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David Cash traveled considerably, and, after embarking in several enterprises, studied law at Nashville, and was admitted to the bar ; but being called home by the illness of a sister, he formed a partnership with his uncle, Simon Kinney, and took up his abode in Towanda. Here he married Mary Ann Spencer, who still survives. He held the offices of notary public, district attorney, prothonotary, and was a candidate for the State senate, but was defeated by Hon. Samuel Morris, of Luzerne county. Mr. Cash was also interested in the construction of the North Branch canal and of the Barclay railroad. He continued to reside in Towanda until his death, Sept. 18, 1864. George W., second son of Isaac Cash, went to Texas, where he enlisted in the war for Texan independence, was captured by the Mexicans, and put to death in cold blood by orders of Santa Anna. Another son, John Spalding, went to Texas, and met a similar fate as his brother. Daniel Shepard, the fifth son of Isaac Cash, was a blacksmith and went west, became deeply interested in the Lake Superior copper business, and died Jan. 4, 1869. Two other sons, Isaac and William K., and one daughter, Sarah M., are still living.
Abram Parmeter was among the early settlers of Ulster. He was a native of Boston, and when about fifteen years old enlisted in the Revolutionary army, and was in the battles of Stillwater and Saratoga, and at the surrender of
Burgoyne, and for his services drew a pension. He came to Ulster a single man, and, though never owning land, lived for many years on what is known as the Overton, now the Mather, farm. The family of Mr. Walker's mother, whose name was Patience Mills, came from New Jersey to the West Branch, and thence to Ulster in 1791, intending to settle in the State of New York, but the commotion attending the Indian treaty at Athens that year induced them to remain in Ulster until that affair should be ended. While the family remained here, Patience became acquainted with Mr. Parmeter, and they were married. Mr. Parmeter remained in Ulster until 1813, when he moved his family to the State of Ohio. The family of Mr. Mills moved to Canada, where land was offered gratuitously to settlers.
Chester Bingham was at Ulster at an early day. He was from Connecticut, and an extensive speculator in lands claimed under the Connecticut title. At one time he was considered wealthy, but by the failure of the Connecticut claim he lost everything. He had a brother Ozias, who re- sided just below the line of Ulster, in North Towanda township. His wife died in 1803, and soon after Mr. Bingham returned to Connecticut. Wanton Rice, who probably was at Frenchtown in 1793, was on the Bingham farm in 1809. At one time he lived in the neighborhood of Cayuta creek. Josiah Tuttle, of Sheshequin, married one daughter, and Josephus Campbell, of Burlington, mar- ried another. Mr. Bingham had sons, Augustus, Joseph, and Chester, who died young. Mr. G. H. Vandyke lives on part of the Chester Bingham farm.
Elijah Granger came from Suffield, Conn., in 1804, and lived where Alanson Smith now lives. He remained in Ulster but two or three years, when he moved to Athens, where he died December, 1814, at the age of seventy years. Alfred, a son of Mr. Granger, had moved to the Susque- hanna previous, and gave such a flattering description of the country that the father was induced to move his family to Ulster.
Thomas Overton, born in England, came from Luzerne county to Athens, where he resided a short time, and then purchased the Solomon Tracy place in Ulster. Here he kept a public-house for a number of years. He was a man of much enterprise and activity, and for many years the agent for Carroll and other land-owners. He died suddenly, and the place passed into the hands of Mr. Gibson. Mr. Mather lives there now. The place was noted for the militia trainings which used to be held there. The old Overton house was burned, and another has been erected on the site.
Abraham Brokaw, of Sussex county, N. J., drew the lot on his proprietor's right in Ulster, which was lot No. 12, and sold it to Mr. Tracy, who had formerly lived on the Cash farm.
Leonard Westbrook lived down next the Narrows at one time, and was an early settler in the town. The family were remarkable for their size and strength.
Above the Narrows, towards Milan, Joseph C. Powell lived. The place was known by those who ran the river as Powell's eddy. He was at one time sheriff of Bradford County. On the places next above were Joseph and Lock- wood Smith, brothers, from Westchester county, N. Y., who
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are mentioned in connection with the history of the Baptist church of Ulster and Athens. The Anthony estate is the farm of Joseph, and Abraham Snell lives on the Lockwood Smith property. Ezekiel Curry lived on the farm which belonged to the late Col. C. F. Welles' estate, his log house standing near where a brown house afterwards stood on this farm. He had a son, Ezekiel, Jr. Mr. Minier, who has been mentioned in connection with Athens, a German by hirth, lived on the place now owned by Myron Warner, Esq. He had sons, George, Abraham, who married Judith Burch, whose brother was Rev. Robert Burch, a preacher in the Methodist Episcopal church, and at one time pre- siding elder on the Susquehanna distriet, and lived at Ulster, Daniel, who lived in Wysox, and John.
William and Joseph Longhry were probably brothers, and early settled in Ulster. By deed dated Dee. 11, 1794, Reuben Fuller, of Tioga, conveys to William Loughry, of Tioga, a lot described as Nos. 1 and 2 of Ulster, and oppo- site New Sheshequin. William Loughry and Nancy, his wife, Joseph Loughry and Mary, his wife, of Ulster, con- veyed to Stephen Powell, of "Stamford town, Dutchess county, N. Y. State," the same land, by deed dated Oct. 6, 1801.
In the back part of Ulster is what is known as the Moore's Hill settlement, to which reference has been made in the history of the Reformed Presbyterian church. Clement Paine, of Athens, owned some property in this place, on the Burlington road, and had made some improve- ment on it, and Jeduthan, a son of Captain Adrial Simons, was living in the same neighborhood about 1820 to '25. Mr. Howie bought the place of Mr. Paine, and Peter McAuley was near him. Besides these there are families of Pollocks, Mathers, Dicksons, and others, names familiar to every reader of Scotch history. Mr. Gibson was a Scotchman, but settled at Ulster, and being among the first aided his countrymen in the selection of their homes and in the negotiations for their farms. The emigration began about 1822, and families continued to come for several years.
INCIDENTS.
At the upper end of Fish island was a shad fishery. In the year 1810 five hundred shad were taken here at a single haul.
The father of Lorin Kingsbury probably taught the first school. The school-house stood where the house is in which George Rockwell lives.
Eli Holcomb had a saw-mill near the mouth of Cash's creek. His son Truman probably built the first saw-mill on the creek back from the river. The first framed house built in the town was in 1818, of lumber sawed at Hol- comb's mill.
Thomas Overton built a grist- and saw-mill together on the river.
In the Luzerne Federalist of July, 1801, is the follow- ing paragraph : " Died of fever in Ulster (Old Sheshequin), Mr. Joseph Bingham, aged twenty, Master Chester Bin- gham, aged thirteen, sons of Chester Bingham ; Miss Polly Simons, aged thirteen ; Mrs. Sally Simons, wife of Capt. Adrial Simons ; Miss Todd, aged twenty-three ; and a son of Mr. Hibbard, aged seven."
" A fever which prevailed at Wysox and Sheshequin in 1803, and proved fatal to many young people of both sexes, abated during the summer, but broke out with virulenee the following winter."-Luzerne Federalist.
The village of Ulster, which for a time seemed to lack enterprise, has within the past few years exhibited new ac- tivity, and has witnessed material growth. It has a church- building, owned by the Methodists, a graded school, two hotels, several stores, steam grist-mill, and about sixty dwellings. The village is the natural outlet for business from parts of Smithfield and Sheshequin. It has a post- office, and the Pennsylvania and New York railroad com- pany has a depot at the town. As has before been said, the village occupies the site of the Indian town, and Cash's creek, which formerly bore the name of " Old Town ereek,' which divided the heathen from the Christian portion of the Indian settlement, runs through nearly the central part of the village.
Milan, three miles above and at the upper borders of the township, was formerly ealled Marshall's Corners, in honor of a prominent citizen there, but the name was changed to the shorter one of Milan. The Methodists have a house of worship here, and there are the post-office, store, hotel, shops, ete., a few dwellings, and a railroad depot.
There are in the township seven school districts, of which two are joined in the village of Ulster, and compose the graded school. In 1870 the total population was 1174, of which 1058 were native and 116 foreign, 1172 white and 2 colored.
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
GEORGE HAMMOND VANDYKE
was born in Towanda, Pa., Aug. 27, 1819 ; his father, Wil- liam Vandyke, having removed from Northumberland, Pa., to Towanda in 1812, where he died in 1860.
Mr. Vandyke is of Holland Dutch and Irish blood. At the age of seventeen he went into the lumbering business with his brother James, rafting lumber to Port Deposit, in which he was quite suecessful.
In 1846 he settled upon the farm he now occupies, near the village of Ulster. His education is chiefly of the prac- tical sort, he having attended school but three sessions, when quite young, walking five miles to school during that period. He is a good business man ; henee, although liberal, even generous to a fault, he has acquired a handsome prop- erty, owning, besides his farm, a saw- and grist-mill, hotel, ete., in Ulster.
He is a Demoerat in politics, but has not sought office, filling only such positions as justice of the peace, school director, town auditor, treasurer, commissioner, etc., which offices were not sought by him, but were offered by the voluntary suffrage of his neighbors, and which he filled faithfully and satisfactorily.
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SIMMONS CLARK HOVEY.
SIMMONS CLARK HOVEY
was born in Ulster, Bradford Co., Pa., Jan. 8, 1807, where he has spent his whole life. His mother was a daughter of Capt. Benj. Clark, a Revolutionary hero, who served seven years in the War of Independence, settling in Ulster soon after its close, having married Keziah Gore, whose first hus- band was killed in the celebrated Wyoming massacre. His father, Nathaniel Hovey, was an officer (ensign) in the War of 1812, and died at Sackett's Harbor during the war, leaving a wife, two sons, Simmons C. and William M., and a daughter, now Mrs. Hannah Horton. William M. died in 1850. His youngest son, Robert M., was adopted by his uncle Simmons, and carefully educated, and has been for some years general ticket-agent and paymaster, and now chief clerk, in the G., I. & S. railroad-office at Sayre, Pa.
The subject of this sketch received a good common-school education, and adopted farming as a profession, in which he has been very successful. He added to the small tract of land inherited from his grandfather Clark, by purchase at different times, till he owned an ample estate, where he resided till 1873, when he sold it and retired from active life to his residence in the village of Ulster,-still retaining, however, a farm on Moore's hill, purchased in 1837.
Mr. Hovey was married in 1829 to Miss Eleanor Boyce, who was born in St. Lawrence Co., N. Y., May 14, 1812, and whose parents settled in Sheshequin, Bradford Co., Pa., during the War of 1812.
For some years before and after his marriage, until their death, at the respective ages of eighty-seven and ninety-one, Mr. Hovey took care of his aged grandparents, Capt. Clark and wife, whose last days were rendered pleasant by the kindness of their filial grandson and his generous-hearted and sensible young wife, who has proven herself a true helpmeet, as well as a loving and devoted wife, a good neighbor, a useful member of society, and a devout member of the Methodist Episcopal church during her half-century of married life. Mr. Hovey joined the same organization at the age of seventeen, and has been an active and promi- nent member for over fifty years. He has been class-leader,
MRS. SIMMONS CLARK HOVEY.
exhorter, and local preacher, and in 1840 he was regularly ordained by Bishop Roberts.
The Hovey mansion has for a generation been the home of the Methodist minister, and the headquarters of Meth- odism in Ulster. Mr. Hovey has been an active promoter of education, serving for twenty-three years as school treas- urer. He also filled the office of town clerk for some years, and in all positions, public and private, he has acted his part well.
MRS. MARY ANN LOCKWOOD.
Anna, daughter of Isaac Cash and Sally Gore, and granddaughter of Obadiah Gore, Esq., was born March 8,
Mary Ann. Lock wood
1793, at Old Sheshequin. On Oct. 22, 1812, she married Dr. Robert Russell, who was a surgeon in the New York State forces in the War of 1812. He is supposed to have been killed during the war, as he was never heard from afterwards. Her mother died March 22, 1813, and her
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father a few weeks later, April 12. Anna, the oldest child, was barely turned twenty at this time, and was left with the care of her orphaned brothers and sisters, ten in number, as follows : David, born Dec. 7, 1794; Eliza, afterwards wife of John Wattles, born Nov. 28, 1796; Carassa, who mar- ried Morris Spalding, born March 13, 1798; George W., who was killed in Texas, born Sept. 16, 1800; Lord Gore, born May 13, 1802 ; John Spalding, who was shot near Saltillo, Mexico, born March 13, 1804; Daniel Shepard, born April 8, 1806 ; Isaac Jr., born May 19, 1808; Sarah, who married William Kendall, born Oct. 7, 1810; and William Kirkpatrick, born Nov. 28, 1812. Of these, David, the oldest, was eighteen years, and William a babe of four months. The latter was taken to his Uncle Nathan's, at Stafford, N. Y., where he was brought up. Daniel was taken in charge by one of his aunts. The others were kept in charge by Anna. Her labors were soon increased by the birth of a daughter, Miami (now wife of J. M. Pike, of Athens), who was born July 29, 1813.
On March 13, 1816, she married Col. Edmund Lock- wood. He was born at Watertown, Conn., Nov. 24, 1769. He there married Nancy Judson, by whom he had two chil- dren,-Caroline, who married Samuel Simons, and Charles J., who died unmarried. May 19, 1797, he was commis- sioned captain in the 8th Regiment of militia, by Governor Oliver Wolcott. May 28, 1802, he was promoted to the rank of major by Governor Jno. Trumbull. May 10, 1810, he received his commission as colonel of the same regiment from Governor John Treadwell.
About this time he removed to Baltimore, Md., and entered the service of Charles Carroll. He was soon after appointed by him agent for the sale of the Carroll lands in Bradford and adjoining counties, and removed to Smithfield, in that county. He soon formed the acquaintance of Anna, widow of Dr. Russell, whom he married as above. They took up their residence in Old Sheshequin, in a house built by her father. After this, the homestead now owned and occu- pied by Mrs. A. C. Jones was erected, where Col. Lock-
wood died, Jan. 16, 1834, aged sixty-three years. In her eighteen years of married life with Col. Lock wood she bore to him eight children, six of whom survive : Edmund, born Nov. 12, 1816; Abigail Carassa (widow of John Jones), born Sept. 14, 1818; Richard Caton, born Sept. 19, 1820 ; Samuel Simons, born Feb. 22, 1823; Mary Ann (wife of Daniel B. Walker), born Nov. 7, 1825; Phoebe Maria (wife of Henry Segar), born March 2, 1830; two others, Francis and Chas. Huston, died young.
During the more than thirty years of her widowhood, besides rearing her own children, she was more than a mother to perhaps a score of others, who at various times, and for longer or shorter periods, found a home beneath her roof. Her hospitable mansion was always open to the poor, the needy, and the unfortunate, and was often filled for days at a time by those who had no claim to her hospitality other than her invitation to share it with her. She had a very tenacious memory and good conversational powers. Having been born and reared on the spot which for more than three- score years was her home, she had a very wide acquaintance, and in her later years many people resorted to her for in- formation of the early history of the county. This she was fond of recounting. Though she was from a long-lived and healthy family, her later days were full of suffering from a cancer. She passed away on July 5, 1865, at her old home, surrounded by most of her children and in the full enjoyment of all her faculties, at the green old age of seventy-two years and four months.
Though the flowers have bloomed over her grave for more than a dozen years, yet her memory is still fresh and green in the hearts of many, not only of her immediate. family and friends but many a recipient of her bounty.
The home farm was divided among the children, and Edmund, Abigail, Mary Ann, and Maria occupy their por- tions. Simons exchanged his for a business-stand a few rods south, where he resides. Caton removed to Wellsburgh, Chemung Co., N. Y., where he has several farms and a planing-mill. Miami (Pike) lives at Athens.
WARREN.
WARREN is the northeast corner township of Bradford County. Its surface is very uneven, but at the same time there is but a small portion not susceptible of cultivation. The timber is principally hemlock, birch, beech, and maple, with some basswood, pine, cherry, and ash. The soil is gravel and loam. The crops consist of wheat, rye, oats, barley, corn, potatoes, grass, and flax.
The streams which drain the waters to the Susquehanna rise here. They afford good water-power for running ma- chinery on a small scale.
Previous to 1798 this section was an unbroken wilder- ness, inhabited by a few Indians and the wild beasts which roamed unrestrained over the hills and through the valleys.
In 1798, James Bowen, William Arnold, Mr. Harding, and Thomas Gibson came into Warren, then known as Martell, and made a clearing on the south branch of the Wappusening creek, at a place called for many years " the old clearing." But they found they were not on the tract of land they had designed settling on, and after obtaining their first crop they abandoned it and went farther north, to a place which has been known ever since as " Bowen Hollow," where James Bowen built a grist-mill on the middle branch of the Wappusening.
In the spring of 1800, Capt. Ebenezer and Jonathan Coburn, brothers, came, with their sons, from Connecticut, and bought under Connecticut title 23,040 acres of land,
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PHOTOS BY G H. WOOD
BENJAMIN LYON.
MRS. BENJ. LYONS.
RESIDENCE OF THE LATE BENJ. LYON, WARREN TP, BRADFORD COUNTY, PA.
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ANDREW DEWING.
MRS. ANDREW DEWING.
RESIDENCE OF' ANDREW DEWING, WARREN TP., BRADFORD COUNT'Y, PA.
RESIDENCE OF JOHN BEARDSLEE,WAR
HAM, BRADFORD CO.PA. ( DAIRY BUILDINGS ABOVE.)
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and made a clearing on the same farm where they lived and died. Very soon they learned that their title was worthless. But they were men of courage and energy,- men who could, with brave hearts and stalwart arms, en- counter, grapple with, and overcome every obstacle in the way of their making a home for themselves and their de- scendants. The following spring they moved their families from Connecticut to the new settlement, Clement Corbin and his family coming with them. On their arrival at Martell they found Bowen, Arnold, Fairbanks, and Gibson, who had moved in with their families the season before, and made clearings. "The wild beasts of the forest sup- plied them with meat, and they laid the whole country on the Susquehanna river from Wysox to Binghamton under contribution for their bread, and at times found a scanty supply there. Seneca Allyn, now living in Warren, says he went with a horse to the Wysox flats, thence up the river to Owego, before he could find any grain that he could buy ; and he bought two bushels of wheat, put it into a skiff, because there was no way to get his horse across the river. He then took the grain on his shoulders and carried it two and a half miles to get it ground, then shoul- dered it again and brought it back to the river, where his horse was left- fasting, for the very good reason that he could get nothing for him to eat."*
William Arnold and Elizabeth, his wife, came from Swan- zey, Mass., to Warren, in the year 1799. They brought with them three sons,-James, William, and Andrew,-all of whom lived to be aged men, and reared families. The fourth son-Benedict-was born in Warren, and was the first child in the township. Their oldest daughter-Pa- tience-married a Mr. Green, a sea-captain, and did not come to Warren with her parents. Elizabeth Arnold died in Warren when fifty years of age, about the year 1801. Her husband died about seventeen years after, sixty-two years of age. After the death of Mrs. Arnold he married for a second wife a woman by the name of Mapes, who sur- vived him several years. Brown and Ives, the land-owners, were anxious to induce settlers to come upon their lands, and made great inducements to secure the settlement of the first-comers upon their lands. The first pasture-field and meadow which the settlers possessed was an old beaver meadow, in which their only cow found pasture during the summer, and where they cut hay to keep her during the winter. There being no mill nearer than the river, Mr. Arnold made a mortar in the top of a hollow stump in front of his door.
During the summer or fall of 1800 the first white child was born in Warren,-a son of James Bowen,-and was christened Harry ; and a few weeks later Benedict Arnold was born ; and Aug. 10, 1801, A. S. Coburn, son of Parley Coburn.
In 1804 there were fourteen taxables, } viz. : William Arnold, J. Bowen, Henry Billings, Ebenezer Coburn, Par- ley Coburn, Jonathan Coburn, Moses Coburn, Jr., Amos Coburn, Payson Corbin, Thomas Gibson, Ebenezer Lee, and Roswell Lee.
Mrs. Oliver Corbin, now past ninety years of age, and whose recollections of Warren seventy years ago are clear and distinct, says, " The Arnolds lived about two miles south of us. There was a family of Spaldings, who lived in their neighborhood, when I first remember anything about the settlement. I know but little of him, except that he had the reputation of being somewhat peculiar. Andrew Coburn practiced medicine a little, but generally we had to get well as we got sick.
" Ruth Dewing was a daughter of Ebenezer Coburn. Her first husband was a Dewing. She came to Warren with her father, and afterwards married Joseph Armstrong. She had lived with her brother Amos until he married a daughter of Maj. Platt, of Nichols. She was a very ex- cellent woman. The Armstrongs came in as late as 1817 or 1818. He lived on the turnpike, near Alexander De- wing's. Mrs. Dewing had by her first husband four sons, -Jeremiah, Andrew, Alexander, and Edward. Jeremiah was a Presbyterian preacher, and had a son, Thomas S., who was also a preacher, and at one time pastor of the Second church in Wyalusing. Andrew was living a short time since. Alexander married Miss Piollet, of Wysox, and died recently. Edward and Jeremiah are also dead. Mr. Armstrong and his wife died in Warren.
" Luther Buffington lived in the Bowen neighborhood. Preserved Buffington, from Providence, R. I., was a brother of Mrs. William Arnold, and came from the same neigh- borhood. He lived in South Warren, on the farm Samuel Chaffe now lives on. His sons were Luther, Calvin, and Benjamin. A daughter, Sally, married Livingston Jenks. He lived on the farm now occupied by Esquire Burbank. He had a store and done trading for some years. He had a large family of children. He was justice of the peace for a number of years. He moved there after 1808. Reuben Jenks was a brother of his. The family moved west.
" Rev. Salmon King was a prominent man in the township, but not an early settler, but I think the first minister who settled in the township. He was pastor of the Presbyterian church in Warren, and remained there until his death.
" Capt. Case also was a settler in the township. He had a son, Benjamin, who was a lawyer, and married a sister of Andrew Coburn, and Andrew Coburn married his sister.
" Nathan Young married a Merrill. They had been re- cently married when they came to Warren in 1815, and settled on the turnpike, a short distance from Alexander Dewing's. He had two sons : Nathan, who is on the home- stead, and Oscar F., who lives in Rome, Pa. Mr. Merrill moved into the county with Mr. Young, and lived near him.
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