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general court of Connecticut, 1643, and 1661 to 1677. Samuel Moore's wife, Damaris Strong, 1674 to 1751, was a daughter of Lieutenant Re- turn Strong, cornet 1689, lieutenant 1692, de- puty to general court 1689 to 1690. He was the son of Elder John Strong, of Windsor, Connecti- cut, and Northampton, Massachusetts, who was deputy to general court, Massachusetts, 1641-44. . Lieutenant Strong's mother was Abigail Ford, daughter of Thomas Ford, of Windsor, deputy 1637 to 1644, and 1654. The wife of Lieutenant Return Strong was Sarah Warham, daughter of Rev. John Warham, M. A., University of Ox- ford, 1619, a minister of the Church of England at Exeter, who became in 1629 ruling elder of the first church in Windsor, Connecticut, who with Rev. Samuel Maverick, the teaching elder of the same church and also a clergyman of the Church of England, were the first clergymen to settle in New England, coming in the ship "Mary and John," 1630. Mr. Warham married Mrs. Jane Newberry, widow of Thomas Newberry of Wind- sor. She was the mother of all of Mr. War- ham's children, and of Thomas Newberry's child- ren. The Rev. Mr. Warham was pastor of the Windsor Church until his death in 1670, over thirty years. He had three daughters, i. e., Sarah Warham, married Lieutenant Strong ; Abigail Warham, married Captain Allyn, son of Hon. Mathew Allyn, and Hester Warham, mar- ried Rev. Eleazer Mather and Rev. Solomon Stoddard, and her daughter Esther married Rev. Timothy Edwards. Thus his three daughters became ancestresses of a distinguished line of descendants who are scattered all over the United States. Mr. Hayden was a well edu- cated and enterprising man, a large dealer in real estate and timber, and lived at "Hayden Station." He was considered a man of large means. His house built in 1740 still stands at "Hayden Sta- tion." Lieutenant Daniel and Esther (Moore) Hayden had :
I. Esther, born November 28, 1736; married June 24, 1756, Captain Ebenezer Fitch Bissell, prominent in Windsor and in the Revolutionary war, of John Bissell, Windsor, 1640. They left issue. (See Stiles' "Windsor.")
2. Elizabeth, born June 6, 1738, died single, September 2, 1772.
3. Jerusha, born November 23, 1739, died March 20, 1830; married March 10, 1763, Major General Roger Eno, of Connecticut, of James Eno, 1635, whose patriotic and military service extended from 1756 to 1792. (See Eno Family, also "Magasine of American History," May, 1885, and "Arnold's Expedition to Quebec, by Codman and Abbott," 1903, pp. 344-363.) They left issue. (See Stiles' "Windsor," Hayden's "Virginia Genealogies.")
4. Daniel, born November 10, 1740; died 1742.
5. Daniel, born November 10, 1742; died March 30, 1815; married 1767, Tirzah Zeruiah Loomis, daughter of Nathaniel and Deborah Loomis, of Nathaniel, Josiah, Nathaniel, Joseph, 1638, and had issue.
6. Thomas, born January 14, 1745 ; of whom later.
7. Sybil, born December 28, 1746; died single.
Adjutant Thomas Hayden, third son of Dan- iel and Esther (Moore) Hayden, born January 14, 1745, baptized January 16. 1745, died Wind- sor, December 28, 1817, married November 19, 1767, his cousin, Abigail Parsons, born April 28, 1747, baptized June, 1747, died November 7, 1817, age seventy-two. She was a daughter of Moses Parsons, born Durham, Connecticut, Oc- tober 19, 1710, died February, 1791, and his wife Elizabeth Ventrous, born East Haddam, Connec- ticut, 1710-12, died May 10, 1790, age eighty. Moses Parsons was a son of Moses and Abigail (Ball) Parsons. His father was deputy to the general court of Connecticut from Durham, 1732- 34-38. He was the son of Hon. Joseph Parsons, of Northampton, Massachusetts, and his wife Elizabeth Strong, daughter of Elder John Strong and a sister of Lieutenant Return Strong, men- tioned above. Hon. Joseph Parsons was deputy to the general court of Massachusetts, 1693 to 1695, and 1706 to 1729; captain of Hampshire county militia, 1697 to 1727; justice, 1696 to 1702, also 1729; judge of court of common pleas, 1696 to 1719; commissioner of oyer and
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terminer, 1696 and 1718. He was one of the earliest lawyers in Massachusetts. He inherited from his father much valuable land, and was a man of unusual prominence in Hampshire county courts. He was the son of Cornet Jo- seph Parsons, of Northampton and Springfield, Massachusetts, the son of Richard Parsons, who was at Windsor before 1640, but returned to England. Cornet Joseph Parsons was, next to William Pynchon, the wealthiest man in Hamp- shire county. He was born at Great Torrington, Devonshire, England, about 1600, and died at Springfield, Massachusetts, March 25, 1684, aged eighty-four years. He declined every civil and military office in his colony on account of his other duties, but accepted the commission of cor- net of Hampshire county troops, 1678, during the early French and Indian wars. He was the brother of Benjamin Parsons, of Springfield, as the records of that town prove, the statement be- ing several times officially recorded. The con- trary deductions made on that point, at a great expense to the family of Benjamin, by the late Colonel Lemuel Chester, are proven to have no foundation in fact, his records showing that he never visited or made research at Great Torring- ton. (See Parsons Family). Cornet Parsons married, November 16, 1646, Mary Bliss, born England, 1620, died Springfield, January 29, 1711-12, daughter of Thomas and Margaret Bliss. (See "Cornet Joseph Parsons, one of the founders of Springfield and Northampton, Mass- achusetts, 1636 and 1655." by Henry M. Burt and Albert Ross Parsons, 1898).
Lieutenant Thomas Hayden, when his school days were ended, learned the trade of a carpen- ter, which occupation in those days necessarily included that of architect and builder. Two of the houses planned, built and owned by him over a hundred years ago, still stand, admirable and substantial monuments of his ability. One lo- cated at Palisado Green, Windsor, is now owned and occupied by his granddaughter, Sarah Hay- den, widow of the late General Amos Fowler. He also owned and cultivated his parental farm at "Haydens," but was not permitted to spend his entire life in peaceable pursuits. When the clash
of arms occurred at Lexington. April 19. 1775, and the news reached Windsor the following day. he was plowing in the field. Loosening his horse from the plow and harness, he sprang upon its back and rode express, carrying the news to Suffield as fast as his steed could bear him. He was one of the "Lexington Alarm" party which left Windsor for Lexington, Massachusetts, the next day, under command of his cousin. Captain Nathaniel Hayden; he served until July, 1775, when he became sergeant in the Simsbury com- pany, commanded by his brother-in-law, Captain Ebenezer Fitch Bissell. His skill as a builder led to his selection as superintendent of part of the fortifications erected at Roxbury, Massachu- setts, during the siege of Boston. He was ap- pointed sergeant-major, Eighth Continental Reg- iment, August II, 1775, second lieutenant Seven- teenth Regiment, January 1, 1776, first lieuten- ant, January 1, 1777. These two commissions were made by congress, and signed by John Han- cock. He was also made adjutant to Colonel Huntington, October 20, 1776. At Danbury, April 8, 1777, he was appointed adjutant to Colonel Zebulon Butler, then in command of Connecticut troops at that point. The very handsome sword which he purchased on this occasion, and which he used to the end of the war, may be seen in the Wyoming Historical and Geological Society. In August, 1777, he was on recruiting service at Windsor. In 1778, after three years active serv- ice, owing to the suffering for the necessaries of life then prevailing at Windsor, he resigned and was honorably discharged. After this neces- sity had passed he entered the service again as lieutenant in Provisional Connecticut Regiment. 1781. He was made first lieutenant Connecticut Regiment, June 20, 1782, and was honorably discharged with that command, 1783. His com- missions, sword, watch, ink-horn and orderly book used in the Revolutionary war are in the hands of his great-grandson. Rev. Mr. Hayden. (See "Proceedings Wyoming Historical and Geological Society." IX, 217). Thomas and Abi- gail (Parsons) Hayden had eleven children.
Horace H. Hayden, M. D., D. D. S., eld- est son of Thomas and Abigail ( Parsons) Hay-
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den, was born at "Hayden," near Windsor, Con- necticut, October 12, 1769, died Baltimore, Mary- land, January 26, 1844 ; married, Baltimore, Feb- ruary 23, 1805, Marie Antionette Robinson, born Dover, Delaware, July 22, 1778, died Baltimore, March 28, 1860, daughter of Lieutenant Daniel and Rachel (Nixon) Robinson, of Dover. Dr. Hayden was only fourteen years old when the Revolutionary war ended. His childhood was thus passed amid stirring scenes. Windsor was then largely destitute of men and he, like all other boys in Windsor, had to aid his mother to har- vest the crops on the farm. He was said to have been born before his time, for the varied work and discoveries which marked his life. Rev. Thomas E. Bond,D. D., LLD., his associate, wrote of him in 1844: "He was remarkable from his childhood. He learned to read almost as soon as he did to talk, and at once contracted that fondness for books which was so remarkable in all his subsequent life. Such was his industry and systematic application that at the age of four years he had read the Bible regularly through, and from early childhood to the day of his death the Bible was his favorite book." Schools were not numerous in that day, and Hayden began to study the classics himself at the age of ten. At fourteen, 1783, he made two voyages to the West Indies as cabin boy. At sixteen he began to learn his father's trade, and in 1790, when of age, he located at Point Petre. Guadaloupe, W. I., as an architect, but after two years was driven home by the fever and settled in New York City, about 1796. In those days few buildings were erected in the winter, so that during the winter of 1798 he became the first teacher of the First North School District of Hartford. In 1799 he had oc- casion to visit, for professional services. Dr. Greenwood, of New York City, then the only regular dentist in the United States, and the friend of Washington. He was so pleased with what he saw and learned that he borrowed from Dr. Greenwood the few books then extant on the science ,and prepared to enter the profession him- self. He removed to Baltimore, Maryland, in 1800, and continued his studies so assiduously that in 1802 he was able to begin his practice, the
only dentist in that city. He also entered the University of Maryland and studied medicine. At the same time, in 1800, he put into practice his limited knowledge of geology, then in its in- fancy in this country, and began his collection of minerals, the first known south of New England, where, at Yale College, a candle box was able to hold every mineral then in that institution. Dr. Hayden's collection is now a part of the mineral- ogical collection of Roanoke College, Virginia. Such was his proficiency in that embryo day of science in America that in 1810 he received the first license to practice his profession from the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland. His geological writings at that time attracted the attention of European geologists. He mastered the French language to enable him to study this science in that tongue. He served at the battle of North Point, 1814, as orderly sergeant of the Thirty-ninth Regiment, Maryland militia, and such was his medical standing that after the bat- tle he was sent into the hospitals as assistant sur- geon. In 1821 he published a volume of "Geolo- gical Essays," the first general work on that science ever issued in the United States, pro- nounced by his friend, Professor Benjamin Silli- man of Yale College, as worthy of being a text book in colleges. This book he dedicated to his personal friend, Judge Thomas Cooper, of the Pennsylvania judiciary, and distinguished as a scientist, but Dr. Hayden's faith was ever proof against the assaults of Cooper, with whom in religion he had no sympathy. He also wrote on the "Flora of Maryland," "Silk Worm Culture," "Intonation," "Pathology," and various other subjects, with all of which he was familiar. It is noteworthy that he left among his very early writing a manuscript lexicon of architectural terms, and many very fine drawings pertaining to his work. In 1840 he was associated with Dr. Chapin Harris, of Baltimore, in founding the Baltimore College of Dental Surgeons, the re- sult of years of private lecturing on the science to his own classes. He was the first president of this college, and professor of pathology from 1840 until his death. This was the first dental college in the United States. There are sixty
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such institutions in 1906. Dr. Hayden was also the founder and first president of the American Society of Dental Surgeons, and has been long recognized as the father of American dentistry. He received the honorary degree of Doctor of Medicine from the University of Maryland, and from Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia. He was a member of the Maryland Medical and Chirurgical Faculty, a founder of the Maryland Physical Association (now the Maryland Aca- demy of Science), member of the American Geo- logical Society (now the Association for the Ad- vancement of Science), of the Western Academy of Natural Science, honorary member of the Med- ical Society of Baltimore, the Medical Society of Orange county, New York, the Western Museum Society, the Dental Society of Virginia, etc., etc., and at the time of his death he had been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Northern Anti- quaries, Copenhagen, Denmark. Dr. Hayden was a musician, a lover of the gun and the rod, and a devout communicant and vestryman of St. Peter's Protestant Episcopal Church, Baltimore.
Lieutenant Daniel Robinson, the father of Mrs. Hayden, descended from Daniel Robinson, of Delaware, lieutenant and quartermaster in the Pennsylvania navy, 1776, succeeding Hon. John Dickenson in 1777 as member of the finance com- mittee of the state of Delaware, and in later life a lieutenant in the revenue service of the United States, son of Samuel Robinson, high sheriff of Kent county, 1741, of George, of George Rob- basson, of Dover, 1685, justice, 1702. Mrs. Hay- den was a devout "mother in Israel," her family in its various lines being church members and prominent in church and state. Dr. Horace H. Hayden had six children, born Baltimore, Mary- land.
Edwin Parsons Hayden, son of Horace and Maria A. (Robinson) Hayden, was born August 7, 1811. died Howard county, Maryland, May 10, 1850: married, Philadelphia, September 15, 1832, Elizabeth Hause, born Philadelphia, Au- gust 23, 1810, died Baltimore, July 3, 1887. He was educated at Baltimore College (then Uni- versity of Maryland), studied law at Yale Col- lege under Judge David Daggett (then profes-
sor of Jurisprudence)' 1830-31. The Yale Law School conferred no degrees until 1836. Mr. Hayden was admitted to the bar of Baltimore, 1832, but continued his law studies under Hon. Hugh Davy Evans, of Baltimore, the eminent ecclesiastical lawyer of his day. He located on his farm at Catonsville, Maryland, and practiced in Baltimore and Ellicotts Mills until 1840, when ne removed to the latter place, sold his farm, and built his future home. His practice was so suc- phia, whose land is still held in the family, after cessful that he left a good estate, when he died in his thirty-ninth year. He was a staunch Whig, but was elected by the Democratic vote to the Maryland legislature on the Whig ticket, 1846, and appointed March 10, 1847, by the gov- ernor of Maryland, clerk of Howard county court for the regular term of six years, the county clerks of Maryland being then selected by the Governor from the members of the bar in- stead of being elected. Mr. Hayden was a com- municant and a vestryman of the Protestant Episcopal Church. Mrs. Hayden was daughter of William and Catherine (Hull) Hause, edu- cated at private schools in Philadelphia. She was descended from Conrad Abel, of Philadel- 150 years, from Michael Hause, of Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, and - Jacob Hull, of Phil- adelphia, all soldiers of the Revolutionary war. in the Pennsylvania militia. Her father was an extensive builder and merchant in Philadelphia. She was also a communicant of the Episcopal Church. Edwin and Elizabeth Hayden had seven children, of whom
Rev. Horace Edwin Hayden, M. A., third SO11, was born Catonsville, Baltimore county, Maryland, February 18, 1837. married, Point Pleasant, West Virginia, November 30, 1868. Kate Elizabeth Byers, daughter of John A. Byers and his wife Charlotte Mary Davis, of Hancock. Maryland. Mr. Hayden lived in Howard county. Maryland. He was educated at St. Timothy's Military Academy, Baltimore county, Maryland, and Kenyon College, Ohio, from which college he received his degree of M. A. and graduated from the Virginia Theological Seminary, 1867. In 1859 he left college and engaged in teaching
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to finish his education, but when the Civil war began, and his school was disturbed thereby, he entered the Confederate States army, enlisting for one year, June 1, 1861, in the Howard county cavalry, at Leesburg, that company being com- posed of his own associates splendidly equipped and trained. It was attached to the regiment of Colonel Angus McDonald until July 20, 1861, when it became Company K of the First Vir- ginia Regiment, under Col. J. E. B. Stuart, Col. Fitzhugh Lee, and Col. William E. Jones, until in March, 1862, this regiment was reorganized, when with one-half his company he aided in forming the First Maryland Battalion of Cav- alry, and re-enlisted for two years from June I, 1862. He served in the field with his command until after the second battle of Manassas, Au- gust, 1862, when, having had some knowledge of medicine, he was placed in charge of the wounded of his command at Buckland, Virginia. In November he was relieved from this charge by the recovery of his comrades, and returned to his company for the valley campaign. In the sum- mer of 1863 Mr. Hayden was appointed hospital steward in the field and hospital, and ordered to Richmond, where the rest of his service was per- formed in active duty in the defences of that city. He was honorably discharged at the termination of his enlistment, July 6, 1864, but remained a volunteer in the Third Virginia Infantry until December 31, 1864, when, finally discharged, he entered the Virginia Theological Seminary to prepare for ordination to the ministry of the Protestant Episcopal Church, having been for five years a candidate for orders. After the abrupt ending of the war he remained at the sem- inary until his graduation. He was ordained deacon, by his cousin, Rt. Rev. John Johns, D. D. LL. D., June, 1867, and priest by Rt. Rev. F. M. Whittle, D. D., August, 1868. He was rector of Christ Church, Point Pleasant, diocese of Virginia, from 1867 to 1873, and rec- tor of St. John's Church, West Brownsville, dio- cese of Pittsburgh, 1873 to 1879. He became as- sistant minister to Rev. Henry L. Jones, S. T. D., rector of St. Stephen's Church, Wilkes-Barre,
Pennsylvania, November 1, 1879, which position he still holds after more than twenty-six years of service, at Plymouth, Laurel Run, Ashley and St. Clement's Church, Wilkes-Barre. He has been one of the examining chaplains of his dio- cese for over twenty years.
Mr. Hayden has been much interested in American history and genealogy, having pub- lished quite a number of titles, especially a work of eight hundred pages entitled "Virginia Gen- ealogies," which has brought him no little rep- utation as a genealogist. He has been for some years a life member of the Wyoming Historical and Geological Society, filling at this time the offices of corresponding secretary and librarian, historiographer, and curator, and has since 1894 edited all its publications. He is also a member of many historical, scientific and other societies, viz .: the Historical Societies of Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, Georgia, Kansas, Buffalo, etc. etc. ; the American and Southern His- torical Associations, Southern Historical Society, New England Historical Genealogical Society, Maryland Academy of Science, Anthropological Society of District of Columbia, Numismatic and Archaeological Society of New York, Antiquar- ian and Numismatic Society of Philadelphia, etc., etc. He is also a member of the Pennsylvania Society Sons of the Revolution, Military Order of Foreign Wars, Naval Order of Colonial Wars, War of 1812; Delaware State Society of the Cincinnati ; Society of the Army and Navy, C. S. A., in Maryland ; Franklin Buchanan Camp United Confederate Veterans ; member of the Free Library Commission of Pennsylvania, and many other organizations. He is also an honorary member, by right of long service, of Brownsville Lodge, No. 60, Free and Accepted Masons, hav- ing been made a Mason in Lodge No. 10, Rich- mond, Virginia, 1863.
Mr. John A. Byers, the father of Mrs. Hay- den, grandson of Dr. John Byers, of Delaware, who came to America from Scotland after the Revolutionary war, was a prominent civil en- gineer on the West Branch Canal, Pennsyl- vania ; the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, Mary-
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land ; and superintendent of the Western branch James River and Kanawha Canal Company, Vir- ginia, which the United States is now completing on the basis of his surveys. He was a master in every branch of his profession. To him is due the fact that his family gave eight civil engineers to Pennsylvania, including his nephews, Charles Byers, until his death chief engineer of the Phil- adelphia and Reading Railroad ; Joseph Byers, of the Pennsylvania Railroad, at the time of his death chief engineer of Coast Defenses, Empire of Brazil ; John M. Byers, who assisted the work of laying out the Central Railroad of New Jer- sey from Ashley and died superintendent of the Pittsburg. Virginia and Charleston Railroad ; Henry M. Byers, long superintendent of the Pittsburg and Erie Railroad ; Morton L. Byers, now engineer of maintenance of way, Missouri and Pacific Railroad system; and Maxwell L. Byers, now assistant manager Frisco System, Rock Island Railroad. Mrs. Hayden is a mem- ber of the Pennsylvania Society Colonial Dames by right of her colonial and Revolutionary ances- tors, and of the Black Horse Chapter, United Daughters of the Confederacy, by right of her husband, and also her brother, James Byers, who fell in battle at Newtown, Virginia, September, 1863, gallantly, serving as color bearer of the Eighth Virginia Regiment Cavalry, C. S. A. Mrs. Hayden's ancestor, John Weitzel. Esq., of Sunbury, was county commissioner at nineteen, justice of the peace at twenty-one, justice of the quarter sessions at twenty-two, a member county committee of safety, 1776, and of the Provincial "Conference of Pennsylvania which framed the constitution of 1776, when he was twenty-three years old, the youngest of the nine- ty-six delegates.
Rev. and Mrs. Hayden had two children :
Mary Elizabeth, born at Point Pleasant, Octo- ber 15, 1875, died Wilkes-Barre. December 26, 1879.
Horace Edwin, Jr., born Wilkes-Barre, Jan- uary 6, 1884, graduate of Harry Hillman Acad- emy 1900 ; graduated A. B., Princeton Univer- sity, 1905 ; now post-graduate in geology, Uni-
versity of Virginia. He is a communicant of St. Stephen's Church, Wilkes-Barre ; member of St. Andrew's Brotherhood ; and of R. E. Lee Camp, Richmond, Virginia, Sons of U. C. Veterans.
WARREN F. GOFF, a member of a prom- inent business firm of Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne county, Pennsylvania, was born in Monroe township, Bradford county, Pennsylvania. April 7, 1835, son of William and Anna (Decker) Goff, and grandson of William Goff, a native of Connecticut.
William Goff, Sr., of Connecticut, resided many years in Bradford county, Pennsylvania, clearing and cultivating a large farm in Monroe township, where he died at the advanced age of ninety-seven or ninety-eight years. His wife died ' aged ninety-four years. They had nine children : William, James, Hiram, George, Warren, Harry, Wellington, Lucinda and Christina, who became the wife of Samuel Dimmick.
William Goff, son of William Goff. Sr., was born and reared in Bradford county, Pennsyl- vania, educated in the public schools, and fol- lowed farming throughout the active years of his life, purchasing a farm when he was a young man and residing thereon until a few years prior to his death, when he located in Canal Dover, Ohio. He married Anna Decker, whose father. Mr. Decker, was one of the first surveyors in Brad- ford county, Pennsylvania, which he laid out, and where he resided until his death, in the early part of the nineteenth century, when he was in the prime of life. Mr. Decker had five children, namely : James, Wilson, William, Anna, and Maria. William and Anna (Decker) Goff had seven children, all of whom are living. Miller, who is now leading a retired life in the west ; Warren F., mentioned hereafter ; Maria, married Orrin Montgomery, deceased, she resides in the west ; Simcon D., a resident of Wilkes-Barre; Jane. married James King and resides in the west ; Lucinda, married Freeman Campbell, and resides in the west ; and Rose B., who also resides in the west. William Goff, father of these children,
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