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" They are devoted mainly to dairying. We judge from what we learned during our trip, that Gibson sold fully $100,000 worth of butter last year, and that Jackson did about the same. The farmers are thrifty and rapidly accu- mulating wealth. We saw many fine herds of cattle, and not one unstabled or poorly cared for."
It abounds in productive orchards and gardens.
Arunah Tiffany lived about 1809, on the highest point of " Kentuck" Hill, and remained there, with the exception of two years spent in Brooklyn, until his death, in 1863, at the age of seventy-eight years. His son, George B., now occupies the old homestead.
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From a point west of the house one can see, by the aid of a field-glass, the Presbyterian churches of Ararat and Harford ; the Soldier's Orphan School buildings in Harford, and the Presbyterian church of Gibson. Before its removal, the old Methodist church on Kennedy Hill was included in the view.
The settlement called " Kentuck" was once quite extensively known as "Five Partners," as distinguished from the "Nine Partners," both being within the former limits of Harford.
In the fall of 1809, William Abel, James Chandler, Ebenezer Bailey, Hazard Powers, and Daniel Brewster, came from Con- necticut, and bought land here in partnership ; returned for the winter, and, with the exception of the last named, came back to Pennsylvania in the spring of 1810. (Mr. Brewster died in Con- necticut soon after the others came on. This lot was afterwards Elisha Williams's). Their families joined them the following fall.
William Abel and James Chandler went to Philadelphia in 1812, to arrange business with Mr. Poyntell, from whom the purchase of from 6 to 700 acres had been made, and the whole tract was deeded to Mr. Chandler, to be deeded to the five by lot. Three men came from Harford to appraisethe land. The average price was $3.00 per acre, at which Mr. Abel received his; Mr. Bailey's, $3.25 ; Mr. Brewster's, $3.50; Mr. Chand- ler's, $2.75; and Mr. Powers's, $2.50. Samuel Powers, son of the last named, is on his father's farm. Joseph, the eldest, set- tled in Jackson; Ichabod, another son, was there a short time. Hazard Powers, Jr., became a resident of Lenox.
William Abel lived to the age of ninety-two, and died in 1869. His sons were, William A., Gurdon L., Sylvester, Alonzo, Nelson, Henry, and Seth. The last two occupy their father's farm ; one or two of the others are near.
James Chandler and Dr Chandler were not relatives, but each had a son Charles, one of whom-the son of James-became our representative in the State Legislature.
Before the close of 1809, David Carpenter came from Massa- chusetts and settled on " the Kentuck road" (where R. Tiffany's name appears on old maps). He was a cousin of two of the nine partners of the same family name, and his wife was a sister of another-Robert Follett. They had four children : Chester, now dead; Lucy, now Mrs. John Brundage; Mrs. Sabinas Walker, and Timothy, a justice of the peace, residing in South Gibson. David C. was a resident of Gibson over fifty years. He died there May 4, 1861.
Between the years 1809-1812, George Gelatt, Sen., and Col- lins, his son, settled on the Tunkhannock Creek, in the north- east corner of Gibson, now well known as Gelatt Hollow, or simply "Gelatt." George Gelatt, Sen., lived to be an hundred
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and one years old, and his wife ninety-seven. Both died in Gibson. Their sons were, Collins, Jonathan, George, Richard, and Robert. Richard Gelatt, second, is a son of George Gelatt, Jr.
Benjamin Tingley resided half a mile from Sweet's, on the Jackson road ; his brother Daniel a mile further north, and in Jackson.
In 1811, Merritt Hine settled in Gibson, and removed to Wayne County in 1844.
Nathan Guild, George Williams (from Herrick, where he settled in 1808), Ezekiel and Amos Barnes-who married daughters of John Belcher ; Nathaniel Claflin, Nathan Daniels, and Capt. Oliver Payne, were all here as early as 1812. Payne's Lake takes its name from the location of the last named.
Nathan Claflin located near the mills known by his name. His sons were Watson, and Hermon, deceased ; Naaman F., now owning the farm, and John H., who owns the mills. He died in 1837, much esteemed.
Many will remember Rev. Joshua Baker as an old and re- spected inhabitant. He died recently.
Nehemiah Barnes, father of E. and A. Barnes, was a Revo- lutionary soldier. He died in Gibson in 1839, aged seventy- eight.
John Denny came to the township from Dutchess County, New York, February, 1814; Moses Chamberlin, 1st, a brother of Wright Chamberlin, Sr., March, 1814; Amos Ingalls, a brother-in-law of M. Chamberlin, and father of Rev. R. Ingalls, September, 1815; and, within the first three years after 1812, Samuel Resseguie, William Holmes, Edward Weymar, John Brundage, Sterling Bell, William Mitchell, Silas Steenback, Noah Tiffany, John Safford, and Otis Stearns.
In the mean time Gibson had been separated from Clifford, but then included twice its present territory. Waller Wash- burn was appointed constable by the court, November, 1813, but John Potter was the first elected ; John Tyler (then residing in that part of the original Gibson which is now Ararat), and James Chandler, supervisors; Elias Bell, and N. Maxon, post - masters. Joseph Potter, Joseph Washburn, and D. Taylor, were then the largest resident tax-payers within the present limits of the town.
Moses Chamberlin, 1st, was a native of Litchfield County, Connecticut. When a soldier of the Revolutionary army in 1776, he kept a diary which was published in one of the Mont- rose papers in. 1837, and which is worthy of re-publication. After the war he went to Vermont, married and remained there until he came to this county, with the exception of a year when he lived in Constable, Franklin County, New York. This was
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during the war of 1812-15, and as that township was next to the Canada line, he was driven away. On coming here, he located where his son, S. S. Chamberlin, now lives. Another son, the Rev. William C., became a missionary to the Creek Indians in Georgia. The father had been a justice of the peace, and was usually called Esquire Chamberlin. Each of the senior brothers, Moses and Wright, had a son Moses.
Deacon Otis Stearns was a son of Joseph, who came to Har- ford in 1792, but located in Mount Pleasant a year or two later. While there he had to come nine miles to Captain Potter's to get his axes sharpened. When Deacon Stearns settled in Gib- son, he bought 240 acres of Joseph Potter, and remained on that place three years keeping tavern, when he removed to the farm where he spent the rest of his life, near the lake that bears his name. Here he built a grist-mill in 1819. He died in 1858. His widow, a daughter of Captain Potter, died in Gib- son eleven years later, in her eighty-second year. "She was born in Saratoga County, New York; came with her father to Susquehanna County in 1792 ; was fifty years a member of the Baptist church, and lived and died a Christian."
John Denny and John Safford bought of George Gelatt, Jr., lands and improvements near Smiley. Two years afterwards, the former was an innkeeper, and Mr. Safford had two mills at Smiley, which were burned in 1822.
In 1816, a Mr. Mory (or Mowry) kept a store six months at Claflin's mills-the first merchant of the township.
In 1817, James and William Noble kept one the same length of time in Burrows' Hollow. They afterwards established a store in Brooklyn.
About this time or a little prior to it, Fitch Resseguie, a son of Samuel, and then only a lad of eight or ten years, was lost in the Elkwoods, and lay out all night, or rather perched in a tree-top, while the wolves howled around until the break of day.
About 1816, David Taylor sold his tavern to Asahel Norton. It was afterwards kept in succession by N. Webber, Charles Forbes, Lewis Baker, Aaron Green, Joel Steenbeck, Samuel Holmes, etc. The place was well known to travelers on the Newburg turnpike in its palmiest days.
Willard Gillett was here in 1817 and possibly earlier. He was a brother-in-law of William Abel. His sons were, Roswell (who died years ago, leaving a family), Jacob L., and Justin W. The latter two live in Gibson.
John Gillett, an older brother of Willard's, came much later than he. This family have left the county, with the exception of a daughter in Dundaff.
In 1817, Charles Case was located on the farm until recently
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occupied by his son, William T. Case, Esq. Another son, Horace, lives in Jackson, and a third, Treadwell, in Wayne County.
Silas Torrey was near Kentuck; Eben Witter (afterwards town clerk), and Enos Whitney, Sen., near Gelatt Hollow. The latter died October, 1846, aged eighty-four. His sons were Thaddeus, Belius, Enos, and Everett.
David Tarbox was a saddler at Gibson Hollow in 1818, and succeeded Dr. Chandler as postmaster in 1825.
George Conrad, son of William Conrad, or Coonrod, who came to Brooklyn in 1787, settled in South Gibson in 1818.
Elections for Gibson and Jackson-both then in their origi- nal extent-were held at the house of James Bennett. .
Long prior to this the sons of the pioneers began to figure on the tax-lists. Corbet Pickering, now of South Gibson, came of age in 1818, and lived at Gelatt Hollow, where he then mar- ried a daughter of Dr. Denny. This now aged couple recently celebrated their golden wedding, and from Mr. P.'s published account of it is copied a part of his statements respecting his family :--
" We have raised up a large family of children, eleven of whom are now living, and four have gone to the better land. Our grandchildren now num- ber fifty-two, our great-grandchildren nine, and peace seems to reign on every hand. Ours was no ordinary pleasure on the 17th September, 1868, when, sitting at the table spread with the good things of life, in company with most of our children, and many of our neighbors, numbering in all above one hundred."
Parley Potter kept tavern with his father at the old home- stead in 1819.
John Seymour bought of Joseph Washburn and William Holmes, and kept store on the corner now occupied by N. E. Kennedy. He left the place six years later. Ebenezer Blanch- ard was at Gelatt Hollow.
April, 1819, Urbane Burrows came to the locality which has long been known by his name, and engaged in the mercantile business, which he successfully prosecuted for thirty-six years. From 1856 to 1861 he was associate judge of the Susquehanna County courts. His latest enterprise, noticed on a later page, is a fitting exponent of his character.
Artemas Woodward settled in Gibson the same year with the above, and his son George came the following year.
In 1822 Tyler (Joab), Seymour & Co. had a tin and sheet iron factory on Gibson Hill. A year or two later, William A. Boyd came to the place, and after the removal of John Seymour was of the firm of Tyler, Boyd & Co., merchants.
As early as 1824 Goodrich Elton carried on the business of
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wool-carding and cloth-dressing at Smiley, and remained here until his death in 1865.
In 1825 the name of Sabinas Walker, the father of Gov. G. C. Walker, first appeared on the tax-list of Gibson. His bro- thers, Enos, Keith, Arnold, and Marshall were also here.
At this time the oil-stone quarry in the eastern part of the township, was owned by Kenneth Fitch, a resident of New York, who employed men to work it, kept a small stock of goods at Forbes's hotel, and came here occasionally to look at the business, which was usually left to the management of his agent, Henry K. Niven, from Newburg, N. Y. The latter married Jane (afterwards Mrs. Lusk), daughter of M. Du Bois, Esq., died early, and is buried at Great Bend, where their daughter, Mrs. Dr. Patrick, now resides. The quarry was worked but a year or two, the stone proving too soft.
In 1826 Roswell Barnes bought a saw-mill of Robert Gelatt, and located in the extreme northeast corner of Gibson.
John Collar sold the old place on the Tunkhannock Creek to Peter Rynearson. Horace Thayer erected a house and kept a store on Gibson Hill.
About 1827 Tyler, Boyd & Co. sold their store to P. K. Wil- liams, and a year or two later, a house and lot to Dr. Chester Tyler (see Physicians).
In 1830 Charles Chandler 2d was appointed justice of the peace in Gibson.
In 1831 Mr. Thayer leased his store to Burrows & Kennedy ; F. A. Burrows (see Springville), brother of Judge Burrows ; and N. E. Kennedy, who had been clerk for the latter three years.
In 1835 N. E. Kennedy bought out P. K. Williams, and has continued the mercantile business here to the present time. The hill which takes its name from his location is often pronounced Canada Hill; it is the one previously called Gibson Hill.
Mr. Williams became a Presbyterian minister, and was settled for a time in Onondaga County, N. Y. He afterwards returned to this county and entered into business, and is now a merchant at Nicholson.
John Smiley came to Gibson in 1835, and the next year he and Gaylord Curtis (now of Susquehanna Depot) had a store, where the former continued to do business thirty five years.
J. and J. T. Peck had a provision store at this point, now called Smiley.
Silas Steenbeck was the owner of a grist-mill here for many years.
In 1836 William H. Pope came to Gelatt Hollow and began the woolen factory still in operation there, though a branch of the business is carried on at Smiley in the building once occu- pied by Goodrich Elton.
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Lawrence Manzer bought of P. Rynearson the old Collar farm.
William Purdy kept a hotel on the hill, the house and lands of Horace Thayer being transferred to him. Aaron Green kept the one at Smiley.
In 1837 the Lenox and Harmony turnpike from Smiley to Lanesboro, was constructed.
In 1739 a division of the county was agitated, and it was proposed to take out Gibson with Clifford and adjoining town- ships, to form a new county with parts of Luzerne, and to make Dundaff the county seat. Happily for Susquehanna this and similar projects have fallen through.
About this time the Welsh began to extend their settlement into Gibson from the base and vicinity of Elk Hill, where they had been located several years. John Owen was one of the earliest in Gibson, and his sons are here now. He came from North Wales. There are about twenty-four families of the Welsh settlement now in Gibson, and they are among its most respected and well-to-do citizens. "It is their characteristic and habitual endeavor to establish the sanctuary and its ordi- nances wherever they establish themselves." The cultivation of their natural love of music has afforded them and the com- munity rich treats of enjoyment.
Early in 1867 George H. Wells, late representative from Susquehanna County, prepared a table of the aged of Gibson, the youngest of whom was 70 and the oldest (William Abel) was 91. There were in all thirty-eight persons-nineteen men and nineteen women. The average age of the men was 78} and of the women 752 years. The list included seven married couples, all married over half a century, the average time being 56 years. Seven of the men and three of the women were over 80; twenty-four in the list were over 75. Half of the whole number were born in Connecticut and six were born in Wales. The table did not contain a native-born Pennsylvanian. All the men were farmers, and all the women but two were then, or had been, farmers' wives. Only one of the whole list had never married. The one who had resided longest in the township (74 years), as well as longest in the county, was Mrs. Lois Stearns, widow of Deacon Otis Stearns. Her death has already been mentioned; many others on the same list are now gone. "Four aged ladies were buried in the course of one week in Gibson, in January, 1869, the sum of their ages being 312 years."
The table gave convincing proof of the healthfulness of Gib- son.
Mr. Wells adds :-
" Persons from a less salubrious climate will be surprised to find here men and women near seventy years of age who appear to be in the prime of life,
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and some of the men in the above list over eighty are no easy competitors in the harvest and hay field.
"The most of these were pioneers of a portion of Susquehanna County; and as our forefathers fought to establish the principles of liberty and free govern- ment, so these have braved the hardships of frontier life, and fought the rugged wilderness to give strength and material prosperity to our beloved country. They have also made happy homes for their descendants."
POST-OFFICES, ETC.
Dr. Robert Chandler was probably the first postmaster in Gibson.
In the spring of 1832 " Kentuckyville" post-office was estab- lished, Stephen P. Chandler, P.M. It has long been discon- tinued.
There are now three post-offices in the township: Gibson, Smiley, and South Gibson.
The Gibson post-office, with a daily mail, is at Burrows' Hol- low ; the morning mails from New York and Philadelphia are now due at 5 o'clock P. M. This is the largest of the villages ; its has thirty-three dwellings, two churches, two stores, a tan- nery, two carriage factories, two blacksmith shops, two harness shops, a shoe shop, a tin and sheet-iron shop, a cabinet and joiner shop, a grist-mill, and two saw-mills. Population, 155.
A newspaper correspondent in 1869, speaks of South Gibson as
" An unpretending little town, situated on the Tunkhannock, about mid- way between Susquehanna Depot and Nicholson. It contains about thirty dwelling houses, a hotel, a grist-mill, three stores, a tailor shop, a black- smith shop, a doctor's office, a justice's office, a school-house, and last, but not least, a new Methodist church.
" This village is nearly surrounded by hills, which shut out the wind, making it very warm ; besides, the days are somewhat shortened, as the sun does not rise here till late and retires behind the hills at an early hour, but on these hill-sides the first green grass is seen in early spring, and here the first ber- ries ripen in summer.
" This town has enjoyed a large trade for the past five years, people coming from many miles around to do their trading. The surrounding country is settled by well-to-do farmers, who possess beautiful farms and fine buildings. Dairying is carried on to a considerable extent, every farm having some cows, and many from twenty to twenty-five. This place sustains a Good Templars' Lodge, which represents almost every family in the vicinity. Not one-tenth as much liquor is now sold in the place as before the Lodge was organized."
In 1871 a uniformed militia company was organized, James M. Craft commanding officer.
There are seven stores in the township; one at Smiley, and Kennedy's, in addition to those mentioned.
SCHOOLS.
In 1807 there was but one school-house in Gibson, and that was roofed with bark. It stood on Union Hill, about forty rods
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from James Bennett's house. Miss Molly Post taught the school, and Charles Bennett, now of South Gibson, was one of her pupils. Lyman Richardson, since a faithful pastor, and the honored head of the University at Harford, taught a school in Capt. Potter's house during the winter of 1808 and 1809. A Mr. Follett is mentioned as a teacher prior to 1810, and, it is possible, prior to Miss Post.
District schools were gradually increased ; they now number eleven, with an average attendance of nearly two hundred.
In 1828, the Rev. Roswell Ingalls had a select school for six months in the old Presbyterian church on Union Hill, and in 1829, in the school-house, near Mr. Abel's.
The Gibson Academy, still standing on Kennedy Hill, was built mainly through the influence of Joseph Washburn, Esq., President of the Board of Trustees. It was ready for occu- pancy in 1841, but no academic school was held in it for any time worthy of notice. Select schools, at different periods, were taught here, first by Miss R. S. Ingalls, and Mr. Maxon, from Harford, then by J. J. Frazier, and afterwards, a Mr. Blatchley, from Wayne County, taught one year. The next select schools were held in Gibson Hollow.
In 1859 A. Larrabee, since county superintendent, taught here for a time. The Misses Stevens, from Vermont, suc- ceeded him for three years; M. L. Hawley and assistants three years; a Miss Bush, and possibly other teachers since.
RELIGIOUS.
Gideon Lewis, a Baptist Evangelist, appointed about 1806, was the first resident minister of Gibson. His name appears on the tax-list of Clifford (which included Gibson), in 1807, marked "clergyman;" but there was then no religious organi- zation within the present limits of Gibson, the first being ef- fected by Elijah King (a traveling preacher on Broome Circuit, which extended across the Susquehanna River, south of Great Bend), who formed a Methodist class in Gibson in 1812 or 1813. Of this George Williams was leader, and Margaret Bennett, Sarah Willis (afterwards wife of John Belcher), Susanna Ful- ler, and J. Washburn, the other members. [See 'Early Meth- odism,' by Dr. Geo. Peck.] In 1810 a class had been formed at "Kent's Settlement," afterwards Gibson, and now Herrick.
Christopher Frye is said to have preached the first Metho- dist sermon in Gibson. He was on the Wyoming Circuit as early as 1806, and the circuit then included Hopbottom (or Brooklyn).
Dr. Geo. Peck states that "the first Methodist sermon in Gibson was preached at the house of a Mr. Brundage, a Baptist, on what is now called the Thomas place." This is evidently a
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misprint, and should be the Holmes place, now Kennedy's, near where the Methodist church stood before its removal to South Gibson. Dr. Peck himself traveled the circuit through Gibson in 1819. He says of Frye : " He was a large man, had a great voice, and a fiery soul. Great revivals followed him."
Of Nathaniel Lewis, of Harmony (now Oakland), a local preacher, who early held meetings in this section : "He was rough as a mountain-crag, but deeply pious. He could read his Bible and fathom the human heart, particularly its develop- ments among backwoodsmen. Obtaining information of a place where there had been no religious worship, some distance from his home, he visited the place. He went from house to house inviting the people to come out to meeting. He took for his text : 'Ye uncircumcised in heart and ear, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost.' Many were pricked in the heart; a great revival followed ; and seventy souls, who were happily con- verted to God, dated their conviction from that sermon."
William Chamberlin, whose parents resided at Gibson, was licensed to preach September 17, 1817, and was ordained by the Susquehanna Presbytery at Harford, Nov. 12, 1817, " to preach the gospel to the aborigines." He joined the Cherokee Mission in company with Rev. Asa Hoyt, also a member of the Sus- quehanna Presbytery.
A Congregational society was organized in Gibson, Nov. 21, 1818, by Revs. E. Kinsbury, M. M. York, and O. Hill. It was composed of ten members : Wright Chamberlin and wife, Wil- liam Holmes and wife, John Seymour, Abigail Case (wife of Charles Case), Eunice Whitney (afterwards Mrs. Moses Cham- berlin, Jr.), Deborah Burton, Ann Holmes, and Betsey Holmes.
W. Chamberlin and W. Holmes were chosen deacons, and John Seymour clerk. The first communion was administered Nov. 23, 1818, by Rev. M. M. York. Sept. 26, 1820, the Sus- quehanna County Domestic Missionary Society was formed, and this church became auxiliary to it.
There were no additions to the church-membership until Nov. 18, 1821, when Arunah Tiffany, wife, and mother, and Polly Follett joined the church. About this time Rev. E. Con- ger, employed by the Susquehanna County Domestic Mission- ary Society, labored in Gibson, and more than usual religious interest existed. Near the close of the year, Rev. John Beach came among them; and March, 1822, the people agreed to hire him for one year. Of forty-three who were pledged to his sup- port, thirty-six were living a quarter of a century later. The details of the subscription contrast too well with the present ability and liberality of the town to be omitted : Total amount of cash subscriptions, $35.25 ; of good wheat, equivalent to $16 ; rye and corn, $86; oats, $100; butter, $114 ; something undeciphera-
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ble, $150; sugar, $81; flax, $102; wool (besides three sheep), $47. (Besides 105 lbs. of pork, $5 in boots and shoes, and $5 in mer- chandise).
The agreement was to pay this "to the Trustees of the Pres- byterian Society of Gibson." It is certain the church sent dele- gates to the Presbytery about this time.
Rev. Mr. Beach brought his family to Kentuck, in May, 1822, and was with the church two years and a half. [The statements that follow, down to 1863, appear in the church records written by Deacon Tiffany] :-
"In the spring of 1823 A. Tiffany gave the use of an acre, which was planted with corn, and cultivated by the people of Kentuck, for the use of the County Missionary Society. In 1824 one acre of land on Union Hill was purchased from James Bennett for $20, by the church and society, and they then contracted with Elisha Williams to build a meeting house (36 x 26 feet, and 12 feet between joists, with arched beams), to be finished outside and the floor laid (the timber being found for him) for $100. Nearly half this sum was subscribed by the people of Kentuck. In 1825 the missionary acre was sold for $20.
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