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until his death (April 6, 1854), at the age of eighty-six years. He was a remarkably vigorous man, and but a short time before his decease could walk several miles without apparent weariness.
Aden built and lived in a log house near the old framed house until 1809, when he erected the latter, which is yet standing. A brother of Nathan and Aden, Samuel, moved into Stevensville, and lived where the widow Jones now lives. He bought of William Turrell, who bought of Shoemaker. Samuel was a tanner and currier and shoe- maker, and built a tannery, and was the first to carry on the leather manufacture on the Wyalusing. Jonathan, a half-brother of Samuel, came with him, and settled first at Cold Creek where Peek Maxfield now lives, and died on the farm now owned by George Atwood, April 1, 1847, aged seventy-five years.
The family record of Aden Stevens shows he was born April 20, 1770, married Anise Warner (born Nov., 1766) Nov. 14, 1796, and died July 28, 1858. Mrs. Stevens died Feb. 6, 1814. He married, Feb. 16, 1815, Rebecca Purda Somers, who was born Dec. 23, 1783, and died Dec. 28, 1861. The children by the first wife were Oliver W .; Hiram (deceased) ; Cyrus, still living in Stevensville ; Anna, married Abel Bolles, and now deceased ; and Sally, married Elkanah Bolles. By the second wife : Philena, married Elisha Lewis, and lives in Merryall; and Peter, who died in Kansas.
Sainnel Luckey eame first to the township in 1793, and eleared a piece of land, and planted some corn, and built him a house, and moved into the same with his family the next year. When he came back with them, he found his corn all gone. He bought the possession of the Roswells, who are said by Alba Bosworth to have made a settlement where Abraham Taylor lived about 1790 or 1791. On selling their claims to Mr. Luckey, they moved up the creek above the forks, and about 1811 moved north into the lake country in central New York. Mr. Luckey was from Sussex Co., N. J., and was one of the company which surveyed the line between the States of New York and Pennsylvania westward from Athens. He had four chil- dren, two by each of his wives,-he being married twice.
Salmon Bosworth came from Litehfield Co., Conn., his native place, to Pike, in 1795, at nineteen years of age. He made a beginning in the forest near the Wyalusing, above what is now Stevensville, chopping and clearing off a small piece of land, building a log house and a blacksmith- shop. He then went to work at his trade of blacksmith. After two years he returned to Connecticut and married Sally, daughter of David Olmstead. The young couple paeked their worldly goods into a one-horse wagon, and bidding farewell to the homes of their childhood, turned their faces to their future home in the wilderness of the Wyalusing, where they arrived after a journey of twenty- one days. He cleared off a large farm, and made scythes and axes in his shop for the settlers. He died Nov. 4, 1831, aged fifty-nine years.
Josiah Bosworth, a brother of Salmon, came to the township about the same time, when about eighteen years old. He went into the settlement then called Newtown. He married Mary Traver, in Pike.
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Alba Bosworth, another brother, came in 1806, and lived about a year on the Crandall place, and in the fall of that year came to the place now occupied by Ransom Cool- baugh, where he lived until his death, in 1840. He bought of John Abbott, who had cleared off about twenty acres, and built a log house on it.
Reed Bosworth lived on the farm adjoining the Crandall place. At one time the family owned farms for seven miles, adjoining one another, with a single intervening exception.
Josiah and Alba caught a cub one day, despite his scratch- ing and biting, and made a pet of the young bear, but his sports were rough, and he would allow none to touch him save his masters.
Joseph Bosworth, a brother of the above named, came also in the spring of 1806, and stopped for the summer on the farm owned by the late Dr. Crandall. The following fall he built a cabin on the Ransom Coolbaugh place. Dan. Metcalf came in during the year 1795, and settled on the Sherwood place. His daughter Lucy married Ichabod Terry. She was born Sept. 28, 1787. Mr. Terry was born March 25, 1783.
Ezekiel Mowry came from Rhode Island with his father, George Mowry, in company with Salmon Bosworth, but stopped a short time only, and moved into Susquehanna county. Susanna Mowry married Eliphalet Marsh, and lived on the mountain below Wyalusing.
John Ford came from Schoharie, N. Y., in 1792,* and made a possession, but worked mostly for other settlers. His wife was a Curtis, and they had several children, all of whom are dead.
Bela Ford, brother of the last named, came into the town- ship some time after his brother, and made a clearing of a few acres, and built a log house, which he sold in 1805 to James Brink for $60, and made another clearing on the adjoining farm. He married a Lasdell. Her father was a physician, and the knowledge of medicine she acquired while a member of his family was almost invaluable to her neighbors when the services of a physician were difficult to obtain. Her daughter married Elisha Coggswell, and lived on the Tuscarora. Her oldest daughter married John Ab- bott, some of whose children are yet living in the neighbor- hood. Joseph Pierce came to the settlement in the spring or early summer of 1796. His wife, Temperance, a daugh- ter of Samuel Luckey, brought her babe in her arms, and rode on horseback from Kingston in Wyoming county. He settled on the Crandall place, but, being a carpenter, did not own any land, and moved from place to place, where his calling led him. He remained on the creek but a few - years, and then removed to Ithaca, N. Y., where he died in December, 1804.
Thomas Brink, a son of Nicholas Brink, of Walapack, Sussex Co., N. J., came into the settlement in 1797. Nich- olas Brink came to the Wyoming valley at an early day, but the Pennamite troubles, and the disasters suffered by the great ice-flood of 1784, induced him to remove, and he went to Owego, N. Y., where he retrieved his misfortunes. Thomas lived on the M. Hollenback place, afterwards owned by G. W. Rose. Daniel and Benajah Bennett, from Con-
necticut, had previously made a possession and built a log house, but had done scarcely anything in the way of a elear- ing. He married a Marsh, in New Jersey. He and his brothers, Benjamin and James, were soldiers of the Revolu- tion.
James Brink came to Wyalusing in June, 1798, and lived for three years on the rise of land where the railroad now runs, nearly opposite the Moravian monument on the farm of the Stalfords, a part of which he worked. In 1805 he came into Pike, to a farm about a mile and a half south- east from Le Raysville, on the Montrose road, now occupied by David- Blackman. He had a family of five boys, and bought the possession of Bela Ford, and moved to it in March, on wagons, being the first of those vehicles which had progressed so far into the woods. Asylum was the grain-market, to and from which had to be transported on horsehack, by bridle-paths through the forest, the surplus grain that could be sold or what was needful to purchase.
William Brink was a son of Thomas Brink, who married Loraine Brister, of Middletown, Susquehanna county, and moved on Vaughan hill, after his father had lived in Wya- lusing. He lived there five years, when his wife was bitten by a rattlesnake, which so frightened her that she became dis- contented, and desired, naturally enough, to go where rattle- snakes were less familiar acquaintances. He came to Pike in 1806, and settled about half a mile east of Le Raysville, on a tract on which a tree had not been felled in the way of a clearing. He made a large quantity of maple-sugar the spring of 1806.
Jesse and Daniel Ross were sons of Lieut. Perrin Ross, who was killed at Wyoming. Jesse married Betsey, a daugh- ter of Isaae Hancock, Jan. 22, 1795, and the following spring moved up the Wyalusing. He was born in Con- necticut, March 15, 1772, and died Oct. 1, 1843. Betsey Hancock was born at Wyalusing, Sept. 10, 1777, the esquire, her father, being one of the very earliest settlers in the valley before the war. She died March 15, 1823. Mr. Ross married again, Aug. 8, 1824, Charlotte, the widow of Rev. Edward Paine, of Brooklyn, Susquehanna county. He had children as follows : Isaac H., Perrin, Nelson, Elea- nore, George, and Irene. Eleanore married a son of the Rev. E. Paine, and Irene married Van Guilder, and died on the old farm.
Daniel Ross married Jennie, a daughter of Esquire Han- cock, but reared no children, and made the first possession on the latter's farm.
Joseph Ross, a brother of Jesse and Daniel, married Anna, daughter of Job Camp. He is said to have come to the township in 1794.
Nelson Ross, son of Jesse, married Eliza W. Bosworth, and now lives in Wyalusing.
William Johnson came to Le Raysville, in 1798, from Stamford, Conn., and settled on the farm now owned by his son Denison. He came first to Sheshequin, where he re- mained two years, and while there came on this farm, cleared three acres, and rolled up the body of a log house, then went to the farm now owned by Zebulon Frisbie, made a clearing, and remained thereon for about two years, and came again to his original location in 1802. His son Deni- son, now occupying the place, was born in Orwell, on the
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Tillotson, James Hines (who married Sally Hancock), Benajah and Daniel Bennett (1807), Benajah Stone, Abrahamn Taylor (brother-in-law of Edmund Stone, died June 9, 1839, aged seventy-four years), Samuel Seeley (before 1802), David Doud, Peter Stevens, Judah Ben- jamin, Timothy Gaylord, Reuben and Amasa Wells, Jesse (a schoolmaster) and Samuel Edsall* (the latter died March 2, 1859, aged seventy-five years), Reuben Atwood, Joseph Utter, Benjamin Seeley, Matthias Scrivens, Roswell Slater (1806), Winship, Amos Northrup, and the Ells- worth brothers, Henry, James, Joseph, and Jonathan, sons of Henry, a Revolutionary soldier, who lived in Susque- hanna county.
THE WELSH SETTLEMENT.
A considerable portion of the town of Pike along its eastern boundary is known as the Welsh settlement, it having been peopled by natives of Wales. A citizen of Philadelphia, named Simmons, was the means of introdu- eing his countrymen into the township. By his advice Joseph Jenkins called on a friend of Simmons, T. Mitchell, who owned a large traet of wild land on both sides of the county line in the townships of Pike and Middleton, and during this call negotiated for a tract of land in Pike, and came thereto in the spring of 1824. Mr. Jenkins also eon- traeted for and made some improvements on a lot of land adjoining the farm on which Wm. J. Davies now lives. In the fall of the same year Edward Jones, Sr., came with his family to a lot joining Mr. Jenkins on the west, the farm now being owned by W. J. Davies. Mr. Jones had a family of nine children,-seven sons and two daughters; three of the former and one daughter are now living in the settlement, Edward in Pike and the others in Middletown. Mr. Jenkins and Mr. Jones were bothi most excellent eiti- zens and stanch supporters of the church.
In 1825, David Thomas, Sr., moved his family into Pike, accompanied by his brother-in-law, Rees Griffies, and com- meneed an improvement on the traet now occupied by his son, David Thomas, Jr., just across the line in Middletown. He died of sunstroke six weeks after bringing his family into the wilderness, leaving a wife, three sons, and three daughters,-David Thomas, a minister now at Stevensville ; Griffith, now in Smithfield, Bradford Co .; Hannah, now in Minnesota ; Margaret and Sarah, both of whom died sud- denly not many years after, followed by their mother, also suddenly, in May, 1849. Rees Griffies died in 1875. In or about 1827, David Morris, a son-in-law of Edward Jones, Sr., came to the settlement in Pike. He is yet living, in Susquehanna county. About 1828, David Williams, who married Hannah Thomas, settled in Pike, joining Rees Griffies on the west. In 1821, Mr. Williams revisited Wales, and on his return was accompanied by his widowed mother, his two brothers, Philip and John, and Rev. Dan- iel Jones, all single men, and Samuel Davies, who died in 1876, at an advanced age, at his son John's, in Middletown, on the same farm he settled on, about a mile and a quarter from the church, and William Evans. John Edwards and
Jenkins Jones (1st) came in a short time previous to this time. They and their wives are buried in the grave-yard near the church ; seven daughters survive Jenkins Jones and wife.
Soon after Jenkins Jones eame, Thomas Jones, a brother of Edward Jones, Sr., came in from Wales, and settled next north of David Morris.
In 1832 two brothers, Evan and William Howell, moved in from Wales, and settled in South Warren. The next year their father, John Howell, and their brothers, Thomas and Roger, and David Davies, their brother-in-law. The latter settled in Warren, and the Howells joined him in Pike. The elder Howell died a few months afterwards, and Roger soon followed him. Thomas lived but a few years later. Mrs. John Howell died in 1853; Mrs. Davies, a daughter, in 1856; and Mrs. Evans, the remaining daughter, in 1867. Prof. E. W. Evans, dean, professor of mathematies in Cornell university, was the son of Wm. Evans and grandson of John Howell. He died in May, 1874, and his father the following August. Wm. Evans has seven children yet living,-two sons in the west, and two sons and three daughters in Pike, viz .: Mrs. Thomas, wife of Rev. T. Thomas, Mrs. P. Williams, Mrs. P. Davis, William, and Thomas. The sons live on the homestead, and the farms of all the children join on the road leading from Griffies corners to Warren pond.
Evan Howell died in 1875; Jane, his wife, in 1873. They have a son and daughter living in the settlement,- H. Howell, on the homestead, and Mrs. S. W. Williams, in Pike. William Howell is still living on the farm in War- ren, with his son-in-law. He has a son, Roger R. Howell, living in Owego, N. Y., and a daughter, Mrs. J. W. Jones, on the homestead. Mrs. Howell died in 1841, and his oldest son, John, in 1862.
Daniel Davies is still living near his three sons and three daughters, John, Philip, Evan, Mrs. H. Howell, and Eliza- beth and Kate, unmarried, and at the homestead. Besides these there are Hon. Wm. T. Davies, his son, a lawyer at Towanda, and at present a member of the State senate ; Mrs. Rev. J. Davies, a daughter, in the west ; Thomas, in Pottsville; and Dr. Rees, in Wilkes-Barre.
In 1833, Henry, James, and Thomas Walters eame in. About the year 1832, John Morris, Richard Williams, Daniel P. Jones, and John Davies came to the settlement, all settling in Pike except Morris, who located east of War- ren pond. Morris has grandchildren in Warren. Richard Williams' family are all dead, save a daughter, Mrs. J. Thomas, who lives in Clifford, Susquehanna county. John Davies and wife and Mrs. D. P. Jones are yet living, and have children and grandchildren in the settlement. D. P. Jones died in 1876.
In 1833 or '34, John Thomas, Widow Elizabeth Davies, and Samuel Thomas settled at Neath. Mrs. E. Davies has a son and daughter, Evan W. and Elizabeth Thomas, in the settlement. Samuel Thomas has an only son, Thomas F., living on the homestead. John Thomas died in 1876; two daughters live in Pike, east of Neath church.
In 1834 or '35, Israel Evans, John Jones, David J. Thomas, and Jenkins Jones settled in Neath, and David Davies, Thomas J. Thomas, Roger Griffies, Thomas Wil-
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liams, Evan Evans, Dr. William Roberts, David E. Davies, Henry Davies, and others, are among the original stock which were comprised in the settlement ; but the exact date of their coming thereto cannot now be given. Of these Dr. Roberts only settled in Pike, on the Edsall farm, south of William S. Davies, and is still living there. Dr. Roberts married the widow of Rev. Daniel Jones.
The settlement occupies portions of the townships of Pike, Warren, and Middletown, the greater portion of the same, however, being in Pike. The country is hilly and uneven, but the Welsh are a hardy, industrions race, and by their industry have become the owners of well-cultivated farms, with good buildings and fences. The settlement, taken as a whole, for thrift, wealth, morality, intelligence, and religion, will compare favorably with any other portion of northern Pennsylvania, with like quality of soil, area of territory, and number of families. Their ocenpation is chiefly farming, their politics are nearly unanimously Re- publican, and in their religious faith they are Congrega- tionalists.
The settlement contributed its full share in filling the quotas of the county under the calls for troops in the great Rebellion, many of the young men enlisting, some of whom never returned, and others were brought back for burial in the Neath church-yard.
PIONEER EFFORTS.
The first framed house was built in 1808 or 1809, by Isaac Seymour.
The first hotel was opened in 1830, by Hiram Bosworth. Asahel Coe opened the second one some time afterwards, where Mr. Case now keeps a hotel, whereupon Mr. Bosworth ceased the business. Denison Johnson kept a hotel after- wards on his present place. The first wool-carding machine and eloth-dressing establishment was built in or about 1808, by Elisha Keeler and Guy Wells. Jesse Ross afterwards, in 1820 or 1821, built such an establishment on his farm, Sophronius Stocking, a Methodist preacher, managing the manufacturing and business.
Distilleries were numerous, and came in early. Jesse Ross, Daniel Ross, and Ezekiel Brown each had one in the town.
A primitive saw-mill and small grist-mill was built early by Mr. Fairchild. The latter was supplied with a bolt, operated by the hands of the customer. The saw-mill at Stevensville was built in 1815, by Alba Bosworth. He and his brother Salmon built the grist-mill in 1819. In this mill were the first buhr-stones brought into the county.
The first school-house was built in 1806 or 1807, where the Congregational church now stands. It was built of logs, and covered with ash-bark. The windows were made of greased paper, and the floor of basswood slabs. Patty Sill, from Connecticut, taught the first school in this house, having five or six pupils. Zeruah Northrup, afterwards the wife of Ebenezer Laey, was the next teacher. Polly Can- field taught a school in an old saw-mill near Van Guilder's. There was a big roek near by, and when the days were pleasant the children prevailed on the teacher to keep school on the rock, over which they made a bower of limbs and brush.
William Brink was the first person who drove a pair of wheels from the Wyalusing creek.
In the upper part of the township is a spring which the early settlers supposed contained a sufficient quantity of salt to pay for working, and a company was chartered by law in 1834 for the purpose of developing the enterprise ; but the brine proved to be too weak to manufacture salt in paying quantities. The location is still known as the " salt well farm."
LE RAYSVILLE.
In 1794, Robert Morris, of Philadelphia, received war- rants for a large portion of the lands of Bradford and Sus- quehanna counties, and in 1795 he disposed of several thousand acres to James Donatiens Le Ray de Chaumont, a French gentleman, residing in Le Raysville, Jefferson Co., N. Y. In 1819, Le Ray bought of Morris nineteen other tracts, containing 7600 acres. In 1822, James D. Le Ray de Chaumont sold 88,000 acres, less a few tracts reserved for Vincent Le Ray de Chaumont, of Jefferson Co., N. Y., re- eeiving for such sale $50,000. Col. Joseph Kingsbury was the agent for the Le Ray lands. A portrait of Le Ray is on the opposite page.
Le Raysville is situated on the Michael Olmiley tract. He was a Parisian, but lived, at the time of his purchase of 4400 acres of the Le Ray lands, in Baltimore. He sailed for Paris, and was never heard from afterwards. The set- tlers on this tract held their lands by possession, after much trouble in straightening the tangled line of their titles. Le Ray charged an average of three dollars per acre for his lands. The settlers sent their fellow-settler, Esquire Brush, to Harrisburg to look up the title of Col. Kingsbury, who elaimed the lands. An examination of the records revealed the fact of Olmley's ownership, whereupon the esquire rc- turned and reported accordingly, and the settlers refused to pay anything further to Kingsbury. Wm. Brink was one of the first settlers who bought the Le Ray lands of Kings- bury, and being ready to pay for them in advance of his stipulation, the colonel brought two deeds along, which ex- eited the purchaser's suspicion, and on their being submitted to Esquire Brush, while Kingsbury was asleep, the fact was revealed that one was a quit-claim deed, and covered that part of Brink's farm which lay on the Olmley tract, hence the journey to Harrisburg. The expenses of the commis- sion were but five dollars, as the neighbors hoed the squire's eorn for him while he was gone, and he went and returned on foot.
Le Raysville was so named in honor of Vincent Le Ray. The North American Phalanx was the first newspaper published in Le Raysville, by Dr. Samuel C. Belding, who is still living. It was discontinued in 1847.
The borough was incorporated in 1863.
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
JOSEPH HAIGH.
The subject of this sketch was born Dec. 16, 1814, in Yorkshire, England. He was a son of John and Mary Haigh. His father was a woolen manufacturer. At the
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age of fifteen Joseph began to learn the woolen manufac- turing trade, which he mastered at the age of twenty-one. His education was obtained by attending night-schools. He worked at his trade in England till 1842, when he came to America, locating in Bradford Co., Pa. He was employed in Black's woolen-mills. At the end of five years he purchased an interest in the factory, becoming partner with Mr. Stewart. In 1856, Mr. Haigh bought out Mr. Stewart's interest, becoming sole proprietor. He was united in marriage, May 20, 1847, to Harriet S. Browning, a daughter of John and Lucy Browning, of Orwell township, who came from Windham, Conn , and located in Bradford County in an early day. They had born to them six chil- dren, viz., Mary B., Lucy N., John F., Emma M., Sarah J., and William S., of whom all except William, who died when nine years old, are still living. Mr. Haigh is a Re- publican. He has held nearly every office in his town, and has invariably discharged his duties in accordance with the best interests of his constituents.
LEBBEUS SMITH.
The subject of this sketch was born Aug. 25, 1788. He lived at home till 1811, when he went to Bradford County, locating upon the farm which is now occupied by Mrs. Smith. He returned to Connectient the following year, and was married to Betsy Gregory, March 20, 1812. He remained in Connecticut till the conclusion of the War of 1812, when he went back to Bradford County. By indus- try and frugality he became owner of a finely-cultivated farm. His wife died in 1848, leaving him with a family of four children, viz., Augustus S., Eliza A., Alonzo, and Harriet M. He did not marry again, but passed the re- mainder of his days among his dutiful children. He was an honest, upright man in all his dealings with the world. He was a member of the Congregational church, practicing in every-day life its pious teachings. He died Jan. 17, 1873.
A eut of Mrs. Smith's place can be seen by referring to another page of this work.
JOHN BLACK.
The subject of this sketch was born in Yorkshire, Eng- land, Dec. 11, 1813. He was a son of William and Ann Black. His parents emigrated to America in 1819. His father, who was a woolen manufacturer by trade, made the first woolen goods in Bradford County. Jolin lived with his parents till he was twenty-five years of age. He was then married to Harriet Belding, May 2, 1838. The issue of this marriage was the birth of Collins H., who died Jan. 3, 1878. He married, for his second wife, Eliza- beth Cook, a daughter of Uri and Phoebe Cook, who were among the earliest settlers from Connecticut in Orwell, Bradford Co. The fruit of this marriage was two daugh- ters,-Harriet E., who was married to Carl P. Stirn, whole- sale merchant in New York city, and Phoebe A., who re- sides with her parents. Mr. Black is a stanch Republican, and is considered a good worker and organizer at the polls.
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