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COTTON FAMILY.
ELISHA G. COTTON, m. Sophia. Not much is known of him. With Benj. Bloss and Nathan Kimball he bought in 1815 land and mill privileges of Daniel Woodbury. He held this property more or less intact until 1842. He was called Lieut.
i. Olive, b. June 22, 1818.
ii. Elisha L., b. Mar. 30, 1820.
iii. Hiram P., b. Jan. 21, 1824.
iv. Gardner B., b. Dec. 2, 1826.
V. Susan G., b. Oct. 27, 1829. Ch. all b. in Roy. prob.
COWDERY FAMILY.
DAVID WICKAM COWDERY, son of Elisha and Anna (Fifield) Cowdery, b. May 26, 1811, Tunbridge ; d. Feb. 26, 1891, Roy .; m. Dec. 26, 1837, Clarissa P., dau. Daniel and Betsey (Wheeler) Tarbell, b. June 5, 1819, Tunb .; d. Aug. 3, 1895, Roy.
Mr. Cowdery removed from Tunbridge to S. Royalton in 1856, and bought the place where he lived and died, and where his daughter Anne and her husband, James Bingham, later lived and recently died. The old house was burned in March, 1863. The fire caught in the ell, which was between the house and barn, and all the buildings were consumed. While rebuilding Mr. Cowdery occupied the house now owned by Mrs. Jane Jones, and there Anne was married.
Mr. Cowdery was a man of no ordinary type. Though small in stature, he possessed great force of character, and power of planning and carrying into execution business enterprises. He was a director and president of the South Royalton Bank, and was president of the Union Agricultural Society of Tun- bridge, and did much to make their annual fairs a success. He was an extensive dealer in live stock, and furnished fine horses to patrons in distant parts of the country. His purse was al- ways open to calls for public improvements. He was system- atic and methodical in his habits. For years he kept a diary in Walton's Registers, which, with other important documents relating to the S. Royalton Bank were kindly offered for use to the Historical Association, by his daughter, Mrs. Mary C. John- son. He served the town in an official way during most of the years of his residence in it, acting as highway surveyor, lister, grand juror, auditor. His wife was a sister of Daniel Tarbell, Jr., and possessed much of the ability characteristic of the fam- ily. She was essentially domestic, and idolized by her children. *i. Betsey Anne, b. Oct. 16, 1841, Tunbridge; m. James G. Bing- ham.
*ii. Mary Ellen, b. in Tunbridge; m. Charles G. Blake.
*iii. Clara Adelia, b. Nov. 19, 1848; m. David G. F. Bosworth. iv. Don Ward, b. Oct. 19, 1851, Tunb .; d. Dec. 13, 1909, Glens Falls, N. Y., unm. He started in the telephone business in Concord,
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N. H., and continued until 1889, when the N. E. Telephone Co. pur- chased his interests. He was appointed general manager with head- quarters at Saratoga, where he remained until the Hudson River Tel. Co. came into the district, with which company he was connected until his death. He was a man of business ability and fine gentlemanly in- stincts.
*v. Maria Pearson, b. Aug. 14, 1857, Roy .; m. William J. Davis.
vi. Fred David, b. Sep. 29, 1861, Roy .; m. 1888, Mary E., dau. Charles W. and Adeline (Fox) Mann, b. 1870, Cornish, N. H .; ch .: Evelyn Johnson, b. Nov. 1, 1888, Braintree.
vii. Frank Tarbell, b. May 21, 1864, Roy .; res. Albany, N. Y .; employee of the N. Y. Tel. Co .; m. June 6, 1911, Jane S. Knowles.
GEORGE L. COWDERY, son of Elihu of Tunbridge, the son of Jabez, son of Nathaniel of Charlestown, Mass., b. Sep. 10, 1819, Tunb .; d. Apr. 7, 1892, S. Roy .; m. Sep. 21, 1847, Harriet A., dau. Alba and Lydia Godfrey, b. Oct. 23, 1829, Woodstock; d. Dec. 8, 1905, S. Roy. Mr. Cowdery came to Royalton in 1863, and settled on the Elisha Flint farm. Mr. and Mrs. Cowdery were persons who lived at peace with all men, noted for virtue and beneficence.
*i. Adelia L., b. Mar. 17, 1850; m. William S. Goff.
ii. George H., b. Mar. 26, 1854; m. Nov. 12, 1879, Della M., dau. Albert B. and Lavinia P. (Tracy) Pixley, b. June 26, 1857; ch .: (a) Clarence, b. Mar. 4, 1887; grad. Girard Coll. as Electric En- gineer; res., New York City.
iii. Cora A., b. Dec. 7, 1860; m. Mar. 5, 1884, Irving G., son Norman N. and Mary M. (Gifford) Barrows, b. Mar. 5, 1861, Mont- gomery; ch .: (a) Grace C., b. Aug. 23, 1887; grad. S. Roy. High, Salem, Mass., Normal; teacher in Salem, Mass .; (b) Alice C., b. Jan. 31, 1899; (c) Walter Irving, b. June 6, 1903. The father of Mr. Barrows was the son of Daniel and Lucy (Mendall) Barrows, b. Aug. 31, 1823, Mont- gomery; d. Dec. 15, 1902, Woodstock; m. June 1, 1856, Mary M. Gifford, b. Dec. 31, 1828; d. Jan. 7, 1908, Roy .; oldest son, Oliver Nelson, b. Nov. 17, 1859, Montgomery; m. Mar. 9, 1886, Nettie M. Wallace of Bethel, and has son Max, b. Dec. 3, 1899; settled in Bethel. Norman N. Barrows lived a number of years on Broad Brook. Irving G. lives on the Geo. Cowdery farm.
iv. Willie G., b. Aug. 12, 1867; d. Sep. 20, 1867.
v. Arthur Byron, b. Apr. 21, 1876; m. Apr. 28, 1903, Grace E. Albro; settled in Glens Falls, N. Y .; ch .: (a) Arthur Root, b. Jan. 16, 1904.
COY FAMILY.
1. JONATHAN COY, b. Oct. 30, 1830; d. Sep. 7, 1815, Roy. ( ?) ; m. July 12, 1763, Deborah Parker, b. Sep. 21, 1739; d. June 13, 1820, Roy. ( ?).
On Oct. 13, 1788, Jonathan and Reuben bought 17 Dutch, which remained a part of the Coy farm for a long period of years. They do not appear in the first census, but do in the first grand list of 1791. The children were all born in Munson, Mass.
i. Wyllis, b. June 13, 1764.
ii. Patty, b. Feb. 24, 1766.
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2. iii. Jonathan, b. July 11, 1768.
iv. Beulah, b. Apr. 24, 1770.
v. Reuben, twin of Beulah; prob. the Reuben who m. Feb. 17, 1799, Sally Chambers of Tunbridge, and seems to have lived there, disappearing from our list about that time; ch .: (a) Ladotia, b. Feb. 19, 1800; d. Sep. 6, 1801; (b) Dilly, b. Apr. 19, 1802; (c) Benjamin Chambers, b. Aug. 30, 1806; (d) Royal Baker, b. Oct. 26, 1808; (e) Horace or Hiram, b. Oct. 15, 1810.
vi. John, b. Jan. 13, 1773.
vii. Simeon, b. Jan. 24, 1775.
viii. Benjamin, b. Nov. 3, 1776.
ix. David, b. May 26, 1781. David was in Royalton and held real estate in 1802.
2. JONATHAN COY, JR., b. July 11, 1768, Munson, Mass .; d. May 30, 1841, Roy .; m. (1) May 12, 1793, Roy., Olive Pixley, b. June 25, 1768, Dighton, Mass .; d. Sep. 15, 1795, Roy. ; m. (2) Sep. 11, 1803, Lucy, dau. Thomas and Marcy (House) Bingham, b. July 19, 1770, Lebanon, Conn .; d. July 8, 1852.
3. i. John, b. July 11, 1794, Roy.
ii. Simon Bingham, b. Jan. 21, 1807; d. Aug. 3, 1814, Roy. Jonathan, Jr., was a substantial farmer. He increased the home farm in 1801 by the addition of 16 Dutch. He deeded one-half this in 1826 to his son John, who still further enlarged the farm by additions from 9 Dutch.
3. JOHN COY, son of Jonathan, Jr., b. July 11, 1794, Roy .; d. Oct. 11, 1870, Roy .; m. Mar. 5, 1827, Tunbridge, Ma- tilda, dau. Richard and Susannah (Peabody) Thompson, b. May 5, 1804, Tunb .; d. Nov. 20, 1867, Roy. John Coy was an up- right, straightforward man. He served the town in various offices, being selectman, 1836-38, and he was justice of the peace for twelve terms. For military service of his sons, George, Carlos, and Charles, see Civil War Roll.
i. Olive Lucy, b. Jan. 5, 1828; d. June 3, 1872, Roy., unm. ii. Harry Bingham, b. Dec. 31, 1830; d. Oct. 12, 1863, Cal., unm.
iii. Simon Thompson, b. Apr. 28, 1833; d. Nov. 3, 1902; m. Nov. 2, 1855, Mary Alma, dau. Clark Davis of Bethel; ch .: (a) Delia, m. Charles Williams of Woodstock and had dau., Anna B., who m. Fred Jerome Perry of Walpole, N. H., and has dau., Delia Coy; res. Bethel, Claremont, N. H., and Bellows Falls. He went to Bellows Falls about 1877, and in 1882 became the head of the Coy Paper Co., W. Claremont, N. H. For three years was member of the firm, Robert- son & Coy, Bellows Falls. He was also a member of other firms, one in New York City. He was characterized by great industry and pluck. It was said of him at his funeral, that like Ben Adam, "He wrote his name in the book of life as one who loved his fellow men."
iv. George Edmund, b. Nov. 16, 1835; res. Roy. and Tunbridge; unm. In the Civil War.
v. Cornelia Elizabeth, b. Mar. 19, 1838; m. July 19, 1856, Charles, son Josiah S. and Dorothy (Cowdery) Buzzell of Tunbridge; no ch. They lived on the home farm with her parents for some years; now reside in S. Royalton.
vi. Carlos Cooledge, b. Aug. 13, 1840; d. Aug. 22, 1864, unm. In the Civil War; d. on shipboard and buried at sea.
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vii. Charles Pixley, b. May 7, 1843; d. July 3, 1908, Tunb .; bur. Bethel; m. Sep. 25, 1871, Bethel, Hattie, dau. Alonzo and Ursula L. Brooks of Bethel, b. 1849; ch .: (a) Carl, d. young; (b) Fred Elbert, b. June 24, 1875, Bethel; unm .; res. Claremont, N. H .; (c) Robert Henry; res. New York City; m. and no ch .; (d) Mary, d. at age of three; Charles P., a tinsmith in Bethel.
viii. John Harvey, b. Mar. 22, 1846; m. Nov. 7, 1893, Mrs. Adell (Bunting) Cloud, wid. of Adnah Cloud; no ch. He was a farmer in Roy. and Tunbridge.
CRANDALL FAMILY.
1. GIDEON CRANDALL, b. 1761-62; d. 1841, Roy .; bur. Branchview Cem .; m. Dec. 2, 1784, Esther, dau. Thomas and Eunice Rix of Preston, Conn., b. Mar. 15, 1763-64; d. 1840, Roy.
Mr. Crandall rem. from Westerly, R. I., to Royalton, ac- cording to family tradition. Our town records place him in Preston, Conn. On May 21, 1787, he bought the east half of 44 Dutch, and the same day James of Westerly bought the other half. In 1792 James, who was then in Petersburg, N. Y., sold all he owned in Royalton to Heman Durkee. Gideon increased his farm by additions from 39 and 43 Dutch, and in 1825 he agreed with his son Tracy for support of himself and wife. Eleven of his children were baptized July 10, 1803. i. Shubal, b. Dec. 27-8, 1785; d. Jan. 10, 1877, Potsdam, N. Y .; m. Mar. 12, 1812, Martha, dau. Levi Parker; ch .: (a) George, who had Levi and Ellen, who m. - Squires, and res. in Potsdam, N. Y .; (b) Levi; both ch. now d. ii. Gideon, b. Apr. 10 or 19, 1787; d. Apr., 1860, Potsdam; m. Dec. 1, 1817-8, Betsey Lyman.
* iii. Eunice, b. Oct. 6, 1788; m. David Williams.
iv. Esther, b. Mar. 20, 1790; d. Apr. 10, 1816-7, Roy.
v. Joseph, b. Nov. 7, 1791; d. Aug. 28, 1856; res. Hartford,
Conn.
vi. Ruby, b. Apr. 7, 1793; d. Oct. 28, 1807, Roy.
vii. Thomas, b. Dec. 7, 1794; d. Jan. 12, 1870, Milwaukee, Wis.
viii. Betsey, b. May 26, 1796; m. - Perrin; res. Potsdam.
* ix. Fanny, b. Apr. 29, 1798; m. John S. Storrs. x. Lois, b. Nov. 2 or 3, 1799; d. in Potsdam.
xi. Clarissa, b. Apr. 11, 1801; d. Feb. 16, 1808, Roy.
2. xii. Tracy, b. Aug. 7, 1802.
xiii. Hiram, b. Dec. 3, 1804; d. Jan. 28, 1899, Burlington. xiv. Solomon, b. Oct. 11, 1807; d. Apr. 10, 1841, Chariton, Ia.
2. TRACY CRANDALL, son of Gideon, b. Aug. 7, 1802, Roy .; d. 1874, Roy .; m. Mehitable, dau. Jabez Lyman, b. 1801, Roy .; d. 1873, Roy.
i. Jabez Lyman, b. Dec. 30, 1825; m. L- M-, and had Francis A., who d. Sep. 5, 1858, aged 1 yr. 3 mo. 22d, and Lewis T., who d. Oct. 1, 1865, aged 10 yr. 5 mo. 16d. ii. Charles T., b. Dec. 1, 1827; d. Apr. 6, 1900; m. June 17, 1856, Mary E., dau. Thos. and Adah Merrill, b. Oct. 6 or 7, 1834, Hart- ford; d. Aug. 23-4, 1869; m. (2) Jan. 5, 1881, Ellen Lucinda, dau. Stephen and Dolly (Smith) Fogg, b. 1842; ch .: (a) Lillian C., b. Feb.
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27, 1859; d. Mar. 27, 1885; m. - Allen. Charles T. res. in town until after 1870.
iii. Mary Richardson, b. Dec. 27, 1829; d. 1852.
iv. Jerusha Fay, b. Sep. 27, 1831; m. Ansel D. Whitney.
* v. Ellen Amanda, b. Apr. 30, 1832; m. Hiram S. Dodge.
vi. Joel R., b. Feb. 20, 1834; m. Sarah Rowell; ch .: (a) George F., b. Sep. 21, 1860.
vii. Romayn Douglass, b. Apr. 22, 1836; m. Mar. 24, 1859, Sarah Jane, dau. George W. and Sarah (Cushman) Rowell, b. Nov. 15, 1839; d. Aug. 23, 1874; ch .: (a) dau. b. Sep. 21, 1861, Roy .; d. Nov. 9, 1861; (b) Lillian Janette, b. Aug. 30, 1862; d. Oct. 6, 1865, Roy .; (c) Ida May, b. Sep. 27, 1865, Roy .; (d) George Henry, b. Feb. 10, 1870, Roy.
viii. Edwin Augustus, b. Jan. 7, 1840; m. Emily E. Rowell, b. Aug. 21, 1841; d. Apr. 17, 1897.
ix. Susan A., b. Feb. 16, 1842.
x. Lois Jeannette, b. Sep. 2, 1844; d. 1905.
xi. Ella M., b. Oct. 22, 1849; m. Dec. 10, 1873, George L., son William and Harriet (Whitney) Swan, b. 1849, Tunbridge.
CULVER FAMILY.
JAMES MADISON CULVER, son of Simon and Eunice (Lamb) Culver of Barnard, b. Mar. 4, 1809, E. Barnard; d. Dec. 22, 1878, S. Roy .; m. (1) Mar. 15, 1833, Roy., Sarepta, dau. Simeon and Betsey Child, b. Jan. 1, 1808, Roy .; d. 1854 ( ?) Roy .; m. (2) Martha M. Smith, wid. Edward Hawley.
James Culver was a man of strong personality. He was prominently identified with the M. E. church from its early days, both in Royalton village and in S. Royalton. He owned the H. P. Allen house in the village, later the Collamer house. He rem. to S. Roy. and occupied the house which he built for a par- sonage for the M. E. society. After acquiring considerable prop- erty, he succumbed to the western fever for getting rich quickly, and sold his house and invested in western securities. Twenty years after, he sold his investment for $75 worth of potatoes, and even thus fared better than some others who bit at the same bait.
i. William West, b. Feb. 28, 1834, Roy .; m. Jan. 28, 1868, Jo- hanna, dau. Reuben, Jr., and Mary (Blaisdell) Morey, b. Oct. 19, 1834, Strafford; ch .: (a) Arthur Carl, b. Oct. 27, 1870; m. Feb. 23, 1875, Ethel Blanche Persons of Waitsfield; two ch .; res., Manchester, N. H .; (b) Calma Louise, b. May 30, 1874, Roy .; d. Oct. 21, 1874. Mr. Culver studied art with Alexander Ransom of Boston, and taught painting in Royalton Academy. He went South in 1860, and while there photo- graphed the inauguration of Jefferson Davis, and has a print of the original negative, among his other collection of curios and antiques. At present he paints chiefly stage scenery. Among the Culver group of relics in this volume is a canteen, found in the attic of the Park- hurst Barrett house. It has a rude carving of the ship Essex, which rounded Cape Horn in 1812. Mr. Culver joined the Masons fifty-five years ago, and is said to be the oldest in the State of Vermont. He has written and staged several plays, which have been well received. He resides at W. Lebanon, N. H.
ii. John Emery, b. Mar. 17, 1840, Roy .; d. Dec. 14, 1860.
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iii. James Newton, b. Mar. 2, 1842, Roy .; d. June 20, 1910, Rich- ford; left a widow; enlisted in Co. H, 11th N. H. Vols .; captain of the St. Albans Barlow Grays, which assisted May 24, 1878, in celebrating in Montreal, Queen Victoria's birthday. He was a candidate for the position of department commander of the G. A. R. at the time of his death. He wrote a successful drama, "Loyal Mountaineers."
iv. Arthur, b. Nov., 1845; d. Aug. 18, 1870. See "Legal Pro- fession." v. Charles Wesley, b. Dec. 25, 1860, Roy. Published a paper at one time in S. Royalton. Lives with his mother, N. Adams, Mass.
SEYMOUR CULVER, son of Thomas and Hannah (Tup- per) Culver, and grandson of Simon, b. Aug. 30, 1833, Pomfret ; m. (1) Feb. 14, 1860, Ellen, dau. Ora and Elvira (Riggs) Burke of E. Barnard, b. June 11, 1837; d. June 17, 1888, Roy .; m. (2) Oct. 1, 1889, Roy., Mrs. Emma (Clark) Bement, dau. Asahel and Martha (Joiner) Clark, and wid. Silas Bingham Bement, b. Jan. 5, 1851, Roy. Mr. Bement was b. Dec. 21, 1847; d. Sep. 24, 1874, Hartford; no ch.
Mr. Culver has been a continuous resident of Royalton vil- lage for nearly fifty years, with the exception of the time he served in the Civil War. He is a wheelwright by trade, but has a genius for skillful work in various lines. Until recently he owned a shop near the river bridge. While he was assisting in the repair of the First Congregational church about twenty years ago, he fell and sustained injuries from which he never recov- ered. He has been deacon of the church since 1886, and a zeal- ous supporter of it. The first Mrs. Culver shared with him in church activities, as does the present wife, and many a minister has been given cordial welcome to their pleasant home. i. Inez E., b. July 5, 1866, Roy .; m. May 15, 1906, Roy., Albert Bethel, son Nathaniel and Anna Eliz. Gray (Stickney) Whittier, b. Jan. 3, 1872, Bethel; ch .: (a) Annette Elizabeth, b. Feb. 11, 1907, Williams- town; (b) Randall Culver, b. June 3, 1909, Brookfield.
ii. Ora, b. July 20, 1870, Roy .; clerk in Mass .; unm.
iii. Martha Louisa, b. June 3, 1872, Roy .; m. Nov. 25, 1903, Forest B. Ashland of St. Albans; ch .: (a) Clifford Seymour, b. Feb. 10, 1905; res. St. Albans.
iv. Florence Gertrude, b. Oct. 19, 1890, Roy .; m. Sep. 25, 1910, Roy., Clarence Nesmith Simpson of Highgate Springs.
v. Theron Lee, b. Feb. 19, 1892, Roy .; grad. S. Roy. high school; in Middlebury Coll.
CURTIS FAMILY.
GEN. ELIAS CURTIS, son of Simeon, b. 1748, Lebanon, Conn., prob .; d. Oct. 18, 1827, Tunbridge; m. Sarah, dau. Dr. Timothy and Mercy (Sampson) Hutchinson. Sarah was buried in the old cemetery across the branch from the old meeting- house, and her grave is not known. She died in Tunbridge, and Elias is buried in the cemetery at N. Tunbridge.
Elias was first in Norwich with his father, Simeon, then came to Tunbridge, and later to Royalton, and again returned
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to Tunbridge. The house which he built after his return from captivity was in the form of an octagon, and situated in the S. E. corner of the present mill yard at Tunbridge. The upper floor was a hall where meetings were held. Abijah lived in a brick house, where the old meeting-house used to stand, and his mother lived with him. Abel, a brother of Elias, who had some connection with Royalton, was a remarkable man. He was a graduate of Dartmouth, and wrote a little book believed to be the first literary production of a Dartmouth graduate or of a citizen of Vermont, as well as the first purely English grammar written and published in America. It was printed by the Spooners at Dresden, and on the title page is the following :
"While Education bears her gentle sway,
And we her precepts cheerfully obey;
While every breast glows with the generous flame,
And Britons envy our increasing fame;
In mighty pomp America will rise
Her glories spreading to the boundless skies." i. Elias, b. July 14, 1776, Tunbridge (?); m. Apr. 8, 1798, Abigail, dau. William and Mary Clements, b. Oct. 24, 1778; d. Sep. 4, 1816; m. (2) Anna -; ch .: (a) John Phelps, b. Feb. 9, 1799, Tunb .; (b) Sarah, b. Mar. 25, 1801; (c) Mary, twin of Sarah; (d) Cyrus, b. Feb. 14, 1803; (e) Azro Benton, b. May 6, 1805; (f) Betsey, b. Mar. 21, 1807; (g) Cacy, b. Dec. 30, 1818; (h) Elizabeth Ann, b. 1822; d. Oct. 2, 1841.
ii. Simeon, b. Sep. 15, 1778, Roy., prob.
iii. Abijah, b. Mar. 11, 1781, Roy., prob .; m. Rehamah Allen of Conn .; he had Timothy, Elias, Mercy, Sarah, Fidelia. Timothy was b. Aug: 8, 1818. Abijah went West and d. there. His wife returned and married a former lover.
iv. Sarah, b. Aug. 17, 1785, Roy., prob .; d. Mar. 16, 1826; m. Jan. 1, 1804, Stephen Baker, b. May 21, 1778; d. Dec. 24, 1838; ch .: (a) Lucy Curtis, b. June 14, 1805; d. July 12, 1834; (b) Chester, b. Aug. 9, 1807; d. Aug. 29, 1872; (c) Louisa Maria, b. Apr. 6, 1810; d. Apr. 24, 1883; (d) Charles, b. Mar. 21, 1812; d. Oct. 21, 1824; (e) Mary, b. June 4, 1815; d. July 1, 1817; (f) Elias Curtis, b. Aug. 9, 1817; d. May 18, 1891; son, John T., b. Jan. 25, 1849, Tunbridge E. Hill, lives in Minne- apolis, Minn .; (g) Calvin Porter, b. Aug. 11, 1819; d. Mar. 19, 1894; (h) Mary, b. Mar. 6, 1826; m. Joseph Whitney; res. Wells River; Chester, Louisa, and Calvin raised families at Chelsea.
v. Lucy, b. Feb. 24, 1788, Tunb.
vi. Polly, b. Aug. 26, 1792, Tunb .; m. David Hutchinson, and had Sarah, who m. Milo Douglass of Essex Junction, and Harriet, Thomas, and Ellen.
1. SAMUEL CURTISS, b. 1757; d. Apr. 30, 1829, Roy .; bur. S. Roy. Cem .; m. Zipporah Morgan, who d. with dau. Lucy in the West.
This branch of the Curtis family spell their name with two s's. Mr. Curtiss came from Hampton, Conn. On Mar. 19, 1788, he bought 98 acres of Medad Benton, and may have built the house in which he lived on the hill not far from the Broad Brook hill road, where a pest house was afterwards located. One 47
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night he wanted to see some one on the main road. "Put the children to bed, and we will go down," he said to his wife. She swept up the hearth, and went, but took the children with her. When they reached the main road, they saw their home in flames. She saved enough from her fine clothing to make a silk bedquilt. She recalled that when she swept the hearth the cat ran against the broom, and then darted up the ladder overhead. They thought a coal became imbedded in its fur, and set fire to some dry flax stored in the loft. This may have been about the time Mr. Curtiss bought the house and barn belonging to Medad Ben- ton in 1797. i. Lucy, b. July 31, 1786, Hampton, Conn., prob .; m. June 27, 1809, Life Young of Concord, N. H. ii. Samuel, b. Aug. 22, 1788, Roy., prob .; m. June 25, 1812, Polly Hatch, and had Henry, Charles, Roswell, Oramel, and Eli. He built the house occupied by Walter Webster, and lived there; later rem. to Downer's Grove, Ill., where his son, Roswell, lives.
iii. Betsey, b. Feb. 13, 1792; m. July 6, 1812, Erastus Otis of Marblehead, Mass.
iv. Roswell, b. Nov. 18, 1795.
v. Ira, b. Mar. 7, 1798; d. Aug. 29, 1828; m. Jan. 11, 1821, Hannah, dau. Daniel and Lorenza (Havens) Lovejoy, b. Sep. 10, 1799, Sharon; d. Jan. 2, 1881, Roy .; ch .: (a) Hannah, b. Oct. 1, 1823, Sharon; m. William Benson (See) ; (b) Betsey, b. July 26, 1827, Roy .; m. Thos. S. Davis (See) ; (c) Ira, b. Mar. 8, 1829, Sharon; m. Oct. 11, 1864, Sarah, dau. Lewis and Nancy (Marshall) Fish, b. Nov. 3, 1839, Roy .; ch .: (i) Lewis F., b. Aug. 18, 1866, Roy .; res. with father on Broad Brook. The pictures of these three ch. can be seen in the cut of old people now living in Roy. Ira, Sr., lived for a time with his father on the O. S. Curtiss place.
2. vi. Oliver, b. July 20, 1802.
2. OLIVER CURTISS, b. July 30, 1802, Roy .; d. Nov. 7, 1870, Roy .; m. Nov. 7, 1831, Laura, dau. Isaac and Mary (Shep- ard) Hatch, b. July 21, 1803; d. Dec. 28, 1893, Roy. She was a sister of Polly, who m. Samuel Curtiss, Jr.
Oliver Curtiss was a lifelong resident of Royalton, and ac- tively interested in its welfare. Coupled with business sagacity, was a sturdy regard for all that makes for social and religious prosperity, which made his character strong and useful. He was an earnest and influential worker in the Methodist church. Some valuable papers have been preserved in his family, among them the original sale of slips in the M. E. church, Jan. 19, 1840, and the original deed given by Archibald Kent to the First School District, granting land for the S. Royalton Cemetery, dated Oct. 20, 1836. i. George Barker, b. Aug. 8, 1832, Roy .; d. Feb., 1894, New York City; m. Jan. 10, 1855, Margaret Van Riper of New York City; d. Feb., 1884; real estate broker; ch .: (a) George O., b. Nov. 25, 1856; (b) Frank E., b. Oct. 5, 1864; (c) Charles P., b. Feb. 27, 1867; (d) Jennie B., b. Dec. 18, 1869; (e) Amy D., b. Oct. 2, 1870; (f) Edwin S., b. June 3, 1872; (g) Harry B., b. Oct. 21, 1877; all died unm. except Jennie B., who m. Dr. William Lewis Chapman of Brooklyn, N. Y.
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ii. Oliver Shepard, b. June 26, 1836; d. Sep. 24, 1909, Roy .; m. Mar. 10, 1863, Ellen Frances, dau. John and Susan (Wood) Man- chester, b. Mar. 28, 1837, Cornish, N. H .; ch .: Marion Shepard, b. May 13, 1870, Roy .; d. Oct. 19, 1884, Roy. Mr. Curtiss was a man whom everybody liked and respected. During the last years of his life he became very deaf, but this affliction did not change his cheerful, happy disposition. The place of their daughter has been supplied by the devoted ministrations of Miss Minnie Metcalf.
iii. Laura Morse, b. July 3, 1840; m. May 1, 1866, Alfred H. Moore, b. New York; ch .: (a) Mary E., b. Mar. 13, 1867; (b) Maggie C., b. Sep. 3, 1868; (c) Ernest, b. Mar. 11, 1870; (d) Otis H., b. July 11, 1875; (e) Loring A., b. Sep. 4, 1878; (f) Bessie L., b. Apr. 22, 1880; (g) Annie L., b. Oct. 13, 1883. Ch. all dead without issue except Ernest, who has a dau., Dorothy, and a dau., Annie, who m. Apr. 29, 1909, Her- bert Huelot.
CUTTER FAMILY.
MOSES [6] CUTTER (Benjamin [5], John [4], John [3], Ephraim [2], Richard [1]), b. June 22, 1781, Jaffrey, N. H .; d. Aug. 23, 1858, St. Louis, Mo .; m. Feb. 21, 1805, Walpole, N. H., Hannah, dau. Col. Christopher Webber, b. 1775, Walpole; d. 1854, St. Louis.
Mr. Cutter began business in Royalton in company with Gen. Zebina Curtis of Windsor, under the firm name of Curtis & Cutter. Gen. Curtis was the father of Hon. Edward Curtis, at one time collector at the port of New York. Mr. Cutter seems to have been very successful in business in this town. He was public spirited and a generous supporter of the Academy. His wife was a member of the Congregational church. He had a hotel while living here, and held public office. He rem. to Cleveland, O., later to St. Louis, Mo., where his sons had already gone. His children were born in Royalton. i. Charles [7], b. Dec. 13, 1805; m. Aug. 18, 1827, Elizabeth, dau. Ebenezer and Polly (Robinson) Day, b. Apr. 5, 1806, Roy .; di- vorced; m. (2) -, and had (a) Emma [8], b. 1859, and (b) Louisa [8], b. 1863; grad. of Norwich Univ., 1822; merchant in St. Louis.
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