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son for a town room or house, respectfully submit the following report :
That we have attended to the business of our appointment, and having conferred with Capt. Bogue, examined the said house and room, together with the amount of the expendi- tures, which were for the whole building, $1,207.93, for the repairs only, including stoves and table, and have obtained from him the following terms for the sale and purchase of the same. He will give a quit claim deed of the room, with all the privileges and appurtenances, including stove, stove-pipe and table, in consideration of three hundred dollars and inter- est, payable in one year from the first day of April instant.
We therefore recommend the adoption of the following Resolution, to wit .: In Town meeting, April 3, A. D. 1838,
Resolved, that it is expedient that the Town accept the proposition of Capt. Bogue and purchase said room, on the terms aforesaid for a Town House.
All which is respectfully submitted.
G. NEWELL, For Committee.
The 6th article in the warning was withdrawn by consent and request of Capt. Bogue.
G. NEWELL, For Com.
The Town voted to accept the report of the Committee.
A motion was made to adopt the Resolution recommended by the Committee aforesaid, and on this question the yeas and nays were demanded and were as follows :
Those who voted in the affirmative were Elijah Brown, Jr., J. Dike, Jr., John Cooley, John Barnes, David Richardson, Andrew Leach, Thomas F. Bogue, Solomon Thayer, R. M. Powers, Jonathan Warner, C. T. Colburn, S. Penfield, A. G. Dana, Anson Ladd, Addison Buck, James Gorham, George Dike, Jonathan Stevens, R. R. Kingsley, Samuel Fenton, Nathan Clifford, Asher Burditt, S. Powers, A. Penfield, A.
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W. Titus, A. Potter, H. Davis, G. Newell, P. C. Barlow, D. Brewster, K. Winslow, J. Daggett, S. Sherman, Jeduthan Thomas, Martin Leach, Jr., H. Gorham, D. Hall, 2d, B. H. Trowbridge, H. Leonard, K. Andrews, Ebenezer Drury, Solo- mon Hendee, Oliver Brown, E. Lincoln, J. S. Ewings, M. C. Bogue, William Mead, C. Hitchcock, M. Leonard, H. Messer, A. Hitchcock, C. A. Randall, S. Gilbert, L. Woolson, S. Damon, J. Woodbury, M. Mitchell, J. S. Rand, A. Hammond H. Simonds, C. H. Kellogg, B. Nixon, D. Gorham, A. Cooley, J. Sheldon, Jr., M. W. Morrill, J. Tottingham, A. Gorham, W. Barnard, T. Lester, A. C. Kellogg, J. G. Newell, S. D. Winslow, G. F. Hendee, Anson Brown, Caleb Hendee, J. Rockwood, A. Nourse, A. Crippen, I. Wheaton, S. H. Kellogg, T. H. Palmer, J. Tiltson, R. Frost, J. Burditt, Austin Graham, Bradley Burditt .- 88.
Those who voted in the negative were: H. Henry, N. Barnes, I. Owen, J. Buck, N. Leonard, J. R. Newell, L. San- ders, J. W. Hudson, J. Lowth, A. Jenner, A. Merrill, E. Bailey, S. Mead, T. Burditt, G. Johnson, J. Dunlap, O. Smith, G. S. Worden, F. Barlow, J. Betts, A. Paine, I. Booth, N. Wescott, L. Keeler, G. Powers, S. S. Abbott, J. Barnes, J. W. Smith, B. Manley, N. Walker, William Beals, C. Blanchard, T. Howland, I. Burditt, A. Buck, D. Sherman, H. Hart, C. Fay, S. Collam, O. Williams, G. Smith, T. Willis, L. Wheeler, E. Lindsley, Erastus Bailey, D. Chaffee, R. R. Thomas, D. Reed, E. Stevens, J. N. Wolcott, O. Thomas, R. Thomas, Ira Hitchcock, G. Clark, O. W. Phillips, J. Wicker, I. Brewster, G. Westcoat, J. Freeloon, J. Walker, E. Spencer, J. Bresee, I. Bresee, S. Warner, D. Hall, Jr., H. Beals, E. Wheeler, T. Morseman .- 68.
So the Resolution was adopted."
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CHAPTER XII.
Immigrants or Settlers and their Locations continued ; Resurvey of the Public Lots; Rebuilding of the Mead Bridge ; School Teachers' Certificates. 1840-1850.
Bishop P. Booth, son of Benjamin, was born February 7, 1810, married Elizabeth, daughter of John Barnes, Jr., March 31, 1840, and located on the Warner farm which he had pur- chased of Edward Wheeler. He died May 3d, 1866, and the farm is now owned and occupied by his heirs.
The Randall family was from Easton, Mass. Ephraim Randall married Mary Blake and settled in Easton, before the Revolutionary war. Their son Moses was born in that town, July 16, 1775, and married Unity Shepherd, who was born March 10th, the same year in which he was born. Soon after their marriage they removed to Chittenden, Vt., but on their way they stopped several months in this town, on the farm now owned by Martin Leonard. At that place their eldest son, Jeffrey A., was born, May 6, 1804, and the father being a shoemaker, the son learned the same trade and worked at it some time with Elijah Brown. On the 21st of September, 1840, he married Lydia (Fenton) Messer, who was born in Georgia, Vt., April 26, 1805. They located in the Village, on the place formerly owned and occupied by Henry Messer, deceased. Mr. Randall and his son Julius S. are engaged in the manufacture of shoes.
Seba F. Smith came here in 1840. He is a descendant of Perry Green Smith, who was born in Rhode Island and was a soldier in the Revolutionary war, after which he married Sophia
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Eddy and located in his native State. He afterwards removed to Clarendon, Vt., where he died, in 1813. Mrs. S. died there in 1847. Their children were James, Job, Arnold, Levi and Polly. James, the eldest, born in Rhode Island, August 6, 1782, married Hannah Eddy, who was born in Clarendon March 4, 1783, and they resided in that town where the former died December 12, 1863, and the latter, May 13th, the same year. Their children were Freeman, Perry, Seba F., Rensse- lear, Sardius, Vernon, Nancy, Hannibal, James, George and Sophia. Seba F. was born in Clarendon, September 3, 1810, and on the 9th of February, 1840, married Cynthia A. Russell, who was born in Weathersfield, May 9, 1818. They located in Pittsford near the Furnace, but on the 24th day of May, 1842, Mr. Smith bought of Thomas Adams a part of what was the Parmelee farm* with other land adjoining, and he has since occupied and greatly improved it.
Rufus R. Thomas, son of Peter, was born Feb. 5, 1807, and on the 22d day of March, 1840, married Sarah M. Wes- cott, who was born in Sudbury in 1815. On the third day of April following, he purchased of Abraham Owen eighty-five acres of land which included the place now owned by Oliver Bates, and at once took possession of and occupied it till the 16th day of November, 1846, when he sold it to Benjamin Stevens. The 22d day of March, 1847, he purchased of Michael Sanders, then of Middlebury, the farm on which he now resides.
Royal Hall, son of Elias, who was the son of John, hereto- fore mentioned, was born in Queensbury, N. Y., February 15, 1800, and on the 11th day of May, 1828, married Harriet A. Burnham, who was born in Windsor, Vt., February 23, 1807. They located in Rutland, but on the 25th day of Janu- ary, 1840, Mr. Hall bought of Isaac Leonard what had been
* Simeon Parmelee, Sen., was the first settler on that farm.
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ASA S. WHIPPLE-WILLIAM MANLEY-ELIAS T. ADAMS.
the Ladd* hotel in Pittsford, and at once removed to this town where he now resides.
Asa S. Whipple, son of Wright, married Elizabeth Berry in 1840, and located on the paternal homestead. He has made many improvements on the farm, which he continues to occupy. His aged mother is yet living, and is a noble specimen of the past generation. Mrs. Elizabeth Whipple died in 1871.
William Manley's ancestors were from Easton, Mass. They migrated to Chittenden in the early settlement of that town- ship, and resided in that part of it known as New Boston. William married, first, Mary Green, and resided some years in Brandon, where his wife died, and he married, second, Lucy, widow of John Hitchcock, Jr., May 14, 1841. They resided a few years in the house now owned by J. H. Peabody, which had been built by Remembrance Hitchcock, and deeded to his brother John's heirs. Mrs. Manley bought that part of it which belonged to other heirs of her former husband. Mr. Manley died March 11, 1863, aged eighty-four years; Mrs. Manley died October 17, 1867.
Elias T. Adams, son of Thomas, was born July 29, 1818, and spent his early life on his father's farm. He married, September 30, 1841, Adeline M. Haselton, who was born in Andover, Vt., Nov. 23, 1820, and they located on the home farm in Pittsford, where they still reside. This is one of the few farms in this town that have not passed from the family of the first occupant.
George B. Dutton, a carpenter and joiner, married Mary H., daughter of John Dickinson, August 22, 1841, and resided in this town a few years, occupying the house now owned by Mrs. Jackson at the foot of "Sand Hill." Mr. Dickinson occupied the house with them. Mr. Dutton removed to Min-
* Hammond Ladd built and, for some years, kept a public house on that farm, and the same was also kept by Mr. Leonard.
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nesota, and for a time was a member of the Legislature of that State. He now resides in Texas.
Carlos W. Burr, born in Pittsford in 1820, son of Ansel married, October, 1841, Mary - -, who was born in 1819. They resided one or two years in the Village, but after chang- ing their residence several times they located in the house built for Charles H. Kellogg, where they now reside.
Fobes Manley became an inhabitant of this town in 1841. He is a son of Eli Manley who was born in Easton, Mass., married Betsey Forbes and located in Brookfield. Their children were Eli, Mary, Rhoda, Forbes, Benjamin, Joseph, Sophronia, Rhoanna and Rebecca. Forbes was born in 1793, and married, March, 1816, Wealthy Hill, who was born in Weston, Mass., 1796. They settled in Hubbardton, Vt., but removed to Pittsford in 1841. Mr. Manley bought the Fenn farm on the 17th of July, 1841, the deed of it being obtained of Elam Mead. He and his son, Benjamin Franklin, enlarged and repaired the old house in 1869, so that it is now a large and commodious dwelling.
David Blair became an inhabitant of this town in 1841. His grandfather, James Blair, was born in Glasgow, Scotland, where he married Jeannette Telford, lived and died, leaving the following children, viz .: James, David and Jeannette. David, the second son, was born in 1771, and married Mary Bruce, who was born in 1772. They located in Bridgton, and their children were Elorabeth, Jeannette, Joseph, James and David. David, the youngest son of David, was born in Ruther- glon in 1817, became, by occupation, a tailor, and in 1835, married Helen Morton, who was born in Botherell in 1818. They resided in Rutherglon till 1841, when they came to this country and located at Mill Village in this town. He resided in a house then owned by Sturges Penfield till 1849, when he bought of James T. Gorham the place on which he now
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WM. HORTON-J. WARNER-J. G. NEWELL-W. CHAFFEE.
resides. Mr. Blair's mother died in Rutherglon in 1835, just before the family immigrated to this country, but his father came to Pittsford and died here in 1850.
William Horton, a young man from Sudbury, came here about the year 1840, and worked for R. R. Drake, of whom he learned the tailor's trade. He married Charlotte, daughter of Clark Taft, July 1, 1842, and located in the house now owned by John C. Leonard. He had a tailor's shop in the southwest room of the Town House. He removed to Bran- don, and afterwards to some part of the West.
Jonathan Warner, third son of Jonathan, Jr., was born in Pittsford, April 12, 1810, and married, June 27, 1842, Sarah M. Walton, of Brandon, who was born August 22, 1815. They located on the paternal homestead where they now reside. Mr. Warner's farm is another of the few that have not passed out of the family of the original occupant.
John G. Newell, born November 4, 1807, son of Gordon, married Susan, daughter of Charles W. Cartwright, Esq., of Boston, January 13, 1842, and resided several years with his parents. Afterwards he bought the Dana place on the east side of the street in the Village, and resided there till 1864, when he sold his location to William Barnes, and removed to Boston where he now resides. He is a lawyer by profession, and will receive further notice in another place.
Warren Chaffee was the son of Simeon who was born in Rehoboth, Mass., Feb. 5, 1772, married in 1796, and had the following children : Stephen, Joel, Job, Carpenter, Amos and Simeon. His wife died and he married a second wife, Fanny Parsons, April 22, 1813, and by her he had Warren, Heman, Christopher, Nathaniel and Susanna. These children were born in Chittenden, Vt., to which town the parents removed soon after their marriage. Warren was born January 13, 1814, and married, September 11, 1842, Chloe M. Paine, who was born September 11, 1818. They located on the farm
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formerly owned by Josiah Parsons, in the southeasterly part of Pittsford, where they now reside.
Martin Fitzpatrick became an inhabitant of this town in 1842. He is a descendant of John Fitzpatrick who was born in Castletown, Queens County, Ireland; married Catharine Quigly, December 3, 1743, and located in Castletown on an estate which had long been in possession of the family. Their children were Patrick, Martin, John, Daniel, Betsey, Julia and Catharine. Daniel, the fourth son, married, November, 1803, Mary Sebeter, and located on the homestead, where he died, December 4, 1829. Their children were John, James, Elin, Margaret, Mary, Martin, Catharine, Daniel and Ann. Mrs. Fitzpatrick came to America in 1834, and died in Brandon, January 13, 1866. Martin came to America with his mother ; married, February 3, 1842, Caroline, daughter of Zebulon Pond, of this town, and has since resided, the most of the time, on the Pond farm. His wife Caroline died October 30, 1854, and he married Margaret Duffy.
David L. Mills, son of Thomas, married Orra Jackson, Feb. 7, 1843, and located on the Morgan farm now owned by Joseph Wolcott. He purchased this farm of his father who had it of Page Morgan. The deed to David L. Mills bears date February 16, 1842. He resided on this farm till 1847, when he sold it, December 14th, to Joseph Wolcott; and on the 26th of January following he bought of Sterling More- house, of Brandon, the William Barlow farm in Pittsford. He occupied this farm till 1861, when he bought the farm on which he now resides, though he still owns and cultivates the former farm.
The branch of the Bates family from which Hiram has descended resided some years in West Haven, Vt. Oliver Bates was born June 20, 1743, and married, April 26, 1768, Rachel Adams, who was born April 6, 1750. They located in West Haven, and had the following children, viz .: David,
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MATTHEW LOWTH-R. BURDITT-DANIEL D. HENNESSY.
Rachel, Oliver, Hannah, James, Lucy, Ephraim, Sally, Russell and Ezra. The father-who had been a soldier in the Revo- lutionary war-died in New York, Feb. 20, 1814; the mother died in Chesterfield, Macomb County, January 26, 1838. Oliver, the second son, was born in West Haven, Feb. 5, 1776, and married Hannah Morgan, of Pittsford. He located in his native town, where both he and his wife died in March, 1811. Their children were Hiram, Betsey and Salem. Hiram was born June 20, 1802, and married, March 5, 1832, Mary B. Richardson, who was born in Brookfield, Mass., June 28, 1809. They located in Fairhaven, where they resided till 1843, when they removed to this town and located on the Jonathan Jack- son farm, where they now reside.
Matthew Lowth, son of James, was born in Killeary, Meath County, Ireland, April 8, 1813, and came to America with his- father's family. November 8, 1843, he married Catharine Hudson, who was born in Clard, Kings County, Ireland, Dec. 25, 1820. Mr. Lowth located on the Taft farm with his father, where he now resides.
Ransom Burditt, son of Asher, was born in this town, August 1, 1821, and married, March 22, 1843, Laurenza. Davis, of Chester, who was born March 22, 1821. They located on the Samuel Crippen farm which had been owned some years by his father Asher. In 1864, he bought of Charles: M. Winslow, the Rice farm which he has greatly improved, and where he has made one of the pleasantest residences in the town. Mr. Burditt is a man of energy and public spirit, taking an interest in whatever relates to the prosperity of the town.
Daniel D. Hennessy came here in 1843. He was born in Ireland, in 1804, and at the age of sixteen years came to Boston, where he married, September 16, 1827, Ellen Burn, who was born in Ireland, Nov. 9, 1802. Having resided a few years in Boston, they removed to Claremont, N. H., and
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thence to Brandon, Vt., in 1842. They came to this town the following year, and the family still resides at Mill Village, though Mr. Hennessy died at Baton Rouge, Louisiana, August 2, 1862.
Charles Lincoln Penfield, son of Abel, was born in Pitts- ford, September 15, 1820, married Irene C. Dike, January 16, 1844, and located on the home place with his aged father where he now resides. He has had a Puritan ancestry, inherits the sterling qualities of his father, and is fitted, both by natural endowments and education, to extend a strong influence in the town.
Abraham Butterfield, a shoemaker, resided some years in Rutland. He married Ann, daughter of Jonathan Warner, Jr. She died in Rutland, in 1843, and he married Temper- ance, daughter of Robert Loveland, April 3, 1844. In 1850, he bought the Kingsley tannery, and carried on the tanning and currying business in connection with shoemaking; but in a few years he relinquished tanning and limited his attention to shoemaking. The tan works have since gone to decay. In 1866, Mr. Butterfield removed to Tunbridge, where he was killed by the falling of a tree, in March, 1870.
The ancestors of Robert R. Drake are supposed to have come from Connecticut. Eli Drake married Ariminta Buel and located in Castleton, where both he and his wife died some years since. Their son, Alvan B., was born in Castleton, mar- ried Grace Hill, of New Haven, Conn., and located in his native town where he and his wife both died. Their children were Robert R., Mary, Ann, Jane J., and John H. Robert R. the eldest, was born in Castleton, October 4, 1816, mar- ried, February 29, 1844, Nancy E., born April 29, 1816, daughter of Joseph Tottingham, of Pittsford, and located in Pittsford Village, on the Elias Hopkins place which he had purchased of Elijah Brown the 28th of March, 1842. At that time the store stood north of the house on the ground which
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DANIEL RAY-ALLEN MILLS-S. D. WINSLOW.
Mr. Drake now uses for a garden. He traded in this store till April, 1860, when he sold the place to James T. Gorham, who built the present store the following summer, and who also made repairs on the house. Mr. Drake sold the old store, which was removed, and now forms the main part of Henry Kingman's house. The whole of this property was again pur- chased by Mr. Drake, Jan. 22, 1861-one thousand three hundred dollars being allowed for the improvements. Since then he has carried on the mercantile business in the new store.
Daniel Ray located in this town in 1844. George Ray, father of Daniel, married Mary Gurden, who died in Middle- bury, in February, 1834. Mr. Ray died in Salisbury, 1840. Their children were Mary, Harriet, Daniel and Elizabeth. Daniel was born in East Middlebury, March 14, 1820, and married, April 10, 1844, Mary Ann Ayers, who was born in Goshen, February 15, 1825. They located on the Hopkins* farm, but afterwards removed to " Fire Hill," and settled on the Stowellt farm. They have recently removed to the Lamb farm.
Allen Mills, son of Nahum, was born in Brandon, Jan. 3, 1815, and married, December 5, 1844, Melissa Pepper, who was born in Pawlet, December 25, 1820. They settled in Whipple Hollow, on the Sweet farm, which had been occupied by his father. Mr. Mills is one of the active farmers in that section of the town.
Samuel Dana Winslow settled here in 1844. He is the second son of Dr. Kenelm Winslow, and was born in this town, February 26, 1815. For some years he was clerk in his father's store, but in 1841, the Doctor transferred to Dana his interest in the store, and the latter conducted the mercantile business in his own name till 1852, when he relinquished it. He has since acted as a pension agent in connection with his farming
* This was the farm on which Ebenezer Hopkins, Jr., resided some years.
t Farm on which Nathan Stowell once lived.
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operations. For more than eight years of the time he was in trade he held the office of Postmaster. He was married, Sep- tember 4, 1844, to Elizabeth Page, of Rutland, and they have since resided on the Winslow place.
Levi Stiles became a resident of Pittsford this year. His father, Peleg Stiles, was born in Lunenburgh, Mass., married Rebecca Wyman and settled in Westmoreland, but removed to his native town where his son Levi was born, March 4, 1789. December 8, 1811, he married Relief Heaton, who was born in Charlemount, Mass., May 29, 1787. They settled in More- town, Vt., and thither Mr. Stiles' parents went to reside, and there they died. Mr. Stiles removed from Moretown to Pitts- ford in 1844, and occupied the house now owned by David Blair. After residing here some time he left town, but within three or four years he has returned, and resides near his son Charles in the easterly part of the town. He was a soldier in the war of 1812-14, and he now receives a pension from the government.
Joshua C. Howe is a descendant of Eli who married Polly Oakes, settled in Henniker, N. H., and had the following chil- dren, viz .: Eli, Stephen, Abel, Polly and William. Stephen, the second son, was born February 25, 1787, and married Ruth Colby, who was born in Henniker, December 15, 1787. They settled in their native town and had several children- Joshua Colby, Janette, Stephen, Lois M., Philip, Ruth, Jeru- sha, Horace, John W. and Martha.
Joshua Colby, born July 12, 1810, married Lydia Kelley in 1837, and located in Goshen, N. H., but removed to Pitts- ford, Vt., in 1844. He bought a house lot of Howard Lothrop and built the house he now occupies. He is a cooper, and the basement of his house is used as a shop. His wife, Lydia, died July 28, 1864, and he married Mary E. Worthen,* Decem- ber 31, 1864.
* Born in Mendon, May 28, 1824.
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HENRY W. MERRILL-L. SARGENT-S. B. LOVELAND.
Henry W. Merrill settled in Pittsford in 1844. He is the son of Roswell Merrill, who was born in Goshen, Conn., and married Elizabeth White, removed to Castleton, Vt., where he resided some years and worked at blacksmithing. Their chil- dren were Guy C., Henry W., Abigail, Roswell T., Alonzo, Dexter B. and Mary. The father died in West Rutland, in 1818 ; the mother died in Pittsford, in 1844. Henry W., the second son was born in Castleton, July 15, 1798, and became a merchant. He married Abigail, daughter of Remembrance Hitchcock, February 11, 1821, and located in West Rutland, where he engaged in mercantile business. In 1844, he came to Pittsford and purchased of William F. Manley the pleas- ant location in Hitchcockville where he still resides. Being advanced in years, he has retired from business, and is now enjoying the fruits of an industrious and honorable life.
Leonard Sargent, carriage maker, son of Junia, was born in Brandon, April 19, 1816, and married, October 20, 1841, Sophia Allen, who was born in Greenwich, Washington Co., N. Y., January 11, 1823. They located in Hubbardton, but removed to Pittsford in 1845. In company with his father, Mr. Sargent bought of Rufus Goss the farm on which he now resides, "together with the saw-mill and mill tools." The deed was dated April 21, 1845, and was in consideration of twelve hundred dollars. Goss had this property of Thomas Davenport, who purchased it of M. W. Nelson in 1837. Mr. Sargent is engaged somewhat in farming, as well as carriage- making.
Samuel Basset Loveland, son of Robert, born Nov. 26, 1816, married Mercy Betts, December 31, 1844, and located on the home farm with his parents. It will be remembered that this was the first settled farm in the township, and it has had the following owners, and in the order here indicated : Robert Crawford, Ephraim Doolittle, Gideon Cooley, Peter Sutherland, Daniel Lee, Robert Loveland and Samuel B.
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Loveland. But Crawford, Doolittle and Sutherland never resided on the place.
John R. Barnes, son of John, Jr., was born June 28, 1822, married, July 6, 1845, Mary, daughter of John Cooley, of Pittsford, and located on the home farm with his parents. He has not since changed his residence.
Eleazer Chapin Warner, son of Samuel, was born August 15, 1818, and the most of his time has been given to agricul- tural pursuits. In company with his father and elder brother, Nathan Smith, he purchased of Deodat Brewster, what had been the Crippen farm .* On the 26th of May, 1841, he pur- chased his father's share, and on the 4th of November follow- ing, his brother's share of the farm, which he has continued to own. He married, Aug. 3, 1845, Electa, daughter of John Barnes, Jr., and resided in the house built by David Brewster, till 1867, when he built the house he now occupies.
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