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Edwin Coffin and lives in Rhode Island. Eliza m. Charles Maddeson, of Providence. Harris m. Charlotte Goodspeed. of Wells. and now resides in Pawlet. having raised a family of five boys. Sarah Ann m. Obediah Kelley.
GREEN, ROWLAND R .. in. Ruth. da. of William Haskins, who died in 1847. aged 38. He next m. Harriett Parmenter. Ile is a carpenter by trade, and was formerly a member of the Baptist charch. He has raised a family of eight children. of whom the oldest. Martha Jane. m. Charles Hutchinson, and lives in Iowa. Smith m. Emily Smith, and lives in Tinmouth. Mary Ellen, Harris. Thomas, Frank, Freddie and Emma.
GREEN. EDWARD T .. m. Louisa, da. of Miner Bromley, and settled on the Daniel Kelley farm, in the north-west part of the town. He is an honest, hard-working man, of steady and indus- trious habits, by which he has accumulated a handsome property and is the owner of a good farm. They have a family of nine children, of whom are Mary. Malona, Myron, Ella, Fremont and Ann.
GREEN, JOB. m. Frances Perkins, and lives on the Anna But- ton farm. He has a family of several children : Eliza, Lois. Charles. Hattie and George.
GREEN, WILLIAM, from Rhode Island about the year 1800, was a stone mason by trade. He died many years since. leaving a family of eight children : William. Adin H., Orange. Channey. Joseph. Polly, Betsey and Amanda. William m. Phebe Barker and raised a large family, of whom Chauney O. m. Elizabeth. da. of Andrus Eggleston, and lives in Troy, N. Y. Edwin, who served as a soldier, during the Mexican war. Sidney, now in California. and George, who lives in Burlington, Vt. Chauncey in. Almira Bowen, and lives in Dorset, having formerly sefiled here. Joseph R. m. Harriett Sherman. who died in 1853. He was constable and collector here for several years, and ocenpied a prominent position in society. He now resides in Dorset. Their only child. Adelaide. a very estimable young lady and teacher. diedl at the age of 18. Polly in. John Griffith : Betsey m. John ? Burke, and Amanda m. Joseph Billings, and lives in Rotland.
GREEN. ADIN H., was among the prominent, enterprising. and business men of the town for many years. He was three times married, first to Susan Griffith. next to Margaret, da. of the Rev. Henry Bigelow, of Middletown, and last to widow Smith. Hc was a tanner and currier by trade and settled at the Borough in that business, which he continued for some time. - He was also postmaster there for nearly fifteen years, being a very obliging. coarteons, and amiable man in that position as well as in all otl :- ers. He removed to Middletown about the year 1810, and was town clerk of that town for a member of years. He died at Middletown. Of his children, when we know, were David, I ... retta. Hudson, Susan, Melinda, Aden II. and Horace. den HI. was a member of the 10th Regt .. and was particularly distin- guished for his fearless discharge of duty. Horace, the
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youngest son, and a half-brother of Aden HI., was in Kilpatrick's cavalry, and was one of the most daring soldiers in the army. He was wounded on the Danville Railroad. in Va .. in June. 1864, and died in Middletown the December following. A Min- wie ball went through his head, back of his eyes, and destroyed his sight so that he was not able to see afterwards.
GREEN. ORANGE. m. Harriet JJones, and settled at the Borough in the blacksmithing business. He was also a manufacturer of axes. He finally, being a member of the Baptist church, became a preacher, and was a devoted christian and a good citizen. He died in the blessed hope of an immortality, having lived an np- right, honest life. They raised a family of five daughters : Bet- sey, Mariette, Lucinda. Amanda, Mary and Emily.
GREEN, SPENCER. a lawyer by profession. was a native of Clar- endon. Vt., and a son of Dr. Richard Green. who died in Red- ford. Mich., in 1834. When a small boy he went to resido with Tilson Nichols, with whom he spent his minority. When about twenty-two years of age he went to Poultney. Vt., and pursued legal studies with W. HI. Smith, Esq. From thence he went to Wallingford. where he completed his studies, was admitted to the Rutland county bar. and commenced the practice of law. He remained there until about the year 1850, when he came to this town and settled at the Borough. Ho rapidly rose in his profes- sion. until he seenred a large practice in the county. He was a quiet, modest, unassuming gentleman, not succeeding by any brilliant power of rhetoric or oratory, but by his thorough under- standing of the principles of the law. Being a man of unque -- tioned ability, and possessing the confidence of the people. he was entrusted with numerous positions of honor. He was grand juror four years, a justice of the peace one year. and representa- tive in the Legislature in 1857. He was greatly respected by all who knew him. He was a soldier in the Union army during the rebellion, and died from diacase contracted while there. (For further particulars see obituary of deceased soldiers.)
GRINNELL. ARZA, from Clarendon, Vt., in 1866. settled on the Platt Vail farm, now owned by i. B. Herrick. He is a member of the Methodist church and a worthy citizen. He is also an industrious, frugal farmer. In 1868 he removed to Pawlet. on the farm formerly owned by Lucius M. Carpenter. He m. Bet- sey Aun Congdon, of Clarendon, and have Que son. Lannie.
HADWIN, BARNEY. born at Newport. R. I., in 1771. came to Danby in 1805, and settled in the north east part of the town. Hle . Mercy Vanghan, who died in 1817. aged 66. He jed an industrious, laborious life as a farmer, over sustaining the char- acter of a good citizen, and died in 1851. at the ripe old age of 83. He left eleven children, all of whom are now living. Their names are as follows : Elizabeth. m. Stephen Wing, of Gran- ville. N. Y. : John. Margaret. m. Ezra Bull and lives in Hinois : Dorcas. n. William A. Robinson, of Providence. R. I. ; Sophia- m. David Griffith ; Benjamin, Ruth. m. Robert Hopkins, of Fin-
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mouth ; Lydia, m. Ama-a Bancroft ; Obediah. Susan. m. Leonard Campiell, and Oliver, m. Sarah J. Baker. Obediah is a tauber and currier and is settled at the Borough, having succeeded Amasa Bancroft in that business.
HADWIN, JOHN, m. Abigail Baker, and succeeded to the home- stead. He next m. Phebe Baker, and has raised a family of chil- dren : Mary, Susan, George, Elizabeth and Harriett. Mary m. Allen Andrus, of Dorset ; George m. widow Emily Buxton, da. of Nathan Francis, of Wells, and has two children. He lives on the farm with his father.
HALEY. ANTHONY, from Ireland, m. Margaret Brady and set- tled on the Dr. Joseph Andrews place, originally owned by John Allen. He now owns and occupies the Benjamin Fisk farm, which he has recently purchased. He is a man of industrious habits, having acquired considerable property, and is greatly re- spected by the community. His children are Hubert, Anthony, Thomas and Kate.
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HIANDY, WELCOME, from Wallingford, m. Hannah Aldrich, and lived on the place now owned by Hiram Edgerton. He was a shoemaker by trade, and died some ten years since. They raised a family of six children : John, Ruth, Prussia, Hannah, Naney and Elizabeth.
HALL. DR. II. M., from Rutland, settled at the Borough in his profession. As a physician he ranks high, and is especially em- inent as a surgeon, having had an extensive practice. He served as a surgeon during the war, and was regarded as the most skill- ful in surgery of any in the corps to which he belonged. He is much attached to his profession. is a great reader, and has added to his acquired knowledge a thorough practical experience in medical science. Dr. Hall is a map of remarkable firmness and decided opinions, always plainly and fearlessly expressing his convictions. He is a man of large inventive genius, and has lately received a pateut for attachment to sewing machines. He m. Carrie V. Dickinson, of Chicago, Il., have one da., Carrie. Thay have lately removed to Chicago, Ill.
. HARNDEN, SAMUEL, from Wells, m. Esther Irish and settled at the Corners, where he kept a public house for several years. He was a boot and shoe maker and harness maker by trade, and subsequently removed to the Borough and worked at thai busi- ness. He removed back to Wells, where he died. He is said
to have been one of the best fiddlers in the State. We are told that he cured his wife of fits by fiddling, and was afterwards mar- ried. His children were Plym, now living in Lyons, Ohio ; Row Joseph, drowned on Lake Erie ; and Filena, in. Seth P. Scott. of this town.
HART, JOHN, was among the early settlers of Danby. He was a land jobber, a vocativo, which the peculiar condition of real estate in the early years of the settlement of the State demanded. His associate in that business was oble Roger Williams, another of the early settlers here. They were both men of property, and
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were highly respected in the community. "They both held their lands under grants from New Hampshire. and were equally op- posed to the claims of New York. Their dealings had been pret- ty extensive, and unfortunately in the summer of 1775 a violent contention arose between them. and Hart. being a man of strong passions and great resolution, went to Albany and took out a capias against Williams on a note of five hundred pounds, put it into the hands of a deputy sheriff, who. with Hart and some as- sistants from New York, on a dark and rainy night, arrested Williams in his bed and started for Albany City Hall. An alarm was immediately given. and the settlers in this town and Tin- month were, one after another, armed, mounted and in eager pur- suit of the Yorkers. Their progress through the woods over the hills between Danby and Pawlet was greatly impeded by the mud, roots, rocks, stumps, and darkness of the night. but they dashed on and overtook them at White Crock (now Solom, N. Y.) The sheriff and his assistants escaped, but they made Hart a prisoner in place of Williams and returned to Danby the same day. The committee of safety had previously assembled at Capt. John Bart's tavern, together with a great concourse of Green Mountain boys, and a number of smaller boys. As soon as the shouts which burst forth on the arrival of the prisoner had subsided, and the echoes from the mountains had died away. the judges took their seats on the bench in the bar-room, the prisoner was arraigned. and without loss of time convicted. and by Thom- as Rowley, chairman of the committee and chief justice, was sentenced to receive thirty-nine stripes with the beach seal ou the naked back. Daniel Chipman, LL. D .. who wrote an account of the above. and who was an eye witness to the scene, says :-- "As Hart had always been treated with respect at my father's house, and as this was the first punishment of the kind I ever witnessed. I felt that it was inflicted with the most cruel severity -I felt every stroke upon my own back. Let it not be said that the infliction of this barbarous punishment proves that the people of the Grants were less civilized than the people of other parts of New England, for long afterwards this relic of barbarism was found in the criminal codes of all the States: but a more ad- vanced state of civilization has broken up the habit by which it had been continued through generations of civilized man, and it has been exploded never again to find a place in the code of any of the American States. It is worthy of record, as it is the only transaction of the kind which took place after the commence- ment of the Revolutionary war, and as this was the last opportu- nity a committee of safety ever had to exercise their judicial functions in the conviction of a Yorker, and you it never find a place in any history-the transaction took place too far from Ben- nington, which at that time was all the Grants, as Paris noder the despotism and during the revolution was. all of France."- , John Hart did not long remain a citizen here after this event. but after disposing of his possessions left for other parts.
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HARRINGTON, THOMAS, SEN, from Gloucester, R. I .. in 1780, ' settled near where Wesley Parris now lives. He was employed as surveyor to set off proprietor's rights, and was town surveyor also for many years. He brought a large amount of money with him when he came, and it is said that once, before starting on a visit to Rhode Island, he concealed a bag of silver coin under a stone leap. Hle was absent about six months, and on his return found the silver all right, but the bag had been eaten by the mice. He was a man of considerable note in town affairs, and was con- sidered a man of good sense and substantial merit. He was a selectman four years from 1784, and rendered valuable service to the town in various other capacities. He was possessed of rugged constitution, energetic, and well fitted to meet the oxigen- cies incident to the hardships of life in a new settlement. He be- came one of the largest landholders in the town, and lived to a good old age. He died leaving seven children : Sampson. Eli- sha, Lot, Thomas, Jr .. Susanna, m. Moorey Harrington : Faith- ful, m. William Bromley, Jr .. and Freelove. Sampson in. Polly Ballou, of Rhode Island, and removed to Canada where his de- seendants now live.
HARRINGTON, ELISHA, first m. Lovica Ross, with whom a sep- aration occurred. He next m. Mary, da, of William Bromley, and settled on the farm owned by John Hilliard. where he lived for many years. He was again m. to Rebecca Hill, of Walling- ford. He left one son Welcome.
HARRINGTON, LOT, m. Sylvia Sage, and settled on the home- stead. He died in 1848. His children were Darius, Thadeus. Elisha, Simeon, Hiram, Almeda, and Betsey, m. William Wil- ger. Thomas m. Julia Nicholson, and removed West. Elisha became a physician, and lived in Chenango county. N. Y. He died in 1857, leaving several children. Darius m. Dorcas Tuck- er, who dying he next married Harriet Wescott. His family numbered twelve children : Hiram. Darius, Lot. Martin. Alme- da, Betsey, Abagail, Dorcas, Lovicia, Marinda. Mary and So- phronia. Hiram was one of the 16 recruits who enlisted from this town in the Mexican war. He died in the hospital at Vera Cruz. July 12th, 1847.
HARRINGTON, THOMAS, JR., m. Susanna Inman, and resided where O. B. Hulett now lives in the little village. Hle built and run a grist mill there at a very early day. He acquired eon-ider- able fame as a hunter and trapper. Bears were quite pheniy in those days, and were sometimes very troublesome to the inhabit- ants in killing their stock. It is said that at one time a bear came and attacked a hog and calf belonging to Thommrs. in the vard near his house, and being short of bullets he hastily broke up a piece of an iron kettle with which he shot the bear. ilis giant not going off the first time he touched it off with a fin .- brand. From this circumstance he was ever after known as "bear Tom." We can get no record of his family.
HARRINGTON, WELCOME. m. Freelove, da. of Luther Colvin. 20
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and succeeded to the homestead. He removed to Plattsburgh in 1824. and subsequently to West Virginia, where he died in 1861. aged 84, having been twice married. His first wife died in 1839, aged 59. He raised a family of eight children ; Calvin. Lydia. Lovica, Anna. Ama, Esther. Elisha and Isaac. Calvin m. Bet- sey Reynolds. and settled in Pamela. N. Y. Lydia m. Coonrad Decker, of Plattsburg. Ama m. Moses HI. Dexter. Isaac m. - Mary Baker, and lived in Clinton county, N. Y. Elisha m. Je- rnsha Potter, and raised a family of seven children : Isaac, Es- ther, Hiram, Elisha, Sophia, Annettee and Angenettee, in. Burt Jenks, of Rupert Vt.
HARRINGTON, JOHN, from Easton, N. Y., was an early settler on the farm formerly owned by Alberi Vail. Although not a man of letters, he accumulated some property, and was deemed a respectable citizen. He died on his way from Easton. whither he had been on a visit. He raised a family of cross children : Peleg, John J .. Amos, Sally, m. James McDaniels, Anna, m. Nicholas Jenks, Betsey, m. Moses Ward, Merey, m. Azariah Ililliard. Peleg m. Hannah, da. of Jonathan Seley. and re- moved to Easton where he died. His widow is still living there. John J. m. Nomy. da. of John Clark, and removed to the West.
HARRINGTON, PETER, was au carly settler on the present home- stead of J. N. Phillips. Personally he was much respected by bis townsmen as being an honest, upright. industrious farmer. Being a quiet. modest man, he never served the town in a public capacity, although he was a man of considerable intelligence and good judgement upon matters of every day life. He subse- quently sold out and removed to Middletown. His children were Williard, Amasa, John. Russel, Abagail m. a Keves and lived in Middletown : Semantha, m. Anson Bidwell. Williard settled in Tinmouth. John m. a da. of John Inlett, and settled in White- hall. N. Y.
HARRINGTON. GARDNER, brother of Peter. w. Sally, da. of Henry Herrick, They raised a family of seven children : Hen- ry. Moses, David, Gardner. John, Sarah. m. Burt Bromley ; Delia, m. a Howland and lived in Peru. N. Y. Moves was a sol- dier and died of wounds received during the war of 1812. Mr. Harrington next married Betsey Rudd and moved to the West.
HARRINGTON, ISRAEL, lived many years ago near the present residence of Warren Vaughan. He lived rather a secluded life. was a great hunter, and manufactured baskets and chairs. know nothing of his family.
v. HARRINGTON. OLIVER. from Rhode Island about the year 1777. m. Sylvina Ballon. and settled in the Little Village. on the farm How owned by Supher Harrington. He died in 1839. aged 81 : hus wife quite old in years. Their family consisted of seven children . Gary. Andrew. Oliver, Ezra. Elias. Harvey and Su- av. m. , William Corey. Oliver m. an Allen and lives in Ellis- bary. IN. Y. Elias settled in the southern part of Massachu- ett .. 'and but little is known of him. Harvey lives in Michigan,
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and has been for many years engaged in the mercantile business. ard is considered a wealthy man.
HARRINGTON, GARY. m. Hannah Corey and settled on a por- tion of the farm owned by Ira and John Cook. . He was a resi- dent of the town until his death, which occurred in 1843, aged 56. His wife died in 1864. aged 78. His children were Sylvi- na. m. Nelson Kelley : Mahala. m. Nathaniel Anderson of Wal- lingford ; Delinda, m. Abner Wescott ; Martha, Henry and Oli- ver.
HARRINGTON. ANDREW, m. Lydia, da. of Simon Milliard, and settled in the Little Village, where he has always lived. Jis wife died in 1869. They raised a family of several children, of whom are Stephen, Daniel. Elias, Lenora. Sylvina, Mahala and Betsey. Daniel m. Lucinda Sargents, and lives in the Little Village. They have three children : Rosetta. Sylvester and Syl- vanus. Elias m. Diantha Baker, and has a family of several children. of whom are Oliver, Sally and Christopher.
HARRINGTON, EZRA, m. Betsey, da. of Simon Milliard. and settled on the homestead for a few years. He subsequently set- tled on the Seley farm, where he still lives. Although quiet and unassuming in his deportment, he is highly respected by all who know him. He is a man of sterling integrity, and has ever maintained the character of a good citizen. By hard labor and economy he has acquired considerable property, Ilis wife diod in 1864, aged 64. She was an active. energetic, industrious wo- man, and possessed a character well worthy of imitation. Their children are Keziah. Elizabeth, Simon, Miranda. Henriette. Lemnel, Lydia and Harvey. Elizabeth m. Joel Woodruff. and lives in Otto. N. Y. He was a soldier during the late rebellion. and died in Hospital. Simon m. Filena, da. of Stephen Baker. and settled at Scottsville, where he has carried on the mercantile business for several years. He has but two children : Daniel and Elizabeth. Lemuel m. Betsey, da. of HI. B. Harrington. and lives near his father, on the Darius Lobdel farm. Lydia d. at the age of 19.
. HARRINGTON, HENRY B., m. Melinda Sargents, and settled in the Little Village, where he still resides. He is respected as a square dealing, upright, honest cittzen, and a man of intelligence. Their children are Audrew, mn. Pruda. da. of Harvey Corey : James, mn. Miranda Landman : Elwin, m. Sylvina Harrington : Gary, Betsey. Lucinda, Henry, Ellen and Rosina.
HARRINGTON, Evos. from Easton, N. Y., in 1807. m. Eleerai. da. of Gideon Baker, and settled at the Borough. They have a family of seven children : Amanda, Malvina. Lydia Ann. Mar tha. in. Plyn Farnham : Electa. m. Joel Wheeler : Julia. m. Rer- well Wood : and Enos, Jr. Amanda m. In Dickinson. and Best Cyra: Roberts of Manchester. £ Malvina m. Jarvis Jordan. and lives in New Hampshire. Enos, Jr., m. a Carpenter, and lives in Huntington. Vt.
HASKINS. ABEL, SEN .. from Nine Partuers, about the year
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1772, settled on the farm now owned by Miner Bromley. As one of the pioneer settlers he encountered many difficulties in subdning the dense forests and preparing a home for himself and family. Leaving the comforts and conveniences of an older coun- try and moving into a wilderness with his family, into a rudely constructed log cabin insufficient to protect them from the wintry blasts, with but seanty fare, he experienced hardships of which it is impossible to form a just conception. Mr. Haskins, at the
time of settlement here, was but 25 years of age, and possessed a rugged constitution which well fitted him for the ardnous duties of a pioneer life. By industry and frugality bat a short time elapsed before he was able to raise sufficient grain to subsist up- on. Although good crops of grain were raised, he found it hard for several years to procure fodder sufficient to winter his stock. But like other pioneer settlers here, there was no hardships so great, no labor so severe, no undertaking so hazardons gs to daum his spirits or cause them to waver from a firm determina- tion to build up a home ; but true to his purpose he struggled on against difficulties for that better time which he could then but faintly discern in the distance. " This better time was afterwards happily realized, and by unremitting toil a home was established. He married Mary Bell of Norwich, Conu., a lady of Welch ori- gin. who it is said was heir to a large estate in England belong- ing to the Bell family, yet her descendants have never succeeded. in establishing the claim, although efforts have been made. She was a sister of Delight Bell. who married Dr. John Sargent, an early settler of Pawlet and father of Dr. Warren B. Sargent of that place and of Hon. Leonard Sargent of Manchester. Mr. Haskins was a man of considerable intelligence, upright and con- scientious, and a trustworthy citizen. He died very suddenly in 1820, aged 70 ; his wife in 1839, aged 80. She was a woman of uncommon energy, and a fitting companion and associate to share the trials of founding a home in a new country. She brought at apple tree in her lap at the time of settling here, which was set out and stood for many years on the homestead, being known as the ".Nine Partner" apple tree. . Their children were William. Abel, Jr., Dilla, Mary, m. Reed Mahurin ; and Ruth. m. Elisha Tryon. Dilla m. Rachael Calkins, and lived in the south part of the town. He died many years ago, leaving two children, one of whom, a daughter, married John Williams of Dorset.
HASKINS. WILLIAM, m. Judith Calkins and settled on the homestead, where he lived muti! within a few years of his death. He was an industrious farmer. a peaccable citizen. an obliging friend and neighbor. His public services to the town were not. great, but he was ever modest. possessing that Christian courtesy and politeness proceeding from a kind and generous heart. But few of his descendants, once quite numerous, are now living. His wife and two sous died within the space of three months. He was a member of the Baptist church, in which he led a con- sistent Christian life. He died in 1848, aged 60 ; his wife in
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1847, aged 58. Their children were William B., Jr .. Moses. Reed, died at the age of 21 : Amos, died at the age of 19; Or- rilla. m. Hiram Kelley : Ruth, m. Rowland R. Green, and Mary, m. Fuller Cushman of Rupert.
HASEINS. ABEL, JR., m, Miranda Standard and settled on the farm with his father. " He subsequently removed to Rupert, and purchased the tavern stand, now belonging to George Jenks. He is now living at an advanced age. His children are Harvey. Al- vah, Margaret, m. Jacob Odel ; Phebe, m. George Jenks ; Jane, m. Elihu Towsley : Lucette, m. Orville Nichols of Sandgate. Harvey, m. Mary, da. of Daniel Parris and lives in Middletown. and has a family of several children, of whow are Erwin, George. Leroy and Ella. Alvah m. Rosettee Lamphire and lives in Dor- set. Of their children are Merritt. Mary, Rosettee and George.
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