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£23 11s. therefor. In 1802 Edward London and his wife, Sabillah, sold this land to Charles Goodrich, Jr., for twenty-five hundred dollars. There were three Charles Goodrichs,-Chas. Goodrich, Sr., who lived in Connecticut, was the father of Charles, Jr., and Seth ; and Charles, Jr., had a son Charles, who lived at Salem Cor- ners. Chas. Goodrich built a log house above the spring which is now led out to the road east of Salem Corners. He married Ann Bid- well, was a Revolutionary soldier and went as a substitute when he was sixteen years old. He died in 1838, aged seventy-four. His children were Charles, who married Judith Cross and lived on the southeast quarter of land purchased by his father. The house which he occupied stood a little east of the corners, on the south side of the road. The other sons, Jabez and Enos, moved elsewhere. Of his daughters, Anna married Gideon Curtis, Mary married James Hultze, Lucy married Ellery Crandall and Laura married Henry Matthews, all of whom are dead. Charles Goodrich (3d) was a great hunter. He had a steady nerve and could hold a gun to the mark ; when hungry he could eat a deer's heart raw. Hehad a cabin near Roar- ing Brook, with a hole in the top as an en- tranee.
The Charles Goodrich farm is now owned by George W. Walker (2d), who has built a wall and otherwise improved the property. Elisha Potter settled on the old road from Paupack to Capouse, on a ereek which bears his name. The county line between Wayne and Luzerne passed through his premises, leaving his house on the Luzerne side, though assessed in Salem for a number of years. He arrived in 1795, ac- cording to Hollister's history. His son Charles rceently died in Paupack ; Chloe, his daughter, married Samuel Wheateraft, Jr. Samuel Wheateraft, Sr., settled on the hill west of Hollisterville, not far from Potter's and prob- ably about the same time with Potter. Ben- jamin Harrison, an Englishman, married Hannah Wheateraft, one of the daughters, and obtaining title to the property which his father- in-law had squatted upon, conveyed the same to Frederick D. Sayre, who married Leonor Snook, about 1825. Naney Woodney, another
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daughter of Samuel Wheatcraft, Sr., surpassed Doctor Tanner in the matter of fasting, more than fifty years ago. She claimed to have fasted fifty days without either cating or drink- ing. A book was published concerning the occur- rence at the time by asister in Ohio. Sheimagined that she was suffering for the sins of the world.
William Dayton, born in Rhode Island, brought np by Coggswell, in Litchfield County, Conn., married Anna for his first wife, and Lucena, her sister, for his second wife, daugh- ters of Moses and Hester Wright. Dayton and his brother-in-law, Nathan S. Wright, came together about 1796 and settled near Carey's Pond, where the former built a cabin. Shortly after Nathan S. Wright moved to Sloeum Hol- low, where he remained a few years ; then eame to Dobell's Meadows and from there moved, in 1803, to the place now occupied by John B. Walker, a mile south of Salem Corners. He was a blacksmith by trade and very useful to the early settlers in that capacity. He had four sons-Miles, who never married ; Abel, who married Caroline Peet, and settled on the place now occupied by Sylvia Smith, his daughter. on the East and West turnpike. Two of his sons, Albert and Eugene, were in the War of the Rebellion. Abel, a farmer, hunter and trapper, died recently, being over eighty years of age. Moses married Polly Peet and settled near his father's. He was an ingenious man and made spinning-wheels and reels and various other artieles needed by the settlers ; Sanford married Sally Edwards and lived on the old place for a time, when he sold and moved near his father-in-law, Thomas Edwards, where he recently died, aged nearly seventy- six. Of the girls, Lucena married Amos Brooks, and Ruth, Lyman Brooks, both farm- ers. They each lost a son in the late war. The remaining girls, Polly, Anna and Hester, will be noticed hereafter.
William Dayton moved to a place on the south side of the road, towards Purdytown, about one-half mile cast of Five-Mile Creek, in 1802. He and his wife, Lueena, were good Methodists and very hospitable people. He left no kin to perpetuate his name. The old house has been demolished.
About three miles north of Dayton's is a sheet of water covering about twenty aeres, around which Mr. Dayton used to trap bears, and bearing his name. The trap is still to be seen in which he caught twenty-two bears and two "painters."
Major Theodore Woodbridge, who bought doubtful titles of Dolph & Freeland, as we have noticed, in 1799 and 1800, probably came into Salem about 1800. He built a house on the East and West road, about midway between Hamlinton and Little Meadows, on the north side of the same, and was the wealthiest man in the place. He was also a major in the Revolutionary War, belonged to the order of "The Cincinnati " and was often visited by officers of distinction. He built the first saw- mill in the town at the outlet of Bidwell Pond, in 1803, which was soon afterward burned. He then built a small grist-mill and saw-mill on Moss Creek, at what is now known as Moss Hollow. The major was aetive in promoting the welfare of the community. His son Wil- liam says the first religious meeting ever held in Salem was held at his father's house. He was a Congregationalist, but appears to have ac- cepted the elass leadership for the Methodists. Esther Plummer, of Glastonbury, Conn , was his first wife, by whom he had four children,- Ashbel, William, Anna and Laura. He mar- ried Mrs. Hale as his second wife, and died in 1811, and was buried in the old orchard on his place. His son Ashbel married Pamelia Strat- ton and built a house, which was sometimes used by the Congregationalists for meeting pur- poses, on the Bidwelltown road, about one- fourth mile south of his father's. He after- wards moved to Luzerne County and died aged seventy-eight years. Orselia, one of his dauglı- ters, married George Brown and lives on the East and West road, two and one-half miles west of Hamlinton. Chester, one of his sons, resides on the North and South road, near the, Wallenpaupack. William married Almira, only daughter of Elijah Weston, Sen., and re- mained many years in Wayne County. He had four sons,-James, Ward, Weston and Theodore -who emigrated to Illinois, taking their father with them. In his old age he came again to
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Salem and lived with his daughter, Mary Jane, who married Amos Polley. He eventually re- turned to the land of his fathers in Connecticut and lived with his daughter, Eliza Pelton. He started one of the first Sunday-sehools held in the township at the East School-House, about 1820, and was violently opposed to seeret so- cieties. The following is taken from a Con- neetieut paper : " William Woodbridge died in Portland at the residence of his son-in-law, R. G. Pelton, aged eighty-one years and eight months. Great-grandson of Rev. John Wood- bridge, first minister settled in Hartford, grand- son of Rev. Ashbel Woodbridge, second minis- ter settled in Glastonbury, Conn., and son of Major Theodore Woodbridge, of Revolutionary fame." Anna married Clement Paine and moved to Tioga County. She was a devoted Christian and went as a missionary among the Cherokees for awhile. Laura married a Pres- byterian minister by the name of Bascom.
Joseph Woodbridge, a cousin of the major, bought four hundred aeres of land of Edward Tilghman, June 8, 1801, located on the Northi and South road at the point where the Bidwell- town road erosses it, two miles south of Hamlin- ton. Like his unele, he was a prominent man in the new settlement ; was commissioned jus- tice of the peace for the Fifth District of Wayne County by Gov. Thomas Mckean, January 1, 1806, and held the office till he died, which occurred in 1816. He married Ann, a sister of William Hollister, and had seven children, Eg- bert, Wells, Howel, John, Ebenezer, Mary Ann and Eliza. The last three mentioned married and moved from Salem. Egbert, Wells and John were bachelors. They built a stone house on the old homestead. Egbert was a man of considerable influence, especially during the war. He was an ardent Republican and anti- Mason. He was three times elected justice of the peace and discharged his official duties cred- itably. The members of this singularly constitut- ed household lived to a good age, and are all dead but John, who still lives at the old place. The family is remarkable for the number of its members who became clergyinen. Rev. John Woodbridge, of England, was a Wickliffite, born in 1493. Hle was the first of seveu gene-
rations of elergymen of the same name. His grandson, Rev. John Woodbridge was banished to the continent for his Puritan principles in 1634. Rev. Johu Woodbridge, of the fifth generation, was a Puritan emigrant. He was one of the first ministers of Newbury, Mass., and married a daughter of Hon. Thomas Dud- ley, Governor of the colony. He had twelve children, five of whom became elergymen, and lived to see four of his grandsons candidates for the Gospel ministry. One of these grandsons was Rev. Ashbel Woodbridge, the grandfather of Major Theodore Woodbridge and Joseph Woodbridge, Esq.
Josiah Curtis came to Salem in 1800 or 1801, and located on the East and West road, about one-half mile west from Hamlinton. From an obituary written to the Advocate and Journal, by Rev. Alanson Benjamin in 1836, we extraet the following: "Josiah Curtiss emigrated to Salem in 1801, being one of the four who first settled in this place, which was then a dreary wilderness and had been but a short time before traversed by the savage of the forest. Their first objeet was to establish the worship of God among them, that the holy Sabbath might be honored. For several years they were de- prived of hearing the Gospel preached, except they were occasionally visited by a Presby- terian missionary. Our deceased father was among the first who espoused the cause of Methodism in this country under the pious labors of Rev. Christopher Frye. In 1807 a glorious revival then took place, and he, with two others, united with the Methodist Episco- pal Church and were soon followed by about sixty others." He died aged seventy-eight. He was the first assessor of Salem after it was set off from Canaan, in 1809, and returned sixty persons assessed. His children were,sons, Gideon, Fitch H. and Edward, and daughters Sophia, Rebceca and Marilla.
1. Gideon Curtis, a farmer, who was for many years a noted supervisor of the town, married Ann Goodrich. His children were Lorenzo, who went south ; Charles, who lives at Dunning ; Josiah, who married Ann Catter- son and lives on the homestead. He is noted for his memory of dates and events. His
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family consists of six children,-Emma, who married W. A. Van Sickle, lives on the old Charles Pect place. The others are John Ed- ward, Helen, George and Arthur. Almira married E. R. Jones, of Jonestown ; Louisa married Jared Bennett and lives in Paupack.
2. Fitch H. Curtis was an excellent cabinet- maker. Many cherry and curl maple bureaus and other articles of furniture, made by him, are in possession of the families of Salem, and show the skill of the maker. He was one of the first Methodist class-leaders in the place, and acted as such for thirty-four years. He married Lydia Rogers and lived on the place now owned by L. G. Clearwater. Among his ten children was Noadiah, a bachelor, who lived on the place and worked as a carpenter. He is now dead. Noadiah Curtis, Levi Powell, Thomas R. Benson and Henry Davenport were tlic four men from Salem who responded to Abraham Lincoln's call for seventy-five thou- sand men for three months to crush the Rebellion. Mary Curtis married James Powell, a substantial farmerand Methodist class-leader at Maplewood. They have one danghter, Lydia. Sarah married Amzi Swingle and lives in Peckville.
3. Edward Curtis was a bachelor. He lived on the old homestead with his sister Marilla, who never married. Mahala Jones and Jane Butler, two nieces, also lived with then. Ed- ward Curtis was a carpenter and farmer and a very honest man. Marilla, when she died, bequeathed her property, amounting to eighteen hundred dollars, to the Salem Presbyterian Church. Rebecca married Edmund Nicholson and Sophia married Amasa Joncs.
The Curtis family, taken together, are rc- markable for their integrity.
Michael Miteliell came to Salem about 1800, He had a log cabin opposite the camp-ground, not far from the spring, where JJairns was born in 1802. He then moved to a place below Wilkes-Barre, and from there to Spring Brook and elsewhere. He died in 1855, aged eighty, and his wife in 1867, aged ninety-one. His children are Eli, Nancy (Mrs. Daniel Landon), Salmon, Jairus, Leveret, John P., Julius, Alva and Shepherd.
The Mitchells are nearly all good singers and
inherit the happy-go-lucky disposition of their ancestor. Ambrose Nicholson says his father, Francis Nicholson, of Glastonbury, Conn., was a soldier of the Revolution, and was during the war part of the time in Pennsylvania. He married Rachael Loveland, and they had ten children. In February, 1800, he moved to Salem, and settled one mile west of Salem Cor- ners on the East and West road. His children were Edmund, Jonathan L., Mynis, Polly, Cleora, Fanny, Zenas and Ambrose.
Edmund Nicholson married a daughter of Josiah Curtis, and lived one mile southwest of Hamliuton.
Zenas Nicholson was a carpenter and mill- wright. He resided on the old homestead until 1830, when lie removed to Hamlinton. His first wife was Mary Goodrich. Their only son, Horatio, was a lawyer in Wilkes-Barre. By his second wife, Nancy Goodrich, a sister of his first wife, were children-G. Byron Nicholson, who was also an attorney-at-law in Wilkes- Barre, and Lieutenant Lyman Nicholson, who was killed at Gettysburg.
Seth G. Nicholson married Mary A. Bortrce. He was twiee justice of the peace in Salen, had a store at Hamlinton for a number of years, and subsequently moved to Sterling. His daughter, Marian, married Ira Kellam. Frank, his sou, married Mary Honck, and Rhoda is at home. Milton Nicholson married Elizabeth Potter, and lives in Kingston. Oscar Nicholson is in Lack- awanna County. Mary married John Leonard. Her children are Marion, (who married George W. Bidwell), Josephine and Byron.
Emeline Nicholson married George W. Sim- ons, a merchant at Hamlinton and now (1885) county commissioner.
Ambrose Nicholson, the youngest of Francis Nicholson's family, is the only one now living, aged eighty-threc, in Tecumseh, Neb. He mar- ricd Minerva Fish, and lived on the old home- stead for many years. His children were Ho- bart, who died in the army ; Gilbert Nicholson, married to Mary Potter ; Austin and Emma, who went West.
James Thomas was the next family on the west, adjoining Francis Nicholson. His chil- dren's names were Lucy, Delia and Jaines.
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Timothy Hollister married Betsy Treat. He and Ephraim Bidwell eame from Connecticut to Salem in the year 1800. They lodged in a hut used in a sugar eamp, a mile north of Little Meadows, on the Jonestown road. Returning to Connectieut, they brought their families the next spring, when Hollister and his friend sep- arated. Hollister remained where they had broken ground, and Bidwell settled in what is now called Bidwelltown, one mile south of East sehool-house. Timothy Hollister was a worker and a good farmer. In his old age he moved West. His children were Betsy, who married John Andrews, Jr .; Nabby, who mar- ried Isaae Kellam, and lived in Paupack ; Timothy and Milla, who lived in the West; Thomas, married Hannah Andrew ; and Jemi- ma, who married Daniel Peet, Jr., who lived about one-half mile north of Little Meadows. They had twelve children, among them Solon Peet, who married Harriet Stevens, and had one son, Alby F. ; he died in the army. Abigail Peet married Mahlon Christie, a wealthy far- mer of Sussex County, N. J. Abner married Jane Howell, and resides north of Peet Pond. Rebeeea married Captain Curtis, and lives in Hawley. John C. and Mynott are in the township.
Ephraim Bidwell married Doreas Andrews, sister of John Andrews, Sr. He was a Revo- lutionary soldier, served under Washington, and was present at the execution of Major Andre. He settled on the place now owned by Calvin Peek. His eliildren were Luther, Prudenee, Jabez, Sally, Orren, Luey, William, Ashbel and Rachel.
Luther married Polly Miller, and located one-half mile west of his father, on the eross- road from Bidwell Hill to Woodbridge's. He had six children ; one of them, named Luther, lived with Moses Wright. Prudence married Samuel Pease, who died from hydrophobia.
Jabez Bidwell married Sally Daniels, and set- tled about one-half mile east of his father, on the Ledgedale road. He had a large family. Among them were Anson, who married Manda Andrews, and located east of his father ; Ephra- im, who married Elizabeth Davis and lived in Bidwelltown ; (he died in the army ; his
children are Wilmer, Eugene, Ella and Thom- as) ; Chauneey, married Charlotte Sheerer, is a stone-mason ; Sally, married James Stewart, who lived near his brother-in-law, Orren.
Orren Bidwell married Betsey Daniels, and located near Laurel Run, about two miles from his father's, on the road towards Ledgedale, where he built a saw-mill. He had thirteen children, among them Ira, who married Eliza Wright, lived on the old place and ran the saw-mill for many years ; William Harrison, married Joel Jones' daughter, and lives in Lake township ; George, who married Marion Leon- ard, and died from disease eontraeted in the army ; Louisa, who married Archie Smith ; Mary Jane, who married Abram Simons ; Manda, who married Reuben [Engle; Armenia, who married 'Gus Webster; Hiram, who married Dolly Nicholson ; and Frank, who died in the army.
Lucy Bidwell married Noah Rogers, and moved to Canaan ; William Bidwell married Caroline Brown, and finally moved West ; John Bidwell, one of their sons, recently died in Honesdale.
Ashbel Bidwell married Polly, a daughter of Rev. William Griffing, a Methodist minister, who had thirteen children. He lived on the old homestead many years, and sold to John P. Landsiel, purchasing elsewhere. He had four children,-George Melvin, who married Mary Ammerman ; John William, who married Adelia Loring; Julia, married Thomas Conklin ; So- phronius, a earpenter.
Rachel Bidwell, the last of the old family, marricd Josiah Davis, who also lived in Bid- welltown. Their children were Solon, Byron, Roger and Loring. These facts are chiefly taken from old records kept by Polly Bidwell, who is now eighty years of age. The Bidwells are an industrious, hard-working family, and have contributed their share in clearing the farms, building walls and houses and otherwise im- proving the township. The family furnished more soldiers for the late war than any in Sa- lem. Bidwell Lake, a beautiful sheet of water eovering about seventy acres, is named in their honor.
Jeremialı Osgood came to Salem in 1801
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and settled on the North and South road, about one mile north of Hamlinton. He served four years in the Revolutionary War. He lived to be ninety-nine years old. Among his children were Jeremiah, Daniel, Joseph and Lydia. Jeremiah Osgood, Jr., married Diantha Lutz, and had four children ; Ruth, who married John Wilcox, and lived on the old place, now occu- pied by her son, Angelo Wilcox ; Merritt Os- good, who married Susan Cobb and had three children,-Ruey, Alice and Friend.
Daniel Osgood married Susan Spangenberg, and had four children. John Osgood, one of the sons, married Lydia Fairchild. His son Daniel is a lawyer in Tecumseh, Neb. Dr. Joseph Osgood married Elizabeth Bartlow, and had ten children, among them Joseph Osgood, Jr., who lives near his father ; Lucy, who mar- ried Elbert Goodrich ; and Didema, who mar- ried Eugene Goodrich. Dr. Joseph Osgood was born in 1804, and is still living. He commenced practicing medicine in 1836. Lydia Osgood, the only daughter, married Ebenezer Cobb.
Jesse Morgan settled between Jeremiah Os- good and Salem Corners about 1800. He sub- sequently moved to Morgan Hill, where Sam- uel Morgan afterwards lived. His son George died in Canaan, aged ninety-seven.
Aaron Morgan began farming north of his brother Samuel ; subsequently purchased the northeast section of the old London lot of Charles Goodrich, Jr., and built a stone house, which is now occupied by Frederick A. Abbey. He married Ruby Rathbone. His children were Sarah, Jeanette, Lucia and Alice. Sarah mar- ried Henry Abbey. Her children are Frederick and Clark. Alice married Matthias Haag, a devoted Christian man, who was the leader of a small band of Perfectionists.
Oliver Hamlin, mentioned above, married Nancy Baldwin, and kept a store and public- house in Hamlinton. He subsequently lived in Bethany and Honesdale ; was county com- missioner three years and associate judge five years. His children by his first wife were Harriet, Hannah, Horton, Hobart and Henri- etta. Horton was a merchant in Honesdale for many years.
Harris Hamlin, Jr., a farmer near Hollister-
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ville, married Mary Long. His children were Lyman, postmaster at Cedar Keys, Fla .; Ruey ; and George, who married Frances Davis, and presides over the Salem Hotel, at Ham- linton.
David Hale took up the place afterward oc- cupied by Daniel Peet, Jr.
Dr. Lewis Collins bought the Little Mea dows place in 1801, and occupied it two years. One of his sons, Decius Collins, resided in Pucker Street. His daughter, Sophia A. Collins, is an assistant teacher in Scranton graded school, and Phimelia married N. A. Hulburt, music dealer in Scranton.
Thomas Cook married Julia, a daughter of Abner Collins, and lives on the Luther Weston placc. His children are Sidney W., Dr. Lewis Cook, Ella and Stella.
Seth Goodrich bought the Little Meadows place of Dr. Collins in 1803. He married Polly, a daughter of Phineas Grover, who led the forlorn hope at Stony Point. His children were Anson, George, Phineas and Dwight, sons ; and Mary, Nancy, Sally and Rebecca, daughters.
Anson Goodrich, a farmer, lived in Pucker Street, on the farm now occupied by his son Hiram. He married Eunice Andrews and had eleven children. Of his children, Julia married Stephen Clarke, who lives in Lake ; George L. married Lois Russell; Mary mar- ried Horace Bell, the children being Frederick (merchant in Hawley), Harriet, George, Charles and Adaline ; Lucy married Lafayette Rhone and removed to the West; Sally mar- ried Charles Pelton, a farmer in Pucker Street. They have three boys,-Frank, who married Addie Walker, is a merchant in Moscow ; Florence T., who married Jane Walker, lives on the Decius Collins place ; and Leroy, who married Olive Nash, is on the homestead.
Nancy Goodrich married Charles Gillett, and George, their son, lives west of Hamlinton.
Hiram, who occupies the homestead, married Rachel Robinson, and Phebe Quick for his second wife. Angeline is the wife of John Bell, of Hawley.
George, the second son of the original fam- ily, married Abigail Moore, a daughter of
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Joseph Moore, Sr. He retained the Little Meadows place and dispensed the hospitalities of the old homestead in a generous manner. Having no children they adopted several ; among them, Mary Barlow, Mary Jane White, Nancy Moore and Warren Moore. George Goodrich . was an elder in the Presbyterian Church and clerk of the session for many years ; also justice of the peace for a number of terms. He was one of the solid men of Salem in his day.
Phineas Grover Goodrich was born at Little Meadows in 1804. He lived on the homestead until eighteen years of age, then taught school in Salem, Paupack and Connecticut for nine
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years. In 1836 he moved from Salem to Bethany, and took charge of the county offices as clerk, under Paul S. Preston. In 1845 he was elected prothonotary and clerk of the courts for three years. Hc engaged in surveying in 1850, in connection with farming. He was elected county surveyor in 1856, was twice elected county auditor and served from 1874 till 1880, and, during the court-house trouble, was an anti-court-house man. He set off the townships of Texas, Cherry Ridge and Pau- pack, was appointed justice of the peace in 1865, and has held the position since. His most important work is Goodrich's " History of Wayne County," a work which future his- torians of Wayne County will depend upon to a considerable degrec. He is a ready writer,
something of a poet and a good story-teller. His mind is stored with folk-lore and reminis- cences of the old settlers, poetry and anecdotes. His overflowing humor and varied information have ever made him a companionable man to young and old. He married Lucia Rathbone, and both are living at Bethany. He is eighty- one years of age, has been administrator of a large number of estates, and is a trusted man in such offices. Nancy married Zenas Nichol- son for her first, and Dr. Erastus Wright for her second husband. Her family is elsewhere noticed. She is still living, with her daughter, Emma Simons, aged eighty-three. Rebecca Goodrich married Joseph Moore, Jr. She had five daughters and one son, Warren G. Moore. The Grand Army Post in Hollisterville is named in his honor.
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