p^ 'RV *i; '." ' ;^ n''A>s; t' L i i I H I ■ I ^ I . V Kl rft J- * f ' ' ' , r ' '■l \* *'<, • ^..i. , ^ J T f r • ■ f i< J- ' 'y 1 ' l"' i'f J I ( > r''/V-- 3 'rf 1 J I f 1 1 • J r- •" 4 ' ''■ ■ ' ' ' ■ ' / :q' CORNELL UNIVERSITY LIBRARY FROM ,% Date Due ^\ilr Q 1943 Gi l SEP2 9 1950 M2^5:y > tnbAH4r ^f -JI^A ^ ..^^mm"- olin 3 1924 028 842 379 Cornell University Library The original of tiiis book is in tine Cornell University Library. There are no known copyright restrictions in the United States on the use of the text. http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924028842379 ^l/Wi/J (UncWs^ JM^JmS HISTORY OF THE Town of Goshen, Connecticut WITH Genealogies AND Biographies BASED UPON The Records of Deacon Lewis Mills Norton BY Rev. a. G. HIBBARD, A.M. GOSHEN ^ 1897 HARTFORD, CONN. press of TSbe Case, locliwoo& & Scalnari) Compane 1897 CONTENTS. Deacon Lewis Mills Norton, Chapteb I. Events prior to the settlement, II. Meeting of ttie Proprietors and Beginning of tlie Town, .... III. First Birth, Death, Oldest House, Original Sur- veys, etc., .... rV. Topography, Scenery, Climate, Lakes, etc., v. Residences and Roads in 1745, VI. French and Indian War, VII. The Story of Elizabeth (Carter) Oviatt, VIII. The Congregational Churches, IX. The War of the Revolution, . X. The Episcopal Church ; Methodist Church, XL Among the First Things, XII. The Hudson Colony, Xni. Ministers born in Goshen ; Ministers' Wives XIV. Men to be Remembered, XV. Mails and Post-offices ; War of 1813 ; Ordination of Missionaries, etc., . XVI. Schools, Young Ladies' Seminary, Academy, XVII. A Christian Home in Goshen, Sixty Tears ago, XVIII. Pastors of the First Church, . XIX. Physicians, Lawyers, and Teachers, . XX. Merchants and the Cheese Trade, XXI. Manufactures, Mills, etc., XXII. The War of the Rebellion, XXIII. The Centennial Celebration, XXIV. Representatives, Assessments, Population, XXV. The Goshen of To-day, Genealogies, .... Marriages, .... 7 15 30 42 49 66 65 68 73 117 158 173 190 198 328 349 266 285 304 838 356 367 372 393 401 405 407 573 ILLUSTRATIONS. A. Gr. HlBBARD, Dbacon Lewis Mills Nokton, Adino Hale Placb — The Oldest House, Dog Pond — Looking North, . Maeshapaug Pond — Looking East, Tipping Rook, Congregational Chubch, Schoolhodsb, Parsonagb, Congrbgational Chueoh as Rebuilt in 1894, Rbsidbncb Hbnrt G. Wright, Methodist Chttrch-t- West Goshen License to Use Chaise, GosHBN Center, 1836, Nancy (Thompson) Hunt, GosHBN Academy, Certificate Academy Stock, Center Street — Looking North, Lavalette Pbrbin, D.D., Rbsidbncb Rev. Lavalbttb Pbrrin, Center Street — Looking South, Town Hall — Erected 1895, . Franklin Burton's Residence, Coat op Aiors, Arthur C. Thompson, Old Wadhams Homestead, . Opposite title page 7 44 49 53 54 98 94 160 166 339 364 368 373 374 884 837 383 364 405 443 548 555 PREFACE. It is not expected that this book will afford literary enter- tainment. On its pages will be found very little of thrilling adventure or of great achievement. It is not a record of enter- prise rewarded by wealth or of valor that has won renown. ITo one can be more conscious of its many imperfections than the writer, who commenced the preparation of its pages four years ago. He may be permitted to state that. inability to refer to records of which he had made upwards of two hundred refer- ences in his notes will account for many deficiencies both in matter and form. To any who may think that an undue proportion of the book is devoted to churches and members of the ministerial profession it can be said, and the fact will be noted by thought- ful and candid readers that, taking into account the situation of the town and its small population, its record in these particu- lars is not only remarkable but almost unprecedented. The history of the town in the "War of the Revolution and the Civil War should fill the hearts of its citizens with pride. Many of the old households now dispersed over our broad land who have no access to the originals, will appreciate the lab(3r bestowed upon the genealogies. They not-only contain the record made by Deacon IN'orton, but that record corrected and enlarged by the correspondence and personal investiga- tions of the writer. The Eev. Atigustus C. Thompson, D. D., of Boston, Mass., has rendered assistance in this work, without which it would have been of far less value, and acknowledgments are also 6 PREFACE. due to Mr. A. 0. Bates, librarian of tlie Connecticut Historical Society; Prof. Percival Hall, Washington, D. C; KoUin H. Cooke, Esq., Pittsfield, Mass.; Eev. A. H. Plumb, D.D., Bos- ton, Mass.; Prof. 'Williani Henry Bisbop, Yale University, ISTew Haven, Conn.; C. T. Harvey, 0. E., New York City; Eev. Williani Durant, D.D., Saratoga Springs, IST. Y.; Eev. L. B. Curtis, Soutb Windsor, Conn. ; Mrs. Elizabeth A. EorTses, Smyrna, Turkey; Mr. Arthur C. Thomson, Brookline, Mass.; Eev. Joseph W. Backus, D.D., Farmington, Conn. ; Benj. W. Pettibone, Esq., Winchester, Conn.; Hon. Isaac W. Brooks and Miss Mary E. Brooks, Torrington, Conn., and Deacon Edward ISTorton, Miss Maria ]Srorton, Elbert S. Eichards, Esq., and Mrs. Adeline Hart, all of Goshen. The correctness of the record of Goshen in the Civil War is largely due to the Hon. E. A. Lucas, who was prevented by illness from preparing a chapter of incidents and engagements in which Goshen men had a part, which would have added greatly to the interest of the work. It is proper to state that the Hon. John M. Wadhams, re- cently deceased, made a bequest towards the payment of the expense of this publication. August, 189Y. DEACON LEWIS MILLS NORTON. DEACON LEWIS MILLS ITOETON. If tliere is a place in this book, which, more than any other, is a place of honor, it should be occupied with mention of the man whose investigations and records have made the book possible. Had his work been delayed a single decade, but few of the facts could have been gathered. He commenced at a time when he could converse with the children of the first settlers, with soldiers of the Eevolution, with those who knew the first minister and whose parents had founded all the churches. Eor years before his death, he was accustomed to carry pencil and paper wherever he went, and he recognized in every man and woman he met a possible source of wished for information, for which he was not slow to ask, nor negligent to record. During these later years, and especially since the organiza- tion of both sexes into patriotic societies, letters have poured in to his children, the custodians of his records, requesting particulars as to the ancestry of the writers, and many a heart has beat more proudly as the information received has enabled the recipient to say, " I am a Son " or " Daughter of the Revo- lution." He traveled hundreds of miles, wrote hundreds of letters, examined records of probate courts, of towns, and of families, was often on his Icaees to read the inscription upon some an- cient gravestone, deciphered old accounts and private journals, — over which the present writer has spent hours with magni- fying- glass, in vain attempts to read — and he did all this without appreciation, except from a very few. The appre- 8 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. ciation is ample at tlie present time, and lias made tliis publica- tion possible. The noble Christian character of Deacon ISTorton makes it certain that in the world for which we here prepare ourselves to enter, his name will be in everlasting remembrance, and these records are already winning him a grateful remembrance in the minds of the many who have an interest in the begin- nings of things. It may be described, as a little work, made up of little de- tails, relating to persons and events in a little " hill-town," in one of the smallest states in the ITation. But remembering that it was written by a man in humble life, with very few ed- ucational advantages, as incidental labor in a life of daily toil, that it occupied hours stolen from sleep, and at a time when but very little attention was paid to, or the necessity recognized of such investigation, it becomes a very ituiffninn op%is and is "idewed with constantly increasing interest by the sons and daiighters of those whose histories have been preserved. Lewis Mills !N"oeton, the son of Ebenezer N., and the grandson of Colonel Ebenezer ISTorton, — an early settler of Goshen — was born December 22, 17S3. He was exposed to the smallpox in the summer of 1793, from having picked up a handkerchief in the field not far from his home. He was taken to the home of the family physician, Doctor Carrington, and inoculated for the disease, as was then the custom, and carried to the pest house, near Whist Pond, and about a mile from his home, where he remained until it was considered safe for him to return. His father died in the summer of 1795, from malarial fever, contracted in western ISTew York, where he had joiimeyed in company with Cyprian Collins and his brothers. Miles and Birdsey ISTorton. The brothers. Miles and Ebenezer, died within fifteen days after reaching home. Tn the distribution of his father's estate he received 172 pounds, 10 shillings and 10 pence. Tn May, 1800, his mother HISTORY OF GOSHEN. 9 having hired a boy to attend to the farm, he left home to learn the trade of carpenter and joiner of his brother Theodore. During the four years of his apprenticeship, they built the houses of Giles Griswold (now the Congregational parsonage), Abram Wadhams, Samuel Miles, Ambrose Collins, Isaac "Wad- hams, Oliver' Stanley, framed the house of Erastus Lyman, and the two houses for Daniel Wadhams and David Thompson, (built alike), and now (1897) occupied by Moses Gray and Albert Sperry. They also built the steeple of the meeting- house. His school privileges had been limited, and finding him- self unable to compute interest, when asked to do so for a friend, he began a course of study and reading, and this, with a few weeks of night school, while an apprentice, comprised his entire educational advantages, except that he was learning as long as he lived. He married, October 10, 1805, Miss Laura Foote, of Canton, Conn., who came to Goshen to reside in January, 1806. They united with the Congregational church in 1807. His studies had prepared him for the duties of county sur- veyor, and he filled that office for forty years, during the latter part of this time having associated with him his son Henry, who continued to hold the office until his death, a period of more than fifty years. The Theodolite, siirveying and leveling in- struments, are still (1897) in existence and in perfect preserva- tion. He not only made these brass instruments, but made the tools used in their construction. In 1808 he commenced experiments in making pineapple cheese, a sample of which his uncle had brought from the city of l!^ew York. This sample came from Holland. With no other help in inventing he soon contrived the appliances neces- sary and commenced, their manufacture in 1809, which has been continued on the same spot for 88 years. In 1812 he collected statistic^ showing that the merchants of Goshen had sold in the year 1811 52 hogsheads of alcoholic 10 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. liquor, and lie determined that it should not be used on his premises, and adhered to his resolution although assured that he could not get his haying done -without it. His haying was done as usual and without the rum. In 1814 he became a partner in the firm of "Walter, Cobb & Co., who manufactured woolen cloths. Their broadcloths sold in Philadelphia at $12 per yard. He remained in the firm until 1826. During this time he walked, morning and evening of each day, three miles to and from the factory, and it was said by one conversant with the facts, that he ran the entire distance, except when ascending the hills. The com- pany failed, his losses in the failure amounting to $5,700. He mortgaged his entire property and gave himself little time for rest until every dollar of his indebtedness was paid. Dur- ing the years of this partnership he invented a power loom with which was woven 170 yards of broadcloth for the factory at Wolcottville. This loom had many imperfections, but was a great improvement on any method of weaving then in use, and the weavers in the employ of the company were so angry with him for the invention that he had reason to fear that his life was in danger. He was interested in inventing some new ma- chine which would lessen labor, or discovering a use for some- thing regarded as useless, and during this time he '-■+arted the raising of teasels, used for dressing cloth ; the making of pyro- Hgneons acid, for cimng hams, by distilling seasoned hard wood, many barrels of which he sold in market; the raising of woad, a fermentative addition to indigo in the pastel vat. He started the factory for making cheese in 1844. This was the first one of the kind in the country and, probably, in the world. The raising of teasels and the making of acid was not continued many years, but woad was raised to the amount of $1,000 an- nually, during part of the years between 1819 and 1844. In the latter year he commenced the biiying of curd, and the year following he built the factory, still standing. The pineapple HISTORY OF GOSHEN. H cheese were made from the curd purchased from ten to twenty- five farmers' dairies until 1883, when the buildings and pro- cess of manufacture were changed and adapted to the buying of milk instead of curd and at the same time the amount manu- factured was largely increased. The business was conducted by him and his sons, Edward and Eobert, under the firm name of Lewis M. Norton & Sons, from 1847 to 1850. In 1850 Robert moved to western ISTew York, carrying on the same business there, Edward remaining a partner until his father's death in 1860. During the latter part of his life he copied and arranged so much of the records of the Congregational church as could be obtained by extended correspondence with aged members who had removed, neighboring ministers, the records of con- sociations and associations, and the testimony of the oldest in- habitants. The work was done with a neatness, accuracy, and ingenuity that are remarkable. He was a deacon in this church for twenty-five years. Eor upwards of forty years the work of foreign missions was very near his heart. His faithful labor is described in another place, but it may here be noted that the ordination of Messrs. Bingham and Thurston, at Go- shen, as the first missionaries to the Sandwich Islands, was an event from which he was accustomed to date subsequent oc- currences. In 1855, his devoted wife was taken from his side. She was a helpmeet indeed and truly a " Mother in Israel." In 1842 he commenced, what has proved to be his greatest work, and a work vnthout which nothing like a complete his- tory of this town would be possible ; entitling his manuscript, " Goshen Statistics and Eamily History." It is now bound in two volumes of 600 pages each. The writing is fine but easily read, as it is so plainly written. He had correct ideas as to its value, but could hardly have realized the extent to which it would be consulted and appealed to after the passage of a few vears. 12 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. His health was not good during the last twenty years of his life, but he was usually able to attend church twice on the Sabbath. He did so the day previous to his death, and those who loved him saw him stand in his pew and sing heartily, as the service was about to close, " Jesus lover of my soul." That evening he was cheerful and appeared to be quite well, but early the next morning he was in great pain, which was soon relieved, however. For an hour he talked of the church which seemed to fill his thoughts. Pausing, he repeated in a clear voice, — " For her my tears shall fall, For her my prayers ascend, To her, my toils and cares be given. Till cares and toils shall end." A moment later he had ceased to breathe. On Thursday, May 3, 1860, he was borne from his home to the cemetery, to the extension and improvement of which he had devoted much time and thought during the ten years pre- ceding, and on the western slope of the hillside, he was lowered to his last resting-place by his four sons — John, Henry, Ed- ward, and Robert — by the side of the wife of his youth. A generation has come and gone since his departure, and we can best allude to the influence he exerted in the eliurch and community by noting some marked traits of his character. A worthy descendant of Puritan ancestry, he held firmly to their beliefs and possessed the same faith which led and sustained them throtigh their struggles to make themselves a home and find " freedom to worship Grod," and this was the key-note of his long and busy life. Stern and unyielding when assured that he was in the right, he was feared by selfish, mercenary, and dishonest men. Sympathetic and kind to those who were in trouble, ready and generous to relieve them, they regarded him as their friend, and gave him both honor and affection. He was unswerving in the performance of his duties to the HISTORY OF GOSHEN. 13 State, as well as to the cliurch. He never neglected or per- mitted his sons or men in liis employ to neglect their duty at the polls. Just as invariable was his attendance upon the wor- ship of the sanctuary on the Lord's Day and at the mid-week prayer-meeting and all meetings of the church and society. He was greatly interested in the education of the young and con- tributed largely, in proportion to his means, for the erection of Goshen Academy and its permanent establishment. Particu- larly dear to him was the church in Goshen, and his desire for its welfare and its spiritual growth was his ever present thought and daily prayer. Keminiscences by the Hon. ISoah Humphrey Osborne, of McGrawville, N. Y., March 31, 1876. Published in the Wia- sted Herald. " Of all the citizens with whom I became acquainted while residing in Goshen, no one is so indelibly stamped on my mem- ory as that Christian philosopher, the late Deacon Lewis M. j^orton, in whose family I was for many months permitted to enjoy a home; a period which I have always esteemed as the most profitable of my early life. I there saw a family which I now know was a model family, controlled on Christian princi- ples by a father and mother, all loving, but firm in the right. I now remember the father as active in business, and of un- flinching integrity, with habits as exact as science. While la- boring for posterity he suffered nothing to escape his notice worthy of regard. To him the people of Goshen are under obligations as lasting as time for his patience and persevering labor in searching out and recording the genealogy of the early families of Goshen. In like manner he recorded all the im- portant facts in its history, so that I think a thousand pages could not contain them. I have not learned that his history of Goshen has been published. It should be at an early day, and it would be a book that would sell in every state in the Union, for Goshen men and their descendants are spread all 14 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. over the States from Maine to the Pacific coast. Such, were some of the characteristics of Lewis M. Norton, and his wife, Miss Laura Foote of Canton, was worthy of such a husband. " Goshen has sent many eminent men from her bosom into the states and territories of the West and South. Her Bald- wins, Oviatts, Humphreys, Nortons, Newtons, Beaches, Dick- insons, Hales, Griswolds, Buels, Ives, Weltons, Collins, Miles, Kelloggs, Carters, ISTorths, and many others, have filled sta- tions of honor and responsibility in the several states of their adoption." HISTORY OF GOSHEN. 15 CHAPTEE I. EVENTS PRIOR TO THE SETTLEMENT. ■N^FiABLY a century had elapsed since the building of the first trading-house, at the mouth of the Tunxis river, in Wind- sor, before the settlement of the northwestern part of Connec- ticut was commenced. It was the day of large families, immi- grants were constantly arriving from the mother country, more land was needed and rash enthusiasts were predicting that the day woul^ come when the country would be filled with inhabitants as far west as fifty miles beyond the Hudson river. Litchfield was the town first settled — the settlement commencing in 1720, and incorporated in 1724. The coun- try north of Litchfield, with very indifferent and uncertain boundaries, was called New Bantam, and a part of this un- known country came to be knovsm as Goshen, when the town was incorporated. It has been said that this town commenced to be settled in 1720, but no evidence of this is obtainable and it seems to have been inferred from statements in Trumbull's History, which will follow. The inference is not necessary, and the fact that the first known settlers mate no allusion to any who had preceded them, it seems to be uncalled for. There is no mention of any dwelling or any signs of pre-occupation by any of those who are placed on record as the first settlers. James II became the King of Great Britain February 6, 1685, and immediately took measures to deprive the Colonies of I^ew England of their chartered rights. The excitement throughout the entire country seems to have been intense. Eobert Treat was the Governor of Connecticut at that time, and called a special session of the assembly to consider and de- 16 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. vise measures for their protection. Among other objects of dread was the fear that the colony would be deprived of its rights in the unoccupied " western lands," so called. In order to guard their rights they passed the following billy conveying the rights of the colony in these lands to two towns. (Colonial Records, January 26, 1686.) " Tbis court grants the plantations of Hartford and Windsor those lands on the north of Woodbury and Mattattock and on the west of Farmington and Simsbury to the Massachusetts line north, and to run west to Housatunock or Stratford river, (provided it be not, or part of it, formerly granted to any particular persons,) to make a plantation or villages thereon." The results of this grant, — which can be characterized as Yankee shrewdness, rather than wise statesmanship, — are narrated in the following account found in Trumbull's His- tory of Connecticut, Book V, page 95. " While people were effecting the settlement of these towns, there arose an unhappy controversy between the legislature and the towns of Hartford and Windsor. In the troublesome times of Sir Edmond Andrus's administration, to save the lands of the Colony from his grasp and prevent his enriching himself and his minions by the sale of them, the legislature, in a hasty manner, made a conveyance to the above named towns, January 26, 1686. " The design of tliis conveyance was that these towns should hold the land thus granted, for the Governour and Company, until those times of danger and trouble should be passed; but not as their property. They had never purchased nor given the least valuable consideration for them, and had no deeds nor patents of them. Nevertheless, by virtue of this grant, they laid claim to all the lands within the limits expressed. So tenacious were they of their claim, that, in contravention of the most expressed laws of the Colony, they proceeded to locate and vend the lands in the con- troversy. " The Governour and Company claimed the lands as fully as though no grant of any kind had been made to these towns. And as the town of Litchfield had been settled by the Hartford and Windsor people, and they persisted in their claims, and in locat- ing and vending the land in controversy, some of the principal de- HISTORY OF GOSHEN. 17 linquents it seems were arrested and punislicil by the Superior Court; some were committed to tlie Common Prison in Hartford. Tlie people of Hartford and Windsor iletermined, neveitlieleBs, to oppose tlie legislature, and by force of arms liberate their neigh- bors. On the 11th of October, 17:22. the Assembly having informa- tion, tliat a number of disorderly persons, in the county of Hartford, were about to appear in arms, in a riotous manner, against the authority of the government, and to oppose the execution of the laws, resolved, that Colonel William Whiting, Sheriff of the County of Hartford, be authorized to call out the whole militia of the county to his assistance; and the legislature enjoined it upon all the officers and privates on the penalty of five povmds, to assist him as occa- sion should require in suppi'essing all riot and disorder, and in guarding any delinquents who might be taken, and in committing them to confinement, untill such time as they could be legally pro- ceeded against, and punished. " Notwithstanding this precautionary act of the Assembly, there was a riot at Hartford; the common gaol was broken open, and the • delinquents were set at liberty; even while the Assembly were in session. A further resolution was therefore passed, to the follow- ing eifeet; That as the common gaol and County of Hartford, had, in the present session, been broken open, with a tumultuous and strong hand, and a number of persons, committed for the non-pay- ment of certain charges, arising upon their prosecution before the County Court, in and for the County of Hartford, were delivered out of the custody of the law, and many high misdemeanors and breaches of the peace, and other crimes were committed, the legislature, by a special right, authorized the judges of the Superior Court, or any three of them, by jury or otherwise, according to law, to enquire into, hear and determine all crimes committed in the transaction, and all things relating thereunto; and to award execution thereon according to law. The chief judge, or any of the three judges, or any assistant, was authorized to issue writs for apprehending, se- curing and bringing the rioters to justice; and for bringing every person before them whom they should judge proper to examine. It was also resolved, that every person who should be taken, should be bound to make his appearance before the Court, and to his good behavior, in a bond of one hundred pounds, or be committed to the common gaol. It was further resolved, that if jurors should be called to judge in the affair, they should be taken from such parts of the county as should be judged to ha^'e been the least privy to the transaction, and in -which there had l)een the fewest offenders. It was further enacted, that unless the persons who had made their escape, should, before the (1th of November, then next ensuing, pay the charges for which they were committed, or deliver themselves up 3 18 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. to imprisonment, the sheriff should pursue, apprehend, and commit them. He was authorized, if it should be necessary, to call the militia of the whole county to his assistance. " In cousequence of this riot, the legislature made the act, em- powering the sheriffs and constables to keep the liing's peace; and the act for the prevention and punishment of riots and rioters. " Notwithstanding the firm and determinate measures the As- sembly had adopted, they had information, that in express violation of the law certain persons were undertaking to lay out, and to dis- pose of the lands whlcli lay north, east, and west of Litchfield, and west of Farmington and Simsbury, for their own use and benefit, and for such purposes as they pleased; and that they were actually engaged in the business. A committee was therefore appointed to inquire into the affair, and authorized to arrest any person or per- sons, who were thus trespassing, and to command all assistance which might be necessary for that purpose, and to bring them be- fore the Assembly. " At the same time, vigorous and effectual measures were taken to arrest and i)unish the rioters who had broken the common gaol. But they were so turbulent, and their party so strong, that it was with much difficulty and danger, they were arrested and brought before the court. Some of the magistrates were afraid to prosecute them even upon complaint. But those resolute men. Colonel William Whiting and Major Joseph Talcott, when they engaged to assist them, finally arrested and brought them before the court. But so extraordinary were their exertions, expensive time, and the dangers to which tliey had been exposed as to life and limbs, that the legis- lature judged that the common fees in such cases were by no means a proper compensation for their services. A committee was ap- pointed to consider their expenses and dangers, and to make them a reasonable compensation. " The rioters were fined twenty pounds a man, beside costs, which was not less than about five pounds for each man. When they found that they must submit to the authority of the govern- ment, they preferred a petition to the Assembly, praying for an abatement of theii- fines. The legislature made them some small abatement, but it cost them about twenty pounds a man. " These were indeed evil times, aien, with an uncommon ob- stinacy, resisted the laws, and trampled upon the authority of tlie legislature. Though they had adopted such firm and spirited meas- ures to prevent trespass, and presei-ve the lands in dispute for the benefit of the Colony, yet a number of bold men, John Seymour, Samuel Catlin, and William Baker, of Hartford and Thomas More HISTORY OF GOSHEN. 19 and Job Ellsworth of Windsor, ventured to lay out a whole township of the colony's and on the north of Litchfield and pretended to claim the land as their own." From the foregoing description of the territory, it would appear that the township so laid out included the whole or part of what is now the town of Goshen. The assembly having appointed a committee, consisting of James Wadsworth, John Hall, and Hez. Brainerd, Esquires, to meet representatives of the towns of Hartford and Windsor, and agree, if possible, iipon some basis of settlement of the differences between them, reported at the May session, 1726, the terms agreed upon, which were adopted by the assembly, as follows : — (Colonial Records, Vol. VII, p. 44.) " Proposed to the Committees of Hartford and Windsor, That the whole tract of land claimed by said towns be equally divided between the government and said towns, in the following manner to be done. " 1. That the government have the western side thereof, and said towns to have the eastern side thereof. " 2. That Litchfield do not come into said division, but belong to the proprietors thereof. " 3. That those lands disposed of to particular persons by the government, and what lands disposed of by said towns to Ben Fairweather and to New Milford, do not come into the said division. " James Wadsworth, John Hall, Hez. Brainerd." " The above proposal made by .James Wadsworth, John Hall, and Hez. Brainerd, Esq'rs, to the committees of Hartford and Wind- sor, in reference to the western lands, the said committees having under their hands signified to this Assembly their acceptance of said proposal: Whereupon this Assembly do accept of said pro- posal, and order said land to be divided between the government and said towns according to said proposal, and that the said towns of Hartford and Windsor shall have a patent under the seal of the Colony, signed by the Honble the Deputy Governor and Secretary, for the holding their jiart of said lands according to the said proposal; provided the said towns do by their committees release to the Gov- ernour and Company of this Colony all the right that said towns have in the half of said lands, as described in said proposal; and said patent and release to be executed (with all convenient speed) 20 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. upon the dividing and bounding out of said land according to the said proposal. And James Wadsworth, John Hall and Hez. Brain- erd, Esq'rs, or any two of them, are appointed to be a committee to joyn with such committees as the towns of Hartford and Windsor shall appoint to make a division of said lands according to the above act." Legislative committees in those days resembled similar committees in the times that we have fallen npon, for at the next session of the i\.ssembly, in October, we find this com- mittee reminding that body of the great service they have rendered the colony, and suggesting that they receive suitable remuneration. The following act was passed, and later we shall learn how the names of these three men become further identified with the history of the town. (Colonial Records, Vol. VII, p. 58, Oct. Session, 1726.) " Upon the memorial of James Wadsworth, John Hall and Hez. Rrainerd, Esq'rs: This Assembly grants to each of them one hundred acres of land, to be laid out in the westward ungranted lands of fhis government, to be laid out in one entire piece next ad- joyuing to the north or south sides, viz. the whole three hundred acres; which respective grants are in consideration of their good service done to the government." The three men who had served the colony so faithfully, were made a committee to " lay out the western lands in this government," but one of the committee, Hez. Brainerd, died while attending a session of the assembly. May 24, 1727, and Captain Joseph "WTiiting was appointed " in the said Brain- erd's room." It would appear from the records, that there was no laying out of towns by this committee, and the western lands were lost sight of for a time. Meanwhile a final settlement and division with the Hart- ford and Windsor proprietors had been made. At the May session, 1731, we find Captain Thomas Seymour and Lieut. Roger TvTewbury memorializing the assembly and representing that they were authorized on behalf of the Hartford and Wind- sor proprietors of the western lands, to make a division of all HISTORY OF GOSHEN. 21 such lands as were then undivided, and asking the assembly to appoint a committee fully empowered to act with them, and to make such division. Whereupon, James Wadsworth and Edmund Lewis, Esquires, were appointed siich a committee, and by this joint committee the final division was made. After four years the interests of the colony in the lands was brought to the attention of the assembly, and at the ses- sion held in June, 17;il, a committee was appointed to consider and report to that body as to tlie best manner of disposing of them. " To the Honourable the General Assembly, sitting at Hartford, June 1, 1731: " Whereas this Honourable Assembly, at your present session, were pleased to appoint us your committee, to consider what may be best or proper for the Assembly to do witli the western lands belonging to this corporation, and to draw up our opinion therein and make report thereof to the Assembly; in obedience to your Honours command, we have perused the map of that land drawn by ilr. Kimberly, and otherwise, gained the best information of the lands we could in the short space of time allowed uis; and having considered the same, we are of opinion, that it may be best and most proper for this Assembly to appoint some meet persons to lay out five towns im the said lands, on the eastward of the Ousatunnuck River; four of which towns we think may be accomodated north- ward of Litchfield and a line drawn from Litchfield northwest corner to the Ousatunnuck River; and one town between Litchfield and the Ousatunnuck River; and that the persons by the Assembly appointed for this service make report of their doings herein to this Assembly in October next, with their opinion of the goodness or the barrenness of the lands in each of the said townships: but if the services cannot be done by them so as to make their report to the Assembly in October next, that then they make their report to the Assembly in their session in May next; and that upon the making their report, the Assembly then proceed to dispose of and settle said lands, in such manner and method as they in their great wisdom shall think best. All which we humbly submit to the consideration of the Assembly. Roger Wolcott, .John Riggs, Edmond Lewis, Samuel Willard, John Marsh, Ebenezer Silliman, Thomas Huntington, Committee." The above report was accepted and approved by the assem- 22 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. bly, and Edmond Lewiss, Esqr., Capt. William Judd, and Capt. John Buell, are appointed a committee to do the work of laying out the towns, as mentioned therein. " October. Session, 1731. "The report of Edmund Lewis, Esqr., .Jolin Buell and William Judd, appointed a committee to lay out the western lands into town- ships, was read and approved by this Assembly, and order that the committee desist from any furtlier proceedings, as to the viewing of the goodness and badness of the land, till tliis Assembly give further order." At the October session, 1732, the Eev. Samuel Andrew, Eliphalet Adams, Elisha Williams, and others, trustees of Yale College, asked for an appropriation of a part of these lands for the benefit of that institution. The petition was granted, and the explanation of what is called the Yale College land in Go- shen, is found in the grant and order, " that in each of the five new townships laid out east of the Ousatonnuc river, there shall be laid out in one entire piece,' 300 acres of land, which tracts of land, containing in the whole 1500 acres, shall, when laid out, be granted to the trustees of said college, to liave and to hold to them and their successors, trustees of the said college, for the only and sole use, benefit and behoof of said school, forever, and to no other use." Portions of the college lands were leased for 999 years, the terms of the lease being, in part, as follows, viz. : that the lessee " will well and truly pay and deliver unto the said President and Pellows, or their order on the ninth day of September next, and of the ninth day of September yearly, and everv year during the continuance of this lease, one pepper-corn, if demanded on the premises." It goes on to say that if the rent named shall not be paid when demanded, that the college mav take possession of the property. The signatures " Timothv Dwight President " and of " Timothy Dwight, Jun." are bold and plain, althoTigh written more than one hundred years ago. HISTORY OF GOSHEN. 23 The report, finally made as to the laying oiit of the western lands, was presented and adopted, at the May session of the As- sembly, 1733. That report and the act recommended by the report are as follows. (Colonial Records, May, 1733.) " To the Honorable the General Assembly of the Coliny of Connecti- eutt, now convened: " We, the svibscriber's, your Honours' committee appointed, con- sider, di-aw up and make report, what we think proper to be done in order to the disposal or dividing of the several townships laid out in the western lands, have considered thereof, and, with submission to your Honours, take leave to report our opinion thereon, as f ol- io weth, (viz:) " First, that an act be made and passed at this assembly, grant- ins all the monies which shall be raised by the sale of the seven tonns, lately laid out in the western lands, to the towns of this Colony that are now settled, to be divided to them in proportion ac- cording to the list of their polls and rateable estate in the year last passed, and to be secured and forever improved for the use of the schools kept in said towns according to law. " 21y. That, in order to the selling settling of said townships, a committee be cliosen in each county, who shall enter the names of the persons who shall desire to be purchasers of said townships and settle the same under such regulations as this assembly shall order, with the sum that each person shall offer to pay for a share in sucli township, there being fifty shares in each township, besides three shares that shall be set apart, one for the first minister that shall be there settled, to be conveyed to him in fee, one to be seques- tered for the use of the present established ministry forever, and one for the use of the school or schools in such towns forever. And the committee in the county of Hartford shall take the subscriptions for the township No. 1, being the northeastern town, and the norther- mosit township on the west side Ousatunnuck; and the committee of the county of Newhaven shall take the subscriptions for the town- ship No. 2, being the southeast town, and the southern town on the west side said river; and the committee of the county of Newlondon shall take the subscriptions for the township No. 3, being the north- west town; the committee of the county of Fairfield shall take the subscriptions for the township No. 4, being the middle town bounded west by Ousatunnuck River; and the committee for the county of Windham shall take the subscriptions for the township No. 5, being 24 HISTORY OF GOSHB]Sr. , the lowei- 01' southern town, and is bounded westwardly by Ousatun- nuck River. Whicli subscriptions taken by the committees as aforesaid, shall be transmitte o d > 2 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. 93 the four years that it was pastorless 45 members were received. Among the supplies I find the names of Eev. Charles M. Hyde, at present in the service of the American Board at Honolulu; Kev. Lewis M. Austin, then of Bennington, Vt., at present of Winter Park, Florida, and Eev. James B. Cleveland, who was here nearly a year, and during his ministry the interest was constant, hardly a communion season passing, but what mem- bers were received on profession. Eev. WUliam T. Doubleday was pastor of the church for more than seven years, from 1864 to 1871. He was succeeded by the Eev. Timothy A. Hazen in 18Y1, and the relation was continued with him until 1883. The pastorates of both these men were eminently successful, and they left the church har- monious and interested in all Christian work and benevolence. The church made no effort to settle a pastor after Mr. Hazen left. The parish committee hired Eev. Daniel B. Lord to sup- ply the pulpit in 1883, and he continued to do so, being re- engaged every year until 1889. Mr. Doubleday received into the church 77 members, Mr. Hazen 79, and during the six years of Mr. Lord's service 36 were received. The writer, who is engaged upon these pages, commenced as supply of the church September 15, 1889, and was elected pastor of the church January 3, 1890. On January 1, 1894, 26 members had been received in his pastorate, and at the same date the membership of the church was 155. The ben- evolences of the church in 1893 were $806.09. A special offering of one of its members was $4,500. From all the facts obtainable, it appears that the present membership is as large, in proportion to the population of the town, as at any previous period in its history. The foregoing, relating to the history of the church, was written in 1894, since when many changes have taken place. The date of the present writing is January, 1897; the place Woodstock, Conn. The writer's pastorate terminated Novem- ber 1, 1896. 94 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. During the past seven years forty-five names have been added to the roll of members. The parsonage has been shin- gled, painted outside and within,^ newly papered, and a fur- nace heating the entire house supplied. The bam has been shingled, new horse sheds built at the church, and the expense of these repairs and additions is not included in the amount raised for parish expenses, given below. In 1894 the interior of the church edifice was takciU out to the frame, and was built and furnished entirely new. The whole aspect of the interior was changed. A new organ was purchased, a valuable clock placed in the steeple and eight memorial windows in the audience room. A room to be used for social meetings and church parlor was nicely furnished, also a room for the library. A large room for pastor's study was finished above the parlor, and showing from its windows the finest views to be seen from any building in the town. The entire expense was paid previous to the dedication, which took place October 23, 1894. The following order of worship was used, and is inserted in this history at the request of many persons who regard the oc- casion as the beginning of a new era in the .history of the church. .TWCKSV1 a GKCtnc AfiCHITCCT^ Church as Rebuilt, 1894. 96 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. PROGRAM. The congregation will please unite in singing the Hymns and in the Responses printed in Italics. ORGAN VOLUNTARY. HYMN Tune, Nicsea. Holy, Holy, Holy ! Lord God Almighty ! Early in the morning our song shall rise to thee : Holy, Holy, Holy ! merciful and mighty, God in Three Persons, Blessed Trinity 1 Holy, Holy, Holy ! all the saints adore Thee, Casting down their golden crowns around the glassy sea ; Cherubim and Seraphim falling down before Thee, Which wert, and art, and evermore shalt be. Holy, Holy, Holy ! though the darkness hide thee. Though the eye of sinful man Thy glory may not see ; Only Thou art holy ; there is none beside Thee, Perfect in power, in love and purity. Holy, Holy, Holy ! Lord God Almighty ! All Thy works shall praise Thy name, in earth, and sky, and sea, Holy, Holy, Holy ! Merciful and Mighty, God in three Persons, Blessed Trinity ! Amen. INVOCATION Rev. E. C. Starr, Cornwall. RESPONSIVE READING, Rev. A. W. Gerrie, West Torrlngton. PSALM xxiv. The earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof ; Tlie world, and tliey that dwell therein. For he hath founded it upon the seas, And established it upon the floods. Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord ? And who shall stand in Ms holy place f He that hath clean hands and a pure heart ; Who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity and hath not sworn deceitfully. HISTORY OF GOSHEN. 97 He shall receive a blessing from the Lord, And righteousness from the God of Ms salvation. This is the generation of them that seek after him, Tliat seek thy face, even Jacob. Lift up your heads, O ye gates ; And be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors : And the King of glory shall come in. Who is the King of glory ? The Lord strong and mighty, The Lord mighty in battle. Lift up your heads, O ye gates ; Yea, lift them up, ye everlasting doors : And the King of glory shall come in. Who is the King of glory ? The Lord of hosts, He is the King of glory. ANTHEM. SCRIPTURE LESSON, 1 Kings xiii : 22-61. Rev. A. H. Norris, Torringford. HYMN, ...... Tune, Svsfanwick. O Thou, whose own vast temple stands, Built over earth and sea. Accept the walls that human hands Have raised to worship Thee. Lord, from thine inmost glory send, Within these walls t' abide, The peace that dwelleth without end Serenely by Thy side. May erring minds, that worship here, Be taught the better way ; And they who mourn, and they who fear, Be strengthened as they pray. May faith grow firm, and love grow warm, And pure devotion rise, While, round these hallowed walls, the storm Of earth-born passion dies. SERMON By the Pastor. 98 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. ACT OF DEDICATION, . . Rev. H. B. Roberts, Torrington. Leader. — Unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God: To the Father Almighty, Lord of an infinite majesty, To Jesus Christ, the Son, our Saviour, To the Holy Spirit, giver of life and light : People. — We dedicate this house. For worship in prayer and song ; For the celebration of the holy sacraments ; For the preaching of the gospel ; For the honor of God's law ; For the celebration of God's love : People. — We dedicate this house. For instruction in the truth ; For keeping the faith ; For help in right living ; For comfort to those who mourn ; For the purity and exaltation of the family ; For the fostering of patriotism ; For aggression against all forms of evil : People. — We dedicate this house. For all the purposes of a Christian church without respect of persons; For co-operation and fellowship with all Christians; For the promotion of the best interests of our town; For every kind of effort to lift the degraded, help the helpless, and save the lost; For hastening the day when all the world shall know the Lord: People. — We dedicate this house. As a tribute of gratitude and love, a free-will offering of thanks- giving and praise, from those who have tasted the cup of Thy salvation and experienced the riches of Thy grace : People. — We, tlie people of this church and congregation, now consecrating ourselves anew, dedicate this entire building in the name nf the Fatlier, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. CHOIR AND CONGREGATION. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost ; As it is was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen. PRAYER OF DEDICATION, Rev. Arthur Goodenough, Winchester. HISTORY OF GOSHEN. 99 DEDICATORY HYMN. Words by Rev. J. L. Daniels, D.D., Olivet, Michigan. Tune, Triste. Holy be this house forever, Consecrate, O Lord, to Thee. Holy be its service ever. Humble, grateful, loving, free. Holiness Thy house becometh, Purity Thy face shall see, God in glory ever cometh. Where the contrite bend the knee. Guiding with Thy love most gracious. Here Thou heard'st the father's prayers. Memories linger doubly precious ; Brightest blessings they have shared. Words of life have here resounded. Tongues aglow with sacred flame ; Works of faith full oft abounded — Deeds of love in Jesus' name. Firmly too in God confiding, Build we here our pilgrim home. Gladly now in love abiding, We Thy grateful children come. Come to meet our blessed Saviour ; Come to greet our Father's face ; Come to seek the Spirit's favor. And to share his heavenly grace. Joyful then our gift we proffer. Dedicate this house to Thee ; Here anew ourselves we offer. Thine forevermore to be. Dwelling place of light and glory ! School of faith and work and love ! Till with raptured song and story. Glad we greet our home above. ADDRESSES BY VISITING CLERGYMEN. DOXOLOGY. Praise God, from whom all blessings flow ; Praise Him, all creatures here below ; Praise Him above, ye heavenly host ; Praise Father, Bon, and Holy Ghost. BENEDICTION. 100 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. During the entire history of the church and society, they have been noted for punctuality in the payment of financial obligations. For ninety years there has been no failure in the payment of the minister's salary at the time and the amount agreed. The church has always been and still is a benevolent church. The offerings for the cause of Home Missions con- tributed on the first Sunday in May, for the five years, 1802- 1806, were as follows for the churches jiamed : Hartford, first, $412.99; Farmington, first, $404.57; Goshen, $488.17. Hart- ford and Farmington churches were among the largest in the State and both noted for their wealth. During the last fifty years the contributions and bequests of this church have been upwards of $50,000 for objects of benevolence outside the parish and town. In the seven years, 1889-1896, the ben- evolent contributions have been more than $5,000, and the parish expenses $16,000. In the year 1890, the 150th anniversary of the church was celebrated. The occasion was one of great interest and called together one of the largest gatherings of people, from the town and abroad, ever seen in its history. The week opened with special services in the church Sunday, August 31, con- ducted by former pastors who were present, and a sermon by the Eev. Dr. A. C. Thompson, of Boston, and a son of Goshen. It will be found upon the pages of this book, and is published at the request of many who desire to hand it down to those who shall come after them. The Historical address was delivered by the writer, September 3, and was printed. The Eev. Mr. Doubleday and the Rev. Mr. Hazen, the only former pastors of the church who were then living, and the Rev. Mr. Lord, a former supply, were present, and contributed to the interest of the occasion. HISTORY OP GOSHEN. 101 LIST OF DEACONS. Ceased to Ceased to Chosen. officiate. Chosen. officiate. Jolin Beach, 1741 1773 Henry Hart, 1815 1835 Gideon Thompson, 1741 1759 Augustus Thompson, 1817 1831 Nathaniel Baldwin, 1741 1760 George Stanley, 1831 1838 Moses Lyman, 1759 1768 Lewis M. Norton, 1835 1860 Samuel Nash, 1760 1800 Harvey Brooks, 1838 1873 Ebenezer Norton, 1768 1784 Harvey P. Merwin, 1853 1877 Edmund Beach, 1773 1800 John P. Porter, 1853 1866 Stephen Thompson, 1784 1798 Marcus Smith, 1866 1883 Samuel Norton, 1798 1817 Edward Norton, 1868 Nathan Hale, 1800 1811 Francis M. Wadhams,1878 Jesse Stanley, 1800 1815 Willard E. Gaylord, 1895 Daniel Norton, 1811 1815 CATALOGUE OF MEMBERS. The Church at its first organization, Nov., 1Y40. N. B. — The letter " 1 '^ prefixed to a name signifies that the person was admitted by letter. The family name of wives and widows is printed in italics. Name. Nathaniel Baldwin and wife, John Beach and wife, Gideon Thompson and wife, Samuel Pettibone, Moses Lyman, Daniel Richards, Name. Timothy Tuttle, Abel Phelps, Samuel Thompson, Amos Thompson, Barnabas Beach. List of jMembers added prior to the settlement of Mr. Hooker, but whose names do not appear on the list made by him. Adna Beach, Hannah Miles Beach, Stephen Goodwin, Mrs. Stephen Goodwin, Nathaniel Stanley, Mrs. Nathaniel Stanley, Ebenezer Norton, Nehemiah Lewis, Sr., Noah Wadhams, Sr., Mrs. Noah Wadhams, Noah Wadhams, Jr., Amos Beach, Sarah Rice Beach, David Thompson, Justus Hale, Joseph Howe, Prudence Norton Howe, Nathaniel Royce, Samuel Hopkins, Mary Miles Hopkins, 1 Elihu Norton, 1 Dinah Snow Norton, Laban Towner, Lucy Beach Lockwood, Mrs. Miner, Abigail Smith Newell, Asenath Marshall Smith, David Humphrey, Mrs. Charles Humphrey, Noah Humphrey, Sr., 1 Joseph Norton, 1 Prudence Osborn Norton, Esther Stanley Norton, Mary Baily Stanley, Rachel Ives Beach, Lydia Dibble. 102 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. List of members made by Rev. Asabel Hooker, Sept. Yth, 1791. Name. Name. Job Wilcox and his wife, Wife of Thomas Dickinson, Wife of Jacob Beach, Wife of Daniel Baldwin, Minius Beach, Asenath I. Beach, wife of Minius, Linus Beach and his wife, Wife of Oliver Beach, Samuel Baldwin, Wife of Noah Humphrey, Nathaniel Baldwin and his wife, Wife of David Humphrey, Jr. , Abraham Parmelee and his wife, Fisk Beach and his wife, Edmund Beach and his wife, Medad Hills and his wife, William Stanley and his wife, Samuel Norton and his wife, Samuel Norton, Jr., and his wife, Widow of Col. Bbenezer Norton, Wife of Ebenezer Norton, John Doud and his wife, Nehemiah Lewis and his wife, Chauncey Beach and his wife, Samuel Oviatt and his wife. Wife of Blisha Catlin, Wife of Benjamin Ives, Wife of Timothy Buel, Wife of Ephraim Towner, Nathaniel Norvil and his wife. Wife of Aaron Norton, Wife of Benjamin Oviatt, Widow of Laban Towner, Samuel Bartholomew and his wife, Abel Butler and his wife, Samuel Nash and his wife. Wife of Dr. Elisha Sill, Wife of Josiah Nash, Jonathan Wadhams, Wife of Seth Wadhams, John Wadhams and his wife, Jonathan Buel and his wife, Widow Pettibone, Widow of John Hoy, Zacheus Griswold and his wife, Wife of Samuel Lockwood, Thomas Lucas and his wife, Jesse Stanley and his wife, Widow of David Norton, Lazarus Ives and his wife, Daniel Norton and his wife, Jabez Wright and his wife, Wife of Thomas Wire, David Landon and his wife, Gideon Hurlburt, Widow of Dea. Moses Lyman, Wife of Amasa Cook, Widow of Daniel Cook, James Thompson and his wife. Wife of Ephraim Starr, Wife of Thomas E. Munson, Stephen Thompson and his wife. Widow of Samuel Kellogg, Wife of Heman Smith, Wife of Stephen Smith, Wife of John Allen, Wife of Asa Bonney, Wife of Josiah Benton, Widow Mabel Carrington, Widow of Joseph North, Wife of Ezekiel North, Widow of Nehemiah Lewis, Sr., John Munson and his wife, Samuel Hinman, Jr., Widow Metcalf, Josiah Roys and his wife. Wife of Nathaniel Newell. List of persons admitted since tbe ordination of Rev. Asabel Hooker, Sept. Y, 1791, from whicb time we can give the date of tbeir admission. Name. Abraham Wadhams, Marana JVorton Buel, Mercy Baldwin Collins, Amanda Collins Brooks, Asa Francis, When Admitted. 1793 1793 Name. Wife of Asa Francis^ Ephraim Towner, 1 Essex Freeman, Israel Thompson, 1 Phebe Edwards Hooker, When Admitted. 1793 HISTORY OF GOSHliN. 103 When Name. Admitted. 1 Elijah Welton, 1793 Hannah Tyler Welton, Benjamin Porter, 1 Wife of Joseph Maltby, 1794 1 Wife of Samuel Beckwlth, Sally Cook Chapin, " Lorrain Thompson, " Daniel Norton, " Lydia Beach Norton, " 1 Sarah Foot Thompson, 1795 1 Hannah Metcalf , ' ' 1 Rev. Reuben Parmelee, 1796 1 Laura Collins Parmelee, " Abraham Norton, " Lucy Lewis Baldwin, 1797 N. Stanley Parmelee, " 1 Rosanna Lucas Parmelee, ' ' 1 Sybil Hart, 1798 Levi Ives, 1799 Theodore Parmelee, " Kezia Hudson Parmelee, Allen Lucas, Sarah Thompson Lucas, Susan PA«Zp.'! Nash, Stephen Baldwin, " Susanna Adams Baldwin, " Jonathan Beach, " Lucy Baldwin Beach, ' ' Samuel HiUhouse, Sarah Hillhouse, Alexander Norton, " Rhoda Collins Norton, " Esther Rice, Widow Lois Loomis, Widow Elisabeth Carrington, " Caroline Pratt Ives, " Miriam Ooodwin'B\ie\, " Rhoda Norton Oviatt, " Wife of Isaac Newton, ' ■ Susanna Hlnman, Laura Ives, " Daniel Rice, Aurelia Dotid Rice, Wife of John Garrett, ' ' Wife of Seth Hills, Samuel Osborn, " Wife of Samuel Osborn, Medad Norton, " Wife of Medad Norton, Stephen Thompson, Jr., Wife of Stephen Thompson, ' ' George Kilbourn, " Wife of George Kilbourn, Heman Oviatt, " Eunice Newton Oviatt, •' When Name. Admitted. Hubbard Kimberly, 1799 Wife of Hubbard Kimberly, Abraham Thompson, Ashbel Norton, Augustus Thompson, Wife of Essex Freeman, Phebe Norton, Lydia Riley, Abigail Nettleton, Lucy Beach, Patty M. Hinman, Betsey Dennison, Mabel North, Miranda Norton, Wife of Isaac Bartholomew, Rhoda Francis, Anna Lockwood, Clarinda Parmelee, Sally Parmelee, Sally Towner, Olive Towner, Rhoda Powell, Almira Stanley, Hannah Baldwin, Olive Lucas, Charlotte Doud, Olive Doud, Mary McNier, Mary Humphrey, Alma Beckwith, Erastus Beach, Abraham Beach, Oliver Stanley, Luman Stanley, John Towner, Martin Beach, Samuel Bishop, 1800 David Hudson, Charlotte Robinson Norton, Wife of Jesse Benton, 1 Nathan Hale, IWife of Nathan Hale, 1 Lydia Hale, Isaac Baldwin, Joseph Austin, Hannah Kellogg Austin, Wife of Andrew Bailey, Pamelia Cowles Thompson, Wife of Abraham Thompson, Huldah Beach Welton, Dorcas Wright Thompson, Wife of Theodore Bailey, Israel North, Jacob Prince, 1801 Wife of Jacob Prince, " 104 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. When Name. Admitted. Wife of Samuel Baldwin, 1803 Wife of Medad Hills, MsiT J QriswoldRUej, " Wife of Moses Catlin, Joseph L. Mills, " Mary Hoice Hinman, ' ' Esther North, " Lucy North Street, " Olive Foot Collins, 1804 Olive Collins, John Keep, 1805 Dotha Davis, " Joseph Foot, " Wife of Joseph Foot, " Stephen Baldwin, 2d, " Wife of Stephen Baldwin, 2d, " Wife of Thaddeus Potter, Moses Wadhams, 1806 Anna Collins Wadhams, " Wife of Abraham Wadhams, " Widow Martha Hale, 1807 Widow Anna Norton, " Wife of Isaac Newton, ' ' Widow of Elihu Lewis, " Sybil Norton Thompson, " Hannah Starr Norton, " Anna ButricTc Hills, " Wife of Nathan Smith, Wife of David Vail, Esther Nettleton Starr, " David Beecher, " Prudence Ohadbourne'&eechet, " Russell Sheldon, " Wife of Russell Sheldon, Wife of William Foot, Walker Prentice, " Lovisa McNier, Chloe Hopkins, " Mary Parmelee, ' ' Lewis M. Norton, Laura i'bo* Norton, " Charry M. Norton, " Ann Street, " Asenath Ives, " William Norvil, " Jonathan Wadhams, Jr., 1808 Mandana Adams Wadhams, " Orrin Judd, " Wife of Orrin Judd, Sarah Humphrey Osborn, " Clarissa t/add Baldwin, " Wife of Jesse Weltou, " Lucy Welton, " Mary Sill, Roxa Stanley, " When Name. Admitted. Amy Roberts, 1808 Betsey Baldwin, " Jonathan North, " Erastus Hills, ' ' Abraham Parmelee, Cyprian Collins, John Beach, " Henry P. Strong, Darius O. Griswold, Erastus Norton, " Augustus Lucas, Elisha Humphrey, Elijah Humphrey, Olive Oviatt Humphrey, " Anna Lewis Griswold, " Laura Humphrey, ' ' Harriet Ingraham, ' ' Thankful GofE, Sybil Norton, 1 Wife of Rev Joseph Harvey, 1811 1 Diana Ells, 1812 1 Widow Sarah Breck, " Eliakim Read, " Mary Ripley Wadhams, ' ' Widow Mary Sage, " Delia Si'H7jo!a« Beach, " Linus Sage, " Hannah C. More, Wife of Philo Smith, 1813 1 Norman Smith, " 1 Wife of Norman Smith, " Phebe Spencer, Almira Powell, " 1 Nathaniel Bates, 1 Wife of Nathaniel Bates, " 1 Susanna Reed, " Ephraim Sanford, 1814 Wife of Ephraim Sanford, Rebecca Beeler, " 1 Henry Hart, " 1 Wife of Ezekiel North, 1815 1 Betsey Button Hart, ' ' 1 Wife of Amos Webster, " Levi Hills, 1816 Wife of Anson Stocking, " Sarah M. Lyman, " Lucy Wadhams, Anner Norton, Laura Chapin, Wealthy M. Kimberly, Mehitabel Kimberly, " Nancy Wallen, ' ' Sarah Pendleton, " Lucia Parmelee, ' ' David Hart, HISTORY OF GOSHEN. 105 When Name. Admitted. Hannah Hudson Hart, 1816 Prudence Hale, " Wife of Stephen Ripley, " Sally Norton, " Cynthia M. Newton, " Wife of Jonathan North, " Augustus Adams, " Birdsey Oviatt, 1817 Jeremiah Norton, " Abigail Hills, " Laura Wdton Baldwin, " Lucretia Austin, ' ' Maria Hurd, " 1 Jonathan F. Baldwin, " Elisha Catlin, Sally Oviatt Humphrey, 1818 Eunice C. Beach, " Amanda Hart, ' ' 1 Dudley Henderson, 1819 IWife of Dudley Henderson, " Ruhamah Sherman, " Eliza Lyman, " Wife of Joseph Bailey, Candace Pratt Hale, '' Wife of Erastus Parmelee, ' ' Olive rwMZe Mahannahs, " Mary Bailey, " Silas Humphrey, " 1 Sarah Keeler Wadhams, 1820 1 Widow Abigail Knapp, " IJoel Barnes, " 1 Wife of Joel Barnes, " 1 Laura CTar^ Hart, " Hervey Brooks, Mary ray Zor Brooks, " Washington Fox , Eleanor DoKifiare Fox, " Wife of William Norvil, Ruth Norton Hurd, " Elisabeth Wadhams, " Noah Humphrey, 1831 Experience SwiZer Barnum, " Wife of William Brown, Delia Howe, " Harriet Collins, " Clarissa Towner, ' ' Betsey Howe, Ruth Thompson, " Mary Brown, Caroline Wadhams, ' ' Rachel Norton, Hiram Norton, " George Stanley, Horatio A. Norton, " Charles Thompson, " Name. Isaac H. Brown, William Thompson, David Wadhams, Jr., William Brown, Jr., Henry Kimberly, David Ingersoll, Wife of Joseph Woodruff, Elizabeth Bradley, Dorcas McKee, Anne Carrington, Mary Ann Hills, Sarah L. Humphrey, Eliza Thompson, Experience Chevalier, Chloe Thompson, Lucina Freeman, Henry W. Thompson, Eben Norton, Martha North Wadhams, Joseph Woodruff, Theron Baldwin, Betsey Collins, Lois Humphrey, Eliza Marsh Wadhams, Amos Sanford, Birdsey Wadhams, Clarinda Norton, Polly Norton, Lucretia Lyman, Almira Norton, Emily Bartholomew, Laura M. Baldwin, Sarah Lyman, Orlo Bartholomew, Augustus T. Ambler, Worthy Curtiss, Wife of Apollo.=i Benedict, 1 Wife of Samuel W. Gold, 1 Widow Martha Tucker, 1 Judson Miner, 1 Mrs. Electa Miner, William Pierce, Mary Wadhams, Amy M. Wadhams, 1 Sally Austin, Sylvia Curtiss Kimberly, Darius Niel, Samuel Lyman, Sarah Webster Lyman, Elisabeth Biiell Lyman, Bhoda Thompson Norton, Emily Collins, Frederick P. Hills, 1 3d Wife of Noah Humphrey, 1 Widow Abigail Foot, When Admitted. 1831 1833 1834 1826 1827 106 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. When Name. Admitted. 1 Wife of Rev. F. H. Case, 1827 1 Harriet Whiting QriswolA, " Abigail 5aWwm Luddington, " Dri Merwln, " Oattierine Adams Merwin, ' ' Bben N. Thompson, Sarah Merriman Thompson, ' ' David L. Parmelee, " Sarah Stanley Parmelee, Lewis C. Wadhams, " Lydia Gallup Wadhams, ' ' Mary A. Peck Norton, ' ' Lydia W. Sutton Thompson, " Clarissa Griswold, Betsey Norton, Abigail R. Foot, Eliza Humphrey, " Mary Price, " Sarah Price, ' ' Caroline North, Louisa North, Elisabeth Hart, Susan Norvil, " Rhoda Wilcox, " Affa Packard, " John F. Norton, " Henry G. Pendleton, '' Stephen Humphrey, " William E Chittenden, John Mathews, " 1 John Wood worth, " Roswell Kimberly, 1828 Elisha Hills, Julius Henderson, " Laura Rugg, ' ' Mills Norton, Esther Lucas, Cordelia Bartholomew, 1 Sidney Mills, , " 1 Philena Hungerford Wadhams, " 1 Vashti Dresaor, " Chester Curtiss, • " Flora Holbrook, Mark Ives, 1830 1 Eliza /Jop7aras Powers, Eliza Norton, 1831 Amos Gere, " Eunice Morgan Gere, " Jane M. Lyman, " Abby A. Mathews, Mary J. Mathews, Catherine Wadhams, Ellen Wadhams, Emeline Wadhams, " George Wadhams, ' ' When Name. Admitted. Noah S. Wadhams, 1881 Phebe OolUns Wadhams, " Mary A. Beebe, " James Wadhams, ' ' Wife of Silvanus Holbrook, Elisha L. Buel, Truman Beach, " William Mathews, ' ' Augustus Tuttle, Henry Morse, " Lucy Bartholomew, Charles Buckley, " Isaac Wadhams, 1832 Giles Griswold, Sarah Starr Griswold, Erastus Lyman, ' ' Abigail Starr Lyman, " Moses Wadhams, " Lucy Griswold, Abigail Lyman, 1 Charles C. Beers, 1 Emma Palmer Beers, 1833 Uri Wadhams, " Henry H. Beach, " Erastus P. Allen, Moses Lyman, Jr., " AltaiJoctoisM AUyn, " Wife of Robert Miner, ' ' 1 William P. Noyes, 1834 1 Wife of William Noyes, " 1 Caroline TWZsore Greenleaf, 1 Emily (?j7Z«« Chapin, 1 George L. Lyon, 1835 1 Erastus G. Hurlbut, 1 Wife of E. G. Hurlbut, 1 Wife of Moses Lyman, Jr., " 1 John P. Porter, " " 1 Mary Bay Griswold, 1836 Olive North Beach, " Diana Hall, " Emeline Stanley, " Maria Norton, ' • Elisabeth A. Powers, " Elisabeth Wadhams, ' ' Mary Ripley, Jane Tuttle, ' ' Louisa E. Towner, Robert Norton, " Samuel Wadhams, 1838 Harvey P. Merwin, " Almira Bartholomew, " 1 Wife of William Miles, 2d, 1 Asa G. Adams, " 1 Olive (9m.i<7t Adams, " 1 Adeline Wilson Norton, ' ' HISTORY OF GOSHEN. 107 When Name. Admitted. 1 Theodore S. Gold, 1838 Eliza Beach, 1839 lEbenezer Beach, " 1 Wife of Ebenezer Beach, 1 Mary (?iWe« Wadhams, Millia Holbrook Bartholomew, " Mabel Ims Bartholomew, 1840 Ann Bartholomew, " Jonathan Wadhams, Jr., 1 Harvey Baldwin, 1841 Frederick Lyman, 1844 Wife of Jona. Wadhams, Jr., " Wife of Harvey Baldwin, 1 Julia (?oM Lyman, " 1 George S. Brewster, 1 Adeline Stone Brewster, IMary Minor Huxley, 1 Wife of Isaac Warren, " IS. Harriet Warren, " Emily Dibble Kimberly, ' ' 1 Wife of Rev. L. Perrin, Emeline Bierce, " Hannah F. Baldwin, " Eliza A. Baldwin, " Cornelia A. Warren, ' ' Jane L. Griswold, Mary McCourt, Electa Green, 1845 Sarah Green, " Cyrus Marsh, Hannah Ives, " Hannah Starr, llsaac W. WaiTen, " 1 George Stewart, 1846 1 Sarah Stewart, 1 Wife of James Hunter, David Scoville, Charles L. Buell, ' ' Lucy E. Allyn, 1847 D wight Allyn, " 1 Alosia Sanford Oviatt, " 1 Lucy Bay Wadhams, " 1 Julia Hoifm-d Norton, 1848 1 Jane Miles, " 1 Gamble Miller, 1849 IPhebe Woodruff Rnj , IPoWj Belden M\yn, 1 Amanda TFeermission from the town or 176 HISTOEY OF GOSHEN. the ecclesiastical society, thus to occupy space, and the prac- tice of seating by committees gradually declined. SABBATH-DAY HOUSES. Deacon Moses Lyman, Jonathan Buell, Sr.,' Jeremiah Howe, and Jonathan Wadhams joined together in building a Sabbath-Day House, which they occupied for many years. This stood southwest of the present meeting-house, on the west side of the roiad as it then was (only four rods wide at that time), near the same ground where is now the traveled road and the sign-post. The building faced the east, and had two rooms, a chimney, built of stone, in the middle, and a stable for horses on the north and south ends. The south room was occupied by Deacon Lyman and Mr. Buell; the north room by Messrs. Howe and Wadhams. Three similar houses were built on the north side of the road, east of the meeting-hoiuse. These were owned by inhabitants living on East street. These houses were for spending the time of the intermission between the two services of public worship, and, as there were no stoves in the meeting-house and fire was something to rejoice in on the Goshen hills in the winter months, they were open to others besides the owners and their families, so far as convenient. In the room of Deacon Lyman and Mr. Buell, the two fam- ilies, male and female, were all expected to spend the whole of the intermission. Deacon Lyman was accustomed to bring the dinner for his family in his saddle-bags on horseback. He had a small swing-table, for their mutual accommodation, and upon this was spread whatever their saddle-bags contained. Mr. Buell usually asked a blessing, and Deacon Lyman re- turned thanks. A wooden bottle contained what they wanted in the way of drink. Frequently one of the children was set to reading aloud a religious book, after dinner. In this way the intermissions were spent comfortably, and, to some ex- tent, agreeably. All rose when the blessing was asked and HISTORY OF GOSHEN. 177 thanks returned. All rambling of the families, in the tinie of the intermission, was considered improper, and was by this way of spending the time prevented. The rooms were ceiled with boards. A fire was made in the morning, and, as the room was well-supplied with dry wood, the apartments were com- fortable at the close of the morning worship. In winter many of the women came in to fill their foot-stoves, before the two or three hours of the afternoon worship commenced. MARRIAGE CUSTOM. David 2\^orton married Anna Bronson, of Southbury, and her youngest daughter, Miriam, the wife of Captain Timothy Collins, says that her mother told her that she was married on Thursday and the next day she rode from Southbury to Groshen. She rode upon a pillion, behind Nathaniel Baldwin, who stood up with them at their marriage. Jedidah and Mary her sisters, were also of the party. One rode behind Abraham, and the other behind a man by the name of Mitch- ell. On Saturday the four returned in the same manner to Southbury, and on the same Saturday, David IsTorton, the husband, commenced family prayer, and continued it until his death, which was November 2, 1769. The custom of those days was that when a newly-married couple commenced housekeeping, or the bride went to the home of the husband, she must ride behind the groomsman. A BAD BOY. The following is a copy of a loose paper found in the old account book of Nathaniel Stanley. The child complained of was his own grandson, Jacob Williams, about nine years old. " I was at the house of Jacob Williams, Jne ye 2, 1761, and he complained of his son Jacob as foUoweth. He said he would lie and he would steel and he could not Curb him: — he would goe and take victuals of folks Cellars and he could not Curb him. — what says I, he wonte Commit Adultery too — 12 178 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. ■will he; no says lie I hardly believe lie will doe that. But he will doe almost every thing else. Henry "Walter and all his family are not comparable to him: he told me of his eating his breckfast at home and he Eate at it. Eight's & at other places to ye number of :9: times he Eate that day and I counted after him ; — and if he sent him after Creatures he would get out of the way and he was faint to fetch them him- self; — so that he represented him to be almost the worst of all flesh: The above "Written according to the best of my Eemem- branc. ISTath Stanly." Another entry. " Little Jacob son to Jacob "Williams was born July 24, 1752 — and I question whether he has been to meeting since he was an infant." In another place in the book is the following reference to his daughter. " Euth "Williams an object of pitty cajne to my house April 26." The year not given. THE WOMAN WHO WHIPPED HER HUSBAND. Thankful Ives married Elisha Oatlin. In the early part of their matrimonial life, he became addicted to habits of in- temperance, to the great grief of his better half, and even to his own sorrow in his sober mo'ments. She expostulated, but in vain; he was unable to resist temptation, and was again and again overcome. She at last proposed that she should punish him severely if he was ever found drunk again. To- this he consented. The time came, the husband got home, and was put to rest upon the bed. "When he was soundly sleeping, she removed the other covering, and taking the strong linen sheet upon which he was lying, wrapped it close around him and sewed it fast to- gether. "When all things were thus prepared, and having at hand several rods of no mean dimensions, she applied them thoroughly. The poor husband begged as for his life, but HISTORY OF GOSHEN. I79 she thought it best to finish well what she had begun, before she released him. The precise effect of this correction is not known, but, so far as learned, they were well agreed in after life. THE SPINNING MATCH. This was a trial among the ladies of Goshen, to see which could excel in spinning linen on a one-handed wheel. It is supposed to have taken place about 1770. The understanding was, that each might spin 24 hours, and be helped to reel yam, etc. The struggle was extensive through the town, but not all upon the same day. It seems to have been first tried among the married; then among the unmarried. The wife of Captain Isaac Pratt seems to have excelled among the married ladies. Her husband prepared her dis- taffs and reeled her yam till she made six runs. In this stage of the business, the husband very prudently put his veto upon further proceedings; and remained inflexible, notwith- standing her remonstrances. The poor woman sat down and cried. Several others did well. The wife of Stephen Tuttle made out 5 runs. Several others four runs. Experience, the first wife of Ebenezer iN^orton, and her sister Olive, that married Abraham Parmelee and Doctor Titus Hull, were among those who engaged in the contest in the chamber of their father's house. Wten they finished, it is said that the marks of bloody fingers in the stairway in their passage below attested the severity of their labors. But Lydia Beach excelled them all. She was a daughter of Deacon Edmund Beach, of East street, bom October 28, 1749. Her distaffs were all prepared, her yarn reeled, and even her food put in her mouth. She spun from daylight until nine o'clock in the evening. Her yam showed 7 runs, equal to 3^ days' work. The sequel of the story is, that Jesse Buell, eldest son of 180 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. Captain Jonathan Buell (of Goshen, South end), became ena- moured of the maiden and took her to himself; after which she became the mother of three sons and five daughters. THE HARD WINTER. The hard winter began early in December, 1Y79. There was a constant succession of storms of snow and wind, and for six weeks the water was not known to drop from the eaves of the houses. The snow became so deep that some orchards were filled to that extent that scarcely a twig was visible. The fences were nearly all covers!. The house of John Thompson, on the west side of East street, was so covered that a passage two or three rods in length was tunneled from the door to- the road. In March, the snow was four feet deep in the woods; and so hard that oxen could go anywhere. At the usual time for malving maple sugar, the fences were generally covered, and the snow hard. Many sheep and a few cattle were buried, and lost. A great many houses were buried in the snow. The meetings were usually held on the Sabbath, but many times none could attend except as they went on snow shoes. These were made at the time by Lieutenant Cyprian Collins, and several old horses were killed for their hides, which were used in stringing them. The grain was drawn to mill on hand sleds and grinding was extremely difiicult. The care of cattle, the getting of a little wood, and the going to mill comprised pretty miich all that was done. Fortunately, there was no scarcity of fodder, and although the getting of cattle to water was out of the question, still, by removing part of the roof of his barn, tlie farmer could feed them, and the cattle soon learned that the eating of snow supplied the place of drink. The storms of snow and wind continued until the latter part of March, when the weatlier became more moderate, and the snow was melted gradually by the sunshine, without fiood. The succeeding spring was not unusually late. HISTORY OP GOSHEN. Igl THE GREAT HAIL STORM. This storm occurred July 15, IT 9 9, and continued about fifteen minutes. It was some four miles in widtli, and it was most severe in the middla The timber and fruit trees within the two miles of its centre were much injured, and some orchards nearly destroyed. In a grove of chestnut trees, scarcely a green leaf was seen after the storm. The ground was covered, not only -with leaves, biit mth branches broken off by the hail, some of them so large that it must have re- quired a force almost equal to the strength of a man to pull them off. The shingles on the dwelling and bam of Robeirt Palmer, were so split as to be entirely ruined. A man exposed to the storm a few minutes, was so terribly beaten that his head was covered with blood, and his whole body much bruised. The gardens were wholly destroyed, and in meadows where the grass had not been cut, hardly any remained. Mr. Isaac Baldwin, who lived at the time on Ivy Mountain, stated that a hail stone came through the glass on one side of his house and bounding from the floor, passed through a pane of glass on the other side. Birds, squirrels, and woodchucka were frequently found dead after the storm. THE BURNING OF THE BLUE HOUSE. This house was so called from its having been painted a lead color. It stood over the same cellar, where the house of Eobert Palmer was built on East street, at the place anciently called, " The Centre East and West Highway." The house was built by John Xorth, then late from Farmington, between 1745 and 1763. He had been a merchant in a small way, while living in the house. The house was bumed on Saturday, June 6, 1767. It was occupied at the time, by three young men and their wives, Eisk Beach, John Carrington, and Clark Royce. Eisk Beach, with his wife and child were absent, visiting Uri Hill, West 182 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. street, Clark Eoyce was also absent, and James Koyce, Ms brother, unmarried, was a boarder there at the time, and had a place in the garret where he worked at his trade, a cabinet maker. "When the storm commenced, John Oarrington and wife, the wife of Clark Eoyce, Khoda Thompson, and James Eoyce, were the only persons in the house. Martin Willcox, son of John Willcox, Sr., had that day been framing a barn for Matthew Grant, of Torrington. He was called " The Griant," on account of his size and strength. He had been married to Euth, daughter of Benjamin Ives, but now he was a widower and childless. Seeing the storm ■ rising he hastened to reach home if possible. He was hailed by William Stanley, who had been at work clearing the land on the east side of Beech Hill, but was unwilling to stop, and hurried on until he came to the blue house, when the storm compelled him to go in. The appearance of the sky at this time is said to have been unusual and awfully sublime. The storm was tre- mendous, with a constant blaze of lightning and roair of thun- der. The house was struck by the lightning, apparently in three or four places at once, and was almost immediately all on fire. Willcox and James Eoyce were killed by the lightning, and all were struck do'wn. John Carrington was the first to come to his senses and seized his wife and carried her to the barn, on the west side of the road. He then ran down the street, to the house of Deacon John Beach, crying, " We are all dead." On returning to his wife he found her clothes on fire. Her back was badly burned by the lightning, or the fire of her clothes, or both. At the time the house was struck Mrs. Carrington was ironing clothes. The iron she had in her hand was thrown from her. The wife of Clark Eoyce commenced carrying out furniture, regardless of the dead men; but it is supposed that she had not recovered her senses. HISTORY OF GOSHEN. 183 Willcox remained motionless in his chair, until it was burnt out from under him, when his body fell down. Some timbers falling, broke his legs, and they were both burned ofE to the place of fracture, so that the stumps only were left below the knees. Charles Humphrey, and others, got there before the frame fell, and with long poles, to which hooks were attached, pulled out the bodies before the falling of the whole frame. The rain was falling in torrents, but this did not prevent the house from burning rapidly. It was a good house, two stories high. The bodies, or what remained of them, were removed to the house of the next neighbor on the north, Mr. John Thompson, where the funeral was attended the next day. Mr. ISTewell preached a sermon from the text : " Man knoweth not his time." There was a great concourse of people, men, women, and children, from Goshen, !N"orfolk, Torrington, and Corn- wall. The burial was in the East Street graveyard, but no tombstone marks the place. THE TRIPLETS. The following is from the Phrenological Journal, 1858.— " Mrs. Sybil Ludington, Mrs. Sarah Bushnell and Mrs. Susan Grennell, are three sisters, bom in Goshen, Conn., in 1788. Their parents were Gideon and Anna (Beach) Hurl- but. Their father was accidentally killed, by being drawn into the cog wheels of a grist mill, when they were nine months old. The three sisters removed from Goshen when they were about eighteen years of age. Since then they have lived in different parts of the country, mostly, if not entirely, upon farms. Their personal appearance is striking; — Mrs. Gren- nell and ^Irs. Bushnell resemble each other so much, that even Mrs. Ludington has mistaken the one for the other. They are all ia excellent health, which I suppose is owing to having good constitutions, and the fact that they are never idle. 184 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. Though in comfortable circumstances, they are always busy about some profitable and healthy employment. Mrs. Grennell has had four children; Mrs. Bushnell nine, and Mrs. Ludington one child." At the time the foregoing was written, they were seventy years of age. JUSTICE OF THE PEACE. It appears from the dockets of the first Justices that liti- gation was not unknoMTi at an early day. Ebenezer JSTortou was among the first, or, nearly the first, of the men appointed to this ofiice. Later, and after the State organization, some of these officers were known as " Justices of the Quorum." Bird- sey Norton held this ofiice from 1809 to 1812; and Moses Lyman, from 1815 to 181Y. The ofiice would be called, at the present time, "Associate Judge of the County Court." From the docket of Ebenezer Norton, we make the follow- ing extracts. " At a Justices Court Held in Goshen in Litchfield County feb- ruary the 21st AD 1775 Present Ebenr Norton Justice of Peace for sd County Ruben Sweet of Winchester in sd County Personally ap- peared and Conf est himself Guilty of Playing Cards Contrary to the Statute Law of this Colony on the 16th Day of March Last Past at the Dwelling House of Joseph Horskins In Torrington in sd County: whereupon this Court Gives Judgment for the sd Ruben Sweet to Pay a fine of 13/4 Lawfull money to the Treasurer of the Town of sd Torrington together with one Shilling Cost. Ebenr Norton Justice of Peace, the one Shilling Cost is Paid Exn is Granted on this Judgment December the 6th AD 1775. the King vs mathew Conner at a .Justices Court Held in Goshen in Litchfield County April the 7th AD 1775 Present Ebenr Norton, Justice of Peace for sd County: Matthew Conner a Trancient Person now Residing in sd Goshen was Brought by Special writ on file Dated the 31 Day of December Last to answer unto the Complaint of william Stanley Grandjurer in and for sd county who Complains in the name of our Lord the King HISaX)RY OF GOSHEN. 185 ajcaiust the sd Couuer for Bi-eaeli of I.aw for tJiat lie the sd Couuer was fonml Druukeu in sd Gi>sheu ou or about tOie 21 Day of De- eemlier Last as Per Coiuplaiut on file Dated the SOtli Day of Decem- ber AD 1774 tie Deliuqueut Tlead not Guilty ns Set forth in sd Complaint tOiis Court having Examined evidence Produced in Court: is of the opinion that the Deliuqueut is guilty as set forth in sd Complaint and therefore Gives Judgment for the sd matthew Con- ner to Pay a fine of Six Shillings LawfuU money to the Ti-easurer of the Town of sd Goshen for the use of sd Town ajid Cost of Prose- cution Taxed at 7yL> Lawfull money and Stand Committed till it was Complyd with Ebeur Norton Justice of Peace the Cost is Paid but not the flue The Kins vs Setli Hayden At a Justices Court Held in Goshen in Litchfield County June the loth AD 1775 Present Ebenr Norton Justice of Peace for sd County Seth Hayden of sd Goshen appeared in Court and Contest himself guilty of Breach of Law by Playing wispering in the time of Public worship in the meeting House in sd Goshen ou the 19th Day of April Last it being the Day of the Public fast in the Colony as set fortJi in tlie Complaint ou file Dated the 24 Day of April Last: whereupon this Court Gives Judgment for the sd Hayden to Pay a fine of 3 LawfuU money to the Treasurer of the Town of sd Gosheu for the use of sd Town and Cost of Prosecution Taxed at 2/ Lawfull money This Judgt is Satisfyed in Cash Ebenr Norton Justice of Peace On •• Jenewai-y ye Sth Day 1770 " George Rex " is made the Plaintiff in two suits for " Breach of Sabbath," each Defendant "■ Cou- fest himself Guilty," paid his fine and George the King was •' satis- fyed." The last appearance of the King as Plaintiff was as fol- lows: — in all later trials for offences the State is the Prose- cutor : the King vs Eben Shepard At a Justices Court Held in Goshen in Litchfield County March the 6th AD 1776 Present Ebenr Norton Justice of Peace for sd County Eben Sheapard of "Winchester in sd County was Brought by Special writ on file Dated the 24th day of Jenewaiy 1770 to answer imto the complaint of Samuel of sd Winchester one of the Gmndjureours of sd Cotmty who Complains under his sd office oath against the sd Sheapard for being Guilty of Cursing Abel Wet- 186 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. more of sd Winchester on or about the 13th Day of December Last as Per Complaint on file Dated the 23 Day of Jenewai-y AD 1776: the Defnt Plead that sd Complaint ought to abate and be Set aside be- cause it was not Set forth in sd Complaint that the Defnt was Guilty of Profane Cursing &c this Court haveing heard and Considered the Pleas of the Deft Give Judgment that sd Complaint abate and be Set aside and that the Defent Pay the Cost of Prosecution Taxed at 14/11 Lawful! money Eben Norton Justice of Peace this Judgment is Satisfyed in Cash Elias Deming sues Jolin JSTorth for defamatiooi and re- covers " forty Shillings Lawfull money Damage." This was probably a case of odium medicum. In 1778 Jesse Wilkinson of Winchester " Confest himself Guilty of feloniously Taking and Stealing of Kuhm out of the hogshead of Euhm then in s"^ Winchester at or near the house of m^ Hanah Avery in s* Winchester Belonging to m'' Oliver Hanchet." There were many cases of complaint for " Profane Swear- ing, Profaning the Sabbath, Drunkenness, steeling a hive of Bees," and similar offences. A suit was brought against a man on account of sheep claimed to have been killed by his dogs, in which judgment was rendered as follows: — " This Court having Examined the Evidence Produced in Court and heard and Considered the Pies of the Parties is not Satisfied and Convinced that the Defents Sd Doggs Did not Kill and Destroy the Pints Sd Sheep and therefore Gives .Judgment for the Defent to Render and Pay unto the Plat the Sum of Fifteen Shillings Lawfull money." The last extract we make from this docket is in a different handwriting from any which precede it. " At a Justice Court held in Goshen Dec. 9th 1782 present Ebenezer Norton Justice of Peace for sd County Charles Thrall Seth wetmore Stephen Fyler Sam Wetmore Roger Marshal and Ambrose Marshal all of Toronton in sd County appeared in Court and each of them Confest before sd Court that they were guilty of breach of pease for that on or at the 30th day of Oct Last past they each of them in a Tumultuous and offensive manner rode into and HISTORY OF GOSHEN. jgy through the Meeting House in Torrington and also on sd day did in a lilie tumultuous and offensive manner Vandue one Fire Shovel in the Highway near the dwelling House of the Rev. Mr. Noah Merwin in said Torronton this Court having Examined Sundry Evidences in the Cases give Judgment that each of the above sd Delinquents pay a Fine of Five Shillings Lawfull to the Treasurer of sd Town of Gashen and Cost of Judgment Taxed at one Shilling each Eben Norton Justice of Peace. Charles Thrall Seth Wetniore and Saml Wetmore have Paid the fine and Cost against them Ambrose marshal hath Paid his fine and Cost December the 8th AD 1783 Execution was Granted against Ste- phen fyler on the above Judgment." The General Assembly passed an Excise Law, at the Ses- sion held in January, 17S3. Under this law the following persons applied for licenses on the dates named. Doctor Jesse Carrouton, May 1, 1TS3, applied for and re- ceived license to sell certain goods on which the State had laid an Excise Tax, " except such Speiituous Liquors in less Quantityes than one Quart." John Carronton the same day. William Goodwin, May S, 17S3. Fisk Beach, June 3 0, 17S3. Daniel Miles, September 5, 1783. AUyn Smith, Dec. 6, 1784. THE MANOR. In some old memoranda that came into my possession there were references to " the Manor," but nothing was to be found in the Norton or Town records that would throw any light upon what was referred to, or its location. It was in- timated to me, by Benjamin F. Pettibone, Esq., of Winches- ter, that Mrs. Victory C. Hart might help me to the light I was looking for. I wrote Mi-s. Hart, who foi-warded my letter to Mr. Orlo E. Wadhams, A^^est Torrington, and he informed his aunt, Emily Loomis, a lady 82 years old, of my wish, and she has \^T.'itten the following, which, probably, includes all that we shall ever know about " The Manor." 188 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. " The place called Tlie Manor is in Goshen, except a short distance over the line, in Torrington. When I first knew the place, a little over seventy years ago, I supposed that the first settlers must have so named it. There were there four good houses. The Hills lived in the house at the west end of the pond, two families of Parmelee lived on the north side, and in the house at the east there lived, at the time I first remember, a Mr. Hart, great grandfather of the Hart family at Hart Hollow. He had a saw mill and a grist mill on the pond stream." She gives a different account of the drowning of " Old Whist." He had a hut in the lot west of the pond, and one morning his canoe was seen bottom up, his cap floated ashore, but he was never seen again." (See previous page " The Manor.") The following shows the amount of the Grand Lists, dur- venty years, between 1755 and 1775. It is given in s it was before the day of reckoning values in doUai's. 1755, ..... 6,252 1756, 6,878 1757, . 1758, . 7,439 7,705 1759, 1760, 7,453 7,455 1761, 8,166 1762, 8,492 1763, 1764, 1765, 8,589 8,779 9,461 1766, 1767, . 9,749 10,588 1768, . 10,658 1769, . 10,624 1770, . 11,016 1771, . 1772, 11,385 12,460 1773, 10,991 1774, 1775, . 11,989 12,661 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. Jgg We presume that this represents, in part, the increasing value of property as it was being improved by new buildings, fences, etc., and to a greater extent the fact that new settlers were coming in and more of the land was being brought under cultivation. IQQ HISTORY OF GOSHKN. CHAPTEK XII. THE HUDSON COLONY, BY DAVID HUDSON. Hendric Hudson, who discovered the Hudson Eiver in 1609, named his youngest son David; and for seven genera- tions the youngest son of each youngest son bore the same name. — David Hudson, bom in Branford, Conn., came to Goshen with his father's family, about 1Y64; married Anna, daughter of David Norton, December 23, 1783; resided here until after the birth of his seventh child. Early in the year 1800 he moved his family to the town of Hudson, in what is now Summit County, Ohio. The following account of the settlement of Hudson is taken from an address of S. A. Lane, Esq., on the occasion of the 90th Birthday anniversary of Mrs. Anner Miaria Hudson Baldwin, the first white child bom in the town, the daughter of David Hudson — October 28, 1890. In the year 1796, Gren. Moses Cleveland, in whose honor the present magnificent city of Cleveland was named. Judge Joshua Stow, afterwards the proprietor of Stow township', and others, were employed by the Connecticut Land Company to survey the lands of the Western Reserve, east of the Cuya- hoga and Tuscarawas rivers, into townships. In the distri- bution of these lands in 1798, township number four, in range number ten, fell to David Hudson, Birdsey Norton, Nathaniel Norton,* Stephen Baldwin, -Benjamin Oviatt, and Theodore Parmelee. These were all residents of Goshen. Early in 1799, for himself and his co-proprietors, Mr. Hud- son determined to visit their new possessions, with the view of * Nath. Norton had removed to Bast Bloomfleld, N. Y., In 1789. HISTORY OF GOSHEN. 191 preparing them for settlement. Taking with him his eleven- year-old son, Ira, Jesse Lindley, William McKinley, and Mr. and Mrs. Thadeus Lacey and their two young children, he started, by wagon from Goshen, April 23, 1799. Hiring three additional men en route — Joseph Daxrow, Jonah Meacham, and Eichard Blinn — Mr. Hudson reached Bloomfield, Ontario County, N. Y., the home of one of his co- proprietors — Mr. jSTathaniel Norton — on the 5th day of May. Here he remained eleven days, completing his outfit; here, also, falling in with Mr. Benjamin Tappan, the pro- prietor of Kavenna township — a member of the first State Legislature of Ohio, in 1803; afterwards presiding judge of Court of Common Pleas, United States District Judge for Ohio, and United States Senator from Ohio, from 1839 to 1845 — Mr. Hudson and Mr. Tappan joining forces for the balance of the journey. Mr. Tappan furnished one yoke of oxen and Mr. Hudson two yoke and two cows, which were started through the wilderness in charge of two of Mr. Tap- pan's and one of Mr. Hudson's men — following the Indian trail to Buffalo; thence along the shore of Lake Erie, to near where Painesville now is, and thence, on marked tbwnship lines, to their destination. The main party proceeded by wagon, to Geandiquot ( " Gondigut ") Bay, on Lake Ontario, where, with their sup- plies, they embarked in open boats previously provided, the boy Ira, Mr. and Mrs. Lacey and their two children being left with the team and a portion of the supplies, to work their way overland as best they could. Starting from " Gondigut " Bay, May 16, six days were consumed in reaching Niagara. Here all their effects, in- cluding their boats, had to be transported by hand aroimd ISTiagara Falls, to a safe distance above the rapids. Making but slow headway against the swift current of the river, filled as it was with floating ice, on reaching Buffalo 192 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. Creek their ftirtlier progress was stayed by an ice gorge at the mouth of the ISTiagara, in the language of Mr. Hudson in his diary, " fully twelve feet high." Though the gorge soon broke, leaving Lake Erie free from ice, strong head winds detained them here three days. Find- ing that the winds were strongest during the day, they deter- mined to travel at night. Starting forward again, on the even- ing of May 29th, by rowing, poling, and towing, the fleet finally reached the mouth of Conneaut Eiver, June 5th in comparative safety. Mr. Hudson's fine sense of justice, coupled with great kindness of heart, and a species of grim humor, is well illus- trated by his method of dealing with the first authentic labor strike on the American continent, which occurred on this no- table journey. His man Lindley demurred against doing this night work, claiming that he had hired out to work in the daytime only. Pleasantly conceding the correctness of Mr. Lindley's claim, Mr. Hudson permitted him to sleep through the night while he and the rest of his men worked with might and main to stem the winds and waves which beset them. The next morning, however, on lying by for the day, opposite Cat- taraugus Swamp, Mr. Hudson furnished Mr. Lindley with an axe, and set him to felling trees and chopping them up into cord wood, while the others were taking their needed rest. After a few hours of this rather monotonous labor, the ludi- crousness of the situation — chopping and piling cordwood hundreds of miles from any civilized settlement — as well as the unreasonableness of the stand he had taken, seemed to dawn upon the mind of Mr. Lindley. Humbly apologizing to Mr. Hudson, and promising to take his turn at the oar at night, when necessary, Mr. Hudson relieved the recalcitrant from his unpleasant task, and thenceforth he had no more willing and faitliful man in his employ than Jesse Lindley. Soon after leaving the mouth of the Conneaut River, on HISTORY OF GOSHEN. I93 the evening of June 5, the wind suddenly changed to the north, assuming the proportions of a f iirious gale, which drove the fleet on shore, filling one boat with water, thoroughly drenching its passengers and cajgo, and staving a hole in the bottom of another, through which a large part of their potatoes and other supplies were lost in the lake. Lying by 24 hours for repairs, by using blankets for sails, favorable winds and hard rowing enabled them to reach the mouth of Grand Eiver, June Yth, and the mouth of the Cuya- hoga on the 10th. Ten days were consumed in working the boats up that tortuous stream, its waters at that time being very low, the fleet reaching the mouth of Brandywine Creek, ■in the southerly portion of IsTo'rthfield tovraiship, June 20th, one of the boats being plundered one night while its occupants were asleep, presumably by Indians, of quite a quantity of flour, pork, whiskey, and other supplies. Six days were now spent by Mr. Hudson and his men in finding the west line of his township. The cattle having mean- time arrived overland, rude sleds were improvised, and on the hastily constructed roads through, over, and across the inter- vening woods, gulches, and swamps,^ their remaining goods were speedily transferred from the boats to the hurriedly built bark shanty, on the site at first selected by Mr. Hudson, on the northeast comer of what is now known as lot number eleven, in the southwest portion of the tovraship — just about 40 days having been consumed between their embarkation on Lake On- tario, and their final occupation of the rude shelter — hardly one-fourth as many hours now being required to cover the same distance. Setting a portion of his men to surveying his township into lots, and others to building a more substantial cabin of logs, and clearing the ground for a small field of wheat, being greatly alarmed at the non-arrival of the Laceys and his boy, Mr. Hudson, in one of his boats, started on the back track in 13 194 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. search of them. He fortunately met them at Cattaraugus Creek, it then transpiring that instead of proceeding overland as had been planned by Mr. Hudson, accompanied by several new men provided by Mr. JN^orton, they had leisurely fol- lowed the original party by boat, and with about the same varied experiehces. Returning with them to his new settlement, after mak- ing arrangements for the erection of a more commodious cabin a little north of the public square which had been laid out by his surveyors at the center of the township — near what is now the west end of Baldwin street — and seeing that his people were provided with an ample supply of provisions for the winter, after the loss of a portion of their own as stated, by purchasing a field of corn from a squatter on the present site of Cleveland, and borrowing some pork and flour from other settlers in the neighborhood (for then settlers within 40 or 50 miles of each other were neighbors), on the 12th day of October, Mr. Hudson, with his son Ira, and two of his hired men, started for Connecticut in one of the frail boats in which they made their outward journey. After over a month of toil and peril, both on the water and on the land, the little party reached Bloomfield about the middle of November. Leaving his boy with his friends there, Mr. Hudson continued his journey on foot to Goshen, where he arrived ISTovember 19th, the entire journey consuming 39 days, and at a total cost of $9.75. While arranging for the early removal of his own family to his new possessions, Mr. Hudson also secured quite a num- ber of recruits for permanent settlement thereon, and in the month of January, 1800, with his wife and their five remain- ing children — Samuel, William Norton, Milo Lee, Timothy, and Abigail Laura — accompanied by several of his own hired men, started in sleighs for Bloomfield to make arrangements for the embarkation of tlie party on the opening of naviga- tion in the spring. HISTORY OF GOSHEN. I95 Five boats were provided by Mr. Hudson for the trans- portation of his own people and supplies — the latter con- sisting of clothing, provisions, mechanical and farming tools, fruit, field, and garden seeds, nails, glass, etc., the entire out- lay amounting to about $2,000 — a munificent sum for those early days. Other members of the party, arriving meantime, sup- plied themselves with three additional boats, making eight boats in all. Leaving Bloomfield April 29th, the next day, the little party, 29 souls in all, in the language of Mr. Hudson, in his diary, " cheerfully launched out upon the great deep of Lake Ontario." This party consisted of Mr. and Mrs. Hudson, and their six children, Heman Oviatt, Joel Gaylord, Allen Gaylord, Dr. Moses Thompson, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Bishop and their four sons — David, Luman, Reuben, and Joseph — Stephen Per- kins, Joseph and George Darrow, Mr. and Mrs. Elijali IsToble and their infant son. Miss Euth Gaylord, Miss Ruth Bishop and three Veomonters, named Safford, Williams., and Der- rick. After almost incredible perils and hardships, and similar experiences to those which attended the journey of the pre- vious year, the party reached the mouth of the Brandywine, May 28, a gain of one day over the, former trip — four of the party, Elijah Koble and Luman, ©avid and Joseph G. Bisihop, having brought through by land a horse, a yoke of oxen, a bull, 14 cows and some hogs, and arriving at about the same time. When all were together, Mr. Hudson led his people in a public service of Thanksgiving and Praise to Almighty God, who had brought them through " perils seen and unseen " safely to their destination, and took immediate measures to re- sume public worship on the Sabbath, which had been sus- pended during his absence, and which, I presume, has never since been intermitted for a single Sabbath during the inter- vening nin&-tentlis of a century. j[96 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. Tlie new settlers speedily and pluckily began the subju- gation of tie forest, and by indefatigable industry in the clear- ing and cultivation of their lands, and providing themselves with shelter, with the aid of such game as the woods and streams afforded, soon became self-supporting, with an ever- cheerful welcome and generous hospitality to new-comers, and the stranger sojourning in their midst. But a full history of Hudson would require vastly more space than can be given here. It may properly be said, how- ever, that in point of pioneer energy, agricultural progress, business enterprise, educational development, and religious zeal and activity, Hudson has not only been the peer, but the exemplar, of her exceptionally enlightened and progressive sister townships of the Western Reserve. Among the most active promoters of those elements of an enlightened civilization, were Deacon David Hudson and his two wives. In all early movements for the betterment and en- lightenment of his people. Deacon Hudson's heart, hand, and purse were earliest and oftenest open. Even as early as 1801, when the entire population of the Western Reserve could hardly have numbered more than 1,000 souls, his name is found at the head of a petition to the Territorial Legislature for a college charter, and again, at the first session of the State Legislature, in 1803, his name heads the list of successful peti- tioners, resulting in the establishment of the "Erie Literary Institute," at Burton, in 1805, and, eventually, the establish- ment of the Western Reserve College — -the fifth college charter granted in the State. To secure the location of the college at Hudson, the people contributed the then munificent sum of $7,150. Mr. Hudson heading the list with the sum of $2,000, besides donating 160 acres of land, on which to erect the necessary collegiate and residence buildings, and for campus and other purposes. Very properly his name heads the list of the first trustees. In early life David Hudson was known as an infidel, but HISTORY OF GOSHBN. 197 was converted during a revival in Goshen in 1799, under the ministry of the Eev. Asahel Hooker. At a public meeting held in his neighborhood, during that revival, he took occa- sion to recant his infidelity and confess his faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. He set himself at once to the work of undoing his influence in opposition to Christ and His religion. He be- lieved that he could accomplish the greatest good by helping •to plant Christian homes and churches in one of the new towns then just being settled in the Western Reserve. To do this he sold his farm in Goshen and purchased one-fourth of the town- ship, which, under his leadership, was later organized as the town of Hudson. He conducted worship on the Sabbath, with- out any intermission, until the church was organized, Septem- ber 4, 1802, when he was made one of its deacons. During bis life he labored, made willing sacrifices and liberal gifts of time, money, and lands, not only for that church, but for others in neighboring towns. His influence is still felt, his name is still honored and will continue a power for good while time lasts and eternity endures. He died at Hudson, March 17, 1836. On his tombstone is the following inscription: " A poor sinmer, saved by grace." We are unable to obtain the names of all the persons who removed to Hudson from Goshen, but have the names of eleven, who were dismissed from the church to form the church in Hudson. They were: David Hudson, Heman Oviatt and wife, Stephen Thompson and wife, Abraham Thompson and wife, Stephen Thompson, Jr., and wife, George Kilbourn and wife. In addition to these, we have the other names of Titus Gaylord and wife, Joel Gaylord, Allen Gay- lord, Miss Kuth Gaylord, Miss Etith Bishop and eleven minor children. It is believed that there were at least thirty persons from Goshen. 198 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. CHAPTEE XIII. MINISTERS BORN IN GOSHEN; MINISTER'S WIVES. Elisha Parmelee, son of Abraham, bom at Goshen, Feb- ruary 22, 1755. He became a Christian early in life, and de- cided to enter upon the work of the ministry. He prepared for college under the instruction of the Rev. Mr. Kobbins, of ISTorfolk. He entered Yale College, and remained there until the college was interrupted in its work by the War of the Revolution, when he went to Harvard, where he was gradu- ated. As he had constitutional tendency to consumption he went to Virginia, where he was engaged in teaching twO' years. Returning, with health improved, he studied for two years with Dr. West, of Stockbridge, Mass. He was called to the church at Lee, Mass., where he was installed the pastor and married Miss Mary Hutchinson, of Salisbury. After two years his health failed, and he was compelled by his weakness to resign his pastorate, and accompanied by his wife, his brother, and his brother's wife they started for the South, hoping that he might regain his health. When they reached Shenandoah County, Virginia, he became so weak that they were unable to proceed on their journey, and he died there August 2, 1T84. He was greatly beloved by all who knew him, was a scholar of a high order, with great ability as a linguist. Luther Hart was bom in Goshen, July 27, 1783. He was a son of David and Hannah Hart, both of them the possessors of lovely characters, and his mother noted for a mind of more than common vigor. Luther made a public profession of his faith in Christ in his sixteenth year. From this time he felt an earnest desire to enter the Gospel ministry, but devotion to his parents led him to remain' at home and labor for them, HISTORY OF GOSHEN. I99 working with his father as a carpenter. He commenced to pre- pare for college in 1802, and in the autumn of 1803 was ad- mitted a freshman at Yale, Avhere he was graduated in 1807 with one of the highest honors. After his graduation he taught for one year, and at its close commenced his studies in theology under the direction of the Eev. Ebenezer Porter, then of Washington, Conn., and later studied with Mr. Hooker, of Goshen, but when the seminary at Andover was opened, he entered there and was one of its first graduates. He was licensed to preach in September, 1809. He received a call to settle from the Congregational Church at Plymouth, Conn., and was ordained the pastor of that church in September, 1810; the sermon on that occasion being preached by the Kev. Mr. Porter, his first theological in- structor. He was married in 1811, to Minerva, only daughter of Ceneral Potter, of Plymouth, — a connection from which fol- lowed great comfort and usefulness. He died at Plymouth, April 25, 1834. For several weeks previous to the com- mencement of his last illness, he had performed much extra labor, both in his own parish and elsewhere, notwithstanding he was oppressed by a deeply seated cold. On the 18th, he was seized with a lung fever, which, in its earlier stages was not deemed alarming. It soon assumed a threatening aspect which banished all hopes of recovery. In the prospect of his depar- ture he evinced a serene triumph, and passed away in the transports of. a lively faith. The sermon at his funeral was preached by the Eev. ISToah Porter, D.D., of Farmington. Among his publications we find a tract, entitled, "Plain reasons for relying on Presbyterian ordination, in a letter to a friend." " Salvation for lost men." " A sermon at the in- stallation of the Kev. D. O. Griswold, in Watertown, Conn." 1825. "A sermon at the funeral of the Eev. Alexander Gillett, of Torrington, together with a Memoir of his life and charac- ter," 1826. " A Memoir of the Kev. Amos Pettengill, pastor 200 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. of the Congregational church in Waterbury, (Salem,) Conn.", 1834. He possessed much more than the average ability, and by his wise methods and faithfulness in both instruction and re- proof was greatly useful. His sermons were said to be " ex- ceedingly rich in condensed, sententious thought and concise declaration, so applied as to give what might have been the summary conclusion of a long discussion." Professor Hickok has said, " I think his habitual preaching quite as profitable in the manner of instruction and impression as that of any brother I have known." His figure was a familiar one in the whole town and his intercourse with his people was at once frank and kindly. He was greatly beloved by his people, and they gave him un- limited confidence and welcomed him to their homes as they would welcome a long absent brother. There was no resisting his candor and manly sincerity, which gave evidence not only of his Christian principle, but of the frankness and honesty of his heart. The epitaph upon his tombstone tells the story of his life and character. BEV. LUTHER HART, BORJq^ AT GOSHEN, JULT 27, 1783 ; ORDAINED AT PLYMOUTH, SEPT. 5, 1810, DIED APRIL 26, 1834. AS A PREACHER HE WAS DISCRIMINATING IN DOCTRINE, VIVID IN ILLUSTRATION, PUNGENT IN APPLICA'tlON : AS A PASTOR, WATCHFUL, ACTIVE, AND FAITHFUL IN REPROOF ; YET REJOICING RATHER TO BIND UP THE BROKEN-HEARTED. AMONG THE CLERGY, WISE IN COUNSEL, EFFICIENT IN ACTION ; IN THE COMMON RELATIONS OF LIFE AFFECTIONATE AND MODEST, RESPECTED AND BELOVED. HISTORY OF GOSHEN. 201 Darius Oliver Griswold was bom in 178Y, in Goshen, Conn. At tlie age of seventeen he entered Yale, and began his course of study preparatory to the ministry. After remaining two years at Yale, he went to Williams College, whence he graduated in ISOS, at the age of twenty-one, taking the vale- dictoiy. This was remarkable when it is remembered that part of his education was obtained by teaching in a neighboring academy in the day time, and a singing school in the evening — keeping up with his class, meanwhile, by severe night study. That he was highly regarded as a scholar is evident from the fact, that he was afterwards invited to deliver before one of the literary societies of his Alma Mater an oration, which he performed very much to the acceptance of his friends. After • leaving college he taught an academy at Ballston one year; then pursued a regular course of theological study at Andover Seminary for three years. Upon the expiration of this course of study, being licensed to preach, he began his labors in Bloomfield, Ontario County, IST. Y., in 1812, where he spent three years. To this field he took with him his bride — hav- ing married Miss Abigail Wakeman, of Ballston, N. Y., on September 17, 1811 — who throughout all the trials and labors of his ministry proved herself, by self-denying and devotional conduct, worthy of his choice. He then came to Saratoga Springs, and began preaching in a dilapidated old schoolhouse near the present Baptist Church on "Washington street. For one year he preached on alternate Sabbaths in Saratoga and Glens Falls, and made himself so useful in win- ning souls to Christ, that the Presbyterian society — then a very feeble one and scarcely deserving the name — sient him out to collect funds for building a house of worship. His efforts were so successful that, in .1817, the church, composed of nine members, was organized in his study. This study was in the south end of Washington Hall, and is room E'o. 30. (Still a boarding house in 1897.) In 1822 (August 17, 1823) he was dismissed from the pastorate at his own re- 202 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. quest, and settled at Watertown, Conn., wliere he remained ten years. He did not leave Saratoga, however, without great remonstrance. The Presbytery showed their appreciation of his peculiar fitness for the place by refusing to dismiss him until his third request, made on the ground that he absolutely could not live on his salary. It was soon found, (i. e. about 1830), however, that it was necessary to the prosperity of the church that he should return. A subscription paper was accordingly started, and every dollar thus raised was on the express condition that he should come back. With this paper, a letter was sent to him, stating that many were so discouraged as to propose letting the church — for the erection of which he had labored so assidu- ously — to the Episcopal society. This determined him, and in 1833 (he resumed his work here early in 1834) he returned to Saratoga, where, after laboring zealously and actively for six years, he was laid aside by the paralysis which, on the 28th of December, 1841, terminated his existence. (The subscrip- tion was for the building of a parsonage for him, together with reasonable support.) (A blessing came with the old pastor. At the first communion eleven joined by confession and four by letter, and during the five years which immediately followed his return about 100 were admitted to church fellowship.) A funeral sermon was delivered on the Sabbath after his death by Kev. A. T. Chester, from II Timothy iv, 6-8, to the united congregations of the place, in which, among other things, he said of Mr. Griswold : " As a man he commanded the love and respect of all who knew him. He was affable and social, had a sensitive heart and a generous spirit. To the cry of dis- tress he ever lent a listening ear, offering cheerful assistance. His was a spirit with which it was impossible to associate any- thing ungenerous or mean or base, a pure minded Christiaji, whose character may be truly expressed in the term. Christian gentleman. '' As a scholar, his standing and attainments were elevated. HISTORY OF GOSHEN. 208 His success as a teacher and as a writer proves this. His ser- mons are of a high order, exhibiting great purity of language \\'ith great classical elegance of expression, and much energy and vivacity. He was held very high as a preacher by many of those who hear sermons with the greatest interest and intelli- gence. His simple and yet elegant statements of gospel truth, his solemn manner and powerful voice, have made impressions upon many minds which can never be lost. " As a spiritual teacher and guide he was faithful and sin- cere in his efforts to lead sinners to Christ, and to keep those who professed attachment to Him in the performance of their covenant obligations; a firm believer in the plain doctrines of the Bible, he ever sought to make others acquainted with these truths, and to win them to the love and the acceptance of the truth. ' He fougJit the good fight,' for h© used the weapons which God furnished, and continually carried on the contest with the enemies of the Cross of Christ. ' He finished his course,' for though it seemed to be abruptly terminated, yet so had infinite wisdom before appointed. His course was not extended like that of many others. The goal seemed to be in the middle of the race-ground; yet did he reach that. ' He has kept the faith,' " ]VIr. Griswold's musical talent was also of the highest order. He had a voice alike remarkable for its power and sweetness, and led the choir from the pulpit for several years. It was his custom to meet his choir weekly for the purpose of practising, and to this is to be attributed the fact that during his ministry the choir of the Presbyterian Church at Saratoga was noted for its fine singing — many of the visitors often remarking " that they heard no such music at home." Another characteristic of Rev. Mr. Griswold was his great moral courage. Although naturally of a retiring, shrinking disposition, and withal of a modesty which continually put self in the background, yet, when principle was involved, he was as firm as the everlasting hills. An instance of this is in 204 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. point. Mr. Griswold had never thouglit it best for clergymen to meddle with politics; but, at an election held a few months before his retirement from the ministry, the issues were such that, on the night previous to the election, he stated in his family his intention of voting. His wife thereupon suggested her fears that he would repent it, to which he repliedj " I shall do it if I have to follow my good brother "Wayland's example — call for a Bible and swear in my vote; for I have made up my mind, deliberately and prayerfully, that it is my duty; and if it has come to this, that office-bearers in the church of Christ will put into office an openly irreligious man in preference to a man who helps to support the preaching of the Grospel and religious instructions, it is time for ministers to take a stand. I would vote if I knew that I should he turned out of house and home to-morrow night in consequence." The day fol- lowing he deposited his vote quietly, and the Whigs and Gris- wold's candidate was elected. This Church is greatly indebted to the Eev. Mr. Gris- wold, who in his two pastorates gave it twelve years of the best of his life. He commenced the enterprise, and fostered it in its infancy; and when it was distracted, and depleted, and discouraged, he came again, and, taking the helm in his hand, ' guided the ship into calm and peaceful waters. He was a man of intellect, culture, earnestness, and piety. He was followed to his grave by those who loved him for him own and his work's sake, and over his remains in our cemetery is a monu- ment erected by his beloved and grateful people. Eev. Mr. Griswold. left three children: Burr W., a lawyer of New York city; William L.; and Helen, the wife of Mr. S. E. Bushnell. His widow survived until February 8, 1856. Abraham Baldwin, son of Elisha, was born in Goshen, May 1, 1792. He entered Yale College in 1816, and was graduated in 1820. He studied theology with the Eev. Joseph HISTORY Oi' GOSHEN. 205 Harvey, D.D., and was licensed to preach by the Litchfield iSTorth Association, in June, 1822. His heart was drawn to the destitute fields in our own coun- try, and immediately after receiving license he went out not knowing whither he went, but with the firm purpose of occu- pying some destitute field in which he could declare the un- searchable riches of Christ. With feeble health, but with consecrated will, he entered the service of the Vermont Do- mestic Missionary Society and immediately commenced his work in the destitute portions of the state. He was ordained an Evangelist at Essex, Vt., January 21, 1824. He continued in this service for three full years. His preaching was direct and earnest. His sermons were generally short and to the point; he seemed to have one single aim in all his labors — the winning souls to Christ. He was a man of prayer, and one who so illustrated its power that he led others to pray, and hence it follows that he was successful in his work, flis labors were blessed in every place where he spent any con- siderable time in his work. In the summer of 1826 he be- came greatly interested in the Erench population of Canada, and inspired by the promptings of his heart he visited Canada, arriving at Montreal about the first of June, 1826. He was soon stricken down with disease and, although he had the most careful and kind attention, he died, peaceful and happy, July 12, 1826. He was never married, but at the time of his death was engaged to Miss Caroline Wilder of Vermont. His grave is beside a broad alley in the old cemetery of Montreal, almost in the centre of that vast city of the living. His dust sleeps with strangers, a marble stone at the head of his grave, inscribed with some items of his history. It is a simple story, a humble life, an inconspicuous station, but, the life's work lives, and his memory lives in the hearts of many who were led by him into that life which is eternal. Edward William Hooker, D.D., son of the Eev. Asahel Hooker, D.D., was bom in Goshen, Nov. 24, 1794; married, 206 HISTOEY OF GOSHEN. October 10, 1821, Miss Faith Huntington; married a second time, Miss of ISTewburyport, and third, JSTovem- ber 19, 1850, Mrs. Elizabeth H. Lyman, of Troy, N. Y. He had five children, all by bis first wife. His two sons entered tbe ministry, and his daughter Faith married the Rev. Enos J. Montague of Wisconsin. He was graduated from Middle- bury College, in 1814; ordained August, 1821; pastor at Green Farms, Conn., 1821--29; agent of American Temper- ance Society and editor 1829 and 1830; pastor at Beimington, Vt., 1832-44; Professor of Ehetoric and Ecclesiastical His- tory, Theological Institute, East Windsor Hill, Conn., 1844- 48; pastor South Windsor, 1849-56; supplied pulpit of the Eliot Church, Eoxbury, during the absence of the pastor on a deputation to India, 1854-55; pastor Fair Haven, Vt, J 856-62; occasional preacher while residing at Newburyport, until 1870; at Stockbridge, Mass., 1870-73; at Fort Atkinson, Wis., 1873, till he died, March 31, 1875. Among his publications were the following: — -Memoirs of Mrs. Sarah A. Smith, late of the American Mission, in Syria; Am. Tract Soc, 1845; Elihu Lewis, or the Fatal Christmas Day, Mass. S. S. Soc, 1848. The little book of 36 pages was founded on the following incident: A party of boys, from 10 to 18 years of age, went to skate on Dog Pond, Goshen, Christmas Day, 1807. Hooker, Oliver Thomp- son, Horatio ISTorton, and Elihu Lewis were of the company. Young Lewis was drowned in a " breathing hole." The lads ran to the nearest houses and tO' the village to give the alarm. The effort cost Oliver Thompson an asthmatic difficulty of breathing, from which he never recovered. The funeral of Elihu Lewis was attended the next Lord's Day, when the Rev. Asahel Hooker, father of the professor, preached on the occa- sion. He edited a re-publication of " Dorney's Letters; " and several occasional sermons, among them " A Discourse," de- livered at the Funeral of Deacon Augustus Thompson, a mem- HISTORY OF GOSHEN. 207 ber of the First Congregational Church in South Windsor, Conn. Dr. William Thompson says of him: — " He was the great- grandson of Pres. Edwards and a son of the Rev. Asahel Hooker of Goshen, with whom Dr. Tyler and other useful min- isters had studied theology near the beginning of the present century. The families of Doctors Tyler and Hooker formed a group exceptionally amiable and refined. Dr. Hooker enjoyed the respect and affectionate sympathy of his brethren and pupils in his labors and repeated afflictions. He served with conscientious fidelity in his appointed sphere, but his partiality for the pastoral office led to his resignation at the end of four years." Theron Baldwin, D.D., a younger brother of Abraham, was born July 21, 1801, was graduated at Yale in 1827. While fitting for college he studied at home, and walked four miles twice a week to recite to his pastor, the Rev. Joseph Harvey. He graduated in a class which embraced such men as William Adams, D.D., Horace Bushnell, Cortland Yan Reaissalaer, and ISTathaniel P. Willis. Judged by the methods then in use, his standing was 2 in literature, and 3 in science. In 1828 he entered the Theological Seminary, and in the fall of the same year read before the " Society for Religious Enquiry " an essay on " Individual Effort in the Cause of Christ." This so stirred the hearts of his hearers that one of his classmates. Mason Grosvenor, at once proposed, the formation of a band of young men who should pledge themselves to one another for mutual encouragement and support, and should go to some new state or territory, preach the gospel, and promote learning and religion. Mr. Baldwin was then in correspondence with a society in Montreal, where he had been iirged to go as a mis- sionary, but the failure of a letter to reach him in time left him free to join this association of his class. Illinois had been selected as their field of labor. It was then a frontier state, with a population less than the number afterwards sent into 208 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. the Union Army. Mr. Sturtevant, subsequently president of Illinois College, and Mr. Baldwin were cliosen to go forward and start tlie enterprise. In vain the latter urged that his the- ological studies were unfinished. He was told that when their work in the West was well begun he might return to the Theo- logical Seminary. In 1829, the two pioneers, with commissions from the American Home Missionary Society, arrived in Jacksonville, 111. Mr. Sturtevant at once began teaching. Mr. Baldwin accepted an invitation to supply a little church at Vandalia, then the seat of government, but kept up his connection with the rising college at Jacksonville. He was interested in Sun- day-schools, and was' the first secretary of the Illinois State Sabbath School Association. In 1831 he did return East, but not to the Theological Seminary. He took a wife instead, and returned to his work. The years 1831 and 1832 were mainly given to the interests of Illinois College, but in 1833 he again took up the work of Home Missions in the three states covered by his commission, Indiana, Illinois, and Missouri. These he called his " bishopric." Every part was explored and its condition, moral, spiritual, and temporal noted. About this time an association of gentlemen was formed in Connecti- cut for the purpose of " promoting Protestant Evangelical Ed- ucation in the West," and Mr. Baldwin was invited to leave the work he had in hand and take this up. He, however, left nothing, but carried the new work along with the old. In 1834, while on a missionary tour, he was invited by Captain Benjamin Godfrey, a man of wealth, residing near Alton, 111., to come and consult with him in regard to the erection of a Ladies' Seminary. This gentleman offered to expend $10,000 on a building, but would not lay one stone until Mr. Baldwin promised to devote at least a few years to it. In October, 1837, he gave himself wholly to it; the building was erected, and the school in operation when Mr. Baldwin, going East to raise an endowment fimd for it, the discovery was made that all HISTORY OF GOSHEN. 209 the colleges in the West were embarrassed, and none of them could get a hearing among benevolent people and churches at the East. Mr. Baldwin suggested to Dr. Lyman Beecher an organization that should embrace the interests of all, and thus enable them to make one appeal instead of many. Dr. Beecher sprang to his feet exclaiming, " Here is light! " In May, 1843, " The Society for the Promotion of Collegiate and The- ological Education at the "West " was organized in IsTew York, and Mr. Baldwin was chosen its secretary. In its service he continued until his death, at Orange, IST. J., April 10, 1870. Orlo Bartholomew, son of Thomas, bom October 4, 1802. United with the Congregational Church November 3, 1822; was dismissed to the church in Auburn, iN^. Y., November 18, 1832. He entered Union College in 1829, and was graduated in 1882. He then entered Auburn Theological Seminary, where he took the full course and graduated in 1836. He was licensed to preach by the Presbytery of Cayuga, probably in 1835, as during that year he was employed for a few weeks as a supply in one of the churches in Rochester, IST. Y. The same year he began a six months supply in Henrietta, N. Y. He arrived at Augusta, N. Y., May 10, 1836, and the 15th preached his first sermon there. He was called to the pastorate of the church on June 17th, ordained and installed pastor, by the Oneida Presbytery, August 24, 1836. On November 15, 1836, he was married to Julia Ann Peck. He died May 7, 1864, and was buried May 10th, just 28 years from the day of his arrival in the town to begin his ministry. Mr. Bartholomew was a man greatly useful and greatly beloved. As a preacher he was acceptable, not alone because of the careful preparation of his sermons and the fidelity with which he made application of the truths of the gospel; but also because of " the transparent simplicity of his motives, the earnestness and vivacity of his manner, and the evangelical substance of his discourse. He seemed always to his congre- gation like a man who had but one desire, and that not to dis- 14 210 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. play his talents, but to magnify Christ, and serve those who heard him." He had great influence and power as a pastor. " He was a thoroughly good man, and all the people knew him to be so. His people first, himself last, was his motto. He devoted himself to them without reserve, and wore himself out in their service." He possessed a generous heart, and not only gave himself but his means for every good object. He had the true humility which comes to one who makes Christ his ideal and finds the standard of excellence in the teachings of Christ. " If he ever had an enemy — the very rarest, of all his possessions — certain it is no man ever had an enemy in him." " Yet he was far from being a man of equivocal views and negative policy. He had his opinions on every subject of interest belonging to the religious, moral, social, and political events of the day, nor did he hesitate on all fitting occasions to give them utterance. He was heartily in every reform effort. The cause of Temperance and Freedom had no warmer friend or advocate. He had a tender regard for the Sabbath, and gave directions that should his death so occur as to sug- gest his burial on the Lord's Day, by all means to avoid it." He died as he had lived, sustained by Him in whom he had trusted. A painful disease kept him in torture for weeks and months, but it did not wear out his patience or impair his resignation. The more he suffered the more he enjoyed. In- spired truth, fellowship with the Eather and with His Son Jesus Christ, closeness to the Saviour, glorifying God by en- during His will, were more precious and delightful than ever before. He spent much time in searching the Scriptures and in prayer, pleading for the unconverted in his congregation with great earnestness. The biography of the missionary Stoddard greatly interested him towards the last and especially the record of his death-bed experience. "Read that book," he said, " and you will understand how I feel." " He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings HISTORY OF GOSHEN. 211 shalt thou trust; his truth shall be thy shield and buckler; " (Psalm 91 :4) was the text of the last sermon he wrote. When the 17th chapter of John's Gospel was read to him, he noted the words: ''That they may behold my glory," and ex- claimed, " Oh! that glory ! how I long to see it." " A large concourse of people gathered at his funeral, and a large company of ministers, all of them mourning friends." "William Thompson. William (Prof., D.D), son of Augus- tus, resident Goshen, Conn., who married Kezia Hopkins of Great Barrington, Mass., a niece of the celebrated theologian. Dr. Samuel Hopkins; son James resident of Goshen, Conn.; a man of wealth and great public spirit and benevolence; owned slaves in his earlier life, whom he set free, and gave them farms on his property in what was then known as Con- necticut Parms, Ohio ; built houses for them and annually vis- ited them to see after their welfare ; son Gideon, who removed from New Haven about 1Y38, to Goshen, Conn., where he held many town offices and represented the town five times in General Assembly; died Hartford, May, 1759, and is buried in Centre Church burial yard; bom at Goshen, Pebruary 17, 1806; fitted for college with Dr. Joseph Haxvey, the minister of the parish; entered Union College, September, 1824, aged 18; graduated 1826, with honor; passed, 1828-9, as principal of Amherst Academy; entered Andover Theol. Sem., 1830, remaining after the regular course, for an additional year of study, making a specialty of German, and preparing some translations from that language which were noticed with spe- cial commendation; September, 1833, he was ordained pastor Cong. Church, jSTorth Bridgewater (now Brockton), Mass., and so won the esteem and affection of his large parish, that when (1834) he was invited to the recently founded Theol. Institute of Conn., at East Windsor, the people were a unit against his leaving them; but, yielding to a strong sense of duty, he ac- cepted the Chair of Biblical Literature; married, and his parents having also preceded him to East Windsor, was soon 212 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. engaged in what proved to be his life work of 55 yeairs — the longest term of service in an institution of this kind on record in this country. Until the removal of the Institute to Hart- ford (1865), his life was one of peculiar sacrifice and diffi- culty. The seminary lacked funds, students, and friends, so that his position not only implied scanty pecuniary support, but, what was more to a man of his sensibility, he was espe- cially cut off from a natural and hearty sympathy with his for- mer associates in study; and, most of all, the excessive and multifarious work thrown upon him ruined his scholarly ambi- tions and blighted the promise in that direction which, in his college and seminary days, his friends had considered quite unusual; and his native chivalry, as well as his high religious devotion, made him decline the urgent proposals which came to him to accept other more promising and congenial fields of labor. " During the last years of his life he had the satisfaction of seeing the seminary firmly established, well endowed, filled with students, with fine buildings, numerous friends, and good prospects. Before his death he was unanimously recognized as the father of the institution, who, by his extraordinary sagacity, self-sacrifice, and weight of personal character, had carried it through a long and perilous struggle and placed it at last on a secure basis. He died February 27, 1889, at the age of 83, in full mental vigor and unimpaired bodily facul- ties, universally loved and revered by his fellow-citizens and by the numerous generations of students who had come under the infiuence of his rare character and experienced his singular sympathy and generous kindness. In person he was of medium height, with heavy, dark hair tinged (very early) with gray; deep-set, hazel eyes, with heavy brows; a high forehead; delicate mouth; and he was considered a man of decided beauty of feature and coloring. His manners were courtly and gracious. He had a keen sense of humor; was a very graceful and entertaining conversationalist; had quick HISTORY OF GOSHEN. 213 perception aiid facile adaptation combined witli transparent sincerity and the most perfect integrity. His disposition was ardent, impnlsive, and impetuous; lie was nervously and very highly strung; his imagination vivid, and his nature affection- ate and tender. So unbounded was his generosity that it was a saying among his friends that his only regret, when he gave away his coat, was that he could not give his cloak also. The somewhat severe Puritan training of his youth, and his long habit of self-discipline resulted, during his later years, in a saintly calmness and an even, cheerful manner, which con- cealed the depth of his nature from all biit the very few who really understood him, and the great victory of his life. He habitually concealed his own trials and sorrows, and was ready to advise and sympathize with every one who came to him. He married, September 25, 1834, Elizabeth W. (daughter Daniel) Butler of iN'orthampton, Mass., bom October 4, 1809, who was of direct descent from Stephen Butler of England, a non- conformist clergyman of the Church of England. She died January 29, 1879, aged 69." Augustus C. Thompson, CD., was ordained and installed pastor of the Eliot Congregational Church, Eoxbury, Boston, May, 1842. It fell to the lot of Doctor Thompson to exercise his min- istry at a momentous period in the history of JSTew England Christianity, and the re-establishment of evangelical religion in a foremost position in Boston. A very marked change in the enlarged and acknowledged power and influence of the Evangelical faith was clearly discernible, as the years of his pastorate went by. And among the potent factors producing this change, were the deeply spiritual character, the scholarly attainments, the courtly and dignified bearing, and the earn- est and powerful preaching of the pastor of the Eliot Church, Koxbury. In many respects Dr. Thompson always seemed to his 214 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. brethren in the mmistry and in the churches to present a high ideal type of the true Ctristian minister. He always showed a profound reverence for the Bible as God's Word. He never ventured to alter the terms of the message committed to his charge. His efforts were never directed to inventing a gospel, but always to preaching the gospel. This he did with authority, as the final word from God to man, " the faith once delivered to the saints." He believed in a learned ministry. His studious habits were a constant inspiration to young ministers. His library was large, and his contributions at ministerial gatherings and his sermons showed a wide familiarity with the lives and labors of the scholarly and devout fathers. He honored preaching as God's appointed means for the salvation of men. His sermons were carefully prepared, and dealt with the profoundest themes of redemption and with the great duty of the church to secure the salvation of the world. His preaching was a persuasive presentation of the gospel. It brought men of thought and culture into the kingdom, and held them there in effective labors for Christ. He believed in revivals of religion, and his ministry was blessed by repeated seasons of special outpouring of the Spirit, when large numbers were added to the church. He was a wise administrator of the affairs of the church. He knew how to draw around him able and discreet men. There was a considerable period when it would have been hard to match, in any other church in all the region, the company of intelligent and influential men, eminent for their high position and acknowledged worth, who were the officers and leading members of the Eliot Church. He had a high appreciation of the worth of individual character. Each youthful member received into his flock he greeted with a warmth of cordiality which carried the hearts of the church, in a loving fellowship, most valued and HISTORY OF GOSHEN. 215 useful. The members removed by deatb received affectionate tribute to tbeir wortli, and especially as the aged ones passed away, their memory was cherished by loving testimonials, often most appreciative and affecting. His ministry was an instructive one. Those who went out from under his influence have often been found acting as leaders of Christian thought, exerting a large influence in shaping the affairs of other churches, and Christian life in general. His unequalled knowledge of the history and progress of Christian missions, having made repeated visits to missions among Indian tribes in this country, and to missions in Asia, and also attended, by appointment, missionary conferences in London, his long labors in missionary management, his large personal acqtiaintance with missionaries and officers of mis- sionary boards, and his great familiarity with the principles of missionary policy — enabled him to keep his church in a condition of awakened and intelligent interest and co-opera- tion in the progress of Christ's kingdom throughout the world. For forty-four years he was a member of the Prudential Com- mittee of the American Board, and no other member ever de- voted anything like as much time, or brought such rich stores of knowledge to this high service. Although, after many years of successful labors as a pas- tor, his health compelled him to relinquish the active duties of his office, he still continued to abide with the people of his love, engaged in manifold labors of authorship and missionary administration, revered and venerated as few men ever are, and his occasional discourses being always valued as the rare and precious utterance of ripe and saintly wisdom. His devotional books and his volumes on missions have been highly esteemed and furnish a valuable contribution to the permanent literature of the Christian Church. Dr. Thompson, from his early youth to his erect and vigor- ous age, has had a peculiarly agreeable and even fascinating 216 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. personality. His personal appearance awakened high expecta- tions in those who met him, but seemed always singularly be- fitting a man whose literary qualities were marked by exqui- site taste, and the high range of whose thought, and the purity of whose life threw around his presence, always, a never end- ing charm. We have obtained a list of Dr. Thompson's published books, sermons, tracts, and magazine and newspaper contribu- tions, and, without this catalogue the extent of his work and his far-reaching influence can hardly be realized. Volumes. Last Hours of the Dying, 1851; The Better Land, 1854, republished in England; Morning Hours in Patmos, 1860; The Mercy Seat, 1863, republished in Scotland; Seeds and Sheaves, 1868, republished in England; Moravian Missions, 1882, republished In England; Happy New Year, 1883; Lectures on Foreign Missions, 1889, republished in England; Our Birthdays, 1892. Small Books and Leaflets. Young Martyrs, 1854; Lambs Fed, 1854, translated into Mahrathi; The Yoke in Youth, 1856; Gathered Lilies, 1858; Memorial of Mrs. 0. L. N. Stone, 1883; My Shepherd, Our Prayer Meeting, In the Shepherd's Arms, The Sister as Guardian, 1891, pub. by Am. Tract Society; The Ministry and Missions. Volumes Compiled. Songs in the Night, 1845; Lyra Ooelestis, 1863; Ohristus Consolator, 1867; Our Little Ones, 1867. In Mixed Volumes, etc. My little Hymn Book, 3d KM., by Mrs. R. Anderson, 1845 (pp. 129-131); The Christian Observatory, 1848, Vol. II ^pp. 370-78); The same, 1849, Vol. Ill (pp. 25-29), 167-74, 205-11, 225-28, 252-56, 515-19); The Bombay Times, Jan. 4, 1854; Meeting of Bombay Bible Soc, reception at Batticotta Seminary, 1854 (pp. 28-31) ; Eliot Sabbath School Memorial, 1859 (pp. 7-37, 39-43, 50-55); M&morial Volume of Essex Street Church, 1860 (pp. 76, 77); Memorial of Rev. G. B. Little, 1861 (pp. 159-171); 50th Anniversary of Rev. R. S. Storrs, D.D., 1861 (pp. 85, 86); Pastor's Memorial, Dr. G. W. Blagden, 1862 (pp. 159-170); 50th Anniversary of Rev. Jacob Ide, D.D., 1865 (pp. 70, 71); 150 Anniversary of 1st Church, Pomfret, Conn., 1866 (pp. 71-75) ; Memorial of Deacon James Clap, 1866 (pp. 31, 32) ; Memor- ial of aiary T. L. Swift, 1866 (pp. 87-89); ilemorial of 25th Anni- versary of Rev. A. C. Thompson, 1868 (pp. 13-17, 21-33, 37-74, 89-90, 126-30); Wm. N. Davenport, 1870 (pp. 46-49); Good Things, from the Congregationalist, 1S70 (pp. 172-175); Congregational Quarterly, 1873 (pp. 579-91); Missionary Herald, 18.^5 (pp. 162); Letters from lindia, 1866 (p. 230); Rev, David Greene, 1873 (pp. 307, 308); Levi Spaulding, HISTORY OF GOSHEN. 217 D.D., 1874 (pp. 381-385): .Tosepb Neesima, 1880 (pp. 11, 12); Missionary Exploration (pp. 92, 03); Missions and Commerce, 1881 (pp. 432, 433) Mshnupnnt (pp. 511-513); Address at St. Louis, 1885 (pp, 355,' 35(3) Dr. ^Vm. Goodell (pp. 16, 17); Letter to a Centenai-ian (pp. 146, 147) Rev. Anson Gleason, 1886 (p. 413); Worldwide Prayer, 1887 (p. 299) Presidents of tlie Board, Missionaiy Paper, Central Africa (pp. 7-9) 25th Anniversary of Rev. J. O. Means, D.D., 1873 (pp. 45-48); Biblio- theca Sacra, July, 1875; Misquotation of Scripture, Memorials of Charles Stoddard, 1S75 (pp. 204-208); In Memoriam, M. H. Simpson, 1876 (pp. 134, 135); At Eventide, by Dr. N. Adams, 1877 (pp. xiii-xvii); General Missionary Conference, London, 1878 (pp. 101-107, 227, 228); Record of Class, 1835, Yale College, 1881 (pp. 217-21); 95th Anni- versary of Society of United Brethren, 1882 (pp. 1-26); 75th Anni- versary of 2d Church, Dorchester, 1883 (pp. 31-34); Semi-Oentenary of Hartford Theol. Seminary, 1884 (pp. 74-81); Report of A. B. C. F. JNX., 1887 (pp. 5XV-XXX); Councils; History of Norfolk County, Mass., 1884 (pp. 95-99); Sketch of Dr. E. Burgess; Centenary Conference on Missions, London, 1888, Vol. I (pp.7, 8) ; Vol. 11 (pp. 438-448) ; 50th An- niversary of Rev. A. O. Thompson, 1892 (pp. 5-32, 74-77, 97-99); The Eliot Messenger, Jan., 1894; Funeral of Jlrs. Marj' J. Basford. Commemoratii-e Addresses, Sermons, etc. Memorial of Mrs. Anna F. Waters, 1854, translated into Tamil; Address, Funeral of Miss Ann Bell, 1858; Commemorative Sermon: Death of Hon. John Jen- kins. 1859; Address: Fimeral of Robert M. Carson, 1862; Address: I'"uneral M. Gteorge Domett, 1866; Sermon: Death of Mrs. Sai-ah R. Baker, 1867; Address: Funeral of Mrs. Lucy G. Marsh, 1868; Address: Semi-Centenary of Ordination of Missionaries, 1869; Address: Fun- eral of Ida F. Hatch, 1875; Sermon: Death of Dea. A. Kittredge, 1876; Address and Discourse: Death of Rev. R. Anderson, D.D., 1880; Obituary: Rev. R. Anderson, D.D., 1880 (a reprint from N. Y. 06- server, Jan. 3); Address: Funeral of Mr. Abner Kingman, 1880; Mem- orial of Rev. H. B. Hooker, D.D., 1881; Remarks: Funeral of Mrs. A. F. Wardwell, 1883; Sermon: Death of Mrs. M. G. Kittredge, 1883 Address: Funeral Rev. J. O. Means, D.D., 1883; In Memoriam: Mrs Judith Nutting, 1883; Address: Funeral of Rev. C. B. Kittredge, 1884 Sermon: Death of J. R. Bradford, 1885; 80th Birthday of Prof. Wm Thompson, 1886; 100th Anniversary of 1st Church, Dedham, 1888 Address and Discourse: Death of Mrs. Eliza H. Anderson, 1888 100th Birthday of Mrs. Lucy Waterman, 1890; Sermon: Death of Mrs. C. T. Jenkins, 1891; Address: Funeral of Mrs. Lucy Waterman, 1891; Sermon: Death of Mrs. M. V. Hooker, 1893; Address: Ministerial Plagiarisms, 1894, delivered before the students at the Hartford Theological Seminary, reprinted from the Hartford Seminary Record; Address and Sermon: The Triumphant Challenge, Commemorative of Langdon S. Ward, Treas. of the A. B. C. P. M.. 1895; Address: 218 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. Funeral of Bev. Edmund Kimball Alden, D.D., 1896; Devotional Preparation for the Pulpit, 1897. Fugitive Pieces in Various Periodicals. (Besides those before given.) In — Congregational Visitor, Christian Sentinel, Ne'W Eng- land Puritan, Watchman, Youth's Day Spring, Journal of Missions, Advent Herald, Evening Traveler, Roxbury Gazette, Journal, Con- gregationalist. Advance, Independent, Eliot Messenger, Missionary Herald. (Sundry contributions besides those specified.) Mark Ives, son of Cephas, bom February 10, 1809 ; became a member of tbe cburch, February 21, 1830; married, Novem- ber 25, 1836, Mary Anne Brainard, of Guilford, Conn. He was graduated from Union College in 1833; studied tbeology two years at the Seminary in Andover, and one year at the Theological Institute, East "Windsor Hill. He was appointed a missionary of the American Board to the Sandwich Islands, in 1836. The following particulars of his life were furnished by him to the Hon. Theodore S. Gold, for the History of Corn- wall. " We sailed from Boston, December 14, 1836. We were stationed at Hana, on the eastern extremity of Mani, a place much exposed to the trade-winds. We commenced life in a house made by planting posts in the ground and sticks tied across them; the whole covered with grass. On March 21, 1838, during my absence, our house took fire and burned to the ground. This left us very much exposed ; my wife took a severe cold and was threatened with consumption. We were consequently removed to Kealakekua, on the east side of Hawaii. This place is about a mile from Haawaloa, where Captain Cook lost his life. The trees around bore marks of cannon balls, fired among the natives to revenge his death. " Here is where Henry Obookiah lived. Here wfis for- merly a small pen, enclosed by a rude stonewall, where he .worshiped. In this was a coacoanut tree planted by his own hands, the fruit of which was given to none but the mission- aries. Contiguous to this was the temple where Captain Cook HISTORY OF GOSHEN. 219 allowed himself to be worshiped as God. The stones of that temple contributed towards building a large house of worship to Jehovah. " We arrived at the Sand\vich Islands just before the great revival that swept over the island and lasted two years. There was no diificulty in getting crowded houses and attentive lis- teners. There seemed to be an almost universal desire to enter the church. " A church was organized at Kealakekua, under the care of Mr. Forbes, of three thousand members, and another at Kealia, twelve miles beyond, of nearly as many, which was under my care. The children of a suitable age were, without exception, gathered into schools. Our thirty-three schools nimibered over one thousand children, 996 of whom were present when I last visited them. " Here we lived nine years, or until my health failed. With the advice of the physicians, and being commended by the mission to our secretary in Boston, I left the islands, December 9, 1850, after a residence of fourteen years. My health not being restored as was expected, my family left there December 1, 1853, my wife having been absent from the United States seventeen and a half years." On his return with his family, he settled in Cornwall, and devoted the remainder of his life to farming. Mr. Gold adds: "Those who enjoy the privilege of a personal acquaintance with Mr. and Mrs. Ives can testify to their rich Christian experience; the true missionary spirit, not exhausted by their residence in foreign lands, but devel- oped and enlarged." He died at Cornwall, March 21, 1885. John Foote ISTorton, son of Deacon Lewis M. and Laura (Foote) JSTorton, was bom in Goshen, September 8, 1809. He united with the church in 1827, during the ministry of the Rev. Francis H. Case. He prepared for college at the Goshen Academy and entered at Yale, but ill health prevented him 220 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. from graduating. The college conferred an honorary A.M., in 1849. He was principal of the Goshen Academy one year, 1831-32, and of the Academy in Brooklyn, Conn., three years. He was graduated irota Hartford Theological Semi- nary, then at East Windsor Hill, in 1837. He was licensed to preach, but finding his health insufficient he spent several months in travel in Europe, returning much stronger. He became principal of the Academy in Xorfolk, in November, 1838, which position he held for four years. He again at- tempted to preach, and was ordained pastor of the church in Milton, Conn., October 23, 1844. Was dismissed in April, 1849. He was installed pastor at JSTorth Bridgewater, now Brockton, Mass., June 5, 1850, dismissed December 4, 1851; installed at Athol, March 11, 1852, dismissed March 11, 1867; installed at Fitzwilliam, IST. H., September 23, 1868, dismissed March 31, 1873; acting pastor Hubbardston, Mass., 1877-84. At the close of his work at Hubbardston he removed to ISTatick, Mass., where he resided until his death, JSTovember 3, 1892. Publications: (1) A Thanksgiving Sermon; (2) Address at the Consecration of Ancient Burial Ground, Athol, 1859, pp. 54; (3) Eecord of Athol in Suppressing the Kebellion, 1866, pp. 264; (4) History of Athol, from Worcester County His- tory, pp. 34; (5) History of Fitzwilliam, ISTew Hampshire, 1888, pp. 829; (6) History of Natick, in Middlesex County History, 1890, pp. 57. The life of Mr. ISTorton was filled with faithful service. ISTever strong physically, he brought to his work that earnest- ness and sincerity of purpose that secured for him the confi- dence and respect of all who knew him. His preaching was plain, earnest, and practical. His was the eloquence bom of sincerity and his sermons always secured careful attention, and he was successful in securing the harmony and growth of the churches with which he labored. Ephraim Lyman, son of Erastus and Abigail (Starr) Ly- man; born June 3, 1810. Graduated from Yale College, in HISTORY OF GOSHEN. 221 1S34; from the Theological Seminary, 1835. He was or- dained pastor of the church in Plymouth, Conn., October 28, 1835. Married Hannah D. Richards, of 'New London, Octo- ber 2, 1839; dismissed at his own request, June 8, 1851; in- stalled pastor at ^Yashington, Conn., June 30, 1852, but on account of long-continued ill health was dismissed, June 7, 1863. He removed to ISTorthampton, Mass., May, 1864, and joined the old church of which his great-grandfather was a member. After residing in Northampton a few jeaxs he re- moved to Minneapolis, Minn., where his two older sons were engaged in the wholesale drug business. He died at Minne- apolis, October 29, 1880, and was buried there. He had eight children. Mr. Lyman was a man of dignity and decision of character, but possessed of a genial spirit, social and ready to give com- fort in affliction, and wise counsel in difficulty and trial. He preached the Gospel with no uncertain sound, and held back none of its truths, but with a zeal bom out of a loving heart de- clared what he believed to be the whole counsel of God. He was a bom leader of men, orderly in all his methods and con- scientiously finishing completely all work to which he laid his hand. His was a consecrated life, " this one thing I do," sounding out wherever he was placed, and he commanded the confidence and respect of all who knew him, not only by his ability and fidelity as a minister of the Gospel, but also by his truth, integrity, and capacity as a business man. Eobert ISTorton, son of Lewis Mills and Laura (Foote) ISTor- ton; bom Febmary 18, 1822. Married, September 8, 1847, Miss Julia A. Horsford. Eesided at Eushford, E". Y., 1849- 56. In the autumn of 1856 he entered the Theological Semi- nary at Auburn, IST. Y., having previously been licensed to preach. He was pastor of the Second Ward Presbyterian Church, Lockport, JST. Y., 1857-60. Pastor of the First Pres- byterian Church, St. Catherines, Ontario, 1860-74. In 1874 222 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. he returned to Lockport to his former church, and continued its pastor until 1892. Since that time he has had no pastorate, but preaches occasionally, and continues to reside in Lockport. Mr. Norton has been greatly useful in his ministerial work and is greatly beloved by all who know him. I make the fol- lowing extract from a letter of his present pastor, from whom I had solicited information: "As a preacher he has been a faithful expounder of the Scriptures, seeking ever to lead the minds of his hearers to a knowledge of the mind of God as revealed in His Word. Plis labors in this direction have been unusually blessed. Through- out all his ministry he has exalted Jesus Christ and righteous- ness. In consequence, a high standard of Christian piety has obtained among those who have come under his influence. As pastor he has followed closely in the footsteps of the Good Shepherd, giving himself freely and lovingly to the people to whom he has ministered. He has ever been a welcome guest, a true helper and comforter. In all spiritual things he has led his people always forward to. do and to sacrifice for Jesus' sake. He has lived a noble and beautiful life. He has been a pure and consecrated minister of the Gospel. By-and- by the Lord will say to him, ' Well done, good and faithful servant, thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things; enter thou into the joy of thy Lord.' " Charles Sherman Wing was born in Goshen, January 19, 1841. He attended the public school in the village of West Goshen and the Academy at the Centre. From the latter ex- cellent school he went to Amenia Seminary, in Dutchess County, New York, and from there to the Troy Conference Academy, at Poultney, Vermont. He was licensed to preach at Thomaston, in 1866, and began to exercise his gifts by sup- plying the pulpit at Bakersville. He became a member of the ISTew York East Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in 1867. HISTORY OF GOSHEN. 223 He is a man of more tlian average ability as a preaclier, of great practical wisdom, a man whose life works for peace and who, as an executive officer of the church, has won the confi- dence and regard of all who know him. He has filled several of the most important appointments within the bounds of the Conference; at Ansonia, Bridgeport, Brooklyn, Mount Ver- non, jSTew Haven, Northport, and JSTorwalk. He is now serving his second term as Presiding Elder, having charge of the Brooklyn South District, embracing more than seventy churches. He has t^^'ice been a delegate to the Quadrennial General Conference of the ]Methodist Episcopal Church (in 1892 and 1896). He is one of the trustees of the New York East Con- ference; the chairman of one of the four Boards of Church Location, and also one of the chairmen of the Church Aid Society; a manager of the Board of Church Extension, and a prominent member of the JSTew York Education Society. The degree of JDoctor of Divinity was conferred on him in 1893 by the Syracuse University. He married in early life a Miss Chadboume, a sister of the Kev. Doctor Chadbourne, of Boston; a woman of superior in- tellectual gifts. At the present time they have three living children, two daughters and a son. The Keverend "William G. Eennell. Not many decades ago there came from Wiltshire, England, an honest, hard- working couple, anxious to seize the opportunities of life offered in sturdy New England. To them, while living at Go- shen, Conn., a son was born, November 15, 1859, the subject of this sketch. The house of his birth is still standing in the south part of the town, haK a mile east of East Cornwall post- office, diagonally opposite the Elias Hart homestead, and is now occupied by Mrs. Erances Seeley. Two years after his birth, his father moved to a little brown house, now occupied by a Mr. Hoffman, situated a quarter of a mile northwest of the residence of Kichard F. Thompson, formerly the home of 224 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. Erastus Bates. From there, when the boy was seven years of age, his parents moved to the Elizabeth Benedict place in East Conawall, at the top of Great Hill, which has been the family homestead from that time to the present. The boy had the great blessing of a godly mother, who in his infancy set him apart to God's work, though she did not impress him with the fact in early years, preferring him to be utterly free in the choice of his life's vocation. From that mother he re- ceived early and religious influences, some of which, preceding his seventh year, have remained conscious benedictions ever since. At the age of eleven years, he became a Christian, and united with the little Baptist Church in East Cornwall. At thirteen, he began to play the cabinet organ in church services, and took part in all prayer meetings, with Christian Endeavor devotion. When, in early years he was looking forward to life's vocation, and the ministry was suggested, he laughed at the idea, having an earnest purpose to study music, for which he possessed a marked taste and aptitude. Still a sense of duty and privilege lingered with him, urging in the direction of the former, and music took the subordinate place of an avocation. To him, as to many another aspiring youth of earnest pur- pose but empty purse, the teaching of the district school of- fered the most feasible starting-point for further advance- ment. Hence, for a time, at the age of seventeen, he taught school in Warren, in the district called " Hardscrabble." (What fitness of terms ! ) Pay was also according to the old time " hardscrabble " figures : " four dollars a week and board around." With the sum realized from the first term, $64, he bought a suit of clothes, and entered the Connecticut Literary Institution at Suffield, boarding himself, and stretch- ing the cash over thirteen weeks of struggling existence. With the same determination, the course was pursued with com- mendable success to its close, and he was graduated in 1880. The f oUovidng year was spent in teaching school in Marion, Southington, and in the fall of '81, at Hamilton, New York, HISTORY OF GOSHEN. 225 lie began his course as a freshman in Colgate University, from which he was graduated in the class of '85. As Mr. Fennell's expenses were more than the aid ren- dered by the Connecticut Baptist Education Society, and with his inborn willingness to work his way, he accepted the pas- torate of the Baptist Church of Sidney, N. Y., where he re- mained pastoral supply four and one-half years in connection with college and seminary studies. During this term of serv- ice, the church grew from a membership of fourteen to that of fifty. A Sunday-school was also organized which num- bered at the close one hundred and twenty. On June 30, 1885, at the bride's home, Mr. Fennell mar- ried Miss Inez Clarine Warner, of Suffield. Mrs. Fennell was a graduate of the Suffield Institution, a lady of rare qualities, well-fitted for her position in life. Two daughters cheer the home: Guinevere and Marjorie W. After two years in the Hamilton Theological Seminary, Mr. Fennell was called as pastor to the First Baptist Church of Middletown, Conn., which he served for nearly five years. During that time he took extra work in Bible study, including a summer-school course in Hebrew under Dr. Harper, then in Yale. While in this pastorate, by faithful efforts, he ac- complished the paying of a troublesome church debt, saw the church edifice repaired and transformed, within and without, from an unsightly building to a cheery and delightful church home, at an expense of over $8,000, and welcomed about one hundred members to the church. From this work came the strong call to the First Baptist Church of Meriden, which he accepted, beginning his ministry there January 1, 1892. In this, his present field of labor, he has welcomed thus far, — January, 1897 — about one hun- dred ^nd seventy-five members, the church numbering about five hundred and fifty. It has one flourishing mission of many years' standing, and a second has recently been organized. The three schools unite in Christmas festivities with a total enroll- 15 226 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. ment of six hundred. Tihe churcL. finances aggregate about $6,000 a year, with the generous proportion of between $2,000 and $3,000 for benevolence. Mr. Fennell's popularity as a public speaker and worker makes him welcome in many parts, while his versatility of tal- ents as pastor, teacher, musician, and scholar, with untiring energy in all helpful lines of service, fills his hands constantly with missions of good to men. From 1893 to '95 he held the important position of editor of the series of Inductive Sunday- school Lessons, for the American Baptist Publication Society, a work in which, with his researches and attainments, he took special delight and had marked success, so that the series reached the sale in the last year of over 60,000. The press of other duties compelled his withdrawal from this work. For some years he was the honored examiner of the Connecticut Literary Institute, of which he has always been a loyal son. In November, 1895, he was appointed President of the Con- necticut Christian Endeavor Union, and executed the work and oversight of that position with characteristic fidelity and success. To his laborious care in arranging the late annual State Convention at Wew London was its special success largely due. He was honored with appointments to speak twice at the "Washington Christian Endeavor Convention, which he ac- ceptably fulfilled. With other positions of service and honor, he holds a place on the Executive Committee of the Baptist State Convention, and has recently been elected President of the Connecticut Baptist Education Society. The foregoing has been a simple story of advancement and compelled success. Circumstances of poverty and hard- ness could not crush out the fixed purpose to rise. Held by the power of religion, success has not meant self-exaltation, but humility and cheer for the future. Doubtless it was the ex- periences of early life which nurtured the spirit of sympathy and benevolence which are so peculiarly his, and which, in his HISTORY OF GOSHEN. 227 life work, make it Ms pleasiire, " to rise to the high and stoop to the low and be a brother to all." Quite a number of clergymen have visited Goshen and taken her fair daughters for wives. The following list of ladies who have married ministers is far from complete, and is ar- ranged without reference to dates. The clerical title is omitted. Abigail Smith married Abel Newell, the second pastor; Hannah C. Baldwin, James Beach; Charlotte E. Chapin, Archibald A. Morgan; Harriet E. Cook, James Q. Kice; Anne Wadhams, Thomas Golding; Sarah Lyman, Daniel Collins; Lydia Buell, John Collins; Elizabeth Hart, Henry Pendleton; Minerva Hart, Samuel Wright; Sarah Lyman, Munson C. Gaylord; Susan M. Hopkins, Henry Dwight; Peggy Foote, Horatio Waldo; Nancy Thompson, Aaron Hunt; Abigail (Baldwin) Ludington, Chauncey Willcox; Mary Hooker, Elias Cornelius; Clarinda Parmelee, Charles Prentiss; Laura Parmelee, Mosier; Lydia Hale, John Keep; Clar- issa Hale, Knapp; Almira Hopkins, William H. Spencer; Janette Hopkins, Philemon Eowler; Esther ISTewell, • Lyon; Rhoda E. Stanley, Albert T. Chester; Anna Starr, William F. Miller; Esther Thompson, Clark Kendrick; Maria L. Wadhams, C. H. Everest; Sally Stanley, David L. Parmelee. 228 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. CHAPTER XIV. MEN TO BE REMEMBERED. Deacon John Beach was born at Wallingford, October 15, 1690; married there and all bis children, excepting the young- est, were born there. He removed to Goshen in 1738 or 1 739. L. M. Norton's records contain the following: " In the pur- chase of the township of Goshen he was an original proprietor in one right; besides which he purchased of Oliver Dudley one right, March 11, 1738. His two first division lots were laid together, 103-J acres, on the east side of East St., ~S. E. of the graveyard. The south line is the present north line of the lands lately owned by William 'Stanley, and the north line was about 80 rods south of the house of Robert Palmer. His choice was the 35th in the first Division. Of course he could have no lands surveyed until late in the autumn of 1738. The fact is, indeed, stated on his tombstone that he moved to Goshen in 1738, and this is possible. But to me it seems much more probable that the removal of his family did not take place until the spring of 1739. " His house was located on the northerly part of the west line of his 103J acres, on the east side of the road, and nearly opposite to the present house of Eber Bailey. His first house was undoubtedly of logs; but that in which he afterwards lived was a framed house, and the hollow place of the cellar is still to be seen on the north side of the road leading to Whist Pond. Here his last child was born, October 27, 1739, the mother being at that time almost 45 years of age. " At the first town meeting which waa held in Goshen John Beach was chosen Moderator, and elected the first Select- man, for the year then ensuing. He represented the town in HISTORY OF GOSHEiN. 229 the General Assembly at the May session, 1Y5Y, and con- tinued to do so at seven sessions, the last held in April, 1775."* " The folio-wing inscription is on the stone at his grave, in the East St. cemeter)': " In memory of Jolm Beach Esqr. who departed this life May 9, 1773, in his 83d year. He was bom at Wallingford 1690, removed to this place 1738, was chosen first Deacon of the Church 1741, and was one of the Civil Authority; which offices he sustained until the fatal hour. " Useful in life, Lamented in death." " At the grave of his wife : " Mary late wife of John Beach Esqr. died October 27, 1767, in her 73d year." " Deacon John Beach is supposed to have been a man of serious piety, of a steady and consistent Christian character. He should be remembered as eminently one of the Fathers in this town. He had the satisfaction of seeing all his sons settle in his vicinity; but Amos was that son who took the paternal home, and upon whom he leaned in the decline of life. " There is an undoubted tradition in the family that the ordination of Mr. Heaton took place in his house, in Novem- ber- 1740; at which time and place there can be no doubt that the Church was organized." Deacon Nathaniel Baldwhi was bom in Guilford, Conn., in 1693; removed to Litchfield about 1732; bought two rights in the township of Goshen, February 14, 1738, and removed to Goshen in 1739. At the first town meeting held in Goshen he was chosen one of the selectmen. This was December 6, 1739. At the next town meeting, January 11, 1740, he was Moderator and one of the committee " to go after a minister, and full power to agree with the said minister." At the first proprietor's meeting, held in Litchfield, he was chosen Treas- urer. This was September 27, 1738. At the next meeting, * A mistake; should be 1761. 230 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. held December Q, 1738, lie was appointed chairman of com- mittee for laying out two " Divisions of land," and he was continued in this position until his death. From the first settlement of the town to the time of his death he was frequently and almost continuously called to fill some of the various town offices, and the evidence is abun- dant that he possessed the confidence of the people. This town was not represented in the General Assembly until 1757, and he was sent twice between that time and his death, in 1760. He was chosen deacon, first, in Guilford. He served in this office in Litchfield and was made deacon in this church at the time of its organization, in JSTovember, 1740. He is said to have been unassuming in his manners, a good citizen, and a meek and devoted Christian. Abraham Parmelee, born at Guilford, April 28, 1717. Came to Goshen, unmarried, with the first settlers; married. May 3, 1746, Mary, daughter of Nathaniel Stanley. He died at Goshen March 25, 1795; she died at Goshen October 25, 1815, age 93 years. He superintended the laying out of his lands, at the time being 23 years of age. He lived the first summer vnth his uncle. Deacon ISTathaniel Baldwin. The second summer he brought a bag of grass seed from his father's home, North Guilford, and made his bed upon it all that summer. The distance from his log cabin to Deacon Baldwin's was one and one-quarter mile through the woods. His father, residiag in Guilford, October 8, 1742, deeded to him the greater part of his lands in Goshen. The consideration named in the deed was " natural affection, love, and good will." At the first town meeting in Goshen he was chosen one of the " Listers," from which it would seem that he was accounted a young man of respectable talents. Physically, he was large built and powerful. He was called " Lieutenant Parmelee." This title he, doubtless, obtained as a militia officer. It is not known that he served in the Old French War. He united HISTORY OF GOSHBiN. 231 with the church in November, 1747, or January, 1748, and was deemed a man of sound piety and evangelical sentiments. On his gravestone, in the East St. Cemetery, is the fol- lowing inscription: " Boast of thy eonquestis, Death, our human things, The pomp of empires and the pride of kings; But know, the saints shall burst their chains and rise To thrones celestial in their kindred skies." Mrs. Paxmelee was a consistent professor of religion, but the date of her uniting with the church is not known. In the time of the Revolution she was a very strong patriot. She felt and expressed a very strong confidence in the ultimate success of the American cause. Besides fitting out at several dif- ferent times her son, Theodore, who commanded a company oi. horse, for the battle field, she made with her ovra. hands and gave at different times five blankets to the destitute American soldiers. Samuel Nash, son of Lieutenant John ISTaah of Hadley, Mass., came to Goshen from Farmington. Plis first purchase of land was made August 1, 1745. He was appointed Town Clerk and Treasurer, December 31, 1750, succeeding Amos Thompson. He held the ofiice of Tovra, Clerk until December 5, 1791, 41 years, without intermission. During this time he was elected to many other offices. He was Justice of the Peace for several years. He represented the town in the General Assembly for 25 sessions, from October, 1757, to May, 1775. He was chosen deacon in 1761, and continued in this office until 1800, when, on account of his age and infirmities he was virtually excused, although there is no record of a vote being taken. Hje must have died about 1802, and was proba- bly buried in the old Middle Street graveyard. Asaph Hall, the son of David, came to Goshen from Wal- lingford, the precise date not known. He inherited a large amount of land from his father. He was first chosen as repre- 232 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. sentative in October, 1773, and last chosen in October, 1792, and between those dates attended 24 sessions of the General Assembly. The fact that he was among those chosen to direct the affairs of the country in the times that tried men's souls, is sufficient evidence of the confidence reposed in him by the people. He held the office of Justice of the Peace for many years. He was a warm patriot during the War of the Revo- lution, and, on the authority of David Hart, was with Col. Ethan Allen, at the taking of Ticonderoga, and at other times was personally in the service. James Thompson was bom in Goshen March 1, 1741, and must have been very nearly the first white child born in the town. He built and occupied for many years the house situated on the west side of West Street, facing the road which leads from that point to thei residence of Mrs. Moses Lyman. The dwelling has recently been torn doAvn. What follows relating to his life is compiled from the recollections of those who knew him, and found in letters addressed to his children after his death. He was above the average size of men, say six feet high, and well formed. He was quick in action, cheerful in habits, kind in his attentions to children, winning their gratitude and confidence. Although a farmer, he was often engaged in building grist and sawmills. He owned and improved large tracts of land. He owned more horses than any other man in town, introduced the first pleasure wagon, and, I think, the first wagon of any kind in the town. He was active in town and society affairs. He was a slave-owner. He liberated " Old Hess " and his wife, built them a house and barn and gave them the use of as much land as they would cultivate, and always overlooked and advised them. He was an earnest and consistent Christian, distinguished for his hospitality to ministers of the Gospel, and a pioneer in regard to the great objects of Christian benevolence. He was a liberal contributor to the Connecticut Missionary Society, HISTORY OF GOSHEN. 233 the oldest missionary society in the country, sending the Gos- pel to the " new settlements." His wife was in complete sympathy with him in Christian benevolence and work. She was a woman of a degree of intelligence not common in those days, and, as a resnlt of the parents' teaching and prayers, all their children have had a place in the visible church of Christ, or have died in the hope of the believer in Christ. Captain Jonathan Budl (usually called so, perhaps, be- cause of his service in the "War of the Revolution), son of Cap- tain Jonathan, was born in Goshen June 9, 1753. His resi- dence, as described by L. M. IST., was " the red house on the west side of the road leading from Town Hill southerly." Mr. ITorton adds: " A kind providence smiled upon the industry and economy of this man and his Avif e and gave them a com- petence of the things of this world. They lived happily to- gether, but had never any child. She was a member of the chiirch here before the settlement of Mr. Hooker. She died October 20, 1828. It is from this Capt. Buell, now (Febru- ary, 1841) in his 88th year, and enjoying comfortable health, that I have received much information in regard to many other persons and things in Gosihen. He died at his home February 14, 1847. This man was a patriot and soldier of the Revolu- . tion. He was at the ISTorth at the ta]i:ing of Burgoyne and at ISTew York, under Gen. Washington. A sergeant in the cam- paign at ISTew York. (ISTote March 1, 1848.) This Jonathan Buell was a man much esteemed and beloved. He left by his will to the American Board for Foreign Missions, the Home Missionary Society, and the Theological Institute at East Windsor, 100 dollars each. He was liberal to benevolent objects in his lifetime, and in all outward respects lived the life of a Christian, except that he never made a public profes- sion of religion. We loved him much and we are not without hope in his death." Adhro Bale, son of Justtas Hale, who came to Goshen from Wethersfield about 1752, was bom here in 1754; married 234 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. Candace, daughter of Oapt. Isaac Pratt. Mr. Hale was a man of very respectable talents and a worthy citizen. He was first chosen Head Constable December 5, 1785, and held that office several years. He was chosen Town Clerk December 5, 1791, and held the office until his death, in 1831, 39 years. Much of the handwriting of Mrs. Hale is to be seen upon the town records. He was first chosen representative in May, 1786, and attended thirty-three sessions of the Assembly, to October, 1804, inclusive, and many times afterwards, including the convention for the formation of the State Constitution. He was a justice of the peace for many years, and it is said of him that he was more willing gratuitously to render his service as a peacemaker than to take his fees for granting writs. His widow, in her will, made provision for the purchase of the silver communion service now in use in the Congrega- tional Church, and gave the remainder of her property to the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. They resided in the leanto house on the north side of the road leading to Torrington, about 50 rods east of the church. Deacon Augustus Thompson was the oldest son of Mr. James Thompson, bom in Goshen March 17, 1770. He united with the church under the pastorship of the Rev. Asahel Hooker, ISTovember 3, 1799. He was appointed a deacon in the church ]S"ovember 13, 1817, under the pastorship of the Eev. Joseph Harvey, D.D. He removed to Norwich in 1831, and thence to East, now South, Windsor, in 1834, where he died April 7, 1851. It was principally in Goshen and as a member of that church for thirty-five years, and under the ministries of the pastors there, that his character as a man and a Christian re- ceived its formation and came to its maturity; but his " path " as that of " the just " was in the places of his latter residence as the " shining light that shineth more ajid more untoi the perfect day." One who had lived near him and had long ob- served his " manner of life," vn-ote to his son as follows: "As HISTORY OP GOSHEN. 235 far back as my memory extends, your honored father was an acknowledged standard of ' every-day Christian ' excellence." " A man without guile," was my father's remark of him. We should as soon have expected to see the sun turn backward from his course, as that Deacon Thompson should do an un- christiaji deed. His hospitality and benevolence were pro- verbial; and he experienced richly the truth, " there is that giveth and yet increaseth." In addition to his other virtues he was habitually mindful of the comfort and happiness of others, particularly of the widow, the fatherless, and the needy. He also remembered — what some good people for- get — to notice little children. The Rev. Dr. Harvey, for many years his pastor, writes of him: " Amiableness of disposition, gentleness of manner, a sound judgment, a well-balanced mind, — constituting what is called good common sense, discrimination, and decision, were qualities which Deacon Thompson, as a man, possessed in an eminent degree. He was also distinguished for enlarged views of public affairs, and an active public spirit. In all the burdens and sacrifices required for public and social benefit, he was ready not only to do his part, but to lead the way and set the example; and was almost always the first man to move in any benevolent enterprise. In Christian liberality he was eminent, not only giving liberally, but he was judicious, dis- criminating, and cheerful in his gifts. An a husband, a father, a neighbor, a friend; as an honest, sincere, upright man in all his intercourse with others; as just and merciful; as trusted, respected, and honored by all that knew him; his life is an epistle of integrity and piety " known and read of all men." He devoted three sons to the work of the Gospel ministry: Rev. WiUiam Thompson, D.D., ISTettleton Professor of Sacred Literature in the Theological Institute of Connecticut, now known as the Hartford Theological Seminary; and the Rev. Augustus C. Thompson, D.D., pastor of Eliot Church, Boston 236 HISTOEY OF GOSHEN. (Eoxbury), Mass. Mr. Charles J. Thompson died a member of the Senior Class, Union College, Schenectady, 'N. Y., in 1823, at the age of 23. It may be interesting, in this connection, to mention some of the cotemporaries of Deacon Thompson, who were promient and good men in Goshen, who, like him, have long entered into rest: Saiauel Norton, Sr., Deacon Jona- than Beach, Deacon Samuel Norton, William Stanley, Sr., Deacon Jesse Stanley, Israel Thompson, Deacon Daniel Nor- ton, Ephraim ToAvner, Samuel Lyman, Stephen Baldwin, Na- than Hale, Allen Lucas, Sr., Theodore Parmelee, Nathaniel S. Parmelee, Mineas Beach, Jonathan Beach, Moses Wad- hams, Daniel Eice, Isaac Baldwin, Eben Norton, David Hud- son, John Doud, David Hart. Some of these men removed to western New York, and some to New Connecticut, then so called, now Western Reserve, Ohio; and assisted in laying the foundations of churches and societies, modeled after the New England plan and character. It will be seen that Groshen has furnished many valuable men, not only for the maintenance of all good things within itself, but for the advancement of the interests of religion and good society in other portions of the country. Deacon Moses Lyman, the first of the name residing in Goshen, purchased of Aaron Cook and Divan Berry, Oct. 24, 1739, two fifty-acre lots on Town Hill, bounded N. and E. by the highway; and also the proprietor's right of said Cook and half the right of John Moses. At that time he is said to be of Northampton. On April 18, 1Y40, he sold to Joseph Cur- tiss the northern 50-acre lot on Town Hill and the half right of John Moses. At the first town meeting, held Dec. 6, 1739, he was appointed collector of a rate of 40 shillings and " Treasurer for said money." He held an influential position in the church from the first and " Ensign Moses Lyman " was on the first committee to treat with the Eev. Mr. Heaton to induce him to resign the pastorate. He had previously been a member of the church HISTORY OF GOSHEN. 287 in JSTorthampton under the care of Jonathan Edwards. He was elected deacon to succeed Deacon Gideon Tho-mson, in 1759. One of Ms contemporaries said of him: "He was remarkable for his endeavors to make peace and reconcile difficulties." He was a magistrate many years. His judg- ment was good and much depended on. On the occasion of his death the Eev. Abel Newell, then pastor of the church, preached a sermon which was printed at the request of the hearers. The title of the sermon: " Good Men the Strength and Defense of a People." This was tlie first sermon delivered on a funeral occasion in this town that ever appeared in print. Deacon Lyman was first chosen Selectman in 1746, and represented the town ia the General Assembly at fourteen sessions. The wife of Deacon Lyman went to iN^orthampton to finish her education when she was about eighteen years of age. The following statement was made to Deacon Lewis M. JN'or- ton by heir grandson, Moses Lyman, Esq. : " While at school in E". her attention was called to the great subject of her soul's concerns, and although her mind was much exercised with a sense of her need of personal religion, she was not willing to have it known. While her mind was in this state she re- ceived a polite invitation to attend a ball. She hesitated, but finally, from motives of politeness, accompanied her partner to the ballroom. She had dan.ced once and began again when she felt, to use her own expression, " Dancing over the pit of hell," and that if she died she must drop there. She spoke to another young lady to take her place and disappeared. She danced no more. She is believed to have been a professor of religion before she came to Goshen, as was her husband. Deacon Lyman and his wife were buried in the old Middle Street graveyard. Colonel Moses Lyman was a farmer and lived and died at the place of his father, on Town Hill. He built the present 238 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. brick house standing there in the summer of 1806. He held at different times every grade of office in the militia, from corporal to colonel. He was called to sustain the various town offices, and was elected selectman at several times. He was a man of strong mind, of great promptness, energy, and decision of character, of strict integrity, careful in the ob- servance of the Sabbath, and, imtil he was physically disabled, punctual in his attendance on public worship. He was never connected with the church, but was a firm supporter of the preaching of the Gospel, strict in the education of his children, and constant in the duty of family prayer. Immorality of any kind always met his stem rebuke and disapprobation. He was noted for the regularity of his habits. He had acquired sufficient wealth to enable him to indulge in the luxuries of his day, as is evident by the following fac simile " cirtificate," which entitled him to keep a " Chasse," chaise : HISTOllY OF GOSHEN. 239 240 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. Moses Lyman, Esquire, son of Colonel Lyman, com- menced life as a farmer, but as early as 1Y88, and until 1802, he was in partnersHp with Benjamin Talmadge of Litchfield, engaged in buying mules, horses, and cattle for the Southern market. Mr. Talmadge furnished most of the capital, and Erastus Lyman had an interest during a part of the time. The business was quite profitable. In 1Y92 he built a store and commenced the mercantile business. In jSTovember, 1793, he formed a partnership with Elihu Lewis of East street, which continued until December, 179Y, when the partnership was dissolved and he conducted business alone until October 12, 1802, when the partnership with his brother Erastus was formed. They continued the purchase and sale of goods until January 1, 1827, when they retired and gave their atten- tion to their farms until their death. Mr. Lyman had, in a remarkable degree, the characteristics of his father and his ancestors ; a man of commanding influence and highest standing in society, a thorough and successful business man, and a firm supporter of the church, tihough not a professor of religion, tlis manners were polished, and he was distinguished for politeness to all. Through a long course of years he successively held most, if not all, of the ofiicee in the gift of the town. He represented the town many times in the General Assembly and long acted as a civil magistrate. Moses Lyman, Esquire, bom 1810, was widely known, not only for his business enterprise, but for the generosity and nobility of character which made him highly esteemed and honored by those who came into close relations with him. He was educated for business, and sixty years ago was engaged in extensive mercantile operations in Goshen, and when the Housatonic railroad was opened in West Cornwall. He be^ came interested ia the manufacture of Salisbury pig iron, and was one of the organizers of the Hunts Lyman Iron Company of Canaan, and in later years of the Cayuta Wheel and Foun- dry Company of Waverly, IST. Y. About 1868 he went to •HISTORY OP GOSHEN. 241 Florida, where he made a delightfiil winter home near Saai- ford, devoting a good deal of time and money to orange cul- ture, and doing much to develop the resources of that part of the South. (The Lyman Bank, of Sanford, is named for him, and its existence is largely due to his enterprise there.) He was a man of sound judgment, unwearying energy, and the strictest integrity. He was for many years a member of the Congregational Church in Goshen, and lived a consistent Christian life. He has left a stainless record in business and private life, and belonged to a class of men, who, in character and generation, are rapidly passing away. He held many town offices of trust and responsibility, but only during the stormy days of the civil war would he accept of a political place, when he was a member of the Connecticut Legislature. At his death in 1883, it came true that for the first time in nearly a hundred and fifty years not one of his name was re- siding in Goshen. Erastus Lyman, like others of his family, was a man of distinguished abilities, energetic, methodical, and successful in business, eminently distinguished for his piety and benevo- lence, and his deep interest in the affairs of the church and the to'mi. Towards the close of his active life, he remarked to a friend that he transacted more business for others than for himself. He was the friend of the friendless, the pro- tector of the widow and the orphan, and the ready adviser of all who sought his counsel. I think the following is from an obituary notice published after his death : — " Erastus Lyman, a man and a Christian of no ordinary stature, has fallen in our midst; of uncommon capacity and of inestimable value to the community. Self- made, or rather made by circumstances incident to a life of bold business venture in all parts of this country as it was fifty years ago; with more than an average amount of natural en- dowments, actuated under the pressure and the promptings of an indomitable purpose, he rose to prominence and an influ- 16 242 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. ence indicative of his character. In him, as a man with re- markable physical energy, were combined great mental ac- tivity and a strong moral sense. He became associated with the prominent men of this country and state, in conducting and adjusting important business matters', and enrjoyed. a high reputation abroad as a counselor and an. executor in financial affairs. " We can point our young men to his regularity and punc- tuality at every place where duty called him, to his readiness for every good word and work, to his promptness in saying and doing whatever he had to say or do ; and to his ready and cheerful response to almost every call of charity, and say to them : ' Go ye and do likewise.' " Giles Oriswold was the sixth child of Giles Griswold, Sr., and was bom in Goshen, May 18, 1174:. His early home was just about one mile south of the church at the Center, but in the year 1800, a new house was built, now known as the Pratt House, south of the present residence of Thomas Griswold. Mr. Griswold married Sarah, daughter of Ephraim Starr, and they lived in this ho^use until the house at the Center was built, in 1833, the house given by Mr. Griswold at his death to the Congregational Society, to be used as a parsonage. Up to the time of their removal to the Center, Mr. Griswold was engaged in farming. They had no children. This married pair were so closely united that it is not easy to write of one without including the other. They both en- joyed the confidence and the love and respect of all who knew them. They united with the church together, January 1, 1 832. Mr. Griswold died October 8, 1851, of infirmity conse- quent upon old age. His wife survived him a few years. His pastor, the Rev. Dr. Perrin, said of him: " His love for Christ and His cause, his interest in this church and society, and his estimate of the worth and importance of the Christian min- istry, are indicated by his deeds, as well as by his words. A man of ardent affections and strong emotions, we have often HISTORY OF GOSHEN. 243 known him, while engaged in prayer, lifted above the power of iitterance. An allusion to the love of Christ was sure to find a ready response from his heart at any time. His last ut- tered desire amid the struggles of wasting nature was, ' that he might soon he hi that holy, happy place, where God and the Saviour dwells.' " After securing an adequate support for his widow, and forbidding the payment of any bequests during her lifetime, except such as the income of his estate would meet, and after making, handsome bequests to several individuals, he remem- bered with a liberality worthy of commendation the interests of education and religion, in the place where he had spent a long life. To the trustees of Goshen Academy he gave $1,000, to be held in trust, and its income to be used to promote its useful- ness. To the First Ecclesiastical Society he gave all his real estate, for the use, benefit, and convenience of the pastor of the Church, but not to diminish his stipulated salary. To the ■American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions and to the American Bible Society, each $500, and made the American Home Missionary Society his residuary legatee. Daniel S. DicJcinson was bom in Goshen September 11, 1800. He was self-educated, and, after his marriage and while engaged in teaching, studied law. He was about to ask the Court of Common Pleas to admit him to the bar, when he was informed that his admission would be opposed because he had pursued his studies in a private way, and had no office experi- ence. He then went to Albany and applied to the Chief Jus- tice of the Supreme Court, who caused him to be examined, and he was admitted to practice in all the courts of the state. This was in 1829. In 1831 he opened an office in Bingham- ton, where he continued to reside. He soon secured a large business and became a favorite with the Democratic party. He was elected president of the village in 1834, and 1836 was elected to the State Senate for four years. He was elected 244 HISTORY OP GOSHEN. lieutenant-governor in 1842, and an elector on the Democratic ticket in 1844. He was first appointed United States Sena- tor, to fill a vacancy caused by the resignation of Mr. Tall- madge. He was duly elected, when the legislature assembled, and continued to hold the oflfice until 1851. He was a man of great natural ability, he had the courage of his convictio'ns, was pronounced in his opinions, and as a natural consequence made warm friends and bitter enemies. Henry Norton was bom, lived, and died in the town of Goshen. From his earliest manhood until a few months before his death he was interested in its history and its prosperity. He was unselfish and public spirited, and his weekly chron- icles of events in the town, as published in the newspapers of Winsted and Litchfield, were of such special interest, and so filled with quaint allusions, that his name came to be more ■\videly known than that of any other citizen. His ability and integrity, as well as his unselfish interest in others, and in every work or enterprise calculated to benefit the community, made him the recipient of many trusts, so that, at one time in his life, he was the trustee or agent, or representative, in one form or another, of upwards of thirty different interests in addition to those "entirely personal. He commenced teaching when he was twenty years of age and taught eight winters, working on his father's farm and assisting his father in surveying dur- ing the summers. The most of his teaching was in the Win- chester Center and Wolcott^^alle Academies. The vmter was told by one of his pupils that, " He was the most inspiring and helpful teacher that I ever had." He was acting school visitor twenty years, between 1841- T5, and a member of the school board until 1893. He repre- sented the tovwi in the Legislature in 1852. He was appointed county surveyor, by the County Court, in 1841, and after the death of Judge Burrall he was appointed, by the Surveyor- general, deputy State Surveyor for Litchfield County. He practiced surveying until a few years before his death, when HISTORY OF GOSHEN. 245 failing liealth compelled him to relinquish the work. He has probably run the lines and established the boundaries of more farms in the county than any other man. He was greatly interested in astronomy and geology. He read the heavens, so far as visible with the naked eye, with the facility with which he read a page of print, and was greatly pleased to have been the one in the county to find first with the naked eye the planets Mercury and Uranus. He first called the attention of the people in the county, through his newspaper correspondence, to the wonderful marks made on the rocks by the glaciers in the early ages, which are now so plainly seen on the tops of our mountains. His wife was Delia Beach of Goshen, a noble woman, in- telligent, studious, and making home attractive, and interest- ing herself in everything that could add to the good of the community. Mrs. I^orton and Mrs. Moses Cook were faithful workers for the comfort of the soldiers during the Rebellion, and it is remembered of them that they were the first to deco- rate the graves of the soldiers with flowers, before such an in- stitution as Memorial Day was thought of. (See Norton and Beach Gen.) John Marsh Wadhams (see Wadhams' Gen.) was asso- ciated with many interests in the town of Goshen during the entire period, from the time when he was eighteen years of age, until two years previous to his death. He naturally pos- sessed a strong intellect, was a man of excellent judgment, shrewd but strictly honest in his business transactions, a man of strong convictions and the courage to state and maintain them. Such a man would, in the very nature of things, find a place at the front, and that was the position to which he was constantly being called by his fellow citizens. He was left without a father when he was three years of age, and his mother, four years later, married her first hus- band's brother. In a pleasant home, — but where, as he once said, " I found my play in changing work," — he spent his 246 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. summers in work on the farm, and winters at scliool, until he had made such progress that he became a teacher during the winter months. He grew up to a strong and stalwart manhood. He took an interest in town and public afEairs from the time of his majority, early identified himself with the Whig party, and for a little with the American party, of which he was a loyal member and axdent supporter until the birth of the Republican party, with its more definite principles and wider interests, which claimed and received his allegiance, from which he never swerved until the day of his death. He was an office-holder, — as stated in the history of Litch- field County — for almost fifty years, and with a single excep- tion, filled every position of trust or profit within the gift of his fellow townsmen. During and after the war, he was for sev- eral years collector of internal revenue for the district includ- ing Goshen and adjoining towns. He served fifteen years as selectman and most of the time as chairman of the board, and to him must be largely credited the signal ability with which Goshen was carried through the drafts, enlistments, bounties, and extra expenses of the War of the Rebellion, without a debt or an obligation unpaid. He was a representative in the State Legislature, in 1844, and served on the committee on the sale of lands; again in 3 845, and was chairman of the committee on claims; in 1880, and was chairman of the committee of forfeited rights. He was Senator from the Seventeenth District in 1858, and chair- man of the committee on the state prison. Although the representative of a small town, he had marked influence in legislation, and it was said of him in the New Haven Register, of February 29, 1880, " He is one of the most popular men in the House, and has a host of friends." Mr. Wadhams possessed a very kind heart, and is remem- bered by the many whom he has helped with money or by other means as the " friend indeed." He was not a man of HISTORY OF GOSHEN. 247 lavisli generosity, but a real need never was met by him with denial. JSTever connected with any church, he was always inter- ested in the affairs of the First Ecclesiastical Society, and was frequently chairman of its executive committee. He was compelled, by the infirmities of his advancing years, to relinquish all business for some three years before his death. In the commodious home which he had made, and where he had spent so many active years, he rested, patiently waiting for the call to depart. He seemed to have no disease, and, until near the very last days of life, was in possession of his mental powers, and often would enliven the visit of some friend by a quaint witticism or a gentle sarcasm, the familiar sparkle of his eyes telling that he was the same man as in the days of active life. His faithful service for those whose estates he adminis- tered, his care as guardian for minors, his faithful administra- tion and accounting of trusts which he held, his wisdom as an adviser, his unswerving fidelity as a friend will cause him to be remembered long after the present generations shall have passed away. Honorable Frederick Miles was bom in Goshen, Decem- beer 19, 1815. His early training was in this town, in one of its homes, in its district schools, and its Academy. His ancestors were of that sturdy stock who made New England what it is, and whose sons and daughters form the best elements in the newer communities which stud the country between the two oceans. He possessed marked ability as a merchant and business man, and as the junior of the firm of A. Miles & Son he not only did much in building up the large business of the firm, but so won the confidence and respect of all with whom he came in contact that he was recognized as possessing the qualifications which it honors the people to honor. In 1857, he removed to Salisbury, and there he added to the comfortable 248 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. fortune that lie already possessed, engaging in the business of manufacturing iron, wliicli he enlarged from time to time, to his own profit, and the good of the place where the business was carried on. He was honored with office at the hands of his fellow citi- zens, having been elected a State Senator, and later he served three terms as a member of Congress. His well-balanced mind, his integrity and general knowledge of public affairs, and faith- fulness to the interests of his constituents, not only gave him influence in the legislative halls, but made him popular with those whose suffrages placed him in office. Towards the close of his life he confessed his faith in Christ, and left this world at peace with all his fellows and with his God. HISTORY OF GOSHEN. 249 CHAPTER XV. Mails and Post-offices; AYar of 1812; Poreign Missionary So- ciety; The Moral Society; Ordination of Missionaries; Connecticut Historical Collections. MAILS AND POST-OFFICES. Goshen, Litchfield, and other towns in this county received their letters, if they had any, from the post-office in Hartford as late as 1766. We have no idea how the letters reached that office, nor how they were obtained from there. In that year a post-rider was engaged between Hartford and Litchfield, but his trips must have been infrequent at first. Most of the com- municating in those days was by means of personal visits to the relatives and friends that were left behind when the early settlers removed to the " Western Lands." In 1789 a post- route was established between New Haven and Lenox, Mass., and the rider passed through Goshen. In 1793 a post-office was established in Litchfield, and the Goshen people received their papers and letters at that office until 1805, when an office was established at Goshen, and Erastus Lyman was appointed the post-master. The mail was received but once a week until 1817, when there were two mails weekly and four years later a daily mail, which has continued from that date. At that date a stage route was established between ISTew York and Albany, the route passing through Goshen. A branch route was es- tablished to Norfolk, a weekly stage between Hartford and Sharon also passed through the town, and the daily trips of the Concord coaches, and frequently several extras, gave life to the tovm and patronage to several taverns, which the thirsty passengers would never aUow the coach to pass without a stop. There was a post-office on East street from 1819 to 1838, one at 250 HISTOEX OF GOSHEN. iSTortli Goslien for six years from 1832, and an office estab- lished at West Goshen in 1849. This office with the one at the Center are the only offices in the town at the present time, the residents at ]S[^orth Goshen receiving their mail at South ISTorf oik. The mail at the Centre is larger to-day than in 1830, when the population of the town was nearly double what it is at the present time. THE WAR OF 1812. After the most diligent search possible in the town and iN^orton records, I fail to find any evidence of enlistment or service in the army of any resident of Goshen, with the fol- lovnng exception, which is taken from Vol. II, Norton records, page 620: " Hiram Stanley was bom at Goshen, February 19, 1794. He was a young man much beloved and concerning whom his friends were called to grievous mournings. In the battle at Buffalo, in the three-years war, he was among the American militia, hastily called out. Pie was never seen after the battle, nor is it known with certainty what became of him. It is sup- posed, however, that he was wounded and carried intO' a bam with others, which barn was burned by the British. FOREIGN MISSIONARY SOCIETY. In order to interest the churches in the work of Foreign Missions, and to secure funds for the carrying on of the work, societies auxiliary to the A. B. C. F. M. were formed, and among the first, if not the first, in the state, was the society organized in Litchfield County. A circular, of which the following is a copy, was sent to the pastors of all the churches in the county. " April 3d, 1812. " Reverend Sir; •■' At a meeting of a number of the inhabitants of Liitchfield, and of other gentlemen from different parts of the County on Friday- evening, 3d instant, for the purpose of considering the propriety HISTORY OF GOSHEN. 251 of attempting the establishment of an auxiliary foreign mission society for the County, the following votes were passed. " 1st. Voted that it is expedient and highly important that an attempt be made to form a society in the county to aid in the trans- lation and spread of the Bible — and in the support of foreign mis- sions. " 2d. Voted — that a committee be appointed to prepare a con- stitution to be submitted to the consideration of those who may here- after assemble to associate for the purposes above specified, and to invite the friends of missions of all denominations to unite in the benevolent design of translating the Bible into all languages and spreading the Gospel among all people. " 3d. Voted — That the contemplated meeting be held in Litch- field, on the first Tuesday of May next, at 2 o'clock, afternoon. " The following gentlemen are chosen a committee to form the constitution. 5ttie Eev. Amos Chase, Rev. Lyman Beecher, Hon. Tapping Reeve and Uriel Holmes, Esq. " Sir — The Committee request you to make such use of the above, as your own discretion shall dictate. It is however con- ceived to be important that people in the different towns should understand the object of the appointed meeting early — and that, the Clergy and as many beside as can attend should be present. " Tapping Reeve, in behalf of the Committee." Tlie first meeting was held the fifth of May, at which meet- ing a constitution was adopted and Hon. John Cotton Smith was elected president, and re-elected to this office from year to year until 1836. Eev. Joseph Harvey and several others were present from Goshen, and Mr. Harvey contributed $10. Agents were ap- pointed to make collections in the different towns in the county, Mr. Abraham JS^orton and Mr. Elisha Baldwin for Goshen. At the next meeting it was found that $1,287.51 had been raised in the county, of which amount Goshen had con- tributed $164.93, with but a single exception, the largest sum received from any town in the county. The last meeting was held in 1878, and the succeeding year the Society was dissolved by the action of a committee ap- pointed with power. After the first year, Deacon Lewis M. Norton held the position of collector in Goshen until the end. 252 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. From the Memorial Volume, A. B. C. F. M., 1861, the following extract is made: " A description, of one of these collectors, a fine specimen of his class, has been furnished by Dr. A. 0. Thompson: — Deacon Lewis M. Norton, of Goshen, Conn., commenced act- ing as a collector the second year after the formation of the Litchfield County Auxiliary, and continued in the service more than thirty years. He performed this entire work for the town alone, and every year, with one exception when he was sick. His son then acted for him. He commenced his work in season, at least one week before the county anniver- sary, and was always ready to report in full at the general meeting. His private affairs required great activity on his part, yet he devoted an entire week annually to this business. His visits to families were always pleasant, and he laid out his routes in such a way as would enable him to dine where he ex- pected to get no money. His subscription lists, receipted by the treasurer of the Auxiliary, are all still on file among his papers. The treasurer was for many years the venerable Colonel Talmadge of Litchfield, at whose house the collectors and their mves were expected to dine on the day of the anni- versary. My impression is, that that Auxiliary was, at least in its earlier years, one of the most successful of the kind; and that, in proportion to property and population, more was contributed in Goshen thali in any other town in the county or state. I have at least heard that afiirmed, but have no data for substantiating the same." The impression noted above is confirmed by the figures, and the benevolence was not confined to the Foreign Mis- sionary work, but toi Home Missions as well. This will be apparent to all by the figures found under the head of Congre- gational Church Benevolences. HISTORY OF GOSHEN. 263 THE MORAL SOCIETY. In an old record book where ottier matters are recorded, which have no reference to what follows, I find the following: " At a meeting of the Members from the several branch Moral Societies of Litchfield, Canaan, Cornwall, Goshen, Sharon, Salisbury, South Farms, Warren, and Torrington, convened at Goshen, on Triday, the 30th day of May at 10 o'clock A.M., 1815, pursuant to a circular Letter for the pur- pose of concerting measures for the more effectual execution of the Laws respecting breaches of the Sabbath. That by a union of sentiment, the friends of order may be able more effectu- ally to raise and support the standard of public morals. " Julius Deming, Esq., chosen Chairman. " James Morris, Clerk. " The meeting was opened by prayer by the E,ev. David L. Perry. "Voted to appoint a committee of one from each town pres- ent to form some resolutions to be laid before this meeting. The following Gentlemen were appointed: Eevd. Lyman Beecher, Mr. Abraham ITorton, Genl. John Sedgwick, John Talmadge, Esq., Samuel Lee, Esq., Revd. Charles Prentice and the Eevd. David L. Perry. " The committee mad© the following. report, viz. : " "Whereas, the suppression of Yice and the promotion of Morals, and particularly the rescuing the Sabbath from pro- fanation are of vital importance to the peace and happiness of our coimtry; and whereas much may be done by concert and union of efforts, which cannot be effected by individuals, Therefore, resolved, " I. That there shall be a Convention of Moral Societies in this vicinity annually so long as may he thot expedient, in the several towns by rotation — on the fourth Tuesrlay of June — and that eacli Moral Society in this Connexion be invited to send not less than six delegate to such meeting, and that each member generally be invited to attend. 254 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. " II. Resolved, That at each Annual Meeting a sermon shall be delivered by some person previously appointed. " III. We consider It highly important to prevent all unneces- sary travelling on the Sabbath, and in our several places as officers and as private citizens, we vcill take all suitable measures to cause the laws, which relate to the Sabbath to be respected, and that we will strengthen and support each other in accomplishing this object. " IV. That public notice be given in some suitable manner, that there is a general agreement and determination in the towns of this vicinity to prevent travelling and unnecessary labour on the Sabbath and that a committee be appointed for this purpose. " V. Resolved, That the thanks of this meeting be given to those informing officers and magistrates who have been active and faithful in promoting a reformation in morals, by a prompt execu- tion of the Laws. " VI. We will unite to execute the Laws respecting the retail- ing of ardent spirits and to suppress intemperance and profanity. " VII. Resolved, That a committee of arrangements be ap- pointed annually, and to continue in office till others are appointed, to make the necessary appointments and superintend the business of the Convention generally when not in session. " VIII. Resolved, That the Committee of arrangements be di- i-ected to publish an address to the public on the subject of pro- moting virtue and good morals, with the resolutions of the Con- vention and that such advice as nxperience may have suggested relative to duty, and to the execution of the Laws of this State, and containing such information generally on the subject of Morals as may be deemed useful." " At two o'clock P. M. the Kevd. Lyman Beeclier preached an appropriate sermon from Matthew the first ten verses, to a large audience. The meeting was interesting, de- vout and solemn. " Voted to> appoint a Committee of Arrangements. " The persons appointed were the following, ^az. : Litchfield, Kevd. Lyman Beecher and Uriel Holmes, Esq. Canaan ISI. Soc, Eevd. Pitkin Oowles ( ? ) Doct. Thos. Hunt- ington. Canaan South Soc, Eevd. Charles Prentice. Cornwall, Eevd. Timothy Stone, Gen. John Sedgwick. Goshen, Eevd. Joseph Harvey & Moses Lyman, Esq. HISTORY OF GO'SHBN. 256 Kent, Julius Caswell, Esq. Sharon, Eevd. David L. Perry, Cyrus Swan, Esq. Salisbury, ^Ir. Gideon Smith, Jr. South Farms, James Morris, Esq. & Mr. Hezekiali Murray. Torrington, Dea. Abel Hinsdale. "Warren, Revd. Peter Starr & John Tallmadge, Esq. " Moses Lyman, Esq., Lewis M. Norton & Mr. Erastus Ly- man were appointed a committee to carry the 4th resolution into effect. " The next annual meeting to be holden at Canaan, South Society, on the fourth Tuesday of June 1816. The Eevd. Joseph Harvey to preach the sermon. " Adjourned sine die. " Test James Marvin, Clerk." ORDINATION OF THE MISSIONARIES. The account which follows is taken from the Commemora- tive Address, delivered September 28, 1869, in Goshen, at the semi-centenary of the ordination of the first missionaries to the Sandwich Islands, by Eev. A. C. Thompson, CD., pastor of the Eliot Church, Boston, Mass. Dr. Thompson says : " Of the Sandwich Islands' mission, Goshen may not improperly be said tO' be the birthplace. Be- fore the death of Obookiah, Dr. Harvey was one of those who became instrumental in giving form to the idea and purpose. The Executive Committee of the agency, having in charge the Cornwall school, requested him to prepare a petition to the American Board, that they would send out a mission to the islands in question. Such a petition having been written ac- cordingly, and signed by the committee, was duly presented. In process of time the undertaking was resolved upon, and the Prudential Committee of the A. B. C. F. M., having ap- pointed two young men as missionaries, requested the ISTorth Consociation of Litchfield County to perform the service of their ordination. Eev. David L. Perry of Sharon, who after- 256 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. wards had a son in the foreign field, was chosen Moderator; Kev. James Beach of Winsted, Scribe, and Col. Benjamin Talhnadge, Assistant Scribe. , "Father Gillett (Eev. Alecxander of To^rrington) con- ducted the examination. The candidates, Hiram Bingham and Asa Thurston, who had pursued the usual three-years course of study at the Theological Seminary in Andover,' were examined and approved. Other preliminaries to the public service received attention. Then came the day (September 29th), to which so many had been looking forward vfith eager interest. It had been the theme of conversation in the house and by the way. Old and young were on the qui vive. Town pride was stirred in the matter of entertainment. Many were the friendly contests for favorite guests. Doors were thrown wide open — doors of the Baldwins, the Bartholomews, the Beaches, the Beechers, the Brookses, the Buels, the Collinses, the Gaylords, the Griswolds, the Hales, the Harts, the Hen- dersons, the Iveses, the Lucases, the Lymans, the Milesee, the JSTortons, the Parmelees, the Stanleys, the Starrs, the Streets, the Thompsons, the Towners, the "Wadhams, and I know not how many others. ' Nor ought we to forget,' wrote Mr. Evarts afterwards, ' the unbounded hospitality of the people, to which the great number of clergymen and others from a distance afforded opportunity.' A large choir of singers had with great pains been rehearsing the pieces to be sung. More thoughtful and serious-minded persons had been praying and longing that spiritual benefits might be reaped by the church a.nd community; and that helped to give an elevated tone to the occasion. " Pro'vidence smiled noticeably in all circumstances of the ordination. The day was singularly clear, and the air un- usually exhilarating, l^ever did the sun look down more brilliantly on our ample woodlands and our little lakes. The very brooks seemed to leap and foam in special excitement. Mohawk and Ivy Mountains, retouched with autumnal splen- HISTORY OF GOSHEN. 257 dors, rose more majestic than ever. The hills clapped their hands. A larger assembly than had ever congregated here thronged the old meeting-house. There were many outside who could find no accommodation vs^ithin. Nearly all the Foreign Mission School were present; as also several students from the Andover Seminary, who afterwards became mission- aries. Strangers, too, from a distance were here, the honored and the excellent. There was Governor Treadwell, president of the American Board, firm and dignified. There was Doct. Samuel Worcester, the first Corresponding Secretary of the Board. Far-seeing, of sound judgment, and sound theological views, he was accounted one of the giants. There was Jere- miah Evarts, treasurer of the American Board, and afterwards secretary; sagacious, statesmanly, earnest, Pauline in person and with the pen. The Prudential Committee of the Board also came on from Boston — quite a different journey then from what it is now. " The sermon was preached by the Rev. Dr. Heman Hum- phrey, who had been a theological pupil of Mr. Hooker in this place, and was afterwards President of Amherst College, from the words : ' And there remaineth yet veiy much land tO' be possessed.' (Joshua xiii: 1.) It was quite in advance of the general spirit and sentiment of the times. " Rev. Mr. Perry gave the charge in a manner peculiarly impressive, holding out the large pulpit Bible, and enjoining upon the young missionaries faithfully to follow the instruc- tions of that book. Rev. Dr. Porter of Farmington gave the right hand of fellowship. That saintly man, Jeremiah Hallock of Canton, offered the consecrating prayer. Father Mills led in the opening devotional exercise, and Dr. Worces- ter in the closing. " Of the pieces sung on that occasion one was ' Jesus shall Reign,' one that will not become obsolete or distasteful till the predictions of Psalm seventy-second are fulfilled. But the tide of rising interest culminated at the close of the service. 17 258 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. Without previous intimation the two consecrated young men stepjDed into the broad aisle, and with clear, strong, ringing voices — Thurston, tenor; Bingham, base; sung Melton Mow- bray. Head of tbe church triumphant, We joyfully adore thee : Till thou appear, Thy members here, Shall sing like those in glory: We lift our hearts and voices, In blest anticipation, &.nd cry aloud. And give to God The praise of our salvation. While in affliction's furnace. And passing through the fire, Thy love vee praise. That knows our days, And ever brings us nigher: We clap our hands, exulting In thine almighty favor; The love divine. That made us thine. Shall keep us thine forever. Thou dost conduct thy people. Through torrents of temptation; Nor will we fear. While thou art near. The fire of tribulation: The world with sin and Satan In vain our march opposes; By thee we shall » Break through them all, And sing the song of Moses. By faith we see the glory To which thou shalt restore us; The cross despise. For that high prize Which thou hast set before us; And if thou count us worthy, We each, as dying Stephen, Shall see thee stand At God's right hand, To take us up to heaven. HISTORY OF GOSHEN. 259 " The effect was electrical. Tkose young missioiiaries were looked upon as martyrs. Some pictured them as finding their graves in the bottom of the ocean; some as meeting with death at the hands of savages; some as the welcomed heralds of glad tidings to isles waiting for God's law, and for the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. Enthusiasm rose to the highest pitch. There are junctures when nothing but the voice of sacred song can either lift the soul to heights unattained before, or give utterance to its exalted emotions. Such a moment was • that. The whole occasion is spoken of, by those now living who were present, as one of thrilling interest. For this region, at least, it was altogether novel. The children of some who were there have caught enthusiasm as they have seen the coun- tenances of fathers and mothers almost transfigured with lofty feeling, while rehearsing that scene and noteworthy occur- rences at the Sandwich Islands. " ISTor was there wanting a touch of romance. Next to the singing of Melton Mowbray, the incident which lingered most vividly in the recollections of the people is one which they rightly regarded as a marked interposition of God's good providence. Oral traditions in regard to it have so many slight variations of detail, that I give what will be accepted as authentic and final, an extract from a letter written, at my request, by Mr. Bingham, many years since: " ' On leaving Andover, at the close of my course there, I took a rough journey to Goshen, and as the friends were gathering thickly there, in the afternoon previously to my ordination, Mr. Thurston and myself submitted to the requisite examination which was somewhat extended to meet the rising interest in the cause of our contemplated mission. " ' I was quartered at the Kev. Mr. Harvey's. He and others attended, in the evening, a Bible Society meeting; but fatigued with closing all up at Andover, my journey and ex- amination, I chose to stay quietly at the house of Mr. Harvey. In the course of the evening, a gentleman, Kev. Mr. Brown, 260 HISTOEY OF GOSHEN. called and asked for lodgings for himself and a young lady, wliom lie had brought with him from the valley of the Con- necticut. I stepped over to the meeting, and privately asked Mr. Harvey what should be done with them. He replied laconically, and with little interruption to the routine of Bible meeting business, " Take them to Deacon Thompson's." I offered, therefore, to accompany them thither. Mr. Brown went to the public house, and brought out the young lady, in- troduced her to me, and took us into his vehicle, and, at my direction, drove to Deacon Thompson's. I had taken cold by a night's ride over the mountains, and I wrapped a handkerchief about my neck, chin, and mouth, that cold evening, and this awakened ready sympathy in the sensitive heart of the young lady, who had for years been warmly interested in the mission- ary cause. Mr.. Brown had introduced her as Miss Moseley, the name of a lady teacher at Canandaigua, 'N. T., whom Rev. Levi Parsons had mentioned to me as a most amiable, and thoroughly qualified companion for a missionary. During the whole interview, the ride, and the call at your father's, my mind was intently querying whether this could be the very same. When introduced by your kind parents into the parlor, and seated by a hospitable fire, we sat and conversed for a few minutes. I measured the lines of her face and the expres- sion of her features with more than an artist's carefulness, and soon took leave of her, and Mr. Brown, and the family, re- ceiving some very generous cautions from her respecting my cold. The next day I learned that she was the young lady of whom Brother Parsons had spoken so highly. I saw her in the course of the next day most intensely interested in the missionary cause, and learned a good deal about her from Mr. Harvey, Brother S. Bartlett and wife, and Brother Ruggles and wife, about to embark for the Sandwich Islands. I men- tioned the case to Dr. Worcester, Mr. Evarts, and my brother, and asked their counsel. A prayer-meeting was arranged at Mr. Harvey's while I authorized Dr. Worcester to ascertain HISTORY OF GOSHEN. 261 from her whetlier a private and special interview witK me would be allowed. He saw lier while prayers were offered for Divine guidance. He stated my case, held up the great work at the Islands with which her soul was -already filled, and left her with the words, " Rebecca said, I will go." Returning to Mr. Harvey's, he told me I could see her. I gave her some ac- count of myself, put into her hands a copy of my statement to the Prudential Committee, in offering myself to the work, asked her to unite with me in it, and left her to consider till the next day whether she could give me eneouragemeait, or not. The next day she said she would go with me to her friends, and, if they did not object, she thought she should not. It was arranged for us to ride in a chaise tO' Hartford. The result you know.' " The ordination of those first missionaries to the Sandwich Islands, with its antecedents and results, furnished in no in- considerable measure the staple of conversation among re- ligious circles throughout the county, but more especially here. Hearts and hands before closed were then opened. It was a temporary Christian normal school, an effective missionary in- stitute. Goshen was that week one Bethel. The sentiments and feelings of the community were toned up to a level they had never reached before. It helped to make and keep this the banner town in missionary interest. In proportion to its num- ber of inhabitants and valuation, more was at that time con- tributed here to the cause, and had been for ten years, than- in any other town of the county, and perhaps of the country. In an address of the Prudential Committee of the American Board in 1818, occurs this sentence: 'It seems particularly suitable that every church of Christ should, as a church, do something towards imparting the precious blessings of the gospel to the perishing heathen.' This church, so far as ap- pears was the first to respond, by formally entering upon such a course. One year later, the following published statement was made, that ' They purpose to meet once a year to consult 262 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. for the glory of Christ, and the emlargement of his empire. At each meeting, they are to designate a sum, which they will, the ensuing year, pour into the treasury of the Lord; each member to contribute according to his or her ability.' " So far from the valuable discourse of Dr. Thompson. It may be well to mention in this connection a seani-centennial celebration of this event, which took place September 28, 1869, on which occasion Dr. Thompson's address was deliv- ered. Letters of invitation had been sent to a large number of persons and among them to all who were living, and who had been present at tbe ordination, so far as their addresses were known. A large congregation assembled and, greatly to the joy of all. Rev. Mr. Bingham and wife were present. The exercises at the morning gathering were conducted as follows : Reading of the Scriptures, by the Rev. William T. Doubleday, then pastor of the church. Prayer was offered by Mr. Bing- ham. Historical address by Dr. Thompson. Two of the pieces and in the same times were sung that had been sung at the ordination, and an original hymn composed by Rev. Robert jSTorton. Benediction pronounced by the Rev. Frederick Marsh, of Winchester, aged 90. In a large tent, furnished by Theodore S. Gold of Corn- wall, a bounteous collation was served and an hour of delight- ful social intercourse succeeded. In the afternoon a less formal gathering than that of the morning was held in the church. Deacon Harvey Brooks, aged 90, was chosen to preside and occupied the place of honor; the duties of the office being performed by Willard Gaylord, Esq. Addresses were made by Rev. John F. Norton of Fitzwilliam, IST. H. ; Professor William Thompson of the Hartford Theological Seminary; Dr. A. C. Thompson of Bos- ton; Rev. Luther Beecher, D.D., of Boston; Rev. Robert Nor- ton of St. Catherines, Canada; all of whom were bom in Go- shen. Rev. Mr. Bingham, with a Mr. Carter, who had been present as one of the singers at the ordination, sang the in- HISTORY OF GOSHEN. 263 spiring hymn, " Head of the cliurcli triumphant," and Mr. Bingham gave a very interesting address with incidents of his work in the Sandwich Islands. The Sandwich Islands flag was raised above the tent, and at the close of the exercises was placed in the keeping of the pastor of the church to be un- furled at the Centennial in 1919. From the Connecticut Historical Collections. Published 1836: " The township of Goshen was sold at New Haven, in De- cember, 1737, and its settlement commenced in one or two years afterward. The first inhabitants were principally from Xew Haven, Wallingford, and Farmington. It is stated that the houses of Gideon Thompson and John Beach, who' were among the first settlers, were palisadoed in, for a defense against the Indians. Mr. Beach's house was situated on East street, about 2^ miles from the present South Congregational church; the house of Mr. Thompson, stood on West street nearly a mile southwest. Goshen was incorporated as a town in 1749. It is bounded north by Norfolk, east by Torrington and Win- chester, west by Cornwall, and south by Litchfield; it is 9 miles in length and 4^ in breadth. The central part is 6 miles from Litchfield, 32 west from Hartford, and 42 from New Haven. It is the most elevated township in the state, but not generally mountainous; the surface being undulating, afford- ing an interesting diversity of hills and vales. The soil is a gravelly loam, deep, strong, and fertile, admirably adapted for grazing. This is one of the best towns for the dairy busi- ness in the state. Large quantities of cheese are annually made, the fame of which is wisely and justly celebrated, and the inhabitants are generally in prosperous circumstances. In neatness, in and about their dwellings, and in the appearance of general comfort and prosperity, they are not exceeded, if equalled, by any town in the state. 264 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. " Tlie above is a represeaitation of the Congregational churcli and some other biiildings in the central part of the town. The building seen on the right with a small spire is the Academy, where the higher branches of education are taught. The common district schoolhouse is of brick, the first building seen in the engraving south of the church. The other Congregational church in the town is 4 miles northeast from this. There was formerly an Episcopal church situated about 2 miles to the northeast. About the time of the Ameri- can Eevolution, the Episcopal society, becoming very much reduced in numbers, sold tlieir house to the I^orth Congrega- tional society; but while they were endeavoring to draw it towards their section of the town, it was blown down by the wind. The first meeting-house in the town was built of logs; it stood about 80 rods below the church seen in the engraving. The elevated ground seen beyond the houses in the engraving, is called Ivy mountain. This is considered the most elevated point of land in the state. It affords a most extensive and interesting prospect in almost every direction; to the west is a HISTORY OF GOSHEN. 265 view of the Cattskill mountains for a considerable extent, their rugged features and high and disorderly hills; and to the east is a view of the elevated country east of Connecticut River. There is this rare and peculiar circumstance, with respect to what is called East street in Goshen : that the rain which falls on the front of the houses descends into the Ilousatonic River, and that which falls on the back side into the Waterbury River. About one and a half miles west of the central part, is a collection of several mills and some manufacturing estab- lishments around which is a cluster of houses; this place is called Canada village. The Methodist chiu-ch is built in this place. The stream which passes this village is fed from a large pond in the vicinity, and it is admirably calculated for water-works, having an adequate supply of water character- ized by great uniformity, being neither affected by droughts nor heavy rains. " The first minister in this town was the Rev. Stephen Hea- ton. He was buried about a mile south of the Congregational church. His monument, with a few others, stands at present in an open field, near the Litchfield road; the following is the inscription." (See Biographical Sketch of Stephen Heaton.) " This is a copy of another in the same place. " In memory of Moses Lyman, Esq., who died 6th of Jamiary, 1768, in his 65 th year. 'Lyman so fam'd, so meek, so Just and wise; He sleeps! in hope, Tlien cease from tears, when Christ appears, his dust shall rise. ' " 266 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. CHAPTER XVI. SCHOOLS — YOUNG LADIES' SEMINARY AND ACADEMY. THE COMMON SCHOOLS. In a text-book used in all our schools, some fifty years ago, we were taught that " Connecticut is noted for her common schools." However true this may have been, the chroniclers of Goshen did not find occasion or recognize the necessity of making note of but very little concerning them. Trom the records of the town we cannot learn where the school build- ings were located, the wages paid to teachers, or the names of the teachers. We learn that the Assembly enacted, October 13, 1Y3Y, that one of the 53 parts into which the town was to be divided was set apart " for the support of the schools." From the ITorton record, we learn that in 1812, ]\Ir. David Humphrey and Mr. Daniel Baldwin, then aged men, told him that " the town was settled a good many years before there were any valuable schools." In 1742, before the to'wn was in- corporated, the proprietors leased the school right for 999 years, and voted that the proceeds should be used to support two schools in the east part of the town, one in the south, and one in the west part of the town. In 1743 they appointed " Deacon Baldwin, Amos Thompson, and Daniel Richards a committee to hire a school-master or masters, or a school-mis- tress or mistresses, to teach school." The first school seems to have been in East street, and upon ISTathaniel Baldwin's books is found a charge to Ebenezer ISTorton, July, 1753, " For boarding the school-master 12 shil- lings." There was a schoolhouse at an early date, in the neigh- borhood of the Hills, Dibbles, and Buells. This was on the west side of the road, a little south of the red store, on the north side of the path leading to the Buell meadow. The HISTORY or GOSHEN. 267 probability is that this schoolhouse and that by the present brick house of Hiram Griswold were the first that were erected in Goshen. Lois (Porter) Butrick, the daughter of Elijah Porter, of Farmington, taught the school in East street about 1786 or '81. Her husband deserted from the Continental army to the Brit- ish. She was a worthy woman, but after the desertion of her husband, suffered some indignities from the young people be- cause he was a tory. Peggy Foot, who married Hunn Beach, and who taught after Mrs. Butrick, has recorded of herself, " She was much known here as a school teacher." After Mr. Beach's death she married the Rev. Horatio Waldo. Charity Mills taught the same school in the summer of ITSI, and made her home at the house of Ebenezer JSTorton, Jr., whom she afterwards married. Coming dovm. to later times we make an extract from a letter of William Baldwin, Guilford Centre, N. Y., October 1873: " We are in possession of a paper we have taken the liberty to copy and which reads as follows, to wit : ' This certifies that we have examined Mr. William Baldwin, and do hereby unan- imously approve of him as a suitable person to teach the school in the District by the Iforth Meeting House the ensuing win- ter. Chairman of the Board of Visitors. Goshen, ISTovember 24th, 1823. Joseph Harvey.' " We are still proud of this old Goshen relic and shall treas- ure it choicely till the day of our death. D. Hart was the committee man for that district and hired us to teach the school four months. The schoolroom was planked off from a portion of the lower floor of the old meeting-house, standing on a little eminence near the house then owned by Daniel Baldwin, afterwards by Collins Baldwin, now occupied and owned by Theron S. Ludington. 268 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. " But the old schoolhouse we were speaking of, was not ex- actly air-tiglit. The stove pipe, which was a quaxter of a cen- tury of age, passed through the planking and out at the east side of the room, and whenever the east wind blew, the con- tents of the old pipe went downward instead of upward, and the coals and ashes of a green beech fire were strewed over the floor. But notwithstanding all this, we worried through the four months, and, again, the next winter." THE SEMINARY FOR YOUNG LADIES. Perhaps this had better have been entitled, ■' Miss Nancy Thompson," its founder and principal teacher. She was the daughter of Jonathan and Anna (Lucas) Thompson, was bom in Goshen, May, 1789. Her parents were among the earliest Methodists in the town and knew what it was to bear reproach for the sake of their belief. She was converted in early life and engaged heartily in all Christian work. When Sabbath schools were established, she gained more than a local reputa- tion as' a teacher of infant classes, and was a welcome con- tributor to the Sunday-School Advocate. She was engaged as a teacher in the district schools for several years, and wherever she taught she made her influence felt as a Christian. In the fall of 1819, she was led to consider the duty and propriety of teaching school on a larger scale than she had been accustomed to, and her father offered to erect a building for that purpose. Realizing the necessity of further study, she went to the city of New York and spent some months in study. She was accustomed to rise at four in the morning and study until ten at night. The following year, September 1, 1820, she remo'^'ed to her new building. It stood the oppo- site side of the road from the present residence of Mr. Darius Thompson. Her friend. Miss Ruth Munson, united heir in- terests with her in the imdertaking, and had charge of the boarding department. The school was soon full, having ^Z&j'wii-, Jv-J^A^y^U^'^ Jilyi-'^Ar HISTOEY OF GOSHEN. 269 eighteen in the family, and many from the town as day scholars. In January, 1822, there were twenty scholars in the family, and there was a deep religious interest and only three left the school unconverted. In the spring of that year, she found herself so exhausted by her labors that she was compelled to place the institution in the care of others, and not until Sep- tember, 1824, was she able to take up her work again in the school. Several times she was compelled to give up her work and recruit her energies by needed rest. In 1828, she was rejoicing in improved health and a full school and the prospect of Tlsefulhess that was opening before her. For some years she had been studying into the methods of the charity schools and infant schools, and had come to believe that the methods practised in the large schools in New York were adapted to all schools where little children were taught, and in the spring of 1831 she was placed in charge of an infant class of 30 scholars, assisted by Miss Lucy Wooster in keeping order. She continued to teach a large Bible class, which she had organized more than a year previous; she also conducted weekly select meetings at her house, and these dutiSs, together with her teaching in the seminary and the care of a large family during the winter, so completely undermined her health that she was compelled to discontinue the Yoimg Ladies Semi- nary. In JSTovember, 1831, she organized an infant school in West Goshen village, fitting it up like one that she had vis- ited in ISTew York, and appointed Miss Lucia Wade the teacher. The following spring the school, with all its appara- tus, was removed to her house, and for a term taught by the same teacher. Miss Thompson was married to the Eev. Aaron Hunt, in April, 1832, with whom she lived imtil his death in 1858. In August, 1867, she removed to Leavenworth, Kansas, to reside 270 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. -with hex nephew, Mr. Moses L. Thompson, and in three weeks after reaching her new home was removed to the home above. GOSHEN AOADEM.Y. Early in this century the leading citizens of the town were desirous of establishing a school of higher order than the dis- trict schools, and the Kev. Mr. Hooker, then pastor of the church, commenced such a school, in his own room. This was in the winter of 1802-3. We find no records that inform us as to the length of time this school was continued. In Janu- ary, 1807, a Mr. Joseph Edwaxds advertised himself as teacher of Goshen Academy, in the Monitor, Litchfield. When Dr. Harvey became the pastor of the church, he soon took part in the establishment and instruction of a school of much higher gTade than any which had preceded it. The information as to the establishment of this school is furnished by the Eev. Dr. A. 0. Thompson. It was called a Grrammar School, and its sessions were held in the Conference Koom, in the second story of the building occupied by the district school. He had with him, as assistants, Mr. Hermon Landon Vaill, and a Mr. Hazen, whose son afterwards became pastor of the church. Both these men were afterwards ordained ministers, and it is safe to say that they were both students of theology at the time under his direction. There were others studying under Dr. Harvey's direction, with a view to the ministry, among them Abraham and Theron Baldwin, sketches of whom will be found in another place. ' The Bev. James Ely, an early missionary to the Hawaiian Islands, was another of his stu- dents. Dr. Harvey was a man of extensive literary attainments 8Jid always labored assiduously for the intellectual as well as the moral and spiritual culture of the youth of his charge. He was the leading spirit in the establishment of the Academy and the erection of a suitable building, and was ably seconded HISTORY OF GOSHEN. 271 by sucli men as Erastus, Moses, and Samuel Lyman, David Wadhams, David Beeclieir, Deacon Augustus Thompson, Sam- uel W. Gold, Abraham and Lewis M. Norton, and others of like character and influence. . The paper, of which the following is a copy, and which was the result of long deliberation, indicates the plan adopted as the enterprise took shape: " Goshen, April 16th, 1823. " The subscribers feeling the importance of making some suitable provision for the instruction of our Children and youth, and believ- ing that the present accommodations in this place are not such as to afford a prospect of a flourishing and profitable school, agree to pay the sums annexed to our names respectively, for the purpose of erect- ing and furnishing a suitable Building for the public Academic school, on the following conditions, (viz.) " I. The stock of said building and apparatus shall be divided into 50 shares, and each sliare shall be twenty-five dollars. " II. If it should be found that this sum is larger than the erection and furnishing of a suitable building together with the pur- chase of a building spot will require, the overplus shall be deducted in equal proportions from each share. " III. In transacting the business of the company, each share shall entitle the owner to one vote. " IV. It is understood that the Company shall apply to the Legislature of the state for an Act of Incorporation. " V. When the sum of one thousand dollars shall have been sub- scribed the subscribers shall hold a meeting and appoint by ballot a Prudential Committee of three persons, who shall be empowered to pay out the money according to their discretion in erecting a suitable building, purchasing a suitable spot as site and in furnish- ing the building with necessary apparatus for the convenience of a school, said Committee shall also have the charge of the building and apparatus and shall see that all necessary repairs are made and that the building and apparatus are kept in proper state for use. " The proprietors shall also at their aforesaid (or at some other meeting appointed for that purpose) appoint by ballot four persons who, with the principal Instructor for the time being, shall con- stitute a Board of Ti'ustees, three of whom shall form a quorum for business (all having been notified). The Trustees shall have the superintendence of the concerns and instruction of the school generally, they may make bye-laws for the regulation of the school, shall provide and employ suitable instructors and shall inspect and examine the school as often as they think it expedient. It is how- ever provided that when there is no Instructor employed as princi- 272 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. pal in the School, the remaining members of the board shall have full powers to act as trustees of the school. " VI. The proprietors shall also choose by ballot a Treasurer and Clerk, the Treasurer to receive all monies belonging to the Com- pany and pay them out to the order of the prudential committee, the Clerk to record the votes and doings of the proprietors. " VII. The officers of the company shall continue in office until others are chosen in their room. And at the request of five pro- prietoris it shall be the duty of the prudential committee to call a meeting, provided, it be not oftener than once in a year, for the election of officers and other necessary business. " VIII. The rent of the building and apiDaratus shall be fixed on the principle of tvyelve per cent per annum on the first cost. " IX. If the money raised by the original shares should not be sufficient to defray the expenses of erecting and furnishing said building the deficiency shall be made up from the rent and the pru- dential committee shall have power to apply it for that purpose. The expenses of all necessary repairs shall also be taken from the rent of the building and no dividend shall be made amongst the pro- prietors until such expenses are fully defrayed. " X. The prudential committee shall cause the building to be erected and prepared and the Trustees shall procure an instructor as soon as practicable after their appointment, at furthermost, within eighteen months of the first meeting of the proprietors. " XI. This subscription shall not be Mnding upon any one until the sum of one thousand dollars is subscribed. " XII. These articles may be altered or amended at a meeting of the proprietors for that purpose (all having been notified) by a vote of two-thirds of those present, each one voting according to the number of his shares. shares $75.00 200.00 75.00 75.00 50.00 50.00 50.00 100.00 50.00 50.00 25.00 150.00 25.00 25.00 25.00 25.00 " Moses Lyman, Jr., 3 Trueman Starr, 8 David Wadhams, 3 Augustus Thompson, 8 David Beeeher, 2 David Wooster, 2 .John Beach, 2 E. W. Towner & Co., 4 Dudley Henderson, 2 Joseph Harvey, 2 Lewis M. Norton, 1 Erastus Lyman, 6 William Brown, 1 Abraham Norton, 1 Archibald Bierce, 1 Bben N. Thompson, 1 o HISTORY OP GOSHEN. 273 Officers were elected on tlie same date of the subecription, for the purpose of temporary organization, an Act of Incorpo- ration was obtained at the session of the General Assembly in ilay, and June 12, 1823, the following persons were elected oiiicers of the corporation. Rev. Joseph Har\'ey, Moderator. Erastus Lyman, Clerk. Moses Lyman, Jr., ^ prudential Theron Towner, -r-. . T ,-rr 11 , Committee. David VVadnams, Rev. Joseph Harvey, Erastus Lyman, '). Trustees. David Wooster, Lewis M. ISTorton, The Prudential Committee proceeded with the erection of the building immediately, and it was found necessary to secure a larger capital. Several of the original subscribers increased their subscriptions, new ones were obtained, and the amount raised was $1,850. The reports containing the items of expense and the cost of the buildings have been lost, but it is pre- sumed that the building cost about $1,800. It was insured for $1,500. The names of the proprietors and the number of shares taken by each are as follows: Truman Starr, ten; Erastus Lyman, nine; Moses Lyman, Jr., six; Augustus Thompson, four; David Wadhams, David Wooster, Samuel W. Gold, and Jonathan Buell, three each; Joseph Harvey, George Stanley, E. W. Towner & Co., Eraneis H. Case, David Beecher, Lewis ]\L Norton, Dudley Henderson, John Beach, Samuel Lyman and Isaac Wadhams two, each; and Eben N. Thompson, Abraham ]!^orton, Archibald Bierce, Jonathan North, Giles Griswold, Eliza Lyman, H. 'N. Lyman, Miles Hart, Henry Hart, Samuel Palmer, Jr., John P. Porter, Nelson Brewster and Beebe Wadhams, one share each. 18 274 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. Samuel D. Street, Esther ISTorth, Theodore Paannelee's heirs, and Asaph Hall had been subscribers for one share each, but the shares were all taken as above at the time the Academy was opened. Va 6 ^ Goshen \^y^^ /f£ /02J- T certlfij thai h-yO'-^C^CC^ <52^;^-?--vt.^<2-vn— j^C u tAc otryierojoite S/unreoJ^ihe Sfl'e^o^tfufGosHtiiAcABfM'i^ wlucksKare istmnsfiroJik xQree. J780. «. p- far. ». P- far. 8. P- far. p. far. Jan. 19 2 Jan. 6 1 1 Jan. 2 8 1 Jan. 8 Feb. 18 8 3 Feb. 5 8 2 Feb. 2 3 2 Feb. 7 1 Mar. 18 4 Mar. 5 4 Mar. 2 Mar. 6 1 April 17 May 17 June 16 10 5 8 1 3 April 5 May 5 June 5 April May June 9 7 5 3 3 3 April May June 6 5 3 5 3 July 16 Aug. 13 Sept. 11 Oct. 7 4 5 8 0. July 4 Aug. 4 Sept. 4 Oct. 4 8 4 2 1 3 3 July Aug. Sept. Oct. 4 2 1 11 3 3 1 3 July Aug. Sept. Oct. 8 1 3 1 3 1 3 1 Nov. 6 8 Nov. 3 8 Nov. 10 3 Nov. 3 1 Dec. 6 5 1 Dec. 3 1 3 Dec. 9 1 Dec. 3 1 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. 307 ment will be found in the history of the church. During the early part of his ministry he was very acceptable to the people, and had large congregations. In the winter and spring of 1783 84 there was unusual religious interest among the people, and several were hopefully brought into the kingdom of the Redeemer, and among those received to the church were some who were long its most faithful supporters. An alienation was caused, in the first instance, by his preaching Arminian doctrines. He preached a sermon en- titled " God in no Sense the Author of Sin," and Doctor Bel- lamy made a question about it. Mr. Sherman convened the church and persuaded a majority to vote themselves out of the Consociation. The feeling against him. was aggravated by the manner in which he treated those who went to talk with him. The breach widened, leading parishioners withdrew and worshiped in adjoining towns, and for this were excom- municated. All accounts agree that there was a mingling of conceit and obstinacy in his character which made it anything but pleasant for those who differed from him. He was not tmconscious of his mental superiority to those to whom he ministered, and said of one of the most substantial and best educated of his parishioners that " He has not doctrinal knowl- edge enough to be regenerated." He was a brother of Roger Sherman, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. He was a man of fine natural ability, well educated, dignified, courteous, and af- fable. His personal appearance as he entered the meeting- hoiise, in his large white wig, bowing to individuals of the congregation on either side of the broad aisle, was imposing and winning. But, with all these desirable qualities, he could not bear opposition, and, in 1788, the town voted that they desired him " to lay down the work of the ministry in this town," which he did March 1, 1789. 308 HISTOEY OF GOSHEN. So we come to the termination of the work of three pastors with tliiy church, of whom a wit of the times remarked: " The first minister in Goshen was a very good sort of a man, hut lie hadn't any head. The second had a head, hut he hadn't got aii,y tongue. The third was all tongue." Rev. Asahel Hooker was bom at Bethlehem, Conn., Au- gust 29, 1762. He was the son of Asahel and Anne Hooker, and a lineal descendant of the fifth generation from the Kev. Thomas Hooker, of Puritan celebrity, the first minister of Hartford. From his earliest years he was distinguished for his gentleness, prudence, and fondness for books. Though his parents, owing to doubts which they had in respect to their own piety, did not make a profession of religion tUl they were somewhat advanced in life, yet they were serious and ex- emplary persons, and trained up their children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. In addition to the good influence which was exerted upon him at home, he had the privilege, until he was fourteen years of age, of sitting under the minis- try of Dr. Bellamy, who was particularly distinguished for his attentions to the youth of his congregation. Aboiit the year 17 Y 6, the family removed from Bethlehem to Farming- ton. Up to this period and for several years after, young Hooker was a constant laborer upon his father's farm, and his purpose was to devote his life to agricultural pursuits. At the age of twenty he became deeply anxious in respect to his salvation; and, after a season of great spiritual dis- tress, was brought, as he believed, to a cordial assent to the terms of the Gospel. Shortly after this, he was baptized and admitted to the communion of the church in Farmington, by the Rev. Timothy Pitkin. And now he began to meditate the piirpose of devoting his life to the Christian ministry. Though his father was unable to furnish him the requisite means for prosecuting a college course, yet, in reliance on his own efforts, on the benevolence of some of his friends, and HISTORY OF GOSHEN. 309 above all, on the help of a gracious Providence, he resolved to imdertake it; and in due time he had the pleasure to see his favorite object accomplished. Ha-^dng fitted for college under the instruction, as is believed, of the Rev. Mr. Pitkin, he became a member of Yale Collee-e, where he graduated in 17 89. During his college course, " he was distinguished for a consistent and harmonious intellectual development, for a uniformly amiable and discreet beha^'iour, and for an inflexi- ble adherence to his convictions of duty." After leaving college he pursued his theological studies under the direction of his friend and benefactor, the Rev. Wil- liam Robinson of Southington. Having received license to preach, he occupied, for a short time, several vacant pulpits, and was called to the pastorate of the chiirch in Stonington, which he declined. The church in Goshen was in a very dis- tracted state. Public worship at times was suspended for weeks. Some of the people went to Norfolk, some to Tor- rington, where Mr. Lemuel Haynes, a colored man, supplied the pulpit. Mr. Hooker came to Goshen, and although the idea of the people uniting upon any candidate seemed hopeless , no sooner had he commenced his work there than the effect of his gentle and conciliatory spirit began to be felt, and soon he received a unanimous call to become their pastor. He ac- cepted the invitation, and was ordained in September, 1791. Under his discreet ministration of the Gospel, Goshen soon became one of the strongest and most harmonious ecclesiasti- cal societies. In .Tune, 1792, Mr. Hooker was married to Phebe, daiigh- ter of Timothy Edwards of Stockbridge, and granddaiighter of the first President EdAvards. Mrs. Honker, who was dis- tinguished for her high intellectual, moral, and Christian qualities, survived her husband many years, and, after his death, was married to Samuel Farrar, Esq., of Andover, Mass. She died January' 22, 1848, aged seventy-nine. 310 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. In the fall of 1Y94, and again in the winter of 1795, Mr. Hooker went as a missionary to the northwestern part of Ver- mont, where he labored for some months with great fidelity and acceptance. During several of the earlier years of his ministry, his labors in his own congregation seemed to be attended with no marked effect, other than was manifest in the general har- mony and good feeling that prevailed among them. But in 1799, an extensive revival of religion took place, and about eighty persons were added to the church. In 1807 there was finother season of unusual religious interest, which was fol- lowed by a like happy result. During this period Mr. Hooker's zeal led him to labor far beyond what his strength would justify; and it soon became manifest that he was wearing out prematurely the energies of his constitution. In March, 1808, he preached at the ordination of the Kev. Mr. Pitkin in Milford; and afterwards rode to New Haven, and preached there the same evening. He lodged at the house of President Dwight; and when he retired to rest, made no complaint of any bodily indisposition. In the course of the night, however, he was attacked with a disease, which proved to be pleurisy, and from which he did not so far recover as to be able to return to his family in less than six weeks. And even then he was altogether too feeble to resume his labors, though the deep interest which he felt in the spiritual state of his people would not allow him to remain inactive; and, in consequence of his premature and excessive exertions, he soon found himself under the necessity of refraining from labor altogether. His health seemed to be temporarily improved by a journey to Ballston Springs, but his return to Goshen was followed by a relapse, in consequence of which he became satisfied that he must spend the approaching winter in a milder climate; Goshen, from its elevated situation, being peculiarly exposed to the wintry blasts. Accordingly, he did spend the HISTORY OF GOSHEN. 311 winter of 1808-9, cMeily in the city of New York and in New Jersey, and his letters at this time show how deeply he lamented the separation from his beloved people. On his return to Goshen in the spring, there was little to indicate any improvement in his health, but much to excite apprehension that he was sinking into a settled decline. He passed the summer in making short excursions, accompanied by his wife; and in the autumn he conckided, by the advice of physicians, to escape from the rigors of a northern climate, by spending the winter in South Carolina and Georgia. Ac- cordingly, after having taken a most alBfectionate leave of his beloved flock, he set oiit (Mrs. Hooker accompanying him) for Charleston. He was received there with the utmost hospi- tality and kindness, and immediately found a home in the family of the Rev. Dr. Keith. Erom Charleston he pro- ceeded to Savannah ; and wherever he went, he found himself among friends, who accoimted it a priAdlege to do all they could for his comfort. During his absence his people Were supplied by a young minister, Mr. Harvey, with whom they were so well pleased that they were disposed to settle him as their pastor provided there should be no reasonable prospect of Mr. Hooker's being able to resume his labors, and they wrote to him to this effect. To this letter he replied, assuring them of his full conviction that he should not be able to con- tinue in his charge, and requesting, though vnth feelings of the deepest regret, that the arrangement should be made, at as early a period as might be convenient, for his dismission. Agreeably to this reqtiest, he was dismissed by the Association on the 12th of June, 1810. Not only his people, but his brethren in the ministry, with whom he had so long taken sweet counsel, parted from him with extreme reluctance, and there was many a faltering voice, when, as the Association were about to take their leave of him, they sung, by his request, " Blest be the tie that binds," etc. 312 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. Soon after Mr. Hooker's resignation he supplied for a few Sabbaths the Brick church in New Haven, which had then be- come vacant by the removal of Mr. Stuart to Andover. He also received a call to settle over Christ Church Parish, near Charleston, S. C. The next winter he supplied, for several months, the Spring Street Presbyterian Church in ISTew York. His health during this time was better than it had been in preceding years, but still was so delicate as to require the ut- most care and vigilance. In the summer of 1811, he traveled into Massachusetts, and preached at Andover, at this time with great acceptance, and there was a disposition on the part of many in that congregation (then vacant) to secure his services permanently, but he discouraged any movement to that effect on the ground that his health would not endure the severity of the climate. In the autumn of 1811 he was invited to preach at Chelsea Parish, ISTorwich, Conn., from which the Rev. Walter King had then been recently dismissed, on account of a case of discipline which had occasioned a painful division in the church. Here his influence happily prevailed, as it had done before at Goshen, to heal the existing division and to restore the church to its wonted harmony. They soon gave him a call to become their pastor; and, having accepted it, he was installed on the 16th of January, 1812. The installation ser- mon was preached by the Rev. Dr. JSTott of Pranklin, and was published. Mr. Hooker entered upon his new field of labor with more than his wonted zeal, with his health considerably improved, and with every prospect of a continued life of usefulness. His preaching became more remarkable than it had ever been before for directness and pungency, and the very last sermon that he preached — on the text, " Be ye doers of the word and not hearers only," : — led one of his hearers to remark that " He preached as though he had not long to stay in our world." HISTORY OF GOSHEN. 313 From the time of his installation until February, 1813, there was no abatement of his bodily vigor and no indication of re- turning disease. At that time he became slightly indisposed, and, after a few days, was seized with a fever which prevailed with great violence in different parts of the country. On the Sth of April, when he seemed to have recovered from the at- tack, the disease returned upon him with increased virulence, and in eleven days reached a fatal termination. In the exer- cise of the most humble, submissive, and yet triumphant spirit, he closed his earthly career on the 19th of April, 1813, in the fifty-first year of his age. His funeral sermon was preached by the E.ev. Dr. Strong of ISTorwich, and was published. Mr. Hooker had three children who lived to adult years, one son and two daughters. The son is the Rev. Edward W. Hooker, D.D., late a professor in the Theological Seminary at East Windsor. One of the daughters was married to the Rev. Dr. Cornelius, and the other to the Rev. Dr. Peck, foreign secretary of the American Baptist Missionary Union. ]\rr. Hooker piiblished a sermon on the Divine Sovereignty in a volume entitled " Sermons Oollected, 1Y97 " ; a sermon at the ordination of James Beach, 1805: the Connecticut Elec- tion Sermon, 1805; a sermon at the ordination of John Keep, 1805; together with various articles in the Oonnecticut Evan- gelical ]\[agazine, etc. MR. HOOKER AS A TEACHER OF THEOLOGY. In the proceedings of the ISTorth and South Consociations of Litchfield County a paper was read from which we extract the following: " The last man ordained by the original Con- sociation, September 7, 1791, was the Rev. Asahel Hooker, pastor of the church in Goshen. . . . The theological school of Bellamy was past and gone ; Dr. Backus of Somers, in his turn, gave instriTction in this department of education; some other Connecticut ministers trained a few young men. 314 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. Dr. Emmons of Massachiisetts was doing something in this business; but at the death of Dr. Charles Backus, in 1805, the clergy of Connecticut felt urgently the want of a divinity school of its own. Dr. Dwight had a number of pupils. But he was too much engrossed with the great business of the col- lege to extend his operations sufficiently to meet the demand. The standing of IMr. Hooker among his brethren is marked by the fact that all eyes were turned toward him. He shrunk, with characteristic modesty, from the proposition. But as- sured by public sentiment he opened a school, and many young men ilocked to him. This private school of the prophete went successfully on, until the year 1810, when a pectoral complaint constrained Mr. Hooker to relinquish it, and to take a dismis- sion from his pastoral charge. Great benefit to the churches and the country was the result of this short course of theologi- cal instruction. It helped fill up a gap which, without it, would have yawned between the demise of the old masters in divinity and the establishment of our theological sem.inaries. A goodly number of ministers who have served God and their veneration with eminent success were Mr. Hooker's pupils. Some are dead, SQme yet alive, some are present." The room used for a study was in the northeast "orner of the house occupied, 1896, bv Mrs. Clarinda Lucas. Among his stiidents we name the following, some of whom have won names as faithful Christian servants which will never be for- gotten: James "W. "Bobbins, John Keep. John Hvde, Josiah W. Canning, Lvman Strong, Mills Day, Timothy P. Gillett, James Beach, Moses Gillett, Asahel Gavlord, Bennett Tyler, Experience Porter, Erederick Marsh, John "Woodbridge, He- man Humphrey, Thomas Pimderson, Joshua Huntington, William Bonney, Caleb Pitkin, Joshua L. "Williams, Allen McIiCan, Horatio Waldo, Joseph Edwards, Henry P. Strong, Luther Hart, James W. Tucker, Joseph L. Mills, Gordon Hall, Abel McEwen, and Noah Porter. HISTORY OF GOSHEN. 3I5 Of these James Beach was a native of Winchester, Conn.; was graduated from Williams College in 1804; studied theology with Mr. Hooker; was ordained pastor of the first church in Winsted, January 1, 180."). at a salary of $350; he resigned his pastorate in 1843 and died June 10, 1850, the day after the completion of his seventieth year. It was said of ilr. Beach: " His great weight of character and rare influence seemed to result very much from a happy comhination of deep piety, cultivated and vigorous intellect, sterling sense, uniform judiciousness, joined to his marked sobriety, his brotherly kindness, his dignified manners, his steady manifestation of strong love to God and God's truth, as he saw them on the sacred page in lines of light and glory." John Hyde was a native of Franklin, graduated from Yale, mar- ried a daughter of Rev. Dr. Samuel Nott. Was settled in Hamden, Preston, and North Wilbraham, ilass. He died at Franklin, much respected and beloved, August 14, 1848, aged 72. Thomas Punderson was a native of New Haven, a graduate of Yale, 1804, pastor Pittsfield, Mass., the ordination sermon preached by Rev. Dr. Moses Stuart, then of New Haven. Later, was pastor Huntington, Conn. Died in 1848. A sketch of Luther Hart will be found on another page. Joshua Huntington was born at Norwich, Conn., graduated Yale in 1S(>4. From the commencement of his ministry he was un- commonly popular, and the same day received calls to the First Church in Mlddletown, and to become associate pastor with the Rev. Dr. Bckley of the Old South Church in Boston. This latter call he accepted and was ordained May 18, 1808. Dr. Eckley lived less than three years after this; when ilr. Huntington became sole pastor until his death, September 11, 1819. Gordon Hall graduated Williams in 1806, was bom in Tolland, JIass., April 8, 1784. He was an intimate friend of Samuel J. ;\Iills, Jr., and interested with him In the work of foreign missions. He was licensed to preach in 1809, and supplied for nearly two years at Woodburj-, but would not become a pastor until it was settled that there was no opening for him in the foreign mission field. He was ordained at Salem, Mass., Februai-y 6, 1812, and sailed for Cal- cutta the 18th. He reached Calcutta, in company with his col- leagues, Messrs. Nott and Rice. August 8, 1812, and there continued to labor until March 20, 1826, when he died very suddenly and in the exercise of a triumphant faith. He was filled with a longing for the salvation of the world. President Heman Humphrey writes of Mr. Hooker: " Jlr. Hooker was uncommonly skillful, as well as successful, as a theologi- cal teacher; and I am not aware that any of his students have ever 316 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. dishonored their teacher or their profession. He had a list of questions, as was common at that day, embracing all the essential points in a theological course, on which we were required to write. In preparing these dissertations we were expected prayerfully to study the Scriptures, and to avail ourselves of such other helps as were within our reach. We read our theses before him at stated hours, and he proved himself a good critic and an able teacher. It was not his fault, but the fault of his pupils, if they did not enjoy as good advantages under his instruction as were then attainable. " But, after all, living in his family, observing how he went out and came in, how he walked before his flock, — ' leading them Into the green pastures,' enjoying his daily conversation, sitting under his ministi'y, and getting insensibly, as it were, initiated into the duties of the pastoral office, by the light of his example, were among the most important benefits enjoyed at his school. •' To sum up Mr. Hooker's character and qualifications in a few words, he was a good man, of excellent talents and high professional acquirements; a devoted pastor; an edifying and a searching preacher; a wise counsellor; an earnest defender of ' the faith once delivered to the saints'; an Elisha among the young prophets; a revered and beloved teacher, who will ever live in the grateful remembrance of his pupils, a's long as any of them shall survive him, as many still do." Josepli Harvey, son of Deaoon Ithamar and Electra (Fow- ler), son of Captain Ithamar and Ann (Cone), son of Thomas and Deborah. (Hungerford) Harvey, was bom at East Had- dam. Conn., March 1, 1V87; his father a deacon and his mother the daughter of the Rev. Joseph Fowler, pastor of the First Congregational Church. He entered Yale College in 1804, where he took high rank in scholarship,* and being employed during a part of his college course as amanuensis for President Dwight he had the benefit of close intimacy with that eminent man. During his second college year he became a Christian at a time when but few of the stxidents professed to be believers in the Christian religion, infidelity being very popiilar. After * Among his classmates were: The Rev. Dr. Nathaniel Hewitt of Bridgeport: Dr. .Tonathan Knight, an eminent physician and pro- fessor in the Yale Medical School; James A. HlUhouse of New Haven, the poet; the Rev. Matthew R. Dutton, who was settled in the minis- try at Oolebrook, Conn., and was aftei'wards for a short time professor of mathematics at Yale; the Hon. Ralph I. IngersoU of New Haven, member of Congress. and Minister to Russia. HISTOEY OF GOSHEN. 317 his graduation he studied theology with the Rev. Dr. Porter of Washington, Conn., afterwards Professor at Andover. He was licensed to preach by the Litchfield County Association, June, 1809, and soon after was called to the pastorate of the Congregational Church in Goshen, where he was ordained and installed pastor October 24, 1810. He married Catherine D. Selden, daughter of Colonel Kichard E. Selden of Had- lyme, soon after his installation. He was pastor in this town for fifteen years. It was dur- ing a period of excitement and controversy in the religious world, and especially in this state, and in this discussion he was a leader and took lively interest. It was also during this period that the work of foreign missions was inaugurated in this country, and to this he devoted his powers. With the Kev. Samuel J. (commonly known as " Father ") Mills, he let no opportunity pass of arousing or deepening the interest of the churches in this county in the work of sending the Gospel to the heathen, and at one time he had arranged to accompany the Rev. Gordon Hall as a missionary to the Indians in the territories. This plan was thwarted by the decision of Mr. Hall to go to India. He was one of the founders of the Litch- field County Foreign IVIissionary Society, and his zeal for this cause never flagged during his life. Several of his sermons relating to foreign missions were printed and had large circula- tion; one on the occasion of the inauguration of the first princi- pal of the " Foreign Mission School," at Cornwall, entitled " The Banner of Christ Set Up," and the writer has now be- fore him " A sermon preached at Litchfield, before the Foreign Mission Society of Litchfield County, February 15, 1815," on " The Prophetic Supremacy of the Kingdom of Christ," the words of which are still instinct with life. Two Saiid\\ach Island youths, Henry Obookiah and "Wil- liam Tennooe, were brought by interesting providences to his house and placed under his care and instruction for more than a year, and vsdthin the daily influence of Mrs. Harvey's lovely 318 ■ HISTORY OF GOSHEN. presence and gentle spirit. And it is fitting, in this connec- tion, to refer to her as a woman of rare merit and discretion, who won hearts wherever she was known, whose counsels savored of heavenly wisdom, whose piety was the very spirit of gentleness and humility, whose presence was a benediction and the story of whose life makes a glowing page in the " book of remembrance " on high. During the year Obookiah was hopefully converted, and Mr. Harvey sent him to Father Mills for counsel, and he re- ceived him into the church in Torringford. It was largely through the influence of Mr. Harvey that the Foreign Mission School was established at Cornwall, for the instruction of young men who came from foreign lands and their preparation as missionaries. Mr. Harvey was ap- pointed Principal, but the church were unwilling to release him, and so presented their claims to the Consociation that that body declined to dismiss him. He was also a teacher of others than the Sandwich Islanders, and took into his family students preparing for col- lege and graduates who were students of theology. Among these pupils may be named Professor William Thompson, and the Revs. James Ely, H. L. Vaill, Abraham and Theron Bald- win, and Samuel Church, afterward Professor of Mathematics at West Point. He also urged the establishment of an academy. In 1820 there commenced a most gracious revival in his parish, which lasted about a year. During that time his labors were constant, as it was not in the days of calling in an evange- list to help the weary pastor. For one year he preached as many sermons as there were days, visiting in all parts of the town, and, at its close, he was not only completely exhausted, but his constitution was broken down. From this excessive labor he never recovered. He continued his work until 1825, when he received an iavitation to become the secretary of the iVmerican Education Society, and, hoping that the change of HISTORY OF GOSHEN. 319 work would lead to the restoration of his health, he accepted, and the chnrch reluctantly consented to the dissolution of the pastoral relation, which took place in October of that year. The work of a secretary proving different from what he had anticipated, he resigned the office after having filled the posi- tion for a year. He was called to the church at Westchester, Conn., and in- stalled as its pastor January 17, 1827. Here he remained for nine years, his labors rewarded by revivals, and he was long spoken of as " a great scholar, a sound theologian, and a wise pastor." He edited "The Evangelical llagazine " in 1834-5, and in the latter year received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from Amherst College. It was at this time that the discus- sion between the Old and ISTew Theology was engaging the attention and employing the pens of so many of the ministers in this state, and Dr. Harvey, regarding the issues as vital, entered into it with zeal and interest. He was one of the founders of the Theological Institute at East Windsor Hill, which stood for the Old Theology. In 1836 he removed from Westchester to South Windsor, acting as pastor of the church for one year, and for three years editing The Watchman, a weekly paper published in Hart- ford. In the latter part of 1838 he commenced to preach in Thompsonville, then a small village. As the result of his labors, a church was formed, which became Presbyterian, the first of that denomination in the state. He was installed its pastor July 10, 1839, and continued in that relation for nearly eighteen years. His successor said of his work: "It is not too much to say that no pulpit in this state was better supplied than was this by Dr. Harvey. His Christian character was above reproach; he was honest and sincere in all his words and deeds; he was a scholar and a student, loved his books and his pen, yet, when drawn out, no man was more affable or en- 320 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. tertaining in company." The burdens brought by three score and ten years of life caused him to yield his pastorate, April 28, 1857. In the spring of 1858 he removed to Harvey (named for him), in . the upper peninsula of Michigan, where he con- tinued to preach and teach for fourteen years, his labors highly prized and greatly blessed. It was a missionary field, and the pecuniary compensation was inadequate to his support, but it seems the most beautiful and iChristlike of any work of his life. We see him who had been a leader in the church, ac- knowledged the peer of the most able, bearing the marks of the burdens of four score years, and in the midst of surroundings primitive and humble, teaching little children, and "still try- ing," as he expressed it, " to do a little for the dear Saviour, who gave His life for me, and Whom I hope soOn to see in His glory, in company with many departed friends." He con- tinued to preach until two weeks before his death, and, after an illness of eight days, he gently passed away. His remains were buried in the cemetery at Marquette, beside his beloved wife, in a spot of has own choosing, on the shores of the Great Lake. The church in Thompsonville erected a tablet to his memory upon the wall of the house of worship at the left of the pulpit. Thus ended a life made noble by ability, fidelity, and usefulness, sixty-four years having been devoted to the preach- ing of the Gospel of Christ. Dr. Harvey was a man of fine personal appearance, and, until his system had been greatly weakened by age and over- work, possessed a voice rich and persuasive, and these endow- ments added to bis power in the presentation of truth. Seven children were bom into his home, three of whom died in infancy or early youth, and but two are now living; Catherine, uimiarried, who resides at Harvey, Mich., and Charles T. Harvey, an eminent civil engineer, residing in the city of ISTew York. He was married to Miss Sarah L. Van HISTORY OF GOSHEN. 321 Eps of Utica, E". Y., June 10, 1858. They have four children living. Mr. Francis H. Case of Canton, Conn., a graduate of Yale, was engaged to supply the pulpit when Mr. Harvey removed, which he did with such acceptance that on the 12th of Decem- ber, 1825, he was called to the pastorate. He accepted the call, and was ordained and installed February 1, 1826. Dr. Lyman Beecher preached the sermon on that occasion. His ministry was a fruitful one, as he received fifty-nine members into the church during his short pastorate. Of that number, not one is a member of the church to-day. This relation was a pleasant one to pastor and people, but the health of the pastor failing so entirely that he felt a con- tinuance of his labors would result in utter prostration, on August 27, 1828, he asked to be dismissed, and, the request having been granted, the relation was terminated the 30th of September following. The church soon made an effort to secure the services of the Eev. Laurens P. Hickock, then of Kent, but the effort was not successful. The Rev. Grant Powers was born in HoUis, New Hamp- shire, fifth in descent from his Pilgrim ancestors, who came to Salem in 1654. His family was of a godly and sturdy race among the pioneers of the western world. His grandfather, Captain Peter Powers, was the first settler in the town of HoUis, and, at the knee of his aged grand- mother, little Grant imbibed the ardent love of the history and legends of I^ew England that was one of the passions of his life. L'ntil twenty-one years of age his life was passed upon his father's farm, so that his academic and professional course be- gan later than that of his contemporaries. He was fitted for college at Phillips Academy, Andover, and was graduated from Dartmouth College, in 1810. 21 322 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. He had devoted all the time to be spared from the regular college studies, and from the various labors necessary to sus- tain him there to the study of medicine and surgery. He was an especially enthusiastic student of the latter branch of the profession under Prof. I^athan Smith, who gave him all pos- sible advantages in the pursuit of his chosen profession, and employed him as assistant in the operations in which he was engaged. Mr. Powers was rarely qualified for this career, and he retained a deep interest in all that concerned it through- out bis whole life. But, as his early religious convictions deepened into earnest piety, he felt an irresistible call to devote himself to the work of the ministry. The sacrifice of bis tastes and of his training caused himself much pain and his master profound disgust, but the inner call was too strong to be disregarded for personal preferences, and he entered upon a course of theological study with Dr. Asa Burton of Thetford, Vt. While pursuing his theological studies, he established the first Bible class in this country — probably the first of the kind in any country. It was an entirely new feature in the education of the time. He was an ardent lover of Biblical history and literature, and he had the gift of rendering it a fascinating study. Later on, when he was established in his pastoral charge in Haverhill, ]Sr. H., he developed the system of his Bible class to larger pro- portions. It was not of the much later Sunday-school type, nor was it conducted on Siinday. It was a minute and de- lightful searching of the Scriptures, as history, with all the charm that he so well knew how to throw round it, and all the illustrations drawn from his professional studies and the kind- ling of his poetic imagination. He was licensed to preach in 1812. Meanwhile, his liberal education had been obtained at the expense of such labor and sacrifices as were common among the students of that day, and the magnificent constitution with which be entered upon his course of study had suffered HISTORY OF GOSHEN. 323 rude shocks in consequence of the change from active outdoor life to sedentary confinement — for the laws of health and exercise were little understood and ruthlessly violated, when stud}' and exercise and sometimes manual labor were pursued conjointly without regard to the necessities of the mortal frame. With health weakened by the new regimen, Mr. Powers contracted a severe cold, which settled upon his lungs, and finally advanced to what was decided to be confirmed con- sumption. Hoping to receive some relief from change of air and from travel, he accepted an invitation to preach at Cayuga, !N^. Y., to which place he proceeded by easy stages, on horse- back, and where he continued to minister for a year. His labors in Cayuga were greatly blessed, but his health steadily declined, and, by the advice of his physicians, he returned to end his days in ISTew England. In June, 1814, upon a little excursion with a friend, he passed through Haverhill, N. H., and there, unexpectedly, met a college friend, who invited him to supply the destitute pulpit in Haverhill on the following Sabbath, to which request he assented, and on Monday morning he was waited on by the ofiicers of the church who begged him to remain and supply their pulpit. Mr. Powers, supposing himself very near the end of his life, had made up his mind to labor precisely as if he were in health, so long as he should live, and he began his stated work in Haverhill under those conditions. He preached early and late, visited the parish, cared for the sick, and, after repeated invitations from the people to become their pastor, he acceded to their wishes, on the ground that he might as well die their pastor as their supply, if the difference would gratify the people to whom he had become deeply attached. He was ordained January 4, 1815. When one reads his diary of that time, and understands what the record means in pastoral and pulpit effort, and then follows the description of the truly ferocious medical treatment 324 HISTOEY OF GOSHEN. to which he was meanwhile subjected, it seems nothing less than a miracle that even his wonderful constitution could conquer in that fight. Conquer, however, it did. The feeble little church was visited by repeated seasons of spiritual blessing, and, notwithstanding that his labors were incessant, his health gradually returned, and, although all his life he had to guard against a certain delicacy of lungs, he at- tained vigorous health. On September 22, 1817, he married Eliza Howard, daugh- ter of Thomas Hopkins, Esq., of Thetford, Vt., and a descend- ant of Thomas Hooker. Miss Hopkins reached the age of fif- teen on the day of her marriage. She was a woman of un- usual gifts of mind and person, and she sustained the dignity to which she was so prematurely called. The relation between Mr. Powers and his parish in Haverhill was close and tender, but the parish was far from rich, and as years went on it be- came evident that duty to his increasing family required that he should seek another field of labor, for he would not consent to lay any heavier burden upon the people who had already done their utmost towards sustaining their pastor. With the keenest pain on both sides the relation was dis- solved in April, 1829, and Mr. Powers was settled in Goshen in August of the same year. And there, for eleven happy years, he went in and out among the people of that noble parish, loving and beloved, enjoying to the utmost the place, the people, and his work; and there, after two years of great siiffering, he died, of angina pectoris, April 10, 1841. And there he lies, awaiting the resurrection ; and his monument, so beautifully tended, shows that his memory is still cherished among the traditions of the fathers. In person, Mr. Powers was of robust frame and of great muscular power. His carriage was erect, his step elastic. His manner was genial and winning. He had a singular gift of obtaining the affectionate confidence of all with whom he came in contact. HISTORY OF GOSHEN. 325 As a pastor, lie was untiring in ministrations; and in at- tendance upon the sick Tie was as assiduous as tlie physician. As a preacher, his sermons were marked by deep spirituality and made impressive by his great felicity of illustration, flis ministry was blessed by repeated outpourings of the Spirit, in which he rejoiced, with more incessant labors, but in the epoch of what may be called Theological Eadicalism, he stood for conservatism, and steadfastly refused to admit within his parish the methods of factitious awakening of religious interest that rent in sunder so many of the churches in his neighbor- hood. There are none left of his beloved brethren in the minis- try who could testify to the affection and reverence with which he was regarded by them. They have all gone to join him, and their works, like his own, do follow them. Mrs. Powers survived her husband to a vigorous old age, and died in "Washington, D. C, August 24, 1887, at the age of 85. She held an honored place among the women who labored for the relief of our suffering soldiers during the Civil War, and was laid in her grave wearing the badge of the Grand Army of the Republic, and was wrapped in the flag which they fought to maintain. Although Mrs. Powers' early marriage and her manifold cares — she had borne her husband eight children before she was twenty -nine — would seem to have precluded the possibility of study, yet her eager appetite for knowledge devised means for its gratification, and, to the end of her long life, she held her own among the most success- ful students of the higher education. Of the four children who survived their parents, the son is a merchant in Boston, one daughter is married, residing on the Isthmus of Panama. Of the two widowed daughters, one resides in Washington, D. C, and the other makes her home in Smyrna, Turkey. Lavalette Perrin was born in Vernon, Conn., May 15, 326 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. 1816, and was graduated at Tale College in 1840. After his graduation he taught two years in Miss Obmstock's school for young ladies in New Haven, studied theology in the JSTew Hayen Seminary and in the Seminary at East Windsor Hill, Conn. Having been licensed to preach, he was ordained to the Gospel ministry December 13, 1843, in the town of Goshen, Conn., and at the same time installed pastor of the Congregational Church in that place, where he remained in active service until September, 1857. In June, 1844, he was married to Ann Eliza Comstock of ISTew Haven. In Goshen his pastorate was marked with the usual features of interest in a first ministry; features, however, of a more than usually striking character. Such a ministry is always and especially a time of beginnings: new plans, new hopes, new attachments, while, as yet, disappointment and sorrow are scarcely known. The new home, the new work, the first people, and the young pastor, all together make a happy scene that can never be duplicated in one pastor's life. Mr. Perrin's home from the first took on the character of intellectual ac- tivity and social refinement quite in advance of the average country parsonage at that time. Books, magazines, music, en- tertained and educated it. Its refined and generous hospitality cheered and gladdened the whole parish. And it must be said here that the young and accomplished wife had uncommon adaptations in her sphere. She had a bright and beaming face, buoyancy of spirits, a beautiful hope- fulness which gave a constant charm to the home, maintaining in it an almost girlish exuberance of life ; all which, chastened by the Christian faith, brought unfailing strength to the pas- tor's heart in the grave problems of his work. Mrs. Perrin was the exact completion of his own life. Her sprightly ways and high cultivation, her good sense and warm heart admir- ably qualified her for leadership in the various departments of woman's work in the parish, and gave her a wholesome and decided influence among all varieties of disposition and habit. LA\'ALETTIi I'ERIilX, D.D. , HISTORY OF GOSHEN. 327 In this field he Tery soon found an opening for work not specially included in the professional routine, but which made a strong appeal to him as a minister of Christ. He saw the havoc made by the drink habit, and eagerly seized the oppor- tunity to reclaim the drunkard, and gave himself to that work, till he saw his church thoroughly aroused, and the contagion of its zeal extending to other churches in the vicinity, till the Goshen chtirch stood as a pronounced force with the young pastor in this work of love. It was the time of the "Washing- tonian movement, and not far from Litchfield, where Dr. Beecher, a few years before had sounded his alarm; but be- sides this, is interesting as showing how Mr. Pearin watched for souls, and sought to save men by whatever neighborly and sympathetic efforts he could. To him the field was the world, and therefore the church must be in the world also, in the midst of the wide world's wants. This may fairly describe the situation as he enters upon his ministry in the goodly town of Goshen, among the far-famed hills, and in the bracing air of Litchfield Oounty. Here began lifelong' habits of method and self-discipline with the un- faltering purpose of making the most of that life in behalf of his fellowmen. In leaving this for another field of labor he could not but carry with him pleasant memories of a most efficient ministry, and devout gratitude for the 117 accessions to the church. In February, 1858, he received and accepted a call to the First Congregational Church in E"ew Britain. This call placed him in a quite different environment, a large and grow- ing commimity, already pushing on to be one of the liveliest and most important business centers in the state. Here a greater variety of interests and new lines of effort opened to him. The Civil War broke out, and made him a prominent " civic " leader, as well as an ethical and religious teacher. The public schools also came in for a share of his attention, in- 328 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. Tolving details of location, construction, organization, and various practical matters of municipal interest, which should always find in the pulpit a firm ally. It could not be other- wise than that the business constituency in which he was now placed should, in many respects, be very different from the agricultural one he had left. Not only did it lay upon him heavier responsibilities, but also taught him new lessons in ad- ministration, and discovered to him his talent for " affairs " on which great demands were to be laid in the future, and which was already bringing him into prominence as an influen- tial factor in the social and business life of men. Here also came the severer discipline of domestic trials. Sickness and deatJa invaded his home and took from it two sons, a bright boy of four years, and a youth of nineteen, already fitted for college, whose gradual decline through a period of two years made him the chief and tenderest care of the home; and a little later (in Torrington), the only daughter in her early married life. At the time it seemed almost too much to bear. " Bitter, bitter," as he called it. But it is God's way of re- fining the man for whom He has a great work in view. How often he puts him into prison or a desert, into some strangely woven net-work of circumstance, partially shut away and shut up alone with Himself, to give him a deeper experience and a larger furnishing for the work that is in waiting for him. Thus these " bitter " draughts from, the cup of sorrow wrought in the sufferer " the peaceable fruits of righteousness," made the ministry a more sacred calling to him, deepened his spiritual life, and became to him an element of further and more vigor- ous growth. Indeed, it became more than ever evident that growth, in all providential fortunes, was the law of his being. As his spirit was chastened, his life was enlarged. It could not be confined within parish limits. Toward the close of his pastorate in New Britain the State Conference of Congregational Churches was formed, in which HISTORY OF GOSHEN. 329 he took a deep interest, and of which he was a great part. As events have proved, he is probably more conspicuously identi- fied with the early history of the Conference than any other man, as we shall see in reviewing his Torrington ministry. In 1 869 he received from Yale College the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity. To characterize the New Britain period of his life I should say it was the time when his views of church life and respon- sibility were perceptibly broadened, and a wider range of service opened to him, and many seed thoughts of progress were lodged in his mind to germinate and become fruitful. How he continued to live in the hearts of this people, after the pastoral relation was dissolved, is touchingly evident from their mourning at his death (nine years afterward) in that remarkable memorial service which thej held in his honor around the pulpit he had filled; a hearty and beautiful com- memoration of the pastor who had gathered 356 members into its fold. After leaving his pastorate in New Britain, May, 1870, he needed rest. The twelve years of service, with the addition of repeated and bitter afflictions, left his nervous energies in a low condition, and for a year or so he traveled abroad. Even in this season of recuperation the ruling passion continued. One day in London he visited a locality unusually interesting for its historic associations. It was remembered as having been the place where in other days dissenters had been con- fined and executed. Near it, or upon it, there had been erected a memorial building, and appropriately named " Mem- orial Hall." Dr. Perrin could not btit make a study of it. He could not but think of the relationship of the Congregational Churches of his own state to those brave and devoted men whose memory was now honored by that Memorial Hall. Then thinking of the Connecticut State Conference of Congrega- tional Churches, so recently launched and started on its promis- 330 HISTORY OF GOSHlifN. ing career, he conceived the idea of another Memorial Hall as a suitable equipment for it, and brought home with him the fond hope. That hope he cherished and it grew upon him, until he saw his way clear to present it to the Conference. Conference considered it favorably, referred it largely to his management, and from year to year, as it developed under his hand, adopted his reports of progTCSS, until it became a histori- cal fact; a commodious building for the uses of the denomina- tion in the state which could not now be dispensed with. In all the initial steps for the purchase of the Memorial Hall property, continued for years, including the raising of the money through the hard times of '73 and '74, the minute personal superintendence of the building and its furnishings, the tinting of the rooms, matching of colors, in short, in all the details of plan and method. Dr. Perrin was the sole manager and organizer from start to finish. Added to this, there was all along the natural caution, perhaps inertia, to be overcome in the minds of a great many as to the expediency of the enterprise itself. Through all this he moved forward with the step of a master, as if in the fullest confidence in every plan, till the building was finished, furnished, and paid for, with ample room for committee meetings, an office for the secretary of the Connecticut Home Missionary Society, deposi- tories for books, manuscripts of historical value, besides an annual income from rents of about $2,000. And it is not remembered that in all this responsibility he ever presented to the Conference a single plan of action which the Confer- ence did not adopt. A remarkable tribute, surely, to his judg- ment and sagacity, that he could carry to a popular assembly with all its liabilities and uncertainties, for a series of years, an enterprise involving such expense, and receive its uniform sanction; and none the less so that he could so approve himself to the sharp scrutiny of individual business men like John B. Eldridge and Eoland Mather, who generously contributed HISTORY OF GOSHEN. 33-^ respectively $25,000 and $1,000, and who are ever held in grateful remembrance. But our survey is not complete till we take into view the Congregational Club, third in the series, completing the unity of the three. For it is not until they are thus grouped that we get the full meaning of either one. ITothing is plainer than that the Conference led the way to the Memorial Hall, and the Memorial Hall to the Congregational Club, and that Dr. Perrin was as influential a factor in the last move as in the last but one. All three bear the indelible marks of his coinstruct- ive mind. On his return from Europe, being without a pastoral charge, he ministered for about nine months to the church in Xorth Stonington, and, while supplying there, received and accepted a call to settle with the third church in Torrington, and was installed July 31, 1872. It was, therefore, during his earlier ministry in that place that the Memorial Hall work was on his hands, and also when the formation of the Congrega- tional Club was receiving so much of his attention. At the same time also, he became editor of the Religious Herald, and continued in that service seven years. A little later he interested himself in the formation of the Naugatuck Yalley (district) Conference, which involved a change of boundary lines in contiguous Conferences, but which seemed necessary on account of changes in the lines of public travel. This was due in its beginnings to the inspiration of Dr. Pen-in, and largely to his guidance all through to its consummation. It was in this ministry also (1880) that he was elected treasurer of the National Council of Congregational Churches; also (1882) was elected corporator of Yale College, in both which offices he served till his death. On the whole, his Torrington ministry was' his best. As he neared the mark towards which he had been "pressing " for forty years, he ran with swifter steps. For while his serv- 332 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. ice was thus continually broadening out to include so many matters of general interest to tlie churches, he was still mainly concerned with his own distinctively parish work. To this he gave himself with a passionate devotion, and for his re- ward saw his church in Torrington come to a degree of streoigth and stability it had never before attained, having made in that time the remarkable record of 415 accessions to its member- ship. "We may now close this sketch by drawing a few lines of what may be called the personal portraiture of the man. He was a man of fine presence, dignified address — qualities due in part to an uncompromising conscience, a sense of living and acting all the while amid great realities. This being so, conscience being the regnant power of his soul, he set duty above everything else in life, and taught others to do the same. So that his preaching was ethical, and, in style, clear, forcible, and practical. Had he given freer scope to sentiment and imagination his preaching might have gained in popu- larity. But whether it would have made a more lasting im- pression may be doubted. To this day his people in JSTew Brit- ain, now in middle life, remember how impressively he taught them in their youth to fear and love the claims of duty. " "We can never forget it," they say. Yet, his sympathy was, if possible, still more marked. He never tired of ministering to the weak and the needy. His strong manhood never impressed one more than in this service, reminding one of the words, " gentle as a nurse cherisheth her children." Sickness, poverty, bad contagions, whatever the risk or sacrifice, never failed to bring him to the sufferer, with the sufferer's comforts. He was a man of rigid method, upon which point I may quote: " Careful, methodical preparation, and methodical record characterized all his parish work. His daily journals, covering his forty-five years of ministerial service, are models 2 3 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. 333 of miniite observation and serviceable record, and they sbow always, from first to last, one ambition — to promote the glory of God in his fellowmen. They are a history of souls saved and sotils edified.' " He was a man of most unrelenting purpose, like the French Huguenot from whom he descended. In the course of his work on the Memorial Hall problem, he encountered, of course, many serious difficulties, many obstructive contin- gencies. But, as the matter gradually passed along and came within hailing distance of success, the late lamented Dr. W. J. Burton, talking of it mth a friend at his side, remarked in his playful way, " Isn't it curious how much one demonized man can do! " In his home life there was a charm of which the outside world can hardly be aware. The sickness and death of those nearest to him brought oiit the great wealth of his heart and chastened his spirit to the sweetest temper. His home ties were strongest of all, and made him great. " It is my wish and prayer," said his devoted wife to him, " that we may die near together." The prayer was answered on that dreadful night when the bursting of the steam boiler in the cellar de- molished the building and buried them together in its ruins. The Rev. William T. Doubleday was the son of Dr. Ammi and Susan Pierce Doubleday, and was bom in Binghamton, ]S^. Y., March 28, 1819. He studied in the schools of that place until he was fifteen, when he entered the Academy at Amherst Mass. He was a member of Amherst College from 1834 to 1836, and of Yale in 1836 and '38, when he was graduated. His father intended that he should enter the legal profession, but after a struggle for more than a year with his religious convictions he gave himself to the work of the minis- try. Some time after his decision had been made he learned that a granddaughter of President Edwards, who was a resi- dent of Binghamton, had been praying that he might be led 334 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. to enter the ministry. In a letter to the writer Mr. Doubleday says: " I do not know when I was converted, probably in my infancy, and consecrated in my mother's arms; for I cannot recall any period in my long life when I went through the orthodox process, or when I was not trying to b© a Christian." He pursued his theological course at the Union Seminary be- tween 1839 and 1843, being absent one year on account of sickness. His work in the ministry commenced in 1843, and from that time until and including 1845 he supplied the pulpit of the First Presbyterian Church in Bainbridge, I*T. Y. He was ordained by the Cortland Presbytery March 3, 1847, in Truxton, ~N. Y., having been supplying the pulpit in 1846 and remaining until 1849. In 1850 he accepted an invita- tion to the pastorate of the church in Grilbertsville, N. Y., where he labored for ten years. His ministry was greatly blessed and accompanied by revivals of remarkable power and extent; but having only occasional assistance in the pulpit during these seasons, that called for much extra labor, his health suffered, and, finally, to that extent he was compelled to resign. From 1860 to 1863 he was pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church in Delhi, ^ew York, but, the climate proving unfavorable, he was compelled to resign and take a rest of several months. He was called to the church in Goshen near the close of 1863, and, after preaching one Sabbath, December 6th, he was seized with a dangerous illness, and only after an intermission of eleven weeks was he able to re-enter the pulpit. His in- stallation took place June 1, 1864, and he continued the pas- tor of the church until October 31, 1871. His ministry here was marked by an earnest fidelity, wisdom, and interest in the people of his charge, that won for him their universal esteem and such blessing from God that seventy-nine members were added to the church during his pastorate. The Civil War was in progress during these years, and many of the young HISTORY OF GOSHBN. 335 men who went into the army from Goshen were slain in battle or returned broken in health to die among their kindred. The pastor was compelled to minister comfort and sympathy often during these years, and his words and tender s^onpathy will never be forgotten. His sermon on the death of Henry Beach was published by the society, tliat its words of wisdom and com- fort might be of help and consolation to many who could not hear them and be the longer remembered by those who listened to their delivery. Mr. Doubleday was always proud of the war record of this town — its contributions both of men and money. During his pastorate a young lad lived in his family one winter that he might attend the Academy. His name was George Henry, and during this time he was converted, and, later, joined the church. He was from a Roman Catholic family, but he was full of zeal and continued his studies until he was licensed to preach in Brooklyn, !N". Y., and became pastor of a mission connected with the Bev. Dr. Duryea's church. In 1871 ]\Ir. Doubleday became so completely prostrated in health that he was compelled to resign, and since that time he has been able to preach only occasionally. He removed to Vineland, X. J., where he remained seven years. He resides at present in Binghamton, 'N. Y., and it is very little to say that he has the love and respect of all who know him. His ancestry and kindred have been characterized by qualities which ensure respect and honor. His grandfather, Am.mi D., bom 1759, served in the War of the Eevolution; died in New Hartford, IST. Y., 1839. His grandmother was Lois Tilden, sister to the father of Gov. Tilden of IST. Y. His mother's father was Thomas Pierce, also a Eevolutionary sol- dier, at one time a prisoner in the prison ships in !N"ew York harbor. His father. Dr. Ammi D., Jr., was bom in New Lebanon, N. Y., July 3, 1790; died in Binghamton July 23, 336 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. 186Y. His mother was Susan Pierce, born in Plainfield, Conn., April 13, 1793; married February 3, 1814; died in Bingham- ton September 11, 1856. Mr. Doubleday was married May 14, 1844, to Frances M., daughter of Francis Doremus, Esq., a merchant of New York city. Her father served in the War of 1812, and died Decem- ber 12, 1876, aged 89. Her mother was Eliza DeH. Canfield, a great-granddaughter of the Rev. James Caldwell, who served on Gen. "Washington's staff iri 'New Jersey during the week, and preached Sunday in his church in Elizabeth. He was the man who brought out the hvmn books when their wadding failed and gave to the soldiers, telling them, " Give them Watts, boys; give them Watts." Mrs. Doubleday died in Binghamton April 5, 1882. They had two daughteirs, Susan Caldwell, who died in infancy, and Frances C, who lives in Binghamton with her father. The church was not long without a pastor, as a call was ex- tended to the Eev. Timothy A. Hazen in December, 1871, was accepted by him, and followed by his installation, Febru- ary 7, 1872. Mr. Hazen was born at West Springfield (now Agawam), Mass., June 24, 1826, the son of the Eev. Eeuben S. and Mary Ann (Wood) Hazen. His father was a Congregational clergyman, gradiiated at Yale in 1818. After graduating he taught the grammar school at Goshen for one year, and dur- ing that time studied theology with the Eev. Joseph Harvey. His mother was the daughter of the Eev. Luke Wood, a Con- gregational clergyman. He prepared for college at the West- field Academy, Westfield, Mass., and was graduated from Williams College in the class of 1849. His theological stiidies were pursued at the Theological Institute, East Windsor Hill, for one year, and later at the Union Seminary, New York, where he graduated in 1853. He married Sarah A. Ives of Lenox, Mass., August 23, 1853. HISTORY OF GOSHESN. 337 His pastorates have been at Dalton, Mass., 1854-1859; Broad Brook, Conn., 1859-1868; Soutli Egremont, Mass., 1863-1869; Housatonio, Mass., 1869-18Y1; Goshen, 1872-1883; and Cur- tisville, Mass., 1883-1889. He is now, 1896, residing at Springfield, Mass. While at South Egremont he delivered a Historical Sermon of that church, which was published. During his pastorate a mauual was prepared and adopted; the work of which was done with great care. A ladies' prayer-meeting was established. The death of Deacon Harvey Brooks, a man greatly beloved, occurred February 17, 1873. In IS 75 the present arrangement of weekly offerings to be deposited in boxes by the doors was made. In 1876 the pas- tor took the lead in furnishing the Conference Eoom in the second story of the district schoolhouse. The same year there was an awakening of religious interest, as the result of which the church received upwards of thirty members. In 1877 a census of the town was taken, and it was found that there were 109 Congregational families, 62 Methodist, 6 Baptist, 8 Episcopal, and 34 Eoman Catholic. There were 237 families ha\ing the Bible; 19 without; 8 supplied free; 10 refusing. In 1880 Miss Lyman's bequest of $1,500 was received by the parish. Miss Lyman desired this to be used for building a chapel for social meetings, and this was the wish of the church, but the parish, having the power under the terms of the be- quest, and deeming it wise, used it otherwise. Mr. Hazen resigned the pastorate ISTovember 12, 1882. The church at first refused to accept the resignation, but later they did so, assuring him of the love and esteem in which he was held by all. A council was called, which advised the dis- solution, passing resolutions commending the pastor and ex- pressing sympathy with the church. 23 338 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. OHAPTEE XIX. PHYSICIANS, LAWYERS, AND TEACHERS. Physicians. Oliver Wolcott, afterwards Governor of tlie state, settled in the town some time between 1740 and 1750, with the expecta- tion that it would some day become the county seat of a new county to be organized, and while here was engaged in the practice of medicine. In 1751, when the county was organized and Litchfield was made the shire town, he was appointed the first sheriff and removed to Litchfield. The Rev. Timothy Collins, the first pastor of the church in Litchfield, was also a medical practitioner. He resigned his pastorate in 1752, and after that devoted himself to medicine, and was much employed in Goshen. His wife is described as a woman of great sense and capa- bility. She also practiced the healing art, and her ride was almost as extensive as that of her husband. At the birth of Ursula, daughter of Captain Miles JSTorton of Goshen, East street, she was sent for, and drawn on a hand sled from Litch- field to this town. This was January 26, 1780, this being what was called '' the hard winter." The distance was four and one-half miles. Doctor Elisha Sill came here at an early day from Say- brook, Conn. He married the only child of the Rev. Mr. Heaton, and inherited his large property. There is nothing on record and nothing remembered as to his practice. Dr. Elias Deming purchased property here in 1754. It is probable that he came from Middletown. JSTot much is known of his medical practice; probably it was not large. At this time HISTORY OF GOSHEN. 339 the practice of medicine was open to every one, and there were very few who possessed the qualifications of good physicians. Dr. Joel Soper married the daughter of Benoni Hills, in 1762. He lived in the town for several years and was em- ployed to some small extent as a physician. In the jSTorton records I find the following : " was used as a Pest house by Dr. Jesse Carrington, then of East St.," from which we infer that there was a practicing physician here of that name. He seems to have had a brother James. Doctor Joseph Korth came to Goshen when he was eight years old. It is related of him that, when he was young, he used to spend some time with Dr. Joel Soper, reading his books, and although the teacher was but poorly taught (as were most of the medical men of those days), the young man ac- quired some knowledge of medicine and surgery. In surgery, and especially in the setting of broken and dislocated bones, he became eminently skillful. His medical and surgical prac- tice was very considerable for many years. He was long re- membered as a valuable citizen, and as a man useful in his day; and although some of his children and grandchildren have gone far beyond him in raedical and surgical knowledge, it should be remembered that his opportunities were far less than theirs. Dr. Elisha North, eldest son of the above, was a physician of great skill, both as a general practicioner and a surgeon. He was engaged in practice here for about thirty years, and re- moved from here to JSTew London, where he died in 1843, aged 75. While residing here he published a treatise on the spotted fever, a disease which was prevailing throughout the state. His work met with general approval among physicians, and gave him a widely extended reputation. Joseph North, Jr., a second son, became a physician and practiced in Cornwall. His son, Joseph Howard North, is 340 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. now, as for many years, the resident physician in the town, and gives abundant evidence, by his skill and devotion to his profession, that it is worth something to have a long line of an- cestors through whom have been transmitted a natural gift or genius for his work. Dr. Asahel Mack Huxley practiced in the town for many years, and there never was a physician more generally hon- ored, never one more confided in, never one who took a greater interest in his patients, or responded more readily to their calls than he. His name will be found among the soldiers in the Civil War, and the occasion of his death is there described. The town has had other physicians, but it has been found difficult, if not impossible, to gather many facts as to their personality or practice. Charles Henry Stanley Davis was born in Goshen, March 2, 1840. His father. Dr. Timothy F. Davis, removed from Goshen to Litchfield, where he practiced his profession, later to Plymouth and Meriden, where he died in 1870. Charles H. S. Davis obtained his medical education at the j^ew York University, afterwards pursuing a post-graduate course, and receiving a " certificate of honor." After taking a special course in the medical department of the University of Baltimore, and another at the Harvard Medical School, he returned to Meriden and succeeded his father in the practice of his profession. Three years later he went abroad, and after visiting Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Scotland, Ireland, and Belgium, he spent several months in the hospitals of London and Paris. Upon his return to Meriden he at once built up a large practice. Dr. Davis is the attending physician of the Curtis Home for Old Ladies and Orphans, also of the State School for Boys. While engaged in the study of medicine. Dr. Davis took up the study of Hebrew and Arabic, and these languages were fol- lowed in after years with Syriac, Armenian, Ancient Egyp- HISTORY OF GOSHEN. 341 tian, and the modern languages. He began at this time to form a library whicli now contains some 6,000 volumes, and is very complete in Oriental philology and archaeology. He has contributed largely to the medical and scientific press. In two years he compiled the " Index to Periodical Literature," carefully indexing the contents of some one hundred and twenty-fiTe American and foreign periodicals every month. In 1872, he wrote a work on " The Voice as a Musical Instru- ment," which has been through several editions. He has written largely for the press on the education and management of feeble-minded and backward children, and many of the articles were translated into Spanish and published in El Repertario Medico, and later were published in book form under the title of " The Classification, Training and Education of the Feeble-minded, Imbecile and Idiotic." Some thirty years ago Dr. Davis began to gather material for a local his- tory, which was published under the title of " A History of Wallingford and Meriden." It contained the genealogies of some sixty families. In 1893, in connection with the Rev. Dr. Cobum of Ann Arbor, wrote a " History of Ancient Egypt in the Light of Modern Discoveries." This is the finest work on the subject published in the English language. In 1894 he published the " Egyptian Book of the Dead," translating the work from the French, and writing the introductory chap- ters on " The Eeligious Belief of Primitive Peoples," " The Religion of Ancient Egypt." For ten years Dr. Davis has ed- ited Bihlia, a journal devoted to Biblical and Oriental Ar- chaeology, and the American organ of the Egypt and Pales- tine Exploration Funds. He was one of the founders of the Scientific Association of l\Ieriden, a director in the depart- ment of archaeology and ethnology, corresponding secretary, and has edited its four volumes of transactions and contributed to each volume. For the past ten years he has been engaged in translating the Koran from the Arabic, with a critical, exe- getical, and philological commentary. 342 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. In 1873, '85, and '86, Dr. Davis represented Mexiden in the lower house of the General Assembly, serving as chairman and secretary of important committees. In 1886, he was elected mayor of the city, re-elected in 18 ST, and declined the nomination in 1888. In 1887 he organized the Board of Trade, and was elected its first President. He also assisted in organizing three large building and loan associations with over one thousand members, and for one year edited the monthly journal of sixteen pages, devoted to the affairs of the associa- tions, sometimes writing the entire contents each month. In 1872, he was elected a member of the school board, and served twenty-five years. For five years he was acting school visitor, fourteen years a member of the High School committee, and for a number of years president of the board. For six years Dr. Davis was a trustee of the State School for Boys, serving as secretary of the board, and for two }'ears treasurer of the school, during which time he paid out over $125,000 without an error in his accounts. Dr. Davis has always been interested in the natural sciences, and has collected a cabinet of over 4-00 mineralogical and geological specimens, a collection of all the varieties of plants found in Meriden and vicinity, and also specimens of all the varieties of trees, some one hundred and fifty in number, showing the leaf, bark, and heartwood of each specimen. Dr. Davis is an active, honorary, or corresponding member of some thirty historical, scientific, philological, and literary societies. He is one of the honorary secretaries of the Egypt Exploration Fund, and was one of the advisory council of the World's Fair Auxiliary, in the department of Egyptology. To this department he contributed a paper on the Keligions of Ancient Egypt. Dr. Davis very much regrets that he has to spend five or six hours oiTt of the twenty-four for the purpose of eating and sleeping, as he has work laid out to occupy his spare time for the next twenty-five years. HISTORY OF GOSHEN. 348 , Lawyers. Samuel Pettibone of Simsbury was admitted to the bar in 1729, the first attorney from tbat township. He removed to Goshen before 1740. Litchfield County was organized in October, 1751, and in December of the same year he was made King's Attorney, the duties of the office being similar to those performed by state attorneys at the present day. After a few years he was succeeded by Reynold Marvin, Esq., Litch- field. In the address of Judge Chiirch, at the Litchfield Coimty Centennial Celebration, 1851, he says: " Mr. Pettibone lived to a great age and died in rediiced circumstances in 1787." In the sermon of the Pev. Grant Powers, from which we make large quotations, he says: " Samuel Pettibone was much em- ployed in the early business transactions of the town; but being overcome and thrust down by the strong man from the West Indies, he terminated his earthly existence at the old house formerly occupied by Harvey Brooks." L. M. ISTorton, in his records, says of him that, " his talents were respectable, but he was a hasty man, severe in his remarks, and had more of stubbornness than of wisdom." It appears from the Nor- ton records that he had the rank of Captain. He had a large family, but none of its members appear to have remained in Goshen for any length of time. The most that is known of his descendants is the fact that some of them have gained posi- tions of influence and honor. Samuel Miles Hopkins was born in Waterbury, but re- moved to Goshen with his parents when two years of age. He studied at the Hartford Grammar School, under Mr. Solomon Porter. He was graduated from Yale in 1791, but for some reason the faculty refused him the degree, and the first degree he received from Yale was that of LL.D., which the college conferred upon him when his son entered college. He com- menced the study of law with Mr., afterwards Judge, Peeve, 344 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. and was admitted to the bar in less than two years. It was not long that he remained in Goshen, and the later events of his life were varied and peculiar, but always such as entitled him to respect and honor. Samuel Lyman (see Gen.), was admitted to the bar at Litchfield, went to Hartford, thence to Springfield, Mass., where he became Judge of the Circuit Court. Theodore North was graduated from Williams College, studied law and for several years devoted himself to his pro- fession. He was greatly esteemed in the town and elsewhere, both as a lawyer and a man. ISTelson Brewster was for several years a lawyer in the town, having but a limited amount of business. He died in 1850. The foregoing may indicate that the litigant spirit is not prevalent in the town. Teachers. The following sketch of Professor Asaph Hall is valuable as an illustration of the possibilities to all young men who strive with difiiculties. In spite of the few wonderful accidents that have led to great changes and advancement in modern ideas, most of the real advance of the civilized world has been the result of sim- ple hard work and hard thinking by men of ability. As an example of the type of scientist, who does not make astound- ing discoveries that turn out to be worthless, but who siirely and steadily advances the cause of science by faithful work, stands the astronomer, Asaph Hall. He was bom on October 15, 1829, in Goshen, in the northwestern comer of Connecti- cut, where the Berkshire Hills come rolling over from Massa- chusetts. His grandfather, a revolutionary ofiicer, was one of the first settlers of the place and was a wealthy man, but his father, Asaph 2d, through business failures lost nearly all his HISTORY OF GOSHEN. 345 property. In 1843 he died, leaving a wife and six children, of whom Asaph, then 13, was the oldest. Up to the time of his father's death, Asaph's life had been that of a well-to-do coun- try boy. He had worked a little on the farm and had gone to the country school. His father was far better educated than most of the men of the place; so many good books fell into the boy's hands, and his rainy days were often spent in the garret fighting the battles on the Trojan plans, or following Ulysses in his homeward wanderings. When his father died it was decided in a family council to remain on one of the farms and try tO' pay off the mortgage on it. So Asaph and his mother set to work, and for three years toiled might and main carrying on the work of a large farm mostly by themselves. His mother was a tireless worker, and he helped her as best he could, btit when the three years were past they found they had been just able to pay the inter- est on the mortgage and nothing more. Sticking to the farm seemed useless, so he decided to learn the carpenter's trade. Accordingly, he was apprenticed at the age of 16 to a local car- penter. He worked with him for three years at $60 a year. At the end of that time he became a regular journeyman. He worked about Litchfield County, building bams and hoiises that are standing on the old farms to-day. He stuck to his carpenter work for six years, but all the time he was full of ambition. He saw that the men he worked with were a poorly educated set. They knew how to find a right angle by the six, eight, and ten rule, but they had no idea of the reason for it. He was not satisfied to work in this blind fashion, and he kept picking up some knowledge of mathematics to help him under- stand his business. In the summer time he was busy with carpenter work, but in the winter he went home. He did the chores on the farm in the early morning and in the evening, and went to school in the daytime. As he learned more he decided to studv and become an architect. He managed to 346 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. spend one winter studying witli the principal of tlie Norfolk Academy. There he went through algebra and six books of geometry. When he was 25 he had saved a little money. Through the New York Tribune, he saw that there was a college at Mc- Grawville, IST. T., where a yoimg man could earn his living and get an education at the same time. He decided to try to go through this college. In the summer of 1854, he took all his savings, about $300, and set out for McGrawville. When he got to the college he found it a very different place from what he expected. It was open to both sexes, and all colors, and was the gathering place of a queer set of cranks of all sorts. The teachers were poor, but to the green country youth the experience was of immense value. His views were broad- ened and changed. He staid at the college only a year and a half. In that time he went through algebra, geometry, and trigonometry, and studied some French and Latin. He soon proved himself to be by far the best mathematician in the college. One of the students was a young woman named Angeline Stickney. She was a country girl of fin© mental abilities and gTeat sensibility, who was working her way through college. As a senior she helped in the teaching. Asaph Hall was one of her pupils in mathematics. Many a problem he and his classmates contrived to puzzle their teacher, biit they never were successful. When she graduated Asaph Hall and she were engaged to be married. He then decided that he had staid long enough at McGrawville. His money was gone and the college was poor. So in 1855 they set out together for AA^isconsin, where iliss Stickney had a brother. She staid at his house while he tramped about the country in search of a school where they could teach. ~No school was open for them. They became tired of the flat, sickly country, and when spring came they decided to leave. On the 31st of March, HISTORY OP GOSHEN. 347 18.36, they were married, and then they set out for Ann .Vrbor, Michigan. Asaph entered the sophomore and junior classes in Michigan I^niversity, and studied mathematics and astronomy under Professor Briinnow. He found he coTild do good work in both these branches. Prof. Briinnow encour- aged him greatly, and helped him a gTeat deal. It was here that he acquired his taste for astronomy and decided to adopt it for a profession. Prof. Briinnow was an excellent teacher, but he had trouble with his classes, and his work was so changed and broken up, that young Hall decided to leave after he had been there but half a year. He took his wife to Shalersville, Ohio, and took charge of the Academy there. They conducted it very successfully for a year, paying off all their debts and buying themselves new clothes. When the ' pchool was over they had no idea where to turn next. He wished to go back and study at Ann Arbor again, but there was a great storm on the lakes at that time, and his wife would not go. So they started East. He had an offer from Prof. Bond, who was in charge of the Harvard College Observatory, in Cambridge, of $3 a week as assistant. Pinally he decided to accept it. He visited his old home in the summer, and in the fall of 1857 he took his wife to Cambridge, and began his career as an astronomer. Very few young married men in this day would like to start in a profession at the age of 28, on a salary of $3 a week. But ,^'oung Hall expected to be able to pick up outside work. He thought he could pursue his studies in mathematics under Professor Benjamin Pierce, then at Harvard College. So he settled in his new work full of hope. He took a couple of rooms on Concord avenue, near the Observatory, and began housekeeping. He fotind the state of things in Cambridge far diiferent from his first ideas of it. The Bonds and Pierce were not on good terms, and he could not study with Prof. Pierce without offending his employer, so 348 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. he gave it up. His new work was hard and tedious, but lie managed to study a good deal by himself. He picked up Ger- man by translating, German books on mathematics. His little salary was eaten up by room rent, and in order to live he had to get more work. By computing and observing moon cul- minations for army officers he managed to double his income and just scrape along. His wife worked by his side faithfully encouraging him, helping him in his studies, and doing all the housework with her own hands. Every night in the month of March, 1859, Mrs. Hall would get him out of bed in time to go up to the Observatory and catch the moon culmination. Each culmination meant an extra dollar, and that was some- thing that could not be missed. Besides this he got oiit al- ' manacs, and so scraped together a little money. Altogether he jiist managed to live during the first year in Cambi'idge. He soon became a rapid, skillful, and accurate worker. His employers began to recognize his value, and gradually in- creased his pay, till at last he drew a salary of $600 a year. He stayed in the Cambridge Observatory till the year 1862. At that time the war had been going on a year. The officers at the iN'aval Observatory at A\^ashington had gone oS into the service of either the North or South. ■ Men were needed to fill their places. Mr. Hall was recommended tO' fill one of the positions. It was a good opening. He went to Washington, was examined, and offered a place. In the sum- mer of 1862 he began his work, his \nfe and son following him. On January 2, 1863, he was appointed a Professor of Mathematics in the United States Navy. After that his career was assured. Starting as a poor farmer boy, then becoming a carpenter, pursuing mathematics with the idea of becoming an architect, finally he had found the best field for his labor. Up to this time his struggle was a hard one. He had never known what it was to have a moment of relaxation. It had been work, work from morning till night, and all the results of HISTORY OF GOSHEN. 349 his work had been used to get other men fame. After his ap- pointment as professor he was able to do work that counted for himself. So his public scientific career really began in 1862. Erom 1862 to 1866 he worked on the 9|-inch equato- rial at the ISFaval Observatory under Mr. James Ferguson, making observations and reducing his work. One night while he was working alone in the dome the trap door by which it was entered from below opened, and a tall, thin figure arose, crowned by a stove-pipe hat. It turned out to be President Lincoln. He had walked up alone from the White House, and he waiated to take a look at the heavens through the telescope. Professor Hall showed him the various objects of interest, and finally turned the telescope on the moon. When the President had looked at it a little while he went away. In about a quarter of an hour the trap door opened again, and the same figure appeared. He told Prof. Hall that after leaving the Observato^ry he had looked at the moon again, and saw that it had been upside down in the tele- scope. He was puzzled and wanted to know the cause. It was explained to him that the simple lens used in telescopes gives inverted images and Mr. Lincoln went away satisfied. After 1866, Prof. Hall worked as assistant on the prime vertical transit and the meridian circle.. In 1867 he was put in charge of the meridian circle. From 1868 to 1875, he was in charge of the 9^-inch equatorial, and from 1875 till his re- tirement on October 15, 1891, he was in charge of the 26-inch equatorial. It can thus be seen that his practical experience as an observing astronomer has been long and varied. During his stay at the Observatory he was sent on several expeditions for the government. In 1869, he was sent to Behring Straits on the ship Mohican to observe the eclipse of the sun. In those days one had to go to San Francisco by way of the Isthmus of Panama, so the trip was a long one. In 1870-71 he went to' Sicily to observe another eclipse. In 1874 350 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. he was sent to Vladivostock in Siberia, to observe a transit of Venus. He visited China and Japan on the way. In 1878 he headed an expedition to Colorado to observe the eclipse of the sun, and in 1882 he took a party to Texas to observe another transit of Venus. Although on these expeditions he did valuable work, it has been at AVashington with the 26-inch equatorial that he has done his most important work. He has made studies of many of the double stars to determine their distances and mo- tions. He has also given a great deal of time to the study of the planet Saturn. He made a special investigation of the rings of this planet, and also discovered the motion of the line of Apsides of Hyperion, one of Saturn's satellites. But by far the most important discovery he has made, — the one which will connect his name with astronomy as long as the planets exist — was his discovery of the satellites of Mars. It had been thought by some old astronomers that perhaps Mars had satellites, but no one had been able to find them. In the fall of 1S77, Mars was in a very favorable position to observe, and Professor Hall turned his big telescope upon it. He searched night after night without success till he began to lose hope, but finally, on the night of August 11, 1877, he dis- covered the outer satellite. Six days later he discovered the inner one. The discovery of these two unknown bodies spread like wild fire among the observatories, and the eager astrono- mers began to find enough extra moons to supply another solar system. But after a thorough investigation it was proved that Professor Hall had discovered the two and the only two, which he named. This important discovery brought his name at once before the world at large, and was not slow in earning its reward. The Royal Astronomical Society presented him with a gold medal, and he was given the Salande prize from Paris. Since that time his work has been recognized as it should. HISTORY OF GOSHEN. 351 He has become a member of the most important scientific societies of this country, and an honorary member of the royal scientific societies of England, France, and Kussia. The two best universities of the country, Yale and Harvard, have re- warded him with honorary degrees and both given him that of LL.D. The very last honor conferred upon him is the Arago Medal, presented by the French Academy. Personally, Professor Hall is a fine-looking man. He is tall and broad. His forehead is high and deep. His eyes are clear and bright in spite of years spent gazing at the stars. He has always been strong and healthy. He is fond of the open air and has always taken exercise. So in spite of his long years df hard work he is now in perfect health. He is pleasant toward those who wish to learn anything from him. His writings have appeared mainly in astronomical magazines and in the government reports of the work done in the Naval Observa- tory. They are all of a practical astronomical character and consequently are of little interest to most readers. He has often been asked to wiite something of a popular character, but so far he has never consented. Possibly, some time in the future he may consent to write something of popular interest about astronomy. Since his retirement from active connection with the Naval Observatory in 1891, Professor Hall has kept up his work in Astronomy. He has worked steadily at his home and at the Observatory, where he still had a room for several years after his retirement. In 1896 he finished his computations on the perturbations in the orbit of the asteroid Neumasa, a work which occupied him a year and a half. In the spring of 1896 he received an appointment as lecturer at Harvard University for the year 1896-97, and he is now (January, 1897) giving a course of lectures on Celestial Mechanics to a small but en- thusiastic class of students in Cambridge. Professor Bernadotte B. Perrin was bom at Goshen, Sep- 352 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. tember 15, 1847. His father, the Rev. Lavalette Perrin, CD., pastor of the Congregational Church, was a graduate of Yale, of the class of 1840, and was for many years, and up to the tiine of his death, in 1889, a member of the corporation of that University. The attention of the boy, therefore, was, naturally, and very early, turned towards that great institu- tion. Yale was to be the goal of his youthful studies, and also the destination to which the course of events would lead him in mature life, and the scene of his principal triumphs in erudite scholarship and vital, attention-compelling instruction. He at- tended the district school and the country academy at Goshen, then the graded schools at jSTew Britain, whither his family had removed, and finally, for two years, the Hartford High School. He was graduated at Tale in 1869, having as class- mates there some such notable men as President Scott of Rutgers College, and Professor Beers of Yale, Terry of the University of Tokio, Japan, and Phelps of Smith College. He took prizes in English, and his standing in scholarship gave him a " Philosophical Oration," a rank which college men, aware of the application and kind of intelligence it involves, well know how to appreciate. After graduation. Prof. Perrin entered upon his life work of teaching; first, however, having passed a brief period at the Yale Theological Seminary, and a longer one in post-graduate study, at the end of which he took the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. He began as a teacher of mathematics at his old school, the Hartford High School, was next a tutor in Greek at Yale, then returned again for a couple of years to the Hart- ford High School as its vice-principal. In 1876 he went to Europe, studied at the German universities, and traveled ex- tensively. When he came back from Europe in 1878, he took up his former position of tutor in Greek at Yale, but only to pass almost immediately again to the vice-principalship of the Hartford High School, which well-arranged, well-managed in- HISTORY OF GOSHEN. 353 stitution seems to have attracted him with a recturent power of raagnetism hard to resist". Nevertheless, when called to Adelbert College, or "Western Reserve University, the educa- tional center of that prosperous region which was in its oirigin an overflow colony from Connecticut, and which was largely settled from Goshen, he accepted the call. This was in 1881, and he remained there nearly twelve years. His professor- ship was that of Greek; but he was not to be a mere Greek professor, of the dull and dry old school. He threw himself into instruction in this bygone tongue in a way that, besides bringing out the fine mental discipline it contains, made it live, and seem, to his interested students, the voice of a bright, enterprising, keen-witted, artistic, and courageous people. In 1890, he went to Greece, the fair land itself, that was the in- spiration of the famous works of literature. He interested himseK much in the American School at Athens, the agency which is doing so miich to give these studies a new human in- terest, and remove growing prejudice against them on the part of some over " practical " minds who would have them con- sidered obsolete. He was the companion there of such dis- tinguished archaeologists as Dorpf eld and Willamowitz, and at Troy, of the great excavator, Schlieman, himself. It is neces- sary to show mere readers of ancient texts that the Greeks lived, that they were warm and breathing men. The result of this visit to Greece was a well-equipped department of Greek archaeology at Adelbert, showing to a creditable extent the arts, the surroundings of daily life of the men who left us the Iliad and Electra, the Dialogues of the Dead, and the Re- treat of the Ten Thousand. Prof. Perrin has kept up his in- terest in the American School at Athens, and for many years past has been a member of its managing committee and the ( hairman of its committee on publications. At length, in 1892, he was called back to Yale — where he had modestly begun as a tutor — as full Professor of Greek, 23 354 HISTOEY OF GOSHEiN. a distinction merited by his course while on his excursion out into the world as narrated. He i^ considered as a most helpful, inspiring teacher. A younger man, also now a professor at Yale, speaks to me of him as the influence and involuntary prompter that made grateful to him, and drew him into, the same field of classical pursuits. Professor Perrin throws him- self with especial zest into the history and drama of the Greeks. There is probably nobody in Connecticut, at least, who knows half as much as he of Grecian history. In teaching the drama, he himself unconsciously develops a dramatic qual- ity, he acts it out; thus taught it cannot fall upon deaf ears. At the present writing, he is giving lectures and courses of study on the social and political life of the Greeks, as dis- closed in their old Athenian comedies and other literature. This is as it should be: once let a waft of the fragrance of Hy- mittus, a sense of the beauty of the broken marbles, of the misty blue islands on the voyage of Ulysses, and the wine^col- Ored sea under his keel, be brought over the ocean to our side, and the class-room takes on a new complexion; there need no longer be talk of the uselessness of the study of the dead lan- guages. Professor Perrin is president of the American Philological Association; and his opinion is highly respected besides in all matters of classical archaeology. Por publication, he has put forth numerous papers in the transactions of the association above named, and in the American Journal of Philology. He published, in 1889, an edition of Caesar's Civil Wax. His lengthiest and most important work is an edition of the first twelve books of the Odyssey, included in the College Series of Greek Authors, of Ginn & Co. It has been in progress ever since 1889, appearing in successive volumes, and will be finally completed during the present year. Professor Perrin's home at ISTew Haven is an unusually bright, sunny, tasteful one, on the fine residence street known HISTORY OF GOSHEN. 365 as "Whitney aveniie. It looks off to tlie stately old " Whitney Place," with its spacious grounds on the south, and to tlie most characteristic landmark of Xew Haven scenery, the great red cliff of East Rock, on the east. He married a relative. Miss Luella Perrin, in 1881, of which marriage two sons were bom. Bereft of this true helpmeet in 1889, he married, in 1892, Miss Susan Lester, daughter of Judge C. S. Lester of Saratoga, ISFew York. 856 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. , OHAPTEEXX. MERCHANTS IN GOSHEN. Mercliants and the Cheese Trade. John Smith, Jr., came to Goshen from Farmington. He lived in the old house then on the east side of East street, a little north of the road leading from East street to Hart Hol- low. It appears from an old account book of JSTathanael Stan- ley, that he opened an account on the 21st day of September, 1745, with " John Smith, Goshen, Merchant," and doubtless he was the first merchant in the town. After two removals, in 1Y4Y and 1750, he removed to the Center street, where he built a house on the east side of the road, a little south of op- posite the road west to Town Hill. At this place he continued to trade until the time when IJri Hill commenced business on West street, December 22, 1762. He also kept a tavern at this place. For several years he was successful; but, becoming in- temperate in his habits, he failed in business. A part of his business was the making of potash, by the brook a few rods east of the meeting-house, and this will explaiu to the boys and girls of this and future generations, how it happens that their vrinter skating-ground has been called " The Potash," for so many years. John Dibble came to Goshen with his father about 1743. His house was on the west side of the present road, passing the Brooks place, on the south side of BruShy Hill, on or near the west line of the Esquire's Farm, and about 150 rods north from the Litchfield line. Here he was engaged in trade for several years. At the first, for two or three years, his goods were kept in his house; after which he built what was called HISTORY OP GOSHEN. 357 " tlie red store." He was an energeticman, but did not manage liis business wisely. He became involved, was forced to sell bis property, and failed. He deeded bis property to Isaac ifann, of the city of !New York, to wbom be bad become in- debted for tbe sum of 350 pounds. Tbis was July 19, 1763, and was tbe close of bis business bere. Jobn ISTortb came to Gosben from Farmington, in 1745.' He built tbe Blue House and commenced tbe mercantile busi- ness tbere, according to accounts, probably correct, as early as Xovember, 1751. In tbe summer of 1761 be is called a " mer- chant," in tbe accounts of Xatbanael Stanley. As a trader he was cotemporary with John Dibble, and it is not a little remarkable that they were forced to sell their homes at about tbe same time. Uri Hill was born in Wallingford and died in Goshen of small-pox, December 29, 1766. Tbe disease was contracted while in ISTow York, buying goods. His house was on the west side of "West street, about twenty rods south of the family graveyard, at the place where tbe road leaves West street for Town Hill. Tbe north part of bis bouse was devoted to mer- cantile purposes. From tbe books of Natbanael Stanley it ap- • pears that be was trading as early as August, 1759. He did a thriving business, was much respected, but had feeble health and a weak constitution. Isaac Pratt was bom in Hartford, March 8, 1734, and died in Goshen, September 3, 1814. He made bis first purchase in Goshen, March 9, 1759, of Asa Hill, of laud in tbe south part of tbe town, where he always afterward lived. His bouse was on the east side of the road, on tbe same ground occupied as a residence by Watts Brooks, about 60 rods north of tbe Litchfield line. He was a man of good ability and character, esteemed in private life, and was frequently called to sustain tbe common offices of the town. He was active during tbe War of the Kevolution and well-sustained the reputation of a 358 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. patriot. His name frequently occurs in our Gosten Revolu- tionary history. Like most of Ms compatriots lie was original in his spelling as well as in many other things that make a man's character interesting. The following entry is found on the last page of one of his day books: " June 26, 1776, to Sun- dres of Stoers Set out for the JSTorth Army 100. , 0." As giving an indication of the trade in those days I copy from the same book the following items in the order in which they are recorded : " John Wadhams Det to two Galons Rhum 0, 9, Bbeuezer Buel Juner Det to a Galon Rhum 0, 4, 6 David Landon Det to a Galon of Rhum 0, 4, 6 Zachues Grlswold Det to 2 Qts of Rhum 0, 2, 3 Jonathan Buel Oapt Det to a Galon of Rhum 0, 4, 6 Joseph How Det to a Galon of Rhum 0, 4, 6 Mr Nuel Reverend paster Det to 2 Quarts of Rhum 2, John Hoy Det to 8 Galons of Sider John Hoy Crd By Money 0, 4, 6 " It will be noticed above that the clergy, then, as now, ob- tained a discount from regular prices. Ephraim Starr came to Goshen from Middletown, and was employed as clerk in the store of Uri Hill, on West street, at the time of his employer's death. After his death he con- tinued in the store and attended to the business of settling the estate for the executor. He married the widow of Mr. Hill in 1769. He continued the business for several years, and was greatly prospered. After the close of the Eevolutionary War his facilities for business were greatly increased. Before the British troops had left ISTew York he went to the city and purchased of persons who were connected with them and who wished to leave there a large quantity of goods at a very low price. These goods were brought to his store, and it is safe to say that they were not sold at a low price. Just at that time there was no other merchant in the town, but one in Litchfield, none in ISTorfolk, Cornwall, or Torrington, and the people in HISTORY OF GOSHEiN. 359 litclifield traded as much witli him as with their own mer- chant. Mr. Starr bought large quantities of produce from the farmers, butter, cheese, pork, and many white ash oars. For this produce he paid no money but always in goods from his store. He employed many teams in the transportation of this produce to Xew Haven and Derby, and in bringing back the goods for his store. This was all done by teams of oxen and with carts or sleds. John Carrington purchased of Nathanael Stanley, Jr., February 24, 1769, the land on which he built his house, on the west side of East street, a few rods south of the grave- yard. He commenced trading at this place, built a store south of his house, and did a small business in this way for two or three years, before T^ewis & JSTorton commenced business. He went to jSTew York to purchase goods, caught a fever, came home and died in 1783. He was in comfortable circumstances, and was somewhat noted for keeping good horses and oxen. Daniel Miles purchased, December 3, 1778, of Stephen Hopkins of Waterbury, the farm then lately owned and occu- pied by Barnabas Beach, northeast of the East street grave- yard. Soon after this (his second purchase in Goshen) he built the room on the south end of the house and commenced trad- ing there. Before this he followed his trade of carpenter, and is said to have been the master-workman at the building of the meeting-house in Goshen, in the spring of 1770. During the War of the Revolution he was intrusted with various offices in the town connected with the prosecution of the war, pur- chasing provisions for the army, etc. His trade was never very great or profitable. About the close of the war, a large number of men in Goshen united to form a mercantile company and placed Mr. Miles at the head of it. It was designedly in opposition to Mr. Starr, and orig- inated in dislike to him, and in the wish to share the profits of the trade which he had so long monopolized. There were 380 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. thirty-two men associated in the enterprise, of wkom the fol- lowing only are recollected: — Abijah Holbrook, Fisk Beach, Samuel Hopkins, Abraham Parmelee, Cyprian Collins, Ste- phen Goodwin, Medad Hills, William Stanley, Moses Lyman, Isaac Pratt, Jonathan Buell, Amasa Cook, James Thompson, Jonathan Kettle, Solomon AVadhams, ISTathan Holbrook, and Giles Griswold. This association, embracing a large proportion of the sub- stantial business men of the town, did not succeed very well, although for a time they had a brisk trade. The partners with- drew from the concern, one by one, without much, if any, loss. At that time a great many of the inhabitants were en- gaged in making oars. In fact, they furnished the most con- siderable article of barter and transportation from the town. Mr. Starr would take but few of these, and for these few he would pay but three farthings a linear foot and in goods from his store. This company took all the oars that were offered, paying in goods. A large stock was accumulated, and was not cared for properly, but permitted to lie out uncovered, exposed to all weathers, until they became stained and dirty in appear- ance. Abijah Holbrook was at length sent to ISTew York with the entire stock, to dispose of them if possible. For some time the case appeared hopeless, when a French man of war came into the harbor. He commenced negotiations, which ended in his selling the entire lot to the French captain. He was paid the specie for them, and returned to Goshen to glad- den the hearts of not a small number of the people. Rirdsey Norton entered into a partnership with Elihu Lems, October 26, 1Y85. Mr. Lewis then lived at the place so long occupied by his father, Ebenezer Lewis, on the east side of East street, where the turnpike from Hartford comes in from the southeast. In the north part of this house the goods were kcjit. Their business was quite large. By their books it appears that this partnership was dissolved about the HISTORY OF GOSHEN. ggl last of the year 1793, and that the partnership of Lewis & Lyman commenced about the same time. Moses Lyman of ]\Iiddle street was the new partner of ]\Ir. Lewis. Birdsey iSTorton built a new store in 1793-94. It stood a little northwest from his old house, and but a few feet from it. Tn this store he continued to do a large mercantile busi- _ness imtil the time of his death, March 27, 1812. Samuel Richards was one of the clerks of Lewis & Norton. He continued in the store with ^It. Xorton until ISTathaniel Xorton and Birdsey established a store in Canandaigua, N. Y., when he went-there. He was a talented young man — never married — and lived but a few years after he went to Oanan- daigtia. John C. Bush was there as a clerk after Richards left and later came in as a partner, afterwards going into business in Xew Haven. Theron Beach became a member of the firm when Bush left, and the firm remained Birdsey Norton & Co. imtil his death. Mr. Norton was an active business man and possessed good judgment. The expense of taking a load to New Haven and bringing one back was 3 pounds 10 shillings. The merchants paid -5 pence a pound for cheese; sold salt for 7 shillings, 6 pence a bushel; very dark sugar for 6 pence per pound; New England rimi for 2 shillings and 6 pence and 3 shillings per gal- lon. The price of molasses was 2s. 6d. the single gallon. These prices obtained in 17S8, and at that time Lewis & Norton sold more rum in a year than Norton, Bush & Co. were selling several years later. Theron S. Ludington was in trade at North Goshen for sev- eral years and during a part, if not all, the time was asso- ciated with a partner under the firm name of Riley & Luding- ton. Mr. Ludington died in 1817. Moses Lyman was brought up a farmer. Before he en- gaged in trade he was accustomed to teach common schools during the winter months. At that time there were no schools 362 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. of a higher grade in the town. In 1790 he commenced the purchase of stock, cattle, horses, mules, etc., and was fre- quently in New York, Hartford, New Haven, and Boston. He built his store and commenced the mercantile business about 1Y92. In November, 1T93, he entered into a partner- ship with Elihu Lewis, of East street. This partnership was dissolved in December, 1797. From that time he continued in business by himself until October 12, 1802, when the part- nership between Moses and Erastus Lyman was formed. They continued in trade at the same, or nearly the same, place, until the first of January, 1827, when they both retired from busi- ness and gave their attention to their farms until their death. The partnership was not dissolved until the death of Moses Lyman, May 22, 1844. They divided their real estate in the winter of 1828, — making a division themselves as nearly equal as possible and bidding for the choice, which Erastus secured by paying to the company $400. David Wadhams commenced business in Goshen by form- ing a partnership with Elisha Oarrington under the firm name of Wadhams & Oarrington. Their store was a few rods northwest of the meeting-house in the comer of the lot, now ('1895) owned by Moses Gray of Ohicago. After the re- moval of Oarrington he formed a partnership with General David Thompson. They did an extensive business for many years. The different dates of the commencement, firm changes, and close of this business it has been impossible to ascertain. Their two dwelling-houses, precisely alike, that on the west side for Wadhams, and on the east for Thompson, were built in 1803. They are now occupied by Albert Sperry and Moses Gray. The Moses Wadhams who was born in 1797 seems to have succeeded to the business of Wadhams & Thompson, occupying their store and the house previously occupied by General Thompson. HISTORY OF GOSHEN. jjgs ISTorton & Henderson had a store at tlie Center in 1831, and the succeeding year we have the firm of Norton & Porter, occupying the store now occupied by Charles J. Porter. The Porter of this firm was John P., the father of Charles J. They continued in business about five or six years. In 1842, John P. Porter formed a partnership with Moses Lyman and transacted business in the store previously occu- pied by Moses & Erastus Lyman. They also had a store in West Cornwall, under the firm name of Lyman & Porter. They closed their business in Goshen about 1848, and in West Cornwall in 1850. It was just about this time that H. IST. Lyman commenced business in the store now occupied by Mr. Porter, and contin- ued there until his failure in 1853. Soon after this the Farmers' Fnion Company was organized, and occupied it until about 1857, when E. G. Brigham went into business there and con- tinued until April 1, 1860. Brooks Brothers — at present bankers in Torrington, — commenced business May 1, 1860, and continued until May 1, 1871, when they sold their business to Weeks Howe & Son. During its occupancy by the Messrs. Brooks, they enlarged the building to twice its former size. The store built and occupied by Wadhams & Thompson, and later by Moses Wadhams, was purchased by A. Miles & Sons — who also had a, store at West Goshen. Moses W. Gray entered their employ as clerk, in 1841. At this time Mr. Miles and one son lived at West Goshen, and another son at the Center, with whom Mr. Gray boarded. At his death Mr. Gray managed the store for about three years, when he purchased a one-half interest and continued to manage it for several years under the firm name of Miles & Gray. He then purchased the interest of his partners and conducted the business alone, the sign over the door bearing the nam.e of M. W. Gray. In 1857, he sold his stock of goods, and, removing to Chicago, 364 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. engaged in the wholesale grocery business, which he carried on for many years. The store that had been occupied by these different firms was sold by IMr. Gray and moved across the street, where the front half now stands and is occupied as a harness shop and store. Hart. Brothers had a store at West Goshen, where they sold a great many goods and dealt largely in cheese. In 1870, the firm of Lucas, Hurlbut & AUyn was formed, .succeeding Hart Bros., and comprised of Frederick A. Lucas, Frederick E. Hurlbut, and WiTbert M. AUyn. In 1877, AUyn withdrew and the firm became Lucas & Hurlbut. In 1879, Mr. Hurl- but sold his interest to Eugene E. AUyn, and the firm be- came Lucas & AUyn. In 1883, Mr. Lucas, compelled by ill health to retire from mercantile life, sold his interest to Mr. AUyn. In 1870, Ealph F. Cook and Charles J. Porter formed a partnership under the name of Cook & Porter. They bought the store formerly occupied by M. & E. Lyman, and removed it to the lot now occupied by the Town Hall. In 1883, Mr. Cook sold his interest to his partner, and a year later Mr. Por- ter sold it to C. M. Allen, of Litchfield, who continued in busi- ness until 1887, when the store was burned. In ISTovember, 188.4, Mr. Porter bought an interest in the store at AVest Go- shen, and was associated with Eugene E. and Dwight "W". AUyn, in the firm of Porter & Allyn Brothers for one year, when Eugene E. Allyn purchased the interests of his partners. On January 1, 1886, Mr. Porter commenced business in the store now occupied by him, of which he is the owner. In a letter before me, written by a man born in Goshen in 1794, anrl who remembers hearing the Rev. Asahel Hooker preach, he writes: "Early in tliis century the town of Goshen was studded all over with farmers, owning their homes, and mostly with large families. Nearly all had large dairies and making cheese was their principal occupation. Some pork was fatted and some sheep were kept. There were two stores at the Centre and two on East Street, H s HISTORY OF GOSHEN. 355 all doing a large business. They bought the products of the farmers and furnished them with supplies at a great profit. They pur- chased their goods in New York, and what cost them eight shillings, New York currency ($1.00), they sold for eight shillings. New Eng- land currency ($1.33). Their dealings with the farmers were un- equal, and this, perhaps, was the occasion of some leaving Goshen." THE CHEESE TRADE. In tlie autumn of the year 1T92, Alexander ]SForton was ad- vised to spend a winter at the South on account of his feeble health. This he did, and preparatory to his going he pur- chased a few thousand pounds of cheese, with a view to its sale in the section where he was to spend the vdnter. His venture was so successful that he determined to continue the business. The practice of boxing cheese or putting it in casks was then unknown, and he was compelled to make use of boards or shelves in the transportation. After two or three years, during which he used these early methods, he had timber sawed in the proper shape and had casks made for his cheese, similar to those that came into general use a few years later. It is claimed by him, and is probably true, that these were the first ever used for this p^irpose. ISTot long after this he pro- cured of Ebenezer Xorton some round boxes, similar to those now in use, the rims being bent in the same way as the rims of the hall-bushel measure. These, also, are supposed to have been the first cheese boxes; at any rate, they were the first ever seen in Goshen. The first annatto ever used in the town, for giving color to cheese, was procured by Timothy Collins from Albany; and was first used by the wife of Alexander Xorton, while he lived on the hill southeast from the meeting-house. At first it was used by rubbing it through a cloth into the milk; the present mode of dissolving it not being known. After this, as Mr. jSTorton continued to trade in cheese, it was his prac- tice to purchase the annatto, and furnish it to those whose 366 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. dairies lie had eoiitracted. .For several years he continued to sell his " painted cheese " for fifteen cents a pound, while the white cheese would not bring over ten cents a pound in the market, the quality being other\\'ise identical. The idea seemed to prevail that the painted cheese were of English man- ufacture. He continued his trade at the South for fifteen or twenty years. The same business was soon taken up and prosecuted largely by the firm of Lewis & Norton, and for many years all the merchants in the town were engaged in it to a greater or less extent. The cheese manufactured and marketed in the town in 1801 and for many years later amounted to 270,000 pounds and brought an income to the farmers of at least $25,000. HISTORY OF GOSHEN. 357 CHAPTEE XXI. MANUFACTURES, MILLS, ETC. It has been found impossible to find dates that could be relied upon when the different manufacturing operations have been carried on, but of their variety there can be no question. The first sawmill in the town was built by Captain Samuel Pettibone, probably in 1740 or '41. It was erected on the outlet of Dog Pond, on the east side of Town Hill, a few rods south of the east and west road, and west of the residence of Hiram Griswold. There was also a sawmill on the same stream, a little south of the town line and owned by the Goshen Buels. From these two mills must have been obtained the lumber for the first houses erected in the town. On the old account book of Nathanael Stanley there is a charge made for himself and ox team to bring boards and plank from the sawmill, in December, 1742. This was proba- bly from the sawmill west of Hiram Griswold's, as there was no road at that time from Middle street to Canada. Benjamin Frisbie, for his third division, chose 50 acres at the mouth of Marshapaug Pond, and from said pond ex- tending on both sides of the stream southerly about 160 rods. The survey of this lot was dated April 20, 1739. The south line of this lot passes between the house and bam formerly owned by Miles Thompson, a little south of the site of the woolen factory. He built a house upon this lot, to which there is good reason to believe he removed in the year 1739 or '40. On September 2, 1740, he sold to Timothy Gaylord of Wallingford " the one-half of the privilege of one certain stream that runs out of Marshuepoge pond in said Goshen, to 368 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. set a mill or mills on said stream, except a grist mill: also liberty to dam or pond said stream, lay logs and boards on the adjacent land &c." " and it is to be understood whereas I, the said Benjamin Frisbie a grist mill on said stream; that the said Gaylord shall not by any liberty granted to him, have any part to hinder or damnify me the said Frisbie, concerning said grist mill " etc., etc. From this it appears that Benjamin Frisbie at that time, September 2, 1740, had built, or commenced to build, or in- tended to build, a grist mill on the stream in Canada. Timothy Gaylord deeded back to Frisbie, November 1, 1742, the privilege conveyed to him in 1740, " also all that I have done towards building a sawmill on said stream," etc. This indicates that the sa'wmill in Canada was not finished before the summer of 1743. This was the second sawmill built in the town. It is certain that I'risbie built a gristmill in Canada near the spot where later the tannery stood; and a savraiill at the place afterwards occupied as a woolen factory. After the sawmill a forge occupied the ground for many years, using ore brought from Salisbury. The woolen factory was built in the summer of 1813 by David Wadhams, David Thomp- son, Alfred Walter, and Nathan Cobb. (For some account of this, see biography of Lewis M. Norton.) There was a gristmill at an early date built upon the out- let of Dog Pond. It was tended by Gideon Hurlbut. In December, 1788, or January, 1789, he told his wife as he was leaving home in the morning, " I am going to fix my mill, and if you hear any strange noise shut the gate." She heard a strange noise and shut the gate. Going to the mill she found that his body was drawn into the cogs, but was not much man- • gied. She called two or three men, who were not far off, who released him from his position and carried him from below to the room in, which the family lived, after which he gasped two or three times and life was extinct. HISTORY OF GOSHEN. 369 There was also a gristmill on the east side, called. " Beach's Mill." It was built about ten rods north of the road leading from East street to ]\Iiddle street over Pie Hill on the stream formed by the junction of the east and west branches. William Alvord was the first miller. The house built for him stood in the road leading westward over Pie Plill, on the north side of the path, about ten rods east from the bridge over the stream. After him the house was occupied by John Eoyce, from "Wallingford. The house then went to decay. The next miller was John Doud. He built and owned the second house — long since gone. He sold this house to Cle- ment Squire, who was the next miller. He sold to Oliver l^orton, who tended the mill about ten years. There is evi- dence that a sawmill was built at just about this time, in which shares were owned by Oliver and Ebenezer ll^Torton. Chaun- cey Beach was the miller before and after the year 1800. He was succeeded by Gershom Gibbs, from Milton, who stayed two or three years, and was followed by his brother, Lemuel, from Litchfield, South Farms. He came about 1806, and con- tinued a number of years. In 1841 the mills were entirely gone. ISTear the road a little south of the residence of George Johnson and connectiag East street with Middle street, a mill was built upon the stream, and was used for a gristmill. ISTear the place was a clock factory. Who owned this roill or fac- tory we have not been able to ascertain. Clocks and cutlery were also manufactured at one time in Canada village, and clocks at Hart Hollow by Henry Hart.* * Copied from a clock in Bethany, Conn, (made in Hart Hollow): " Patent clocks made and sold by Northrop & Smith, Goshen Ct. Warrented as follows; If this clock does not keep time with proper management it will be received at the factory and another given in exchange for the same, if returned within one year from the sale by the manufacturers. H. Adams printer Litchfield." Face 9% x 9% inches. Picture below 9% x 7%. Gilt border, figures of church, house, trees, etc, with a small diamond-shaped clear space in the center. 24 370 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. There were several tanneries in the town at different times. The first was owned and operated by JSTathanael Stanley, who came to the town in June, 1742. In his account book is the following memorandum: "At the County Court holden at Hartford, November 1, 1748, I obtained license for tanning by Lieutenant Pettibone. Court fees 10-6 money old tenor. Nathl. Stanley." His knowledge of tanning seems to have been obtained as he could get it and without any apprenticeship. In his book there is much written on this subject and several times he men- tions particulars about which he had " learned by experience." J esse Wadhams built a house on the west side of the turn- pike, about eighty rods south of the south end of Long Swamp. Here he worked at his trade, which was that of a potter. He manufactured the red earthen ware from the common clay. This Wias between 1790 and 1810. The same business was carried on later by another person. Walter, Cobb & Co. commenced the manufacture of woolen cloths in Canada village in the year 1814. They did a large business for the times and built up the Kttle village, by giving employment to several families. In 1826 their failure, brought about by large losses, compelled them to go out of business. Benoni Hills came from Durham to Goshen in 1740 or '41. He was a gunsmith by trade, to which he added the making of tools of various kinds. John Doud came to Goshen when a boy and was apprenticed to Hills, to learn the gunsmith's trade, and what other things Hills could teach him. After learning the trade he had a place on the west side of East street, near the corner where the Sharon turnpike comes into East street from the west. While he lived here he formed a partnership with Eben- ezer ISTorton, Jr., for the manufacture of muskets. They con- tinued in this business during the War of the Revolution and HISTORY OF GOSHEN. 371 until 1783. Their shop stood neai' the preseat residence of Deacon Edward Norton, at the south end of Deacon Lewis M. ISJorton's garden, facing the south. It had two rooms, the west room for forging the iron work, and the east room for filing and for stocking the guns. Mr. Doud made good gun- locks and barrels, and Mr. ISTorton's business was to stock them. Lewis M. K^orton says, " I well remember an old oak stump standing on the knoll east of my house, which was fired at by Mr. Doud to try his guns. The stump was much cut to pieces to save the bullets." The business must have been quite large. It is said that there were 2S blacksmiths in the town during the war, and many of them must have been employed in the forging of the gun barrels and locks. The farmers' tools were all home made, or the work of resident mechanics, in those times. The muskets, when made, were received by Colonel Medad Hills, who resided on the west side of Whist Pond, and who had a contract with the government. In the Colonial Records for 1776 we are informed that Edmund Beach was made in- spector of iirearms. He was re-appointed in '77, and at the same time Miles Beach was also appointed. At the May ses- sion, 1777, Colonel Ebenezer ISForton was one of the com- mittee for procuring firearms. About fifty years ago, at West Goshen, Wing & Gilbert operated a sash and blind factory; Crandall, a grist and saw mill; Fred M. Foster, a tannery; at Hall Meadow, Simeon Loomis had a chair factory; at Hart Hollow, there were two sawmills; a turning shop, where bedsteads were made; a dressing mill, for dressing wool; a cheese box factory; where several thousand were made every year; in the southwest part of the town, Beach's sawmill; and at the center, Scoville's wagon and carriage factory employed a large number of hands and turned out a great variety and a large number of vehicles annually. 372 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. CHAPTEE XXII. GOSHEN IN THE WAR OF THE REBEIaLION. When the news of the fall of Sumter reached the people of Goshen, they were not so much aroused as shocked and grieYed. The quota of the state, under the first call of the President for three-months men had been filled so quickly that no thought or opportunity of enlistment had been sug- gested. The fires of patriotism were soon kindled, however, and May 15, 1861, Charles J. Porter, Albert Sperry, Fred- erick A. Cook, Patrick McElhone, and Prancis J. Bentley, enlisted for three years, in the 4th Connecticut Regiment Volunteers, and were mustered into the service of the United States the twenty-third of the month. This was the first regiment of volunteers mustered into the service of the United States for the war. The enlistment of these young men awakened the people to the fact that there was a war in which they had personal interest and personal responsibilities, and through the long and painful years that followed their loyalty was constant, their patriotism unwavering. It will be remembered that, when the threats of rebellion were changed to the whistle of bullets and the screech of shot and shell, some Xorthcim democrats, not realizing the serious- ness of the times nor the principles involved, were disposed to regard it as a continuation of the political campaign that had ended in the election and inauguration of Abraham Lincoln. These men denounced the election of ]\Ir. Lincoln as an inva- sion of the rights of the South. There was much talk of a " fire in the rear," and when the news of the fall of Sumter came to their knowledge, they were not slow in manifesting their exultation. There were a few such men in Goshen. HISTORY OF GOSHEN. 373 The first party of volunteers had just left the town, the glow of patriotism had given place to its burning flames, when, on the afternoon of Sunday, June 23, 1861, the people gath- ered for worship at the Center were startled by the announce- ment that a rebel flag was floating on the premises of Andrew Palmer, a resident on East street. A large number of per- sons assembled near the chtirch, and the most intense excite- ment preA'ailed. A meeting was organized, and a committee of five appointed to confer with Palmer, and urge him to re- move the offensive flag, and report as soon as possible. The committee proceeded to Palmer's and, after remon- strating and pleading with him for a long time, were met only with abuse and insult. The flag was lowered, however, by one of his workmen, but Palmer swore that he would raise it when he had a mind to and defend it at all ha^iards. The committee reported back to the meeting the result of their conference. It was then unanimously " Resolved that no Secesh flag should be allowed to float over the soil of Go- shen; " and in a committee of the whole, it was agreed to execute the vote, and the meeting dissolved. About ten o'clock the next morning, the flag was again seen floating to the breeze, the people began to assemble, some bringing firearms, a warrant was issued and placed in the hands of the deputy sheriff. By two P. M., more than a hundred persons were assembled near the church, where they were sum- moned as a posse and proceeded towards Palmer's. The flag had been hauled down before they got there. Palmer was requested to produce the flag, but refused, and the sheriff arrested him. A rescue was attempted by Palmer's men, and, in the melee, a gun was discharged by accident and one of his men was wounded. He was brought before a justice of the peace, but on his signing a paper that he would not raise any more secesh flags, but would sustain a Union flag on his prem- ises, and in all respects conduct himself as a good and loyal 374 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. citizen, lie was released. Tlie flag was found wHere it had been hidden and delivered up, and is still in existence. A letter from a clergyman, now residing in Honolulu, who was supplying the pulpit of the Congregational church at the time, refers to this episode as follows: — " But the one in- cident that stands out most clearly photographed in my mem- ory, is the raising of a secession flag on some new frame that carpenters were putting up about two miles from the center. I well remember the general indigna,tion that was aroused at the thought of sending off brothers and sons to fight against secession, and the disgrace of having the emblem of that in- iquitous attempt to break up the Union of States flaunted in the faces of the descendants of Revolutionary sires. I can see the long procession, headed by the sheriff, wending its way over the hills, the doctor and myself bringing up the rear of the procession. News of the calling out of the posse had preceded us, and the ' stars and bars ' had been hidden in a skunk's hole. In the squabbling that occurred before the affair was settled, a musket was dropped, and, as it struck the bottom of the cellar, the gun was discharged and the ball pierced the leg of one of the carpenters. He was tendered the services of the surgeon or the chaplain, but declared he would let his leg rot off before the doctor should touch it. An impromptu court was held in the basement room of the church in the evening, and the offending party held on the charge of misdemeanor. A committee was sent to the Legislature, then in session, and a law enacted making it a criminal offense to raise a secession flag in the state of Connecticut." Mr. Sperry has acceded to my request, so far as to give a short account of his service, during the period of his enlist- ment. He says: — "We left Hartford for the front, June 10th, and joined the army of the Upper Potomac, then under General Patterson at Hagerstown, Md.; and were the only threo-years regiment in that army at the time. Cook and HISTORY OF GOSHEN. 375 Bentley were soon discharged; the other three of us were with the regiment for three years. Our first summer we were doing provost duty and similar work in Hagersto^vn, Williamsport, and Frederick, under General Banks. The following winter we were transferred to McClellan's army, then in front of Washington. While there, the regiment was changed to ar- tillery and was the First Regiment Comiecticut Artillery. Our second summer was mostly spent in the Peninsula, and we were in nearly ail the engagements, from the siege of Yorktown to the battle of Malvern Hills. While at Yorktown our battery was neaj- the old line of works used in the War of the Revolu- tion, the lines of which could be easily traced. At the battle of Gaines' Mill, on June 27th, I was made a prisoner and taken to Libby prison. I was released and returned to the battery, July 21st, — one of the five of the fifteen taken who lived to get back. After the Peninsula Cam- paign we returned to the defenses of Washington, and our third summer was mostly spent in Fort Scott, on Arlington Heights. In the spring of '64 we joined the army of the James, at Bermuda Hundred, and participated in the battles there and in the siege of Petersburg, and at the taking of Fort Fisher, in North Carolina. During a part of the time, while in front of Petersburg, we manned the ' Petersburg Express,' tbe 13-inch siege mortar, which is to be placed on the top of the monument of the First Connecticut Artillery, to be erected on the groimds of the Capitol at Hartford." There being no call for recruits, there were no enlist- ments from May until the next September, when Henry Fritz, Charles A. Bamum, Robert T. Becker, Daniel Kimberly, TJriah Mckerson, Garrett Reinders, and Joseph N. Wooster joined the 7th Regiment. In October, Edward N. Fanning joined the 8th Regiment, and John Fanning, joined the 9th or Irish Regiment. Peter McCabe, William N. Ford, and Henry C. Ford enlisted in the 11th the same month. 376 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. In November, George D. Bentley, Lyman A. Adams, and Nelson H. Way enlisted in tlie First Connecticut Cav- alry, and in the latter part of tlie same month, George W. Sperry, Henry E. Merwin, George W. Butler, George C. Downs, James Hicks, and Benjamin H. Prindle joined Com- pany 0, — Charles D. Blinn, captain, — of the 13th Regi- ment. In December, Michael Morris, Frank E. Wadhams, and Joseph Brady joined the same company. In January, 1862, Henry Mayo, Edward S. Richmond, James E. Robinson, and Fred. L. Wadhams joined Company I of the same Regiment, under Lieutenant Frank Wells of Litchfield. Up to this time no bounties had been promised or paid, except $7.50, to buy a pair of boots for each of those who en- listed in the 4th Regiment. In the fall of 1 861, the Sanitary Commission, fearing that the soldiers in the field would suffer for want of sufficient clothing and bedding, issued a call for contributions, to which tihe Ladies' Soldiers' Aid Society responded with two boxes, the contents of which were valued at $404.99. In the autumn of 1863, it was reported that the soldiers at Hilton Head were in want of vegetables, and, as there were many Connecticut soldiers among them, it was pro- posed to charter a vessel and load it for them. This was ac- cordingly done. A vessel was loaded at Bridgeport, in season to reach the men before Christmas. There were sent from Go- shen, 32 barrels, 10 boxes and one tub, filled with vegetables, butter and cheese, valued at $178.50. In Jamiary, 1863, the Ladies' Soldiers' Aid Society sent to the 19th Regiment a box, the contents valued at $55.40, and to the Sanitary Com- mission a box valued at $66. After this date, the Ladies' Society devoted themselves to the making of articles furnished by the State Society. When the Christian Commission commenced its work, the young HISTORY OF GOSHEN. 377 ladies raised $429.39 for tliat organization, by means of tab- leaux, concerts, and collections at monthly prayer-meetings. ^'^oman's record in this war has never been written, can never be vmtten. Eloquent lips and facile pens have often attempted a fitting tribute, but those who have known the most and realized best what service was rendered by her hands, what inspiration came from her tongue and pen, what the incitement of her smiles, the chrism of her tears, the bur- dens resting upon her heart, what the lonely hours of waiting brought her of untold agony, have been the most conscious of failure and been most filled with dissatisfaction as they have tried to tell the story of something more than Spartan bravery, of something very much like a Ohristlike sacrifice. The Legislature, at the session, June, 1862, had passed a law offering a State bounty of $50 to every volunteer, and also authorizing towns to pay bounties, and leA^y taxes or issue bonds to raise money for this purpose. At a town meeting held in July, the town voted to pay a bounty of $100 to every volunteer — except those who should be commissioned — that enlisted between July 10th and Au- gust 20, 1862. A tax was levied and $4,600 collected vidthin 60 days and paid to the soldiers. At this time, Mr. James Q. Rice, who had been the Prin- cipal of Goshen Academy for eleven years, received enlisting orders and engaged vigorously in obtaining volunteers. In this he was very successful, and by August 15th he had en- listed forty-five men, a considerable proportion of them hav- ing been his former pupils. These were united with Torring- ton recruits, to make a company of 102 men. They went to Camp Button, Litchfield, the 21st of August, where they re- mained until September 23, 1862, when they left for "the front." The regiment had been organized as the 19th Connecticut Infantry, and while at Camp Dutton Mr. Rice was chosen cap- 378 HISTOEY OF GOSHEN. tain of Company O, William McK. Rice, 1st sergeant, James P. McCabe, 3d sergeant, Homer W. Griswold, George W. ISTewcomb, Frederick A. Lucas, corporals, and George T>. Bent- ley, wagoner. Frederick A. Cook, wlio had recruited a num- ber of men in adjoining towns, was chosen first lieutenant of Company B, and Moses Cook, Jr., sergeant. The President had called upon the states up to, and includ- ing, July, 1862, for 1,175,000 men. The total quota for Con- necticut was 28,127 men. Divided according to population, the town of Goshen had furnished men in excess of her pro- portion, but under the regulations adopted by the JSTational government, this excess did not avail on any later calls that might be made. In December, 1863, a number of men who had been en- rolled and were liable to draft associated together and raised money to procure substitutes or volunteers to fill the quota of the town. The following persons enlisted and were paid as follows: — ISTewton T. Abbott and James Mooney, each $75. John Quinn, James P. Quinn, James M. Palmer, each $50. IVIarcellus J. Judd, Wolcott Little, Timothy Maher, James Hicks, each $45. "William E. Albin, Charles H. Albin, Hu- bert D. Hoxley, David Treadwell, Alfred Saunders, Samuel Hall, and Jerome B. Pay, were paid $495 to be divided among them. The twelve first named were recruits in the Second Connecticut Heavy Artillery. The four others the Twenty- ninth Colored Pegiment. ISTelson H. Lawton enlisted in the navy at this time, as 3d assistant engineer, resigned in 1865, and these were the last en- listments from the town. In February, 1864, there was a call for 500,000 men, and under this call John Quain, Thomas McCone, and George M. Call were drafted, but absconded to parts unknown, and did not return until after the close of the war. An Act of Congress provided that, any man being drafted HISTORY OF GOSHEN. 379 might commute by paying $300, or fumisli a substitute, and in August, 1863, tlie following drafted men furnisbed substi- tutes at $300 each: — William Davis, Frederick E. Hurlbut, Andrew Bowns, Robert Palmer, and Warren Willcox. The state, in 1S64, offered a bounty of $300 to volunteers, but by the same act prevented towns from paying any bounty, but the town voted in August to pay a bounty of $300 to each volunteer or drafted person who should be enlisted. The leg- islature in June, 1865, confirmed the act of the town, the se- lectmen issued orders on the town treasurer, dated September 18, 1865, to pay the following persons, viz. : Willard E. Gay- lord, Moses W. Gray, Benjamin E. Lamphier, Joseph C. Lam- phier, Darius D. Thomson, Henry S. Wooster, Frederick Lyman, Victory C. Hart, Thomas W. Griswold, George G. Crandall, William D. Whiting, Alvin B. Dickinson, William T. Carr, Courtland W. Bentley, Austin AUyn, Jr., and Isaac W. Brooks, $300 each; Andrew Bowns, William Davis, Fred- erick E. Hurlbut, Robert Palmer, and Warren Wilcox, $150 each. At the succeeding annual town meeting, the treasurer was instructed not to pay the orders until an appropriation was made for that purpose, which was subsequently done and the orders were paid. The foUovsdng men furnished substitutes previous to the draft of 1864 at a cost to themselves, in addition to the state bounty, of the sums named: Willard E. Gaylord, $800; Moses W. Gray, $850; Yictory C. Hart, $500; Benjamin F. Lam- phier, $925; Joseph C. Lamphier, $925; Frederick Lyman, $650; Darius D. Thomson, $940; Henry S. Wooster, $900; Austin AUyn, Jr., $950; Isaac W. Brooks, $550; Courtland W. Bentley, $950; William T. Carr, $940; Thomas W. Gris- wold, $900; George G. Crandall, $940.— Total $11,620. Drafted and furnished substitutes to fill quota in 1864: Hosea Crandall for one year, $Y50; Alvin B. Dickinson for 380 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. tHree years, $1,160; Lyman Hall, for one year, $900; WiUiam D. WMting, not entitled to state bounty, $1,100. The men named below procured substitutes after the quota of 1864 was filled, in anticipation of another draft, which did not occiu-, paying the sums as stated: — Henry O. Beach, Abraham Beach, Truman P. Clark, Stephen Hurd, George J. Johnson, George W. Lamphier, Enos B. Pratt, and Alson Sanford, each $325; Wolcott Bunnell, $360; Ira Bab- cock, $345 ; Orion J. Hallock, William D. Johnson and Ben- jamin P. Lawton, $350. Number of enlistments from Goshen, . . . . .98 Goshen citizens enlisting in N. Y. Regiment, .... 2 100 Killed in battle or died of wounds, . . . . . .12 Died of disease, . . . . . . . .16 Killed by an explosion, ....... 1 Total enlistments from Goshen, Substitutes furnished previous draft, Sept., '64, Substitutes furnished by persons after being drafted. Substitutes furnished after draft, Sept., '64, Enlisted second time after discharge for disability. Re-enlistments as veterans, .... 29 100 14 9 13 3 7 146 Whole number furnished, .... The state furnished 41,983 men. The quota of Goshen, accord- ing to population, was 122 men; the town furnished 24 men in ex- cess of its proportion, and is waiting to hear of any town in the state with a better record. The population of Goshen in 1861 was 1,300, counting men, women, and children, and one out of every nine persons in the town was a soldier in the army. The town and individuals and Ladies' Soldiers' Aid Societies paid out directly, on account of the war, $28,200.50, and sums in a private way that can never be estimated. Comparisons are odious, but sometimes excusable. "Where every regiment holding Goshen men did well, and none dis- graced the colors, all are entitled to equal praise. While en- HISTORY OF GOSHEN. 381 listments in former wars were many of tkem for short terms, it is worthy of notice that all of Goshen's volunteersi in the last war were in for " three years or during the war." History tells us of the sufferings of the Patriots of '76 from lack of clothing, shoes, and food. The soldiers of the Civil War knew what it was to be hungTy and thirsty, when " hard tack " was worth one dollar each, and water could not be had; when rags scarcely hid their naked bodies, and the marches and counter- marches through rebeldom were bloody trails from bleeding feet. The soldier's record may be had in a few lines, with date of enlistment and discharge. His true record would em- brace a chapter, filled with months or years of hard, faithful, patriotic service, privations, sufferings, hardships, sickness, wounds, and death. Of these things the historian cannot give the details, the reader cannot appreciate, cannot measure, cannot imagine them. In preparing the following statement of the service of Goshen soldiers in the Civil War, names, dates of enlistment, promotions, wounds, deaths, dischargee, etc., are taken from the official records of the A^'^ar Department, and are, therefore, in the main correct. The 4th Kegiment Connecticut Infantry was changed to 1st Regiment Connecticut Heavy Artillery, January 2, 1862, and after that date the two designations are synonymous. The 19th Regiment Connecticut Infantry was changed to 2d Kegiment Connecticut Heavy Artillery, JSTovember 23, 1863, and after that date those two terms are synonymous. THE RECORD. William L. Adams, enlisted July 31, 1862; served in Co. O, 19th Regiment, and discharged Jtily 8, 1865. Charles Gr. Adams, enlisted Aug. 6, 1862; served in Co. C, 19th Regiment, as corporal; had his leg broken May 24, 1864, while en- gaged in destroying a railroad near Noel's Station, North Anna, Va., and was discharged for disability May 20, 1865, being permanently disabled. 382 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. Lyman A. Adams, enlisted Oct. 30, 1861; served in Co. A, 1st Eegiment Cavalry; promoted to corporal, sergeant, and 1st sergeant, and discliarged with the regiment May 31, 1865. Was captured at New Market, Va., Sept. 25, 1864, and released March 10, 1865. William E. Albin, corporal, enlisted as recrnit January 2, 1864, in Co. C, 2d Conn. Heavy Artillery, and discharged with the regiment. Charles H. Albin, corporal, enlisted as recruit Jan. 2, 1864, in Co. C, 2d Conn. Heavy Artillery, and discharged with the regiment. Newton T. Abbott, enlisted as recruit Jan. 4, 1864, in Co. A, 2d Conn. Heavy Artillery, and discharged for disability Jan. 16, 1865. Avery M. AUyn, enlisted Aug. 7, 1862; served in Co. C, 19th Regiment, and discharged for disability June 20, 1865, with im- paired health. He never recovered, lingered a few months, and died at his home in Goshen. Joseph P. Brady, enlisted Nov. 19, 1861; served in Co. A, 13th Regiment; re-enlisted as a veteran Feb. 8, 1864, and deserted Aug. 27, 1S64. George W. Butler, enlisted Nov. 18, 1861; served in Co. C, 13th Regiment; discharged for disability Blarch 11, 1863. Joseph D. Bierce, enlisted Aug. 16, 1862; served in Co. B, 19th Regiment, and discharged for disability Aug. 14, 1863. George D. Bentley, enlisted Oct. 30, 1861; served in Co. A, 1st Regiment Cavalry as corporal; discharged for disability March 15, 1862. He re-enlisted in the 19th Regiment Aug. 12, 1862, joining Co. C, was made regimental wagoner, and discharged at expiration of term of enlistment. While in the service he suffered from sun- stroke and other injuries, and, as the result, became insane. He has been under treatment in an asylum for about 25 years; was re- leased a short time, but again confined. The government has al- lowed him a pension of $75 per month for twenty-five years, and he is still receiving the same pension and confined in the State In- sane Retreat. Cyrus M. Bartholomew, enlisted Aug. 6, 1862; served in Co. C, 19th Regiment; was wounded in the battle of Cold Harbor June 1, 1864. and killed in battle at Cedar Creek, Oct. 19, 1864. He was 23 years of age. His body was buried at Goshen Nov. 17, 1864. William H. Beach, enlisted Aug. 11, 1862, and served in Co. C, 19th Regiment. He was made corporal in 1864, and killed in battle near Winchester, Va., Sept. 19, 1864, and buried in Goshen Oct. 16, 1864. He was 23 years of age. Zophar Beach, enlisted Aug. 13, 1862; served in Co. C, 19th Regiment, and discharged for disability June 20, 1865. Darius C. Beach, enlisted Aug. 14, 3862; served in Co. C, 19th Regiment; chosen corporal, and discharged with the regiment. HISTORY OF GOSHEN. 383 Francis J. Beutlej-, enlisted May 23, 1861; served in Co. I, 4tli Regiment; disclaaxged for disability Dec. 16, 1861. John Bruce, enlisted as recruit Dec. 24, 1863, and served in Co. A, 6th Regiment; wounded at Deep Run, Va., Aug. 16, 1864; discharged for disability June 14, 1865. Charles A. Barnum, enlisted Aug. 23, 1861; served in Co. B, 7th Regiment; discharged at expiration of term of enlistment. Robert T. Becker, enlisted Aug. 27, 1861; sei-ved in Co. E, 7th Regiment, and re-enlisted as veteran Dec. 22, 1863; v^ounded at Ber- muda Hundred, Va., June 17, 1864, and died Feb. 3, 1865. George R. Colby, enlisted Aug. 4, 1862; served in Co. K, 19th Regiment; was sick with chronic diarrhoea, and in the hospital at Alexandi-ia for some time, then transferred to hospital at New Haven, where he remained until his discharge. May 18, 1865. Henry Colby, enlisted July 31, 1862; served in Co. K, 19th Regi- ment. On skirmish line, at North Anna, Va., May 24, 1864, he was wounded in the hand; was sent to Portsmouth General Hospital, R. I., where his hand was amputated. He died in the hospital June 17, 1864, aged 22 years. Frederick A. Cook, enlisted May 23, 1861; served in Co. I, 4th Regiment; discharged for disability Sept. 23, 1861. In July, 1862, he received enlisting orders, and recruited part of a company in towns adjoining Goshen. Was mustered into service in the 19th Regiment Aug. 15, 1862, and appointed first lieutenant of Co. B. Resigned June 5, 1863. Moses Cook, Jun., enlisted Aug. 11, 1862; served as sergeant of Co. B, 19th Regiment; died in camp at Alexandria, Va., April 18, and was buried in Goshen April 26, 1863, aged 21 years. George W. Curtiss, enlisted Aug. 4, 1862; served in Co. C, 19th Regiment, a portion of his time as drammer, and was discharged with the regiment Daniel B. Curtiss, enlisted Aug. 13, 1862; sei-ved in Co. C, 19th Regiment, and discharged with the regiment. George C. Downs, enlisted Xov. 19, 1861; sei-yed in Co. C, 13th Regiment, and died in the service Sept. 13, 1863. Calvin L. Davis, enlisted Sept. 3, 1862; was chosen corporal, sergeant, promoted to color sergeant, and second lieutenant. His bravery will never be forgotten. When the balls were flying thick and comrades were lying down to protect themselves, he would not lie down, but bore the colors aloft in face of almost certain death. He won his promotion. He was wounded in the shoulder by a minie ball, which was never extracted, in the battle near Winchester, Sept. 19, 1864. Was discharged with the regiment. Seymour H. Eldridge, enlisted Aug. 12, 1862; served in Co. C, 384 HISTORY OF GOSHEQSr. 19th Regiment; promoted corporal and sergeant. He was ill during part of 1864, but, on his recovery, returned to his regiment, and was finally discharged with the regiment. At the battle of Winchester, Va., Sept. 19, 1864, the musket in his hands was struck by a shell, cutting it in two and leaving the barrel in his hands, then cutting a large hole m Sergeant Homer W. Griswold's pants, cutting ofE both legs of Peter Burke at the ankles, crushing a foot for Anson F. Balcom, reaching the ground and exploding, throwing the dirt and gravel-stones into the face of Lieut. D. C. Kilbourne, cutting and bruising the skin badly, and the concussion paralyzing both arms for a time. Burke and Balcom died, as the result. Eldridge coolly held up the part of his musket that was left, and asked his captain if he could " turn it in and draw another." Edward M. Fanning, enlisted Oct. 5, 1861, and served in Co. 0, Sth Regiment. He died in the service Aug. 12, 1862. John Fanning, enlisted Oct. 6, 1861, and served in Co. F, 9th Regiment. He died at New Orleans Nov. 13, 1863, aged 28, leaving a wife and two children. Henry C. Ford, enlisted Oct. 4, .1861; served in Co. D, 11th Regi- ment. He died at sea Jan. 17, 1862. William N. Ford, corporal, enlisted Oct. 4, 1861; served in Co. D, 11th Regiment; transferred to Co. M, 3d Regiment, Heavy Artil- lery, U. S. A., Oct. 25, 1862, and died Dec. 9, 1863. Heni-y Fritz, enlisted Sept. 6, 1861; served in Co. B, 7th Regiment; taken prisoner June 2, 1864, at Hatcher's Run, Va., paroled Dec. 11, 1864; returned to service, and discharged April 10, 1865. Charles Gregory, enlisted July 24, 1862; served in Co. K, 19th Regiment; promoted to corporal and sergeant, and discharged with the regiment. Homer W. Griswold, enlisted Aug. 2, 1862, and served in Co. 0, 19th Regiment; was chosen corporal; promoted sergeant, first ser- geant, and commissioned second lieutenant Co. L, Feb. 23, 1865, and first lieutenant, March 2, 1865; declined the last appointment, and commission revoked Slarch 31, 1865; discharged with the regi- ment. Hobart Griswold, corporal, enlisted Aug. 6, 1862; served in Co. C, 19th Regiment, and discharged with the regiment. Matthew H. Huxley, enlisted Aug. 11, 1862; served in Co. 0, 19th Regiment; was chosen sergeant. He died after a long sick- ness, at Alexandria, Va., Jan. 2S, 1864, aged 23 years. He was buried with Masonic honors at Goshen, Feb. 6, 1864. His father, Dr. A. Mack Huxley, was the resident physician of Goshen, was a man greatly beloved, a physician of eminent skill, who had the confidence of all who knew him, had been for some time in Alexan- HISTORY OF GOSHEN. 385 dria, attending upon his sick son, died instantly, of heart disease, while seated at the dinner table, Jan. 5, 1864. He was fifty-eight years of age. He was buried in Goshen Jan. 14, 1864. Edward 0. Huxley, enlisted Aug. 11, 1862, and served in Co. 0, 19th Regiment. He was promoted May 1, 1863, to regimental quartermaster-sergeant; in March, 1864, to second lieutenant, Co. F; and April 13, 1864, to first lieutenant, Co. L; appointed regimental quartermaster April 14, 1864; tranisfered to Co. G July 20, 1865; and was acting brigade quai-termaster during the latter part of his service; was discharged Aug. 18, 1865. William Herald, enlisted July 28, 1862, and served in Co. C, 19th Regiment He died at Alexandria, Va., Feb. 20, 1863, aged 20 years, and was buried in Goshen March 12th. Samuel Hunter, enlisted Aug. 2, 1862; served in Co. C, 19th Regi- ment, and was discharged with the regiment. James Hicks, enlisted Nov. 16, 1861, and served in Co. C, 13th Regiment; was discharged for disability March 10, 1862; enlisted as a recruit in 2d Heavy Artillery, Co. G, Jan. 1, 1864, and was dis- charged May 30, 1865. Hubert D. Hoxley, corporal, enlisted as a recniit Jan. 4, 1864, in Co. G, 2d Heavy ArtOlery; promoted corporal, and discharged with the regiment. Frank Huntley, corporal, enlisted as a recruit April 11, 1863, and served in Co. E, 1st Regiment Cavalry. He was captured at Bolivar Heights, Va., July 14, 1863, paroled April 16, 1864, and dis- charged for disability Sept. 28, 1865. Samuel Hall, enlisted Dec. 31, 1863, and served in Co. I, 29th Regiment (colored), and was discharged Oct. 24, 1865. Henry H. Ives, enlisted Aug. 7, 1862, and served in Co. C, 19th Regiment; discharged with regiment. Marcellus J. .Judd, enlisted Jan. 2, 1864; served in Co. A, 19th Regiment. He was a very large man, and none of the army uni- forms could be found that he could wear. For this reason he was not required to parade with his regiment. He was a shoemaker, and rendered himself useful by working at his trade, and continued in the service until discharged for disability, June 10, 1865. Daniel Kimberly, enlisted Aug. 28, 1861, and served in Co. E, 7th Regiment. He re-enlisted as a veteran Dec. 22, 1863. He was a sharpshooter. At the battle of Bermuda Hundred, May 31, 1864, he was wounded in the face, neck, and legs. Subsequently, he was shot in the knee while in camp. After five weeks of suffering in the McClellan Hospital, Fortress Monroe, he died of his wounds, July 5, 1864, aged 25 years. He left a wife and two children. Frederick A. Lucas, enlisted Aug. 8, 1862, and served in Co. 0, 25 386 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. 19th Regiment. He was promoted to corporal, sergeant, sergeant- major, and 2d lieutenant. He had command of Co. B (color com- pany) most of the time during the season of 1865, and in all the battles of that campaign. He was wounded twice, once severely, at Cedar Creek, Va., Oct. 19, 1864, by a minie ball through the left thigh, ajid, again, cut in the right hip by a piece of shell at Hatcher's Run, Va., Feb. 6, 1865. Although confined in the hospital three months by the first wound, he was present in every engagement of his regiment, and took a prominent part. He was mustered out with his regiment Aug. 18, 1865. The following is from the history of the Second Connecti- cut Heavy Artillery, by Theodore E. Vaill, Adjutant: " Sergeant-Major, afterwards Second Lieutenant, Frederick A. Lucas received a wound in the left thigh at Cedar Creek, which dis- abled him for several months. He returned to the regiment just in time to receive another wound, a slight one, in the affair at Hatcher's Run. He was promoted for gallantry at Winchester and Fisher's HUl, and Colonel MacKensie told the writer just after those battles, that he never saw a braver man than Sergeant-Major Lucas." Daniel E. Lyman, enlisted Aug. 1, 1862, and served in Co. C, 19th Regiment. He died at Alexandria, Va., Nov. 2, and was buried at Goshen Nov. 7, 1862, aged 18 years. This was the first death in the 19th Regiment. Wolcott Little, enlisted as a recruit, Jan. 2, 1864, and served in Co. C, 19th Regiment, and was discharged with the regiment. Nelson H. Lawton, entered the navy in 1863 as 3d assistant engineer, and resigned in 1865, after the close of the war. Henry Mayo, enlisted Dec. 18, 1861; sei-ved in Co. I, 13th Regi- ment; discharged for disability May 20, 1862. Orson M. Miner, corporal, enlisted Aug. 11, 1862, and served in Co. C, 19th Regiment. He had such an overwhelming conscious- ness or premonition that he was going to die, that at times it was almost impossible to get him on to the picket line or into action. He could not stand, and would lie on the ground as if stricken with palsy. No one considered him a coward, as there was no doubt of the reality of his sufferings. He was, however, on the front line during an engagement in the woods near Petersburgh, Va., June 22, 1864, and he fought well -was cool and brave -but a minie ball pierced his heart and he fell dead, just as he had predicted. He was buried where he fell, and the tree over him was marked with his name. His body was afterwards removed and buried in the ceme- tery at Gold Harbor. HISTORY OF GOSHEN. 387 Avery F. Miner, enlisted Aug. 7, 1862; served in Co. O, 19t,] Regiment; promoted corporal and sergeant; discharged with the regiment Henry E. Merwin, enlisted Oct. 30, 1861; served in Co. O, 13th Regiment; chosen corporal, discharged for disability May 12, 1863. Michael Morris, enlisted Dec. 16, 1861; served in Go. C, 13th Regiment; re-enlisted as veteran Feb. 8, 1864, and deserted Aug. 26, 1864. James Mooney, enlisted as a recruit, Jan. 4, 1864, and served in Co. E, 2d Conn. Heavy Artillery; was wounded in battle at Cold Harbor, June 1, 1864, and died the next day, aged 20 years. Timothy Maher, coi-poral, enlisted as a recruit, Jan. 2, 1864, and served in Co. C, 2d Conn. Heavy Artillery, and was discharged with the regiment. James P. McCabe, enlisted July 31, 1862, and served in Co. C, 19th Regiment; was chosen sergeant and promoted to 2d lieut. of Co. M, Feb. 27, 1864, and to 1st lieut. of Co. K, April 14, 1864. He was wounded in the battle near Winchester, Va., Sept. 19, 1864. A ball passed through both hips. He had his rubber blanket rolled and hanging over his shoulder resting on his hip. After he was hit the blanket was unroUed and it was found that the ball had passed through it before reaching his body, had made twenty-two holes in the blanket, and must have been fired at short range. He started for his home in Goshen without tickets, money, or " transportation." He was a Free Mason. A stranger paid his fare to New York, as the conductor would not pass him. From there to Torrington the con- ductors let him ride. He took a team at Torrington and reached his home in the night, crawled to the door, pounded and shouted until his wife was aroused and opened the door, when he fell into the house. This was on October 1st, and he died the morning of the 3d, and was buried the 5th, with Masonic honors. He was forty years of age, and left a wife and five children. I'eter McCabe, enlisted Oct. 5, 1861, and served in Co. B, 11th Regiment. He died at Roanoke Island March 19, 1862, aged 26 years. Patrick McElhone, enlisted May 23, 1861, and served in Co. I, 4th Regiment, and was discharged at the expiration of his term of enlistment, May 22, 1864. George W. Neweomb, enlisted Aug. 1, 1862, and served in Co. C, 19th Regiment; was chosen corporal and promoted to sergeant in 1864, and to 1st sergeant March 20, 1865; discharged with the regiment. Carlton N. Nichols, enUsted July 31, 1862; served in Co. C, 19th Regiment, and discharged for disability April 29, 1863. 388 HISTORY OP' GOSHEN. Uriah Nickerson, enlisted Sept. 7, ISGl; served in Co. E, 7tli Regiment; re-enlisted as veteran, Dec. 22, 1863, and discharged at exiJiration of term of service. Theodore A. I'endleton, enlisted Aug. 4, 1862; served in Co. C, 19tn Regiment. He \vas promoted to company quartermaster ser- geant of Co. O of the 2d Conn. Heavy Artillery. He was one of the smallest men in the regiment, wore No. 4 boots. He was a skillful mechanic, and his musket was the pride of the " Defences of Wash- ington." A great many people came to see it, and among them many Regular Army ofllcers. He was offered $100 and another musket for it. He was discharged with the regiment. Heniy D. Pierce, enlisted July 26, 1862; sei-ved in Co. C, 19th Regiment; wounded Oct. 19, 1864, at Cedar Creek, \'a., and dis- charged with the regiment. Benjamin H. Prindle, enlisted Nov. 25, 1861; served in Co. C, 13th Regiment; discharged for disability Uct. 17, 1862. Charles J. Porter, enlisted May 23, 1861; one of the five men who first enlisted, under the call for thi-ee-years men, from Goshen. He ser\-ed in Co. I, of the 4th Regiment, and afterwards in the 1st Conn. Heavy Artillery. He was mustered a corporal of the Co., and, April 25, 1862, was made company quartermaster sergeant, and was discharged at the expiration of the term of enlistment. Charles D. Pattrell, enlisted as recruit, April 11, 1862; served in Co. I, 1st Regiment Heavy Artillery; promoted to coi-porai and sergeant; re-enlisted as veteran April 19, 1864, and discharged with the regiment. James M. Palmer, enlisted as recruit, Jan. 1, 1864; served in Co. G, 2d Regiment Heavy Artillery; was wounded Oct. 19, 1864, in the battle at Cedar Creek, Va., and died in the field hospital Oct. 22, 1864, leaving a wife and three children. John Quinn, enlisted as recruit Jan. 2, 1864; served in Co. C, 2d Regiment Heavy Artillery. He was wounded at Cedar Creek, Va., Oct. 19, 1864; discharged with the regiment. James P. Quinn, enlisted as recruit, Jan. 2, 1864; served in Co. C, 2d Regiment Heavy Artillei-y. Was wounded at Cold Harbor, Va., June 1, 1864. Was promoted to corporal, Feb. 22, 1865, and to 1st sergeant July 20, 1865; dischai-ged with the regiment. Garrett Reinders, enlisted Sept. 7, 1861; served in Co. E, 7th Regiment. Was taken prisoner at Drury's Bluff, Va., May 16, 1864; confined at Anderson ville; paroled Dec. 11, 1864, and discharged March 13, 1865. Edward S. Richmond, enlisted Nov. 30, 1861; served in Co. I, 13th Regiment. He was one of the guards on an ammunition train on the Opelousas Railroad. The train took fire when near New Orleans, and in the explosion which followed he was killed, the HISTORY OF GOSHEN. 389 body being so mutilated that no part of it was ever identified., This occurred Nov. 7, 18G2. He was 20 years of age. AVilliam T. Robinson, enlisted Aug. 8, 1862; served in Co. C, 19th Regiment; died Jan. 16, 1863, at Alexandria, Va., and was buried in Goshen the 25th. He was 38 years old, and left a wife and three children. James E. Robinson, enlisted Nov. 30, 1861; served in Co. I, 18th Regiment. He deserted March 17, 1862, and re-enlisted in a New York Regiment, and died Jan. 7, 1863, at Windmill Point, Va., aged 21 jears. James Q. Rice, enlisted July 24, 1862, and was chosen captain of Co. C, 19th Regiment. Promoted to Major in 2d Regiment Heavy Artillery JXarch 12, 1864; killed in battle near Winchester, Ta., Sept. 19, 1864. His body was cut almost asunder by a 24- pounder, which struck squarely on the sword belt. He was buried in Goshen with Masonic honors Oct. 17, 1864, aged 41 years, leaving a wife and three children. The following extract is from " Oonneeticut in the Rebellion": " The 2d Artillery had been five hours in battle and suffered severely. Among the killed was Major Rice. He was a native of Sullivan County, New York, and a resident of Goshen ten years be- fore the war. He was graduated with honors from Wesleyan Uni- versity, Middletown, and had been obliged to abandon the study of law on account of impaired eyesight. The call of 1862 found him conducting a flourishing academical school at Goshen, assisted by his accomplished wife, a daughter of Gen. Cook of that town. He raised a company of intelligent and worthy yovmg men and joined the 19th. His townsmen presented him with a regulation sword after he was chosen captain. The next month he was on the staff of Gen. Slough, at Alexandria, Va., captain of the picket and patrol of the city. He gave the highest satisfaction. In the spring of 1863 he was on the staff of Col. Leverett W. Wessells, commanding the Second Brigade, in tlie south defenses; and the succeeding fall he was assigned to the command of Fort Ellsworth, an important post covering the city of Alexandria. In the carnage of Cold Har- bor, he issued orders in the midst of the storm in the same clear, un- ruffled voice they used to hear on their brilliant dress parades at Fort Ellsworth. In the battle of Winchester he was struck by a grape shot and Instantly killed. His remains received a soldier's burial on the field, but Avere afterwards removed to Goslien and committed to earth T\'ith Masonic honors." William JIcK. Rice, enlisted July 31, lSr,2: sei-ved in Co. C, 19th Regiment; chosen 1st sergeant; promoted to 2d lieut, Co. B, April 7, 1863, and to 1st lieut. Co. C, March 2, 1864; died, after a long ill- ness, at his sister's, Washington Hill, Orange County, New York, Nov. 8, 1864, aged 24 years. 390 HISTORY OP GOSHEN. Owen Reddy, enlisted Aug. 4, 1862; served in Oa. O, 19th Regi- ment* discharged for disability May 29, 1863. Jerome B. Ray, enlisted Dec. .31, 1862; served in Go. I, 29th Regi- ment (colored), discharged Oct. 24, 1865. Seeley Richmond, enlisted Aug. 22, 1862; served in Co. C, 19th Regiment; had his wrist broken by being run against by an oflBcer's horse June 28, 1864, near Petersburg, Va.; discharged with the regi- ment. Albert Sperry. (See a previous page.) George W. Sperry, enlisted Nov. 18, 1861; served in Co. C, 13th Regiment; chosen corporal; promoted to sergeant; wounded April 14, 1863, at Irish Bend, La. Sperry and Frederick L. Wadhams were captured during the battle of Winchester, but, by a ruse, out- witted their captors and escaped. He re-enlisted as a veteran Feb. 8, 1864; discharged April 25, 1866. Joseph Sherry, enlisted July 31, 1862; served in Co. C, 19th Regi- ment; was chosen corporal and promoted to sergeant. He was wounded in the arm by a rifle ball in the battle near Winchester, Va., Sept. 19, 1864, the ball breaking the bone about four inches be- low the shoulder. He was discharged for disability July 31, 1865. Charles J. Soudant, enlisted July 31, 1862; served in Co. O, 19th Regiment; later joined the regimental band. He served much of the time as regimental tailor, and was very efficient; was discharged May 15, 1865. George C. Stewart, enlisted Aug. 4, 1862; served in Co. C, 19th Regiment; discharged with the regiment. John H. Stewart, enlisted Aug. 6, 1862; served in Co. C, 19th Regiment; died at Alexandria, Va., Jan. 3, 1863; buried in Goshen Jan. 11, 1863. He was only 16 years of age. Royal Stone, corporal, enlisted Aug. 5, 1862; served in Co. C, 19th Regiment; discharged with the regiment. Alfred Saunders, enlisted Dec. 28, 1863; served in the 29th Regiment, Co. G (colored); discharged Oct. 24, 1865. Henry L. Vaill, enlisted Aug. 7, 1862; served in Co. C, 19th Regiment; chosen corporal; wounded in the battle of Cedar Creek, Oct. 19, 1864, a musket ball passing through his shoulder and breast. He died at Taylor Hospital, Va., Nov. 4, 1864, aged 23 years; was buried in Cornwall, Nov. 20, 1864. David Treadwell, enlisted Dec. 16, 1863; served in Co. D, 29th Regiment (colored); wounded Oct. 13, 1864, at Darby Town Road, Va.; mustered out Oct. 24, 1865. Uri Wadhams, enlisted Aug. 4, 1862; served in Co. C. 19th Regi- ment. He was the strongest man in the 2d Conn. Artillery; could outlift, outjump, or box any man in the regiment. He never had an hour's sickness in his life or took any medicine. On Sept. 23, 1863, HISTORY OF GOSHEiN. 39]^ lie was attacked with diphtheria and died in 36 hours, aged 23 years. He was corporal of his company. Was buried in Goshen. William U. Wadhams, enlisted Aug. 7, 1862; served in Co. C, 19th Regiment; was promoted to coi-poral June 9, 1864, and was dis- charged with the regiment. Willard N. fl'adhams, enlisted Aug. 6, 1862; served in Co. C, 19th Regiment; chosen color corporal; was slightly wounded in the knee at Cold Harbor, Va., June 1, 18G4. He was a noble soldier; died July 22, 1864, in Celestia Hospital, Philadelphia, and buried in the hospital cemetery — " No. 121 " — aged 21 years. Nelson H. Way, enlisted Nov. 15, 1861; served In Co. A, First Regiment Cavalry; discharged at expiration of term of enlistment. James N. Wooster, enlisted Aug. 23, 1861; served In Co. E, 7th Regiment; re-enlisted as veteran Dec. 22, 1863; killed in battle at Bermuda Hundred June 2, 1864, aged 20 years. He was a sharp- shooter and a brave man. Frank E. Wadhams, enlisted Nov. 2.5, 1861; served in Co. C, 13th Regiment; re-enlisted as veteran Feb. 8, 1864; was taken sick with swamp fever while on the Red River expedition, and sent to New Orleans Hospital. On recovery he joined his regiment and was soon attacked v^ith pneumonia, reduced vei-y low, and came home on a thirty-days furlough in a vei-y feeble state. He was sent to the hospital in New Haven, where he remained until April, 1865, when he joined his regiment, and was subsequently stationed at Augusta, Atlanta, and Athens. Discharged April 25, 1866. Frederick L. Wadhams, enlisted Dec. 9, 1861; served in Co. I, 13th Regiment; was taken prisoner by the rebels at the battle of Winchester, Sept. 19, 1864, but, by the use of a little strategy, made his escape in a short time and joined his regiment. Discharged at the expiration of his term of enlistment, Jan. 6, 1865. Jloses Lyman of Goshen was at ^Mclndoes Falls, Vt., when the war broke out, having charge of the Goodrich Co.'s Sawmills and Box Factory. He enlisted Aug. 31, 1862, and served in Co. F, 15th Regiment Vermont Volunteers, Col. Proctor (afterwards Secretary of War under President Harrison), commanding. He was chosen 2d lieut., and afterwards, in Va., was promoted to 1st lieut., and as- signed to Co. H. From the autumn of '62 to June, '63, was on the outposts, principally guarding the Orange & Alexandria R. R., as far out as Warrenton, and vainly chasing White's and Moseby's guerrillas. In June was transferred to the first coi"ps of the Army of the Potomac. At Gettysburg, the following month, the regiment was detailed to guard the ammunition train on the second and third days of the battle, not having reached the field until the evening of the first day's fight. In April, 1863, he was desperately sick with typhoid pneumonia, and was honorably discharged in August. He commenced recruiting for the 17th Regiment in September, but the 392 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. fever had left him with frequent returns of rheumatism, and he re- signed in November, leaving the service entirely. Sidney Wadhams, at the time of his enlistment, was a student in the Seminary at Amenia, New York. He enlisted in the 48th Regiment N. Y. S. V., under Col. Perry, an old soldier of the Mexican War. He enlisted as a private, and was promoted to a lieutenancy. He was killed in the assault on Fort Wagner, July 18, 1863, aged 27 years. His remains were never recovered. Dudley F. Hallock, a native and resident of Goshen, enlisted in Co. D, 2d New York Cavalry, and died at Point Lookout, aged 25 years. Was buried in Goshen, Feb. 14, 1863. Albert Wadhams, a native of Goshen, enlisted Nov. 27, 1861, in Co. I, 11th Regiment of Conn. Was captured July 6, 1863, at Hanover Court House, Va.; paroled July 8, 1863. Wounded June 3, 1864, at Cold Harbor, Va., and discharged Nov. 26, 1864, at the ex- piration of term of enlistment. William Root Brewster, a native of Goshen, enlisted from New York city, where he had been in business for several years. He was a colonel under Gen. Daniel H. Sickles, and became brigadier- general, commanding the famous old " Sickles Brigade." George B. Cook, enlisted May 22, 1861, and was mustered as 1st lieutenant, Co. D, 4th Conn. Infantry, afterwards 1st Conn. Heavy Artillery; was promoted Nov. 6, 1861, to be captain same company; promoted major same regiment, Jan. 22, 1863; resigned May 4, 1865. He was the eldest son of Gen. Moses Cook and was born and lived in Goshen until twenty years of age. Previous to his enlistment he was in the drygoods business in New London. He was mainly Instrumental in raising Co. D, 4th Conn. Infantry, for the war, the company making him their commanding officer. Goelien has no soldiers' momiment, but on the east end of the audience-room of the rebuilt church, in an arched panel at the right of the pulpit, is the following inscription in letters of gold: IN MEMORY OF BRAVE MEN PROM THIS CHURCH AND CONGREGATION WHO LAID DOWN THEIR LIVES IN THE WAR OE THE REBELLION Avery M. Allyn Cyrus M. Bartholomew William H. Beach William R. Brewster Moses Cook. Jr. William H. Herald Henry M. Huxley • Daniel Kimberly Daniel E. Lyman James Mooney Edward S. Richmond James Q. Rice William McK. Rice John H. Stewart Henry J. Vaill Willard A. Wadhams Uri Wadhams Sidney Wadhams HISTORY OF GOSHEN. 393 CHAPTER XXIII. THE CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION. At a public meeting held in April, 1876, it was Voted, unanimously, tliat we, the citizens of G-oshen, will publicly celebrate the Centennial Anniversary of our Nation's birLli on the 4th of July next ; and hereby invite all interested, living abroad, to meet with us. Also, that a committee of seven be appointed to make proper arrangements for the pub- lic celebration, and that this committee be instructed to raise funds, procure public speakers, and conduct the arrangements for and at said celebration. The members of the centennial committee are, John M. Wadhams, Henry ISTorton, Henry G. Wright, "Willard E. Gay- lord, Lyman Hall, Moses Lyman, and Frederick A. Lucas. The following is compiled from reports found in different newspapers. A better day for observance of the celebration of this centennial birthday of our nation could not have been made to order. Providence certainly smiled upon us in this respect. A clear sky, with the bright sun all day long, and at night a sudden shower of about a dozen drops, and light clouds ob- scured the moon, so that fireworks would show to good ad- vantage. A good cool breeze from off Ivy mountain prevented oppression from the heat. The people of Goshen had made large arrangements for the accommodation of her citizens and guests, but they were none too large. The large tent of the Litchfield County Agri- cultural Society was erected in the rear of the church, in which were stores of eatables, viands of all sorts, luxuries and sub- stantials, and two massive tubs full of lemon peel was all there was that soured the festivities of the day. 394 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. Early in the morning the teams began to^ pour in, people coming to " make a day of it," and before 9 o'clock the street for a mile was one grand hitching-post. The Wolcottville cor- net band arrived early, and began at once to pile np chords of music, and they furnished excellent music either as band or orchestra. The twelve-page program was carried out strictly, nor was it a tedious one, for many of its pages contained a list of its committees, and nearly every resident of Goshen had his or her name on it in some capacity. Hon. John M. Wadhams presided and filled the position with honor and dignity. The literary exercises were held in the church, which was about one-eighth large enough, and consisted of the reciting the Declaration of Independence by Albert Wadhams, Esq., and the historical address by Deacon Edward Norton. Of this great praise must be spoken, and although very lengthy, yet it was listened to with great pleasure by all. All know how hard it is to listen to dates and statistics, yet Mr. Norton by his comparisons, quaint anecdotes, and illustrations, kept the audi- ence in good humor and frequently in laughter. After this address the collation was served, which was fine and ample, yet we doubt if many baskets of fragments were left. After dinner, at about two o'clock, the church was packed again and the multitude joined in singing the following hymn to the tune of " Grlory, Hallelujah." WRITTEN BY MRS. LYMAN HALL. Tune, " Glory, Hallelwjahl " Our God throughout the ages hath led his people on, A light in all the darkness, bright shining as the sun. The glory of our morning when Freedom's dawn begun, One Hundred Years Ago. Chorus. — Glory, Glory, Hallelujah! Glory, Gloi-y, Hallelujah! Glory, Glory, Hallelujah! One Hundred Years Ago! HISTORY OF GOSHEN. 395 For all the gifts the rarest God giveth unto earth; For all the hopes we cherish, for every household hearth; Our Country in her grandeur, thank God, who gave her Urth, One Hundred Yeai-s Ago. Chorus. — Glory, Glory, etc. What throes of sharpest anguish, what terror and what pain, The battle-field gives answer, the blood of heroes slain. Now blossoming in beauty, where fell each crimson stain. One Hundred Years Ago. Chorus. — Glory, Glory, etc. By faith that never faltered, they saw throughout the years, God's steadfastness of purpose above their hopes and fears, By a prophetic vision, saw dimly through their tears, One Hundred Years Ago. Chorus. — Glory, Glory, etc. Thank God, that he hath given this trust into our hands! Thank God, it is a refuge for the people of all lands! Pray God that we may keep it as long as this earth stands. Hundreds of Years to Gome! Chorus. — Glory, Gloiy, etc. Then a beautiful original poem by Mrs. Lucy Wadhams was read. This was followed by the oration of Frederick A. Lucas. This was a fine production and was well delivered. After the regular order, half an hour was devoted to short speeches from different gentlemen in the audience, among whom were T. S. Gold of Cornwall, secretary of the State Board of Agriculture, M. D. F. Smith of Goshen, Deacon Dudley of Milton. D. C. Kilbourne of Litchfield also added one of his " pomes " for the common amusement, and Solon B. Johnson, Eev. Mr. Bowers, John W. Brooks, Victory C. Hart, Henry J^orton, and Captain Willard Gaylord made short speeches. The last speaker, standing erect as a young man, told us he was 77 years, 36 days old, and spoke of the past. The president of the day was the last speaker, and the meeting adjourned until evening to witness the fireworks, which were very good; the small shower in the early evening having cleared away just in time, enough clouds remaining to obscure lii© moon. 396 HISTOKX OF GOSHEN. During the day not a person was seen who seemed to have been drinking, and no powder was burned or crackers fired be- tween Y A. M. and 6 P. M. The floral decorations of the church were fine, bouquets and pyramids of wild and cultivated flowers, mosses and ever- greens were profusely distributed, yet not unpleasantly so; while overhead a huge bell of green, with the motto: — " Lib- erty to all the inhabitants thereof." In rear of the pulpit a scroll of honor contained the names of Goshen soldiers in the Revolution, 162 in all; another had those of the French and Indian war, and a third those engaged in the late Kebellion. In the early morning a company had assembled at the spot where a liberty pole had stood during the Kevolution, and where another had been erected, and with appropriate cere- monies the stars and stripes were raised and flung to the breeze. At the close of these ceremonies, they marched to the place made memorable as the spot where stood the log-house of Dea- con John Beach ; and Eugene P. Norton, the committee chosen by the church, flung to the breeze on a tall flagstafl^ a beautiful flag bearing this inscription, " Goshen First Congregationa] Church, organized here, l^ov. 1740." The relic department contained upwards of 400 articles and was thronged during the entire day. It was an armory of old guns, swords, cartridge boxes, shot, shell, bullets, etc. ; large quantities of continental money, old books, pamphlets, coins, slippers, etc. were shown, heirlooms of many of the old families of Goshen. Christopher Wheeler exhibited a pewter platter made in London in the days of Richard LEI. John "W. Brooks exhibited a case of coin that attracted a crowd all day; it contained a iiiW set of pennies, many rare bills and colonial coins, a pine-tree shilling, and Japanese and Chinese silver and gold. Also a brass clock made in Leeds, Eng., in 1Y33. Among the guns was one made by Col. Medad Hills, at his shops in the east part of Goshen. It was exhibited HISTOEY OF GOSHEN. 397 by Mr. Myron Osborn of Litchfield, and beautifully engraved, '■ 1758, August the 26, made by Medad Hills at Goshen. Rev. Sylvenus Osborn." Mr. Osborn was the minister at Warren, Conn., and when the Kevolution broke out he resigned his charge, enlisted as a private, took this gun to the wax, afterward rose to the ofEce of captain, served through the war, died, and was buried at Warren. It is a very long musket, ajid has always been in the possession of the Osborn family. POEM. By Mrs. Lucy Wadhams. One hundred years have passed away, Since our first Independence Day Proclaimed, with joy, a Nation's birth, And sped the news o'er all the earth; Re-echoing from zone to zone, And mouai'chs trembled on their throne. One hundred years are with the past — The noise of war, the trumpet's blast. The tramp of heavy armed men. The sick'ning sight of loved ones slain, The widows' sighs, the orphans' tears. Are buried with the vanished years. One hundred years — What boots it now That crowns encircled many a brow, And tyrants ruled with power and might, And trampled justice, truth, and right. Without remorse, 'neath iron heel, And ruthless hoof, and flashing steel! One hundred years, as one by one. They came and went beneath the sun. How many scenes of mortal strife! What struggles for a Nation's life! What precious blood was freely shed! What records of the noble dead! One hundred years in grand review. Bring up the names of not a few Whose deeds, heroic, never die. But are emblazoned in the sky; Brave men of faith, and men of prayer, Their mem'ry now a Nation's care. 398 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. One hundred years ago to-day — Those sturdy freemen, where are they? A race, the like ne'er seen before. Nor e'er shall be till time is o'er; I seem to hear their funeral knells Commingled with Centennial bells. I recommend we gather round, In every city, state, and town, The ashes of our patriot dead; And, standing with uncovered head And moistened eye, our children tell How well they fought, and where they fell. With feet so weary, bare, and sore. And scant apparel, soiled and tore. With hunger, thirst, and groans, and pain, And wrongs that maddened heart and brain, They bore it all for you and me; Shall th-ey by us forgotten be? We, their descendants, answer'. No! As generations come and go, Oh keep their mem'ry ever green. In wooded vale, by flowing stream. Upon the rocky mountain's height, Where Freedom's banner waves in light. Let the broad prairies speak their names; And whisper them o'er Southern plains; Let the loud cannon's mighty roar. With brazen mouth, from shore to shore, Tell of the loved, the true, the brave. Who died our glorious land to save. In quiet graves they peaceful sleep; O'er some the graceful willows weep; On others the deep shadows fall Of marble slab, or granite tall. The seed they sowed in martyr blood Has ripened for the church of God. And on this consecrated spot Let not our Mothers be forgot; To toil and hardship oft inured, Yet greater suffering endured When they gave up with tearful eye, Husbands and sons to bleed and die. HISTORY OF GOSHEN. ggg But oh! to watch and patient wait For tidings at the cottage gate; To long, yet dread, to hear the sound. Of eager footsteps on the ground. Not knowing whether hidden foe Is near to deal the murd'rous hlow. To weep ahove the coffln lid 'Neath which the mangled form is hid; To gaze upon the vacant chair; To miss the voice at evening prayer; Henceforth to walk on earth alone, And meekly say, " Thy will be done." Through this, and more, they never lost Their faith in God, or grudged the cost; But strong of nerve and great of heart. They nobly acted well their part. That free foundations, firm and sure, Might to the latest age endure. The honored dead! we br'ing them now A crown of laurel for each brow; And scatter with a lavish hand. The richest flowers of our land, All o'er their narrow resting place. Whose names on cnimbling stone we trace. We marshal them in proud array! And challenge all the world to-day Produce the roll of heroes gone, Chanted in verse, rehearsed in song. And we will bring Columbia's son. The brave and mighty Washington! " The first in war, the first in peace," Still honored as the years increase, His name shall ever have a part Deep graven on the Nation's heart; Then heed his kindly warning given, All you by selfish passions driven. "Let not base party spirit rage; In foreign intrigue ne'er engage; Let jealousy of rulers cease; In all things lawful strive for peace; To civil discord close the gates; Preserve the Unity of States." 400 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. Thus comes Ms voice adown the years With counsel sage, through hopes and fears He saw, with keen, prophetic eye, The hidden dangers lurking nigh From artful and designing men, Seeking to stifle voice and pen. One hundred years of deeds of fame — On Freedom's roll another name; "With charity for all below; No malice felt for hostile foe; " Of sterling worth, yet free from pride — Columbia mourned when Uncoln died. Then, oh my Country! guard with care The Tree our Fathers planted here; And shield it from Politic strife — For union is the Nation's life; And never be our birthright sold For ofBce, or for sordid gold. O God! " our God in ages past," Be God of ours while time shall last; Let this broad land, now truly free. Purged from the stain of slavery, With gospel banner wide unfurled, Shed Christian light o'er all the world. HISTORY OF GOSHEN. 401 CHAPTEE XXIV. REPRESENTATIVES, ASSESSMENTS, POPULATION. 1756. Gideon Thompson, Samuel Nash. 1757. Capt. Moses Lyman, Capt. John Beach, Samuel Nash, Gid- eon Hurlhurt. 1758. Samuel Nash, John Beach, Stephen Heaton, Gideon Thomp- son. 1759. Gideon Thompson, Capt. Saml. Pettibone, Capt. Nathaniel Baldwin. 1760. Capt. Moses Lyman, Ebenezer Norton, Saml. Nash, Saml. Pettibone. 1761. Capt. Moses Lyman, Capt. Saml. Pettibone, Capt. John Beach, Capt. Saml. Nash. 1762. Capt. Saml. Pettibone, Capt. Moses Lyman, Capt. Saml. Nash, Capt. Ebenezer Norton. 1763-W. Capt. Moses Lyman, Capt. Samuel Nash. 1765-66. Capt. Moses Lyman, Ebenezer Norton, Capt. Samuel Nash. 1767. Capt. Moses Lyman, Capt. Edmund Beach, Capt. Samuel Nash, Nehemiah Lewis. 176S. Capt. S^-ml. Nash, Capt. Ebenezer Norton, Stephen Heaton. 1769. Capt. Ebenezer Norton, Edmund Beach, Capt. Saml. Nash, Abraham Parmelee. 1770. Capt. Samuel Nash, Capt. Edmund Beach, Capt. Ebenezer Norton, Capt. Jonathan Buel. 1771. Capt. Saml. Nash, Capt. Elisha Sill, Capt. Ebenezer Norton, Stephen Goodwin. 1772. Oapt. Jonathan Buell, Capt. Samuel Nash, Capt. Ebenezer Norton, Capt. Edmund Beach. 1773. Ebenezer Norton, Stephen Goodwin, Asaph Hall. 1774. Capt. Saml. Nash, Asaph Hall, Col. Ebenezer Norton, Oapt. Edmund Beach. 1775. Ool. Ebenezer Norton, Capt. Saml. Nash, David Thompson. 1776. Ool. Ebenezer Norton, Asaph Hall, David Thompson. 1777. Col. Timothy Stanley, Capt. Asa Francis, Col. Ebenezer Nor- ton, Capt. Asaph Hall. 1778. Col. Ebenezer Norton, Capt. Saml. Nash, Daniel Miles. 1779. Capt. Asaph Hall, Capt. Asa Francis, Giles Griswold. 1780. Oapt. Asaph Hall, Capt. Asa Francis, Capt. Stephen Goodwin. 1781. Abel Newell, Asaph Hall. 26 402 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. 1782. Abel Newell, Capt. Elisha Sill, Capt. Asaph Hall, Daniel Miles. 1783-84. Capt. Elisha Sill, Daniel Miles. 1785. Capt. Elisha Sill, Daniel Miles, Capt. Asaph Hall. 178fi. Adino Hale, Capt Asaph Hall. 1787. Samuel Hopkins, Ebenezer Norton, Daniel Miles. 1788. Daniel Miles, Adino Hale. 1789. Daniel Miles, Adino Hale, Capt. Asaph Hall. 1790-91. Ebenezer Norton, Adino Hale. 1792. Capt. Asaph Hall, Adino Hale. 1793-06. Samuel Hopkins, Adino Hale. 1797. Birdsey Norton, Adino Hale. 1798-99. Samuel Hopkins, Adino Hale, Birdsey Norton. 1800. Adino Hale, Saml. Hopkins, Birdsey Norton, Timothy Hale. 1801-2. Birdsey Norton, Timothy Hale. 1803-9. Birdsey Norton, Adino Hale. 1810-11. Birdsey Norton, Moses Lyman, .Jr., Adino Hale. 1812. Adino Hale, Moses Lyman, Jr. 1813-15. Adino Hale, Theodore North. 1816. Timothy Hale, Adino Hale, Theodore North. 1817. Timotiby Hale, Theodore North, .Julius Beach. 1818. Wm. Stanley, Julius Beach, Samuel Lyman. 1819. Wm. Stanley, Samuel Lyman. 1820-21. Noah Humphrey, Moses Cook. 1822-23. Erastus Lyman, Henry Hart. 1824. Timothy Collins, Augustus Miles. 1825. Truman Starr, Isaac Wadhams. 1826. Giles Gnswold, Isaac Wadhams. 1827-28. Giles Griswold, Erastus Lyman. 1829. Augustus Miles, David Wooster. 1830. Robert Palmer, David Wooster. 1831. Robert Palmer, George Cook. 1832. Jonathan North, George Cook. 1833. Jonathan North, Eber Bailey. 1834. Timothy Collins, Eber Bailey. 1835. Cicero Collins, George Cook. 1836. Collins Baldwin, William Miles. 1837. Alpha Hart, William Miles. 1838. Alpha Hart, Augustus Miles. 1839. Putnam Bailey, Augustus Miles. 1840. Putnam Bailey, William Gaylord. 1841. Willard Gaylord, Miles Hart. 1842. Thomas Bartholomew, Miles Hart. 1843. Thom.ns Bartholomew, O. M. Humphrey. 1844. John M. Wadhams, O. M. Humphrey. HISTORY OF GOSHEN. 403 1845. John M. Wadhams, Philo BaUey. 1846. Austin AUyn, Philo Bailey. 1847. Austin AUyn, Simeon Loomis. 1S4S. Simeon Loomis, J. ,T. Gaylord. 1849. George A. Hill, J. J. Gayloi-d. 1850. George A. Hill, Moses Cook. 1851. W. H. Brooks, S. H. Merwin. 1852. Henry Norton, D. H. Smitli. 1853. Lucius D. Allyn, A. W. Lawton. 1854. Sterling Wooster, Abner GUbert. 1855. Chris. P. Wheeler, Brastus MerM'in. 1856. Milo Bartholomew, Abram Beach. IS.TiT. Samuel Palmer, J. P. Porter. 1858. William Davis, William L. Grlswold. 1859. Austin Allyn, Jr., Jos. P. Bailey. 1860. Moses Cook, Jonathan B. Thompson. 1861. Watts H. Brooks, G. W. Humphrey. 1862. WiUard Gaylord, Moses Cook. 1868. Joseph Wooster, Moses Lyman. 1864. Darius Thompson, Frederick Lyman. 1865. Obed M. Humphrey, Sterling Wooster. 1866. Charles L. Porter, Joseph Palmer. 1867. Moses W. Gray, Austin Allyn. 1868. Lyman Hall, Moses Cook. 1869. Fred. A. Lucas, Bnos B. Pratt. 1870. Edward Norton, P. E. Hurlbut. 1871. Edward Norton, M. D. F. Smith. 1872. John H. Wadhams, T. W. Austin. 1873. Truman P. Clark, Abner Gilbert. 1874. Lyman Hall, John H. Wadhams. 1875. Fessenden Ives, William Davis, Jr. 1876. Frederick E. Hurlbut, Orion J. Hallock. 1877. Watts H. Brooks, Moses W. Gray. 1878. Henry G. Wright, Frank W. Griswold. 1879. William L. Griswold, Lyman Hall. 1880. Austin Allyn, John M. Wadhams. .1881. Moses A. Wadhams, Benjamin P. Lamphier. 1882. Hubert ScovlUe, Franklin E. Wadhams. 1883. Wilbur H. Wadhams, Elihu Carlisle. 1884. Simmons W. Scoville, J. Howard North. 1883. Eugene E. Allyn, William J. Green. 1886. Frederick A. Lucas, Thomas W. Griswold. 1883. Truman P. Clark, Charles G. Adams. 1890. Albert Sperry, Andrew Palmer. 1892. John H. Wadhams, C. F. Green. 404 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. 1894. Kobert I. Allyn, Charles J. Porter. 1896. James P. Vaill, Dan Lucas. 1898. Frank W. Griswold, Lorrain Apley. Daniel MUes and Asaph Hall weire delegates to the Convention which ratified the Constitution of the United States, convened in Hartford the first Thursday in January, 1788. Adino Hale ajQd Theodore North were delegates in the conven- tion to frame the State Constitution, which met at Hartford in August, 1818. In 1840 the official assessment list of the town gives the follow- ing named persons whose valuations exceed $10,000: Moses Cook, $13,000; Moses Lyman, $11,400; Erastus Lyman, $27,000. In 1874 a similar list reads as follows: Austin Allyn, $11,920; Austin Allyn, Jr., $10,261; Wm. Davis, $11,991; Washington Pox, Est, $10,910; Moses W. Gray, $10,726; Abigail Lyman, $10,120; Moses Lyman, $10,626; Lucas, Hurlbut & Allyn, $13,250; Haskill G. Smith, $13,649; Samuel B. Tuttle, $27,050; Edward Welch, $11,864; C. P. Wheeler, $10,893; John M. Wadhams, $16,503< There have been several large bequests made by residents of the town to benevolent objects. The largest was that of Washing- ton Fox to the Congregational Home Blissionary Society, of $16,120. Giles Griswold made large bequests. In 1873 Mrs. Harriet Cook gave $1,000 to the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. POPULATION OF GOSHEN. 1756, ... 610 1774, 1,111 1782, . . 1,450 1790, no report from Goshen. 1800, . 1,493 1810, . . 1,641 1820, 1,586 1830, 1,734 1840, 1,530 1850, 1,457 1860, 1,381 1870, 1,223 1880, 1,093 1890, 972 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. 405 CHAPTER XXV. THE GOSHEN OF TODAY. Keference to the table of populatioii reveals the fact that the number of inhabitants is much less than it was fifty years ago. The young men, sons of those who established its churches, schools, factories, and places of business, have been leaving the town during the past sixty years. Eanns that for a century had been in the possession of the same family are now occupied by aliens. Houses once filled with life and activity, from whose doors there went out sons and daughters to found new homes, not far from the parental dwellings, are now desolate and falling in decay, or their places marked by climips of lilac shrubbery or lily leaves, and a hollow in the ground telling the story of a cellar once filled with vegetables, fruits, and barrels of cider. The merchants who were accustomed to send wagons loaded with butter, cheese, and other produce to seaports, for shipment to the West Indies, have been succeeded by mem who knew nothing of such a line of trade and most of the buildings formerly occupied have fallen into ruins, or are used for other purposes. The factories have ceased their op- erations. Several districts have no schools,- and in others, where formerly forty scholars would be crowded into the schoolroom during the winter term there is now an average at- tendance of less than half a dozen. But this is a common story of the hill towns of ISTew Eng- land, and reveals what it has cost New England to settle and build up the West. The story is not wholly dis- couraging. The homes are not all deserted. A good class of foreigners have come in, and by their industry and 406 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. economy are improving the farms and securing good homes and independence. A Oattiolic Church, has been built at the Center, and it is not the fault of the writer that the history of the parisb. is not found upon these pages. At the Methodist churches in West and North Goshen the congregations are small, and regular services are maintained witb difficulty. The membership of the Congregational Church is larger, pro- portionally, than when the population was the largest, a lib- eral salary is paid the pastor, the house of worship is more con- venient and tasteful than ever before. Some of tbe cemeteries are being constantly improved, and their appearance reflects great credit upon tbe inhabitants. A town hall bas been erected recently, witb offices for the selectmen and town clerk, a fireproof vault for records, a large audience-room, with stage, retiring rooms, and furnisbed appropriately, supplying every requirement of such a building, and all that can be desired by such a town. The residences, as a rule, are kept in good repair, the yards and lawns are made attractive with shrub- bery and flowers, many of the farms are being constantly im- proved and are richly repaying their owners. A creamery is doing a large business, and its product is adding renown to the long and far-famed Goshen butter. The pineapple cheese have all their old-time richness and flavor, and are marketed all over the country, from Boston on the east to cities upon the Pacific coast which had no existence in the lifetime of the in- ventor. Among the residents are many public-spirited men and women, who are proud of its past and hopeful for its future. There is a wonderful attractiveness in the rocky hills, the swiftly running brooks, the laurel thickets, the lovely lakes, the delightful drives and the grand and extended pros- pects, which, combined, make the town so interesting, and its sons and daughters returning, after travels in all lands, are accustomed to say, " There is no place like Goshen ! " EARLY GOSHEN FAMILIES. 407 GEl^EALOGIES OF EAELY GOSHEl^ FAMILIES. BALDWIN. I. SAMUEL BALDWIN of Guilford. At a town meeting in Guilford Feb. 8, 1675-6, he was entertained as a planter: — " Granted upon his settlement 20 acres of upland and 10 acres of marsh, if he can find the same not pitched upon — 3d Division." Feb. 15, 1676-7, " in this meeting the town granted Samuel Bald- win one-half an acre of land upon the Green, against the front of John Bishop's home lot, between his barn and the saw-pit; — for Samuel Baldwin to set a shop upon, for his encouragement and ac- commodating of his trade of a smith; upon condition that if he re- move himself out of Guilford, the land shall return to the town, if they desire it; the town paying to Samuel Baldwin what the build- ings, fences, and orchards that shall then be upon it, shall be valued worth by men indifferently chosen by said Baldwin and the town." These extracts contain the first mention of the family upon the records of Guilford. He d. at G. Jan. 12, 1696. Children. Abigail, b. Dec. 14, 1678; m. Joseph Starr of Middletown. Deborah, b. April 8, 1681; d. Dec. 5, same year. Dorothy, b. Dec. 27, 1683; m. Ziba Tryon, Wethersfield. Joanna, b. May 18, 1686; m. Samuel Rose, Branford. Samuel, b. Jan. 13, 1689; was in Branford, Feb., 1733, and residing in Litchfield in 1734. Timothy, b. April 13, 1691. Nathaniel, b. Nov. 29, 1693. II. Ensign TIMOTHY BALDWIN (s. Samuel), b. Guilford April 13, 1691; m. Bathsheba Stone; d. Aug. 4, 1757. He bid ofiE two rights in Goshen, but never came here to reside. His son, aiichael settled his rights. Children. Timothy, b. Sept. 27, 1714; d. March 2, 1720. Bathsheba, b. Feb., 1716; m. Oct. 22, 1735, Joseph Chidsey; d. Sept. 15, 1792. 408 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. Micliael, b. April 2, 1719. Timothy, b. Oct. 29, 1721; d. Nov. 2, 1753. AUgail, b. March 5, 1724; m. March 21, 1751, Benjamin Rossiter; d. Sept. 14, 1754. Stephen, b. Aug. 10, 1726. Elisha, b. April 6, 1729; d. May 9, same year. Deborah, b. April 15, 1730; m. March 28, 1751, Samuel Russell; d. April 18, 1811. Abraham, b. Sept. 17, 1732; d. June 11, 1754. Sarah, b. B^eb. 24, 1735; m. June 4, 1755, Nathan Rossiter, Richmond, Mass. Mary, b. May 2, 1739; d. May 9, same year. III. MICHAEL BALDWIN (s. Timothy, Samuel), b. April 2, 1719. He was a blacksmith in early life and is described as a " man of powerful, but uncultivated mind." — His son, Abraham, resided in Georgia, was president of the University of Georgia, a member of the U. S. Senate at the time of his death. He is called " The Father of the Constitution." Another son, Henry, was a judge of the Supreme Court of the U. S. Dudley, another son, settled in Fair- field as a lawyer, and died in early life. Michael, the youngest son, was a conspicuous lawyer in Ohio, a member of the Convention which formed the Constitution of that state and speaker of the House of Representatives. He also died young. His daughter, Ruth, m. Joel Barlow, formerly Minister to France; and another, Clarissa, was the wife of Col. Bomford of the U. S. Ordnance Department. III. STEPHEN BALDWIN (s. Timothy, Samuel), b. Guilford, Aug. 10, 1726; m. Nov. 7, 1752, Freelove, dau. Daniel Collins; d. Jan. 27, 1766. His wife d. Dec. 18, 1765. They were buried in Bast St. cemetery. He came from Guilford to Goshen after the death of his father (1757), and previous to Nov., 1762. Children. Daniel, b. Aug. 26, 1753. Freelove, b. June 24, 1755; d. young. Stephen, b. Dec. 13, 1758. Elisha, b. Jan. 20, 1760. Abiyail, b. April 9, 1762; m. William Dudley. Augustus, b. Aug. 27, 1764; graduated from Yale College, 1787; re- moved to Georgia, where he was principal of an Academy at one time; m. Cocke; had three children; d. in Georgia of consumption, 1838. His pompous manners as a school teacher are described by Lyman Beecher in one of the chap- ters of his autobiography. n^ DANIEL BALDWIN (s. Stephen, Timothy, Samuel), b. Guilford, Aug. 26, 1753; m. March 23, 1775, Lucy, dau. Col. Medad Hills of Goshen. She was b. April 15, 1756; d. May 10, 1808. The EARLY GOSHEN FAMILIES. 409 brothers, Daniel, Stephen, and Elisha, built their houses similar iiDd one mile apart. Daniel's is now (1896) known as the " Luding- ton House." Children. Setn, b. April 25, 1776; m. June , 1800, Esther MacNeil, widow of Asaph Hall; d. May 7, 1851. She d. May 19, 1848. Child, Freelove, b. Aug., 1802; m. Sept. 3, 1829, Galvin P. Bronson; their child, Lucretia Wheadon, b. June 22, 1830; d. May 31, 1855. Eraslus, b. May 27, 1778; m. Nov. 10, 1818, Lucretia, dau. Joseph Austin; d. June 23, 1849. She d. March 11, 1830. Both buried East St. cemetery. Their children: Joseph A-ustin, b. Dec. 6, 1820; Harvey, b. Aug. 19, 1822; m. 1851, Cornelia Mather; Lucretia, b. Aug. 23, 1824; d. Ogden, N. Y., March 27, 1840; I^wis Collins, b. July 20, 1826. ColJins, b. April 30, 1780; d. at his father's Blay 16, 1847. Freelove, b. Sept. 13, 1782; m. April 4, 1801, John Griswold. Infant son, b. and d. Oct. 17, 1784. Infant son, b. July 3, 1785; d. July 7, 1785. AJiigail, b. June 23, 1786; m. (1) Oct. 6, 1812, Theron S. Ludington; he d. Aug. 3, 1817; (2) Nov. 6, 1828, the Rev. Chauncey WIU- cox, who settled later in Greenwich, Conn., where she d. Sept., 1S30. Lucii, b. April 3, 1789; d. July 10, 1791. Lucia, b. May 14, 1791; m. Birdsey Baldwin. Gustavus, b. Feb. 9, 1795; d. March 19, 1795. IV. STEPHEOSr BALDWIN (s. Stephen, Timothy, Samuel), b. Guilford, Dec. 13, 1758; m. Jan. 24, 1788, Susannah Adams of Win- chester; d. Jlay 23, 1810; she d. at Akron, O., Sept. 29, 1848. Children, born Goshen. Amjvstus, b. Nov. 4, 1788; m. Jan. 10, 1811, Ann, dau. Moses Wad- hams; removed to Hudson, O.; d. at Franklin, O., Oct. 29, 1838. Children: — Stephen, b. Goshen; Lucretia, b. Hud- son; Collins, died; Frederick, died; Frederick; George, died. Pomeroy, b. Oct. 16, 1790; m. Feb. 2, 1814, Ann, dau. Luther Foot, of Norfolk; removed to Hudson, O.; d. at Hudson, Aug. 31, 1817. Child: — Pomeroy, b. March, 1818; m. Clara Miller of Massi- lon, Ohio. Silas, b. June 9, 1792; m. April 30, 1816, Harriet, dau. Samuel Humph- rey; removed June 27, 1820, to Aurora, O., where he d. Dec. 6, 1823. His widow returned to Goshen and m. Aug. 25, 1825, Robert Palmer. Children: Caroline, b. June 25, 1817; Levi, b. March 10, 1819; m. Feb. 3, 1847, Eliza M. Pooler; Eunice, b. July 26, 1824. Frederick, b. March, 1794; m. Feb. 12, 1828, Salome W. Bronson of Winchester; removed to Hudson, O. Children: Maria Louisa, d. a few weeks old; Caroline, b. Dec, 1842. Miles, b. May 24, 1796; m. Nov. 23, 1819, Nancy, dau. Ashbel Buell; d. Oct. 10, 1828; she d. Jan., 1837. Children: William, m. Draper of Hudson, O.; Susan. 410 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. Harvey, h. Sept. 18, 1798; m. Oct. 6, 1817, Anna Maria, dau, of David Hudson, who was b. Oct. 28, 1800. She was the first white person born in Summit Co., O., if not in the Western Reserve. Children born Hudson: Anna Norton, b. Oct. 17, 1818; d. Dec. 13, 1825; Harriet Maria, b. Sept. 3, 1824; d. Jan. 20, 1842; Clarissa Miriam, b. Oct. 27, 1830; m. Ifl. S. Gregory; Lucy Susanna, b. Oct. 8, 1843; d. about 17. Norman C, b. July 29, 1802; m. Dec. 17, 1829, Mary H., dau. Robert Palmer; removed to Hudson, O. Obildren: Eliza, b. Hud- son, Nov. 9, 1830; Virginia, b. Cleveland, Dec. 23, 1832; m. Oct., 1853, John Newton, Jr.; Norman, b. Cleveland, Jan. 12, 1835; Charlotte G., b. Brooklyn, O., AprU 27, 1839; Heni-y, b. Brooklyn, Jan. 17, 1842; d. Aug. 12, 1843; Elizabeth, b. Brook- lyn, Nov. 3, 1844; Henry P., b. Brooklyn, Aug. 12, 1845; N C , b. Cleveland, Jan. 7, 1848; Ellen D., b. Cleveland, May 26, 1853. Caroline A., b. April 29, 1807; m. Feb. 12, 1828, George Kirkham of Hudson, O. Children: Susan, b. Hudson, Nov. 14, 1828; m. June 24, 1847, William A. Hall; Augustus, b. Ravenna, O., March 19, 1837. IV. ELISHA BALDWIN (s. Stephen, Timothy, Samuel), b. Guilford, Jan. 20, 1760; m. Olai-issa Judd of Litchfield; d. April 22, 1833; she d. Sept. T, 1814; both buried in East St. cemetery. Children, bom Goshen. Orra, b. Nov. 26, 1788; m. Sept. 6, 1809, Eber Bailey; d. July 19, 1869. Children: Clarissa, b. April 25, 1811; m. Horace Humphrey, s. Malachi; Elisha B., b. Oct. 10, 1813; Charlotte, b. Nov. 4, 1816; m. Sept. 8, 1841, Schuyler Bailey. Riifus, b. 1790; m. Eliza Stevens, Noilolk. Ahraliam, b. May 1, 1792; d. July 12, 1826. (See Ministers bom in Goshen.) Clarissa, b. 1794; d. Hartford, Oct. 24, 1847. Horace, b. 1797; m. Penelope Allen, Shei'burn, N. Y. William, b. Dec. 12, 1799; m. (1) Louisa Booth of Guilford, N. Y.; (2) Catherine Humphrey of Guilford, who d. Nov. 20, 1858. He was a merchant in Guilford; d. Jan. 7, 1874. Theron, b. July 21, 1801; m. June 20, 1831, Caroline Wilder; d. April 10, 1870. (See Ministers born in Goshen.) Children: Caro- line L., b. Jan. 17, 1834; m. Aug. 28, 1856, Charles Darrow of New Haven, Conn.; Theron, b. March 12, 1837; m. Sept. 27, 1862, Julia A. M. Thomson (Cooley); Children: Mabel Wil- der; Maud Russell, deceased; Ernest, deceased; Thomson; Emily C, b. March 12, 1839; m. June 20, 1861, Charles E. Fel- lowes of Hartford, Conn.; Children: Caroline Wilder; Ed- ward Colton. Mary P., b. May 25, 1841; Henry, b. Dec. 17, 1846. Elisha, b. Sept. 12, 1803; m. Amanda, dau. Lyman Wetmore of Tor- rington, b. Jan. 25, 1808. Children: Elizabeth Wetmore, b. June 9, 1834; Elisha Abraham, b. Nov. 19, 1837. EARLY GOSHEN FAMILIES. 4II II. Deacon NATHANIEL BALDWIN (s. Samuel), b. Guilford, Nov. 29, 1693; m. April 8, 1718, Elizabeth, dau. of Isaac Parmele of Guilford; d. Gosbeu, Oct. 13, 1700. She d. March 14, 1786. Both buried iu East St. cemetery- Children, barn Guilford. Nathaniel, b. April 4, 1720. Elizuheth, b. Dec. 11, 1722; m. Bbenezer Norton, 1740. Samuel, b. March 18, 1725. Sarah, b. Jan. 4, 172S; m. Nov. 6, 1746, Nathaniel Stanley. Children, b. Goshen: Sarah, b. Sept. 30, 1747; d. in infancy; Samuel, b. and d. Sept. 3, 1748; Sarah, b. Aug. 14, 1749; m. April 9, 1767, David Lucas; Oliver, b. .Jan. 15, 1754; d. young; Eliza- beth or Betsey, m. Ichabod Brownell; Jedidah, m. Horace Owles; John, b. Jan. 18, 1764; m. • Partridge; removed to Poultney, Vermont. Breicen, b. Sept. 25, 1730; d. Nov. 4, 1751. Rachel, b. Sept., 1733; m. Dec. 6, 1753, Benjamin Ives. Ami, b. Litchfield, 1735; m. March 30, 1756, William Stanley; d. Goshen, Nov. 15, 1807. He died Feb. 9, 1816. Both buried in East St. cemetery. Their children, b. Goshen: Infant, b. Dec. 4, 1756; d. Jan. 2, 1757; Jesse, b. Dec. 23, 1757; m. Eunice Bailey. Ami, b. March 1, 1761; m. William Goodwin; Lucy, b. Jan. 3, 1764; m. Nathaniel Newell; Clorinda, b. Feb. 27, 1767; m. Col. Elihu Lewis; William, b. April 2, 1770; m. Lucy Norton. Lucy, b. Goshen, 1741; m. Josiah Boyce. Children: James, m. Olive Hinman; Lucretia, m. Ami Cady of Norfolk; Lucy, d. at 16; Solomon, unm., d. 1831; Daniel, b. June 8, 1782; m. Salome Taylor of Goshen. III. NATHANIEL BALDWIN (s. Nathaniel, Samuel), b. Guil- ford, April 4, 1720; m. (1), March 23, 1752, Hannah, dau. of Benjamin Ives, Sen. She d. at Goshen April 9, 1762; (2) Nov. 30, 1763, Jedidah, dau. of Cornelius Bronsou, Southbury. He d. March 25, 1805; she d. Aug. 8, 1808. Children, born Goshen. Ruth, b. Oct. 25, 1752. (See Miles Gen.) Hannah, b. Nov. 19, 1755; d. Feb. 1, 1758. Isaac, b. March 12, 1759; m. 1783, Lucy, dau. of Ebenezer Lewis, Sr.; d. March 7, 1830. She d. June 4, 1833, at the house of the Kev. James Beach, Winsted. Both buried in the Center cemetery, Goshen. Child: Hannah Clarissa, b. March 10, 1784; m. the Rev. James Beach. Nathaniel, b. May 9, 1765; m. Susan, dau. of the Rev. Josiah Sher- man. Removed to E. Bloomfield, N. Y. Children: John; Sherman, had a wife and three children, resided in E. Bloom- field, N. Y., committed suicide; Martha; Susan; Zimri. Jedidah, b. May 9, 1765; d. May 8, 1767. 412 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. III. SAMUEL BALDWIN (s. Nathaniel, Samuel), b. Guilford, Marcli 19, 1725; m. (1) Nov. 28, 1744, Mercy Stanley (probably the dau. of Deacon Timothy); (2) Jan. 11, 1769, Susannah Adams. His first wife d. Jan. 0, 1768; his second wife d. Sept. 10, 1807. He d. Oct. 22, 1804. Children, born Goshen. Asahel, b. Oct. 5, 1745. Tmothy, b. Nov. 20, 1747; d. Jan. 20, 1748. Martha, b. Jan. 22, 1749; m. Feb. 11, 1767, Jabez, s. Lieut. John Wright. Children: (See Wright Gen.) Ti/mutny, b. June 5, 1751; d. July 25, 1751. Brewen, b. Jan. 17, 1752. Samuel, b. May 25, 1755; m. Lucina, dau. Ambrose Hill. Sybil, b. Nov. 30, 1757. Mercy, b. July 19, 1760; m. Ambrose Collins. Children: Augustus; Anne, m. Ethan Walter; Calvin, m. Mary Ann Wright; Am- brose, m. Effie Heacock, Danbui'y; Cyprian, m. Jenette Sco- val; Samuel B.; Nervina, d. 1838; John Hyde, m. Eliza C. Wa.shburn; George Lewis, d. Oct. 15, 1817; Laura; Clara Maria, m. Christopher P. Wheeler; Freelove, m. Amasa N. Chapin; d. March 4, 1821. Huldah, b. July 1, 1763; m. Abraham Humphrey, removed to Orwell, Vt., thence to E. Bloomfield, N. Y. Children: Roxa, m. Fuller of Orwell; Rufus; Anne, m. Martin; Pame- 11a, m. Robert Lee, E. Bloomfield; Abraham; Betsey, m. Martin (same as Anne); Sybil or Esther. Lucia, b. Dec. 22, 1765; m. Jonathan Beach. Ems Stanley, b. Nov. 22, 1767. By second wife. Enos, m. Charlotte, dau. of Andrew Bailey. IV. ASAHEL BALDWIN (s. Samuel, Nathaniel, Samuel), b. Oct. 5, 1745; m. Patience, dau. Cornelius Bronson, Southbury; d. Goshen Aug. 16, 1775; she d. Torringtou; both buried East St. cemetery. Their Oiildren. Jedidah, m. Thomas White of Torrington. Children: Hiram J., m. Henrietta Clark of AVaterbury; Ann Eliza, m. William Parmelee; Eleanor. Israel, d. aged 14. SyUl, b. Nov. 16, 1772; m. Abljah Coe of Goshen. IV. BREWBN BALDWIN (s. Samuel, Nathaniel, Samuel), b. Jan. 17, 1752; m. Aug. 13, 1772, Hannah, dau. Ebenezer Foot of Corn- wall; d. Sept. 6, 1833; she d. June 10, 1823. EARLY GOSHEN FAMILIES. 413 Tlieir Children, bom Goshen. Marian, h. Nov. 29, 1773; m. Amos Tolles of Colebrook. Children: Hannah B., b. about 1793; m. Daniel Sage of Colebrook; Elisha, b. about 1794; m. Harriet Prisbie, New Canaan; Riley, d. single; Lucia, m. Amasa Mallory of New Hartford, d. 1835; Sylvia, Oct. 1801, m. William S. Boyd, Hartford; Mary Ann, m. Amasa Mallory (above). Timofhu, b. Oct. 16, 1775; m. Rhoda Enos; d. at Colebrook, Feb. 12, 1817. Children, born Sandisfleld, Mass.: Alvan, m. Minerva Belden of Sandisfleld; Cyrus, resided at the South, where he m.; Hiram, m. Mary Sears; Mary Ann, m. Seth Bailey; Eben, emigrated to the South; Asahel, resided in Illinois; George; Richard, m. Anne Hoyt, New York city; Harriet. Asahel, b. Oct. 23. 1777; d. Dee. 7, 1777. Nam-y, b. Jan. 25, 1779; d. Goshen, March 12, 18*9. Jonathan, b. April 17, 1781; d. Sept. 4, 1793. Si/liesfcr, b. Dec. 14. 17S3; m. Oct. 17, 1804, Candaee, dau. Levi Ives, resided in Chenango, N. Y., where he d. April 26, 1854. She d. there. Children: Caroline, m. April 17, 1825, William MacDonald: Betsey; Sidney; Jane; Marian, m. Marcus Beardsley; Rachel; .Tuliett; Lucia; Samuel; Harriet. Birdseij, b. Feb. 3, 1786; m. Dec. 7, 1814, Lucia, dau. Daniel Baldwin; d. West Cornwall, April 27, 1858. Children: Laura Minerva, b. June 25. 1816; Lucia Abigail, b. Nov. 7, 1820; d. Oct. 22, 1822; Hannah Foot, b. Dec. 3, 1822; m. April 22, 1846, Ed- ward Barnum; Daniel Birdsey, b. Nov. 18, 1825; Eliza Abi- gail, b. Oct. 26, 1S27: Abram Elisha, b. Nov. 18, 1830; Augus- tus Collins, b. Sept. 26, 1832. Betsey, b. May 18, 1788: m. Nov., 1811, Allen Maltbie, Ohio. Ami B., b. Feb. 3, 1791; m. Feb. 9, 1826, Sarah Sears of Sandisfleld, Mass. Children, born Goshen: Laura Ann, b. June 12, 1827: Daniel Sears, b. Aug. 28, 1829; Albert, b. Aug. 20, 1832. Martha, b. May 9, 1793; m. March 16, 1826, Halsey Bigelow. Children: George: Blary: Robert. Jonathan F., b. Sept. 12, 1795; m. Oct. 8, 1816, Laura, dau. Daniel M. Welton. Children: David Welton, b. Aug. 31, 1817; m. Adelaide Latimer; Catherine A., b. Feb. 5, 1819; m. Calvin D. AVhitney; Luther Hart, b. Aug. 1, 1821; m. Eliza K. Wright; Daniel INIiles, b. Oct. 28, 1823; d. Massilon, O.. Jan. 15, 1849; Laura Welton, b. Feb. 22, 1829; m. Jan. 15, 1849, .Julius E. Kilborn; d. Hudson, O., Aug., 1849; Eliza Norton, b. Jan. 1, 1826; m. Nov. 19, 1846, William S. M. Abbott; Del- phine M., b. May 22, 1&37; m. Ralph W. Wilson. Laura M., b. Jan. 18, 1798; m. Feb. 11, 1823, Jesse Maltbie; d. April 19, 1824. Child: Lorin. BARTHOLOMEW. I. WILLIAM BARTHOLOMEW, the ancestor of those bear- in;? the name living in New England, was b. in 1602-3. He was well educated, a merchant in England, and a householder in London. 414 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. He m. Anna Lord, sister of Robert Lord, subsequently of Ipswich, Mass. He arrived in Boston Sept. 18, 1634, in sliip GriflSn. The next March he was made a freeman, which is evidence that he was a member of the church. May 6, 1635, he represented the inhabi- tants of Ipswich in the General Court at Boston. He was a member of that body several times and was honored by holding many offi- ces and positions of trust during the ensuing thirty years. He re- moved to Oharlestown, where he d. Jan. 18, 1680. His wife d. Jan. 29, 1682. Children. Mary, m. (1) Major Daniel Dennison; (2) Jacob Greene. Children: Matthew Whipple, by first husband; posthumous. By second husband: Elizabeth, Mary, Bartholomew, Dorcas, Joseph. Joseph. William, b. in 1640 or 41. II. WILLIAM BARTHOLOMEW (s. William), b. at Ipswich in 1640 or 41; m. Dee. 17, 1663, Maiy, dan. of Captain Isaac and Eliza- beth (Porter) Johnson; d. in 1697 at Woodstock, Conn., where he had resided for ten years previous. She was living, in 1705, in Branford, Conn. Children. Isaac, b. Nov. 1, 1664. William, b. Oct. 16, 1666. Mary, b. Oct. 26, 1668. Andrew, b. Dec. 11, 1670. AUyail, b. Dec. 8, 1672; m. (1) Joseph Frizzel; (2) Samuel Paine. She had eight children by first, and two by second, husband. Elizabeth, m. Edmund Chamberlain. Benjamin. John. Joseph. III. ISAAC BARTHOLOMEW (s. William, William), b. Nov. 1, 1664, in Roxbui-y, Mass. ; m. about 1694, Rebecca, dau. of John and Ruth (Bowers) Prisbie; d. at North Branford, Oct. 25, 1727. She d. May 18, 1738. Children. William, b. about 1695. Mary, b. about 1697; m. Benjamin Barnes. Isaac, b. Nov. 18, 1699. Rebeeca, b. April 18, 1702; m. Abel Collins. Elizabeth, b. April 12, 1704; m. Nathaniel Barnes, 3d. Ehenezer, b. June 10, 1706. Abraham, b. June 28, 1708. Joslah, b. Jan. 18, 1710. ExVRLY GOSHEN FAMILIES. 415 IV. JOSIAH BARTHOLOMEW (s. Isaac, William, William), b. in Branford, Jan. 18, 1710; m. (1) June 10, 1740, Lydia Harrington, who d. Oct. G, 1751; (2) April 9, 1752, widow Pliebe Munson; d. Feb. 12, 1777. in Litchfield, Ooun. She d. Sept. 25, 1799, in Goshen. He removed to Goshen in 1768 in the southwest part of which he owned large tracts of land. Children. SaraJi, b. April 4, 1742; m. David Tyler. Resided on School Hill, Goshen. Samuel, b. May 12, 1745. Lydia. b. Aug. 18, 1748; m. Jonathan Maltby. Josiah, b. April 7, 1751; m. Feb. 9, 1775, Martha Maltby; d. in G. Feb. 12, 1777. Child: Josiah, b. Nov. 11, 1775; d. Aug. 26, 1819. Isaac, b. in 1754; m. July 20, 1775, Thankful Maltby; in 1840, at Evans, N. Y. He was a soldier in the Revolution. Chil- dren: Phebe, b. 1778; m. Amos Adams. Jehiel, b. April 8, 1780; m. Sept. 22, 1800, Jerusha Maltby; removed to N. Y., and thence to Mich. Sabra, b. 1784; m. Noah Willis. Isaac, b. April 14, 1794; m. Aug. 18, 1812, Bessie Glassie; resided in E. Evans, N. Y.; had six children. Moses, b. in Branford Sept. 3, 1751; m. Lydia, dau. Daniel Cook of Goshen: d. Vershirp, Vt., where he had removed in 1786, Feb. 11, 1839. She d. Jan. 11, 1829. He was a drummer in the Revolutionary War. and is said to have taken part in the battle of Bunker Hill. Children, three oldest b. G.: Oliver, Erastus, Clarissa, Moses. Oliver, b. in Branford Oct. 20, 1757; m. in G., July 6, 1780, Anna Lacy: d. in Watertown, N. Y., June 18, 1850; she d. Oct. 80, 1848. He enlisted at G. Jan., 1776, in Col. Charles Webb's Conn, regiment; in 1777, in Col. Bnos' regiment, and in March. 1779, serving three years as an artificer in Col. Jeduthan Baldwin's regiment. They had seven children. Jesse, b. Branford, May 16, 1763; m. fl) about 1783, probably in Lee, Mass., Mamra Bradley; (2) Betsy Locke Updike; d. Jan. 24, 1846. He was the father of fifteen children and grandfather of some seventy. V. SAMUEL BARTHOLOMEW (s. Josiah, Isaac, William, William), b. in Branford, May 14, 1745; ra. in Goshen Jan. 12, 1766, Mary Lucas; d. Dec. 17, 1827; she d. Feb. 3, 1811. He removed from Branford to Goshen in 1766, where he bought land in Oct. of that year. He was a soldier in the Revolution, and he and his wife were members of the Congregational Church. Children. Lydia, b. Dec. 8, 1768; m. Ashbel Norton. Mary, b. Feb. 28, 1771; m. John Webster; d. Dec. 9, 1841. Miles, b. Sept. 27, 1773; d. Aug. 21, 1792. Thomas, b. Sept. 5, 1776; d. Sept. 21, 1858. 416 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. Esther, b. June 13, 1779; m. J. Gleason; d. Sept. 30, 1845. Anna, b. Oct. 23, 1781; d. unm. June 21, 1806. Samuel, b. Feb. 12, 1784; d. Sept. 4, 1875. Lucy, b. April 6, 1786; d. unm. June 14, 1868. Milo, b. Aug. 28, 1794; d. Feb. 20, 1876. A'l. THOMAS BARTHOLOMEW (s. Samuel, Josiah, Isaac, William, William), b. Gosben, Sept. 5, 1776; m. June 1, 1801, Mabel Ives; d. Sept. 20, 1858; she d. Jan. 13, 1859. Children, born Goshen. Orlo, b. Oct. 20, 1801. Myron, b. Jan. 19, 1803. Emily, b. Oct. 29, 1804. (See Norton Gen.) Ann, b. Sept. 23, 1806; m. Lyman Richards. Cordelia, b. Sept. 1, 1808; m. Stephen B. Smith. Almira, b. Aug. 18, 1810; d. unm. Oct. 27, 1845. SnpTironia, b. May 23, 1812; d. June 4, 1813. Esther Yelonia, b. April 17, 1818; m. March 27, 1837, William 0. John- son. They had five children. CUoe Ives, b. Jan. 16, 1820; m. Amzi Beach; d. March 27, 1893. A son was killed Jan., 1878. VI. SAMUEL BARTHOLOMEW (s. Samuel, Josiah, Isaac, William, William), b. Goshen Feb. 12, 1784; m. March 3, 1814, Mary Woodruff; d. No. Blandford, Mass., Sept. 4, 1875. Children. Infant, d. Nov. 10, 1814, age six days. Mary Ann, b. March 19, 1816; m. Nov. 16, 1835, Heniy Ashley. Has son, Henry W. SaraTi Maria, b. Nov. 2T, 1818; d. Aug. 2, 1830. Samuel Augustus, b. Sept. 19, 1824; m. Nov. 10, 1847. Helen D., b. Aug. 6, 1831; d. Aug. 15, 1833. Delphine, b. June 24, 1835; m. Dec. 24, 1857, George T. Bunn. Child: Maurice A. VL MILO BARTHOLOMEW (s. Samuel, Josiah, Isaac, Wil- liam, William), b. G. Aug. 28, 1794; m. Nov. 12, 1828, Millia T. Hol- brook; d. Feb. 20, 1876. Children. Vri Pericles, b. March 29, 1830; m. (1) Dec. 5, 1855, Lucelia Salome Dudley, who was b. Oct. 26, 1835, and d. Julv 5, 1859; (2) April 2, 1862, Ann Wadhams; (3) Oct. 3, 1867, Cornelia Eliza- beth Dudley. He has one child, Milo Dudley, b. Jan. 27, 1859. Samuel Aurelian, b. Oct. 19, 1831. Milo AoMlles, b. Sept. 23, 1833; d. Sept. 16, 1837. EARLY GOSHEN FAMILIES. 417 VII. ORLO BARTHOLOMEW (s. Thomas, Samuel, Josiah, Isaac, AA'illiam, William), b. Oct. 20, 1801; m. Nov. 14, 1835, Julia A. Peek; d. Augusta, N. Y., May 7, 1864. (See Ministers b. in Goshen.) Children. Orlo, b. June 18, 1S40; d. June, 1843. Julia Aden, b. Aug. 22, 1843. Artkvr P., b. June 5, 1845. Myron M., b. Sept. 12, 1846. Charles M., b. July 10, 1849. Edwin Jay, b. Aug. 16, 1850. VII. MYRON BARTHOLOMEW (s. Thomas, Samuel, Josiah, Isaac, William, William), b. Jan. 19, 1803; m. Dec. 26, 1830; Jane D. Cheeseborough; d. Oct. 2, lS4.j. Children, bom Goshen. Wilhert, b. Sept. 27, 1834. Phehr. Jane, b. June 14, 1837; m. Dec., 1863, Gibbs Lawton. Cyrus, b. Aug. 21, 1841; d. Oct. 19, 1864. Orlo T., b. Jan. 11, 1846; d. Oct 9, 1876. VII. SAMUEL A. BARTHOLOMEW (s. Milo, Samuel, Josiah, Isaac, William, William), b. Oct. 19, 1831; m. (1) Feb. 15, 1871, Ann Langdon; (2) Oct. 30, 1879, Harriet Aurelia Piatt, b. Oct. 29, 1856. Child: Samuel William, b. Aug. 15, 1882. VIII. CHARLES M. BARTHOLOMEW (s. Orlo, Thomas, Sam- uel, Josiah, Isaac, William, William), b. July 10, 1849; m. Feb., 1876, Xellie Manzier of Auburn, Ohio. He was graduated from Hamilton College and Auburn Theological Seminary, and is now, 1896, pastor of the Congregational Church, Owego, N. Y. Child: Orlo Albert, b. Feb. 18, 1878. VIII. EDWIN JAY BARTHOLOMEW (s. Orlo, Thomas, Sam- uel, Josiah, Isaac, William, William), b. Aug. 16, 1850; m. Oct., 1873, Flora A. Spooner. Resides Madison, N. Y. Children. Florence, b. Dec. 28, 1875. Clara May, b. July 17, 1877. 37 418 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. BEACH. The three Pilgrims or first settlers of the Beach name in Con- necticut were: Richard, in New Haven, 1639. John, in New Haven, 1643. Thomas, in New Haven, 1647. It is certain that Richard and Thomas were brothers, and there is a great variety of evidence that John was the brother of the other two. I. RICHARD BEACH, one of the three pilgrims, or early settlers of the Beach name, was in Xew Haven in 1639; m. in 1640-1, Catherine Cook; in Stratford, Conn., 1060; In Wallingford; 1672; in Elizabeth, N. .1., 1(173-4; sells his farm lands in Elizabeth, 1684; his home lot in 1688 and removes to Morris Co., New Jersey. Children, born in New Haven. Mercy, b. June, 1642. Benjamin, b. Oct., 1644. Aewriali, b. July, 1646. Mercy, bap. May 21, 1648. II. BENJAMIN BEACH (s. Richard), b. Oct., 1644; lived in Stratford; m. (1) 1670-1, Mary Peacock; (2) Feb. 1, 1677-8, Sarah Welles; (3) Widow Mary Pairchild; d. 1713, leaving property amount- ing to £1,205. Children, by first wife. Benjamin, b. Oct. 28, 1672; lived and d. in Strat. BetJiia, b. April 23, 1674; m. Mary, b. Jan. 6, 1676; m. By second wife. Hurali, b. May 24, 1G70; m. Hannah, b. Sept. , 1681; m. II. AZARIAH BEACH (s. Richard), b. July , 1046. Went first to Wallingford, then to Killingworth, and finally settled in New Haven, where he d. in 1696. Children. Maria, b. 1676. Richard, b. Oct. 19, 1677; one of the grantees of Durham. Thomas, b. Oct. 5, 1679; early settler of Durham. Bciijannn, b. Jan. 14, 1682. EARLY GOSHEN FAMILIES. 419 III. BENJAMIN BEACH (s. Azariali, Richard), b. 1682; m. Dinah Birdsey of Stratford; d. 1712. His widow m. Samuel Nor- ton of Durham, by whom she had six children. Children. Joseph, h. Oct. 24, 1710. Abel, b. Feb. 9, 1712. lY. JOSEPH BEACH (s. Benjamin, Azariah, Richard), b. at Durham, Oct. 24, 1710; m. Experience of Guilford. Children. Miriam, b. Dec. 5, 1734. Haniiali. b. May 17, 1736. Phelie, h. April 4, 1738. These three children were bap. in Durham. Briijainiii. b. March 2.j, 1740; m. Aug. 31, 1763, Abia Loomis of Tor- rington. Children: Levi, b. Oct. 24, 1764; bap. Dec. 23; d. Oct. 19, 1768; Ezra, b. Oct. 26. 1766; bap. Nov. 2; Miriam, b. Sept. 9, 1768; d. Nov. 12, 1768; Miriam, b. Nov. 19, 1769; bap. April 22, 1770; Levi, b. Feb. 6, 1772; Benjamin, bap. April 30, 1775. Expcneiice. b. Sept 10, 1744; bap. Sept. 18, 1744. Diruih. b. May 6, 1750; bap. May 29; d. May 31, 1750. Dinah, b. Nov. 2, 1751; bap. Nov. 10. Joseph, b. July 26, 1753; m. (1) Jan. 4, 1776, Eda Cook of T.; (2) Aug. 19, 1779. Jerusha Phelps. Children: Elah, b. Oct. 14, 1780; Ahira, b. Oct. 20. 1784; Horace, b. March 3, 1786. IV. Captain ABEL BEACH (s. Benjamin, Azariah, Richard), b. at Durham, Feb. 9, 1712; m. April 5, 1738, ilargaret Pickett of T., d. Oct. 3, 1796. Children, born Torrington. Abel, b. Dec. 18, 1740; m. March 12, 1774, Esther Peck. Children: Sarah, b. July 4, 1776; Esther, b. Aug. 20, 1780; m. Ezra Weeks. iSiimuei, b. Dec. 2, 1742; m. Keziah . Children: Keziah, b. Oct. 10, 1768; d. Feb. 8, 1776; Mindwell, b. Dec. 16, 1770; m. Oct. .30, 1709, David M. Hall of Wallingford; Rhoda, b. May 8, 1776: Keziali, b. Aug. 16, 1779; Samuel, b. Aug. 21, 1781. Rebecca, b. Jlay 23, 1745; m. Dec. 1, 1768, Samuel Hurlbut. Margaret, b. .Sept. 3, 1747: m. Oct. 5, 1767, Abijah Wilson. John. b. May 2, 1750. Jinnes. b. Nov. 24, 1752. A'or/7i, b. Sept. 13, 1755; m. Feb. 19, 1778, Sarah Bradley of Winchester. Children: Man-, b. .July 7, 1779; d. April 4, 1798; Sarah, b. JIarch 7, 1781; .Julius, b. Oct. 27, 1783; Susanna, b. Feb. 21, 1786; Anan, b. Jan. 22, 1787. Martha, b. .Jan. 13, 1759. ' Y. JOHN BEACH (s. Abel, Benjamin, Azariah, Richard), b. May 2, 1750; m. June 9, 1774, Mercy Bassett; d. at Torrington April 1, 1824; she d. May 22, 1832. 420 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. Children, born Torrington. Ahcl, h. Jan. 3, 1775;* cl. at Wadswortli, O., Nov. 7, 1854. i\lary or Polly, li. Aug. 19, 1778. James, b. June 10, 1780. Jolin, b. Feb. 26, 1783; d. May 7, 1817. Ada, b. March 12, 1787; m. Asahel Loomis. VI. Rev. .TAMES BEACH (s. .John, Abel, Benjamin, Azariah, Richard), b. June 10, 1780; m. Oct. 28, 1806, Hannah Clarissa, dau. of Isaac Baldwin of Goshen; b. March 10, 1784; d. May 7, 18.52. He d. June 11, 1850. (See Biographies.) Children, born Winsted. Lucy Bahlwin, b. Aug. 20, 1807. Hannah V., b. March 20, 1809; d. Oct. 26, 1815. ilary, b. Dec. 16, 1814. YII. LUCY BALDWIN BEACH (dau. Rev. James, John, Abel, Benjamin, Azariah, Richard), b. Aug. 20, 1807; m. Dec. 16, 1830, Henry Hazen Hyde (s. Wilkes and Sarah Hazen Hyde), b. July 1, 1.805; she d. Feb. 7, 1846, at the home of her father, Winsted, Conn. He m. (2) Feb. 14, 1856, Sarah B. Sliepai-d (dau. Preston S. and Han- nah Passmore Shepard of Boston), d. Nov. 28, 1873; she d. April 6, 1896. Both buried at Mt. Auburn Cemetery, Boston. Children, born at Catskill, N. Y. James Beach, b. Nov. 13, 1831; d. Jan. 7, 1850; while an undergraduate student at Yale. Buried at Winsted; Conn. Henry Baldicin, b. Feb. 15, 1834; m. JIarch 29, 1864, Annie Fitch, b. Nov. 5, 1845, at Coxsaekie, N. Y. Children: Annie Bald- win, b. .Ian. 15, 1865; d. Sept. 2, 1865. MaiT Baldwin, b. Nov. 9, 1867; m. Oct. 14, 1885, Sidney Dillon Ripley. Children: Anna Dillon, b. Aug. 7, 1886; Henry Baldwin Hyde, b. Nov. 19, 1889; Sidney Dillon, Jr., b. Dec. 10, 1890; James Hazen, b. June 21, 1892. Mary, b. Sept. 4, 1839; d. .Tan. 1, 1840. Buried at Catskill. Lucy BaUlirin Beach, b. Aug. 20, 1841; unm. \Il. MARY BEACH (dau. Rev. James, John, Abel, Benjamin, Azariah, Richard), b. Dec. 16, 1814; m. May 22, 1839, Caleb Jackson Gamp of Winsted, b. June 12, 1815. She d. Dec. 18, 1880. Children, born Winsted. Mary M., b, March 4, 1S42; m. Oct. 23, 1866, Hermon E. Curtis. He d. March 22, 1878, at Fort Reid, Palatka, Florida. Children: Clinton James, b. Aug. 21, 1870; Mary Beach, b. July 10, 1872: d. Aug. 24, 1872; Helen Camp, b. Nov. 28, 1875; HaiTy, d. in infancy. * From ToiTlnston records : 'Rev. Alex. Gillett m. March 30, 1797, Abel Beacli and ' Rocksey " Taylor. EARLY GOSHEN FAMILIES. 421 Augusta Beach, h. April 3, 1845; m. Oct. 17, 1871, Frauklln A. Rising. Ohllclren: Fraukllu Camp, b. Jan. 18, 1873; Mary Beach, b. Dec. (i, 1875; Kate Boswortb, b. May G, 1878. James Beach, b. Oct. 15, 1840; a. Nov. 13, 1849. Anna Beach, b. Aug. l', 1850: d. March 24, 1852. Ellen Bahlwin, b. Aug. l(i, 1855: unm. I. JOHN BEACH, I'llgrlm, «as in New Haven, l(j43; In Strat- ford, imO; In Walllngford, 1670-1; d. 1U79. Children. tJUzubetli, b. Iii52; m. Ellasaph Preston and had seven children. John, Jr., b. 1G54; m. ; had one s. and four daus.; lived always In Stratford. Mary, b. 165G; m. ; uo children recorded. Thomas, ,b. 1G59: m. ; had thirteen children; four d. young. Xathaniel, b. l(i()2: ui.: had ten children, Stratford. Hannah, b. 1(;(15: m. twice: had uo children. tiarali, b. 1607. Isaac, b. 1669; m. Hannah Birdsey; had six children; removed from Wallingtord to Stratford; d. 1741. Joseph, b. 1671. Benjamin, b. 1674; m.; had nine children. Was in Walllngford, re- moved to North Haven, Brauford, and thereabouts. Xute. — Such discrepancies in different records that his descend- ants cannot be traced further with the means at command. I. THUMAS BEACH, was in New Haven, 1647; m. Sarah Piatt in Milford, 1652; settled in M., 1657-8; d. there in 1677. Children. Sarah, b. 1654; m. Lyon; removed to Newark, New Jersey. John, b. 1655. Mary, b. 1657; m. . Samuel, b. 1660; d. ; no children. Zophar, b. 1662; m.; removed to New Jersey, and the ancestor of the many by the name in that state. II. Deacon JOHN BEACH (e. Thomas), b. 1655; went to Wal- llngford in l(j73-4; m. there in 1678; d. W., 1709. One of the original members of the church there, Feb., 1<)75, and at one time deacon. Children. Lett ice, b. Dec. 24, 1679; m. William Ward. Mary. b. 1681; d. Sept. 1, 1688. Haiiudlj, b. March 17, 1684; m. 1708, Eliphalet Parker. Thomas, b. Feb. 14, 1686; m. Hannah Atwater. John, b. Oct. 1.5, 1690. Samuel, b. Nov. 29, 1696; m. 1718, I'hebe Tyler. The ancestor of the family in Litchfield and, probably, in Hartford. Caleb, b. 1699"; m. (1) Eunice Tyler; (2) Margaret Thompson; (3) Han- nah . Resided Winchester, Conn. 422 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. III. Deacon JOHN BEACH (s. Jolin, Thomas), b. Wallingford, Oct. 15, 1690; m. (1) Aug. 18, 1715, Sarah Tyler, mother of his oldest child; she d. 1716; (2) Feb. 22, 1717, Mary, dau. of Samuel and Sarah Royce of Wallingford; b. Feb. 17, 1695; d. at G. Oct. 27, 1767; he d. at G. May 9, 1773. Both buried in East Street cemetery. Children. Barnabas, b. July 1, 1716; m. Sarah Thompson; d. about 1800, in state of New York. They had eight children: Zerah; Sarah, m. Elisha Blin; Silas, m. Betsey Vaill; Hannah; "William; Allen; Eliza; Catherine. His children removed from Goshen and will not be traced further. Adna, b. Jan. 11, 1718. Edmund, b. Feb. 18, 1720. Uniis, b. Dec. 5, 1721. Amos, b. Jan. 28, 1724. Ma,ry, b. April 28, 1726; d. young. Jamt, b. Dec. 5, 1728. Samuel, b. Dec. 22, 1729. John, b. April 21, 1731. Royce, b. Oct. 19, 1733. Baldvnn, b. July 26, 17.36; d. 1776; unm. Mary, b. Oct. 27, 1739; d. about 1785; unm. III. CALEB BEACH (s. Thomas, John), b. at Wallingford, 1699; m. May 26, 1726, Eunice Tyler; (2) Oct., 4, 1733, Margaret Pres- ton. Eunice, hie first w., d. Jan. 10, 1733. He d. at Goshen Jan. 13, 1761. Children. Sarah, b. Wallingford, Oct. 26, 1728; m. Elon Andross of W. Co?e6, b. W., March 10, 17.32; m. Nov. 19, 1756, Eois Preston, in Goshen. Child: Jotham, b. G., Aug. 26, 1757. He removed to New Ashford, Mass. Hezekiah, b. G., 1760; removed to New Ashford. Joel, b. Torrington, ; m. Amy Johnson; resided in Winchester, Conn. Margaret: b. ; m. Nov. 21, 1765, .Jabez Norton. IV. ADNA BEACH (8. John, John, Thomas), b. Wallingford, Jan. 11, 1718; m. June 9, 1741, Hannah Miles: she d. Dec. 6, 1775. He d. 10, 1783. Both buried in Bast St. cemetery. Children, born Goshen. Pisk. b. May 15, 1742. Miles, b. Nov. 14, 1743. Hannah, b. Feb. 28, 1745; m. (1) Oct. 28, 1764, Uri Hill. Child: Mary Ann, b. Feb. 4, 1766; (2) Nov. 13, 1769, Bphraim Starr; d. Feb. 26, 1826. Children: Lueretia, Anna, Hannah, Sarah, Abi- gail, Ti'uman, Lucy, Ephraim, William. EARLY GOSHEN FAMILIES. 423 llaliel, h. AprU 22. 1748; m. .Tan. 20, 1766, John Carrington. Chil- dren: Harry, Anne, Jlabel. Adna and Ehenczer, twins, b. Aug. 4, 1750; d. June 23, 1751. -l/(/(f. h. Oct. 2, 1752: d. July 30, 1753. Adiia. b. June 16, 1754: d. Aug. 1, 17.54. Anne, b. Nov. 18, 1755; m. Gideon Hurlbut. Children: Anne, Ezra, Ira, and Sallv, Susan, Svbil; the three last named b. March 26, 1788. Adna, b. Nov. 10, 1757. i^mannah, b. Oct. 31, 1760; m. John Reed, Canaan. Salome, b. June 14. 1763; m. Job Marsli, New Hartford. Ebenezer. b. May 30, 1760: m. Lucy Steele. Children: Lucy, Julia, George. IV. Deacon EDMUND BEACH (s. John, John, Thomas), b. Wallingford, Feb. 18, 1720: m. Mary* Deming, dau. Benjamin Dom- ing; d. at Lexington, N. Y., aged 84. Children. Liiiiiaii. b. : m. Feb. 2, 1764, Anne, dau. Benoni Hills; d. April 19, 1777. She d. at NorfollJ, Jan. 26, 1777. Children: Syl- via, m. Jonathan Phelps of Torrlngton; Anne; Amanda, b. April 7, 1764. Lucu. b. Jan. 27, 1746; m. Oct. 10, 1704, Ambrose Hill. Children: Reuben, b. .Tan. 19, 1765; Lucia, b. Aug. 5, 1767; m. Samuel Baldwin. Wait, b. Oct, 25, 1747; ni. Jan. 9, 1767, Huldah Loomis of Torrington; d. Dec. 28, 1810. Children: Aaron Loomis, Miles, Nancy, Jliles. Huldah, Amanda, 'SValt, Melinda. Lydia, b. Oct. 28, 1749; m. .lease Buell; had eight children. Lois, b. Aug. 4, 1751; m. Seth Lockwood. Edmund, b. April 27, 1753; d. Sept. 15, 1755. .4B«.er, b. Jan. 29, 1755; m. Polly, dau. Rev. Marsh, New Hartford. Mary, b. Aug. 14, 17.56. (See Miles Gen.) Edmund, b. July 24, 1758; m. Luzan, dau. Capt. Timothy Stanley. Jonathan, b. Oct. 2. 1761: m. Lucy, dau. of Samuel Baldwin. Chil- dren: Erastus. Alvah. Lydia. Ebenezer. Harlow, Elisha, Seth, Luman. Wait, Asabel Hooker, Lucy. (This family re- moved to Lexington, N. Y., about 1800.) Catherine, b. .Tune 6, 1762; m. (1) Stephen Goodwin. Child: Stephen, b. March 5, 1781; m. (2) July 17, 1783. Seth Hills; d. at Roches- ter. N. Y., 1850. Amanda, b. April 7, 1764; m. Eli.sha Stanley. IV. LINUS BEACH (s. John, John, Thomas), b. at Wallingford. Dec. 5, 1721; m. Dinah, dau. Nathaniel and Phebe Royce. Children, bom Goshen. Olirer. b. Sept. 13, 1748; m. Abigail, dau. Samuel Oviatt; d. at Mt. Morris, N. Y. *I find in other records "Mercy" and " Prudence," 424 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. Ruth, b. Dee. 8, 1749; m. Noah Tuttle. Children: Tyrannus, b. July 13, 1774; m. Esther Ives. Roxa, m. Philo Howe; Polly, m. .Jeremiah Norton; Edward, m. Lorraln Oox (Royce); Rice, m. Elizabeth Dunson; Hannah, m. Luman Kellogg; Birdsey, m. Laura Black. Mineas, b. May 17, 1751; m. May 23, 1T7G, Asenath, dau. Benjamin Ives; d. Nov. 27, 1832. Limis, b. Nov. 22, 1752; m. June 1, 1775, Elizabeth Abbott of Corn- wall. Child: Seth, b. Feb. 22, 1776. Removed to state of New York. Dinah, b. April 20, 1754; m. Dec. 24, 1778, Stephen Mix. He was in the Revolutionary army between seven and eight years. Re- moved to state of N. Y. Michael, b. Feb. 3, 1756; m. Aug. 7, 1773, Eunice Hester, as recorded; Francis Beach says to " Eliza Castle of Roxbury." Re- moved to Genesee. Child: She Hon, b. Oct. 2, 1784. Martin, b. Feb. 23, 1758; d. Nov. 8, 1776, in New York. (See Rev, Soldiers.) Medad b. Sept. 9, 1760; m. . Royce, b. June 15, 1762; removed to new country. Lura, b. Aug. 12, 1764; m. Walker of Sheffield, Mass. Mary, b. Aug. 2, 1766; d. Nov. 6, 1771. EuJdah, b. Feb. 10, 1769; m. Daniel Miles Welton. Child: Laura, b. Aug. 14, 1793; m. .Jona. F. Baldwin. IV. AMOS BEACH (s. John, John, Thomas), b. Wallingford, Jan. 28, 1724; m. Dec. 24, 1746, Sarah Royce, who d. about 1820. Children, bom Goshen. Ghloe, b. Sept. 24, 1747. (See Ives Gen.) Ghauncey, b. Oct. 31, 1748. Amlirose, b. Jan. 14, 1750; d. July 8, 1776, at Ticonderoga, while in the army. Am,os, b. Aug. 27, 1751; m. Oct., 1780, Olive Carrington of Parmington. Bmrni, b. March 21, 1753. Abraham, b. Jan. 25, 1755; d. June 5, 1777. Was in Rev. army. Esther, b. Jan. 7, 1757. OMl, b. Dec. 25, 1758; went to Genesee, about 1791. Sarah, b. Oct. 21, 1760; m. Feb. 1, 1781. Ixaac. b. June 23, 1762; went to Genesee. Rofiirell. b. July 14, 1764. Seneli (dau.), b. March 3, 1766. IV. .TACOB BEACH (s. John, John, Thomas), b. Wallingford, Dec. 5, 1728; m. Sept. 19, 1753, Bethiah, dau. of John Watson of West Hartford. Children, born Goshen. Fraiiei.i, b. Oct. 13, 1755. John, b. April 28, 1757; m. Sarah Burr of Norfolk. Removed to State of New York. Lirrirl. b. .July 6, 1759; m. Polly Booth of Roxbury; d. in Bloomfield, N. Y., July 10, 1836. EARLY GOSHEN FAMILIES. 425 8abra, b. Aug. 24, 1761; m. (1) Dv. Levi Stocker of Poultuey, Vt.; (2) William Beach. Bethiali, h. Feb. 10, lT(io; m. Amos Booth of Roxbury. Children: Watson, I'hilomela, Helen, Jason, Cyrus, Laura, Joel, Wil- liam B., b. Xov. 14, 1800; Bethiah. Julius, b. Jan. 19, 1765. Jacol}, b. Oct. 6. 1767; d. about 1810. Ashhel. b. Oct. 6. 1769; m. Lorana, dau. Ashbel Humphrey. Re- moved to E. Bloomfleld, N. Y. Children: Biercy, Laurania, James, Parthena, Nancy, Sabra. Philomela, b. Jlarch 21, 1772; d, 1776. Jason, b. March 10, 1774; d. 1781. ly. JOHN BEACH (s. .Tolm, John, Thomas), b. Walllngford, April 21, 1731; m. March 12, 17.5.5, Lois Ives of Litchfield; d. about 1760. Children, born Goshen. Kezifili. b. Aug. 18, 1755. Abi, b. Jan. 28, 1757. (See Towner Gen.) Lois. IV. ROYCE BEACH (s. John, John, Thomas), b. Wallingford, Oct. 19, 1733; m. June 9, 1756, Phebe Soper of Litchfield; d. Sept. 18, 1766. Children, bom Goshen. Ira, b. Aug. 18, 1757. Boiea. Y. FISK BEACH (s. Adna, John, John, Thomas), b. May 15, 1742; m. Oct. 26, 1763, Martha Carrington of Wallingford; d. Goshen, JIarch 16, 1801. She d. Sangerfield, N. Y., March 15, 1814. Children, born Goshen. Hunn, b. July 7, 1764. Martha, b. Aug. 5, 1766. (See Norton Gen.) Liuij, b. Nov. 9, 1768; m. Ebenezer Hale; d. at Clinton, N. Y., .Jan. 1851. Children: Pallas, d. Goshen, July 27, 1806; Sybil, m. Bristol of Clinton; John. !\liere she d. Jan. 9, 1816, aged 64. He d. Mai-ch 26, 1825, aged 73. Children. Samuel, b. March 4, 1776, at Richmond, Mass. He m. (1) Feb. 20, 1803, Fanny Fuller of Sandisfleld, Mass.; (2) June 13, 1821, Harriet Cook. He d. April 15, 1838. Child by first wife: James M. Cook, b. Nov. 19, 1807. By second wife: Samuel Henry, b. July 18, 1823, at Ballston, N. Y. Augustus, b. Jan. 25, 1778; deaf and dumb, d. 1843. E vastus, b. Dec. 18, 1779; m. Jerusha Hewins of Richmond, Mass. Children: Althea L., b. March 18, 1801; Maria T., b. April 19, 1802; m. Daniel Spencer, M.D., Ohio; Increase, b. Feb. 20, 1804; d. unm; Amanda; Silas; Joseph R. Silas, b. Nov. 22, 1781; d. Aug. 24, 1811; unm. Gratia T., b. Oct. 27, 1784; d. unm., Oct. 4, 1840. Laura H., b. Jan. 4, 1787; m. Samuel McLellan, M.D. V. DANIEL COOK (s. Daniel, Joseph, Samuel, Henry), b. Aug. 18, 1761; m. Elizabeth Porter of Goshen. Children. Amasa, b. — ; m. (1) Polly Churchill; (2) Sally Rowe. Child, b. G.: PhiUp. PMneas, b. ; m. Irene Churchill. Children: Betsy; Daniel, m. Helen Maria King; Eliza, m. Solomon Hall; Darius, m. Jane Wadhams; Mary Ann; Phineas W.; Harriet. V. MOSES COOK (s. Daniel, Joseph, Samuel, Henry), b. at G. April 15, 1764; m. Lydia, dan. of Misha Thompson. He d. Jan. 21, 1841; she d. Feb. 23, 1841. Children, born Goshen. George, b. July 24, 1791; m. Roxa Grant. Harriet, b. May 25, 1794; m. Samuel Cook. Betsey, b. March 6, 1797; d. unm., 1890. Frederick,, b. Nov. 9, 1801; m. Louisa C. McKinley. Moses, b. March 2, 1808; m. Emily M. Beecher. VI. GEORGE COOK (s. Moses, Daniel, Joseph, Samuel, Henry), b. July 24, 1791; m. Boxa, dan. of Moses Grant of Norfolk; d. 1864. Children, bom Goshen. Caroline M., b. June 10, 1818; d. ; unm. Ralph F., b. May 10, 1821; m. .Julia E., dan. of Sterling Wooster, June 18, 1872; d. Sept. 26, 1884. VI. HARRIET COOK (dau. Moees, Daniel, Joseph, Samuel, Heni-y), b. May 25, 1794; m. June 13, 1821, Samuel Cook (s. Philip, Daniel, Joseph, Samuel, Henry); d. April 15, 1828. He d. April 15, 1838. 452 HISTORY OP GOSHEN. Child. Samuel Henry, b. July 18, 1823; m. June 7, 1848, Anna P. Cochran of Amsterdam, N. Y. Children: Sarah Louisa, b. Feb. 26, 1849; d. Aug. 28, 1849; Louisa, b. Feb. 21, 1851. VI. FREDERICK COOK (s. Moses, Daniel, Joseph, Samuel, Henry), b. Nov. 9, 1801; m. April , 1827, Louisa McKinley of Georgia; d. April 4, 1843. Child. Maria Elisabeth, b. Feb. 28, 1828; m. Alexander Allen. VI. MOSES COOK (s. Moses, Daniel, Joseph, Samuel, Heni-y), b. March 2, 1808; m. Oct. 3, 1831, Emily M., dau. of David Beecher; d. ' ; she d. Children, born Goshen. Harriet Elizabeth, b. Oct. 17, 1832; m. Jan. 8, 1857, James Q. Rice. Emily, b. May 7, 1834; d. June 4, 1834. George Beecher, b. May 17, 1835. Fredericlc Augustus, b. Jan. 27, 1838. Moses, b. March 26, 1842; d. William R., b. July 4, 1852; m. April 28, 1880, Alice North. GAYLORD. This family is of French descent and came from Normandy. The name " Gaillard " is found in French history as early as 1248. It is evident that about the middle of the 16th century and during the reign of Edward VI, the first of that name were refugees from persecution in France and settled in England. Here they enjoyed the religious privileges granted by Edward immolested until the reign of Mary. When Elizabeth came to the throne their privileges were restored and James I, by an Order of his Privy Council, guai'anteed to them the peaceable enjoyment of all the privileges al- lowed them by Queen Elizabeth. But in the reign of Charles I persecution commenced, and Archbishop Laud followed them with a malignity which caused many of them to seek an asylum elsewhere. At this time we come to the name of the first emigrant to this countrj', bearing the name. I. WILLIAM GAYLORD, from the county of Devonshire, emi- grated to New England in the spring of 1630. He was of a good family and good estate. He cam© over In the ship Mary and John, arriving at Nantucket, Boston Bay, May 30, 1630, and was made free- man Oct. 19th, the same year. He was chosen a deacon at Plymouth, Devonshire Co., Ehgland, March, 1630, when the church was or- EARLY GOSHEN FAMILIES. 453 ganized, under the Rev. John Maverick and Rev. John Warham, ■who also came with the company. This was the pioneer company in the settlement of Dorchester, Mass. He signed the first land grants in D., and his own grant was recorded in 1633. Was select- man and representative to the General Court in 1635-6 and 8. He removed to Windsor, Conn., in 1638. Between 1639 and 1664 he was elected a member of the Assembly at forty-one semi-annual elections. His wife d. June 20, 1657. He d. July 20, 1673. Children, born England. Elieabeth, m. Richard Birge. WUViam, Samuel, Walter, John. II. WALTER GAYLORD (s. William), b. about 1622; m. (1) April 22, 1648, MaiT, dau. of Dea. Edward Stebbins; she d. June 29, 1657; (2) March 22, 1658, Sarah, dau. of William Rockwell. Children, by first wife. Joseph, b. May 13, 1649. Mary, b. March 19, 1651. Joanna, b. Feb. 5, 1653; m. John Porter. Samuel Benjamin, b. April 12, 1655. Isaac, b. June 21, 1657. Children, by ^cond wife. EUeiser, b. March 7, 1662. Sarah, b. April 13, 1665; m. William Phelps. III. JOSEPH GAYL'ORD (s. Walter, William), b. May 13, 1649; m. July 14, 1670, Sarah, dau. of John Stanley of Farmington. He first settled in Farmington and about 1708 removed to Durham, where he d. previous to 1713. Children. Sarah, b. July 11, 1671; m. Thomas Judd, Jr. Joseph, b. April 22, 1673. John, b. Aug. 21, 1677. William, b. 1680. Benjamin, Elizabeth, Mary. Abigail, m. James Williams. Joanna, m. Robert Royce. Ruth, m. Stephen Hickox. IV. JOSEPH GAYLORD (s. Joseph, Walter, William), b. April 22, 1673; m. Feb. 28, 1699, Mary, dau. of Joseph Hickox of Woodbury. Cbildren. Elisabeth. Joseph, d. In infancy. Thankful. 454 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. rimothy, b. Nov. 29, 1706. .Samuel, b. July 5, 1709. Edward. Benjamin. Martha. V. TIMOTHY GAYLORD (s. Joseph, Joseph, Walter, William), b. Nov. 29, 1706; m. (1) April 25, 1733, Pi-udence Royce; she d. Feb. 7, 1746; (2) Phebe Wilton, who d. Goshen in 1777. Children, by first wife. Prudence, b. Jan. 31, 1734; m. Jan. 25, 1753, Wait Deming. Timothy, b. Aug. 5, 1735; m. Lydia Thompson. Royce, b. July 17, 1737; m. Sarah Norton. Amasa, b. Reuben, b. June 17, 1742. Children by second wife, born Goshen. Titus, b. Dec. 24, 1749. Lois, b. Dec. 22, 1751; m. Samuel Bishop. Joel, b. May 8, 1755. Joseph, b. April 24, 1758. This Timothy Gaylord was a lieutenant, his commission is dated March 27, 1757; he was killed by Indians, near Fort Ann, N. Y., in 1759. The time of his coming to G. cannot be determined with cer- tainty. Probably it was in the winter of 1748 or 9. His brother Samuel had been here previous to the sale of the township and had acquired some rights in the south part of the town which he sold to Joseph Francis of Wallingford, July 4, 1738. He sold a one-half interest. It may have been what is called a " squatter's " or " ex- plorer's " right. VI. JOSEPH GAYLORD (s. Timothy, Joseph, Joseph, Walter, William), b. Goshen April 24, 1758; m. April 24, 1792, Eunice, dau. of Abner Ives of Torringford. She was b. March 10, ; d. Nov. 3, 1825. He d. March 25, 1838. Children, bom Goshen. Joseph Ives, b. Sept. 12, 1793. Willard, b. May 21, 1799. Aletia, b. March 4, 1801. (See Cicero Collins.) VII. JOSEPH I. GAYLORD (s. Joseph, Timothy. Joseph, .Joseph, Walter William), b. Sept. 12, 1793; m. (1) Nov. 21, 1821, Clarissa, dau. of Andrew Norton; she d. April 21, 1843: (2) Dec. 21, 1852, Eliza, dau. Lewis Mills Norton. He d. Feb. 10, 1860. She d. starch 6, 1895. I EARLY GOSHEN FAMILIES. 455 Children, by first wife, born Goshen. Uani Loraine, b. Aug. 8, 1824; m. May 22, 1850, Moses W. Gray. Freder-ick; b. March 17, 1830; unm. VII. WILLARD GAYLORD (s. Joseph, Timothy, Joseph, Jo- seph, Walter, William), b. May 21, 1799; m. April 27, 1825, Amy, dau. of Ii-a Hooker of Bristol. She was b. April 16, 1805; d. March 22, 1878. He d. Nov. 6, 1882. Children, born Goshen. Wlllard E., b. March 26, 1827; m. Sarah Bi Wooster. Charles Henry, b. March 7, 1833; m. Jeannie M. Thompson. VIII. WILLARD E. GAYLORD (s. Willard, Joseph, Timothy, Joseph, Joseph, Walter, William), b. March 26, 1827; m. May 14, 1851, Sarah E. Wooster. Children. Eenry C, b. March 30, 1852; unm. Amy Lucretia, b. Feb. 17, 1858; d. Dec. 29, 1886. VIII. CHARLES H. GAYLORD (s. Willard, Joseph, Timothy, Joseph, Joseph, Walter, William), b. March 7, 1833; m. June 10, 1856, Jeannie M. Thompson of New Haven. Children. William H., h. Sept. 7, 1862. Charles E., b. March 13, 1865. VIII. MARY LORAINE GAYLORD (dau. of Joseph I., Joseph, Timothy, Joseph, Josep^i, Walter, William), b. Aug. 8, 1824; m. May 22, 1850, Moses W. Gray. Children, born Goshen. Clara Imcretia, b. May 20, 1856; m. Frederick P. Miles. Frederick Gaylord, b. May 7, 1859. Franklin Moses, b. April 23, 1866. GRISWOLD. I. ZACCHEUS GRISWOLD of Windsor bought of Matthew and Noah Griswold, May 12, 1744, the larger part of the proprie- tor's right which they had bought of David Buttolph. The latter had purchased at New Haven March 9, 1738. He removed to Goshen previous to July, 1744. His wife died at Goshen Jan. 10, 1806, aged 99 years. He died at G. 456 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. Children, probably born Windsor. Zaccheus. (Hies. Hannah, b. about 1739; m. David Thompson. (See Thompson Gen.) II. ZAOOHBUS GRISWOLD (s. Zaccheus), b. probably at Windsor; came to Goshen with his father's family in 1744; m. March 13, 1755, Eunice, dau. of Nathaniel Stanley, who was b. at Farming- ton Jan. 15, 1732; d. at Goshen Dec. 15, 1805. He d. at G. Botli himself and wife were members of the church at the time of Mr. Hooker's settlement in 1791. Children, born Goshen. Oliver, b. Nov. 16, 1757. Alexander, b. Oct. 18, 1760. Darius, b. Jan. 15, 1764; m. Miriam, dau. Stephen Goodwin. She was b. May 20, 1770. Child. Darius Oliver, b. 1787. Brastus, b. ; m. Anna Lewis. She was a member of the church in 1808. Anna, (?); m. Thomas Jeffries^ II. GILES GRISWOLD (s. Zaccheus), b. probably at Windsor; came to Goshen with his father; m. Oct. 28, 1762, Mary Stanley, who was b. at Parmington March, 1740; d. at G. Jan. 2, 1840. He d. at Goshen March 7, 1817. Children, born Goshen. Thomas, b. July 29, 1763. Marv, b. July 7, 1765; m. Appleton Riley; d. Feb. 9, 1857. Child: Mary H., b. 1795; m. William H. Jessup. Hannah, b. April 13, 1767; d. unm. Joai, moved to Herkimer, N. Y. Had six children. John, b. Jan. 10, 1772. Giles, b. May 18, 1774. Oliver, b. March 18, 1783. III. ALEXANDER GRISWOLD (s. Zaccheus, Zaccheus), b. Oct. 17, 1760; m. Lucy, dau. of David Humphrey; b. at Goshen, May 23, 1767; removed to Tallmadge, Ohio, in 1810. Children, born Goshen. Dudley, m., had five children; died. Alfred, d. unm. Augustus, d. unm. Lucia, m. Saxton of Tallmadge, Ohio. Elizabeth, m. Hustis; several children; resided, 1870, at Norton, Ohio. David, d.; no children. Alexander, m. Clarissa Brown of Canandaigua, N. Y., resided in Chicago; d. at Norton, Ohio. Children Emma; Alice. Gup, m. O'Brien; d.; no childi-en. EARLY GOSHEN FAMILIES. 457 IV. DARIUS O. GRISWOLD (s. Darius, Zacclieus, Zaccheus), b. 1787; m. Sept. 17, 1811, Abigail Wakeman, Ballston, N. Y.; d. Saratoga, N. Y., Dec. 2(i, 1841. (See Ministers born in Goshen.) Children. Helen, b. ; m. Samuel E. Bushnell of Saratoga Springs, N. Y. Children: Darius Griswold, m. Lydia Emerson of Brook- lyn, N. Y. Children: Luta, m. Slocum of Buffalo, N. Y.; has three sons. William L., b. ; m. Hannah Watts of New York. Children: Emma, m., Fanny, Frederick, Mary. The mother the only member of the family living. Caroline, d. aged nine. Frederick Buell and Darius Oliver, d. young. Burr Wakeman, m. dau. of Judge Blatchford, New York city; d. Children: Two sons. IV. THOMAS GRISWOLD (s. Giles, Zaccheus, Zaccheus), b. July 29, 1763; m. Sept. 11, 1794, Lovisa, dau. of Abiel Smith; d. at G. Feb. 25, 1839; she d. March 12, 1849, aged 74. Children, born Goshen. George, b. Feb. ; d. Feb. 6, 1797. Charlotte, b. March 16, 1795. Hiram George, b. Nov. 17, 1797. Harriet, b. Feb. 22, 1800. Clarissa, b. Feb. 10, 1802; m. April 29, 1834, Eben Norton. IV. JOHN GRISWOLD (s. Giles, Zaccheus, Zaccheus), b. Jan. 10, 1772; m. April 4, 1801, Freelove, dau. of Daniel Baldwin; d. Jan. 30, 1838; she d. Oct. 9, 1849. Children, bom Goshen. Julia, b. July 30, 1803; d. Nov. 22, 1852. Sarah, b. Oct. 26, 1805; m. March 12, 1829, Putnam Bailey. Chil- dren: Carlos Putnam, Julia Caroline, both d. in infancy; Joseph; Julia Caroline, d. in infancy; Edward Carlos; Sarah Jane. Luoij, b. Dec. 13, 1808; unm. Giles, b. Nov. 20, 1812; d. May 7, 1855. John, b. June 22, 1816; unm.; d. Sept. 13, 1841. Frederick B., b. Jan. 17, 1824; m. Oct. 12, 1859, Harriet E. Humphrey. Jane, b. .Tan. 31, 1827; unm.; d. 1897. IV. JOAB GRISWOLD (s. Giles, Zaccheus, Zaccheus), m. Nancy Myers; moved to Herkimer, N. Y. ; d. 1811. Children, born Herkimer. Rensselaer. Jacob and Theodore, t^^■ins. Michael. ■ Mary. Joai. 458 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. IV. GILES GRISWOLD (s. Giles, Zaccheus, Zaccheus), b. May 18, 1744; m. Oct. 15, 1800, Sarah, dau, of Ephraim Starr, d. Oct. 8, 1855; she d. . They had no children. IV. OLIVER GRISWOLD (s. Giles, Zaccheus, Zaccheus), b. March 18, 1783; m. Oct. 4, 1804, Huldah West; d. June 29, 1835. Children. Hannah Lucretia, b. Aug. 26, 1805; m. May 22, 1827, Manly Petei-s of Warren. Children: Delia and Martha, d. in infancy; Delia, b. Aug. 8, 1831; Julia, b. June 29, 1833; Maiy, b. .Jan. 22, 1842. Henry, b. June 1, 1807, m. March 20, 1835, Clarissa Bragg. Children : Herbert, b. July, 1838; Oliver, b. May, 1843; d. June, 1843. HuUah, b. Dec. 8, 1832; d. Feb. 22, 1834. V. CHARLOTTE GRISWOLD (dau. Thomas, Giles, Zaccheus, Zaccheus), b. March 16, 1795; m. Feb. 6, 1813, Isaac Orandall; he d.; m. (2) Bagley; removed to Pitcher, N. T. Children. Nelson. Emily. Jane. Charlotte. Thomas. Eliza. Welch. Cornelia. Clarissa. Julia. DwifjM. dies. Most of these children died young. V. HIRAM GEORGE GRISWOLD (s. Thomas, Giles, Zaccheus, Zaccheus), b. Nov. 17, 1797; m. (1) Nov. 29, 1820, Harriet, , dau. of Giles Whiting of Torrington. She d. Feb. 29, 1832, and he m. (2) Feb. 27, 1834, Mary Ray of Litchfield, who d. April 7, 185S: he m. (3) 1860, Eleanor F ; he d. March 3, 1870. Children, by first vs^ife. Sarah, b. Sept. 23, 1821; m. March 14, 1839, William Norton. Louisa, b. July 26, 1825; d. May 9, 1831. Thomas W., b. Dec. 16, 1828; m. Jan. 11, 1849, Lucretia, dau. of Erastus and Anna (Ray) Benton. V. HARRIET GRISWOLD (dau. Thomas, Giles, Zaccheus, Zaccheus), b. Feb. 22, 1800; m. Nov. 30, 1820, Hosea Crandall; d. Dec. 25, 1872. He was b. Dee. 17, 1799; m. (2) Dec. 10, 1873, Alisia Oviatt, who d. Jan. 20, 1889. He d. April 21, 1887. Chilflien. born Goshen. Harriet Lovisa, b. Nov. 5. 1821; m. Dec. 7, 1843, William L. Griswold. George G., b. Jan. 24, 1824. KARLY GOSHEN FAMILIES. 459 Sarah, b. Dec. 19, 1826; m. Tan. 11, 1846, .lonathan B. Thompson; d. Jan. 11, 1860. Child: Harriet Tamelia, b. Feb. 4, 1853; m. Abner Wadhams. Bosea, b. Feb. 24, 1828; m. May 20, 1849, Lydla A. Weeks; d. Oct. 31, 1876. Catherine M., b. March 11, 1830; d. Nov. 22, 1847. Louisa E., b. April 1, 1832; m. Sept 18, 1856, Darius D. Thompson; d. Feb. 4, 1895. Children: Sarah Ix)uisa, b. Sept. 12, 1859; d. Nov. 25, 1865; Jennie, b. Sept. 25, 1867; m. Dec. 25, 1889, Edwin O. Wright. Mary Jnne, b. Aug. 3, 1836; m. Oct. 13, 1858, Samuel Oviatt. He d. June 5, 1895. Child: Samuel, b. July 9, 1879. VI. GEORGE G. CKANDALL (s. Harriet, Thomas, Giles, Zaceheus, Zaccheus Griswold), b. .Tan. 24, 1824; m. Tune 24, 1846, Mary B. Page, who was b. July 17, 1828. Children, bom Goshen. Frederick George, b. Oct. 10, 1847; d. unm. Dec. 15, 1873. Edtcin Daniel, b. April 17, 1858; m. Nov. 28, 1878, Irene B. Smith, who was b. Sept. 25, 1858. Children: Harriet Irene, b. Dec. 9, 1879; Frederick Edwin, b. Jan. 10, 1883; " Our Loved one," b. Sept. 9, 1889; d. Nov. 10, 1889; Florence Louise, b. Nov. 1, 1890: Jane Elizabeth, b. Sept. 5, 1893. Mary Lovise, b. April 20, 1871. VI. FRANK W. GRISWOLD (s. Harriet, Thomas, Giles, Zac- cheus, Zaccheus), b. June 15, 1851; m. May 13, 1873, Caroline R. Kil- bourne of Litchfield, who was b. March 25, 1850. Children, bom Goshen. William Kilbourne, b. June 10, 1874; d. Aug. 20, 1875. William Francis, b. Sept. 25, 1877. Frederick Dudley, b. June 4, 1883. Thomas Whiting, b. May 28, 1887. HALL. I. JOHN HALL, immigrant, appears first at Boston, after- wards at New Haven. He was in New Haven as early as 1639, and at Wallingford about the year 1670. He moved to Wallingford after the settlement had commenced, which accounts for the non-appear- ance of his name on the first Plantation covenant, in 1669-70. His sons, John, Thovuis, and Samuel, were signers to that instrument. His name appears on the covenant of 1672, and it is quite certain that he had then been some time in the place. In 1675 himself and his son John were chosen selectmen of Wallingford. He died early in the year 1676, aged 71 years. The maiden name of his wife was Jane Woolen. 460 HISTOEY OF GOSHEN. Children. JoJm. Sarah. Richard. Thomas. Hannah. Jonathan. Samuel. David. II. THOMAS HALL (s. John), b. March 25, 1049; m. June G, 1673, Grace ; she d. May 1, 1731; he d. Sept. 17, 1731. Children. Abigail. Benjamin. Thomas. Peter. Jonathan. Daniel. Joseph. , Rebecca. Estlier. Israel. III. JONATHAN HALL (s. Thomas, John), b. July 25, 1679; m. May 12, 1703, Dinah Andrews; d. Jan. 15, 1760; she d. 176 . Children. Ducid. Phebe. Jonathan. Ezekiel. Joseph. Thankful. Anna. Benjamin. Isaao. Temperance. IV. DAAaD HALL (s. Jonathan, Thomas, .Tohn), b. Oct. 16, 1705; m. Sept. 23, 1731, Alice Hale; d. about 1755. Children. Alice, b. Sept. 8, 1731. David, b. Nov. 2, 1732. Benijah, b. Feb. 12, 1734. Asaph, b. June 11, 1735. Bates, b. Dec. 5, 1736. Phebe, b. June 24, 1739. Lois, b. Feb. 2, 1741. Elhanah, b. Oct. 20, 1742. Lucy, b. July 24, 1744. (The above is from Doctor Davis's History of Walllngford.) This David Hall was an original proprietor in the township of Goshen, owning two rights. His son Elkanah made the settlement here as required, returning to Walllngford, when his brother Asaph came. The exact date it is not possible to determine, his name first appearing on the records, Dec. 4, 1758. V. ASAPH HALL (s. David, Jonathan, Thomas, John), b. at Wallingford June 11, 1735; m. July 25, 1799, Esther MacNeil; d. Gaslien, , 1800. His widow m. June , 1800, Seth Baldwin (s. Daniel); she d. Goshen May 7, 1851. EARLY GOSHEN FAMILIES. 461 Child. Asaph, b. Aug. 8, 1800. VI. ASAPH HALL (s. Asaph, David, Jonathan, Thomas, John), b. at Goshen Aug. 8, 1800; m. Jan. 29, 1829, Hannah 0., dau. Robert Palmer, b. at Goshen Aug. 19, 1804. .He d. Clinton, Georgia, Sept. 6, 1842; she d. Children, bom Goshen. Asaph, b. Oct. 15, 1829; m. March ,25, 1856, Angeline Stickney of Adams, N. Y. Hannah H., b. Aug. 26, 1831; m. May 15, 1849, John Fox of Cornwall. Adelaide, b. March 3, 1833; m. Oct 8, 1857, Charles Kennon of Provi- dence, R. I. Adeline, b. March 3, 1833. Lyman, b. May 16, 1835; m. Oct 3, 1864, Mary E. Oilman of Salem, N. Y. Mary C, b. March 30, 1837; m. Oct. 8, 1857, to George Humphrey. VII. ASAPH HALL (s. Asaph, Asaph, David, Jonathan, Thomas, John), b. Oct. 15, 1829; m. March 31, 1856, at Elkhorn, Wis., Angeline Stickney, who was b. in Rodman, N. Y., Nov. 1, 1830, and d. at No. Andover, Mass., July 3, 1892. Children. Asaph, b. at Cambridge, Mass., Oct. 6, 1859. May, 1896, is professor of asti'onomy in Mich. Uni., Ann Arbor, Michigan; unm. Samuel Stickney, b. at Georgetown, D. C, Sept. 28, 1864; m. June 21, 1893, Eleanor Borst of Clinton, N. Y. May, 1896, is Asst. Actuary of Mutual Life Ins. Co., New York. Children: Sam- uel Stickney and Enid. Angela, b. at Georgetown, D. C, Sept. 16, 1868. May, 1896, student of Divinity, Cambridge, Mass.; unm. Percival, b. at Georgetown, D. C, Sept. 16, 1872; m. June 12, 1895, Carolyn L. Clarke at Holland Patent, N. Y. ; she d. at George- town, D. C, Jan. 21, 1896. May, 1896, he is a teacher in the Gallaudet College for the Deaf and Dumb, Washington, D. C. VII. HANNAH H. HALL (dau. Asaph, Asaph, David, Jona- than, Thomas, John), b. Aug. 26, 1831; m. May 15, 1849, John B. Fox of Cornwall Hollow; d. Jan. 15, 1885, at Thomaston, Conn. Children, bom Thomaston. Jennie H., b. March 12, 1850; m. Nov. 18, 1869, Arthur S. Lake. Chil- dren: Carrie H., b. Sept. 16, 1870; John F., b. Nov. 3, 1873. Laura A., b. Feb. 1, 1852; d. April 10, 1852. Uszie B., b. Feb. 7, 1853; m. June 26, 1879, Daniel F. Webster. Chil- dren: Bradford, b. Feb. 18, 1881; Frederick B., b. July 20, 1882; Benjamin, b. Nov. 17, 1884; Howard, b. June 7, 1886. John B., b. Sept. 25, 1854; d. Aug. 3, 1876. George L., b. Nov. 3, 1856. Frederic H., b. Oct 7, 1859; d. Sept 1, 1889. 462 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. VII. ADELAIDE HALL (dau. Asaph, Asaph, David, Jonathan, Thomas, John), b. Jlarch 3, 1833; m. (1) Oct. 8, 1857, Charles De \'eie Kennou, who served in the vi'ar of the Rebellion, and d. in Louisiana in the spring of 1863; (2) June 24, 1867, G. G. Lambertson, M.D., who d. Dec. 5, 1870. Children. Lyman Walter Kenmn, h. Sept. 2, 1859; m. April 3, 1883, Anna B. Rice. He graduated from West Point, and is (1897) captain in the U. S. Army. Charles Edward Kennon, b. Aug. 20, 1860; m. July 20, 1891, Sadie Hunter of Providence, R. I., where he is a practising physi- cian. Edmin Lincoln Kennon, b. Dec. 26, 1862; m. Nov. 24, 1887, Emma Blanchard of Shenandoah, Iowa. Is mayor of Blanchard, Iowa, 1896. VII. ADELINE HALL (dau. Asaph, Asaph, David, Jonathan, Thomas, John), b. March 3, 1833; m. (1) July 20, 1859, Peter H. Peter- son of Saratoga, N. Y., who d. June 11, 1860; (2) March 29, 1864, Victory Clark Hart, who d. Dec. 16, 1890. Children. Howard Eall Peterson, b. — ; d. Hannah Hart, b. March 14, 1865. Edward 7., b. Jan. 27, 1867. Stedman H., b. Feb. 19, 1870. Mary P., b. May 26, 1874; d. Sept. 18, 1888. VII. MARY CLARK HALL (dau. Asaph, Asaph, David, Jona- than, Thomas, John), b. March 30, 1837; m. Oct. 8, 1857, George W. Humphrey. , Children. Jennie E., b. March 11, 1859; d. Aug. 1, 1861. Edward L., b. Nov. 28, 1862; m. May 19, 1886, Hattie L. Brown of South Norfolk. Child: Eugene Hall Humphrey, b. March 27, 1889. HUMPHREY. I. MICHAEL HUMPHREY, the ancestor of the branch of the family we are about to trace, came from England, and our first knowledge of him is as a resident of Windsor, Conn. In 1643 he is mentioned as a manufacturer of pitch and tar. He m. Oct. 14, 1647, Priscilla, dau. of Matthew Grant of Windsor, " a man of position and influence in the town and church," and this fact gives evidence of the social position and consideration enjoyed by Humph- rey in the community. On May 21, 1657, he took the oath and be- came a Freeman in the Colony of Connecticut. As late as the year EARLY GOSHEN FAMILIES. 453 1664, he styled himself " a member of the Church of England." As early as 1GG7 he had a gi-ant of land in Weatogue (Slmsbury), and in 1670, he was one of the " Deputies for Simsbury to a Generall Court Holden at Hartford." He was a member of the church at Simsbury in 1682. The date of his death Is not known. His estate was divided March 19, 1695-6. Children, born Windsor. John, b. June 7, 1650; m. Hannah Griffin; d. Jan. 14, 1697-8. Mary, b. Oct. 24, 1653; m. June 16, 1675, John Lewis of W. Samuel, b. May 15, 1656; m. Mary Mills. Samuel, b. March 6, 1658-9; m. June 11, 1680, Richard Burnham of So. Martha, b. Oct. 5, 1663; m. John Shipman. Abigail, b. March 23, 1665-6; m. Feb. 12, 1684, Lieut, Benjamin Gra- ham of Hartford; d. June 27, 1697. Hannah, b. Oct. 21, 1669; m. Joseph Bull of Hartford. II. Lieutenant SAMUEL HUMPHREY (s. Michael), b. May 15, 1656; m. Mary, dau. of Simon and Mary (Buel) Mills; d. in Simsbury June 15, 1736. She d. April 4, 1730. They both became membei-s of the First Church at its organization and he held many positions of trust and honor in the town. Children. Mary, b. Nov. 16, 1681; m. Dec. 7, 1699, Bartholomew Case. Elizabeth, b. April 22, 1684; m. July 4, 1705, John Collyer, Jr., of Hartford. Samuel, b. May 17, 1686. Jonathan, b. Dec. 2, 1688; m. Mercy Ruggles; d. June 14, 1749. Abigail, b.. ; m. Jan. 24, 1716-17, John Case. Hannah, b." April 6, 1697. Charles, b. ; m. Hepzibah Pettibone; d. , 1774. Noah, b. , 1707; m. Hannah Case. III. Ensign SAMUEL HUMPHREY (s. Lieut. Samuel, Michael), b. at Simsbury May 17, 1686; m. (1) Feb. 23, 1709-10, Hannah Phelps, who d. in 1710; (2) Feb. 26, 1712-13, Mary Tuller; (3) Dec. , 1714, I>ydia North, who d. Aug. 8, 1730; (4) Oct. 31, 1731, Mary Orton of Litchfield (South Farms). About the year 1739, he removed with his wife and younger children from Simsbury to Goshen, and settled upon a tract of land he had bid off at New Haven March 9, 1738. This land was located in the north part of the town, where he and his sons gave the name to the road on which they lived, it having been known as long as kept open, and till within a few years, as " Humphrey Lane." He and his last wife Avere members of the Episcopal church, and the first services of that church were held at their house. 464 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. Children, bom Simsbury and Goshen. By first marriage. Samuel, b. Oct. 15, 1710; m. Mary Wilcox; d. July 7, 1755. By second marriage. Aliel, b. March 13, 1714; m. Jemima Warner. By third marriage. Lydia, b. Nov. 7, 1715; m. Aug. 19, 1737, Capt. Daniel Wilcox. Elizabeth, b. July 9, 1717; m. Oct. 27, 1735, Joseph Wilcox. Esekiel, b. Aug. 28, 1719; m. Elizabeth Pettibone; d. 1795. Trypliena, b. Jan. 29, 1722; m. June 11, 1739, Dr. Samuel Barber; d. 1752. Mary, m. April 10, 1746, Sergt. Ezra Wilcox. David, b. June 5, 1726. Phebe, m. Mattison. Isaac, d. Aug. 3, 1732. By fourth marriage. AsKbel, b. April 19, 1732. Deliverance, b. Dec. 5, 1733; m. Aug. 8, 1753, John Smedley. Isaac, b. Nov. 29, 1735. Thomas, b. Oct. 27, 1737. Eunice, m. (1) Jacob Holabird of Canaan, Conn.; (2) Willard, and lived in Vermont. Charles, b. Feb. 13, 1743. Lois, b. Aug. 26, 1745; m. David Wright. T^oah, b. Nov. 21, 1747. Daniel, b. 1749-50. IV. DAVID HUMPHREY (s. Ensign Samuel, Lieut. Samuel, Michael), b. June 5, 1726; m. Lucy, dau. of Preserved Marshall; d. G. March 23, 1814; she d. in G. 1802. Children, born Goshen. Infant, d. David, b. Feb. 16, 1758. Simeon, b. Dec. 8, 1760. Isaiah, b. Nov. 10, 1763. Lucy, b. May 27, 1767; m. Alexander Griswold. Dudley, b. Oct. 20, 1770. Lydia, b. April 8, 1774; m. Stephen Ames of Windsor and settled in G. Children: Sarah, m. N. E. Hart; MaiT. d. about 18.33; Oliver, m. Eliza Smith; d. in Cal.; Lucy, d. in O., unm.; Eilishn, d. young; Julia, m. (1) Henry Sawyer; (2) Daniel Reed, res. (1770) Litchfield. V. DAVID HUMPHREY (s. David, Ensign Samuel, Lieut. Sam- uel, Michael), b. Feb. 16, 1758; m. Aug. 19, 1784, Lucy Marshall of Avon, who d. at Braceville, O., in 1829; he d. at B. July, 1831. Children, born Goshen. Rehecca, m. Joseph North of Avon and resided there. Nancy, b. 1786; d. March 12, 1823; unm. Lu\'illiams College, studied law, and pi-actised in Goshen for several years. He built the house on Middle Street, afterwards occupied by Harvey Baldwin. He was highly esteemed in Goshen and else- where as a lawyer and as a man. He was a representative to the convention that formed the State Constitution, in 1818. Children. Elizabeth, b. Jan. 1, 1815; m. Amasa N. Badger. William, b. Nov., 1816; m. July 20, 1843, Juliett Thompson. Infant, d. Mary, b. March 16, 1820; m. Sept. 4. 1845, George Olmstead of New Haven. Child: Anna Mary, b. at New Haven Feb. 4, 1854. Woolcott, b. Aug. ; d. at Elmira. Theodore, b. Nov. 4, 1825; m. Nov. 6, 1850, Sue A. Bradley, who d. May 9, 1852; m. (2) her sister. He d. at Elmira Sept. 23, 1859. He was a lawyer and judge. No children. Henry, b. Sept. 7, 1827; d. in Wisconsin Aug. 13, 1846. David Johnson. James Dunn. NORTON. The names, dates of birth, arrival in this country, and death of the Norton immigrants, as recorded by Lewis M. Norton: Thomas, of Guilford, Francis, of Branford, Rev. John, of Boston, William, of Ipswich, John, of Branford, . Thomas, of Saybrook, John, of Guilford, . George, of Ipswich, Mary, dau. Francis, Francis, of Charlestown, George, of Salem, . 1582 1606 1606 1610 1622 1626 1628 1641 1629 1584 1639 1631 1635 1635 1646 1639 1639 1631 1631 1629 1648 1666 1663 1694 1709 1712 1683 1696 1667 1659 I. THOMAS NORTON of Guilford, immigrant, was the ances- tor of the Nortons in Goshen. He emigrated, with his wife and children, from Oclfley, in Surrey, near Guilford, England, to Boston in 1639, and thence sailed to New Haven, with twenty-four com- panions. Their minister. Rev. Henry Whitefield, had been pastor 508 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. of the churcli at Ockley, of wliich Thomas Norton was wardfeii. Previous to their arrival at Guilford, June 1, 1639, the twenty-five colonists had signed a covenant which united them as a body politic. They chose, as their first governor, William Leete, who was after- ward governor of the United Colonies of Connecticut. His wife was Grace Wells, whom he had married in 1625. Children. Thomas, of Saybrook, above. John, of Guilford, above. Grace, m. April 2, 1651, William Seward. Mary, m. 1658, Samuel Rockwell of Windsor. II. THOMAS NORTON of Saybrook (s. Thomas), b. England about 1626; came to Guilford with his father's family in 1639; re- moved to Saybrook before Nov. 22, 1661; m. May 8, 1671, Elizabeth, dau. of Nicholas Mason of Saybrook. She d. at Saybrook .Ian. 31, 1699. He d. at Durham after Nov. 25, 1712. Children, born Saybrook. Elizabeth, b. Oct. 13, 1674; d. April 2, 1676. Thomas, b. June 1, 1677; m. Dec. 11, 1701, Rebecca Neil; d. Aug. 26, 1726. mizaUth, b. Dec. 26, 1679. Joseph, b. Nov. 6, 1681; m. Deborah Crittenden of Guilford; d. at Durham, 1756. • Samuel (twin of Joseph), m. March 13, 1713, Widow Dinah (Birdsey) Beach. Abigail, and Ehenezer (twins), b. Oct. 26, 1683. John, b. Oct. 3, 1686; m. ; d. Durham Dec., 1768. III. SAMUEL NORTON (s. Thomas, Thomas), b. at Saybroofc Nov. 6, 1681; removed to Durham, 1704; m. March 13, 1713, Dinah (Birdsey) Beach, the widow of Benjamin Beach; b. at Stratford in 1688; d. at Durham Sept. 17, 1765. He d. at Durham July 13, 1767. The first purchase in Goshen by a member of the Norton family was made by this Samuel N., of one proprietor's right, bought Nov. 20, 1738, of David Hall of Wallingford. Children, born Dui-ham. Samuel, b. March 20, 1714; d. March 21, 1716. Menezer, b. Dec. 30, 1715; m. Elizabeth Baldwin. Samuel, b. March 6, 1718; m. Molly Lucas. I\^oan, b. Jan. 24, 1720; m. Experience Strong, res. Durham. He d. 1807; she d. 1811. Dinah, b. Nov , 1723; m. John Curtiss. David, b. Feb. , 1726; m. Anner Bronson. EARLY GOSHEN FAMILIES. 509 IV. EBENEZER NORTON (s. Samuel, Thomas, Thomas), b. at Durham Dec. 30, 1715; came to Goshen in the summer of 1739; m. , 1740, Elizabeth, dau. of Nathaniel Baldwin; d. at Goshen JIai-ch 15, 1785. She d. April 16, 1811. Both buried in the East Street cemetery. Children, born Goshen. Miles, b. JIarch 30, 1741; ni. Esther Norton. Aaran, b. March 19. 1743: m. Martha Foot. Elizahctlt, b. Dec. 19, 1746; m. John Doud. El)eiie.::er, b. Aug. 12, 1748; m. Experience Lewis. Rachel, b. June 26, 1752; m. Amasa Cook. Marana, b. March 13, 1755; m. Jonathan Buell. Olirc, b. .Tan. 31, 1758; m. Timothy Buell. Nathaniel, b. Dec. 21, 1760; m. Patty Beebe. Birdsey, b. June 30, 1763; m. Hannah Starr. Y. MILES NORTON (s. Ebenezer, Samuel, Thomas, Thomas), b. Goshen March 30, 1741; m. (1) Dec. 14, 1758, Esther, dau. of Joseph Norton; (2) Sept. 18, 1766, Sybil Andrews; (3) April 3, 1777, Anne Agard. He d. Goshen Sept. 17, 1795, buried in East St. ceme- tery. His widow, Anne Norton, emigrated to Western New York in 1810, and d. at Nunda, N. Y., Dec. 4, 1830. By his different wives he had 18 children, fifteen of whom were living and at the funeral of their father. They all removed to the West. V. AARON NORTON (s. Ebenezer, Samuel, Thomas, Thomas), b. Goshen March 19, 1743; m. March 15, 1769, Martha, dau. of Ebe- nezer Foot of Cornwall; d. E. Bloomfleld, N. Y., Nov. 30, 1828. She d. there the same year. They removed to E. Bloomfleld in 1796. They had twelve children, and all but one married, and in 1835 75 grandchildren had been born in the different families. V. ELIZABETH NORTON (dau. Ebenezer, Samuel, Thomas, Thomas), b. Dec. 19, 1746; m. June 4, 1763, John Doud; d. E. Bloom- field, N. Y., .Ian. , 1814. He d. same place Sept. , 1824. They had 12 children, four of whom died in infancy, the others, with a single exception, married and were settled in the West. V. EBENEZER NORTON fs. Ebenezer, Samuel, Thomas, Thomas), b. at Goshen Aug. 12, 1748; m. (1) May 4. 1769, Experience, dau. of Nehemiah Lewis. She d. at G. Oct. 30, 1781; and he m. (2) June 5, 1782, Charity, dau. of Deacon Joseph Mills of Norfolk, b. Alay 16, 1759. He d. at G. Sept. 24, 1795. His widow m. (2) .Tune l:!. 1816, Deacon Timothy Buell of E. Bloomfleld, N. Y., and d. at Mos- cow, N. Y., July 17, 1843. 510 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. Children, born Goshen. Lucy, b. Feb. 25, 1770; m. William Stanley. Sybil, b. Aug. 14, 1771; m. David Thomson. (T. Gen.) Abraham, b. June 1, 1773; m. Rhoda Thomson. Theodore, b. Feb. 17, 1775; m. Mary Judd. Leicis Mills, b. Dec. 22, 1783; m. Laura Foot. Charry Maria, b. May 31, 1790; m. Jerediah Horsford. Eben Augustus, b. Jan. 16, 1792; d. June 27, 1793. Eliza Lorain, b. April 17, 1795; d. Sept. 15, 1807. VI. LUCY NORTON (dau. Bbenezer, Ebenezer, Samuel, Tlio- ma.s, Thomas), b. Goshen Feb. 25, 1770; m. May 3, 1792, William Stanley; d. Oct. 23, 1836. Children, born Goshen. George, b. Jan. 28, 1793; m. Clara Bradford. Sally, b. Nov. 5, 1795; m. Rev. David L. Parmele. VI. ABRAHAM NORTON (s. Bbenezer, Ebenezer, Samuel, Thomas, Thomas), b. G. June 1, 1773; m. Nov. 27, 1794, Rhoda Thom- son; d. Goshen Oct. 12, 1854; she d. Sept. 20, 1856. Children, born Goshen. Clarinda, b. March 11, 1797; d. unm. Jan. 19, 1856. Horatio A., b. Feb. 13, 1799; m. Lois Humphrey. Eben, b. June 25, 1805; m. Clarissa Griswold. James T., b. Feb. 3, 1811; m. Adaline Wilson. Abraham, b. Sept. 29, 1813; d. March 20, 1818. William, b. May 15, 1810; m. March 14, 1839, Sarah, dau. of Hiram Griswold; d. VI. THEODORE NORT. 1790; m. Aug. 16, 1818, Mary Soggs. Children: Alson, b. Dec. 2. 1818; m. Jan. 7. 1846, Arbela Hurd; child: Elliot Jabez, b. .July 5, 1S47; Milo B., b. Nov. 27, 1821; d. in infancy; Caroline M., b. Aug. 18, 1823; m. William Hurd; child, Achilles B., b. Dec. 15, 1849. Miles B., b. May 31, 1792; d. unm. Nov. 7, 1819. Asahel. b. Feb. 20, 1794; m. Feb. 26, 1818, Roxanna Sprague; she d. Dec. 9, 1819; he d. Oct. 10, 1823. Child: Cornelia E., b. Feb. 9, 1819; d. April 23, 1821. Florus, b. Jan. 22, 1796; m. Oct. 16. 1828, Elizabeth A. Curry. Chil- dren: Cordelia E., b. July 11, 1829; Orlo B., b. July 11, 1832; Eben A., b. Jan. 16, 1836. EARLY GOSHEN FAMILIES. 51 5 PlUlu, h. Sept. 16, 1799; m. Nov. 14, 1836, Emily Bartholomew. CUil- dren: Laura, b. Dec. 2, 1837; Aslibel, Jan. 24, 1839; Thomas Buell, b. Sept. 3, 1840; Samuel D wight, b. Feb. 12, 1843; Philo Martin, b. April 20, 1845. Alson, b. June 10, 1801; d. Jan. 11, 1813 or 14. Sarah, b. Dec. 5, 1803. Lydia, b. Sept. 10, 1805; m. March 21, 1832. Children: Milo B., b. April 27, 1837; A. Bronsou, b. Dec. 20, 1838; Isaac Norton, b. Dec. 8. 1842; Henry Martin, b. Feb. 22, 1844; Kichard, b. April 8. 1847. Sainttel b. March 8, 1807; d. July 19, 1814. V. SAMUEL NORTON (s. Samuel, Samuel, Thomas, Thomas), b. May 19, 1747; m. (1) Elizabeth, dau. of Ebenezer Lewis, who d. at G. March 5, 1814; m. (2) Jan. 4, 1816, Phebe Squire. He d. Dec. 7, 1826; his widow d. June 16, 1830. He was elected Deacon of the church June 12, 1800. Children, born Goshen. Aiel, b. July 7, 1772; d. Nov. 22, 1774. Phebe, b. Aug. 26, 1773; d. unm. July 6, 1808. Aiel, b. April 20, 1776; d. Sept. 6, 1777. Miranda, b. Aug. 23, 1778; d. unm. Jan. 28, 1831. Eunice, b. Nov. 10, 1781; m. April 22, 1801, Stephen Goodwin; re- moved to Vernon, N. Y., where their children, excepting the first, were born. He d. Jan. 29, 1813; she d. March 16, 1839. Children: Elizabeth Norton, b. June 18, 1803; m. Seth Lewis of Michigan, and had children, Ellen C, Charles G., Jane E., Delia C, Flora, Clarissa, Herbert, and William S.; Mary Carine, b. April 22, 180."i; m. William Lewis, and had chil- dren, Phebe, Calvin. Mary il., and Harriet M; Miranda, b. March 12, 1808; m. Feb. 23, 1832, Moses Camp of Winsted; Jane Emma, b. June 22. 1810; m. Franklin W. Dennis in 1831, and had children, Calvin G., Amelia M., William F., Mai-j' Jane, Damon D., and Stephen; Stephen Hills, b. May 6, 1813; m. Abi Hlgginbotham, and had children, Charles G. and Sans H. DiantJia. b. April 20, 1783; m. Doctor Eliphaz Bissell of Torringford; removed to Vernon, N. Y. Children, Phebe, m. Pitt Cody, had child, Cornelia; Samuel, d. Ohio; Henry, m. Sabrina Spencer; Charles; Eunice. IV. DINAH NORTON (dau. Samuel, Thomas, Thomas), b. at Durham Nov. , 1723; m. Nov. 18, 1747, John Curtiss of Durham, where they lived and died. He d. July 1, 1800; she d. Sept. 6, 1800. Children. Ahijali, b. March 2, 1750; m. Ann Bishop. Phebe, b. June 18, 1752; m. David Scranton. Hannah, b. Jan. 8, 1755; m. John Hall. ■John. b. May 5, 1757; m. (1) Lydia Hall; (2) Ruth Parmele. 516 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. Lois, l>. July 15, 1760; m. John Johnson. Sarah, b. Oct. 11, 1762; m. (1) Blnathan Camp; (2) Abraham Pierson. Dinah, b. July 1, 1800; d. unm. July 20, 1885. IV. DAVID NORTON (s. Samuel, Thomas, Thomas), b. at Dur- ham Feb., 1726; came to Goshen about Dec. 25, 1746; m. Jan. 29, 1752, Anna, dau. of Oomelius Bronson, Jr., of Woodbury. She was bap. Aug. 20, 1726. He d. at G. Nov. 2, 1769; she d. G. Dec. 7, 1816. Children, bom Goshen. DuLid, b. March 6, 1753; m. Lois Ferguson. Eber, b. July 29, 1755; m. Diantha Doud. Oliver, b. March 15, 1757; m. Martha Beach. John, b. Nov. 29, 1758; m. Lucretia Buell. Aima, b. Oct. 29, 1760; m. David Hudson, the founder of Hudson, O., and for whom the town was named. They removed from Goshen in Jan., 1800. They had nine children, seven of whom were b. in G. She d. at Hudson Aug. 31, 1816. He m. again Mary Robinson. He d. Oct. 4, 1847. Alexander, b. March 10, 1763; m. Rhoda Collins. Andrew, b. May 7, 1765: m. Loraine Hurlbut. M'ilUam, b. May 30, 1767; m. Ann Morrison. Miriam, b. March 22, 1770; m. Timothy Collins. (Collins Gen.) V. DAVID NORTON (s. David, Samuel, Thomas, Thomas), b. March 6, 1753; m. Lois Ferguson of Torringford; removed to Sanger- flelrt, N. Y., in 1793; d. there; she d. there about 1737 or 38. Children, bom Goshen. David, b. Feb. 9, 1771; m. Kingsbury of Sangerfield; d. Indiana. Had five children. Anna, b. July 29, 1776; m. Sylvanus Dyer of Sangerfield. Had ten children. Lois, b. Jan. 9, 1779; m. Jarvis of Sangerfield; d. there. No children. Jedidah, b. Sept. 28, 1781; m. John Morse of Sangerfield; d. there. Had three children. PMlo, b. July 17, 1783; d. there in 1799. PollV, b. Feb. 26, 1785; m. Hovey of Sangerfield; d. in Ken., 1850. Had three children. Lucy, b. May 20, 1787; m. (1) Walter H. Rood; (2) Daniel North, s. Dr. Joseph North of Goshen. Amos, b. Sept. 15, 1789; m., residing in Mich. Has one child. V. EBER NORTON (s. David, Samuel, Thomas, Thomas), b. July 29, 1755; m. June 1, 1785, Diantha Doud; removed to East Bloomfield, N. Y., March, 1791. They both d. there; she d. Feb. 1, 1838. iEARLY GOSHEN FAMILIES. 517 Childieu, bom Goslaen aud E. Bloomfield. Ainai illis, b. Jan. 12, 17SG. iicrcno, b. March 30, 17SS; m. July 14, 1807, Harriet Morse. Chil- dren: Charlotte, b. March 30, 1808; m. 1825 Joseph Ayer, and have Albert, b. 1825; Adin, b. 1828; Charles H., b. 1881; Elizabeth F., b. 1832; and Alfred N., b. 1834. Horatio Nel- son, b. Dec. (5, 1809. Eev. Oliver W., b. Dec. 9, 1811; m. Nov. 27, 1838, Henrietta AVillcox, and have Oliver W., b. 1839, aud Elizabeth L., b. 1841. Chauncey L,, b. Dec. 19, 1814; m. Charlotte Crane. Frederick G., b. Nov. 1, 1816; m. Fanny Frazee, and have Hellen. Delia, b. April, 1818. Jane, b. June, 1823. Legrand, b. Oct., 1827. AiireHa, b. Jan. 11, 1792; m. March 6, 1810, Ward Park; d. June 21, 1811. Child: Eber Norton, b. June 8, 1811. Marcus A., b. April 29, 1794; m. Nov. 14, 1822, Margaret Cooley; and have Julia, b. 1823; Walter, b. 1825; Henry, b. 1828; Hellen, b. 1830; Edwin S., b. 1833. Hoel, b. March 20, 1797; m. June 9, 1824, Margaret Cross; and have John, b. 1825; Diantha, b. 1827; William; Robert, b. 1830. Alfred, b. Jan. 26, 1799; m. May 22, 1823, Emmeline Deming; they have Delia D., b. 1824; d. 1827; Eliza, b. 1827; Alice, b. 1829; Juliette, b. 1831; d. 1834; and Charlotte, b. 1834. Minerva, b. Sept. 29, 1801; m. Feb. 24, 1825, Nathan B. Doofborough; and have Jane A., b. Nov. 19, 1825; d. 1827; William A., b. 1827; Minerva J., b. 1829; John Norton, b. 1832; and Elias M., b. 1834; d. 1835. Oliver, b. Dec. 29, 1804; d. Oct. 5, 1811. Matilda, b. March 8, 1808; m. March 15, 1827, Andrew Cone; they have Albert, b. 1829; Eber Norton, b. 1831; and William, b. 1834. V. OLIVER NORTON (s. David, Samuel, Thomas, Thomas), b. March 15, 1757; m. Martha, dau. of Fisk Beach; removed to Sangerfield, N. Y., in 1794; d. Jan. 6, 1838; she d. Jan. 19, 1841. Children. Laura, b. March 18, 1787; m. Daniel Owen, Jr. Had Hermon N., b. 1807^ m. Dorothy Bugbee, who had two children; Lodema, b. 1810; m. (1) James Salsbury; (2) Horace Long of McHenry, 111.; had three children. Harvey C., b. 1813; m. (1) Ann Wood- worth; (2) Julia A. Dickson; had one child. George W., b. 1816; d. 1836. William Oliver, b. 1818; m., and has three children. Edwin M., b. 1821; m. and has two children. Mary Marietta, b. Dec. 28, 1825; m. — Wilson, a lawyer residing McHenry, 111. Lodema, b. May 18, 1789; m. Dr. James H. Terry; d. 1812. George, b. June 16, 1791; m. Marietta Hubbard of Paris, N. Y.; d. in 1832, leaving one child, Mortimer H. Norton, res. New Oi- lcans; has four children. Hannah, b. Feb. 13, 1797; m. Dec. 26, 1813, J. B. Worden; d. July 4, 1849. He d. Aug. 6, 1855. They had William R., b. 1814; d. unm. 1838; Oliver Norton, b. 1817; m. Jane M. Heuston; Marv H., b. 1820; d. 1839; Martha E., b. 1822; m. 1845, Robert Gillespie; has two children; Laura V. A., b. 1832; d. 1834. 518 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. Euiiii Beach, b. April 20, 1799; m. (1) Rosetta Beardsley; (2) Harriet Burgess. Children: John B., b. 1834; Oliver M., b. 1836; d. same year; Martha M., b. 1837; Harriet R., b. Nov., 1839; d. April, 1841; Mary C, b. 1841; d. 1853; George, b. 1848; Morti- mer H., b. 1849. ilury, b. Jan. 13, 1802; m. Alvinza Andrews. Children: Harriet C, b. 1826; m. Dr. E. A. JIunger; Julia Maria, b. 1829; m. Dr. L. C. Raymond; have two children; George, b. 1833; m. Mary Baelius. Pliilo, b. May 30, 1804; d. June 3, 1812. Harriet M., b. June 27, 1807; m. Lucius O. Webster. Children: Martha L., b. 1839; Oliver Norton, b. March 10, 1841; d. April 16, 1844. V. JOHN NORTON ' (s. David, Samuel, Thomas, Thomas), b. Nov. 29, 1758; m. March 6, 1782, Lucretla, dau. Capt. Jonathan Buell, Litchfield; removed to Bennington, Vt., in 1785. He d. there Aug. 24, 1828; she d. Aug. 15, 1852. He was with Capt. Goodwin at New York in 1770; in the service in 1780, and was present at the execution of jNIajor Andre, serving as one of the guard around the scaffold. Cliildren, born Bennington, Vt. human, b. Feb. 9, 1785; m. Nov. 16, 1808, Lydia Loomis. John, b. Feb. 25, 1787; m. March 15, 1816, Persis Smith. Clarissa, b. Jan. 10, 1789; m. (1) Ward Barney; (2) Samuel Canfield. Luci-etia, b. Jan. 1, 1791; m. Buckley Squires. Loraine, b. Dee. 13, 1793; m. Cyrus B. Hills. Jonathan Buell, b. May 26, 1797 ; m. Harriet Peck. Eliza, b. March 5, 1800; m. Franklin Blackmer. Lydia, b. May 29, 1802; m. Henry SafCord. Norman Judd, b. June 17, 1806; m. Dorcas Estey. The descendants of this John Norton were very numerous in the next generation, and were mostly residents of Vermont. \I. ALEXANDER NORTON (s. David, Samuel, Thomas, Thomas), b. March 10, 1763; m. May 4, 1786, Rhoda, dau. Cyprian Collins; he d. Nov. 2, 1848; she d. Aug. 3, 1855. Children, born Goshen. Thcron, b. April 26, 1788; m. April 18, 1810, Chloe, dau. Adonijah Pangman of Cornwall; removed to Sangerfield and thence to Auburn, N. Y., where he d. in 1861. Children: Mary, b. 1811; d. young; Anna Maria, b. 1812; m. James H. Mills; Cornelia P., b. 1816; m. Samuel Griggs; Anson P., b. March 11, 1818; m. Jane Rowley; children: Perry, b. 1853; Meron, b. 1856; d. 1857; Josephine, b. 1857; Anson A., b. 1859. Alex- ander C., twin of Anson P; Jane C., b. 1819; m. Lyman. San- derson; Ann Eliza, b. 1822; m. Dr. Oliver B. Griggs of Mans- field Center, Conn. Hiram, b. Dec. , 1789; m. Eliza Peck of Cornwall; removed to Fa- bius, and thence to Elmira, N. Y. Child: Harriet. EARLY GOSHEN FAMILIES. 519 RoiBa, h. Feb. 5, 1792; m. Augustus Miles. (Miles Gen.) Aiuiu BroHson, b. Jan. 12, 1797; m. Ebenezer Bishop of Cornwall; re- moved to Nelson, O., and thence to Wis.; d. . Children: Edmund, b. 1818; Hiram, d. ; Collins, m. ; Louisa, m. ; Rhoda, m. ; David; Sarah. AJfxander, b. Sept. 3, 1801; m. Olive Howe of Canaan; d. 1848. Chil- dren, b. Goshen: Jane, b. Nov. 19, 1827; George, b. Dec. 1.5, 1829; res. in Cal. Cyprian Cullintt, b. April 14, 1806; m. (1) June 10, 1841, Jane Ives; she d. Oct. 1, 1844; m. (2) Laura A. Husted July 29, 1846; she d. Oct. 1, 1849; m. (3) Nov. 25, 1850, Mary Ann Nelson; she d. Sept. 20, 1884; he d. Mav 8, 1874. Children: Virginia, b. 1842; d. 1844; 0. Collins, b. June, 1844; d. Nov., 1844; C. Col- lins, b. June, 1847; Julia E., b. 1848; d. 1849; Franli Gray, b. 1853; Theodore, b. 1855; Carrie Weed, b. 1859. Dacid, b. April 30, 1810; m. Roxanna Drake of Winchester. V. ANDREW NORTON (s. David, Samuel, Thomas, Thomas), b. May 7, 1765; m. Loraine, dau. Elisha Hurlbut; d. Oct. 28, 1838; she d. May 27, 1851. Children, bom Goshen. Mi/ron. b. June , 1788; m. April 31, 1819, Caroline Marsh; d. Nov. 29, 1853; she d. AprU 13, 1876. Children: Lucretia C, b. April 19, 1820; Charles A., b. June 24, 1822; Myron H., b. Feb. 24, 1828. Andreir, b. June 19, 1791. Clarissa, b. July 22, 1793; m. Joseph I. Gaylord. (See Gaylord Gen.) Horace, b. Feb. , 1800; m. May 23, 1831, Sarah C, dau. Samuel Chapen; d. Dec. 31, 1862; she d. March 24, 1856. Children, b. Goshen: Horace E., b. Oct. 18, 1833; Elizabeth C, b. Oct. 26, 1835; m. Oct. 8, 1857, Lewis H. Lawrence; Cornelia W., b. April 18, 1838; Sarah L., b. March 20, 1843; d. Dec. 21, 1845. Norman, b. Oct. 10, 1797; m. Sept. 3, 1832, Lua Tuttle of Watertown; d. Jan. 15, 1889. She d. Oct., 1891. VI. ANDREW NORTON (s. Andrew, David, Samuel, Thomas, Thomas), b. June 19, 1791; m. June 18, 1822, Ann, dau. John Mal- colm; d. July 4, 1865; she d. . Children. James Henry, b. , 1823; m. May 19, 1847, Elizabeth, dau. Benja- min and Minerva (Beach) Munson; d. Jan. 20, 1894. Chil- dren, Ellen Alice, b. Bethany, Pa., Feb. 19, 1850; m. Dec. 24, 1875, Charles O. Madden; have s. Alan, b. Feb. 21, 1877. Edwin Malcom, b. ; m. April 20, 1870, Emma Jane Ogden; d. April 21, 1891. Children: Henry M., b. May S, 1871; Frederick M., b. Nov. 14, 1875; Mabel, b. Oct. 22, 1879; Norman, b. July 6, 1883; d. Dec. 12, 1887. John Malcolm, b. Aug. 29, 1825; m. Isabella Knox. Tiryinia Marion, b. Oct. 2, 1827; m. July 31, 1851, Daniel Gardner Knox, who d. April 13, 1873. Children: John Malcolm, b. Aug. 15. 1859; m. July 19, 1892, Harriet Isabel Pearson, who d. Oct. 23, 1893; Charles Norton, b. Aug. 15, 1867. 520 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. Ipnifjenia Edith, b. July 17, 1829; m. Nov. 14, 1861, Gilbert Raphael Crane, who was killed at Antietam, Md., Sept. 17, 1862. Ah^V Isadore, b. Nov. 6, 1831; m. Aug. 14, 1856, William Shirrell, who d. July 14, 1866. Cliild: Ida Virginia, b. April 24, 1859. Elicia, b. Oct. 9, 1833; m. (1) May 2, 1858, John B. Shirrell, who d. Dec. 31, 1860; (2) March 13, 1867, George Sperry, who d. March 18, 1892. Henrietta, b. ; m. (1) Jan. 2, 1860, Robert H. Hills, who d. Feb. 5, 1863; (2) June 20, 1866, Frank R. Fossard, who d. Nov. 10, 1883. Cliild of Robert and Henrietta, Robert, b. ; d. Oct. 6, 1861, aged 12 days. Children of Frank and Henrietta: Frank N., b. ; d. Aug. 7, 1867, aged 4 mos.; Alfred Wil- liam, b. ; d. July 17, 1870, agied 3 mos. Andrew J., b. Oct. 9, 1836. Marp E., b. Dec. 16, 1837. V. WILLIAM NORTON (s. David, Samuel, Thomas, Thomas), b. May 30, 1707; m. Jan. 20, 1799, Ann Morrison (a widow); removed to Sangerfleld, thence to Nassau, N. Y., where he d. in 1840. Children, bom Sangerfield. Roxanna, b. Nov. 2, 1801; m. John R. Case, Troy, N. Y. Olivia, b. Aug. , 1805; m. Albert G. Belden of Lenox, Mass. Has three daughters. William Henry, b. March 15, 1808. Oeorge W., b. May 17, 1812. Ann, b. ; m. Solomon Cole of Lenox, Mass. Has three children. VII. LUCRBTIA C. NORTON (dau. Myron, Andrew, David, Samuel, Thomas, Thomas), b. April 19, 1820; m. (1) July 28, 1840, Elihu CarUsle of Marion, Ala.; he d. Aug. 29, 1851; m. (2) Oct. 2, 1854, Samuel B. Tuttle of Hartford, Conn. He d. April 19, 1876. Children. Caroline Susan, b. April 29, 1841; d. Aug. 29, 1848. Elilm, b. Dec. 19, 1847; m. April 3, 1872, Alice E.. dau. of David Lucas. Children: Samuel Clifford, b. Mai-ch 8, 1876; d. Diec. 18, 1890; Alice Lucretia, b. Aug. 5, 1881. Caroline Lucretia, b. ,Tune 30, 1856; m. Aug. 27, 1878, William Terrell Brooks of Selma, Ala. He d. June 12, 1888. VII. MYRON H. NORTON (s. Myron, Andrew, David, Samuel, Thomas, Thomas), b. Feb. 24, 1828; m. July 9, 1855, H. Fanny Web- ber of Boston. Children, born Chicago, 111. Caroline, b, July 23, 1856; m, Dec, 5, 1889, James F. Lindsay, Myron H., b, July 29, 1858. Charles Edwin, b. Julv 4, 1860; d. Feb. 18, 1865. Frederick Gaylord. b. Sept. 23, 1861. Horace, b. May 16, 1864. EARLY GOSHEN FAMILIES. 621 WiUiam yoniiaii, b. Jan. 3, 1868; d. Jan. 18, 1895. Flmrncc May, b. Waukegan May 18, 1874. Emma Fninccg. b. A\'aukegan July 18, 1878; d. Jan. 18, 1879. VIII. MYRON H. XORTON, JR. (s. Myron H., Myron, Aniliew, David, Samuel, Thomas, Thomas), b. July 29, 1858; m. Oct. 3, 1878, Emerett Treadway. Children. Cora Belle, b. Aug. 5, 1881. Sadie May, b. Feb. , 1883. PRICE. I. PAUL PRICE, a native of Yorkshire, Eng., came to this country as a soldier in the British army in 1775. He was a sergeant, was in the battle of Bunker Hill and other engagements. His regi- ment was tiunsferred to New York, and, in a skirmish there, he, with some others, were taken prisoners. He was brought to Litch- field a prisoner, and in 1780 was paroled. He remained in Litch- field, and the same year he married a AVidow Vaill, whose maiden name was Sarah Berry. She had three children by her first hus- band, one of whom, David Vaill, made a home in Goshen, and was the paternal ancestor of all the Vaills in this section. Children of Paul and Sarah Price. Paul, b. 1782; m. Wickwire of Cornwall; had three children. Benjamin, b. May 7, 1784. Sally, b. June 1, 1780; m. Sylvester Bierce; had nine children. Polly, b. ; m. (1) Sage; had two children, a son who disap- peared, and a dau., who m. Heni-y H. Beach; (2) Archibald Bierce, and had three children. II. BENJAMIN PRICE (s. Paul), b. Goshen May 7, 1784; m. May 28, 1805, at Southwick, Mass., Phebe Gross, b. Lebanon, Conn., Aug. 2, 1787. Children, bom Goshen. Mary, b. June 20, 1806; m. Oct. 22, 1829, Darius Neal; had seven chil- dren. Maria, b. Feb. 22, 1808; m. March 29, 1830, Joseph Bunnell; had seven children. Phebe, b. Feb. 24, 1810; m. March 29, 1830, Lewis Sperry; had three children. Sarah, b. July 7, 1812; m. Sept. 19, 1837, Simmons W. Scoville; d. Dec. , 1896. Ttieir children were Hubert Simmons, b. March 14, 1847, and Alice Lucretia, b. Feb. 27, 1851; d. Jan. 8, 1853. Simmons Wheeler Scoville was b. in Middlebury, Conn., Aug. 21, 1811; d. in Goshen April 1, 1886. His force of character, energy, and prominence as a business man entitled him to especial notice. He came to Goshen on foot from Middle- bury in the spring of 182S, looking for work. He was a slight built, but healthy, wiry boy of seventeen, stout and 522 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. willing to work; could pull the broom or kick or jump with any of the athletes who challenged him. He hired out at Kellogg's blacksmith shop Ln West Goshen, and stayed there iintil he had learned the trade, including shoeing and wagon Ironing. He afterwards had a shop of his own at the Center, a few rods east of the present town hall, which was destroyed by fire. He built the first shop, also the present one occupied by his son Hubert, both on nearly the same ground. He built nine houses in Goshen Center, the wagon shop and the first Catholic church. At one time he manufactured many pleasure and business wagons for the home and southern trade. He was a public-spirited man, greatly interested in any proposed improvements in the town and a friend to everybody. Sijlcia Ann, b. Nov. 22, 1814; m. Aug. 28, 1836, Harvey H. Gross; had no children. William. WasMurn, b. April 24, 1817; m. (1) Dec. 4, 1845, Caroline Bene- dict; had three children; (2) Mrs. Pliny Foote; had no chil- dren. iMelinda, b. Sept. 24, 1819; m. April 16, 1858, Isaac Bronson; had no children. Lijdia, b. Dec. 4, 1821; d. July 17, 1822. Marina, b. May 28, 1823; m. Sept. 13, 1840. (See Lucas Gen.) Melissa, b. May 20, 1825; d. Nov. 23, 1828. Lucretia Jane, b. July 22, 1829; m. March 20, 1849, Alson Sanford; has no children. Jane Lucretia, b. July 22, 1829; d. April 9, 1833. Emily Melissa, b. Dec. 12, 1831; m. Nov. 24, 1859, Charles M. Barber; has three children. RICHARDS. I. THOMAS RICHARDS, the ancestor of those of the Richards name who have resided in Goshen, came to this country at an early date in its history, but the exact date of his birth, aiTival, and death is uncertain. He probably resided in Weymouth for a time, and, later, in Cambridge. We do not know that he was one of the settlers of Hartford, who came with Mr. Hooker; he was certainly not one of the original purchasers, but was one of the 62 original settlers to whom " were granted lotts to have onely at the town's courtesie with liberty to fetch woode and keep swine or cowes on the Common." He d. as early as 1638 or '39, before the house-lots were assigned to the planters. In Feb., 1639, assignments were made to " Widow Richards, the late wife of Thomas Richards." From the ages of his children and the " advanced age " of his widow, in 1071, he is thought to have been born about 1600-5. Children. Mary, m. " air." Peck of Milford, Conn. John, b. 1631; m. Lydia Stocking; d. after July, l"!.:. Thomas, Deacon, b. 1634; d. at Newark, N. J., April 9, 1715, without children. EARLY GOSHEN FAMILIES. 523 Samuel, a. at New Haven, 1662; unm. Obadiah, m. (1) Hannah ; (2) Rachel ; d. at Waterbury, Conn., Nov. 11, 1702. II. JOHN RICHARDS (s. Thomas), b. 1031; m. Lydia Stocking; d. at Hartt'oi-d after July, 1712. His w. entered into covenant with the church Feb. 23, 1G95-6, and was living July 12, 1712. His re- .lation to the church cannot be ascertained, owing to the loss of records of earlier date. Children. John, m. about 1686; inherited the estate of his uncle Thomas of Newark. Thomas, Deacon, b. 1666; m. Mary Parsons, 1691; d. April 9, 1749, at Hartford. Samuel, b. ; m. Hannah Henbury. III. SAMUEL RICHARDS (s. John, Thomas), b. ; m. June 14, 1697, Hannah, dau. of Arthur and Lydia (Hill) Henbury; d. in Hartford, and his sons, James and Daniel, were appointed his ad- mlnisti-atoi-s, Feb. 6, 1732-3. Children. Hannah, bap. June 23, 1700. Mary, bap. July 1, 1705. James, bap. Feb. 8, 1706-7. Daniel, settled in Goshen. Jonah, d. at New Hartford, 1746. Esther, bap. June 21, 1712. Hezekiah, bought land in New Hartford, 1765. J OS i ah. IV. DANIEL RICHARDS (s. Samuel, John, Thomas), b. about 1712; m. Dec. 6, 1734, Jane Buckland of New Hartford; d. at Goshen about 1750; she d. of old age 1777. He bid off one right in the town- ship at New Haven, Jlarch 9, 1738. He was residing in Hartford at that time, but came here previous to the first town meeting, Dec. G, 1739. He was a member of the church here as early as 1746. He was frequently chosen to the different offices in the town. Children, born Goshen. Samuel, b. ; m. Feb. 14, 1754, Mary Brown. Children, b. Goshen: Clarinda, b. March 27, 1755; d. April 17, 1755; Char- ity, b. June 3, 1757; m. Stephen North; Abijah. The family removed to the West. Daniel, b. June 20, 1738; m. June 2, 1763, Ann Richards, his cousin, b. April 16, 1743. He d. at Richfield, N. Y., May 19, 1819; she d. March 26, 1809. He served as a soldier in Canada, 1760, under Col. Montgomery. Children: Samuel, b. Aug. 12, 1765; m. Hannah Kennedy; d. April 2, 1818; Daniel, d. Rich- field, N. Y.; Ann, m. Waterman; d. Lowville, N. Y.; 524 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. I'olly, m. Wilson; d. Lysauder, N. Y.; Josepb, d. Ly- sander, N. Y.; Lydia, m. Stowell; d. Mexico, N. Y.; Sarah, m. Dunliam; d. Onondaga Co., N. Y. Charles, b. 1742; m. Comfort Curtis. Abijah, b. July 7, 1746; probably d. young. Hannah, b. July 7, 1746. John, twice m.; resided in Torrington. Children: John, m. Beckwith; Daniel, settled In western N. Y., a blacksmith; had large family; Samuel, was a talented young man; clerk for Birdsey Norton, Canadaigua, N. Y.; d. at Albany, unm.; Al- pheus, resided at Canadaigua; Electra, resided at the West; Maria, resided at the West. V. CHARLES RICHARDS (s. Daniel, Samuel, John, Thomas), b. , 1742; m. Comfort, dau. of Enos Cijrtis of Wallingford; d. at G. July 4, 1817; she d. April 10, 1825. He was known as the "Quaker." He had been in the French War, and for his services received from the King of England a deed of lajud in Virginia. This deed " mysteri- ously disappeared." He had peculiar notions as to the use of money, and would not pay taxes in money. He had a very good education, and published some of his views. He resided for a time in Lenox, Mass., and Chester, his son, was bom there. Children. Chester, b. , 1770, at Lenox; m. Bemice Fargo of Goshen; resided New York. Russell, b. March 30, 1773; m. Nancy Smith. Mary, d. in infancy. Mary and Enos, twins; d. in infancy. Mary, b. 1780; m. Bill Smith Francis, s. Capt. Asa Francis. Chil- dren: Electa, Maria, Asaph, Hannah. They resided on the Holland Purchase, N. Y. Esther, b. about 1782; m. Benjamin True of Rochester, N. Y. Enos, b. about 1785; m. Ruth Dear of Winchester; resided Goshen. Children: Lucretia, m. Preserved Cooper; resided Cornwall; Lois, m. Benjamin Cooper; resided Ellsworth. VI. RUSSELL RICHARDS (s. Charles, Daniel, Samuel, John, Thomas), b. Goshen March 30, 1773; m. July 8, 1799, (1) Nancy, dau. of Jonathan Smith of Milton; (2) Oct. 15, 1826, Lucina Cart- wright of Sharon, Conn. He d. Jan. 10, 1853. His first w. d. Nov. 4, 1825.. Children, by first wife. Laura, d. in infancy. Lyman, b. Aug. 29, 1802. I'JiKis /''., b. July 20, 1807; m. Dec. 24, 1832, Sarah Roberts of Torring- ton; res. Footville, Wis. Children: Henry R., b. 1834; Ho- bert A., b. 1836; lawyer, Footville; ■\^'ilbert B., b. 1841; soldier \, ar of the Rebellion; Emma E., b. March 26. 1848; Ellen E., b. 1849; d. 1849; Charles L„ b. 1850. ■EARLY GOSI-IEN FAMILIES. 525 Caroline, m. George Beach of Litchfield; res. FootviUe. Children; Homer G., b. 1832; Doms C, b. 1838; m. Eliza Marsh; res. AA^arren, 111.; children: George Homer, b. 1861; Doras C. Erastus Lewis, b. Feb. 19, 1814. Homer B., b. July 11, 1816; m. Sept. 6, 1841, Sally Ann Phelps, Litch- field; res. Oregon, Wis. Children: Francis A., b. 1842; d. aged 19; Ann Eliza, b. June 5, 1844; m. 1861, Charles H. Cronli. Bmeline Y., m. .John Robinson of Hartland, Conn.; res. Footville. Children: Carrie E., b. 1838; m. 1858, Graham C. Peri-y of Falls A'^illage, Conn.; res. Winsted; d. Footville; Heno' R., soldier in War of the Rebellion; b. June 20, 1843; AYlllie P., b. Jan. 22, 1859. A'll. LYMAN RICHARDS (s. Russell, Charles, Daniel, Samuel, John, Thomas), b. Aug. 29, 1802; m. (1) March 9, 1831, Ruth Gamer of Goshen; (2) Sept. 14, 1848, Ann Bartholomew of Goshen; d. Goshen April 4, 1893. Children, by first wife. Eliert S., b. July 26, 1832. Charles A.,h. Aug. 13, 1835. VII. ERASTUS L. RICHARDS ^s. Rusisell, Charles. Daniel, Samuel. John, Thomas), b. Feb. 19, 1814; m. , Lois, dau. of Daniel Beach of G. ; d. Dec. 1, 1887. Both members of the M. E. Church, W. Goshen. Children. Sarah Lyman, b. Feb. 8, 1842; m. Nov. 26, 1874, Julius I. Merwin. He d. Jan. 24, 1880. Emily Ann, b. March 11, 1846; d. Sept. 4, 1849. A-III. ELBERT S. RICHARDS (s. Lyman, Russell, Charles, Daniel, Samuel, John, Thomas), b. July 26, 1832; m. March 5, 1856, Delphine P., dau. of Birdsey T. Howe of G. Res. G., a farmer, member of and officer in M. E. Church., W. Goshen. Children. Jessie F., b. March 26, 1856; adopted Feb. 12, 1862; m. Sept. 14, 1881, Algelon H. Taylor. Elhert H., b. Dec. 27, 1864. Mary E., b. Aug. 15, 1874. Eugene L., b. March 30, 1879. VIII. CHARLES A. RICHARDS (s. Lyman, Russell, Charles, Daniel, Samuel, John, Thomas), b. Aug. 13, 1835; m. Dec. 7, 1856, Roxanna Cummlngs of Goshen. Children. Eomer Oscar, b. Jan. (;. 1860; d. Dec. 4, 1860. Clara Ruth, b. Jan. 4, 1862; m. .Tune 11, 1884, David Bloomfield. Jennie Gharlesetta, b. April 12, 1865; d. July 28, 1883. 526 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. THOMPSON. I. ANTHONY THOMPSON, Immigrant, was born at Lenbam, Kent County, England, August 30, 1612. His first wife died pre- vious to his coming to tliis country. His parents are buried in the Parish Church, Lenham. Henry Thompson, liis father, died Len- ham, England, October 20, 1648. The following inscription over the remains of his parents is still legible: " Here underlye the bodies of Henry Thompson and Dorothy, his wife, of Roytou Chapel, iu this Parish. He was son and co-heir of Thomas Thompson (of Sandwich, Jlerchant), and she the eldest daughter of Robert Honeywood of Pett, in Charing." Children of Heni-y and Dorothy Thompson. Robert, bap. March 26, 1595; Mary, bap. Oct. 14, 1599; Judith, bap. Aug. 2, 1602: John, bap. Nov. 18, 1604; Elizabeth, Sept. 20, 1607; Anthony, Aug. 30, 1612. Anthony Thompson landed at Boston, from ship " Hector," July 26, 1637. He was among the first settlers of New Haven, and is mentioned in the original list as having shares iu the 1st and 2d divisions of lands. Estate 150 pounds and four jjersons in his family, himself and three children, his first wife having died. Her name is unknown. By her he had two sons and one daughter. His second wife was Katheru . By her he had two daughters and a iDosthumous son. After his death she married Nicholas Camp of ililford, July 16, 1652. He took the oath of allegiance at New Haven in 1044. He, with his brother John, signed the Colony Constitution at New Haven June 4, 1669. He died in the latter part of March, 1648. His will was made a short time before, Marcli 2;!. lr,47-8, and was nuncupative, and probably made in ej-tremis. From the New Haven Colonial Records, ^'ol. I, p. 411. '■ November 7, 1648. " The will of Anthony Thompson deceased was presented in Court, made the 23d of Jlarch, 1647, witnessed and underwritten by Mr. John Davenport, pastor, iSc Jlr. Robert Newman, ruling elder of the church of Newhaven. " A wrightiug presented in Court, for the last Will and Testa- ment of Anthony Tomson deceased, made March 23d l(i47. " Gives to his Eldest Son his inheritance, house and land and meadow he had given him by the Town (only the house, his wife is to have during lier life), and ten pounds when he comes to eighteen years of nsc. To his second Son, Anthony, the land and meadow he bought of brother Clarke, and ten pounds to be paid when he comes EARLY GOSHEN FAMILIES. 527 to the age of twenty-one years. To his daughter Bridget, what he had by his former wife and fifteen pounds, to be paid her at the age of eighteen years, provided that she disposes of herself in mar- riage with the consent and approbation of her mother and the elders of the church then being. " The remainder of his Estate to his wife; if she marry again his other daughters to be provided for with equal portions as his other daughter hath, with the advice of the Elders then being. ■' To his brothers William and John Thompson, each ten shillings as a testimony of his brotherly love. " His Avife is made sole executrix. " John Davenport and Robert Newman certified that this writ- ing was his nuncupative will. " Pi-esented to the court of Magistrates the 27th of May 1650, not allowed as a legal will, but it was ordered that the wife of the said Anthony Thompson should administer upon the Estate, according to the particulars in this writing contained, per Francis Newman, Secret." Children. John, b. 1632. AntJwnii, b. Dec, 1634. Bridget, b. 1636; m. the Rev. John Bowers of Guilford, New Haven, and, finally, Derby. By second wife. Anna, bap. June 8, 1(;4.">: m. Stanton. Lydla, bap. Julv 24, l(i47; m. John Crittenden of Guilford, Sept. 20, 1665. Ebenezer (posthumous), b. Oct. 15, 1648; m. Deborah Dudley. II. JOHN THOMPSON (first son of Anthony). He is called '■ Skipper " John Thompson and John Thompson, " the mariner," and " Mr." John Thompson. His wife was Hellena . She d. April 8, 1690. He d. June 2, 1707. His inventory was presented Oct. 28, 1707, by his son Joseph, administrator; only nine pounds, eight shillings, six pence. Children, born New Haven. John, b. May 12, 1057; m. Rebecca Daurel. William, b. , 1000; m. Hannah Glover. Joseph, b. April 8, 1664; m. Elizabeth Smith. Mary, b. Sept. 9, 1667. Samvel. b. :\lay 12, 1669; m. Rebecca Bishop. f^arah. li. .Tan. (i. 1671-2; m. .John Jlix Nov. 25, 1702. II. ANTHONY THOMPSON (second son of Anthony), b. Dec, 10.34. He was a small merchant at New Haven. He was taken 528 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. sick and d. at the house of his step-mother-in-law, who had married Nicliolas Camp of Milford Oct. 29, 1654. In his will he notices his brother John and our sister Bridget Bowers, his sisters by his step- mother, Lydia Crittenden and Anna Stanton. He gives to the poor sisters of the church at New Haven. He was never married. II. EBESNEZBR THOMPSON (posthumous son of Anthony), b. New Haven Oct. 15, 1648; m. Deborah, dau. of William Dudley. June, 1671; she was b. Sept. 20, 1647. Lived in Guilford. His will was made Aug. 11, 1676, by Robert Treat at Boston, where he had gone to buy goods, as he was a merchant. He mentions his wife, Deborah, executrix, and his brother, John Thompson, and his brother-in-law, Isaac Crittenden; notices his only child, John, to whom he gives his property. Children. Juhee, b. Oct. 16, 1672; d. soon after. John, b. Nov. , 1674; m. Elizabeth Wheadon and Sarah Culver. After the death of Ebenezer T., his widow m. Thomas Scranton of Guilford. III. JOHN THOMPSON (first son of John, Anthony), b. May 12, 1657; m. Rebecca Daurel May 9. 1682; d. Nov. 15, 1711, aged 55 years. Administration was granted to his widow, Rebecca, and son, Daniel, Nov. 15, 1711. He is called at that time, " Lieut. John Thompson." His inventory was 428 pounds, 10 shillings, and his brothers, William and .John, appraisers. Children. Anna. b. March 20, 1683; m. May 4, 1711, Thomas Ives. Daniel b. Oct. 31, 1685; m. Mary Ball. Rehecca, b. , 1687; m. Dec. 20, 1716, Caleb Mix. EUeabeth, b. , 1690; m. Jan. 31, 1716, John Bassett. Jolin, b. Oct. 16, 1696. Anthony, b. Sept. 12, 1700. III. WILLIAM THOMl'.SON ((second son of John. Anthony), b. 1600; m. Hannah Glover Dec. 28, 1082. He lived to old age. His will was made April 16, 1741; he notices his wife, Joanna (Hannah V). not living at the probate of his will. His son, Joslah, was adminis- trator, with the will annexed. It is thought he was a merchant. Children. James, b. Oct. 20. ICSS. AhUjaiJ, b. Oct. 18, 1685. Mary. b. Sept. 13, 1687; m. :\larch 4, 1708, John Hitchcock. Jimali, b. Dec. 31, 1689. SfepJien. b. July 32, 1695. Beiiianiiii. b. July 15. 1698; d. before his father. EARLY GOSHEN FAMILIES. 529 III. JOSEPH THOMPSON (tliird son of John, Anthony), b. April 8, 1664; m. Elizabeth' Smith Feb. 2, 1697; d. 1711 or 12. Ad- ministration was granted to his widow, Elizazeth, May 6, 1712. His brother Samuel and John Punderson were appraisers. Inventory, 253 pounds, 2 shillings, 6 pence. Children. Anna, b. Feb. 17, 1697. Joseph, b. March 5, 1703. Stephen, b. Dec. 3, 1705. Ehenezer, b. June 21, 1712; d. III. Captain SAMUEL THOMPSON (fourth son of John, Anthony), b. May 12, 1669, at New Haven; m. Rebecca Bishop Nov. 14, 1695. She was dau. of Hon. James Bishop ajid Elizabeth Tomp- kins, b. Dec. 10, 1673. He d. March 26, 1749. His wife d. at New Haven April 5, 1734. He was probably a merchant, and seems to have been highly esteemed. He was successively sergeant, ensign, lieutenant, and captain. Children, bom New Haven. Samuel, b. Dec. 2, 1696; came to Goshen. James, b. Jan. 5, 1699; d. , 1737. Had eight children. Amos, b. May 3, 1702; came to Goshen. Gideon, b. Dec. 25, 1704; came to Goshen. Relecca, b. Feb. 23, 1708. Judah, b. June 10, 1711; d. Aug. 1, 1712. Judah, b. Oct. 5, 1713. Ems, b. Aug. 18, 1717. On the recordis of deaths in G. is the following: " Captain Sam- uel Thompson died March 26, 1749, who was aged seventy-nine years and ten months." The precise time when he came to G. is uncertain. It is probable that his home was with Samuel or Amos, whose residences were but fifteen or twenty rods apart. III. JOHN THOMPSON (second son of Eljenezer, Anthony), b. New Haven Nov. , 1674; m. Elizabeth Whedon of Branford April 23, 1702. He was a tanner and lived in E. Guilford in 1714, as is shown by his list that year. He removed to Branford, and, later, to Wallingford. Children, born Guilford. Deiorah, b. March 9, 1703. Thanlcfiil, b. July 7, 1705. His wife Elizabeth d., and he m. (2) Sarah Culver June 23, 1711. 34 530 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. Children, bom Wallingford. Aiel, b. Jan. 14, 1715. , Ann, b. Jan. 28, 1719; m. Gen. John Sedgwick, Cornwall. Mahel, b. Nov. 14, 1721. Sarah, b. Oct. 5, 1724. JoJm, b. Jan. 26, 1726. He bid off one right in the township of G., at New Haven, Jan. 23, 1738, his son John being then bnt twelve years old. He probably never came to G. to live, although he may have been here at the laying out of some of his lands. He deeded, Feb. 9, 1750, all his lands in G. to his son John. It is said that he d. at Cornwall Hol- low, with his dau. Ann Sedgwick, aged 75 years. IV. JOHN THOMPSON (son of John, Bbenezer, Anthony), b. Jan. 26, 1726, Wallingford; m. Jan. 31, 1754, Hannah Heaton of North Haven. (Record in G.) She d. G. April 3, 1799; he d. Jan. 16, 1812. Children, bom Goshen. Susannah, b. Feb. 18, 1755; d. unm. Jan. 3, 1820. John, b. Feb. 27, 1757; m. Pamelia Cowles. Hannah, b. March 10, 1759. MaUl, b. Feb. 17, 1763; m. Estus Barker, Tinmouth, Vt. Sutty, b. ; m. Jaazaniah Barret. Orange, b. ; d. 18 months of age. Elisa, b. ; m. Stephen Barker, bro. Estus. He lived on the west side of East Street, some twenty rods north from the house of Robert Palmer. It is understood that " Heaton " is not written correctly on the record, and that Hannah was a de- scendant of Theophilus Eaton. Mr. T. m. AVidow Martha Hart, nee Morse. IV. DANIEIv THOMPSON (first son of John, John, Anthony), b. May 12, 1657; m. Jan. 16, 1717, Mary Ball. Children. Ann, b. Nov. 4, 1717. John, b. May 16, 1719. ilahel, b. Dec. 6. 1723. Daniel, b. Oct. 27, 1725; d. Dec. 11, 1727. JaUz, b. July 3, 1727. Eunice, h. Oct. 21, 1729. Daniel, b. Oct. 30, 1731. Eliphalet, b. March 25, 1734. Lois, b. April 22, 1736. Israel, b. Oct. 7, 1741-2. IV. SAMUEL THOMPSON (first son of Samuel, John, An- thony), b. Dec. 2, 1696, at New Haven; m. Jan. 20, 1718-19, Hester Ailing. EARLY GOSHEN FAMILIES. 531 Children, born New Haven. Elizahetn, b. Oct. 17, 1719. Samuel, b. Dec. 15, 1722. Sarah, b. April 22, 1725. Esther, b. May 3, 1728. It appears from the proprietors' records, Dec. 6, 1742 (B. 2, p. 13), tliat a meeting was held at his house and he was appointed on a committee. It is probable that he removed to G. in 1741. May 25, 1738, he bought one-half right in the town of John Moses, and had come to own considerable land here. His first house was a brown, framed house, two stories, standing in the southeast corner of the garden of the present Mrs. Moses Lyman's place, some sixty rods south of the church. He bought about five acres here of the Rev. Stephen Heaton, Jan. 25, 1744. He sold this place to Samuel Nash Aug. 23, 1750. In Oct., 1750, he was living on the lot where is now the house of Willard Gaylord. From this last place he removed to the state of New York, where he settled on the east line of the town of Stanford, Dutchess Co., in 1750. He and his brothers, Amos and Gideon, bought 2,800 acres of land, including Thompson Point. Sam- uel and wife are buried there. It was he built the gristmill at the outlet of Dog Pond. IV. JAMES THOMPSON (second son of Samuel, John. An- thony), b. Jan. 5, 1699; m. May 30, 1723. His will was presented and estate settled at New Haven Dec. 2, 1737. It is supposed that he lived at New Haven. Children. Mary, b. Feb. 16, 1724. James, b. Nov. 21, 1725. IV. A]\IOS THOMPSON (third son of Samuel, John, Anthony), b. May 3, 1702; m. Sarah Ailing, Sept. 7, 1726. Children. Allen, b. June 2, 1727, New Haven. Rebecca, b. April 28, 1729, New Haven. Amos, b. Aug. 7, 1731, in New Haven. ilary, b. Dec. 6, 1741, in Goshen. John, b. May 7, 1743, in Goshen. He purchased one right in this town, at New Haven, Feb. 3, 1738. He was probably present at the first meeting of the proprietors, held at Litchfield Sept. 27, 1738. His house was built on the north side of a flrst-division lot, laid out to T>emuel Roberts, Dec. 20, 1738, but when this came into his possession is not known. This house 532 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. was on the south side of highway running to East Street some fif- teen rods easterly from the present house occupied by Mr. Alanson Stoddard, which is nearly opposite where the road goes west to West Street, some 60 rods south from the church. It was a small house, probably built of logs by this Lemuel Roberts. The first and second division lots of Amos T. were laid on East Street. There is no mention of his name in any public proceedings until the town meeting, Dec. 4, 1741, when he was chosen town clerk and treasurer. Another record reads: " At a Town meeting held at the dwelling house of Amos Thompson, Jan. 4, 1742, &c.," which shows that he was settled here at that time. He was successively elected town clerk and treasurer until Dec. 31, 1750. He was a member of the church and possessed to a good degree the confidence of the people. He sold his home .July 6, 1750, and, probably, removed from G. at about that time. IV. Deacon GIDEON THOMPSON (s. of Samuel, John, An- thony), b. Dec. 25, 1704, at New Haven; m. Lydia, dau. of Thomas Punderson, Esq., s. Deacon John, b. 1643, d. 1729, s. John, who came from Yorkshire, Eng., 1637, and Lydia Bradley P., Jan. 9, 1729; d. May 21, 1759, at Hartford, during the session of the General As- sembly, of which he was a member, and was buried at Hartford. She d. G. about 1802. Children, born New Haven and Goshen. Elisha, b. Oct. 23, 1729; m. Dorcas Wright, dau. John. David, b. Dec. 1, 1731; m. Hannah Griswold. Stephen, b. April 20, 1734; m. June 3, 1760, Mary Walter. Lydia, b. Oct. 16, 1736; m. about 1756, Timothy Gaylord. James, b. March 17, 1741; m. Ruth Benton of Guilford. GUoe, b. Aug. 11, 1743; m. Elisha Hurlbut, s. Gideon. Lois, b. March 6, 1747; m. May 26, 1766, Jared Abemethy. He bid off one right in the township of G., at New Haven, April 20, 1738, and was probably here in the fall of 1838, and superintended the laying out of his lands. He was residing at New Haven Jan; 17, 1740. A town meeting was held at the house of Deacon Gideon Thomson, G., May 14, 1741, which is good evidence that he was here and built his house in the summer of 1740. He was often called to fill the town offices, and was the first re- presentative sent from this town to the General Assembly, in 1757; the town had not been represented until that year. To this office he was elected at four other times and d. during the session in May, 1759^ Further reference is made to Deacon Thomson in the chap- ters giving the church history. The change in the spelling of the name occurred during his life. (EARLY GOSHEN FAMILIES. 533 IV. ENOS THUJISON (s. of Samuel, John, Anthony), b. Aug. 18, 1717, at New Haven; m. April , 1741, Sarah Hitchcock. Child. Rebecca, b. June 30, 1744. V. JOHN THOMSON (s. of John, Jolin, Ebenezer, Anthony), b. Feb. 27, 1757, G.; m. Pamelia, dau. Ezeliiel Cowles of Farming- ton. She was b. Feb. 4, 1764. Her mother was Martha, dau. of Giles Hooker of Farmington, who lived to the age of 98 or 100. She d. Aug. 14, 1850. Children, born Goshen. Laura B., b. Nov. 10, ; m. John Newton, s. Isaac. James Eaton, b. ; m. Esther Bentley. Alfred Cowles, b. April ; m. Sarah M. Hutchinson; d. 1829. Charles Mix, b. Nov. 11, 1798. Clarissa Amelia, b. Aug. ; m. May 10, 1825, Jeffrey Ballard. John Thomson inherited the lands of his father, of which there were quite considerable. V. SAMUEL THOMSON (s. of Samuel, Samuel, John, An- thony), b. Dec. 15, 1722, at New Haven; m. Oct. 29, 1744, Sarah Hol- comb. She was not a Goslien girl. He came to G. with his father when about nineteen years old. Children, born Goshen. Rebecca, b. Jan. 29, 1746. Hannah, b. Aug. 25, 1747. This man and wife probably lived with his father in G., and moved away with him. They built the two-story house, unpainted, which stood, in 1804, where is now the garden of Willard Gaylord. In the town records (B. 4, p. 151) he is spoken of as residing in " Great Nine Partners, N. T." In same book, p. 355, Dec. 2, 1766, he is spoken of as residing in the town of Charlotte, Dutchess Co., N. Y. V. ELISHA THOMSON (oldest s. Gideon, Samuel, John, An- thony), b. Oct. 23, 1729, New Haven; m. Dorcas, dau. John Wright of G. He d. April 24, 1812; she d. April 17, 1812. They lived on the north side of the road, about three-quarters of a mile west of Goshen meeting-house, about fifteen rods northwest from the bridge over the stream that flows into Dog Pond. Here he kept a tavern many years, as this was on a road of considerable travel. He was not a member of the church, but was a man of strict moral habits. His wife was a member of the church under the ministry of Mr. Sherman and Mr. Hooker. 534 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. Children, bom Goslien. Jonathan, b. Dec. 31, 1756; m. July 18, 1785, Anne Lucas. Sarah, b. June 23, 1759; m. Oct. 8, 1780, Allen Lucas. Oideon, b. Feb. 23, 1761. Doctor. Solomon, b. Aug. 27, 1764. Edward, b. Sept. 30, 1766. Quaker. EUsha, b. ; m. Honour, dau. Isaac Pratt. Israel, b. ; m. Sai-ali Foot. Lydia, b. ; m. Moses, son Daniel Cook. 'I, Quaker; m. Caroline Sbepard. V. DAVID THOMSON (second s. Gideon, Samuel, John, An- thony), b. Dec. 1, 1731, New Haven; m. Hannah, dau. Zaccheus, Sr., and Mary Griswold, of G., Nov. 20, 1760; d. Dec. 1, 1807, Poultney, Vt. ; she d. at the house of Blisha Ashley, Poultney, Feb. 15, 1826. He removed to Poultney in 1790. He was not a member of the church here, but was a steady, moral, substantial man, and at one time offered a prayer in the church when the minister was absent. He was frequently elected to the town offices. Children. Rhoda, b. Sept. 1, 1761. Died. Lucy, b. , 1762; m. Timothy Crittenden, Poultney. Louisa, b. , 17C4; m. March 3, 1783, David Hurlbut. David, b. , 1766; m. Nov. 11, 1791, Sybil Norton. Jesse, b. June 22, 1769; m. Jan. 2, 1802, Huldah Richards, Poultney; d. P. Jan. 1, 1845; his wife d. Sept., 1841. Had seven chil- dren. Amos, b. Nov. , 1771; m. (1) Dotha Brace, 1798; (2) Nancy Christy, Aug., 1819. Had eight children. Olive, b. , 1773; d. single, Aug. , 1809. Hannah, b. June 12, 1775; m. Elisha Ashley, P., Feb. 26, 1804. Esther, b. Oct. 6, 1777; m. Rev. Clark Kendrick, P. Sally, b. Sept. , 1779; m. Ezekiel Buell, P., Sept., 1797; d. June, 1817; her husband d. March, 1844. Lucy, lived in Mich, in 1844; her husband d. there. Lovisa, Rutland, Nov., 1811, her husband afterwards. V. Deacon STEPHEN THOMSON (third son of Gideon, Sam- uel, John, Anthony), b. April 20, 1734, at New Haven; m. Jan. 3, 1760, Mai-y, dau. William and Patience Clark Walter; b. May 27, 1742, G.; d. . He d. Hudson, O., aged 96. He was chosen deacon in the church here at the time of the trouble with Mr. Sherman, and, by the party who, at that time, ad- hered to Mr. S. It has been said he was chosen to the office by five votes. He resigned the office some time after the reorganization of the church under the Rev. Mr. Hooker. lie removed to Hudson, Ohio, about 1800. " August 30, 1801, a certificate of regular standing in this church was voted to Stephen EARLY GOSHEN FAMILIES. 535 Thomson, Sen., and his wife, David Hudson, Abraham Thomson and wife, Stephen Thomson, Jr., and wife, George Kilbourn and wife, and Heman Oviatt and wife, all removed from us to the town of Hudson, Ohio, in New Connecticut." The certificate was prepara- toiy to the formation of a church in Hudson. Children, born Goshen. Ruth, b. Oct. 1, 1760. Aljraham, b. Oct. 26, 1762. Stephen, b. May 6, 1764. Mary, b. Feb. 15, 1766; d. July 17, 1766. Mary, b. Nov. 10, 1767. Martha, b. March 11, 1771. V. JAMES THOMPSON (fourth s. of Gideon, Samuel, John, Anthony), b. March 17, 1741, at G.; m. June 1, 1767, Ruth Benton of Guilford; she d. April 10, 1813; he d. Nov. 8, 1817. Both buried in Center Cemetery. Children, bom Goshen. Clarinda, b. Oct. 18, 1768; d. April, 1790; unm. Augustus, b. March , 1770; m. j^eziah Hopliins, .1795. Lorrain, b. , 1772; admitted to church Sept. 6, 1795; d. June 1797; unm. Butn, b. , 1774; m. David Ambler, 1796. Rhoda, b. Sept. 11, 1776; m. Elisha Carrington, 1798; d. Oct. , 1847. Zeruiah, b. about 1781; d. 1784; aged 3. Oliver, b. about 1783; d. 1784; aged 1. After the death of his wife, Ruth, he m. Esther Rice, Nov., 1814 (sister of Daniel Rice), of G. He built and lived for many yeaj-s at the house on the west side of West Street, directly in front of where the road comes west from Moses Lyman's. Later, he lived at the house south of this where the road turns to go to Town Hill. He owned considerable land, was a valuable man in society, and was distinguished for his liberality to the great objects of Christian be- nevolence. Old Ohloe was his slave. She d. Oct. 14, 1831, aged 110. His second wife outlived him for several years, and d. at E. Bloom- field, N. Y. V. LYDIA THOMSON GAYLORD (dau. of Gideon, Samuel, John, Anthony), m. about 1756, Timothy Gaylord and removed to Norfolk. Children. Lydia, m. Jedadiah Phelps. Lois, m. Jehiel Hull. Rhoda, m. Elizur Munger. Prudence, m. Jonas Hubbard. Reuben, m. Mary Ourtiss. 536 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. VI. JONATHAN THOMPSON (first son of Blislia, Gideoi^ Samuel, John, Anthony), b. Dec. 31, 1756; m. July 13, 1785, Anne, youngest child of Thomas Lucas of Beach Hill. Both d. Goshen. They were, both members of the M. E. Church in West Goshen. He owned a large amount of land and the sawmill at West Goshen. He lived for several yeai-s some forty rods south of the West Goshen cemetery. Afterwards, he built the house now (1895) owned and oc- cupied by his grandson, Darius D. Thompson. Children, bom Goshen. Ira B., b. March 24, 1787; m. Pamelia Baldwin. Nancy, b. ; m. April 12, 1832, the Rev. Aaron Hunt. 8ally, b. ; m. Nathan Cobb, later Amos Cobb. Miles, b. Oct. 9, 1797; m. Minerva Upson. Isaac, b. Oct. 9, 1797; m. Mary Holbrook. VI. EDWARD THOMSON (fourth son of Elisha, Gideon, Sam- uel, John, Anthony), b. Sept. 30, 1766; m. Rhoda Smith of Warren. They lived on the east side of the road on School Hill. Removed to Livonia, N. Y. Children, born Goshen. Harvey, b. ; m. to sister Ambrose's wife. AmTrrose, b. ; m. ; drowned at Silver Lake, N. Y., 1827. Ezra. Julius. Laura. VI. ELISHA THOMSON (fifth son of Elisha, Gideon, Samuel, John, Anthony), m. Honour Pratt, dau. Captain Isaac Pratt of G. Children. Isaac Pratt. John. Elisha. VI. ISRAEL THOMSON (sixth son of Elisha, Gideon, Samuel, John, Anthony), m. Sarah Foot of Hebron. They removed to Lex- ington, N. Y. Children. Diantha. Eli. VI. SAMUEL THOMSON (youngest son of Elisha, Gideon, Sam- uel, John, Anthony), m. Caroline Shepard; d. G. Dec. 30, 1807; she d. G. Aug. 19, 1824. They lived on the west side of the road on School Hill. Himself, wife, and daughter were inclined to the faith and practices of the Friends. Children. Seth, b. ; m. to Wood; resides in Ohio. Dorcas, b. ; d. July 30, 1824. EARLY GOSHEN FAMILIES. 537 VI. Deacon AUGUSTUS THOMPSON (son of James, Giaeon, Samuel, John, Antbony), b. March 31, 1770, at G.; m. Nov. 27, 179r>, Keziah Hopkins, Great Harrington, Mass.; d. April 7, 1851, at South Windsor; she d. June 29, 1852, at Bast Windsor Hill. She was b. in Great Barrington Dec. 31, 1772. He united with the church, by pro- fession, Nov. 3, 1799; was chosen a deacon Nov. 13, 1817, on account of the infirmity of Deacon Samuel Norton, and continued in the office to the time of his removal to Norwich, Conn., in 1831. During all this time he was associated with Deacon Henry Hart. He removed from Norwich to South Windsor in 1834, and built a house there. He was engaged in farming while residing here, and, as a man, was much esteemed and beloved. He was not fluent in speech, but what he said was always worth hearing. He loved the cause of Christ more than all other things, and this did not make him less lovely in hi!s family. [ Children, born Goshen. Oliver Hopkins, b. Jan. 10, 1797; m. March 19, 1840, Emma Ann Heartt. Charles J., b. Oct. 11, 1800; d. Oct. 23, 1823; member of church here. Ruth, b. Feb. 18, 1803; m. Eleazer Lord Dec. 31, 1835. William, b. Feb. 18, 1806; m. Sept. 25, 1834, Eliza Butler. Chloe, b. Feb. 18, 1809; m. July 28, 1841, John Jenkins. Augustus Charles, b. April 30, 1812; m. June 3, 1841, Sarah Elizabeth Strong. VI. General DAVID THOMSON (s. of David, Gideon, Samuel, John, Anthony), b. , 1766, G.; m. Nov. 11, 1790, Sybil, dau. Eben- ezer Norton, G.; d. May 11, 1827; she d. Dec. 18, 1831, at New Haven. He was associated with David Wadhams in the mercantile business, under the firm name of Wadhams & Thomson, occupying a store northwest of the meeting-house. Their two dwelling-houses were built in the summer of 1803. (I myself worked at them. L. M. N.) That on the west side, now, 1895, occupied by Moses Gray, for Wad- hams; that on the east side, now occupied by Albert Sperry, for Thomson. Children, born Goshen. Clarinda, b. March 22, 1792; m. about 1814, Theodore North. Elen Norton, b. Dec. 10, 1795; m. Aug. 27, 1817, Sarah P. Merriman. William Henry, b. Dec. 4, 1804; d. Feb. 20, 1806. Henry William, b. Dec. 4, 1804; m. Jan. 1, 1826, Lydia Button. Elisa, b. May 8, 1808; m. April 18, 1827, James Dunn. Infant, b. March, 1811; died. VI. LAURA H. THOMSON NEWTON (dau. of John, John, John, Eibenezer, Anthony), b. Nov. 10, , G.; m. Nov. 11, 1810, John, s. Isaac Newton, Jr. 538 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. Children. Marcus. Lucius. Eunice, died. Laura, died. John, died. John Thomson, m. Virginia Baldwin. Eunice, died. Laura, diedj A son, died. Retiecca. Amelia. The presumption is tliat the deaths occurred in infancy. The family removed to Richfield, Ohio. VI. JAMES EATON THOMPSON (s. of John, John, Jo'hn, Eibeaezer, Anthony), b. April 7, 1793, 6.; m. Esther Bently of Goshen. Children, horn Goshen. Louisa, b. Jan. 24, 1830; unm. Mary Esther, b. Oct. 10, 1830; d. April 12, 1832. Mary Esther, b. Sept 10, 1832; m. Jan. 10, 1853, Frederick E. Hurlbut. Children: Adella F., b. April 13, 1854; m. Oct. 13, 1874, Hu- bert S. Scoville; child, Alice H., b. July 24, 1875; Lizzie M., b. Feb. 3, 1856; m. Dec. 2, 1873, Samuel C. Riley; child, Fred- erick C, b. July 24, 1880; Clara Etta, b. May 9, 1866; May G., b. Sept. 15, 1876. VI. CXrARISSA A. THOMSON BALLARD (dau. of John, John, John, Ebenezer, Anthony), b. , G. ; m. May 10, 1825, Jeffrey Bal- lard. He d. Tinmouth, Vt. Children, bom Tinmouth. Rollin. Alfred. , John Thomson. Henry. Infant, daughter, d. VII. IRA THOMPSON (son of Jonathan, Elisha, Gideon, Sam- uel, John, Anthony), b. March 24, 1787; m. Jan. , 1817, Pamelia Baldwin of Litchfield. She was b. April 17, 1793. Children, bom Goshen. Jonathan B., b. Jan. 22, 1820; m. Sai'ah, dau. Hosea Crandall. Darius D., b. Nov. 11, 1826; m. Louisa E. Crandall. George T., b. Dec. 21, 1829; d. March 19, 1857, G. VII. SALLY THOMSON COBB (dau. of Jonathan, Elisha, Gid- eon, Samuel, John, Anthony), b. ; m. Nathan Cobb, W. G.; he d. in Michigan Aug. 14, 1833. EARLY GOSHEN FAMILIES. 539 Oliildren, born Goshen, and Schoolcraft, Mich. Mary Ann, b. ; d. Nov. 7, 1833, Schoolcraft. Harriet, b. ; m. Joseph Chapin, No. Adams, Mass. Mtrritt, b. ; m. Maria Oonstantine Oct., 1840. Jerome T., b. Dec. 29, 1821; m. Julia Ann Benton, Amenia, N. Y. Ferris, b. ; d. Schoolcraft. Uliza M., b. May 10, 1833. At this time the husband d. and she m. his brother, Amos Cobb. Child. Mary Jane, b. Dec. , 1836. VII. MILES THOMPSON (s. of Jonathan, Elisha, Gideon, Sam- uel, John, Anthony), b. April 11, 1793; m. Nov. 10, 1819, Minerva Upson; b. May 2, 1801, Canaan, N. Y.; d. March 1, 1847, at G.; he d. July 8, 1S57, at G. The principal business of Mr. T. vras running a sawmill at West Goshen. Children, bom Goshen, Moses L., b. Aug. 9, 1820; m. Sarah G. Schweizer. Freelove K., b. June 25, 1822. Martha Eliea, b. July 17, 1826; m. April 12, 1854, Samuel Clark, Corn- wall. Emeline M., b. Sept. 13, 1828. Elisha Stanley, b. Aug. 29, 1830; d. March 1, 1847, same day as his mother. Harriet M., b. July 25, 1834. Sarah E., b. Nov. 13, 1835; d. Aug. 17, 1849, Flushing, L. I. VII. ISAAC THOMPSON (s. of Jonathan, Elisha, Gideon, Sam- uel, John, Anthony), b. Oct. 9, 1797; m. Jan. 21, 1830, to Mary, dau. Sylvanus Holbrook. She d. at Grand River, Mich. He built the house and sawmill on the road from the West Goshen graveyard to Warren and removed from that place to Grand River, Mich., about 1821. Children. Lorrain, son. Nancy Jane. VII. EBBN N. THOMSON (s. of David, David, Gideon, Sam- uel, John, Anthony), b. Dec. 10, 1795; m. Aug. 27, 1817, Sarah P. Meniman. Both members of the church. He removed to New Haven in 1827, where he d. July 18, 1856. She d. New Haven Aug. 12, 1869. Children. Cornelia, b. Oct. 8, 1818; m. George Rice, New Haven. Juliet M., b. April 10, 1821; m. .July 20, 1843, William North. William S., b. March 22, 1823; m. Jan. 8, 1850, Jane T. Lewis. Mary N., b. Aug. 19, 1825; m. Aug. 19, 1846, Henry T. Hutton; d. Sept. 10, 1847. 640 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. Charles, b. June 20, 1828; d. Jan. 10, 1829. Eliza Lyman, b. April 22, 1831; m. June , 1858, William Nettleton. Charles Benry, b. Dec. 5, 1836; d. Aug. 4, 1884, Stockbridge. VII. HBNliY W. THOMSON (s. of David, David, Gideon, Sam- uel, John, Anthony), b. Dec. 4, 1804; m. Jan. 1, 1826; d. Nov. 15, 1840, Stockbridge, Mass. Both members of the church. Children. Henry Witter, b. Sept. 13, 1826; m. Dec. 11, 1855, Laura F. Wheeler. Sarah Eliza, b. July 18, 1828; m. William H. Cutler. David William, b. Oct. 9, 1830; m. Charlotte . Charles, b. Sept. 9, 1832; d. Sept. 19, 1832. ■Jane Maria, b. Aug. 18, 1833; m. June 11, 1856, Charles H. Gaylord. Edward A., b. Aug. 22, 1836; m. Feb. 22, 1860, Elizabeth Lawton. Qiles Griswold, b. Oct. 22, 1838; m. Aug. 30, 1852, Mary Josephine Lum. VIII. CORNELIA THOMSON RICE (dan. of Eben N., David, David, Gideon, Samuel, John, Anthony), b. Oct. 8, 1818; removed to New Haven with her father's family in 1827; m. Oct. 8, 1838, to George Rice of New Haven. Children, bom New Haven. Qeorge, b. March 2, 1840; d. Nov. 10, 1840. William Forbes, b. Feb. 6, 1843. Mary Button, b. Dee. 4, 1846. VIII. SARAH ELIZA THOMSON (dau. of Henry W., David, David, Gideon, Samuel, John, Anthony), b. July 18, 1828; m. William H. Cutler, Center Village, Conn. He d. Nov. 2, 1851. She m. (2) 1854, Robert Byrd, of Fort Valley, Georgia. Child by First Marriage. Ma}-y Wilhelmina, b. June 17, 1852; d. Dec. 1852. Children by Second Marriage. Jeannie Maria, b. Dec. 2, 1855; Eugene. VIII. DARIUS D. THOMPSON (s. Ira, Jonathan, Elisha, Gid- eon, Samuel, John, Anthony), b. Nov. 11, 1826; m. Sept. 14, 1856, Louisa Crandall; she d. Feb. 4, 1895. Children. Sarah L., b. Sept. 12, 1859; d. Nov. 25, 1865. Jennie L., b. Sept. 23, 1866; m. Dec. 25, 1889, Edwin Wright. VIIL JULIETT M. THOMSON (dau. Eben N., David, David, Gideon, Samuel, John, Anthony), b. Goshen, April 10, 1821; m. Wil- liam, son of Theodore North, July 20, 1843; he d. at Elmira, N. Y., Sept. 21, 1844. She returned to New Haven and m. Horatio Nelson Lyman of Goshen June 4, 1850. 'EARLY GOSHEN FAMILIES. 54I Children. WilUain Tliommn. b. Mavch 5, 1851; d. Feb. 15, 1853. George Nelson, b. Aug. 29, 1852; d. Feb. 19, 1853. VIII. ELIZA L. THOMSON (dau. Eben N., David, David, Gideon, Samuel, John, Anthony), b. New Haven April 22, 1831; m. William Nettleton of Stockbridge, Mass., June, 1858. He veas a merchant in New York, 1858. GMM, b. New Haven Aug. 21, 1859. A'll. ELIZA THOMSON (dau. David, David, Gideon, Samuel, John, Anthony), b. Goshen May 8, 1808; m. James Dunn, Esq., Elmira, N. Y., April 18, 1827. Beside, 1853, Elmira, N. Y. Children, born Elmira. John Davis, b. April 28, 1828. Charles, b. Jan. , 1830; d. next day. David Thomson, b. Feb. 5, 1831; m. Mary Tuttle of Burdett, N. Y.; their child, Frederick. Mary N., b. Dec. 18, 1833; d. Nov. 17, 1856. Hellen Mar, b. July 25, 1837. Alice E., b. April 17, 1839. Henry Thomson, b. Jan. 28, 1842. Isaac Baldwin, b. Sept. 21, 1844. Eliza Thomson, b. Aug. 28, 1852. VII. OLIVER H. THOMPSON (s. of Augustus, James, Gideon, Samuel, John, Anthony), b. Goshen Jan. 10, 1797; m. Emma Ann Heartt March 19, 1840. She was dau. Daniel B. and Jane Heartt, b. Du Page Co., 111., Sept. 20, 1820. He went to Ann Arbor, Mich., in 1828, to Chicago in 1835, thence to Cincinnati in 1840. They re- sided, 1853, at Covington, Ky. They returned to Chicago, where he d. ilay 28, 1868. Children. James, b. Sept. 9, 1841. Jane. b. April 19, 1846. Mark 8., b. Jan. 27, 1844. Emma, b. March 20, 1849. VII. RUTH THOMPSON (dau. Augustus, James, Gideon, Sam- uel, John, Anthony), b. Goshen Feb. 18, 1803; m. Eleazer Lord., Esq., of New Yoj-k city, Dec. 31, 1835. Child. Mary, b. Dec. 20, 1840; m. Dec. 6, 1865, Oliver T. Swift; d. Sept. 10, 1866. VII. WILLIAM THOMPSON (s. Augustus, James, Gideon, Samuel. John, Anthony), b. Goshen Feb. 17, 1806;. m. Eliza, dau. of Daniel Butler of Northampton Sept. 25, 1834. 542 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. Children, b. E. Windsor Hill. Charles Oliver, b. Sept. 25, 1836. William Auyustus, b. Nov. 27, 1838. Sarali Elieabetfi, b. Nov. 17, 1840. Samuel EopMns, b. May 4, 1843. Mary Butler, b. Jan. 23, 1846. (See Ministers born in Gosben.) VII. CHLOE THOMPSON (dau. Augustus, James, Gideon, Samuel, John, Anthony), b. Goshen Feb. 18, 1809; m. John Jenkins of Falmouth, Mass., July 28, 1841; d. July 1, 1891. Children. Augustus Thompson, b. May 19, 1843. Weston, b. Dec. 20, 1845. Edward Hopkins, b. May 31. 1850. William Thompson, b. Nov. 10, 1852. VII. AUGUSTUS CHARLES THOMPSON (s. Augustus, James, Gideon, Samuel, John, Anthony), b. Goshen April 30, 1812; m. (1) June 3, 1841, Sarah Elizabeth Strong of Northampton; she d. ilay 11, 1857; m. (2) July 15, 1858, Elizabeth Hill Cutler; she d. Nov. 25, 1867; m. (3) June 1, 1870, Miriam Mason Burgess. Children, by first wife. Theodore Strong, b. April 23, 1842. Martha AUen. b. Dec. 24, 1843; m. Jan. 15, 1879, Frederick B. Lincoln. Sarah Hooker, b. Feb. 21, 1846; d. Feb. 10, 1847. Julia Augusta, b. April 22, 1848; d. the same day. Augustus Charles, b. July 24, 1849; d. Aug. 22, 1862. Child, by second wife. Marif, b. Sept. 6, 1863. (See Ministers born in Goshen.) VI. LUCT THOMSON (dau. David, Gideon, Samuel, John, An- thony), b. Goshen, 1762; m. Timothy Crittenden of Poultney, Vt., July, 1790. They removed from P. in 1814, to Covington, N. Y., and in 1829, to Mich., where he and his son Julius died soon after. Children. Elsey, who died young. Julius, m. Lewis; d. about 1840. Parley, dau. ; m. Partridge and lived in Mich. VI. LOVISA THOMSON (dau. David, Gideon, Samuel, John, Anthony), b. Goshen, 1764; m. David Hurlbut, March 3, 1783; d. Nov., 1811. He d. at the West. They removed to Poultney in 1788, thence to Rutland in ISOli. The children were all m. EARLY GOSHEN FAMILIES. 543 Children. Almira, b. May 6, 1784; m. John Gould of P. iMoia, b. Nov. 3, 1786; m. Harvey Hyde of P. Salmon, b. ; m. Hawkins of Oastleton. David, b. ; m. Watkins of Rutland. Nancy, b. ; m. Solomon Whitney of P. Augustus, b. ; m. Johnson of P. Luoinda. Lorrain. \1. JESSE THOMSON (s. David, Gideon, Samuel, John, An- thony), b. Goshen June 22, 1769; m. Huldah Richards of Poultney, Vt., Jan. 7, 1802; d. P. Jan. 1, 1845; she d. Sept., 1842. Children, bom Poultney. Frederick A., b. Oct. 13, 1802; m. Eiunice Horrt Oct. 18, 1827. Franklin, b. Feb. 22, 1808; m. Louisa Goway Jaji. 1, 1836. Emily, b. May 21, 1812; m. George C. Stewart Nov. 1, 1830. Lauriston, b. Dec. 14, 1815; m. Charlotte A. Pearle. Huldali F., b. April 10, 1817; m. A. J. P. Martin Sept. 6, 1833. Laura A., b. Sept. 20, 1820; m. Lemuel Harvey. Abigail L., b. Feb. 27, 1824; m. Samuel Stewart. VI. AMOS THOMSON (s. David, Gideon, Samuel, John, An- thony), b. Goshen Nov., 1771; m. Dotha Brace of Bethlehem, Conn., 1798. She d. July, 1817, and he m. (2) Nancy Cristy in Aug., 1819. He d. B. Poultney, Vt., Jan. 1, 1849; she d. Sept. 2, 1849. Children. Horace B., d. Feb. 6, 1821, unm. A physician. Norman B., b. Feb. 6, 1801; m. Seraph Ruggles. Laura and Laura, d., the oldest 6 or 7. Eliza E., m. Doctor Rockwood of Bridport. Amos G., b. 1807; m. Mary Eliza Cutler. Dotna C, b. Jan. 10, 1810; m. Simeon Mears Sept., 1885. Albert A., b. July 1, 1815; m. Juliett Manning. J. Egbert, m. Mary A. Randle. Horace, lives in Georgia (1849). VI. ESTHER THOMSON (dau. David, Gideon, Samuel, John, Anthony), b. Goshen Oct. 6, 1777; removed to Poultney, Vt.; m. the Rev. Clark Kendrick of P. Sept. 10, 1802. He was pastor of the Baptist Church in P. He d. March 1, 1825, having been pastor about twenty-five years. Children. Jyucia, b. May 27, 1804; d. April 10, 1829; unm. Merina, b. Jan. 10, 1806; d. April 16, 1827; unm. Adolphns, b. April 1, 1808; unm.; a planter in Georgia. imliel C, b. Dec. 7, 1809; m. Ann E. Fisher. Hannah, b. Nov. 3, 1812; d. Feb. 15, 1836. 544 HISTORY OF GOSHB-N. Samuel Stillman, b. Aug. 12, 1814; m. Emily Fisher. A. Judson, b. Feb. 16, 1816; m. Eliza Randle. Ryland, b. April 18, 1822; m. Arabella Randal, Georgia, 1841. VI. SALLY THOMSON (dau. David, Gideon, Samuel, John, Anthony), b. Goshen, 1779; removed to Poultney; m. Bzekiel Buell of P. Sept., 1797; d. Castleton, Vt, June 18, 1817; he d. March, 1844. Children. Maria, b. Sept., 1800; m. William McLeod. Charlotte, b. Aug. 14, 1802. Julian, b. AUg. 20, 1804; graduated Middlebuiy Coll. in 1823; became eminent as a lawyer and d. in Georgia, 1836; unm. Julius, b. April., 1806; m. Sarah Ann Barney of Whitehall in 1834; has four children; lived in W., 1850. Gustavus J., b. 1810; m. Caroline Wilkins of Castleton, 1840; have • one child, Charles, b. 1847. Alexander, b. May, 1813; graduated Middlebury Coll., 1829; a lawyer in Detroit, Mich., and in 1850 a member of Congress from Mich. Slarried Mary Ann Fisher of Rutland, Vt., 1836. Four daughters. VI. RUTH THOMPSON (dau. James, Gideon, Samuel, John, Anthony), b. Goshen, 1774; m. David Ambler of Bethlehem, 1796. Removed to Augusta, N. Y. She d. Madison, N. Y., Dec. 25, 1857. Children, born Augusta. Charlotte, d. at 2 or 3 years of age. Eliza, m. Mr. Rice. Augustus T., d. single. A missionary. Caroline, m. Mr. Herrick. Mary, m. Mr. Rice, brother of above. Charlotte, m. Edv^in W. Clark, Oswego, N. Y. Lucretia, m. William Lord. David W., d. July 23, 1847, aged 32 years. Rhoda, d the same year. RHODA THOMSON. (See Abraham Norton, p. 510.) VI. ISURA THOMPSON (dau. James, Gideon, Samuel, John, Anthony), b. Goshen July 24, 1781; m. Elisha CaiTlngton Aug. 25, 1799; d. Oct. 18, 1847; be d. Aug. 8, 1853. Children. Maria, d. about 23 years of age; unm. Frederick T., m. Louisa Shute. Lorain, m. Rittenhouse Dorr. Jenette, d. about 19. Isura, b. May 23, 1810; m. James MacFarlane April 22, 1834; hart two sons: Carrington, b. 1836, and James Duncan, June, 1838. ('(irdelia, m. William F. Allen of Oswego, N. Y. Mary. Clar'mda Brnch, m. Edwin Allen, brother Wm. F. (both lawyers), d. June 4, 1853, aged 34. EARLY GOSHEN FAMILIES. 545 VII. NOKMAN B. THOMSON (s. Amos, David, Gideon, Sam- uel, John, Antliony), b. Poultney, Feb. 6, 1801; m. Seraph Ruggles; removed to Macon, Georgia, 1823, merehant Perry, Houston Co., Ga., 1849. Children. Xiiniian Cornelius, b. aiay 25, 1828. George Francis, b. Dec. 19, 1833. James, b. May 15, 1835. Charles, b. Feb. 26, 1838. "S'll. ELIZA E. THOMSON (dau. Amos, David, Gideon, Sam- uel, John, Anthony), b. Poultney; m. Doctor Elisha Rockwood, Bridport, Vt. Have one child, Thomson. VII. AMOS G. THOMSON (s. Amos, David, Gideon, Samuel, John, Anthony), b. at P. about 1807; m. Mary Eliza Cutler of Boston; residing, 1849, at Boston. Dry-goods merchant. Children, bom Boston, Helen. 1841. Joscpltine, 1843. VII. DOTHA C. THOMSON (dau. Amos, David, Gideon, Sam- uel, John, Anthony), b. P. Jan. 10, 1810; m. Simeon Hears. Children. AsMeij, b. March 24, 1840. Cornelia, b. Dec. 20, 1842. Dotlia Eliza, b. Sept. 22, 1845. Florence, b. Nov. 22, 1848. VII. ALBERT A. THOMSON (s. Amos, David, Gideon, Sam- uel, John, Anthony), b. P. July 1, 1815; m. Juliett Manning of P.; one son. Removed to Wis. about 1842. VII. FREDERICK A. THOMSON (s. Jesse, David, Gideon, Samuel, John, Anthony), b. P. Oct. 13, 1802; m. Eunice Horrt of Dunham, L. C, Oct. 18, 1827. Children. Laiiriston E., b. July 17, 1828. Stillman K., b. Dec. 18, 1830. VII. FRANKLIN THOMSON (s. Jesse, David, Gideon, Sam- uel, John, Anthony), b. P. Feb. 22, 1808; m. Louisa Goway Jan. 1, 1836. Child. John, b. Nov. 6, 1843. 35 546 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. VII. EMILY THOMSON (dau. Jesse, David, Gideon, Samuel, Jolin, Anthony), b. P. May 21, 1812; m. George C. Stewart, P., Nov. 1, 1830. Children. Louisa, b. March 20, 1834. Mary, b. July 3, 1836. Lauriston, b. Nov. 13, 1844. VII. LAURISTON THOMSON (s. Jesse, David, Gideon, Sam- uel, John, Anthony), b. P. Dee. 14, 1815; m. Charlotte A. Pearle of Southington, Conn., Feb. 25, 1845. VII. HULDAH F. THOMSON (dau. Jesse, David, Gideon, Samuel, John, Anthony), b. P. April 10, 1817; m. A. J. P. Martin Sept. 6, 1833. Children. Julia, b. Jan. 9, 1836. John. b. Nov. 20, 1842. Marian, b. March 27, 1840. Charlotte, b. Oct. 8, 1845. Frances, b. June 6, 1848. VII. LAURA A. THOMSON (dau. Jesse, David, Gideon, Sam- uel, John, Anthony), b. P. Sept. 20, 1820; m. Lemuel Harvey, June 23, 1840. Child. Marian, b. Aug. 4, 1843. VII. ABIGAIL L. THOMSON (dau. Jesse, David, Gideon, Sam- uel, John, Anthony), b. P. Feb. 27, 1824; m. Samuel Stewart, Nov. 25, 1842. Reside (1850) Fort Edward, N. Y. VII. Asahel C. Kendrick (s. ESTHER, David, Gideon, Samuel, John, Anthony), b. P. Dec. 7, 1809; graduated from Clinton Coll., 1830; m. Ann E. Fisher, 1836. Professor Greek and Latin, Uni- versity of Rochester. Children. Caroline, b. May, 1840. Helen, Jan. 7, 1843. Florence, b. Jan. 10, 1848. VII. Samuel S. Kendrick (s. ESTHER, David, Gideon, Samuel, John, Anthony), b. P. Aug. 12, 1814; m. Emily Fisher, Barnesville, Ga., 1836, where he was a merchant in 1850. Children. fsabella. Charles. John R. EARLY GOSHEN FAMILIES. 547 YII. A. Judson Kendrick (s. ESTHER, David, Gideon, Samuel, John, Antliony), b. P. Feb. 16, 1816; m. Eliza Handle in Ga. 1841. Child. Jtilia, b. 1847. VII. Ryland Kendrick (s. ESTHER, David, Gideon, Samuel, John, Anthony), b. P. April 18, 1822; graduate from Brown Uni- versity, 1840; m. Arabella Randal of Ga., 1841. Preaching Charles- ton, S. C, 1850. Child. Clark A., b. 1848. VIII. AYILLIAJI SPARKS THOMSON (s. Eben N., David, David, Gideon, Samuel, John, Anthony), b. March 22, 1823; m. Jan. 8, 1850, Jane Trumbull Levels. William S. and his brother Charles Henry married sisters, daughters of Henry and Martha Graves (Nash) Lewis. Heni-y (s. Elijah, Phinehas, Nathaniel, William, Wil- liam). See Lewis Genealogy. Children. ^yilUum, b. Jan. 14, 1855. Annie Lewis, b. July 28, 1857. Charles Ernest, b. Dec. 2, 1861. VIIL CHARLES HENRY THOMSON (s. Eben N., David, David, Gideon, Samuel, John, Anthony), b. New Haven Dec. 5, 1836; m. Farmington, Conn., Nov. 23, 1858, Celia iSIaria, dau. of Henry and Martha Graves (Nash) Lewis. He d. Stockbridge, Mass., Aug. 4, 1884. She d. New Haven, Dec. 14, 1860. Not often does any community suffer the loss of such a man as Charles H. Thomson. Such men are rare. The intelligence of his death will send a pang to many hearts, not only in this city of his birth, but over a far wider field. Possessing in an unusual measure those sterling qualities of character and temperament that are calcu- lated to inspire respect, admiration, and afCection, he naturally at- tached to himself, as with hooks of steel, such as had the good for- tune to share his acquaintance and confidence. It would be difiicult to explain the fascination that he exercised over the hearts of his friends, to those that did not know him. While he was an ex- ceptionally energetic, exact, and successful business man, he, at the same time, freely indulged his natural aesthetic and literary tastes, which were marked by the refinement and intelligence of a true artist and scholar. It is not possible, in a paragraph, to do justice to such a character as Mr. Thomson's. To those who knew him it need not be said that he was a dutiful son, an affectionate brother, a loving husband and father, a generous and faithful friend. Thought- 648 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. ful of the poor, whom lie aided with unostentatious liberality and delicacy; an ardent patriot, and always and, above all, loyal to his duty toward his Maker. In a word, he was, emphatically, a Chris- tian gentleman. Seldom does a man go to his grave more sincerely and justly mourned. Even nature, in tears, sympathized with weeping friends at his burial here, in his birthplace, to-day! — From the New Haven Palladium of Aug. 9th. Child. Arthur Cecil, b. March 19, 1860. IX. ARTHUR CECIL THOMSON (s. Charles H., Etoen N., David, David, Gideon, Samuel, John, Anthony), b. New Haven March 19, 1860; m. Oct. 24, 1889, at New Haven, Lillian Cornelia, dau. Of George and Sarah Cornelia (Thomson) Rice. Children. Eliot Cecil, b. at New York Oct. 22, 1890. Ceeile Lewi^, b. at New York Feb. 7, 1892. Marian Carter, b. at New York March 11, 1893. Allen Loring, b. at Brookline, Mass., Jan. 17, 1896. TOWNER. I. RICHARD TOWNER settled in Guilford, Conn., in 1686; re- moved to Bi'anford in 1689, where he died in 1727. Children. Richard, whose descendants are living in Branford, almost on the spot where his father lived in 1690. Sarah, m. (1) Samuel Frost; (2) Henry Cook, from Litchfield. She was his third wife. He was one of the three first settlers of Plymouth, Conn. John, settled in Derby, the part now Oxford. Some of his children resided in Southbury, but his descendants in that vicinity have died out in the male line. Joseph, died young. Benjamin, settled in Haddam, Conn., where a few descendants are now living. Mary, m. Samuel Tyler. Samuel, settled in Goshen. Hannah, m. Hitt. Thankful, died unmarried. II. SAMUEL TOWNER (s. Richard), b. about 1690 in Branford; d. Goshen about 1785, wlien he must have been ninety-five years old. He m. (1) Jan. 25, 1716, Rebecca Bai-nes of North Haven, g. dau. of Thomas Barnes, who settled in East Haven, 1644, and signed the ^xthnr CtE/Wnt^inv, EARLY GOSHEN FAMILIES. 549 first colony constitution. She d. Wallingford Jan. 31, 1727-8. He m. (2) 1728, Amy, dau. of Capt. William Ward. Mr. Towner removed from Branford to Wallingford in 1723, thence, in 1731, to Waterbury, the part now Plymouth, where he was one of the first three settlers, the others being Henry Cook, from Litchfield, and Sutliffe, from Branford. He bid off one right in the township of Goshen, at New Haven, April 20, 1738, and removed here in 1739, and superintended the surveying of his first four divisions. His first division lot was on the east side of East Street, on the south side of the road, south of the house of Mr. Robert Palmer. Here he built a framed two-story house, in the present garden of Jlr. Palmer. Aug. 19, 1741, he sold this place to Timothy Stanley, and purchased of Benoni Hills the lot of 69 acres, on the west side of East Street, the farm afterwards owned by Ezekiel North. Here he continued to live until May 8, 1744, when he sold the place to Joseph North of Farmington, and bought again, June S, 1744, his old home, the first-division lot. He continued to live here until June 11, 1746, when he sold to Matthew Judd of Farm- ington. He M-as chosen selectman and grand juror at the first town meeting, Dec. 6, 1739. Dec. 8, 1740, he was again elected selectman, after which time he held no ofilce. In 1746 he went to what is now Southbury, then a new part of Woodbury; in 1748, to Newtown; in 1750, to New Fairfield. In all these places he was a large landholder. The New Fairfield records are burned, but there are private records showing that he was living there in 1754. He removed, about 1763, to Phillip's Patent (now Putnam Co.), where a post-oSice and railway station still bear his name — Towner's Station and Four Comers — in town of Patterson, Putnam Co., N. Y. Tradition says that, when a very old man, he returned to Goshen on a visit to his grandsons (sons of Ephraim) and died there.* He had, by both wives, thirteen children, all of whom lived to grow up, and all, except the oldest son, left children. Children, by Rebecca Barnes. Phebe, b. Branford Sept. 14, 1717; m. Arah Ward, youngest bro. of her step-mother; lived first in Goshen, later in Waterbury. Had dau. Diantha, b. Goshen 1741; and dau. Eunice, b. Water- bury. Four of the Wards, viz.: William, Zenas, Meacock, and Arah are in the proprietor's book in Goshen. Capt. Wil- liam, their father, also owned land there, but died in Walling- ford. * The statement in the History of Waterbury, that he died in Sherman, is an error. 550 HISTORY OP GOSHEflV. Samuel, oldest son, whom we know only by a deed in Waterbury, 1742, from Samuel, in Goshen, "to beloved son Samuel, in Waterbury." He seems to have left no children, and evi- dently died soon after, for another son was named Samuel in 1746. Oavid, b. AVallingford March 3, 1724. Settled in New Fairfield, the part now Sherman, where he was pastor of the Congrega- tional Church. Had a dau. Mary. Ephraim, b. Wallingford Nov. 28, 1727, two months before the death of his mother; m. Oct. 3, 1750, Sarah Willeox. He was the only one of the family who settled permanently in Goshen. Children, by Amy Ward. Zaccheus, b. Wallingford, 1729; settled in Sherman; member of Colonial Assembly. Dan, b. Wallingford, 1731; settled in Sherman; member of Colonial Assembly. Lettice, b. Waterbury, 1733; m., in Sherman, Gideon Pringle. Amp, b. ; d. 1767; m. David Barnum, Sherman. Rebecca, b. ; m. Joseph Vaughn, Sherman. Thanhful, b. ; m. William Beach. Ithiel, b. March 1, 1742, probably in Goshen. Was in the French War, 1762; on Phillip's Patent, 1763-'69. Later removed to St. Johns, Canada, where he d. in 1810. He has descend- ants at St. Johns, Montreal, and other places. Deborah, b. ; m. Tuttle and settled in Can. Nfirnnel, b. 1740; settled at Towner's, Putnam Co. Has many de- scendants living at Towner's, Albany, Chicago, and else- where. HI. EPHRAIM TOAVNER (s. Samuel, Richard), b. at Walling- ford Nov. 28, 1727; d. Goshen Dec. 20, 1760; m. Oct. 3, 1750, Sarah Willeox, only dau. of John Willeox, Sr., of Goshen; d. at Lexington, Greene Co., N. Y., aged 90. He made his first purchase in Goshen in Feb., 1750, when he is described as belonging to Goshen. On April 9, the same year, he purchased of his wife's brother, Samuel Willeox, 15 acres in the north part of Goshen, on the south side of the east and west road, about 200 rods westerly from the north meeting-house. Here he built his house, about 20 rods east from the south end of the road leading southerly from Elisha Baldwin's. Children, born Goshen. Ephraim, b. March 29, 1752; m. Olive AYilloughby. Laban, b. Feb. 2, 17.54; m. Abi Beach. Ezehiel, b. March 3, 1756; no record of mai-riage. Elijah, b. April 3, 1758; m. Lurinda Collins, dau. Cyprian and Azuba (Gibbs) Collins. Moses, b. Sept. 15, 1760; m. Avis Culver. EARLY GOSHEN FAMILIES. 55I IV. EPHRAIJI TOWNER (s. Epbraim, Samuel, IJebard), b. Goshen ilarcb 29, 1752; d. Goshen July 8, 1834; m. July 7, 1774, Olive Willoughby, dau. of John and Olive (Smith) Willoughby; b. Goshen Sept. 2, 1758; d. G. July 23, 1837. They were both members of the church and she was the last living member of those who were mem- bers at the ordination of Mr. Hooker. They lived for many years at the old house (long gone) at the southeast side of Ivy Mountain, on the west side of the road, and north side of the road coming from the west. In the latter part of his life he sold this place and built and removed to the red house about one mile north from the Center meeting-house and about sixty rods east of the turnpike road; at which place both his wife and him- self died. His first place had been owned and occupied by Royce Beach. Children. Eplirahn, b. Oct. 18, 1775; m. Anna Kellogg. Ebeneser, b. Oct. 24, 1777; m. Chloe Hopkins Lucas; no children. Sarah, b. Sept. 19, 1779; d. March 25, 1843; unm. OUce, b. July 18, 1782; m. Samuel Wadhams Feb., 1812. Nurmaii, b. Oct. 16, 1784; m. Elizabeth Sherman. Erastus, b. Sept. 5, 1788; m. Anna . Theron, b. Feb. 10, 1791; m. Sophronia Roberts. Clarissa, b. July 6, 1798; m. (1) Dr. Brown; (2) Dr. Markham. V. EPHRAIM TOWNER (s. Ephraim, Ephraim, Samuel, Richard), b. G. Oct. 18, 1775; m. (1) May 8, 1798, Anna Kellogg; b. Sheffield, Mass., July 16, 1778; d. Nov. 3, 1816; (2) a Widow Page of Hartford. He resided Ypsilanti, Mich., in 1845. Children, born E. Bloomfield, N. Y. Delia, b. Feb. 8, 1799; d. Feb. 4, 1801. Carlton, b. June 12, 1800; d. a young man. B. Franklin, b. Oct. 20, 1801; m., several children. Delia, b. April 28, 1803; m. Samuel Holden, Batavia, N. Y. Louisa, b. May 12, 1805; m. , Chicago. XdsoH, b. May 8, 1810; d. unm. Oliie S., b. March 23, 1812; m. Worthington; resided Batavia. Norman K., b. Oct. 3, 1816; d. unm. V. OLIVE TOWNER (dau. Ephraim, Ephraim, Samuel, Rich- ard), b. July 18, 1782; m. 1812 Samuel Wadhams, Goshen. Children, born Goshen. DelpMne, d., unm. Norman, m. (1) Mary Gillette; (2) Miss Whittlesey. Children: Melville, living in New Haven; Mrs. Delphine Norris, in Waterbury; Frederick, New Haven; Irwin, Torrington. 552 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. V. NORMAN TOWNER (s. Ephralm, Ephraim, Samuel, Rich- ard), b. Oct. 16, 1784; d. Wallingford, Vt., about 1815; m. Elizabeth Sherman of Wallingford, Vt., who d. a few weeks after her husband, at Easton, N. Y. Children, born Wallingford, Vt. 'Noble, m. Louisa Kingsley of New Haven; was judge of probate, Avon, Conn.; shipping-merchant. New Haven; U. S. Consul Barbados. Children: Alexander, b. 1832; d. 1852; Louisa, b. 1840, unm.; Mrs. Ella Cutler; Noble; all living New Haven. Louisa E., m. Jan. 25, 1842, .lohn W. Elliot, a descendant of the Miss'y Eliot; d. at Eutaw, Ala., March 25, 1853. Child: Luella, b. Eutaw, Feb. 27, 1844; residing Brooklyn, N. Y., 1896. V. ERASTUS TOWNER (s. Ephraim, Ephraim, Samuel, Rich- ard), b. Sept. 5, 1788; m. Anna ; was engaged in manufacturing in England; settled later in Dayton, Ohio, where his two sons, Theron and Arthur, d. young. V. THERON TOWNER (s. Ephraim, Ephraim, Samuel, Rich- ard), b. Feb. 10, 1791; d. 1862; m. Sophronia Roberts, Owego, N. Y., 1816; dau. Dr. Joseph Roberts of Farmington and Owego; d. March 7, 1846. He was merchant in Charleston, S. C. ; returned to Goshen about 1820; went to New Haven, 1829, where he was a well-known shipping merchant. He m. (2) Clarissa Benham, by whom he had no children. Children. Mary Caroline, b. Owego, 1817; m. Alfred A. Holly. They have one son, Theron Towner, b. 1850. Erastus Willougfiby, b. Goshen 1821; d. 1859, Havana, Cuba, unm. Theron W., b. New Haven 1831; Trinity Coll., 1852; Sorbonne, Paris; unm. V. CLARISSA M. TOWNER (dau. Ephraim, Ephraim, Samuel, Richard), b. Goshen July 6, 1798; m. (1) Dr. Ephraim Brown of Ba- tavia, N. Y.; (2) Dr. William W. Markham, and removed to Ply- mouth, Mich. Had Daniel B. and Ephraim by first husband. Children, by Dr. Markham. William B., d. young. Edioard W., b. July 24, 1833. Delphine E., b. Jan. 9, 1839. Charles A., b. 1837; d. 1848. IV. LABAN TOWNER (s. Ephraim, Samuel, Richard), b. Goshen Feb. 3, 1754; d. 1788; m. Abby Beach, dau. of John and Lois (Ives) Beach. BABLY GOSHEN FAMILIES. 553 Children, born Goshen. Timothy, b. July 8, 1777; m. ; d. about 1798, as appears by deeds. John Morse, b. Oct. 18, 1779; m. Charlotte Ketcham of Brewsters, N. Y. AA'as living, 1808, in Poultuey, Vt. ; removed about 1810 to Thompson, Sullivan Co., N. Y., tlie part now ilouticello, where he d. Aug. 25, 1850. Children: Martha Elizabeth, b. 1813; Reuben Beach, b. 1815; d.: left sons, Frederick W. and Ralph; Rhoda, b. 1819; m. Dr. McCabe; Jesse Laban, b. 1824; lives in ;\Iiddletown and Brooklyn, N. Y. Beiibcit, b. 1782: m.; was living, 1808, in Wells, Rutland Co., .Vt.; had an only dau., Lois; both d. before 1827, as appears from deeds. Jesse, b. 17S4; m.; was living, 1808, in Poultney, Vt. ; In 1810, in Monticello. Children: Hii'am, living in Jlonticello; Mrs. Harriet Oakley, in Newburg. IV. EZEKIEL TOWNER (s. Ephraim, Samuel, Richard), b. Goshen March 3, 1756; studied medicine with Dr. Bird of Litchfield; no record of marriage; went West and d. before 1803; supposed to have been drowned in the Ohio River. IV. ELIJAH TOWNER (s. Ephraim, Samuel, Richard), b. Goshen April 3, 1758; d. in 1848; m. Lurinda Collins, dau. Cyprian Collins. Removed, 1807, to Wyndham, Greene Co., N. Y., taking his mother with him. Here he always resided. The name of the town has been changed to Lexington, Hunter, and Jewett. Children, bom Goshen. Mrs. Lord, b. 1786. Ezekiel, b. 1788. Mrs. Ford, b- 1791. Mrs. Francis, b. 1793. Mose.% b. 1796. Loammi, b. 1799. Seulen, b. 1804. They settled in Lexington, but most of their children have re- moved, and the only grandson of Elijah now in that vicinity is Horace, son of Loammi, b. 1822; living, 1891, in Jewett. IV. MOSES TOWNER (s. Ephraim, Samuel, Richard), b. Goshen Sept. 15, 1760; d. 1793; m. Avis Culver. Had no children. After his death his widow m. Andrew Bailey. WADHAMS. I. JOHN WADDAMS (as the name was spelled at that time), from Somersetshire, Eng., came to Wethersfield, Conn., 1650. His wife was Susannah . In 1656 a house lot was given him " by 554 HISTORY OP GOSHEN. the town." We have record of three children, viz.: Noah, John, Jr., and Ichabod, who d. unm. II. JOHN WADDAMS, JR. (s. John), b. in 1655, at AVethers- fleld; m. Hannah . Had son Noah, b. Wethersfleld. HI. NOAH WADDAMS (s. John, John), b. Wethersfleld in 1695; m. (1) March 17, 1716, Elizabeth Sage, who d. Sept. 16, 1716; (2) Anne Hvirlbut; (3) Hannah Benham, wid. of Samuel Beach. His chil- dren were all by his second wife. He removed to Goshen in 1741, and d. there in 1783. His third wife d. there, aged 99 years. Children. Elizabeth, m. Zophar Beach. Hannah, m. Timothy Tuttle, Sr. Noah, b. May 17, 1726; m. Elizabeth Ingersoll of New Haven; was graduated from the College of New Jersey Sept. 25, 1754; was first pastor of the " Cliurch of Christ," at New Preston, Conn., in 1758; went with a colony to Luzerne Co., Pa., as their pastor, in 1769. He d. May 22, 1806. Had five chil- dren: Anne, Calvin, Ingersoll, Moses, Noah. Jonathan, m. Judith Howe. John, m. Ruth Marsh. Deliverance. Mary, m. John Howe. Anne, m. John Hoy. Solomon, m. Abigail (Beebe) Allen. Seth, m. Anne Catlin (or Catling). IV. JONATHAN WADHAMS (s. Noah, John, John), b. at Wethersfleld Oct. 18, 1730; m. Aug. 7, 1754, Judith Howe of Goshen; d. at G. April 12, 1812; she d. at G. July 15, 1813. Children, born Goshen. Abraham, b. May 11, 1755; d. in infancy. Abraham, b. Sept. 24, 1756; m. Tryphena Collins. Moses, b. Sept. 17, 1759; m. Anne Collins. Susannah, b. Dec. 28, 1762; m. Nathan Holbrook. Lucia, b. Nov. 14, 1766; m. Luther Child. Jonathan, b. Dec. 4, 1774; m. Mandana Adams. V. JONATHAN WADHAMS, JR. (s. Jonathan, Noah, John, John), b. Dec. 4, 1774; m. (1) Jan. 21, 1790, Mandana Adams; she d. at G. March 11, 1819; (2) June 20, 1819, Sarah Keeler of Litchfield; she d. Jan. 20, 1848; he d. Dec. 14, 1854. Children, bom Goshen. Luomda, b. Dec. 20, 1797; m. Henry Adams. Birdsey, b. Aug. 28, 1800; m. Eliza Marsh. Lorinda, b. Nov. 24, 1802; m. Samuel Strickland. .:?^' I EARLY GOSHEN FAMILIES. 555 EU::abetn, b. June 11, 1804; m. James Chapman. ^€lsoll, b. Jan. 11, 180G: m. Elvira Griswold. William, b. Dec. 23, 1S07; m. Betsey Matthews. Beidi/, h. April 24, 1800; d. Dec. 12, 1824. Aiiui, b. Nov. 4, 1811; d. Oct. 9, 1830. Ahhy J., b. Xov. 5, 1813; d. in infancy. Ellen, b. Dec. 3, ISlo; m. James Bradley. Emeliiie, b. March 11, 1818; m. (1) Dec. 2, 1840, Eli Perkins, who d. Dec. 14, 1804; (2) 1866, Albert Wadhamn (s. Beebe, Solomon, Noah, John, John), who. d. May, 1884. Children: Dwight, b. April, 1844; d. Dec. 2, 1863; Daniel, b. July 31, 1846; d. Oct. 4, 1848; Octayia, b. July 14, 1852; d. Sept. 23, 1854. Jonathan, b. Dee. 3, 1820; m. Ann P. Lucas. VI. NELSON WADHAMS (s. Jonathan, Jr., Jonathan, Noah, John, John), b. Jan. 11, 1806; m. June 13, 1837, Elvira Griswold; d. ; she d. Child. Wilbur E., b. Nov. 6, 1847; m. Sept. 3, 1874, Julia, dau. of John M. Wadhams. Child: Elizabeth, b. June 24, 1870. IT. JOHN WADHAMS (s. Noah, John, John), b. Sept. 3, 1732; m. Jan. 3, 1765, Ruth, dau. of Timothy Marsh of Litchfield. She d. at G. Feb. 9, 1801; he d. at G. JIarch 2, 1816. Children, born Goshen. John, b. Sept. 17, 1765. Isaac, b. Jan. 3, 1767; m. Nov. 26, 1818, Mary, the widow of his bro. John. ChUd: Isaac, b. Aug. 30, 1821; d. . He d. at G. Feb. 24, 1832; she d. G. Jan. 4, 1850. Elizabeth, b. June 5, 1769; m. John Hatch; d. Sept. 23, 1803. Aarori, b. April 3, 1772; d. Jan. 1, 1776. Obed, b. May 18, 1775; d. March 16, 1794. Sarah Marsh, b. May 22, 1778; m. Stephen Russell of Litchfield; d. at L. June 25, 1818. Children: John W., b. Jan. 28, 1804; Isaac W., b. March, 1810. V. JOHN WADHAMS (s. John, Noah, John, John), b. Sept. 17, 1765; m. April 25, 1805, Mary Ripley; d. at G. Sept. 3, 1814. Children, bom Goshen. George, b. Jan. 28, 1806; m. Nov. 24, 1836, Angeline Parmelee. Elizabeth, b. April 21, 1807; d. Aug. 13, 1809. Mary, b. Aug. 30, 1808. (Brooks Gen.) Infant, b. and d. Feb. 5, 1810. John Marsh, b. May 7, 1811. Infant twins, b. Sept. 20, 1812; d. soon. Elizabeth, b. Sept. 5, 1813. Noah 8., b. March 20, 1815. 556 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. VI. JOHN MARSH AVADHAMS (s. John, John, Noah, John, John), b. May 7, 1811; m. (1) Oct. 30, 1837, Bnnice W. Hodges of Ton-ington, who d. Aug. 7, 1855; (2) Dec. 2, 1857, Marantha D., widow of Alexander Gillett. She d. at G. Aug. 28, 1895. He d. at G. Oct. 10, 1896. Children, born Goshen. t^arah Jane, b. June 5, 1889; d. June 9, 1842. John Hodges, h. Nov. 30, 1840. iSarah Jane, h. May 24, 1842; d. Jan. 18, 1843. tiarali Jane, b. July 12, 1846. (Lucas Gen.) Julia, b. Sept., 1852. VII. JOHN HODGES WADHAMS (s. John M., John, John, Noah, John, John), b. Nov. 30, 1840; m. Sept. 11, 1865, Mai-y G., dau. of Robert and Alma Pelton. She was b. Torrington Dec. 11, 1846. Children, bom Goshen. Julia E., b. July 6, 1867. John Marsh, b. Sept. 14, 1870; m. May 6, 1896, Annie E. Teuney. Child: John Mai-sh, Jr., b. June 13, 1897. Lucy Burr, b. April 8, 1872. Mary Harriet, b. Feb. 21, 1876. Rohert Pelton, b. Jan. 10, 1879. V. NOAH S. WADHAMS (s. John, John, Noah, John, John), b. March 20, 1815; m. Sept. 9, 1838, Lucy M. Ray, b. March 29, 1819. He d. Nov. 29, 1874. She d. Sept. 19, 1896. Children, bom Goshen. Mary E., b. June 5, 1839; m. Jan. 20, 1859, Ephraim Brewster. He d. Feb. 10, 1864; she d. July 3, 1869. Child: Clarence Nelson, b. AprU 16, 1860; m. . Franklin E. and Francis M. (twins), b. July 17, 1844; Franklin E. m. Nov. 25, 1875, Alice Bamum, who d. . Lucy Octavia, b. Feb. 27, 1849; m. June 24, 1880, J. C. Lester. Henrietta Josephine, b. Jan. 9, 1852. VII. FRANCIS M. WADHAMS (s. Noah S., John, John, Noah, John, John), b. July 17, 1844; m. Dec. 28, 1870, Prances M., dau. of Joseph Palmer. Children, bom Goshen. May Palmier, b. Sept. 30, 1872; m. June 1', 1897, ClifEord P. Thompson. Noah Samuel, b. May 27, 1875. Joseph, Palmer, .b. April 22, 1877. Francis Ray, b. Jan. 22, 1880. V. MOSES WADHAMS (s. Jonathan, Noah, John, John), b. Sept. 17, 1859; m. Jan. 9, 1783, Anne, dau. of Cyprian Collins; d. at G. March 11, 1828; she d. Oct. 80, 1853. EARLY GOSHEN FAMILIES. ,557 Children, born Goshen. Infant, b. and d. Jan. 7, 1784. iiamucl. b. March 18, 1786; m. Feb., ISlli, Olive Towner. Children: Norman Towner, b. Sept. 14, 1813: m. (1) Nov. 6, 1838, Mary Gillett, who d. Aug. 15, 1850; (2) April 16, 1851, Mary R. Whittlesey, who d. July 1, 1877; he d. Aug. 6, 1882. Chil- dren: Delia E.; Samuel H.; Erwin Ray; Frederick E. Del- phine E., b. April 27, 1818; d. Oct. 20, 1837. LucretUi, b. ; m. Silas A. Gray of Sharon; d. at Sharon July 11, 1853. Children: Augustus B.; Ann M.; Betsey E.; Franklin D.; Cyrus AY.; Moses W., b. April 10, 1824. (Gaylord Gen.) Ann, m. Augustus Baldwin. Leiris Collins. Maria, m. Jewett; d. at G. Oct 24, 1819. No children. Moses, b. Aug. 22, 1797; m. Oct. 30, 1828, Louisa, dau. of David Wad- hams; d. July 6, 1833. Children: Moses C, b. Sept. 22, 1829; d. Nov. 17, 184!) : Maria Louisa, b. May 30, 1831; m. Charles Hall Everest, D.D., Feb. 11, 1862. Uri. b. Oct. 27. 1801; m. March 13, 1827, Maiy Ann Page of SalisbuiT; d. Aug. 4, 1859. Children: Mary, b. 1829; d. 1831; Maria, b. Feb. 19, 1831; m. Mav 19, 1852, Joseph F. Lawton; Ann, b. Jlay 14, 1834; Sidney, b. March 9, 1837; Harriet, b. May 22. 1839; William, b. Oct. 12, 1842. Racliel, A. April 9, 1824, aged 15. VI. LEWIS COLLINS WADHAMS (s. Moses, Jonathan, Noah, John, John), b. May 27, 1793; m. Nov. 19, 1819, Lydia Gallup of Groton, Conn.: d. Aug. 27, 1865; she d. Dec. 13, 1883. Children, bom Goshen. Lf»;;.« C, b. Nov. 3. 1821; ni. Marcli 6, 1851, Oula Wadhams of Pitts- field, Mass. Lydia Ann, b. March 8, 1824: m. Nov. 19, 1849, Dwight Gallup of Ledyard, Conn. Moses A., b. Oct. 15, 1826. Maria E.. b. Dec. 6, 1829; m. Sept. Iti, 1851, Ralph I. Scoval. EUn Gallup, b. 1832; d. 1833. Rebecca, b. Dec. 22, 1834; d. 1835. Erastiis Payson, b. Dec. 22, 1839; d. Aug. 17, 1842. VII. MOSES A. WADHAMS (s. Lewis C, Moses, Jonathan, Noah, John, John), b. Oct. 15, 1826; m. Feb. 27, 1856, Harriet N. Allyn of Ledyard, Conn. Children, bom Goshen. Mary E.. b. July 22, 1858; m. Feb. 24, 1897, Emile Thoman. Lewis M., b. March 27, 1860; d. Sept. 11, 1863. William A., b. March 18, 1862; m. Dec. 5, 1888, Hattie Benedict. Chil- dren: Edith, b. Sept. 25, 1889; Moses Allyn, b. March 3, 1892. Liiciii.9 D.. b. Dec. 4, 1863; d. Sept. 17, 1865. E. Austin, b. Dec. 29, 1865; m. Nov. 24, 1891, Susie, dau. of James and Rebecca Vaill. Children: Lewis Ezra, b. Aug. 11, 1892; Alta Rebecca, b. Sept. 12, 1894; James Collins, b. Nov. 4, 1895. 558 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. Anna L., b. Sept. 6, 1872; in. June 1, 1896, Frederick J. Barton. Alta C, b. Aug. 2.5, 1874; m. Frederick J. Vaill, Dee. 25, 1894. Child: Anna Wadhams, b. April 14, 1897. IV. SETH WADHAMS (s. Noah, John, John), b. Nov. 3, 1743; m. June 11, 1767, Anne Catling of Litchfield; d. at G. April 6, 1871; she d. Feb. 9, 1826. Children, bom Goshen. Nunci/, b. Oct. 18, 1767; m. Timothy Child. David, b. March 25, 1769; m. Phebe, dau. of Cyprian Collins. They had sixteen children: Guy, m. Clarissa Chapin; Minerva, m. Samuel Buell; Clarissa, m. George Stanley; Louisa, m. Moses Wadhams; Maria; David, d. in infancy; Anna, m. Homer Collins; Phebe, m. Roswell Carter; David, m. Ruth Crandall; Mortimer, m. Lucy Putnam; Edward, m. JIai-y Ann Young; Carlton, m. Sophia Spellman; Seth, m. Elizabeth McKenney; Jane, m. Heniy Stephens; Collins, m. Mary Cummings; Adeline. Seth, b. 1771; m. (1) Lucy Davis; (2) Dotha Davis, her sister. Chil- dren: William, George, Henry, Frederick, Albert, Lucy Ann. Jesse, b. Aug. 22, 1773; m. Sept. 25, 1795, Polly Hopkins. Children: Ralph; Mark; Mary, m. Doctor Hiram Hunt; Marcus; Miles Hopkins, m. Mai-j' Gill; Jennette, m. James White. Aline, d. young. Anne, m. Samuel Buell, Litchfield. Hem an, m. (1) Mary Goodrich; and (2) another. Stephen, d. in infancy. yorman, b. April 14, 1782; m. (1) Dec. 20, 1809, Patty, dau. of Dr. Joseph North; (2) to Philena Hungerford, who d. Dec. 11, 1858. Children (by first wife): Burr^ b. Sept. 23, 1810; m. Nancy Freeman; James, b. Feb. 4, 1815: m. Sarah L. Oviatt; Catherine, b. May 9, 1816; m. Abner Hard; Lyman L., b. March 20, 1818. (By second wife): Albert D., b. Oct. 6, 1825; Norman, b. June 13, 1827; d. July 25, 1850. PoJly. m. Samuel Ives. VI. JAMES WADHAMS (s. Norman, Seth, Noah, John, John), b. Feb. 4, 1815; m. (1) Sept. 25, 1839, Sarah L. Oviatt, who d. Aug. 9, 1849; (2) Oct. 1, 1850, Fidelia Piatt. Children, bom Goshen. Vri M., b. July 20. 1840; d. Sept. 25. 1863, at Fort Lyon, near Wash- ington, D. C. a soldier in the War of the Rebellion. Frederick L., b. Dec. 4, 1842; m. June 19, 1870, Sarah M. Goodwin. Children: Frederick Uri, b. Dec. 6. 1871; Sanford H., b. March 20, 1S74; Herbert Gold, b. April 30, 1877; Clarence Goodwin, b. June 13, 1886. Abner E.. b. May 29, 1844; m. Mav 13, 1873, Hattie P. Thomson. Children: Sarah L., b. Oct. Hi, 1876; Darius T., b. May 26, 1878: Jennie L., b. April 14, 1887. James Sanford. b. Oct. 10, 1848; d. 1870. Orlo E.. b. Aug. 26, 1852: m. Nellie Kimberly. Arthur N., b. Sept. 8, 1854. KARLY GOSHEN FAMILIES. 559 VIII. ERWIN R. WADHAMS (s. Norman T., Samuel, Jloses, Jonathan, Noah, John, John), b. Aug. 1, 1855; m. April 18, 1878, Amy F. Tuttle of Torrington. Ohildren, born Torrington. Ada France.^ b. Sept. 30, 1882. Ray Eliert, b. Feb. 24, 1887; d. March 22, 1887. Edith Ray, b. April 20, 1892. V. ABRAHAM WADHAMS (s. Jonathan, Noah, John, John), b. Sept 24. 175t>: m. Jan. 15, 1778, Tryphena Collins, who d. July 21, 1825; he d. Oct. 31, 1834. Children, born Goshen. Myni, b. Jan. 10, 1779: m. Josiah Bartholomew. Luiiian, b. Sept. 17. 1781: m. AVidow Lucy Prindle. Had six chil- dren, all of whom resided in the state of New York. Timothy, b. Nov. 15. 1783; m. Maria Denison; d. at G. Sept., 1839. Had four children, who removed West. Hoali. b. Oct. 22, 1785; m. Chloe Wilson. Abraham, b. Sept. 14, 1787: m. April 5, 1810, Anne Ransom. Ohil- dren: Lucia Ann, b. Aug. 2, 1811; m. Earl Johnson; Elvira Adeline, b. April 14, 1814; m. Moses Smith; Mabel Jane, b. Jan. 31, 1819; m. Darius B. Cook; Wallace W., b. May 5, 1821; m. Oct 26, 1842, Huldah Loverige; d. Nov. 5, 1848; Walstein C, b. Sept. 30, 1824; m. Mary A. Bishop. Jonathan, b. March 10, 1790; m. Olive Norton; removed to N. Y. Luci/, b. Feb. 2, 1792; m. John Beach. Eihcin, b. March 18, 1795; m. May 22, 1828, Mary Tuttle; d. Aug. 14, 1865; she d. March 15, 1879. Cbildren, b. G.: Martha A., b. April 4, 1829; m. George E. Bidwell; Henry W., b. Aug. 14, 1831: m. Mary Warner; d. March 26, 1864, near the North Anna River, Ya.: a soldier in the War of the Rebellion; Cap- tain Luman, b. Dec. 31, 1834: m. Louise Baldwin; was wounded at battle of Cold Harbor, June 1, 1864, and d. June 3, 1864, at White House, Va.; Edward, b. April 15, 1837; d. at Fort Darling, Ya., May 16, 1864, a soldier in the War of the Rebellion; Frederick' F., b. Sept. 8, 1841; m. Eliza A. Buell; Francis F., b. Sept. 8, 1841. Alrira, b. June 27, 1797; m. John Parker; settled in Vienna, N. Y. Had fifteen children. Orlando, b. June 30, 1799; m. (1) Eliza Pickett; (2) Martha S. Pickett. Had six children. VI. JONATHAN WADHAMS (s. Jonathan, Jonathan, Noah, John, John), b. Dec. 3, 1820; m. Feb. 22, 1842, Ann P., dau. T. Allen Lucas. Children, born Goshen. Willard Norton, b. Feb. 16, 1843; enlisted in Co. C, Nineteenth Conn. Reg., was chosen corporal; d. in Celestia Hospital, Phila- delphia, Aug. C, 1862; buried in Hospital Cemeterj', "No. 121." Benrn Augustus, b. Feb. 26, 1847; d. 1868. Jonathan E., b. Jan. 1, 1856. 560 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. WILLOiUGHBY. I. JOHN WILJ:.0UGHBY, m. Oct. 2, 1728, Mai-y Dibble. The Dibble family lived in the south part of G. His first purchase here was made Dee. 2, 1741, from Asa Hill; 20 acres in the southeast part of the town, a part of the " Squire's Farms." He sold this place to John Dibble, June 4, 1746. On Jan. 31, 1751, he deeded to his wife all his right to any lands in G. At the time of the sale to Dibble he had removed to the northwest part of the town. On March 21, 1'753, he, with his wife, joined in a quitclaim of all then- land in G. to John, their son. Children. Jolin, b. June 28, 1729; m. Dec. IS, 1753, Olive Smith. Children: John, b. Nov. 5, 1754; settled in Shrewsbury, Vt.; Samuel, b. Nov. 22, 1756; m. Prudence Doming, dau. of Wait; both living in Goshen in 1802; Olive, b. Sept. 2, 1758; m. Ephraim Towner; Salmon, b. Sept. 22, 1762: settled first in Cornwall, later, 1814, in Sheffield, Mai^s.; 'Slavj, b. Feb. 25, 1764; m. Ebenezer Young, and lived in Arlington, Vt.; Zerah, b. Feb. 10, 1767; was member of Assembly for Fletcher, Vt., in 1818; judge of Supreme Court and chief judge for several years before his death, in 1821; Amherst, b. Oct. 1, 1769; was in Huntington in 1808, and in 1815 in Shrewsbury, Vt.; Huldah, b. March 20, 1773; m. Melzah Howe, Goshen. Josiah, b. Aug. 30, 1731; d. Goshen Dec. 31, 1804. Mary, b. Aug. 2, 1734. William, b. Feb. 25, 1737. Westal, b. March 31, 1739; m. June 5, 1764, Ruth Arnold. Children: David, b. Dee. 8, 1764; Nancy, b. March 13, 1767; m. .Tonah. s. David Butler; Westal, b. Nov. 20, 1769; physician Herki- mer Co., N. Y. ; In Congress, 1815-17; founded town of Wil- loughby, Ohio; Arnold, b. Oct. 9, 1771; Ruth, b. Ap-'' 18. 1776; Ebenezer, b. Mav 6, 1778; Lvdia. b. Mav 30, 1780: "'^annah, b. Nov. 11, 1782; Sarah, b. Feb. 11, 1785; William, b. May 14, 1787. All b. in Goshen. Samuel, h. April 10, 1741; d. Oct. 9, 1751. Am.l)rose, b. Sept. 30, 1743; d. Oct. 7, 1751. The two brothers, .John and Westal, were flourishing In their families, and In business in G. They were large landholders in the northern part of the town, and at the " West side." WRIGHT. I. JOHN WRIGHT. Esquire, Lord of Kelvedon Manor, County Essex. England, who acquired Kelvedon by purchase in 1538, and died Oct. 5, I:".")!. Jlnnied Olive . Arms: Aziuv. two bars argent, in chief ■ a leopard's head, or. Crest: Upon a ducal coronet a dragon's head and neck, couped, or. EARLY GOSHEN FAMILIES. 561 II. ROBERT WRIGHT, Esquire (s. John), of Brook Hall, or " The Moat House," South Weald, County Essex, England; Lord of the Manor of Great and Little Ropers; was buried Jan. 25, 1557-8. Married Mary Green, dau. Robert Green of Navestock, County Es- sex, England. III. THOMAS WRIGHT, Esquire (s. Robert, John), of Brook Hall, or "The Moat House," South Weald, County Essex, England; was buried Oct. 21, 1617. Married Pake, who was buried Nov. 17, 1603. ly. JOHN WRIGHT, Esq. (s. Thomas, Robert, John), of Brook Hall, or " The Moat House," South Weald, County Essex, England; was bap. Sept. 13, 1577; was buried May 30, 1640. Married Grace Glascock, dau. Henry Glascock of High Ea,ster Parsonage, County Essex, England. V. THOMAS WRIGHT, Esq. (s. John, Thomas, Robert, John), was born in England and was bap. Nov. 19, 1610; emigrated to America, coming first, probably, to Watertown, Mass., and settled at Wethersfield, Conn., sometime before 1640, probably about 1639. He was a deputy to the General Court of Conn, in 1643, and was a man of influence and high social standing in the colony. His princi- pal estate was on an island in the Connecticut River, known as "Wright's Island," called by the Indians " Manhannock," (" Great ' Laughing Place "), where he owned land as early as 1640. This land is no longer an island, the river having changed its channel. In 1792 it was taken from Wethersfield and annexed to Glastonbury, by a resolution of the General Assembly. Part of this land, owned by Thomas Wright in 1640, has ever since and still is (1897) owned by his lineal male descendants. Thomas Wright died at Wethers- field in April, 1670. The name of his first wife, the mother of his children, is not now known. He m. (2) sometime after May 1, 1647, Margaret , widow of John Elson. She d. in 1670, without is- sue.* VI. Deacon JOSEPH WRIGHT (s. Thomas, John, Thomas, Robert, John), of Wethersfield, Conn., was b. in 1039. His ofiice of Deacon in those days, the title of which appears commonly to have been attached to his name, indicates that he was a man of character and influence, and that he occupied a high social position. He owned land on the east side of the Connecticut River, subsequently * The records of the English generations are taken from a chart compiled in 1881, by Mr. William E. Wright of Rome, N. Y., from notes taken from English records by F. Markoe A'S'right, M.D., of New York, in 1870. 36 562 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. a part of* Glastonbury. He died at Wethersfield Dec. 17, 1714, and was buried at that place. He m. (1) at Wethersfield, Dec. 10, 1663, Mary (dau. of John and Mary Foote Stoddard), who was b. May 12, 1043. 'Note. — Mary Foote Stoddard, the mother of Mary Stoddard AVright, was b. about 1623, and was a dau. of Nathaniel Foote, Sr.. and his wife, Elizabeth Deming, sister of John Deming, Sr., of "Wethersfield. Nathaniel Foote. Sr., was b. about 1593. Elizabeth Deming was b. in England about 1595, and was m. to Nathaniel Foote, Sr., in 1615, in England. Nathaniel Foote, Sr., d. in 1644. and his widow, Elizabeth Deming Foote, afterwards married Thomas Welles, who was for many years Governor of Conn. She d. July 28, 1683. Mary Foote, dau. of Elizabeth Deming and her first husband, Nathaniel Foote, Sr., was m. to John Stoddard in 1642. John Stoddard d. in Dec, 1664. His widow, Mary Foote Stoddard, m. John Goodrich, Sr., widower, of Wethersfield, in April, 1674. There were no children by this marriage; and John Good- rich, Sr., d. in April, 1680. Mary Foote Stoddard Goodrich after- wards m. Lieut. Thomas Tracy of Norwich, Conn., who d. Nov. 7, 1685. Mary Stoddard, the first wife of Deacon Joseph Wright, d. at Wethersfield Aug. 23, 1683; and he m. (2) March 10, 1685, Mercy Stoddard, who was b. in Nov., 1652, a sister of his first wife. His second wife survived him. VII. JOHN WRIGHT (s. Joseph, Thomas, John, Thomas, Robert, John), was b. at Wethersfield May 19, 1679, s. of Deacon Joseph Wright and Mary Stoddard, his first wife; d. at Wethersfield March 8, 1714, less than 35 years of age. He m. at Wethersfield, July 4, 1706, Mercy Boardman, who was b. July 4, 1687, dau. of Lieut., then Ensign, Jonathan Boardman and Mercy Hubbard, his wife. 'Note. — Lieut. Jona. Boardman, the father of Mercy Boardman Wright, was b. Feb. 4, 1661; m. Mercy Hubbard Oct. 22, 1685, at Wethersfield; and he d. at W. Sept. 21, 1712. He was a son of Samuel Boardman and Mary , his wife, who settled in Ipswich, Mass., in 1639. He subsequently moved to Wethersfield, where he was a freeman as early as 1669. He d. in 1673. Mercy Hubbard Boardman was a dau. of John Hubbard of Hatfield — Wethersfield. His parents were George Hubbard and Mai-y , his wife, who came from England about 1635, and settled at Wethersfield. George Hubbard moved from W. to Milford, Conn., in 1639, on the settle- ment of Milford, and subsequently moved to Guilford, Conn., as early as Oct. 6, 1650. He d. in Jan., 1683. VIII. Lieutenant JOHN WRIGHT (s. John, Joseph, Thomas, John, Thomas, Robert, ,Tohn), of Wethersfield, Goshen, and Winches- ter (Winsted), Conn., was b. at Wethersfield May 31. 1709; bap. at W. June 5, 1709; moved from W. to Goshen, Conn., between Dec. 12, EARLY GOSHEiN FAMlLIEiS. 563 1740, and Dec. 14, 1741; deeded land in W. to John Morton Dec. 12, 1740, as " John Wright of W."; deeded land in W. (in Stepney Parish, now Rocky Hill), to Samuel Williams, 2d, June 8, 1742, as " John AVright of Goshen" (see Wethersfleld Records); bought land of Joseph Bird (one-half of his right), in Goshen Aug. is, 1740, as " John Wright of Wethersfield " (see Goshen Records); was first chosen to an office in Goshen (surveyor of highways) Dec. 14, 1741; and his earliest recorded survey in Goshen is dated Dec. 20, 1742. He bought lands on both sides of West Street, in Goshen, and, as early as Dec. 1, 1743, was living in his house, which there is no doubt he built, on the west side of the road, a short distance south from the house subsequently occupied by Truman Starr. He sold this place June 21, 1747, to Samuel Price of Wethersfield, and, July 17, 1747, bought of Moses Harris fifty acres situated west of what was formerly known as Canada Village, now West Goshen. His house was on the rise of land, on the north side of the highway, about eighty rods west from the bridge in West Goshen. This house was built by him, and stood at that place until taken down a few j'ears ago. At the top of the chimney of this house was a stone marked " J. W., 1766," which is now in the possession of Mr. Henry G. Wright of Goshen, a great-great-grandson of Lieut. John Wright. The brick house now (1897) occupied by Mr. Henry 6. Wright was biiilt in 1787 by Lieut. Wright's son. Captain Jahee WrigM, and stand about three-quarters of a mile from the site of the house last mentioned as having been built by Lieut. Wright. The house built by Captain Jaiez Wright passed to his son Asaph, and from him to his son Edward, from whom it passed to Edward's son, Henry G. Wright, the present owner. Lieut. John Wright also owned the lot of fifty acres laid out by Benjamin Frisbie, and the buildings, mills, etc., in Goshen. In March, 1759, he was appointed by the General Assembly of Conn, second Lieutenant of Gaptam Tarball Whitney's (Tenth) Company, In Colonel David Wooster's (Third) Connecticut Regiment, in the French and Indian War (Colonial Records of Conn., Vol. XI, p. 228 [158]). Note. — Mrs. Antoinette M. Stevens of East Canaan, Conn., a lineal descendant from a brother of Captain Tarball Whitney, has two old manuscript books, left by Captain Whitney, relating to the campaign of 1759, which give us information about the service of Lieut. John Wright in this campaign. One contains the " Weekly Returns " and " Victualling Returns " of Capt. Whitney's Company throughout the campaign; and the other is a book of accounts be- tween Capt. Whitney and the officers and men of his company, the captain having acted as paymaster of his own company. The latter book contains many interesting signatures to the settlement of ac- counts, and many familiar Connecticut family names. Beside the accounts and signatures of Lieutenants Hezekiah Baldwin and John Wright, and of Ensign Ebenezer Dibble, we have the names, and, in 564 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. nearly all cases, the signatures of 83 non-commissioned officers and privates, including the name of " Drumr." Asaph Wright, who was the eldest son of Lieut. John Wright. From this book we learn that Lieut. John Wright was credited with 36 weeks and 4 days in service in this campaign (this being the longest time credited to any mem- ber of the company), and that his pay was at the rate of £5 per month. We also learn that Asaph had to pay 3s. 4d. for " 1 bayonet not returned." From the *' Weekly Returns " of the company we learn that, by order of Colonel Wooster, Lieut. John Wright was on detached service — " To keep garrison at Fort Miller," from June 17th until sometime between Nov. 3d and Nov. 11th — the return of the latter date showing that Lieut. Wright had " joyned." The returns show that during this time the company was at Lake George, Ticon- deroga, and Crown Point. Some of the great-great-grandchildren of Lieut. John Wright now (1897) have several silver buttons at- tached to pieces of the uniform waistcoat worn by him during his service as an officer in the French and Indian War, which valued relics have descended in the family. On March 24, 1769, Lieut. John Wright sold his real estate in Goshen to Jonathan Buell, of the south part of the town. He may not have sold all of his real estate in Goshen at this time. In any event, at the time of his death he owned land in G., mentioned in his will. In 1769 or 1770 he moved with his family from G. to Winsted, in the town of Winchester, Conn., and settled on the northeast side of the Old North Road, near the Colebrook line, on the site of the homestead subsequently occupied by Edward and Edwin Rowley. Lieut. John Wright at this time had five sons living, named, re- spectively, Jabee, Charles, John, David, and Freedom. All of these, except Jabez, who continued to reside in Goshen until his death, moved with their father to Winsted, or moved to that place at about that time, and lived near him and near each other. Their lands were on the borders of and near a small lake or pond, and an outlet there- from, about half a mile south from the Colebrook line. From one of several old deeds, which, with other old family papers and docu- ments, have descended to and are now in the possession of George M. "\\^right, Esq., of Akron, Ohio (a great-great-grandson of Lieut. John Wright), it appears that Lieut. W. and his son Jabee had pur- chased 120 acres of land in Winchester (Winsted), from Joseph Rock- well, previous to April 19, 1770, of which each owned one-half in common and undivided. On the date last mentioned Jabez con- veyed his undivided one-half of this land (60 acres) to his brother John, described in this deed as " John Wright, Jr., of said Goshen." Another of these old deeds, dated March 31, 1775, gives us the rela- tive locations of the lands of Lieut. John Wright's sons in Winsted. This is a deed from Lieut. John Wright to his Bon John, Jr. The signature of Lieut. John Wright to this deed, and also his signature, as it appears elsewhere, is written in a plain, bold hand, like that of a person accustomed to the use of a pen. After the death of Lieut. EARLY GQSHEN FAMILIES. 665 Wright's son David, in the Continental Army, in 1776, the estate left by the latter was settled by agreement between his heirs. The original deed of settlement (now in the possession of George M. Wright, Esq.), dated Dec. 20, 1778, and executed by Jabem Wright, Charles Wright, Dorcas Thompson, and Elisha Thompson, and Lucy Rockwell and Elijah Rockwell, states that David Wright died in April, 1776, " seized of an estate in lands and chattels," " and dyed intestate and without any heirs of his body begotten, whereupon sd estate falls by law to the portion and share of his surviving brethren and sisters the subscribers hereof, viz.: Jaiez Wright and Dorcas, the wife of Elisha Thompson, all of Goshen in sd County, John Wright, Charles Wright, and Freedom Wright, all of Winchestei: in sd County, Mercy, the wife of Ebenezer Shepherd, and Lucia, the wife of Elijah RocfeweU of Oolebrook in sd County, and the sd heirs being desirous to settle and divide sd estate," etc.; and then follows an agreement and deed by which John, Jr. (son of Lieut. John), and Freedom, his brother, covenant and agree to pay all the debts due from David's estate, and to make certain payments to the other heirs ; in considera- tion of which the other heirs convey and release all their interest in David's estate to John, Jr., and Freedom. Note. — We find no authority anywhere for adding " Moses " and " Samuel " to the list of names of Lieut. John Wright's children, as found in Deacon Lewis M. Norton's " Goshen Records," which have been followed by the Hon. John Boyd in his " Annals of Winchester." The original deed of settlement of David Wright's estate is a docu- ment, the authority of which cannot be questioned; and the names of Lieut. Wright's children, as given in this deed, are the same as those found in his will, and also in the town records of Goshen, ex- cept that the Goshen records give the name " Mary " instead of "Mercy"; and they also give the record of the birth of "Asaph," June 10, 1735, who, no doubt, died prior to the execution of the deed of settlement of David's estate. The will of Lieut. John Wright gives the name " Lucia," the same as it is written in the body of the deed of settlement, while this daughter signs the deed as " Lucy Rockwell." The Goshen records, for some reason, omit the birth of Lucia or Lucy. Samuel and Moses Wright, whom Dea. Norton be- lieved to have been sons of Lieut. John Wright, both left children, and if Samuel and Moses had been children of Lieut. John, their children would surely have been named in the deed of settle- ment of David's estate, and probably would have been mentioned in Lieut. Wright's will, even had Samuel and Moses both died previous to the execution of these instruments. And no child of Lieut. John Wright named " Samuel " or " Moses " is mentioned In any known paper or record, and there Is no family tradition of any such " Sam- uel " or " Moses." All of Lieut. John Wright's children born pre- vious to 1741 were, probably, bom in Wethersfield, although the early records of Goshen give their names and the dates of their births, except in the case of Lucia or Lucy. 566 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. Lieut. John ^^' right was " moderator " of the first society meet- lug held in Winsted, March 17, 1778; and from what papers and rec- ords are left relating to him he seems to have been a man of promi- nence and influence; which is also true of each of his five sous, who were living when he moved to Winsted. Of his eldest son Asaph we know little more than the fact that he served as a di-ummer in his father's company during the campaign of 1759 in the French and In- dian War. When and where he died is not now known; but he must have died previous to the execution of the deed of settlement of his brother David's estate, Feb. 20, 1778. His five remaining sons, and, also, a son-in-law, Ebenezer Shepherd, husband of Mercy W., all rendered military service for their country in the War of the Revo- lution. David died in the service. They all seem to have been very public spirited and patriotic, and much interested in military af- fairs. Beside their service in the War of the Revolution, the four surviving sons served as officers of militia in Conn. — Jabez, Charles, and John, Jr., as captains, and Freedom, as Lieutenant. Of these families we find it recorded in Boyd's Annals of Winchester (p. 265), that " The Wrights were a highly intelligent, studious family; sup- porters of religion and good order, and earnest patriots in the revo- lutionary struggle." Lieut. John Wright d. at Winsted in Nov., 1784, and is believed to have been buried in the adjoining town of Colebrook. His will was dated Nov. 16, 1784, and was admitted to probate at Norfolk, Conn., Dec. 24, 1784. In this will the testator devises and be- queaths property to his " beloved wife Prudence," to his sons Jabez, Charles, John, and Freedom, and to his daughters, Dorcas, Mercy, and Lucia; and, besides his property in Winchester, he mentions 17I/2 acres of land in Goshen, " lying near Ivy Mountain," which he de- vises to Jahce, upon his paying a certain legacy to Dorcas, and also mentions his right and title " to the Roxbury mines," which he de- vises to Jabee and Freedom. His sons, Charles and Freedom, were named as executors of this will. He m. Prudence, dau. of Benjamin Deming of Middletown and Goshen (West Side), Conn. She d. Feb. 1, 1799, at Winsted; and it is believed that she was buried at Colebrook. Note. — Benjamin Deming, bom at Wethersfleld, Conn., July 20, 1684, the father of Prudence Deming Wright, was a son of Jonathan Deming, who was born at Wethersfleld in 1639, and his second wife, Elizabeth Gilbert, dau. of Josiah Gilbert. Benjamin Deming m. Mai-y , Feb. 4, 1706, at Wethersfleld. Jonathan Deming and Elizabeth Gilbert were m. at W. Dec. 25, 1673; he d. at W. Jan. 8, 1699-1700; and she d. at the same place Sept. 3 or 4, 1714. The father of Jonathan Deming was John Deming, Sr., who was one of the earliest settlers at W., in 1635, and was one of the patentees named in the charter of Conn, from King Charles II, April 23, 1662. He d. at W., 1705; his will was proved Nov. 21, 1705. The mother of EARLY GOSHEN FAMILIES. 667 Jouatliau Derning was Houoi- Treat, who was m. to Jolin Deming, Sr., about Hi37. She was b. in England in 1616; bap. March 19, 1615-16, in Pitminster, Somersetshire, England, and was the eldest child of Kichard Treat, Sr., and his wife, Alice Gaylard, dan. of Hugh Gay- lard. Richard Treat, Sr., was b. at Pitminster, Somersetshire, Eng- land, in 1584; was m. at the same place to Alice Gaylaru, April 27, 1615; came to America between June 29, 1637, and 1639; settled at Wethersfleld, Conn., as early as 1641; and was one of the patentees named in the charter of Conn. He d. at Wethersfleld in 1669-70. Honor Treat Deming's brother, Robert Treat, was governor of Conn, for many years. Prudence Deming, wife of Lieut. John Wright, was a great-granddaughter of John Deming, Sr., whose sistec Eliza- beth Deming Foote was the great-great-gi-andmother of Lieut. John Wright. IX. DORCAS WRIGHT (dau. Lieut. John), was b. at Wethers- field, Conn., Sept. 9, 1733; m. Elisha Thompson, s. Deacon Gideon Thompson (see Thompson Gen.), and d. at Goshen April 17, 1812. IX. ASAPH WRIGHT (s. John, John, Joseph, Thomas, John, Thomas, Robert, John), was b. at Wethersfleld, Conn., June 10, 1735; served as a drummer in Capt. Tarball Whitney's (10th) Co., Col. David Wooster's (3d) Connecticut Regiment (in the same company in which his father was a lieut.), in the campaign of 1759, in the French and Indian War; and d. before Dee. 20, 1778. IX. Captain JABEZ WRIGHT (s. John, John, Joseph, Thomas, John, Thomas, Robert, John), was b. at Wethersfleld, Conn., July 4, 1737; m. Feb. 11, 1767, Martha, dau. of Samuel and Mercy Stanley Baldwin; b. Jan. 22, 1749. Capt. Wright d. at Goshen March 21, 1813. Children, born Goshen. Freelove, b. Jan. 1, 1768; m. Silas Pratt; resided Canaan, N. Y. Martha, b. March 24, 1770; m. Truman (or Freeman) Merrill of Litch- field. Asaph, b. Jan. 3, 1772; m. Prudence More of Torringford. SyUl, b. March 4, 1776; m. Bazil Upson. In the War of the Revolution Capt. Jabez Wright was a member of Capt. Stephen Goodwin's Co. of Goshen, raised to go to New York, and he also served as captain of a company of Conn, militia in Col. Epaps. Sheldon's regiment, which company turned out to repel the enemy at New Haven, July 5, 1779. In the brick house buUt by him in 1787, now (1897) occupied by his great-grandson, Henry G.' Wright, was delivered the first sermon preached by a Jlethodist in Goshen, Dec. 31, 1797; and the first Methodist quarterly meeting held in Goshen was in the bam of Capt. Wright in July, 1798. 568 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. IX. Captaiu CHARLES WRIGHT (s. John, John, Joseph, Thomas, John, Thomas, Robert, John), was b. at Wethersfleld Sept. 3, 1739; m. Nov. 11, 1767, Ruth, dan. of John Smith. Children. Tyrannus, b. March 20, 1768, at Goshen. Sarah, b. at Goshen Jan. 29, 1770. Charles, b. at Winchester (Winsted) July 28, 1774. Stephen, b. at Winchester (Winsted) August 18, 1776. Tyrannus Augustus, b. at ^Vinchester (Winsted) Feb. 6, 1779. Ruth, b. at Winchester (Winsted) April 30, 1781; m. Twitchell 'in the " Black River Countiy," New York. Erastus, b. ; d. Aug. 28, 1786. Erastus, b. Winchester (Winsted) May 28, 1787. Chester, b. at Winchester (Winsted) Nov. 10, 1789; m. Abigail Davis. Nathan, b. at Winchester (Winsted) May 17, 1792. Matthew Miles, bap. at Winchester (Winsted) July 30, 1797. To this list of children a family manuscript adds the name of a daughter Lydia, who is said to have married William Merriam of Winsted. In the War of the Revolution Charles Wright served as a private in Capt. Seth Smith's Co., which marched from the town of New Hartford, Conn., for the relief of Boston in the " Lexington Alarm," April, 1775; and also as a sergeant in Capt. John Sedgwick's Co., Colonel Benjamin Hinman's (4th) Conn. Continental Regiment, in 1775, at Crown Point, Ticonderoga, St. Johns, Chamblee, and other places. Moved from Goshen to Winsted about 1770. Here he served as captain of Conn, militia, but there is no record of his services as captain in the War of the Revolution. In Feb., 1802, he sold his farm in Winchester, and in the same year moved to Champion, Jefferson County, New York — to the " Black River Coun- try," as it was then called. IX. Captain JOHN WRIGHT (s. John, John, Joseph, Thomas, John, Thomas, Robert, John), was b. at Goshen Jan. 22, 1743; m. (1) Aug. 14, 1770, Lydia Mason, who d. Nov. 11, 1771, without issue; (2) March 24, 1774, Sarah, dau. of Lieut Asahel and Dorotha Phelps Case, his wife, of Norfolk, Conn. She d. and was buried at Tall- madge, Ohio, Feb. 14, 1826, aged 68 years. Capt. Wright d., and was buried at Tallmadge, July 29, 1825. Children, born at Winchester (Winsted). Lydia Mason, b. Jan. 19, 1775; m. Luman Beach (b. 1778), of Cole- brook, Conn. ; moved to the " Genesee Country " in New York in 1801; moved to Morgan, Ohio, in 1803; to Wadsworth, Ohio, in 1834; d. Jan. 23, 1848. Her husband d. Dec. 29, 1837. Infant, b. Sept. 16, 1777; d. 1777. David, b. Aug. 16, 1778; d. Sept. 1, 1784. John, b. Jan. 11, 1780; moved from Winchester to Morgan, Ohio, in EARLY GOSHEN FAMILIES. 569 1802; m. June 12, 1804, Saloma Gillett; moved to Tallmadge, Ohio, in 1809; d. at Tallmadge July 31, 1844. Amos Case, h. Sept. 5, 1782; was a physician. Went to Ohio in 1801; returned to Conn.; returned again to Ohio with his father in 1802, and settled in Vernon (then Smithfield), Trumbull Counjty, Ohio; m. in Nov., 1804, Lydia Avei"y Kinney, b. at Egremont, JIass., March 26, 1780, dan. of Rev. Aarou Kin- ney; removed to Tallmadge, Ohio, In 1808; served as an assistant surgeon in the War of 1812; d. May 19, 1845, at Tallmadge. His wife d. at T. May 9, 1854. SaJly. b. April 16, 1785; moved from Winchester to Morgan, Ohio, in 1802; m. Feb. 25, 1804, Quintus Flaminius Atkins; resided at Jefferson, Ashtabula County, Ohio; d. at Brooklyn, Ohio, Feb. 27, 1853. Her husband served as an officer in the War of 1812; d. Nov., 1858. Dand, b. July 27, 1787; moved from Winchester to Morgan, Ohio, in 1802; m. Jan. 1, 1810, Laura Knowlton, who was b. Sept. 21, 1788; served as an officer in the War of 1812; d. at Morgan May 15, 1879. Alpha, b. Dec. 26, 1789; moved from Winchester to Morgan, Ohio, in 1802; moved to Tallmadge in 1809; m. Dec. 12, 1811, Lucy Foster, b. at Hanover, New Hampshire, June 15, 1790, dau. of Jacob and Sarah Wheeler Foster, formerly of Lincoln, Mass, Xote. — Jacob Foster took part in the fight at Concord Bridge, and in the manning fight between Concord and Charlestown, April 19, 1775, where his hat was pierced by a British bullet. He was b. at Ipswich, Mass., July 15, 174G, s. of Jonathan Foster, who was b. at Ipswich May 2. 1705, s. of Isaac Foster, who was b. at Ipswich in 1656, s. of Reginald Foster, who was b. in England in 1636, s. of Reginald and Judith Foster, who came from England, probably from Exeter, Devonshire, and settled at Ipswich, Mass., about 1638. Alpha Wright served as a sergeant in the War of 1812; was com- missioned Ensign April 18, 1814, before the war closed, but not while he was in active service. He d. at Tallmadge March 1, 1856: and his wife d. at the same place Sept. 30, 1875. Arti.% b. April 25, 1791; d. Aug. 25, 1791. Capt. John Wright served as a private in the War of the Revolu- tion, in Capt. Edward Shipman's (6th) Co., Ool. Charles Webb's (7th) Conn. Continental Regiment, from July 15, 1775, to Dec. 18, 177.">; also in Capt. Robert AVarner's Co., Col. Samuel Wyllys' (3d) Regiment Conn. Line, Oct. 14, 1777, to Nov. 4, 1781; and in Capt. Robert Warner's Co., Col. John Durkee's (1st) Regiment Conn. Line, paid from Jan. 1, 1781, to Dec. 31, 1781. Served in the Conn, militia both before and after the War of the Revolution, and was commis- sioned, Nov. 2, 1785, as ensign, and Nov. 1, 1791, as captain of the 8th Co., 25th Regiment. In 1802 he sold his farm in Winchester, and, in June of the same year, left with his family for the Conn. Western Reserve, in Ohio. Settled in Morgan, O., in July, 1802; in 1809, moved from Morgan to Tallmadge, only two years after the arrival there of the first white settler. His four sons and one of his 570 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. daughters accompanied their parents to Ohio, ajid his sons, John, Amos Case, and Alpha, also settled in Tallmadge in 1808 and 1809. In the War of 1812, his four sons and one son-in-law (Q. F. Atkins), served in the army. IX. DAVID WRIGHT (s. John, John, Joseph, Thomas, John, Thomas, Robert, John), was b. at Goshen Sept. 3, 1746. In the War of the Revolution served as a private in Oapt. John Sedgwick's Co., Ool. Benjamin Hinman's (4th) Oomi. Continental Regiment, in 1775; and d. in service in April, 1776. IX. Lieutenant FREEDOM WRIGHT (s. John, John, Joseph, Thomas, John, Thomas, Robert, John), was b. at Goshen July 3, 1749; m. (1) at Winchester Sept. 1, 1777, Anna Horton, who d. Sept. 18, 17S8; (2) Aug. 10, 1789, Phebe Turner, who d. in 1793; and a family manuscript states that he m. (3) Jenisha Sheldon of New Hartford, Conn., by whom he raised a large family. The names of the children by his third marriage are not given, unless the last two named in the following list were children by this third wife. Children, by first wife, born Winchester. Asa Douglass, b. Sept. 18, 1778. Jabeg, b. Feb. 6, 1780; m. Ruggles; subsequently, lived near the Huron River in Ohio. Lucy, b. March 29, 1782; m. Abijah Wilson, ,Tr., in Winsted. Abigail, b. July C, 1784. Freedom,, b. Sept. 25, 1787; d. same day. Freedom, b. Sept. 13, 1788; d. same day. Children, by second wife, born Winchester. Anna, b. March 16, 1790. Freedom, b. Sept. 29, 1791; d. Oct. 20, 1791. Freedom, b. Oct. 6, 1792. The family manuscript above referred to adds the names Hiram and Sheldon to the list of children, but does not state by which wife. In the War of the Revolution he served as a private in Capt. Seth Smith's Co., which marched from the town of New Hartford for the relief of Boston in the " Lexington Alarm," April, 1775; and also as a private in Capt. John Sedgwick's Co., Col. Benja- min Hinman's (4th) Conn. Continental Regiment, in 1775. Moved from Goshen to Winsted about 1770. Served as lieut. of Conn, militia, but there is no record of his service as lieut. in the War of the Revolution. In 1802 he sold his farm in Winchester, ajQd, with his family and his brother Chai-les and family, removed to Jefferson County, New York, called the " Black River Country." EARLY GOSHEN FAMILIES. 571 IX. MERCY WRIGHT (dau. Lieutenant John), was b. at G. Sept. t>, 1751; m. Ebenezer Shepliercl, who moved from Goshen to \\'iusted in 1771, and bought lands in Winsted bordering on the Colebrook line, and on the road to Colebrook. Boyd, in " Annals of A^'inchester,'" states that In 1775 he sold this land to David Crissey, and moved to Colebrook. In the War of the Revolution he marched for the relief of Boston in the " Lexington Alarm," April, 1775, and also served in Capt. John Sedgwick's Co., Col. Benjamin Hinman's (,1th) Conn. Continental Regiment, In 1775, at Crown Point, Ticon- deroga, etc. On the march through the wilderness they suffered severely, having been compelled to roast old shoes, leather breeches, etc., for food. The only names of children of Mercy Wright Shepherd and Ebenezer Shepherd that we have are the following, taken from Boyd's " Annals of Winchester ": Prudence, b. June S, 1771. VaroUne, b. July 26, 1773. IX. LUCIA or "LUCY" WRIGHT (dau. Lieut. John), b. at Goshen Oct. 7, 175G; m. Elijah Rockwell, Esq., the first justice of the peace and town clerk of Colebrook, Conn- The Goshen town records do not give the date of the birth of Lucia Wright. The date given here is taken from Boyd's " Annals of Winchester," but a family manuscript, which is not considered as very accurate, .states that she was born in 1740, at Wethersfleld. X. ASAPH WRIGHT (s. Jabez, John, John, Joseph, Thomas, John, Thomas, Robert, John), b. at Goshen Jan. 3, 1772; m. Prudence More of Torringfords d. at G. May 3, 1827; she d. at G. Sept. 15, 1846. Children, born Goshen. Canfleld, b. 1797; d. at Goshen Dec. 6, 1851. aUas, physician, b. ; m. ; d. . Jolm, b. 1801; d. Dee. 2, 1858. Edward, b. April 7, 1804; m. May . , 1824, Phebe Way; d. Dec. 4, 188C. Edmund, b. April 7, 1804; d. Oct. 25, 1865. Dr. Albert, b. March 14, 1808; m. Cowles of No. Canaan; d. at Canaan, May 14, 1880. William, b. 1810; d. March 11, 1843. . X. SYBIL WRIGHT (dau. Jabez, John), b. March 4, 1776; m. Bazil Upson. She d. Oct. 25, 1837. Both d. in Goshen. Children, bom Goshen. Freelove, b. ; m. Asahel Parsons. Lodema, b. ; m. Elisha Hotehkiss; d. Aug. , 1849. Milo, b. ; m. Malinda Bamaby. Sarah, b. ;-'unm.; d. April 21, 1845. 572 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. Miner m, b. May 2, 1801; m. Nov. 10, 1819. Dr. Hiram, b. ; m. Sarah Gildersleeve of New Jersey. BaRil, b. ; m. Emeline Crofut of Middletown. XI. EDWARD WRIGHT (s. Asaph, Jabez, John, John, Joseph, Thomas, John, Thomas, Robert, John), b. April 7, 1804; m. May 1824. He d. Sept. 17, 1860, and she d. Dec. 4, 1886. Children, born Goshen. Elixa, b. Feb. 5, 1826; d. Oct. 8, 1881. Velina T., b. Oct. 22, 1827. Asapli 8., b. Dec. 16, 1829. Henry G., b. Sept. 28, 1831. XII. ASAPH S. WRIGHT (s. Edward, Asaph, Jabez, John, John, Joseph, Thomas, John, Thomas, Robert, John), b. Dec. 16, 1829; m. Nov. 28, 1855, Esther C, dau. of George and Maiy Card, who was b. Dec. 1, 1831. Children. Edward C, b. Aug. 30, 1856; d. Feb. 25, 1858. Eddie, b. March 18, 1860; d. May 3, 1862. AsapTi S., Jr., b. April 12, 1863. Fannie E., b. June 18, 1865. Martin G., b. Dec. 10, 1866. XII. HENRY G. WRIGHT (s. Edward, Asaph, Jabez, John, .Tohn, Joseph, Thomas, John, Thomas, Robert, John), b. Sept. 28, 1831; m. Feb. 10, 1863, Louise L. Howe, dau. of Philo and Lucy Wooster Howe. She was b. May 30, 1837. Children, born Goshen. Edward H., b. Feb. 22, 1864; d. Oct. 4, 1865. Mary L., b. Feb. 18, 1865; d. Oct. 17, 1865. Edioin 0., b. Oct. 21, 1866; m. Dee. 25, 1889, Jennie L., d.'> 1779. Feb. 20, 1775. Nov. 3, 1782. March 6, 1787. Oct. 8, 1780. Dec. 23, 1783. Nov. 13, 1777. March 3, 1783. Feb. 1, 1781. June 6, 1779. Jan. 1, 1772. June 25, 1788. May 4, 1769. June 5, 1782. July 8, 1773. July 13, 1785. June 4, 1763. April 13, 17S6. Town Records Aug. 21, 1820. Aug. 28, 1820. Oct. 1, 1820. Oct. 8, 1820. Oct. 24, 1820. Nov. 9, 1820. Nov. 30, 1820. Dec. 28, 1820. April 13, 1821. April 12, 1821. May 19, 1821. June 5, 1821. July 29, 1821. Nov. 9, 1820. Nov. 20, 1821. Dec. 23, 1821. Dec. 24, 1821. Feb. 25, 1822. 87 Elisha Mayo and Cynthia Reynolds. Seth Hills and Carine Goodwin. Moses Wadhams and Anne Collins. Justus Squire and Eleanor Bailey. Jonathan Deming and S^rah Richmond. Michael Beach and Eunice Hester. Joel Gaylord and Lois Cook. Levi Ives and Caroline Pratt. William Beach and Blary Pai-melee. Isaac Bartholomew and Thankful Maltbie. Philo Collins and Olive Foot. William Hurd and Martha Bailey. Allyn Lucas and Sarah Thomson. David Hudson, Jun., and Anna Norton. Timothy Buel and Olive Norton. David Hurlbut and Louisa Thomson. Daniel Beach and Susannah Beach. Ebenezer Lewis and Sarah Davis. Samuel Norton, Jun., and Elisabeth Lewis. Ashbel Norton and Lydia Bartholomew. Ebenezer Norton, Jun., and Experience Lewis. Ebenezer Norton, Jun., and Charity Mills. Earl Stanley and Lois Beach. Jonathan Thomson and Anne Lucas. John Doud and Elisabeth Norton. William Norvil and Abigail Stillman. lost. William P. Robinson and Caroline M. Buell. Christopher C. Potter and Esther B. Smith. Newton Wooster and Lavinia Brown. Nelson Oviatt and Melinda Humphrey. Halsey Bigelow and Martha Baldwin. John Beach and Lucy Wadhams. Hosea Crandall and HaiTiet Griswold. Erastus Utley and Deborah Morgan. Mllo Dickinson and Esther Brown. VanRensselaer Humphrey and Stella Beach. William Miles and Harriet Collins. Joseph Peters and Elisabeth Beach. Austin Kellogg and Armena Howe. Byron Bailey and Cornelia Smith. Joseph I. Gaylord and Clarissa Norton. Luman Oviatt and Eloisia Sanford. Addison Sweet and Freelove • Kimberly. Orrin Thomson and Rhoda Farmelee. 578 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. May 12, 1822. Aug. 14, 1822. Sept. 5, 1822. Sept. 4, 1822. Oct. 27, 1822. Oct. 17, 1822. Nov. 13, 1822. Nov. 21, 1822. Nov. 26, 1822. Jan. 5, 1823. Dec. 20, 1822. Feb. 20, 1823. Feb. 23, 1823. Feb. 11, 1823. April 6, 1823. April 22, 1823. April 2, 1823. May 21, 1823. July 15, 1823. Oct. 6, 1823. Oct. 29, 1823. Nov. 25, 1823. Oct. 8, 1823. Nov. 10, 1823. Dec. 25, 1823. Jan. 6, 1824. Jan. 6, 1824. Jan. 14, 3824. March 5, 1824. May 4, 1824. Sept. 16, 1824. Dec. 6, 1824. Jan. 13, 1825. Feb. 3, 1825. Jan. 31, 1825. Jan. 8, 1825. March 10, 1825. April 1", 1825. May 10, 1825. Nov. 23, 1825. Nov. 24, 1825.. Jan. 1, 1826. Jan. 12, 1826. Jan. 18, 1820. Jan. 24, 1826. John H. CWlins and Eliza C. Washburn. Hiram Norton and Caroline Wadhams. Horatio Norton and Lois Humphrey. Thaddeus G. Kellogg and Melinda S. Washburn. Alpheus Prince and Melinda Bonham. Deman Weeks and Betsey Hart. Diodeus Spencer and Phebe Spencer. Elisha Yale and Delight Lyman. Leverett Ives and Huldah Holbrook. David Peckham and Mary Potter. Silas Humphrey and Mary C. Bailey. Alden Miner and Julia Cady. George Booth and Fanny Perkins. Jesse Maltby and Laura H. Baldvrin. Peter Williams and Maria Fitch. Benjamin Knight and Sarah Osborn. Peter M. Roberts and Jo Ann Wooster. Alva Wix and Amanda Hart. Harvey Johnson and Rhoda Hurpiston. Isaac H. Sterling and Han'iet Emmons. Oliver Buell and Esther Norton. Benjamin Powers and Nancy Pratt. Ithiel B. Tuttle and Rhoda S. Miner. Horatio Beardsley and Almira Cheffelle. Francis Beach, Jun., and Maria Hurd. Asa Lucas and Rhoda Burtch. Julius Bell and Elisabeth Collins. Rufus Smith and Hannah Lucas. Charles Clemmons and Elisabeth Bigelow. Julius Fields and Minerva Kellogg. William Cables and Almira Main. Henry Kimberly and Sylvia Curtiss. Alvan IngersoU and Hannah Lyman. Homer Collins and Ann Wadhams. Hiram Garner and Rachel C. Reed. Jabez Prindle and Sally Peck. Hiram Norvil and Sally More. William McDonald and Caroline Baldwin. Jeffrey Ballard and Clarissa Thomson. Joseph Goddard and Elisabeth Marana Norton. Charles Lyman Norton and Anna Mai-ia Bailey. Henry W. Thomson and Lydia Button. George Lamphere and Betsey Robinson. Caleb Day and Lucretia Lyman. Zebe B. Moore and Sarah Ann Church. MARRIAGES. 679 Feb. 15, 1826. May 4, 1826. May 24, 1826. Sept. • 10, 1826. Sept. 10, 1826. Oct. 12, 1826. Oct. 23, 1826. Nov. 2 1826. Nov. 16, 1826. Jau. 3, 1827. March 4, 1827. April 5, 1827. April 18, 1827. May 15, 1827. July 4, 1827. Aug. 1, 1827. Aug. 29, 1827. Sept. 17, 1827. Nov. 22, 1827. Dec. 19, 1827. Nov. 7, 1827. Feb. 4, 1828. Jan. 1, 1828. Feb. 10, 1828. May 7, 1828. Sept. 7, 1828. Sept. 15, 1828. Sept. 24, 1828. Oct. 30, 1828. Nov. 6, 1828. Dec. 10, 1828. Jan. 29, 1829. March I 12, 1829. June 25, 1829. July 9, 1829. Aug. 9, 1829. Aug. 17, 1829. Aug. 19, 1829. Sept. 14, 1828. Sept. 3, 1829. Sept. 13, 1829. Oct. 22, 1829. Dec. 3, 1829. Dec. 3, 1829. Nov. 11, 1829. Fredeiick P. Whiting and Mai-y H. Hills. Frederick Hurlburt and Lucy Thomson. Edward Wright and Phebe Way. Hiram Bunnell and Lucy Barker. Abel S. Stetson and Sally M. Taylor. Amos Johnson and Sarah Ives. Isaiah Shepard and Lovinia Webster. Amasa N. Chapin and Freelove Collins. Philip Rose and Betsey Mix. Alphonso Prince and Emeline Lewis. William E. Denison and Mary L. Allen. William Hurd and Lydia Hallock. James Dunn and Eliza Thomson. Doct. Elijah Mead and Sarah Lyman. William T. Clark and Ohloe E. Lotodell. Ohauncey Alvord and Harriet Lobdell. Eoswell Shelton and Ruth Munson. Charles E. Osborn and Anna Lucretia Osborn. Palmer Brown and Sarah Cogswell. Nelson Brewster and Lucretia H. Root. Nelson S. Loomis and Abigail Hills. John Cramer and Minerva Cummins. Augustus Hayden and Harriet Brown. George Anthony and Lucina Prince. Elias Buell and Cynthia Webster. Asahel Bailey and Mary M. Humphrey. Harrj' Johnson and Sarah Hecton. Rufus Carrier and Betsey Weeks. Moses Wadhams and, Louisa M. Wadhams. Chauncey Willeox and Abigail B. Ludington. Daniel T. Dennis and Laura Tuttle. Asaph Hall and Hannah C. Palmer. Putnam Bailey and Sarah A. Griswold. Worthy Curtiss and Affa Packard. Jeremiah Blky and Cornelia Hubbart. Charles Walter and Julia Lewis. Abraham Miller and Marietta Reed. Cyrus Mason and Mary Brown. Junius Baldwin and Julia Hallock. Galpin P. Bronson and Freelove L. Baldwin. Luther Ptxley and Ruth C. Osborn. Darius Neal and Mary Price. Homer Freeman and Mary Ann Roe. John Foog and Sarah Maiden. Lewis Buell and Mary M. Brown. I 580 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. Dec. 17, 1829. Jan. s, 1830. Jan. 20, 1830. Jan. 21, 1830. Jan. 28, 1830. Feb. 6, 1830. March 29, 1830. March 29, 1830. April 4, 1830. April 6, 1830. March G, 1830. Aug. 9, 1830. Sept. 26, 1830. Sept. 2, 1830. Dec. 1.3, 1830. Nov. 22, 1830. Dec. 15, 1830. Nov. 25, 1830. Nov. 22, 1830. Jan. 25, 1831. Feb. 3, 1831. Jan. 6, 1831. Feb. 6, 1831. March 20, 1831. March 27, 1831. May 2, 1831. May 17, 1831. May 23, 1831. JXay 20, 1831. July 14, 1831. Oct. 4, 1831. Oct. 26, 1831. Oct. 27, 1831. Nov. 24, 1831. Nov. 24, 1831. Dec. 28, 1831. Jan. 4, 1832. Jan. 23, 1832. Jan. 22 1832. March 29, 1832. April 12, is;?2. Sept. 18, 1832. Oct. 8, 1882. Nov. 1, 1832. Nov. 7, 1832. Norman C. Baldwin and Mary Palmer. Nehemiah Griffin and Clarissa Tuttle. Ellas Hart and Julia Ann Page. Isaac Thomson and Mary Holbrook. Horatio N. Beach and Mary Lucas. Christopher Crandall and Hannah Chevalier. Joseph Bunnell and Maria Price. Lewis SpeiTy and Phebe Price. Henry D. Dennison and Emily AUyn. George A. Hill and Harriet Bailey. Zopher B. Hayes and Sarah L. Humphrey. Philo Apley and Emily Clark. George A. Vamey and Juliana Case. Daniel Cook and Helen M. King. Halsey T. Bigelow and Maria Bounds. Nicholas Sheldon and Susan Norval. Dudley F. Hallock and Ann M. Bailey. George Beach and Caroline Richards. William Landing and Mai7 Beach. Chester Spalding and Emily Button. Morris Tuttle and Althea Allen. Benjamin Hill and Mary Prince. Bushnell Austin and Charlotte L. Skinner. James Ockaman and Betty Rowe. Philip Rowe and Harriet Savoy. Charles D. Palmer and Emily Phillon. John DeForest and Lucy S. Lyman Horace Norton and Caroline S. Chapln. Antony Pardy and Charlotte Rowe. Jared Curtis and Olive Makannas. Alexander H. Holley and .Jane jNI. Lyman. Howell Cowles and Dotha Baldwin. Thomas Zesper and Irena Briody. William Johnson and Catherine Austin. Rufus Weisley and Caroline Austin. Elijah Clark and Sarah Roberts. John Alvord and Phebe Brown. Caleb Beach and Ann Rathbun. Almeron Beach and Emily Phelps. Nelson Austin and Clarina Apley. Rev. Aaron Hunt and Nancy Thomson. Horace Humphrey and Clarissa B. Bailey. Henry H. Beach and Mary L. Sage. Job S. H. B. Beach and Lucia Beach. James B. Piiineo and Eliza Lyman. MARRIAGES. 581 Dec. 30, 1832. Jan. 1, 1833. Jan. 9, 1833. Jan. 13, 1833. April 4, 1833. May 7, 1833. May- 12, 1833. May 13, 1833. May 19, 1833. July T, 1833. Sept. 23, 1833. Aug. 26, 1833. Nov. 6, 1833. Oct. 29, 1833. Oct. 30, 1833. Jan. 1, 1834. Jan. 14, 1S34. Feb. 10, 1834. Marcli . 2, 1834. March 19, 1834. Jan. 12, 1834. April 24, 1834. April 29, 1834. April 30, 1834. May 1, 1834. Oct. 1-4, 1834. Nov. 27, 1834. March 5, 1835. July 19, 1835. May 21, 1835. Sept. 7, 1835. Oct. 31, 1835. Nov. 10, 1835. Jan. 28, 1836. March 14, 1836. May 4, 1836. April 24, 1836. May 9, 1836. May 25, 1836. Aug. 30, 1836. Aug. 28, 1836. Sept. 13, 1836. Sept. 26, 1836. Oct. 9, 1830. Oct. 10, 1836. Truman Beach and Eliza Hosmer. John B. Saunders and Phebe Bonney. Eai'l Johnson and Lucia Ann Wadhams. Jacob Prince and Nancy Jones. Jabez Gibbs and Mary Apley. Amos Lampson and Sarah Way. Salmon C. Hall and Eliza Cook. Isaac H. McNeil and Harriet S. Wadhams. Benjamin Roberts and Ann Leavenworth. Caleb Root and Naomi Richards. Eliae Kelly and Deborah Tuttle. Samuel H. Dudley and Salome Howe. Stephen Robei-ts and Lucinda Bailey. Obed M. Humphrey and Mary Ann Pooler. Abner Hard and Catherine Wadhams. WiUiam F. Strong and Sarah A. Apley. Munson Carter and Eveline Beach. John Sackett and Jane Brown. Horace J. Thomson and Anna AUyn. W^ilUam Lymaa and Mary Ann Ives. Abel Avery and Eunice L, Barns. Erastus Merwin and Ann Roberts. Bben Norton and Clarissa Griswold. Watts H. Brooks and Mary Wadhams. Benjamin Bullard and Lydia Adams. Asa B. Darrow and Sarah Garner. Carlton Wadhams and Sophia Spelman. Edward King and Mary Ann King. Joshua T. Studley and Abby Ann CummingE. Philo Howe and Lucy C. Wooster. Birdsey T. Howe and Parthena AUyn. Hiram Curtis and Amanda Apley. Harvey C. Merwin and Charlotte Norton. Harlow Buell and Caroline JI. Sanford. David H. Wooster and Laura A. Walter. Timothy Church and Maria Roberts. Samuel Emmons and Amanda E. Morris. Horatio N. Lyman and Marana E. Chapin. Virgil Collins and Jane Lucas. James Bradley and Ellen Wadhams. Harvey H. Gross and Ann S. Price. Ellas Scoville and Armenia A. Cady. Almeron M. Carter and Dolly E. Wadhams. Cornwall Clark and Harriet Spelman. Gad L. Yale and Abby W. Reed. 682 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. Sept. 5, 1836. Nov. 14, 1836. Jan. 26, 1837. Nov. 24, 1836. March 26, 1837. Marcli 27, 1837. April 27, 1837. June 13, 1887. July 13, 1837. Sept. 19, 1837. Oct. 30, 1887. Oct. 11, 1837. Oct. 15, 1887. Dec. 21, 1837. Jan. 1, 1888. March 6, 1838. March 15, 1888. March 4, 1838. April 25, 1838. May 9, 1838. July 14, 1888. Jan. 1, 1839. Jan. 1, 1839. March 4, 1889. aiarch 10, 1839. March 14, 1839. Sept. 25, 1839. Oct. 20, 1889. Oct. 6, 1839. Jan. 2, 1840. Jan. 5, 1840. March 1, 1840. April 7, 1840. May 13, 1840. July 28, 1840. Sept. 9, 1840. Sept. 13, 1840. Nov. 8, 1840. Nov. 19, 1840. Dec. 2, 1840. Jan. 24, 1841. Feb. 7, 1841. March 11, 1841. April 6, 1841. Aug. 11, 1841. Edwin T. Crosby and Parmelia Gardner. Philo Norton and Emily Bartholomew. Stiles 0. Peck and Abigail Baldwin. George Wadhams and Angeline Parmelee. Joseph Seely and Abiah A. Crawford. ^A'illiam C. Johnson and Velona E. Bartholomew. Joseph H. Chapm and Harriet E. Oobb. Nelson Wadhams and Elvira Giiswold. John P. Porter and Laura C. Prentiss. Simmons W. Scoville and Sarah G. Price. Oakley M. Hoagland and Emily Collins. John F. Thomson and Harriet Reed. James Burr and Sarah Ann Tuttle. Washington Bigalow and Harriet Oviatt. Alanson D. Apley and Mary Northrop. Harvey P. Merwin and Almira Norton. Roswell Carter and Phebe Wadhams. Seth P. Huntley and Lucy Norvel. Esira H. Miner and Adaline L. Allen. WaiTen L. Brown and Sarah A. Beecher. Samuel S. Parsons and Lucy P. Stanley. Albert Baker and Caroline Ives. Lyman Beardsley and Margaret Lockwood. Joseph W. Warner and Deborah M. Kelley. John J. Root and Fanny AUyn. William Norton and Sarah Griswold. James Wadhams and Sarah Oviatt. John Lathrop and Anna Northrop. Jonathan. Spafford and Laura Oviatt. Lyman Howe and Sarah Smith. Warren Brown and Esther Tuttle. Ithiel Lombard and Mary Tuttle. Noah W. Beach and Angeline Bierce. Amos Webster and Experience Barnum. Elihu Carlisle and Lucretia Norton. Hiram Sage and Harriet Pooler. Daniel N. Lucas and Marilla L. Price. Erastus L. Richards and Lois Beach. Joseph L. Wooster and Mary M. Hawkins. Eli Perkins and Emeline Wadhams. Philo Loper and Phebe Colby. Archibald Smith and Mrs. Oby Barnum. Charles L. Perkins and Jula A. Colby. Anthony Tatro and Eliza Wadhams. Darius B. Cook and Jane M. Wadhams. MARRIAGES. 583 Aug. 23, 1841. Sept. 8, 1841. Oct. 3, 1841. Juue 13, 1841. Nov. 10, 1841. Nov. 21, 1S41. Feb. 2, 1842. March 30, 1842. May 4, 1842. May 12, 1842. May 29, 1842. Jau. 10, 1841. .Tuly 3, 1842. Dec. 7, 1842. Jan. 1, 1843. Jan. 8, 1843. March 26, 1843. July 23, 1843. Dec. 1, 1843. Dec. 7, 1843. March c, 1844. Jan. 11, 1844. April T, 1844. June 16, 1844. June 26, 1844. Sept. 2 1844. Jan. 14, 1845. Jan. 1, 1845. Maixih 20, 1845. Jan. 22, 1845. March 2, 1845. March 17, 1845. June 11, 1845. June 25, 1845. July 23, 1845. July 31, 1845. Sept. 18, 1845. Sept. 23, 1845. Oct. 10, 1845. Dec. 23, 1845. Jan. 1, 1840. Sept. 13, 1845. Nov. 23, 1845. Jan. 11, 1846. April 22, 1846. Norman Spurr and Esther Ives. Schuyler Bailey and Charlotte Bailey. Eli Bai-us and Harriet A. Harrison. Calvin Main and Lucy Miller. Albert Loomis and Emily Curtiss. Charles L. Munger and Lucy C. Oolby. Jonathan Wadhams, Jr., and Ann P. Lucas. Dr. Harvey Baldvyin and Esther Starr. George W. Thomson and Harriet Roberts. Henry Norton and Delia Beach. Charles D. Palmer and Nancy M. Pooler. Alvin Buel anl Eliza A. Beardsley. J. AA'. Lane and Elizabeth M. DeFoa'est. Cicero B. Beach and Samantha Bailey. George Brooks and Jane C. Dolby. Myron C. Gay lord and Sarah E. Lucas. Amasa AVadhams and Esther Tuttle. Jonathan Tatro and Laura E. Wadhams. James Hunter and Elisabeth Stewart. WiUiam L. Griswold and Harriet L. Oi'andall. Benjamin W. Prindle and Caroline Morris. John Lawton and Harriet S. Leonard. Heman Harrison and Mary E. Judd. Horace P. Leonard and Delia A. Gunn. Samuel W. Squire and Almira C. Cummings. Ami Wilcox and Abby Woodruff. Jonathan Buel, 2d, and Jane Holmes. Edwin Bierce and Amanda Martin. William Piatt and Jane A. Hurd. Willard H. Leach and Harriet L. Kelly. Austin AVooster and Rebecca A. Allyn. Zebulon 0. Lawton and Mary E. Wooster. Frederick M. Foster and Sarah A. Davidson. Amos Davidson and Temperance A. Allyn. Samuel Hurlbut and Elisabeth H. Goddard. Marcus R. Spring and Jane Hill. Theron D. Ludington and Eleanor Bailey. Samuel Palmer, Jr., and Frances J. Pooler. Andrew Bailey and Mary Wilson. Seth P. Norton and Aurelia C. Humason. John Catlin and Clarissa A. Martin. Peter H. Ranney and Leah Pierce. Samuel Alexander and Mary E. Bartrum. Jonathan B. Thomson and Sarah C. Crandall. Edward P. Barnum and Hannah F. Baldwin. 584 Nov. 15, 184(;. Nov. 23, 1846. Oct. 12, 1846. Feb. 3, 1847. June 24, 1846. »Dec. 27, 1846. Jan. 18, 1847. March 11, 1847. May 4, 1847. • May 30, 1847. ■ Sept. 6, 1846. Sept. 29, 1847. Nov. 16, 1847. Dec. 1, 1847. Dec. 5, 1847. April 18, 1848. June 25, 1848. Sept. 14, 1848. ilarch 5, 1849. May 15, 1849. Oct. 23, 1849. Nov. 7, 1849. Nov. 19, 1849. Feb. 20, 1850. April 21, 1850. May 8, 1850. May 22, 1850. May 28, 1850. Sept. 25, 1850. Oct. 13, 1850. Nov. 7, 1850. Dec. 13, 1850. Jan. 15, 1861. April 3, 1851. May 12, 1851. May 14, 1851. May 26, 1851. July 31, 1851. Sept. 16, 1851. Marcli 1 18, 1852. Marcli I 27, 1852. Nov. 5, 1851. Jan. 18, 1852. May 12, 1852. May 19, 1852. HISTORY OF GOSHEN. Henry H. Palmer and Experience Chevalier. Seth G. Brown and Lydia Ann Clark. James S. Lewis and Esther A. Spencer. Levi Baldwin and Eliza M. Pooler. William Robins and Jane Barney. Henry H. Calkins and Mary C. Wooster. Lewis Rogers and Maria Simpson. Leman Peck and Rhoda Ann Can-. James Blake and Jane L. Seeley. Edwin Ives and Cornelia A. Warner. William T. Carr and Elisabeth A. Palmer. George W. Strong and Harriet T. Tlbbals. Austin Allyn and Hannah E. Ives. Edwin Bailey and Julia Austin. James L. Fox and Emily M. Palmer. Bnos B. Pratt and Emeline Bierce. Daniel O'Day and Ciitherine Welch. Lyman Richards and Ann Bartholomew. Truman P. Clark and Mary Jane Tibbals. John B. Fox and Hannah H. Hall. Lyman Benedict and Jane P. Simons. Lauren L. Morris and Martha L. Hotchkiss. Dwight Gallup and Lydia A. Wadhams. Samuel Dean and Lucy E. Allyn. Jesse Martin and Mary A. Neal. Charles H. Oaks and Rhoda Miller. Moses W. Gray and Mary L. Gaylord. Harvey P. Merwin and Sarah Persons. David Lucas, Jr., and Eunice Davis. Abner C. Botsford and Laura Rugg. Jeremiah McKenery and Elisabeth GOmer. Francis Drake and Henrietta I. Hill. Alfred Apley and Abigail Tibbals. John D. Barton and Eliza Garner. Curtiss Hall and Martha Hurd. Willard E. Gaylord and Sarah E. Wooster. Haskell G. Smith and Lucretia Collins. Daniel G. Knox and Virginia M. Norton. Ralph G. Scoville and Maria E. Wadhams. Edward R. Dudley and Sarah C. Oha,pin. Wells B. Morgan and Caroline M. Wheeler. John H. Wliiting and Laura Ann Hart. Charles Johnson and Catherine Morris. Harvey Johnson and Maria E. Norton. Joseph M. Lawtou and Maria Wadhams. MARRIAGES. 586 May 24, 1852. July 20, 1852. ilarcli 27, 1853. April 4, 1853. Sept 25, 1853. March 4, 1S54. June 4, 1854. Sept. 3, 1854. Sept. 17, 1S54. Sept. 27, 1854. Oct. 2, 1854. Nov. 1, 1854. Nov. 27, 1854. Slarcli 3, 1855. March 13, 1855. March 13, 1855. March 28, 1855. July 10, 1855. Aug. 8, 1855. Aug. 11, 1855. Aug. 11, 1855. Oct. 7, 1«55. Oct. 16, 1855. Oct. 30, 1855. Dec. 20, 1855. Dec. 5, 1855. Jan. 9, 1856. Jan. 28, 1856. Feb. 27, 1856. Feb. 5, 1856. March 9, 1856. April 27, 1856. April 13, 1856. May 11, 1856. June 25, 1856. July 3, 1856. July 2, 1856. July 15, 1856. Aug. 7, 1856. Sept. 6, 1856. Sept. 7, 1856. Sept. 7, 1856. Sept. 18, 1856. Oct. 6, 1856. Nov. 20, 1856. George Prenner and Catherine Preucbet. Ovid Plumb and Anner L. Miles. William D. Whiting and Sarah T. Sperry. Josepli T. Brady and Nancy McKeemlu. Nelson D. Ford and Mary A. Norton. Sabine Ives and Alice Landon. Andrew Lee and Margaret McOlain. Carlton H. Nichols and Sophia E. Adams, John T. Olark and Jerusha L. Stoddard. Seeley Hart and Jeuette Seeley. Samuel B. Tuttle and Lucretia C. N. Cai'lLsle. William Martin and Jane Hart. Samuel Powers and Sarah Reed. Roth Christ and Emily Courtts. Edwin Pratt and Harriet E. Bieree. Charles L. Thrall and Louisa H. Pratt. Amzi Beach and Chloe Ives Bartholomew. Levi Baldwin and Cynthia M. Howe. Nelson I. Clark and Mary E. Ives. John O. New and Elisabeth Murray. Daniel O'Brien and Margaret Casey. Bernard Malayhan and Catherine Murphy. L. Walter Clark and Charlotte James Page. Samuel Johnson and Catherine C. Isham. Daniel McKinin and Elisabeth Mowry. Uri P. Bartholomew and Lucretia S. Dudley. Stephen Hard, 2d, and Polly Humphrey. Daniel Kimberly and Eliza H. Baldwin. Moses A. Wadhams and Harriet H. Allyn. Elbert S. Richards and Delphine P. Howe. Edward M. Mix and Sarah A. Freeman. Sherman Kimberly and Lorette E. Pendleton. James Hogan and Celia Cahill. Anthony Harty and Anne Connell. Herman Seeley, Jr., and Julia F. Guild. Andrew Barton and Sarah McCaw. Seneca Cottrell and Mary Chevalier. Henry Gladding and Harriet E. Holbrook. James D. Wicker, Jr., and Adelaide A. Ives. Stewart Long and SaraJi J. McKinnin. Thomas McKeon and Hannah A. Day. Michael Rouche and Winifred C. Day. Darius D. Thompson and Louisa E. Orandall. John McCabe and Ellen Donnes. William H. Hotchkiss and Mary Jane Collins. 586 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. Nov. 20, 185G. Dec. 7, 1856. Dec. lU, 1856. Jau. 1, 1857. May 27, 1856. Jan. 8, 1857. March 1, 1857. March 31, 1857. March » 1857. April 16, 1857. Aug. 23, 1857. Oct. 8, 1857. Oct. 8, 1857. Oct. 8, 1857. Dee. 1, 1857. Feb. 26, 1858. April 16, 1858. Jan. 26, 1858. Aug. 30, 1858. Sept. 30, 1858. Sept. 12, 1858. Sept. 12, 1858. Sept. 27, 1858. Sept 24, 1858. Oct. 10, 1858. Oct. 13, 1858. Nov. 2, 1858. Nov. 21, 1858. Dec. 16, 1S58. Jan. 20, 1859. Jan. 27, 1859. Feb. e, 1859. Feb. 7, 1859. Mai-ch 8, 1859. March 8, 1859. March 22, 1859. June 12, 1859. July 20, 1859. Oct. 6, 1859. Oct. 12, 1859. Oct. 27, 1859, Nov. 15, 1859. Nov. 24, 1859. Dec. 14, 1859. Feb. 3, 1860. Hiram Clark and Caroline S. Clark. Charles A. Richards and Roxanna Cummings. James D. Bouton and Sarah Judson Wing. George Oscar HUl and Mary D. Grossman. Frederick L.. Taylor and Bimeline Booth. James Q. Rice and Harriet B. Cook. Edvs'in F. Merwin and Sarah L. Broven. Ramon Marius and Mary A.. Ives. Ira B. Babcock and Mai-y Green. William A. Kelley and Martha Oviatt. William J. Fogerty and Catherine Donaho. Lewis H. Lavcrence and Elisabeth O. Norton. Charles H. Kennon and Adelaide Hall. George W. Humphrey and Mary C. Hall. John M. Wadhams and Marantha Gillett. Wolcott Bunnell and Eliza Riley. Isaac Bronson and Malinda P. Norton. Francis Packs and Lizet Hammond. O. B. Frisbie and Lois C. Hart. Horace Bancroft and Elisabeth H. Beach. Daniel Lynch and Johanna Hays. Terrance Doyle and Mary McCarthy. • Courtland W. Bentley and Anna E. Stanton. William L. Adams and Amelia Hastins. John Bulkley and Catherine Brovpn. Samuel P. Oviatt and JIary J. Crandall. Benjamin F. Lamphier and Jarutia M. Hovye. John O Brlen and Ellen Mortell. Wilbert BartholomevF and Eunice S. Palmer. Ephralm S. Brewster and Mary B. Wadhams. John Apley and Cornelia Bearsley. Patrick Glasheen and Mary Sharin. Pascal P. Noith and Julia E. Pierce. Oiion I. Hallock and Caroline Austin. Joseph H. Deloyd and Jlrs. Maria F. Bames. Lucian Alcott and Maria E. Robinson. Clark Davis and Adeline J. Thrall. Peter H. Peterson and Adeline Hall. Sylvanus M. Clark and Ellen Newcomb. Frederick B. Griswold and Harriet B. Humphrey. Samuel Bentley ajid Catharine O'Brien. John S. Bishop and Maria L. Bunnell. Charles W. Barber and Emily M. Price. Bail S. Guild and Harriet D. Hart. Hiram P. Grant and Minerva L. Beach. MARRIAGES. 687 Feb. 22, 1860. ilarcb 24, 1860. July 9, 1860. Sept. 19, 1S(J0. Sept. 20, 1860. Sept. 29, 1860. Nov. 4, 1860. Oct. 24, 1860. Nov. 20, ISUO. April 6, 1861. May 5, 1861. Nov. 24, 1861. Nov. 28, 1861. Dec. 22, 1861. Feb. J 1862. Feb. 8, 1862. March 3, 1862. March 18, 1862. April ■> 1862. July 19, 1862. Jan. 18, 1863. Feb. 10, 1863. March 26, 1863. May 17, 1863. Aug. 2 1863. Aug. 6, 1863. Nov. 25, 1863. Dec. 10, 1863. Dec. 31, 1863. Feb. 25, 1864. March 24, 1864. April 15, 1864. July 6, 1864. Aug. 27, 1864. Jan. 17, 1865. June 15, 1865. Nov. 4, 1865. Feb. 4, 1866. Feb. 28, 1866. Aug. 22, 1866. Aug. 24, 1866. Sept. 3, 1866. Sept. 19, 1866. Sept. 4, 1866. Oct. 27, 1866. Edward H. Beach and Laura E. Johnson. Archibald Martin and Mary Baiton. Jlark Welch and Sarah Connolly. Horace B. Hubbard and Caroline S. Adams. Abel G. Stevens and Florine Ives. George W. Curtiss and Eliza Colby. Henry Parrott and Sarah C. Hinman. Joseph D. Carter and Eveline Collins. John W. Brooks and Mai"ana L. Norton. James Marvin and Catherine Mangon. William Beachy and Julia Grant. Earl J. Guild and Mai-tha J. Hart. Heury O. Beach and Annie E. Tiittle. Edward F. Wilson and Julia H. Richmond. Amos Whitney and Harriet Wheeler. Edwin Apley and Eliza Howe. John Hurald and Ellen Winter. Harris A. Stannard and Mary J. Gibbs. Uri P. Bartholomew and Ann Wadhams. Joseph Sherley and Jinette Oolby. Constant S. Dueotzy and Ellen Fleming. Henry G. Wright and Louisa L. Howe. A. W. Lawton and Jane Bartholomew. Orville Stover and Ellen Byron. Patrick Herican and Catherine Davis. Henry S. Wooster and Anna E'. Palmer. Henry W. HUl and Sarah M. Gibbs. Giles M. Lawton and Phebe J. Bartholomew. John Quinn and Anna Fussenich. Harvey Moore and Mary E. Cook. Victory C. Hart and Adeline H. Peteraon. Mathew Taylor and Harriet E. Hicks. William C. Young and Marinda Dibble. Benjamin H. Mallett and Helena C. Bentley. Charles H. Fish and Calla S. Hubbard. Philip Wells and Maiy Lyman. John Clark and Eliza Brayer. Martin Johnson and Sarah Maria Beach. F. Sanford Johnson and Martha S. Foster. Albert Wadhams and Enaeline W. Perkins. Patrick Hogan and Mary Cahill. Thomas Brindge and Marian C. Grossman. William B. Stoddard and Sai-ah E. Beach. Lafayette B. Weeks and Imogene H. Howe. Edward Chevalier and Josephine Smith. 588 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. Nov. 4, 1866. Dec. 1, 1866. Dec. 0, 1866. Feb. 5, 1867. April 23, 1867. June 23, 1867. June 26, 1867. Aug. 7, 1867. Sept. 7, 1867. Jan. 12, 1868. Jan. 21, 1868. Feb. 11, 1868. Feb. 17, 1868. Feb. 18, 1868. March 3, 1868. Marcb 4, 1868. July 9, 1868. Sept. 16, 1868. Oct. 2, 1868. Nov. 26, 1868. Dec. 31, 1868. April 20, 1869. April 29, 1869. June 10, 1869. July 18, 1869. Aug. 1, 1869. Sept. 4, 1869. Oct. 13, 1869. Oct. 21, 1869. Oct. 27, 1869. Nov. IT, 1869. Nov. 25, 1869. Nov. 28, 1869. March 10, 1870. March 16, 1870. May 2, 1870. Aug. 6, 1870. Sept. 15, 1870. Oct. 3, 1870. Dee. 28, 1870. Dec. 13, 1871. Peter Graham and Maiy Casey. Charles F. Marvin and Lizzie White. Herbert D. Huxley and Caroline E. Nichols. Daniel H. Lucas, Jr., and Ada Tuttle. Hobart Griswold and Sarah J. Alexander. Allan T. Blakeslee and Lucy A. Beach. Ambrose Fritz and Lauraette Burns. Frederick A. Lucas and Sarah Jane Wadhams. Joseph Tuley and Julia Simond. Eugene Davidson and Mary O. Howard. Joseph O'Haren and HonoraJi Dowd. Levi Tompkins and Elizabeth M. Hunter. Oliver C. Williams and Althea A. Davidson. Lawrence Smith and Emma il. Bradley. Reuben Manril and Amelia Gibbs. James P. Vaill and Rebecca M. Miner. John Donahue and Bridget Heran. George Colby and Sarah Maria Davidson. Seeley Hart and Sarah B. Lucas. William J. Hawley and Katherine Rock. Henry L. Coe and Julia C. Page. Charles D. Buel and Alice E. C. Rouse. L. B. Weeks and Josephine M. Howe. RufuB A. Pelto and Hattie E. Bieree. Sam Cook and Lucinda E. Matson. Wm. Lyman Clark and Mary P. Bennett. Wm. Auckland and Esther D. ICnapp. Thomas Mooney and Mary Hart. Staley Harrison and Jane Chatfield. Peter M. Jaqua and Ann Bartholomew. Horace Burr and Jane Appley. Jesse R. Stoddard and Phebe E. Scovil. Grove W. Wooster and Anna F. Bennett. Addison Palmer and Anna P. Wadhams. Arthur W. Carr and Mary G. Rouse. Charles Wells and Mary J. Mattison. Jule Feeley and Rose Simonie. Charles J. Porter and Ellen C. Bennett. Daniel L. Beach and Mary Pratt. John M. Bailey and Charlotte Cannan. George Prince and Mary St. John. George Gordon and Mary Julia Hine. Frank Lucas and Kate L. Miles. F. M. Wadhams and Fannie M. Palmer. George Dibble and Ellen Cruffin. MARRIAGES. 589 Harcli 27, 1871. Jan. 2, 1872. May 0. 1872. Feb. 7, 1872. June 18, 1872. June 2, 1872. July 13, 1872. Aug. 18, 1872. Oct. 24, 1872. Oct. 23, 1872. Oct. 24, 1872. Dec. 4, 1872. Jan. 15, 1873. Jan. 18, 1873. Feb. 3, 1873. March 11, 1873. May 13, 1878. Sept. 2, 1873. Sept. 10, 1873. Dec. 14,' 1873. Dec. 26, 1873. Dec. 2, 1873. April 9, 1874. April 14, 1874. May 13, 1874. Sept. 3, 1874. Oct. 13, 1874. Nov. 26, 1874. March 17, 1875. iXay 20, 1875. Nov. 25, 1875. Dec. 1, 5875. Dec. 17, 1875. Dee. 23, 1875. March 27, 1876. Jlay 23, 1876. Sept. 4, 1876. Oct. 1, 1876. Nov. 18, 1876. Nov. 23, 1876. Feb. 28, 1877. Aug. 15, 1877. Dec. 14, 1877. Feb. 18, 1878. April 27, 1878. Lucius Humphrey and Caroline S. Hubbard. David S. Marvin and Mary A. Brennan. Timothy J. Hennesey and Mai-y Doyle. Burton G. Patterson and Hattie M. Beach. Ralph F. Cook and Julia C. Wooster. Wm. Eisner and Terese Jacobitz. Bradley S. C'atlin and Lettie M. Parsons. Lewis Fritz and Mary Jacobitz. Michael Ahern and Annie O. Brien. Morris A. Tuttle and Julia E. Merwin. Joseph Theo. Sawyer and Alice Lyman. Elbert P. Brigham and Marian A. Baldwin. Charles Blake and Melissa E. Lucas. Charles H. Wadhams and Caroline E. Prince. Nelson E. Hart and Naomi Holbrook. Wilbert M. Allyn and Annie E. Palmer. Abner H. Wadhams and Hattie P. Thompson. Charles B. Wakeley and Lucia A. Johnson. James A. Stoddard and Anna M. Davidson. Hosea W. Crandall and Alosia Oviatt. Enos S. Esty and Francis E. Bushey. Samuel C. Riley and Lizzie M. Hurlbut. Joseph P. Wooster and Sarah L. Allyn. Arden H. Coe and Caroline Smith. Arthur D. Preston and Mary J. Ives. Wilber H. Wadhams and Julia H. Wadhams. Hubert S. Scovill and Adella F. Hurlbut. Julius J. Merwin and Sarah L. Richards. Samuel Ackerman and Hattie L. Marvin. Harry Howard and Harriet Snyder. Prank E. Wadhams and Alice E. Baraum. Charles Reed and Isabella Scott. Rodney A. Bragg and Eliza H. Colby. Charles S. Bennett and Olive E. Adams. George Colby and Virginia Tripp. Charles C. Allyn and Anna M. Lucas. William H. Hemson and Mary A. Stewart. Andrew Schmidt and Johanna Rayloe. Frank Colby and Mary A. Ferry. Lorenzo Beach and Alice L. Hunter. George S. Hammond and Emily .Tane Spurr. Lyman Phelps and Maiy Lyman WoUs. George A. Prince and Adeline Haskell. Andrew S. Seeley and Helen M. Beach. Orio E. Wadhams and Nellie M. Kimberley. 690 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. April 28, 1878. Aug. 27, 1878. Sept. 23, 1878. Nov. 28, 1878. Dec. 4, 1878. Jan. 1, 3879. .Tan. 13, 1879. Feb. 4, 1879. Feb. 4, 1879. Feb. 27, 1879. Marcb 26, 1879. May 14, 1879. Aug. 15, 1879. Dec. 9, 1879. June 22, 1880. April 28, 1880. Jvine 24, 1880. Oct. 20, 1880. Nov. 6, 1880. Jan. 17, 1881. July 17, 1881. Aug. 10, 1881. Sept. 14, 1881. Nov. 16, 1881. Nov. 20, 1881. Dec. 14, 1881. Feb. 19, 1882. March 18, 1882. April 5, 1882. Aug. 23, 1882. Nov. 15, 1882. Nov. 16, 1882. April 27, 1884. Aug. 26, 1884. Sept. 17, 1884. Nov. 2, 1884. Dec. 4, 1884. Aug. 6, 1885. Api-il 15, 1886. Aug. 27, 1880. Sept. 18, 1886. Oct. 31, 1886. Nov. 7, 1880. Nov. 30, 1880. Dee. 23, 1886. Frank P. Snyder and Annie E. Howard. Wniiam T. Brooks and Caroline L. Tuttle. William demons and Mary Bailey. Edwin D. Orandall and Irene B. Smith. William F. Osbom and Mary S. AUyn. Charles Richter and Katherine Krumm. Nelson E. Hart and Jerusha Dean. Willis H. Bowman and Belle R. Ocaln. Stiles J. Hotchkiss and Myrtle Chapman. Lewis E. Ring and Can-ie S. Miller. Charles A. Bushey and Bertha B. Curtiss. Oourtland F. Ives and Mary J. Ives. J. Bundle Smith and Ellen Hollingshead. Willis B. Robinson and Louisa H. Stewart. Jacob Baker and Mary E. Hart. William M. Cook and Alice M. North. John C. Lester and Octavia L. Wadhams. George F. Andrews aud Marj' B. Dickinson. John H. Sterling and Josephine Oottrell. Dwight A. Hotchkiss and Isabella L. Knox. Richai'd Qualne and Annie Ryan. Lucian M. Underwood and Marie A. Spurr. Algelon H. Taylor and Jessie F. Richards. Murray E. Pendleton and Lizzie M. Stewart. John L. Doyle and Winifred E. Doyle. Julius G. Richards and Mary J. Cottrell. B. Franklin Powers and Alice May. Frederick A. Gibbs and Lillian C. Tuttle. Ellas R. Hart and Eva J. Calkins. Charles B. Strong and M. Ella Beach. William P. Lawrence and Tinnie E. Hallock. George C. Ives and Lucy C. Luddington. Isaac J. Siddall and Mary L. Smith. HoTace D. Vibbei-t and Eliza E. Herald. Henry E. Bamum and Nellie M. Judd. Martin Kelley and Nellie L. Broderick. Daniel Dougherty and Julia M. Fisher. George H. Bennett and Frances French. Daniel B. Baldwin and Cathei-ine O. Caldwell. Frederick Miller and Sarah A. Murphy, aiahlon. Foley and Eva Bushey. Wm. M. Murphy and Katie Roche. Eli H. Clum and Julia E. Martin. Daniel Smith and Susan May. O. F. Green and Ella Barton. MARRIAG-ES. 691 April 23, 1887. Dec. 13, 1887. May •} 1888. March 31, 1888. June 2 1888. Dec. 0. ISSS. Dec. IT, 1888. April 18, 1889. June 27, 1889. Nov. 22, 1889. Dec. 25, 1889. Jan. 31, 1890. March 25, 1890. Oct. 5, 1890. Oct. 7, 1890. Nov. 20, 1890. April 27, 1891. May 21, 1891. Oct. 29, 1891. Oct. 21, 1891. Oct. 28, 1891. Not. 26, 1891. Feb. 25, 1892. April 6, 1892. June 30, 1892. June 30, 1892. July 24, 1892. Sept, 8, 1892. Sept. 14, 1892. June 13, 1893. July 21, 1893. Sept. 3, 1893. Oct. 18, 1893. Oct. 25, 1893. Nov. 14, 1893. Jan. 21, 1894. March 14, 1894. April 18, 1894. May 10, 1894. June 7, 1894. Aug. 1, 1894. Nov. 12, 1894. Dec. 12, 1894. Dec. 25, 1894. June 16, 1895. Albert Richard and Esther Bourqueiu. George A. Woodward and Katherine H. Cook. David B. Atwood and L. V. M. Parsons. Sheldon Clark and Harriet S. Tuttle. Frank ^\ . Bogue and Alice J. Bushey. >A'i)bert H. Cottrell and Harriet O. Martin. Dayton O. Gosley and Ida E. Sperry. Willis M. Hurlburt and Ida J. Lamphier. Geo. L. Lamphier and Lottie L. Davis. Henry Mayo and Fannie Mason. Edwin O. Wright and Jennie L. Thompson. Jerome H. Johnson and Mai-y L. Siddall. Allyn H. Vaill and Ada L. Lamphier. William Freeman and Lena Oamby. A. G. Creamer and Lucy E. Allyn. Lewis M. Edwards and Carrie E. Johnson. Fessenden L. Ives and Bllora M. Kimberly. Andrew H. Barton and Carrie P. Porter. Heniy Prince and Adaline Freeman. Harvey G. Osborn and Came J. Ocain. Thomas L. Smith and Mary Carter. E. Austin Wadhams and Susie R. Vaill. John Switzer and Annie Winterler. Frederick M. Blake and Elizabeth Cook. Reuben Moore and Hattie Root. Timothy Brennan and Mary Brennan. James E. Martin and Emma E. Cottrell. Eugene Foley and Catherine S. McCone. Frank C. Mallett and Mary B. Rose. William Smith and Jennie Kelley. Charles Jlorehouse and Jennie A. Latimer. George H. Decker and Anna L. Norton. Samuel P. Humphrey and Katie L. Porter. Charles G. Brown and Addle L. Sperry. Heman S. Smalley and Hettie M. Gris.wold. J. M. Lucas and L. G. Barton. Wm. H. Harrison and EJlizabeth O. Lamphier. Howard J. Newberry and Mai-y E. McCaw. Edward A. Grosclaude and Cecile I. Racheter. Asa Smith and Susan Smith. Burton J. Adams and Elsie J. Smith. Arthur E. Parker and Alice J. Bragg. Alson G. Monis and Frances Sperry. Frederick J. Vaill and Alta C. Wadhams. William G. Taylor and Ida M. Bragg. 592 HISTORY OF GOSHEN. Sept. 22, 1895. G. H. Martin and Margaret E. Curtiss. Oct. 1. 1895. Charles H. Judd and Nellie A. Griswold. Oct. 15, 1895. Joseph Schibi and Winifred H. Shean. April 10, 1896. Moses W. Doyle and Mary J. McElhone. .Tune 1, 1896. Frederick O. Barton and Anna L. Wadhams. .Tune 30, 1896. Wm. H. Clinton and Ruth E. Bennett. July 6, 1S96. Charles S. Todd and Lucy E. Barnes. Sept. 2, 1896. Austin V. AUyn and Annie E. Porter. Sept. 29, 1896. F. H. Adams and Minnie A. Wooster. Oct. 22, 1896. Benjamin Sedgewick and Gertrude Merwin. INDEX. Abolltiouists, how regarded, 283. Academy, The, 270; plan of estab- lishment, 271; proprietors and first board of officers, 273; cost of building, 273; first principal, 274; shareholder's certificate, 274; contract with Sidney Mills, 275; rates of tuition, 275; legacies to, 276; principals, 276; apparatus, 278; reminiscences of, 278-282; semicentennial. 282; the eagle, 283. Adams, Charles G., 381. Henry, 554. John G., 277. Allyn, Eugene B., 364. Robert, gen., 471. Wilbert M., 364. Alvord, William, 369. Andros, Sir Edmund, 16. Anniversary, 150th of First Church, 99. Assessments 1840, 1874, 404. Austin. T?pv. Lewis M.. supplied pulpit, 93. Bacon, Bpaphroditus C, 279, 282. Francis, 280. Backus, Rev. .Joseph, D.D., 6. Bad boy. A, 177. Baldwin, Rev. Abraham, biog. sketch, 204, 318. Daniel, 266, 267. Elisha, 251. genealogy, 407. Deacon Nathaniel, 39, 52. 72, 78; biog. sketch, 229, 266. Rev. Theron, D.D., 112; biog. sketch, 207, 318. William, teacher's certifi- cate, 267. Bartholomew genealogy, 413. Hill, 54. Rev. Orlo, biog. sketch, 209. 38 Bates, A. C, 6. Battle of Stillwater, 144. of Saratoga, 146. Beach, Edmund, inspector of fire arms, 371. Fisk, elected chorister, 85. genealogy, 418. gristmill, 369. Rev. James, 256; biog. sketch, 315; genealogy, 420. Deacon John, 35, 45, 72, 77, 78; biog. sketch, 228, 396. Miles, Inspector of fire arms, 371. Theron, 361. Bear and the sow. The, 174. Beecher, Rev. Luther, D.D., 262, 280, 282. Rev. Lyman, D.D., 253. Beech Hill, 53. Bennett, Miss Mary E., 277. Bequests, 404. Bingham, Rev. Hiram, oi-dina- tion, 256; singing, 258: courtship, 259; and wife at semicenten- nial, 262. Rev. Joel F., short pas- torate, 92. Biographical sketches, Abm. Baldwin, 204; Deacon Nathl. Baldwin, 229; Theron Bald- win. D.D., 207; Rev. Orlo Bar- tholomew, 209; Dea. John Beach. 228; Capt. Jona. Buell, 233; Charles H. S. Davis, M.D., 340; Hon. Daniel S. Dickinson, 243; Rev. Wm. T. Doubleday, .333; Rev. Wm. G. Fennell, 223; Rev. Darius O. Griswold, 201; Giles Griswold, 242; Adino Hale, 233; Capt. Asaph Hall, 231; Prof. Asaph Hall, 344; 594 INDEX. Rev. Luther Hart, 198; Rev. Joseph Harvey, 316; Rev. Tim- othy A. Hazen, 336; Rev. Ste- phen Heaton, 304; Edward W. Hooker, D.D., 205; Mrs. Nancy (Thompson) Hunt, 268; Rev. Mark Ives, 218; Rev. Ephraim Lyman, 220; Erastus Lyman, 241; Dea. Moses Lyman, 236; Col. Moses Lyman, 237; Moses Lyman, Esq., 240; Hon. Fred- erick Miles, 247; Samuel Nash, 231; Rev. Abel Nevcell, 305; Henry Norton, 244; Rev. John P. Norton, 219; Dea. Lewis M. Norton, 7; Rev. Robert Norton, 221; Abraham Parmelee, 230; Rev. Elisha Parmelee, 198; Prof. Bernadotte B. Perrin, 351; Rev. Lavalette Perrin, D.D., 325; Rev. Grant Powers, 321; Rev. Josiah Sherman, 306; Rev. Augustus C. Thompson, D.D., 213; Dea. Augustus Thompson, 234; James Thomp- son, 232: Prof. Wm. Thomp- son, D. D., 211; Hon. John Marsh Wadhams, 245; Rev. Cliarles S. Wing, D.D., 222. Birge, Lydia, 44. Bishop, Noah, 279. Prof. William H., 6. Bissell, Isaac Jr.. 35, 36. Blacksmiths, 371. Blin. Elisha, 44; elected choris- ter, 85. Blue House, The, 63. Bounties promised, 1777, 137. Brainerd, Hez., 19; grant to, 20, 28. Brewster, Ephraim, 556. Nelson, 344. William Root, 392. Brigham, E. G., 363. Brooks Brothers. 363. genealogy, 433. Deacon Harvey, 262; his death, 337; genealogy. 433. Hon. Isaac W.. 6. John W., 282. 395, 396. Miss Mary E.. 6. William T.. 520. Watts H., 280. Brush Hill, 53. Buckingham, Joseph, 34. Buell, Alexander, 544. genealogy, 435. Doctor Henry, 281, 282. Captain John, 22, 31, 38. Deacon John, 4.35; his benevolence, 437. Captain Jonathan, 43; ac- count battle of Sara- toga, 147; biog. sketch, 233. Julius, 544. Timothy, 0.18; account of Oapt. Goodwin's Co., 129. Buel's sawmill, 367. Burchard, Eli, 274, 278, 280. Burgoyne's surrender, 148. Burning of the Blue house, 181. Burning of Danbury, 139. Burr, Andrew, 24. Burr Mountain, 53. Burrall, Col. Charles, his regi- ment, 120; at Quebec, 121. Burton, N. J., D.D., 333. Bush, John C, 361. Butrick, Lois Porter, 267. Call, George M., absconded, 378. Campaign at L. I. and New York, 124. Camp, Caleb J., genealogy, 420. Charles W., 277. Moses, 515. Canada, 57. Carlisle, Elihu. gen., 484, 520. Carrington, Elisha, 362, 544. Rev. George, 112, 114. Jesse, 339. John, 359. Case, Rev. Francis H., call and ministry; 321. Census, 1877, 337. Centennial celebration, 393. Centennial sermon, 55. Chair factory, 371. Chapman, James, 555. Cheese boxes first made, 365. Cheese, quantity manufactured, 366. Cheese trade. The, 365. Choir organized, 86; choristers, 85. Christian Commission, 376. Christian home in Goshen, sixty years ago, 285. INDEX. 595 Cliurcb, James, 34. Prof. Samuel, 318. Clark, John C, 282. Clergyman's wives, 227. Cleveland, Rev. James B., sup- plied pulpit, 93. Clock factories, 309. Clotliiug sent to Ticonderoga, 123. College land, 22. Collins, Ambrose, 121; account battle of Stillwater, 144. Cyprian, 121; house, 443. genealogy, 442. iiev. Timothy and wife, 338. Colonial records, Itj, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 26, 34, 67. Coltou, Kev. Chester, 115. Committee to lay out "Western lands " and report, 20, 21. Common Schools, 266. Conference, Conn. State, 328. Congregational Church, First, 72; organized, 75; articles of agreement, 76; places of worship, 78; benevolences, 93, 100; house of worship re- built, 94; dedicated, 96. Church, No, Goshen, 111. Connecticut Historical Collec- tions, 263. Cook 6i Porter, 364. Cook genealogy, 448. George B., 392. Mrs. Harriet, 404. Mrs. Jloses, decorating soldiers' graves, 245. Gen. Moses, 280. Moses, Jun., 383. Ralph F., 364, 451. Cooke, RoUin H., 6. Consociation of Hartford County, 75. Continental soldiers, 138. Contributions for foreign mis- sions, 252. County seat, strife for, 45. Converts, First M. E., 160. Crandall, George G., genealogy, 459. Creamer, A. G., 277. Culver, Samuel, 35. Curtis, Rev. L. B., 6. Currency, value of, 306. Cutlei'y factory, Canada, 369. L)%^is, Calvin L., 3»3. C. H. S., blog. sketch, 340. Timothy b\, 340. Daniels, Rev. J. L., D.D., 99. Day, Rev. Jeremiah, 275. Deacons of church (not indexed), 101. Dear, George, killed, 123. Declaration of Independence read, 125. Dedication of M. E. church, 167. DeForest, Carlos, 280; George, 279, 281; Henry, 279, 281; Sam- uel, 279, 281; William, 279. Delegates to frame State Consti- tution, 404. to ratify Constitution U. S., 404. Deming, Benjamin, 566. Ellas, 338. Wait, 454. Description of Goshen, 1836, 263. Dibble, John, relief granted, 67, 356. Dickerman, Capt. Isaac, 35. Dickinson, Hon. Daniel S., 243. Difficulties with Colony, 16. Dignifying the pews, 175. Division of Hartford and Wind- sor Grant, 21. Dog Pond, 52. Doud, John, 65; recruiting, 124, 369; gunsmith, 370. Doubleday, Rev. William, his pastorate, 93, 100, 262; biog. sketch, 333. Draft in 1777, 141. Dunning, Edward D., 279. Durant, Rev. William, 6. Dwight, Rev. Theo. M., called to pastorate, 92. President Timothy, 22; from travels, 49. Eels, Samuel, 36. Eldridge, John B., 330. Seymour H., 383. Ely, Rev. James, 318. Emerson, Rev. Ralph, 276. Emigrants from Goshen, 14. Enlistments in the War of the Rebellion, 380. 696 INDEX. Episcopalians, 79. Episcopal Olaurch, The, 158. Esquire's Farm, 27; sale of part, 42; survey, 46. Everest, Oliarles Hall, D.D., 557. Events prior to settlement, 15. Exhibitions at Academy, 283. Excise law, 187. Family, The Christian, 285. Pai-mers' Union Company, 363. Fennell, Eev. Wm. G., biog. sketch, 223. " Fire in the rear " men, 372. First Congregational Church, 150th anniversary, 99; deacons and members (not indexed), 101. First M. B. Church building, 162. First deed, 36; settlers, 42; house, 43; child, 44; death, 44, militia company, 45; tovyn meeting, 46; survey, 46; school, 266; high school, 270; M. E. Church singing school, 167. Five towns laid out, 23; act di- recting sale and settlement, 26. Foot, Miss Laura, 9. Peggy, 267. Forbes, Mrs. Elizabeth A. (Pow- ers), 6; 280, 281. Foreign Missionary Society, 250. Forge at West Goshen, 368. Foster, Fred M., tannery, 371. Fowler, Rev. Joseph, 316. Fox, Washington, 404. Freeman, Essex, 293. French and Indian War, 65. Frisbie, Benjamin, 42; 367, 368. Fyler, Stephen, 186. Gallup, Dwight, 557. Gates, Gen. Horatio, council of war, 144. Gay, Col. Fisher, 125. Gaylord, Miss Amy, 277. Rev. Asahel, 115. Mrs. Eliza N., 280. genealogy, 452. Rev. Reuben, 280. Eieut. Timothy, killed, 65, 367, 368. Lieut. Timothy, 2d, 125. Capt. Willard, 262, 282, 395. Willard E., 393. Genealogies, 407. Gerrie, Rev. A. W., 96. Gillett, Rev. Alexander, 256. Gold, Theodore S., 276, 281, 282, 283, 394. Goodenough, Rev. Arthur, 98. Goodwin, Stephen, 39; committee of correspondence, 1774, 117; recruiting, 124; march to New York and rations, 125. Goshen to Ohio, 1799, 191. soldiers in Revolutionary War, 152. M. E. Circuit, 165. described in 1836, 263. of to-day, 405. Grammar school, 270. Grand lists, 1755-1775, 188. Grant to Hartford and Windsor, 16. to Charles Richards, 66. Gray, Moses W., 9, 363; gen., 455, 557 Silas A., 557. Great hail storm, 181. Griggs, Doctor Oliver B., 518. Gristmill, Dog Pond, 368; in West Goshen, 368; near George Johnson's, 369. Griswold, Rev. Darius O., 201. Frank W., gen., 459. genealogy, 455. Giles, 9; biog. sketch, 242; 276; 404. Guns manufactured, 370. Gunstock Brook and Gunstock Hollow, 51. Hale, Adino, 45; biog. sketch, 233; 404. Mrs. Candace, 45, 234. Justus, Timothy, Martha, 45. Hall, Asaph, committee of corre- spondence, 1774, 117; first lieut. at Ticon- deroga, 118; captain, 231. Prof. Asaph, biog. sketch, 344. genealogy, 459. Rev. Gordon, 315, 317. John, 19; grant to, 20, 27. Lyman, 393. Mrs. Lyman, song, 394. Prof. Percival, 6. INDEX. 597 Hallock, Dudley h\, 392. Rev. Jeremiali, 257. liammouU, (ieorge, genealogy, i71. Hard Winter, TOie, 180. Hart, ill's. Adeline, G. Deacon Henry, 297. Haa-t's, Henry, dock tactory, 369. Hait, Rev. Ivuther, 198. Hartford and Windsor, division with, 21. Harvey, iXlss Catherine, 320. Charles T., 6, 320. Rev. Joseph, call and min- istry, 91, 255, 207, 270; biog. sketch, 316; pub- lications, 317; pupils in theology, 318. Lemuel, 546. Hawley, Doctor George B., 279. Hazeh, Rev. Timothy A., his pas- torate, 93, 100; biog. sketch, 336. Heaton, Rev. Stephen, 85, 39; call, 72; ordination, 77; oppo- sition, 80; biog. sketch, 304. Herald, George, 163. William, 385. Hibbard, Rev. A. G., his pastor- ate, 93, 97. Charles M., 278. Hickox, Ensign Joseph, 45, 78. Hickock, Kev. Laurens P., called to pastorate, 92, 321. High school, 270. Hill, Billions, 44. Ebenezer, 42. Isaac, 42, 44. Luke, Jun., 42. Samuel, 24. Uri, 357. Benoni, elected first chor- ister, 85; gunsmith, 370. Hills, Capt. Medad, 136; colonel, and contractor for muskets, 371. Hinman, Captain Samuel, 46. Hitchcock. .Tohn, 28, 46. Hodges. Willard, 282. jdLolbrook, Abljah, 360. Holly, Alfred A., 552. Hooker, Kev. Asahel, call and ordination, 89; students, 91; founded first high school, 270; biog. sketch, 308; pub- lications, 313; students, 314; Pres. Humphrey's estimate of him, 315. Rev. Edward W., D.D., 205. Nathaniel, 34. Hopee, Thomas, 298. Hopkins, Samuel Miles, 343. Horstord, Orville, 279. House, The oldest, 44. Household company, 149. Howe, Birdsey T., 169. Miss Delia, 292. Miss Melvina, 277. Hudson, David, com. of coiTe- spondence, 1774, 117; character and benevo- lence, 196, 516. Colony, 190; second com- pany to, 195. Humphrey, Lieut. Ashbel, 66. David, 266. Edward L., gen., 462. genealogy, 462. President Heman, D.D., 257; estimate of Hook- er, 815. Humphrey's Lane, 64. Humphrey, Samuel, 39; church of England man, 79. Hunt, Rev. Aaron, 269. Mrs. Nancy (Thompson), 268. Huntington, Rev. Joshua, 315. Thomas, 21. Hurlbut, Frederick E., 364, 588. Gideon, 78, 868. Huxley, Asahel M., M.D., 340. Huxley, Edward C, 384. Matthew H., 384. Hyde, Rev. Charles M., supplied pulpit, 93. Henry B., genealogy. Rev. John, 315. In memory of soldiers, 892. Ives genealogy, 469. Rev. Mark, 218. Ivy mountain, 52. Jenkins, Mrs. Chloe (Thompson), 280, 542. Johnson, Solon B., 395. Judd, Marcellus J., 385. Capt. WiUiam, 22, 38. 698 INDEX. Justices of ttie Peace, 184. Keeutucusuk pond, 51. Kellogg, Helmont, 159, 163. Kendrick, Rev. Asahel C, 546. A. Judson, 547. Rev. Clark, 543. Rev. Ryland, 547. Samuel S., 546. Kilbourne, Dwight C, 395. Kimberly, Daniel, 385. Sherman, 54. Laborers' wages, 74. Labor strike, 192. Law, Edward, 38. Jonathan, 41. Lawyers, 343. Lawyer answered by Thomas Hopee, 298. Laying out five towns, 23. Lee, Daniel, killed, French and Indian war, 65. Legacies to Academy, 276. Legislative committees, how paid, 28. Lester, Hon. C. S., 355. Lewis, Benjamin, 42. Edmund, 21, 22. Elihu, 360. genealogy, 474. & Lyman, 362. Lincoln, President, 349. Liquor sold in 1811, 9. Litchfield County Consociation, 81 ; cost of entertainment, 83. Lombard, Otis, 276, 283. Long Swamp, 53. Loomis, Simeon, Chair factory, 371. Lord, Rev. Daniel B., 93, 100. Mrs. Ruth (Thompson), 541. Lucas & Allyn, 364. Frederick A., 6, 364, 385, 393, 395. genealogy, 480. Hurlbut & Allyn, 364. & Hurlbut, 364. Ludington, Theron S., 267, 361. Lyman, Miss Abigail, 276; be- quest, 337. Daniel E., 386. Ephraim, 220, 279, 281. Erastus, biog. sketch. 241, 271, 273, 278. genealogy, 486. H. Nelson, 363. Lyman, Deacon Moses, biog. sketch, 236; epitaph, 265. Col. Moses, biog. sketch, 237; license to keep chaise, 239, 361. Moses, Esq., 3d, biog. sketch, 240, 271. Moses, 4th, 240, 391. Moses, 5th, 393. & Porter, 363. Samuel, 271, 344. Mails and post-offices, 249. Manor, The, 54, 187. Manufactures and mills, 367. Marksmanship, John Doud's, 65. Marriages, 573. Marriage custom, 177. Marshapaug Pond, 52. Marsh, Rev. Frederick, 115, 262. Captain John, 21, 24. William, 35. Massacre of Carter family, 68. Martin, A. J. P., 546. Mather, Roland, 330. McCabe, James P., 387. Peter, 387. McCone, Thomas, absconded, 378. Mears, Simeon, 545. Mechanics Hall, 46. Meeting-house, com. to locate, 34, 35; voted to build, 73, 78; com. to seat, 78; second, voted to build, 84; selectmen to seat, 86; third house rebuilt, 94. Members of church (not in- dexed), 101. Memorial Hall, Hartford, 329. Memorial to Soldiers, 392. Men to be remembered, 228-248. Mercantile Company, 359. Merchants, 356; their profits, 364. . Merwin genealogy, 493. Julius I., 525. Methodist Church, West Goshen, 159; commenced, 165; mem- bers entered ministry, 170; church built, 167. Methodist Church, North Goshen, 171. Miles, A. & Son, 363. Caleb, 499. Daniel, 359, 499. INDEX. 699 Miles, Hon. Frederick, biog. sketch, 247, 282. genealogy, 495. & Gray, 363. Militia at New York, 1776, 135. Miller, Rev. Wm. F., pulpit sup- ply, 89. Mills and manufactures, 367. Charity, 267. Sidney, contract to teach Academy, 274, 279, 283. Miner, Colonel, of Woodbury, 45. Orson M., 386. Minister, committee to hire, 72. Ministers' wives, 227. born in Goshen, 198. Money paid in town in War of Rebellion, 380. Mooney, James, 387. Moral Society, The, 253. Morris, James, 297. Mosely, Miss, 260. Munson, John, French and Ind- ian War, 66. Miss Ruth, 268. Thomas, 161. Muskets manufactured, 370. Nash, Samuel, 78; biog. sketch, 231. Negro slaves, 172. New Bantam, 15; name, 42. Newbury, Roger, 20. Newell, Rev. Abel, call and in- stallation, 83; biog. sketch, 305. North, Elisha, 66. genealogy, 502. John, 357, 503. John, Jun., in expedition to Quebec, 1775, 119. J. Howard, M.D., 339. Joseph, 339, 503. Joseph, Jun., 339. Theodore, 344, 404. Pond, 51. Norris, Rev. A. H., 97. Norton, Abraham, 44, 251. Alexander, 365. Rev. Augustus T., 279, 281, 511. Birdsey, 360, 361. Mrs. Delia (Beach), deco- rating soldiers' graves, 245. Col. Bbenezer, 47. 78, 117; docket, 184, 365. Norton, Ebenezer, Jr., manufac- ture muskets, 370; com. for procuring firearms, 371. Edward, 6, 282, 394. Eugene P., 396. genealogy, 507. Henry, 48; biog. sketch, 244, 393, 395. & Henderson, 363. John, 518. Rev. John P., biog. sketch, 219, 262, 278, 279. Deacon Lewis Mills, pre- paring history, 7; biog. sketch, 8; Noah H. Os- borne's reminiscences of, 13; surveyor, 47; writes history of church, 75, 90; col- lector for missions, 251. Lewis M., & Sons, 11. Miss Maria, 6. Miles, elected chorister, 85. Nathaniel, 361. Oliver, 369. Oliver & Ebenezer, saw- mill, 369. & Porter, 363. Rev. Robei-t. biog. sketch, 221, 262, 277, 282. Thomas, 507. Obookiah, Henry, 297, 317. Ordination of the missionaries, 255; semicentennial of, 262. Osborn, Myron, 397. Oviatt, Elizabeth (Carter), story of, 68; descendants, 71. Samuel, gen., 459. Pallsadoed houses, 61, 62. Palmer, Andrew, hoists rebel flag, 373. .Tames M., 388. Parish, Division of, 79, 82, 83. Parmelee, Abraham, biog. sketch, 230. Mrs. Abraham, 231. Elisha, 198. Parmelee's Manor, 54, 187. Parsons, Rev. Levi, 260. Parsonage, voted to build. 87. Pastors. First Church, 304. Patpnt. petition for and issued, 38. 600 INDEX. Pease, Hon. Henry B., 282. Peck, Paul, noted hunter and sol- dier, 139. Pelton, Robert, 556. Pendleton, Henry G., 280. Theodore A., 388. Perkins, Eli, 555. Perrin, Prof. Bernadotte B., 351. Rev. Lfavalette, D.D., his pastorate, 92; biog. sketch, 325. Mrs. Lavalette, 326. Perry, Rev. David L., 255, 257. Peters, Rev. Absalom, D.D., sup- plied pulpit, 92. Petition assembly for povyer to tax. 74. Pettibone, Benjamin W., 6. Samuel, 39. 56, 72, 343; savrmill, 367. Phelps, Abel, 39. Pie Hill, .53. Pierce, Rev. John D., 276. Plumb, Rev. A. H., D.D., 6. Pratt, Isaac, 357. Prentice, Charles T., 279. Prices and expenses, 361. Physicians, 338. Poem by Mrs. Lucy (Ray) Wad- hams, 397. Ponds, 51. Pond Hill, 53. Population of town, 404. Porter, Charles ,7., 364, 388; gen., 465. John P., 363; gen., 465. Seth, 47. Rev. Doct., Farmington. 257. Post-offlces, 249. Pottery, .Tesse Wadhams'. 370. Powers, Rev. Grant, 55, 92; biog. sketch, 321. Pretended claimants of " West- ern Lands," 18. Price genealogy, .521. . Prominent men, 236. Proprietors' first meeting, 30; names, 32. Prout, Jolm, 24. 38. Publications of Rev. Dr. Thomp- son, 216. Pulpit supplies, 86. 89, 92, 93. Punderson. Rev. Thomas, 31.T. Putnam, Gen. Tsr.ncl. 1.34. Quain, John, absconded, 378. Quarterly meetings, Methodist, 163. Rally for the flag, 373. Rebel flag raised in Goshen, 373. Rebellion, War of the, 372. Record Goshen soldiers in War of the Rebellion, arranged alpha- betically, 381. Records of First Church lost, 75. Reeve, Benjamin, French and Indian war, 66. Hon. Tapping, 251. Reminiscences, Academy, 278, 281, 282. Representatives (names not in- dexed), 401. Reservoirs, Torrington Water Co., 51, 52. Residences, 1745, 55-64. Revolutionary War, 117; first company, 118; soldiers' outfit, 121. Rice, Major James Q., principal academy, 277; raises companv, 377, 389, 452. William McK., 389. Richards. Charles, French and Indian war, 66. Elbert S.. 6; historian M. E. Church. 168, 525. genealogy, 522. Samuel, 361. Richmond, Edward S., 388. Riggs, .Tohn, 21. Riley & Ludington, 361. Samuel C 538. Riot at Hartford. 17. Roads and residences, 1745. 55-64. Roberts. Benjamin, conversion, 161. Rev. H. B., 98. Robinson, William T., 389. Rockwood, Dr. Elisha, 545. Rogers, Hezekiah G., 281. Royce. John, 369. Josiab, French and In- dian War, 66. Rum, one day's trade in, 358. Russell, Stephen, 555. Sabbath-day houses, 85, 176. Sale and settlement of five towns, 26. of township, 30. INDEX. 601 Salt, scarcity of, iu 1777, 141. Sampson, Rev. , 115. SauawicU Islauds lulssiou, :;55. Sanford, AIsod, 439, 5L'2. Saratoga, Battle of, 147. Sawmill, The flrst, 307. Sceuery, 49. Schools, act for encouragement of, 24; schoolhouse located, 85; schools and academy, 266; teachers, 267 ; schoolhouse, 268. School Hill, 53. Scoville, Hubert S., 521, 538. Simmons W., 521. Scoville's wagon and carriage factoiy, 371. Second Cong. Church, 111; mem- bers dismissed, 112; deacons, 116. Sedgwick, Capt. John, com- manded first company, 118; house burned, 119. Gen. John, 253, 280, 446. Philo C, 280. Seminary for young ladies, 268. Settlement with Hartford and Windsor, 19. Seymour, Capt. Thomas, 20. Sherman, Rev. Josiah, called to pastorate, 86; biog. sketch, 306. Sill, Elisha, 338. Silliman, Ebenezer, 21. Singing at M. E. church, 164; at ordination missionaries, 258.' Slaves, 293. Smallpox treatment, 122. Smith, Hon. John Cotton, 251. John, Jr., 356. M. D. F., 395. Soldiers' Aid Society, 376. Bill for entertaining, 67; in Capt. Goodwin's Co., 126; fight with Hes- sians, 132; cooking, 135; in memory of, 392. Soper, Joel, 339. Sperry, Albert, 374. Cory don S., 282. Spinning match. The, 179. Stage routes, 249. Stanley, Hiram, war of 1812, 250. Nathainiel, Sr., 24; en- tertaining " Boulgers," 67, 75, 79; tannery, 270. 39 Stanley, Nathaniel, Jr., French and Indian war, 66. Starr, Ephraim, 358. Rev. E. C, 96. Stewart, George C, 540. John H., 390. Samuel, 546. Stickney, Miss Angeline, 346. Stoddard, Alanson, 46. Capt. Luther, his Co., 1776, 120. Stone, Rev. John G., 276. Substitutes furnished, 379. Suffering of Revolutionary sol- diers relieved, 300. Survey, first of town, 29. Surveyors, 40, 47, 48. Tallmadge, Col. Benjamin, 256. Tanneries, 370. Tavern, 1745, 55, 61. Teachers, distinguished, 280, 2S1, 344. Tenney, Miss Annie M., 278. Tennooe, William, 317. Thompson, Amos, 39, 78, 531. Dea. Augustus, biog. sketch, 234, 260. Eev. Augustus C, D.D., 5; called to pastorate, 92, 100; biog. sketch, 213; sketch of Dea. Lewis M. Norton, 252; account of ordination missionaries, 255; ad- dress semicentennial missionaries ordina- tion, 262; the academy, 270, 279, 281; sermon, 285, 542. Darius, D., 268; gen. 459, 540. genealogy, 526. Deacon Gideon, 39, 78, 79, 532. Widow Gideon, 300. James, biog. sketch, 232, 531, 545. Jonathan, 164, 536. Miss Nancy, 268. Samuel, 530. Professor William, D.D., biog. sketch, 211, 262, 318, 541. Thomson, Arthur C, 6. 602 INDEX. Tliomson, Gen. David, 537. Henry W., 540. Juliett M., 540. Deacon Stephen, 534. Throop, William, 24. Thurston, Kev. Asa, ordination, 256; singing, 258. Tipping Rock, 53. Tories, 156. Towner genealogy, 548. Samuel, 72. Town named, 25. Elevation of, 50. meeting, first, 33; 1774, 137; 1777, 141, 142; 1778, 149; 1780, 150; 1781, 151; 1782, 152. Treadwell, Governor, 257. Triplets, The, 183. Tuttle, Stephen, French and In- dian War, 66. Tyler, Rev. Edward R., 279. Pond, 52. Union Army, First Volunteers, 372. Vaill, Rev. Hermon L., 270; teach- ing, 318. Henry L., 390. Wade, Miss Lucia, 269. Wages of laborers, 1740, 74. Wadhams, Albert, 392, 394, 555. & Can-ington, 362. David, 362. Edward, 559. genealogy, 553. Henry W., 559. Jesse, 370. John H., 280. John Marsh, 6; biog. sketch, 245, 280, 282, 393, 394. Jonathan, 29. Mrs. Lucy (Ray), 397. Captain Luman, 559. Moses, 362. Sidney, 392. & Thompson, 362. Uri M., 558. Uri, 390. Willard L., 391. Willard Norton,. 559. Wadsworth, .Tames, 19, 21, 24, 27, 42; grant to, 20, 125. Walter, Cobb & Co., failure, 10; 370. War of the Revolution, 117; of 1812, 250; Rebellion, 372. Watson, Oapt. Titus, his com- pany, 1776, 120. Weeks, Howe & Son, 363. West Side Pond, 52. Wheeler, Christopher, 396. Whist, the Indian, 51. Pond, 51. Whiting, Captain Joseph, 20, 24, 36. Col. William, 17. Wilcox, John, John Jr., Moses, Thomas, French and Indian war, 66. Wild Animals, 173. Willard, Nathaniel, 24. Samuel, 21. 24. Williams, Capt. Benaiah, 45. Willoughby genealogy, 560. John, 551. Winchell, Munson, French and Indian war, 66. • Winds and snow, 50. Wing, Rev. Charles S., 222. & Gilbert, 371. Wolcott, Gen. Oliver, call for vol- unteers, 143, 338. Roger, 21. Women's record in the Rebellion, 377. Woman who whipped her hus- band, 178. Women with army, 146. Woolen cloths, Walter, Cobb & Co., 370. factory. West Goshen. 368. Wooster, James N.. 391. Miss Lucy, 369. Worcester, Rev. Samuel, D.D., 257. Wright, Dr. Albert, 280. genealogy, 560. George M., 564. Henry G.. 393. 563. Lieut. John, 66, 562. Moses, 44. William E., 561. Wyllys, George. 41. Young- liadies Seminary, 268.