1853), and settled in Schoharie County, and afterwards in Durham, Greene County, N. Y. In 1820 he moved to East Bridgewater, this county, where he bought of William Jessup and Isaac Post sixty acres of land in the hollow, where Mr. Freeman resides in 1886, north of Mathew Baldwin's, and erected a log house. Here he spent nearly all the re- mainder of his days, and both himself and wife were buried in the little cemetery at East Bridge- water. He died in 1850, aged eighty-four years.

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His eldest daughter, Lucretia (1795-1870), wife of Isaac Babcock, had come here prior to the set- tlement of her father, and located in Dimock, where she died at an advanced age. A second daughter, Lydia, born in 1797, now the widow of the late Ezekiel D. Babcock, resides where herself and husband early settled in East Bridgewater, at the forks of the road. The homestead is managed by their son, Willis E. Babcock.

William (1800-54) settled on land adjoining his father. Alexander, born in 1803, died at Waymart, unmarried. Latham, born Novem- ber 26, 1806, a native of the town of Broome, Schoharie County; and Hannah, born in 1809, the wife of Joseph Stanton, died at Brooklyn, N. Y., where she resided.

Latham Gardner, at the age of eleven years, went from home, and afterwards depended upon his own labor for his subsistence. He worked on a farm for three dollars per month and in- creased his wages as he advanced in strength and years. At the age of sixteen he took a farm on shares in Durham, Greene County, N. Y., which he managed for four years; was one year employed as a foreman in constructing a road over the Catskills, and for one year, 1829, kept a hotel at Durham, during which time he served as postmaster under a commission from President Jackson. He married, in 1829, Ange- line (1811-81), a daughter of Joseph Moore, of Catskill, who settled in East Bridgewater in 1832, who with his wife were buried in the burial plot on the Foster farm-the neighborhood cemetery.

About two years after his marriage Latliam Gardner and wife, in 1832, removed to the little farm occupied by his father, which he himself had paid for some seven years before, and taken the title in his own name. He built the pres- ent residence of Mr. Freeman, bonght the Philo Luce farm adjoining, and in 1851 sold his en- tire property and purchased his present farm of two hundred acres in East Bridgewater of John F. Dunsmore, formerly the property where Alex- ander McCollum first settled. Here he has re- sided since, and is now in his eighty-second year of age. For twenty years Mr. Gardner bought stock in Bradford, Broome and Susque-

hanna Counties, and drove to New York, Phila- delphia and other markets, closing this business in 1861. He was a member of the Democratic party until the election of President Garfield, when he espoused the Greenback cause and voted for General Weaver, the Greenback can- didate. He was a candidate for sheriff at one time, and in 1884 for county treasurer on the Greenback ticket; but divisions in the party brought about his defeat in the former, and in the latter case his party was largely in the mi- nority. His children are Philo M., born in 1831, resides in Missouri ; Jane E., born in 1832, wife of Joel Griffin, a farmer at Heart Lake; Fanny Maria, born in 1834, wife of Harvey Griffin, postmaster and a farmer at Heart Lake; Dr. Edwin Latham, born in 1841 ; read medicine with Dr. Patrick at Mon- trose, where he had received his preparatory ed- ucation ; was graduated at Yale College ; practiced his profession at Montrose for several years ; was proprietor of Wyoming House, Scranton ; re- turned and practiced until 1884, and removed to Binghamton, N. Y. ; he became a member of the Susquehanna County Medical Society in 1869; Juliet Augusta, born in 1846, wife of F. H. Millard, a farmer in East Bridgewater; Harriet Angeline, born in 1849, died in 1860; Henri- ette A., born in 1851, wife of Stephen V. Trum- bull, of New Milford; and six children died young of this large family of thirteen. Addi- son married Emogene, daughter of Chauncy and Eliza (Belcher) Allen, by whom he has a son and daughter and resides on the homestead.

WILLIAM GARDNER, son of Jonathan Gard- ner, depended upon his own resources after his boyhood for making his start in life. He learned the trade of a mason and followed this business for many years during his early manhood, and worked in constructing the locks on the North Branch Canal. While at work on the Plains, near Wilkes-Barre, he formed the ac- quaintance of Margaret Ann (1811-75), a daughter of Frederick Wagner, a farmer on the Plains, whom he married and who bore him the following children : Eunice, born in 1835, wife of Mathew J. Harrington, of East Bridge- water ; Jonathan F., whose sketch follows, born October 19, 1836 ; James S., a farmer,

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near the homestead ; Mary died in 1871, at the age of twenty-six; Lydia A., wife of Major J. W. Young, of Minneapolis, Kansas, who raised a company in the county and served in the late Rebellion ; Ziba (1850-86), acciden- tally killed at Alma, Colorado ; and William Franklin Gardner, who resides on a part of the homestead left by his father. After his mar- riage, in 1832, William Gardner settled where his son, William Franklin now resides, and by subsequent purchases owned some two hundred acres of land. He erected the present residence in 1846. He was a man of untiring industry, great courage, correct habits and pure motives. He never sought political preferment, but ex- ercised the right of suffrage according to his own will. Himself and wife were buried at East Bridgewater, near the church.

JONATHAN FREDERICK GARDNER, eldest son of William and Margaret Ann Gardner, took the management of the farm into his own hands upon the death of his father, being then only eigh- teen years old. His early training had well pre- pared him for this task, and the property did not suffer for want of proper management, nor did the younger members of the family have less opportunities by the premature death of their father. After caring for the general busi- ness of the farm for twelve years, he, in 1867, bought one-half of the homestead property, and erected his present residence the same year, and at different times commodious out-buildings. He subsequently added thirty acres of land to his homestead, and in 1883 purchased the saw- mill property at New Milford (Keep property), which he carries on. Mr. Gardner is a thorough- going and intelligent farmer, and by untiring industry and judicious management has accumu- lated a fair competence. In 1862 he enlisted in Company C, commanded by Captain Young, which became a part of the One Hundred and Fifty-first Regiment, commanded by Col. Allen. The men being mustered in at Harrisburg, pro- ceeded to Arlington Heights, where they were kept on picket duty after the battle of Bull Run. Mr. Gardner was promoted to sergeant, and afterwards to second lieutenant. He en- listed for nine months' service; but unable to stand camp life, after five months lie resigned

his commission and returned home, where he has been engaged in farming since. His wife, born September 23, 1842, whom he married in 1866, is Harriet Elizabeth, a daughter of Rod- ney (1810-77) and Sally Maria (Bailey) (1814-51) Jewett, of Brooklyn township, whose farm property lay just on the line be- tween Bridgewater and Brooklyn. Her grand- father, Nathan Jewett, died 1860, and wife, Electa Fox, from Connecticut, settled on this property in 1810, and erected one of the first frame houses in that locality. Her mother, Sally Maria Bailey, was a daughter of Col. Frederick Bailey, and Mary Witter, his wife. Col. Bailey settled in Brooklyn township in 1807, and was the younger brother of Captain Amos Bailey, who came from Groton, Conn., and settled in the township in 1801. Col. Bailey served in the War of 1812. He had six sons and four daughters. The children of Rodney Jewett were Mary Electa, wife of Rev. Charles Blake, a Methodist clergyman, now of Rome, Pa .; Nathan Rodney, occupies the homestead settled by his grandfather Jewett ; Jennie A., wife of Benson Wood, a lawyer in Effingham, Ill .; Harriet E., wife of Jonathan F. Gardner ; Gertrude Eliza, wife of H. W. Bardwell, of Tunkhannock; Lavinia A., wife of W. H. Stark, a farmer in East Bridgewater ; Frederick Bailey, residing on the homestead formerly owned by his father, adjoining the property of his brother Nathan. The Baileys were Uni- versalists and the Jewetts Methodists.

The children of Jonathan F. and Harriet E. (Jewett) Gardner are Annie M., died in 1875, at seven years of age; and Benson the same year, at the age of two years; William Jewett ; and Jonathan Frederick Gardner, Jr.

The following is a list of the taxables in Bridgewater in the year 1823:

Alex. Allen.

Samuel Berkeley.

Chas. F. Allen.

A very Bolles.

Erastus Allen.

John Beand.

Walter Allen.

Eldad Brewster.

Rufus Allen.

Jonah Brewster.

Chas. Avery.

Medad Brush,

Hubbard Avery.

Jonas Bruslı.

Joshua Allen.

Wheeler Backster.

Phinehas Armes.

Elisha Bisby.

Iddo Armes.

Nathan Bennett.

Jas. D. Allen.

Samuel A. Brownson.

John Bard, Jr.

Isaac Brownson.

David Benedic.

Samuel Bard. Otis Bullard.

John Brutler.

J. J. Mancher

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Rufus Bowman.

Orimel Deans.

Isaac Hart.

Horatio Roherts.

George Bowman.

Elijah Deans.

Joseph Halley.

Merrit Risley.

James Boyd.

John N. Deans.

Samuel Hall.

Reuhen Reynolds.

Joseph Butterfield. Jolın Backus.

Zehulon Deans.

A. Hiuds.

Daniel Roberts.

Sarah Daniels.

Samuel Hunting.

Joseph Reece.

Samuel Backus.

Peter Davis.

David Jaquish.

Jacoh Roherts.

Nathan Backster.

Charles Davis.

Wm. Jessnp.

Israel Reynolds.

Curtis Bliss.

Davis Dimock.

Bela Jones.

Nathan Raynor.

Almon Barher.

Asa Dimock.

Alfred Jones.

Daniel Ross.

Salmon Bradshaw.

Robert Day.

Wm. Kerr.

Almon HI. Read.

Joseph Backus.

Lysander C. Day.

Luther Kellum.

Joshua W. Raynsford.

David Baldwin.

Jethro Dean.

Ezra Kingsley.

John Reynolds.

Stephen Bentley.

David Dimock.

Ahram E. Kennard.

John Robertson.

Marshall Bentley.

Benj. A. Denison.

Roswell Kingsley.

Wm. Rowley.

Salmon Bosworth.

Mason Denison.

Justus Kent.

Benj. Russell.

Adrian Bush.

Ezekicl Downer.

Nathaniel Lyons.

Sabin Robertson.

Joseph Beehe.

Joseph Darrow.

Spencer Lyons.

E. Rohinson.

Caleb Bush.

William Darrow.

Wm. Lewis, Jr.

John Robinson.

Scott Baldwin.

Rohert Eldridge.

Wm. Lewis.

Simon Stephens.

Samuel Baldwin.

Jeremiah Ethridge.

Amlierst Linsey.

Josiah Stewart.

Benj. Banker.

Henry Eaton.

Wm. Ladd.

Jacob Smitlı.

Alex. Barron.

George M. Eyre.

Reuben B. Lock.

Calvin Shepherd.

Nathan Brewster.

Elisha Furgo.

Jesse Lyons.

John Strond.

Amos Burrows.

Jason Furgo.

Nathan H. Lyons.

John Smith.

Walter Brown.

Jonas Fuller.

John Ladd.

Richard Smith.

Jesse Burrows.

Amos Frink.

Thos. S. Lillie.

Jonathan Sherman.

'Timothy Brown.

Win. Frink.

Benj. Lathrop.

Nehemiah Scott.

Lemuel Beehe.

Amos Fuller.

Asa C. Luce.

Thos. J. Scott.

Matthew Baldwin.

Edward Fuller.

Elisha Lite.

Benj. Jayne.

. Josiah L. Beebe. David Bushnell.

Isaac P. Foster.

Daniel Lathrop.

Horace Smith.

John Bennett.

Fordham & Herrick.

Butterfield Lathrop.

Lora Stone.

Elijah Bullard.

Abram Fordham.

Sylvanus S. Mulford.

Matthias Smith.

Polly Baldwin.

Fred. Foster.

Benajah Mckinsey.

John Shelp.

Nehemialı Baldwin.

Edward W. Fuller.

Ezekiel Main, Jr.

Christian Shelp.

Samuel P. Cory.

Benj. Fansker.

Harry Mills.

Henry Shelp.

Chester Cowles. Caleb Cook.

Asa Fessenden.

Sheldon Meacham.

Ahel Sherman.

George Craig.

Samuel B. Fessenden.

Wm. McMicher.

Christopher Sherman.

Thomas Crocker.

Daniel Foster.

John McLaud.

Jesse Sherman.

Luther Catlin.

John Fessenden.

A. Moody.

Walter Scott.

Hyde Crocker.

Samuel Fessenden.

Adomjah Moody.

John Street.

Benj. T. Case.

Jahez Frink, Jr.

Nathan Morgan.

Wm. Shepman.

Alanson Coy.

John Fancher.

Isaac Northrop.

N. Stephens.

Daniel Curtis.

Cyrus Freeman.

Cyrus Messenger.

Orrin Stephens.

George Clagget.

Richard Foster.

Everet Messenger.

Nathan Shipman.

John Champion.

Daniel Foster, (2d).

Thos. Meredith.

Josiah Stephens.

Henry J. Champion.

Jahez Frink.

Thos. H. Mussy.

John D. Stephens.

Erastus Catlin. Cyrus Chever.

Jos. Gregory.

David Meriman.

Philander Stephens.

Zephaniah Cornwell.

Levi Gregory.

Jonalı Mills.

Luther Snow.

Garret Clarke.

Ahel Green.

Jonathan Miles.

John Snow.

Noah Cook.

Levi Gregory.

John McMalmish.

Gideon South worth.

Josiah Churchill.

David Green.

Hugh McCollum.

Ebenezer Sprout.

Leman Churchill. Ira Cole.

Israel B. Gregory.

Amos Nichols.

Solomon Simons.

Josiah Crofut.

Aaron Greeu.

Samuel Newcomh.

IsraelG. Stebbins.

Augustus Convers.

John Newcomb.

Thos. A. Smith.

Richard Crips.

Hezekiah Nickerson.

Ahram Chamberlain.

Elisha Griffis.

Nathan Northrop.

Wm. Chamberlain.

Jos. W. Guernsey.

Peter Osborn.

.Samuel Chaniberlain.

Hiram Guernsey.

Asa Olmstead.

Edward Terpin. Steplien Trecy.

Harry Curtis.

Samuel Gregory.

John Palmer.

David Turrell.

Jesse B. Goodsell.

D. A. Price.

Moses Tyler. Win. Turrell.

Peter Graham.

Henry Patrick.

Benj. Hickox.

Asa Parke.

Wm. Thatcher.

Stephen Hazleton. James W. Hill.

Hiranı Plumb.

W. C. Turrell.

Samuel Hagdon.

Francis Perkins.

Dyer Taylor.

Austin Howel.

Joseph W. Parker.

Win. Turner.

Stephen Hinds.

John Phinney.

Eseck Thayer. Simeon Tyler.

Horace Carbine. Jaincs Catlin.

Asa Hartshorn.

Jacoh Perkins.

Chas. Turnhull.

Isaac Hubbard. Rachel Hewitt.

Isaac Perkins.

Almer Clark. James Deans.

Conrad Ilinds.

Jason Potter. Samuel Quick.

Nathan Taylor. Isaac Van Brunt. James Vales.

Warren Curtis.

Win. Gardner.

Henry Odell.

Sylvester Curtis. Nathaniel Curtis. Henry Clark. Henry Clymer. Jolin Chandler. Charles Catlin.

David Post.

Israel Taylor.

Henry Congdon. Lyman Cook. Thomas Carrier.

Mark Hinds.

Peres Perkins.

Ohadialı Green.

Alex. McCollnm.

Walter Stewart.

Ezekiel Griffis. John Griffis.

Alfred Stephens. Samnel Scott. Royal Tyler.

Jos. S. Gregory.

George Manger.

James Stephens.

Rufus Frink.

Jeremiah Meacham.

David Shearer.

Hiram Finch.

Rodney Lathrop.

Jonathan Silshee.

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C. F. A. Vales.

Ansel Watrous.

Stephen Vaughn.

N. Wilber.

Jonathan Vaughın.

Stephen Webb.

Ebenezer Whipple.

John Watts.

Cyrus Whipple.

Joseph Williams.

Samuel Wilson.

Esek Wood.

Joseph Watrous.

Jonathan Wood.

John Williams.

John Wood.

Caleb Wicks.

Jared Warner.

Walker G. Woodhouse.

E. Ward.

Samuel Warner.

Ebenezer Williams.

Thos. Wells.

Linas Watrous.

Milton Wood.

Reuben Wells.

John Walbridge.

James Wells.

Henry Walbridge.

Winthrop Wells.

John Whitely.

James Young.

Samuel West.

Wm. Young.

Wm. Wynne.

Israel Young.

Jonathan West.

Andrew Young.

Elias West.

Benjamin Young.

Phineas Warner.

HENRY J. KENT .- Justice Kent (1771- 1858), a young man, left his native State, Massachusetts, and settled in Windsor, N. Y., where he married, in 1795, Anna Stuart (1779- 1858). Here they resided until 1811, when they came to Brooklyn township, this county, and settled on the farm afterwards owned by his eldest son, David, and in 1886 by his grand- son, Justice M. Kent. He had visited the place the previous year and engaged a log house, which, upon the arrival of the Kent family, was occupied by Joseph Guernsey and family. The two families for six weeks lived in one room, four adults and twelve children-six in each family. Mr. Kent built a grist-mill (where Jewett's saw-mill now is) near the Bridgewater line, and Robert, his second son, tended it, although sometimes he did not have more than one customer a week. Justice cleared off a large part of his farm and brought its fields into a state of cultivation, and in this work, and in paying for the property, was assisted very much by his sons. On this farm he spent the remainder of his life, and died.

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Centennial history of Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, Part 67

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