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There were twelve distilleries within four miles of Bow- man's; among them, Reuben Hale's, Thompson's, Ebenezer Tuttle's, Means', Widow Pladnor's, Stephen Wilcox's, Joseph Wallace's, and Johnson's.
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The first school was taught in the town in 1801, by Polly Fowler, in a log house in the midst of the hickory orchard below Lawrence Rockwell's, on the south side of the creek.
INCIDENT AND REMINISCENCE.
Jonathan Fowler being sick, his wife, Sally, went out of the house one night to procure some leaves or herbs for his use, having a pine toreh in her hand. Hearing a noise be- hind her, she turned and saw a bear standing up on his hind legs, as tall as herself. She ran into the house, and the bear made his supper on fresh pork, killing it himself. Bruin was killed in turn the next day.
A gang of counterfeiters had a retreat under an over- hanging rock up the Millstone run, about a mile above Weston's, where they manufactured " spelter,"-counterfeit coin. The gang was broken up and the resort abandoned.
The discovery of coal on Barclay mountain was made by Edsall Carr, who, not knowing what it was, reported that he had found iron or coal. A party went up to see it, among them Jared Leavenworth, a blacksmith, who was the first to use the coal for his work. It was first brought down the mountain on sleds, and then reloaded on wagons.
John Fox, father of Miller Fox, hauled the first load to Towanda, and afterwards took five tons to Ithaca, and sold it for a eutter.
" Bill" French was a hunter, and in one of his early excursions he found three young animals playing about in a windfall, and not knowing what they were, he picked up two of them, when two large animals of a species he had not before met pounced down upon him. He, however, clung to the kittens, and beat off the parents, and at Ab- salom Carr's house found out his kittens were young pan- thers. Carr expressed much surprise that French escaped with so little injury, and went back to the windfall to look for the third kitten, but it had disappeared ..
French afterwards had an adventure with a panther, which did not result so profitably to him as his first one
did. He struck the track of the animal just before dark, and followed it until darkness had fully set in, when the game took refuge in a tree. It was too dark to aim with certainty, so he took the lock from his gun to strike a fire with the flint, and by accident built the fire over it; the heat took the temper out of the lock and his design was defeated. He resolved to wait till morning, and then make a new attempt on the game. But Morpheus soon engaged his attention, and he fell fast asleep, the panther still over his head in the tree. When French awoke the next morn- ing the panther was not to be seen, having decamped during the hunter's sleep.
French found a den of rattlesnakes one day, where some twenty-five or thirty of the reptiles were sunning themselves. He caught these, confined them in a box, and took them to Philadelphia.
The borough of Monroe is situated near the northern line of the township and centrally east and west. It was in- corporated in 1855. The Barclay and the State Line rail- roads effect their junetion in the borough.
It contains three churches, a number of stores, Masonic hall, foundry, and about one hundred dwellings.
Masontown, or Mason's Mills, two miles above the borough, has extensive mills, and there was formerly a eloth- dressing and manufacturing establishment connected with it, and enjoys a very superior water-power.
At Greenwood is one of the largest tanneries in north- ern Pennsylvania, and the toy and wood-turning of Hawes & Co., both of which, in their lines, are doing an extensive business.
The valleys of the Towanda and its branches are broad, fertile flats, well adapted to tillage ; between the streams the land is high and the hills steep. Hollow Hill, Liberty Corners post-office, named in honor of one of its prominent settlers, is a fine grazing region.
Post-offices are established at the borough, at Liberty Corners, and in the southern part of the town, called the South Branch post-office.
NORTH TOWANDA.
THE incorporation of the borough of Towanda so com- pletely separated the two parts of the township that it made a division practically necessary for the convenience of the inhabitants residing in the two portions of it, the upper part taking the name of North Towanda. It is em- braced in the certified Claverack, and for many years, in connection with the Hornbrook neighborhood, formed the most important settlement in that township. Under the rule of the Susquehanna company, the owner of a township was obliged to have a certain number of actual settlers upon his grant within a certain time, or the deed was for- feited. Capt. Solomon Strong, of the State of New York, but living for a number of years in the Lackawanna valley, and Jeremiah Hogaboom, of the city of Hudson, N. Y.,
were the principal owners of the township of Claverack and managers of its settlements. They immediately, after the declaration of peace, began to exert themselves to procure settlers for their township, and in the years 1785, '86, and '87 the town was pretty well filled up.
Among the first of these was Ezra Rutty, who came from Pawling's precinct, Dutchess Co., N. Y. The family is of Dutch origin, and in the early documents in New York the name is spelled Ruttee. When Mr. Rutty came on his place, where the old Rutty house is still standing, there were a few friendly Indians living near the creek, for the purpose of making baskets from the willows which grew in the marshy ground thereabouts. These Indian squaws took a great liking to Mr. Rutty's little son, and would
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HORACE GRANGER.
RESIDENCE OF HORACE GRANGER, NORTH TOWANOA, BRADFORD CO., PA.
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RODERICK GRANGER.
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carry him about in their baskets, sometimes to the amuse- ment, but more frequently to the alarm, of the mother. Mr. Rutty and his oldest son each took up a hundred acres of land, known as lots numbered 46 and 47. The commis- sioners under the compensation law of 1799, where the claim was made on the ground of settlement, required proof of the settlement. It was shown, and Judge Cooper says assented to generally and proved by the deposition of Abial Foster, that Strong's conditions of settlement were that one hundred acres were granted to each person who became an actual settler previous to given date. On this ground Mr. Rntty preferred his claim for the two hundred acres. On the commissioner's doeket is this entry : " Abial Foster deposes to claimant (Ezra Rutty) and his son coming into Claverack under Strong and Hogaboom, in 1785. Henry Salisbury deposes that, in 1785, Strong mentioned to de- ponent the name of Rutty and his son as among the settlers then in Claverack." Mr. Rutty purchased also three hun- dred acres on Sugar creek, being numbers 41, 42, 43, on a proprietor's right laid to Amos Franklin, and by various eon- veyances to claimant. These five hundred aeres comprised what has been known for almost a century as the Rutty farm, and which has been in the ocenpaney of the descendants of the pioneer ever since. The old house on the north side of the creek is the oldest house in the neighborhood.
In an assessment of Towanda township made for 1809, Ezra Rutty is rated for a house at $150, 80 acres of im- proved, 380 unimproved land, 4 horses, 2 oxen, 4 cows, and a distillery, with a total valuation of $1580 ; and the assess- ment of his son Samnel, who was rated with 2 houses, 30 acres improved and 220 unimproved, was set over to Ezra Rutty, Jr.
In the same year (1785) Jonas Smith and his son Nathan took up two hundred aeres, bounded by the river and Sugar creek, and' known in the subdivision of the township as numbers 69 and 70. He probably came from eastern New York, about the time if not with Mr. Rutty, as they were from the same neighborhood. Previous to 1802 the elder Mr. Smith died, leaving his wife Marcy, and sons Nathan, Joseph, John, Charles, Jesse, and daughters Lydia and Sarah. The family is still represented in the town- ship, although some of them have joined the great tide of emigration to the west.
Daniel Guthry was also an early settler in the Sugar creek region. His name is on the Claverack list. He probably came about 1786, not later than that, and in 1791 sold his elaim to Abial Foster, and probably left the eoun- try, as his name is not found afterwards upon our records.
Isaac Foster and his family came early in the township, and have ever been an important and influential family in the township. In 1785 or 1786, Isaac, Rufus, and Abial Foster came into the township; the latter two were young men, having hardly reached their majority, and the former was appointed agent by Strong and Hogaboom, to procure settlers to come upon their lands. Isaae came with a family. Rufus married a daughter of John Franklin, of Plymouth, who was killed in the battle of Wyoming. Another sister was the wife of Hugh Rippeth. Rufus Foster was one of the early members of the Presbyterian church of Wysox, and for many years one of its ruling elders. Like the
Ruttys, the Fosters have some of them clung to the old homestead, while others have, in the spirit of adventure which characterizes the American, gone to other localities seeking for wealth or fame. Hon. James Foster, now a mem- ber of the State legislature, belongs to this pioneer family.
Ozias Bingham, a brother of Chester, of Ulster, was an early settler, near Hemlock Run, in the northern part of the township. He subsequently moved into Wysox. In 1809 he was assessed for 10 acres of improved land, 20 unimproved, and a valuation of $100.
Frank Watts, who came from about Northumberland, and was a brother-in-law to William Means, having married his sister Jane, was among the early settlers in North To- wanda. He died previous to 1809. On the assessment of 1809, the estate is assessed to his widow, consisting of a house, thirty acres of improved and ninety of unimproved land, two horses, and one cow, with a total valuation of $225.
Mr. Mills was another settler in North Towanda, but not as early as those mentioned. The stone tavern, just on the north side of the creek, on the main road from Towanda to Waverly, was, in the days of stages, a well-known and well- patronized house of entertainment.
Nathan Coon lived up Sugar ereek about a mile above Mr. Rutty's. He probably left about 1809. His property de- scribed as a house, seventeen aeres of improved land, one hun- dred and twenty unimproved, and a valuation of $153, which, on the assessment, is marked transferred to Andrew Gregg.
Martin Straton lived at the old pail-factory. He married a daughter of Ezra Rutty, and in 1809 had a house, twenty acres of improved and eighty of unimproved land, and a valuation of one hundred and forty dollars.
The town contains three school districts. In 1860 the population was 580 white and 2 colored; in 1870, 522 native and 70 foreign, 588 white, 4 colored, a total of 592.
It lies between Ulster on the north and Towanda on the south, the Susquehanna on the east, and Burlington on the west. The Sugar ereek runs through the township from west to east, and a number of small streams come into it from each of the hill-sides that bound the creek valley. North Towanda is the smallest in area of the townships of the county. Along the ereek, and between the creek and the river on the south, the soil is adapted to grain-raising. On the north the land is higher, and the soil is not so easily cultivated. The near proximity of the borough of To- wanda makes a ready market for all farm prednce, and the street running north from the borough is being rapidly filled up by residents, and from time to time the enlargement of its lines has encroached upon the original limits of the township. There is not a church building or store in the township, the people going to Towanda for religious privi- leges or the purchase of goods.
About 1796, Isaac Foster built a grist-mill near the mouth of the creek. In 1799, Jacob Myer enlarged and improved it. Isaac Myer, a son of his, was in possession for many years, when it was popularly known as "Myer's mills." They have been rebuilt, enlarged, and improved from time to time, so that they have fully kept abreast the best struc- tures in the county. Abiel Foster built a mill at what is known as the pail-factory. There is now a saw-mill there, the pail-factory having been abandoned.
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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH.
EZRA RUTTY.
The subject of this sketch was born in North Towanda, Bradford Co., Pa., Sept. 18, 1823, and was the youngest child of a family of eight children. His father, Ezra Rutty, Sr., came with his parents, about the close of the Revolu- tionary war, from Dutchess Co., N. Y., and settled in North Towanda, where he purchased about 800 acres of land, and soon after the death of his father received from the State a deed patent for it, dated 1814, which is now in
the possession of his sons. He was foremost in forwarding the erection of the first schools and churches in his vicinity, and was a learned student of the Bible. He died in June, 1855. His son, Ezra, Jr., received a good common-school education, and is now occupying the old homestead. He married, June 7, 1843, Miss Ellen Wilson, of Wheeling, Va., who was born Nov. 14, 1826. The fruits of this union were five children, viz. : Jacob, Clara, Cora, Jackson, and Henry. Jacob died in his nineteenth year, and Henry in infancy. A view of the old homestead, together with the portraits of Mr. Rutty and wife, can be seen on another page of this work.
ORWELL.
THE geographical position of Orwell places it between the townships of Windham and Warren on the north, Warren and Pike on the east, Herrick on the south, and Rome on the west. The Wysox creek passes through the western portion of the town, emerging into Rome near the centre of the boundary between the two towns. Johnson's and Jerome's creeks water the south and southeastern parts of the town, and some small creeks rise in the northeastern portion.
The town was originally covered with a heavy growth of beech, maple, and hemlock, with some pine.
In April, 1801, the court of Luzerne county appointed Ezekiel Hyde, Josiah Grant, and William Spalding com- missioners to erect a township embracing the territory of the present Orwell, who, at the November session, reported the following bounds : "From the fifty-second mile-stone on the north line of the county and State running south twelve miles, fifty-one chains, and fifty links, to the south line of Tioga district; thence east eleven miles, thence north twelve miles, thence west eleven miles to the place of beginning." The report was approved by the court, and the township named Mt. Zion. In April, 1802, on petition of Ebenezer Coburn and others, the name was changed to Orwell, from a town of that name in Vermont, from which many of the settlers came.
In 1850, Orwell had 1241 inhabitants; in 1860, 1420; and in 1870, 1296, of whom 28 were foreign born.
SETTLEMENT.
The first settlement in the present town of Orwell was made in 1796, near Ransom's Corners, by Dan Russell ; Francis Mesusan came to the same place a short time after- wards. The township was surveyed that year in the month of May. Capt. Josiah Grant came to the township, accom- panied by Mr. Mesusan, about the same time, and made a beginning, but went back to Vermont, and did not return to Orwell for a permanent settlement until 1798.
Dan Russell lived just below the forks of the road
from Rome to Orwell hill, on the place now occupied by his grandson, Stephen Russell. Edward Gridley now occu- pies the Mesusan place.
Mr. Russell was born in Tolland Co., Conn., Sept. 26, 1770 ; was married Nov. 21, 1791, to Polly Chubbuck. He left Connecticut in the spring of 1794, and came to Shepard's creek, near Waverly, N. Y., and in his search for a location came to Orwell, on the Wysox creek, where he made a clearing and a farm, and reared a family of eleven children,-five sons and six daughters. He made the clearing in 1794 and 1795, but lived at Sheshequin a year, until the summer of 1796, where his second daughter was born.
His plan was to go by marked trees through the forests, with a sack of provisions on his back sufficient for five days or a week. In this way he worked the first season, and the next year he drove in a pair of cattle and a sled with his family. Two brothers of his wife, Ebenezer and Nathaniel Chubbuck, came and settled near him afterwards ; the latter had ten sons and two daughters. Here Mr. Russell toiled and struggled against the obstacles necessarily contingent upon the settlement of a wild country, and so well did he apply himself to the almost herculean task, that his farm was the best on the stage-route from Towanda to Montrose. His children, with one exception, who died single, were all married and settled within five miles of his homestead. They in turn cleared away the forests and reared families, until the number of his posterity bad in his life-time become more than one hundred souls. His children were as follows : Polly, born in Tolland, Conn., Jan. 29, 1794; Eunice, born in Sheshequin, June 23, 1796 ; Lydia, born in Orwell, Feb. 4, 1798; Roswell, born July 17, 1800; Candace, born March 21, 1802; Harriet, born Feb. 6, 1804 ; John, Nov. 2, 1806 ; Burton, Sept. 8, 1808; Dan, Nov. 2, 1810 ; Nathaniel, May 19, 1812 ; Tompson S., born of second wife, Sept. 2, 1821.
Asahel Johnson and Zenas Cook came first to Sheshe- quin in the winter of 1795-96, and made that settlement
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RESIDENCE OF EZRA RUTTY. NORTH TOWANDA, BRADFORD CO., PA.
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their headquarters while they explored the country for a location. They made their selection in Orwell, Mr. John- son purchasing on Towner hill. Their report was so flat- tering, several of their neighbors determined to come also ; a company was formed, and Marks and Cook were sent to view the land more thoroughly. Their report being favor- able, the company purchased the township, which was to be divided among its members. Mr. Johnson remained a year at Sheshequin, and came into Orwell permanently in 1797. The town was six miles square, and was called Mendon ; Mr. Johnson owned 3000 acres. He lived where Albert Conklin now lives, and his brother Truman, who came in 1796, lived on the farm now owned by Albert Allen and Lewis Darling. Ilis brother William lived where Zebulon Frisbie lives. The family came from Bur- lington, Litchfield Co., Conn.
JOHNSON GENEALOGY.
Artemas Johnson, born April 5, 1740, died Aug. 14, 1784. Mary, his wife, born June 25, 1747, removed to Orwell in 1819, where she died Oct. 23, 1820. Their children were Edmund, born April 23, 1765, died April 10, 1767; Asahel, born Feb. 28, 1768, died in Orwell, Nov. 25, 1857; William, born April 14, 1772, died in Pike, Sept. 6, 1853; Truman, born Oet. 9, 1775, died March 14, 1831 ; Mary, born Sept. 13, 1780, married John Cowls, and lived in Orwell, died 1810.
Edmund, born March 24, 1782, came to Orwell, bought a farm, returned, married in Connecticut, but died, before reaching Orwell for settlement, in 1810.
Elizabeth, horn Oct. 1, 1784, died 1827; never came to Orwell.
Asahel Johnson married Beulah Hitchcock, born Feb. 19, 1770, died Sept. 13, 1851. Their children were Lydia ; Artemas ; Simeon, now living in Illinois; Amanda, Char- lotte, married Chauncey, son of Capt. Josiah Grant, and died May 9, 1840; Joel, born at Orwell, May 17, 1799, and still living in the town ; Wealthy ; Julia; Clarissa; Lydia, married Harry Wilson, and lives in Warren ; Nelson ; and Mary. Truman Johnson married a sister of Joel Cook, and went west for eight or ten years, and returned and settled in Pike.
Capt. Josiah Grant, who settled in the town in 1798, came from Vermont. He was a captain in the Continental army during the Revolutionary war, serving under Col. Ethan Allen, whose cousin he was, in his brigade of " Green Mountain boys." His family consisted of the following children : Cyprian, Rhoda, Ruth, and one who died young, by his first marriage, and Josiah and Chauncey, by his second wife. Cyprian settled first near his father, but afterwards moved to Wysox, where he died from injuries received from the kiek of a horse. Rhoda married Chester Gridley ; Ruth married a Mr. Sprague, and removed from the town; Josiah married a daughter of Capt. Ralph Martin, of Wysox, and lived on the farm on which Josiah Newell now lives ; and Chauncey went west in 1838, where he still resides. Capt. Grant lived about 100 rods west of the present site of the Presbyterian church in Orwell.
Samuel Wells, who married a sister of Asahel Johnson, came from Burlington, Vermont, and settled on the farm
just south of Johnson, in 1799. His oldest son, Theron, now owns the property.
Capt. Samuel Woodruff came also in 1799. He was a Revolutionary soldier, and came from Litchfield, Conn. He was a brother of Capt. Grant's wife. He had four children, Nathaniel, Benjamin, Clarissa, and another daughter, who married Adarine Manville, one of the carly settlers of Or- well. Nathaniel never came to Orwell to reside; Benjamin went west; and Clarissa married Dr. Seth Barstow, who settled on the Pool place in Wysox. Capt. Woodruff settled on the farm now occupied by Josiah Newell. He sold to Josiah Grant, Jr., whose daughter married James, the father of Josiah Newell. Capt. Woodruff then went to reside with his daughter, Mrs. Barstow, and died there.
Levi Frisbie came to Orwell from Bristol, Connecticut, in February, 1800. His wife was the daughter of Aaron Gay- lord, who was slain in the battle of Wyoming. After the battle the widowed mother with her three children went back to Connecticut, where Levi was married to her eldest daughter. Levi Frisbie, Richard Marks, Asahel Johnson, Willianı Johnson, Truman Johnson, Zenas Cook, Asa Upson, and perhaps one or two others, formed the company, which, at the solicitation of Col. Ezekiel Hyde and Elisha Tracy, agents for the first Delaware company, purchased of these agents a township of land six miles square, as before stated, extending north and east from the present Orwell. Zenas Cook was the surveyor. Although they discovered the Connecticut title was worthless, yet so pleased were the company with the country, that they determined to settle herein.
Mr. Frisbie came on the place where the Hen. Zebulon Frisbie now resides. There had been a small clearing of some two or three aeres made, and a log house rolled up by Deacon William Johnson, who had removed into . Pike. This log house stood a few rods from the present residence of Z. Frisbie. Levi Frisbie was born in Bristol, Conn., Jan. 31, 1758, and died October 5, 1842. He married Phebe Gaylord, who was born in Bristol, Conn., Nov. 19, 1769 ; married Dec. 20, 1786; removed to Orwell, Pa., 1800 ; she died Oct. 5, 1851. They had six children, Chaun- cey, Laura, Catharine, a son who died in infancy, Levi, and Zebulon. Chauncey, born Nov. 16, 1787, married Chloe IToward, March, 1812, and after her decease married Eliza, relict of Dudley Humphrey, M.D., and died May 4, 1864. Several children of his died in infancy, three only arriv- ing to maturity, viz. : Hanson Z., Phebe M., and George Chauncey. Laura was born Jan. 1, 1790; married Ira Bronson, of Burlington, Conn .; had no children, but adopted Laura, a daughter of her sister Catharine. Cather- ine, born April 1, 1792, married Abel Eastabrooks, of Orwell, Pa., Oct. 1815 ; died Aug. 27, 1822, leaving four children, Charles, Laura, Aaron Gaylord, and Levi Frisbie. Charles has deceased. Laura married James D. Humphrey, and is now deceased. Aaron G. and Levi F. Eastabrooks are wealthy farmers in Milledgeville, Ill. Levi, born Nov. 19, 1798, married Chloe Chubbuck, March 3, 1825 ; has six children, and lives in Orwell. Zebulon, born July 4, 1801, married Polly Goodwin in 1828, and resides in Orwell.
In 1801, Theron Darling and his father Abel, John Pierce, and Alpheus Cboat came in. Col. Darling was from Litch-
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field, Conn., and Mr. Pierce and Mr. Choat from Vermont. Mr. Pierce's wife was a sister of Mrs. Josiah Grant. They lived where formerly was the Gridley farm, and left about 1804-5, and went near Owego, N. Y. Mr. Choat married a daughter of Mr. Pierce, and subsequently moved into Wysox.
Jocl Barnes came with Levi Frisbie from Massachusetts, and settled near the present residence of Mr. Eastman. He married a daughter of Capt. Grant, and died in Orwell.
Deacon William Ranney settled where Mr. Payson now lives, and Lebbeus Roberts on the Woodruff corners, in 1802.
Capt. John Grant was a brother to Capt. Josiah, and came to Orwell about 1804-5 and located on the present farm of Carlos Chubbuck, about three-fourths of a mile from Orwell bill.
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