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Susquehanna Co., Penn'a:
ITS HOMES AND ITS PEOPLE.
E. A. AYES TON.

" With smnkingaxlo hot with speed, with .^tep-ls of fire and ?tejim,
¦W'iilc-walierl To-day leavers Yt^i^tt'rc^i^y beliinfl him like a dresim. "
" Yet sit with nie by the homesteiul hearth ,
And stretch th'^ hinds nf in;;mory forth
To wnrm them by the olden wood-fire'= blaze, "
And hand the present down to future days.

BEGOKLYN PA.,
¦W. A. SQDIBE, PBrNTEK.
1889,

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Name and Natural Features.

92^HE TEEHiTOEY uow Comprising the township of BrookljTi, in pre-
i, historic times, was doubtless dry land, while the western prairie
f^rounds were yet submerged in water. Ages ago the earth's contracting
cr;rst threw up the ridges of the township, with their ohffs of gTand
old picturesque rocks, forming the valleys through which its winding
streams now flow, leaving fantastic shapes in ledges majestically piled,
or broken and sundered from corresponding parts which they once
evidently joined.
It lay in the track over which the glaciers once pushed their fields
of moving ice; and banks and mounds of round smooth water-washed
stones are not infrequent, from causes long ago operating, but which
have ceased to exist in their locality.
Erook-lyn is therefore an appropriate name. In 1682, when the state
of Pennsylvania was founded by Wm. Penn, and for a century after,
Brooklyn was in possession of the Indians, who seem to have made
little use of its dense but game-filled forests, except as pathways to and
from more favorite regions. They may at intervals have made it a
hunting ground or battle field, for arrow-heads are sometimes found, but
the smoke of their village vngwams doubtless never rose from its sm-faoe.
So it inherited no Indian names. The Lenni Lenapes or Delawares seem
to have been entitled to occupancy, but they had many contests with
the Six Nations to whom they finally yielded.
Of the three counties into which Penn divided his province —
Philadelphia, Chester and Bucks — Brooklyn was for 70 years an
nr-named tract in Bucks. In 1752 it was in Northampton county. In
1772 it was in Northumberland. In 1790, under Pa. jurisdiction, it
constituted a part of the large township of Tioga in the county of
Luzerne, which was established in 1786. In 1795 it became a part of
Nicholson in said cormty. In 1798 and for a few years after, it was
called Dandolo and ( the south part of it ) Bidwell, by the first New
England settlers. Connecticut tad surveyed, and claimed jirisdiction
and ownership over these townships, ( each six miles square ) and over
Kany more in a large town and county called Westmoreland, beginning
below Wilkes -Barre and running, 15 miles >vest of the Susquehanna, to
New York State, and extending from this west line to the Delaware on
the east, this tenitor^^ being separated from the rest of Connecticut by
tbe interv'ening portion of New York along the Hudson river. And
though, after along and blcody contest, Connecticut had by arbitration,
rehnquished to 'Pennsylvania all governmental authority over the ten-i-
tory, the settlers still claimed the land ( after paying for improvements )
under Connecticut title, urging that their right was secured by tbe
earliest charter from the British Sovereign, and by the first purchase
from the Indians, while Pennsylvania was second in both these respects;

4 HISTORY or BROOKLYN.
b-t they were disappointed and had to buy the soil over again from
Pennsylvania land-holders, making six tributes for one small owner
ship in nat-orp's.domain — two .to. the.i^ng, two, to, the, Indians ;f,nd two
to speculators. .'..¦>..' ^ .,- ,-.' . ;.- .vt. .. . , ;.!i i„ >'..
The line between Dandolo and Bidwell passed from west ot the
Meshoppen through to the east, not far from the present village of
Brooklyn, leaving the Joseph Chapman place { noy - owned, by .TttOJuas
West, ) the Andrew Tracy place "(now Ansel, Sterting'Si).. and the
Eloomfield Milbourn place ( L.' B. Tiffimy's ) in; Dandolp,;, >^hile,the
Edward Goodwin place , ( tbe E.- F. Breed estate ) the Pe'leg Trapy,i Jaqe
( O. Briley's ) and the Wm. Harkins.: place (. the H. W.;JKent farm .)
were iu Eid-« ell. . . ¦ -¦ • : ¦'' ; m..
In 1806 it was a pari; of Bridgewater in Lu?er6e' Co.'In ISMit was
"V\ aterfcrd in Susqi-ebanna Co., which county was setvoff in l&lO.bat
not organized till fall . of 1812. -i". .;' .' ¦! J ,;... ._ i ;: ¦ \
The pe.itionof Joshrra Miles and others for,. setting off \yatei-ford
from Bridgewater was presented in.court iApr. 26,;1813. John;]3- .Cfibsou
was then president judge and Wm. Thpmson: aild^ Da>:is .Dimpqk
associates. Asa Dimock, Hosea Tiffany, and; David iAl.drich were appoint
ed to survey tbe new township. A review. iwa§ j,appjs)intpdi . Ja^. sessions
1814; and the lines confirmed at Apr. Count; rlS-l^.:!; ji j. .
¦ In 1823 it -^^as Hopbottom, by which ,name.:it was long known,,pef-
haps even by its first. white settlers, ill 1787-,. for N^right Chamberlin
dalls it Hopbottom' in his diary as.eaffty-as 1795,. [ ;See post office Jist, 3
In 1825 the name was changed to^ Brooklyn by.,a'at!iority.ofj,eourt, on
petition of its 'citizens, signed at a nrfdeting for .that,. purpose hel4n ^t the
house of Cyril Ciiddings, how owned by J.. B. Quick. Till: 1346, it included
Lathrop township, leaving it now ailiarea^' averaging a Httle oyeivfeur by
six miles. ' ' v . .'I ¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦. ¦.¦^- , . _. . ¦ ,¦ _ - ,..j
Mar; in Creek i-uns through one of its, southw'ard, /extending- yalleys
and forms the entire easfem.boundai'ys- "sepfa-atiag it irqm Harf oi;d,i Just
east of this ¦ creek the DelaiW'aS-e, Eackawiuuna, and. ^Westerp. rail-road
runs, with stations at Eosta?, .¦Kingdley,,atid; Mpntrcj^e or Alfoi;4i P?he
Hopbottom. occupies another of tltese; taUeysirjr^jth^j^enterj.enteriijg-the
township on its noroherni border, and 'uniting iwth Martin Cre8l^',jpi4t
above Hopbottom borough.. Dry Cr.e«?k .heginsda. the eart central part
of the township, and rims between Sihifi two above named and joins. Alar-
tin Creek a little above the: 'mouth,, df the Hopbottojn. t The,. IVfehopp^n
runs (thrdugh-Dimodi> a little .-viesfc of t£e. boundary,, receiving, the,',tiib-
uiai-ies of Brooklyn's two little ¦lake's,. And' Hortoji ereek begins iii the
west central portion'and rans'feouthito the Tunkhannook^ bel«Tj- the
yilliage' of Nicholson,' where it becsomes; a ¦ goodly-:; streajn, ,111686, with
matiy broOks and rilL ferogi' laaii^ -isCinous'springsr of pui;e3t ^^s^ater di-ain
the township toward the ocean tfartogh the Suj&quehaaua fif^pr.
The central part of Brooklyn is in .about 41J-degTees,riS)r,|h;laJ:itude,
and about 1| deg-Tefis east from Washington, and ,75g wei^t.lfojn Grreen-
wich. ltd magnetic meridian r.unnin^' north- lies (1888 ,) .about ,7f tie oxees
west of the ti-ue meridian. . ¦, ¦ ,t ?; ¦¦¦.¦¦¦.^i. • ,
Its rocks are mostly '¦ pure gi-it'.'— :.gray and'brqypn sajjd|[one< thquo-h
stale and argillaceous kinds are found. Alluvial soils often border the
streams, and deposits of sand and gravel sometimes occur, but Eandy

TREES, SHRUBS, ANn WOODY VINES. 0
and clayey loams prevail, of good feriility, though firmly based on
" hard-pan. " These are well suited to grazing, dairying, fruit and
vegetable growing and, the culture of maple orchards, and timber.
Its climate is temperate and salubrious, though extremes of heat
and cold, and remnants of blizzards and cyclones sometimes reach it,
and winter clothes the land in white. Storm winds and clouds come
from easterly directions, laden with Atlantic vapor, and steady falls
of rain or snow, but thunder-showers and gusts and squalls of hail and
frozen flakes are from the west. The temperature has been known at 26
below zero, Eah., but on very rare occasions, and on the lowest grounds,
Brooklyn's isothermal hues do not coincide exactly with its lines
of latitude, but are modified by its sheltering woodlands, by the vapor
from its streams, and by its hills and valleys, which also often affect
the force and direction of its winds and air cuirents. It has no hills
high enough to have their degree of cold perceptibly increased by
altitude. On the contrarj', in the night time and in cloudy days the
colder air settles down by its greater gravity into the valleys, while
in sun-shiny days the reflection from the surrounding hills makes the
valleys warmest. But the hills are high enough so that the people rarely
find the sun to rise and set according to the time of the ahnanac, there
being few places that have a perfect horizon. But its standard rail
road time is reckoned from a meridian ( the 75th. ) only about § of a
degree to the east, making that time only 3| minutes faster, than
its mean solar time.
To t ave viewed, from some prominent eminence, the wooded hills,
and dales of Brooklyn, a century ago, when early summer had clothed
its unbroken forests with verdure and bloom, looking down upon its leafy-
canopy with its graceful winding curves and its towering domes and
minarets, ' or to have seen the gorgeous expanse of its autumnal hues
shimmering in the sun-light, would have been well worth a journey ;
and to have heard the solemn diapason of the night-winds sweepi<ng~
through its naked branches in the darkness of a mid- winter storm would
have been sublime.
But there are many vantage-views still left, presenting charming
vistas and lovely landscapes, -with patches of primeval woodlands still
remaining among the grass-clad slopes ; and from many points the
blue lines of distant mountains may be seen circling the horizon east,
south, and west. ' . .

Trees, Shrubs, and Woody Vines.

Our primitive forests furnished many kinds of timber, all serviceable
to human wants in a country alternating between summer and winter.
Before the .use of fossil coal, it supplied the entire household fuel.
And it is fifemarkable that when woodland is cleared, if left to itself
to grow up again, it almost invariably ( except in kinds that sprout

6 HISTOHY or BROOKLYN.
from the roots ) produces trees of different kind from that removed,
( from seeds long dormant in the ground ) indicating that soil that
has reared a tree is not so well suited to grow another of the same
kind. The Alder is a tree growing 10 to 20 ft. high, fringing water-courses
and swamps, in spiing-time filled with tassely catkins.
Crab- Apples are sometimes found growing spontaneously in the
township, but it is most probable that they sprang from seed of our
common or natural fruit which sprang from cultivated sorts ( all of
which sprang originally from European crab-apples ) and that they
have merely retrograded toward their original state, although native
American crabs are found in some sections of the country. Or they may,
have grown from seed of the Siberian crab in cultivation here, or from
seed of common apples fertilized, by bees or otherwise, from cultivated
crabs. Several kinds of Arrow Wood are found, so called because the In
dians are said to have used its straight stems for arrows. The largest
of these is the Black Haw, ( not very abundant ) growing in clumps,
10 or 12 ft. high, -with mealy, sweet, edible fruit, black, oval, with flat,
stony seed. It is sometimes called Sheep-berry or Nanny-berry. One of
the smaller kinds is the High-Bush Cranberry growing in marshy
ground, with sour, bright-red berries.
The "White Ash is a lofty tree of hard, tough, strong timber much
used in manufacture, and grows in plenty. Its foliage turns to a rich
purple hue in Autumn. The Black Ash found in swamps has separable
grains used for hoops and baskets, though not so good as white oak.
The Aspen is a small tree, common for second growth on cleared
land, with pretty, tremulous leaves set dancing by the slighest breeze,
with a little mirrmur — a voice of its own, as every kind has.
" There's a titter of -winds in that beechen tree, "
while the pine standing near seems to sough and sigh. There is also a
larger sort of Aspen vsith lai-ger and different-shaped leaves. We have
also, less common, a Poplar with round-angled branehlets and glutinous,
balsamic buds, hke the adopted Balm o' Gilead. The tall spire-like
Lombardy is also of foreign origin.
The Azalea, 4 or 5 ft. high, covered -with deep pink, tubular flowers,
is found, but not abimdant — in moist ground. It is not May- Apple.
The Barberry -with its sharp spines, its strong-scented flowers and
long, red, sour berries came from Europe and has spread. The bark
( very bitter ) jields a yellow dye, and is medicinally called " tonic. "
The Basswood or American Linden is a fine tall tree, plentiful, with
broad leaves, honey-bearing blossoms, and inner bark strong and
fibrous fpr matting. Its wood is white, soft and useful, but not durable
when exposed.
Brooklyn occupies a part of one of the finest Beech regions of the
world. The timber is fine-grained, hard and easily poUshed. The White
kind is used for plane-stocks and other tools. The Eed Beech ( with
wood mostly red ) is verj' durable. The .nut is sweet and oily. The
dainty yellow blossoms sometimes supply so much falling pollen as
to tinge adjacent ground with yellow. The tree ( nearly the same ) is

TKEES, SHRUBS, AKD WOODY VINES. (
extensively found in Europe, used much for making wooden shoes.
Virgil has celebrated it in verse. The Water Beech or Blue Beech
is small and grows on banks of streams, has strong, tough wood and
little sour nutlets.
Two kinds of Bii-ch are found, the Black or Sweet or Cherry Birch
( sometimes called Mahogany Birch ) with rough ross, and spicy bark
and ];endant catkins ; and" the Gray or Yellow, less aromatic, with pa
pery films on the outer bark. (The White Birch with bark peeUng;
horizontally in sheets is a smaller tree, only found farther north. )
Birch bark is used for tanning and the wood for various purposes of
manufacture. The buds are much sought by the partridge for food..
Birch and basswood and other kinds were often used by the pioneers,
to eke out the supply of hay in winter, the cattle browsing the twigs.
of trees cut for that purpose.
Bittersweet is a twining, high-climbing shrub, winds from left to.
right, has brownish bark, greenish white flowers and orange-colored
berry-like pods, which open and show the seeds in scarlet pulp.
Sometimes called Wax-work. Eoot said to taste flrst bitter and then
sweet. Another plant of different character — night-shade family —
naturalized from Europe, is also called Bittersweet, with blue flowers
and red beiTies, and unpleasant odor.
The Butternut is common '¦ — sometimes called White Walnut, the
heart wood being light bro-wh instead of dark hke black walnut.
The Button-Wood or Sycamore, with i ts weird white trunk and
dark patches and balls of plush, seems hardly to have been indigenous.
to what is now BrookljTi,. very few speciihens occurring, though found
along the enlarged streams in Lathrop'.' '
Three kinds of Cherry abpupd — the Wild Black, with bitter, aro
matic bark, black fruit anfl dark red wood valuable for cabinet-work ;
the Choke Cherry pf .two varieties, and the Wild Eed or Fire Cherry
( springing up prpfusely. on .ne\y burnt land) the outer thin bark
peeling horizontally.
The Chestnut flourishes. The large tree densely covered with yellow
ish white spikes of flowers is a conspicuous object in early summer.
The wood is durable and useful. The nut is smaller and sweeter than
the European variety.
We have a wild native Currant -with small fruit of a disagreeable
flavor and odor.
Dogwood is a long-jointed shrub 5 or 6 ft. high, with large roundish
thick leaves, and clusters of greenish flowers with white petal-like
border, succeeded by little drupes or stone-fruits at first red and then
black, of mealy, sweet taste. Grows in open woods often in clumps and
has very bitter bark. The rudiments of its leaves begin to grow in
autumn and are quite conspicuous at the ends of the branches, all
winter. There is also at least one other kind, 12 or 15 ft. high, growing
singly, with many branches, streaked gray bark, small leaves and
blue berries in clusters.
' There are two kinds of Elder, one with red berries and yellow pith,
and a more abundant sort with black berries and white pith. The

6 HlSTORy OFBHOOKLYN.
¦former is one of the earliest shrubs to open iis buds in spring., ,
The Slippel-y Elm has mucilaginous bark and reddish wood of great
d'Jrability. The White Elm is a gra3ef al tree often with long peydant
branehlets. It has inseparable, crossgrained wood, but perishablti if
exposed. The Gooseberry grows spontaneously, the fruit being sometimes
smooth, but oftener prickly.
The native Grape is the small Frost Grape with thin leaf, green on
both sides. The vine grows vigorously, being often found hanging in
long ropes from the tallest tras'i to tie top of which its branches are
attached, having been climbing up for years by aid of hm.bs and small
er trees afterward dying and falling away.
Hazelnuts are sometimes found, 4 or 5 ft. high, with small nuts like
filberts. ¦-
The Hemlock deserves more than a passing notice. It.5 cheering
green defies the winter and baffles and softens the wind and cold. It
shields the birds from ioy storms, and in times of scarcity its little cones
fm-nish .seeds for food. As a building and tanning material its loss
cannot be easily suppUed. The sturdy trees that were in their prime
when the to'Wnship was first settled are fast dying. Why should not
tough, shady grounds and north sides of hills be used to replenish the
supply ? The farm and the landscape would be lonesome without it. It
was on3 of the most abundant of our forest trees — an old friend. Its
leafy, fragrant boughs, its bark and trunk helped furnish the first rude
shelter for man and beast ; the housewife bound up its pHant twigs to
make the broom to keep the cabin clean, before the husband or the
boys had time to peel the splints of yellow birch or water beech ; the
ho-jie nurse used its steaming branches to tuck round in " sweats" and
laake the teas to cure the household coughs and colds,; and it has since
contributed to the. industries, the frugal incomie, and the general prog
ress of the people.
Hickories are abundant a-ad grow tj a large size in woods. There
are 2 kinds — Shell- Bark or Shag-Bark having long loose strips of
outside bark, and sweet, rich, oily nuts, and the Bitter-Nut -with soft
thin-shelled nut and bitter kernel. This is not the Pig-Nut, which has
a hard-shelled bitter nut. The timber is heavyj hard, and strono- the
Shag-Bai'k being best for some uses.
Huckleberries or Bluebeiries are produced — the Dwarf kind 8 or
10 in. high, and the high sort growing on banks of ponds or swales.
The black, mountain Huckleberry or Whortleberrj' is not indio-enous
here, though plentiful a little further south.
Iron-Wood, Hop-Hornbeam, or Lever-Wood is a small tree thouo-h
sometimes attaining a hight of 50 ft. It is hard and strono- and fts
bunches of seeds look like hops.
The June-Berry . ( fruit ripening in June ) is sometimes called
" Shad-blow," blossoming at the time shad appear in the rivers. It is
a small tree, and when laden with its pure white blossoms is au object
of rare beauty. It is probably the eai-liest tree, except the soft maile
to bloom in springtinie,

TREES, SHEUBS, AND WOODY VINES. 9
The Laurel or Calico Bush, or Spoon Wood, so gay in early sum
mer with evergreen leaves, umbrella-shaped or saucer-shaped rose-
colored flowers sprinkled with russety dots, is found' in both dry and
moist ground. The higher sort,Ehododendi-on, though found not far
away seems not a native here, nor the smaller darker-flowered Sheep-
Laiirel. Leatherwood or Moose- Wood is a shrub 4 or 5 ft. high, with many-
branches. The wood is fragile but the bark is very strong, said to have
been used by the Indians for thongs. It has au elastic- vibratory mo
tion when slightly shaken. Its flow-ers are yellow and berries red. Not
abundant. The Maple has winged seeds in pairs. There are 4 kinds here. The.
Eock or Sugar or Hard Maple with delicate thread-like flowers is plen
tiful ; the Black Mnple differs slightly from this in shape and color of
leaf, and in its dark bark, but it is not very common. The Soft or Eed
Maple is not scarce, with its early crimson flowers. The Striped Maple,
sometimes called Whistle-wood and wrongly Moose-Wood or Striped
Dogwood, is a small tree with green bark striped with black, large
1 saves -with pointed lobes, long clusters of greenish flowers followed
by numerous ihaple " keys." The sap is sweet like that of other maples..
It is a cousin of the ash -leaved maple or box-elder of the west. The
maple has sometimes crinkly, curly or birds-eye grains which render
it valuable for cabinet work. In early times the maple was the source
of the sugar supplj', thp sap being caught in troughs chopped out from
short logs of wood divided in halves, and boiled in camps in the woods,
in kettles suspended between two large logs of v^^ood, or beside a
straight-faced rock.
The Latin name for Oak was Eobur, i. e., strength. It is the emblem
of stability and endui-ance. Omi Oak is the Eed variety, a stately tree
of durable red wood, with leaves of graceful shape of curves and
magic sig-ns, and bitter acorns growing in little saucers. It is not vei-y
abundant; Earely, a White Oak is found with edible nuts. No other
kinds occur.
Specimens of PejDperidge or Tupelo or Sour Gum Tree are found
though rarely. They grow 40 or 50 ft. high with horizontal branches,
glossj' oval leaves and verj^ tough crossgrained wood, hard to split.
Pine was never as abundant as hemlock, beech, maple, basswood,
birch, chestnut, or ash. Single trees were often found, and small areas,
usually on moist grounds, were covered -with it. One ofthe lai-gest of
these occupied, the Hopbottom vallej' and extended from a point
southwest of the village to the Edmonds place; nearly 3 mi. The flat
and the creek are for nearty all, this distance almost level, the water
flowing by mere accumulated pressure in a deep tortuous channel worn
through the alluvial soil. Eoot remains of resinous, evergreen mon-
archs of great size, and of a former age, are often to be seen, in various
places, on dry ground, on the hill-sides, and in about the same State
of preservation as when first observed by the first comers nearly a
cen turj' ago. These were doubtless Pines or something similar.' The
original lines are nearly if not entirelj' gpne. Their cultivation and
encoura^'eihent would be ^Yisc.

10 HISTORY OF BROOKLYN.
The Wild Plum, a small thorny tree with red and yellow fruit is
common — doubtless at first growing chiefiy along the stf^apis.
The Spice-bush, or Fever-bush, or Benjairiine^b'usli.^ is; tquite abun
dant, chiefly in moist places, with greenish yellow ,t)lossoms, scarlet
berries, and spicy bark. . : , ,
Stag-horn Sumach grows in groves with resinous, milky bark, yellow
wood, and " bobs " or spikes of dark red sour seeds. The wood, with
pith bm-ned out, was often used for spouts or " spiles " in tapping
maple trees for sap, when the incision was made with an auger. If axe
and gouge were used a broader spout was required. Spouts are now
made usually of hard wood or galvanized iron.
There are two kinds of Thorn trees. One is the common kind with
solid, sourish, red and yellow fruit. The other is a smaller tree with
less thorns, larger leaves, beai-ing a yellowi sh-red, soft. Sweet, mealy
berry with stony seeds.
The Virginia Creeper, commonly called five-leaved lyy, is quite
abundant. It is not a twiner but climbs over rocks and up high walls
and trunks of trees by tendrils and adhering rootlets. It often thus
reaches the tops of the tallest trees, increasing in size from j-ear to
year, and forming long rope-like naked stems, the chmbing process
being confined to the upper part where it branches over the branches
of the tree. The threeleaved Ivy or "Poison Ivy " is a shrubby vine
of a different character, though climbing by rootlets. >
The Whitewood or Tulip-tree ( Liriodendron ) with its majestic
proportions, its large yellow flowers torne aloft, and its broad impress
ive, dark green leaves, bounded by truncate, waving, geometric lines
of matchless skill and precision, is a tree of true nobility, in its way,
with insignia none above its peers, but high over all armoiial escut
cheons and all the pomp of heraldry. It is another of the valuable gifts
of our old-time forests, that are raj)idly dv^ipdling away, and that need
an effort to check their diminution. It is a soft, handsome durable
wood, and its loss would be a sad one- in both an economic and esthetic
point of view. , ¦
We have at least two varieties of Willow — the common spreading
bush along streams, and the Sage Willow or " Pussyi Willow " with
its soft, downy, furry catkins in early spring, before the leaves appear.
There is doubtless another native kind, but the large tree with yellow
branches was of European origin. ¦ ¦
The Witch Hazel is not wanting, and it has the peculiarity of blos
soming in the fall, about the time the leaves drop off.
The American Yew or Ground Hemlock is also, sometimes seen in
shady places, with it.s graceful, curving stems of veritable wood 10 or
12 in. high, with two rows of thick-set, glittering leaves, and forming
symetrical clumps of perennial green with connected roots. It is not
common and is an attractive curiosity. '
Our trees and shrubs are exogenous, i. e., they all grow by an annual
deposit of wood around the outside of that abeady produced and between
it and the bark, while the gro-tv'th upward ( after the first from seed )
is all made at .the ends of the branches by a new portion added each

PLANTS AND FLOWERS. 11
year, ox sometimes by new shoots pushed out from latent l)uds not
at the ends of branches.
There are endogenous trees that grow by new deposits within,
crowding the old part outward. Such ai-e the palms, bamboos, and
reeds. But there are no trees or shrubs of that manner of grow'th
here. We have plants growing in that way, like lilies, flags, grasses
( not clovers ), Indian corn, wheat, rye, oats, &c., but no trees.
So the branches of om- trees, at the place of jmiction with the trunk,
never rise any higher from the ground than when first formed. When
standing close together, trees push upward toward the light, the lower
branches perishing and falling off. Trees are frequently found here
with roots apparently grown out of the ground. Such trees began to
grow from seeds lodged in some old decaying log or stump, the roots
passing down the outside, rotten part till they entered the soil. After
a few years the softening old wood disajspeared, leaving the tree stand
ing on stilts. And a like phenomenon is often observed resulting from a
different cause. Loops and ligatures are found connecting two hmbs
of a tree, making fantastic shapes, and surrounding open spaces with
an entire and continuous boundary of wood. This occurs when one
limb by accident grows into an open angle in another limb or between
two other limbs, and by the continued growth of each they are pressed
into close contact and grow together into one. Two trees ( of the same
kind ) may also thus be united by a living- tie.
The foregoing- are the trees and the more important shrubs indige
nous to the township, though there are others. Most of these are de
ciduous, there being but four evergreens, viz., Hemlock, Pine, Laurel,
and American Yew.
Plants and Flowers.
" In all places, times and seasons.
Flowers ex^^and their light and soul-like wings.
Teaching- us by most persuasive reasons.
How akin they are to human things."
The flora of Brooklyn might fill a volume, but it must be told in a
word, giving but part.
The yellow, lily-like Adder-tongue or Dog-tooth 'Violet aboimds, and
wild Asters of many kinds and colors — blue, white, purple, variega
ted — are profuse in autumn. White Arrow-heads of variable shapes,
and Turtle Heads with whitish or purplish flowers, grow along the
brooks. The Swamp Avens, with tall purple-orange blossoms, furnished
roots sometimes used by the early settlers as a substitute for coffee.
The following are found : — Balms of various kinds, hke Oswego
Tea or " Trainers' Feathers," growing in moist places, with its fragrant
heads of showy plumes of bright red blossoms, which the pioneers

12 HISTORY OF BROOKLYN.
sometimes used instead of tea, and to make red dye : Bellwort with
its yellow bells hanging on a single curving zigzag stalk,a foot or so
above the ground ; Bh)od-root with attractive plant and flower and
blood-red juice ; Blackberries with fruit of various shapes and sizes ;
Beggar-lice with whitish flowers, and Stickseed, with blue, and Hound 's-
tongue ( introduced from Europe and spread wild ) with neat httle
bush ot velvety leaves and ciimson-puri le flowers, each sort with httle ad
hering nutlet buiTs, and rank-growing Beggar-ticks with shingly seeds
terminating in grappling-hooks, all thus equipped for catching a pass
age and tranSj^iorting theu- progeny abroad, the one kind riding couch-
ant and the other rampant ; Beech-drops looking Hke little brownish,
withered sprigs a.l full of buds ; Eirthrcot ( Trilhum ) a three-
cornered flower, purple, wm;e or vai-iegai.ed, growing on the. second
story of a three-cornered plant ; Etu-opean Butter and Eggs ( as to
color of flowers ) or Toad Flax ( as to shape of leaves ) and Snap-
dragony in agricultural value ; the Buttercup or King-cup and the
Burdock ; Bind--n-eed or Convolvulus ( from Em-ope ) resembhng False
Buckwheat, and often persistently twining around growing field crops
of every kmd ; and native wild Beans, diminutive but real, in little
gracefully curving pods, just common enough to be a curiosity. Every
species of t-wining vine has its own way of climbing, from which it
never varies, some winding always from right to left and others from
left to right, Uke the above.
Many of our mo3t common plants were first brought from Europe
either on iDurpose, or mixed with other seeds. Catnip is one of these.
The -wild Carrot now becoming a trouble.some weed has simply strayed
from cultivation. Celandine "with its satiny yellow flowers is a lover of
water. Cranberries are on the North Pond marsh. The Cone-flower or
Indian-Daisy or Wild Sunflower sometimes dots the field and the way-
fide viith dehvate piu-ple and gold. The Cowslip or Marsh Marigold
wa.3 one of the earliest " greens " of the early times. Club Mosses are
found of several kinds not surpa;-;sedin beauty — long cords of evergreen,
and miniature trees of shining leaves, including the exquisite Ground
Pine. Chiekweed ( two or three kinds ) is here and means to stay. The
Corn-Cockle, Corn-Eose, or Corn-Pink originally from Europe, with
pretty pm-ole-red flo-.vers and litJe Hack seeds, dehghts in grain fields.
Blue C)hosh with naked stems, and bloom on leaf, and hard seeds
with bl lish palp at top of stalk ; Clematis, or Virgin's Bower, a wild
vine climbing over bushes, with feathery, sillfy attachments to its seeds,
giving the whole a f azzy appearance iu fall ; and Cicely with carruty
top and parsnipy root; and Columbine ( wrongly called honeys'ickl"",
which is a shrub or vine ) with red and yellow flowers having litthi
honey sacks at the end of long spikes, or tubes so deep that only the
humming-bu'd or hawk-moth can reach them, are native plants. "
The Ox-eye Daiiy ( diy's eye ) is a European plant w.^ll ajchmated
here. Though too numerous for the farmer.it has a history co-extensive
with that of the English race, and has long been celebrated in legend
and in song. The Dandelion is a royal flower — one of the first to
greet us as the winter leaves, opening its golden disks to catch the

pl-^lNts and flowers. 13
early morning spring-time sun, and sending its feathery seeds floating
on the air before " the idle thistle-down " appeai-s, and the last to
cheer, us as the latest Indian Summer days depart. The Dew-berry or
running blackberry is occasionally found. We have the broad, and
naiTow-leafed Dock, "both European. The dehcate little flowers, " Dutch
man's Breeches," are native in the woods, and with their cousins,
Squirrel-Corn ( so called from little collections of yellow bulbs at
their- roots, resembling grains of cpm ) constituted ttie floral " Boys
and Girls " of the early time, the latter having Uttle fancied bonnets.
There are Uttle aquatic plants Uke Duck's-weed, with minute leaves
and rootlets that grow on the surface of still water — tiny navigators
that sail away before the wind. The Frogs' Bit is larger.
Elecampane is a stout herb 3 or 4 ft. high, from Europe. Ever
lasting or Immortelle, with white flowers, preserves its foi-m and color
long after it is severed from its source of Ufe. The wild Blue Flag and
Blue-eyed-grass are foimd, and also the light green Sweet Flag or
Calamus, and the conspicuous Cattail Flag. The rank-growing Fire-
weed, with air-sailing seeds, was the most alert intruder on the new-
cleared lands of our ' fathers. The blue Fringed Gentian is not very
abundant. Ginseng and Ground-nuts grow in -woods, and the running
Five-finger, sometimes in fields. The Goldem-od flourishes in its
glory in nooks and corners. Neglected hedge-rows are disappearing, as
they should, but memory and tradition will never cease to carry us
back in pleasing, pensive mood, to the straggling fence that used to
skirt the way "with blossoming furze unprotitably gay" in which
the goldenrod held a fascinating place.
The wild Hops that used to grow along the margins of the central
creek of the township, from which both creek and settlement were
named, have become nearly if not entirely extinct. The Hop twines
from right to left. St. John's Wort was once thought to be a danger
ous weed in meadows but proves to be comparatively' harmless. Joint-
Weed, Knot- Weed, or " Cloud-weed " — not Heartsease — naturalized
from Europe, looks like smart weed, but larger and not acrid. It is
doubtless the variety called Lady's Thumb, from the cloudy spot near
the middle of the leaf. Pepper-root, Tooth-wort, or Crinkle-root, tastes
like water-cress, has white flowers and grows in vegetable mould.
There are Ladies'-Tresses, curling and spiral, with white blossoms,
in damp" ground ; Leeks in rich mould, with clustered bulbs and
strong onion taste and odor ; Lobelia with branches of little blue blos
soms and oval pods ; Pond LiUes, white and yellow, and red LiUes
in the meadows ;¦ Mitrewort or Bishop's-cap, sometimes caUed Cool-
wort ( the leaves having a taste like cucumber ) delicate white woodland
flowers ; Mayweed that sailed the seas and now occupies the road-sides;
Mallow, from abroad, with lopping stems and strong deep roots, and
" cheese"-shaped mucilaginous seeds ; Mandrake with umbrella leaf,
white flower, and pulpy fruit ; Milkweeds ( 2 kinds ) — one -with a
single stalk and bird-shaped pod of seeds -with silky attachments, —
the other lower,; branching, in dense clumps, with Uttle long horn-Uke
pods 7 Motherwort (originally a, foreigner ) but now- much at home

14 HISTORY OF BROOKLYN.
near dwelUiigs'; The little Mouse-eai- is ours, but ,tbe. Mulleia was
imported. The superb Orchids, the Indian Moccasins or Lady's.^lip-
pers, purple and yellow, are not very abundant. The Trailing Atbutus
— the reno-wned svs^eet-scented, rose-colored Mayflower of New Eng
land — grows here sparingly, nestling close to the leaf -strewn ground.
The ship in which the Puritan fathers came to America was nameid
from the English mayflower — the hawthoi-n blossom. But after the
Pilgrims had passed through the hardships and sufferings that so
much diminished theu- numbers during the first winter, j after their
ariival, the first flowers they sa-w, as the spring opened, were these,
blooming in abundance around them.
" So, ' God be praised ! ' the Pilgrims said.
Who saw the blossoms peer
Above the brovm leaves dry and dead ;
' Behold our Mayflower here ! ' "
" ' God wills it ; here our rest shall be.
Our years of wandering o'er ;
For us the Mayflower of the sea
Shall spread her sails no more. ' "
" O sacred flowers of faith and hope.
As sweetly now a's then
Ye bloom on many a birchen slope.
In many a pine-dark glen."^
There are stinging Nettles; Uttle red, 'Partridge-rBerries on, little
round-leaved, evergreen, creej ing vines' ; Pepperrhiiit and Spearmint
( neither native ) growing along streams ; American Pennyroyal, aro
matic, on the hills ; Pitcher Plants, in bogs, with green aud purple blos
soms andewer-ehaped leaves holding water; and the native stout branchy
Evening Primrose; ' opening its large bright yellow blossoms to the
fading Ught, as does the Morning Glcry to the rising day, though
five hours later than before its emigration from the east. We have
Princes Pine or Pipsissewa, looking more Uke lusty -wintergreen than
pine; Green Amaranth or — tigweed! Plantain or Eib-Grass •
Putty Eoot or Tallow Eoot, in woods, with bliish-green, plaitedleaf
somewhat like plantain, -but remaining all winter, with glutinous
bulbs tasting like sticky tallow ; and Purslane with fleshy stems and
leaves, and little yellow blossoms, nice — out of the gardeil !
Eagweed is a new-comer here with ragged leave? and frowzj'top,'
now crowding the road-sides. Its scientific name is Ambrosia  food
for the Gods — like this description! Eed Eoot was another early
substitute for tea. The Black-cap EaspbeiTy was very abundan'tih
times of new-burnt grounds, and the wild R^d Easpberry is" common
and there is a variety apparently a cross betw^een the two. The Purple'-
flowered -Easpberrv is also found in waste plases, with Hairy leaves
sticky stems, and l&t'ge dark red odorous flbwers, and ddrk-r^d conVex
fruit; it IS not prickly, and is often ei-roneously- called Tfiimble-berr'*^
The Black-cap is distinctively American and like the ¦fire-cheri-V and
other small fruits its seeds are widely distributed by birds Eushes and

PLANTS AND FLOWERS. 15
, Sedges of various kinds abound in moist ground, and Wild Eoses are
sometimes found on dry banks.
Sarsaparilla is plentiful of two kinds, one bristly, from 1 to 2 ft.
high, with leafy stalks and dark blue-brown spicy berries ; the other
4 or 5 in. high with the leaves at the top with blackish fruit, and aro
matic cord-like roots 4 or 5 ft. long. Spitenard is a -part of the same
family, in rich soils, 4 or 5 ft. high, with many branches, aromatic
root, and black or pui-ple fruit. Lils:e many other plants it belonged to
the materia medica of the early settlers. Strawberries abound, of two
distinct varieties — the common field kinds, of small fruit but unex
celled flavor, and the wood strawberry or Hautbois. Field berries in
many places are apparently becoming mixed with improved cultivated
kinds. Shepherd's Purse or Shepherd's Sprout is common in cultivated
grounds, with white flowers and Uttle triangular notched pods.
Snakeroot or Wild Ginger, with low kidney-shaped leaves and brown
ish purple bell-shaped flower, and spicy root, growing in clumps, is
sometimes -wrongly called colt's-foot. Smartweed, Sheep Sorrel, and
OxalUs or Wood Sorrel are not lacking. The latter has yellow blossoms
and two-winged leaflets and both flowers and leaves fold up at night.
Wild Soloman's Seal in open woods, 2 or 3 ft. high has,its " seals " on
the root — the scars left Where the previous year's stalk , grew. Spring
Beauty, growing from a little bulb or tuber, with rose--colored blossoms
striped -with pink, is among the lu-st, most abundant and beautiful of
flowers. The Star Flower is a delicate plant a few incties high with a
whorl of long-pointed leaves at the top of stem — a star of green —
and white flower-stars above.
The Teasel ( from Europe ) with purple blossom and long cylindri
cal, burr-Uke head used in dressing woolen fulled-cloth, is found. Of
Thistles there are three kinds, the Canada Thistle and the common
one are both natives of Europe naturalized here. The kind with green
of a different shade, with single heads of much larger size, called the
Pasture Thistle, is our native sort. Thoroughwort or Boneset grows in
wet places. There are Violets blue, white, yellow, and variegated,
some of them sweet -smelling. The 'Water-Cress now wild in brooks,
and the Horseradish are of European origin. Wintergreen, Boxberrj',
or Checkerberry, ( oval-leafed and aromatic ) frequently appears, also
the Shinleaf kind -with round thick leaf. Yarrow or Milfoil ^ thousand
leaved ) abounds with white or slightly rose-colored flowers.
There are Brakes and Ferns, Mosses and Lichens of many kinds and
exquisite design. And there are many other plants extending from the
copnecting links between the mineral' and vegetable kingdoms to plant
life'.'pf so' striking instincts as to be but little below the lower orders
of the animal world. '
.Qur- cultivated clover's and grasses are mostly imported from Eu
rope'. Timothy and White Clover are sometimes claimed as indigenous
here as wellas abroad;ibut it is hardly probable. But our permanent
pastures abound with' native grasses of superior quaUty, and-jvhile
some of the native:'Eed-tops are poor, there are others of a more purple
hue that cannot be excelled for hay.

16 HISTORY OF BROOKLYN.
Tansy was brought, over the sea by the early immigrants, and we
find it here now often growing near the sites of the long -abandoned
cabins of the first settlers, frequently accompanied by a patch of Live-
forever, some old Appletrees, and perhaps a Bahn o' Gilead, together
with the ruins of chimney and cellar. The Wormwood and the Chives,
the Hyssop and the Chamomile are gone. What associations cluster
arormd these household herbs and their companions ! What scenes have
they witnesed !
" O home so desolate and lone,
Did all thy memories die with thee ?
Who wed, who died, and who were bom
Beneath thy low roof -tree "?
'Whose axe the wall of forest broke
And let the waiting sunlight through I
What good-wife sent the earUest smoke
Up the great chimney flue ?
Did rustic lovers hither come ?
Did maidens, swaying back and forth
In rythmic grace at wheel and loom,
Make light their toil with mirth ?
Did child feet patter on the stair ?
Did boyhood froUc in the snow "?
Did gray age in her elbow chair,
Kmt, rocking to and fro ? "

Character and Trials of the
Pioneers.
Little has been said, in the following pages, upon this point, only
by way of unexpressed and unavoidable inferences from stated facta.
and conditions. It would be monotonous and unprofitable to keep re
peating the same story -with the same round of variations. But a trib
ute is due to all. All had their virtues — few had no faults ; but it is
no flattery to say that the former largely predominated. They differed
in characteristics. Each filled his station.
Their day had its errors, its follies and its evils as has ours, and
had also its hopes, its triumphs and its rewards. They knew the value
of industry, its tasks and its pleasures. Obstacles too ^eat for the un
aided efforts of one, were met by the combined help of all his neigh
bors. Friendly kindness and charity, common cheer and free hospitality
were the general rule. Chopping -"bees," loggings, huskings, quiltings,
" apple-cuts " and the Uke, were common. Borrowing and lencing were
necessities of the time, now happily outgrown. Even the household

CHAEACTEK AND TRIALS OF THE PIONEERS. 17
fire with its open cheerful warmth and glow was often built -with a
gift of coals from the nearest neighbor, or was lighted by a spark struck
from a flint and caught on a piece of punk, or was produced from a
little home-run leaden air-condensing pump, or made from a powder
flash in the flint-lock priming-pan of an unloaded gun.
They had their marvels — then- signs and wonders. Had their
drouths and floods, their hmiicanes, their deep snows, their sun-dogs
and their dark days. The great solar eclipse of June 1806 was a re
markable event, long remembered and still handed down. The darkest
shadow which the moon is capable of casting on the earth then passed
over Brooklyn. The men left their work in the fields, the hens and
birds went to their night perches, and children cried for fear it would
never be Ught again. And in 1816 occurred " the cold summer," in
which few crops were raised and none ripened perfectly. There was
no sleighing, January and February being warm and pleasant, but
snows and frosts frequent the rest of the year.
For them "necessity was the mother of invention." Implements
were often improvised and home-made. The boys furnished themselves
with " gimlets " by fixing handles on large nails, then grinding the
flat points thin, making awls or little drills. The household wants
were mostly supplied by the household members. Flax and wool rais
ing and dressing and carding and spinning and weaving were, at first,
done at home. Only the shoemaker and sometimes the tailor or tailor-
ess were itinerant.
Flax was spread in the field on smooth-mown stubble, and " rotted "
by the sun and dew, then "broken" in dry sunny days in latter
part of winter, then " swingled," " hatcheled," and spun from the dis
taff on the " little wheel " run by foot power. Except the last, the
tools for doing all this were home-made. Instead of the mower drawn
by horses, the scythe of that day was a rude blade fastened to a
crooked stick cut from the woods, with " tholes " for handles. The
thresher "was the flail. Corn was pounded in cavities cut in stumps
or logs, and " johnny-cake ' baked on a board set up before the fire.
Later, " tin ovens " were substituted and placed in the same position,
but they failed to give the same sweetness and flavor to the product.
Potatoes were roasted in the hot ashes. Apples in quarters were strung,
on strings and hung from rafter to rafter or from joist to joist to dry,
and pumpkin, cut in rings, was hung on suspended poles for the same
purpose. These " poles," like the wooden hooks on which the gun was
hung, were indispensable. They constituted the wardrobe and the
" catch-all " of the family. Cellar room was scarce and vegetables and
apples were often buried in the ground to pass the winter. All was
done upon the principle that " where there is a will, there is a way."
And this necessity developed energies and powers of seK-reUance
and versatility of skill and talent for which Yankee genius is re
nowned. While " the boy is father to the man," even though he inherits
all his powers, so this school of need produced the parent of to-day's
art triumph.
Long will the fut'jre in fancy follow back the story of the past, to

18 , HISTORY OF BROOKLYN.
join the children in their froUes with the drifting snows, or with hor
nets, bumblebees and butterflies ; or to go with them to meeting,
cairying theu- shoes in their hands till nearly there ; or to diink at the
piu-Ung spring at the foot of the hill, or from " the old oaken bucket
that hung in the well," with its pole and sweep rearing and plunging-
high in the air, to bring it diijjping to the curb ; or to listen to the re
verberating "Co' boss, co' boss!" that brought the cattle home at even
tide, as the early dews were falUng ; or to sit with them by the broad
stone hearth at the chimney corner, and hear the crickets chu-ping
theu- night-song in its crevices, with the crane and its hooks and tram
mels and its pots and kettles hanging over the blazing tu-e of logs ; or
to follow the oxen and the sled, and the horseback rides of men and
-ivomen through long tree-marked bridle-paths, and even back to the
New England father-land ; or to watch with them, as midsummer ap-
ju-oaches, the time when the sun first shines in at the north windows,
at morning and evening, though far from it at noon-day.
To these men and women and childi-en belonged the moral forti
tude, the physical courage and endurance, the unjielding will and
the intellectual vigor necessai-y to hew out of the wilderness the ad
vancing blessings of civihzation. They did their work well. They
forged one strong link in the chain required by
"The pui-poses of God's will
Heard in the slow march of the centuries still."
But they have passed away and their childi-eu or their children's
chikh-en, or childi-en of others are in their stead. These breathe the
same ah, they see the same stars, they hear the same songs of the
birds, and the same sun shines over them.
"Just as of old the seasons come and go,
The summer with its flowers, the winter with its snow,"
but all else how altered ! A trust is left to these descendants and suc
cessors as great and difficult of execution as was any preceeding trust.
Advancement of knowledge and i^rogress of science and ai-t have de
veloped advantages, necessities and dangers compai-ed to which the
wealth and the exposures of wooded wilds and ravages of pi-owUn<>-
beasts are insignificant. Old things are passed away — all things are
become ne-w. Will the children meet the demands upon them as well
and wisely as did their fathers meet theu-s ?
These fathers wrought nobly and are gone.
"Henceforward, listen as we -will,
The voices of that hearth are still;
Look where we may the wide earth o'er.
Those lighted faces smile no more — '
The dear home faces whereupon
That fitful fireUght paled and shone.
We tread the paths their feet have worn.
We sit beneath theu- orchard trees.

FIRST SETTLEMENT AND LAND TITLE. 19
We hear like them the hum of bees
-And rustle of the bladed corn ;
We turn the pages they have read.
Their vra-itten words we linger o'er,
But in the sun they cast no shade,
' No voice is heard, no sign is made,
No foot is on the conscious floor !
Alas for him who never sees
The stars shine through his cypress-trees !
Who hath not learned in hours of faith
The truth to flesh and sense unknown,
That Life is ever lord of Death
And Love can never lose its own."
But the memory of depai-ted generations, and the lessons and the
heritage of by .gone days should help in the attainment of the still
better acquisitions to be sought in the time to come.

— J»?»S,'>»iEl-c—
First Settlement and Land Title.
The flrst white, settlement within the limits of Brooklyn was made
in the spring of 1787, by a company of men under the leadership of
John Nicholson y^ho, with , Barnabas Binney, had purchased lauds in
this section from the state of Pennsylvania, it is said that about forty
Scotch, Lish, and Dutch people from Philadelphia and vicinity and
from along the Susquehanna Eiver were induced to join his colony,
but only a portion of them came the first year, the remainder coming
at sundry times for five,j'ears after. As late as 1850 or '60 the book of
accounts which Nicholson had kept with his settlers, in which they
were charged -with chains, sugar kettles, &c., was seen at Searle's
hotel in Montrose, by C* W. Conrad of Glenwood, a descendant of a
first comer. But no trace of it can now be found, nor can Mr. Conrad
remember in whose possession the book was held. The historj' that
can be given of these first people is therefore meagre, tlie names even
of but part of them being now obtainable. So much of it as can be
gathered will be presented in its proper place.
These people were not inured to the hardships and privations inci
dent to a Ufe in file wilderiiess. They soon became discouraged, espec
ially as Nicholson's promised aid soon failed, and in 1798 they began
to sell their improvements to settlers from. Connecticut who sujjposed
they owned the ri^ht of soil under Connecticut title.
The Nicholson , settlers were to have the land for seven years,
were each to clear a portion of it — all they could — and put up
houses and bams, and at the end were each to have the first right to buy,
the lot with its improvements/^/- what the whole might then be worth !

20 HISTORY OF BROOKLYN.
All this reads innocently enough to the casual observer, but it con
tains the fatal error that has cursed the world for ages and is still curs
ing it, gathering strength with increasing years. This false principle
is that the toiler should by some indirection or other be made to buy
and pay for, to some overseer — some Pharaoh of the land — the
fruits of his own labor — should pay for his own improiiements ; shouhl
buy of some lord or sovereign who had assumed to own it, a common
gift of God, together with the increase in value thereto added, whicli
increase was bestowed by his own efforts — should seek the good re
sults of industry by agreeing to have his earnings abstracted from hiin
— should seek right through imposed wTong.
This deadly evil has cropped out in a multitude of forms through
laws and customs and " licenses " that give it effect — - through feudal
ism, slavery and king-craft — through "watered" stocks,, and gain-
bling "pools" and "corners" — through " usury," and " money-chang
ing" values — through "vested" and corporate right — through " syn
dicates" and "trusts," new names for old abuses — and even through
religious systems that have sought to cure injustice and crime, vio
lence and mui-der on theories themselves involving injustice and crime,
violence and murder, in opposition to the divine mandate — "What
soever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them ! "
Until this giant \^Tong can be righted, in its protean phases, in
some rational and effective manner, we must look for revolution to
follow revolution, and all sorts of useless and worse than useless rem
edies like strikes and boycotts to be tried with all sorts of insurrection
and disorder.
After thus selling their clearings here, some of the Nicholson colo
nists began again in Harford, Lenox, and Clifford, using the funds
so obtained as well as the fund of experience gained , to their advan
tage ; while some returned to the places whence they came. Eobert
Patterson and child died here.
The first Nicholson party are said to have followed up the streams
pushing their canoes or rafts where the water was sufficient — up the
Susquehanna to the mouth of the Tunkhannoek, up the Tunkhannock to
Martin creek, then following that stream to the Hopbottom, cutting
the first old Nicholson road; Mortimer Page thence following the
Hopbottom to his place of settlement on its south bank a little wes^t
of the old cemetery, Eobinson, Mac Namara, Trout, and Dennisou
going StiU farther up the stream, and Wm. Conrad- taking the little
brook that joined the Hopbottom nearly opposite, .the cabin of his
friend and countryman Page ( the mouth of this brook was further
west then than now, having been artificially changed ) up to the. old-
Tracy or Widow Miles place; while Miller, Fox, and Patterson, and,
later, Jones, Hartley, and Harkins followed Dry creek or Martin.-, ^
Nicholson had borrowed money from the Widow and Orphans' Fund '
Corportion and mortgaged Brooklyn lands for security. He failed and
the Corporation took the ownership, which they agreed to sell to
John B. WaUace, when he should pay for the same. He failed to pay
( only interest ) but mean time he sold and took payment, and .gave
deeds for many lots. This and other complications caused much dis- '

PLAN OF THIS WORK. 21
turbance and uneasiness, as to titles which was chiefly quieted by the
Corporation's ageeing not to require payment again. Nicholson died
some thirteen years after this attempted colonization. While Wallace
was managing these lands he was often in Brooklyn with his carriage
and colored servants. His wife's name was Susan. It was his sister,
Mary M. Wallace, into whose ownership some of these lands fell.

Plan of This Work.

The following historic sketch is on the local or territorial plan, each
old residence or homestead being carried back from the present occu
pancy to the first. The plan involves not only a history of each home
stead, but also a reference to all the people now permanently residing
in the township, together with all who have heretofore lived here,
except some transient persons who cannot be recalled. And as the
name of the person to whom , the warrantee title from the state was
given is the foundation for all subsequent title, even though such title
may have been assigned to landholders who thus acquu-ed large tracts,
the warrantee name that covers each homestead is given when known.
It cannot be possible but that errors must creep into such an
attempt made at the present day. Twenty or thirty years ago it would
have been compai'atively easy, and accuracy more assured. Present
occupants are put in alphabetical order ( in italics ) in connection
with their families. Predecessors follow after but these with all other
subjects will be found in the index. Names of older deceased or re
moved residents are in small capitals. The first settlers in Lathrop and
in the south-east part of Dimock were a part of the Old Brooklyn
Settlement and will be mentioned. The facts and figures for this work
were gathered chiefly in the spring of 1887. At that time the number
of residents was as follows — Brooklyn village, 166 ; ."^Iford, 43 ; rest of
township, 769 ; total, 978. The occupation of persons unless otherwise
stated is usually agricultural.
Old roads will be referred to in the vicinity where located but
noted in the index. So of schools and churches, but hsts will be given
of old teachers and church members, mechanics, old town officers, post
masters and post-offices and oldest pioneers. The writer wishes here to
acknowledge information from almost every body interested, and sug-
"¦estions from Miss Blackman's excellent account.

22 HISTORY OF BROOKLYN.

Homesteads and People.
" There Ues in each famiUar scene
Some vision of the past.
As o'er the present, by-gone years
Their golden shadows cast ! "
Adams, Jas. Whitney came -with his father from Ashburnham, Wor
cester Co., Mass. in 1850, when eleven years old. He afterward enter
ed the Union army and was at the decisive battle of Gettysburg. He
married Sarah T., a daughter of John Thomson Perry, and they
have one child, Mary W., Mrs. Chas. A. Sickler, who has a daughter
Louise, and who, with her husband, resides with her father. Mr. Adams
o-wns the place on the Joseph Sahler and Eobt. Lyon waiTantees, and
upon which the first clearing was made by John Jones and Samuel
Howard, Mr. Jones coming after selling the O. Bailey place to P. Tracy
in 1799, and Mr. Howard ( who had married Mr. J.'s daughter Nancy )
coming after selling the N. E. Mack place to EUjah Mack in 1809.
The first log cabin stood on the south side of the road, by thci spring
which still affords abundant water.
This place is on " the Old State Eoad " on the east side of Dry creek.
A small area of primitive wood-land remains on the south end, and
imposing walls of rocks lie a little south of the road. Deed from J. B.
Wallace to L. A. Smith for 210 acres, Oct. 1813. . This included part
of the Elijah Newton place on the east.
Latham A. Smith a son of James and Annis Smith, from Groton,
New London Co., Ct.,' came in 1813, and Uved upon this place during
the remainder of his Ufe. He married Sally a daughter of Elijah and
Judith ( Jones ) Newton, and their children ( the first three of whom
were born in Ct. ) were Sarah L. deceased ( second wife of Wm.
Weston ), Sophronia C. deceased ( Mrs. Edwin Tiffany ), Emma A.
( Mrs. C. M. Gere of Monrose ), Mary H. deceased ( second wife of Jas.
Adams ), Latham A. Jr., physician, of New Milford, Ehjah N. deceased
physician, of Susquehanna, Hubbard N. of Lenox, Deborah N. de
ceased ( Mrs. L. E. Peck of Harford ), Jas. F. of Lenox, and Eunice
J. ( Mrs. Hawley and now Mrs. Ives ). Mr. S. lived at first in the Jones
cabin, but afterward built a frame house still standing, a Uttle to the
west and on the opposite side of the road. He died suddenly ( while
fishing at one of the " three lakes " in Harford f. May 8, 1848. aged
66 years, and Mrs. S., June 9, 1840, aged 51. Buried in Hill Cemeterj-.
Mr. Jones Uved here for several years and Mr. Howard for one or
two. His son John Howard was born here in 1809. After they moved
to their home a little further east, Bristol Budd Sampson, a colored
Eevolutionary Pensioner, occupied the cabin for a time before Mr.
Smith came. Sampson was taken bUnd a few years after. He used to
say that Charles Howard was the last person or object he ever saw.
This region seems to have been a favorite haunt df the panther.
* He died at Loomis lake, Lenox-not E lakes.

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They were frequently seen. Soon after Mr. Smith's people located here
Mrs. Smith's mother came to visit her. The night before starting-
home, she went to the door when she heard a panther scream. She
was so frightened that she dropped her gold beads which she held in
her hand. Aud when leaving in the morning she protested, with teai-s
in her eyes, that Sally and the children would be eaten up if they
stayed here. One day Esq. Packer -«'as riding home from Mr. Kings-
ley's with a piece of fresh meat. A panther was soon attracted by the
scent and followed him, at some distance, nearly to his door. At an
other time, just before dusk, the children heard what they first sup
posed was Mrs. Morgan ( Mrs. Jeremiah Gere's mother ) calling,
thinking she was coming- to their house but had lost her waj'. But it
proved to be a yawUng panther which was soon seen crossing from
the north toward the ledges. Mrs. Tiffany used to relate that when a
child she would often lie down on a chest that stood by the door Of
the old log house and listen to hear the wolves snap their teeth outside.
James Adams, a tanner, from Ashburnham, Mass., bought this place
i n 1850. He was a son of James and Dolly ( Dickerman ) Adams, and
a grandson of John and Joanna (Munro) Adams, and was a cousin of
Jas. L. Adams, late post-master of Brooklyn. His grandfather was a
Eevolutionary soldier, and -was 104 years, 1 month, and 4 days old at
his death. Mr. A. and his father and grandfather are all buried in
the Hill Cemetery here, the last two being residents of Harford at time
of decease.
Mr. A's first wife was Mary B. Whitney ( not here ) and theu' child
ren were Luther B., Ohio W., Francis A., and Jas. W., all born in
Ashburnham. His second -wife was Mary H. Smith who died in 1884,
aged 70 years, and Mr. A. died 1880, aged 76 years — both at this
old homestead.
He put up a small tanning establishment here wliich he operated
for several years. He added, 'oy piu-chase, to the old Smith farm a
lot adjoining it on the north ( on the Sarah Stover warrantee ) which
seems first to have been taken up by Samuel Lewis ( on assessment
list in 1817-18 ) who built a log cabin on the ^vest side ( near a fine
spring ) afterward occupied by David Smith. After this, Stephen and
Albert E. Gere lived in a frame house built on the central part, which
was also after that occupied by Edward Packer, Jr.
Ainey, Albert /., from Dimock, a physician, and a son of Jacob
Ainey, man-ied L. Marie Haight, a teacher of Forest Lake. Their
children are Louise, and A. Earl. The village house he owns was built
by Lyman W. and Saml. L. Kellam who came here about 1827 and
remained several years. Samuel K. was a shoemaker and occupied part
of this house for a" shop. It was also so occupied by Ferdinand Whipple.
Saml. K. married Alice L. Bagley, a daughter of Jesse Bagiey, and
had a son, Luther.
EoBBKT Eldbidgb originally from Groton, Ct., was a farmer in the
South Bridgewater neighborhood, on the north border of Dimock,
and bought this place about 1838. His first wife was Sally Sylvester,
and their children, James, Orlando A., Lydia ( Mrs. Doke ), and EUza.

24 history of BROOKLYN.
His second wife was Dorothy Cjllard, and children, Chas., and
Jennie ( Mrs. M. L. Bald-win, and afterward Mrs. Overton of Luz.
Co. ) . Mr. Baldwin was a soldier, now of Montrose. After the death of
Mr. Eldridge ( he was buried in S. Bridgewater Cemetery ) the house
was occupied by his daughter Mrs. Baldwin, till taken by Dr. Ainey.
Dr. E. L. Blakeslee, a soldier, had also had his office here. Mr. Eldridge
built a store next ^east from the hotel, which he occupied as a
merchant, for a number of years, which was afterward used for the
same purpose by his son Orlando, by F. W. & EraStus Allen ( 1851 ),
O. G. Hempstead and C. Eogers, O. W. Foote ahdM. T. Very, and by
O. M. Dolaway -with hardware. A school was taught in it one winter
, by E. A. Weston. The building- has since been removed to the side of
the pond where it was occupied by C. W. Broadhead in connection
with a smithy, and now ( 1889 ) is owned by A. S. Waldie and occu
pied by Mrs. Paulina Boughton, while Jas. L. Bookstaver, blacksmith,
has erected a building on the first site of the old store.
Aldrich, Amasa is a son of Andrus Aldrich and grandson of Nathan
Aldrich, the long-time occupant of this farm in the north pai't of
Brooklyn, which from 1822 to '28 was assessed to Lewis H. Chamber
Un, father of Mrs. O. W. Foote. Abraham ChamberUn father of Dr.
Chamberlin also "kejst bachelor's hall" here for a time before Nathan
Aldrich came. The deed from L. H. ChamberUn to Nathan Aldrich
was made in 1833 for 125 acres on the James Valliant warrantee.
Amasa Aldrich married Jane Corey and their children are John B.,
Fredk. J., and Jas. E.
Nathan Aldeich came from New Hampshire to Harford in 1815
and to Brooklyn in 1828 His wife was Elizabeth Wheelock, and the
children Alanson, of Harford, Andrus, Albert of New Milford, Mary
( Mrs. M. Van Housen ), Alvin, Windsor, and Alcista ( Mrs. Ellsworth ).
Mr. A. died several years ago.
Aldrich, Norri's ( son of Andrus' A. ) married Harriet A. the daugh
ter of Lyman and Melinda ( Darrow ) Herkimer and the children are
Ada M., Edwin M., and Mabel A. Jointly with Lyman Herkimer he
owns the two places formerly owned, one by Peter Herkimer and the
other by Samuel G. Bo-n'eh, ou the warrantee lot of Jas. ValUant.
Peter Herkimer came from Herkimer Co., N. Y. about 1815. His
-wife was Luoinda B.^con, a sister of Mrs. Jas. Oakley, and their child
ren were Peter, Jr., Lucy M. ( Mrs. Eben Stephens ), Lyman, Wm. E.,
Leonard S., and Betsey ( Mrs. Erastus Brown ). He died in 1868.
Buried in East Bridgewater Cemetery.
Saml. G. Bowen came about 1821, remaining some 8 years. His
wife was Nancy Hebkimee a sister of Peter Herkimer, Sr.
Alworth, Wm., from Clifford, was a teacher in Brooklyn many years
ago, but only recently became a fixed resident. He manied EUza
Guernsey of Bridgewater and they have a daughter, Mame ( Mrs.
Geo. L. Gere ) with whom they reside.
Mi-s. Alworth's paternal grandparents were John and Mercy Guern
sey who came from the isle of Guernsey in the English Channel, and

homesteads and people. 25
settled in Dutchess Co., N. Y., near the Conn. boundarJ^ Her father,
Joseph, married Sarah Eexford of Windsor, and came from Claverack,
Columbia Co. (near the Hudson) to the north boundary of Brooklyn
adjoining Bridgewater, in which latter his residence was built. Befoi-e
occujjying it he lived for a few months in a small log house on the Geo.
Cone or Jewett place, which was also at the same time temporarily
occupied by Justice Kent, both having large families. He built a card
ing mill in Brooklyn on the Hopbottom, near the house of Nathaniel
Eeynolds. His children were Joseph W., Hiram C, Sophia (Mrs.
Peter Williams, mother of Judge "Williams), Levi, Eliza; and John
W. and Peter B. who removed to Tioga Co. Pa. Mr. G. died very
' suddenly while away from home which he left but a few hours before.
His son Hiram occupied the homestead after his father's death, and
Levi, for a time after him, and it is now owned by F. B. Jewett.
Ashley, George K., a son of E. T. Ashley, has oversight of the late
residence of his father and mother with whom he staid much of the
time during their declining years.
EoLLiN T. Ashley was born Oct. 22, 1803 on a farm in the township
of Low Hampton, Washington Co., N. Y., on the Poultney river which
separates it from Vermont. He was a clerk at Whitehall, near by, for
a time, but went to Port Eepublic, Atlantic Co., N. J., wherein 1830
he married Eoxanna Blackman, and where his oldest son James was
born. He came to Brooklyn in 1831. His children are James A. (of
Washington, D. C); Joseph E. deceased, a U. S. soldier, enlisted in
Minnesota to quell Indian outbreaks, and after to put down the South
ern Eebelliou; — was in the battle of Tishomingo or Guntown, Miss.,*
under Gen. Sturgis; Nehemiah B. of Scranton; George K.; Sarah E.
(Mrs. H. F. Beardsley of Montrose); Mary A. (Mrs. Breckenridge of
Brooklyn, N. Y.); Emma, died April 19, 1859, aged 15 years; and
Hayden, died Sept. 29, 1858, aged nearly 4 years. Mr. A. died Sept.
16, 1888, aged nearly 85 years. Mrs. A. died Nov. 25, 1888, aged 78
years. Mr. Ashley was the son of Leonard and Sarah (Noble) Ashley,
the latter of whom lived for a time here with her son and died here
July 24, 1837, aged 61 yrs., 5 mo., 28 da. Buried in Old Cemetery.
Mr. Ashley was an Associate Judge for Susquehanna Co., for the
term beginning in 1866. He was a local deacon in the M. E. church.
When he first came to Brooklyn, he bought the house and store of his
uncle, Jas. Noble, who was the first regular and continued merchant of
the township, but not the first by 17 years, to bring a stock of goods
for sale here. This is the house (the oldest left standing in the village)
now o-wned by Malvina E. Tiffany, and recently remodeled ; and the
store, now gone, stood a little west of it on the little plateau where the
maple trees now are. This house and store were built by Edward L.
Paine in 1823.
After Mr. Ashley had occupied this store for some years, he bought
of Abel Hewitt the dwelling house down by the brook, now occupied
by Mrs. Harriet Kent, moved the little red store down to the other
side of the little stream, and in connection with another store build
ing put up by Geo. M. Gere where E. P. Bailey now lives, also moved
* Had a lock of hair cut from over his ear by a bullet.

26 HISTORY OF BROOKLYN.
over, made a more commodious store room. The post office was
here for a few months in 1841-2, E. T. Ashley being post-master.
Subsequently he sold both house and store to E. S. Kent and after
spending some time at Camden, N. J., he returned, purchased this
present place, and built the store now upon it, now occupied by A. C.
Dolaway ; while Mr. Kent replaced the old store with a new one now
occupied by S. B. Eldridge. While in the Paine store Mr. Ashley's
brother Leonard Noble Ashley was his clerk. L. N. Ashley's wife was
Sophia Skidmore, a sister of Mary and Adaline Skidmore who were
teachers of the township. In the second store, Henry S. Knapp did
clerical service, and afterward Mi-. A.'s sons assisted in that capacity.
The present dwelhng (except additions thereto afterward made)
on the present Ashley estate was built by Lyman W. Kellam who
came to Brooklyn about 1826 or '27 from Bridgewater with his moth
er, Fanny (Bush) Kellam who became the second wife of Sargent
Tewksbury. He married Sally, a daughter of Stephen Williams, Sr.,
and their children are Fanny (Mrs. Truman Bell), EUza, Samuel,
William, and Charles. Mr. K. was a carpenter. He died at Hopbottom.
where he had established a hotel, still kept by his widow and son
Charles. Died Aug. 24, 1886 a., 68 years, 2 months, 12 days. Buried
in the New Cemetery.
The lot of land now owned by the Ashley estate is a small part of
the larger lot (upon which Brooklyn village is situated) which in the
year 1800 was occupied by Jacob Tewksbury, but upon the south
ipart of which Mortimer Page began the first clearing in the spring
of 1787. Mr. Page was a German, aud was one of the first colony of a
dozen or more families that came here in that year, at the soUcitation
of John Nicholson who owned the land under Pennsylvania title.
Mr. Page's cabin and clearing were not on Mr. Ashley's land, but
Mr. Tewksbury's log house and first clearing were just west of Mr.
A.'s dwelling, on the knoll, among the old apple trees still standing
(which were set by Mr. T.) with the two springs near by, whose his
toric fame, with their vanished red and yellow thorn-apple shade and
choke-cherry and spicewood surroundings, has but slightly deterio
rated though the forest has been for near a century removed.
The whole lot as occupied by Mr. T., and afterward owned by Joshua
Miles, Sr. was on the Barnabas Binney and John Dunlap wai-rantees
(the hne between them passing nearly over the present old turnpike
road) and extended from the Wm. Conrad or Mary Miles place on the
north to the Samuel Yeomans place on the south and from the Jonas
Adams place on the east to the second Jacob Tewksburj' place on the
west — the north line of the lot passing over what was then called
"Coonrod Hill."
Jacob Tewksbury came from Vermont. His first wife was Elizabeth
Hadley who had one son George, but neither came here. His second
wife was Mary Eeed of Brattleboro, Vt., and the children were Nancy
deed. (Mrs. Alden Seeley, and after, Mrs. Joseph Earl), Elizabeth or
Betsey deed. (Mrs. Jas.'W. Sterling), Judith deed. (Mrs. Thos. Gar
land), Lovina deed. (Mrs. Stephen Smith), the foregoing being born
in Vermont, and Daniel deed, born here iu the house already men
tioned, Nov. 22, 1801, Samuel, now of Auburn, born Aug. 25, 1803,
Maria (Mrs. Nelson Williams, Alpha (Mrs. Beach Earl), Jacob, Jr.

homesteads and people. 27
deed, of Bridgewater, Mary deed. ( Mrs. Fitch Eesseguie of South
Gibson ), and John of Auburn. Three or four of the last children were
born after Mr. T. went to the place near the present creamei-y.
Mr. T. did not return east after he came in 1800, but built the
cabin to which his family came in the early part of 1801. He was
the third permanent New England settler, the first t-wo being Andrew
Tracy and Joseph Chapman who bought improvements here in 1798,
though Mr. Chapman's father, Capt. J. Chapman lived on his son's
place for nearly two yeai-s — from fall of 1798 to spring of 1800,
when he went to his place in Dimock or "Chebur;" and Caj^t. P.
Tracy lived on the O. Bailej' place and Harkins place for 4 or 5 years
from Feb. 1799. Joshua Sabin was also here for 4 yrs. and his son
Jonathan for 10 yrs. from 1799, and the Weston children, Saml., Mary,
Wm., and John, and Sally Tracy, were here from 1799. The first birth of
a white child in this township and county, probably, was in the early
part of 1787, as will hereafter appear. But Daniel Tewksbury was the
first bom of New England parentage, in the township — was the first
permanent native pioneer. [Andrew Tracy, Jr. was born Jan. 19, 1802,
and Geo. Chapman May 4, 1802.] Jacob Tewksbury died in Nov., 1842',
aged 74 yrs. and Mrs. T., Aug-. 18, 18G3, aged 90 jts. Old Cemetery.
Mr. T. was a supervisor of the township in 1816. He and his wife
were leading Methodists and were two of the four persons who formed
a class in 1804, the other two being Mary Tracy and Silas Lewis.
Meetings were held at their house for several years. The family is an
ancient and numerous one as the towns of Tewksbury in England and
in Mass. attest, and they are linked back to the time of the martyrs.
John Tewksbury a leather merchant of London was put to the rack
and burned at the stake. He was the possessor of a manuscript copy
of the Bible as early as 1512.
After Mr. T.'s father Isaac came in 1804, they together put up the
first saw-mill of the township, standing just at the south-east corner of
the New Cemetery. In 1807 Mr. T. removed from this \ lace to the one
west of it lying mostly west of the creek, and transferred his interest
in this one to Joshua Miles, Sr. who came in 1808 and who also
bought the Page right. After Deacon Miles, Noah Tiffany owned most
of this lot and then Arunah Tiffany his son owned it, and Jesse Bag-
ley occupied a considerable portion of it for a time, before it began to
be much divided into village lots.
Joshua Miles, Sr. lived in this Tewksbury cabin on the knoll while
he was building the large frame house where the P. O. now stands,
to be hereafter noticed. Ephraim Howe also Uved in a part of this house
( which had two apartments ) for a year or t-n'o after he first came in
1812, before he settled where N. C. Benjamin now Uves. And this
house was used for school purposes though not the first nor the sec
ond one so used in the vicinity. Joshua Miles taught in one part of it
in the winter of 1811-12, and Wm. Weston in 1812-13. Meetings were
also often held here.
Daniel Cone also Uved in this log house for a time during and be-
jfore 1817. His wife was Euth Eich. They came from Middlefield Mid
dlesex Co., Ct., via Blaok-Biver region, N. Y., in 1812 or 13, and

28 history of BROOKLYN.
removed to Ohio in 1817. Mi-. C. afterward revisited Pa. twice on foot,
walking regularlv 60 miles a day. Their children were Martha, who
died in North Ab'ington, Mass., May 3, 1888, in her 97th year; Euth,
an early teacher here; Sylvester; Thomas who recently died at Yellow
Springs, O.; Amanda; Edwin; Eliza (Mrs. Wm. Weston); Nelson;
Alma; and Angeline.
Aten, Henry occupies the house built years ago by Joshua Miles, as
an adjunct to his mills. It stands on the opposite or east side of the
road and a little below the site of the old paper mill and oil mill. Mr.
Aten's wife was Lucy L., daughter of Mason D. Lindsey, and their
children are Jennie, Eobert, Philander, and Mima. His father Har-
bert Aten lives with him. Mary, wife of H. H. Aten died May 31,
1884, aged 71 years. Buried in Old Cemetery. Many persons have lived
in this house. It now belongs to the estate of Moses Caldwell.
Luke Williams, a son of Latham Williams, lived and died here.
His wife was Sally, a sister of Jesse Bagley. Their son Hem-y M.
Williams, was born here in 1829, in which year his father died.
Babcock, Isaac Z. is a son of Frank M. Babcock, of Dimock. His
mother was Parnal, a daughter of Zelophehad and Elizabeth ( SterUng )
Ely. He owns a portion of the A. G. Eeynolds place, formerly belong
ing to Ammi Ely 1st, where he has recently built a dwelUng on an
eminence overlooking the lake. His first wife was Sarah Allen, and 2nd
Euth a daughter of Jasper and Hannah ( Bailey ) Mc Keeby. He was
a soldier for two years. Was at battle of Fredericksburg. Mr. Babcock's
father learned the carjjenter's trade of Jas. Packer of Brooklyn, and
worked on the Jacob Tewksbury frame house in 1818-19 ( still stand
ing ), and on the Z. Ely old house in the latter year.
Bailey, Lodou ick lives in the S. W. part of the township on the
place formerly occupied by his father Lodowick, Sr., on the David
Torbit wan-antee. His wife was Louisa A. a daughter of Wm. Giles.
Their children are Martha A. ( Mrs. E. Ely ), Ella A., Milton E., and
WilUam L.
LoDomoK Bailey, Sr., a brother of Amos and Frederick Bailey, came
from Ct. to this place in 1818. His -wife -was Hannah A-veey and their
children Hannah ( Mrs. Jasper Mc Keeby ), John L. deed., EUphalet,
died Oct. 14, 1841, aged 22, Caroline, Eliza (Mrs. Mark Quick),
Adaline, I. Avery, Lodowick, and Lucincla M. The family have frater
nally made their homes near together, Averj- having settled on a lot
adjoining, as did John, while Caroline, Adaline, and Lucinda are still
attached to the old homestead. Mrs. B. died Jime 9, 1860, aged 70 yrs.,
and Mr. B., Feb. 21, 1873, aged 87 jts., 5 mo., 7 days. Buried in the
Hill CemeterJ^
Bailey, Isaac Avery married Maria Grannis, a daughter of Chas. E.
and Clarissa ( Suthff ) Grannis, and gi-and-daughter of Joel SutUff.
Theu- children are Sarah E., Fred. A., EUphalet E., Clara J., Jas. B.,
and Geo. I.

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Bailey, Obadiah was born Sept. 14, 1810, at the old homestead
where he now resides.. He mai-ried Annis a daughter of Esek H. and
Amy ( Smith ) Palmer in 1832. His children are Wm. Pitt, Esek P.,
and Prudie E. — Mrs. F. T. Powers of Lenox. She died June 8, 1874,
aged 34. Mrs. Bailey died June 9, 1884, aged 76. Hill Cemetei-y. ,
Mr. Bailey's home is on the place where John Jones and his step-son
Bloomfield Milbourn began a clearing and a cabin iu 1790, though it
is probable that the Jones family did not come to it till 1791. They
might have remained a year at Thornbottom near Nicholson. Eelics of
this first cabin are still -risible near the spring, northeasterly from the
present residence. Near this spring — a large and constant one — is
the spot, with evidences still to be seen, where Mi-. Jones had his ash-
erj' — the first one in the township — large enough for making consid
erable quantities of potash — which was probablj^ sold in Wilkes-Barre.
The cabin was made of black ash logs, and covered with long pine
shingles split and shaved. Among the ruins is an old grind stone, which
Capt. Bailey made when he first came, and which -was used for several
j'ears, the stone being common grit found near. Peleg Tracy bought
this improvement in 1798, and Amos Bailey, father of Obadiah,
bought it in 1801. It is on the Eobert King warrant, drained by Dry
Creek. Obadiah was the name of Mr. B.'s grandfather, great grand-
f-ither, and great great grandfather.
Bailey, Wm. P. also occupies the old place, with his father. His
first wife was Charlotte D. Quick, daughter of David Quick, and their
children were Clara L. who died in 1886, aged 19, and Annis C. His
second wife is CeUa A., a teacher, and daughter of Gurdon Abel of
Gibson. They had a son Albert A. who died when seven years old.
Mr. B.'s first wife Charlotte died Aug. 11. 1872, aged, 35 yrs., 1 mo.,
6 days. Hill Cemetery.
Peleg Tracy, from Norwich, Ct. (oldest son of Andrew Tracy) came
in 1798, and with his family, in Feb. 1799. His wife was Hannah Leff-
ingwell, a sister of Mrs. Joseph Chapman. Their children were Betsej',
Maria, and Daniel, (born in Ct.); Chas. (born in Brooklyn); and Ver-
net, Martha and Mary, born after going to Wilkes-Barre. Vernet
Tracy is still Uving ( 1888 ) in Dakota, aged 85. After selUng to Capt.
Bailej', P. Tracy Uved for a few years on the Wm. Harkins place, re
cently owned by H. W. Kent, and then removed to Wilkes-Barre.
Amos Bailey (from Groton, Ct., in 1801) married Prudence, a
daughter of Eobert Gere, and sister of Chas. and Ebenezer Gere and
of Mrs. Stephen Breed. He and Ebenezer Gere came to Brooklyn in
1801 and spent the summer in the family of Capt. Tracy. They re
turned in the fall, and Mr. B. came back in the spring of 1802, but
Mrs. B. did not come till the fall of that year. He built a frame house
in 1809, since supplanted by a more commodious dwelling. Their chil
dren were Prudy ( Mrs. Eobert Kent ) -who died Aug. 12, 1863, aged
59 JTS., 4 mo., 24 daj's, Amos G., Eunice G., and Obadiah.
Eunice G. IBailej' still remains a member of the family on the old
place. She is a treasurer of events, having long kept records and obser
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30 HISTORY OF BROOKLYN.
descendant, in unbroken succession by shoots, of one which probably
Mrs. Adam Miller first planted by their cabin on the Breed place in
1787. It is an old-fashioned double Damask rose, then regarded as
superior tho'ugh now surpassed by modem productions. She has also a
piony from bulbs taken from the "garden of Judy Perkins over 60 years
ago. She has the first spelUng-book she owned and used in school, by
Noah Webster, containing also reading lessons like "The Two Dogs,"
"The Partial Judge," "The MiUi-maid," "The Boy in the Apple-tree,"
"The Two Friends and the Bear-," &c. It was copy-righted in the 28th
year of the Independence of the United States — 1804. And she still
has the httle cherry table made with the rudest of tools by her father
and her uncle Ebenezer Gere at their first coming.
Capt. Bailey was an early supervisor of the township, and many
times, assessor. He and his brothers were active and influential Uni-
versalists. He died Nov. 9, 1865, aged 88 years, 9 mo., 14 da., and his
wife, July 15, 1854, aged 85 yrs., 9 mo. As characteristic of his provi
dence and kindness, some of liis grandchildren remember to have heard
him say that when he had but one available room, he used to bring his
ox-yoke in every night and put it under the bed to keep the bows from
springing aud the draft surfaces froni becoming rough for the oxen's
necks. Three of Mr. B.'s children were born in the Jones cabin, viz.. Pru
dence, Mar. 19, 1804, Amos G., Feb. 12, 1806, and Eunice G., Apr. 1,
1808. Ehoda Palmer ( Mrs. H. W: Kent ) was also born there in Apr.,
1812. Bailey, Esek P., a son of O. Bailey, was a Union soldier, wounded
at Ft. Fisher, from the effects of which he still suffers. He recently
served a term as Countj' Commissioner. He married Marj' E. Terrj', a
granddaughter of Augustus Converse. They have an adopted daughter,
Ella M. Some j-ears ago Mr. Bailey bought the Isaac Smith farm and
built on it a new house and remodeled the barns, but soon after sold
it to E. F. Breed, and removed to Lenox, remained there a few years
and returned.
The house in which he now resides was built bj- Geo. M. Gere
probably about 1828. It has also been occupied by Sylvester Cooke
( Presbyterian minister ), by Jeduthan Nickerson, Harrison Dowd, a
soldier, and Conger Tiffany. The land is on the John Dunlap waiTantee.
Geo. M. Gere, a son of Jeremiah and Martha ( Morgan) Gere, was
bom Mar. 15, 1801, and came to this townshijj with his father and
mother in 1802. He became a shoemaker, and afterward built a store
a little west of this house where he traded for a short time. This store
building was used for a school room, Cahsta Tiffany, teacher, one sum
mer in 183 -. In 1822 he married Sarah, a daughter of Thos. Parke,
of Parkvale, Dimock. They had three sons and two daughters. Subse
quently he went to Minnesota -n'here he died.
Bailey, Chas. R., a son of Amos G. Bailey j married Ellen, a daughter
of David Morgan, and first went to Lathrop upon the place taken up
by Barnard Worthing in 1804, and afterward occupied by Abel Green
and Francis Perkins. He then came to his present place' in Brooklyn.,

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His children are Amos G., now of Neb., Fred M., and Mary G.; and
Eunice M. died Aug. 16, 1861, aged 2 yrs., 11 mo., and Jay died June 3,
1870, aged 6 yrs., 11 mo.
The first occupant of this farm was Egbert Eand a blacksmith,
whose wife was a sister of Mrs. Jacob Tewksbury. He was here in 1815
and doubtless for some yeai-s before. He did smithy work for the
Cotton Factory. Subsequently Erastus Latham, Dimock Wilson, Jacob
Wilson, Sr., Francis Fish, Jacob Wilson, Jr., and EUott C. Wilson lived
on the place. It was also owned but not occupied by Da-vtd Morgan
and Jas. Mc Divit. And on the north part, which E. C. Wilson added
to the place by purchase from the "Jacob Worthing Lot," the prede
cessors were Caleb and Joshua Jackson ( who built the frame house
not now standing ), Dimock Wilson, Y. L. Culver, F. M. Williams,
Caleb Crandall, Timothy Cannon, and J. F. Jackson. Deed from D.
Morgan to J. Wilson, Sr., for 50 acres in 1819, and from Jas. Mc Divit
to J. Wilson, Jr., in 1834. It is drained toward the Hopbottom and
Dry Creeks. The warrantee ( from the state ) is Nicholson himself.
Erastus Latham was here for a few years. He married Hannah a
daughter of Anthony and Hannah (Chipman) Fish, and their children
were EUza, Albert, and Mary Esther. After Mr. L.'s death his wido-w
became the 2d wife of Seth Bisbbe.
Dimock Wilson came from Coventry, Tolland Co., Ct., in June 1817,
his brother having come several j'ears before him, and his father com
ing the j'ear after. He lived for a time with his brother and then about
a year in Esq. Catlin's office at top of Dewitt hill before coming to
this place in spring of 1819. His wife was Milly daughter of Jonathan
and Lydia ( Bill ) Tarbox, and sister of Mrs. Frank Fish — married in
1811. Their children were CaroUne Sophronia ( Mrs. Jefferson Sterling
and after, Mrs. Josiah Lord ), born June 29, 1812, and now living with
her son-in-law J. Whitman in Harford; Chas. D., of Nicholson; and
JuUa M. ( Mrs. Lewis), died Sept. 10, 1843, in her 20th year. About
1834 Mr. W. removed to CUfford where he died Aug. 14, 1849, a. 60 y.
When Mr. W. came to this place there was a small log house (prol3-
ably the Eand cabin ) and the frame of the barn, still in existence
( moved to the north side of road ) which frame was Ukelj' made by
Mr. Latham. Mr. W. and his father soon put up a small frame house,
now standing on the Arthur Gere lot, the father, mean time, living in
the Mary Miles house. After Mr. W.'s death his widow married Joseph
Jackson, with whom she lived till his death in 1864. She died Apr. 3,
1867. Buried with husband and daughter in the Elkdale Cemetery,
Clifford. Jacob Wilson, Sr., a son of Wm. and Sarah (Eust) Wilson, came from
Coventry, Tolland Co., Ct. in 1818. His wife was Hannah Dimock
( daughter of the grandfather of Elder Davis Dimock late of Montrose ).
They were mamed Dec. 12, 1771. Their children were Hannah and
Eachel (not here), Jacob, Jr., and Dimock. Mrs. W. died Sept. 29,1789,
at the age of 37 years, in Tolland, Ct. Mr. W.'s 2d wife was Desire
Palmer and they had a daughter Desire who did not come to Brook
lyn. Mr. W. died here Sept. 30, 1826, aged 76 yrs., 6 mo., 10 days.

32 history of BROOKLYN.
Bmied m Old Cemeterv. Mrs. W. died with her daughter Mi-s. Danl.
Copeland, Mar. 5, 1848, in Ulster Co., N. Y. , .
Jacob Wilson, Jr. came in 1811. His wife was Selinda Brown of
Luzerne Co. He first located on the farm now owned by Jas. M- -New
ton, on the Jas. Logan warrantee, where he remained till 1834, and ,
where his children were born, when he came to the place now under
consideration. He died here Feb. 26, 1868 in his 84th year, and Mrs. W.
died Feb. 14, 1867, aged 75 yeai-s. Deacon W. first came to Kingston,
Pa., where he taught school several terms. He also was a teacher here,
perhaps in his first log house, for a short time. He was a freeholder
in 1829, was chosen deacon of the Congregational church on the death
of Deacon Miles in 1815, and at the change of government to Presby
terian in 1823, he was a ruUng elder. His children were Mary Ann
(Mrs. Jotham Oakley of Lathrop); EUza (Mrs. Booth of Luzerne Co.);
Nelson Judd, deceased, a physician of Pittsfield, Mass.; EUott C; and
Sarah Jane (Mrs. Penny of Lathrop).
Eliott C. Wilson married E. Jane, a daughter of Joseph Jackson.
Their children are Frank of Kansas, Josephine ( Mrs. Eeynolds of
Nicholson ), and Harry. Mr. W. occupied this place till the death of
his wife who died Dec. 11, 1879, a. 49 yrs., and has since spent his
time with liis children.
Bailey, Henry L. lives upon the old homestead occupied by his
father Frederick, wliich ( a part of it ) was previously owned by Amos
Lawrence, the successor of Ebenezer Whitney, who -o'as the successor
of Mark Hartley. His wife was Miranda, daughter of Hiram Guernsey
of Bridgewater. They lost a Uttle girl, Enima L.. in 1870, and then-
only remaining daughter is Anna E.,'wife of Milton W. Palmer, who
both reside with Mr. B. on the place. Mrs. B.'s mother, Maria E., a
daughter of Benjamin C. and Lucy ( Spencer ) Watrous, who for 18
yrs. lived in Mr. B.'s family, died Dec. 13, 1887, nearly 81 years old.
Mr. Guernsey died some 16 years before. Several persons have lived
in Mr. B.'s farm houses — Obed Johnson, the family of J. N. Eeynolds
a soldier, and others.
Mark Hartley, Sr., of Scotch-Eish descent, began on this place in
1792, remaining some five j'ears, when he removed to Lenox, a little
south-east of Glenwood. The tansy, the old apple-trees, and the place
of the well (which is reported to have caved in while being dug, leav
ing the tools still at the bottom) are yet to be seen north-easterlj' from
Mr. B.'s house, and north of the new orchard, and these mark the
spot eit'uer where Mark Hartlej' built 'his cabin, or where some earlier
settler began, whose historj' cannot now be traced. Another old pioneer
building-plase is near the old barn on the old road hereafter de
scribed. Amos Lawrence jji-obably occupied a cabin on this- location, as
did undoubtedlj' Col. Bailey also, when he first came. But the old barn,
still standing, was built by Col. B. liimself. For it is remembered that
Pelatiah Tiffanj-, after he became an old man, and walked with diffi
cult}' with his canes, used to saj' he was at the raising of tliis Bailej'-
barn and danced upon its plates. Tliis barn now stands some distance
south of its original position which was nearer the spz-ing, where was
also the cabin.

HOME.STEADS AND PEOPLE. 33
Mark Hartley, with his brother WilUam, came to this country when
boys, Mark stopping near- Harrisburg, Pa., and Wm., near Port De
posit, Md. Mark manied Cathern Simpson and had two children when
he came from Northumberland to what is now Brooklyn, William, the
younger of these childi-en, being then but a few weeks old. Mark, Jr.,
was bom here in 1795.
The children were Jane (Mrs. John Marcy), Wm., married Jerusha
Mai-cy, Mark, married Elizabeth' Jayne, Margaret (Mrs. Andrew Gor-
cUneer), EUzabeth (Mrs. Ebenezer Stephens), Mary (Mrs. Zebulon
Marcy), Cathern (Mrs. Lord Stephens), Sarah (Mrs. Jackson), and
James who married Mahala Farnam.
After Mr. Hartley, Ebenezer Whitney held the premises for a short
time about 1800, though he soon went to the C. S. Perkins place at
the foot of the hill.
Amos Lawrence was next on this place. He had a son WilUam, and
a daughter Phebe, the wife of Mott Wilkinson. Wm. Lawrence had a
daughter Phebe who, became the wife of Geo. Bagley. Her mother.
Amy, died Mar. 7, 1827, a., 42. Buried in Old Cemetery.
Frederick Bailey, a brother of Amos and Lodowick Bailej% came
from Groton, Ct., in 1807. In 1806 he married Polly Witter. Their
children were Mary W. (Mrs. Eoberts, and after, Mrs. Tyler, died in
1867), Frederick Witter, born, 1809, died at Derry, N. H., 1846,
Lodowick T., died Aug. 25, 1836, aged, 25 yrs., Sally M., 1st wife of
Eodney Jewett, who died in 1851, Wm. Pitt, who died Sept. 19, 1834,
aged, 18 years, Jas. Whiting, of Haverhill, Mass., Esther W. (Mrs.
Stephens), Eobert M., of Boston, Henry L., and Eliza A. (Mrs. Cole,
died, 1853), and Isaac and Lavinia who died in infancy, the former
being buried in the Milbourn Cemetery near bj', as the Hill Ceme
tery was not established till several years after, in 1828.
Col. Bailey added other land to the Amos Lawrence lot and made a
large farm. He was an ear-ly teacher. It is said he taught the second
school in his vicinity, in his o-nn house, the first being taught bj'
Lucretia Kingsley in B. Milbourn's barn in thte summer of 1812.
Mrs. OUve ( Howai'd ) Barlow, and Mrs. Malinda ( Tiffany ) Lindsey
remember attending this school of Col. B.'s and that he used to send
his team sometimes to carry the scholars home. Mary Tiffany, who
afterward married Chas. Perigo, had a school in the same room the
next summer — 1813.
Frederick Bailey was a supervisor of the township, then Waterford,
in 1814, a "free-holder," to settle accounts of the supervisors, in 1817,
and was town clerk among the first. He often wrote contracts and
other papers for his neighbors. Copies of such are in existence. He
died Sept. 3, 1851 at the age of 71, j'ears. His first wife died Sept. 9,
1828, aged 39 years, and his second wife, LucrNDA Morgan, died Jan.
28, 1869, aged; 89 yrs., 3 mo.— Hill Cemetei-y.
Banker. Mrs. Minerva L., widow of Benjamin T. Banker, of Frank
Un, Uves [1887] near Oakley, mth her son Willard C.
Benjamin, Nelson C. owns the place, on the Barnabas Binney war
rantee, first occupied by Ephraim Howe, and then successively by

34 HISTORY OF BROOKLYN.
Ephraim B. Garland and his father Samuel, L. N. Ashley, Lewis A.
To-wnsend, and S. D. Townsend, whose daughter Adelia M. was Mr.
B.'s ilrst wife who died July 18, 1856, aged, 26, leaving a daughter
Sada, since deceased. He afterward married Cornelia E. Townsend
(now deceased) a sister of Adelia, and their children are Carrie, Lu
ther, Hattie, George, Frank, and Charles.
Ephraim Howe was born at Waterbury, Ct., and came from Corn
wall, Litchfield Co., Ct. to this county in 1810, and to this township
in 1812, after spending two years in ]3ridgewater near Montrose and
in Dimock near Elklake. He lived for some two j'ears in the Jacob
Tewksbm-y house on the Ashley knoll, and came to the Benjamin place
about 1814, making the first clearing between the pine flat and the
hemlock hill-side.
His wife was Amy Sterling, a sister of Isaac, Thomas, and Nathan
iel Sterling and of Eachel, Mrs. Jedediah Hewitt. She was born in
Litchfield Co., Ct. in 1771. Their children were Hiram, Thomas (a
blacksmith, like his father), Elijah (father of J. E. Howe, 2d, of Great
Bend) , Ephraim Kirby, James Edward, Minerva (Mrs. Varnam Whit-
ford), and Mary A. (Mrs. Zenas Nichols of Bridgewater).
Mr. Howe built, upon the site of the present one, the first frame
house into which Mr. Garland moved. This house was bumed while
L. A. Townsend owned it and was replaced by his father, with the
present one, which is built bj' nailing narrow boards on each other,
forming solid walls of wood. "Wliile Jas. E. Howe (a man of medium
height) was Uving here with his father he caught a wild-cat in a trap
set up the Uttle brook north-east of the house, so large that when he
carried it home over his shoulder bj- its hind legs, the fore legs reached
the ground. Mr. Howe appears to have been the next blacksmith in
the to-wnship after Joshua Saunders. Mr. Howe lived here some sixteen
years and then moved up the creek to the place subsequently occupied
by his son Edward. He died Sept. 1, .1840, age, 67 yrs., 6 mo. The
deed from J. B. Wallace by his attorney, J. W. Eobinson, to Ephi-aim
Howe was made in 1817 for 39 acres. The lot extended to the Perigo
lot on the north. The deed from Ephraun Howe to Ephraim B. Gar
land was made in 1830, for 41 acres.
Ephraim B. Garland came from Lebanon, Me,:, in 1828, living, for a
year or two on the Chas. Perigo lot, next north of this one, and com
ing here about 1830. His wife was Patty Vabney, and children, J. Jay,
Jarhes V., Samuel, Elizabeth, Martha, Thomas Chapman, Angelina,
and Sarah. Mr. G. carried on an extensive business in.blacksmithing,
and wagon-making. He had a lathe run by horse-powpr, -with an in
clined-plane tread-wheel. A number of apprentices learned these trades
here, on the old long-time plan. He used the same : blacksmith shoi)
that Ephraim Howe built, with the ground for a floor. After a few
years he removed to New "York state.
Samuel Garland and Susan EmNE came not long after their son
Ephraim. He sometimes worked at the cooper business. Theu- children
were Louisa and Ebenezer, not here, and Susan (Mrs. John Potts),
Ephraim B., Thomas, Mary (Mrs. Buck), aud Edmond, a shoemaker',
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Benjamin, Luther M. lives on and conducts the farm of his father on
the Eiehard Manning warrantee. This place has one of the renovraed
springs that attracted early settlers. A man by the. name of Tkout
is reported to have begun here in 1787, but abandoned it leaving only
a smaU clearing and an out-door oven of stones and clay as evidences
of his occupancy. 'When J. E. Howe went to this place about 1830, a
tree of considerable size was growing partly in and upon this oven.
After Trout, Elijah Birge, Moses Smith, Wm. Birge, George Eisley,
aud .^.ndrew H. Tracy, occupied the place. Elijah Birge is said to
have built a log house upon it probably about 1820. He was here
from 1819 to '23.
Andrew H. Tracy, a son of Andrew and Marj' (Weston) Tracj',
owned a part of this place in 1822, and afterward owned the whole
improvement and lived on it for a short time. He manied Abigail
LoBDELL and removed to Marathon, N. Y. He was the 2d Yankee boy
born in the township, Jan. 19, 1802. He died July 4th 1883. A deed
for 44 acres was given by J. B. Wallace to Andrew Tracy in 1822, the
south part of this place. He sold the whole to the Howes, about eight
years afterward.
James Edward Howe remained in possession of the place after the
death of his father, till he sold it to Mn Benjamin. He finished clear
ing it and added some to its territory. It lies on both slopes of the
Hopbottom. He manied Lucy Backus who died Feb. 27, 1834, at the
age of 26 yrs., 8 mo., leaving one child, Eunice, who afterward became
Mrs. Alvin Day, who died March 23, 1856, age, 24 yrs., 2 mo., 10 d.,
and whose son, E. L. Daj', now lives with his grandfather Howe at
Nicholson, Pa. Mr. Howe's 2d -wife was Pamela Converse who died
Oct. 8, 1888, age, 73. Hill Cemeterj'. Mr. H. built an octagon dwell
ing on this place, of solid wooden walls, a firm defense against the cold.
In early times the smithy was supplied with charcoal for heating-
iron. Mr. Ephraim Howe and his sons used to burn coal-pits for char
coal for themselves and to sell. This was done by cutting certain kinds
of wood (often the tops and limbs of chestnut trees used for rails or
timber) into convenient length, and setting it up on end in a sUght ex
cavation in the ground, thus forming a stack of considerable size and
height, except an opening left in the center. The pile was then careful
ly covered with sods and earth except the central orifice. When all
was ready a fire was built in this opening which was then also filled
with wood. After the fire' was well agoing, this part was also covered
with earth. The pit then had to be watched day and night to prevent
the fire from breaking through in a blaze and converting the wood in
to ashes instead of coal.
Mr. H. bm-nt one of these on land of Anthony Fish, and one in the
Uttle valley down by the brook on the west side of land of Wm. 'West
on. In after years a seedUng apple-tree grew up near the remains of
this coal pit so that its roots could reach the deposit of refuse coal.
The tree was afterwai-d grafted and has uniformly borne exceptionally
fine and fair fruit.
Bennet, Freeman and -R'ife, Icedore Baker, came recently from Au
burn. They have one son, Fred, and occupy the Palmer place on

36 history of BROOKLYN.
warrantee lots of Eobert King and Neal Mc Coy. The north part of
this large farm (now belonging to the Eobt. F. Breed hph's) had its ,
first clearing made by Prince Perkins, a colored many from Connect
icut, who settled on it in 1793. His first wife was Judy, a woman rather
under medium size, a skillful woolcai-der, apd alwaj'S ready to nui-se the,
sick. They had a son William who is remembered as an, inteUigent
man. They were also accompanied by two grandchildren. Prince was
the fiddler for the pioneers. He sold this clearing to Mr. Palmer, in
1811, or more likely abandoned it before that time, and began another.
dealing on the Latham WilUams place which he sold to Mr. W. not,
many j'ears after, and bought a piece of land back of the Cjtus Oakley ,
place where he spent the remainder of his life. The elder Prince was
called Prince Perkins because he had been a slave in the Perking fam
ily while slavery was legal m Connecticut. And the younger man was
called Wm. Perkins, but there was a still j'ounger man usually called
"Young Prince" or "Yellow Prince" who should not be confounded
with this one.
Among the public amusements for the boys of that day the general
trainings and the little traveling shows of animals were important.
On oiie occasion the showman proposed to the j'oung men to ride
the elephant and see if he could shake them off. He threw them all
off but Young Prince whose clinging grasp he could not relax. But
not long after the boys came off victorious through excessive kindness.
A little menagerie with an elephant was to pass through the place oiie
daj' without stopping. So the boys got some sweet apples and scat
tered them along the road from the bottom of the hill to the top, in
order to have a longer chance to see what could be seen. The device
was successful though somewhat to the vexation of the keepers. Prince
Perkins died about 1839 not far from 89 j-ears of age. His second
wife, Chaelotte, was a tall woman and verj' different from Judith.
A story is told of Prince that he and Bloomfield Milbourn were one
day going over to Joseph Chapman's to get some shoe-mending done.
On theu- way thej' passed over the Chas. Perigo place, afterward
owned by A. G. Bailey, where they saw a deer. Mr. Milbourn (a hunt
er and a marksman who usually can-ied his g-un with him ) shot at it
and it fell, and Prince ran to it and sprang upon it to make sm-e of
the prize. But it proved that the ball had struck the base of the horns
and only stunned the animal, which soon jumped upon its feet and
dashed furiously down the steep hill to the Hopbottom creek, with
Prince on its back, holding to its large branching horns, aud refusing
to dismount. Mr. M. hunied on expecting to find Prince tom to pieces.
But to his sm-prise he found the deer and his rider at the bottom,
the creature completely exhausted and the man triumphant. Doubt
less the instinct of the deer by which it turns its nose forward so as
to bring its antlers toward its back to avoid being entangled in the
brush, protected the adventm-er from harm.
Esek H. Palmer came from Groton, Ct., on foot, in 1811. He re-
tm-ned, and brought his family in 1812. He Uved a few months in the
Jones cabin, Capt. Bailey at that time occupj'ing the small frame house
which he had built two or three years previous. Mr. Palmer's wife

homesteads and people. 37
was Amy Smith, a daughter of James and Annis (Newton) Smith. Their
children were Lydia S. deceased, (Mrs. Geo. Chapman), Emeline (Mrs.
M. L. Mack) deceased, Annis (Mrs. O. Bailey) deceased, Elmina (2d
wife of Eobt. Kent), Ehoda (Mrs. H. W. Kent) deceased, James S., a
UniversaUst clergyman, Gurdon W. deceased, Charles E., Eunice L.
(Mrs. Titus of Lenox), and Isaac N. deceased, and David L. who died
Sept. 28, 1835, a., 9 years. Mr. P. died Oct. 31, 1861, a., 83 yrs., 10 m.,
24 d., and Mrs. P., died Mar. 6, 1879, age, 96 yrs., and 5 d. Hill Cem.
A larger dwelling was built some 50 years ago, but the old house has
till within a year or two been standing, which Mr. P. put up in the
summer of 1811, hauUng the lumber on an ox-sled from the Titus
saw-mill (now Oakley's), the road then being the old one by the C. S.
Perkins house, and thence straight up the hill to Col. Bailey's. Seven
of the children were born here and four in Ct. Ehoda was born in
the Jones cabin on the Capt. Bailey place in Apr., 1812, to which place
the family had come in Aug., 1811, it proving to be the new house
into whicli they moved in 1812. Mr. P.'s first wife was Lydia Stanton,
a cousin of Mrs. Latham WilUams. She soon died leaving no children.
Isaac N. Palmer took the management of this place after the ^eath
of his father. He added to the farm by the purchase of a lot adjoining
it on the south. His first wife was Nancy, a daughter of Amos and Har
riet ( Eobinson ) Tewksburz, and their son is Milton W. Mrs. P. died
Nov. 14, 1863, a., 35 yrs., 10 m., and 1 d. His second wife was Amanda,
daughter of Eobert Kent. Mr. P. died Sept. 11, 1865, at the age of
41 yrs., 1 m., and 27 days.
Chas. E. Palmer took possession of the homestead after the death
of his brother Isaac, coming here from the Stephen Gere place which
he had owned and sold to Moses Caldwell. He occupied the old place
for about twenty years, sold it to W. W. Watson in 1883, and removed
to Illinois. He manied El-vira ( Kingsley ) Stroud widow of John
Stroud, and their children are Arthur H., a dentist, Ida, and Charles.
Joshua Baker in 1814, first occupied the lot on the south afterward
joined to this place. It was then assessed to Charles Chester for about
eight years, 1817 to 1825. Isaac Fletcher lived upon it for a time, and
then Chas. V. Gehe, and lastly Jeduthan Nickerson. The deed to Chas.
Chester was made from John B. Wallace for 54 acres, in 1817. Eobert
Kent owned this place for a time, and Anson Merritt lived on it a
while. Isaac Fletcher was in the township (per assessment) from 1818
to 1826, but not all the time on this place perhaps.
Best, Jacob, pastor of the Presbyterian Church, calne in 1875 from
his former ministerial charge at Waymart, Wayne Co., Pa., but he
was originally from Stuyvesant, Columbia Co., N. Y., — east of the
Hudson — and not far from Linden wald, the residence of Martin Van
Buren. His wife was Gertrude Nevius, and theu- children, John W.;
Margaret E., wife of Geo. Adams, a son of a former pastor; Anna
D., Mrs. Head — her husband a stenographer of Towanda, Pa.; and
Gertrude E., Mrs. Merriam — her husband the Pres. clergyman of
New Milford, Pa.
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38 history of BROOKLYN.
and Mrs. Best joined him in 1853, both remaining till 1861. He was
installed here Apr. 20, 1885.
His ministerial predecessors in the occupancy of the parsonage and
the pulpit were, going back, Geo. Spalding, 1868 to 1875; WilUam H.
Adams, 1858 to '68; Edward Allen (from Harford University — not m
parsonage), 1855 to '58; T. S. Britten, for about 5 months in 1854 —
did not occupy parsonage; Samuel Shaiter, 1851 to '54; Bun Baldwin,
1848 to '51 (preaching here half of the time); Orris Eraser, 1844 to
'48 ; and Sylvester Cooke, (half the time here and rest in Spring-ville
and Dimock) from 1830 to 1844.
Geo. Spalding had no family here, but Uved in the parsonage m
the famihes of A. A. Quick, A. E. Tewksbmj', and O. W. Foote. He re
moved to Iowa to reside with his daughter and has since died. He
was a" brother of Congressman Spalding, a banker of Buffalo, N. Y.,
who was the author of the bill that became the national bank law.
Wm. H. Adams, originally from Mass., came here from Danby,
Tompkins Co., N. Y. His wife's name was Mary A. Pettingill. Their
children were Mary (Mrs. C. M. Chapman — now of Florida), Canie,
deceased, George," and Sarah (Mrs. Morse of Maryland). Mr. Adams
resided during the latter part of his life with his son George, at Lans-
dale, Montgomery Co., Pa. He died in 1888 at the age of 81 years.
Burr Baldwin had been for many years a Home Missionary and
had preached here as early as 1824. He died at Montrose at an ad
vanced age.
Orris Frsser was a j'oung man who had a twin brother. He was a
relative of Dr. Fraser, formerlj' of Montrose. His wife's name was
Jane A. Finn. They had a child bom here. Eemoved to N. Y. state.
Sylvester Cooke came in the earlj' part of 1830. He lived for a
short time in the house of Edward L. Gere, and then tn the house
next east of it then^ belonging to Geo. M. Gere, till this present village
parsonage was completed and ready to occupj'. His wife was Olivia
Wade. Theu- oldest son died here in infancy, Oliver W., Sept. 24,
1830, and was bm-ied in the Old Cemetery. The other children were
Oliver W., Frederick A., Henry P., William, and Edwin. His nephe-n-
Stetson Warner also lived with him. He went from here to the viciu'
ity of Deckertown, Sussex Co., N. J., where he died. While here he
taught a large school in the parsonage, in the winter of 1842-3. The
ground on which the parsonage and church stand was a part of the
Deacon Miles or Arunah Tiffanj' lot elsewhere noted. Mr. Cooke's five
sons all became Union soldiers.
The officiating clergymen, the predecessors of Mr. Cooke, were
Messrs. Deerwell, Meeker, Burr Baldwin, and Ebenezer Kingsbury
occasionlly from 1830 back to 1824 ; E. Conger and John Beach as
"occasional supply" in 1824 and 1823 ; Gideon N. Judd, then of
Montrose, one-fourth of the time from 1821 back to 1818 ; M. Miner
York preached steadily for some months in 1818. From August 7, 1810
when the church was organized, by Messrs, Lockwood and York, as
"the 2d Congregational Church of Bridgewater," to 1818, Messrs.
Wm. Lockwood (missionary from Ct.), Treat, Miner York (from Wya-
lusing), Bascom, O. Hill, E. Kin^sburj', and Joseph Wood held services

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at intervals. [The first sermons mentioned in old records were preached
by Jacob Crane and Mr. Thomson, at the house of Andrew Tracy
in 1801.] ¦'
The old church edifice was built upon this present parsonage lot
by Joshua Miles, Jr., aud was dedicated Nov. 6, 1829, Mr. Baldwin
offieiating. In 1871, this house was removed, and afterward remodeled
into a dwelling, now occupied by Jonas H. Stanton. The present more
commodious structui-e was erected, under charge of D. S. Watrous, on
the site of the old, and was dedicated Feb. 14, 1872. [Prior to 1829,
back to 1814, meetings were often held, by the ministers above named,
in the village school-house standing very nearly on the location of T.
M. Oakley's dwelUng ; and before that in the house of Deacon Miles.]
Blaisure, John D. and Eva Salsburj-, his wife, have three children,
Charles, Kate, and Minnie (weighs 2^ lbs. spring of 1887). His place
is situated near Meshoppen creek, on the west part of the A. G. Eey
nolds farm and includes the Ehodes lot a little fm-ther west, on the
little brook from Ely lake, and on the Wm. Morrison wan-antee.
It was previously occupied by John Mc Keeby, and J. L. Eeynolds,
and on west part by Edward Goss, Isaac Blowers, and Elizui- Ehodes.
Caleb Crandall lived for a time on the place and died there. Was bui--
ied in Old Cemetery.
Joseph L. Eeynolds, a Union soldier, manied Silance a daughter of
G. B. Eogers, and their children are Elizabeth C, Lillie, George
Edmond, and Josejph L. The last three now live with their grand
father Eogers.
Elizur Ehodes, a basket-maker , mairied Phebe Vallieu and their
childreh were Henriett (Mrs. Amos Cook), Sally Ann (Mrs. Wm. Wat
erman), William, Polly (Mrs. Watson, of Harford), Amanda, CorneUus,
and Diantha (Mrs. Birtch). Mrs. Ehodes was previously a widow and
had a daughter, the wife of Zopher Betts.
Blake, Albert, a mason, and a son of S. B. and Alsiemena (Case)
Blake, owns the place, on the west slope of Martin creek first occu
pied by Pelatiah Tiffany, to which he added the farm lying north-east
of it, formerly occupied by Wm. Bloomfield, and since bj' Messrs. Lowe,
Simrell, and M. C. Tiffany. Both places have desirable springs.
Pelatiah Tiffany was a son of Thos. Tiffany of Harford and came
to Brooklyn about 1810. He came with his father from Attleborough,
Mass., when about eight years old, in 1794. He spent most of his life
upon this farm which he cleared, removing to Brookljai village in
later j-ears, before Mi-. Blake bought, Horace Little /md others occu-
pjing mean time. He manied Hannah Miller (a sister of the first
wife of his brother Alfred) who was bom at Glastonbury, Ct., Feb. 6,
1793, but then of SterUng, Waj'ue Co., Pa. Their children were Elizur,
Emily T. (an early teacher), Thomas J., Lucy G. (Mrs. Benj. N. Spen
cer of Spring-ville), Orvill W. (died Sept. 30, 1832, age, 21), and Polly
E. (Mrs. Bloomfield). Mrs. Tiffany died Oct. 31, 1839. Hill Cemetery.
Mr. Tiffany's 2d wife was Hannah Sutld-f, a sister of Zarah Sutliff,
and she died Oct. 27, 1846, aged 45 jts., 11 mo., 19 da.; and his 3d
wife -was Lucy Chase who died Oct. 7, 1882, 84 years old. Both in Old
Cemetery. Olive Corey, now Mrs. Gurdon Ely, taught a school in Mr.

40 HISTORY OF BROOKLYN.
T.'s house on this old place in the winter of 1818 and '19. Mr. Tiffany
was bom at Attleborough, Mass., Sept. 12, 1786, and died Aug. 27,
1862. Buried in the Hill Cemetery.
Wm. Bloomfield and Polly Tiffany had two children, Emelme and
Herbert. Mrs. B. died Jan. 24, 1853, a., 28 yrs., 7mo.
Benjamin N. Spencer who married Lucy G. Tiffany was a son of
Frank Spencer and a brother of Mrs. J. H. Stanton.' Their children
were Hannah N. (Mrs. Chase) and Orvill T. The children lived with
their grandfather Tiffany in Brooklyn for a number of years. Orvill T.
Spencer, now of Bridgewater, enlisted in the Union army and was
severely wounded on the last day of May, 1862 at the battle of Fau-
Oaks (in hght artillery service) from the effects of which he still sufi'ers.
Bollcs, John and Eve Ward, his wife, came from Dimock. Their
children are Jas. W., Chas. F., and Jennie E. His place is on the
Chas. Conner wanantee and was first occupied by
Sargent Tewksbury who came from Vt. in 1802. He was a son of
Isaac and Judith (Sargent) Tewksbury and his first wife was Nancy
WoRTmNG, a daughter of Barnard Worthing, an account of whose fam
ily -will be given. Mr. T. was a relative, on his mother's side, of Epes
Sargent, a noted author and book pubUsher of Boston. Their children
were Amos, Eeuben, James, and Louisa (Mrs. Thomas J. Eobinson).
Mrs. T. died Dec. 1, 1824, aged 52 years. Mr. T.'s 2d wife -was Fanny
Kellam, formerly Fanny Bush of Bridgewater. The 2d children were
E. Abigail, died June — 1839, a., 11 yrs., Emily L. (Mrs. Ammi Ely),
Franklin S., and Irving W. The same house built by Mr. T. is still
in use (1889). Mr. T. died Jan. 20, 1843, at the age of 68 yrs., 6 mo.,
and the place was for a time occupied by some of the Tewksbury or
Kellam family, and was afterward bought by J. C. Wright, and sub
sequently owned and occupied by B. O. Watrous. Mrs. Fanny Tewks
bury died Jan. 20, 1848, a., 56 j-rs., 7 mo. Old Cemetery.
Eeuben Tewksbury married Martha, a daughter of Andrew and Phebe
(Potter) Corej', of SterUng, Wayne Co., Pa., a sister of Mrs. Gurdon
,Ely, and took up his abode in Lathrop. His children were Sargent W.
who was born Aug. 3, 1831 and died Jan. 9, 1866, and E. Marvin of
Catta-wissa, Pa. Mrs. Eobinson died Aug. 30, 1869, a., 55 yrs., 8' mo.,
and Mr. Eobinson died Nov. 9, 1869, a., 63 j-rs., 8 mo., 23 days. Hill
Cemetery. Eeuben Tewksbury was born Aug. 28, 1802, and died May
27, 1861. Old Cemetery.
Bookstaver, Jas. L. is a blacksmith recently located in Brooklyn.
His wife was Fannie Eelf, and their children are Eelf and Vina. He
has erected a building on the ground where the Eobt. Eldridge store
stood. Boughton^ Mrs. Pauliiia, wife of C. H. Boughton a dentist formerlj'
of Brooklyn and more recently of Carbonclale, occupies the house
formerly the Eobert Eldridge store, now standing in the south part of
the village. Their children are Fred J., Bertha M., and Eobert M.
Mrs. Boughton was the daughter of Nathan and Hannah (SterUng)
Lathrop, and was the widow of Eiehard H. Kent who died in the U.
S. service from wounds received at Chancellorsville.

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Brewster, CJias. M., a son of Erastus Brewster of Harford, was a
soldier for a short time. He married Mary A. a daughter of Washing
ton Bagley, and thej' have a son, Wm. P. His predecessors in the
occupancy of his land were Asa Kenner, Cyrus Clay, Ezra Crowfoot,
Jared Baker; and Anthony Fish, Jr., with his brother-in-law Erastus
Latham, had a clearing and a cabin on it, as did also Mason and Thad-
deus Palmer (1815 to '20) on the east part. Daniel Cone also bought
the improvement of Mason Palmer, but abandoned it for fear of the
validity of the Wallace title. This claim was transfened to Wm. Wes
ton and by him to F. Whipple, Neither of the last three Uved on the
premises. Thaddeus Palmer (not of the same family with Esek H. Palmer) was a
cabinet-maker. He was an early teacher and was constable of the town
ship in 1817. His wife was Martha ("Patty") Tracy (a sister of Mrs.
Elisha Safford) and their children were Maria, WilUam, Henry, EveUne,
CaroUne, Calvin, and Joanna. His brother Mason Palmer was a jolly
joker. Brink, O. D., on Martin creek road, below Oakley (1887), married
. Eva S. Banker and has one child. Bay.
Brink, Sylvester T., married Ella D., a daughter of A. G. Eejnolds.
They have a daughter, Florence, and live with Mrs. Eeynolds and her
son Mortimer, upon the south-west bank of that picturesque sheet of
water. South Pond or Ely lake, on the Wm. Morrison warrantee.
The piece of land they occupy seems to have been contracted for bj^
Calvin Davison, and to have had a clearing made upon it by Joshua
Jackson, a brother of Joseph and Caleb Jackson. It then went into
possession of Ammi Ely, 1st, and afterward was occupied by Albert
G. Beynolds.
Ammi Ely, 1st., came from Lyme, New London Co., Ct., in 1817.
He was a son of Gurdon Ely, Sr. (not here) and a brother of Gurdon
Ely, Jr., and of Silance, Mrs. Andrew Eogers, 1st. He probably settled
on this place in 1819, as per assessment. He married Hannah M. Ely,
of Ct., and had one daughter EUzabeth C. who became the first wife
of A. G. Eeynolds. Mr. E. was a "free-holder" of the township in 1828.
In connectiop with Lebbeus Eogers he built a saw-mill near where the
carding-machine of A. G. Eeynolds afterward stood, at the outlet of
the lake, both of which are gone.
Albert G. Eeynolds (about 1837) occupied this place, and put up a
wool-carding and feed-grinding mill. He married, first, Elizabeth C.
Ely above mentioned, and their children were Geo. M. who died Feb.
16 1865,, age, 25 yeajrs, and Joseph L. Mrs. E. died May 22, 1842, a.,
25'yrs &r. E.'s 2d wife was Eachel a daughter of Lebbeus Eogers,
whose children were JuUa (Mrs. Saxe Wilmarth, of Hopbottom) and
Charles a soldier; his 3d wife was EUza A., a daughter of Joseph Yeo
mans, and their children are Mortimer A. and Ella D. (Mrs. Brink)
both living on the homestead with their mother.

42 history of BROOKLYN.
Brovm, Daniel, a son of Timothy Brown, and Cathren Corey, at
Alford, have children, Almira, Louis, George, Frances, Matie, and Ed
win. Timothy Brown was a brother of Ezi-a, Sr., and Eoswell.
Brown, Daniel ^., a son of Erastus and Betsey (Herkimer) Brown
and grandson of Timothy Brown, hves at Alford. He married Melissa
C. Hendreix. Then- childi-en ai-e Eose E., Albert H., and Maud.
Bullard, James O., hotel keeper, a son of Hezekiah and Matilda
(Deans) Bullard of South Bridgewater, manied Euby Clark, and their
children were Stella J. (Mrs. Lester Tewksbury ; Florence M., de
ceased, and Han-y C, deceased. Mrs. B. died Jan. 7, 1858, a., 33 yrs.
His 2d wife was Emeline, Smith, a former teacher, of Dimock, — died
Sept. 3, 1881, aged 54 yrs., 9 mo., aud his 3d wife was Harriet (Bab-
son;* Lingfelter, of Dundaff. Mr. Bullai-d now keeps no strong drinks.
The house he occupies was occupied and built by Jesse Bagley (in com
pany with his son, Daniel) in 1831. This hotel was conducted by
Mr. Bagley for several j-ears, and after him, successively, by John
Stroud and O. A. Eldridge, by John C. Wright, Wm. Walker, L. W.
Kellam and Wm. Eaver. A deed from D. B. Bagley was made to
Eldridge and Stroud for this lot (11 acres then) in 1838.
In earlj' days, before the county papers were sent by mail, they
were brought bj' the stage-driver and left for distribution at this, the
village inn. It has been the place of holding elections for many j'ears,
if not from its first establishment.
Jesse Bagley was born Apr. 2, 1786, and died Nov. 30, 1874, in his
89tli j-ear. He came, with his father Orlando, from Hartland, Wind
sor Co., Vt., in Mai-ch, 1804, when about 18 years old. He married
Phall?, a daughter of Joshua Saunders, who came here in 1801.
Their children were Henry W.; Daniel B.; Alice (Mrs Saml. Kellam);
Loren L.; Harriet; Edward P., a soldier; Horace; Marj' Eliza, died
Sept. 19, 1849, age, 25 j'l-s., 8 mo.; Jesse H., of Carbondale; Wm. Al
bert, of Elmira, a soldier, and a prisoner at Salsburj'; Lucy Caroline;
John W., a soldier, died in service at Fairfax; Jas. Everett, a soldier,
killed at Petersburg. None of these are now living in Brooklyn.
Mr. Bagley with his father and mother and his brothers and sisters,
and \rith his wife's brothers, and father and mother went to Ohio in
1817, his son Horace being born there. Most of them returned after
a, few years. Mrs. Bagley was born Sept. 19, 1789, and died Apr. 11,
1845, in her 56th year. Mr. B. was a shoemaker, but he cleared a piece
pf land and built a cabin north of his father's, which will be noticed
iu proper place. He removed to Lanesboro to Uve with his son, a few
years before his death, but was buried -w'ith his wife and daughter
in the Old Cemetery.
While he was living on his first clearing north of Henry Mc Coy's
he chopped one winter for Col. Parke, three miles aiway, walking there
each morning and back at night, cutting his own wood chiefly by
moon-Ught. His wife took care of the cattle in his absence. In his
younger days he taught school in this vicinity near Mack's comers —
the earliest school there. He also taught elsewhere.

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Burck, Morgan R. occupies the place now owned by P. H. Tiffany
and before by A. C. Quick, which has been occupied for a few years
past by various persons, but was the former residence of Eiehard
Williams, and first occupied by Jedediah Lathrop who built the house
after 1811. Mott Wilkinson also owned the south part of it in 1807.
Mr Burch married Angeline M. Jackson, and their children were
Edson M., accidentally killed by his own gun while hunting, Lettie
L., Addis L., and Franklin E., a painter.
EiCHARD Williams came from Groton, Ct., in 1818, when about 22
yrs. of age. He married Sally Gates whose people settled in Dimock,
and who was the daughter of Elisha, and sister of John and George
Gates. He lived first on the Jesse Bagley place (north of the Ebenezer
Gere farm) which was assessed to hind in the fall of 1818. He next
lived on the Chas. Perigo place and came to the one under consider
ation about 1828. His children -Were Elisha G., Mary L. (Mrs. Stanton,
now of Lathrop), AdaUiie (first wife of David K. Tooker, a soldier),
and Ellen A. (2d and present wife of Mr. Tooker). He Uved for a
few years in Lathrop after leaving this place, and was with his daugh
ter, Mrs. Tooker, in Iowa, when he died in 1874. He was born in
1796, For some years he was engaged in the manufacture of grain-
cradles. Mrs. W. died here at her son's, June 16, 1881, age, 80 yrs., 7
mo., 21 da. Buried in Hill Cemetery, as was her daughter AdaUne:
Tooker who died Nov. 8, 1863, aged 28 jts. and 27 days.
Jedediah Lathrop was a saddler. He came from Lisbon, Ct., in 1811.
His wife was S.'VRAh Tracy, an aunt of Mrs. EUsha Safford. Of their
children (some of whom were not here) Judith became the wife of
Edward Paine and the mother of Edward L. Paine, but died in Ct.;
Charlotte was the 2d wife of Edward Paine, and after of Jesse Eoss;
and Alice (said to have been "a sweet singer," and was a teacher) mar
ried Elisha Bibbins, an early M. E. minister of the township. About
1829 Mr. Lathrop, having sold this house and lot to Mr. Williams, re
moved with his daughter, Mrs. Eoss, to Pike, Bradford Co., Pa. where
he, and doubtless Mrs. L. also, died.
Burch, Caleb C, a brother of Morgan, and son of P. G. and Lovina
(Palmer) Burch married Eachel, a daughter of Beiij. Lindsey, and
their- children are Lovina P. (Mrs. Patrick), Newell G., and 'Yale J.
His house is«n the old Miles-Tiffany lot, afterward belonging to
Joshua Miles, Jr., and recently to D. C. Perry. Mr. B. is a carpenter
and Mrs. B., a dress-maker.
By ram, Wm. T., a painter, and a son of Isaac S. and Jane V. (Perrj-)
Bj'ram of N. J., married Eleanor, a daughter of Benj. B. Jackson.
Their children are Lillie A., Lottie J., and Will E. T'hey occupy a
house of, Ansel Sterling's, on the Mary Miles place.
Caldwell, Mrs. Julia E., (from Gibson) the widow of Moses Caldwell,
occupies the village residence of her late husband, with Mattie, Esq.
Caldwell's' daughter by a former wife and Susie an adopted daughter.
The house was built by Amos Tewksbury and had been occupied
also by his son, B, P. Tewksbury (Supt. of Schools) by D. A. Tits-
worth and T. M. Oakley, and is on the lot formerly o-wned by Joshua

44 history of BROOKLYN.
Miles. Mrs. C. was previously the wife of Geo. L. Tewksburj% deceased,
and Uved with him in Brooklyn and for a number of years in Lathrop.
MosES Caldwell from the vicinity of Edinboro', Scotland, where he
was born Apr. 26, 1824, after coming to this country, spent some time
in the pine region of Michigan, but afterward in the Lackawanna val-
lej'. Pa. He came to the Steph. Gere place in Brooklyn, in 1868, whicli
he sold, and came into possession of the saw-mill and grist-mill to be
hereafter noticed. His first wife was Ann Baker (not here) and they had
a daughter Mattie .A, mentioned above. His 2d wife was JuUa E.
(Barnes) Tewksbury. He was a soldier, a local preacher of the M. E.
church, and was an acting justice of the peace at the time of his death,
which occurred June 24, 1888. Buried in the New Cemetery.
Cameron, Wm., of Lenox, and a descendant of the widely known
hotel keeper on the old Milford and Owego turnpike, owTis the house
and lot heretofore occupied by Chas. C. Daley, E. O. Miles, Ebenezer
Gere, Joseph Lines, Sr., James and Thomas Jackson (who had a store
here for a short time), and Stephen Eandall -n-ho built the house in
1824. Thomas Jackson married a sister of Mrs. A. E. Tewksbury and
went -west. Mr. C. manied Ella a daughter of Edward T. and Mary A.
(Oaklej') Stephens, and they have a daughter Grace.
Charles C. Daley came to Brooklyn prior to 1840. He Uved m
.several places before coming to this. He was a shoemaker and a nephew
¦of Mr . Erastus Caswell and Mrs. Joshua Miles, Jr. His wife was Lucy
L. Wilcox, and their children, Chas. H., Julia, Lucy C. (Mrs. Allen of
Nantucket, Mass., who died Jan. 30, 1874 in her 41st year), Louisa,
Alvin W., Harriet A., Frances E. (died Dec. 25, 1859, age, 15 years),
Horace, and Wm. T. Mr. D. died Mar. 14, 1872, age, 65, and Mrs. D.
a number of j-ears after.
Stephen Eandall came about 1822, -with his second wife, widow
Phebe Hayden. His children were Julia A. (Mrs. Ephi-aim K. Howe),
Haniet ^Mrs, Ingram), Olive (Mrs. George Newbury), Denison, Alfred,
Anson, Deborah (Mrs. Welch), Sarah, Louisa (Mrs. Tingley), Han
nah M., and Eleanor — Mrs. Fiink. Capt. Eandall was a cooper.
Case, Benj. T. is a harness-maker, a son of Wm. Case, and a grand
son of B. T. Case an early lawyer of Montrose. He was a Union soldier
for six months in the "emergency" and in the signal service during
the rest of the war — was with Sherman in his March to the Sea, and
was often in trees and on high buildings, a tai-get for sharp-shooters.
He married Frank E., a daughter of Geo. W. Sterling. His house
was built by O. A. Eldridge, and was first occupied by C. C. Daley,
a shoemaker, then by Wm. Van Ness, and next by A. T. Packard, both
also shoemakers; then by G. B. Eogers, and lastly by E. N. Barney,
also a soldier and a harness-maker, now of Montrose. Mr. Case's other
predecessors in the harness business, in Brooklyn, were O. A. Lines,
now our State Senator, Jas. E. White, and F. Whipple. A. E. Shipman
was also in Brooklyn some sixteen years ago and Mr. Case worked
with him.
Caswell, Wm. R., a son of Henry Caswell married Clara V., a

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daughiir of Charles and JuUette (ChamberUn) Forsyth, of Hai-ford.
'Theu- children are Hettie and George. His place was previously occu
pied by Moses Caldviell, Chas. E. Palmer, John Stroud, and Stephen
Gere. It is part of the tract in the wan-antee name of Joseph Sahler.
The house built by Mr. Stroud, near the place of that occupied by Mr.
Gere, was burned after Mr. Caswell bought it, and has been replaced
by another. 'Mrs. Caswell is a great grand-daughter of William Con
rad, a settler of the township in 1787.
John Stroud, a brother of Billings Stroud of Montrose, came here
from South Bridgewater about 1838, and for a time was in company
with O. A. Eldridge in the hotel, and afterward bought this place.
He married ELvmA Kingsley, and their children wei:e Wilham, a
soldier, Frances (Mrs. Herman SterUng, of 111.), and John. MJr. S.
died on this place Dec. 29,' 1850, aged 40 j'rs. Old Cemeterj'.
Stephen Gere was born Sept. 26, 1772. He was a sailor. He came
from Poughkeepsie, N. Y. about 1806. He was a brother of Jeremiah
Gere, and a son of Eezin Gere and Mary Vanderburg, of Ct., and
later of Wj'oming Valley, Pa., where Mr. G. was slain in the Massacre
July 3, 1778, in his 41st year. Stephen Gere married 1st Martha
Weed, Aug. 13, 1793, and their children were Marj' (mai-ried Joshua
Fletcher, Aug. 18, 1818), and Peter, born Mar: 1, 1802 and died July
11, 1827. Mrs. G. died Mar. 1, 1802. His 2d wife was Abigail Olney,
married Jan. 16, 1817. She was a daughter of Hezekiah Olney, who
spent the latter part of his life with her. The second children were
CorneUa M., vrho married Edward Packer, Oct. 16, 1838, Albert E.,
and Eliza Ann, who died Oct. 9, 1828, a., 4 yrs. Mr. G. died Jan. 25,
1847, a., 75 yi-s:, 4 mo., and Mrs. G., Feb. 27, 1849, a., 68 yrs. Old
Cemetery. Hezekiah Olney came about 1817. His wife's name was Orpha Haw
kins, of Windham, Ct. The children were Abigail above mentioned,
and Eachel (Mrs. Eufus Corej'). Mr. O. died here suddenly while re-
tm-ning from church, Dec. 29, 1822, at the age of 71 j-rs. After the
first Methodist meeting house (built in 1813, but never finished) had
been used for some years, Mr. O. made a pulpit for it. And when the
2d church edifice was built [1830] this pulpit was put in the base
ment, on the east side between the doors, as it was before the room
was remodeled.
Henry Gere built a dwelling house on the east side of this farm,
near Dry Creek not long before he went west. This was occupied by
several persons, and was finally burned and not rebuilt. The lot
on which it stood is now owned by J. S. Peckham. Mr. G. at one time
was engaged in the mercantile business in the house built by his father
Jeremiah Gere to accomodate the leather manufactmiug business. His
^rife was Harriet Parke (a sister of Sarah, wife of his brother George)
whom he manied Nov. 22, 1835. They had five sons and daughters.
He died in Missouri.*
Catte^fon, Gabriel O., from Sterling, Wayne Co., Pa., lives on the
A. G. Bailey place. His wife was Lenora F. Webster, and they have a
daughter, Iva.
* He was salesman for his brother George in the store. Ite -was born on the old Gere
homestead— youngest child— and died in Minnesota (not Missom-i) in J87S or 9.

46 mSTORY OF BROOKLYN.
This farm is now owned by W. L. SterUng, and was recently owned
by J. M. Kent deceased. It was first owned and occupied and chiefly
cleared by Chas. Perigo beginning about 1809 or '10, he having a
deed for it from J. B. Wallace in 1817. It is a part of the warrantee
lot of 4071 acres (the usual size of the Brookljn waiTantees) taken m
the name of John Nicholson himself. After Mr. P. went to the place
he afterward owned, about 1822 or '23, this place was occupied by
Eichabd Williams [1823 to 1828]. He lived part of the time m the
loo- house built by Mr. Perigo, and part of the time in the first frame
house on the place, built by Wm. E. Griffith, after his mother, Mary
Griffith, had traded the place where Manning Perigo Uves for this one.
This exchange was made in 1821 or '22 according to assessment rec
ord, but not by deed till 1823. , , r^¦^,
The remains of the cellar of the Perigo cabin and the Balm p Gil
ead tree near it still exist. Mr. P. also built a frame bam on the place
which was soon after burned by a spark from his burning fallow on
the ridge many rods to the west. This bai-n was rebuilt by Mi-. P. on
the same foundation, and is still standing. Four of Mr. P.'s children
were born here, and his fii-st wife, Mary Tiffany, died here in 1819.
Mr. Griffith thought of making the place a summer resort, and he put
the road from it to the Milford and Owego tui-npike near by in fine
condition. The tui-npike was just then being opened for through travel.
Ephraim B. Garland Uved here (in frame house) in 1828-9, and built
a small wagon shop, still existing attached to the bam. Wm. Lewis
also lived here about the same time (in log house) and made and
bm-nt a brick kiln on the east side of the lot.
When Mr. WilUams lived here, somebody had put a speckled trout
in the spring. One day Mr. W.'s little boy, EUsha, then probably some
three years old, took a tea-cup and went to the spring to get some wa
ter for his baby sister who was crj'ing, and bethought she wanted
drink. He saw the fish which from the well-kno-wn optical illusion in
looking obliquely at an object in the water, seemed nearer to him than
it was. He thought he could catch it in his cup, and iri trjing to do
so fell in. The spring -was walled up, and amply deep enough to di-own
him ; but by some good fortune or courage he turned himself sq as to
bring his head uppermost, and crawled out. The first Mrs. W. knew
of the matter, the little fellow came waddUng and dripping along to
the house and said, "Ma, why didn't j'ou come when I call'ded you!"
Amos G. Bailey, a son of Amos and Prudence (Gere) Bailej', came
to this place about 1831, buying it of EUsha Baker, and spent the
remainder of his life here. He was a teacher for several winters and
was chosen a justice of the peace for several terms. He manied Eoena,
a daughter of Justice Kent. Their children are Charles E., Edwin F.
(of New Hampshire), Eobert K., Emilj' A. (Mrs. George I. Giles), and
Ehoda K. (Mrs. Giles VanAuken). Esq. B. built the present house. He
died Mar. 31, 1855, aged 49 yrs., and Mi-s. B., Jmie 4, 1872, aged 64
yrs., 9 mo., 12 days. Hill Cemetery.
Eobert K. Bailey mai-ried Cora HolUster, and bought the home
stead, which he occupied for several years. -His children are Harry and
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she and Mr. Giles lived upon it for a number of yeai-s, since which
time it has been temporarily occupied by several persons.
The road along the south side of this place was laid in the spring
of 1815, from Samuel Weston's (now W. L. Sterling's) to Isaac Ster
ling's (now Jason S. Wright's). This road like several others of those
first laid, is now Uttle used, so much have routes of travel changed. The
viewers (then six in number) were Putnam Catlin, Joseph Chapman,
Latham Williams, Fredk. Bailey, Jeremiah Gere, and Elisha Mack.
Before anj' body lived upon this place, the First School-house was
built on it just east of the brook, in the fall of 1800, and Leonard
Tracy a son of AndrFw Tracy taught the first school the following win
ter. This house (of logs) was doubtless on the highway, i. e., on the
tree-marked path between Peleg Tracy's (O. Bailej''s), by way of An
drew Tracy's (A. Sterling's) to Jonathan Sabin's (A. J. Smith's). The
scholars probablj' consisted of the Tracy children and the Weston
children (Andrew Tracj' was theii step-father), the Sabin children,
and perhaps the Daniel Lawrence children (near H. C. Fairchild's),
and the Page children (a little west of Old Cemetery). John T. Perigo
(now of Harford) remembers that when he was a little boy there was
a little old clearing just across the brook, south-east from the Perigo
cabin and barn, which he understood his father did not chop, which
was doubtless the site of this primitive temple of learning, the clear
ing having been made to build the house and keep the fires. Leonard
Tracy, the teacher, died in 1802 and is buried in the Old Cemeterj'.
The little brook still meanders along "to join the brimming river" —
still "goes on forever;" but "if its waters could speak as they flow"
what tales they might tell! For though "the mill may never grind
again" wholly "with water that is past," j'et who knows how many
times these particles of water may some of them have returned., like
good influences diffused abroad, to refresh and enliven the earth
through the rain and the dew — who knows but that the same life-
giving ripples may some of them be passing- the same spot to-day that
babbled by it 90 years ago.
The follo-wing letter written by Andrew Tracy to Joseph Chapman
then in Norwich with his newly married -wife, refers to this house.
The description of a storm that broke down trees, and some business
matters are omitted: "Dandolo, 28th Dec, 1800.
Mr. Chapman: Sir: — Since j-ou left, we have been counting the
weeks that must pass before you may reasonably be expected to return
with Mrs. Chapman. Mr. Wood has been vei-y lonesome and some im-
easy oh account of the confinement he is under.
*****
We have built a school-house near the little brook westerly from our
house, and expect school to begin to-mon-ow. And we have cut the

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road to the Bend, except 2^ miles, which we shall leave till you come,
SO as to have your help to finish it.
*****
I think our friend Howard has fixed the business at Mr. Jones's
beyond a doubt, and all parties are well pleased. I have desired Mr.
Howard to get a few twigs from some apple-trees that are good, which,
if j-ou can bring, if he do'n't, may be of use to us all here.
***** Yom- very humble seiwt.,
Andrew Tracy."
Mr. Wood, refened to above, is understood to have lived on some
part of the David Morgan place, and may have had charge of Mr.
Chapman's stock in his absence. The Bend road was doubtless up the
creek to Heart Lake. The business at Mr. Jones's was the maniage en
gagement between Mr. Howard and Nancy Jones. The apple twigs
were large fall Sweet Eussets, Mike Apple, Ehode Island Greening,
"Prentice" Eusset, Eed Pearmain, Seek-no-further (different from
the present), and quite a number of other kinds without names.
Chamberlin, Abram, a physician, resides in the house erected by
Daniel B. Bagley whose daughter, Levira, he manied. Their children
are Emma D. (Mrs. T. E. Shadduck), Lillian, and Bessie, and they lost
a Uttle boy Charley. Dr. C. is a son of Abraham and Almira Cham^
berlin of Bridgewater.
Daniel B. Bagley, a son of Jesse and Phally (Saunders) Bagley,
had a deed for this house-lot from Arunah Tiffany, in 1831, and a deed
for 26 acres (probably including the hotel lot) in 1833. About 1831 he
married Sally a daugher of Anthony and Hannah (Chepman) Fish, and
their children are Chas. V. (hai'uess-maker, west), and Levira (Mrs.
ChamberUn). The post-office was kept in this house from 1838 to 1841,
and from 1842 to 1861, D. B. Baglej' being post-master during this
time till the time of his death at the age of 35 j'rs., Aug. 29, 1843, and
Mrs. Bagley held the office the rest of the time. Her name is among
those of the teachers of j'ears ago. She came with her father from
Groton, Ct., m 1814. She died Apr. 24, 1888, age, 82. Mr. B. was a
carpenter. He, with his uncle Washington Baglej', had a lathe and a
chair f actorj' for several years, with the village brook for water power,
the shop standing on the east side a few rods below the old turnpike
bridge. Conrad, Dennis [1887] lives in the house once occupied bj' Jeremiah
Gere as a tannery (in the basement) and above by Henry Gere as a
store. It has also been used as a dwelling by many persons engaged
in working the old farm on which it stands. Mr. C. is a son of Jas. Con
rad who was a son of Andrew Conrad, who was a son of Wm. Conrad,
who was one of the earliest settlers in the township in 1787, just 100
years ago. His wife was Mary F. Conrad and their childi-en ai-e Almira,
Hattie, Ella, and Leon.

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Crandall, Mrs. Roiceiui, widow of Joshua Crandall, a deceased
Unioii soldier, and a son of Caleb Crandall an early settler in Brook
lyn, Uves where (Teo. E. Crandall, deceased, formerly had his black
smith shop.
Geo. 11. Crandall learned his trade of Geo. Newburj'. He was a son
of Caleb and Betsey (Darrow) Crandall and mai-ried Mary Bell, an
adopted daughter of Saml. Wright, Jr. who formerlj' owned the large
farm, and the old dwelling near tliis. Lafayette, Eansom, and Almira
(Mrs. W^m. C. Fish) ai-e childi-en of Mr. & Mrs. C.
Craver, Mrs. Lydia, a daughter of Chas. Perigo, and widow of Wm.
Craver of Luzerne Co., and more recentlj' of Springs'ille, lives in the
house built and first occuj)ied by Braton Eichardson, of which house
his nephew Wm. L. Eichardson was the architect.
After the death of Dr. E. the premises were bought by Mn Graver.
The children of Mi-, and Mi-s. C. are Chas. M., Hanw H. (one of the
comity auditors, 1889), and Wm. B. a merchant in company with his
brother Chas. M., who occupy a store built by their father on this lot.
Braton Eichardson, a physician, came to Brooklj-n in 1830, from
Carbondale though previously from Harford. He practiced his profes
sion here till the time of his death. Mar. 20, 1864 at the age of 60 j-rs.
He was a son of Caleb Eichardson, Jr. and Huldah Hatch, and a
grandson of Caleb Eichardson, Sr., who mairied Esther Tiffany, a sis
ter of Hosea and Thos. Tiffany. He was born in Attleborough, Bristol
Co., Mass. in 1803 and came with his father to Harford in 1806. The
Eichai-dson homestead was the farm on which was FrankUn Academj',
now the Soldiers' Orphan School of Harford, where Dr. E. spent his
boyhood days. His grandfather was one of the Nine Partners but did
not come to Harford till 1808. In 1840 he man-ied Lucy Caroline, a
daughter of Joshua and Cai-oline (Caswell) Miles, who after Dr. E.'s
death removed west. They had no childi-en but adopted a niece, H.an-
NAH, the daughter of Lee and Lois (Carpenter) Eichardson, who be
came the wife of Stetson Warner, now of Springfield, Mass., but in his
j'outli living in Brooklj'ii in the familj' of his uncle Sylvester Cooke.
Dr. E. had an extensive medical practice which for a long time he
performed in the old-time manner, on horse-back. He took much inter
est in (iommon school education, and was chosen a school director for
many years. He was bm-ied in the Old Cemetery. When he first came
to Brooklyn, for a short time he went in company with Palmer M.
Way, a physician then here. And after Wm. L. Eichardson (a son of
Lee Eichardson) became a physician, they practiced together for a few
yeai-s. Afterwai-d "Dr. Bill" practiced by himself for a while, and then,
about the time of his maniage to Mary, a daughter of Anthony Fish,
he removed to Nesquehoning, Carbon Co., and after some years, to
Montrose where he now resides.
This Eichai-dson dwelling stands on or near the site of the old
Dea<Jon Miles barn the companion of the "Old Abbey." Some of the boj'S
of fifty-six-or-seven j'eai-s ago, remember peeping through the cracks of
this barn to see an elephant eat hay from off the "big beam" — the
elephant belonging to a Uttle menagerie that was visiting the town,
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50 HISTORY OF BROOKLYN.
the old road ran down about where the Dr. Eichardson office now stands,
passing a Uttle east of the Jacob Tewksbury house on the Ashley knoll
(where it doubtless joined the road coming down from the Packer hill
by Mr. Foote's house) and so on across the creek near Mrs. Loomis's,
and up the hill toward the Jas. Hewitt place.
Craver, Chas. M. owns and occupies the village house built by M.
Mc Vicar. He is a merchant — married Allie, daughter of FrankUn
Tewksbm-y, and they have children, Ai-thur and Louise. Mr. Mc Vicar
has been for some years a blacksmith of Brooklyn, but recently re
moved to Hopbottom.. He married JuUa A. a daughter of J. T. Perrj'
and they have a daughter, Stella L.
Daley, Wm. T., a son of Chas. C. Daley, manied Sarah T., a
daughter of Henry M. Williams. They have two children, Grace A.
and Chas. H., and live -with Mr. WilUams on the Elijah Newton place,
now owned by the E. F. Breed estate.
Darrow, Orphinea, a Union soldier, married Amelia A., a daughter
of Samuel Eeynolds, and lives on the old home of his wife [1887].
They have one child, Eva.
Davison, Martin V., a son of John and Sabra (Fish) Davison, lives
on the place (on the "Wm. Laj'ton wan-antee) formerly owned by G. B.
Eogers, and previously by E. A. Vail. The present house was built by
Mr. D. His father (late of Lathrop) was an early resident of Brook
lyn, Uving a little north of Danl. Tewksbm-y's. His wife was A. M.
-4.iney, a daughter of John and Elizabeth (Kittle) Ainey of Lathrop,
and they have a son, Geo. M.
Dennis, Napoleon B., colored, is a joint owner in the place, on Mar
tin creek, first occupied by Saml. Wright, Jr., and then by Joseph
W. Hawley, and later — the homestead part — by Henrj' W. Dennis.
Saml. Wright, Jr., a brother of Wise and Anthony Wright, and a
son of Capt. Saml. "Wright who settled just over the hill north-west
of Hopbottom, came to this place about 1809. He married Almira
Sweatland a sister of Ira; her brother Silas also once lived on this
place. They had no children of their own, but thej' brought up four
belonging to others. Three of these were Joseph W. Hawley, Geo. W.
Tiffany, and Mary Bell — Mrs. Geo. Crandall. Mr. Hawley afterward
occupied the place on which he was raised, and Mr. Tifi'anj- also be
came owner of part of it, on which his son Hosea now resides. Mr. T.
also bought the old place that belonged to Samuel Wright, Sr., on
which his son Milo resides, while Mr-. T. is a justice of the peace in
Hopbottom. Mrs. W. died, 1850, a., 55 and Mr. W., 1866, a., 87. Hop-
bottx)m Cemeterj'.
Joseph W. Hawley, recently of Hopbottom, and now deceased mar
ried for his flrst wife Sally a daughter of Anthony and Sally (Sweat-
land) Wright and their childi-en were Nancy (Mrs. Gunn)!^ Adaline
(Mrs. Watterman), Sarah (Mrs. Severson), Nelson J., a soldier and a
M. E. minister, PermeUa (Mrs. Goodrich), Ellen (Mi-s. Wilbur), and
Lovina who died in childhood. Mi-. H.'s 2d wife was Permelia Whit-

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NEY, widow of Nelson Tiffany, whom he married in 1862. He died
Oct. 9, 1888.
Henry W. Dennis, colored, came from Dimock in 1858. He married
Angeline, a grand-daughter of Prince Perkins to whose place (adjoin
ing this one on the west) he first came, and after a few years bought
this one also and moved onto it, though still retaining the other. He
had six children, four boys, riz. P. "W. Dennis, N. B. Dennis, F. S.
Dennis, and S. B. Dennis, and two girls — ^A. A. Dennis and A. M.
Dennis. Mr. Dennis was killed a few j'ears ago while walking on the
E. E. track.
The deed fpr the west part of the present Dennis lot came from B.
Milbourn to Prince Perkins in 1814, for 70 acres, the price being
$175. The lot came from the Col. Bailey tract, Mr. M. letting Mr. B.
have another piece of land for it. It was assessed for a number of
years in the names of Prince and Wm. Perkins. Upon this Perkins
place is a Cemetery in which manj' colored people have been buried —
Prince, Judith, Charlotte, and "Wm. Perkins, Bristol Sampson, and
-wives, Henry Dennis and others, numbering in all between 40 and 50.
Joshua Baker, a Baptist preacher used to officiate on funeral occasions
in early times, for these colored people. But after a while a minister
was on one occasion employed who intimated that black folks would
go to a different heaven from whites. This so much displeased "Aunt
Judy" that she said vigorously of the preacher: — "He ought to be
rocked in a stone cradle in the north-east corner of Hell till he gets
oyer the notion ! "
Dolaway, O. Morris, hard-ware dealer, and a Union soldier, came
here not long after the war. He married Eliza B., a daughter of J. T.
Perry. Their children are Josie and Jessie. After using other rooms,
he put up the building he occupies for dwelling, shop, and store in
the village. Near the spot where his house stands, or perhaps a Uttle
above to the north, and a Uttle to the west, once stood a log house
where Isaac Te^stcsbury lived for some three years after he came here
in 1804. Isaac Tewksbury and sons built it about that time. This house
seems to have been the second one used for a school-room. In it Ma
linda Tiffany (now Mrs. Lindsey), Sally Tracy (now Mrs. Hayden of
New Milford), James, and John Chapman, and Jas. E. Howe still re
member to have attended school. In it Samuel Wes.ton taught in the
winter of 1807-8 ; Edward Chapman (brother of Joseph) in 1808-9 ;
Mary E. Weston in the, eummeriof 1809 ; Col. Bailey 1809-10 ; James
Austin, a transieiit, traveling teacher who styled himself "the Great
Mathematician," taught school and singing in it in 1810-11; and
Edith Case taught in it in .summer of 1812. Thos. Saunders, a sonin-
law of Isaac T., .also lived in this house a short time, and after Deacon
Miles bought .the property, Lyman Doolittle lived in it a Uttle while
and tended the mill on the creek below. Mr. D. was ,here as late as
1811. This house was doubtless not far from the old road that came
down the hill from the east and crossed the brook near 0. W. Foote's
present house.
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52 HISTORr OF BROOKLYN.
I. S. Tewksbury. Their childi-en are Bessie C, Chas. F., and Hazel.
They occupy the Ashley store, though Mr. D. owns a house and lot
near the M. E. Church.
Dor an, Philip C, recently from Dimock, is a black-smith, and in
company with his brother John occupies the shop formerly ovmed by
M. McVicar. He manied Nettie, a daughter of Chas. P. Perigo and
they have a little girl, Bernice. They own the dwelling built by E. O.
Miles. Doran, John F. married Minnie L., daughter of David I. Kinney.
He is building a residence adjoining that of his brother and partner
on a lot bought of M. B. Grennell.
Eldridge, Saml. B. is a merchant and druggist. His store occupies
the site formerly used by E. T. Ashley, E. S. Kent, and A. W. Kent.
He married Mary E., a daughter of E. S. and Harriet (Watrous) Kent.
They adopted a daughter, Emma, from Newark, N. J. Mrs. Eldridge
died Dec. 7, 1885 at the age of 45 years. His 2d wife is AUce, a daugh
ter of E. T. Stephens, and they have a daughter, Edna. He owns the,
E. S. Kent village lot, including a small part of the Tracy or Conrad
lot. ,
Mr. K is a son of O. A. Eldridge, and since the death of his father
he has bought the larger part of the old homestead south of the Meth
odist church. For many years this place was occupied by Samuel Teo-
mans. The south part of it previously belonged to Varnum Saunders;,
the north part had been held in the name of Edward and Edward L.
Paine and previously in the name of Jesse Bagley; and the north-east
corner was part of the old Tewksbury-Miles lot. The place is on the
John Dunlap and Susanna Woodrow waiTantees.
Orlando A. Eldridge came from the old place of his father Eobert
Eldridge, on the Wilkes-Barre turnpike in the South Bridgewater
neighborhood, about 1837. He kept the village hotel for a time, and
afterward a store, as heretofore noted. His wife was Mary A. Taylor
and their children Saml. B., Wm. H., and Edwin S. Mr. E. removed
the large house built by Mr. Yeomans (which is still standing near)
and put up another one of compact timber walls, like those heretofore
described. He died in this' house Jan. 13, 1886, age, 73 jts., and Mrs.
E. died there May 4, 1884, age, 66 yrs.
Samuel Yeomans came with his father Samuel from Connecticut, via
Vt., in 1804. He first settled on the Baker Woodward place, which he
sold to Elkanah Tingley in 1817, and according to assessment bought
the possession of this lot in 1818 from E. L. Paine. He had a deed
for 67 acres from Varnum Saunders by his attorney Asa Crandall, in
1826. This had been deeded to V. Saunders by J. B. Wallace in 1813,
though Mr. S. may have been in possession of it earUer than this time.
Mr. 'Yeomans also had a deed from Caleb Jackson in 1828 for 6 acres
bounded west by Arunah Tiffany and the M. E. Church lot, south by
S. Yeomans, and east and north by the mill pond. It was deeded to
C. Jackson from Joshua Miles, Jr.^ also in 1828. This includes most of
the New Cemetery and the lots now occupied by W. H. Eldridge, and
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Mr. Yeomans man-ied Huldah, a daughter of Isaac and Judith (Sar
gent) Tewksbury. Their children were Sally (Mrs. Aaron W. Munger),
and Samuel Horace. His son Horace lived -with his father for a time
and then removed to Lathrop where he died. His widow, a daughter of
John Belcher of Gibson, is now Mrs. Saml. Liadseyof Lathrop. Mr. Y.
lost this place in a contest with the land-holders, and in later j'ears,
after the death of his first wife, who died July 21, 1841, at the age of
59 JTS., 11 mo., and 15 da., he married Anna (Eing) Adams, the
widow of Walter Adams. A few j'ears before his death he took up his
abode in Carbondale with his daughter, Mrs. Munger. For a j'ear or
so, about 1823, Mr. Yeomans kept the inn in the "Old Abbey."
Samuel Yeomans, Sr., came -with his sons and Uved last on this
place, with Samuel. He was buried in the Old Cemetery, as was Hul
dah, his son's, wife. His wife died before he came here. Her name was
Sarah Bromley.^ Their childi-en were Samuel, Sabra (Mrs. Darius
Tingley), and Joseph.
Varnum Saunders was not a brother of Aaron, but a cousin. He did
not go west with the company that went in 1817. His name appears
on the assessment record up to the time he disposed of the pemises to
!Mr. Yeomans. His clearing and cabin were westerly or north-west
erly from the present grist-mill and west of the creek. Some say the
first Methodist camp-meeting was near or on his land, by the fene
spring near the southern border. Others say the first one was on this
lot but up on the hill to the west in the siigar-camp, near the Bibbins
and Paine lots, in 1812. Mr. S. was a member of Edward Paine's M.
E. class in 1811.
Eldridge, W. H. was a soldier. He enlisted in 1862 and was after
a time discharged because of sickness. He afterward enUsted in the
construction corps, ajid after that again enlisted in the army, and was
At the Dutch Gap canal undertaking, and through the many attacks
in vicinity of Petersburg and Eichmond, to the Appomattox surren
der.' He married AmeUa J. a daughter of I. S. Tewksbury and they
have a daughter Geraldine E. His lot is a part of that above described.
, The road which passes this place was laid on petition of Hezekiah
Olney and others in the spring of 1815, from the house of Joshua
Miles (where A. Ely's store is) to the house of Jedediah Lathrop (the
old Eiehard WilUams house). The Saml. Yeomans house was not then
in existence, but was afterward built upon this road; and the first M.
E. C'nurch (not the present one) had been built but two years. The
road was laid, first on land of Joshua Miles to the creek ; then on the
west end of land of Joshua Miles, Jr., and then on land of Edward
Paine (afterward the S. Yeomans lot). The viewers were the same that
laid thei-oad on the south of the Perigo or A.G. Bailey lot the same
spring — ^Putnam CatUn, Joseph Chapman, Latham Williams, Fredk.
Bailey, Jeremiah Gere, and EUsha Mack. Previous to ¦ this, the road
passed east of the Jacob Tewksbury house on the Ashley knoll, crossed
the creek some distance above the present bridge and lay along the
side-hill not far from where the present new road ' is. This old road
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54 HISTOHir OF BROOKLYN.
the first road was cut out and used by common consent without auth
ority of court. In 1816 the court on petition of Frederick' Bailey and
others granted $100. from the county to build the bridge (where the
present one is) across the creek on this road of 1815.
Eldridge, Edwin S, married Hellen G., a daughter of Geo. W. Ster
ling. He Uved for a few years with his father and meantinie bought
that part of the homestead lying west of the old road of 1815, taking
a considerable portion of the Paine lot. After his father's death he
bought his present residence of John H. Chapman. Before Mr. C, this
place had been occupied by E. F. Eing, Sr. and H. E. Kittle who
built the house. It was also a part of the Tewksbury-Miles-Tiffany lot.
Harmon E. Kittle had a brother in New Milford, and -was a brother
of Mrs. B. L. Woodward, and of Mrs. John Ainey of Lathrbp. He mar
ried Keziah, a daughter of Joseph Yeomans, and was a black-smith in
Brooklyn for a number of years before removing to the border of
Springville where he recently died. He built the house now owned by
M. B. Grennell, and his shop was near the spot now occupied by the
wagon shop of T. E. Shadduck.
Eeuben French, Emu was a tanner by trade. He camfe to Brooklyn in
1825 or earUer. The old. Eing homestead in Mass., onde owned by Mr.
E.'s grandfather was sold tq Daniel Webster and becaine a part of the
Marshfield estate. The family removed to Vermont before the sons
French and David and their sisters, Anna (Mrs. Waller Adams) and
Mary (Mrs. Wm. Champlin) came here. Mr.E.'s mother was a sister of
Mrs. Jacob Tewksbury. She died here and is buried in the Old Ceme
tery. He manied Anna, a daughter of Nathaniel Sterling. Their child
ren were Eeuben F., Jr.,whd married Helen Nickerson and removed
to Benton, Lackawanna, Co., and David J. The mother died Feb. 21,
1866. a., 62 yrs., 10 m., 15 d., and the father, having become infirm,
was accidentally killed by the E. E. cars near Hopbottom, a few
years ago.
John H. Chapman was born in what is now Brooklyn in Aug. 1806.
He has been remotely or directly connected vrith many persons and
events belonging to our township history. His father, Joseph Chapman,
was one of the two first New England settlers who came in 1798, the
other being Andrew Tracy. His grandfather, Joseph Chapman, Sr.,
was a sea captain "who had made fifty voyages to the West Indies,"
and he resided here from fall of 1798 till spring of 1800, while pre
paring his future home in Dimock. His maternal grandfather was of
the Leffingwell family of Eevolutionary fame. He went to school to
Geo. Catlin, the celebrated Indian painter, in winter of 1812-13, at
the top of De-witt hill. He learned the clothier's trade at John Kings-
ley's estabhshment in the edge of Harford, and he had previously
worked in the Brooklyn Cotton Factory — the fii-st enterprise ofthe
kind in township or county. He married Louisa S. a daughter of Bela
Jones a representative of Susquehanna County in the Legislature of
1833, and he lived for a time at Jones's Lake ih Bridgewater. He after
ward lived upon and worked the old farm of his father in Brookljn,
the first clearing on which was made by John Eobinson in 1787. He

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once represented Brooklyn in foreign lands and seas. In maldng a
whaUng voyage to the South Atlantic, he visited the grave of Napoleon
whose remains were then entombed on the island of St. Helena and
guarded bj' British Soldiers. After sojourning a while at Carbondale,
Pa., he bought the Blanchard place, now in Lathrop but in earlj' times
a part of Brooklyn. This place now owned by Marvin L. Tiffany (for
merly of Brookljn) was once owned by a non-resident, Jeremiah Blan
chard. It has also been occupied by Ira Sweatland and many others,
but its first proprietor as early as 1799 and before, was Joseph Sprague,
of whom Saml. Tewksbury (now of Auburn), Brooklyn's oldest Uving
son, tells the following story:
"About 1809 there still lived a hermit in a rude log hut, in the
wilderness above what is now the borough of Hopbottom. He was a
mau by himself, alone in his cabin, his dress a leathern shirt and
pants of same, with a kind of Indian blanket for vest and coat, a coon-
skin cap, and buck-skin moccasins for boots. One night an Indian
stopped at his cabin, and in the morning took Sprague to a brook
near by and showed him an Indian mark on a tree to indicate the loca
tion of a salt spring. [The tree stood on the east side of the creek nearly
opposite the Bell saw-mill in Hopbottom village.]
-Is soon as the informer had left, Sprague started to publish the
discovery. He took a road dimly marked thi'ough a dense forest to
reach the nearest human being in that direction several miles away,
at a farm where lived a Mr. Halstead.
He related his news, and tarried until late in the day, that he might
have a present of fresh beef to carry home. He cut the meat into three
pieces and' strung them on a stick for convenience in carrying, and
this act saved the life of our hero, as we shall see. He took his way
back through the woods, lonely beyond conception, and the more so
when, but half way through, the shades of night fell upon him. Look
ing back he saw a pack of wolves in close pursuit — so close he had not
time to climb to avoid them. In this dilemma, not courage, but strategy
avails. He drew one of the pieces of meat and dropped it in the path.
This had the desired effect. He made haste. Eeader, you would
have done the same I The first bait was devoured, the wolves again in
hot pursuit, and when to delay was death, another piece was dopped,
and when the third and last piece was gone, the cabin was not yet in
reach ; but pressing forward, the love of life quickening every nerve now
for the home stretch, the wolves are for the fourth time close upon their
assured prej', making the night hideous with their howls, the cabin
near, but the wolves so near he can feel their hot breath — just one
thought and he is saved ! The coon-skin cap is dropped, the wolves make
a momentary halt, but the next instant they are so close that when he
enters they are only forced back by the slamming door and the walls
pf the cabin. Their victim escaped, they render music not so pleasant
as did David with Psaltry and harp. At the dawn of day the wolves
retired to the recesses of the forest, and Sprague ventm-ed out. He
found the cap tom in fragments — the cap lost but the owner sa-yed to
relate one of the most thrilling and narrow escapes of frontier life.
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and the salt spring was sought. Your relator well remembers visiting
the place of the marked tree, and then and there seeing Amos Bailey,
Bloomfield Milbom-n, Jacob Tewksbury, Joseph Chapman, Old Prince
the slave, and others, but no salt was found. Salt then cost $13 per
banel." Mr. Sprague was an uncle of the Sweatlands and invited them to
settle on his land, but he afterward -willed it to Mr. Blanchard who
cared for him dming his sickness in Wilkes-Barre.
After 1VE-. Chapman left this Sprague place he came to the one under
consideration, which is also one of old-time reminiscences, the house
standing on the south part of "Dutch Meadow" -which was cleared by
Mortimer Page in 1787. Mr. and Mrs. C. recently removed to Scranton
where they now reside.
Their children are EUzabeth, deceased, (Mrs. Johnson), Joseph L.
(lumber merchant of Scranton), Ann T. (Mrs. Yeomans), Clara L.
(Mi-s. Eockwell), Fanny J.— died Oct. 16, 1869, a., 13 yrs., 11 m., and
Edith M. (Mrs. Palmer).
Ellsworth, Mrs. Betsey, daughter of Albert Aldrich and widow of
Austin Ellsworth, lives south of the Nathan Aldrich homestead, and
has three children, Albert, Alma, and George.
Ely, John R., Sr. was born in Genesee Co., N. Y., Sept. 24, 1800.
His father Zelophehad Ely spent one year in N. Y. state and returned
to Lyme, Ct., from which place he came here with his family in Feb.,
1814. His son, John E., still occupies the old place, deeded to his fa
ther from J. B. Wallace in 1817, containing 140 acres. It is on the Jas.
Torbit warrantee, and has a fine spring. It had a small clearing and
cabin previously made by Joshua Morgan, who was here from 1810
and before to 1814.
Feb. 19, 1823, Mr. Ely married Lucinda M. Giles. Their children
are Geo. W. — of Thomson; AUce S. — Mrs. S. F. Brown, died Dec. 6,
1864, a., 37 j'l-s.; Benj. G.; Betsey D. — Mrs. Snell; Jacob; Marvin —
a deceased soldier; Hannah — Mrs. ElUot; Jabez; and John E., Jr.
Mr. E.'s brother Lyman taught school in the old log house in winter
of 1821-2. The first frame house (still standing, but not the present
residence) was built in 1819. Mrs. Ely died Nov. 16, 1872, age, 68 j'rs.,
8 mo., 9 daj's.
Mrs. Ely's father was Thos. Giles who came to the settlement in
1799. His farm, on the David Torbit warrant, was that now occupied
by Isaac S. Kinney on the border of Dimock township as now adjust
ed, but Mr. Giles voted in Brookljn for many years and was one of its
supervisors in 1820. His place was in Bidwell, as was also Col. Parke's.
His -wife was Betsey Demin and their children were Pollj' (Mrs.
Jeremiah Spencer), Daniel, Fanny, Jabez, Lucinda (Mrs. J. E. Ely),
Bathsheba (Mrs. Lyman Ely), William, Geo. H., and Betsey (Mrs.
Stephen Merritt). Fanny, when about 4 j'rs. old, was lost while liuntmg
chestnuts not far from the house, and no trace of her could ever be
found, though diligent search was made for a long time in which all
the country round joined. Over-turned tree-roots that had been cut off
that day and fallen back, were raised. Years after there was a report

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that she had been carried to a distant region and was still living there,
but the friends did not credit the story.
Mrs. G. died July, 1821, a., 48 yi-s. and Mr. G., Oct. 17, 1851, a.,
79 yrs. Old Cem. Jabez lived on the homestead after the death of his
father, and died there July 23, 1860, a., 57 yrs., 8 mo. He was born in
1802. Fanny was next older and was therefore born doubtless in 1800.
If so, she was the first child born of New England parents in the set
tlement, though not in the present township. The family record is not
obtainable. Ely, John R. Jr., also occupies the Z. Ely place with his father. His
>vif e was Helen, a daughter of Chas. F. Bissell, and their children are
pianch G. and Martin A.
Zelophehad Ely manied Elizabeth Sterling at Lyme, .Ct. Nov. 5,
1793. Their childi-en were Jacob (drowned in the Lehigh near Mauch
Chunk), Lyman, John E,, Hiram, Pamel (Mrs. Frank Babcock), Eliz
abeth (Mrs. John E. Babcock), and Jared, born Apr. 12, 1813, died
Nov. 9, 1820. Mr. E. died Feb. 18, 1822, a., 52 and Mrs. E., Apr, 18,
1859, aged 90 years. Old Cemetery. Hiram died in New Milford, Feb.
6, 1880.
Ely, Geo. M., a son of Silas P. Ely, owns the old home of his father
deeded from J. B. Wallace to Silas P. Ely in 1817, containing 78 acres.
To this has been added a part of the Zara SutUff lot. The site of the
first log house and the tansy are still visible. The old road now un
used ran from the state road nearer this house. The place is on the
Jas. Dunlap warrantee. The north-east portion is little if any west of
the water drainage toward the Hopbottom, while the central part is
on the summit that descends south toward the head waters of Horton
creek, and north-west toward the Meshoppen. Mr. E. mairied JuUa
C, a daughter of John Austin. Their children are Emma (Mrs. Jas.
VanAuken). Chas. H. of Dimock, Hattie J. (Mrs. Frank Eogers). and
WilUam A.
Silas P. Ely came from Lyme, Ct., in 1811 but his father Gabriel
did not come tUl 1814 and did not Uve on this place. Mr. E.'s wife
was Mehitabel Church and their children, Fanny, deed. (Mrs. Alson
Tiffany), Oi-rin C, now of Michigan, Theresa, died Feb. 6, 1831 at the
ao-e of 12 yrs., Jared, died July 26, 1839 a., 19 yrs., Harriet, deed.,
(Mrs. Titus), Geo. M., and Sarah E., deed. (Mrs. J. S. Peckham). Mrs.
E. died July 1, 1847, a., 61. Mr. E.'s 2d wif6 was Betsey, a daughter
of Joseph Peckham, Sr. She died Sept. 1, 1865, a., 81 yrs., 11 m. Mr.
E. died June 17, 1865, a., 81 yrs., 7 m. Old Cemetery.
Ely, Mrs. Olive, formerly 01i-i;e Corey from SterUng, Wayne Co.,
Pa. was 90 j'ears old in Sept. 1888. She came in 1818 and was a teach
er for a year- or two. Slie mairied Gurdon Ely (now deceased) July 9,
1820. Mr. Ely was a son of Gurdon Ely, Sr. — a brother of Gabriel
and Zelophehad — an(i Pamel Phelps, the children being Ammi 1st,
Gurdon, and Silance — Mrs. Andrew Eogers. Mrs. Ely now Uves with
her son Ammi, in the village, but they were long occupants of the
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first, clearing was made by Joshua and Joseph JacksDii, ated C. Davison.
The place is on the Wm. Monison warrantee and has an old-time
spring. Mr. E. added a mill property on the Meshoppen, but it has
smce been sold. Mr. E. came in 1818 and died on the farm Aug. 3,
1873. Old Cemetery.
Ely, Ammi, above mentioned, married Emily L., a daughter of Sab-
gent and Fanny (Kellam) Tewksbury. Their children are Irving, Edith
(Mrs. C. P. Watrous), Luther S., Everett F., and Edgar C Mr. E. is a
merchant, in company with his son Luther. His store, with residence
in upper part, was built by Edwin Tiffany (about 1890) who occupied
it for several years. Mr. T.'s successors in this store were Jas. P. Smith,
O. G. Hempstead, S. B. Eldridge, Edwin McKenzie, Amos Nichols,
and D. A. & A. TitsWorth.
The ground on which this store stands is that once occupied by a
large frame building, two stories high, with two wing*, built by Josh
ua Miles, Sr., in 1810. Some of the workmen are remembered — Capt.
Chas. Gere, Jeremiah Spencer, EUjah Morgan, Eufus Holdridge, and
John Bennet. Bela Case did mason work. Mr. Miles died in 1815 leav
ing only small portions of the house finished, and it was never
completed. It stood for 30 or 40 j'ears, and in later time acquired the
name of "The Old Abbey." It was designed for a public house, stand
ing on the Milford and Owego tui-npiJke, then laid but not opened.
Many persons lived in it. It was kept as a hotel by Noah Tiffany,
Arunah Tiffany, Samuel Yeomans [1823], ^'eth Bisbee, and Jesse
Bagley^ Jas. Noble kept a store in it, for a short time, in the early
part of 1823. The P. O. which is here now with A. Ely, P. M. [it has
just been traiisferred. May 1889, to the Craver store, W. B. Craver,
P. M.] and which was here a little while under Jas. L. Adams, was in
the old^ building from 1817 to '18, Noah Tiffany, P. M., and from 1818
to '21, with Anmah Tiffanj'. Dr. Palmer M. "Way occupied the west
wing in 1829 or '30, and his father used the east wing for a black
smith shop. Allen McKinney Uved here for a time and Dr. Eichard
son boarded with him before Jesse Bagley built on the other side of
the road. David Morgan niade the brick used in basement and chim
neys of this house. The kiln was near the creek, on the south side of
the State road on the west side of the Miles lot. Eemains of it are
still visible. It was made in the summer of 1810.
Joshua Miles, Sr. came from Brooklyn, Ct. to Litchfield, Herkimer
Co., N. Y. in 1801. His -wife Lucy Cady died ,at that place in 1806.
Their children were Joshua, Jr., Lucy (Mrs. Giddings), Mary (Mrs.
Coe, remained in N. T.), Ebenezer, died 1868, Jonathan, and Sarah
(Mrs. Stone of Abington, Pa., died Sept. 1859). Deacon Miles came
with his family to Brooklyn in 1808, and manied his first -wife's sis
ter, Mi-s. Mary Tracj'.
He bought the Page lot which Jacob Tewksbury had also occupied,
and put up a grist-mill (the second in the township) near the saw-mill
built by the Tewksburys. The stones in this miU were doubtless the
ones mentioned by Miss Blackman as bought of Jonathan Sabin for
$50. He brought a larger collection of books than had before been in

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the township. He was a carpenter as was also his son Joshua a carpen
ter, and mill-wright. The south-east part of this lot with the mills
was turned over to Joshua Miles, Jr. Dea. Miles gave his right in the
land for the Old Cemetery (one acre) which was enlarged some 25
years later by a purchase on the west. The south part of this bmial
place was on the Page clearing, but the north part was cleared by
Ebenezer Miles. It was on this north part the first interment, that of
"Aunt Molly" — Molly Maglothlan (who Uved with Jacob Tewksbury's
people) was made. By comparing the recollections of several old per
sons, this was doubtless in Feb., 1810. The first deaths among- the
settlers, so far as obtainable were those of Eobert Patterson and his
child in the colony of 1787. They were buried on the Isaac Smith place,
now owned by the E. F. Breed estate. The first deaths of New England
people were Andrew Tracy, Nov. 1, 1801, and his son Leonard, who
died the foUowing year. They were buried at home but removed to
this old cemeterj' after it was established. Dates of death for other
early burials here are: — Isaac Tewksbury, Mar., 1813; Joshua Miles,
July 6, 1815 ; Judith Tewksburj-, 1815 ; Nancj' (Kingslej') Morgan,
Apr. 20, 1817; Noah Tiffany, July 19, 1818; Edward Paine, July 8,
1820: Barnard Worthing, Julyl3, 1820; Elizabeth Jones, Apr. 27, 1822.
The Milfo^rd and Owego 'Turnpike passed by this first large frame
house in the township. This once famous thoroughfare, with its Unes
of four-horse stages and loads of passengers and freight, went through
the township from south-east to north-west. It was begun in 1808 but
not fully completed till some 15 years after [1823], though the princi
pal work was done from 1812 to '20. The earUest stock-subscribers of
Brooklyn were Joshua Miles, Sr., 10 shares of $25. each; Putnam
Catlin, 10 shares; Jeremiah Gere, 8 shai-es; Joseph Chapman, 2 shrs.;
Chas. Gere, 2 shares; Amos Bailey, 2 shrs.; Isaac Tewksbury, 2 shrs.;
Predk. Bailey, 2 shrs.; Sargent Tewksbury, 2 shares; Ebenezer 'Whit
ney, 4 shares; Edward Goodwin, 4 shrs.; James Coyle, 4 shrs.; Jacob
Tewksbury, 2 shares. Whole length of road (from Milford to Owego)
was 86 miles. Cost of buildmg, $1 200 to $1300 per mile. Width of
road inside ditches,. 20 ft. The state of Pennsylvania subscribed
$15 000 and New Jersey, $20 000. Putnam CatUn was the treasurer of
the company from about 1817 to 1824, and Fredk. Bailey afterward,
till the turnpike was given up and turned over to the townships, about
1851. Joshua Miles [1810], Fredk. Bailey, Chas. Gere, Putnam CatUn
[1811], and Jeremiah Gere were among the first "Managers" of the
road. Benj. T. Case (of Montrose) was surveyor, and for a long term,
secretary. Edward Otto was first gate-keeper in Brooklyn (at the D.
S. Watrous place), and afterward Joseph Chapman, at the Frederick
Miller place ; also J. L. Adams for a few years, at the same place.
The "State Eoad," laid by commissioners appointed by the state,
about 1808, also passed through the township from Alfred Tiffany's
west to the Meshoppen, and it coincided with the turnpike from
Mclntj're's hill, to a point a short distance west of this Miles house.
Noah Tiffany, a brother of Hosea and Thomas, came from Attle-
boro', Mass. in May 1809, and .bought the clearing of Wm. Harkins
(the H. W. Kent place). Frona this he came to this Miles place in

60 history of BROOKLYN.
spring of 1816. His first wife was Hannah .Cai-penter, and their chil
dren were Jemima (Mrs. EUab Parrar of Harford), Hannah (Mrs.
Stanley), and Arunah. His 2d wife was Mary Olney. Their children
were Ohiey, Mary (Mrs. Chas. Perigo), Noah, John, Clarissa, Loren
(not here), and Malinda (Mrs.Myron Lindsey, born Oct. 16, 1801, and
still Uving in Bridgewater). There were, beside Hosea,' Thos., and
Noah, three other brothers (not here) all six Eevolutionai-y soldiers.
In the spring of 1818 Mr. T., in mounting his horse to go to Mont
rose, was thrown, and fractured his leg. Amputation finally became
necessai-y. The operation did not succeed weU, and Mr. T. died July
19th. 'Mr. O. -Bailey still has the saw with which t^e bone was sev
ered—then belonging to Esq. Packer. Mr. T. was 66 years old Buried
in Old Cemetery. His wife removed to Gibson with his son Arunah,
and died and was buried there iu 1837. Joshua Miles and Ncah
Tiffany were the first deacons of the Congregational church in 1810.
, MaUnda Tiffany manied Myron Lindsey, son of Amherst and Betsey
(Eastman) Lindsey. Their children were Mary J., died at 5 yrs.: Nancy
M.— Mrs. Edwin Tiffany; Otney T., died at 5 years; Pardon T.; and
Lucy C. — Mrs. Hiland Bissell. ¦
Arunah Tiffany manied [1809] Lucy Pollet, a sister of Mrs.. Ed
ward Gere. He Uved here about two j'ears after his father's death and
removed to Gibson. He subsequently divided the old lot into parts and
sold them to sundry persons.
Seth Bisbee came originally from New Hampshire to Harford,, and
from there came here about 1826. ^e was a soldier of 1812. His first
wife was Leah Aldrich, a sister of Noah Aldrich who had a trip
hammer and axe factory on the little stream near Oakley in- Har
ford, which was destroyed by the violent flood that deluged the ravine
in 1870. She was also a sister, of Levi Aldrich, and a niece of David
Aldrich, early settlers of Harford, the latter being father of Dr. Street-
er's wife. Isaac Aldrich, who once lived on the Jackson place, and
Nathan Aldrich were more distant relatives. The children were Alonzo,
Jane, Sally, Noah of Lanesboro, Levi, and Betsey (Mrs. J. W.
Chapman). .- Mi-s. B. died about 1827 in the "Old Abbey.'' The 2d wife was
Hannah, widow of Erastus Latham, and daughter ,of Anthony Fish.,
The children were Leah — Mrs. Day of Hopbottom, Hannah — Mrs. J.
E. Howe, 2d, of Great Bend, Lydia — Mrs. Backus, Alpha — Mrs. Geo.
Stanton of Lenox, John of New Milford, Martin, a soldier in the
cavalry service, and J6,mes, deed., blacksmith of Hopbottom. Maj.
Bisbee went back to Harford for a few years and then settled in
Lathrop where he died.
Ely, Luther S. is engaged in the mercantile business with his father,
and occupies the building just west of the store. He married Lottie,
a daughter of Joseph Oakley, and they have a daughter, Edna.,
Ely,, Chas. H., a son of Hiram Ely and grandson of Zelophehad Ely,
married Lois A. Lathrop of Dimock, and their children are Walter
H. and Gertrude E. The farm he occupies, on the Joseph Torbit war-

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rantee, appears to have been first settled by Nathaniel Sterling [see in
dex] and then successively by Wm. Ainey, Hiram Ely, and O. C. Ely.
Deed from J. B. Wallace to Nathaniel Sterling for 50 acres, Apr. 1817.
Wm. Ainey, a native of Pulton Co., N. Y., came to Brooklyn about
1825. His ancestors were French Huguenots. His wife's name was
Hannah Crawford and their children, Jacob, John (died May 29, 1870,
a.,61), Moses (died Nov. 12, 1866, a., 62), Eebecca (Mrs. Saml, West-
brook), Catharine, and three others who did not come to this township.
His grandson, Augustus L., a soldier (and son of John, of Lathrop)
died Sept. 27, .1879, a., 33. Mr. A. died May 2, 1851 at the age of 74
yrs. His wife Hannah died in 1835. All buried in the Old Cemetery.
Obrin C. Ely, son of Silas P. and Mehitabel (Church) Ely manied
first Jane J. Gardner, who died Sept. 24, 1838, a., 32. He afterward
married her sister Eebecca, now also deceased, who had a son Erless.
Mr. E. resided for a short time, after leaving the homestead of his
father, on the Dr. Bissell place, but soon went to this one under con
sideration. He went thence to Michigan, some years ago, with his wife
and son. E. P. Gardner a relative of Mrs. E. was a soldier and died
Apr. 5, 1862, a., 20 yrs., 11 mo. Buried in the Old Cemetery.
Ely, Emery D., a son of Geo. W. Ely (now of Thomson), married
Martha A., a daughter of Lodowick Bailey, Jr., and lives [1887] on
the place o-wned by Mark S. Quick, who manied Mr. Bailey's sister
and is a carpenter, not now here.
Fair child, H. Canfield married Mary, a daughter of Saml. Bissell,
and lives upon the old Bissell homestead, on the Henry Jackson war
rantee. Their children ai-e Herman L., a scientist of New York; Pay
ette who was accidentally killed by a rifle shot in a trial of marks
manship; and Bert B. Mott Wilkinson was the first occupant of the
part of the place on which the residence is situated, and Daniel Law
rence on the east part. Jacob Ainey also at one time (about 1830 and
after) occupied a house on the premises with a blacksmith's shop on
the road corner adjoining. Harris Sutliff also once (from 1811 or after
till 1832) occupied the south part of this place, with a piece afterwai-d
sold to Isaac 'VanAuken.
Samuel Bissell, a physician, a native of E. I., came from Coopers-
town, N. Y., in 1815. After prospecting he returned, and brought his
family in 1816. He first li-ved on the Saml. Weston place (now W. L.
Sterling's) for some months. In the fall of 1817 the assessment record
shows him taxed -with 60 acres from Jesse Bagley. This was the first
lot taken up by Mr. Bagley on the old road north of the present
residence of Hem-y McCoy. Dr. B. Uved here for about a year. He is
next assessed with 37 acres from Mott Wilkinson in fall of 1818. He
occupied the Wilkinson cabin for some time, the old frame house (still
standing, 1889) haviiig been built about 1823. He held the appoint
ment of Justice of the Peace for some lime prior to his death. In the
fall of 1820, he, in company with Elisha Bisbee was assessed with a
distillery, at that day regarded as a necessity. But observation of its
ill effects led the proprietors soon to abandon the enterprise and it
does not appear on the next year's assessment.

62 HISTORY OF BROOKLYN.
Mrs. Bissell occupied the homestead many years after her husband's
death, which occm-red July 20, 1829, at the age of 41 yrs. Her maid
en name was Sally Foster. Their children were Augustus — who also
studied medicine; Maria — manied Dr. Geo. W. Morse who was a
soldier and died June 9, 1864, age, 55 j'rs.; Hannah — Mrs. Samuel
Adams; Eliza A. — Mrs. Gregorj', died June 3, 1875, a., 58 yrs.; Har
riet — 2d wife of Samuel Adams; Emeline — Mrs. B. M'orse; Isaac;
Lydia — Mrs. Eastman ; Mary — Mi-s. Fairchild ; Jane — Mrs. Wm. Frink;
Eosena — Mrs. Brookins; and Venina — Mrs. Lieb. Mrs. Bissell died
June 10, 1873 aged 82 yrs. The remains of her husband were removed
to the Old Cemetery from the spot where first buried on the old
place, south side of the State road. Dr. B. was a Surgeon in the U. S.
army in war of 1812. He was the second resident physician, Dr. Cap-
erton who accompanied the first settlers of 1787 being the first in the
township and county, though Dr. Mason Denison Uved a part of the
time with Cap. Gere as early as 1810, and Dr. James Whiting an
uncle of Mrs. Joseph Chapman lived in Mr. C. 's family more or less
for a dozen j'ears or more prior to 1822. Dr. B. had an extensive
practice over rough roads and bridle-paths.
Edward Mott VV^ilionson came to the township in 1802. He first
bought 50 acres of land of J. B. Wallace for which the deed was given
Nov. 10, 1807. He may have made his first clearing on this lot. It lay
west of the Saml. Yeomans lot, east of the Saml. Howard lot (now
N. E. Mack's), including the "Bibbins lot" and part of the Jedediah
Lathrop lot. Ho doubtless sold it to Edward Paine. He got the deed
of the 37 acres now owned bj' Mr. Fairchild in 1817, though he lived
upon it for several j-eai-s before. He built his cabin on the south end
of his lot near the old road that went over the hill from ne.ar Consider
Fuller's (the Sutliff place) by the second cabin of Danl. Lawrence, a
branch turning toward Edwd. Paine's, and the other coming out at
"Dutch Meadow" near the M. E. Church. The old well still remains
near by, and an old apj^le-tree. This tree was grafted by one of the
Wilkinson boys. After David Sutliff came, he (Sutliff) was one day
grafting in his orchard with which he took much pains. The Wilkin
son lad being there, after watching for a while, said he guessed he
could graft. So Mr. S. gave him some scions and wax, and the boy
went home and grafted this tree still standing. A few years ago some
apples from it (King or "SutUff" Sweet) were sent to Mr. W. in the
distant west:,
Mott Wilkinson's wife was Phebe, a daughter of Amos' Lawrence.
She was one of the first members of the Congregational church in
1810. Their' children were EUsha, James, Eebecca, Lucy, and Phebe.
Mr. W. taught a school in his cabin in the winter of 1813-14. In
after times, the old "Chestnut Hill" school-house stood, for many
years, near where Mr. Fairchild's house now stands.
Daniel Lawrence is reported to have been in the township in 1801.
Among Capt. Bailey's old acct. books are notes of transactions with
him m 1803, and at Mr. B.'s homestead are some chairs made 'by Mr.
L. in 1805. His farm was divided, Mr. Fairchild now owning half of
it and Harvey Tewksbury the rest. His first place of residence was on

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the east part of Mr. P.'s place just above the large spring near the
old state road. This cabin was burned, and the remains of chimnej'
and foundation are still to be seen. He then built another cabin rem
nants of which, with the tansy patch, are no-n' visible south-west of
the young sugar orchard of H. Tewksbury. Mr. L.'s children were
Lucy, Allen, and others. He sold his east 50 acres to Jacob Tewksbury
in 1818.
The relationship of the Lawrence family — Daniel, Amos, WiUiam,
Allen, and Phebe (Mrs. Wilkinson) is not now positively remembered.
Some think that Mrs. W. was a sister of Amos and Daniel, being of
corresponding age, while Wm. and Allen were younger. Amos and
Allen lived in JDimock for a while. Phebe, in accordance with the cus
tom of the time, was fond of snuff, as was also her husband who car
ried the fragrant dust in a bag. He is remembered to have said he
believed himself destined to drink from a gourd-shell or from a silver
cup. About 1818 he -with some of the Lawrences went west — perhaps
to find the cup.
Harris Sutliff did not Uve on this place but occupied the house
¦with his father, David. An old house was standing on this part of the
place however which the SutUffs ufeed f6r a barn — the house said to
have been built and occupied by Daniel Lawrence, before he built the
one that was burned, he SelUng it and the accompanj'Lng clearing to
Mr. Sutliff. If so, this was the first Lawrence house. It is also said that
Mr. S. put up the distilUng estabUshment by the brook, which he sold
to BisseU '& Bisbee.
Jacob Ainey, a blacksmith, came to the township about 1825, and
to this place about the time of Dr. B.'s death. He Uved in a house re
modeled from Dr. B.'s office, and worked in a shop on the comer near
bj'. H. E. Kittle , learned his trade here. Mr. A. married Catharine
KiNNAN. Their children were John H., of SpringviUe, Hannah deceased,
Amanda deed., Wm. ¦ H., of AUentown, David C, physician of New
Milford, and Albert J. Mr. A. removed to Dimock.
Fish, Chas., a son of Asa Fish, and a mason and farmer, married,
Eunice M. Tiffany of Harford. Their children are Lena M. and Daisy
B. He owns the place on the John Nicholson wan-antee, formerly
owned by his father and grandfather, and first occupied by Nathan
Thayer, together with additions made by his father from the Jacob
Worthing lot on the Eiehard Manning warrantee.
Asa Fish came with Tils father Anthony, from Groton, Ct., when
nearly two years old. He married Sarah Friman of Carbon Co.,
where he was engaged at carpenter work in the mining district near
Mauch Chunk, when a young man. Their childi-en are Ida, Charles,
Frank C, Clara (Mrs. Frank Tewksbury), Wm. A., Florence (Mrs.
Jas. Eldridge of Binghamton), Luther, Em, and Ada an adopted
grandchild. Mrs. Pish remains on the old homestead. For a time dur
ing the EebelUon Mr. P. was in the U. S. construction coi-ps in Tenn.
and Ga. He was bom Dec. 25, 1812, and died July 16, 1888.
Anthon-y Fish and wife Hannah Chipman, from Groton, New London
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house on the abandoned road in the field south of the Isaac Smith
house where J. Lorimer now lives: His daughter Emily was bom
there. He removed from that place to this, buying the possession of
Nathan Thayer whose wife was a sister of the wife of Eobt. Eand on
the adjoining place to the east. Mr. T. spelled his name at that time
"Thaire." He had a log house with bark roof standing a little south
west of the present dwelUng. Mr. Pish built another cabin a Uttle to
the north-east, and afterward the present frame house, between the
two. His children were Anthony, Jr., who came here before his father
but returned soon and did not come here to Uve; Hannah, deed., (Mrs.
Latham and afterward Mrs. Bisbee); Priidy, deed., (Mrs. Daniel
Tewksbury); Francis, deed.; Sabra, deed, (Mrs. John Davison) ; Fred
erick, deed.; JuUa, deed., (Mrs. Abel He-witt) ; Sally decd.,^(Mrs. D.
B. Bagley); Fanny (Mrs. Jas. Hewitt);. Asa deed.; Mary (Mrs. W. L.
Eichardson); Emily (Mrs. C. A. WilUams); and WilUam who died
Oct. 29, 1838, aged 20 yrs., 6 mo., 23 d. Mr. F. died Oct. 1, 1854, age,
88 yrs., and Mrs. P., June 3, 1856, aged 84. HiU Cemetery.
Sally Pish married a carpenter and her son Charles became a car
penter on going west. She used to speak of the cosy times the
large family of children had sleeping in the Uttle loft qf the Thayer
cabin where the bright stars would sometimes twinkle through the
little crevices overhead, and where sometimes the snow — "the beauti
ful snow" would softly sift in around them.
Fish, Frank C, a son of Asa Fish, has just bought a house and lot
on the old Tracj'-Conrad place. His wife is Mary, a daughter of C. F.
Perigo. The house is remodeled from a building put up bj' Jared
Baker for manufacturing purposes.
Fish, Wm. C, a son of Frederick and Ancy (Eace) Fish, lives in the
block house early built by Jas. Oa;kley on his first place-^not the
Gushing lot. He man-ied Almu-a T., a daughter of Geo. CrandalL
Their children are Ancy E., Jennie A., and Nellie M. Mr. P. was a
Union soldier in Va. and S. C. and was wounded in the battle of the
Wilderness. Foote, Orlando W. came originally from New Milford, though later ';
from Susquehanna, arid engaged in mercantile business here. He is'
now a commercial agent and spends part of the time in N. Y. city.
He built his present village residence at much expense. He married
Mary A. ChamberUn of Bridgewater, and their children are Will C.
of Tunkannock, and Grace L. '
Forse, Mordeca W., a son of Albert and Catharine (Mead) Porse
(former residents of Brooklyn, from N. J.) Uves [1889] in the house
of Arthur M. Gere, built by E. E. Eozelle near- the reclain^ed muck
swamp. He married Millie A. Forse and they have a daughter, Ger
trude. His brothers and sisters are Elizabeth who died Mar. 30, 1880,
aged 21i yrs., Gilbert, Amos, Albert, Edith,, and Manning.
Free, Andrew [colored], on the Henry Dennis place [18 87], mar-
ned Mary (Worts) Adams, and their children are Alice, George, and
John.

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Frink, Lewis H. and Mary E. Pessenden, his wife, of Montrose, were
conducting the Alford hotel in 1887. His predecessors were M. Van-
Housen, and B. O. Watrous who built the house soon after the E. E.
was completed.
Gavitt, Stephen S., from Dimock, married Emeline, a daughter of
Edmund Miles, and they lived for some years on the old Miles home
stead, but now own and live upon the lot (on the Neal McCoy war
rantee) taken up by Nathaniel Eose as early as 1813, and Jas. Davis-
son had begun on it a little before. Mr. E. married Anna Whitney
and their children were Ehoda (Mrs. Stephen Griffis), Abigail (Mrs.
Silas Sweatland), Ira, Eufus, Eoswell, and Warren. The place was
transferred to Levi Simons about 1818, and more recently owned by
O. Bailey, who still retains a small portion. New buildings have been
put up, but the old barn still remains. The children of Mr. and Mrs.
G. are Mary E. who married, ftrst, Edward E. Wright (killed while
taking down the old church on the hill) and afterward married Chas.
P. Eichards; Willard M. and Asa P., on the Miles place; and Sarah
O. (Mrs. Chauncey Eose).
Levi Simons married Sally, a daughter of Capt. Saml. Wright, and
sister of Wise and Anthonj'. Their sons were Harlo, Julius, Calvin,
and James.
Gavitt, Willard M. married Sarah Sweet. Mr. G.'s brother Asa P.
lives with them and is joint owner of the farm on the Philip Frink
warrantee. This old place was first taken by
Eleazeb Kimball as early as 1811 and till 1824. His wife was Polly
Stone, and children, Catharine, Samuel, Polly, and Eliza. It was then
occupied by Edmund Miles, with his father Jesse, and then by Saml.
Hartshorn Miles, "the old bachelor." The early road (now disused)
from Capt. Bailey's to the Blanchard place (and thence to Nicholson)
passed by this domicile. Fifty years ago it was cosily ensconced among
its fields, with the dense-grown overhanging borders of primitive
trees surrounding the whole, which gave it a sequestered and fairy
aspect as it appeared in view from its sylvan and unfrequented ap
proaches in either direction.
Jesse Miles came from Long- Island via Otsego Co., N. Y., about
1823 or '24. His wife was Olive Adams. He was a Eevolutionary sol
dier. Theu- children were Eowland (who came in 1821), Parker, Jared
(a shoemaker), Edmund, Betsey (Mrs. Samuel Brown), and Caroline
(Mrs. Orra Wright) who died Nov. 19, 1871, aged 70 yrs., 8 mo., and
Mr. "W. died Dec. 17, 1849, aged 49 jts. Mr. Miles died June 13. 1833,
aged 77 yrs., and Mrs. M., June 8, 1831 aged 72 yrs., 11 mo. S. H.
Miles died Jan. 30, 1862, aged 62 yrs., 10 mo.
Edmund Miles came here -with his father. He married Sally Ikons.
Their children were Emeline (Mrs. S. S. Gavitt), Philena (Mi-s. Wm.
P. CrandaU\ and Willard who died May 5, 1825, aged 4 yrs. Mr. M.
died Oct. 10, 1829, aged 32 yrs., 5 mo., and Mrs. M. Sept. 20, 1865,
aged 66 jts., 1 mo. The Miles family are buried in the Old Cemetery.
Gere Robt. W., [the name was formerly written Geer] was a son

66 HISTOESr OF BROOKLYN.
of Chas. Gere, and married Julia, a daughter of Jas. Packer, Se. He
bought, the Edmonds farm now owned by A. W. Kent, where he Uved
from about 1837 to '66. They had a son Geo. W., a physician who
died Oct. 4, 1861, aged 26 vrs., 2 mo., leaving a son Geo. W. After
the death of his wife, Sept. 30, 1856 at the age of 44 jts., Mr. G.
married Mary A. (Converse) Ehodes who died July 21, 1887, aged 68
years. They adopted a daughter, Sarah E. the daughter of D. K. and
AdaUne (WilUams) Tooker. Mr. G.'s present residence in Brooklj'n vil
lage he bought of J. H. Stanton who built the dwelling on a lot for
merly belonging to the Tracy or Widow Miles farm. Land was after
ward added from the Saml. Weston or EUsha Baker place. Mr. G.'s
house was once struck by Ughtning doing him serious harm, and in
recent years he has been afflicted with bUndness. His grandson Geo.
W. Gere with -wife Eveline, a daughter of John and Jane (Westbrook)
Wattei-man, and little boy Eobt. J., now Uve with him.
Gere, Albert R., a son of Stephen Gere, manied Sarah E., a daugh
ter of Jonathan Tewksbury. Theu- children ai-e Wm. E., Geo. L., Chas.
E., Mai-y E. (Mrs. Thos. West), Harriet E., Ansel J., Alvah K. (who
owns [1889] part of the Miles-CaldweU land with old mill house) and
Frank J. Mr. G. hved for a time on the David Smith place now the
north part of the farm of J. W. Adams. He afterward came to occupy
the homestead of Mrs. G.'s father (onthe Barnabas Binney warrantee)
where he now resides. This place had been previously occupied by
Jas. Tewksburj-, Geo. L. Tewksburj', Jonathan Tewksbury, and Thos.
Saunders. Joshua Fletcher who was here from 1818 or before to 1823,
also had a shoe shop on it. He married Mr. G.'s older half-sister.
Thos, Saunders, a son of Joshua' Saunders, seems to have been the
first occupant of this place. He married Abigail, a daughter of Isaac
Tewksbury, and lived for a short time in the log house (not far from
the present Ashley store) after his father-in-law left it in 1807, and
then made a clearing and built a house on this place. This cabin was
on the old road running south of the present barn and old orchard.
The well is now still in use near the barn. Mr. S. was a shoemaker
and had his shop here. In the fall of 1817 he went to Ohio with the
rest of his people and with the Bagley family, where he died from in
jury from a falling timber at a raising. His widow and his two daugh
ters Charlotte and Lucy afterward returned to Brooklyn.
Jonathan Tewksbury came with his father Isaac from Vt. in 1804.
In 1807 his father went to "Mclntyre Hill," just east of this place,
and Jonathan seems to have accompanied him, and to have Uved there
till after the death of his father and mother. He married Lucinda, a
daughter of Consider Fuller, who had also lived for a while with Mrs.
Mary Tracy, and their oldest son George was born at the Isaac
Tewksbury place.
After Mr. Saunders removed, Mr. T. came to this place and con
structed a house (some say the Saunders shoe-shop was incorporated
into it) a little east of the present frame house which he also after-
•ward built. The chUdren were Geo. L., Lucy Caroline (2d wife of Hor
ace Thayer), Isaac S., Sarah E., Ansel E., Hannah E., (Mrs. Mudget),

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Jesse W. (a soldier killed in service near Petersburg, Va.) and
Mary (Mrs. Myron Kingsley). Mr. T. died in 1860, July 7, aged 77
yrs., 1| mo., and Mrs. T., Jan. 4, 1880, in her 87 year. Their son
Geo. L. married JuUaE. Barnes of Gibson. He died tn Wayne Co.,
June 25, 1854, aged 42 j'rs. Buried in Old Cemetery. His widow is
now the widow of Moses Caldwell.
Gere, Geo. L. married Mame, a daughter of 'Wm. Alworth. Their
chUdren are Louis A., Josie M., and Daisy Luella. His lot is on the
south part of what was the Saml. Weston fai-m, and he also owns a
strip on the east part of the J. E. Adams or McKinney lot, and a tim
ber lot north of the A. G. Bailey place.
Gere, Wm. R. married PauUne Bunnell of Skinner's Eddy, Wyo
ming Co. Their children are W. Berwin, A. Eaymond, Harold E., and
Clarence L. In the E. P. Bailey house [1889].
Gere, Jeremiah C, a son of Edwaed L. Gere, owns the place (on
the Saml. Jackson warrantee) formerly occupied by Hiram Howe. The
North Pond is situated partly on this farm, with its cranberry and
hly fringes and huckleberry borders. This lakelet is partly in JJridge-
water. Its outlet (on which Mr. G. once had a shingle-machine) runs
to the Meshoppen, but a part of Mr. G.'s land is on the watershed
sloping to the Hopbottom. When the Brooklj-n miUs were owned by
Horace Thaj'er some years ago, he attempted to cut a channel through
the Uttle summit and divert the water from the lake into the brook
running by the old Chapman house, to re-enforce his reservoirs. The
enterprise proved successful in high water when it was not needed,
but useless in a drouth.
Mr. G. married Sarah J. Beers of Bradford Co. Their children are
EUa M., Chas. E., Myra A., and Eddie L. who died Sept. 8, 1864, 8
J'ears old.
Hiram Howe, a son of Ephraim Howe, mai-ried Syl-via Cheever,
and their childi-en were Lydia, Ephr'm P. (a Union soldier — died,
1889), Amy, Cyi-us of Jessup — a soldier for 3 j'rs., Nancy deed., and
Nathan (a soldier shot near Ealeigh, N. C). Mr. H. began on this
place, building first a log house, and then a frame, which Mr. Gere
also occupied before he built the present dwelling. Mr. Howe removed
to Jessup where he died in 1865, 69 years of age. Mrs. Howe died in
1883, age, 83 j-ears.
Gere, Robert Lovejoy, a son of E. L. Gere, manied Julia A., a
daughter of Danl. and Sally (Carpenter) Oakley of Harford. Their
children ai-e Arthur M. and Mary E. (Mi-s. Baird). His present resi
dence is on the Geo. Newbury lot, afterward owned by G. W. Palmer.
He also owns the old homestead of his father, a little fm-ther west.
On the southeast corner of this Newbury lot. Prince and Phillis
Johnson (colored) lived years ago. Obed Johnson was his son by a
lormer maniage, and Isaac Morgan, her son by a former marriage.
The house was burned while Johnson lived in it, and Isaac Smith's
old log house (the logs being good) was taken do-wn and removed
to replace Johnson's dwelling. Obed Johnson died at Montrose, Jan.

68 HISTORr OF BROOKLYN.
31, 1889, at an advanced age. Later, John Sullr-an lived on the Uttle
Johnson lot for a while, before locating at Alford. Anthony Johnson,
colored, (not akin to Obed) also Uved in the vicinity about 1818 near
P. 'Whipple's.
Gurdon W. Palmer, a son of Esek H. Palmer, manied Pedy Emily,
a daughter of Ebenezer Gere. He bought this place about 1841, con
ducting its farm work in connexion mth blacksmithing. He died here
Sept. 10, 1875, at the age of 58 yrs., 8 mo. Mrs. P. subsequently re
moved to the village.
Geo. Newbury came about 1818. He was a blacksmith, and doubt
less the only one then in the township, except Eph'm Howe where N. C.
Benjamin now is— both shops being on the Milford and Owego turn
pike not then fully opened. His wife was OLrra, a daughter of Steph
en Eandall and their children were Caroline, Jane, EUzabeth, Ann,
George, and Lyman. Not long before he left Brooklyn his house was
biu-ned one very windy winter night (about 1840) and some of the
children came near perishing in the flames, only escaping by jumping
from the chamber windows. The building was replaced by the pres
ent one, to which additions have been made.
Edward L,. Gere came when about 3 yrs. old, with his father Jere
miah, from Norwich, Ct., in 1802. He married Maey Follet. Their
children were Mary Emily (Mrs. Parke) deed., AngeUne M. (Mrs.
Abner Stanton), Jeremiah C., and Eobert L.; and Susan died Jan. 15,
1843, age, 7 jts., 4 mo., and Jane O. died Sept. 7, 1834, age, 1| yrs.
Mrs. G. died Jan. 12, 1870, aged 66 yrs., 5 mo., 17 da., after which
Mr. G. man-ied Mrs. Clarinda (Babcock) Wilmarth of Harford, a sis
ter of Mrs. Saml. A. Newton. Mr. G. died Sept. 6, 1879, 80 yrs., 3 mo.,
3 days old. He had an ashery on this place for some years. After the
death of her husband and of her sister Emily, Angeline manied Mr.
Parke who died and she afterward married Mr. Scott.
Gere, Arthur M., a son of Eobt, L., now temporarily working his
father's place while the latter is engaged in Scranton, owns the E. E.
Eozelle lot whic'n was evidently in former ages a pond of water, but
now is fiUed with vegetable deposit, and drained for gardening pur
poses. His -wife was Nellie P. Crandall, a relative of Mrs. Joseph Peek-
ham and of Asa Crandall, an early teacher of the to-wnship. They have
a daughter Mildred C.
Giles, Geo, I., living on the Frank Sterling place [1889] married
for his 2d wife Emily A., a daughter of A. G. and Eoena (Kent) Bai
ley, and thej' Uved for a time on the Bailey homestead. Their chil
dren are Henry A., WilUs S., Edwin S., and Gertie May deceased.
Mr.. G.'s first wife was Mary J., a daughter of Amos VanAuken. They
had a son Lyman E. She died Mar. 2, 1866, age, 21 j-rs.
Goodrich, Edwin B. lives on the old homestead of his father Eli B.
Goodrich. It is on the Capt. Jas. Stover warrantee. He mamed Dellie
a daughter of Laban and Joanna (Adams) Capron of Harford. Their
children are WilUs C. died June 10, 1884 in his 22d year; Effie G.,
died Mar. 18, 1889 ; Alma E. ; and Eugene Bruce.

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Eli B. Goodrich came to Brooklyn from New BerUn, Chenango Co.,
N. Y., about 1827. He married Cynthia, a daughter of Alfred Tiffany.
Their children, Lucy M. (Mrs. Henry Tewksbury), Alexander N. (died
west), Wellington M., EU J. (died June 5, 1854, aged 20 yrs., 5 mo.),
Edwin B., Chas. T., Mary E. (died May 14, 1865, aged 26 yrs., 1 mo.),
EUza A. (Mrs Benjamin), Anson L. Manzer J. (a soldier), and Eansom
D.; and Cynthia A. (died Feb. 3, 1836, aged 4 years. Mr. G. bought
three or four farms in the vicinity of his first one. He died (on the
Jas. Oakley place) Dec. 22, 1864, aged 62 yrs., 4 mo., and Mrs. G
died July 20, 1848, age, 42 years.
Goodrich, Chas. T. married Sarah Bought of Wyoming Co. Their
children are LilUe, Elmer, and Myrtle. His place, on the Sarah Stover
warrantee, was previously owned by his father, but before that the
east part, on which the dwelling stands, had been occupied by Na
thaniel Sterling, add the west part by "Wm. S. Champlin, Thomas
Jefferson SterUng, Julius Simons, Varnam Whitf ord, Galen 'V'. Adams,
and others. John Davis and Orson Eeed (a brother of Luther Eeed)
were on a part of this place in 1825.
Nathaniel Sterling was in the township in 1815 and perhaps be
fore. He was a brother of Isaac and Thos., from Ct. He began on the
Chas. H. Ely place, and afterward on this. His 1st wife was Prudy
Maples, and their children, Anna, Sally, Eebecca, and Jefferson. His
2d wife was Polly A. Moss, and their children. Flora, Silas P., Han
nah, Dorothy, Eachel, and JuUa. Mr. S. left this place before his
death which occurred Apr. 15, 1872 at the advanced age of 97 jts., 5
mo., 15 da. His 2d -wife died Sept. 7, 1849, aged 65 yrs., 3 mo., 11 d.
Hill Cemetery.
Wm. S. Champlin was here from 1823 to '30 and on this place till 1828.
He married a sister of Mrs. Walter Adams, and of French Eing who
married Anna SterUng above mentioned, and of David Eing who
married Betsey Eought. He was a waU layer. [He and P. Eing built
much of the old wall on the Tracy-Miles place, about 1826.] There is
now no house on this part- of the place.
Thomas Jefferson Sterling (son of Nathaniel) was married (by Dr;
BisseU, J. P.) to CaroUne Sophronia, a daughter of Dimock "Wilson,
Nov. 3, 1828. Their children were CoUins M., Harriet S. (Mrs. Jacob
"Whitman), and MiUy Ann who died young. All born on this place. Mr.
S. died Sept. 20, 1834 at the Jas. Smith house, having previously sold
this place to Mr. Simons. Biuied in Hill Cemetery. In 1838 Mrs. S.
married Josiah Lord of Lathrop. Their children were Enoch W. (a
soldier from 1862 to '65); Julia S. (Mrs. Erless P. Ely of Mich.):
Georgiana W. (Mrs. Miller), and George W., who were t-wins; and
Dimock J. Mr. L. died Sept. 26, 1848. Old Cemetery. After which the
family, with C. M. Sterling, lived for some years with Mrs. Mary
Miles in Brooklyn. Enoch 'W. Lord enUsted with his brother-in-law
J. Whitman and part of the time was with him in the service, tUl the
surrender at Appomattox. Josiah Lord was a soldier of 1812. He was
a son of Josiah, Sr. and Mary (Mack) Lord natives of Ct., but came
from Vt. to South Brooklyn in 1802, when Josiah was 14 yrs. old.

70 history of' BROOKLYN.
Collins M. SterUng "was through the war," nearly. As depicting
the vicissitudes of the soldier's life, in which so many Brooklyn boys
participated, the following letter from him is given:
"Niles, Meh., Mar. 17, 1889.
Dear Sir: —
I enUsted in Capt. G. Z. Dimock's company the
last days of Aug., 1861, and was sworn into the U. S. service at Hai--
risburgh the 6th day of Sept. following. Was sent to Washington and
went into camp, but not long. Then went to AnnapoUs, Md. Took
passage on the transport ship Winfield Scott, and started south. There
were 500 soldiers on board. We were shipwrecked off the coast of
North Carolina and lost everything but ourselves. _ But througii our
own exertions and the assistance of the gunboat Bienville, we did not
lose a man. Arrived in front of Port Eoyal Nov. 6, and on the morn
ing of the 7th the fight began which resulted in our capturing two
large forts. We staid there aliout a week [it was a Uttle longer than
this] when my brigade was sent up the river to take Beaufort. There
we went into camp.
Then Thos. Alderson and Mr. Turner and myself were detailed
with a number of others to go across the river to Ladies Island, to
scout and pick up stuff useful to the army. I went alone to the upper
end of the island and stayed all night, 10 miles away. In the morn
ing, took some stuff and returned. Got Alderson and Turner to go
back with me. Stayed all night, and next morning (Sunday) we got
a boat and undertook to cross to the main-land, but were met by the
Eebel pickets and had quite a sharp Uttle fight in which two of them
were wounded but they didn't hit us. We went back to the island and
found a Ueutenant of the 8th Mich, regiment who had heard the shoot
ing. He told us to stay there till further orders, and on Wednesday
night 9 more men came to join us. We went right across to the same
place and had a Uttle fight and captured 6 men and sent them the
same night to Beaufort, 12 miles below.
After that, all I did was to scout till the 18th of May, except hav-
. ing Uttle skirmishes sometimes -with the Eebel cavahy patrol. In one
of these, six horsemen chased me into the woods, and I turned and shot
one which is the only man I know of hitting while I was in the army,
but I do not know whether he was killed or not. May 18th 1862 we
were ordered to go up the river to PocotaUgo to destroy a bridge
there on the Eailroad between Charleston and Savannah, if we could
¦without bringing on a general engagement. It was here and on this
day that I was shot through the lower part of the right lung, the ball
lodging in the back where it is j'et: Then I was taken to Beaufort,
traveUng all night till simrise. "Was put in hospital there till the 4th
of July. Then we all were put on board the transport ship Vanderbilt
and came up to Ne-wport News on the James Eiver where we staid
about two weeks. We then went on board and were carried around to
Aquia Creek on the Potomac. We marched thence to Fredericksburg

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and there went into camp. Stayed here doing guard duty around
Fredericksburg till Pope got to fighting at Slaughter Mountain below
Culpepper, when we were ordered to re-enforce Pope, but we did
not get there until the next day and the battle was over the night
before. We kept marching from one place to another tUl we got into the
2d BuU Eun battle and then the battle of Chantilly. "We then marched
to Washington and stayed long enough to get some tents and new
clothes. We then marched to Cold Spring Brook and encamped a few
days, and then went to Frederick City, Md., and had a Uttle fight. The
next day (Sept. 14th) we went into the South Mountain fight. Then
came the battle of Antietam, Sept. 17, 1862. After a few weeks en
campment, I was detailed as an ambulance driver, as my wound had
become troublesome. We crossed the Potomac at Point of Eocks near
Harpers Ferry and started for Fredericksburg. Had a fight there
Dec. 13th, and stayed there tiU spring. Then we went to Aquia Creek
landing and took transports, and went down the Potomac and around
to the James and landed at Newport News. After a short time we took
transports again and went to Baltimore, and then by E. E. to Park-
ersburgh, W. Va., then on boats to Covington, Ky., and marched to
Lexington and went into camp. Then we went to Danville, and soon
to Stanford, and Summerset. After a few weeks we went to Cincin
nati, then to Cairo, IU., then down the Mississippi arid up the Yazoo
and landed in the rear of Vicksburg. Did service here till Vicksburg
sunendered. Then we crossed the Big Black river and chased Jo
Johnson to Jackson, Miss., where we had a fight and took a good
many prisoners.
Then we went back to Vicksburg, and, Aug. 2d, we took boats and
came to Cairo, then by cars to Cincinnati. At Cairo I was taken sick
and was sent from Cincinnati to the hospital where I stayed till Oct.
The first daj' I sat up any there was an order came to send all Penn.
soldiers to Philadelphia. I wanted to go, but they said I was not able.
But I coaxed and next day we started. Two men helped me to the
train. There were 48 of us. At Philadelphia they sent an ambulance
for me. Eefreshments had been prepared for us for they knew soldiers
were always hungry! As fast as we came out we were told to step to
the office and get our furloughs for 30 days! Would you believe it?
not one refused, though they knew nothing about it before. I got a
hackman to take me to the depot and at half past 8 that evening I
was at home.
After a pleasant stay, I went back to Philadelphia, and they wanted
me to go into the invalid corps but I refused. [Mr. S. was sent to Cov
ington opposite Cincinnati, and put into hospital there. He did not
like it, and after various devices to join the regiment, he finally suc
ceeded in re-enUsting, and after a time came to Harrisburgh where he
had a furlough for 60 days which he spent at home. On reporting
back he went to AnnapoUs and to Washington and Alexandria.] When
we got to Alexandria I got an ambulance wagon to drive. Then we
started on the march looking for something [Maj', 1864] and we
found it in the Wilderness ! Then we left and went to looking for some-

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thing again aud found it at Spottsylvania ! Then we started again to
look for something and sure enough we found it at Cold Harbor!
From this we started again for two purposes. One%-as to find some
thing and the other, to goto Petersburg. We went to Harrisons
Landing on the James river, and after we came in sight of the city
the Eebels objected! After a prolonged fight from June 18, 1864 to
Apr. 2, 1865, we went where we stai-ted to go. We followed on to
Appomattox Court House, where, Apr. 9th., „we found what we. had
been looking for — the endl
' After the murder of Lincoln and the hanging of lie traitors, I came
home July 14, 1865, having served three years and'ten months.
CoUins M. SterUng."
Grennell, Miles B., a carpenter, from Springville, but originally
ifrom Wayne Co., married Kate E. Shadduck. Their children are
Predk. M., Lida M., Minnie E., and Emma I. HePoccupies the house
built by H. E. Kittle, and afterward owned by Austin Crocker and
then by John T. Perry. Mrs. G.'s mother, Eliza P. Moore (formerly
Brown) is a member of the family, and Mr. G.'s mother (wife of Mi
chael GrenneU, Jr.) died here Oct. 11, 1876, aged 88 yrs., 6^ months.
Old Cemetery.
John 'Thomson Perry, a wagon maker, came to Brookljn about 1847
from Sussex Co., N. J. His wife was Nancy Levhs. Their children
are David C, HaiTiet (Mrs. Eutan), Wm. L., Sarah J. (Mrs. J. W.
kdams), J. Ann (Mrs. McVicar), and Eliza B. (Mrs. O. M. Dolaway).
Hearn, I^wis, and wife Tirza Brock, came from Black Tonington,
Devon-shire, Eng. He is a butter maker, coming here in the employ of
the American Dairy Co. He has bought a part of the Jacob Tewksbury
place, and most of theJezreel Dewitt farm. His' children are John
L. and Mary A.
Hendriex, Alexander, and Amy Corey, his wife, Uve at Alford [1887]
and their children are Cathren J., MeUssa C. (]\Irs. Brown), and
George H.
Herkimer, Lyman, a son of Peter Herkimer, married Melinda Dar
row. They have a daughter Harriet, Sirs. Norris Aldrich. Mr. H. is
joint owner with Mr. Aldrich of the lots heretofore described.
Hewitt, Mrs. Fanny, widow of James Hewitt, was born in Groton,
Ct., and came with her father, Anthony Pish, in 1814. Mr. Hewitt
was a carpenter, a son of Jedediah and Eachel (Sterling) Hewitt of
Bridgewater, and came here about 1822, Uving for a time with Thos.
Garland in the house then standing on the old road, where now is the
New Cemetery. Mr. H. also lived, with his family, for some years, on
the Prank Tewksbury place. Their children were Mary, died Oct. 20,
1855, age, 19 yrs.; Adelaid (Mrs. Brown of Noank, Ct.) ; Emugene
(Mrs. D. J. Eing); George E. (died Feb. 24, 1864, age, 17 jts.); and
Chas. A. Mrs. H. now resides with her son. Mr. H. died Apr. 30,
1875, aged 67 yrs., 6 mo., and 14 d. Hill Cemetery.

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Hewitt, Chas. A., succeeded to the plaee owned by his father, on
the Leonard ^\^oodrow warrantee. His wife was Kate VanArsdale. His
predecessors in occupancy of the farm were Jas. Hewitt, Geo. Baglej',
Henry Bagley, Albert Packer (a son of James), Aaron W. Munger^
E. L. Paine, and Edward Paine. A deed was given from A. W. Mun
ger to E. L. Paine for 112 acres m 1833, and the north part of the lot
(65 a.) seems to have been deeded to Ebenezer Paine in 1818, and by/
him to DanaFox "of Cooperstown, N. Y." in 1822, and by Pox to E
L. PainTml823.
George Bagley, a son of Orlando Bagley, came with his father from
Vt. in 1804. He married Phebe, a daughter of Wm. and Amy Lawrence,
and their children were Amy (Mrs. Joshua Jackson), Sarah, Orlando^
and EUzabeth. Went west. Mrs. B. had a brother Clark,' and other
brothers and sisters.
Henry Bagley, oldest son of Jesse Bagley, married Mary Skidmore,
a daughter of Mrs. Tieza Skidmore, a sister of James Noble. Mr. B.
removed to Hyde Park,
Aaron W. Munger, a physician, came about 1826 or before. His first
wife was — — Sylvester and their children, Maelah (Mrs. Albert Packer)
and Sylvester! His 2d wife was Sally, a daughter of Saml. and Hul
dah Yeomans. Their children, Martha, died Mar. 31, 1835, age, 4 yrs.,
and James. Dr. M. died Dec. 25, ;1834, age, 47. Hill Cemetery. His'
widow and son removed to Carbondale, where she died.
Edward Lathrop Paine- was born at Pomfret, Windham Co., Ct.,
May 29, 1801, and came with his father Edward in the faU of 1809.
Li the spring of 1823 he built a store and soon after a dwelling on
Malvina Tiffany's lot which he rented to Jas. Noble the same summer,
and sold to him in 1826. Aug. 5, 1824 he mamed Eleanor, a daugh
ter of Jesse and Betsey (Hancock) Eoss. Their children were Edw'd
E. and Elizabeth S., born in Brooklyn; Geo. M.; and Chas. N., a Capt.,
and Nathan, a Major in U. S. service with Sherman in Georgia. Na
than was shot in an engagement.
In 1829 or '30 Mr. P. removed to Orwell, Bradford Co., where he
lived for about 8 j'ears. He then lived 1 year in Towanda, 8 j'ears in
Elmira, N. Y., and 8 years in Canisteo, and then went to Oshkosh,
Wis., in 1855, where he with other members of his family established
very extensive lumber, door and sash factories, and where he still
resides. He has occupied positions of trust in the M. E. Church and
in Wisconsin state affairs. ,
Edward Paine, bom Feb. 8, 1777, the son of Nathan Paine of Pom-
fret, Ct., married Judith, a daughter of Jedediah and Sarah (Tkaoy)
Lathrop of Lisbon, New London Co., and had one son, Edward L.
His wife died soon after, and Mr. P. subsequently married her sister
Charlotte Lathrop. He came with his family from Canterbui-y in 1809,
and soon put up a log house on the place under consideration. Within
a few years he cleared a large farm, and built a frame house and
barn, both still standing somewhat remodeled. Mrs. Polly McKinney
saj's that in the summer of 1812, she went to school to Muiam Worth
ing in this barn (then oU the other side of the road) the fioor being
used for that purpose till hajing time, when they moved into the stable.
AUce Bibbins also taught here.

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HISTORr OF BROOKLYN.

Ml". Paine (in 1812 to '14) built the "Old Cotton Factory" to be
hereafter noted. He was the ffrst justice of the peace of the township,
and also an early teacher in his neighborhood. He was a Methodist,
and soon became the class-leader, and afterward a minister, traveling
for a time with Elder Geo. Peck. Meetings were held at his house-
On his way to Conference, he was drowned while bathing in the Sus
quehanna, below Owego, July 8, 1820, at the age of 43 j'ears. He was
brought home and buried in the Old Cemetery. Mrs. P. afterward
married Jesse Eoss and removed to Pike, Bradford Co., where Mr.
Eoss died, and his vridow afterward went to Oshkosh, Wis., to Uve
with her husband's daughter, where she died [1870] in her 86th j-ear.
The foUo-wing is Edward Paine's class list just as preserved in his
own -writing with accompanying letter-notes — date 1811 :

B Edward Paine, m
B Charlotte Paine, m
B Hannah MUbourh, m
B Silas Lewis, s
B Orlando Bagley, m
B Dorcas Bagley, m
B Betsey L. Saunders, m
B Jacob Tewksbury, m
B Mary Tewksbury, m
B Isaac Tewksbury, m
B Judith Tewksbury, m
B Abigail Saunders, m
B Mary Saunders, m
B Isaac SterUng, m
B MeUscent Sterling, m
S Nancy Seeley, m
S Dorcas Bagley, s
S Jacob Worthing, s
B Sally Puller, s
B John Seeley, m
S Alden Seeley, m

S Polly CatUn, m
S Jesse Bagley, m
S Phally Bagley, m
B Jonathan Tewksbury,
B Josiah Crowfoot, m
B Eliza Crowfoot, m
B AUce Lathrop, s
S Varnam Saunders, s
S Dolly Bagley, s
S Betsey Tewksbury, s
S Polly Seeley, s
B Sabra Tinglej', m
B Stephen Bagley, m
S Mary Bagley, m
S Samuel 'Yeomans, m
B Huldah Yeomans, m
S Sheffield Saunders, s
S Thos. Bagley, s
S Wm. Sterling, s
S Lucinda Puller, s
Jonathan Worttiing.

Hill, Josephus, from Middletown, a blacksmith, owns that part of
the Stephen Gere place south of the "State road," upon which he has
erected a house and shop. He married Susan Jones, and their child
ren are Ella, Clara, and Cora;
Hine, N. F., in the Mack's-Comers store [1887], a soldier, from
Gibson, married Amanda Fletcher. Their children are Alice, Ida, and
Grace. He was preceded by J. H. Gunn. Mr. H. removed to Dimock
and- was succeeded by P. C. WUdrick who is also gone and the store
[1889] is not occupied. It was built by Dr. Enoch Mack, a son of
EUsha Mack, on land of the old homestead.
Hine, E. S. Porter, is a son of David L. and Polly K. (Adams)
Hine, of Hai-ford. He is a professional teacher, and married Emma

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M. (Beers) widow of Eobert P. Breed wljo died Feb. 27, 1882, at the
age of 67 -yrs. Mrs. Hine's children by her former marriage are Fitch,
Elmer W;, and Eobert S. The place they occupy is one of the old,
first settled ones of a century ago. Before Mr. Breed, who owned it
for 30 years, it was owned by his father Stephen, and before that,
was occupied by Edward Goodwin, bj' Jas. Coj'le for a short tune, and
first for 12 years by Adam Miller, one of tfee pjoneers. Noah Puller,
father of \ViUard and Prelate Puller, also hved here for a time in
1809 and '10.
-Stephen Breed, of :Stonington, Ct., came in March, 1812. He had
manied Sophia, a daughter of Eobert and Lucy (Fitch) Gere of
Pdquetanuck. Their oldest son, some 6 months old, was carried by Mrs.
B. in her arms while crossing the Hudson on the ice, on their jour
ney hither, for fear the ice-bridge might not be strong enough to hold
the team and load. They occupied the Adam Miller cabin for a while,
but soon put up a small frame house (still standing) near the site of
the present dwelling, which last was erected in 1822, and which was
for many years used as "The Traveler's Home" being situated on the
Milford and Owego turnpike, then just coming into use. It was a pub
lic house kept without, strong drinks.
The children of Stephen and Sophia Breed were Stephen 'Wheeler
and Eobert Fitch. Mr. and Mrs. B. were Presbyterians. He was cho
sen a ruling elder on the change of form from Congregational, in 1823.
He was supeiintendent of. the first Sunday-school inl819, organized, it
is said,„with great oppo.sitipn. He died in 1852, 62 years of age. Mrs.
B. was born June 12, 1786, and died Mar. 30,. 1882, in her 96th year.
Edward Goodwin is reported to have come in 1801. After leaving
this place he Uved in Capt. Gere's log house, by the spring, where
Mrs. Goodwin died. Jeremiah Spencer is said to have been their
grandson. He doubtless came -ft'ith them and. Uved with them in child
hood. James Coyise seems not to have Uved, here long. His name after
ward appears as a farmer and cattle drover in CUfford and as a mUl-
owner in Lenox.
Adam Miller, one of the Nicholson Colony, came here in 1787,
doubtless in the spring-time. Many of the later settlers, from New
England, came in the fall or lattef part of summer, and after cleai-ing
a piece of land and sowing it with gram, and preparing a log shelter,
returned to theu- former homes late in the faU and came agaiji in
early spring or latter part of winter, with their f amiUes and goods.
But this Nicholson party frpm Philadelphia and vicinity came to stay,
and did stay; and they and their leader were shrewd enough not to
come into an unbrokeh' forest to construct their dwellings and provide
tljeir sustenaflce with winter close at hand.
' Mr. Miller was of Irish descent and had married Elinor Nicholson,
a cousin of, John Nicholson, the land-holder. There is a tradition that
Mr. Miller arid his wife became much .disednterited here, and that Mr.
Nicholson gave Mrs. M. a deed of the lot of larid they occupied, to
induce them to' stay. But this seems not to have been true, or if it was,
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the after chain.of title. For Mr. Breed according to 'WiUjes-Barre rec
ord bought this lot (on the Eobert Lyon and Eobert Iting wanantees)
of John B. Wallace, the successor of John Nicholson, bj' his attorney
in fact, Putnam Catlin, by deed dated Apr. 1,1812, and ackno-vyledged
before Hosea Tiffany, J. P., Apr. 7, 1812.
The remains of the Adam Miller cabin, with the spring, the old-
apple-trees and the tansy patch are still to be seen at the lower side
of the old orchard. Mr: 'Miller tarried here till 1799, 'wlien he went
with his family to Ohio, but returned and took up his residence near
what is now Clifford Corners in the spring of 1800. They afterward.
removed to the hill-side near by, where -Mrs. M. died in Mar., 1816
and Mr. M. in Apr., 1831, about 66 yrs. of age. Both are buried xtx the
old CUfford Cemetery near. Their children'' were Polly, -who married
Ebenezer Baker and went west to the "Lake' Country" ; William who
remined in CUfford and Lenox ; Charles wh6 became a Baptist clerg-j'-
man in Clifford and vicinity; and Anna (bom in 1795) who manied
John Wells also of Clifford. These were all born upon this place in
Brooklyn except Polly the' oldest who was about a year old when her
parents came here.
A son of Charles, Wm', A. Miller (who is also a Baptist minister,
as is his brother EUakim, both of Clifford) -wiites:
"Adam Miller's oldest son, WilUam, was born in Brookljrn. He is
buried in Clifford, and on a stone that marks the spot I find he died
May 2, 1866, aged 76 yrs., 6 mo., and 17 days. Charles Miller, my
father, third child of Adam MiUer, was also bom in Brooklyn Mar. 20,
1793. He died on the anniversary of his birth at the age of 72 j'ears.
You are perhaps aware of the existence of an old note book giving
a brief sketch of Susquehanna, and showing that emigrants from
Wyoming came here two years earlier than the date of settlement as
now claimed.""
So, Wm. Miller was bom here Oct. 15, 1789. A child of Wm. Con
rad was born here about twO and one-half years earlier, anpl these are
doubtless the first two births of white' children iij the township and..
in the county. , ¦
Hinkley, Orrin W. was a soldier for 15 months^ — was at Malvern
Hill. He married Sarah, a daughter of Moses B. and Ann (Hewitt)
Yeomans, and they Uve -with Mrs. H.'s mother on the place previously
owned by Mr. Yeomans. ; -:
Moses B. Yeomans was a son of Joseph and Anna (Tingley) Y^gmanC
bom in Brooklyn. His wife Ann was a daughter of Jedediah and
Eachel (SterUng) Hewitt, and their children are Joseph O.; Sarah A.
(Mrs. Hinkley); amd John M. who witU his mother and sister still resides
on the old place. The premises seem first to have been occupied by
Ebenezer Paine (a brother of Edward) who had a family and whose
children were Eeuben, Sarah, and others. The place was afterward in
possession of Edmond Garland whose wife was Charity Sutliff. He
was a son of Saml. Garland and was a shoe-maker.
Hohn, Frederick, a son of Predk. and Katrina (Graffe) Hohn, came
from Eeppun-, Baden, Germany, in 1865. He manied Eudora, a

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daughter of Jas. M. Newton, and they have a son Lewis N. His farm
is the part of the E. S. Kent place lying west of the former Milford
and Owego turnpike, on the 'Wm. Shaw wanantee.
Hollister, O. Duane, son of A. G. HoUister, owns the farm previ
ously occupied by his father, and before that by John H. Boyd, Amos
Mead, Wm. Titsworth, and Enoch Mack, and stiU earUer owned by
Laweenoe and Persia Johnson. It is on the Charles Conner and Wm.
Layton wanantees. He manied Ida, a daughter of Gilbert N. and
Almira (Cole) Smith and their children are Burton S. and Amos G.
, Amos G. Hollister came from Delhi, N. Y. He married Lydia Em
eline, a daughter of Preston -and Eliza (Mack) Tiffany, of Dimock. He
bought this place about 1855. Their children are EUza (Mrs. E. A.
Kent), Preston T. (a soldier), Cora (Mrs. E. K. Bailey), Sarah A. (Mrs.
Woodworth), 'Wm. H., and O. Duane. He removed to Hopbottom
[1884] where he soon died, and his wife died not long after — fall, '87.
'Wm. Titsworth, son of Amos and Olive (DeWitt) Titsworth, came
from Wantage, N. J, about 1840. His wife was Catharine Elliston,
and children, DeWitt A. and Alfred. Mr. T. died Nov. 18, 1849, aged
37 yrs., ,4 mo., and a daughter Sarah died June 2, 1845, aged 5 yrs.,
9 mo.. Old Cemeterj'. Mrs. T. lives with her son at Montrose.
Enoch Mack was a son of Josiah and Betsej' (Bennet) Mack of Lyme,
Ct., and a brother of EUjah and Elisha. He came here about 1813.
His wife was Polly Spencer. Their children were Harriet and Flavel
and Betsey C. who died Nov. 10, 1825, age, 13 years, 10 months. A
deed was given from J. B. Wallace to L. and P. Johnson for 103 acres
in 1812, and from them to E. Mack in 1813.
Hut son, Adam manied Amanda a daughter of James Waldie, and
thej' live upon the old farm now owned 'by Mrs. A. S. Waldie, in the
division of her father's estate, but which was first occupied by Justice
Kent and afterward by his son David. Their children are James A. ,
Alexander W., Anna L., John Wm., and Ada B.
Justice Kent was born in Mass., but came here froin Windsor,
Broome Co., N. Y., where he bad manied Anna Stuart in 1795. He
came first in 1810, but brought his wife and six children in 1811. He
bought his farm of Putnam CatUn in 1813, and put frame buildings
on it at first, being a carpenter and doing the work chiefly himself.
Their children were David, Eobert, Elijah, Almira (Mrs. Josiah
Mack), Eoena (Mrs. A. G. Bailey), Henry Wallace, Ezra S., Charles,
Emily (Mrs. Jas. Waldie), EUza (Mrs. John J. Eoper), and George J.
Mr. Kent was a UniversaUst as were his children. He built a grist
mill, in early days, on the Hopbottom, just on the border of Bridge-
water, near where the Jewett saw-miU now is. He was an early assess
or and a freeholder in 1821. He (Jied on the farm Dec. 22, 1858, age,
87 J'ears, and Mrs. K. same year, July 27, age, 79 years.
Apr. 27, 1813, on petition of Putnam Catlin and others, the Court
appointed Jacob Wilson, Gideon Beebe, Noah Alden, Henry Catlin,
Joseph <?hapman, and CorneUus Wood, who. laid a road, beginning
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78 HISTOEY of BROOKLYN.
thence through land of P. Catlin, Justice Kent, and Gideon Beebe, to
Jewett hiU. Confirmed finally Nov. 1813.
On the south part of this place and on the above mentioned road
was a school-house (afterward removed to the forks of the road and
then to the top of the DeWitt hill) in which the following and per
haps others probably taught, in this first location :
Augustus Birge (several terms), SaUy Kennard (Mrs. B. Jewett
afterward), Betsey Miles [1825], Emeline Fanar, Clarinda Babcock,
Sarah Gere, Nancy Bowman.
David Kent was about 12 jts. old when he came with his father in
1811. He manied Betsey a daughter of Eowland Miles in 1826. He
occupied this farm with his father, and became owner of it in 1839,
putting new buildings on it within a few years. He is remembered to
liave taught a school in a log house east of the road, near the forks,
in the -winter of 1818-19. Their children were Lucina deceased (Mrs.
Ansel Sterling); Malvina and Miles L. who died young; Justice M.,
died in Mar. 1888; Wm. D., diedyoungr; AngeUa (Mrs. A. S. Waldie);
and Ansel M. who died at 18 yrs. in 1864. Mr. K. died Nov. 29, 1886,
in his 88th year. Mrs. K. now resides -with her daughter Mrs. Waldie.
Jackson, Mrs. Mary, widow of Geo. W. Jackson (colored) a deceased
Union soldier who brought his wife from the south. Their children
are WilUam, Eosanna, and Jennie. They live on Martin-creek road
below Oakley.
Jewett, Nathan R., & son of Eodney Jewett, manied A. Silome,
daughter of Wm. and Prances (Ford) VanHousen of New Milford.
Their children are M. Gertrude, Bailey E., Ben L., Agnes E., and
Audrey S. Mr. J. occupies the old homestead of his grandfather, on
the Abraham McKinney wanantee.
Nathan Jewett from East Haddam, Ct., in 1811, built near a fine
spring, a log house, supplanted by the present frame house in 1822.
He bought a part of the Joseph Guernsej' clearing, just made. He
had been a comb-maker and a ship-carpenter. His vrife was Electa
Pox a sister of Dana Pox arid Esther, Mrs. P. Wood, and formerly Mrs.
Eoach, and of Minerva, Mrs. Wm. Birge. Their children were Francis
who died in New Orleans; Eodney; Betsey (Mrs. Alfred Mack) ; Allen,
a soldier, wounded at Beverly IPord and died in hospital soon after;
and Larina a teacher for many years who died in 1886. Mr. J. died in
1861, aged 78 years. Mrs. J. was a member of the M. E. church from
her childhood, and she was instrumental in forming the East Bridge-
water class which was for many years connected -with the Brooklyn
church. She died in 1865 at the age of 75 j'ears. Buried in the East
Bridgewater Cemeterv, as were her sisters.
Nathan E. Jewett also owns the farm formerly o-wned by his father,
on the James Logan and John Sutton wanants (Ij'ing north ot the.
Justice Kent farm) the predecessors on which were Amos- Smith,
John Austin, and Gideon Beebe (about 1810 to '25); and on 'the east
end on the creek road, Eeuben and James Eeynolds once lived. Dana
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of 1813-14, and also Edw'd L. Paine in this or the Geo. Cone house
in 1819-20.
Amos Smpih and Abigail Mitghell, his wife, came from Dutchess
Co., N. Y. about 1837. Their children were Lucy; Amos J. who mar
ried JuUa Davison, and died Feb. 19, 1876, age, 68 yrs.; Polly; Eme
line; Arzelia (Mrs. Jas. G. Packer); and Fanny (Mrs. Cliarles P. Bis
seU). Mr. S. died Aug. 29, 1846, age, 67 yrs. Old Cemetery.
John Austin married Nancy Peckham (a sister of Joseph, Jr.) and
their children were Lloyd, Ledyard, Nancy E. (Mrs. A. 'W. Main) ;
Wm. T. who died Oct. 14, 1881, aged 59 yrs., 6 mo., 17 da.; Loretta
(Mrs. Joseph H. Stanton); Norman; and Julia C. (Mrs. Geo. M. Ely).
They came about 1822, and removed to the Stark place, Bridgewater,
A deed was given from J. B. Wallace to John Austin for 91 acres in
1824. Mrs. A. died Aug. 3, 1843, age, 54 Jts., 2 mo., 6 da., and Mr.
A., Oct. 1, 1865, age, 81 y., 3 m., 10 d. Old Cemetery.
Jewett, Frederick B., a son of Eodney, married Henrietta L., a
daughter of P. and Eebecca (Brush) Phiinney of New Milford. He owns
tbe old place, lying between the two last mentioped, which had previ
ously been occupied by Haeky Beebe, and earlier by Geo. Cone who
came in 1816. He was a nephew of Nathan Jewett. His wife's maiden
name was Eathburn, and his children, Brainaed and Heelan. It is stUl
handed down that he came with a large covered wagon, and a team
of three yoke of oxen. A deed was given by P. CatUn for 238 acres to
Geo. Cone in 1816. This place must have had a temporary tennant
before Mr. C, for it was here in a vacant cabin, with only one small
room, that Joseph Guernsey and Justice Kent lived for six weeks in
(tn 1811) each family consisting of eight persons. Mr. C. was chosen
a supervisor in 1821, and died May 22d of same year. Buried in East
Bridgewater Cemetery — his monument being the oldest there.
Eodney Jewett, a son of Nathan, came with his father when about
15 months old. He bought this place about 1833. During his Ufe he
accumulated a large landed estate. He married [1836] Sally M., a
daughter of Feedk. and Polly ("WrrTEa) Bailey. Their children were
Mary:E. who came near losing her Ufe in childhood by a cart-wheel
passing over her — now Mrs. C. W. Blake; Nathan E.; Jane A. (Mrs.
Wood) ; Harriet E. (Mrs.> J. P. Gardner) ; Gertmde E. (Mrs. BardweU) ;
LavinaA. (Mrs. Wm. Stark); and Pred'k B. Mrs J. died Feb. 16,
1852, at the age of 37 yrs. In 1873 Mr. J.'s dwelling and bam and
other buildings were destroyed by fire. A large bam was afterward
built on the site, and his son Frederick has since built a residence on
the opposite side of the road. In 1852 Mr. J. married Sarah B., daugh
ter of Abraham and SaUy (Bird) Kennard. In the latter part of his life
he became a resident of Montrose, where his widow recently died, and
where he died Feb. 26, 1877, aged 67 yrs., 6 months. Buried in Hill
Cemetery. Johnson, Hubert M., son of John Johnson of Lathrop, married
Emma, a daughter of John C. Miller of Springville. Their children
are Ira L. and Ula. Mr. J. bought the place from G. T. Price, a former

80

HISTOEY OF BEOOKLYN.

M. E. minister here, but it had been occupied by T. M. Oakley, David
Quick, and Elijah Kent. This lot, on the Eiehard Manning wanantee,
was formerlj' a part of Putnam Catlin's land.
Eluah Kent came with his father Justice from Windsor, N. Y.,- in
1811, when about 8 j'ears old. He married Elsa Dikeman of New Mil
ford who had been a teacher in the neighborhood. Their children
were Geo. W. who went to Ohio, Ellen, and Theodocia (Mrs. Bunnell).
Mr. K. spent the larger part of his life here, but later went to live with
his daughter, Mrs. Bimnell, in Carbondale, where he died Sept. 14,
1881, a., 78 yrs., 6 m., 12 d. Mrs. K. died on the fai-m July 26, 1866,
a., 59 yrs., 6 mo., 15 da. Hill Cemetery.
Jones, John. F., Methodist clergyman, is a native of Kirkwood, N.Y.
He is a graduate of Wyoming Seminary, and entered the ministi-y in
1876. His wife's maiden name was SalUe A. Passett, of Wyoming Co.,
Pa. They have a daughter Luella M. and a son Chaiies. He occupies
the new parsonage built a few years ago. His ministerial predecessors
in the Brooklj-n charge, going back, through the time Of the old parson
age and the time when there was no parsonage and no chmrch edifice,
and meetings were held in dwelling houses and other places, — back to -
the time when there were but three Methodists in the township — Jacob
* Tewksbury and wife and Silas Lewis, in 1804 — are as follows : —

P. A. King
C. M. Surdam
Geo. T. Price
Geo. Comfort
J. H. Weston
Jonas Underwood
Philip Holbrook
C. V. Arnold
King Elwell
S. P. Brown
A. C. Sperry
J. K. Peck
J. A. Wood
J. P. Wilbur
A. H. Schoonmaker
Eosmond Ingalls
John L. Staples
S. W. Boots
Wm. Shelp
Samuel S. Barter
Ewd. W. Breckenridge
D. C. Olmstead
E. P. WiUiams

Ii. D.Tiyon
M. Eugar
N. S. DeWitt
Asa Brooks
Thos, Wilcox
John Hersey
W.H. Miller
H. Brownscomb
William Bound
George H. Blakeslee
John W. Davison
Erastus Smith
Perry G. White *
Charles Perkins
C, T. Stanley
WilUam Eeddy
Peter Wentz
Horace Agard
Alanson Benjamin
Isaac Park
Lj'man Mumford
George Evans
Charles Harris

Joseph Towner
The church records prior to 1841 are lost
Ueved to be nearly if not entirely correct.

V. M. CorayeU
Silas Comfort
Benj. ElUs
"Father" Davy
Marmaduke Pierce
George Harmon
William Brown
John KimUn
Noah-BigelowGideon Draper
Loring Grant
Benjamin Bidlack
George Lane
Dana Pox
Edward Paine
George Peck
Wyatt Chamberlin
EUjah Warren
John Hazzard
Elisha Bibbins
Christopher Pry
Eobert Burch
Morris Howe
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The following are the Presiding Elders back to 1841 : —

Thos. Hanoun
W. H. Olin
J. G. Eckman
Wm. Bixby
Ira T. WaUier

Luther Peck
D. C. Olmstead
H. Brownscomb
G. H. Blakeslee
George Landon

Zechariah Paddock
Pitch Head
D. A. Shepard
J. M. Snyder
David Holmes

Kent, diaries, a son of Justice, married first Henbietta a daughter
of Joseph Watrous of Bridgewater. Their children are Ezra A., a sol
dier, and a physician of N. Y.; Hattie E. (Mrs. Preston HoUister); and
Prank H. Mrs. K. died June 24, 1875, age, 56 yrs., 5 mo., and 9 da.
Mr. K.'s 2d wife was Sarah (BeU) Eoberts, mother of O. D. Eoberts
of Hopbottom. Mr. K.'s predecessors in the occupancy of this place (on
the John Dunlap and Susanna Woodrow warrantees) were John S,
Williams, Nelson Williams, Latham Williams, and Prince and Wm.
JPerkins who came here prior to 1809 from the Pahner place. Isaac
Williams, a mason, who married Tabitha, a sister of Latham Williams,
also Uved in a house on a small lot on this place. His ¦wife died Aug.
24, 1840, aged 62 yrs., 2 mo. Old Cemetery.
Latham 'Williams came from Groton, Ct., in 1811. His first wife was
Lucy Stanton and their children were Nelson who married Mariah
Tewsbury and died Aug. 3, 1863, age, 64 yrs.; Luke; Thankful (Mrs.
Chas. Miles) ; Amanda (Mi-s. Wm. Giles who died Dec. 8, 1864, aged
72 yrs., 6 mo., 8 days) ; and Lucy (Mrs. Henry Giles). Nelson's son,
Edgar was a soldier, wounded at Spottsylvania, and died at Freder
icksburg May 23, 1864, age, 27 years. Old Cemetery.
Mr. "W.'s second wife was the -widow of EUjah Dix of Gibson. Their
son was John S. who married Eliza Westbrook, and removed to Spring-
¦yille where he died. Mrs. W.'s daughter Lucy S. Dis married Elisha
Wn.LiAMS who came from Ct. to Brooklyn in 1811. He Uved here about
7 years, and learned the carpenter's trade of Jas. Packer whose wife
was Mr. W.'s aunt. After his marriage in 1818 he went to Harford
and soon to Gibson where he died in 1877 aged 83 yrs. His wife died
in 1876, age, 77 yrs. His son W. W. Williams was our state represen
tative in 1875-6.
Palmer Willi^vms who at one time lived in Brooklyn was a nephew
of Latham — a son of John Williams who at one time Uved on the
Austin place near Montrose.
Kent, Frank H, Uves with his father on the place above noted. He
married Emma J., a daughter of P. H. Tiffany and they have a son
Archie P.
Kent, Mrs. Elmina, daughter of E. H. Palmer, and widow of Eob't
Kent formerly of Bridgewater^ and a son of Justice Kent, O-wns the
village house formerly occupied in retrocession by S. K; Simth, P. G.
Burch, A. E. Tewksbury, J. C. Wright,, and Wm. T. 'Walker who built
it. Mrs. K. came with her father when aJittle girl in 1811. They went
into their new house before it was finished in 1812, and she remem
bers feeding the chickens through the cracks in the floor. She was the

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2d wife of Mr. K. who died here July 1, 1878 at the age of V- yrs 5
mo. 12 da., and whose iirst wife was Prudy Bailey who died Aug. IA,
1863, age, 59 yrs., 4 mo., 2 days. x lo^ic rr«
Wm. T. Walkee was a blacksmith here for a time about +b4b, ne
married Jane a daughter of Walter and Anna (Eing) A.dams. He was
from Gibson, and was a cousin of Gov. Walker of Virginia.
Kent, Mrs. Harriet, & daughter of Joseph and- DpUy (Bfenjamin)
Watrous, and widow of Ezea Stuabt Kent, resides m Brooklyn vil
lage upon the premises bought by her husband in 1848, and no-w be
longing to S. B. Eldridge. It had previously been owned by E. T. Ash
ley, Abel Hewitt, and [about 1830] by Eichaed Fostee. The house was
built by Abel Hewitt and Washington Bagley, for Mr. Poster, intend
ed as a woolen factory and carding mill but was soon cowerted into
a dwelling and occupied by Mi-. Hewitt, and afterward by Mr. Ashlej;.
John Sabin of New Milford once had a shoe shop in it. A deed was
given by Arunah Tiffany to Eiehard Poster for 80 acres in 1829. Also a
deed from Geo. M. Gere was given to E. T. Ashley and S. W.;Breed
for 3 a., 44 rds.,"west of the Weston road," May 8, 1837. Mr. p. was a
son of Justice Kent, was a teacher for two wiriters, was marnedm
1837, and began farming on the place south of his father's which he
bought in 1886, and which is stiU owned by his son WilUs. This vil
lage lot (to which additions have been made) was bought in eonnex-
with the store heretofore mentioned. The children of E. S. and Hamet
Kent were Albert W.; Mary E. deceased, 1st wife of S. B. Eldridge;
WilUs L.; and Joseph L. of Mass.=Mr. K. died suddenly Apr. 21,
1874 at the age of 61 yrs. and 10 months.
Kent, Albert W., a son of the above occupies the village house.pre-
viously owned by Lester Tewksbury, Christopher Eogers, G. 'V. Adtfms,
and by Abeam Kimber (a wagon-maker — about 1845) who built it. Mr.
Kent married Mary J. a daughter of Peedk. W. and Elizabeth (Mee-
eill) Sailey of Derry, N. H., and a granddaughter of Fredk. BailejFj,
and of Amos P. and Eebecca (Barber) Merrill, early residents of Brook
lyn. After pursuing the mercantile business for some years he turnedj
his attention to farming interests and he now owns two f arms-rone, >
the north-west part of the Jacob Tewksbury place, and the other, the
E. W. Gere place, now occupied by M. L. Lemon.*
Galen V. Adams (a son of Walter Adams) and Susan M. Gaelaot (a
daughter of Thos. Garland) his wife, Uved here a short time [I'oS-]
and remodeled tbe house and improved the grounds. Their children
were Adelaide (Mrs. Jones); Eva, died S§pt. ISjtage, 9 years; Emmett,
a E. E. engineer; and Cramer, died July 1, 184'7, a., 3 j'ears. Grace
Jones died July 81, 1883. Mr. A. died in 1880, a., 59 yrs. and Mrs. A.
in 1867, aged 46 years. In New Cemetery.
Kent, Willis L., a son of E. S. Kent, married Emily VanDerKar
(a sister of Mrs. L. P. Porter) of Orleans Co., N.Y. They have a
daughter Edith V. Mr. K. is now Uving with his mother at the village,
but he owns and operates the east and homestead part of the old farm
of his father, the west part of the land having been sold to Frederick
¦^ Mr. K. was chosen a Justice of the Ppncp in iRRn -w..., ir • j. .
t 1857i

homesteads and people. 83
Hohn. Mrs. Kent's aunt, Eebecca VanDerKar, lived -with her for some
years, and died Feb. 28, 1880, age, 84 years.
This place has recently been occupied by Edward Grannis who
married Sarah Inch, and who is a son of Lyman Grannis, and by Nel
son E. Packard and wife, Martha E. Eichards, Mr. P. being a son of
Arj' T. Packard. And it is now [1889] worked by Jas. Mead. Before
E. S. Kent owned the place, it was o-wned by Ann, -widow of John
Whalley, and the east part of it by Wm. Wilson, an EngUshman, who
manied a daughter of Ann, and a sister of Jas. Whalley. Mr. Wilson
died in the house then on the east part of the place (off the road)
about 1833. The whole was formerly a part of Putnam Catlin's estate,
on the Ann Manning and Wm. Shaw wanantees. In 1831 a deed was
given from P. Catlin to Jas. "Whalley for 300 acres.
Kent, Rodney W., a son of Eob't and Prudence (Bailey) Kent, and
a brother of Mrs. I. N. Palmer (now Mrs. Brush), married Eugenia
C. Thomas of Dimock. They have a child, Fredk. T. Previous occu
pants of his farm (going back) were Smith S. Sterling, Jas. W. Ster
ling, and Jas. Steeling. S. S. Sterling manied Mary Hibbard, who,
after the death of Mr. S. Oct. 23, 1875, at the age of 41 yrs., married
John Tewksbury of Auburn.
King, Frank A.,& son of John D. a;nd Harriet (VanDerKar) King,
from N. Y., has a sister Emma who, with her father and mother, lived
for a time in the township. He manied Margie A., a daugMer of Ary
T. and Susan (Lily) Packard, also former residents. Their children
are Lee O., and Helen J., Ernest E., and Agnes M., deed. This part
of the place on which the old residence is situated is now owned
by Lewis Hearn, but it, in connection with the part owned by A. W.
Kent, together with the creamery lot, and the south-west part of N.
C. Benjamin's lot, was first taken by Egbert Cash who built on it a
log caibin near the present house. The lot was afterward occupied by
Jacob Tewksbury, John Eobinson, Geo. W. Sterling, and L. F. Porter.
The present house was built by Mr. Tewksbm-y 1818-19.
John Eobinson came prior to 1840. His 1st wife's name was HoUen-
back (not here) and their daughter Caroline married Wm. Penn Ster
ling. His 2d wife was Oijve, a daughter of Samuel and Nancy (Jones)
HowAED. Then- children were Chas.; Mary, died at 8 yrs^; Lovina, died
at 6 JTS.; Olive; Nancy; Marj' Lovina; and John Hersey a deceased
soldier. Mr. E. died here Sept. 22, and 1848, a., 52 y. Mary and Lovina
were also buried in the Old Cemeterj'. In 1851 Mrs. E. manied "Walker
Barlow, and she is living with their son H. W. Barlow, in Conklin,
N. Y. Her mother was a daughter of John Jones, one of the Nicholson
colonists who came here in 1790, and her father was from Noi-wich,
Ct. in 1800. She was born (on the N. E. Mack place) Apr. 12, 1807.
Jacob Tewksbury came to this farm in 1807 or 8, from the first place
he occupied on the Ashley knoll, in 1800. He resided here till near
the time of his death in 1842, but spent a few years of the latter part
of his life with one of his daughters in Gibson. He occupied the
Carr cabin for a time at first, and Molly Maglothlan who Uved in
his family died here in 1810. Seyeral of his children were born here.

84 history of BEOOKLYN.
Methodist meetmgs were held here for two or three years. The old
road ran south of the house and north of the spring, and so on west
straight up the Bissell hill.
Wm. White was a Union soldier in the EebelUon. He was an En
glishman, and came here soon after the war, building a shanty near
J. O. Bullard's barn, where he lived alone. He afterward moved his
hut to the side of the creek on this Tewksbury place, and it now
stands just west of the old house. Mr. W. after some j'ears returned
to England and died. Mr. Bullard owned a portion of this old place
for a number of years and sold it to Mr. Hearn. WilUam Mead aud
others have occupied it temporarily.
Kinney, David I., manied Lydia L. Wiuterstein. Their cliildren are
Sarah (Mrs. Elmer Tiffany), and AmeUa L. (Mrs. J. P. Doran). He ii
on the farm formerly owned by Jacob DuBois (from near N. Y. city),
and before that by Wm. S. Maiyott or "Menitt" as often ¦\viitten and
spoken. It is on the David Torbit wanantee.
"Wm. S. Maeyott came about 1812. His wife's name was Eebecca
Lampher. Their children were Wm. Champlin who died June 4, 1828,
aged 17 yrs. ; Ichabod ; Eebecca (Mrs. Hiram Eockwell) ; Stephen ;
David ; Mary (Mrs. Marcus Hinkley) ; Sarah A.; EUsha ; Charles ;
Anson; Preston; and Haniet A. Mi-. M. seems to have been related
to Wm. S. ChampUn. He died Sept. 27, 1852, aged 69 yrs., 5 mo., 11
days, and Mrs. M., June 12, 1851, aged 67. Hiram Eockwell died May,
1888, and his daughter EUzabeth S., July 7, 1851, age, 20 years. Old
Cemetery. Lathrop, Chas. J., from Dimock, is a son of Jas. and Lydia L. (Btr-
chard) Lathrop, and a grandson of Asa and Alice (Fox) Lathrop who
came from Connecticut in 1800 and settled near Elk Lake. He mar
ried Lura E. Lathrop and their children are Ella F. and Mary T. —
Mrs. Eugene D. Snyder. In 1854 Mr. L. was a member of the Penn.
legislature for the district composed of Susquehanna, Wyoming, and
SuUivan counties. The place he owns on the David Torbit warrantee
he bought of J. T. VanAuken in 1868, and it was formerly occupied
by Amos VanAuken, who built a house upon it, since incorporated
into the present one Ijy Mr. Latln-op.
Amos VanAuken came from N. J. about 1829. He was a son of Isaac
and Elizabeth (Cortright) VanAuken who came at same time. His
wife was Susan W. Havens. Their children were Isaac, Eleanor (Mrs.
Geo. 'W. Ely), Daniel G., John a deceased soldier, Giles, Mai-y J. deed.
(first wife of Geo. I. Giles), and Darius who died Aug. 25, 1844, aged
9 years. Mr. V. removed to Eush where he died Mar. 3, 1882, aged
74 JTS.,: 9 mo., 12 da., llrs. V. died Jan. 25, 1848, age, 42. Old Cem.
He married,; a 2d wife, still Uving.
Lathrop, Edward J., from Dimock, was a Union soldier for 4 jts. in
the Army of the Potomac; was at Gettj'sbui-g and Appomattox; was
wounded, and a prisoner at Eichmond. He came near losing an arm,
the Confederate sui-geons having decided to amputate it, but Mr. L.
successfully resisted their determination. He married Juliette M.

homesteads and people. 85
Smith of Springville and their children are Anna L., and Lura E.
His predecessors on the place were John F. Gaeeison, Elias Sweet, Fran
cis Tingley, and it was for a long time owned by Elkanah Tingley
(who did not live on it) and before that by Sami,. "Yeomans, in connec
tion with the B. L. Woodward lot. It is on the Leonard Woodrow
warrantee. Lee, John C, a son of Simon and Mary (Clements) Lee of Waj'ne
Co., married Louesa J., a daughter of Thos. Garland. Their chil(h-en
ai-e Marj' H., Eva J., Hattie D., Edward G., Willis T., and Alice L.
He ovsns the old farm (on the Saml. Jackson and Chas. Lear warran
tees) first chiefly cleared, and for many years occupied by David Mor
gan, jbhough a Me. Wood made a beginning before. A stone-quany
has been opened on the hill. The farm originally extended from east
of the Hopbottom nearly to the North Pond.
David Morgan came on foot from Kent, Litchfield Co., Ct., by way
of Long Island, in 1810. His first wife was Nancy KiNGSLEr a sister
of John Kingslej' of Harford. She died 5 or 6 years after, Apr. 20,
1817, at the age of 29 years. Mr. M.'s sister EUza or Elizabeth lived
with him for a time after. She was a member of the Congregational-
ist church in 1818. He afterward married Esther a daughter of Thos.
and Marj' (Marsh) Brink, of Wyalusing, Bradford Co. Their children
were Nancy M. (widow of Moses LaGrange, of Union, N. Y.) ; Sarah
(Mrs. J. L. Mersereau, of Binghamton); Thos. (of Dixon, EL); James,
deceased (of Cedar Eapids, la.); Mallory, also of Iowa; Ellen (Mrs. C.
E. Bailej') : Mai'y who died July 14, 1832, age, 11 yrs.; Mary E., widow
of A. J. Gerritson of Montrose; Addison of Scranton; Martha, deed.,
(Mrs. L. T. Birchard) ; and Wm. Jay who died Mar. 2, 1857, age, IC
vrs. and 5 months. Capt. M. was skilled in the manufacture of brick.
He made a kiln on his o-wn land just north of the Hopbottom bridge,,
and on other lands. Asa Tewksbury helped him at this work when
IVIr. M.'s oldest daughter was a Uttle child, and Mr. T. took great de
light in putting the imprint of her bare foot on the undried brick.
Mr. M. was a constable in 1820. He died Dec. 19, 1866, aged 82 jts.,
and Mrs. M. died Nov. 29, 1872, in her 79th year. Mrs. M. was much
interested in missionary work and would have rejoiced had she kno-wn
that her granddaughter Hattie LaGrange, now in Syria, would enter
that field.
Lee, Edward G., owns a portion of his father's place and has built a
bouse upon it. He man-ied Fanny, a daughter of J. M. Newton.
Lemon, Martin L., from Auburn, and wife Laura Thomas of Spring
ville^ with children, Minnie and Clarence E., occupy the farm, on the
Eichai-d and Ann Manning waiTantees, now o-wned by A. W. Kent;
and previously occupied by Jas. G. Packer, E. W. Gere^ Augustus Con
verse, Geo. 'W'estbrook, Joseph Edmonds, Hosea Eeynolds, and Moses
Smtth, and, as is said, by Denison of 1787.
Jas. Geandison Packee, a son of Jas. Packer, lived here after E. W.
Gere. He married Arzelia, a daughter of Amos Smith. Their children
were Edson P., Mel-rin deed., George, Wm. deed., Emer (Mrs. E. E.

86 mSTORY OF BEOOKLYN.
McKinney), Chas., Monis deed., and Delia, died Apr. 15, 1867, a., 9
JTS., Imo., 9 days. After the death of his wife, Mr. P. marned Lomse
(Babcock) widow of J. W. Spencer. .
Augustus Converse came in 1817, not at first to this place. His wite
was Se3Yl Smith, and children, Davis G., Pamela (Mrs. J. E. Howe),
Mary A. (Mrs. E. W. Gere), Augustus, Jr., Sophronia, Esther Jane
(Mrs. Terry), Erastus B., Isaiah C, and Jas. A. Mr. C. was from
Windham Co., Ct., and resided in the township about 18 years.
Geoege Westbrook and Eleanor his wife had children, Cornelius,
Daniel, Samuel, Benjamin, Joanna (Mrs. Moody), Lydia (Mrs. Hawley
and Mrs. A. Saunders), Eliza (Mrs. J. S. WilUams), Mai-garet (Mrs
Nichols), and Jane (Mrs.. J.- Watterman). Mr. W. seems to have lived
here about 1831 and to have died here in 1832. Patty Eeynolds was
the wife of Joseph Edmonds. He was here from 1821 to '27 and prob
ably longer.
Lindsey, Benjamin,^ son of Amherst, Sr., and Betsey' (Eastman)
Lindsey from Vt., married Luray E., a daughter of John and Eachel
(Eeynolds) Goss. He owns the farm on the James Torbit wanantee
formerly occupied by Mes. Charlton (widow of Wm. Chaelton who
died Oct. 10, 1846, a., 39), G. B. Eogers and Hiram Ely. His chil
dren are Orrin, Fredk. L. a soldier, Eachel (Mrs. C. C. Bm-ch), Angel
ine, Simeon, Mordena (Mrs. Nutt), EUza (Mrs. A. J. Green), Eiley,
NelUe (Mrs. Bell, and now Mrs. Frank MeniU), and Eansford W. who
died Mar. 20, 1872, age, 20 years. ¦
Lindsey, Riley, living with his father, Benjamin, married Euie D., a
daughter of Alonzo Bell, and has a son Ernest W. Mrs. L. died Dec.
31, 1888. New Cemetery.
Lines, Lewis N., was from FrankUn. He spent some time west
where he enUsted as a Union soldier. He manied Wealthy E., a
daughter of Erastus Caswell. They have childi-en Minnie G. (Mrs. A.
E. Mack), AUce C, and SteUa H. Mrs. L.'s sister Mary L. CasweU also
lives in tlie family, as did her brother James who died June 9, 1889.
The place they occupy, now o-wned by Frank H. Kent, was previously
the property of Lucius Eobinson, and before that, of Eowland Miles
who built the house about 1825.
Before this two small houses had been built on this place, east of
this present one (probably by Edward Paine, 1813 or '14) as append
ages to the Cotton Factory, which with an other accompanying house
stood on the south side of the road on the Giddings lot, though then
a part of the "Factory" lot of some 18 acres on both sides of the road.
Many persons Uved ija these factory houses. Among them were Eob't
Eand, blacksmitli, Nathan Thayer, Thaddeus Palmer, Caleb Crandall
(kept boarding fojr factory hands), Patrick Nugen (dressed skins and
made mittens), and Abel Hawlej', a shoemaker Uved in one and died
there. The assessment record shows that Eowland and Parker Miles
had a distillery in fall of 1825. Like its predecessor it was soon aban
doned, and does not appear in fall of '2 7. It -was run in one of these
houses.

homesteads and people. 87
Lucius Eobinson appears on the tax Ust, as clothier, in 1826, but on
the Presbyterian church roll in 1819. He came from "Wyalusing. He
had charge of the wool-carding and cloth-dressing establishment into
which the cotton f actorj' was converted. He had lost a foot by acci
dent. His 1st wife was Judith Dalton, and their children were Matilda,
Betsey, Lucy, Nancy, Luciiis, Jr., Hannah, aud Sarah. Mrs. E. died
Apr. 15, 1858, age, 65 years. Mr. E. was chosen a ruUng elder in his
church in 1826. He manied for his second wife Mary (Hall) widow
of Jacob Worthing of Bradford Co., though former residents of
Brooklyn. Mr. E. died Aug. 25, 1874 at the age of 77 years. A new
house was afterward built upon the place which Mrs. E. occupied till
ter death Oct. 24, 1884, aged 79, and which is now occupied by her
daughter Lydia E. Worthing. Mr. Eobinson's father, Newell, Uved
with him for a little while and died May 27, 1845, aged 79 yrs. Old
Pemetery. Loomis, Mr?. Mary A., widow of E. N. lioomis, Eclectic physician
pf Harford, and formerly widow of Wm. McMillan of Bridgewater, is
a sister of J. C. Lee, and o-wns the house and lot previously occupied
)3y B. G. Chase, and previously "by Isaac Tewksbury, a cooper, who
]3uilt the residence. Her children are Milton and Hattie McMillan.
Benjamin Geant Chase, from Bridgewater, died Mar. 26, 1884, age,
83 yrs., and Maey his wife died Mar., 1873, age, 72. Old Cemetery.
Isaac Tewksbury, a son pf Ephraim and Ehoda (Perry) Tewksbury.
married Abby Squieb and came here about 185 -. The children were
Harriet (Blrs. Daniel Miles) died June 29, 1847, a., 29 yrs.; Edmond;
Curtis,; Ehoda (Mrs. Geo. Whitney) ; Eufus, died Mar, 13, 1879, aged
52 yrs.; Ephraim S.; Lyman K.; and Permelia. Mr. T. died Jan. 28,
'j875, age, 79 yrs., 10 jno., and Mrs. T. Apr. 6, 1866, age, 68. Buried
in Old Cemetery.
Mr. T.'s father was a son of Isaac and Judith Tewksbury, came
from Vt. a^out 1815, and settled on the place formerly owned by D.
jjrardner Smith, and now by John Lean and son, in what is now La^
throp, where he died May 8, 1829, a., 60 yrs., 3 mo. His wife died
Nov. 12, 1846, a., 75 yrs., 6 mo, (Old Cemetery.) Their children were
Thos., Isaac, Asa, Ephraim, Jr., Ehoda (Mrs. Asa Crandall), Peny,
and Huldah (Mrs. David Wilmarth),
Ij)rimer, John, from Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland, lives on the
farm (on the Eobt. Lyon warrantee) now owned by the E. P. Breed
estate, but heretofore occupied by E. iP. Bailey, S. K. Smith, Isaac
Smith, David Smith, and probably by others. It was also at one time
held by Col. Parke. Mr. Lorimer married Jenet Wilson and -their
children are Mary L., Geo. A., Alfred J., Wm. H., Kate E., Agnes,
and Jennie. ¦'
Samuel K. Smith, a son of Isaac Smith, came here with his father,
when about a year old, and lived upon the place till some years after
his father's death. He married Laura Newton, deceased, and had a
son, Elhanan W. who became a lawyer and went west. Mr. S. had an
ashery below the big spring on this place for sorne years.
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88 mSTOEY OF BEOOKLYN.
Gale's Ferry, Groton, Ct., in 1812, partly prepared a log cabin by
the spring, and returned, bringing his family the next j'ear, Uving
for a time in Col. Bailey's log house, till his own was completed. His
wife was Sally Eldridge, a sister of Eobert Eldridge, and their chil
dren were David G., Betsey (Mrs. Daniel Torry), Giles C, Mynette
(Mrs. Jed. Nickerson), Hallam E., Samuel K., Mary (Mrs. Whipple),
and Sophia B. (Mrs. Edwd. P. Garland). Mr. S. lived tiU about 1825
in the cabin by the spring, after which his son Gardner lived in it for
a time, and it was afterward removed, (the Ught peeled logs being
marked and carried separately) and put up where Prince Johnson's
had been bumed. Mr. S. died Nov. 21, 1861, a-, 86 yrs., 8 m., 24 da.,
and Mrs. S., June 14, 1874, a., 92 yrs., 7 mo.
David Smith, a distant relative of Isaac, from Waterford, Ct., mar
ried (1807) Amy Comstock of Montville, and came to Gibson in 1813,
and to Brooklj'n in 1818, first living back of Latham Smith's, but
building a pai-t of the first framed house on this place in 1822, which
he sold to Isaac Smith about 1825, arid which the latter enlarged, and
occupied the rest of his life. David's children were Burgess, now liv
ing in CUfford; John E., in Lenox; and Mary, Clarissa, and Harriet.
He died in CUfford aged 76 yrs. in 1860, -and she in 1869, aged 94 y.
A deed was given from Thos. Parke to Jas. Smith [Isaac's father] for
70 acres in 1812. ' '
A Mr. Webber was a near neighbor of Peleg Tracy in 1799. 'When
Mr. Smith's folks came, there were the remains of a structure partly
dug in the bank, south-westerly from the Smith frame house. It seems
likely that Webber may have Uved here.
Eobert Patterson came to what is now Brooklyn in 1787, and died
here. On this place, north-easterly from the house there are two
graves. Olive Howard (now Mrs. Barlow) remembers seeing them as
she was passing to and from school and remembers they were called
the Patterson graves. One was full length and the other shorter.
Some distance northerly from the place of the Smith cabin there were
for many years the remains of a chimney and foundation of a house.
Did Eobert Patterson sit by the fire of this chimney? Half a century
or more after it was made a medical student temporarily living on the
place opened the larger of these graves in pursuit of anatomical inves
tigations. The cheny wood of which the box was made was said to
have been found entirely rotted away, while the pine bottom was well
preserved. But the bones were so crumbled and decayed as to afford
no scientific aid. All was replaced as before.
On this place, in early times, there was a frame school-house, on the
old road, west of the Isaac Smith log hou§e, the remains of chimney
being stiU to be seen. This old road at that day came from south of
the Jackson Tingley place in Harford, straight down Martin creek
hill to the Whitney place (C. S. Perkins) and then straight up the hill
(they could not go sidewise without making a road) near the old pio
neer house by the old barn on the Col. Bailey place, and so on south
of the other pioneer site and north of the present residence of H. L.
Bailey and just north of the Stephen Breed house, and down the hill

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89

passing just between the Isaac Smith cabin and spring on the north
and the Adam Miller cabin and spring on the south, on by the south
side of the school-house and across Dry Creek and up a Uttle north of
the Wm. Harkins cabin and spring (on the H. W. Kent place) and so
on west to strike the present Chas. Kent road, which it foUowed down
to the old factory and grist-mill. The old track of this road may still
be seen in several places.
The school-house seems to have been built in the summer of 1813,
after Col. Bailey's school in his own house, the winter before, and in
time for the next winter. It was soon burned but rebuilt. The fol
lowing is the Ust of teachers as near as can be determined :

Cyril Giddings, 1813-14;
James Deans, 1815-16 ;
Euth Cone, 1816 (sum.);
Isaac Bailey, 1816-17 ;
Sarah Kingsbury, 1817 (sum.) ;
WilUston Kingsbury, 1817-18;
Sarah Kingsbury, 1818 (sum.) ;
Danl. C. Thatcher, 1818-19;
Sarah D. Gere, 1819 (sum.);
Jonathan H. Merrill, 1819-20;

Benj. Parke, 1820-21;
Sarah C. Parke, 1821 (sum.);
Gilbert Forsyth, 1821-22;
Asa Crandall, 1822-23;
Asa Crandall, 1823-24;
Nelson Doolittle, 1824-25;
Eunice G. Bailey, 1825 (sum.) ;
A. G. Bailey, 1825-26;
Henry Parke, 1827-28;
Jas. W. Chapman, 1828-29.

And also the following, and doubtless others:

Alsiemena Case ;
EUza Milboum ;

Eliza Ann Parke -
(afterward Mrs. Strickland).

S. K. Smith remembers going to school to Asa Crandall, when he
was some 10 years old, part of the time bare-foot in the -winter, and
the next summer he went to weed onions for Mr. C. at the Caswell
house to pay school bill. "When A. G. Bailey taught, at recess one
day the boys saw a deer and Fred'k Bailey ran to Mr. Smith's and
got a gun and shot it. The excitement was so great that the teacher
dismissed the school.
In referring to the meager advantages, and the obstacles to be over
come, tn obtaining an education 75 years ago, Miss Eunice G. Bailey
says: —
"My first lessons were learned at home, my mother teaching spelUng
and reading, and my father, writing, by firelight, on a slate of soft
stone found near the Oakley saw-mill. I began going to school with
my sister and brother older, when I was about 6 years old, in 1814,
and stopped in 1824. We went through lots and woods, by a foot
path, crossing the creek on a log. The school-room was about 18 by
20 ft., furnished with benches made of slabs with holes bored througii
and legs of wood which would push up, or fall out and upset the seat.
The writing-desks were made of boards the length of the room, imt
up slanting, one edge fastened to the wall, the other serving to lean
ao-ainst when facing the room. When writing we turned our faces
the other way. As aU did not write at the same time, this caused com
plaints, such as, 'school-master, somebody joggles this bench!'"

90 HISTORY OF BEOOKLYN.
"It was not thought necessary for girls to study arithmetic, except
ing the older ones at the winter schools. My brothers Amos and Obor
diah used a Daboll's arithmetic which my father had when he went to
school, and which I studied a part of my last term. It is stUl m the
family." i j! ii '
"Sewing and knitting were considered necessary branches for tne
summer schools. GMs 4 or 5 jts. old took patch-work for the teacher
to cut, and baste, to teach over-hand sewing. Older ones learned to run,
hem, stitch, gather, and work button-holes, &c., making garments for
the familj'."
"Children did not go to school then as steadily as now. I think I
never averaged more than ^ of a term. Those old enough to work were
often needed at home. Girls began to spin at the age of 7 or 8 j'ears.
The day I was 10 years old, I spun 10 knots, and then went visiting.
Some were not able to walk from one mile to three as the roads were,
and only low shoes for winter. I knew several f amiUes who could not
pay school-biU, and fm-nish clothing, books, and dinners for then:
children." Mack, Nehemiah R., a son of Elijah B. Mack, married Dlujama
Hewitt of Dimock. Their children are Martha (manied J. H. EUis, a
soldier) went west; and Latham H. He owns the homestead part of
the place owned by his father, on the Leonard Woodrow wanantee,
upon which Saml. Howard made the first clearing about 1801. He also
owns on the east what is known as "the Bibbins lot," also occupied
by Aaron Saunders and others. Mrs. Mack was killed by the cars on
the E. E. track, Sept. 24, 1888, age, 68 yrs.
Elijah B. Mack, originally, from Ct., came from Vt. in 1809 and
bought this place, his family coming in 1810. His -wife's name was
Elizabeth Eioe, and their children, Josiah (married Almira Kent and
went west) ; Betsey (Mrs. Joseph Lines) ; Jemima (Mrs. Elisha La
throp— died Mar. 31 1863, age, 58 years); Elijah B., Jr.; Polly (Mrs.
McKinney); Sarah; Edward; Nehemiah E.; Eliza (Mrs. Frank Blakes
lee); and Amanda who died July 9, 1861 in her 41st j-r. Mr. M. died
Dec. 22, 1861, age, 89 yrs., and Mrs. M., Nov. 10, 1856, age, 79 yrs.
Mr. Mack's father was Josiah Mack and his mother, Betsey Bennet,
of Lyme, Ct. They did not come here to live, but nearlj' all their chil
dren did, and Betsey, the mother, died here Mar. 16, 1825, aged 81
years. Their children were Elisha ; Enoch ; John (not here) ; Nancy
(Mrs. Noah Pratt, lived on the Lorenzo Sweet place in Lathrop ; Fanuj'
(]\Irs. Elihu Smith, Uved on the place recently owned by their son,
G. N. Smith, in Lathrop); and Polly, manied Josiah Lord, Sr., who
died Dec. 7, 1845, a., 78, his wife having died Jmie 29, 1838, a., 67 v.,
4 mo. — Uved where their grandson John Lord now lives. Old Cem.
The story is told that EUjah Mfick, some time after he came here,
set out a pine tree near his house by the road, and said he would not
care to live longer than till the tree should grow so as to afford luml>er
¦wide enough to make his coffin. The tree is still growing, and at the
time of his death much exceeded the specified dimensions. Others have
been surprised at the rapid growth of pmes planted in suitable soil.

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Mr. iKjack was the oldest of 18 old men of Brooklyn who in the fall
of 1860, at the October election, voted together, in succession, for
Andrew G. Curtin, "the war governor of Pa." The following is the
Ust, -with the age of each at that time:

Elijah B. Mack-88,-,
Isaac Smith-85,
Amos Bailey-S4,
Esek H. Palmer-83,
Eobert Eldridge-80,
EUsha Safford-79,

Pelatiah Tiffariy-76,
Jacob Wilson-76,
Silas P. Ely-76,
David Morgan-76,
Charles Perigo-76,
Joseph Quick-75,

Lodowick Bailey-74,
Joseph Yeomans-74,
Erastus CasweU-73,
NathanT Eeynolds-71,
Lebbeus Eogers-69,
James W. SterUng-69.

Before the agitation of the slavery question "the township had a
Democratic majority, but turned largely EepubUcan.'
On closer search of records, it appears that "the Bibbins lot" now
owned by N. E. Mack was not a part of the first Mott Wilkinson lot
as stated on p. 62. Mr. W.'s 50 acres adjoined the Jesse Bagley lot
and the Samuel Howard lot (Mack's). But it must have lain south of
the Bagley lot, east of the 1st Samuel Yeomans lot, and west of the
Howard lot. So Jesse Bagley must have held at different times three
lots (beside the hotel) one of them being at least a part of the Joseph
Yeomans lot. This Wilkinsop lot must have gone to Elkanah Tingley
and after to B. Woodward and E. J; Lathrop.
But the Bibbins lot, bordering the west side of the old road, seems
to have been first taken and occupied by Elisha Bibbins, the first res
ident Methodist minister, about 1812. His wife was Axice Lathrop,
(then pronounced Lotrop) a sister of Mrs. Edwd Paine. The remains
of chimney and foundation of cabin are still to be seen, and the old
weU still exists. The place was afterward occupied by Aaron Saun
ders, and it is said also by Isaiah Hawley and Caleb Crandall.
Aaron Saunders, a son of Joshua, came to Brooklyn in 1801. He
married Polly a daughter of Caijib Crandall. Their children were
Joseph, of Hopbottom; Eleanor — Mrs. Chauncy Scott; Lyman, of
Lathrop; Warren, deceased; Lurana — Mrs. H. M. WilUams; Benjamin,
a soldier at 2d Bull Eun and a prisoner; Harriet — Mrs. A. J. Cham
berlin; Martin; James, a soldier at 2d Bull Eun, South Mountain and
Antietam; Lucy — Mrs. Stanton; and Sarah, deed. He spent much of
his Ufe in Lathrop, on the John Ainey place, and by the pond where
his son Lyman lives. His wife died Feb. 20, 1850, age, 45. He after
ward mai-ried widow Lydia (Westbrook) Hawley. He died about 1862.
When Samuel Ho-wardffrst began clearing where the N. E. Mack
house now is he boarded with Andrew Tracj'. He soon after married
Nancy Jones (whose father was well educated for that time) and she
had a school in the first log house built on the place. The scholars
were Polly and Ezekiel Sabin, Polly and Daniel GUes, and Sally
Tracy. The children boarded with the teacher. This was about 1803
or 4. Sally (Mrs. .Hayden). stiU remembers some extras in , the regu
lar course of instructioii. One day she was sent to feed the dinner
corn-cobs to the pigs. The plate was heavy, the fence higb, and the
crirl small. She fed them platter and all. After school one night, she

92 ¦ history of BEOOKLYN.
was homesick, and went home- on her own motion. She was ashamed
to go in but sat down on the step tiU she -was seen^nd welcomed. But
next morning she had to go back as she came. :^t>as, p, woodsy road
then. . ¦".¦-"''-!¦ -.-_;;" '"'¦ J., ,,,
Mack, Latham H, a son of N. R-MSek, marrieOrrLizzie Moore, of
Dimock. Theu- children are Latham N. andB€frtie;.a;jid hers.ijy for
mer marriage are JohnM. and Eva, Mr. M. Jias bought the west part
of the old place and .built a residence on it. '^,j '' . ,^
Mack', Mrs. Mary, formerly Mary Eoseo^ is now the widow "of M.
L. Mack, aind resides on the place he occupied which was a.j)art of
the farm: of his father Elisha. "(' ', s -, v« ¦ ., . ar.
Marvin L. Mack came -nith his parents fromCt. i%J.811. Heggcame
a carpenter and cabinet-maker, and was at one time, ar.justi^^j of the
peace. He manied Emeline a daugliter ol Esek p. Palmer q,il^ their
children were Edwin P.; Jas. W., of Orieans Oo.^JiT. Y.;.Geoy0 C, a
soldier, ;df Lathrop; Ledyard P., also a soldier -if-ehar les ]yi,/o'|Nich-
olson; Horace G.; and Ellen G. -(^liOidied Oct. 1, 1864^ in her l|th yr.
He was bom May 20,il803, and: died ;.lpv 9, 1884, and his wife Eme-
Une was born Nov. 24, 180.5, a^d'di#d:Nov,;15, 1866. ^ ^^^
Mack, EdwinlP.., :.st%a^.xii''^i^m., married Sarah; a dauj^ter of
Ardrew C'tod Lydi^uiigi. Theijf'ehildi-en are Arthur L. andiiVndrew
G. Mr. M. and soris own an'd operate a large steani saw and planiog mill
and furriiture est'a'blis£inent.;'This -was bui-ned"some years ago and
rebuilt. He occijpies a small portion of th'e Elisha Mack" place, inclu
ding the site of the old saw-mill -of \on^-%go, -Which Was run by water
from Horton creek. , ' ,' ..'?:¦- v '' ' ,
Mack, Arthur Z.ya son of, abo^^ married M^y,a darf^'hter df Wm.
L. and EUza Peny, and qcpgpies ope of -the dweJ^gS ddj,acent to the
Mack, Albert A, adapted son of.SJUsha Mack^-;Jr., and son of Jere
miah Ely and Henrietta a daughter ofiEUsha MS^ck, Jr., occupies the
place 'form€rl;^wmed by his grandfather Mack, on the Susanna Lea
wanantee. 'fieiis a-grandson of Gus^bs- EEYjcaad married Mij^nie G.,
daughter of Lewis^N. and Wealth-v LineH? TT " :r.if , "
Elisha Mack, Jr., from Lyme, Ct., in -1811 a son of EUst^,-,^., mar
ried Lois Eobinson. Their children -Were Maiy; Lj'dia (fir-st^-wife of
Chas. E. Crandall, died Apr. 22, 1851,* age, 24 yrs.); Henrietta; and
Albert who died Oct. 29, 1843, age, 18Gyea,rs. Mr. M. died-^june 24,
^872, a., 72 yrs.,-2 mo., 6 da.; and Mrs. Ml^vsoirie lO.years aftpr. His
plaice seeriis first to-have been occupied ('inLBoml^Xion with tUg Eoper
place) ,-by Oliver TuSbs, as early 'as 1815Katfdsfif(jre, to whom it was
¦^.assessed, and who is i-femembered to have li^gcba^oai ttio?^. some j'ears.
A deed was given from J. B. Wallace "to fDMe!B.d!Eub;bs for 64^ acres
in September 1815.
McCoy, Henry, from Lathrop, married Emma a daughter of Ezra
S. and Eebecca (Jackson) Brown. Their children are Carrie E., La-
vira E., and Eose L. He owns the north part of the Orlando Bagley

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lot on the Susanna Lear warrant, the south part having been before
sold to Sam'l Westbrook. He also o-wns the Jesse Bagley lot adjoining
on the north, and a part of the Tubbs lot, north-east, on the Susan
na Woodrow warrant. His predecessors in the occupancy of the resi
dence were H. E. Kittle, Jas. G. Packer, Ebenezer Gere ; and Orlando
Bagley in the cabin that stood near the present house.
Ebenezer Gere had spent one summer in the township in 1801, but
came with his family to this place in 1822. He was a plane-stock-
maker, and was appointed a justice of the peace. His wife was Pedy
Elleey Morgan, a sistei: of the 2d wife of Col. Bailey. Their children
were Lucy L. (Mrs. E. O. Miles) ; Christopher M. (elected sheriff and
removed to Montrose) ; and Pedy Emily (Mrs. G. 'W. Palmer). Mr. G.
died (at the Eandall house) Dec. 2, 1845, age, 66 yrs., 9 mo.; Mrs. G.
died (with her daughter Emily) Aug. 10, 1881, age, 98 j'rs., 4 mo., 15
days. HiU Cemetery.
Oelando Bagley and Dolly (or Doecas) Taylor, his wife, came from
Hartland, Windsor Co., Vt., in early spring of 1804. Their children
were Jesse, Stephen, Thomas, George, Washington, Dorcas (seems to
have died in youth), Dolly (or Dorothy) Mrs. B. S. Saunders, and
Sally, Mrs. Liike WilUams. J. B. Wallace gave a deed for 51 acres
to Orlando Baglej', Nov. 10, 1807, and Orlando and Dorcas B. gave a
deed for the same to Ebenezer Gere of Preston, New London Co., Ct.,
Oct. 7, 1817. In the fall of 1817 the family removed to Ohio, but Jesse,
Thos., Geo., Washington, Dolly, and Sally retumed some 7 or 8 yrs.
after. Thos. married Abiah Lane and went to Springville.
The Jesse Bagley part of this place was occupied by several persons
after he left it. Dr. Bissell was on it in fall of 1817. Eiehard WilUams
is assessed with it from 1818 to '23, his son EUsha being born there
in the latter year; and others Uved there. Little remains of the appur
tenances of the old homestead except the ojd orchard, the rest having
been cleared away to cultivate the giound. While Orlando Bagley
lived here a road was opened (doubtless by common consent and help
of the inhabitants) from his house through to the north by the Jesse
Bagley place and the Bibbins place (perhaps before the Bibbins house
was built) and so on near the Lathrop place to what is now the village.
This road, well worn, may still be seen in the little piece of woods
through which it passes, and at other points. A little east of this road
on the Yeomans -Eldridge land then first belonging to Varnam Saun
ders, Camp-meetings were held, one as early as 1812, and one as late
as Sept., 1828. The open place can still be pointed out in the old su
gar eamp.
McKeeby, Lodowick, a son of Jasper and Hannah (Bailey) McKeeby
of Dimock, married Mary E. Hover, and their children are Euth A,
and 'Wesley J. His predecessors on this place are Don McKeeby, his
brother, Albert Allen, Felix T. Safford, and EUsha Safford. The farm
is on the Joseph Torbit warrantee. [Mr. M. has just removed to his
farm in Dimock and his brother Don has retumed to this place.]
EiJSHA Safford, bom in Mass., came from Lisbon, New London Co.,
Ct. in 1810 and began on this place, bringing his family in 1811. He

94 • history of BROOKLYN.
built a log house, and about 1830, the present dwelling. EUza Mil
bourn taught a school, in the barn part of the time and rest in cabin,
about 1821. Mr. S. "married OLrra Tracy. Their children were Felix ;
Verie Ann, an early teacher, died July 22, .1867, age, 59 yrs., 8 mo.;
Levi N.; Susan, Mrs. B. W. VanAuken; John D., Methodist clergy
man, died Oct. 11, 1852, age, 35 yrs.; Laban L.; Jedediah, a soldier;
Elisha L.; Martha S., died July 2, 1859, age, 31 yrs.; and Esther M.^
Mrs. J. W. Tiffany. Mr. S. died July 16, 1862, age, 81 yrs., and Mrs.
S., Dec. 22, 1859, age, 73 yrs:, 5 mo., 18 days.
Felix T.- Safford, son of above, succeeded his father in occupancy.
of the place. He married Elizabeth Eease, (sister of first -wifgiiS Jas.
SterUng) and their children were Predk. B., died Jail. 8, IpSl, age,
15 yrs., and Edson W., attorney, of Montrose, where his riiother also
resides. After the death of Mr. S., Jan. 6, 1862, at the age, of 53 yrs.,
Albert Allen bought the farm arid occupied it several jeares
'. McKeever, Mrs. Mary, a daughter of Ja.s!.' and Sophi|i (fi'ea^e) Ster
ling, married Samuel McKeever, deed., of Scranton and'iheir ebildren''
ai-e. Gertie and Gracie. Mrs. M. hves in tlie M. E. TiffaW house.
McKinney, Mrs. Mary, daiughter of Elijah B. Mac^',;came from Vt.
in 1810. SM is the widow of Allen McKinney who cape to the town
ship about 1830, and Who died at the homestead (n^w occupied by
Mrs. Northrop)' Jan.'' 27, 1864j. age, 57 yrs., 9 mo. 'JSieir children arc
Braton, went west; Noble; ^'stSdier; Amanda, Mrs'J'.'Thonj^n; Mary,
Mrs. Gillispie; Jane, Mrs. Northrop; Chesteir,;,-a; soldier, -who died in
service; EUza', Mrs. Eickertjahd. Elisha, witij;,;g^Jiom B^rs.,M. at pres
ent resides; Chester was at fjattles of EappahaHriC|c|i:,., Sulphur Spring, '.
Gains-villej Groveton, Mariassas, South Mount|iiri,^^)A.ntietam. Mrs.
McKinney was born Sept.,--i.805. She says when hi^folks came here,
in Feb., Dea. Miles wasriiising his large house, and people were mak
ing sugar. She was then in her 5th j'ear'. " "¦z^-^-
McKinney, E. Nolble, a son of abo-^ei- married , Iss^ore, daughter of
Lemuel Eichards, and their childreatare Harry and Eubie, and Hattie
¦who died Dec. 24, 18'73, age, 4 yrs, His farm is c^ithe Eiehard Man
ning -warrant, and his'" predecessors-were Inoeease DeWitt, Eph'm K,
Howe, Jacob Worthing, and Augustus BmGE. I^r, M. Was cajptui-ed at
Chickamauga and taken to Castle Thunder in ;-B^hmond:'~ H€%as at
Murfreesboro, Pittsburg Landing, and Fort Dohelson. He' re-enlisted,
and was at Petersburg, and. Appomattox surrender. Served 3 j'rs., 9
months. ' -.,:;.,,
Ephraum Kirby Howe came wlien a youth with his father Ephraim,
in 1812. He married Jijiji, a daughter of Stephen EandaLl. Their.
children were Betsey (Mrs. Geo. Baker), Lucy (Mrs. Brigham Eeed),
Mary (Mrs. C. E. Crandall), Emma, Prances (Mrs. E. Eeed), Lueetta
(Mrs. Thayer), and Alfred. Mr. H. was a shoemaker. He removed to
Hopbottom where he died. :££.
Jacob Worthing came when a young man with his father Barnard
in 1804. He married Lydia Carey a sister of Mrs. Erastus CasweU,
and they*had one son, Carey, who was a teacher here and studied

homesteads and people. 95
medicine, afterward removing to Eome, Pa. In 1811, Mr. W. bought
a tract of land of J. B. Wallace, lying south of this place, for many
years known as "the Worthing lot," constituting the back part of the
farms of C. E. Bailey, Chas. Fish, and E. A. Weston; on wliich land
Mr. W. lived for a short time. His 2d wife was Mary HaU and they
lived on this McKinney place for some years, about 1827. Their daugh
ter Lydia E. was bom here. He afterward removed to Eome, Brad
ford Co., where he died in 1855, aged 69 yrs., and his -widow married
Lucius Eobinson.
He and his father Barnard were interested in the Cotton Factory.
Barnard Worthing was originally from Ariiesbury, Mass. (the home
of J. G. Whittier) married Dorothy Bagley, (a sister of Orlando Bag-
ley) of Hartland, Vt., from which place he came in 1804, and settled
on what was afterward the Abel Green farm in Lathrop, now occupied
by G. C. Bronson. His children were Jacob ; Winthrop (the family is
said to be descended from John Winthrop, governor of Mass. in 1630);
Jonathan; Miriam, Mrs. Otto; Nancy (ISffrs. Sargent Tewksbury); and
others who did not come here. All that came were more or less con
nected with Brooklyn affairs. Miriam came a Uttle before her father.
She lived for some years in the family of Deacon Miles preparing to
teach, which occupation she followed many years. She joined the
Methodist class in 1812 when 17 years of age. Barnard Worthing was
born at Amesbury, Mass., Sept. 25, 1741, and died July 13, 1820.
Buried in Old Cemetery.
Augustus Birge was an auditor of the to-wnship in 1825. He was a
teacher in several places. "While teaching at the Center he sometimes
boarded at home and went night and morning across through the
woods. He married Onda Jones, a cousin of Bela Jones of Bridgewa
ter. He was in the township from 1815 and likely before, to 1826.'
McKinney, Elisha R., a son of Allen and Mary (Mack) McKinney,
married Emer, a daughter of James G. and Arzelia (Smith) Packer,
and they have a daughter Delia, and Bertha who died Nov. 30, 1885,
age, 8 yrs., 8 mo. He occupies a new house in the village, built on
the Bite of one previously in possession of Betsey Chapman, O. W.
Foote, James P. Smith, and Wm. PhilUps, a cooper, who built it first
for a''shop, about 1850.
Betsey Chapman, a daughter of Geo. and Lydia (Palmer) Chapman,
removed with her father and brother to Grove Park, Florida.
James P. Smith, a son of Latham and SaUy (Newton) Smith, was
in the mercantile business when he occupied this place. He went to
. Letiox. Geo. J. Kent, a son of Justice and Anna (Stuart) Kent, married
Henrietta, a daughter of B. S. and DoUy (Bagley) Saunders. Their
children were Addie and Anna.
Mead, William, a son of Amos and Elizabeth (Appleman) Mead from
Wantage, Sussex Co., N. J., married JuUa A. Carman and came to
Brookljn about 1859. He now owns the Geo. Chapman place on the
Chas. Lear and Sarah Morrison wanantees, which had, before Mr. C,
been occupied by Dan'l Tewksbury (1822), Sam'l Eogees (1819), and

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Valentine Lewis in 1815 and before. C. M. Chapman also^occupied
the place with his father for some years before Mr. M; baught it. Mr.
M.'s children are Jas. H., and .Chas. E. His father;. -i^os, also hves
with him since the death of his mother,- EUzabeth, which occurred
Feb. 11, 1882, at the age of 80 yrs., 8 mo., 22 days. Old Ceriietery.
Chaeles Maevin Chapman, a son of Geo. and Lydia Chapman, was a
Union soldier and a captive in Libby prison. He married Mary, a
daughter of Wm. H. and Mary (Pettengill) Adams. Then- children
are Wm. H., Eobt. E., George, and NelUe G., who die(J;.Mari2, 187b,
2 yrs , 3 mo. old. Mrs. C.'s father was for several yeara-pastor of the
Presbyterian church here. In the fall of 1885, Mr. Cv-with his father
and sister Betsey, and his own family, removed to "Florida. ,:
George Chapman was a son of Joseph and Betsey (lieffing-^ell) Chap-
man and was born on the old place in what is now Brooklyn, May
4, 1802. His was the third birth of New England parentage m the
township, the first being that of Daniel Tewksbury, Noy, 22, 1801, and
the second, that of Andrew Tracy, Jr., Jan. 19, 1802. ;Sept. 27, 1818,
Mr. C. united with the Presbyterian church (then Congregational) and
was afterward one of its deacons. He married Lydl*. S., a daughter of
Esek H. and Amy (Smith) Palmfer, Jan. 1, 1823. Their children are
Betsey and Chas. M!, and Mary L, who died July 1, 1832, age, 3 yrs.,
and Chas.-H. died June, 1838, age, 4 yrs., 10 mo. Mrs. CUapman died
July 26, 1882, age, 76 yrs. Old Cemetery. . ¦
In 1885 Mr. C. removed to Grove Park, Alachua Co., Plonda, where
he died Nov. 24, 1887; and was buried there. Having spent almost
the whole of a long ^e as one of our people, he was, at the time of his
departure, the .oldest Uving link connecting the present period with
the distant past.
Valentine Lewis married a daughter of Asa Bonney and a sister of
Mrs. Zara Sutliff, and appears to have been the first settler on this
place. A deed was given from J. B. Wallace by J. W. Eobinson, his
atty., acknowledged before Edward Paine, J. P., to Valentine Lewis,
for 69 acres, in 1817.
Mead, James H, a son 'of 'Wm. Mead, married Cora Squier, Uves on
W. L. Kent's place and has two little girls, Bernice and Sarah.
Mead, Charles E., a son of WiUiam, married Edse''Howard. Their
.children, are Glenn and Mabel. They occupy the A. Ely farm.
Mead, Mordica, at Alford (1887), married Jane EikeTf Is a son of
Amos and Elizabeth Mead, from N. J.
Mead, Samuel, a brother of Mordica, married Hannah, a daughter
of Sam'l and Eebecca Westbrook, and their children are Minnie and
Eugene. He lives on the place formerly occupied by" Chas. E. Cran
dall, Asa Crandall, S. B. Blake, and Joshua Jacksoi?'^n Neal McCoy
and PhiUp Prick wanants,
Asa Crandall, a son of Caleb and  (Eansom) Crandall, married
Ehoda, a daughter of Ephraim and Ehoda (Perry) Tewksbury. Their
children are Wm. P., now of Hopbottom; Emeline, first wife of Geo.
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was from Augusta, Me., and for many years was track master on the
D- L. & W. E. E., for the division between Binghamton and Scranton.
He died at the former place in 1888, 65 years old. Mrs. Crandall died
Mar. 26, 1865, age, 61 yrs., 11 mo., and Mr. C, Sept. 24, 1865, age, 63
JTS., 3 mo. Old Cemetery.
Samuel Brinton Blake came from Mass. about 1822. He married
Alsiemena a daughter of Bela Case. Their children were Albert, Eowan,
Salina, and Edwin. When Mr. B. came to this place, he went into the
log house built by Joshua Jackson, Jr. He afterward built the present
frame house "in Massachusetts i-ustic style," exactly like his father's.
Mr. B. was a shoemaker. He sold this place and removed for a time
to Abington, but returned to the Pelatiah Tiffany place Where he died
Aug. 27, 1868, aged 74 years.
Mr. Blake was an early teacher in the to-wnship, and was one of
the first directors under the public school law whicli Brooklyn early
accepted. Fredk. Bailey, Joshua Miles, Lyman Ely, Amos Tewksburj',
Geo. Chapman, Eli B. Goodrich, and I. H. Sterling are among the
earUest names as school directors. B. Eichardson served many years.
The change tn the waj' of accomplishing the work, sometimes caUed
forth joking remarks. On one occasion it so happened that the whole
sis directors were present at a meeting when onlj' two teachers were
to be examined. In the course of the examination, one of the candi
dates was asked to give a problem in the "rule of three." It was done
thus: "If it takes 6 directors to examine 2 teachers, how many direct
ors would be required to examine 7 teachers?" The applicant got a
certificate. The first grist-mill in the township and in the Qounty was built on
this place. It stood by the Hopbottom creek, on the east side, about a
dozen rods west of the present road, and as far south of the old or
chard, on a little level piece of aUuvial land, only a little higher than
the stream, and surrounded on the other sides by higherground with
abrupt banks. The dam that furnished the water-power by which the
mill was run was a considerable distance above — a little above the dam
now standing — and was undoubtedly of logs, and the water was con
ducted to the mill in a race still plainly to be seen in several places.
The early dams were usually not very elaborate— ^only sufficient to
tm-n the water into the race — and Were constructed at points where
single, trees would reach across the stream.
Wm. P. Crandall and the wi-iter recently dug into the wheel-pit of
this old mill, now several feet under ground, the position of which
Mr. C. remembered from childhood, arid from having helped fill it up
many years ago. Among other reUcs— odd nails and handles — portions
of the old water-wheel were found, a segment of the rim of which was
exhibited it the County Centennial held at Great Bend (Hallstead) in
the fall of 1887. The wheel was about 12 ft. in diameter, made of
chestnut, and turned in an east and west direction, the race and flume
carrying the water around a curve in order easily to secure the fall of
the bank. The casing, under the wheel and partly up the east side of
it had the same curvatm-e as the wheel. It was made of solid hevm
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98 HESTOBY OF BROOKLYN.
the wheel was much decayed and fallen to pieces. It evidently was
a breast or undershot power as the casing indicated, being built to se
cure and apply the force of the water in that manner. The "tail-race"
carrying the waste water to the creek below miy also still be traced
though nearly filled. -' " •:'
This miU was built through the instrumentaUty.of John Nicholson
. in 1787 or soon after. It is handed down by tradition that two negroes
had charge of the grinding, and ruins of their dwelUng remained vis-
ible for many years after, some rods south-easterly from the mill. It
is said they became reduced to circumstances of great want. There
must have been but very little grinding to be done, and themiU must
soon have fallen into disuse and bad repair, for no intimation can be
found that the earliest New-England settlers, 12 years after, ever. went
to this mill for grinding, but they pounded their meal at home, or
took their grain to Horton's (below Nicholson village) as early as 1804,
.and before that to other places' further away, as Wilkes-Barre, Tunk
hannock, and French To-wn, in Bradford Co. An unknown grave is
remembered a Uttle below the mill site, where the barn of H- G.
Wright now stands, supposed to belong to some Nicholson colonist.
Miles, Ruben Orson, a son of Eowland and Ci>4Eis%a (Eice) Miles,
came with his father from Hartwick, Otsego Co., N. Y. in 1821. He
married Lucy L., a daughter of Ebenezee and Pedy (Morgan) Gere,
from Groton, Ct. Their children are Uleyetta A. (Mrs. L. B. Squier),
and Josephine A., 2d wife of Ansel Sterling, with whom Mr. M. now
resides. He was a carpenter, and for a time a Justice of the Peace.
He Uved for some years in the -village. He received aninjm-y from a
fall while building the octagon house of J. E. Howe, from the effects
of which he never fully recovered. His vrife was born Dec. 20, 1812,
and died Oct.ai, 1870.' .-¦(..
His son-in-law, L. B. Squier, was a Union soldier. "Was at Gettysburg
but in a detachment detailed to intercept Confederate communications.
He Uved for a time in Brooklyn, but now on the old Abington and
Waterford turnpike, on the border of Bridgewater. Has one son,
WilUs A. '
Miller, Frederick, and wife Margaret Walker (now deceased) came
from near Karlsruhe, Baden, Germany, about 185-. They went into
the old "gate house" on this place, which had been occupied by Joseph
Chapman, collector of tolls on the Milford and Owego Tmnpike. It
had also later been occupied by Jas.'L. Adams. Mr. M. made several
additions to his first small purchase of land, till he now o^vns [on the
Chas. Lear wanantee] a considerable portion of the noi^th-^east part of
the old Chapman farm, with a Uttle hill-side from the Thos. Garland
place. He took do-wn the old gate house, and built a dwelltag on the
opposite side of the road. His children are Mary, Fredk. P., Jacob C,
and Sam'l. Mr. M. recently manied Mary E., -widow ol Nathan Hall.
Samuel Miller married CeUa, a daughter of Christian Davisof Jessup.
She died Dec. 28, 1888.
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of Martin and Diantha (Pratt) Tewksbury of Lathrop, and they have
a daughter Nora. The place he owns (on the Saml. Jackson and Wm.
Shaw waiTantees) has been previously o-wned by Ira D. Bell, Aaron
DeWitt [1829 to 1867], and Solomon Dickerson [1812 to '19]. It is on
the qW disused road running from the M. & 0- Turnpike, by the Jos-.
Eease or Patrick Crossen place, to the Meshoppen road.
Aaron DeWitt was born at Wantage, Sussex Co., N. J., June 24,
1793, and died here Mar. 8, 1867. His wife Hannah died June 30, .
1856, age, 62 yrs. Hill Cemetery. Their children were Mariah, Jacob,
Katharine (Mrs. Eoberts), Albert, Isaac a soldier, Amos T.,also a sol
dier, and George. Mr. D. was a tanner. He was a soldier of 1812.
Miller, Jacob C:, o-wns the farm, on the Ann Manning and WiUiam
Shaw wanants, formerly o-wned by J. C. Morgan, S. D. Townsend,
Jas. Whalley, and Putnam Catlin. Mr. M. is a son of Frederick Miller,
and married Emma A., a daughter of Nathan and Mary (Mapes) Hall
from Orange Co., N. Y. Their children are Pied. B. tad Jessie E.
On this place at an early day a school-house (moved from the Jus
tice Kent place) stood at the forks of the road, south of the dwelUng.
The foUo-wing named teachers are remembered in this school: —

Nancy Kingsley,
Mary Case,

Elsa Dikeman [1829-30],
Eobert Kerr [1832-3],
Caroline Bowman, j Harriet Passmore,
James S. Palmer [1834-5].
James C. Morgan, a son of David and Esther (Brink) Morgan, mar
ried Mary E., a daughter of S. D. and Sally (Benjamin) Townsend.
Their children are Theodore, Hattie, Sumner, and Esther. Mr. M. in
early years ^went on a whaling voyage (in a ship in which Capt. Cooper,
of Montrose, was interested). On his return he became an employee
of the D. L. AW. R. E. for some years, and afterward settled on this
farm. Subsequently he removed to Cedar Eapids, Iowa, where he died,
and where his widow and ,children still reside, except Theodore who
removed to Kansas.
Samuel D. Townsend came to the place from the Stark place near
Jlontrose, a-bout 1839. His -wife was Sally M. Benjamin and theii-
children Lewis A., Mary E., AdeUa M. (Mrs. N. C. Benjamin), Jerome
B. lately deceased, CordeUa E. (2d wife of N. C. Benjamin), and Theo
dore L. who died Apr. 9, 1850, age, 10 yrs. Col. T. sold to J. C. Mor
gan and removed to the Eph. B. Garland place near the village where
he died Mar. 18, 1880, age, 77 yi-s., and where Mrs. C. subsequently
died. - ...^
Putnam Catlin and wife Polly Sutton came here from Windsor, N.
Y., in 1809 or '10. His father Eli, accompanied him and died here.
He first Uved in the Sabin's house, further south, but built the present
house on this place in 1812. The name and date are inscribed on a
brick in the arch of one of the fire-places. These open fire-places -with
their old-time "fenders" have been preserved intact until within a
short tinie. , , , , , ,
Jfr. C. was agent for the John B. Wallace lands, but bougiit and
owned tbi? and several adjacent lots in his own right. He evidently

100 HISTOEY OF BROOKLYN.
expected the county seat would be estabUshed here. But Eob't Eose
was against him and prevailed — Mont-Eose being selected. Mr. C.
came originally from Litchfield, Ct., to Wilkes-Bai-re, where he was
one of the fir-st attorneys of the com-t established in 1787. His wife
belonged to a prominent family of Wyoming Valley. He was a mem
ber of the state legislature, for Susquehanna and Luzerne, in 1814.
Li his youth he had been a drummer in the Eevolution. The fii-st post-
office, "Hojpbottom," was established in this house, Esq. CatUri being
postmaster, Oct. 1, 1813. Henry Catlin, his sonj was appointed to the
office (still here) Jan. 10, 1815. Gabriel Ely also lived in ttie house
and had the office iri 1816. The next j'ear the P. O. went to Noah
Tiffany, in "the old abbey." Augustus Birge (about 1819 or '20) lived
in the house, as did afterward Joseph Peckham, Sr., and others. Mi-.
Catlin removed to Montrose where he became cashier of "Tbe Silver
Lake Bank," j)erhaiDs in 1817 or '18, but his name remained on the-
Brooklyn assessment roU till 1832, when the place doubtless went into
the hands of the 'Wha.Ueys. Mr. C. afterward went to Gt. Bend au;d
died there in 1842, age, 77 yeai-s. His \\ife died a j-ear or two later
in N. Y. state,- in her 74th year.
Their chUdren were Chaiies, Henry, George (the famous painter of
Indian feature, costume, and scenery), Eliza .(Mi-s. Dart), Marj'- (JVIrs.
Hartshorn), Julius (also an artist, drowned at Genesee Falls), Eichai'd,
John, James, and Francis, the last being born in-Brooklj'U.
Newton, James M., a son of Samuel and Mary (Babcock) Newton,
married Frances E. a daughter of Jesse B. and Fanny (Mead) Slauson
of Forest Lake. Their children are Dora (Mrs. iPi-ed'k Hohn), Famiie
M. (Mrs. Edw'd G. Lee), Edward W., and Louisa E. This fai'm, on
the Jas. Logan warrant, was. So far as records show, first occupied by
Jacob Wilson in 1811 and the north part of it by iHenry Mitchell tu
1818, as per assessment.
Henry Mmchell was born in New London Co., Ct., 'Mar. 11, 1792.
He maiTied Marv Ely (a daughtei' of Gabriel Ely) of Colchester, Ct.,
Apr. 28, 1814, anti came to Brooklj'n in fall of 1815, living for a short
time with Gabriel Ely on the B. 0. Watrous place. When he capieto
this place, the Mil. & O. Turnpike was only a sled road, and Mr. M.
was a stock subscriber in building it. His children, born in Brooklyn,
were Henry Horatij>i who married Alsina Danow (now deceased) of
Bridgewater, arid removed to Lemon, Wyoming Co., and who has been
an acting justice, of the peace there for more than 40 yeai-s; George
E., married Eebecca Thomas o.f Springville, and died Mav 4th 1884,
age, 61 J'ears; and Eimice M. who married Ezekiel iMowi-y^ (both now
deceased) who represented Susquehanna aud Wvoming comities in the
legislature in l'849.vMi-. M. died in Lemon (to which place he re
moved about 1833) -Oct. 5, 1880 in his 89th veai-, and Mi-s M. 3iaY
4, 1861, in her q^th-year. " ' '
Joseph Peckham^Jr. and his son Clark also occupied the MitcheU
house after Mr. M^^^pmoval, the place then being in'pc'r^session of E.
S. Kent. His wife 4-»iam.e- was Anna Buedick. Their chikh-en were
PoUy, Joseph, Jr., .Qark, Nancy (Mi's. Jolori Austin), and Betsey (2d

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Tsvife of S. P. Ely), and others not here. He came to Brooklyn in 1827
qif '8, and died at Mr. Austin's, peb. 3, 1845, a., 94 years. Mrs. P. died
with her son Joseph in 1847, 90 years old.
Claek Peckham came about 1830 or '31. He had married Harriet
GiLLET in Ct. and they had one son, Isaac Lester. Mr. P. died in the
winter of 1836, at the MitcheU house, 49 years of age. All buried in
Old Cemeterj'. His widow and son i;eturned to .Conneotic^t.
Samuel Allen Newton came from Ledyard, New Lonc^on Co., Ct., in
^833. He -was a son of Asa Newton, and married Mary} a daughter of
Isaac and Amy (Gavitt) Babcock. Their children were Isaac A. (died
in Wyoming Co.); James M.; Jennette (Mrs. M. L. (TatUri, and now,
Mrs. D- S. Watrous); Henry Franklin, of, Dimock; and G. Fayette,
deceased. Mr. N. was a teacher in Connecticut, .and established here,
in 1839, "Newtonville Institute" which Jie taught for several years.
The building for the purpose (used for dwellirig, boarding-house, and
Bcbool-rooms) was constructed by combining the WUson house and the
-MitcheU liouse, and incorporating a new part with them. This struct
ure was bumed May 6, 1888, and is now replaced by a new one. Mr.
N. died Jan. 29, 1863, in his 72d year, and Mrs. N. died June 6, 1876,
age, 82 years. Both are buried in the family cemetery on the place,
where are also interred Mr. N.'s father and mother, and childreri
•Isaac A., who died Aug. 26, 1877, a., 58, and Geo.'F. who died Mar.
23, 1869, a., 33 j'ears. Others from the neighborhood are also buried
here, the graves numbering about 20.
Asa Newton came with his wife and son Samuel, with whom he
lived, and died in 1848, aged 81 years. His -wife was Eunice, a daugh
ter of Samuel Allen who was a iElevolutionary soldier kiUed at Port
"Griswold. She died here in 1849, a.,, 82 years. They had a daughter
Deborah (Mrs. Elijah Newton, and afterward Mrs. Stephen WiUiams)
who had lived in Brooklyn some 14 years before they came.
Northrop, Mrs. Jennie, a daughter of Ai.len MoKmNEr, lives on the
old place of her father, on the John Dunlap warrant. She is the wife
^f Albert Northrop, a soldier, and their children are Lida, Carrie, and
"Watters A.
Jonas E. Adams seems to have Been the first occupant of these prem-
jses. He came here about 1817, but not at first to this place. He was
a ijatter and worked at his trade at his house on this place probably
about 1821, Andrew Eogers, as is. said, working with him some. The
assessment record attributes to him 376 acres of land, from Davjdand
liaban Cushing, in the fall of 1818, as his brother James Adams then
had 100 a. from Moses Gushing. He .also occupied the Isaac Aldrich
place for a time, afterward owned by Joseph Jackson. His father was
Johp Adams of Ashburnham, Mass. and afterward of Harford, Pa.,
who lived to be over 104 yrs. old, and is buried in the Hill Cemetery.
His first wife was EUza Tappan (not here) and their children were
James L., and Eliza — Mrs. Eace. His 2d wife was Olivia a daughter
ol John Seeley, and their children were Amos C., Albert, and Nancy.
He built the house still standing (though remodejed) which stood on
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102 mSTOEY OF BEOOKLYN.
marriage. He removed from the township about 1830, and afterward
went Vest. Some of the "corduroy" in the old road is still to be seen
a little south-west of the house. .-
Allen McKinney began to occupy this place a few years after he ;
came in 1830, and held it tiU his death in 1864. He bought it of Jas
Noble to whom Mi-. Adams soldit, but who did not live on it. Seyeral
other people have temporarily lived in portions of the house— -Chester
TuTTLE, a carpenter who married Wealthy Caswell, a sister of Ei-astus;
Sheffield Saunders, about 1826; and Jesse Bagley, his sori Hanison
having been born there not long after the family came back from
Ohio in 1824 or 5. Mrs. Tirzah Skidmore (Mr. Noble's sister) lived
there -with her daughters for a time; also Dr. Hatch the first dentist.
Mr. Noble had an ashery on the west side of the place by the brobk
and spring, on land since sold to the UniversaUst parsonage. He pre
viously also had one on the village brook south of the bridge.
Oakley, Thos, M., a son of Thos. and Clarissa (Otis) Oakley, manied
Paulina, a daughter of Jas. W. and Betsey (Tewksbury) Steeling.-
Their chUdren are Mary H. (Mrs. Femando Tiffany of Scranton), Em
ory T. of New Milford, Irving W. of Montrose, Cynthia E. (Mrs. Ball),
Louisa D. who died Mar. 3, 1881, age, 24 years, and Joseph D. Mi-.
O. occupied a part of the old place of his father for some years, but
now resides in the village in the house built and used by O.A. El
dridge and afterward occupied by Johnson Quick and A. 'W. Kent.
Very nearly upon the site of this house, the largest school-house of
the township was built in 1814. ¦ It was a frame! with plank and
weather-board walls, and had a huge fire-place iri each end, nortb and
south, with andirons or blocks of stone to hold up the fire-logs. The
north chimney was built bj' Jacob Tewksbuiry, and when both fire
places were open it had the best draft. -The south one was partly of
brick, smaller and more symmetrical, built by Bela Case. The schol
ars are said to have ofteri divided into contending parties in adypCacy
of the merits of the respective chimneys. It was finally concluded that
"the north one drew so hard thatit brought the smoke but of'.- the
south one." After a time the north fire-place was kept, boarded up,
when the Other did good service. The spaces beside the north chim
ney were boarded into closets without windows, and the east one was
sometimes used as a dungeon. The south spaces had windows and
'seats. The teacher's desk "deep-scarred bj' raps official," was" On the
west side, reached by a step at each end. The entrance' to the j-oom
was on the east through a little vestibule, with nails on which to hang
the boys caps, and with an outside and an inside door, the formel- hav
ing a few panes of "7 by 9" glass over it. In front of this exterided
a little grass-plat — the village green, while on the west was a precip
itous bank.
¦ The writer has taken much pains to obtain a conect list of early
teachers in this house, with proper dates, having consultect ail"-ilie old
people within reach^ — James and John Ctiapman, Samuel Te-jvksbury,
Sally (Tracy) Hayden, Edward L. Paine, MaUnda (Tiffany) Lindsey,
Asa Fish, Sophronia (Wilson) Lord, James E. Howe, OUve (Howard)

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Barlow, John E. Ely, Polly (M^k) McKinney, Emma (Smith) Gere,
Mary (BelClier) Sterling, Susan (Safford) VanAuken, E. 0. Miles, and
many others. 'There is no disagreement as to names, but some discrep
ancy as to time, which is to be expected. The following has the pre
ponderance of recollections, though there may be a difference of a
year or two in one or two cases : ¦"

Cyril Giddings, w. 1814^15 ['15]
Sarah Giddings, a niece of Cyril, s.
Frederick Bailey, w. 1815-16
Edith Case, s. 1816
Thaddeus Palmer, w. 1816-17
Nancv Giddings, sister of Sarah, s.
Asa Crandall, w. 1817-18 [1817]
Ebenezer Paine, part term, and
Geo. M. Gere the rest, w. 1818-19
Mary Kingsbury, s. 1819
George M. Gere, w. 1819-20
Phebe Bonney, s. 1820
Edward L. Paine, w. 1820-21
Augustus Birge, w. 1821-22 ^
Phebe Bonney, s. 1822
Augustus Birge, w. 1822-23
Fanny Hall, s. 1823
Augustus Birge, w. 1823-24
Fanny Hall, s. 1824

Benjamin Parke, w. 1824-5
Hannah Mary Parke, s. 1825
James W. Chapman, w. 1825-6
Miriam Worthing, s. 1826
John Eankin, part term, and
Samuel Weston, rest, w. 1826-7
Miriam Worthing, s. 1827
Abel Hewitt, w. 1827-8
Miriam Worthing, s. 1828
Samuel B. Blake, w. 1828-9
P. M. Lmes, s. 1829
James Lewis, w. 1829-30
Lucy Caroline Miles, s. 1830
John Tiffany, w. 1830-31 *
Miriam Worthing, s. 1831
Frederick W. Bailey, w. 1831-2
Sarah Gere, s. 1832
Abel Hewitt, w. 1832-3
Sarah Gere, s. 1833.

S. W. Breed, Louisa Parke, Lydia Chapman, Loranda Carpenter,
and Sally Kennard are also remembered but date not fixed.
This house was used for nearly a quarter of a century, and a few
J-ears after was removed by Asa Tewksbury and reconstructed into a
dwelling where the UniversaUst parsonage now stands, upon the erec
tion of which, by O. G. Hempstead, a few j'ears later, the old school-
house was taken down and portions of it worked into other buildings
on the premises. In its day it was prominent among the rustic sem
inaries of the pioneers, in which the rough but living seeds of knowl
edge were planted to develop into perennial growth. Students came
from miles around, sometimes walking long distances to and from
home, sometimes staying with some family nearer than their o-wn,
and sometimes boarding themselves in a bonowed room. The number
of scholars often exceeded 100. An early Ust of them, would be
interesting, but is impossible to obtain.
The following is a letter from Mrs. Mary (Kingsbury) Tyler, Brook
lyn's oldest Uving teacher: f "Ararat, March 7, 1889.
My Dear Sir: Your letter was received last week. I
would be glad to furnish you with some facts in regard to early times
if failing eyesight and unsteady hand would allow my -writing more
legibly, but will do the best I can. I am now in my 95th year. Of
* .(ohn Tiffany taught a short time probably about 1821 and not afterward.
t Mrs. Tyler died Nov. 4, 1SS9. She was born Dec. 29, 1784.

104 HISTORY OP BEOOKLYN.
what occuned before 1810, I know nothing but what I have learned
from others. In that year my father moved to Harford with his fam
ily, and that -was my home till my marriage. At that time there was
no Congregational church in Brooklyn [church organized August 7,
1810] or in Gibson and there were members of the Harford chui-ch
from both those towns, among whom I distinctly remember your
grandmother and Mrs. Jeremiah Gere. There were others whose
names I cannot recall.
In 1817 my sister Sarah, afterward Mrs. Eichardson, commenced
teaching in the Bailey district. She taught there two summers, and
my brother WilUston taught there the intervening winter. The best.
school I ever taught was at Brooklyn Centre in 1819, one quarter. I re
signed in July and went home to attend at the bedside of a sister who
was fast faiUng with consumption, and who died a few months after.
The school at the Centre was large and interesting.
My father, Ebenezer Kingsbm-y was born at Coventry, Ct., August
30, 1762. He graduated from Y^le, 1780, and was ordained pastor of
a Congregational church in Jeri6ho, Vermont, in the vicinitj' of Lake
Champlain and Onion river. He remained there till 1808. After he re
signed his pastorate there, he received a commission from the Home
Mssionary society to labor as a missionary. He came in the course of
his travels to Harford where he received a call to settle as pastor for
six months in the year, while the remaining time he -was to pursue his
former labors. This call he accepted, and was installed, and removed
his family in 1810. He continued pastor of the church till 1827. After
this he continued missionary work part of the time and by request was
in Brooklyn, Ararat, and other places as a supply. As years increased
and strengtli failed he gave up preaching and, as Mr. Miller his pas
tor said, he became 'a good hearer.' He died at his home in Hai-ford
Mar. 22, 1842 in his 80th year.
My mother's name was Hannah WilUston. She was the daughter
of Noah WilUston of West Haven, Ct., and was born there Dec. 16,
1770. Of the 4 children, the two sons became clergjrmen, and the t\^o
daughters married clergymen. She died Mar. 23, 1859 in her 89th
year. My parents and 6 of their 9 children died and were buried in
Harford. One, an infant, died in Vt. and my brother Ebenezer died in
Honesdale. I am the only one remaining, though the oldest of the
children. I have lived to see many changes since my remembrance. What
overtm-nings among the nations, how kingdoms have been shaken,
what mighty changes in our own country since Washington died!
That event is among mj' earliest recollections.
With kind regards, I remain
Truly Yours,
Mary E. Tyler."
Oakley, Joseph, a son of Thos. Oakley, married, 1st, Lottie Tingley
of Harford, now deceased, as is her daughter Marietta; 2d, Phebe
Sutton of Springville who died leaving a son Judson C. who died Nov.
25, 1885, age, 21 years; 3d, Hattie Thomas of Springville, aud theu-

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children are Lottie (Mrs. Luther Ely), Eunice, Helen, Grace, Clara,
J. Lee, AUce, and 'Walter E. Mr. O. was a soldier for a short time.
He owns most of the old homestead occupied by his father, on the
Wm. Colliday warrant. He also sometimes works at stone-masonry.
Thomas Oakley came to this farm from Harford about 1817. He
was a son of Jotham and Sally (Milboum) Oakley. His father came
from Dutchess county, N. Y. to Thornbottom (Nicholson) in 1783
when he was 13 years old. Saixy !Milbourn had settled with her
mother and step-father Jones in -what is now Brooklj'n, in 1790 or 91.
Jotham Oakley settled in Harford in 1795. Thos. Oakley manied
Clarissa Otis who was bom in Ct., in 1792. Her sister Eunice had
come to Brooklyn with the family of Jeremiah Gere in 1802 an4
afterward had married Freeman Peck of Harford, and Clarissa came
to live with her sister. The children of Thomas and Clarissa Oakley
-were Sarah (Mrs. John T. Perigo), Edwin who died Peb. 24, 1840,
age, 21 yrs., Eunice (Mrs. Ira Curtis), Thos. M., Polly (Mrs. B. O;
Watrous) deceased, Nancy who died Apr. 17, 1845, age, 18 yrs., 9 mo.,
Joseph, and Clarissa (Mrs. Porter). Mrs. O. died June 15, 1834, aged
43 jrrs. Mr. O.'s 2d wife was Cynthia (Seeley) Austin, a daughter of
John Seeley. A deed was given by J. B. Wallace to Jotham Oaklej' for
196 acres in 1815, and from Jothapa to Thos. for 96 acres in 1819.-
Other land was also added to this. Mr. O. built the frame house on
the place which has within a few years been replaced by a new one
built by his son Joseph. He also built a log tenant house on the oppo
site side of the road. But when he first came he went into a log cabin
standing further west, built and occupied by Thos. Walker who had
begun a clearing, and who removed to New Milford. Joseph O. built
the north house on the place a number of years ago, afterward occu
pied by Thos. M., and Thos. M. built the one fm-ther south since sold,
with a portion of land attached, to J. H. Page. Ira Cm-tis also once
had a house and lot on the place. Mr. O. died Sept. 4, 1857, aged 61
years, 3 mo. Old Cemetery.
Otto, Miss Sarah, a daughter of Edward and Miriam (Worthing)
Otto, lives with her cousin Lydia E. Worthing, ih the new house on
the Lucius Eobinson place, but has an interest in the little place for
merly occupied by her father and mother, and previously by Loren
L. Bagley and Mary Emily Mack, his wife, just south of the Eoper or
Washington Bagley place. This Uttle lot is on the Susanna Lear wai--
rantee and seems to have been either a part of or adjoining, the larger
lot once taken up by Sarah's uncle Jonathan Worthing.
Packer, Dudley B., a son of Edward Packer, Sr., married Lydia E.,
a daughter of Elisha and Matilda (Mack) Lord, and their chilHi-en are
Geo. N., Irving W. deed., EUsha D., Chas. E. who died Aug. 25, 1863,
a "ed 10 yrs!, and Elbert A. His predecessors on the farm (which is on
the Dr. Barnabas Binney and John Dunlap warrants, and is now owned
by Samuel B. Packer of Trenton, N. J.) were Edward Packer., Jr.,
Edward Packer, Sr., Isaac and Jonathan Tewksbui-y, and  McIn-
TYRE of lt87. J. T. Perrj' also lived here several years after his com
ing. The present dwelling, built in more recent years, stands where

106 mSTORY OP BROOKLYN.
the first one stood, a number of rods south-westerly from a copious
spring. Packer, Elbert A., also occupies the place with his father. He mar
ried Effie M. Carpenter of Hopbottom, and their children are Alexan
der C, Harris E., Maud M., and Grover C.
Edward Paokee, Se., came to the township from Groton, Ct. in 1812.
He married Maey, a daughter of Josiah and Polly (Mack) Lord. Their
children were Edward, Joseph L., Charles, Dudley B., Albert, EUsha
L., Mary C, and Samuel B., only three of whom— Samuel, Albert, and
Dudley'are [1889] Uving. Esq. P. took possession of the place after
the Tewksbury's left it. He was a carpenter by trade, was appointed
a justice of the peace, and served as county commissioner in 1824. He
died May 13, 1832, aged 44 yrs.
Asa Paokee came here in 1822 at the age of 17 years, learned his
trade of his cousin Edward, married Sarah M. Blakeslee of Spring
ville, removed to Mauch Chunk, and afterward became known in con
nection with extensive and successful canal, railroad, and coal-mining
enterprises. He was the founder of Lehigh University, for free instruct
ion in natural and mechanical sciences, at Bethleham, Pa. He was a
•member of the Pa. legislature, a congressman, and a county judge,
and a candidate for governor of the state in 1869.
Isaac Tewksbury came to this place in 1807 or 8, after having Uved
3 or 4 years in the log house south of the "Old Abbey." The earliest
building remembered on this place consisted of a double house, one
part being a log or "block" structure and the other a frame attached
thereto. The first was doubtless the Mclntyre house built in 1787,
and the second was built by Isaac Tewksbury of lumber from the
saw-mill estabUshed a year or two before. Mr. T.'s son Jonathan Uved
with him here as did also his grand-daughter Judith, afterward Mrs.
Thos. Garland. His wife's name was Judith Sargent. Their children,
born in Vt., from which place they came in 1804, were Judith (Mrs.
Jesse Wood of Stafford, Orange Co., Vt., the mother of Daniel and
John Wood late of Lathrop), Jacob, Sargent,, Ephraini, Jonathan,
Abigail (Mrs. Thos. Saunders), Huldah (Mrs Samuel Yeomans), and
Hannah (Mrs. Milbourn). Mr. T. died here in March 1813, and Mrs.
T. about two years later.
Packer, Mrs. Cornelia M., a daughter of Stephen Gere, and widow
of Edward Packer, Jr., deceased, occupies the house formerly owned
by Josph Lines, Sr., and before that by Ebenezer Gere who came here
from the Orlando Bagley place. The children of Edward and Cornelia
Packer are Ann E., AdeUa (!Mrs. Andrews), Wm. H. deed., Austin M.,
and Lizzie C. Mr. P. died Aug. 19, 1856, age, 41 j'rs.
Joseph Lines, Sr., came to the township in 1818 and came to'^'this
house from the Eandall house where he had lived a number of years.
He was a carpenter, having learned his trade of Esq. Packer. His
wife was Betsey a daughter of Elijah B. !Maok. Their children were
EUzabeth (Mrs. Conger TiEfany) deceased, and Joseph, Jr., also deed.
Mr. L. was born 1799, and died 1874, and Mrs. L. b. 1800, d. 1887.

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Packer, Mrs. Anna, a daughter of D. M. Yeomans, and -widow of
Melvin E. Packer, deceased, a son of James G. Packer, lives in the
house recently built by her husband. Their children are Fanny A.,
!Harry N., Bertha L., and Jessie M.
Page, Joseph H, from Vt., manied Sarah, a daughter of Frederick
and Ancy (Eace) Fish. Their children are LilUan A. (Mrs. Tingley),
Herbert T., and Fred H. Mr. P. has been extensively engaged in E.
E. building. He owns most of the first 100 acre lot of James Oakley
deceased, on which the old block house stands. !His residence is on
the part which Jotham Oakley 2d occupied.
Jotham Oakle!?, a son of Jas. Oakley married Mary Ann, a daughter
of Jacob Wilson, and took possession of the saw-mill property at what
is now Alford. He afterward bought part of this Page place and sub
sequently removed to Lathrop. A deed was given by J. B. Wallace to
Jotham Oakley (the. elder) in 1815, and from him to his son James
for 100 acres, in 1818. Henry Tewksbui-y now owns a Uttle part of
this 100 acres, and J. C. Lee once ovraied and occupied a part on the
south, now owned by Joseph Oakley. It is on the wanants of Wm.
ColUday and Wm. CoUiday, jr.
Page, Walter R., came from Vt. about 1850. . He manied !!klary
Jane, a daughter of Jas. Oakley, and their children are Walter A.
who died Dec. 22, 1869, age, 14 yrs., Joseph P., and Henry J. !Mr. P.
tas been an extensive contractor and builder in E. E. masonry. He
was a soldier for a short time. His predecessors in the occupancy of
the place were Eli B. Goodrich, James Oakley, Jacob Brown (who
married Ann Bacon, a sister of !Mr. Oakley's wife), and Moses and
Laban Cushing. The place was assessed to Mr. Brown in fall of
1816. The Cushings were in the township in 1816, remaining only a
few vears, except Laban who seems to have been on this place as late
as 1833 or 4. It is on the warrantee lots of Wm. ColUday and Wm.
ColUday, jr. The present residence was built by Jas. Oakley. The
Cushing cabin was further doWn toward the spring. The deed to
Josiah Fletcher for the tract, south of this and the J. H. Page lot,
mentions Brown and Oakley bounding on the north. Mr. Page also
owns that part of the Josiah Fletcher tract known as the John Davi
son lot, east of the Danl. Tewksbury lot, north of E. B. Goodrich lot,
and south of tbe Laban Cushing lot. This lot seems first to have been
held in th,e name of Edward Packer, then by John Davison who set
the orchard on it, and was afterward bought by Eli B. Goodrich.
John Davison is first assessed in 1820, and with this lot in the fall
of 1827, but he and his brothers James, Calvin, Thos., Benjamin were
doubtless in the township as early as 1812-14, Capt. Bailey had an
a ;ct. with James in 1814. Like the Jacksons they were famous chop
pers. Mx. D. occupied this place for several years. He also occupied
a lot now owned by the Prank Tewksbury estate, for a time, the
remains of cabin being still left above the road leading to the David
Bissell or Warner place, and removed to Lathrop. He manied Sabra
a daughter of Anthony Fish, and then- children were John ; Julia

108 mSTORY OF BROOKLYN.
(Mrs. Amos Smith); Asa; Emily (Mrs. George Ainey); Jerome.B. (a
soldier for nearly 3 yrs. — was at Fredericksburg, and Chancellorsville
where he was wounded) ; EUza (Mrs. C. A. Giles) ; Martin V. ; Mary
(Mrs. Winans); and Joseph. Mr. D. died Aug. 10, 1868, age, 71 years.
Mr. Page also bought the place ^on the John Nicholson and Sarah
Stover wai-rants) formerly occupied by Youngs and Yoimgs L. Culver,
who came to the township in 1826.
Youngs Culver married. Polly Mills in Ct. He and his only son
Youngs L. occupied tbe Jackson house on the Jacob Worthing place
for a time when they first came, and afterward bought this place and
moved to it a smaU house built by Samuel Weston on the EUsha
Baker place, in which both lived and died. Some addition was made to
it, and it still stands in its place, old, untenantable, and deserted. Mrs,
C. also died here at a good old age. Buried in Old Cemetery. . Mrs.
Culver's sister Amy Mills was a sister-in-law of the Mi-s. Bailey who,
being at the fort when our soldiers ran short of flannel wadding, gal
lantly and patriotically took: off her petticoat and gave them to fire
hot shot at the British !
Youngs Leonard Culver married Mary Ann, a daughter of Elisha
Baker, and their children were Susan Mary (Mrs. Wm. Albert Bag-
ley of Elmira, N. Y.); George, (went south); Emmer (Mrs. Avery);
Josephine, died Feb. 7, 1851, aged 18 years; Charles; Hamet (Mrs.
Smith); James; Jared; and 'Williami a soldier, went west. Mr. Culver'
died Oct. 17,1868, age, 64 yrs., 8 mo. Old Cemetery. Mrs. C. re
mained a time at the old hpme but spent tbe rest of her life With her
daughters. ' ' ,
James Oakley came from Harford in 1816. -He first built the block
house still standing on the place his father,. Jotham Ocikley, bought
for him, and afterward he bought this Cushing lot. He married Vash-
Ti Bacon. Their children are Alonzo, Jotham, Betsey (Mrs. Brownejl),
Emeline (!Mrs. Tiffany), Harriet, deceased, Geo. D., Edward G., a
soldier, Mary J. (Mrs. W. E. Page), Martha; ^M." (Mrs. W. H. Sher
man), and Daniel G. Mr. Sherman bought the Henry Tewksbury
place. He died Nov. 16, 1859, a., 42 yrs. Ui.,0. died Nov: 29, 1851,
a., 57 yrs., and Mrs. O., Apr. 6, 1869, age, 75 'yrs., 9 mb. '
Page, Joseph P., a son of W. E. Page, ma,rried Carrie Knapp: and
Uved (1887) on the place belonging to his father or his .uncle Frank
Page, which had previously been occupied -by Albert .'.Forse, P. L.
lAudsey, a soldier, Horace Welch, Jehiel, Kitchen, aiid Andrew J.
Dickerson, also asoldier, who built the bouse. Gilbert Forse, a brother
of Albert, is now (1889) living- in the house. His wife was iEnma
Gurne- (of French descent) and their children are !Winfield', !5fillie .
(!Mrs. Mort. Forse), and Munson.. ""'"¦^ -, „-.,\
Palmer, Mrs. Pedy Emily, daughter of EbeneJer •<3-ere and -Wiciow;
of Gurdon W. Palmer owris and "occupies the 'village house.; and .lot
fprmerly used as the Methodist paisonage.. Abel BeWitt- built:; the
house and furst Uved in it. A quit-claim deed was 'given froih Arunah
Tiffany to A. Hewitt for 4 acres iri 1832;'- and the- house was built
soon after, though since rearranged.

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3" J. Abel Hewttt was bom in Bridgewater, abont a mile south-west
of Montrose, Aug. 22, 1803. He came to Brooklyn in 1819 and learned
the carpenter's trade of Jeremiah Spencer, serving 4 years. He mar
ried JuuA A., a daughter of Anthony Fish, about 1829. Their chUdren,
all born in Brooklyn, are AdeUne H., Ellen E., Jane, Wm. H., and
Prancene, Mrs. A. P. BaUiet, with whom Mr. He-witt now resides at
Coplay, Lehigh Co., to which place he removed in 1868, having gone
from Brooklyn to Carbon Co. in 1847. Mrs. H. died Peb. 27, 1876, a.,
69 yrs., 11 mo., 13 da. He was a justice of the peace here and was a
county commissioner in 1842. He has held many similar offices where
he has since Uved.
Esq. Hewitt's father was Jedediah Hewitt and his mother's maiden
name was Eachel Sterling, a sister of Thomas. Their children, most
of whom at sonje time resided in Brooklyn, were Abel, Gurdon, James,
William, Hannah (Mrs. Jared Baker, who died in Brooklyn), and Ann
(Mrs. M. B. Yeomans). Mrs. H. (then Mrs. Stark) also spent the lat
ter part of her life with her children here. She died Dec. 24, 1860,
age, 82 yrs., 11 mo., 19 d. Hill Cemetery.
Palmer, Milton W. (a son of Isaac N. Palmer) and Annie E. Bailey,
his wife, daughter of H. L. Bailey, occupy the old Fredk. Bailey home
stead jointly with Mrs. P.'s father and mother.
Peckham, James S., a son of Joseph Peckham, Jr., married first
Saeah E., a daughter of Silas P. Ely, who died June 9, 1859, age, 30
yrs., 3 mo., and 4 d. They had a daughter, Esther AdeUa who died
Oct. 3, 1868, age, 9 yrs., 6 mo. His 2d wife is Mary L., daughter of
Daniel and Sally (Carpenter) Oakley of Harford, and they have two
sons. Jay D. and George T. The place he occupies (on the Eobert
Lyon wanantee) was previously occupied by his father and by Jesse
Eoss. Mr. P. has also recently added a part of the H. W. Kent or
Jas. Smith place.
Joseph Peckham, Je. came in company with James Smith and wife
from Groton, Ct., in 1817, and the two families lived together from
April tiU June in the old school-house then standing on the Isaac
Sinith lot. He also lived for 4 years with James Smith on his farm,
coming to the present place in the fall of 1821. His wife was Sally
Crandall aud their children were EUas W. who died Sept. 8, 1822, a.,
8 yrs.; Isaac C, died Sept. 11, 1822, age, 4 yrs., and 3 mo.; Joseph O.,
died Sept. 13, 1822, age, 6 years; Emily, died Sept. 16, 1822, age, 1
yr., 4 mo.; James S.; and Sarah L., 2d wife of Cyrus Oaklej', and now
Mrs. CrandaU of Binghamton. Mr. P. died Oct. 3, 1860, aged 78 yrs.,
6 mo., 14 days; Mrs. P., Mar. 5, 1882, aged 88 yrs., 8 mo., 19 days.
Cyrus Oakley married Dency Carpenter. Their children were Ed
win H. and Emma J., Mrs. Loomis. Mr. O. bought the place next
east of the Col. Bailey farm in 1832, where he died in 1869, about 62
yrs. old. The lot is owned by Mr. Stephens, broth er-iii-law of Edwin
who occupied it for some time af'ter his father's death, but nobody
Uves on it now. '
Jesse Eoss occupied the place fcr a short time and made a small
clearing on it. His first wife was Betsey Hancock (not here) and their

110 history of BROOKLYN.
daughter Eleanor became the wife of Edward L. Paine. Mr. E. ruar-
ried Chaelotte (Lathrop) widow of Edwd. Paine and returned to Pike,
Bradford Co., where he died, and where his first wife had previously
died. After his death his -widow went with her step-son and with
her daughter to Oshkosh, Wis., where she died.
On this place, a school house was estabUshed (now rebuilt) to suc
ceed the eai-lier one on the Isaac Smith place. Among others the fol-
lo'wing named teachers were employed here

Simon Lusk
Sarah D. Gere
Wm. Alworth
Wm. Smith
Elhanan Smith
Eodney Jewett
PhiUp Wilson
E. N. Loomis

Eleanor Parrar
T. S. Bartholomew
Adaline Skidrnore
T. Hempstead ' ;
Jas. S. Palmer
j Wm. Pride part term and
'I A. E. Gere rest
Isaac Newton. .

Penny, Thomas E., a soldier, and a son of Christopher and Lydia
(Tewksbury) Penny, married Ellen E., a daughter of Alanson Wright,
Their chUdren are Esther J. (Mrs. WUber), Eveline L. (Mrs. C. Mar
vin Penny), Hattie (Mrs. EoSe), Ernest E., Guy H;, and, Daisy S. Mi-.
P.'s brothers and sisters are Henrj' B. (a soldier in an artillery corps
in the army of the Potomac and drove a team to place guns in posi
tion), Maria, Chas. E., and George. ' His father once resided in Brook
lyn on the Jas. W. Sterling place, but spent the latter, part of his Ufe
in Lathrop. Mr. P.'s residence (on Dry Creek) is on the place former
ly occupied by Orlando Wright and wife, Maiia Whitford, and on;
the west part of it Wise Wright lived. It is on the Neal McCoj? war
rantee. Wise Wright came from Somers, Tolland Co., Ct. in 1811. His
name is among Cap. Bailey's accounts in that year. His wife was
Louisa Shepherd and their children, Francillo, Loomis, Minerva (Mrs.
John Brown), Euth (Mrs. Wm. Miles), Alanson, Orlando, Lucinda (1st
wife of Geo. MUes), and Lydia (Mrs. Jeremiah Brown). The remains
of homestead, and garden waUs are still left on the hill-side. Mr. W.
died in 1854 at the age of 71 years, and Mrs. W. in 1862, age, 73 yrs':
Buried in Hopbottom Cemetery.
Mr. Wright's father, Saml. Wright, Sr., came in 1809 and settled
in that part of old Brooklyn, now Lathrop, where Geo. W. Tiffany
afterward Uved. His first wife died in Ct. Their children were Saml,
Jr., Anthony, Euth (Mrs. Ira Sweatland), and Wise. His 2d wife was
Azuba Gibbs and their children were Walter, Sally (Mrs. Levi Simons),
Sylvia (Mrs. EUas Sweet — Uved on Jackson Tiiigley place, Harford),
 • (Mrs. Fletcher), Lois (Mrs. Caleb Jackson), Orra, who died Dec.
17, 1849, a., 49 yrs., Horace, and Sylvester. Cap. Wright was a Eev
olutionary soldier. He and his wife, Azuba, became members of the
Brooklyn Congregational Church in 1810. He died in 1829, a., 78 yrs.,
and Azuba in 1824, a., 73. Hopbottom Cemetery. ,
Penny, Charles Marvin, a son of Charles E. and S. Jane (Wilson)
Penny, manied Eva, a daughter of Thos. E. Penny and Uves [1887]

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in the house recently built on the place now owned by Emanuel Carpen
ter, and formerlj' owned by P. Whipple, and which was earlj' occupied
by Joshua Baker, Francis Fish, and in more recent times by Flavel M.
"Williams, Varnam ^Vhitford, Horace Little, and others. The old, first
frame house (now, gone), built by Mr. Baker, stood on the old aban
doned road, across the creek, north-westerly and across the road
from the old barn still standing.
Joshua Baker was a brother of EUsha Baker and a son of Joshua
and  (Gates) Baker of Groton, Ct. His father was a Eevolution
ary soldier and took a prominent part in the battle at the surrender
of Fort Griswold. His mother was an aunt of EUsha Gates, an early
settler of Dimock. He had another brother Peter Baker, who came to
Brooklyn, residing for 2 or 3 years, and returned to Ct. with his fam
ily. He was born in Groton May 24, 1785, and manied Betsey Vorse
Dec. 25, 1803. He came to Brooklyn in the early part of 1814, made
a clearing on the Jeduthan Nickerson place, put in some crops, built
a log house, and went back to bring his family^'wife and five chil
dren — returning in November. The team was small and Mrs. B. often
walked, carrying the youngest child. He lived on this place about 2
years and then removed to the one under consideration, where he re
mained about 21 years and removed to Lenox, where he died Nov. 12,
1872, in his 88th year, and where Mrs. B. also died Apr. 28, 1860, in
her 78th year. Both buried at South Gibson. Elder B. was a regu
larly ordained Baptist minister. He preached many funeral sermons,
received no salarj', but supported his large family by manual labor.
He was a soldier of 1812 serving in the same fort as did his father.
before. His children were Daniel (manied Julia Case) ; Betsey (Mrs.
Samuel Eoberts); Mary A. (died January 1854); Eeuben; Abbie Jane
(manied Benj. 'Youngs who died in U. S. construction corps) ; Esther
(Mrs. Zopher R. S. Mackey) ; Margaret (Mrs. David Youngs) ; Lewis
T. (married Hannah Rose — died in U. S. service Sept. 23, 1864) ;.
Annie died Sept. 29, 1864; and Joshua T. the youngest, bom Peb. 27,
1830. Mr. B. sold the place to Mrs. Dr. BisseU. It is on the Neal Mc
Coy and Susanna Lear warrants.
Penny, Edwin W., and Sadie Barbanfc, his wife, live [1887] in the
house built by E. T. Stephens on a piece of land formerly belonging
to the Cyril Giddings lot, but now constituting part of the f ai-m of A.
S. Waldie. Mr. P. is a son of Nathan Penny of Dimock and a grand
son of Timothy and Sabra (Betts) Penny, formerly residents of Brook
lyn. His children are Grover and Frederick. His father's brothers and
sisters, children of T. Penny, are WiUiam, Lorenzo, Sarah, Loretta,
and Sidney. Timothy Penny once lived on the Varnam Saunders part
of the Samuel Yeomans place, and perhaps in the Saunders cabin, if
not, in one near it.
•This Waldie farm, on the Eobert King and Susanna Woodrow war
rants, is an old one. Years ago an old road ran through it from a
point' a Uttle east of the old Factory school-house (now gone) and a
little west of the Erastus Caswell house, southerly, by the B. S. Saun
ders house (now gone — the land being owned by Mrs. E. S. Tewks-

112 history of BROOKLYN.
bm-y) and by the older house once occupied by Caleb .Crand.^ill and
Josiah Hawley, and by a new house on this place afterwai-(i built, f ui-
ther north, by Henry Caswell, and subsequently occupied „by James
Waldie (which house was afterward burned) and oni, through the C.
M. Brewster place east of the present residence and east 'pf theEzra
Crowfoot cabin standing near it, and west of the Masb^Palmer cabin,
and thence on across the Hopbottom and up the hill, by the Joshua
Baker house (now gone) and so on to the present road near the old
cellar of the Griffis house, and by the Eose house where, ^ohn D. King
now Uves.
Caleb Crandall came from E. I. about 1812. His first wife was
 Eansom, and their children, Polly (Mrs. Aaron Saunders), Asa,
and Nancy (Mrs. Thos. Wilmarth). Second wife, Betsey t)anow, and
their children, George, Henry, and James. Last -wife, Malinda Brit-
ton, and children, Sarah (Mrs. Eeynolds), EUzabeth (Mrs. Conikd),
and Joshua (a U. S. soldier) deed. He Uved in various othpr placed in
Brooklyn, and once lived for a while on the old, now unused Nicholson
road, just below Hopbottom where remains of chimney and cellar
are still to be seen.
James Waldie was born in the vicinity of Edinbm-gh, Scotland, Jan.
6, 1812, and came with his father and mother, Jas. and Hellen (Glen-
denning) Waldie, in 1818. He married Ann Shaw of Delhi, N. York.
Their children were Nancy M. (Mrs. C. A. Giles— 2d wife) ; James
who died Sept. 4, 1859, in his 22d year; Ann E. died in childhood;
Amanda A. (Mrs. Hutson); John S., a U. S. soldier woupjled at 'battle
of Williamsburg, May 5, and died at Delhi, on furlough, Maj' 20,
1862; Alexander S.; Tyler C; and Francis B. who died in infancy.
The family came here from Delhi about 1855. They lived for a time
on the E. S. Kent farm, where James died, and where Mrs. W. died
Jan. 4, 1858, as did Mr. W.'s mother, June 1, 1857. Mr. W. subse
quently manied Emily Kent who now resides with his son Alexander.
He died (in the Henry Caswell house) Mar. 30, 1871. HiU Cemetery.
Perigo, Manning, a son of Chas. Perigo, married Ellen L. a daugh
ter of John and Edith (Case) Kingsley of Harford. Their children are
Bert M. and Edith K. Mr. P.'s brother Hem-y has also made his home
in the family for many years. Mrs. P.'s mother was a daughter of
Bela Case arid -an early teacher in the township. She died in 1883, a.,
88 yrs. Mrs. P.'s grandfather, Eufus Kingsley, was a drummer boy
in the Eevolution, was at the battle of Bunker Hill, June 17, ,1775,
then in his 13th year. He attended the celebration on the completion
of the monument June 17, 1843, and beat the reveille at sun-rise stand
ing on a platform on the monument, 200 ft. above the ground, using
the drum he had played at the battle. He came to Susquehanna Co.
in 1809. His wife was Lucinda Cutler. Both are buried in the Hill
Cemetery. Both were early mem]pers of the UniversaUst church of
Brooklyn. Mr. K. died May 26, 1846, age, 83 yrs., 3 mo., 25 days,
having been born at Windham, Ct., Feb. 1, 1763, Mrs. K. died 3 days
later, age, 79 years. They lived in a smaU house still standing near
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Brooklyn, where Mr. Kingsley built a fulling-mill (now gone) in 1810.
Mr. Perigo occupies the old homestead, on the Capt. James Stover
Wanantee, which seems first to have been in possession of David Cush
ing, or perhaps before that of one of the Fletchers whose cabin was
on the hill-top north of the present residence. It was subsequently
occupied by Isaac SterUng who ^Id it to Mary Griffith tn 1822, by
whom it was sold (through her attorney, Wm. E. Griffith) to Charles
perigo in 1823, but the Griffiths did not live on the lot nor in the
township except temporarily. Mi-. P.'s land is on three water-sheds —
toward Drj' creek, Hopbottom, and Martin.
He also owns a part of the Joseph Jackson lot including the old
building sites. The present buildings, now unoccupied, were put up
by Joshua Jackson and his son Joseph. But Isaac Aldrich (among
whose sons were David and Annanias) about 1818 and after, occupied
a log cabin further west, nearly midway between the present roads.
The frame barn that stood near the cabin is said to have been built
by Bela Case on the Chas. A. Williams place and removed. It is the
old barn stiU on the place having been again removed. Jonas E.
Adams occupied this cabin for a time as did afterward the widow'
Parrar. A deed was given by J. B. Wallace to Susanna Farrae for 21
acres in 1823, but this was doubtless for a smaU lot adjoining. Joseph,
Jackson divided the farm, giving the west part to his son Benjamin,
now owned, by C. P. Perigo. ,
Charles Perigo came from Litchfield in "the land of steady habits,"
in 1809, where he was born May 3, 1784. He married Mary, a daugh
ter of Nofih and Mary (Olney) Tiffany, June 12, 1814, Their children
were John T., and Mariettdied Mar. 5, 1844, age, 22 years. Mrs. P,
died Mar. 25, 1819. age, 29 years, 6 months, 10 daj's, and he married
Peddy Poster Nov. 25, 1819. Their childi-en were Eliza A., Mrs. Helm,
deed.'; Charles P.; George, deed.; Lydia, Mrs. Craver; William; Henry;
and Manning. Till about 1823, Mr. P. Uved on the place afterward
owned by A. G. Bailey, and he built the barn on this 2d place before
leaving the first, afterward building the present house (which has
since been re-arranged) while Uving here in the Cushing cabin. He
was a "free-holder" of the to-wnship in 1818, and a superfisor in 1815.
He took much interest in good roads, and introduced extensively the
raised "breaks" to turn the water from the track, so that these Were
sometimes called "Perigees." He died Aug. 13, 1867, iged 83 yrs., 3
mo., and 10 days, and Mrs. P. died June 2, 1866, aged 74 yrs., 8 mo.,
and 20 days. Old Cemetery.
David Cushing was on the place for about '3 years from 1816. His
Cabin stood on the east side of the road, some distance south of the
entrance to the lane leading to the present dwelling, and his clearing
was mostly on the west, extending Up the hill-side. A deed was given
from J. B. Wallace to David Cushing for 289 acres in 1816.
Joshua Jackson, Sr., came from Vt. in 181G. He was a Eevolution-
ai-y soldier. He . Uved for a time on the north side of the old (now
abandoned) road leading from the road between Mack's comers and
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114 mSTORY OF BROOKLYN.
now of Ealph SterUng. According to the assessment record he had
possession of this Aldrich lot in 1828, but he remained oh the other
one till several years after. His wife was Eleanor Pisk. Joseph Fisk,
her brother, came to Lathrop about the same time, but afterward went
to "Fisk's corners", now Niven, in Springville. The children of Dea.
Jackson, as he was called, were Susanna who married Joseph Parrar,
a Congregational minister, and died here July 6; 1835, age, 51 years,
6 mo., 18 d.; Joshua, jr.; Joseph; John (not here— died in bis 12th
yr); Eleanor (not here — died in 12th yi'.); Caleb; and Betsey who
was bom at Norwich, \V^indsor Co., Vt., June 8, 1807, and died here
in 1879 m her 73d year. For 5 or 6 years after 1823, Mrs. Fanar
owned or had the use of this Aldrich place. Her children were Miner
va, 1st -wife of Lorin Wright, Eleanor, a teacher, and Joseph T. whom
the Presbyterian "Sewing Society" — the "Ladies' Aid" of that day —
had in charge to educate for the ministry, but the purpose was never
fuUy carried out. Dea. J. died Sept. 4, 1842, aged 80 yrs., 4 mo., and
10 d., and Mrs. J., July 29, 1849, a., 80 yrs., 10 mo.
Joseph Jackson manied 1st, Eebecca Cushman, and their children
were Phebe (Mrs. Eufus Eose), and Eebecca (Mrs. Ezra S. Brown).
His 2d wife was Esther Bidwell and their children were Almira (Mi-s.
Ezra Crowfoot), Joseph P., Benjamin B., Betsey Maria, Joshua, and
Esther Jane (Mrs. E. C. Wilson). His wife Esther died May 9, 1855,
a., 66 years and he afterward manied Milly (Tarbox) widow of Dim
ock Wilson. Mr. J. was born in Londondeny, Eockingham Co., N.
H., Peb. 25, 1787, and died here August 22, 1864, in his 78th year.
Family buried in Old Cemetery. Mr. J.'s last wife died Apr. 3, 1867,
buried in Elkdale Cemetery, Clifford. Mr. J. Uved for some years on
the south part of the place now owned by Amos G. Sterling, the old
cellar and roses being stiU visible on the east side of the road. From
this he went to the place under consideration. He and his brothers
Joshua and Caleb began the first clearings on several Brooklyn
places. His grandson John, son of Maria, lived with him.
Perigo, Charles F., a son of Charles Perigo, married Lucy M., a
daughter of Joseph 'Watrous. Their children are Lib H. (Mrs. C. Y.
Burch), Mary E. (Mrs. Prank Fish), Nett (Mrs. P. C. Doran), Emma,
and clarence who died Nov. 17, 1863, age, 6 yrs., 8 mo., 6 days. This
farm, on the Eiehard Manning warrant, was previously occupied by
Jacob Whitman and by Benj. B. Jackson.
Jacob Wetman, from Herrick, married Haniet S., a daughter of T.
Jefferson Sterling. Their children are Carry C, Clara M., Prank C,
and Fred J. The family now reside in Harford. Mr. W. enlisted in
the U. S. service Aug. 11, 1862 and was in the following-named en
gagements: — Fredericksburg, ChancellorsviUe, Cold Harbor, Mine
Eun, Petersburg, Dabney's MiU, Hatcher's Eun, North Anna, Rappa
hannock, KeUy's Ford, and Wilderness. He was captured at Chancel
lorsville and was a prisoner at Libby prison for 13 days. He was on
the field at Lee's sunender and then and there drew the ball from
his gun, which he still retains as a glad memento that the work of
human slaughter was ended, and another step in the progress of hu
man libertj' had been achieved.

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Benjamin B. Jackson occupied this place for several years prior to
his death about 1856. The farm consists of part of the Joseph Jack
son place and part of the Worthing place. After Mr. J.'s death it was
sold to J. Whitman and C. M. SterUng, and not long after to C. P.
Perigo. Mr. J. was a son of Joseph Jackson and married Hannah L.,
a daughter of Thos. and Betsey (Gardner^ Lily of Bridgewateir. Their
children are Eleanor (Mrs. Byram), EUza J., Mary E., Benj. S., Bianca,
and Joseph E. Mrs. J. married again and removed to Great Bend.
, Perkins, Christopher S., a son of Francis and Eebecca (Sherman)
Perkins of Bridgewater, married Ann Eliza, a daughter of George and
Antoinette (Beardsley) Hyde of Auburn. Their children are Frank,
Charles, Antoinette, and Euth M. Mrs. P. recently died. Ella L.,
Frank's daughter, Uves in the family.'
Ebenezee Wetney bought this farm together with the Sampson lot,
directly from the state. He came here from Vt. in 1800, living first
for a short time on the Col. Bailey place before settling on this. His
1st wife was Elizabeth Eaton, and their children, Eoswell, Triphena
(Mrs. Titus), and Orange who died west. His 2d wife was Sally Pratt
and their children, Isaac, Ebenezer, AmariUa (Mrs. Maxon), David,
Ephraim, and Eeuben.
, EoswELi. WmTNEY above named, lived for a time on that part of the
land bought by his father which was afterward sold to Bristol Budd
Sampson, and near where Mark Underwood now lives. He afterward
removed to the Thos. Eobinson place in Lathrop, and afterward went
back to this Perkins place, and stUl later took up his residence in
Harford. He manied Sally Squier. Their children were PermeUa
(Mrs. Nelson Tiffany and afterward Mrs. Joseph Hawley), Harvey,
George, Polly (Mrs. Gorton), and Martin. Mrs. Hawley remembers
going to school from the Eobinson place to Mack's Corners when only
4 years old, in 1820. She went with older children after reaching
Ephraim Tewksbury's, thence by Ebenezer Jayne's, Mr. Merrill's and
Deacon Jackson's.
Perry, David C, a son of J. T. PCrry, married Sarah J. Lee, and
their children are George B., John T., and Marion L. Mr. P.'s pred
ecessors in the occupancj' of his place (on the John Dunlap warrant)
were Henry Tewksbury and Christopher C. Thayer, Horace Thaj'er;
and Joshua MUes, Jr.
Christopher C. Thayer, son of Horace Thayer, manied Sally Tewks
bury, daughter of Daniel Tewksbury. Their children were Elbert,
Pred, Frank, James, and Edmond. Mr. T. was a Union soldier. In
company With his brother-in-law, Henry Tewksbury, he took possession
of the land, and the saw-mill standing on what was a j)art of this place,
about 1851. This mill had been previously owned by Horace Thayer,
iand was the second one built by Joshua Miles. It has since been
owned by Hiram Vergason and Moses Caldwell, and has recently been
bought by Fred'k H. Tiffany and transferred to Newell Harrison. Mr.
T. removed from Brooklyi* and Mrs. T. died in Scranton in Jan. 1888,
but was brought here for interment.
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116 mSTORY OF BEOOKLYN.
Betsey Washburn and theu- children, EHzabeth (Mrs. Pope), CathariuQ
(Mrs. Mc^^^ade), and Christopher C. . His 2d wife w^s Lucy Caroline,
a daughter of Jonathan Tewksbury, and their childreri, several of whom
were, born m Brooklyn, were EmeUne (Mrs. Bm-ns), Edmond E:, Najicy
(Mrs. Lord) deceased; OpheUa M. (Mi-s. Eeuben S. Squu-es), WilhaiQ
Henry, Adaline M. (Mrs. Billings), Ansel Llewellyn, and Geo. LaM.
Mr. T., on coming to this place, first bought the grist-mill, and lived
in the house now owned by Alvah K.Gere. A short time after the
paper-mill was burned, he came in possession of the whole property;
and on the removal of Joshua Miles, Jonathan Tewksbury and -family
occupied this Perry house for some time, from which they went to
Lathrop below HiUsdale, and Mr. Thayer then went into the vacated
house. Subsequently he disposed of the whole to his son Christopher
jointly with Hem-y Tewksbury, and went to the place in Lathrop then
occupied by Jonathan Tewksbury who returned to Brooklyn, C. C.
Thaver and H. Tewksbury afterward divideii the premises between
themselves, C. C. T. taking thfe south part, and H. T., the north, the
latter living iri the Peny house and the former in the A. K. Gere
house. ' ' ',
Joshua Miles, Je., a son of Joshua, Sr., was bom Mar. 21, 1780.
He married Caeoline Caswell Apr. 3, 1808, and came to the township
-with his oldest daughter in 1810. His father soon turned over to hini
the Tewksbury saw-mill and the Miles grist-mill by it, and the land
on which these mills were situated was deeded to him bj' J. B. Wal^
lace Sept. 2, 1812, being 16^ acres Ij'ing in the south-east corner of
the Pa'ge or J. Tewksbury lot, and the west Une of it extending from
the bridg-e south of the viUage to the Yeomans lot line south of the
house of E. S. Eldridge, and the'lot extended' from that line east to
the east side of the old lot. He afterward added to this 16| acres this
D. C. Perry lot and the land now owned by E. S. Tewksbury, A. K.;
Gere, P. H. Tiffany, and A. A. Quick, the south part of it being on
the Susanna Woodrow wanantee. About this time he built a house
near the old mills, on the old road, in what is now the New Cemeterj'.
-Aji apple orchard was set out here either by Joshua Miles or by some
one before him: He did not put up the Perry house probably till 181§
or 1819. , ..
His children were Lucy CaroUne (Mrs. Braton Eichardson) ; Chas,
Wesley, born Aug. 16, 1812, either in the, old mill house or the "Old
Abbey"— died Mai-ch 21, 1851 in, SterUng, IU,; Mary, born Jan, 24,
1815 void mill house) married Horace E, Mack, Feb, 26, 1835, who
died Apr. 13, 1851, and she became the 2d vnie of Hezekiah Windoni
and step-i|jqther of the present U, S, Secretary of Treasury; Sarah
(Mrs, Fassett) ; Harriet N., born (probably in old miU house) Sept. 6,
1819, and dijed (in Peiry house) Maj'-29, 1840; Jane E. (born in Perry
house)— Mrs.' J. H. Humphrey— died in 111. July 5, 1850; AUce L., b,
March 24, 1825, and died in Sterling, III, Nov. 22, 1858; Frances Li
(Mrs. Eufus DeGarmo); EveUne W., born^pr. 5, 1830, died June 7,
1847 in 111.; and Helen Ada (Mi-s. Peter DeGarmo).
Joshua Miles disposed of the flrst old mill lot as follows: — May 12,

HOMESTEADS AND PEOPLE. ll"?
1817, he and his -wife Caroline deeded to Stephen Bagley, ^Ebenezer
Paine, Jedediah Lathrop, Jonathan Tewksbury, Samuel Yeomans,
John Wilson, EU Meeker, and Barney Hayden, trustees of the Metho
dist Episcopal Church, land 6 by .12 rods for church use, the first
church building of the township being then upon it, buUt in 1812 ox
J813. J. B. Wallace had given 37 acres of land toward the erection
of this house, which Edward Paine took, and paid the avails and more
¦feo accomplish the purpose. 'This house was never finished but takeij.
down about 1830 and the present one put in its place, Joshua IMiles
being the builder. It was remodeled in 1867. The latch on the old
Jst church was put on a door in the Jonathan Te-wksburj' house, now
^. E. Gere's. The space between the church and the old road became
a sort of public green. Brooklyn had for many years a uniformecl
company of volunteer infantry and "trainings" were often conducted
pn this green. Abel Hewitt, A. B. Merrill, and E. G. WUliams are
femembwed as captains.
In 1828, six acres rnore of this old lot were deeded to Caleb Jackson,
taking all that remained west and south of the mill-pond. The north
part of this is now occupied by the New Cemetery which was estab-
lised in 1883, tbe remnants of the old orchard being removed. The
rest of the lot north and east of the pond, Mr. Miles retained as long
as he remained in Brooklyn, and the Moses Caldwell, C. C. Burch, an^
A.. Titsworth lots were afterward taken from it, and Mr. Perry still
bias a piece pf it on the east.
' The old mill house, after Mr. Miles left it in 1819 or 20, had many
occupants. Thos. Garland went into it soon after, His oldest daughter
Susan M. was born there in Nov., 1821, and the post-office was doubt
less there from 1821 to 1823, Mr. G. being P. M. Amos Crandall,
UniversaUst minister, lived there and died there July 2, 1824. Hilliard
gterUng lived there some two years, his son Ansel being born there
Oct. 8, 1825. Walter Adams also Uved there, as did Jacob Worthing
and probably others.
The old grist-miU built by Joshua Miles, Sr., near the first saw-mill
(at south-east corner of Ne^y Cemetery) seems soon to have been given
up and a new pne built by Joshua Miles, Jr., a Uttle south-west of the
present house of A. A. Quick, probably in 1814, while the old saw-mill
was retained and used several years longer. May 1, 1815, on petition
of Hezekiah Olney and others, P. Catlin, Joseph Chapman, Latham
'WUliams, Fred'k Bailey, Jeremiah Gere, and Elijah Mack were ap
pointed viewers, and soon reported a road, beginning on the east bank
of Hopbottom creek, opposite the cotton factory (the east and west
i-oad seems already to have been estabUshed at that point) thence
alono- near the grist-Ml of Joshua Miles, and so on nortberly and
then°aci-oss the creek and along the west bank to J. Miles's saw-mill.
So tbe new grist-miU was built /5^/^r^ this time. The water to run
this miU was taken through a long race (a pfprt of it stUl in use) fron)
a low dam not far from the present house of E. S. Tewksbury and
near where the paper-miU was afterwai-d built. This race was dug
mostly by Caleb Crandall. Joshua Baker and others also worked on
it Asa Crandall (the wheel-wright), Sheffield g-aunders, Eowland

118 mSTOEY OF BEOOKLYN.
Miles, Erastus Caswell, and others were mUlers. The three last named
were also the fii-st millers in the 2d miU built by Joshua Miles.
The present stone dam, near the present saw-mill was not built tiU,
probably, about 1821 or 22, and possibly a Uttle later yet. Walter
Adams and Wm. S, ChampUn were the builders. The race was dug
from this dam to join that atready made, furnishing the water-power
to drive other machinery soon erected by Mr. Miles — the new saw-
mUl (near the west end of E. S. Tewksbury's garden), the oil-miU
further south, and the paper-mill between the two. According to
assessment, the oil-miU was up in 1824 and the paper-mill in 1825. ^
Some years after, the grist-mUl at the end of this race-way was-
superseded by another erected by Mi-. Miles where the present one
stands, another dam being constructed near it to add to the efficiencj*'
of the water from the race. This 2d dam not proving very effectual,
especially after the form of water-wheel was changed, was allowed to
fall into disrepair, and after Esq. Caldwell owned the mill, he put in
a steam engine to supplement the grinding force in time of drouth.
This mill went into the hands of Horace Thayer and Thayer &
Tewksbury as already stated. Wm. Watterson next o-wned it, when it
was destroyed by fire and by him replaced with the present structure,
which was bought by Breed (S. W.) & Caldwell, Moses Caldwell
afterward becoming sole owner, since whose death it has been sold
to P. H. Tiffany and by him turned over to Newell S. Harrison.
Messrs. Fargo, Fisk, Glaise, Beardsley, Newton, AUen, Crock, Harri
son, Hutchings, and Eemaly have been miUers.
After some years Mr. Miles built another saw-mill above the road-
crossing and bridge and near the dam where it now stands. The 1st
mill built by him a Uttle below was taken down, and the road has
since been changed to the east bank of the pond. And this 2d one is
now to be taken down, P. H. Tiffany retaining the land, having only
sold to Mr. Harrison the water-privilege for the use of the grist-mill. .
Mr. Miles also built a saw-miU in what is now Lathrop, on Horton
creek below the Phelps house.
In the oil-mill. Unseed oil was made for a time by grinding and
pressing flax seed; and in the upper part of the building wool-carding ¦
machinery was put up. This was before the cotton apparatus in the
"factory" had been changed to woolen. In the paper-mill, Mr. Miles
spent much time and means to perfect machinery and processes.
Coarse paper was made of straw and other vegetable fibre, writing
paper was made of cottori rags, and printing paper was made of bass-
wood fibre, a process which in after years became common, but was
then one of the first experiments in that direction. The chips were
cut from the log by gouges operated by machinery, and ground into
pulp after being softened by an alkaline preperation. A small dwell
ing-house was bmlt near the paper-mill. In this, C. C. Daley and
others lived. A school was also onCe taught in it by Miriam' Worthing'.
After the paper-miU had just been brought into successful operation,
it was bumed one night late in the fall of 1842. In 1844 Mr. Miles
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Aug. 10, 1863, in his 84th year. Mrs. M. died there Jan. 22, 1853 in
her 62d j'ear.
Perry, Wm. L., a son of J. T. Perry, married Eliza M. a daughter
of Wm. Baker from Dimock, and their chUdren are Mary (Mrs. Mack)
and Arthur. His place (on the Elizabeth Jackson wanantee) was pre
viously occupied by Wm. Bakee, Prank Williams, and Stephen Will
iams, Sr. Stephen Bagley also oujce held the lot, as a deed was given
Isy him to Stephen Williams, for 61 acres, in 1814. It is possible that
Mr. B. did not live upon it.
Stephen Williams, Sr., came to the township in 1812. He was a
cooper. Hip 1st wife was Polly Williams, a sister of Henry WilUams
of Spring-ville. Their children were Amos, John P., Lydia (Mrs. Wash
ington Baglej'), Sally (Mrs. Lyman Kellam), Stephen, Jr., Mary (Mrs.
tearnes), Angeline, and Emily (Mrs, E. G. WilUams). Mrs, 'W. died
Sept. 1'7, 1839, a,, 53 yrs., 1 mo., 23 d,, and Mr, W. afterward manied
Deborah, widow of Eluah Newton, Mr, W. died May 26, 1846, age, 63
yrs,, 8 m,, 9 d. Hill Cemetery.
Porter, LaFayette, UniversaUst clergyman, occupied the village par
sonage in spring of 1889 when he removed to Waterloo, Iowa. Hi^
wife was Charlotte VanDerKar, of Orleans Co,, N. Y, and they have
a son Judson no-w in Va. Mrs, Porter also often fills the ministerial
Sesk. Before this place was occupied as a parsonage it was established
as a residence by Asa 'Te-nksbury who removed to it the old village
school-house and fitted it for a dwelling. O. G. Hempstead afterward
i)ought the premises, took down the' relic of earlier times, and erected
the present house. Mr. Porter's clerical predecessors were N. Snell
(not in parsonage), J, M, Clark, J. M. Getchell, Asher Moore, and Hi
feoughton. And his predecessors m the occupancy of the pulpit,
before the parsonage was established, were Nelson DooUttle, A. O.
WaneUj J, B. Gillman, J. E. Mack, Jas, S, Palmer, T, S. Bartholomew,
Thos, J. Crowe, Alfred Peck, George Eogers, Chas. E, Marsh, Amos
Crandall, and B. Streeter. Since Mr, Porter left, O, E. Beardslej', now
of Hopbottom but a former teacher in the graded school here who
subsequently entered the ministry, has been employed to conduct
services. These back to Mr, Boughton, have occupied the commodious new
,chm-ch built (by Jas.W, Mack) in the village, and dedicated Sept. 2,
1874, at a meeting of the Susquehanna Association just 50 years afteir
its formation. The others, back to' Mr. Marsh, occupied the old church
on the hill built (by Enoch Lord) in 1824, and dedicated Nov, 25,
1825, This structure, on the old Mclntire lot, was a conspicuous ob
ject visible from points many miles away in various directions. It was
furnished at Srst with olii-style square /^-k'j:, but it was remodeled in
1854, and supplied with the first church bell of the to-vvnship, the
same one now in the new church. After this edifice had been dis-
jnant-led of all but its ponderous frame, in 1872, the memorials under
Its corner-stone were taken out exactly forty-eight years after having
been deposited, and were placed under the Cornerof the new btulding.

120 history of BROOKLYN.
All was soon after removed. It is remembered that when these hea-?y,
timbers were put up, a rope in the tackles used, parted, "and Capt.
Eandall, a sailor, spUced it. Edward Packer, Asa Packer, and. Eufus
Holdridge were assistant builders. Mr. Porter also preached in this
old chm-ch for a time during the war, before Mr. Boughton and after
Mr. Doolittle, Uving one year with Eob't K. BaUey.
Ashee Moore now of Hammonton, N. J., was- of Quaker descent^and
a native of Philadelphia. His daughters Emma now deceased, EUza,
and Mary Uved vrith him here. ¦ .
Haevey Boughton had married Aijoe Woodbury of a literary iaipily
of Mass, Their children are Eugene (a soldier who died in service),
Ellen (Mrs. Post), Alice (Mrs, Hewitt), Frank (Mrs, Chace)," Chas, H,
a dentist, Julia (Mrs, Hand), and Geoi'ge.
Nelson Doolittle was born in New Milford. He was an early
teacher here. He manied Catharine Stephens, and their children
were Ellen and Jennie, and George and WilUam who were soldiers.
Mrs. D. died here and was buried among her kindred in the Cem
etery on the New Milford road in Bridgewater,
James S. Palmer, a son of E, H. Palmer, was for some years an edi
tor. He mai-ried Caroline Hickox and their children are Helen, Martha,
and Eunice (Mrs. Vail). Mr. P. now resides at Mansfield, Pa.
Charles E, Marsh died here Mar. 10, 1828, and was the first one
buried in the Hill Cemetery. Amos Crandall also died here July 2,
1824 (the date pn the monument is wrong) and was removed and
buried beside his successor. The next interment was that Of Mrs. Col.
Bailey who died Sept. 9, 1828, and two others soon after, those of
Joseph Chapman, Jr., who died Sept. 17, 1829, and EUza Mack, '/wife
of Preston Tiffany, Sept. 30, 1829. This cemetery came origirially
from the lots of Edward Packer, Sr., and Jonathan Tewksbury} and
has recently been enlarged. The number of graves in it, as counted
by E. T. Stephens in 1888, was 282, while the Old Cemetery con
tained about 750, and the New 34, making, with those in the Prince
Perkins, Milbourn, and Newton grpunds, and the single ones else
where, about 1150 in the to-wnship. -
Orlando G. Hempstead put up this parsonage house in 1857, A. E.
' and I. S. Tewksbury being the builders. He came with his father G.
D. Hempstead from Ledyard, Ct. when a child in 1825 or 6,' remain
ing here about 1 J years, when he removed -with the family to Dimock.
About 1855 he came again to Brooklyii, engaged for a number of years
in the mercantile business. He subsequently removed to. I'biladelphia
where he was officially employed in the , U, S. Custom House for a
time, and has since, in company -with his son, established- a custom
house forwarding agency. In 1845 he married EuzA O. Tyler of
Dimock. Their chUdren are Delos B. of New York City, Ernest A. of
MeadviUe, Pa., and WilUam O., Minnie E., and Harry N.,'of Philad'a.
Asa Tewksbury came to Lathrop with his father Ephraim (a son of
Isaac) about 1815. He married Nancy, a daughter of Noah and Nancy
(Mack) Pratt and their chUdren were George W. and Edwin G. who
died on this place Oct. 26, 1852, age, 11 yrs. Mr. T. came to Brook-

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lyn to live about 1846. He removed to Hopbottom where he died Jan.
19, 1871, age, 74 yrs., 6 mo. Old Cemetery.
Pratt, Ephraim, a son of Albert Pratt and grandson of Noah and
Nancy (Mack) Pratt, and Eachel E., a daughter of Ira Waterman, his
wife, with their children Addison G. and Ira J., reside on and work
tJie farm of A. S. Waldie [1889]. Mi-, P. was a soldier.
Quick, Alvah A., a carpenter and a son of Johnson Quick, married
Eliza J. Eandolph of Rah way, N. J., and they have a son 'WilUam E,
He occupies the place formerly owned by his father, and before that
by Wm. Watterson. who buUt the present residence on nearly the same
ground where for many years stood the house long occupied by Row
land Miles, on land then belonging to Joshua MUes, Jr. Mr. Watterr
son also removed the old Factory school-house to the premises where
it stiU stands.
Johnson Quick came to Brooklyn from Deckertown, N. J., about 1849,
but not then to this place. He was a son of Joseph and Sarah (Compr
ton) Quick and married Harriet EstUe. Their children are Sarah (Mrs,
L, Beach), Catharine (Mrs, L, K. Tewksburj), Alvah A,, Joseph B,,
Thomas E,, and AUce (Mrs. D. A, Titsworth), Mr. Q. was a wagon-
maker. He died Aug, 17, 1882, aged 76 years, and Mrs. Q. has since
resided with her son Alvah.
Wm. Watterson was a mill-wright. He built this house (about 1860)
while owning part of the grist-mill near by, Frank Tewksbury then
owning the rest. His wife was Jerusha Vergason. He had a son Julius
and a daughter Addie (Mrs. Matthewson). He died at Hopbottom soon
after leaving Brooklyn,
RowiAND Miles was born in E, I,, but came here from Hartwick,
Otsego Co,, N. Y„ in 1821, He was a son of Jesse Miles and married
first Betsey Ashcraft who did not come here. Their children were
Charles and Betsey Q&x%. David Kent), His 2d wife was Claeissa
EicE, and their chUdren, Eeuben Orson, Haniet (Mrs, Stone), Henry,
and James who died in the army, Mr, Miles ran the gristrmill for a
long time. He died June 21, 1869, age, 84 yrs., 4 mo„ and Mrs. M.
died Sept. 21, 1877, age, 90 years.
Quick, Joseph B., a son Of Johnson Quick, mamed Maggie M,, a
daughter of 'Wm, W, and Sarah (Sims) Munroe of Eahway, N, J., and
their children are WUliam and Loren. Mrs, Quick is a writer under
the nom de plume, "Mis Dejdn Spavin," Her father and mother took
up their abode with her, where the latter still remains, Mr, Munroe
died here suddenly May 21, 1876, aged 61 years, Mr, Quick is a car
penter and often temporarily absent from home. The place is on the
S'jsanna Woodrow and Susanna Lear warrants, and its previous occu
pants have been Henry Caswell, Geo, McAlpine, and Cyril Giddings,
Others were in the house near the cotton factory,
Heney Caswell, a son of Erastus Caswell, married Lydia W, Can,
a sister of Mrs, 'Wm, Bound, Their children were George who died
Feb. 19, 1872, aged 25 years; WUliam E,; and Lucy M, (Mi-s. B. E.
•VanPleet), who died May 7, 1880, age, 34 years, Mr, C, died (with his

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son Will) Cct. 16, 18e6, a., 67 years, and Mrs. C, Feb; 5, 1882, a., 68
yeai-s. Before coming to this plaae Mr, Caswell built the house on the.
old road, southerly from big ,f atii.er's, whel-'e he Uved some years.
Geo. McAlpine Cajiie from.'jAbington to Brooklyn about 1847. He
was a furniture maker and carried on his occupation in a shop on the
Whipple-dam, (where he built a house and jiived for some years) and
also in^jthe old factorj' on this place. His s^Cfigd wife was Luci M,, a
daughter of CYRiLiGiDDiNafe, feeii- childreri ;Were Frances, Samuel, and
John G. who died on thisplace June 9) i359, at the age of 4 yrs. (Mr.
M.'s'.first -wife was Fanny Giddings, a cotfsiri of his 2d, and their chib
dren, Lucinda, Lydia, .¦ and Jaifies). He returned to Abington about
1867' Where Mrs. M. diedSApr. 20,18f5,'«,ged 56 yrs., 2 mo., and Mr.
M., July 19, 1880, a., 71 yrs. Buried in.Olql Cemeterj'.
Cyeh. Giddings came fi'cte-Franklin, New London Co., Ct,, in-:1811.
He built the present house'a year or two after. He and Lucz Miles,
a daughter of Joshua Miles, Sr., Were married here bj' Joseph Wood,.
a Congregational minister. Their- children were John T. who .began
preparing for the ministry, and died Aug. 8, 1840, a., 25 yi-Si, It mo.,
and 11, days; Sally B.,'.died in chUdhood April 9, 1818; Lucy Mary'
(Mrs. McAlpine); Sarah Miles; and DeborahrJVIatilda (Mrs. , Champ- -
Un). Fanny Carpenter, conimonly-known as "Old Fanny" lived in the
family for a long time. 'She'hadprevioiisly lived with the HortonS at
the mouth of Horton creek. She died here "on the town," eccentric
and friend lessj; but none the less deserving mention. Bird Emriaons
was also a member of the family for some years, as was Albert Crowr
foot. .J. ' ' , . ¦ 1
Mr. G. was the jfirst constable of Waterford — sworn in at Montjtose,.
Apr. 25, 1814, aud was chosen Deacon pf .the Congregational chiffch
(after the death, of Deacon Tiffany)' Sept. 5, 1818, ,4fter the- cotton
factory ceased to:be-''U8ed for cotton spinning, he bought a part of the
factory lot of 18 acres (which part now belongs to this farm) includ
ing the factory building, and land' covering the water privilege, with
the accompanj'ing factory dwelUng-house on the south side of the
road, but not the twp on Ihe north side, though" it does include the '
site of the Eand bl&,cksmith-shop north of the road, nearer the creek.
In this dwelling, after it ceased , to beused'iri conriexion with the cot
ton works, 'a number of persons- resided. Mary (Cady) Miles, -widow
of Joshua Miles, Sr., lived, 'there -with her family a short time af'ter
his death.^ Lucius. Eobinson Uved in it for a time about 1826, while'
Eowland Miles (perhaps with Paskee, his brothe'ify was stiU occupying
the house built by, him and nov?; standing! Ori tho north side ofthe
road. Mr. Eobinson was a son of 'NeWell Eoi'iNSON and'Matilda Gid
dings, his first -wife; who was a sister of Deacon Giddings. TTtbam
Eockwell whose -wife was Eebecca Meeeitt, and whose children were
Jane (Mrs. Jed. Safford), Harriet, Hiram, Elizabeth, Worden, Mary,
Lj'dia, and Almira, was hei^e;for a time...^S'HEFriSLD Saun];>ees, Chris-',
topher Penny, and probably others also Uved tere. The house was
afterward moved up the hill and placed across the road from the
present residence where it still stands. Sarah Miles, a sister of Mrs.
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Mary S. Wright, a daughter of Loren and Minerva (Fanar) Wright,
and subsequently marned Esq. Stone, and removed to Abington where
she died.
A little east of this house just on the west bank of the Hopbottom
and just south of the bridge stood the building in which the first and
Only experiment, in the twp. and doubtless in the county, was made
to manufacture cotton. This factory (some remnants of foundation
still left) was built by Edward Paine with the co-operation of several
others, in 1812-14. Samuel Yeomans and Thos. Bagley went to Phila^
delphia with two ox-teams and brought the machinery, taking 23 days.
Considerable quantities of yam were spun which was woven into cloth
by the housewives of the township in the hand looms of which almost
every house then contained one. Among the persons who worked in
the establishment or who were otherwise connected with it are re
membered: Stephen Smith, Asa Crandall, Eobert Eand, Nathan
Thayer, Giles Bailey, Barnard Worthing, Jacob Worthing, Andrew
Tracy, J. H, Chapman« Danl. Tewksbury, EUza Cone, and others. But
the fall of prices in cotton goods after the close of the war, with the
long distance to haul the cotton overland, rendered the enterprise a
financial failure, and about 1815 it was sold to John Seymour & Co,
of Harford, in whose hands it remained till 1825, when it was bought
by Cyril Giddings and Lucius Eobinson and converted into a wool-
carding and cloth dressing estabUshment. In later j-ears it was used
for a bedstead and furniture factory and afterward was taken down.
Part of the wall of the old dam remains.
It was on a south-east comer of this old factory lot, a Uttle east of
the bridge, that the first factory school-house was built. The following
are teachers remembered in this school but the order of time cannot
easily be fixed:

Edwin Steams,
Sophronia Wilson,
Amos O, Adams,
Margaret Parke,
j EUzabeth Eobinson,
j (sister of Lucius, Sr.)
WilUam Coy Tiffany,
j Olivia Loomis,
¦j (Mrs. O. Carpenter)
Albert Packer,
( Lucy Loomis,
|(Mrs, A.J, Tiffany)
WilUam D, Yaple,
j Lucy C, Miles,
j (Mrs, Dr. Richardson)

Charles Mack,
Lucy M, Giddings,
WilUam Main,
Adaline Skidmore,
Ariel Can,
Emily Gere,
N. Judd Wilson,
Marv A. Weston,
P. H, Tiffany,
Betsey Chapman,
Sarah Giddings,
Mary Smith, [Franklin]
Lvdia Wade,
PLebe Niles,
Nancy Tewksbury.

Quick, Horace Dunning, on the Sarah Otto lot [1888], is a son of
A. C, and Lydia (Knapp) Quick and married Sarah D, Carman of
¦Wantage, .N. J. They have a daughter Mattie.
Remaly, Wilson P., from Lehigh, Co., occupies the mill house now

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belonging to N, S, Harrison, His wife was Mary Barthold and their
children are Francis W. and Eve J. .. "
Reynolds, Hothir, a son of Nathaniel, married Eliza, a daughter of
EUas and Sylvia (Wright) Sweet formerly of Harford. Their children
are Alpha, Louisa deceased, and Hoi-ton. He occupies the farm for
merly owned by Ezra Brown, Sr., on the Abraham McKiririey war
rant, on the Hopbottom, and on the Bridgewater border,
EzEA, Beo-wn was a brother of Timothy and Eoswell Brown and
came to this place from Ct. about 1813, cleared the land and Uved
upon it about 32 years. His 1st wife was Nancy Bolles. Their' children
were Ezra S,, Clark,- Fanny (Mrs, Beebe), Deborah (]Mi's,'Derbj'),
Lyman, Hosea, Amanda (Mrs, Gordon), Lorenzo, Clarissa (Mrs, Mat
thews), and Julia (Mrs Davison), His 2d wife was Mrs. Lucy Lott,
Reynolds, Theodore F., a son of Nathaniel Eeynolds, occupies the
old place of his father on the John Sutton and Abraham McKinney
warrants. His siste!rs, Euphemia and Martha M., reside -with him. On
this farm, in early times, Joseph Guernsey put up a carding-mill, not
far from the dwelling. The present house is a modern structure of
brick with cedar surroundings but the primitive residence exists. ;.
Nathaniei. Eeynolds froiiji Westchester Co., N. Y., manied Saeah
Foster of E. I. and camis here in 1813. Their children were Hothir.,
Phebe (Mrs. Eogers), Oscar a soldier, Alzina; Theodore, Euphemia,,
and Martha still on the homestead; Faustina (Mrs. Johnson) and Mary
deceased, k. deed was given from J. B. Wallace to Nathaniel Eeynolds
for 228 acres in 1823. Mr. E.'s father Israel Eeynolds also came here,.
Uving for about 12 yrs. His wife was Hannah Loder, and their chil;:^.
dren, Nancy, Sally, -Nathaniel, Samuel, Joshua,, Esther, Polly, Hannah,'.^"
Abby, and Israel. Mr. E. died in 1873, about 84 years of age. Bmied"
in East Bridgewater Cemetery.
Reynolds, James W., and his mother, Keziah L. Reynolds, reside on
the Samuel Eeynolds homestead, on the John Sutton and Wm.; ColU
day wan-ants, near an old-time spring. -y
Samuel Eeynolds, of ^Vestchester, N. Y., manied Keziah Scott of
Harford, Pa. He came here in 1813. The children a,re. Jas. W., Wm.
U., Amelia (Mrs. Darrow), Lavinia J. (Mrs. Latourrette), and Winfiejd
S. Mr. E. died in 1885 nearly 95 years of age. Mrs. E. lives at the
old home with her son and daughter.
Richards, Mrs. Elizabeth, formerly EUzabeth Phillips, living with
her son Henry A., is the widow of Lemuel Eichards who died here
Mar. 7, 1887, aged 73 ye3*B,-2 months, 9 days. Buried in Ndw Cein.
They came to Brooklyn ftom Philadelphia about 1841. The chUdren
are EmeUne (Mrs. Sax), Charles P, a Union soldier, Jose|)h D. alsci a
soldier, wounded in service, Isadore P. (Mrs.' McKinney), Heniy A.,
and Hattie E, deceased. Mi-. E. was likewise a soldier in the ambu
lance service. This place iri connection with the land after-ward sold
to A. C. Speny and now occupied by Javan L. Sterling, has had many
occupants — Daniel Torrey, Samuel Daniels, John M, "SNYDEB'a
Methodist minister, Andrew Eogers, Palmer M. Way" a physician.

homesteads and people. 12S:
Alden Seeley, Eeastus Casweli., and perhaps one or two others. In a
permanent spririg up on the hiU-side on this place, a piece of copper
ore was once found, which created quite an excitement at the time.
Zarah Sutliff dug quite extensively to find larger deposits of the metal
but the search proved futile. Many persons visited the spot, and it
was afterward reported that the lump of ore had been dropped there
either by accident or design, A deed was given from J, B. Wallace,
by his attorney, J. W. Eobinson, for 73 acres in 1817, The lot is bound
ed' in this deed by Jacob Tewksburj- on the north, by Joshua Miles
on the east, by Edward Paine on the south, and Daniel Lawrence on
the west. Deed aeknowliedged before Edward Paine, J, P. Andi-ew .
Eogers who had the first deed sold the lot to Palmer M. Way in 1830,
and bought it back in '31, He sold it (60 acres) to John M. Snyder
in 1838, the remainder having been added to the place on the west,
Daniel Toeeey came to this place about 1840 or perhaps a little be-
fore. He was a Methodist clergyman. His wife was Betsey, a daugh-,
ter of Isaac Smith. They had no children but an adopted daughter,
Alvira, a daughter of E. T. Stephens by first marriage, and a sister'
of Henrietta, the adopted daughter of S. K. Smith. Mx. T, died Sept.
30, 1857, age, 57 yrs,, 5 ma, 8 days, and Mrs. T., Nov. 28, 1862, age,
58 years. Old Cemetery.
Andrew Eogers, son of Capt. Andrew and Elizabeth Eogers, came
from MontviUe, Ct,, in 1815 or '16. His wife was Silance P., a daugh
ter of Gurdon and Parnal (Phelps) Ely of Lyme, Ct, He was a hatter.
They had one son, Gurdon B., and adopted another, Freeman, a son
of Allen La-wrence. Mr. E, was born in 1792 and died Apr. 4, 1878,
age, 86 years. Mrs. E. was bom in 1798 and died Apr. 23, 1840, age,
42 J'ears. Old Cemeterj'. Freeman died and was buried in Eush.
Richards, Charles F., a soldier, and a son of Lemuel Eichards,
married first Nancj' Eosecrantz and their children are Isadore E. and
Bertha E. His 2d wife was Mary E., widow of Edward E, Wright
and daughter of Stephen S. Gavitt, and they have a son Edward. Mr.
E.'s predecessors were Lewis N. Lines, Erastus Caswell, and Asa
Crandall, the wheel-wright. Others have also lived on the place, as
Thomas Garland and Daniel Cone, each for a short time. '¦
Asa Crandall seems to have been the first. He had a deed for 57
acres from J. B. ^Vallace in 1821, but was assessed with it for several
years before. He was a relative of Mrs. Joseph Peckham, . Jr. -^a
school-teacher, made chairs, and wheel-heads and wheels for spinning,
and was miller'dn the first mill built by i^oshua Miles, Jr., living
sometimes in rooms in the mill (as did also Erastus Caswell and Me,
Lambert sometimes, when millers), and is remembered also in one of
the "factory" houses, while tending the mill. He came to the township
tn 1813. "Was from Chaiieston, Washington Co., E. I. His wife was
Matilda Saunders and their children were Eliza, Mary, John H.,
Eebecca A., Artemisia S., Asa, Sarah M., Hannah, and Chas. M. who
established the recent toy factory at Montrose, now removed. Mr. C.
went to Bridgewater in 1824.
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lived a whUe in the Cady family (family of the mother (d Joshua
Miles, Jr.) in Brooklyn, Ct., went to "Black Eiver country," Jefferson
Co., N. Y., whence he came here as early as 1815 according to assess
ment, and perhaps earlier. He married Lucy Carey in 1817. • He first
owned the improvement on the Andrew Eogers lot where h* built a
barn now gone, and where some remember ; that he lived for a time,
but others think not. His oldest son was born in Brooklyn in 1819.
Not long after, he removed to Hanover, just below Wilkes-Bane,
where his two oldest daughters were born, and where his wife's peo
ple resided, they having been in the Wyoming settlement at the time
of the Massacre, He returned to Brooklyn in 1824 and bought this
place, the house beinjg then temporarily occupied by Thomas Garland
who removed to Esq, Packer's in 1825, when Mr. C. took possession.
The house was afterward remodeled and enlarged. The land is on
the Susanna Woodrow warrant. The children were Henry, Lydia C,
(Mrs, J. Lines) deceased, Mary L., Joshua M. who died at the age of
10 years, James deceased. Wealthy E,, and Huldah J, deceased. Mrs.
e.died Oct. 9, 1855, a., 64 yrs., 8 ma, 15 days, and Mr. C, Peb. 1,
1869, a., 82 years. Henry was likely born on the Eogers place.
Joseph Lines, Jr., about 1855 bought a house lot on this Caswell
place and soon put up a dweUing. To his first lot he added a lot from
land formerly belonging to Joshua Miles, Jr., and afterward added 11
acres from the Charles Kent or Latham 'WUliams place. He afterward
bought another portion of the Caswell lot including the Caswell resi
dence, which he occupied with L. N. Lines, whUe other portions of
the Caswell place had been sold to others. These Lines purchases are
what Mr. Eichards now o-wns. Mr. Caswell before his deaith deeded
to his daughter, Mi's. Lines (Lydia), "the spring lot" which Mrs. Lines
conveyed by wUl to the children of L. N. Lines who now own it.
Joseph Lines, Jr., was a carpenter and an extensive grower of straw
berries and other small fruits. The house he built here was burned
Apr. 1 7, 1880. : His wife was Lydia Caswell and they had a daughter
Eva who died Oct. 14, 1857 in her 7th year. Mr. Lines died Dec, 10,
1882 in his 59th year, and Mrs. L., instantly from a faU down stairs,
Oct. 11, 1884 in her 64th year.
Richardson, Joseph D., from Harford, is a shoemaker at Alford.
His wife was Lucy Tiffany now deceased. They had a daughter EUz
abeth also deceased. Mr. E. is of the Francis Eichardson family.
Ring, David J., a son of Eeuben French Eing occupies a small lot
on the James Hewitt or Edward Paine place, where he has built a
house. He married Emugene, a daughter of Jas. He-witt. Their chil
dren are George J., Anna M, (Mrs.' Whitman), and Ai-thur C. Mr. R.
has been a teacher for a long time.
, Ring, George J., has built a dwelling near that of his father David.
His wife was Dora Vargason and they have one chUd.
Rogers, Gurdon B., a son of Andrew Eogers 1st, occupies the south
west part of the old lot taken by Mortimer Page in 1787 and succes
sively by Jacob Tewksbury, Joshua Miles, Sr., and by Noah and

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Arunah Tiffany. He is a local Methodist minister and has been a mag-
istrate. His wife was Julianna Tucker, of Dimock, and theu- children
were Silance E. (Mrs. Jos. L. Eej'nolds) deceased; Lucella E. (Mrs.
Eichardson) who died AugTist 12, 1882, aged 34 years; Jane O. (Mrs.
Whitney) died July 13, 1882, a., 30 years; Gm-don Curtis; and Mary
E. (Mrs. Morgan). Mrs. Eogers died Nov. 18, 1878, aged 59 j'ears;'
Old Cemetery.
Rogers, Andrew, a son of Lebbeus Eogers, manied EUzabeth S.,
daughter of John E, Babcock. Their chUdren are Fannie E. (former
ly Mrs. P. L. Lindsey),: Chas. L., Will J., and LilUe M. (Mrs. ^Valter
Ely). The place (on the Jas. Torbit wanantee) was previouslj' held
by Hiram Ely, Obadiah Green, and John E. Babcock It has a fine
spring, not far from which a Methodist camp meeting was held about
1836-'7 on ground now cleared.
¦John E. Babcock, according to tax list, was here as early as 1815.
His wife was Elizabeth (called also EUza), a daughter of Zelophehad
Ely, and their children, Jacob E., Elizabeth S., Louisa (Mrs. S. W.
Spencer), Charles M., John E., Lucy A. (Mrs. Brundage of Gibson),
Samuel B. deceased, and James T. ' The place seems to have been
transferred to Jacob Tewksbury in 1819 (per assessment) when Mr.
B. was absent for a time but returned, and is reported there as late
as 1826 or later. He died in Carbondale. |Iis son James lived with
Zarah Sutliff for a time, and Charles, with O. C. Ely. In the winter of
1818-19 J. E. Ely taught his first school in the log house on this
place, and Jas. W. Chapman taught his first in same house in '20-21.
Obadiah Green lived here later and made scythe-snaths of ash split
and shaved, and then steamed, and bent by fastening them into grooves
cut in proper shape around the surface of a cylinder made from a log
of wood.
Rogers, Christopher, (now [1889] temporarily residing in Bingham
ton) is a son of Lebbeus Eogers and owns the place (on the Charles
Lear and Sarah Morrison ¦ warrantees, and partly bordering on Ely
lake) owned by his father, and first taken up by Dana Fox. Mr. E.
married Mary S., a daughter of Powell G. Burch. Their children are
Frank L., Mai-y C. (Mrs. Stone), Edwin C, Clara A. (Mrs. Amos L.
Forse), and Louie S.
Rogers, Frank L., now on the above named place (a part of which
he has bought) married Hattie J., a daughter of Geo. M. Ely. Their
children are Mabel and a sister j'ounger.
Lebbeus Eogers, from Montville, Ct., in 1815, married Fanny, a
daughter of Gabriel Ely. Their children were EUzabeth (Mrs. Geo.
B. Lewis), Andrew, Charles deceased, Eachel (Mrs. A. G. Eeynolds),
Sarah E. who died June 4, 1865, aged 39 years, Christopher, Henry,
Mary J. (Mrs. J. H. Stanton) deceased, Fanny L. deceased, and Edwin
a Union soldier who died Jan. 8, 1865, aged 30 years. Mr. E. died
Jan. 6, 1872, aged 81 years. Mrs. E. died Dec. 27, 1870, age, 75 yrs.,
9 mo., and 4 days. Old Cemetery.
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Nathan Jewett, in 1811, and began a clearing on this place. He after
ward became a Methodist minister, studj'ing with Edwai-d Paine. He
died at Leavenworth, Kan., where his sons reside. He took part in
the struggle to make Kansas a free state.
Roper, John J.\ a carpenter, came here from Harford in 1855. His
2d -wife was EUza A., a daughter of Justice Kent, and then- children,
Albert, Harry, and Ella M. who died June 4, 1859, age, 3 j-ears. The
previous occupants of the place were Washington Bagley, Isaiah Haw
ley, and Caleb. Crandall ; on the south-west corner, William Cheery,
whose wifei was Lucy, a daughter of Isaac and Lydia (Ingalls) Brown
who. lived in what is now Lathrop, once had a house. The place is a
part of the Oliver Tubbs lot, on the Susanna 'Woodrow wan-ant.
Roper, Harry, and Eva Stephens (daughter of E. T. Stephens), his
wife, also occupy the same place, though temporarily absent.
Washington Bagley came with, his father Orlando when about a
year old. When he was about fourteen, the' family went to Ohio
[1817]. Some of them returned after a few years and Washington
among them: Some think he did not go, but others say he did, which
seems most likely. He was a carpenter and chair-maker. He married
Lydia, a daughter of Stephen WilUams, Sr., and their children were
Eoxena (Mrs. James Gavitt), Ellen who died Feb. 16, 1858, age, 18
yrs., 4 months, Mary (Mrs. C. M. Brewster), and EUza. Mr. B. died
(from the effects of an ax-wound) July 3, 1848, a,, 45 yrs., 6 mo., and
Mrs. B, died Dec. 7, 1853, age, 39 years. Old Cemetery.
Isaiah Hawley and Caleb Crandall are said to have lived on this
place but further back on the side-hiU, by the spring. Mr. Eoper was
born in Mass, and came first to Gibson, He then engaged in wood-
turning lathe work in Harford. His first children were Faussen a
soldier (died at Hopbottom in 1866, aged 28 years), AmeUa (Mis.
Titus), Lucy Ann (Mrs. M. L. Tiffany), J. Munay a Union soldier,
Ellen (Mrs. Potter), Emma (Mrs. Cassidy), and Alvin.
Rozelle, Edward E., was a soldier at Seven Piiies and at charges on
Ports Johnston, Wagner, and Gregg and was £lt James and Morris
Islands. And. at home he cleared two muck swamps of deep tangled
roots and planted them with battalions of onions and cabbages! He
formerly lived on the Arthur Gere place, but now on a piece of the
A. Eogers or John Babcock lot. His family is of French extraction.
His wife was Mary D., a daughter of Abijah Hinkley of Lathrop.
Their children are Clarence A,, Bert S., and^ Effie M. Mr, E,'s predcr
cessors in occupancy were Alder, Black Ash, and Pine!
Rozelle, John Andrew, from Lenox, a brother of E. E. Eozelle,
married Mary A. Cokeley, and came to this place a few vears ago. It
is on the David Torbit wanant and -v^'as formerly occupied by John
L. Bailey. Eufus Holdridge, a carpenter, who worked in Brooklyn in
early times, and who was a brother of the 2d wife of Wright Chani-
berUn of Gibson (the latter ha,ving also first come to 'Brooklj'n with
intention of settUng) once contracted for this place. And Peter "WiU
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John L. Bailey, a son" of Lodowick Bailey, Sr., married Huldah T.,
a daughter of Joseph Yeomans. Their children were Miner J. who
died Apr. 3, 1883, age, 26 yrs., 8 mo., and 7 daj's, (and whose wife,
Eosa M. died Apr. 11, 1883, age, 29 years, 11 months, and 20 days);
Bathsheba; Anna T., died July 17, 1851, age, 4 years; and Lodowick
L., died July 20, 1863, aged 8 years. Mr. B. died April 30, 1874 in
his 57th year. Hill Cemetery.
Peter Wtt,t,t.\ms was a shoemaker, itinerant, as was then the custom.
His name is on the tax Ust about 1821-2. He married Sophia Guern
sey and removed to Harford. His chUdren were Henry W. (of the Pa.
supreme court), Charles W. deed., Joseph L., and others. Mr. W.'s
father was a brother of Latham 'Williams's father, a brother of the
mother of Amos, Frederick, and Lodo-wick Bailey, and brother of Mrs.
Israel Hewitt who once Uved on the Wm. Bunnell place in Dimock.
Schwendeman, Zopher, formerlj' a E. E. employee, now owns a place
north of Joseph Oakley's. His wife's name was Mary Shoemaker and
they have a son Abner.
Shadduck, Thomas E., is a wagon-maker at the village. He mar
ried Emma D., a daughter of Dr. ChamberUn. Their children are
Eoy C, Harry T., and a son younger. The previous occupants of his
residence were Pelatiah Tiffany, and Lyman Kellam who built the
dwelling. Pelatiah Tiffany removed to it from his farm and owned
it in connection with the 'UniversaUst church lot, including the small
lot on which Abel Hewitt (a short time before his removal) built a
small house occupied by himself and others, but taken down before the
building of the church. The well attacked to it still remains. Mr.
S. was a soldier at Lynchburgh; his regiment was captured just
before the final surrender. He was in the Shenandoah Valley but
was on the sick list at the battle of Cedar Creek, when
"Up from the south at break of day,
Bringing to Winchester fresh dismay,
The affrighted air with a shudder bore,
Like a herald in haste to the chieftain's door,
The terrible grumble and rumble and roar,
Telling the battle was on once more,
And Sheridan — twenty miles away."
Sherman, Lyman, a son of Abel and Louisa (Birchard) Sherman,
and Lucy F., a daughter of Hezekiah and Matilda (Deans) Bullard,
his wife, occupy a lot recently bought of Lester Tewksbury. They
have an adopted son, Willis M. Stanton.
Simons, Calvin A., a son of Jas. Simons, and Hattie a daughter
of Henry Penny, his wife, in the Jerome Tiffany house, 1887, and
is occupying the S. W. Breed place, owned by I. W. Wright, 1889.
Simons, Julius, a son of Levi and Sally (Wright) Simons, lives
[1887] near the Dennis or Samuel Wright place on Martin creek.
His wife was Eebecca, a daughter of Nathaniel Sterling, now
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130 HISTORY OP BROOKLYN.
Smith, Andrew J., occupies the place on the Eiehard Manning
and Samuel Jackson warrants, now owned by I^ewis Hearn. His
wife was Miranda B, Dunning of' Lackawanna Co,, and their chil
dren are Effie, Edith, Minnie, Ernest, and ari irifari-fc daughter.
This place has been in possession of various pferfeons as follows :¦—
Richard McNamara, of Scotch or Irish descent, came here' in
1787 and buUt a log cabin on the flat just east of the fine spring
that now supplies the trough by the road. He planned a "yf Uow
•willow tree" near by, and he. or his successor (probably.-the latter)
set an apple orchard a little to. the north, sqme of Which still re
mains. After living here some twelve years- he I'enioved, as did his
i^eighbor WiUiam Conrad, to Harford^ and subsequently foUow^d
down Nine Partners creek and settl.ed upon it in Lenox (ab'dut
1815) where his descendants now .reside., In I799.he sold hils im
provements here to , ''"^
'¦ Joshua Sabin who was born in Dutchess Co. but came here frtem
Otsego Co.; N. Y. He had been a captain in the Eevolutionary
army. He bought land here under the Connecticut title, Eze.kiel
Hyde being . the agent. Havingcome with Hyde arid bought.the
McNamara cabin and clearing, he returned and brought his daugh
ter and. sons, tiyman and Aaron, with-furnitiire, Stc, and Jeft them
to take charge. This was in the springr.of 1799. In the fall he
brought other things including some .young ap'ple-trees. The
daughter with Aai-on and Jonathan staid through the winter^ The
whole family came in March 1800, bringing large numbers of cattle,
horses, and- sheep most of which were turned over- to pay for the
land, which he finally lost. He remained here but four years and
went to Rensselaer Co.; N. Y. where he also owned land and where
he spent the remainder of his life. These TaCts are' contained in a
letter from his son to Judge Chapman as in Miss piackman'.s His
tory. His children were Jonathan, Aaron, Lyman, Betsey^ 'Ezra,
Polly, Ezekiel, and others. The last named was born here'.
Jonathan Sabin, after the departure of hjs- father, in 1803 or ^,
left the McNamara cabin and occupied the Jiouse which he bui't
up near the top of the hill to the north. The cellar of this secoi d
Sabin house and the apple trees near it may still be seen just east
of the road. The cherry trees arte gone. This house is remembered
as built of hewed logs, having several rooms, a,nd a j)orch extend
ing on the south side of it. The well is now filled up.
Jonathan Sabin was a great hunter. While in the township he
killed several panthers, bears, and wolves,- and a larger, naimber of
deer. A portion of the original forest which was thte. scene of his
exploits, still remains. This now consists of- adj'oiriJjl^. portions of
the Sabin lot itself, with a considerable patt of '.the "Worthing lot,
with smaller pieces of the first Chas. Perigo lot, and.the Thomas
Garland lot, and a vacant lot afterward bot%ht by Jas, L. Adams,
together constituting a tract of primitive woodland greater than
the a-perage of those now left, although a majority of the farms
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older original growth has been removed. A ridge of rocks lying in
the wooded territory above described was the ground on which
Archibald Williams, in later years, trapped many foxes.
Mr. Sabin was about 21 years of age when he came from the flat
to the hill-side home. About this time he married Mrs, Eaynale (a
relative of the Worthings), Whose son E. Eaynale, afterward stud
ied medicine with Dr. Munger, and subsequently became promi-
neut in Michigan. Mr. S, removed with his wife and children to
N, Y. state in 1809, and died in Niagara Co., Jan. 25, 1870, a., 87 y.
John Seeley came to the McNamara cabin on the fiat probably
in 1809 after Jonathan Sabin left the premises, though the state
ment has been made that he came about 1804 which would be near
the time that Joshua Sabin went away. But it seems probable that
Jonathan S. used all the land belonging to the place as long as he
remained on it, Mr. Seeley appears to have been assessed with 50
acres adjoining the lower house while Luther Catlin was assessed
with the upper house and 70 acres. But John Seeley with his son-
in-law Bennett built a saw-mill on the creek above, it being near
the small piece of woods on the David Bissell place. Evidences of
the mill and dam still remain. It seems not to have been kept long
running. The reason why the mill was not built on the Sabin
land that Mr. S. occupied is evidently that fall enough could not
there be secured to produce sufficient water power. It is believed
that Mr. S. or some of his sons built a house near the mill and
lived there for a .time. The children of John Seeley were Polly
(Mrs, John (1) Bennett), Alden, Eeuben, Justus, Olivia (2d wife of
J, E, Adams), Laura (Mrs. Venner Aldrich), Cynthia (Mrs. Austin
and after, Mrs. Thos, Oakley), Eliza, and Samantha. Mi-. S, re
moved to N. Y. state about 1817.
George Maynaed a relative of the Birges was, as per tax list, Mr,
Seeley's successor either on this jslace or possibly on the Bissell
j)lace. He seems to have remained but one year. The McNamara
cabin was not used long after this, it being soon held in remem
brance as a chimney standing- a little north of the wUlow, though
Da^id Merriman succeeded Mr. Maj'nard for one year,
Putnam Catlin came to the upper Sabin house about the time Mr,
S. left in 1809, or soon after. He lived here while he was building
the residence above. Meantime he built an "office" a little north of
this Sabin house, the well being between them. In this building his
son George, afterward of greater celebrity, taught a school in the
winter of 1812-13, and Edith Case taught in it the following sum
mer— 1813.' Iri 1818-19, Dimock Wilson and family lived in it. In
after years it was moved down to the foot of the hill among the
Dewitt buildings and was converted into a com-housC where it
still stands in its departed greatness. So things of former years
pass away with their associations of renown to give place t« the
evolutions of advancing time.
Luther Catlin came to this Sabin block house from Litchfield Co.,
Ct. in 1812, about the time that his cousin Putnam moved into his
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132 mSTORY OF BEOOKLYN,
in the office, WMle here Luther built for Putnam the barn that used
to stand on the opposite side of the road, which after becoming
dilapidated was taken down some years ago by. the Gravers. Luther
CatUn was born Oct. 24, 1784 and died Feb. 4, 1885. His wife was
Oea Simmons who died Oct. 24,1872, a., 84 yrs. Their children were
Diantha (Mrs. Keelerf, Julius S., Dotha (Mrs. Wm. L.-Post), Mar
tin L., and Geo. L. Maetin L. Catlin was born in this Sabin house
May 6, 1818. His 2dwifewas:Jennett, a daughter of S. A. Newton,
and he lived were hi« son Harry and his brother Julius now live
in Bridgewater, and where .his . fa,th'er Uvec^'^ f or half a century and
died. Martin died Apr. 20,1879." Hiniself and father and mother
are buried in the Newton' Cenietery., Lrither Catlin voted for pres
ident in Nov. 1884, the 20th time, being then a little over 100 y^ars
old, A large. escort offriends.of all political parties accompanied
him to the-poUs. He left this pfaxie according to assessment record
abprit'1819. - •' . -C" '-'?:- ,:i-- --"r /
James Mtin&er -was^the.nexfe'dee'ripant.-'He wasnot a relative of
Dr. Munger. His spns'are remfenibered as JoH-n, Chrisjohn,' and Til-
lotson. His name appears on ta^S list in fell of 1818, He also lived a
while on the place aftferwSrd owfied by Stephen WilUams, Jr.
WiLi-iAM SPEdKiNAGLE QiJ Si^ECKNAGLE was here.in-1822 or 23, prob
ably about the time that Edward Otto T>egan gate-keeping on the
D,, B, Watrous place. He was Mr. O.'s step-father. He and his son
'Wm. Specknagle, Jr. were cabinet rnakers. After this it seems that
Heney Catlin occupied the pemises- for a time, and John Goss is
also saidrto haves; ence liyed. ori the ^abin lot.
Jezeeel DiwiT'p bas bis name on th« assessment as taken in the
fall of 1J828. He probably soon After buUt the present house by the"
brook. He came fro®;. ^. J. His wife was Lucy, daughter of In
crease Stoddard pf Groton, Ct. Their children were Stoddard, Evi,
Jezreel, Prudence A. .(Mrs. Shelp), Diadama (Mrs. T.'B. Morgan),
Increase, Abel, an(| Chauncey B. Mrs. D. died May 31, 1834, aged
49 years, 9 months. Mr- D.'s second wife was Esthee Lambeet, and
they had' a son Samuel M. who died June 3, 1860, age, 23 years. A
deed was given from J. B. Wallace to Jezreel Dewitt for 199 acres
in 1828. Mr. D. died March 10, 1868, aged82 years, and his wife,
Esther, Peb. 16, 1871, age, 78 years. Old Cenjetery!
Chauncey B. Dewitt occupied the old place for some years, and
subsequently removed to Lathrop. His daugbter became Mrs. B.
G. Slterlirig. The place next passed into the hands of Wm. CraveS
and was occupied by D. C. Westbrook and William Mead,
A kiln of brick was made and burned on this place in early times,
perhaps by David Morgan. Eelics of it stiU exist a little south of
the farm bridge -aefplis the Hopbottom. Early in the thirties, a
school-house was erected on the east side of the Milford and Owego
turnpike, on the south border of this place. Christopher M. Gere
and Mrs. Edward Howe (1st wife) are remembered as teachers. It-
did not stand here long, but was drawn to 'the.'north border of the"
farm of Mary Miles on the "lane" — the A. G. Bailey road-r-.where'
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south border of same farm just in the edge of the village, and was
eventually bought from the public and is now attached to the old
dwelling on said farm. The school house on the Catlin farm, which
had been drawn there from the Kent farm, was removed in the fall
of 1835 and placed on the west side of the road nearly opposite the
upper Sabin house (or rather the place where it stood), and here
Azor Lathrpp (1835-6), Latham A. Smith (1836-7), Frederick W.
Bailey, Eobert M. Bailey, Sylvia Trobiidge, Lucy L. Gere, and
probably others taught. The house was afterward occupied, while
stauding on same spot, by Mrs. Eachel Langstaff as a dwelling for
herpelf and children [about 1845-6]. Her daughter married Enoch
Sterling now of Great Bend.
Smith, Gilbert N., in the A. J. Tiffany house [1888] is a son of
Elihu B. and Fanny (Mack) Smith (originally from New London
Co., Ct., but afterward of Lathrop, Pa.) and for some years was em
ployed in the carpenter business. His 1st wife was Almira Cole who,;
died Apr. 18, 1861, age, 41 yrs. His 2d wife was Ljicy'E., widow of
A. J. Tiffany and she died at the house of her gon at Hopbottom,
Mar. 20, 1888 in her 70th year. The farm, was first taken up by
Alfred Tiffany, and afterward occupied by his son Judson Tiffany.
Mr, Smith's father died (in Lathrop) Apr. 14, 1849, age, 72, and his
mother, March 4, 1863 age, 83 j-ears. Buried in Old Cemetery.
Alfred Judson Tiffany was born on the old homestead Dec. 28,
1815. He married Lucy E. a daughter of Eldad and Fanny (Jeffers)
Loomis of Harford in which -township he lived for a . time, but re ¦
moved to his father's farm in 1851. Mrs. T. was born in Coventry,
Ct., Oct. 18, 1818. Their childi-en were Edsdn M. of Hopbottom
(who still owns the old farm), and Henry J. who died Nov. 10, 1862,
iri his I4th year. Mr. T. died at the homestead Mar. 25, 1876, in
his 61st year. Hill Cemetery.
Alfred Tiffany was a son of Thomas and^Melatiah or "Milly"
(Tingley) Tiffany, and at the age of 13 years came with his father
to Harford from Attleborough, Mass., in 1794. Among Thomas
Tiffany's brothers and sisters were Hosea and Esther (Mrs. Caleb
Eichardson, Sr.) who came to Harford, and Noah who came to
Brooklyn in 1809. Alfred Tiffany's brothers and sisters were Lo-
rinda (Mrs. Noah Potter of Gibson), Thomas, Jr., Pelatiah, Ting
ley, Diilton, and Lewis, who were born in Attleboro'; and Betsey
(Mrs. Norris of Jackson), Millie (Mrs; Corse ol Jackson), Preston
(of Dimock\ and Orville (of Nicholson) who were born in Harford.
Alfred Tiffany married Lucy Miller of Salem, Pa., but a native
of Ct., in 1806, and about that time bought (Nov. 17, 1809) directly
from the state 400 acres of land f@ 6 J cts. "^ acre) lying on Mar
tin creek, on a part of which the homestead was located. Their chil
dren were Cynthia (Mrs. Eli B. Goodrich), Anson M., Clarissa (Mrs.
Walter Pollet), Nelson, L. Emeline (Mrs. Jonas Adams), and A.
Judson. Mrs. T. was born in 1784 and died in 1816. In 1818 Mr.
T. married Fanny a daughter of Ei.isha and Lydia (Lord) Mack.
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134 mSTORY OF BROOKLYN.
L. (died in 1826 at 6 years), Chas. Horace, Hannah E. (Mrs. Stephen
Carpenter, died 1872), Pannv M. (Mrs. Jackson Tingley, died 1879),
Edwin Mack (died Sep. 26, 1888, a., 60 yrs.), Betsey N. (Mrs. Eice,
died 1873), WilUam H., Sarah M. (Mrs. George J. Benjamin, died
1878), Marvin L., Franklin E. (of Nicholson), Harriet A. (Mrs. Ho
mer Tingley), and NeweU W. (of Binghamton). Mrs. T. was born
in Lyme, Ct., in 1798, and died in 1850. Mr. Tiffany's last wife was
Patience Vance of Windsor, N. Y. She was born in 1794 and died
in 1869. Alfred Tiffany was born 1781 and died 1860.
Mr. T.'s brother Pelatiah lived with him for a time and bought
of him (Jan. 1, 1814) 120 acres of the 400 acre tract, which with
some additions constituted the Pelatiah Tiffany farm, now owned
by Albert Blake. Mr. T. subsequently sold another portion of the
tract to his son Nelson. Beside the public school which was estab -
Ushed in the school-house built on the Alfred Tiffany place and
which is still continued, several schools were earlier conducted in
the neighborhood. One was taught in the Kingsley woolen-mill
building (on the border of Harford, but for the use of Brooklyn
scholars) by G. B. E. "Wade. Mariette and Emily FuUer, Eobert
Eoberts, who came to the township with Thos. Garland, and others
are also remembered.
Snyder, Eugene Z*., is a son-in-law of C. J. Lathrop whose daugh
ter Mary T. he married. Their children are Lula and Adelia. They
live with Mr. L. and cany on his farm. Mr. S. was one of the first
to make an extensive and successful use of ensilage.
J. Tracy VanAuken, who sold this place to Mr. Lathrop, is a son of
B. W. VanAuken and married Sarah E. Gardner in 1860, and came
to the place in 1861. Their children were Ellen May (Mrs. A. B.
Wright), Eubie E. who resides with her grandmother "V'anAuken,
Lizzie J. deceased, and Alice L. Mrs. V. died May 27, 1876, age, 37
years, and Mr, V. resides in ScrantonJ
Stanton, Joseph H, married Mary Loretta, a daughter of John
Austin. They have no children except those of Mi-. S. by a former
marriage, including a daughter Lucy. Mr. S, is a shoemaker. He
came from Connecticut in 1835, Uving for a time with Joseph Peck
ham, Sr, on the Henry Mitchell place. Chaiies V. Gere built the
house here before going west, and sold it to Mr, Nickerson.
L. Jeduthan Nickerson occupied this place before Mr. Stanton.
His wife was P. Mynette, a daughter of Isaac Smith. They had no
children but an adopted daughter Helen — Mr^. Eeuben P. Eing, Jr.
They removed to Benton where their daughter was living, where
they died, Mrs. N., May 5, 1878, age, 72 years, and Mr. N., June 10,
1880, age, 78. Buried in Old Cemetery. According to assessment
he was in Brooklj'n in fall of 1828. She came with her father from
Connecticut in 1813,
Stanton, Jonas H, was a son of Joseph Stanton of E, I. He lived
for a time in his youth with Stephen Breed where his brother Abner
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owned by E, W, Gere, He also lived a while on the Elijah Newton
place. The house he now occupies was constructed by S, W, Breed
bj' moving the old Presbyterian church to this place and putting it
on a basement. This church was built by Joshua Miles, Jr. in 1829,
and is now the oldest church structure left standing in the township.
And though it stood for many years "with windows blank and bare"
upon its little "common," with its clump of treCs on the little blufl'
by the brook, it has doubtless, in the thousands of congregations that
have gathered in ii on varied occasions of joj' or sorrow, at sometime
Contained nearly all of -the people that lived in Brooklyn prior to
its removal ; and it will long be remembered by many as an object
of interest religious and social.
Mr. S. married 1st Mary J., a daughter of Lebbeus Eogers, and
their children were Eugene, Fannie, George, Harry, and Chas. who
died Sept. 25, 1865 in his 5th year. Mis. S. died Nov. 24, 1869, age,
36 years. His 2d wife was Eveline S. Brooks, formerly Spencer, of
Springville. Stephens, Edward T., formerlj' of Bridgewater (on the New Mil
ford road east of the 'Williams Pond), married (2d wife) Mary A.
Oakley of Nicholson. -Their children are Conner L., Nettie, Ella—
Mi'S. "Wm. Cameron, Walter A., Eva — Mrs. Harry Eoper, Lydia^
Mrs. Judd Austin, and Alice — Mrf. S. B. Eldridge. Mr. S. had two
daughters by former mairiage, Henrietta — Mrs. Frink deceased,
and Alvu-a — Mrs. Snow. He came to Brooklyn about 1859-60 living
for some time in the Henry Gere house and now resides in part of
the O. A. Eldridge house. His son-in-law, Mr. Austin, also occupies
the old Yeomans hou^e on this farm. Mr. A. has a daughter Lillian.
Mr. Eldridge rearranged this old dwelling when he built the new
one, putting the main building where it now stands, and moving a
smaller attachment to the east side of the farm on the old road near
the pond, where with some additions he established a small resi
dence which was occupied by John D. Farnam who came to Brooklyn
as early as 1842 and to this house some years after. His wife was
Salina, a daughter of Vaenam Whitford, and their children Zenas
and others The house was also occupied by Amos Tewksbury for
some time. It is no longer standing, but the well still remains on
" land now of W. H. Eldridge.
Stephens, Conner L., a son of E. T. Stephens, married Prank L. a
daughter of D. M. Yeomans. Their children are Leon M., Ethel M.,
and Charles. Mr. S. lives in the O, A. Eldridge house and has a fur
niture establishment in the village, in Odd Fellows Hall. A room
on the hall ground fioor is also used by E. E. Tiffany as a meat
market, and another by Win. Conner as a shoe shop. The hall was
built 'uy Christopher Rogers who used a room in the lower part as
a store. O. M Dolaway had his tin-shop in it for a time. The up
per part is occupied by the Odd FeUows, the Grangers, and the
Grand Army. The Good Templars also once occupied it. Earlier,
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136 mSTORY OF BEOOKLYN.
Young Women's Christain Temperance Union meet elsewhere. Other
temperance organizations have usually met in the churches.
Sterling, Emerson L., a son of Jas. H. Sterling, and Jennie D., a
daughter of Nathan Eastman of Lathrop, his wife, occupy the H,
W, Kent place now owned by Ealph Sterling. Their children are
Nellie M,, Louis B., and Josie B.
William Harkins, so far as can now be ascertained, was the first
settler on this place probably about 1794^5, He afterward removed
with his famUy to what is now Dimock where he became a cattle-
drover, and where he died in 1825, WhUe here he lived in a cabin
by the big spring near the old orchard. This was next occupied by
Peleg Tracy who came to it from the John Jones or Capt. Bailey
place about 1801, but Mr, Harkins seems not to have left the twp.
tiU some years after. Mr, T, removed to Wilkes-Barre, and Noah
Tiffany, from Attleboro', Mass., took possession of the Harkins clear
ing and cabin in 1809, remaining for seven years, building a small
barn and preparing the frame of a house.
James Smith came with his sons Isaac and Latham from Groton,
Ct. in 1812 to aid them in selecting farms. They went back and
his sons returned with their families the following year, but Mr, S.
did not come with his wife till 1817, when he came in company
with Joseph Peckham, Jr, and family, and both lived for a time in
the old school house on the Isaac Smith place, the Harkins cabin
(which Mr. S. had bought, with its clearing) being then either occu
pied by somebody else, or out of repair. Mr. S. soon buUt a small
frame house near where the present residence is (or perhaps finished
the one begun by Mr. Tiffany) and moved into it, Mr. Peckham living
with him for 4 years. Mr. Smith's wife was Annis Newton and their
children, Isaac, Latham A., Amy (Mrs. E. H. Palmer), and Eunice
and Abigail who did not come here to live. Mrs. Smith died Aug.
4, 1833, age, 82 yrs,, and Mr, S., June 8, 1835, age, 83 yrs. Buried
in Hill Cemetery.
Henry Wallace Kent afterward bought this place and lived upon
it till near the time of his death. He was about 2 years old when he
came with his father Justice Kent, from Windsor, N. Y., in 1811.
He married Rhoda A., a daughter of Esek H. Palmer. Their chil
dren were Amy L. — Mrs. Ralph Sterling, at whose house her father
died; Richard H., a U. S. soldier who died from wounds received
at Chancellorsville, May 14, 1863, 24 years of age; Nelson G.; and
Milton who died Oct. 5, 1852, in his 3d year. Mrs.K. died Dec. 25,
1875, age, 63 yrs., 8 mo., 13 days, and Mr. K. died June 1, 1881, a.,
71 yrs., 6 mo., and 19 days. Hill Cemetery. Richard Kent man-ied
Paulina Lathrop just before entering the army.
This place is on the Lyon and King warrants. A strip on the west
side has been sold to J. S. & J. D. Peckham. When Noah Tiffany
lived in the Harkins house the children had a pet sheep called "Old
Shag." Old Shag did not run with the flock, but stayed -with the
cattle. The flock was put in a close pen at night. One time after
a slight snow had faUen the cattle lay beside the hay-stack and Old

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Shag with them. On going to the stack in the morning Old Shag
was not to be found. A little investigation showed a bear track in
the snow. The neighbors sPon_learned the situation and came to
gether to follow the traU. Among these, Malinda still remembers
Capt. Bailey, Wise Wright, Nathaniel Eose, and one of the Fletchers.
The event seems, to haye occured before Mr. Palmer had come. They
found tufts of wool caught in the brush along the track and occa
sionally places where the bear had laid the sheep down to eat from
it. They came up with Bruin about where the village of Hopbottom
now is, and soon dispatched him. The oxen and sled were afterward
sent down and the bear brought home. It weighed 400 fcs. Mr. Pal
mer, though not in this one, participated in a bear hunt on his own
premises not many years after. A track was discovered leading into
the marsh near by. On going around the swamp it was found that
the foot prints did not emerge from iL So the hunters that assem
bled went in from different quarters and the bear was soon killed.
It was customary to divide the value of the skin among the captors
as justice seemed to require.
Sterling, Amos G., occupies the old place (on the Susanna Lear
warrant) which was held by his father Ansel and his grandfather
Hilliard. Before this, the north part of it was held bj- Jonathan
Miles; the south part, by Joseph Jackson and perhaps by Jonathan
Worthing; and the east part by Asa Hawley, and previously by
Joshua Jackson, Jr., and also possibly by Thomas Bagley. Mr. Ster
ling married Inez L., a daughter of Albert and Amelia, (Eoper)
Titus of Hopbottom, and they have a son Ernest A.
Isaac Hilliard Sterling came with his father Isaac from Cornwall,
Litchfield Co., Ct., in 1810 when about 11 years old, and lived for
a time on the Thomas Garland place. He learned the carpenter's
trade of Jeremiah Spencer, serving an apprenticeship. He manied
Harriet Emmons (from Goshen, Ct.) and lived for 2 or 3 years in
the old mill Ihouse on the old road, a few rods north-east of the
Methodist church. From this he went to the Joshua Jackson lot
above named, about 1827. The place of his residence here as well as
that of his predecessors have visible signs, and the two springs,
one of them copious and superior, remain. The house here was a
frame which had been put up by Joshua Miles, Jr. probably either
for Joshua Jackson, Jr. or Asa Hawley, but there had been an
earlier log cabin. He afterward bought, in connexion with this, the
Joseph Jackson lot lying on the east side of the public road, and
removed to this Jackson house. But there had been an earlier house
here also. Subsequently he bought the south part of the Jonathan
Miles improvement (from which the house had been removed to the
north part and sold to Loren Bagley) where he built a house which
afterward burned and was replaced by the present structure. These
sales, as usual, only conveyed "quit-claim" titles. ;The soil had yet
to be bought. The children of Isaac H. and Harriet Sterling were
Amos who died Oct. 7, 1847, a., 23 yrs., 2 ma, 24 da.; Ansel; James
E.; Charles, died Aug. 30, 1840, a., 10 yrs., 5 ma, 19 da.; Harman;

138 mSTOEY OF BROOKLYN.
Ealph; Harriet (Mrs. Babcock); Charles M.; JuUa; and Ursula U;
(Mrs. Murray Eoper).
Asa Hawley, according to assessment, took possession of the back
part of this place, from Joshua Jackson, Jr., about 1820. He came
from Ct. to the township about 1818. His wife was Euth- Beonson
and their children were Eliad, Asa, Fanny, Sally, and Ehoda. And
he had a son who was kiUed on the place by a log rolling down a
decUvity. The premises afterward went into the hands of Caleb
Jackson of whom Mr. Sterling bought them.
Sterling, William L., a son of Ansel Sterling, rijanied Emeline, a
daughter of Wm. Z. and Almira (Wilmarth) Brown, of Lathrop.
Their chUdren are Ethel aud Lela. Mrs. Sterling is a granddaugh
ter of Eden and Mary (Squires) Brown, and great-granddaughter
of Isaac and Lydia (Ingalls) Brown, early settlers of old Brooklyn,
now Lathrop. Isaac and Lydia Brown were members of the Brook
lj'n Congregational church in 1818. Mr. B. was a Eevolutionary
soldier. Their children were Eden, Erastus, Betsey (M)rs. William
Squires), John, and Lucy (Mrs. Cherry). Mr' S. is mail-carrier from
Brooklj'n to Hopbottom [1889]. The predecessors on his place
were Wm. Mead and Amos Mead (while the' place was owned by
Jared Baker), Geo. H. Baker, Elisha Baker, and Samuel Weston.
Mr. S. now also owns the A. G. Bailey place.
Samuel Weston was born Nov. 19, 1787 and came with his mother
and step-father Andrew Tracy to what is now Brooklyn in Feb.
1799. He married Julia A. a daughter of Poster and Sarah Horton
of "Horton's Mills" near the mouth of Horton creek, Nicholson.
Their children were Charles deceased, William L. (died at Danvers,
Mass., Feb. 2, 1889, age, nearly 72), and Julia — Mrs. Bradford.
Sarah Horton died here Feb. 27, 1822 and was buried in Old Cem.
Mr, W. took part of the Tracy improvement and built a house upon
it which was burned on the night of Feb. 12, 1823 but was soon re
placed by the present one, put upon the same foundation. He had
a deed from J. B. Wallace for 60 acres in 1813, and for 13 acres more
in 1822, on the Dr. Barnabas Binney Warrant. It extended from
land of Anthony Fish to the old road south of the MUford and
Owego Tui-npike, Several portions have since been sold from the
south part. In 1825 the premises were sold to Mr. Baker, and in
1828 Mr. W. removed to Clifford. He was a supervisor of the town
ship in 1825. His 2d wife was Eliza, a datighter of Elisha Baker,
who is still living [1889] with her daughters, in Carbondale, Their
chUdren were Ann (Mrs. J. H. Bagley) and Jane. While on this place
Mr. W. made a kUn of brick (Jonas Adams helping him) and after
ward enlarged the cavities from which the clay was taken^ forming
an artificial pond (supplied from 2 or 3 ever -flowing springs — one of
them on the A. E. Gere place) which he stocked with fish, and taste
fully sunounded with a semicircle of trees — Lombardy poplars,
buttonwoods, and wiUows, which in their prime environed an attract
ive place of resort. He died at Oak Orchard, N. Y. at the age of
nearly 63, Oct. 4, 1840. ^

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Elisha Bakee came from Groton, Ct., on the Thames river close
down by the ocean, in 1825. He was a sea captain. His -wife was
Susanna Aveey. After settling here with his family, he himself for
many yeai-s was accustomed to spend much of his time engaged in
the fish market of New York, an occupation which his son Jared re
moved there to follow. The children were Elisha (not here), Mary
Ann (Mi-s. Y. L. Culver), Fanny (Mi-s. Denison Gere), Eliza, Jareci,
Charles, Caroline (Mrs. William Adams), Emeline, and George H.
Capt. B. was born Aug. 18, 1778 and died Nov. 10, 1859, and Mrs.
B. was born Dec. 18, 1778 and died July 23, 1860. Old Cemetery.
George H. Baker married Betsey, a daughter of E. K. Howe.
Their children were Isabel, Ella (Mrs. Deans), Jane, Morris and
Charles (twins), Mary (died Dec. 18, 1881, a., 25 years, 10 months),
James, Eva, and Edwin. Mr. B., while with his chUdren Jane and
Charles near- Moscow, was killed by tl e E. R. cars. May 20, 1882,
aged 57 yrs., 25 days. Mrs. B, died at Hopbottom, Feb, 27, 1882 in
her 53d year.
Sterling, Ralph, a son of I. H. SterUng, owns a part of the ori
ginal Elisha Mack place on the Elizabeth Jackson warrantee. The
previous occupants have been Henry Potter, Eiehard Williams,
James Packer, Isaac J. Meacham, a physician here for a few j'eais
about 1840, and Alfred Mack (son of Elisha) who meirried Betsey
Jewett and removed to Orleans Co., N, Y, Mr, S, is also tn posses
sion of other lands to the south-east of this lot which were early
occupied, one lot by Joshua Jackson, Sr. soon after he came in 181'5
and which had been before in possession of Thomas Tewksbru'y and
others (tax list says from Mr. T. to Mr. J. in 1817); and the other
occupied by Amos P. MerriU and after by his son Amos B. Merrill,
and before that by others, among whom, as it is handed do-rsn, was
Asa Crandall the wheel--wright, who is believed to have built a cabin
on it probably when he first came here in 1813. His wife was
Matilda Saunders, doubtless a relative more or less remote of the
family here, (who also came from E. I.) and he may have settled here
to be near them. He is also said to have been a teacher for several
terms at Mack's Corners, though he soon went to live at the CasweU
house near the mill and factory.
Mr. Sterling mai-ried Amy L-, a daughter of H. W. Kent, and they
have an adopted son, Frederick G.
Amos P. Meeeill has his name first on the assessment roll in fall
of 1819, though he is said to have come the year before. His wife
was Eebecca Baebee, and their children, Jonathan H., Amos B., and
Elizabeth — Mrs. Frederick W. Bailey* Mr. M. died upon the place,
Auo-. 7, 1843, aged 69 years. Mrs. M. was born at Haverhill West
Parish, Grafton Co., N. H., July 8, 1770, and died at Hopbottom,
Feb. 21, 1869 at the age of 98 yrs., 7 mo., and 13 days. Buried in
Old Cemetery.
Jonathan H. Meeeill was an early teacher here and became a
physician. He married Lucy P., a daughter of Capt. Charles Gere.
Their children were Charles G., George W., and Eebecca B. Dr. M.
returned to N. H.
* Mrs, Elizabeth Bailey's f.tther was Jonathan, a brother of A, P. Merrill.

140 _ BISTOEY of BROOKLYN.
Amos B. Merrill remained on the old place for many yeais but
subsequently removed to Hopbottom where he recently died. The
house on the farm, while occupied by one of the sons, was destroyed
by tire some years ago and was not replaced. Mr. M. married Har
riet E., a daughter of Elihu and Fanny (Mack) Smith (stiU living)
and tneir children were Jonathan H.," Andrew J., Eebecca — Mrs.
Alonzo Bell, Ansel, Daniel, Leander, and Amos P. who died Jan. 27,
1851, a., 17 yrs., and Cynthia, died Nov. 2, 1859, age, 7 yrs., 5 mo.
Sterling, James H, a son of I, H. SterUng, married H. Mary, a
daughter of Ezra S. Brown. Their children are Emerson L., Byron
G , Herman who died May 14, 1880, in his 16th year, Merton D.,
Clarence C, and Edwin B. who died Oct. 30, 1865 in his 4th year,
and Alice, died Aug. 20, 1875 in 5th year. Mr. S. owns a part of the
Ebenezer Jayne or Wm. Squires place. His part of the old place is
in Brooklyn, but the place of the old residence is over the line, in
what is now Lathrop.
William Squires' came from Westfield, Vt. in the fall of 1816.
About 10 years after, he left this plare and went to a farm near the
junction of Tarbell-Pond brook and Horton creek where he died in
1865 in his 78th year. His wife was Betsey, a daughter of Isaac
Brown, who came With him from Vt. Both are buried in Hillsdale
Cemetery. Their children were Sarah (widow of Dr. Sam'l "Wright),
Louisa (1st wife of Jesse Silvius), John, Lydia (Mrs. Lorenzo Sweet),
Lucy M. (Mrs. Asahel Lord), Susan E. (2d wife of G. W. Tiffany),
Eeuben S ; Henry, and P. Parley. Mr. and Mrs. Squires were mem
bers of the Brooklyn Congregational church from 1818.
After Mr. S. left this place in 182(6, it went into possession of
Ebenezer Jayne for some years and was afterward bought by Ansel
Sterling who sold this part to his brother James, and afterward dis
posed of the rest to George W. Tewksbury who sold most of it to
John Lean, the present owner.
Sterling, Byron G.. a son of James H. Sterling, and Lura M., a
daughter of Chauncey B. Dewitt, his wife, occupy the old place on
the Catharine Prick warrantee, formerly occupied by Francis Pish
and George W. Tewksb-ury, and before that by Amos Tewksbury.
The place is secluded, but cosily screened from the winter winds.
George W. Tewksbuky, a son of Asa Tewksbury, married Eliza, a
d'xughter of Francis Fish. They have a son Ed-win. Mr. T. came to
this place about 1860, or a little before, and worked it for some years
jointly with .his father-in-law. After a few years be bought the
Ebenezer Jaj-ne place and removed to it, and subsequently went to
Scranton. Francis Fish came with his father Anthony from Groton, CK in
1314 when about 14 years old. He married Nancy Tarbox and they
h'ld a daughter Eliza, Mrs. G.:W. Tewksbury. They lived in several
places before coming to this. Mrs. F. died here June 3, 1860, age,
59 years. Subsequsntlv Mr. Pish married Diadama (Scott) Wright,
who afterward married Horace Ball and is now deceased. Mr. P.

HOMESTEADS AND PEOPLE. 141
died on this place July 11, 1884, age, 83 yrs., 10 mo., and 27 days.
Hill Cemetery.
Amos Tewksbury was a son of Sargent Tewksbury with whom he
came from Vt. in 1802, when about 4 yeais old. He was assessed
with 72 acres in fall of 1823, undoubtedly this place, which he left
a year or two before selUng it to Fish & Tewksbury, removing to
the village. His first wife was Harriet Eobinson and their chilmen
were Nancy (Mrs. I. N. Palmer), Benjamin P., Fannie M., and Ellen
(Mrs. Frost). Mrs. T. died July 25, 1842, age, 39. Mr. T, subse
quently married Eebecca Gates who after Mx. T.'s death went west.
Amos Tewksbury died Sept. 26, 1864, aged 66 years. Old Cemetery.
. Benjamin Franklin Tewksbury and  Benson, his w-ife, also
lived here a short time before the place was sold to Mr. Pish, and
afterward occupied the Caldwell house, where he died June 30,
1860, at the age of 27 years. He was, at time of his death, County
Superintendant of schools, being the second incumbent of the posi
tion and filling part of the first term to which Willard Eichardson
had been elected in 1854 but afterward resigned. Mr. T. had a son
Bayard, and a daughter. Buried in Old Cemetery.
Sterling, A. Harman, a son of Isaac and Milly (Bonney) Steiling
married Sarah Houghtaling and then children aie Jabez S., Essa J.
(Mrs. Harvey Tewksbury), George, and Charles H. Mi-. S. occupies
part of the old Grif&s place on the Philip Frick warrant. The house
was built by Miles Crandall. Before coming to his present residence,
Mr. S. had lived in various other places, including some j-ears spent
in Virginia.
Sterling, Ansel, a son of Isaac H. Sterling married Lucina a daugh
ter of David Kent and they Uved for a number of years on the old
farm of his father, removing to the village for a short time in later
years, and then he came to nis present place on the Dr. B. Binney
warrantee, previously occupied by Jared Baker (from whose hears
Mr. SterUng bought it), by Geo. H. Baker, Mary (Tracy) Miles aud
Andrew Tracy, antl by Wm, Conrad, Their children are Amos G.,
and W^illiaui L. Mrs. S. died at the village Mar. 11, 1885. She was
born Sept. 28, 1829. Mr. Sterling afterward mairied Josephine A.,
a daughter of Eeuben O. Miles.
Jared Baker, now deceased, came to the township -with his father
Elisha in 1825. He married Hannah Hewitt and after spending some
years here he removed to New York and engaged in the fish trade.
His children are Delphine (Mrs. Sterling), Emma (Mrs. Doniphan),
and William, all of Brooklyn, N. Y. Mr. Baker did not live upon
this place but his family spent much time here, and Mrs B. died
here a few years after Mr. B. bought the place of his brother Geo.
A number of buildings were erected by Mr. B. at large expense. In
one of these Wm. E. Banzette, a carpenter, lived with his family
and afterward returned to Brooklyn, N. Y. Mrs. Emma Doniphan,
C. H. Boughton, Chas. Eogers, C. W. Broadhead and N. J. Vergason
(blacksmiths), Jerome Townsend. L. M. Peters, and others have
also been occupants, and H. D. Quick, W, L, Gere also, in old house.

142 HISTORY OF BEOOKLYN,
NoEMAN GoRDiNEER and Augusta Stark, his wife, lived in the re
modeled old-time dweUing for a few years while Mr. B. owned the
place, and had the oversight of the premises. Mr. G. died here^as
did his daughter LiUie. A. E. Tewksbury and family foUowed for
a short time.
Mrs. CAROLnra! Adams, Mr. B.'s sister, with her daughter Dorleskie
M., also Uved in same house for a time before Mr. G , where she
also died, Jan. 22, 1870. She was born Oct. 10, 1814. Her daughter
manied Capt. O. S. Baker (engaged in raising sunken vessels) and
now resides at Berkley near Norfolk, Va.
In the "Long BuUding," tbe first graded school of the township
was first estabUshed in Sept. 1880, and continued there for two yeai s,
O. E. Beardsley, Mary L. Spencer, and Sarah Eoy being teachers.
And on land belonging to this farm, in former years, while Mary
Miles owned it, two schools were conducted, during a number of
seasons. One was on the north border, on the "lane" road, on a little por
tion of land then belonging to the farm but now owned by E. A.
Weston. The school house was brought here from the J. Dswitt
place near Capt. Morgan's. The teachers were Nancy Morgan, Ezra
S. Kent (1835-6), Mary Kingsley (1836),  Bushnell and A. G.
Bailey (1836-7), Margaret Parke, Emily Kent, and Mafy Newton.
The house was then moved to the south margin of the farm (as it
was then) on the west side of the road a little south of E. W. Gere's,
about 1839. The male teachers were Wm. Belcher [1839-40], C. M.
Gere [1840-41] (he had taught the first school in the house before
it was moved), Gurdon B. Eogers [1841-2], and Elisha T. Tiffany
[1842-3]. The house then became a farm building and was after
ward attached to the old mansion by Jared Baker.
Andrew Tracy with his soji Edwin came from Norwich, Ct. to
Dandolo on the last of Aug. 1798. He bought the cabin and im
provement of Wm. Conrad (then called Coom-ad) a settler of 1787,
stayed till the 11th of Nov.. sowed some grain and put up the lower
part of a larger cabin 4 or 5 rods south-west of the other and near
where the old frame house now stands, on the knoll above the big
spring, and went back to Norwich. He retumed with his family and
goods in 1799, starting on the 8th of Jan. and arriving on the 6th
of Feb. They stopped till the 5th of Mar. at the Jones cabin which
his son Peleg Tracy had bought but did not come to occupy till
some days after his father's arrival. Esq. T. and family — 11 or 12
in aU — .then moved into "Coonrad castle" 13 feet square. They re
mained here till the 4th of July when they went into the new log
. house (which had meantime been completed) with a bit of celebra
tion, having 40 people at dinner. It may be noted that the Chapmau
family and part of the Sabin family were then also here who with
other settlers doubtless constituted the party. Thej' often took the
door from its wooden hinges and placed it on two barrels to form au
extension table, and the babies were cradled in a. disused sap-trough.
The first wife of Andrew Tracy was Molly Clement (not here), and
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HOMESTEADS AND PEOPLE. 143
Eunice, Betsey, Harriet, Edwin, and Sidney. Mr. T. married Mary
(Cady) Weston Apr. 2, 1797. Their children were Sally Cady (Mis.
Hayden of New Milford) born at Norwich, Ct., Apr. 16, 1798, and
Andrew Hicks, born here Jan. 19, 1802. Esq. T. died Nov. 1, 1801.
He and his son Leonard, who died the foUovsing year, were buried
just on the east side of the present road on the place, but were re
moved to the Old Cemetery after it was established.
Mrs. Tracy was a daughter of John and Deborah Cady of Brook
lyn, Windham Co., Ct. She first married Amaziah Weston, Sept. 22,
1786. The children, born at Norwich, and removed here with their
mother, were Samuel, Mary E. (Mrs. Hoyt of Kingston, Pa.) deed.,
William W., and John N. bom Feb. 12, 1794, a physician at Towan
da, and died there March 12, 1848. Amaziah Weston subsequently
established a trip-hammer manufactory for shovels, hoes, &c., at
Montville, Ct., where he died July 18, 1796. Mrs. Tracy once re
turned to Connecticut with her son Samuel, each on horseback. In
1808 or 9 she married Joshua Miles, Sr., and removed to what is
now the village, but returned to the old place soon after Deacon
Miles died in 1815. The log house remained in use till 1819 when
the present frame (except some additions) was put up, Apr. 24th,
and the family moved in, Oct. 16th.
The first stock of goods brought to the township for sale was put
up in this log house. Andrew Tracy had been a merchant at Nor
wich. 'When John B. Wallace began to come here looking after his
land sales, he suggested to Mrs. T. the feasibility of her keeping
some needful articles of merchandise for the accommodation of the
people. Through his instrumentality a quantity of goods -was sent
from Philadelphia by a merchant there, doubtless a relative of his.
As a matter of curiosity, and to show the prices, names, styles, spell
ing, &c. of the time, a part of the bill is here presented. It will be
remembered that we were accustomed to reckon 8 shilUngs to the
dollar according to N. Y. state valuation, but the larger part of the
state reckoned 7 s., 6 d. to the dollar, making the amount of this
part of the bill $425.88%. There was another sheet not preserved as
the last footing "carried forward" shows, but the account of sales
indicates that the rest was for crockery, hardware, shoes, &c. : —

PhOada. 8th March 1806
Mi-s. Tracy Bought of Joshua M. Wallace Jr.

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The deed for the land itself of this place (which Andrew Tracy
supposed he owned under Ct. title) came from John B. Wallace by
his attorney;" J. W. Eobinson, to Mary Miles, Apr. 1, 1817, witnessed
by Fredk. Bailey and Saml. Bissell and acknowledged before Ed
ward Paine J. P. And upon the back of the deed "the Corporation
for the relief of poor and distressed Presbyterian ministers, and of
poor and distressed widows and children of Presbyterian ministers,"
by their attorney in fact, Wm. Jessui^, released the land, Dec. 12,
1833. Mrs. Miles spent the remainder of her life here — nearly 40
years. She died Jan. 28, 1856, at the age of 93 years and 7 months.
After her death the land was sold to Geo. H. Baker, During this
time the farm was conducted by sundry persons who occupied part
of the house. Among these were Lyman Doolittle, Eowland Miles,
Clark Peckham, Fred'k Fish, Frank Fish, Flavel WiUiams, Horace
Bagley, Varnam Whitford, C. C. Daley, Abel Green, Albert G- Ster
ling, Allen McKinney, Harrison Bagley, Collins M. Sterling, and his
mother Mrs. Lord, and several other.s beside Mrs. Miles's children.
C P. Perigo also lived there after Mrs. M.'s death. In primitive
times the north and south road on this place crossed the spring run
by a stone bridge a little below and west of the house in w-hioh Mr.
Sterling resides and went down on the west side of the brook, the
location having been changed to the east side in 1819.
Wm. Conrad was an escaped Hessian soldier in the Eevolutionary
war. Having been deceived when he enlisted and went on ship-board
as to the destination of the expedition, he deserted the EngUsh after
airiving in tliis country. He married Eve Copasparah and having
146 mSTORY OF BROOKLYN.
fallen in with Nicholson's company he came here with them. This
was, according to the best evidence in the case, in 1787 and in the
spring or early summer oi that year. For it is handed down by his
descendants that on his arrival he immediately constructed a hut of
hemlock boughs, beside a turned-up tree root, and before he had
time to prepare a more substantial cabin, one of his children was
born, and as the boughs did not prove effectual in keeping out the
rain, trees were felled and bark peeled with which to cover the frail
structure. This undoubtedly shows that this first Nicholson colony
were the first settlers of this county.
Mr. C. came from Philadelphia. His children and some of his
grandchildren were John who went to Lenox, married Betsey
Hawkins and their children were Eosanna, William, Jacob, John,
Jr. (a soldier, wounded), Mary, Jane, and Martin a soldier; Polly
married Nathan Forsyth of Harford and their chUdren were Lee,
Mary, and Charles; Kate married Henry Pelton; George went to
South Gibson and married Betsey Eesseguie and their children were
Eli, Lucinda, Fidelia, and George; Andrew (probably named from
Andrew Tracy, and born in Harford in 1799) manied Orpha Corey
and lived in Lenox a little east of Hopbottom, and then- children
were Charles W. a blacksmith and justice of the peace at Glenwood,
Lucina, James M., Eufus, Henry, aud Oscar^all the boys, soldiers;
and William and Jacob went to Bradford county. There are two
opinions among the descendants as to which was the first child born
here. Some think it was Kate, and that John and Polly were born
in Philadelphia before their parents came here. But it is more
probable that John the oldest child was bom here and Kate was
born in Philadelphia. The record was preserved in a German Bible
which Prof. Hine well remembers to have seen in his boyhood, but
the Bible is lost. But Mrs. Isaac Eynearson, a daughter of Kate,
says her mother was bom in Philada. Sept. 12, 1792, and that the
family went back to Philada. a while, after John was born. Others
remember of hearing that Mrs. Conrad's father offered to give her
a horse, if she would come and get if, and that she with a Mrs. Ey
nearson went with one horse, both riding together sometimes, aud
taking turns at walking sometimes. They afterward came back
with two horses. Mr. Conrad remained at home with some of the
children while Mrs. C. was in Philada. And it is remembered that
John Conrad used to say he was born in the little hut in Brooklyn.
After selling the premises to Andrew Tracy, Sept. 14, 1798, Mr.
C. removed to the south-east part of Harford, where his wife died.
They lived a little north of tbe Brundage place on the stream that
comes down from "Burrows Hollow," variously called Conrad, Van-
Winkle's, or Butler creek. A little below, it unites with "Partners"
creek from Harford village. Mr. C. subsequently married Mrs.
Garic who with lier daughter Frederica (now of Carbondale), on
their arrival at Philada., had their services sold to pay their pas
sage, Esq. Ward of New Milford being the purchaser. A son also
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•ward.' Wm. Conrad died in Harford about 1840 aged 84 years. It
is remembered that he had his coffin made a number of yeai-s before
his death. He and his first wife were buried in the Bell Cemetery
below Cameron Corners on the Tunkhannock. His widow was a firm
Presbyterian. The little house in which she Uved for near a score
of years after her husband died, built with one end in an excavation
in the ground, is still well remembered. She was buried in Harford
Cemetery. The monumental inscription runs thus:
£ii:;)5etl7 G., tiilfe of 3U1t). Goplrita, ^nb Irelici of Qoafl-eu fiijh'e,
ai^a leb. lOlli, 1858, ^gea 88 urs.
The descendants of AVm. Conrad were largely represented in the
Union army, several others besides the sons of Andrew, having been
soldiers. The time when Wm. Conrad and the rest of the first Nicholson
colonists came to Brooklyn (then an un-named portion of Luzerne
Co., included in Tioga township in 1790 and in Nicholson in 1795)
was two years before Washington's first inauguration as president
of the United States, and four years before Thomas Mifflin (the first
under the constitution of 1790) became governor of Pennsylvania-
When Andrew Tracy and family came, and for some years after, it
was customary and necessary to allow the cattle to run at lai-ge to
get what forage they could to help supply their food, the enclosed
fields being needed for grain and hay. A bell was generally attached
by a strap to the neck of one of the cows to indicate their where
abouts. Under this arrangement the Tracy cows would often go
over the hill west to the Hopbottom creek to pasture in the open
spaces along its banks. One time the little boys William and John
"Weston were sent over to drive the cattle back. They had a little
dog which often accompanied them, and which was so agile and
courageous and so small that it w-as difiicult for a larger beast to do
it any harm. They found the objects of their search and were part
way up the hill on their return when the cows became frightened
and turned aside from the trail. The boys looked ahead and saw a
panther standing across the path with his head turned toward them.
They looked at the monster for a minute when Wm. pointed with
his finger and hissed "s — k." The Uttle dpg at his side darted fu
riously forward with a yelp, and the panther sprang away into the
woods. It had doubtless been recently well fed. It is unnecessary
to add that the cows went the rest of the way home on their own
motion, where thej' arrived soon after the boys.
The following deed or memorandum of sale of land-improvements,
&c., from Wm. and Eve Conrad to Andrew Tracy is given entire, as
being perhaps the oldest document now obtainable showing early
transactions between the settlers, beside containing other features of
curiosity and interest. Spelling, capitals, &c., are retained as in the
original. That portion of the accouht which is expressed in Eng.
denominations is reckoned at 7 s., 6 d. to the dollar according to
Philadelphia method. The number of the lot is undoubtedly in
accordance with Connecticut survey which may not have coincided
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at $100.00

observed that the stream (Hopbottom) had already been named and
the name become common, though the writer of the instrument
did not see fit to assume the responsibility as yet of giving it a per
manent place among proper appellations by beginning the word with
a capital letter. Some of the apple and pear trees are still standing;
some were afterward grafted: Sept. 14th A. D. 1798.
Andrew Tracy Esquire By his Agent Ezekiel Hyde— Bought
of William Coonrod and Eve Coonrod of Luzerne County 
A farm lying on the Waters of hopbottom branch of
the Eiver Tunkhannock — Only about 12 Acres of sd
Farm under Improvement, with a nursery of fruit trees of
different kinds, and a number of apple and peach trees
planted and several log buildings thereon 
Three stacks of hay — the potatoes, turnips, buckwheat,
cabbage, pumpkins, corn & stalks — all the loots, herbs
and vegetables in the garden — a piece of wheat, half a
bushel of seed, lately sown •  
One two year old red heifer at eight Dollars — One, ^
year old brown heifer at six Dollars — One, year old V
brindle and white heifer at six Dollars  )
Three! sugar kettles that contain fifteen gallons each,
at six doUars each kettle — One sugar kettle, cracked, at
four Dollars — —   ¦
1 Vinegar barrel at 7-, Two dry barrels at 6-, = 13-
Chest 6-, 4 sugar buckets at 1- each. ^ 4-, = 10-
Iron gouge 3-, One rooster, five hens and nine
chickens 10-, Two glass bottles at 1- each = 2-, ^ 15-
One 3 pint Jug 1-6, Two cups and two saucers 2-, = 3-6
One pint bottle -6, One do. -9, One tin funnel 1-3 = 2-6
14 ft i Sugar 17-, One hatchet 20- , = £1 17-
One coffee mill 4-. One bushel of Eie 5-. = 9-
£4 10

66.00

20.00

22.00

$12.00
$220.00
On the other side is this : —
Eeceived of Andrew Tracy Esquire by the hand of Ezekiel Hyde,
A note on James Coyle payable the 15th of May next — Fourty-
seven Dollars.
A white stallion horse, saddle and bridle — at — ^Fifty Dollars.
And in Cash Eighty-six Dollars.
And in Goods Fourteen Dollars.
Amounting in all to Two hundred and Twenty DftUars. 
Which is to our full satisfaction for our Farm Improvements, pos
session, and articles as mentioned on the other side of this paper,
this 14th of Sept. 1798. William Conrad
her
Eve V- Coonrod
mark

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And at the top of the paper after being folded is the following
file-heading or note of contents :
Wm. and Eve Coonrod's
Eeceipt for the payment
of a Farm, cattle, &c., &c.
Lot No. 34, Town of Dandolo.
Sept, 14th 1798.
Sterling, George W., a son of James W. Sterling, has done well in
caring for the homes of his forefathers, first occupying the second
farm of his grandfather Jacob Tewksbury, then that of his -wife's ¦
father, which had previously been held by his grandfather Sterling's
brother Isaac, and now, in living with his daughter Helen, having
a position on the first lot held by his grandfather Tewksbury. His
wife was Lucy G. a datighter of Thomas Garland, and their chUdren
are Prances (Mrs. B. T. Case\ Helen G. (Mrs. E. S, Eldridge), and
Willis G, who died May 1, 1864, 8 years of age.
Sterling, Frank M., a son of Jas. Sterling, married JuUa McKeever
originally from Otsego Co., N. Y. Their children are Vida M., J.
WilUam, and Harry E. Mr. S. (though temporarily in the meat bus
iness in Scranton) occupies the old place (on the James Dunlap and
Chas. Lear warrants) formerly owned by his father, his grandfather,
and his great-grandfather. A strip was also added by Jas. Sterling
from the Joseph Chapman place. John Goss and Christopher Penny
also lived on the place (in a house near the creek) for a time while
it was owned by James W. Sterling.
James Steeling, a son of Jas. W. Sterling was born on the place
about 1820. He married Sophia Eease and their children were Mary
(Mrs. McKeever), and Jas. M. who died Oct. 23, 1877, a., 26 years.
Mrs. S. died July 19, 1854, age, 34 years. Joseph Eease, her father
(of Bridgewater) died Apr. 18, 1851, age, 87 years, and her mother,
Mary G., Mar. 18, 1858, a., 84, and her sister, Mary Al, wife of Chas.
M. Howard, died Oct. 26, 1855, aged 39 years. Old Cemetery. Mr.
Sterling subsequently married Amanda Youngs, of Gibson, and
their children are Frank M., and Emma M. (Mrs. C. H. Tiffany)
with whom Mrs. Sterling now resides, Mr, S, died Jan. 31, 1875, a.,
56 years.
James Wm. Sterling came from Fairfield, Ct, in the spring of 1811,
when he was 20 years old. His journey was made on foot with his
knapsack on his back. He worked that summer chopping and clear
ing on the place, boarding at Mr. Chapman's. The story is still told
that David Morgan who came the year before, and Charles Perigo
who came two years before, were each chopping at the same time
on their respective places, one to the north and the other over the
hill to the east, but both were also boarding at Mr. Chapman's. It
is related that Capt. Morgan and Mr. Perigo were well enough
suited with ordinary pioneer fare, and were each to pay one day's
work in each week for their board, but Mr. S. thought he must have
some extras and had to paj- more. He retumed to Connecticut in the

150 HISTORY OF BROOKLYN.
faU and came back with his father and mother the following spring.
He married Betsey (or Elizabeth) Tewksbury then living on the next
place south. Their children were Mary (Mrs. Michael Belcher), Al
bert G., Hannah (Mrs. Lathrop), James, Paulina (Mrs. T. M. Oak
ley), George Walker, Enoch, Wm. Peun, Thomas S., Dan'l Norton,
aud Smith. Mr. S. was of Quaker proclivities, and a friend of Enoch
Waker of Dimock. He died in 1864 at the age of 73 years, aud Mrs.
S., in 1876, a., 82 years. Mr. Belcher died recently.
Thomas Steeling eventually had two brothers and two sisters in
the township. He married Mehetable Noeton and had one son Jas.
W. He bought the land, though the son came to it a year before him.
A deed was given from Thomas Sterling to Jas. \V. Sterling for 51
acres in 1819. Mr, S, died Nov. 26, 1828, a., 61 years and Mrs. S.,
Sept, 18, 1827, a , 60 years.
Sterling, Javan L., a son of Thomas S. Sterling, manied Sarah E ,
a daughter of B. O. Watrous. Their children are Leroy J. and Elery
B. They occupy the part of the Andrew Eogers lot (on the Henry
Jackson warrant) which was recently owned by Aaron C. Sperrj', a
methodist clergyman. Thomas S. Sterling, a son of J. W. Sterling,
married Maria L. Merritt — the father and mother of Javan. The
mother died June 24, 1856 at the age of 29 years. The father after
ward married Eunice Squier and thej had a daughter Lily (Mrs.
Hawley). Mr. S. is now deceased and his widow built a dwelling in
the village which she still owns, though she removed to Montrose.
Sweet, Perry, a son of George and Amanda (Wright) Sweet, is a
merchant, and postmaster at Alford. He was a Union soldier — was
at Spottsj'lvania, Wilderness, Cold Harbor, North, and South Ann
Eiver, and Petersburg (June 15 to 18, 1864). Was discharged
June 12, 1865, five days before he was 18 j-ears old. His wife was
Sarah A. Seiner, and children, Arthur E., and Eva M. Mr. Sweet's
store, with residence above, was built and first occupied as a store
and residence by John C. Lee.
Tewksbury, Lester, a son of Franklin Tewksbury, occupies the old
place, with excellent spring, on the warrantee lots of Wm. CoUiday,
Jr. and Capt. James Stover, formerly in possession of John Tewks
bury, Daniel Tewksbury, Francis Fish and Josiah Fletcher. There
was also on this place near the school-house for some years a cabin
in which Kirby Howe, Mrs, Walter Adams, and probably others
Uved. Mr. T. mar)ied Stella J., a daughter of Jas. O. Bullard and
their children are Gleim E., and Grace E.
John Tewksbury, a son of Daniel Tewksbury, married Wealthy
Vergason and their children were Nelson, Ora, aud Minnie B. who
died Aug. 24, 1875, a., 4 years. They removed to Scranton. Mrs. T.'s
father and mother died here — Jepedlvh Vergason, aud wife.
Daniel Tewksbury, a son of Jacob Tewksbury, was born in the
old house on the Ashley knoll Nov. 22, 1801. He married Prudence
a daughter of Anthony Pish in 1821. Their children were Franklin,
Sally (Mrs. Thayer), Henry, and John. Mr. T. died July 19, 1865,

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aged 63 yrs., 7 ma, 27 days, and Mrs. T. tn 1880, aged 81 years.
Buried in the Old Cemetery.
Josi'H Fletcher had a deed from J. B. Wallace Oct. 4, 1816, for
289 acres which included the Frank Tewksbury lot with this. Mi'.
P. resided for some years in a cabin by the brook some rods below
the school house. His name disappears from the assessment roll
about 1820.
The log school-house in this neighborhood was built just across
the brook and the road from the present school-house, and Mrs. Lord,
then Sophronia Wilson, remembers having taught the first school
in it in the summer of 1826 or '27. The following teaehei s are re
membered, though the list may not be in order of time: C. S. Wilson
(1827), John E. Ely (1832-3\ Nelson Tiffany, A. Judson Tiffany,
Verie Ann Safford, Fanny Fish, E. S. Kent (1836-7), Carey Worth
ing, Augustus Bissell, Y. L. Culver, O. W. Foote, Harding Cole, A.
W. Main, C. M. Gere. [Earlier than this schools were taught in a
log house standing near the upper house of Joseph Oakley in which
T. M. Oakley remembers the foUowing teachers: Theodocia Curtis,
Laura Aldrich, Lucina Hart, Hannah Follet, Alzina Darrow, Nancy
Cushing, Phebe Eisley, Eliza Kingsley (of Bridgewater), Mary A.
Aldrich, Wanen Curtis, Willard Waldron, E. N. Loomis, Alonzo
Kennard, Sally Fish.]
Tewksbury, Edson P., a son of Franklin Tewksbury, married Acta
Stanton and lives with his mother on the old place, his predecessors
being Franklin Tewksbury, Jas. Hewitt, Varnam "Whitford, Daniel
Tewksbury, and Josiah Fletcher. It -was also once owned but not
occupied by George Chapman and Samuel Weston. John Davison
also once lived on a portion of what now constitutes the farm.
Franklin Tewksbury, a son of Daniel Tewksbury, married Amaret
a daughter of P. G. iiurch. Their children are Lester, Allie (Mrs.
C. M. Craver), and Edson P. Mr. T. and his father were among the
first to enter extensively into the dairy business. He died May 6,
1888, age, 65 years, 7 months. Mrs, T, remains at the homestead.
Varnam Whitford came as early as 1819 (his name being on Dr.
Bissell's books of that date) and lived in Brooklyn 25 or 30 years,
removing to Jessup. After Mr. W.'s death his widow came to Hop-
bottom. His wife was Minerva a daughter of Ephraim Howe. Their
children were Salina (Mrs. J. D. Farnam), Volney, Benjamin (became
a physician, in Mass.), Hannah (Mrs. Geo. Miles), Lydia (Mrs. Wat
terman), and Adnah a Union soldier killed at Petersburg. Mr. W.
died in 1857, age, 58 years, and Mrs. W. in 1883, age, 85 yrs. Both
are buried at Hopbottom Cemetery the former having been removed.
Tewksbury, Henry, a son of Dan'l Tewksbury, was a Union soldier
at Petersburg. His wife was Lucy M. a daughter of Eli B. Goodiich.
Lived in the Joshua Miles house for a time but came to his present
place after the war. His children are Prank E., William H., Hayden
A., and Lizzie M. The place was previously owned by Martha and
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Tewksbury, Isaac S., a son of Jonathan Tewksbury, married Euth
A., a daughter of B. S. Saunders, and their children are Amelia J.
(Mrs. W. H. Eldridge) and Carrie M. (Mrs. A. C. Dolaway). Mrs. T.
was born in Ohio. Mi-. T. is a carpenter. He lived for a time in
Lathrop, His predecessors on this present place were F, W, Allen
and Eli F, Egberts a tailor and afterward a Methodist minister.
Mr. E.'s wife was Katharine, a daughter of Aaron Dewitt. The
house stands just east of where the doorway of the old school-house
was, in early times.
Tewksbury, Ansel E., a son of Jonathan Tewksbury, occupies the
house (to which additions have been made) built by Skidmore Tomp
kins and used by him as a store and residence. Mr, Tompkins had
a daughter Mary L. He died here Oct, 16, 1859, a., 47 yrs,, 2 mo,,
and 16 days, and was buried in Hill Cemetery, Mr, Tewksbury also
owns the lot across the road, on which Chas, V, Gere built a house
(not now standing) and occupied it for some time, and which was
afterward occupied by Eobert L, Gere aud others. It was a part of
the Edward L, Gere place, as Mr. T,'s other lot was part of the S,
W. Breed or Jeremiah Gere lot, Mr, T. was a carpenter and lived
for a time in Tunkhannock, He has also occupied a number of places
here, including the UniversaUst parsonage, but not the Presbyterian
parsonage as stated on p. 38, though he had charge of the Presby
terian church for some time,
Mr. T.'s wife was Hannah M., a daughter of Thos. H. and Harriet
(Bronson) Muzzey of Dimock, and granddaughter of Amos Bronson,
a brother of the mother of Amos Bronson Alcott. Their children
are Dora E. (Mrs. CogsweU), Elmer M., and Lulu who died Aug. 3,
1866 iu her 3d year. Mrs. T.'s sister Anna L. Muzzey also resides
much of the time in the family, and is a literary writer for the press.
Tewksbury, Harvey A., a. son of Jas. Tewksbury married Essa J.,
a daughter of A. H. Sterling, and their children are Prank S., Irving
E., Emory H., and Eoss. Mr. T.'s place is a part of the Dan'l Law
rence lot. The Lawrence house stood on the west side some distance
south of the present road. According to assessment, the lot seems
to have passed into the hands of Jacob Tewksbury about 1818, and
Nelson WUliams is said to have Uved on it for a time. Subsequentiy
it was bought by Harvey T.'s father, after he had Uved on the Jon
athan Tewksbury place.
James Tewksbury, a son of Sargent Tewksbury, was born in Brook
lyn July 15, 1804. His wife was EmeUne, a daughter of Zarah Sutliff.
Their children were Abner H. (died Oct. 3, 1856, a., 10 yrs., 8 mo.)
and Harvey A. Mrs. T. died Peb. 26, 1868, age, 45 yrs., 8 mo., aud
Mr. T., Dec. 18, 1880, in his 77th year. Old Cemetery.
Tewksbury, Ephraim S., a son of Isaac Tewksbury, has a house
and lot on land formerly belonging to Joshua Miles, Jr., not far
from the little dwelling that once stood near the paper-mill. His
wife was Eliza A., a daughter of B. S. Saunders. Their children are
Abbie D. (Mrs. Elijah Tingley), Carroll S., and Lena L, Mrs, T,

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also owns the lot formerly belonging to her father, lying south-east
of the old factory loi, where Jas. M- Beardsley and wife Maey Fargo
and son Perry also lived for a time.
Benjamin Sheffield Saunders was about six years old when he
came to the township with his father Joshua from E. I. in 1801.
July 30, 1816, he married Dolly (or Dorothy) Bagley, who came
with her father Orlando from Hartland, Windsor Co., Vt. in spring
o ' 1804. The marriage ceremony was peif ormed by Elisha Bibbins,
the Methodist clergyman. In the faU of 1817 they moved to Ohio in
company with others of the Eagiey, Saunders, and Worthing fami
lies. Their oldest daughter was about six weeks old and was carried
on a pillow. Their 2d daughter Euth was born in Ohio. They came
back about 1822. Some others who went came back (on account of
the ague) but not all at the same time. Mr. S. drove stage on the
Milford and Owego turnpike for a time after his return. His chil-
di-en were Lydia W. (Mrs. Nutt and afterward Mrs. Brooks), Euth
A. (Mrs. I. S. Tewksbury), Mary M. (Mrs. Shappee), Henrietta (Mrs.
Geo. J. Kent), Catherine (Mrs. Hall), Emeline (married Jas. Bagley
a son of Thos. Bagley), Eliza A. (Mrs. E. S. Tewksbury), and Perry
D., a Union soldier who was killed by an accidental shot from the
Union side at the battle of the WildernesF, May 6, 1864, a., 23 yrs.,
6 mo. He was buried there. Mr. S. died here, where be spent the
latter part of his life, Feb. 8, 1859, a., 64 yrs. The house is not now
standing. Mrs. S. died with her daughter Eliza, Apr. 19, 1885, age,
87 years and 9 months. Buried in Old Cemetery.
Tewksbury, Lyman K., a son of Isaac Tewksburj', was formerly a
cooper, but now is employed in the car-factory at Scranton. His wife
was Kate E., a daughter of Johnson Quick. Their children are
Cramer L. (a E. E. employee), Hattie E. (Mrs, G, P, Tiffany), Jo
Q., and DeWitt A., and Llewey who died Jan. 30, 1878, a., 7 j'ears.
A school-house was built upon this lot, near where the present
dwelling stands, in which C. M. Gere taught one winter. It was re
moved to the foot of the hill west of the village where it was in use
for several years. It was afterward taken down the mill-pond on the
ice where it once "fell in," but finally ai-rived at its destination and
became M. B. Grennell's shop.
Tiffany, Thomas J., a son of Pelatiah Tiffany, occupies the old
place formerly held by Alden Seeley and Aaron Saunders. This
place and the one south of it (both on the Snrah Stover warrantee)
were at first held by T. J. & Elizur Tiffany jointly, [184-] but were
afterward divided. Mr. T. married Matilda Bought of Nicholson,
and their children are Laura (Mrs. Emory Oakley), Fernando A.,
Mather C, Eosetta A. (Mrs. Simmons), and Thos. Jerome a physi
cian, and Malvina, deceased. Mrs. T. died Dec. 27, 1888, a., 70 years.
Alden Seelest probably came to this place about 1820 and remained
till it was turned over to A. Saunders in 1833. His house (now gone)
was on the west part of the lot, on the old now abandoned road lead
ing from near Latham Smith's, by the David Smith place and on by

154 mSTORY OF BROOKLYN.
Wm. Champlin's to Nathaniel SterUng's. His wife was Nancy Tewks
bury and their children were Luther, Sally, Lovina, Emeline, Daniel,
Nelson, Nancj', Mary, and EUza.
Tifany, Mather C, a son of above, occupies the same place with
his father. He married Polly, a daughter of John T. and Sarah
(Oakley) Perigo of Harford, and their chUdren are Earl P., Ealph
E., and Arthur L.
Tiffany, Mrs. Hannah, widow of Elizur Tiffany, has occupied the
old homestead of her husband most of the time since her husband's
death. The place was formerlv owned by Winthrop Worthing who
had a deed for it from J. B. "Wallace in 1810, and he or his brother
Jacob cleared a small portion of it and raised an apple nursery on
it, though neither of them lived there.
Elizur Tiffany married Hannah Eought and their chUdren were
John H. (a soldier in the signal service), Mary H. who died Aug. 26,
1884, age, 41 yrs , 5 mo., 9 days, George P. (a merchant), Lucy E.
died Aug. 12, 1884, age, 36 years, 10 days, aud Judson E. Mr. T.
died July 20, 1883, age, 71 yrs., 1 mo., 14 days. Hill Cemetery.
Tiffany, Charles Horace, a son of Alfred and Fanny (Mack) Tiffany,
manied EmeUne, a daughter of James Oakley. Their children are
James A., Stephen E., Fanny M. (Mrs. Geo. SimreU), and Frank E.
(killed by the E. E. cars). Mr. Simrell died at Kingsley Mar. 18, 1889.
In connection with his son Stephen, Mr. T. occupies a part of the
old place early in possession of Harlo and Julius Simons, afterward
owned by Mr. T. and subsequently by J. H. Page, and now mostly
owned by J. E. Tiffany.
Tiffany, Stephen B., a son of the above named, owns the mill and
water-power which has been used as a saw-mill, feed-mill, and cider-
mill with distiUery. His wife was Jennie L., a daughter of Clark
McMillan. Their children are Leon E., Lucy E., and Lewis S., and
Alma deceased.
Tiffany, William H. a son of Alfred and Fanny (Mack) Tiffany,
is a grain and coal merchant at Alford. He has the old plaster-mill
which is converted into a feed-mill. He also operates the saw-mill
formerly owned by Wm. McMillan and Jotham Oakley, and which
was built by -Tames Oakley. He married Eva VanBuskirk and they
have a daughter Hattie. Mr. T. bought out the Salsbury Co., and
his brother-in-law Cramer is interested in business with him.
Tiffany, Harmon B., occupies the place of his father Nelson, part
of it being a portion of the 400 acre tract bought from the State by
Alfred Tiffany, and part an adjoining lot east of Martin creek, in
Harford. His wife was Lizzie E. McConnell, and children, Frank
E. and Augustus H., and Harry H and Elmer E., deceased.
Nelson Tiffany, a son of Alfred Tiffany, married [1836] Permelia
E. Whitney. Their children were Harvey N. (a teacher, and now a
farmer of Bridgewater), Harmon B.. Cvnthia A. (died Dec. 28, 1863,
age, 14 years), and Emily E. (Mrs. M. J. Titus). About 1834 Mr. T.,

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in company with his father built a saw mill on this lot, on Martin
ci eek, and in 1842 he himself added a grist-mill, just in time to help
grind feed for the hard winter ensuing (1842-3). The mills are no
longer standing. About this time he conceived the idea of evapora
ting maple sap in shallow sheet-iron pans, and is said to have been
the first to use such for that purpose. He had a large establishment
which was at first frequently visited to witness his methods. In 1851
he entered into the merchantile business in a room in his house,
which he continued till the time of his death, which occuned Aug.
13, 1855, at the age of 43 yrs., 11 months. Mrs. T. afterward married
Joseph W. Hawley (also deceased) and she resides at Hopbottom.
Tiffany, Hosea E., a son of George W. Tiffany, married Vashti, a
daughter of Edward G. Oakley, and their children are Lillian E.,
George E., aud Earl B. He occupies a part of the Joseph Hawley
or Sam'l Wright place upon which his father spent his boyhood days.
The road along Martin creek through this old place was first
asked for by the petition of Samuel Wright and others presented in
Court Apr. 26, 1813, on which David Aldrich, Edw'd Paine, Joshua
Miles, Isaac A. Chapman, Eufus Kingsley, and Alfred Tiffany were
appointed to view a road from Ira Sweatland's in Biidgewater (now
M. L. Tiffany's in Hopbottom), to intersect the Harford and Bridge-
water road, by following the Nicholson road a little waj', then along
up Martin creek, and crossing it at Wilmarth's saw-mill, after\^ard
Dan'l Oakley's. This order seems not to have been acted on, as no
report is on record. But Aug. 25, 1814, Joab Tyler, Amos Tiffany,
Eufus Kingsley, David Aldrich, Elias Carpenter, and John Carpen
ter were appointed aud laid the road, through land of Anthony
Wright, Samuel Wright, and Noah Aldrich (vs'ho lived up the brook
from Oakley toward Harford),
Tiffany, Lyman B., owns and occupies tlie old place formerly held
by his father Anson M. Tiffany, by Bloomfield Milbourn, and first
by  Fox and Peggy, his wife, of 1787. On the east part of the
place, John C. Sweet began. He was a son of Amos Sweet who came
from Attleborough, Mass. to Harford in 1795. [Harford and Brook
lyn were then in the same to-n'nship— Nicholson.] He was a brother
of Elias Sweet who lived on the Jackson Tingley place, and of Asa
hel Sweet who lived not far from the Orphan School, and of Olney
Sweet of Gibson. John C. Sweet was a blacksmith. He married
Betsey, a daughter of John Jones of lirooklyn and lived for a time
near his brother Asahel's, but sold his place there to Frseman Peck
and came to Brooklj'n, building the red house now standing on this
place, about 1816. His children were Polly and Sarah JuUa. A deed
was made from Bloomfield Milbourn to Sarah J. Sweet for 9 acres
in 1814.
On the south part of this place Joel Sutliff, a son of David Sut
liff, lived for some years and died about 1823, being buried in the
Cemetery near by. The old cabin ruins remain. His wife was Betsey
Way, as the name is remembered. The mother of Lyman Grannis

156 history of BROOKLYN.
and of Mrs. I. A. BaUey was a daughter of theirs. Mrs. Sutliff was
also the mother of George W. Tifl'any. ¦ -^ j • i a
Lyman B. Tiffany married Malena, a daughter of Frederick ana
Ancy (Eace) Fish. Their children are Beecher; Jennie A. who died
Jan. 25, 1863, a., 2 years; Henry Nelson whose wife Mary E. (daugn-
ter of Dr. E. N. Loomis of Harford) died Dea 7, 1888; Anson W.;
Fred A.; and Elwin B. .„ , _.„
Anson M. Ti^-fany, a son of Alfred and Lucy (MiUer) Tiffany, mar
ried (Oct, 7, 1830) Saeah B,, a daughter of Bloomfield Milbourm He
first occupied the Sweet house with its nine acres (bought ot the
Sweets) and an additional lot adjoining on the hdl to the south-east,
and afterward came in possession of the Milbourn lot, except a por
tion in the south-west corner sold by Mr. M. to Col. Bailey. The
chUdren were Lyman B., Hannah E. (Mrs. Jesse W. Tewksbury and
afterward Mrs. Wm. H. Packer), and Lucy C. deceased. Mr. T. died
Mar. 14, 1881, a., 73 yrs., 1 ma, 20 da., and Mrs. T., Feb. 22, 1884,
a., 74 yrs., 2 mo., 19 da. Buried in HiU Cemeterj .
Bloomfield Milbouen was a son of Eiehard Milbourn who came
from England to Staten Island, in the vicinity of which he married
Elizabeth Bloomfield and they had two children, Bloomfield and
Sarah who afterward became Mrs. Jolham Oakley of Harford. After
a time, Eiehard desired to go back to England, but his wife was un
wiUing to go. Each insisted and so they sepai-ated, Mr. M, return
ing alone. Elizabeth afterward married John Jones. In 1790 Bloom
field Milbourn came with his step-father from Northumberland, Pa.
to the Capt. Bailey place, his mother and sister and half-sisters
stopping perhaps at Thornbottom (where Mr. Oakley's people lived)
till the cabin was built.
After this cabin and improvement were sold to Capt. Bailey, Mr.
M. came to this Fox place and built a cabin of hewn logs standing
several rods south-east of the present frame house (which was built
by Mr. T. and stands where Mr. M. previously built his fiame house)
where the depression of the old cellar is still to be !-een just north
of the old spring which still keeps up its ancient renown. Some rods
easterly from the spring is an old pear tree grafted by Mr. M. He
lived in this "block house" for a while, his half sister Nancy Joues
keeping house for him. Not long after he married Hannah, a daugh
ter of Isaac Tewksbury, Their chilriren were Eliza (Mrs, Lyman of
SpringviUe) and Sarah (Mrs. Tiffany). After Mr. M. went into his
frame house, the block house was used for school purposes. Amos
Tewksbury taught here in 1820-21, Lyman Ely, 1821-2, James W.
Chapman, 1822-3 and also in 1823-4, and Daniel Sterry in 1824-5.
Miriam Worthing also taught one summer in the Milbourn barn, and
Olive Corey, in the Sweet house. Mr. Milbourn died Dec. 2, 1839,
aged 68 yrs., 7 ma, 21 days, and Mrs. M., Aug. 15, 1854, aged 78.
Buried in Old Cemetery.
A short distance south-westerly from the site of the Milbourn
cabin, on the south side of the old State road, and some rods south
of the present dwelling, on a slight elevation of ground, indications

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have been traced of another cabin. This undoubtedly was that of
pioneer Fox of 1787. This is almost the only clue now obtainable
in relation to him. Miss Blackman was fortunate in obtaining from
Mrs. Wells, a daughter of Adam Miller, the information which she
had doubtless heard from her mother, that Peggy Pox a Dutchwo
man complained of johnny-cake fare, and that Mr. Fox, De. Capeeton,
aud John Eobinson were her father's near neighbors.
Not very far south of this probable place of the Fox cabin and on
the sarne dry ridge of land,' and doubtless on the first Fox clearing,
is a little hamlet of the dead, old and grass-grown, with most of the
mounds scarce recognizable, having received no accessions for near
three-quarters of a century. The number of graves is estimated at
20 or 25, but some believe there were more. The names of only four
or five persons here interred are known, and none can now be iden
tified. "The breezy call of incense-breathing morn.
The swallow twittering from the straw-thatched shed.
The cock's shrill clarion, or the echoing horn.
No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed.
For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn,
Or busy housewife ply her evening care.
Nor children run to lisp their sire's return.
Or climb his knee the envied kiss to share.
Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield ;
Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke ;
How jocund did they drive their teams afield !
How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke !
Pull many a gem of purest ray serene
The dark unfathomed ca-?es of ocean bear,
Full many a flower is born to blush unseen.
And spread its sweetness on the desert air.
Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid
Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire;
Hands that the rod of Empire might have swayed.
Or waked to ecstasy the living Ij're.
But far removed from crowded haunts of strife,
Their sober wishes never learned to stray ;
Along the cool sequestered vale of life
They kept the noisless tenor of their way.
Let not ambition mock their useful toil,
Their homely joys and destiny obscure,
Nor grandeur hear with a disdainfid smile
The short and simple annals of the poor."
If well they wrought their unobtrusive part.
No boast of heraldry or pomp of power
Could e'er impart by any grander art
An added worth to their immortal dower.

158 history of BROOKLYN.
Sept. Sessions, 1816, a petition was presented in Court for a road
from the Milford and Owego turnpike between lands of S. Breed and
F. Bailey to the State road, at a pomt between land of B. Milbouin
and Sam'l Howard. The viewers appointed were Joseph Chapman,
Joshua Miles, Latham WilUams, Jacob Tewksbury, Edward Paine,
and Elisha Mack. No report was returned. In May 1817, the fol
lowing viewers were appointed: Thomas Parke, Joseph Chapman,
Edward Pame, Alfred Tiffany, Jeremiah Gere, and Thos. Giles. No
report was made but the road became estabUshed by common con
sent and use or by subsequent action.
Tiffany, Elisha T, formerly of Dimock, is a son of Preston and
EUza (Mack) Tiffany, a" grandson of Thomas and Milly (Tingley)
Tiffany of Harford, and a great-grandson of John and DeUverance
(Parmeter) Tiffany of Attleboro', Mass. He bought a farm (porth-
westerly from that of his father, ou the Meshoppen) to which he
added the farm of his wife's father adjoining, the whole being now
occupied by his son Adelbert. His place here in the village is that
on which Ansel Sterling built the residence. He married Julia A., a
daughter of Gurdon D. Hempstead, and their children are Horace
E., born Oct. 26, 1844, and cUed March 19, 1886, Nelson L., Mary
Eliza (Mi-s. Watrous), O. Adelbert, Sarah Emily (Mrs. W. L. Bun
nell), Florence A. (Mrs. S. E. Newton, died Mar. 6, 1880, a., 25 j-rs.,
10 mo., 28 da.), and Charles H.
Tiffany, Nelson L., a son of Elisha T. Tifl'any, married Eva H., a
daughter of E. G. Williams. The-r children are Gertrude B., Glen
B., and Ernest W. His farm is on the Elizabeth Jackson warrant
and has a fine spring. His predecessors on the place have been A.
C. Quick, H. and G. Potter, George Walker, James G. Packer, E.
W. Gere, and Jas. Packer. Mi-. T. also owns a small wood-lot north
of the "Bibbins lot."
Andrew C. Quick and Lydia A. Knapp, his wife, came from N. J.
nearly forty years ago. Not long after, he came to this place. His
children are Sarah (Mrs. E. P. Mack), Frances Ann (Mrs. George C.
Mack, who died Apr. 25, 1873, age, 34), and Horace D. Mr. Q. died
Jan. 5, 1879, age, 66 years. Mrs Q. resides with her daughter. Mr.
Quick's father .Joseph lived with him for some years, and died Apr.
5, 1874, nearly 89 j-ears of age. Joseph Quick's first wife, Sarah, also
died here June 5, 1857, age, 69, and his 2d wife, Mes. Hannah Knapp,
Aug. 29, 1864, age, 71 years, 6 months.
James Packee, a brother of Edward Packer, Sr., came frpm Ct.
about ISll or 12. He was a carpenter and built the present housts
it is said, in 1818. His wife was Lina (Salina) Williams, an aunt of
Elisha Williabis an earlj' resident of Brooklyn and later of Gibson.
The children were Wm. Albert (born, 1809), Jidia E. (1st wife of E.
W. Geer, 1812), Sarah C. (Mrs. Chandler, 1816), James G. (1818),
Mary P. (Mrs. Barnes, 1820), Austin W. (1822), Eunice M. (Mrs.
Geo. Walker, 1824), and Charles M. (1826), Mr. P. died in 1848 and
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Tiffany, Charles H, a son of E. T. Tiffany, occupies the house
built by A. C. Dolaway on the old Joshua Miles lot. His wife is
Emma M., a daughttr of James and Amanda (Youngs) Sterling, and
her mother resides with them. They have a daughter Mabel and a
son Beit. Mr. T. is engaged in selling dairy and farm machinery.
Tiffany, Preston Horace, a son of Preston and EUza Tiffany, began
farming on his place below his father's in Dimock. He next bought
the Capt. Ge/ e place and then part of his grandfather Mack's lot.
He now resides on a part of the Joshua Miles place. The house was
built by P. W. Alien, aud afterward owned by P. G. Burch and by
P. H. Tiffany. Mr, T. has recently made additions. His wife was
Sarah E,, a daughter of David Quick, and their chUdren, Fred'k H.,
Emma J. (Mrs. Frank Kent), Vinia E. who died Feb. 6, 1875, age,
21 years), Judson D. (whose wife was Hattie Angel), and Frank E.
Powell G. Burch was raised in N. Y. state, was a schoolmate of
Daniel S. Dickinson, and was a soldier around the Lakes in War of
1812. He came to Brooklyn not fai- from 1860 from Auburn, Penn'a.
His wife was Lovina Y. Palmer, and children, Eensselaei- H., Caro
Une P. (Mrs. Cogswell), Aniret (Mrs. P. Tewksbury), Morgan E., S.
Abigail (Mrs. Oakley and afteiwai-d Mrs. B. O. Watrous), Oliver E.,
Clarissa (Mrs. Lacy), Mary S. (Mrs. C. Eogers), Caleb C, and Curtis
Y. He died April 24, 1879, age, 84 yrs., 3 mo., and Mrs. B., March
19, 1874, age, 70 years. Buried in Old Cemetery.
Francis W, Allen, from South Montrose in 1851, engaged tn mer
chantile business and watch-repairing. He built this house a few
years after, buying the land of Henry Tewksbury. His wife was
Charlotte, a daughter of Obadiau Green. They had an adopted
daughter Bernice. After his death, March 3, 1860, at the age of 43
years, the place was temporarily occupied for a year or two by pho
tographer Evans, and James Crandall, painter, and was then sold to
Mr. Burch. Mr. Allen used the house as dwelling with a store and
repairing room and photographic gallery.
Tiffany, Frederick H, a son of P. H. Tiffany, manied Ann E., a
daughter of B. O. Watrous. They have a daughter Maggie L. He
occupies the viUage house and lot now belonging to Mrs. Mary L.
Chase of Carbondale but formerly owned by her father, James L.
Adams. The house was built by John C. Wright for Noah Hickock, a
blacksmith. John Potts afterward lived in it.
Jambs L. Adams came from Mass. about 1820. He was a carpenter,
a son of Jonas E. Adams aud grandson of John Adams, the Eevolu
tionary veteran. He married Lydia, a daughter of Joseph Chapman,
and they had a daughter Mary L., Mrs. W. B. Cuase. Mr. A. was
postmaster from 1861 to the time of his death. The post-office was
removed for a time from this house to the store of D. A. Titsworth,
but was taken back. Before coming to this place Mr. A. lived in the
old "gate-house." sold to Pied'k MUler, but formerly occupied by
Mrs. A.'s father who kept the toll-gate. Mrs. A. died Oct. 22, 1871,
age, 62 yrs., 9 mo., 20 daj's, and Mr. A., suddenly, June 27, 1885, 78
years old. His grandson J. La Verne Adams lived in the famUy. He

160 history of BROOKLYN.
died at Elmira, N. Y., Oct. 13, 1888. Buried in Hill Cemetery, "Wm.
B. Chase was a Union soldier, enlisting at the age of 14, and serving
1^ years in army of Tennessee.
Tiffany, Joseph W., a son of Preston Tiffany, married Esther M.,a
daughter of Elisha Safford. Their childreu are Owen L., Warren who
died Apr. 2, 1880, age, 28 years, Eva A., Ida M. (Mrs. Geo. Tiffany),
and Olive M. The farm is on the David Torbitt and Wm. Layton
warrants, and has been previously occupied by P. H. Tiffany and
Charles Gere.
Mark S. Quick bought a smaU portion of the old place from P. H.
Tiffany, and built a house upon it which he still owns, but being a
carpenter he removed to Scranton to pursue his occupation. He is a
son of David Quick and married Eliza, a daughter of Lodowick Bai
lej', Sr. Their children are Andrew D. and Charles J.
Charles Gere [a son of Eobert and Lucy (Fitch) Gere] originaUy
from Groton, Ct., came from Hartland, Vt. to the John Lord place
in Lathrop aboutl801. Two or three years after, he sold to Josiah
Lord, Sr., and came to this place living for some time in a log houie
by. the spring; considerable distance southerly from the present
house. He was a carpenter and a land surveyor. A deed (pn parch
ment) was given from J. B. Wallace to Capt. Gere for 50 acres "on
the south side of the road leading from the mouth of the Meshoppen
to 'Nine Partners'," June 10, 1808; and north of road, 39 acres, Nov.,
1820. He married Sally Denison Dec. 17, 1799. Their children were
Sarah D., Mrs. Kintuer, born either in Vt. or on the Lord place and
died in "Wyoming Co. ; Lucy Fitch, Mrs. Dr. Merrill, born Oct. 16,
1802, Lord place ; Charles Denison, born Oct. 29, 1805, log house ;
Eobert W., born April 17, 1808, log house; and Julia A., Mi-s. J^s.
W. Adams, bom May 11, 1815, frame house. Mason Denison a physi
cian, a brother of Mrs. Gere, lived for some years in the family and
practiced his profession, beginning as early as 1810. Capt. G. dieji
Feb. 5, 1842, age, 65, and Mrs. G., Mar. 16, 1841, age, 64 years. 01^
Cemetery. A school was taught by Amos G. Bailey in Capt. Gere's
shop probably about 1826-7.
Charles Denison Geee married Pannj' a daughter of Elisha Baker.
They had a child Emeline who married C. Cushing Eyre. Mr. G^ie
died June 3, 1832 in his 27th year. Mrs. G. died Oct. 30, 1831, aig'e,
25 years. Their daughter died June 8, 1866 in her 37th year. Biiried
in Old Cemetery. ' *
Tiffany, Owen L., (son of above) and Jennie Gooden his wife, oc
cupy the place which Mrs. Wm. Titsworth fitted up and upou which
she built a new house. The premises had previously been in posses
sion of Loren Bagley. Mr. T.'s children are Earl, Carroll E., and
Elbert E.
Tiffany, Edwin E., a son of Orville N. and Jane (Gardner) Tiffany
. and grandson of Preston Tiffany, owns the village house and lot re
cently occupied by D. A. Titsworth and formerly by John Potts. He
has a meat market. His wife is Emma L., a daughter of Isaac Van
Auken. Their children are Jennie M. and Myron O. '

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DeWitt A. Titsworth is a son of Wm. Titsworth, and is now Pro-
thonotary at Montrose. He was a merchant here, at first in company
with his brother Aified, ana after bj' himself. His wife was Alice, a
d.iughter of Johnson Quick, and cnildren, Wilham A., Clarence E.,
Len Eay, and Lillian.
JOHN Potts came from New York state about 1832 and worked for
some years in the blacksmith shop ot Ephraim B. Garland. He after-
^\'ard worked at his trade in Montrose, but subsequently returned to
lirookiyn. He married Susan, a daughter of Samuel Garland. She
became a great favorite among the children of her acquaintance, and
uied here. Thej' had an adopted daughter who afterward married,
aud not long ago took Mr. P. to Uve with her at Emiiie, Bucks Co.,
Pa., about wnicn a sensational and unreal rejjort was everywhere cir
culated by the press as to the great wealth of this kind daughter.
Tiffany, Elmer F., a son of Orville N. Tiffany, lives on that por
tion of tne lot of his great grandfather Mack, which is now owned
by P. H. Tiliany. His wife is SadaA., a daughter of David I. Kinnej^,
and their chiluren are Grace and Kinney.
Elisha Mack came with his family to tJie township in 1810 or 1811,
(probably the former) from Lyme, Ct. where he was born Mii.y 5th,
1768. It is thought he or his brother Elijah or both may have come
7 or 8 yrs. before, when Josiah Lord came. If so they soon returned.
The Mack family were of Scotch origin, coming from the Highlands.
Elisha Mack first married Lydia Lord. Their children were Lydia
who died Dec. 24, 1825; Matilda, Mrs. EUsha Lord, who died Aug.
20, 1829, EUza, born May 3, 1796, married Preston Tiffany of Dim
ock, and died Sept, 30, 1829; [Mr, Tiffany died Oct. 23, 1876, a., 81
yrs., 5 mo., 24 days aud his 2d wife, Abial E., died July 23, 1876, a.,
87 years.] Fanny, born April 11, 1798, married Alfred Tiffany, and
aied Dec. 20, 1850; and EUsha, Jr., born AprU 18, 1800. Mis. M.
died about 1800. Mr. M. mairied Taphe.va Lord (distantly if at all
related to his first wife) Sept. 9, 1802. Their children were Marvin
Lord, Enoch, Alfred Wolcott, Horace Eoscoe, John Boughton, Mary
Emily (Mrs. Loren L. Bagley), Ursula G. (Mrs. Geo. Mack), Charles
N. (died at Beloit, Wis., Dec. 27, 1860), William G. (went to Albion,
N. Y.), Ansel P., aud Adaline L. On coming, Mr. M. bought au
improvem* nt of Joshua Saunders, and he first lived in a log house
standing near the "coiners." He afterward built the frame house
standiug near where the present house stands. He was a ship-car
penter. Soon after he came, he built a saw-mill on the east side of
the lot, on Hoi ton creek. Mr. M. was born May 5, 1768, and died
Oct. 19, 1839, age, 71 yrs., 5 mo., 14 days. His wife Taphena was
born Mar. 17, 1782 and died Aug. 31, 1861. Old Cemetery.
For many years the old roads have been in use, crossing each
other nearly at right angles on this place, and forming "Mack's
Corners." And for many years schools were taught near these cor
ners on this place. The first were likely in log houses. Then in one
west of the road near Ealph SterUng's, and after, a little further
south on east of road. The present house is a little north of this

162 HISTORY OF BROOKLYN, ^
place, on the Packer farm. The first teacher was Jesse Bagley,
Others remembered are, MatUda Mack (1810 or 11), Edward Paiue,
Miriam Worthing, Ebenezer Paine, Asa Crandall (several times),
Jonathan Merrill (1820), Nelson Doolittie, James W, Chapmau
(1823-4), Sally Fish, S, B. Blake, A. B. Merrill, Asahel Carpenter,
Enoch Mack, Verie Ann Safford, Julia (Packer) Gere, Eliza A. Parke,
S. W. Breed twice (once in the house now owned by J. M. Whitman,
while the school-house was being built), Loammi Hinds, Adaline
Skidmore, Lucy L. Gere, Mary Newton and Diadama Hewitt.
Tiffany, Miss Malvina E., a daughter of Edwin Tiffanj', occupies
the house (a part of which is rented to Mrs. McKeever) owned by
her father, and before that owned by E. T. Ashlej-, James Noble, and
Edward L. Paine who built it. It has been temporarily occupied by
others. Miss T. has just remodeled it increasmg its hight, bat the
main ground part remains as at first.
Edwin Tiffany, a son of Hosea and Polly (Sweet) Tiffany, and
grandson cf Hosea and Nancy (Wilmarth) Tiffany of the "Nine
Partners," came from Harford in 1839, and bought the premises of
Ml-. Ashley. He was a shoemaker by tiade, but went into the mer
cantile business here, fitting up the south-west corner room for the
purpose. Lyman Bolles was in company with him for a time. Mr.
T. afterward built the store now occupied by A. Elj' & Sons. His wife
was C. Sophronia a daughter of Latham A. Smith, Sr., and their
children were Malvina E., and Hosea E. who died June 4, 1838 in
his 3d year. Mr. T. was born May 28, 1812, and died Mar. 22, 1857.
Mrs. T. was born Ajjr. 19, 1810, and died Oct. 28, 1884. Buried in
Hill Cemetery.
James Noble, a brother of the mother of E. T. Ashlej', came from
Brooklyn, N, Y. to Burrows Hollow, Gibson, where he spent a short
time in the mercantile business, and came here in 1823, He iu st
started a store in "the Old Abbej'" earlj' in that J'ear, and after a
few months he took possession of the store buUding which E. L.
Paine had just put up on this place, between the present house yaid
and the maple trees in front toward the west. 1'his stme and the
adjacent dwelling he rented for a time and afterward bought His
wife was Grace Hegeman. They had three children, two of whom
were born here and two died here and were buried in the Old Cem
etery — Sarah M., died Nov. 30, 1823 in her 3d year; John J., died
Sept. 14, 1825 in 2d year; and Charles who removed with his father
and died at the age of 43 years, about 1867-8.
Mr. N. put up two asheries — the first one by the village brook
just below the present bridge, and another on the spring run, south
of the Presbyterian church, on the old road which ran south of the
barn and old orchard of A. E. Gere, south of the McKinney house
(which house and farm Mr. N. bought of J. E. Adams) and crossed
the village brook just back of O. W. Foote's house, where one of the
abutments of the bridge remained to be seen only a short time ago.
He was appointed a justice of the peace while here, aud was post
master from 1824 to '26, during which time the office was kept in

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this store, as it had been for a year before, E. L. Paine and James
Noble each being deputy or clerk, though Thos. Garland still held
the appointment as postmaster.
Jaieus Day, a relative of Mr. N., was in company with him while
in the "Abbey," and perhaps for a time after. Jas. W. Chapman assis
ted Mr. N. occHsionally as clerk and postmaster, in the store. And
Edwin Keelee, Mr. Noble's nephew, was also his clerk. It is said
that while returning from Gibson one evening, on the old state road,
a pistol shot was tired at Mr. K., in the vicinity of Dry creek, the
ball striking his knife in his vest pocket, flattening the bullet and
shattering the knife handle, both being found in that condition on
his ariival home. He was thrown from his horse (probably by the
frio-ht of the animal) but recovered it near the Gere tannery. No
body was seen. He had been out on business connected with the
store. Edward L. Paine says: "James Noble wa^the first one to take a
Ftock of goods to Brooklyn. [This was true as within Mr. P.'s reco-
lection.] He had them in the east part of the large house built by
Dea. Miles for a public house, and occupied at that time by Samuel
Yeomans. That was about the first of April 1823. About the middle
of the same month I left Wilkes-Barre where I had been serving as
clerk iu a store and came to Brooklyn expecting to occupy the same
room with goods (having had a partial engagement for the same)
that I found my friend Noble occupying. I then procured a lot on
the corner a few rods east, and on Monday morning, with two or
three others, I went to the woods with axes for timber, and in two
weeks from that Monday— on the first Monday of May — I had a
stock of goods in a store of my own. I remained in it seven months,
and built a dwelling house near it, and then disposed of both to
Mr. Noble." [Mr. Ashley afterward removed this store.]
A deed was made Irom Jas. Noble to E. T. Ashley for one acre, in
1831. A deed from Arunah Tiffany to Edward L. Paine was given
for A acre Apr. 4, 1823, but this half acre was evidently included in
the deed for 1 acre, made May 1st, 1823, (consideration $65) the laud
"lying north-east of the school-house, on the Milford and Owego
turnpike ¦ Beginning 25 feet from the Weston road and 25 feet from
the center of the turnpike; thence east 10 rods on the turnpike, and
25 feet from the center thereof, and far enough on the Weston road
to make 160 rods." The half acre lot began at the east end of the
sluice north of the school-house, and ran 6| rods on the turnpike,
and fa!r enough on Weston road to make 80 rods — all of which is in
cluded in the larger lot. Mr. Noble removed to Springville in 1831,
staying two or three year^, and then returning to Brooklyn, N. Y.
where he died. He held property here after he left, the Miles grist
mill, saw-mill, and paper-mill, and land being assessed to him for a
year or two— 1840-41.
Tiffany, Conger, a son of Noah Tiffany, Jr. and Charlotte Seaver,
of Gibson, and a grandson of Noah and Mary (Olney) Tiffany, mar
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June 25, 1879, age, 56 years, leaving a daughter Eva A. who resides
with her father. Mr. T. occupies the small place on -which Joseph
Lines, Jr. built the house some 40 years ago, Uving in it for a num
ber of years. It \fas afterward o-wned by G. D. Hempstead and by
L. A. Tyler who removed to Easton.
Tingley, Charles, from Harford, married Margaret Gow, and resi
des at Alford. Their children are Joseph T. and Wm. Arthur. Mr.
T. is a grocer.
Tingley, Jbseph T., (son of above) a E. E. employee at Alford, mar
ried LiUian, a daughter of J. H, Page, Their chUdren are Lena,
Earl, and Sarah,
Titsworth, Alfred, a son of William Titsworth, married Ann E., a
daughter of Amos J. and Julia (Davison) Smith. He was at one time
in the mercantile business with his brother DeWitt, and now occu
pies the house heretofore occupied by Wm. H. Eldridge, M. McVicar,
aud N. J. Vergason. It was at one time owned by H. E. Cogswell, a
music teacher, and was finaUy purchased by Mrs. Titsworth. The
laud formerly belonged to the JoshUa Miles lot.
Newell J, Vergason, a son of Jedediah Vergason, was a black
smith. His wife was Sarah Lines of Franklin, They also lived at
Alford, Their children were Frank, Julius, William, Charles, Mertie,
HaLtie, Jennie, and Arthur, Mr. V. was a soldier, Mrs. V, died June
10, 1883, age, 52 years,
Ansel Vergason was a brother of Newell and was also a Union
soldier. His wife was Marietta Ackerman, and their children, Matie
and Newell, He died Mar. 6, 1864, age, 34 years. Old Cemetery.
Townsend, Lewis A., a son of S, D, Townsend, married Caroline
M., a daughter of Thos. Garland. They have a son Thomas S. They
occupy the J. E. Howe place, owned by N, C, Benjamin, They lived
for a time on the E, B, Garland place, and then removed to Carbon
dale, Afterward they, in company with their son, occupied the
Thomas Garland place.
Thomas S. Townsend married Sarah S. Lathrop and their children
are Hubert C , Walton H., Louis G., Eichmond P., aud Edith E.
Mr. T. removed from the township.
Underwood, Marqtds, [colored] a son of Abram and Stisan (Samp
son) Underwood (who used to live with Col. Parke), married! Mary
Eucks. Mr. U. was a Union soldier. He owns 19| acres, a part of
the Bristol Budd Sampson lot which was before that occupied by
Eoswell "Whitney. ,
Bristol Budd Sampson [colored] was in the Eevolutionary service,
said to have been an attendant on Gen. Washington. He received a
pension with which he bought this land. He Uved here part of the
latter portion of bis life and also Uved on the other end of his lot,
on the Milford and Owego turnpike a Uttle below Cyrus Oakley's.
He was blind for many years, and sometimes traveled with his staff
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boys led him. His first wife was Phebe, a daughter of Prince Per
kins. Their children were Susan (Mrs. Abram Underwood), William,
and Amma. His 2d wife's name was also Phebe, and children, Joanna,
Charlotte, Judy, and Hannah. He had a deed for fifty acres from
Ebenezer Whitney in 1821. He died in 1848 and -was buried in the .
Prince Perkins Cemetery.
VanAuken, Mrs. Susan, -widow of B. W. VanAuken, lives with her
son on the place owned by her deceased husband, which was first oc
cupied by Zarah Sutliff. It is on the Joseph Torbit warrant.
Benjamin W. VanAuken came with his father Isaac from New Jer
sey in 1829. In 1834 he manied Susan Safford, a daughter of EUsha.
Their children were J. Tracy of Scranton; Sidney a soldier, of Os
wego, N. Y.; Courtright a soldier, of Oswego; Calvin W., died June
11, 1863, age, 21 years; Olive E., died July 9, 1857, age, 13 years;
Dwight L., died June 17, 1863, age, 16 years; Martin S., died Jun«
8, 1863, age, 12 years; Hester A., died June 30, 1863, age, 9 j'ears;
Willis G. of Saginaw, Mich.; Levi D.; and Nellie J., died Jrilv 30,
1863, a., 1 year. Mr. V. died Jan. 17, 1884, age, 70 years. Old Cem.
VanAuken, Levi D., works the place and cares for his mother.
And Eubie E., a daughter of Tracy Van Auken, lives in the family.
Isaac VanAuken married Elizabeth Coubteight in 1795. He bought
this place (116 acres) of Z. Sutliff in 1829. Their children were Ja
cob who died here May 16, 1846, a., 50 yeai-s; Phebe; Salicha (Mrs.
Samuel WilUams); Abraham; Amos; and Benjamin 'W.
The school-house on this place once stood further north and on
the east side of the road, at the "5 comers," but it was not one of the
earliest ones of the township.
VanAuken. Isaac, a son of Amos VanAuken, married Mary A , a
daughter of Lyman Ely who owned the place before him. Earlier
predecessors were Wm. Merritt, and Bela Case who came here about
1810 and built a cabin by the old orchard, easterly from the present
houses. The place is on the Jas. Torbit warrantee. Mr. V, now also
owns a part of the Harris Sutliff lot and that part of the David or
Zarah Sutliff lot lying south of the state road, on Which the build
ings and the old spring were located, where Consider Fuller first
began. Mr. V.'s children are Emma L. (Mrs. E. E. Tiffany), James
A., Elbert deceased, Frank E., and Hayden A.
Lyman Ely came with his father Zelophehad, in 1814. He married
Bathsheba, a daughter of Thomas Giles. Their children were Mary
A. (Mrs. I. VanAuken) and Lucy M. (Mrs. Henry WiUiams) who died
October 9, 1856, age, 21 years, leaving a daughter Lucy who lived in
Mr. Ely's family and became Mrs. Charles Ely of Dimock. Mr. Ely
was born at Lyme, Ct. June 2i, 1796, and died here June 8, 1873.
Mrs. E. died March 6, 1876, age, 69 years.
Zarah Sutliff came with his father David in 1811. After a time
he beo-an on the B. W. VanAuken place, but came back to this place
about 1828. He died here about 1848. His wife was Polly a daugh
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166 HISTORY OF BROOKLYN,
went away and was never heard from after; Caroline, Mrs. Cor win,
believed to have been murdered on the mountains near Scranton ;
Emeline, Mrs. Jas. Tewksbury; Levi; and Lucretia. _
David Sutliff doubtless went into the Consider Puller cabin. The
frame house (gone^ and barn (still here) were afterward built a little
further east, and a fine orchard, for the time, was estabUshed, Mr,
S- and Col. Bailey were the first supervisors of the township [1814]
after Susquehanna county was set off. He died about 1827. His wife
was Charity Dunbar. Their children were Harris, Joel, Zarah, Cur-
rance, Hannah (Mrs. P. Tiffany), and Charity (Mrs: E. Garland).
Harris Sutliff also seems to have lived on this place (not on the
other) and to have owned it. He also owned a lot south and south
east of this which he sold to Dr. Bissell in 1828 or perhaps before,
as Dr. B. had the distillery (buUt by Mr. Sutliff) as early as 1820.
It was in 1832 that Mr. S. left the township— not when he sold to
Dr. Bissell as has been stated, though the deed from H. Sutliff to S.
Bissell was made iu 1828. The deed from Harris Sutliff to Zarah
¦SutUff for this place was also made in 1828^ His wife was Anna Bon
ney, and children, LuCius, Phebe, and Henry.
Asa Bonney seems also to have spent most of his time with the
family of Harris Sutliff, and doubtless came at the same time. His
children were Phebe, a long-time teacher; Euth, Mrs. Barron of
Bridgewater; Polly, Mrs. Z. Sutliff; Anna, Mrs. H. Sutliff; Milly,
Mrs. Isaac Sterling ; and another daughter, Mrs. Valentine Lewis.
Consider Fuller and Euth Elms, his wife, came /from "Vermont
about the time Jacob Te-wksbury came or soon after, being induced
to do so by Mr. T.'s recommendations — probably about 1804. Their
children were Sarah (Mrs. John Belcher of Gibson — mother of Mrs.
Horace Yeomans, now Mrs. Samuel Lindsey) ; Alfred ; Euth ; .Isaiah ;
Susanna; and Lucinda (Mrs. Jonathan Tewksbury). Mr. Fuller died
about 1820, and Mrs. P., in 1845 at th<i age of 86 years.
k. school house was built on the west side of the Sutliff place on
tbe corner where the south road joins the state road. Among the
early teachers here, are the following: George Stephens, George K-
Tupper, Phebe Bonney (1824), Isaac L. Fairchild, Alonzo Taylor,
J. E. Ely, Sophronia Wilson (1826), Sarah D. Gere, Lydia Chapman,
Nancy McMillan, Verie Ann Safford, O. D. Eoberts, O. C. Ely. J.
Dwight Safford. The house was moved to the chestnut grove just
west of the Dr. BisseU housfe where Dudley B. Smith, O. G. Hemp
stead, J. O. Bullard, and many others taught.
VanAuken, James A., a son of Isaac VanAuken, married Emma, a
daughter of Geo. M. Ely, and thej' have made their home on the old
Joseph Yeoinans lot, on the Leonard Woodrovy and Joseph Torbit
warrants. They have a daughter Lena, '
Joseph Yeomans, a son of Samuel Yeomans, Sr., came to this place
at an early daj'. It adjoins the place bis brother :Samuel first took
up. Some claim that the family came in 1806; others, that they came
about the time that Isaac Tewksbury came in 1804. In 1814, on pe
tition of Joseph Yeomans and' others a road was laid from the road

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between Edward Paine's and EUjah Mack's, to the road from Chas.
Gere's to the state road. This new road ran between the two Yeo
mans lots. The viewers were Henry Catlin, Joseph Chapman, Joshua
JMiles, Edward Paine, Latham Williams, and Gideon Beebe. Mr. Y.
married Anna, a daughter of Elkanah and Keziah (Mason) Tingley of
Harford, a younger half-sister of Darius Tingley who married Sabra
Yeomans. Their children were Moses B., Keziah (Mrs. H. E. Kittle),
Sally B. who died Mar. 23, 1879, aged 61 years, Daniel M., Huldah
T. (Mrs. J. L. Bailey), and Eliza (Mrs. A. G. Eeynolds). Mr. Y.
died Oct. 14, 1870, age, 84 years, and Mrs. Y., Dec. 8, 1843, age, 51
years. Buried in Old Cemetery.
VanAuken, Giles, a son of Amos VanAuken, married Ehoda A., a
daughter of Amos G. Bailey. They occupy the place formerly held
by Lyman Grannis, on which the house was built by P. L. Lindsey
in recent j'ears, and which is a part of the John Babcock place.
Lyman M. Grannis, a son of Chas.. Edward and Clarissa (Sutliff)
Grannis, married Hannah M., a daughter of Jasper and Hannah
(Bailey) McKeeby, of Dimock. Their children are Edward J., Jas
per D., Isaac A., and Arcissa J. They removed from the township.
Frederick L. Lindsey (now of Harford), a son of Benj. Lindsey,
married Fannie E., a daughter of Andrew Eogers, 2d. They separa
ted. Their children are Fred, Prank, Harry, Hattie, Gertie, and
Josie. Mrs. L. now lives near Pactoryville.
Very, Olney H, a son of Asa and Chloe (Eexford) Very who came
from Danville, Vt., to Harford in 1814, when Olney was about ten
years old. He has lived at Alford some thirty years. His first wife
was Mary Bailey. They had a son George. His 2d wife was Phebe
M. Mulineaux, deceased, and' their children are Jerome B., Theo
dore, Celestia C, Annie S. (Mrs. E. D. Goodrich), Lorin O., Clara
A. (Mrs. Geo. Herkimer), and Judson. Mr. V. is a wheelwright.
Very, Jerome B., is a grocer at Alford. He married Eleanor S.
Handc'ock, deceased, and their children are Edith J. (Mrs. P. Pes
senden) and Effie M.
Waldie, Alexander S., a son of Jas. Waldie, married Angelia E., a
daughter of David Kent. Their children are Gertrude and Maud.
Esq. Waldie's step-mother and Mrs. W.'s mother also reside in the
family. The place had been held by Henry Eogers, A. T. Packard, a
shoemaker, Asa Daj', a blacksmith (who built the first house), and
others. Mr. W. has built a new house. He has been an acting justice
of the peace for some years. He owns the lot (on the south side of
the creek) on which the cabin of Mortimer Page was built in 1787,
and part of the land on which the "sugar camp" of Jacob Tewksburj
was situated. One of the old maples is still standing, and only a few
years ao'O there were several. The maple timber extended west over
the lots'.of G, P. Tiffany and G. B. Eogers. It is reported that Mr.
Page remained in the settlement most of the time till about 1806,
when he returned to Philadelphia whence he came. He is said to
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168 history of BROOKLYN.
Peggy can be recalled. His clearing — after called "Dutch Meadow"—
toOi£ in the south part of the Old Cemetery and part or all of E. S.
Eldridge's house lot, and extended west to a Uttle beyond the old
north and south road. There are probably but four persons now
Uving who, in childhood, were familiar with this clearing of over a
iiundred years ago. The oldest is Sally Tracy (Mrs. H.ayden) who
(after Dea. Miles came in 1807 or 8) remembers well of often going
to this ground to briug and take back the horses there pastured.
Tlie next is Samuel Tewksbui-y who was born on the Ashley knoll
Aug. 25, 1803, and. who remembers that his father boiled sap in the
Page cabin before Mr. T. moved across the creek. The other two are
Jas. and John Chapman, a little younger, and living further away.
The old roads in the vicinity then ran, one, from the Tewksbury or
Miles mills (at south-east point of New Cemetery) noi th-westerly
and then westerly, toward the Daniel Lawrence, Mott Wilkinson, and
Consider Fuller neighborhood; and the other crossed the creek (near
Mrs. Loomis's) and crossed the other road, and thence ran southerly
towards Jedediah Lathrop's, Edward Paine's, Samuel Howard's &c.,
and a branch turning by the Bibbins place toward Orlando Bagley's.
Esq. Tewksbury remembers the Page c^abin as standing south of the
east and west road and just west of the north and south road ou a
Uttle strip of clearing cut off from the rest when the south road was
established. Waldie, Tyler C, a son of James Waldie, married Amanda O.
Johnson. Their children are Glen E. who died Jan., 1889, and Harry
E. Mrs(. W. was a daughter of Benjamin and Zeluma Johnson for
merly of Sussex Co., N. J., and more recently of Springville.
Warner, Ansel L., a Union soldier, a son of Timothy and Lydia
(Piatt) Warner originally from Ct., but later of Bridgewater, came
to this place (on the Ann Manning warrant) some time after the war.
He was preceded by Wm. Perry, N. C. Benjamin, Samuel Benjamin,
John Adams, Nathan Lathrop, Chas. F. Bissell, and David Bissell.
He manied Mary J. Cook, and their children are EUza G. (Mrs.
Worth), LUUce E. (Mrs. Freeman), Edson M. who died Oct. 12, 1887,
age, 28 years, and Gordon D. Mrs. W. died Oct. 8, 1889. The place
has a fine spring. John Seeley once had a saw-mill here on the
Hopbottom. Samuel S. Benjamin came from Schoharie Co., N. Y., about 1844,
but not first to this place. His wife was Margaret Bosthwick. Their
children were Nelson C, George, Lyman, a soldier, Mary E. (Mrs.
Chas. Eldridge who died Aug. 14, 1869, age, 29 years), aud James,
a soldier. Mr. B. died Oct. 15, 1860, aged 69 years, 11 months, 24
days, and Mrs. B., Jan. 17, 1875 aged 68 years". HiU Cemeterv.
John Adams came from Hunterdon Co.', N. J. He was the "father
of Jas. Wallace Adams whose mother died, and Mr. Adams afterward
married Maria Dewitt, a sister of Aaron Dewitt. His father, it is
said, was a 2d cousin of John Quincy Adams, and his grandfather
owned a large plantation in N. J. He died here July 20, 1849, age,
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Nathan Lathi-op (from Elk Lake, Dimock) married Hannah E., a
daughter of J. W. Sterling. Their children were Paulina (Mrs.
Boughton) and Judson. After Mrs. L.'s death, Mr. L. married Mrs.
Swartz (a sister of Mrs. Adams above mentioned) and lived for a
short time on this place, where he died suddenly from the effects of
a fall. Charles P. Bissell occupied the place for a time after his father
David. He married Fanny M., a daughter of Amos Smith. Their chil
dren are Hiland, Mary, Aizelia, and Helen (Mrs. J. E. Ely, Jr.). Mr,
B, died in Dimock, January 25, 1854, Mrs, B, subsequently married
Dennis McKeeby of that township,
David Bissell, a stone mason, came to the township in 1813, He
Uved alone for a time on the Eease or Crossen place (north-west of
the Aaron Dewitt place — on the border of Bridgewater), He may
have been the first on the place under consideration, unless John
Seeley or his son-in-law, Bennet, had a cabin in connection with the
saw-mill. His wife was Hepzibath Eeynolds, Their children were
Charles F,, Nelson, Edward, Lydia, and Sarah'f Mr, B', had a brother
WilUam who became a physician and settled in Jessup, They came
from Connecticut, William's name is on the tax list in 1829, David
was once assessor and once supervisor. He died in 1843.
Watrous, Dann Spencer, a son of Joseph and Dolly (Benjamin) Wat
rous, of Bridgewater, and grandson of Benj, and Lucy (Spencer)
Watrous originally from Chester, Middlesex Co,, Ct., owns the place
(on the Eiehard Manning, Sam'l Jackson, and Wm. Shaw warrants)
formerly held by Nicholas Townsend, the east part being also once
occupied by Edward Otto, and a piece on the west being part ot the
Aaron Dewitt place. Mr. W. is now pursuing his occupation (a cai -
penter) in Montrose, and Welcome Bunnell is temporarily operating
the farm. Mr. W.'s first wife was Sarah Ellen, a daughter of John
and Almeda (Wilscn) Bard of Bridgewater and their children were
Almeda .B. (Mrs. I, "W, Oakley) and Dolly A. who died Jan. 23, 1861,
age, 12 years. Mrs. W. was born Dec. 27, 1822, and died April 12,
' 1884. New Cemetery. Mr. W. subsequently married Jenette, a
dauo-hter of S. A. Newton and widow of M. L. Catlin of Bridgewater.
Edward Otto was born in Philadelphia. His first wife was Sarah
Paxton who died. He came here in 1823 and married Fanny Hall, a
sister of Mrs. Jacob Worthing, and a step-daughter of Eiehard
Smitli of Bridoewater. They had a daughter Sarah who died young,
and Mrs. O. died Mar. 18, 1835, age. 33 years. He afterward mar
ried Miriam Worthing and they had a daughter Sarah, heretofore
mentioned. Mr. O. was a cabinet-maker as was his step father Wm.
Specknagle who came about the same time. The toll-gate on the
Milford and Owego turnpike was kept here by Mr. O. for seme j'rs.
and then was removed to Joseph Chapman's. A deed was given
from J. B. Wallace to E. Otto for 33 acres, north of Sabin lot and
east of turnpike in 1824. Mrs. O. died in 1879 at the age of 84 j'rs.,
and Mr. O., April 3, 1881, age, about 86 years. Both died on the
Loren Bagley place and were buried in Old Cemetery.
* Mrs. S. B. Kerr, .lie J Mireli 8, IsOO. OW Cemetery.

170 HISTORY OF BEOOKLYN.
Miriam Worthing was the youngest child of Barnard Wortliing
and was born in Hartland, Vt., Nov. 15, 1795. Her brothers and
sijt'ars were all born in Amesbury, Mass. Her father sold his place
to Abel Green and invested the money ($300) in the Cotton factoi y,
and her brother Jacob put in $50 beside labor. Jacob also owned
the carding machinery in the old "oU miU," but rented the buildiug
and water-power of Joshua Miles.
Watrous, Bradford O., a brother of D. S. Watrous, owns the place
on the Jas. Dunlap warrant, heretofore held by William Schoonmakek,
Stephen Smith, Gabriel Ely, and Silas Lewis, the last of whom had
no family and probably di'd uot live on the place, though he may
have made a clearing on it; he was here as early as 1801 and worked
for other people, making his home with them. Mr. Watrous married,
first, Polly, a daughter of Thomas Oakley, and their children were
Ann (Mrs. P. H. Tiffany), Chaiies E., Warren T., Sarah E. (Mrs. J.
L. Sterling), and Chester P. Mrs. W. died May 18, 1864, age, 39
years, 8 months. His 2d wife was Abigail S , a daughter of P. G.
Burch and widow of Williston K. Oakley deceased, who had a son
Nelson C. Oakley. Their children are Mary I., Truman O., Ward
W., Kate A., Cairiie P., and Ernest E.
Stephen Smiih is said to have been here in 1812. He was interest-
'ed in the Cotton Factory. He married Lovinia, a daughter of Jacob
Tewksbury. Their children were Almira (Mrs. Eeed), Eliza (Mrs.
Wm. Schoonmaker above mentioned). Welcome, Jane, Wealthy, Ma
riette, James N , and Eleanor G. who died Apr. 27, 1863 aged 22 jus.
Theresa, wife of Welcome, died Dea 18, 1868, aged 47 yrs. Old Cem.
The family removed for a time to Carbondale but returned and after
ward resided for some years in Auburn, 186 -.
Gabriel Ely (a brother of Zelophehad) and Eunice Merriman, his
¦wife, came from Lyme, Ct. iu 1814. Their chUdren were Mary (Mrs.
Henry Mitchell), Silas P. who came in 1811, Joseph M., WilUam, Ea
chel who married Christopher Eogers of Ct., Fanny (Mrs. Lebbeus
Eogers), Erastus, Theresa (Mrs. Chas. V. Gere), and Horatio Gates.
They lived in a cabin on the south-east corner of this place, near the
large spring on the Lawrence lot, now owned by H. C. Fairchild.
But they also occupied the Putnam Catlin house, or part of it a short
time, where Mr. E. was post-master in 1816. In 1825 Gates Ely mar
ried Pollj', a daughter of Nathaniel Curtis of Bridgewfciei' and after
ward removed to Lemon, Wj'oming Co., Pa., his father and mother
accompanying him, where they died and were buried. Gates subse
quently removed to Springville where he died March, 1888, age, 88
years, and his wife died there Jan. 11, 18S9.
Watrous, Chester F., a son of above, owns the house and lot at the
foot of the hill west of the village, though engaged in the South
Gibson creamery. His wife was Edith A., a daughter of Ammi Ely,
and they have two daughters Alice E. and Olivj.
West, Thomas, from Lenox, owns the larger part of the old Chap
man homestead (on the Chas. Lear warrantee), a small portion on

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the south side having been added to the Jas, Sterling place and a
piece noith, sold to Fred'k Miller, Mr. W.'s predecessors have been
C. M. Chapmau, George Chapman, Thos. SterUng (while the place
was held by James Sterling), John Chapman, Frederick Fish, S. S.
Benjamin, Joseph Chapman, Joseph Chapman, Sr., and John Eobin
son. Mr. West married Mary E., a daughter of A. E. Gere, and they
have a son Eoy L.
Predeeick I'isH resided in the house for a time. He was a son of
Anthony Pish and his wife was Ancy Eace. Their children were
John, deceased; Malena (Mrs. L. B. Tiffany); Sarah (Mrs. Jo. H.
Page) ; and William C. Mr. P. lived a while in Luzeine county. He
came with his father from Groton, Ct. iu 1814. Mrs. P. died on this
place Sept. 27, 1853, age, 41 years, Mr. P. afterward lived with his
children and died May 13, 1882. Buried in Hill Cemetery.
Joseph Chapman, a sou of, Joseph and Lois (Birchard) Chapman,
came to the township with his father in 1798. He returned some two
years after and married Betsey, a daughter of Daniel and Elizabeth
(Whiting) Leffingwell, Dec. 25, 1800, with whom he soon came back.
She had been here before, living with her sister, Mrs. Peleg Tracy,
for a time in 1799. They doubtless lived at first in the Eobinson
cabin, but soon built another log house into one of which Jeremiah
(xere moved in 1802. Mr. G. tanned leather here iu vats dug from
pine logs, til 1806. Mr. C, being a shoemaker, joined interest swith
Mr. G. and they seem at one time to have been in partnership. Mr.
Chapman built the present frame house in 1810. The log houses
were a little further north than the present house, and one was on
the east and the other was on the west of the old road that ran from
Jacob Tewksbury's by Thomas Sterling's to Diivid Moigan's. One of
these log houses was afterward sometimes used by Mr. C.'s father,
Capt. Chapman, as a cooper shop. The first apple trees set by Mi .
Eobinson or Mr. Chapman are nearly or quite all gone, aud the or-
;;chard set by Mr. C. a little to the west is much diminished. Mr. &
Mrs. C. spent their latter days in the "gate-house," east of the Hop-
bottom, on a small lot just east of the farm and the turnpike. The
children of Joseph and Betsey Chapman (all but the last born in the
log house) were George, James W., John H. (born Aug. 18, 1806),
Lydia (Mrs. J. L. Adams), and Joseph who died Sept. 17, 1829, at the
ao-e of 17 J-ears. Mr. Cdied Feb. 6, 1845, age, 76 years, and Mrs.
0*^, Apr. 8," 1846, age, 69. Dr. Jas. Whiting,' Mrs. C.'s uncle, Uved in
the family some years after the frame hcmse was built.
James W. Chapman (born May 7, 1804) was an early teacher and
surveyor here, and on removing to Montrose he was for many years
editor of the Susquehanna Register, was Eegisterand Eeeorder and
Clerk of Orpha,ns' Court from 1857 to '60, was County Survej'or
from 1830 to '33, and from 1862 to 1871, when he was elected au
Associate Judge and served till the office was abolished bj' the new
constitution. Joseph Chapman, Se., took up a farm in the Connecticut town of
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172 HISTOEY OF BEOOKLYN.
— the Tingley place. But he seems to have spent much tiJie here,
(at first, in the Eobinson cabin) and his name is on the assessment roll
till neai-iy 1820. His first wife was Lois Birchard who had one son
Joseph, Jr. and died (before the family came here) Nov. 1768. His
2d wife was Elizabeth Abel and their children were Charles, Eliza,
Lois, Lydia, Mary, Isaac A., and Edwai-d— the last four of whom
were here. Mrs. C. died in Dimock Nov. 21, 1808, age, 58 years, and
was buried on the Dimock farm, but some years ago the remains
were removed to Hill Cemeterj-, Brooklyn. Lydia became a teacher
at Wilkes-Barre where she manied Dr. Trott, and her daughter
married Judge Woodward. Isaac Abel was a surveyor and an editor.
About 1818 he wrote a "History of Wyoming" which was afterward
pubUshed. He invented the Syphon Canal-lock, and became an en
gineer at Mauch Chunk, where he died in Dec. 1827. Edward was
also a surveyor, and studied law, practicing at Sunbury where he
died. Capt. Chapman removed with his sons and died at Nescopeck
and was buried at Berwick.
John Eobinson came in 1787. Possibly he did not come at once to
this place, as we are told he was a near neighbor of Adam Miller.
But at that time of "magnificent distances," neighbors were near
though two miles away. He removed to Lenox where descendants
of his still remain.
West, Mrs. Theresa, at Alford [1887], has a son Charles, who mar
ried Lizzie, daughter of Henry Tewksbury, and is a E. E. employee.
Westbrook, Daniel C, owns the old place, on the Susanna Lear
warrantee, previously held by his father Samuel Westbrook, and
before that by Isaiah Hawley, Elisha Lathrop (who manied Jemima,
a daughter of Elijah Mack), Ezra S. Brown, and Sheffield Saunders.
A part of the place is a part of the Orlando Bagley lot. Mr. W.
married Lenora, a daughter of Woodbury S. Wilbur, and their chil-
ch'en are Addie, Stacy, and Vinie B.
Samuel Westbrook, a son of George Westbrook, married Eebecca,
a daughter of Wm. Ainey. Their children were Hannah (Mrs. Mead),
Daniel C, Lueetta J. (Mrs. Eoss, died July 17, 1878, age, 32 years),
and Malvina, deceased. Mr. W. was a blacksmith. He died Sept. 28,
1881, age, 67 years, and Mrs. W. died June 4, 1881, age, 69 years.
Isaiah Hawley and Dolly, his wife, came to the township about
1823. Their children were William, Elsie, Nancy, aud Joseph. Mr.
H. was a shoemaker and a brother of Abel. He once lived on the
Henry Caswell place now owned by A. S. Waldie.
Ezra S. Brown was born Dec. 31, 1806, at Waterford, New Lon
don Co., Ct. He came with his father Ezra to the Hothir Eeynolds
place in 1813. He afterward Uved for 4 or 5 years in the Justice
Kent neighborhood. He then learned the carpenter's trade, b»ing an
apprentice with James Packer for over five years. July 8, 1830, he
married Eebecca C., a daughter of Joseph Jackson. Not long after
he came to this place, and afterward lived on the Deacon Jackson
place now owned by E. SterUng. He soon removed to what is now

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Lathrop where Mrs. B. died in 1884. Esq. B. died with his daugh
ter Elzina at Hopbottom, Aug. 20, 1887. The children were Elzina
(Mrs. Corey and after, Mrs. Jayne), Alvin died Aug. 13, 1873, Hannah
M. (Mrs. J. H. SterUng), Emma (Mrs. McCoy), and Ellen (Mrs
Franklin Lord). A school was taught in the Brown carpenter shon
on this place by C. M. Gere, 1832-3. ^ ^
Weston, Edwin .4., a son of Wm. Weston, Uves on the place occu
pied by his father. His wife was Mary Elizabeth, a daughter of Euel
and Lodusky (Chamberlin) Jackson. Their children are Eugene (a
physician at TaylorvUle, Pa.), Leland, Jennie, and Mollie. The sub
ject of this sketch was a county supeiintendent of public schools
from 1863 to '66, and is a fruit-grower. Mrs. W. spent some time as
a reader. William Williston Weston, a son of Amaziah and Mary (Cady)
Weston came with his mother from Norwich, Ct., when 71 years oM
in 1799. His wife was Eliza, a daughter of Daniel Cone. The chil-
•dren were Mary A. and Edwin A. Eliza died Aug. 24, 1836, age 33
years. Mr. W. subsequently married Saeah L., a daughter of Latham
Smith. They had a son Wm. Leroy, a dentist at New Milford Wm
Weston was born Sept. 13, 1791, and died Aug. 12, 1853. His 2d wife
died Apr. 26, 1872, a., 64. Mary, Mrs. Cone, lives at Menomonie, Wis.
Weston, E. Leland, above mentioned, and engaged in the farm and
fruit business with his father, married Sarah S., aj daughter of Jas
Wallace Adams. They occupy the village lot (formerly part of the
Presbyterian parsonage) which belonged to Mrs. Adams. Their
children are Zitelle, Cady B., and Lois.
James \Vallace Adams, a son of John Adams, came from Milford
Hunterdon Co., N. J. He married Julia A., a daughter of Charles
Gere, September 10, 1840, and bought the farm (on the David Torbit
and Elizabeth Jackson warrants) adjoining and north-east of the Capt
Gere place, and formerly held by 8. W. Spencer, Jeremiah Spencei-
Joshua Saunders, and Stephen Bagley. It was also once owned b-y
Mason Denison, and is now owned by L. Bailey, but nobody lives in
the old house. Mr. Adams was born Feb. 8, 1816, and died Feb. 14
1872. Mrs. A. afterward bought the village lot on -which she built
the house where she died Oct. 30, 1888, in her 74 year. Old Ceme
tery. She was an early teacher. Their children were Charles G a
soldier, died Oct. 2, 1861, age, 20 years; Edwin T., died March 14
1866, age, 20 years, 8 months; John W., died March. 23, 1879, aoe'
29 years, 8 months; and Sarah S., Mrs. E. L. Weston. * ' fc >
Samuel Warren Spencer, a son of Jeremiah Sjjencer, married
Louisa, a daughter of John E. and Elizabeth (Ely) Babcock aud
their children were Charles, a deceased soldier; Frank- and Marv
Mrs. C. M. Surdam. •''
Jeremiah Spencer probably came to the township with his grand
father Edward Goodwin (who brought him up) in 1801. He learned
his trade (carpentry) of Capt. Geve. He is assessed with this place
from Joshua Saunders in fall of 1817. He married Polly, a daugh
ter of Thomas Giles. Their children were Samuel W., Fanny (Mrs

174 mSTORY OF BROOKLYN.
D. M. Yeomans), and Lucy (Mrs. I. M. Dewitt). Mr. S. died here in
1825 at middle age. He had a brother Eeuben, of Springville and a
sister, Mrs. Justus Knapp of the same place.
Joshua Saunders and Maey his -wife came from E. I. in 1801. He
doubtless began clearing on the Elisha Mack place while his son
Lyman began on the Delbert Williams place. It seems that Stephen
Bagley married Maey Saundees and began clearing on this Spencer
place, building the present house, and Mi-. Saunders, in whose name
the land was held, came here to live with his daughter. He was born
tn 1749, and was some 52 years old when he came here. He was the
first blacksmith among the New England settlers. The blacksmith
of the Nicholson colony the writer has not been able to ascertain.
The Saunders shop appears to have been on the Lyman Saunders
place and not on this. Probably Lyman also worked at that business.
Sally Tracy, now nearly 92 years old, remembers going to this
shop when a little girl, to get the horse shod. While on her way and
probably near the place where N. L. Tiffany now lives, she saw a-
bear a little east of the road eating berries from a fallen tree lying
with its top high up on some other fallen trees. Not frightened
from her purpose, though the horse had an instinctive repugnance
to the creature among the briers, she hurried on. At the shop were
some men who heard her story, and soon set off and killed the bear.
They said Sally ought to have the skin, theu of some value, but by
some defect in carrying out this last will and testament in reference
to the bear's demise, she did not get the bequest.
The children of Mr. and Mrs. S. were Eiehard, Martha, Nathan,
Desire (not here), Joshua, Lj'man, Thomas, Mary (Mrs. Stephen
Bagley), Phally (Mrs. Jesse Bagley), Benjamin S., and Aaron. Eieh
ard died in Ohio. Mrs. Stephen Smith (who went to Ohio at the
same time as did the Saunderses, where she married Mr. Smith who
also went) used to remember that he was hurt on the same building
on which Thomas was killed. Nobody remembers that Martha came
here. There are trustworthj' traditions and reminiscences that some
body who doubtless lived with Varnam Saunders was very sick of a
fever and the doctor (Dr. Denison), as was the fashion at that day,
would not allow the patient to drink cold water, but would dip a
spoon in water and hold it on the tongue. The patient died and was
buried on the bank of the creek, some say near where the Factory
was afterward built, and some think near the first saw mill and grist
mill. This was about 1809. It could not have been Varnam Saun
ders, for he was here till about 1825, according to tax list. Nathan
was fatally injured by a limb broken off from another tree by a fall
ing tree which he had just cut whUe helping Capt. Bailey in chop
ping a fallow. The work of chopping is credited in Capt. B.'s acct.
in July 1805. The tree stood just east of Dry Creek near the Breed
Une. Mr. S. was taken home, lingered for a day or two and died. He
was buried on the bank of the little brook near the house, on the
Lyman Saunders place. Another grave is beside his. In the fall of
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Worthings, removed to Ohio, Some of them returned after a few
years, on account of the ague that then prevailed there, but the old
people and Lyman and Thomas did not come back, and some say
Aaron did not go, Stephen Bagley and Mary Saunders, his wife, did
not coine back, nor did Betsey L, Bagley, who was Lyman Saunders's
wife, and daughter of. Orlando Bagiey, comeback, nor did Orlando
Bagley or wife or daughter Dorcas come,' Dr, Denison also bought
the Lyman Saunders improvement. He had a deed in 1816 from J,
B, WaUace for 370 acres in the vicinity,
Whipple, Ferdinand, from Cooperstown, Otsego Co., N. Y., came
to Brooklyn 183 -. He Avas a shoemaker, tanner, and harnessmaker,
and later a farmer on this lot, on the Neal McCoy warrantee. His
predecessors in occupancy were D. G. Smith and Parker Miles. His
wife was Mary, a daughter of Isaac Smith, and their children, Jennie
(Mrs. Conklin) and Leon -who died Nov. 7, 1841, age, 2 yrs., 5 mo.
David Gardner Smith married Lucretia Emmons, a sister of Mrs.
I. H. Sterling. He fii-st lived in the old log house of his father Isaac
Smith, and then built a log house (now gone) on this place near the
present creek road, which was also afterward occupied by Parker
Miles. His children were Esek Palmer, Eobert Eldridge, Emanuel
N., Perrin Eoss,' Daniel Torry (in U. S. service), Ledyard, Herman
and Sherman (twins); Wm. Doke, Anson, and Irvin.
Parker Miles died at Hopbottom May 21, 1868, age, 61 years, 6
months, and his wife Pakminne Smith, Oct. 12, 1871, age, 79 yrs., 4
mo. — Old Cemetery. Their children were William, Daniel, George,
and Olive.
Whitman,. James M., from Ct., and Fannie E. Spencer, his wife,
occupy a. house and lot on the EUsha Mack place formerly occupied
by Mrs. Mack after her husband's death, and afterward by her son
A. P. Mack. Mr. W. was a soldier for \\ years — was at Cold Harbor
and in front of Petersburg. His children are Terence M., Leslie E.,
Pearl I"., Jessie H., and Clare.
Ansel Freeman Mack was born May 15, 1821. He married Maetha
M. Ely, of Beloit, Wis., Aug. 1, 1846. The chUdren were Ida and
Minnie both deceased. They lived for a time in Carbondale and
afterward in Binghamton where Mr. M. died. His widow returned
to Carbondale.
Whitman, Terry M., above mentioned, married Anna M., a daugh
ter of D. J. Eing and they have a son Norris. Live in house with
L. O. Tiffany.
Williams, Delbert, a son of Stephen Williams, Jr., occupies the
old place of his father, on the tract in the warrantee name of Eliza
beth Jackson, pieviously occupied by Isaac Williams, Abel Hawley,
Eufus Pierppnt, James Munger, and Lyman Saunders who with his
father Joshua Saundeis had a blacksmith's shop here from 1801 to
1817 when they wentto Ohio, and Mason Denison bought the prem
ises though he did not Uye here. Mr. Williams married Hattie Kerr
of Springville.' Their children are Clarence E., and Grace M. A deed

176 fflSTOEY OF BROOKLYN.
was given from Joshua Saunders to Mason Denison in 1817, for 65
acres which included part or all of this lot and some more.
Stephen H. Williams, a son of Stephen Williams married Fanny
L. Barnes of Gibson, a sister of Mrs. Caldwell. Their children are
Frederick S. and Delbert. Mr. W. died July 7, 1881, age, 62 yrs., 5
mo., 25 days, and Mrs. W., Apr. 21, 1885, age, 65 j'rs,, 2 mo., 2 days.
Buried in Hill Cemetery.
Abel Hawley lived here, and at the Orlando Bagley place and died
at the "Factory." He was a shoemaker and came in 1818. His wife
was Marilla Hutchinson who died in 1868, a., 78 years, and is bur
ied at Hopbottom. The children were Emilj-, Joseph W., Pamela,
Crandall, Milo, and Nelson.
Eufus Pierpont, a son of Eli and Elizabeth Pierpont, manied
Mary Ann Wilson, and their children were Elizabeth (Mrs. Hobert
Williams), Abigail (Mrs. Seth Ainey), Mary (Mrs. J. H. Ainey, who
died Feb. 16, 1879, aged 42 years), and CeUa (Mrs, P, Strickland),
Mr, P. died Oct. 29, 1836, age, 34 years, and Mrs. P. afterward mar
ried Levi Lindley, the family having previously removed to the
Eufus Lindley place in what is now Lathrcjp. The children were
Levi of Scranton, Eufus P., Eachel (Mrs. D. Johnson), and Fanny
(Mrs. Beardsley). Mrs. L. died Sept. 28, 1875, age, 68. Eli Pierpont
died May, 1837, a., 67 yrs., and his wife. Mar. 20, 1837, a., 65 years.
Old Cemetery. Eufus P. Lindley was a Union soldier from Oct. 1,
1861 to June 12, 1865, and was a prisoner 8 months.
Williams, Abram V., a son of Samuel and Salicha (VanAuken)
Williams was a Union soldier. His wife was Nancy H. Tucker of
Dimock, and their children, Dora (Mrs. CrandaU), George, Lizzie
(Mrs. LaBar, whose husband died July 1888), Samuel, Elnora, and
Effie L. Samuel WilUams died Jan. 1, 1844, age, 42, years, and his
wife. May 6, 1879, a., 78 years. The previous occupants of this place
(on Martin creek) were Edward G. Oakley, a son of Jas. Oakley, aud
a soldier, Peter Mammon,, and William Bloomfield.
Williams, Henry M., occupies the place (on the Joseph Sahler war
rant) owned by the E. F, Breed estate, and formerly occupied by J,
H. Stanton, G, D, Hempstead, Elijah Newton, and (on the east part)
by John Jones and Samuel Howard, Mr, W, is a son of Luke Will
iams, and married Lurana, a daughter of Aaron Saunders, They have
a daughter Sarah T,, Mrs, Wm, T. Daley.
Gurdon D. Hempstead came from Ledyard, Ct. in 1825 or 1826.
He lived for a short time on the Milbourn place then on the E. T,
Tiffany place, Dimock, then at Brooklyn village, then lived here and
last on the J, Lines place. His wife was Mary L, Newton, a sister of
Mrs, Latham Smith. The children were Orlando G., Julia A. (Mrs
E. T. Tiffany), Salmon A., Mary E. (Mrs. Hazleton, deceased), Sarali
L. (1st wife of O, N. Tiffany, died Oct, 12, 1850, age, 18 yrs,, 2 mo,,
20 days), Albert A,, a soldier, and John E., also a soldier, died in
West Philadelphia Hospital (from wounds at battle of Gettysburg)
Aug. 28, 1863, age, 22 years, 8 months. Mr. H. died Nov. 2, 1866.

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lie was born Aug. 14, 1799. Mrs. H. was born Nov. 13, 1800, and
died, with her daughter Julia, Qct. 13, 1878. Hill Cemetery.
Elijah Nlw-ion (a brother of Mrs. Hempstead) married Deborah,
a Sister of S. A.- Newton, and came from Grotoii, Ct; in 181&. He was
a cabinet-makei . He built a house, barn, and shop a little west of the
piesent builJings, and on land that came from the east side of the
Latham Sinilh lot. Mr. N. died (from a fall in the barn) Jan. 29,
1843; age, 49 yrs., 9 mo. Mrs. N. afterward became Mrs. Stephen
Williams, aud later, Mrs. Stebbins.
John JoNts was of Welsh extraction and was well educated in his
early years. At the age of 13 he was "impressed" as a seaman and
A'vaS- on the ocean 7 years. He came to New York when about 19 yrS.
old, but he dai ed not go back, and his people never heard ffom him.
He married Mrs. Elizabeth (Bloomfield) Milbourn and had three
daughters, Nancj-, Betsey and Polly. He came with these and with
Mis. J.'s two children, Bloomfield and Sarah Milbourn, from North-
umberiatid to the Capt. Bailey place in 1790 or '91. After selling his
first improvement to Ciipt. Tracy in 1798, he built a cabin on the
Latham Smith place, and his stej)-son soon built a cabin for himself
ou the Fox plaCe. After Samuel Howard, Who had married Nancy
Jones, sold to Elijah Mack he came with his wife and four children
piobably in l810 (possibly in 1809) to Mr. J.'s house, but soon built
a house for himself on this place east of the large spring and north
df the road, into which himself and Mr. J. soon moved. Not long
aftei, a cabin was built for Mr. Jones just west of the spring and on
the south side of the road. While Mr. J. lived in the cabin on the
Smith place his daughter Polly died in 1802 about 14 yrs. of age. She
was buried in the Milboui n Cemetery. Betsey married John Sweet.
While there is no evidence that any budding was put up expressly
and solely for school pui poses i rior to that of 1800, it is more than
probable that such men as John Jones, Adam Miller, Mark Hartley,
aud others, or some enterprising women instituted educational aids
as best .they could for their own and their neigljbor's children.
Nancy Jones became a teacher in her own house, and there were un
doubtedly others years before.
Olive Howard (Mrs. Barlow) says that her mother (Nancy Jones)
was bom at Elizabeth, N. J., June 13, 1780, and that she was 11 yrs.
old when she came here. This would make the time of coming of
the Jones family 1791, though the cabin (on the Bailey place) may
have been btiilt before.
Mr. Jones removed with ]\Ii'. Howard's family to South Auburn
where he died July 9, 1834 at the age of 91 years, and Was buried
there. But Mrs. J. died in this cabin by the spring, Apr. 27, 1822,
76 years and 5 months old, and v,as buiied in the Qld Cemetery. A
school was once taught in this Jones cabin by Jas. Eobinson. Slight
vestiges of the building remain, but the spring is still copious.
Samuel Howard, a son of Stephen and  (Manning) Howard,
was born at Norwich, Ct., July, 1773. He came here about the time
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178 history of BROOKLYN.
Eobinson came. in 1799. The last two did not take up land here, but
were acquaintances and often here, and were conversant -with the
affairs of the settlement. Mr. Eobinson finally became a land-agent
under Pennsylvania title. Chas. Miner made maple sugar with Jos.
Sprague in 1799 and afterward began pioneer life under Connecticut
title in "Usher," now Jessup. But he relinquished his undertaking
and became a noted historian (of Wyoming) and writer. Mr. Howard
named one of his children after him. Ezekiel Hyde, the Connecticut
agent, also took up land near Mr. Miner.
Mr. Howard married Nancy Jones, as above stated, the rite being
performed by Thomas Tiffany, J. P., of Nine Partners, Sept. 5, 1802.
Then- children were Polly, bom Feb. 18, 1804, married James Eob
inson of Auburn, and was buried in Black Walnut township, Wyo
ming Co.; Betsey born Aug. 7, 1805, died at 11 yeais, buried in Mil
bourn Cemetery; Olive Manning (Mrs. John Eobinson, and now
Mrs. Barlow) born Apr. 12, 1807; John, born Apr. 20, 1809; Charles
Miner, born Mar. 7, 1811, married Mary Ann Eease— Uves in Frank
lin; CaroUne, born May 12, 1813, died at 1| years— Milbourn Cem
etery; Samuel Bloomfield, born Mar. 7, 1816, lived in S. Auburn ; and
Nancy, born May 9, 1819 (Mrs. Morris Barlow). Mrs. Barlow says
John was born on the Smith place. Other data render it more likely
to have been Charles. Samuel Howard died in South Auburn, Jan.
31, 1843 in his 70th year, and his wife Nancy died there March 3,
1872, in her 92d year. The old weU and the Balm o' Gilead tree
they left, still remain. And here is another old chimney in ruins, has
tening to join the number that have faded from view,
"The blessed old fire-place, how bright it appears,
As back to our childhood we gaze.
O'er the narrowing track of the vanishing years,
From the light of these fleet latter days.
Its lips are as ruddy, its heart is as warm
To our fancy to-night as of yore.
When we cuddled around it, and smiled at the storm
As it showed its white teeth at the door,"
"We remember the apple that wooed the red fire
Till the blood bubbled Up to its cheek,
And the petulant pop-corn that smothered its ire
Till its heart burst apart with a shriek.
We remember the Greeks and the Trojans who fought
In their shadowy shapes on the wall.
And the yam in thick tangles our fingers held taut.
While the mother was winding the ball."
"We remember the cat- that lay cozy and curled
By the jam where the flames flickered high
And the sparkles — the fire-flies of winter — that whirled
Up the flue as the wind whistled by."
"We remember the bald headed, bandy-legg'd tongs,"
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That would twist with a pinch in revenge for the wrongs
They'd endured in the old fire-place.
We recall the stone oven that baked the brown bread.
The skillet and gridiron grim.
And the sputtering words that the tea-kettle said
As the steam hurried out from its brim.
We remember the nail where the almanac hung;
And "the blaze out the window" can see,
With the peg where the gourd-shell dipper swung
"While the witches were making tea."
We remember the mantle we reached from a chair.
The candle, and lantern of tin.
The cat-hole cut through by chimney and stair,
With the drop that puss raised to get in ;
And the clock on whose face the bright fire-flashes fell.
And the seconds its pendulum beat.
With the minutes and hours its slow hands w-ould tell
As its long weights came down to our feet.
"But the fire has died out on the old cabin hearth.
The wind chatters loud with the rain,
And the dwellers are scattered, or fiowu from the earth,
And will gaze on it never again.
A forget-me-not grows in the mouldering wall.
The last, as it were, of its race.
And the shadows of night regretfully fall
On the stones of the old fire-place."
Williams, Charles A., lives on the old place (on the John Nichol
son and Sarah Stover warrantees) formerly occupied by his father
Archibald Williams, and before that by Charles V. Gere (though
owned by his father, Jeremiah Gere) and by Bela Case. It had also
been held in the name of Ebenezee Miles though he probably did
not live upon it long, if at all, Mr, W, mai-ried Emily, a daughter
of Anthony Fish, They have no children, but Clara and Luther Pish
have lived with them,
Chaeles V, Gere, a son of Jeremiah Gere, married Theresa, a
daughter of Gabriel Ely, Nov. 24, 1819, and came to this place soon
after and built the old frame house. His children were Harriet J,
(Mrs, Davison — her husband lived aud died west) and Martha A. who
died here Apr, 12, 1839, 8 years of age. They had also an adopted
daughter Nancy who went west. It is remembered that Mi-, G. filled
out a little of the end of the term of school of Deacon Giddings, in
center, [1814-15] the latter being- sii^k, Charles Vanderburgh Gere
was born Apr, 1, 1797, and died at Chatfield, Minn., Oct. 27, 1871,
in his 75th year.
Bela Case, from Windham, Ct. in 1810, came to this place after
selUng his first improvement to Z. Ely about 1814 or '15. His wife
was EowENA Moore and their children Edith E. (Mrs. John Kingsley),
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Artemisia (Mrs. Enos Thacher), Oison, Wellington, Jane, Alsiemena
(Mrs. S. B. Blake), Julia (Mrs. Danl. Baker), and Mary (Mrs. Abia-
ther MiUard). Mr. C. did mason work for a good many days on the
"Abbey" as shown by the accts. of Dea. Miles in 1810. He has also
a credit for singing, on same book, and for making two plows at $1.50
each. He was also a wheelwright. He removed to Hopbottom where
he built a saw-mill, and a lathe for turning wooden bowls, on or near
the site of the WilUam Miles mill. It is said he built his first cabin
near it, which was afterward occupied by Parker Miles. But if so, he
also built another where his son Orson afterward lived near the D.
L. & W. depot. He died (from the effects of hurting his thumb in
the miU) Apr. 25, 1832, 57 years old, and Mrs. C. died Jan. 4, 1865,
age, 90 years. Both are buried in the Old Brooklyn Cemetery.
The road on this place — the old north and south road— was laid
(on petition of S. ^Veston and others, presented in court Dec. 3,
1818) "from the recently established road from Harford to Montrose,
beginning near the house of James Oakley [the old block house] and
thence between the land of Moses and Laban Cushing," and so on
through improvement of Jeremiah Gere (this place) to the turnpike
at the center school house. The viewers were Jos. Chapman, Joshua
Miles (Jr.), Latham WilUams, Ed\\ard Paine, Edward Packer, and
Amos Bailey. Eoad confirmed finallj', Aug., 1819. The road from
this place to what is now the house of E. P. Bailey on the Milford
and Owego turnpike was laid not far from this time.
Archibald Williams came from Brooklyn, Ct. to the "Blanchard
place" in 1832, and to this place in 1833. His wife was Sarah Titus
and their children, Sarah B. (Mrs. Noah Willard Fuller who died
Mar. 30, 1861, a., 31 years, 2 months, 5 days, and Mr. F. died Mar.
15, 1876, a., 59), Charles A., Joab P., George B., Jasper M., Harriet
T. died July 31, 1859, a., 20 yrs., 9 mo., 29 da., and Willard A. dec'd.
Mr. W. died Apr. 23, 1843, age, 41 yrs., aud Mrs. W., Dec. 27, 1867,
in her 58th year. Hill Cemetery.
Flavel M. Williams, originally from the same place came hei-e
soon after his brother Archibald, from Otsego Co., N. Y. where he
had spent some 8 jrrs. His wife was Lodema Downinh. They lived
with his brother for a time, and in other places, till about 1843 or 4
thej' removed to the place now owned by their son Dyer in Lathrop,
where Mr. W. died May 30, 1880. He was born June 5, 1800, and
Mrs. W., born Aug. 24, 1799, and died before her husband. The chil
dren were Sej'mour B. (died at Chicago), Phebe (j\Irs. Lj-man Saun
ders), Betsey (Mrs. W. C. Eockwell), and Dyer.
Josiah B. Williams came not long after [1838] and lived a short
time with his half-brother Archibald. He married Maria Lord of
Lathrop to which township he removed, and subsequently to Lenox
and since then has lived with bis childien in Harford aud Gibson,
but has been employed much in Brooklj-n. The chi' dren are Lucy
(Mrs. Eli Lord), Andrew deceased, Fanny (Mrs. Conrad', Joseph L.,
Emma (Mrs. Benedict), Warren of Kansas, Eva (Mrs. Guard), and
EUa (Mrs. Aldrich).

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Williams, Elisha G., a son of Eiehard Williams, occupies the place,
On the Leonard Woodrow warrant, formerly held by Henry Potter,
Josiah Mack, and by Jesse Bagley who seems to have made the first
clearing on it and to have lived in its first cabin. He sold his pos
session to Elijah Mack after 1810, and removed to the place between
the "Bibbins loi" and the Orlando Bagley lot, from which he went
to Ohio, Elisha Gates Williams married Emily, a daughter of Steph
en Williams aud their children are Eva H. (Mrs. N. L. Tiffany) and
Blanch L. (Mi s. Wm. E. Stanton, who was bom Oct. 27, 1858, and
died Feb. 15, 1886). Mis. W. died May 4, 1889, in her 65th year.
Buried iu New Cemetery, Esq, W. resigned his office of justice,
Josiah Mack, a sou oi Elijah Mack, married Almira, a daughter of
Justice Kent, A daughter of theirs, Julia A,, died here Jan, 20,
1829, age, 2 years, and Epena died Apr, 23, 1841, age, 11 yrs., 4mo.,
10 days. Hill Cemetery. Mr. Mack and family went west. He built
the first frame house here. But the log house was occupied by
Enoch Mack for a little while when he first came, and by Jedediah
Lathrop for a time on his first coming. It was also sometimes used'
for meetings.
Woodward, Baker L., from N. J., married Ann Kittle and they oc-
cnpy the place, on the Leonard Woodrow warrant, formerly held by
Wm. Stanton, Chauncey Tingley (a Juetice of the Peace here for a
short time), Samuel Yeomans, and Mott Wilkinson. Elkanah Ting
ley also owned the lot for some years without living on it, Samuel
Yeomans deeding it to him in 1817. Schools were taught in the old
bouse on this place — one by Ebenezer Paiue and one by Sylvester
Munger. William Stanton came from Ct. about 1854. He married Lydia
M., a daughter of Eiehard WilUams. They have children, Ettie L,
and Clark E. Eemoved to Lathrop.
Mott Wilkinson's first lot of 50 acres must have been here on the
south of the swamp while his last one was north of it. Prom a letter
from his youngest and only living son, George, now residing at
Blau-sville, Pa., and from a granddaughter Uving at Omaha, Neb.,
the following facts have been obtained: Mott Wilkinson was a Eev
olutionary soldier, and Daniel Lawrence who married his (Wilkin
son's) sister was captain of his company. They came here expecting
Connecticut lands. Mr. W. with Danl. and Amos Lawrence removed
to the vicinity of Blairsville, Indiana Co. about 1816 [they are on
the assessment roll tiU 1818] where they afterward lived and where
they died, Mr. W. at 96 yrs., and Mrs. W. at 65. Mrs. W. was Phebe
Freeman [not Lawrence] and their children were Lucy, Elisha, Free
man (born iu 1800 and died in 1868), Eebecca (died at 18 years),
James, Phebe, Denison, John, Deborah, and George (born in 1813).
The last seven must have been born here. The children all became
Metdodists. Daniel and Amos Lawrence were brothers and doubt
less Allen also. Wm. was probably a nephew. There is no assurance
that Daniel had more than one child, Lucy, and Amos two— Warren
and Elizabeth. WiUiam's children were Clark, Phebe, George, and

182 HISTORY OF BROOKLYN.
others. Some of the Lawrences likely married members of the F'ree-
mau family, as Alien Lawrence had a son Freeman who became the
adopted sou of -iudrew Eogers; but his mother was Sally, a daugh
ter ot Israel Hewitt and her mother was a Williams. And it must
have been Cajjt. Lawrence and wife to whom, the snuff stpry be
longed — not Mott Wilkinson. For in the, accounts of Dea. Miles
with Edward M. Wilkinson, extending down to May 26, 1815, no
mention is made of snuff; while snuff is a frequent item in the acct.
with Daniel Lawrence. .,:¦ ,¦!.,;
Wright, Eugene E., son of Alanson Wright and grandson of Wise
Wright, married Jennie, a daughter of Wm. P, Crandall, and they
have a daughter Eelith G.
Mr, Wright has the water-power (between high banks on the Hop-
bottom) which was the first one used in the township. The Nicholson
dam was a little higher up than the present one, while the gristmill
was some distance below, the race and mill being on the east side of
the creek. Some forty years afterward the Truesdell gristmill was
established here, the dam being a little above the Nicholson dam.
[Mr. T. is remembered as a remarkably short man.] Later, Ferdi
nand Whipple put up a saw-mill here. About 1833 Samuel Adams
began a tannery on the east bant, which Mr. Whipple afterward
carried on in connexion with shoe and harness niaking. About 185-
Geo. McAlpine built a residence here (now gone) and used the tan
nery building for a bedstead factory, and Mr. Whipple built a sawr
mill on the west side of the creek. Harrison Dowd afterward bought
the saw-mill and took down the tanuery. The place was afterward
occupied by Charles Tiffany and George Simrell, and the saw-mill
was changed au(J used for making cider and other purposes.
Wright. Jason S., a son of Sam'l and Sarah (Squires) Wright and
grandson of Anthonj' Wright, has recentlj' bought the farm, on the
warrantee tracts of Barnabas Binney and Jas. Dunlap, formerlj' held
by L, A, Townsend, Geo, W, Sterling, Thos, Garland, Isaac Sterling,
and Edward and Lyman Doolittle, Mr, W, married Ella E., widow
of Geo. P. Newton and daughter of Hiram C. and Maria (Watrous)
Guernsey. They had a son, Eobert, Who died in infancy, but Eay S.
and Gertie Newton live with them. Mrs. W. has a son (son of G. P.
Newton) Charles H.
Thomas Garland was born at Lebanon, York Co., Me., Sept. 23,
1796. After serving in the war of 1812, he came here in 1817. Sept.
18, 1818, /he married JuditS, a daughter of Jacob Tewksbiu-y, who
wasjjorn at. Hartland. Vt. July 5, 1797. Their children wete Susan
Mary (Mrs. G. V. Adams, bom Nov., 1821 in old Miles house, a few
rods cast of her burial place in the New Cemetery); Edward Paine;
Caroline M. (Mrs. Townsend, born at Edward Paine house, 1825) ;
Louesa J., Mrs. Lee; and Lucy G., Mrs. Sterling: They had also an
adopted daughter, Eoxaline, a daughter of Joseph and Helen (Aus
tin) Simpson. They came to this place in 1826,ii the house having
been built while they were living at Esq. PackefS. [Mrs. Garland
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Tewksbury.] The first frame house here was afterward burned and
replaced uy the present structure. Mr. Garland was post-master
from 1821 to 1824, the office being in the Miles house to 1823, when
Mr. G. moved to the Paine house on the hill, the office going to the
E. L. Paine store with E. L. Paine clerk, and afterward Jas. Noble
clerk, till he (Noble) was appointed in 1824. Mr. G. again held the
office (in this house) from 1826 to 1838 when it went to D. B. Bagley.
Ml-. Garlaud was interested with E. L. Paine in selling articles of
merchandise which they kept at their private houses up to 1823. Mr.
G. was a tailor, carrying on his trade at the houses where he lived
till he came to this place, when he bought the first carpenter shop
ot Esq. Packer (in which Asa Packer learned his trade) and it was-
drawn down and established just south-east of the dwelling, and
fitted up with broad tables which were kept filled with busy sewers
sitting in Turkish postures. Mr. G. used to say that his large family
of apprentices (he estimated the number at 75) always treated him
as a father and he them as children. The following is an imperfect
list of them: — 'Wm. Green, Smith Dean, Hamilton Babcock, Miles
Carey, Lewis A. Townsend, Eebecca Gates, Mary Ann Eyan, Caro
Une Mitchel (of New Milford), Hannah Hewitt (Mrs. Jared Baker),
Ann Sterling (Mrs. Eing), Sally Fisii (Mrs. Bagley), Eliza Miller
(Mrs. Samuel Tewksbui-y), Charlotte Saunders (daughter of Thomas
Saunders), Lucy Saunders (Mrs. Jay Garland), Mary Garland (Mrs,
Buck), Armena Scott, Mrs. Mary Barker (a daughter of Eiehard
Foster), Mary Yeomans (mother of Alonzo), Sarah A. Dikeman, Ar-
minta Barnum, Alpha Tewksbury ^Mrs. Beach Earl); Chloe Butler
(Mrs. Jacob Tewksbury, Jr.), Olive Dean, Keziah 'X'eomans (Mrs.
Kittle), Emeline Emmons (Mrs. James Gai-land), Elizabeth Eeas
(Mrs. Safford), Sophia Eeas (Mrs,. James Sterling), Ann C. Adams,
Ann Bromwell, Eliza Sweet (Mrs. H. Eeynolds), Laura Newton
(Mrs. S. K. Smith), Amy Bennett, Joanna Tuck, Eunice Oakley,
Maria Mead, Dolly Cogswell, Elizabeth Eobinson, Susan E. Squires
(Mrs. G. W. Tiffany), Julia Merritt, Maria Merritt (Mrs. Thos. Ster
ling), Electa Birge (daughter of William and Minerva (Fox) Birge),
Sarah Wood, Esther Day, Hannah Day, Lucy Day, Mary Dimock,
Charlotte Simons, Eunice Hickman, Amelia 'Weeks, Mary A.
Corey, Louisa Wells, Mary Pish (of Springville), Harriet Lee (from
Wayne Co.), and George Williams. Eooms were afterward arranged
in the dwelling and the old shop given up, but it is still standing.
Mr. G. died Jan. 22, 1882, and Mrs. G., Peb. 4. 1868. Helen (Austin)
Simpson wife of Edward P. Garland died May 26, 1852, a., 26 yrs.,
and Sophia Smith, his 2d wife died Dec. 23, 1864, a., 48 yrs., 10 mo.
Buried in Old Cemetery,
Isaac S'tebling came from Ct. in 1810. His first wife was Urena
Johnson, and their children, Isaac Hilliaid, Heman Bradley, and
Urena J. His second wife was Meliscent or Milly, a daughter of
Asa Bonney. Their children were Joline Eositer, A. Harmon, and
John. His house here was of logs, on the west side of the road and
north of the brook. After living a short time on the Perigo place,,
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184 HISTORY OF BROOKLYN,
Wright, Hersey G., occupies the place (on the PhiUp Frick war
rant) formerly held by Wm. P, CrandaU, and, before that, a portion
of it by Stephen and Chas. N. Griffis, and a part by Nathaniei and
Eufus Eose. The residence is partly or whoUy in Brooklyn, but
part of the land being in Lathrop the latter has been for some years
past chosen as the voting district. Mr. W. is a son of Sam'l Wright
(a physician) and grandson of Anthony Wright, and great-grandson
of Capt. Samuel Wright. Dr. \V, manied Sarah B,, a daughter of
Wm, and Betsey (Brown) Squires, and they lived on the Blanchard
place. Their children are Prances E, (Mrs. Wm, Squier), Jason S,,
Hersey G., and Irvin W, H, G. Wright married Ellen E,, a daugh
ter of Wm. P. CrandaU and their chUdren are Gertie deceased and
WiUiam S.
Stephen Griffis, Jr., married Ehoda, a daughter of Nathaniel
Eose. Their sons were Chas. N. and Warren. Mr. G.'s father Steph
en, a Eevolutionary soldier, also lived and died here, as did two sons
of C. N, Griffis— Philander, July 9, 1847, a., 5 years, and Francis,
July 7, 1856, a,, 16, years. Buried in Old Cemetery, The site of the
old dwelling is still to be seen on the old road west of the creek,
Eufus Eose married Phebe, a daughter of Joseph Jackson, Their
children went west. He and his father Nathaniel lived where J, D,
King now resides.
Wright, Irvin W., a brother of Hersey, owns the old place, chiefly
on the Joseph Sahler warrant, formerly owned by S. W. Breed and
Jeremiah Gere. Mr, W, is now engaged in the mercantile business
at Hopbottom. He lived on the Blanchard place for a time, after his
father, and then removed to Lenox before buying this Gere place.
He is a grandson of Anthony Wright who came from Somers, Ct.,
in 1808. [His name is on Capt, Bailey's accts, in that year.] _ He
(Anthony) began on the old place (now owned by Wm. Squier) just
above the confluence of Martin and Dry creeks, below the present
Brooklyn line. But his children seem to have attended school on the
Isaac Smith place, till a school was established near his own house,
where Peter Paul once taught. He was also an early member of the
Brooklyn M. E. church. His wife was Sally Sweatland, and their
children were Loren, Samuel, Caroline, Sally (Mrs. J. W. Hawley),
Amanda (Mrs. Geo. Sweet), Lois (Mrs, Conrad), and Polly, Mr, 'W,
died, 1854, age, 73, I, W, Wright married Ella J,, a daughter of
Stephen Bell, and their children are Cora B,, Emma E,, and Parley S,
Stephen Wheelee Beeed, a son of Stephen Breed, was born Sept,-
6, 1811, and came to the township with his parents from Ct, in the
early part of March 1812, While a young man he engaged in teach
ing, filling out the time of Simon Lusk, the first teacher in the Peck
ham schpol, [about 1830] whose eyesight failed from over-taxation,.
He also taught elsewhere, including the center school in winter of
If 33-4 or (more Ukely) 1834-5, He was after that engaged in selling
goods as a peddler and merchant — for a time at Orwell in Bradford.
Co, He subsequently bought this place and was occupied in farming,
tanning, and other enterprises. He first married. Luc.r Beabd3ley

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who had lived in his father's family, and who died some five years
after, in 1846. He afterward married Susanna Guile of Harford.
They have a son Geo. Fitch, an Episcopal clergyman, now of Brook
lyn, N. Y., with whom his mother now resides. Mr- B. died Dec. 28,
1880. Buried in Old Cemetery.
Jeremiah Geee, a son of Eezin Gere, came in 1802 from Norwich,
Ct., living for a time in a log house of Joseph Chapman, where he
pursued his occupation as tanner. On the day of the great eclipse
(June 16, 1806) he moved into a small frame house which he had
previously built on this place. The old house is still standing. After
it had been supplanted by the present dwelling, Louisa Park taught
school in it. [She also taught in the I. Smith school house and in
the Geo. Gere store.] Mr. Gere conducted a tannery here, putting
up two buildings in part to afford facilities for grinding bark and
dressing leather, beside quite an area of vats out-door. Mr. G.'s wife
was Martha Moegan ("Aunt Patty") and their children were Mary
Ann, born Nov. 10, 1795 and died here June 9, 1807; Charles V.;
Edward Law, born June 3, 1799; George Morgan; Harriet Wilson,
born (at Chapman place) Oct. 6, 1804, married David Noble WhCeler
and had a daughter Louisa (Mrs. Parker and now Mrs. Bachelor of
Waverly, Pa.) and after Mr. W.'s death became Mrs. Parker and died
Aug. 31, 1888 ; Wm. Davis, born Jan. 26, 1807, died Jan. 28, 1829 ;
Maria Jane, born July 18, 1809, died Nov. 30, 1826; Albert, born
Oct. 4, 1812, died May 6, 1822; and Henry, born Oct. 4, 1815. He
died in Minnesota in 1878 or 9, not in Mitsouri as has been errone
ously stated. [Beecher Gere, a son of Geo., went south.] Mr. G. was
born Dec. 24, 1769, and died here in Sept., 1842 nearly 73 years of
age. Mrs. G. was married Nov. 23, 1794, and died, June, 1853. Her
mother Mrs. Morgan also died here, and hers was one of the early
burials in the Old Cemetery.
Yeomans, Daniel M., a son of Joseph Yeomans, occupies a piece
of land that formerly belonged to the Paines. For. some years he
kept up a blacksmith shop. He married Fanny M., a daughter of
Jeremiah Spencer. Their children are Annie, widow of Melvin Packer
and Prances L., Mrs. C. L. Stephens.
Yeomans, Joseph O., a son of Moses B. Yeomans, married Caroline,
a daughter of Jasper and Hannah (Bailey) McKeeby, and their chil
dren are Hannah A., Dann, and Frank E. Mr. Y. has been occupy
ing a lot west Pf the homestead of his father, but has recently sold
it to P. H. Tiffany and has bought Mr. T.'s farm on the Meshoppen.
Youngs. Lewis, [near Oakley, 1887] married Alzina Potter, dec'd.
The children are Christine and Wellington. Mrs. CeUa Potter (from
Harford) lives with them.

186 history of BROOKLYN.

Chronologic List of Pioneer
Settlers
AND LATEE COMEES NOW DECEASED OE EEMO'VED.
This includes" all who catne here in the years specified so far as
can be ascertained. In many cases the names of wives and children
cannot be told. Those born here can usually be found by consulting
the family account. "All unseen, but in the vista
Were the secrets of the future —
Of the distant days that shall be ;
Were the eager westward marches
Of the restless, crowded nations;
All the land was full of people,
In the woodland rang their axes,
Smoked their homes in all the vallej'S,"
Teemed their towns with arts and knowledge.
1787 — Dr. Caperton, William Conrad, Eve Conrad,  Dennison,
 Pox, Peggy Pox,  Mclntyre, Eiehard McNamara, Adam
Miller, Elinor Miller, Polly Miller, Mortimer Page (wife and sev
eral children), Eobert Patterson and at least one child, John Eob
inson,  Trout.
1790 cr 91 — John Jones, EUzabeth Jones, Nancy Jones, Betsey
Jones, Polly Jones, Bloomfield Milbourn, Sarah Milbourn.
1792— Mark Hartley, Cathern Hartley, Jane Hartley, Wm. Hartley.
1793-5 — Prince Perkins, Judith Perkins, Wm. Perkins, "Young"
Prince, and another Perkins, Wm. Harkins, James Coyle [may
not have come till 1798 or 9].
1795 — Wright Chamberlin, Denman Coe.
1798 — Joseph Chapman, Sr., Elizabeth Chapman, Joseph Chapman,
Jr., Lydia Chapman, Mary Chapman, Isaac A. Chapman, Edward
Chapman.
1799 — Andrew Tracy (came himself in 1798), Mary Tracy, Leonard
Tracy, Harriet Tracy, Edwin Tracy [here in 1798], Sidney Tracj',
Sally Tracy, Samuel Weston, Mary Weston, Wm. Weston, John
N. Weston, Peleg Tracy, Hannah Tracy, Betsey Tracy, Maria
Tracy, Daniel Tracy, Betsey Leffingwell, Samuel Howard, 
Webber, Joshua Sabin, Jonathan Sabin, Aaron Sabin, Lyman
Sabin, Betsey Sabin, Thomas Giles, Betsey Giles, Polly Giles,
Daniel Giles. [The Giles residence in after years was adjudged
to be in Dimock.]
1800— Jacob Tewksbury, Ebenezer Whitney, Elizabeth Whitney,
and some children, Mrs. Joshua Sabin, Ezra Sabin, Polly Sabin,
and 4 other Sabins.
1801 — Edward Goodwin and his wife, Jeremiah Spencer, Joshua

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Saunders, Mary Saunders, Eiehard Saunders, Nathan Saunders,
Jo.ihua Saunders, Jr., Lyman Saunders, Thomas Saunders, Mary
Saiuiders (daughter), Phally Saunders, Benj. S. Saunders, Aaron
Saunders, and probably Varnam Saunders, Mary Tewksbury (Ja
cob's wife), Nancy Tewksbury, EUzabeth Tewksbury, Lovina
Tewksbury, Silas Lewis, Amos Lawrence and wife, Daniel Law
rence and wife, William Lawrence.
1802 — Amos Bailey (he and Ebenezer Gere came in 1801 but re
turned), Prudence Bailey, Jeremiah Gere, Martha Gere, Mary
Ann Gere, Charles V. Gere, Edward L. Gere, Geo. M. Gere, E.
Mott Wilkinson, Phebe Wilkinson, and some chUdren, Sargent
Tewsbm-y, Nan<'y Tewksbury, Amos Tewksbury.
1803 — Cliarles Gere (came to Lord place in 1800-1), Sally Gere,
Sarah D. Gere, Lucy F. Gere. '
1804— Orlando Bagley, Dorcas Bagley, Jesse Bagley, Stephen
Bagley, Thomas Bagley, George Bagley, Betsey L. Bagley, Dor
cas Bagley (younger), Dolly Bagley, Washington Bagley, SaUy
Bagley, Consider Fuller, Euth Fuller, Sally Fuller, Alfred Puller,
Euth Fuller (younger), Isaiah Fuller, Susanna Fuller, Lucinda
Fuller, Isaac Tewksbury, Judith Tewksbury, Hannah Tewksbury,
Abigail Tewksbury, Huldah Tewksburj', Jonathan Tewksbury,
Judith Tewksbury (daughter of Jacob), Barnard Worthing, Dor
othy Worthing, Jacob 'Worthing, Jonathan Worthing, Winthrop
Worthing, Miriam Worthing, Sam'l Yeomans, Sr., Sam'l Yeomans,
Jr., Joseph Yeomans, Sabra Yeomans. [The Yeomans family may
not have come till 1805 or 6.]
1806— Stephen Gere [1805 or 6], Marv Gere, Peter Gere, Alfred
Tiffany.
1807— Frederick Bailey, PoUy BaUey,
1808— Joshua Miles, Sr. [generally supposed, in 1808, but in his
book are accounts with Daniel Lawrence, dated Apr. 11, 1807],
Lucy Miles, Ebenezer Miles, Jonathan Miles, Sarah Miles, John
Seeley and family — 1808-9, though it might have been 3 or 4 yrs.
earlier,
1809 — Chaiies Perigo, Edward Paine, Charlotte Paine, Edward L.
Paiue, Mason Denison, Noah Tiffanj', Mary Tiffany, Jemima Tif
fany, Hannah Tiffany, Olney Tiffany, Mary Tiffany (younger),
Noah Tiffany, Jr., John Tiffanj', Clarissa Tifl'unj', MaUnda Tifi'anj',
Samuel Wright, Almira Wright.
1810 — Joshua Miles, Jr., LuCy Caroline Miles, Bela Case, Eowena
Case, Edith Case (and other children of B. Case), Isaac Sterhng,
Hilliard Sterling, Bradley Sterling, Elijah Mack (possibly, 1809),
Elizabeth Mack, Josiah Mack, Betsey Mack, Jemima Mack, Eli
jah Mack, Jr., Polly Mack (still living here), Gideon' Beebe (or a
little later), Elisha Safford (family came, 1811), Elisha Mack, Ta
phena Mack, Lydia Mack, Matilda Mack, EUza Mack, Fanny Mack,
Elisha Mack, Jr., Marvin Mack, Enoch Mack, Alfred Mack, Put
nam CatUn (1809 or 10), Eli Catlin, Polly Catlin, Chaiies Catlin,
Henry Catlin, George Catlin, Eliza Catlin, Mary Catlin, Julius
Catlin, Eiehard CatUn, Lynde Catlin, James Catlin, Bristol Budd

188 HISTORY OF BROOKLYN.
Sampson, Pelatiah Tiffany, David Morgan, Eufus Holdridge.
1811— Nathan Jewett, Electa Jewett, Francis Jewett, Eodney Jew
ett, Olive Safford, Verie Ann Safford, Felix Saffoid, Jas. W. Ster
ling, Asa Bonney (and most or all of his children), Cyril Giddings,
Jedediah Lathrop, Sarah Lathrop, Alice Lathrop, Siias P. Ely,
Mehitabel Ely, David Sutliff, Charity Sutliff, Harris Sutliff, Joel
SutUff, Zarah SutUff, Curance Sutlifl', Hanuah Sutliff, Charity Sut
liff (younger), Justice Kent (came himself 1810), Anna Kent, David
Kent, Eobert Kent, Elijah Kent, Wallace Kent, Latham Williams,
Lucy WilUams, Nelson WilUams, Amanda Williams (and other
chUdren), Jacob WUson, Jr., Selinda WUson, Esek H. Palnier,
Amy Palmer, L-s-dia Palmer, Emeline Palmer, Annis Palmer,
Elmina Palmer ("now Uving here), Eleazer Kimball (and family),
Ebenezer Paine (about this time); Wise Wright, Louisa Wright.
1812— Edward Packer, Stephen Breed, Sophia Breed, Stephen W.
Breed, Stephen Williams, Sr., Polly WiUiams, Amos WilUams
(perhaps), James Packer, Selina Packer, William Albert Packer,
WiUiam S. Merritt, Eebecca Merritt, Caleb Crandall, Asa Crandall,
Polly Crandall, Nancy Crandall, Ephraim Howe, Amy Howe,
Hiram Howe, Thomas Howe, Elijah Howe, Ephraim K. Howe,
James E. Howe, Minerva Howe, Mary A. Howe, Elisha Bibbins,
Stephen Smith, Luther Catlin, Ora Catlin, Diantha CatUn, Julius
S. Catlin, Dotha Catlin, Erastus Catlin, Thomas Sterling, Mehit-
able Sterling, Solomon Dickinson, Davison brothers, Lawrence
Johnson, Persia Johnson.
1813 — Israel Eeynolds, Hannah Eeynolds, Nathaniel Eeynolds, Sam
uel Eeynolds, Sarah Eeynolds, (and probably others of the family),
Ezra Brown, Nancy Brown, Ezra S. Brown, (and others), David
Bissell, Asa Crandall (wheelwright), Matilda Crandall and probab
ly some of the children), Daniel Cone, Euth Cone, Euth Cone
(younger), Thomas Cone, Sylvester Cone, Amanda Cone, Edwin
Cone, Eliza Cone, Nelson Cone, Alma Cone, Angeline Cone, Isaac
Smith, Sally Smith, Betsey Smith, Giles Smith, Minette Smith,
Hallam Smith, Samuel Smith, Latham Smith, Sally Smith, Lovina
iSmith, Sophronia Smith, Emma Smith, Enoch Mack, Polly Mack,
Haniet Mack, Flavel Ma'jk, Betsey Mack, Nathaniel Eose, Anna
Eose (and children probably).
1814 — Joshua Baker, B<it8ey Baker, Daniel Baker, Betsey Baker
the younger, Marj' Baker, Eeuben Baker, Abbie Jane Baker, Ze
lophehad Ely, Elizabeth Ely, Jacob Ely, Lyman Ely, John E. Eh',
Hiram Ely, "Parnel Ely, E'lizabeth Ely, Jared Ely, Gabriel Ely,
Eunice Ely, Joseph Ely, William Ely, ' Fanny Ely: Erastus Ely,
Theresa Ely, H. Gates Ely, Anthony Pish, Hannah Fish, Anthony
Fish, Jr. («ame a year or, two before and went back), Hannah
Latham, Erastus Latham, Prudence Pish, Francis Fisb, Frederick
Fish, Sabra Fish, JuUa Fish, Sally Fish, Fanny Pish, Mary Fish.
1815 — Lebbeus Eogers, Andrew Eogers, Nathaniel Sterling and
family, Peter Herkimer, Jas. Oakley, Oliver Tubbs (likely before\
John E. Babcock, Henry Mitchell, Mary Mitchell, Thaddeus
Palmer, Martha Palmer, (and children perhaps), Valentine Lewis,

CHRONOLOGIC LIST OF SETTLERS. 189
Augustus Birge (or before), Eobert Eand or Ehan (1812-15),
Nathan Thayer (1812-15).
1816  Joshua Jackson, Sr., Eleanor Jackson, Susanna Jackson
(Farrar), Joshua Jackson, Jr., Caleb Jackson, Betsey Jackson,
Joseph Jackson, Esther Jackson, Phebe Jackson, Eebecca Jackson,
Joshua Fletcher, Samuel Bissell (came himself 1815), Sally BisBell,
Augustus Bissell, Maria iiissell, Hannah Bissell, Geol-ge Cone'
(aud family), David Cuthing, Laban Cushing, Moses Cushing,
Fletchers (Isaac and Josiah), Stephen Griffis, Samuel Lewis, John
C. Sweet (or possibly a little earUer),
1817  Tliomas Garland, Augustus Converse, Sibyl Converse, Davis
G. Converse, Pamelia Converse, Erastus Caswell (came himself in
1815 or earlier), Lucy Caswell, Ammi Ely, Hannah Ely, Jonas E.
Adams, James Smith, Annis tjmith, Hezekiah Olney, Dimock WU-
Hou, Milly Wilson, Sophronia Wilson, Joseph Peckham, Jr., Sally
Peckham, Elias Peckham, Joseph O. Peckham, Thomas Oakley,
Charles Chester, Samuel Eogers, Mason Palmer, William Birge.
1818  Jacob Wilson, Sr., Desire 'Wilson, Joseph Lines, Sr., Eichai'd
Williams, George Newbury, Olive Newbury, Levi Simons, Sally
Simons, Gurdon Ely, Olive Corej', Lodowick Bailey, Hannah Bai
ley, John L. Bailey, Amos P, Merrill, Eebecca Merrill, Jonathan
H. MerriU, Amos B. Merrill, Abel Hawley, Marilla Hawley, Emily
Hawley, Joseph W. Hawley, Asa Hawley, Euth Hawley, David
Smith, Amy Smith, Burgess Smith, John Smith, James Munger,
Isaac Aldrich, Moses Smith.
1819  Elijah Newton, Deborah Newton, Varnam W^hitford, Abel
Hewitt, Elijah Birge, William Lewis.
1820  Jas. L. Adams, Jos. Edmonds, Patty Edmonds, Geo. Eisley.
1821  Eowlaiid Miles, Clarissa Miles, Chai-les Miles, Betsey Miles,
Eeuben O. Miles, Harriet Miles, Walter Adams, Peter Williams
(and before), Lewis Chamberlin, Samuel G. Bowen, Samuel Par-
1822  Jesse Miles, OUve Miles, Parker Miles, Jared MUes, Betsey
Miles, Samuel H. Miles, Edmond Miles, Caroline Milefe, t;behezer
Gere,' Pedy Gere, Lucy L. Gere, Christopher M. Gere, Pedy E.
Gere',* Stephen Eandall, Phebe Eandall, JuUa Eandall, Denison
Eandall, Samuel B. Blake, John Austin, Nancy Austin, Lpyd
Austin, Ledyard Austin, Nancy E. Austin, James Hewitt.
1823— Edward Otto, Wm. Specknagle, Isaiah Hawley, Dolly Hawley,
WiUiam Hawley, Elsie Hawley, Nancy Hawley, Joseph Hawley,
James Noble, Grace Noble, Sarah M. Noble, Amo& CrandaU— oi-
ViPTore
1825— Elisha Baker, Susanna Baker, Mary Ann Baker, Fanny
Baker, EUza Baker, Jared Baker, Charles Baker, CaroUne Baker,
Emeline Baker, Gurdon D. Hempstead Polly Hempstead, Orlando
Hempstead, JuUa A. Hempstead,* Orson Eeed, John Davis, Will
iam S. Champlin, Eeuben P. Eing. , ^ , ^ ,.
1826  Aaron Munger, Lucius Eobinson (perhaps before). Youngs
Culver, Polly Culver, Youngs L. Culver, WilUam Ainey, Hannah
•* Now living in Brookly'n.

190 HISTOEY OF BEOOKLYN.
Ainey, Jacob Ainey, John Ainey, Eebecca Ainey, ;~Seth Bisbee,
Leah Bisbee, Alonzo Bisbee, Jane Bisbee, SaUy Bisbee, Noah
Bisbee, Levi Bisbee, Betsey Bisbee, Charles E. Marsh (or before).
1827— EU B. Goodrich, Samuel KeUam, Lyman Kellam, Elijah
B. Slade (physician).
1828— Jeduthan Nickerson, Sam'l Garland,* Susan Garland, Susan
Garland (younger), Mary Garland, Edmund Garland, Ephraim B.
Garland and wife Patty Garland, Jay Garland, James Garland,
Elizabeth Garland, Martha Garland, Chapman Garland, Joseph
Peckham, Sr., Anna Pedkham, Betsey Peckham, Nathan Aldrich,
Elizabeth Aldrich (and children), Aaron Dewitt, Hannah Dewitt
(and children), Jezreel Dewict, Lucy Dewitt (and chUdren).
1829— Isaac VanAuken, Elizabeth VanAuken, Benjamin VanAuken,
Jacob VanAuken, SaUcha VanAuken, Amos VanAuken, Susan W.
VanAuken, Eiehard Foster, Chester Tuttle, Palmer M. Way.
1830— Sylvester Cooke, OUvia Cooke, Allen McKinney, Braton
Eichardson, Clark Peckham, Barney Hayden (and before).
1831— E.: T. Ashley, Eoxanna Ashley, James A. Ashley, George
Westbrook, Eleanor Westbrook, Samuel Westbrook, Daniel West
brook (and others), H. E. Kittle, WilUam Wilson.
1832— Cyrus Oakley, Dency Oakley.
1833— Archibald WilUams, Sarah WiUiams (and two children),
James Jackson, Samuel Adams, Samuel A. Newton, Mary Newton
(and children), Asa Newton, Eunice Newton.
1834— Flavel M. WilUams, Lodema WUUams (and two chUdren).
1837-- Albert Eeynolds, Amos Smith, Abigail Smith (and children \
0. A. Eldridge, Mary Eldridge.
1838— Eobert Eldridge, Dorothy Eldridge, John Stroud, Elvira
Stroud, .Josiah Williams.
1839— S. D. Townsend, Sally Townsend, Edwin Tiffany, Sophronia
Tiffany (and daughter).
1840— Charles C, DaUey, Lucy L. Dailey, John Eobinson, Olive
Eobinson, Caroline Eobinson, Daniel Tory, William Titsworth
(and family), Samuel Daniels.
1841— Horace Thayer, C. C. Thayer, Hart Eoberts, WUliam L.
Eichardson.
1842 — ZopKer Betts, Wm, Cherry, John D, Farnam, Noah Hickock.
1844 — Samuel Benjamin, Margaret Benjamin (and children). Orris
Fraser,
1845 — WilUam Bloomfield, Henry S. Knapp (or before), Abram
Kimber, Nicholas Townsend, Chauncey Tingley, Wm, T, Walker,
John C, Wright (and family).
1846 — Asa Tewksbury, Nancy Tewksbury (and sons), Horace Little,
James and WUliam McMillan, Eiehard Potter.
1847 — J. T. Perry, Nancy Perry (anrl children), George McAlpine, J.
B. Gillman (or before), Catharine Swartz.
1848— Austin Crocker, T. H. Potter. Francis Tingley.
1849 — Johnson Quick (and family). Burr Baldwin, Eli P. Eoberts.
* Ephraim and family came in 1S28; Samuel and fanjily may have come a little later.

POST-OFFICE LIST. 191
185  Isaac Tewksbury (and family), Ephraim Eaver, George W.
Potter, William Phillips. ''¦
1851— P, W; AUen, Erastus Allen, John Sullivan,
1852 — John H, Boyd, William D, Schoonmaker. '
1854— William Stanton,
1855 — James Waldie, Ann Waldie (and children). A, G, HolUster,
Emeline Hollister (and children),
1858 — Henry Dennis (and familj'),
I860— PoweUG, Burch (and family).

Post-Office List.

In early times few letters were sent, and these were often passed
from hand to hand, every man, woman, and child constituting him
self or herself a carrier. Every one that came from (jr returned to
the homeiand carried letters for the settlement. Oct. 1, 1813 the
United States post-office department established Hopbot-iom P. O,
in the township of Bridgewater and Couuty of Susquehanna, Put
nam Catlin being P. M. The first judicial name (under Pennsylva
nia authority) that applied to the township at aud atter its settle
ment, was Tioga, in Luzerne Co., up to 1795. [It had before been
Tioga in Northumberland couuty — a very large township in a very
large county.] It was next Nicholson, but it is very do..btj.ul whether
any of its first people ever called it Tioga.
The office was at Esq. Catlin's house, now owned by J. C. Miller.
In 1815 Henry Catlin was appointed postmaster, and in '1816 Ga
briel Ely was appointed, both having the office at this same house.
Meantime the legal name of the township had been changed [1814]
to Waterford, but not the name of the post-office which was still
Hopbottom; it was never Waterford, as some have supposed. Iu
1817 the office went to Noah Tiffany, P. M., in the "Old Abbey," and
in 1818 to Arunah Tiffany, in same place. In lS21 it was changed
to Thomas Garland, P. M., and the oifice was doubtless kept till 1823
in the old mill Uouse standing in what is now the New Cemeterj'. In
the latter year Mr. Garland moved to the Ed-ward Paine place (Jas.
Hewitt's). Edward L. Paine being' made deputy or clerk and the office
being in the little red store then in front of the Malvina Tiffany
house. In the same year James Noble was afterward clerk, having
the office in the same store. In 1823 the name of the township was
changedito Hopbottom, on petition of the people, as suggested by
Mr. Garland, as letters would be sent to,Waterford the name of the
township, instead of Hopbottom the name of post-office, and as there
were other Waterfords in the state, it caused mistakes in mail af^
fairs. In 1824 James Noble was appointed postmaster, in same place.

192 HISTORY OF BEOOKLYN.
In 1826 the office again went to Thomas Garland at what is now the
J. S. Wright place. In 1825 the name of the township was changed
to Brooklyn, but the name of the post-office was not changed from
Hopbottom to Brooklyn till March 20, 1830. In 1838 the post-office
went to Daniel B. Bagley in the Dr. ChamberUn house. In 1841 it
went to Eollin T, Ashley in his store, where that of S, B, Eldridge
now stands. In 1842 it went back to D, B, Bagley, and from 1843,
after his death, Sally Bagley, his widow, held the office lUl 1861,
when it went to James L, Adams, in his late residence. In 1885 it
went to Ammi Ely, in his store, aud in 1889, to Wm, B, Craver, the
present incumbent.
The post-office at Montrose Depot was estabUshed Nov. 11, 1852,
with Javan B. Salsbury, postmaster. His successors were Loami B,
Hinds, 1853; William McMillan, 1854; John C, Lee, 1855; Edward
S. Hinds, 1857 ; Fernando A, Tiffany, 1867 ; Manzer J. Goodrich,
1868; Joseph D. Eichardson, Oct. 23, 1868; LaFayette P. Eosen-
grant, 1869; Wm. H. Tiffany, 1870 and Perry Sweet, 1889. The
name was changed to Tiffany, Peb. 15, 1877, and to Alford, Mar. 12,
1877. East Dimock post-office was established June 9, 1862, Geo. L.
WilUams, postmaster, at the Thos. Giles place. He was succeeded
by Geo. H. Giles, Oct. 4, 1864, and the office was discontinued July
16, 1883. Mr. G. had the office at his house in Brooklyn, built on a
little corner of the Capt. Gere place cut off by the roads. The house
was afterward burned and not replaced.
Geo. H. (a son of Thos.) Giles married Lucy S., a daughter of
Latham Williams. Their children were Theoda (Mrs. Dan'l Van
Auken), Geo. I., Loretta (Mrs. J. B. Davison), Lyman E. (a soldier —
died Feb. 16, 1862, age, 18), Pannv (Mrs. Stone), Hattie L. (Mrs. E.
P, Lindley), Thomas L,, and William H. Mr, G, died Peb, 26, 1885,
age, 72 years, 5 months, and Mrs, G,, Jan. 14, 1884, age, 68 years, 10
months, 20 days.
Letter postage was 6, 10, 18f , and 25 cts, according to distance,
paid by receiver. Afterward it was 5 and 10 cts,, and in 1855, 10 cts,
over 3000 miles, otherwise 3 cts., prepaid. Then 3 cts. anywhere in
the U. S., and now 2 cts. And how astonishing has been the change
in the facility and speed of conveying intelligence. The ox-sled
express, and the post rider have given place to the stage coach, the
steam engine, the electric car, the telegraph, and the telephone. The
very features of friends and the exact pictures of scenery maybe
transmitted by aid of the photographic art, and the very words and
intonations of the voice may be sent or treasured up for years by
the phonograph. A telephone Une passes through Brooklyn [1889]
with station at the post-office, connecting with telegraph at Foster
and Montrose.
Hai-k ! the warning needles click, Here we feel the electric thrill
Hither-thither-clear and quick. ^^^^^^ ^J ^f 4'"Pl« ^i" ' ,
TT 1 • J ii . , . , Here the instant message read.
He who guides their speakmg play Brought with more than light-
Stands a thousand miles away ! ning speed.

THE INDUSTEIES. 193
Sing who wiU of Orphean lyre, Boston speaks at twelve o'clock,
Ours the wonder-working wire ! Natchez reads ere noon the shock:
Let the sky be dark or clear. Seems it not a feat subUme?
Comes the faithful messenger; Intellect has conquered time!
Now it tells of loss and grief , Marvelous triumph of our day I
Now of ]oy in sentence brief, piash all ignorance away !
Now of safe or sunken ships, piash sincerity of speech—
Now the murderer outstrips. Noblest aims to all who teach ;
Now of war and fields of blood, Flash tiU power shall learn the
Now of fire, and now of flood. rieht
Think the thought, and speak the Plash till reason conquer might;
word. Plash resolve to every mind —
It is caught as soon as heard, Manhood flash to all mankind !
Borne o'er mountains, lakes, and Sing who will of Orphean lyre.
To the far antipodes; [seas,] Ours the wonder-working wire ! "

The Industries:
INCLUDING TEADES, OCCUPATIONS, AND PEOFESSIONS.

"'Whom shall we call our heroes.
To whom our praises sing ?
The pampered child of fortune,
The titled lord or king?
They live by others' labor.
Take all and nothing give;
The noblest types of manhood
Are they who work to live."
Artists. George Catlin, Julius Catlin, and others less skilled and
practiced. Asheries. The manufacturers of potash were John Jones, one near
the "Factory,"' James Noble, S. K. Smith, and E. L. Gere.
Blacksmiths. Joshua Saund.ers, Ephraim Howe, Eobert Eand,
John C. Sweet, John B. Hall, George Newbury, Jacob Ainej', Eph
raim B. Garland, John Potts, Thomas Howe,  Way (in old
Abbey), H. E. Kittle, Samuel 'Westbrook, Noah Hickock, WiUiam T.
Walker, George E. Crandall, Hart Eoberts, A. C. Quick, Asa Day,
D. M. Yeomans, G. W. Palmer, Newell Vergason, Ansel Vergason,
M. McVicar, C. W. Broadhead, P. P. Conrad. Present, J. P. & P, C.
Doran, James L, Bookstaver, Josephus Hill, and Eansom Crandall.
We are told of the "golden age" in the days of yore. But ours is the
age of utility — the "iron age;" and artificers in iron have come lo

194 HISTOEY OF BEOOKLYN.
occupy an important place. In eariier eras the chief work 'was to
.forge implements of war, as Vulcan was fabulously credited with
making thunderbolts for Jove.
"OW Tubal Cain was a man of might.
In the days when earth was young;
By the fierce red light of his furnace bright.
The strokes of his hammer rung;
And he lifted high his brawny hand
On the iron glowing clear.
Till the sparks rushed out in scarlet showers,
As he -fashioned the swoi-d and spear.
And he sang, 'Hurrah for my handiwork !
Hunah for the spear and the sword!'
Hurrah fdr the hand that shaU wield them well,
For he shall be king and lord ! ' "
But now, though swords are not wholly "beaten into ploughshares"
nor spears to pruning hooks,
"Iron vessels cross the ocean, Iron bolts and rods and bands ;.
Iron engines give them motion ; Iron houses, iron walls.
Iron needles northward veering. Iron cannons, iron balls;
Iron tillers vessels steering; Iron ax§s, knives, and chains,
Iron pipe our gas deUvers, Iron augers, saws, and planes;
Iron bridges span our rivers, Iron globules in our blood.
Iron pens are used for writing. Iron pai-ticles in food;
Iron ink our thoughts inditing; Iron lightning-rods on spires,
Iron stoves for cooking victuals, Iron telegraphic wires ;
Iron ovens, pots, and kettles; Iron plow, and fence, and post.
Iron horses draw our loads. Iron sled on which to coast ;
Iron rails compose our roads; Iron hammers, nails and screws.
Iron anchors hold in sands. Iron every thing we use."
Brick-Makers. David Morgan, William Lewis.
Cabinet and Furrtiture Makers. Daniel Lawrence, Thos. Sterling
(lathe), Asa CrandaU (wheels and chairs), Thaddeus Palmer, Heze
kiah Olney, Eiehard WUliams (grain cradles), Elijah Newton, Wm.
Specknagle, Edward Otto, Jacob Worthing (spinners), Ebenezer
Gere (plane stocks), Washington Bagley, M. L. Mack, Alfred Mack,
George McAlpine. Present, E. P. Mack & Sons, C. L. Stephens.
Carpenters. . Charles Gere, Joshua Miles, Sr., Elijah Morgan,
Eufus Holdridge, John(?) Bennet, Jeremiah Spencer, Joshua Miles,
Jr. (and millwright), Elisha Mack, Justice Kent, Edwfard Packer,
James Packer, I. H. Sterling, C. George Bagley, Joseph Lines, Sr.,
Eowland Miles; Abel Hewitt, James Hewitt, Nelson 'Williams, Ly
man Kellam, E. S. Brown, Daniel Bagley, Chester Tuttle, E. O.
Milesy William Hewitt, J. Lines, Jr., Present, O. H. Very (wheel
wright), J. J. Eoper, D. S. Watrous, M. B, Grennell, T. J. Tiffany,
Isaac S. Tewksbury, Conger Tiffany, A. E. Tewksbury, A. A. Quick,
A. S. Waldie, J. H. Stanton, J. B. Quick, J. M. Whitman, Terry M.
Whitman, George Eing, Philip Burbank.

THE INDUSTEIES. 195
Charcocil- Burners. Ephraim Howe and sons.
Coopers. Joseph Chapman, Sr,, Stephen Williams, T^ios, Oakley,
Amos Tewksbury, Stephen Eandall, Isaac Tewksbury, Wm. Phillips,
L. K. Tewksbury. None at present,
• Farmers. This class includes the larger part of ttie people of
the township. Grain-raising is not extensively pursued, the product
not being equal to the home demand. Large quantities of flour and
cattle-fee4 are used from abroad. The chief articles spld ai-e milk,
cream, butter, vegetables, fruit, and hay, with some surplus horses,
sheep, and cattle. Stone quarries have been recently opened and
worked. The profits pf farming have become exceedingly small.
Many \vrongs exist that must be corrected. Greater economy in tbe
distribution of the necessaries of Jife is becoming more and more an
absplute necessity. But the occupation cannot be given up. The
-world would die without agriculture. Eemove the wrongs,
But ye who till the stubborn soil.
Whose hard hands guide the plow,
'Who bend beneath the summer sun,
'With burning cheek and brow.
Deem not a curse still 9lings to earth
Prom olden time till now ;
But while ye feel 'tis harcj to toil
The long hours all day through,
Eemember it is harder still
To have no work to do.'
Harness Makers.. Jedediah La,throp (saddler), P. Whipple, J. E.
'\^hite, O. 4- Lines, A. !p. Shipman, E. N. Barney. Present, Benja
min T. Case,
Hatters. Jonas E, Adams, Andrew Eogers, Made wool hats
,by felting.
Hotel Keepers. Noah Tiffany, Arunah Tiffany, Samuel '^eomans,
'Stephen Breed (no distilled liquors), Seth Bisbee, Jfesse Bagley,
John Stroud, O, A. Eldridge, Johu C, "Upright, WilUam "Walker, L.
W, Kellam, William Eaver, J. O. Bullard [now keeps no liquors].
At Alford, B, O, Watrous, M, VanHousen, L. A, Prink, and others.
Lumbering was never made a ytry prominent industry. In early
times much valuable timber was burned to clear the land, rafting
privileges not being sufficient to induce the sending io distao^t fliar-
kets! Since the advent of rail-roads limited operations have been
carried on.
Masons. The craft has existed from the earliest periods of the
w-orld's history. Among the Brooklj'n members of it (df more or less
skill) are found Bela Case, Isaac Williams, David Bissell (stone), A.
B. Merrill ; and at present, Charles Fish, Albert Blake, B. O. Wat
rous, and in stpne, E. S. Tewksbury, E. T. Stephens, W. E. Page, J.
H. Page,. Jpseph Oakley, and others.

196 HISTOEY OF BROOKLYN.
Merchants. Mary Tracy, James Noble and Jairus Day, Edw'd L.
Paine, E, T. Ashley, George M. Gere, Frederick W, Bailey, James &
Thomas Jackson, S. W. Breed, Edwin Tiffany (and Lyman Bolles a
short time), Eobert Eldridge, E. S, Kent, Nelson Tiffany, O. A, Eld
ridge, James F, Smith, F. W. & Francis Allen, Skidmore Tompkins,
O. G. Hempstead, C, Eogers, E, McKenzie, Amos Nichols, O, W.
Foote and M, T, Very, D. A. & A, Titsworth, A. W, Kent, WilUam
Craver, G. P. Tiffany, Present, S. B. Eldridge (and druggist), A.
Ely & Sons, C. M. & W. B. Craver, O. M. Dolaway (hardware), A. C.
Dolaway. At Alford, J. B. Salsbury & Co., Loami Hinds, J. C. Lee,
William McMUlan, George P. Tiffany, Frank E. Tewksbury, E. D.
Goodrich, P. A. Tiffany, Wm. H. Tiffany (grain dealer), J. B. Very,
Perry Sweet. At Macks Corners, J. H. Gunn, N. P. Hine, P. C.
Wildrick. The store is at present closed.
Millers. Joshua Miles (Sr. and Jr.), Lyman DooUttle,  Lam
bert, and see "Grist Mills" in Index.
Ministers. See church list, and denominations in Index.
Painters and Paper Hangers. James Crandall, C. Y. Burch, EUjah
Tingley, Carl Tewksbury. Present, Wm. T. Byram, Prank Burch.
Physicians. Dr. Caperton, Mason Denison, James Whiting, Aaron
W. Munger, Samuel BisseU, Palmer M, Way, Braton Eichardson,
Enoch Mack, Jonathan H. MerriU, Dr. Hatch, Elijah B. Slade, Isaac
J, Meacham, W^ilUam L. Eichardson, E. L. Blakeslee. Present, A.
Chamberlin, A, J, Ainey.
Shoemakers. Joseph Chapman, Jr., Thos. Saunders, Jesse Bagley,
Joshua Fletcher, Joshua Jackson, Sr., Abel Hawley, E. K. Howe,
Peter WiUiams, Geo. M. Gere, Isaiah Hawley, S. B. Blake, Edmund
Garland, John Sabins, Samuel L. Kellam, Charles C. Daley, I. M.
Dewitt, Joseph Jackson, Jr., Samuel Daniels, William VanNess, A.
T. Packard, WilUam Chase, WUliam B. Chase. Present, P. "Whipple,
William Conner, Joseph D. Eichardson, Joseph H. Stanton.
The practice of the early shoemakers in going from house to house
to do work was called "whipping the cat."
"Eap, rap ! upon the well worn stone
How falls the polished hammer !
Eap, rap ! the measured sound has gro-wn
A quick and merry clamor."
But all this is changed, and the gay ranks of St. Crispin have been
radically reorganized. Sole-leather is now rolled solid between
heavy cylinders and needs no hammering — no lap-stone. And boots
and shoes are chiefly made by the aid of machinery, in largo facto
ries, superintended by gangs of men, each having charge of a spe
cific part of the work. The number wko can each make an entire
shoe is rapidly growing less. People are thus rapidly growing more
and more dependent upon each other. The great industrial family
have a common interest. Instead of striving with each other for ti
temporary advantage, the true and most effectual way to benefit each '
is upon a general plan that will benefit aU.

THE INDUSTEIES. 197
Surveyors. Chas. Gere, Putnam Catlin (probably), Jas. W. Chap
man, C. M. Gere, S. A. Newton, E. A. Weston.
Tailors. Thomas Garland, Eli F. Eoberts, John Groves, P. Eey
nolds, D. A. Titsworth,  Webber, W. W. Munroe, and see p. 183,
Tanners. Jeremiah Gere, Patrick Nugen (deer-skin), Samuel
Adams, P. Whipple, Aaron Dewitt, E. P. Eing, James Adams.
Teachers. See "Schools" in index.
Wagon-Makers. E. B. Garland, Abram Kimber, John T. Perry,
Johnson Quick, O. A. Eldridge. Present, T. E. Shadduck of whom
P. M. Grinnell acquned the trade, and went west, and with whom
Hany A. Stanton is now engaged.
Wool-Carders. Joseph Guernsej', Jacob Worthing, Lucius Eob
inson (and clothier), A. G. Eeynolds.
The busy forces of industry have a great and noble work to do.
Aside from their specific labor, they have achievements of vital mo
ment to make for their own well-being aud for the good of all — a
work which they must do, or suffer for the neglect. They have evils
to rid themselves of, and benefits to secure. It needs wisdom, firm
ness, prudence, integrity, and good-will. All are architects working
in the walls of time, to which each contributes a share of material,
and for which each is responsible.
"Build to-daj', then, strong and sure.
With a firm and ample base ;
And ascending and secure
Shall to-morrow find its place."
"Ho, all who labor — all who strive ! -
Ye wield a lofty power ;
Do with your might, do with a will.
Pill every golden hour !
The glorious privilege to do
Is man's most noble dower."
"Work ajvay!
Keep the busy fingers plying
Keep the ceaseless shuttles flying.
See that never thread lie -wrong ;
Let no clash or clatter round you,
Sound of whijrring wheels confound you ;
Steady hand! let woof be strong ,
And firm, that has to last so long!
Keep the needful furnace glowing.
Keep the red ore hissing, fiowing
Swift within the ready mould;
See that each one than the old
vStill be fitter, still be fairer
For the servant's use, and rarer
For the Master to behold."

198 HISTOEY OF BEOOKLYN.
"Fear not lest the busy finger
Weave a net the soul to staj';
Give her wings — she will not linger,
Soaring to the source of daj';
Cleaving clouds that stUl divide us
Prom the azure depths of rest.
She will come again ! beside us.
With the sunshine on her breast —
Sit and sing to us, while quickest
On their task the fingers move,
While the outward din grows thickest.
Songs that she hath learned above."
"Labor is life ! 'Tis the still water faileth.
Idleness ever despaireth, bewaileth ;
Keep the watch wound, for the dark rust assaileth,
Flowers wither aud droop in the stillness of nooni
Labor is glory ! The flying cloud lightens,
Only the waving wing changes and brightens,
Idle hearts only the dark future frightens.
Play the sweet keys wouldst thou keep them in tune."
"Let good men ne'er of truth desj^air.
Though humble efforts fail ;
And give not o'er, until once more
The righteous cause prevail.
Though vain and long, enduring wrong.
The weak may strive against the strong.
But the day shall yet appear.
When the might with the right and the truth shall be;
And come what there may to stand in the way.
That dav the world shall see.''

Our Country's Defenders.
"How sleep the brave who sink to rest
By all their country's wishes blessed I
When Spring, with dewy fingers cold,
Eeturns to deck their hallowed mould,
She there shall dress a sweeter sod
Than Fancy's feet have ever trod.
By fairy hands their knell is rung.
By forms unseen their dirge is sung.
There Honor comes, a pilgrim gray,
To bless the turf that wraps their clay,
And Freedom shall a while repair.
To dwell, a weeping hermit, there ! "

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199

The following-named a,re the men of Brooklyn who helped estab
lish the government with its achievements of the past and its pos
sibilities of the future — the men who helped fight the battles of
THE EEVOLUTIOI!?. They came here after the war and most of
them died hei-e. Two of them lived in Harford but are buried in
Brooklyn. Two of them were in what is now Lathrop :
Dan'l Lawrence, Cap. Patrick Nugen, Cornelius Westbrook
Joshua Sabin (Capt.), Bristol Budd (as commonly report-
John Adams (Lieut.), Sampson (colored), ed, but believed to be
Eufus Kingsley Joshua Jackson, a mistake for George
(drummer), Putnam Catlin (fifer), Westbrook),
Samuel Yeomans, Sr., Wright Ciiamberlin, Barnard Worthing,
Consider Puller, Jesse Miles, Stephen Griffis,
Isaac Brown, Gabriel Ely, Noah Tiffany, Sr.,
Sam'lWrightSr.,Cap. Hezekiah Olney, Edw'd Mott Wilkinson
WAE OF 1812. In the latter part of the second war with Great
Britain, a company of men were drawn from the em-olled miUtia of
Susquehanna county, to go to the defense of Baltimoie. They went
as far as Danville, Pa., where, the threatened danger having been
averted, thej' were discharged. The officers of the company seem to
have been largely selected from Brooklyn, Frederick Bailey (who had
a Uttle previously been chosen Coloiiel in the State Militia organiza
tion) was made Capt, Cyril Giddings, Lieut., Jesse Bagley, 1st Sergt.,
and Orange Whitney, a corporal. The privates from Brooklyn were
Gideon Beebe, Isaac A. Chapman (then of Springvile, in what is now
Dimock), Eleazer Kimball, Josiah Lord, Jr. (afterward of Lathrop),
Thomas Oakley, Elisha Safford, Noah Tiffany, Jr., Latham Williams,
Thomas Bagley, William Harkins (then of 'that jsart of Spring'ville'
changed to Dimock in 1832), Jonathan Miles, and Jesse Eoss.
This was in the latter part of Aug. or fore part of Sept., 1814.
The British forces had a few weeks before captured and burned
Washington, and Baltimore seemed now about to be. attacked, but
the attempt was repulsed. , It was while fort McHenry, at the en
trance of the harbor, was being bombarded (Sept. 13th and 14th) that
Francis Scott Key, while watching the assault, wrote :
"Oh, say, can you see by the dawn's early Ught,
"What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight.
O'er the ramparts we watched were so galliantly streaming :
And the rockets red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there ;
Oh, say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave? '
On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep.
Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes.
What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering syep.
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?

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HISTOEY OF BEOOKLYN.

Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,
In full glory reflected now shines on the stream ;
'Tis the star-spaugled banner ! Oh, long may it wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave ! "
Other soldiers who bad served in this war before coming here were
Aaron Dewitt, Seth Bisbee, Thos. Garland, Sam'l B. Blake, Andrew
Eogers, Erastus Caswell, Lodowick Bailey, Joseph Peckham, Jr.,
Joshua Baker, Lebbeus Eogers, P. G. Burch, Eobert Eldridge, Sam'l
Bissell (surgeon), Samuel A, Newton, James Adams, Sr,
UNION SOLDIEES, in the second Great War of American Inde
pendence — the Conflict against Slaverj' and EebelUon:
"What flag is this you carry
Along the sea and shore ?
The same our grandsires lifted up.
The same our fathers bore !
In many a battle's tempest
It shed the crimson rain;
What God has woven in his loom
Let no man rend in twain ! "
"Ye are springing to the call
Of our brothers gone before,
And will flu the vacant ranks
With a million freemen more.
Shouting the battle cry of Freedom ! "
The following is a list of soldiers enlisted from Brooklyn, or who
have since lived here, or are buried here, including also some sons
of old residents though not living here, but probably only a small
part of these are represented. Some were in service but a short time.
Officers are mentioned if known:
Adams, James W.
(Sergt.)
Adams, Charles G.
Ainey, A. J.
Ashley, Jos. E. (Lieu.)

Babcock, I. Z. (Sergt.)
Baglej-, Edward P.
Bagley, William A.
Bagley, John W.
Bagley, Daniel
Bagley, Jas. Everett
Bailey, Esek P.
Baker, Lewis I.
Baldwin, L. M.
Barney, E. N.
Beardsley, H. P.
(Captain)
Benjamin, Lyman
Benjamin, James

Benjamin, Asa
Bisbee, Martin V.
Bisbee, Noah
Blakeslee, E. L. (Cor.)
Bolles, Frederick
Bosthwick, Charles
Boughton, Eugene
Brewster, C, M.
Brookins, W. H.
Brooks, Leander
Caldwell, Moses, Cap.
Case, Benjamin T.
Chapman, C. M. (Cor.)
ChaiJinan, Joseph L,
Chase, William
Chase, William B,
Cone, Julius
Conrad, Charles W,
Conrad, James M,

Conrad, John, Jr.
Conrad, Martin
Conrad, Eufus
Conrad, Henry
Conrad, Oscar
Conrad, Jerald P.
Cooke, Edwin
Cooke, William
Cooke, Oliver
Cooke, Frederick
Cooke, Henry
Craipdall, Josliua
Crandall, Eansom
Crocker, John W,
Culver, William
Danow, Orphinea
Davison, Jerome B,
(Corporal)
Davison, Asa

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201

Dewitt, Isaac M.
Dewitt, Amos T.
Dickinson, Andrew J.
Dolaway, O. M,
Doolittle, George
Doolittle, Wm., Sergt,
Dowd, Harrison
Eldridge, WUliam H,
Ellis, J, H,
Ely, Marvin
FairchUd, H. C.
Farnam, Zenas N.
Fish, Asa (Construct ion Corps)
Pish, WilUam
Gardner, Edwin P.
Gavitt, Jas. (married
Eoxena Bagley)
Giles, George I.
Giles, Lyman E.
Goodrich, Manzer J.
Guard, Samuel
Hawley, Nelson J.
(Corporal)
Hempstead, Albert A.
(Lieutenant)
Hempstead, John E.
(Sergeant)
Hine, N. F.
Hinkley, Orrin W.
Hollister, Preston T.
Howe, Ephraim P.
Howe, Cyrus
Howe, Nathan
Jackson, George W.
(colored)
Jewett, Allen
Kent, Eiehard H.
(Sergeant)
Kent, Ezra A.
King; F, A,
King, John D.
Kittle, Charles
Lindley, Eufus P,
Lindsey, Frederick L,

Lindsej', Pardon T,
Lines, Lewis N.
Lines, Orrin A,
Lord, Enoch W,
Mack, Ledyard P,
Mack, George C,
McKinney, E. Noble
McKinnej', Chester
McNamara, D. K.
Meriill, Jonathan H.
M(.-rrill, Ansel
Miles, James
Nichols, Christopher
C. (Corporal)
Northrop, Albert
Nutt, William H.
Oakley, Edward G.
Oakley, Joseph
Page, Walter E.
Paine, Chas. N. (Cap.)
Paine, Nathan (Maj.)
Penny, Thomas E.
Penny, Sidney
Penny, Henry
Penny, Charles E.
Pratt, Ephraim
Price, George T.
Quick, Alvah A,
Ealph, George
Eeynolds, Joseph L.
Eeynolds, Charles
Eeynolds, Oscar
Eeynolds, J. N.
Eichards, Lemuel
Eichards, Charles F.
Eichards, Joseph D.
(Corporal)
Eobinson, John Hersey
Eockwell, Worden C.
Eogers, Edwin, Lieut.
Eogers, Henry B.
Eoper, Faussen
Eoper, Muiray J.
EozeUe, E. E.

Saunders, Perry D,
Saunders, Benjamin
Saunders, James
Shadduck, Thomas E.
Shappee, Garry
Smith, James N,
Smith, Daniel T,
Snyder, Hiram J,
Spencer, Benjamin N.
Spencer, Orville T,
Speucer, Charles
Squier, Lewis B,
Stedman, Wallace
Sterling, CoUins M,
Stroud, WilUam
Sweet, Perry
Tewksbury, Jesse W.
Tewksburj', Heni-y
Tewksbury, A. D.
(Lieutenant)
Tewksbury, Emmett
Thayer, Christ'r C.
Thayer, Edmond
Tiffany, John H.
Tooker, David K.
Tripler, WilUam K.
Underwood, Marquis (colored)
VanAuken, John
(Sergeant)
VanAuken, Daniel
VanAuken, Sidney(Corporal)
VanAuken, Courtright
Vergason, Newell J,
Vergason, Ansel
Very, Miles T,
Waldie, John S,
Warner, Ansel L.
White, William *
Whitford, Adnah
AVhitman, Jacob
Whitman, James M-
Williams, Edgar (Sergeant)
Williams, Abram V.

Safford, Jedediah Wright, Orlando

202 HISTORY OF BEOOKLYN.
"Yes, many and bright are the stars that appear
' In the flag bj' our country unfurled,
With the stripes that are swelling in majesty there
Like a rainbow adorning the world.
Prom the hour when our forefathers fearlessly flung
That banner of starlight abrpad.
Ever true tp, themselves, to their motto they clung
As they clung to the promise pf God,
From where the green mountain-tops blend with the sky,
And the giant St, Lawrence is rolled.
To the waves where the balmy Hesperides lie
Like the dream of some prophet of old.
They conquered, and, dying, bequeathed to our care
Not this boundless dominion alone.
But that banner whose lovliness hallows the air.
And their motto of 'Many in One!'"

"By the flow of the inland river.
Whence the fleets of iron have fled.
Where the blades of the grave-grass quiver.
Asleep are the ranks of the dead !
No more let tbe war-cry sever,
Or the winding rivers be red,
Let us banish our anger forever,
As we garland the graves of our dead.
So, with an equal splendor.
The morning sun-rays fall.
With a touch impartially tender.
On the blossoms blooming for all.
So, when the summer calleth
On forest and field of grain,
With an equal murmur faileth
The cooling drip of the rain."

Churches.

The New-England people instituted religious services on first
arrival. The Congregationalists were represented in 1799, the Meth
odists, in 1800, and the UniversaUsts in 1801 — the three sects that
have maintained organizations. The denominational preferences of
the Nicholson settlers cannot be assigned — only conjectured. The
descendants of Adam Miller were Baptists; Elizabeth Jones and two
daughters joined the Congregational church; and there were
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Subsequently Episcopalians came. Baptist clergymen have preached
here — William Purdy as early as 1808; Davis Dimock began
occasional sermons not long after, and Joshua Baker in 1814. Asa
CrandaU (wheelwright), Enoch Mack, and Augustus Converse are
remembered as Baptists, and Thomas Sterling as Quaker. There
have also been Unitarians. Many int ermediate grades of faith have ex
isted, aul in later J-ears the tendency has been to modify the rigidity
of denominational doctiines, on the part of the general community,
to what thej' deem simpler and broader fundamental principles of
human benevolence. The Pilgrim Fathers who had just fled from
bitter persecution to the shores of the New World, seeking "a faith's
pure shrine," and "freedom to worship God" according to the dic^
tates of conscience, estabUshed a system of theology which their suc-^
cessors soon began to practice with all the combin-ed authority and
power of church and state, and with all the bigotry and intolerance
which they had just escaped.
"Their 'wholesome' laws relieved the church
Of heretic and mischief-maker.
And priest and bailiff joined in search
By turns of Papist, witch, and Quaker.
The stocks were at the church's door.
The gallows stood on Boston Common,
A papist's ears the pillory bore, —
The gallows rope a Quaker woman !
No vUe 'itinerant' then could mar
The beauty of their tranquil Zion,
But at his peril of the scar
Of hangman's whip and branding iron.
And thus they shortly learned to deal
With 'non-professing' frantic teachers,
They bored the tongue with red-hot steel
And flayed the backs of 'female preachers',"
And they thought they were "infalUbly" doing God's bidding and
God's service, and "infallibly" contributing to God's glory! They
erred in not daring to read the sunshine mirrored iu the clear, puie
fountain — in not daring tb obey the dictates of spontaneous, vital,
self-evident goodness, unless and until they could find ecclesiastic
sanction for it. They seem to have believed that mau was made for
the sabbath— not "the sabbath for man." Instead of pursuing the
all-important inquiry of scripture — "What is truth?" — instead of
diljoently seeking "trutli for authority" they evidently regarded it
more essential to hunt out "authority for tiuth ! " They espoused
"the letter that kills" rather than "the spirit that gives life." But
they partly found out their mistake, and they left to their posterity
the nobler work of striving for "peace on earth aud good will toviiu.u
men"  the work of following a higher "charity," and of striving to
obey the injunction, "Cease to do evil and learn to do well." They
taught their coming generations to know that (in many respects at

§04 HISTORY OF BEOOKLYN.
least) as Paul in his letter to the Eomans also declares,
"Eevelation is not sealed;
Answering to man's eudeavor
Truth and right are still revealed.
That which came to ancient sages— r
Greek, Barbarian, Eoman, Jew,
Written in the heart's deep pages.
Shines to-day forever new."
But it is also left for them to know that the law of progress stiU
prevails. The world of matter, mind, and spirit moves. Nothing
stands still. The deep pulse of the ocean, its waves and tides keep
it from corruption. The eternal motion ofthe heavenly spheres keeps
them from destruction. And it is left for all to know that
"They. must upward still, and onward.
Who would keep abreast of truth ! "
In the following church list the names are given as best ascer
tainable from partly incomplete records and documents, without
attempting the uncertain determination as to those who remained
as permanent members and those whose connection was only tem
porary. Each church has its Sunday school and its "Ladies' Aid,"
CONOEEGATIONAL AND PeESBYTEEIAN :
[For ministers and buildings, see pp. 37 to 39.]
Meetings were held as early as 1799, Joshua Sabin taking th»
lead. After 1800, when the Congregational church of Harford was
organized, several persons joined tliat church and often attended
there. These were Elizabeth Jones, Patty Gere, and Elizabeth Whit
ney, March 11, 1804; EUza Sweet (this was Betsey (Jones) Sweet,
sometimes called EUzabeth or "Eliza"), and Nancy Howard, March
4, 1806; Mary Tracy, June 28, 1807; Lucy FoUet, Lucy Miles, Aru
nah Tiffany, and Olney Tiffany, July 25, 1809. Some also united
with the Methodist class heie for a time.
On the 7th of Aug., 1810, under the superintendence of William
Lockwood, missionary from Connecticut, and M. Miner York of
Wj'alusing, "The Second Congregational Church of Bridgewater"
was organized with the foUowing members: Jo.-^hua Miles, Sr., Noah
Tiffany, Olney Tiffany, Eleazer Preach, Josiah Lord, Sr,, Patty
Gere, Nancy Howard, Betsev Mack, Mary Lord, Mary (Tracy)
Miles, Elizabeth Whitnej', Phebe Wilkinson. Deacons were chost^ii —
J. Miles and N. Tiffany. Nov. 3, 1810, the following were admitted :
Ebenezer Whitney, Lyman Doolittle, Lucinda Doolittle, Taphena
Mack, Mary E. Weston. And afterward these: Ephraim Whitney,
Jacob Wilson, Cyril Giddings, Samuel Wright (Sr.), Mott Wilkinson,
Mary Tiffany, Lucy Miles. Alsiemena Case, Selinda Wilson, Azuba
Wright. Sept. 7, 1815, Jacob Wilson was chosen deacon.
May 23. 1818, the foUowing were received: Joshua Jackson, Sr.,
Eleanor Jackson, Gabriel Ely. Mehitabel Ely, Erastus Ely, Theresa
Ely, Horatio G. Ely, Joshua Fletcher, Joseph Pisk, WUliam Squires,
Lewis Pollet, Thaddeus Palmer, Artemisia Case, Milly Wilson,

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Clarissa Tiffany, Betsey Squires, Fanny Pisk, Joshua Jackson, Jr.,-
Joseph Jackson, Esther Jackson, Caleb Jackson, Jeremiah. Gere,
Charles V. Gere, Edward L. Gere, Harriet W. Gere, Mary L. Gere,
Patty Palmer, Lois Wright, Nancy Giddings, Polly Howard, Sarah.
Miles, Elizabeth Morgan, Hannah Follet. Sept. 5, 1818, CyrU Gid
dings was chosen deacon. During the rest of 1818, the following^
were received: Mary Jackson, Isaac Brown, Lj'dia Brown, Sophi*
Breed, Silas P. Ely, Eden Brown, Eowena Case, Stephen Breed,i
Geo. Chapman, John Tiffany, Sarah D. Gere, Lucy P. Gere, Betsey
Jackson, Clarissa Oakley, Elizabeth Jones, "Eliza" (Betsey) Sweet,
In 1819, Lucius Eobinson, Lucy Brown, Malinda Tiffany, George'
M. Gere. In 1820, Desire Wilsou.
Sept. 20, 1823, at a meeting in the school-house Gideon N. Judd,
chairman, the form of church government was changed from Coiigrc;
gatiqnal to Presbjterian, and Joshua Jackson, Jacob Wilson, Cyril
Giddings, Stephen Breed, Jeremiah Gere, and Charles V. Gere were
chosen and ordained Euling Elders.
Prom 1826 to 29 the following were received: Mary Gere, Lydia
Chapman, Sarah C. Gere, Frances Giddings, Phebe Eandall, Anna
Eose. [Church edifice dedicated Nov. 6, 1829.] From 1830 to 40,
Louisa C. Parke, Lucy Beardsley, Abial E. Tiffany, Chloe Tiffany,
Preston Tiffany, Isaac VanAuken, Eliza Weston, E.sther Morgan,
Pannj' Tiffany, Harriet C. Parke, Olivia W. Cooke, David Morgan,
Lebbeus Eogers, Fanny Eogers, Alfred Mack, Mary Ann Wilson,
O. C. Ely, Henry Gere, Joseph F. Parrar, Lucy M. Parke, Fanny M.
Tiffany, EUza A. Latham, Eliza Wilson, David .N. Wheeler, Ferdi
nand "Whipple, Julia A. Gere, Mary A. Weston, Ezra Crowfoot;
Almira Crowfoot, Jared M. Elj', Nancy K. Morgan, Gilbert M. Lee,
Phebe Lee, Amasa Knight, Sarah M. Giddings. From 1840 to 50,
Joseph Peckham, James S. Peckham, Johu Eobinson, Olive Eobin
son, John Stroud, Elvira Stroud, Eebecca Ely, Eunice J. Newton,
Sarah J. Wilson, Hannah L. Wheeler, Haniet J. Gere, Emeline
Seeley, Ann Eliza Hyde, Sarah Eogers, Mary E. Gere, Angeline M.
Gere, Abner B. Stanton, Albeit; E. Gere, E. P. Breed, Isaac Newton,
Charles Babcock, Samuel A. Newton, Mary Newton, Mary Whipple,
Ursula Mack, Sarah Townsend, Jane A. Fraser, Horace Little, Sarah
M. Little, Catharine Titsworth, Sarah Ely, AbigaU Little, Conger
Tiffany, Older members since — Sarah Quick, Andrew Quick, Lydia Quick^
Betsey Ely, Johnson Quick, A, T, Packard, Susan Packard, Mat y A.
Adams, H, D. Pettengill, Lydia T. Adams, Zeluma Johnson, Mary
A. Eobinson, Martha Patterson, B. G. Chase, Mary Chase, Lucy
Tiffanj', Caroline Adams, Clarinda Gere, WilUam Alworth, EUza
Alworth. Methodist Episcopal:
[For ministers and presiding elders, see p. 80. Daniel Torrey, E.
T Ashley, Moses Caldwell, and G. B. Eogers have been local elders
or deacon's. Building!-', see p. 117. Class of 1811, p. 74.]
The first meetings were held in the house of Jacob Tewksbury;

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HISTOEY OF BEOOKLYN.

then at Edward Paine's. The first class organized seems to have
been that of 1804, consisting of Jacob Tewksbury, Mai y Tewksbury,
Silas Lewis, and Mary Tracy. The first class leader was Nicholas
Horton, a brother of Poster Horton, of Horton's mills, at the mouth
of Horton creek. He had a walk of 9 or 10 miles to ) each the meet
ing. His wife was Lovinia Cady, a sister of Mrs. Tiacy. After the
death of Mr. H., she married Col, Saml. Webb. The next leader was
Frazier Eaton also living outside the settlement; then Jacob Tewks
bury, and Edward Paine after 1809. The following minutes have
been preserved: "At a meeting at Jesse Bagley's, Jan. 9, 1812, Isaac
Tewksbury, moderator, and Edward Paine, clerk and treasurer,
Edw'd Paine, Joshua Miles, Jr., and Tlos. Sterling were appointed
a committee to superintend the building of an M. E. church edifice.
June 8th, 1812, at a meeting at Edward Paine's, Isaac Tewksbury
and Jesse Bagley were added to the committee. The committee
were directed to sell 33 [not 37] acres of land given by J. B. Wal
lace toward such erection." The house does not seem to have been
built or not enclosed till 1813.
From 1811 to 1841 the church records are lost. This will account
probably for the non-appearance of such names as Jedediah Lathrop,
Daniel Cone, Hezekiah Olney, Ed-vyard L. Paine, Sarah Lathrop,
Ebenezer Paine, James Noble, Asa Bonney, and Phebe Bonney. The
following list comprises merely the names on the temporary class
rolls from July, 1841 :
Thomas Garland (leader), Judith Garland, Edward Otto, Miriam
Otto, Jezreel Dewitt, Betsey Sterling, Stephen Smith, Lovinia Smith,
Eeuben Tewksbury, E. O. Miles, Lydia M. Meacham, Henry W. Bag-
ley, Mary (Skidmore) Bagley, Tirzah Skidmore, Eebecca Gates,
Ann Bromwell, Paulina Sterling, Dorothy Hawley, Lydia Griffis,
Samuel Daniels, Mary Daniels, Caroline Miles, Sarah Miles, George
W. Sterling, Charles W. Miles, Sophia Eeas, Anthony Wright,
Ursula Page, Ann Kittle, Johu D. Safford, Amy Bagley.
E. T. Ashley (leader), Eoxanna Ashley, Eobert Eldridge, Dorothy
Eldridge, Andrew Eogers, Huldah Yeomans, Erastus Caswell, Lucy
Caswell, Benj. S. Saunders, Dorothy Saunders, Geo. L. Tewksbury,
Isaac S. Tewksbury, JuUa E. Tewksbury, Sarah E. Tewksbury, Allen
McKinney, Lydia Doke, Eachel Stark, Phally Bagley, Gurdon B.
Eogers, Henry CasweU, Betsey Eobinson, Eowena A. Yeomans,
Lydia Penny, Lydia W. Nutt, Euth A. Sauders, Azuba White, Ada-
line M. Skidmore, Horace Thayer, Caroline Thayei-, Huldah Carey.
Cynthia Davison, Henrietta Saunders, Mary A. Eldridge, Henrietta
Mack, Lucy Robinson, Nancy Eobinson.
Ammi Ely, 1st (leader). Hannah M. Ely, John E Elv, Lucinda
Ely, Lyman Ely, Bathsheba Ely, Gurdon Ely, Olive Elv, Polly Sutliff,
Elizabeth C. Eej'nolds, Sarah Bissell, Verie Ann Saffoi-d, Eliza Smith,
Almira Smith, Mahala Ely, Ammi Ely, 2d, Emeline Sutliff, Eliza A.
Bissell, Geo W. Ely, Eachel Eogers, Sophronia Sut'iff. Clarissa E.
Ely, Jane Clark, Hannah Tiffany, Thomas Giles, Elizabeth Giles,
Amanda Giles, John Gates, Minerva Gates.
Joseph Lines (leader), Betsey Lines, Jonathan Tewksbury, Lu-

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cind^ Teiivksbury, George Newbury, Olive Newburj', Jeduthan Nick
erson, P. Myneite Nickerson, Hannah Milbourn, 'Sarah B. Tiffany,
Abitjaii Gere, Aun Corey, Caroline Ne-wbiry, M- Elizabeth Lineis,
liarriet Tewksbury, Mahitabel Davison, Cha];'lotte Perkins (colprpd),
Phillis Johnson (colored).
Daniel Tewksbuiy (leader), Prudence Tewksbury, Anna iVdam^,
SaUy Tewksbury, Eunice Oakley, Nancy Oakley, Sarah Oakley, Ann
0. Adams.
¦ Other names after lists of '41 up to and including 1850: Henrigttq,
Mack, Warren Spencer, LaFayette Safford, Joanna French, Matilda
Brown, Joseph Lines, Jr., " Amasa Knight, Sophia Smith, Betsey
Torrey, John Carmicle, Clara Carmiele, J. Louesa Garland, Betsey
Chapman, O. A. Eldridge^ George Shappee, Mary Shappee, Mary
Caswell, Catharine Saunders, Eliza Eldridge, Laura Eugar, Lydi?i
Casweli, Henrietta Ely, S. A. Crocker, E. M. Brooks, Pelatiah Tif
fany, Susan 'VanAuken, Amos VanAuken, Adaline VanAuken, Alice
S. Ely, Eleanor Ely, Maria BisseU, Caroline Sterling, John C. Lee,
Luqy Qxace Garland, Henry Franklin Newton, Cynthia Oakley,
Thos. Oaitley, I)ifj,damy Morgan, Amaret Tewksbury, Eli P. Eoberts,
Catharine Eoberts, Emma E. Olmstead, P. A. Williams, Panny
M Tewksbury, Lucy Tewksbury, Parmelia Swartz, Mary A. Breck
enridge, Mary Tewksburv, Wealthy CasweU, Huldah Caswell, John
D. Farnam, Harriet Sterling, Euth Morse, Aurelia Beers, Sarah Ji
Beers, Harriet Eockwell, Betsey Ely, Jacob Ely, Minerva P. Giles,
Julianna Eogers, Ephraim A. Vail, Bulah Vail, Geo. H. Giles, Lucy
Giles, Euby WiUiams, Latham Williams, John S. Williams.
Older names since: Wm. Schoonmaker, Amos Tewksbury, J, T,
Perry, Nancy Perry, EUjah B- Mack, Diadama Mack, Lemuel Eich
ards, Elizabeth Eichards, Powell G. Burch, Lovinia Burch, Jacob
DuBois, Catharine DuBois, J, V. Cotrell, Mary A. Cotrell, Ellen
Watrous, A. T. Packard, Susanna Packard, Maria Guernsey.
I^aines on tb,e East Bridgewater old cla^s Ust: Electa Jewett, Sam'l
PeynpldSj Nathaniel Eeynolds, Hannah Eeynolds, Keziah Eeyupids,
Sally Eeynolds, Abigail Eeynolds, Sarah Reynolds, Nath,%n jewett,
Hothir Eej-piolds, tavinia jewett, Phebe Eeynolds, Allpn Jewett,
feliza Eeynolds, Mary E. Eeynolds, Miranda Guernsey, Oscar Eeyn
olds, Pestina Eeynolds, Martha Eeynolds, Euphemia Eeynolds,
Alsina Eej'nolds. [The above named are Brooklyn people as then or
now.] Univeesalist.
[For ministers and church buildings, see pp. 119-20,]
The old b()ok of records is lost and the following list of ^arly
members with some of the older of more recent ones is th,e best
noy obtai^nable : Amps BaUey, James Smith, Eufus Kingsley, 'Fred'k
Bailey, Esek H. Palmer, Fremond Peck, James L. Gray, Jpsljwa K.
Adams', Prudence BaUey, Lucinda Kingsley, Betsey Chapman,' Al-
uiira Wright, Latham Smith, Ephraiia Howe, Obadiah Bailey, Ezra
S. Brp.vn- Isaac Smith, EUsba Lord, Dalton Tiffany, Jonas Adams,
Alfred Tiffany, Deborah Newton, Preston Tiffanj', Eliza Tiffany,

208 HISTOEY OF BEOOKLYN.
Pedy E. Gere, James Adams, Sr., Polly Packer, James E. Howe,
Daniel Wood, Stephen Williams, Lodowick Bailey, Eobert W. Qexe,
Edward Otto, Isaac Tewksbury, EUhu Smith, James Munger, Eich d
WUliams, Pelatiah Tiffany, Chaiies Perigo, C. S. Bro\\n, Samuel B.
Blake, Elijah Newton, Justice Kent, Lucinda Bailey, Sally Smith,
Amy Howe, Eunice G. Bailey, Amy Palmer, Elmina Palmer, Ehoda
A. Palmer, Sally M. Bailey, Annis Palmer, Polly W ood, Seliria Pack
er, PoUy WiUiams, JuUa E. Gere, Hannah Bailey, Fanny M. Otto,
Sally E. Munger, Sarah WilUams, Peddy Perigo, Mary Bro-wn,
Alsiemena Blake, Amos G. Bailey, C. E. Palmer, J. J. Eoper, EUza
Eoper, Heniy L. Bailey, Nelson Tiffany, H. W. Kent, Eobert Kent,
David Kent, Betsey Kent, Eoena Bailey, Sophronia C. Tiffany, Chas.
Kent, Henrietta Kent, Elizur Tiffany, Marvin L. Mack, Sarah L.
West(m, Prudy Bailey, Francis Pish, Ezia S. Kent, Harriet, Kent,
Emily Waldie, L. A. Smith, Judson Tiffany, H N. Smith, O. G.
Hempstead, Eliza Hempstead, Mary Smith, G. W. Palmer, Pedy
Emily Palmer, Deborah Smith, C. M, Gere, Emma Gere, Skidmore
Tompkins, Edward T, Stephens, Mary A, Stephens, Wm. P. BaUey,
Prudy Powers, E, P. Bailey, Eunice Titus, John Lord, Ellen Lord,
L. B. Tiffany, A. G. HolUi^ter, L. EmeUne HolUster, Edwin F, BaUey.
Many others have associated with the denomination without sub
scribing to its membership.

Casualties, &c.

Jatally Injured. Nathan Saunders (1805) by a limb; he cautious
ly stepped back some distance from the falling tiee,'just far enough
to be struck bj' an old entangled branch of another tree.
Lost. Fanny, a daughter of Thos. Giles, about 1804. Neither her
nutting basket nor bonnet was found.
Drowned. Eliza, a daughter of Caleb Crandall, about 11 years of
age, soon after the family came, in attempting to cross the Hopbot
tom on a log, near where the old bridge was afterward built, a little
south of C. M. Brewster's; her little brother Asa was with her but
powerless to save; she was borne some distance down the swollen
stream before her body was recovered : Jacob Ely, a son of Zelo
phehad Ely, in the Lehigh river, near Mauch Chunk ; Elias Sweet,
while moving saw-logs in the Oakley pond; Daniel Chauncey Oak
ley, also in same pond— w is found by the family on returning from
church, standing on a stump by the bridge, but under water; ' Alina,
little daughter of S. E. Tifl'any, in Hopbottom creek, at the Eugene
Wright place — went to the bank of the stream while unobserved,
and fell in.

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Killed. A son of Asa Hawley, by a rolling log, in 1821, on the
back part of what is now the A. G. Sterling place.
Killed by Falling. Elijah Newton, from beam in barn, 1843; Na
than Lathi-op, from door-step.
Mysteriously Disappeared. David Sutliff, and later, Andrus Sweet;
they went away aud did uot return or send report.
Killed by Violence. Caroline (Sutliff) Corwin, on the hills above
the D. L. & W. E. E. in what was then Luzerne Co.
Accidentally Shot. Fayette Fairchild, at rifie practice, by inadver
tently stepping before a gun just being discharged; and Edson
Burch, by his own gun, while hunting near East Bridgewater
Creamery. Killed on R. R. Track. . Frank E., a son of C. H. Tiffany, Henry
W, Dennis, Geo, H, Bakei, E. P. Eing, Diadama Mack, John Calph,
George Gavitt.
Fatal Tragedy. On the 15th day of July, 1886, Sam'l Hocum (then
living in the Jerome Tiffany liouse) while upon the land of Judson
E. Tiffany picking bei ries, was shot and killed by the latter in an
altercation growing out of the trespass. At the second trial for the
homicide the defendant was acquitted. ''
Suicides. Financial embarrassment, disappointments, and despon
dency have had their victims.
"Eight more unfortunate i Swift to be hurled
Weary of breath, Anywhere — anywhere
Eashly importunate. Out of the world !
(Jone to their death. Treat it not scornfully,
Mad from life's history. Think of it mournfully.
Glad to death's mystery j Tenderly, humanly."
Mrs. Sarah Horton hung herself in her loom, with a silk handker
chief, Feb. 27, 1822. The loom was sold successively to Mi-s! Stephen
Gere, Mrs. Esq. Packer, Mrs. John Potts, Mrs. G. B. Eogers, and
others, and is still in existence and in use in the neighborhood. Esq.
Packer came next in the sad list. May 13, 1832; David Bissell, 1842
or 3, Charles F. Bissell (in Dimock) Jan. 25, 1854, Mrs. Francis
Pish, June 30, 1860, J, T, Perry (gun-shot) Oct. 5, 1872, Herman
Sterling (gun-shot) Mayl4, 1880, in his 16th year, and J. M. Kent,
Mar. 20, 1888.
Drowned while Bathing. Edward Paine, an early Methodist min
ister, in the S isquehanna near Owego, July H, 1820. He was buiied
in that vicinity till the early part of the following winter when the
remains were brought home and interred in the Old Cemetery.
Attempted Robbery. Edwin Keeler, a clerk of James Noble, prob
ably about 1825, had one day been in Harford or Gibson making
collections. On his return he was shot at near Dry Creek on the
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210 HISTOEY OF BEOOKLYN.
statements, the would-be robber came out from behind a tree with
a knife which Mr. K. seized in his hand, but the aSsaUant withdrew
it, cutting Mr. K.'s glove, and fled -without being recognized.

Additional List of Trees and Plants.

The number of species in the vegetable kingdom is said to amount
to one hundred thousand. Of these Brooklyn has its full share.
Many inconspicuous kinds with which the woods and fields abound
we are accustomed to pass by unnoticed. Yet all are full of marks
of wisdom and of wonder beyond our comprehension.
"We know not why the beech delights the glade
With boughs extended, and a rounder shade.
While towering firs in conic forms arise.
And with a pointed spear divide the skies;
Nor why, again, the changing oak should shed
The yearly honor of his stately head,
While the distinguished yew is ever seen
Unchanged in branch, and permanent in green.
Why does one cUniate and one soil endue
One blushing blossom with a crirnson hue.
Yet leave one spotless white, and tinge another blue?"
Such is the inscrutable work of the great Powers and Laws of
Life and Being. Every seed has deftly stowed awaj' in miniature
within its mechanism a perfect plant of its kind, with nourishment
to start it on its growth.
The ripened acorn as it falls contains
Eoot, branch and leaf formed in its oaken veins;
Coiled in each germ succeeding plantlets dwell,
"And boundless forests slumber in a shell ! "
The Penn'a Anemone is found with naked stem 1 to 2 feet high,
with 3 wedge-shaped leaves, each 3-clef t, near the top, then with two
or three stalks above and a white flower on each; but it seems uot
native here, and the wood anemone if found at all is not general.
Wood Betony growing in tufts of dark green leaves, narrow, hairj',
and 5 or 6 in. long, with alternate notched notches on the sides, and
heads of greenish yellow flowers tipped with purple, is crowding into
pastures in some places, and may become troublesome.
Cardinal Flowers with stems two or three feet high, and deej-,-
bright red blossoms grow along streams in low grounds. '
Chinquefoil with stalk 1 to 2 ft. high having yello'n' blossoms, and
leaves resembling the strawberry or the five-finger, grows in rich,
cultivated grounds.

trees and plants. 211
C )mfrey, a mucila{.inous plant with a yellowish .white blossom,
is of European orij^iu and sparingly naturalized hei'e in ' moist
grounds. Dockmackie or Maple-leaved Arrow-Wood is plentiful on dry "cra
dle-knolls" aud in rocKy places — 2 to 6 ft. Ligh with straight smooth
stems and lictie blue-btack stone fruits.
Of Dogwoods we have at least 3 kinds including the round thick-
leaved sort with warty or blistery stem and branches; the taller
gray-barked and streaked-branched kind (new shoots green, turning
brown) with a profusion of bright, indented, varnished leaves ; and
the small Eed Osier in moist grounds, with lead-colored fruit.
The common spreading, tangly shrub called by many Dogwood
and by others Hobble-bush, resembles both, but ttoes not agree en
tirely with the deocription of either as given iu botanical works.
Goldthread has 3 leaves that become bright shining in summer
and last over winter ; has an early single white blossom and long
sXenAex yelhm) fibrous roots. Grows on bogs and in cool woods.
Hardback or Steeplebush and Meadow-Sweet 3 to 5 feet high, are
common in low grounds, growing in compact clumps with smooth
hard- wood stems and branchy tops, with little, narrow serrate leaves,
and little rosy white blossoms in dense racemes at the ends of the
t-wigs. Heal-AU (sometimes called Indian Tobacco) grows a few inches
high, on clayey ground, with- a head looking like an elongated hop
of purple flowers. It belongs to the mint family, with four-sided
stem. Hedge Mustard and Marsh Cress with turnip-like stalks and yel
low blossoms are becoming prevalent.
The American White Hellebore or Indian Poke grows in moist
soils, with large, long light-green leaves clasping the stalk, on which
green colored seeds grow. The plant belongs to the endogenous
class, the growth being from inside outward.
Hepatica or Liver-Leaf gro\ys every-wbeie in woodlands and on
their borders, with bunches of white, blue, and purple blossomis
springing up earliest of all, often while lingering snow-banks still
remain. The first flowers of spring, how gladly are they hailed ! ' The
plant-leaves are 3-lobed, Pf a reddish green, and live through the
winter. The Fly-Honeysuckle, a little shrub 3 or 4 feet high, grows on
rocks and in rocky places, with delicate leaves and j-ellow blossoms,
and red berries, two together. The Bush-Honeysuckle has largei^
oblong-ovate leaves, and slender pointed pods. The twiniug kinds
are not native to the township.
YeUow Hop-Clover, of European origin, has recumbent stems a
foot or more in length, wilh little clover-shaped leaflets, and heads
of yellow flowers looking like inverted hops.
Indian Cucumber has a single naked stem 1 or 2 ft. high, downy,
with a whorl of 5 to 9 lanceolate leaves f the waj' up, and 3 or i
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212 HISTOEY OF BEOOKLYN.
and with a horizontal spike-shaped or bulbous root, very white and
tasting as the name indicates.
The Indian Pipe is sometimes presented to the botanical woods-
bunter — a single waxy-white flower on a single stalk, 4 or 5 inches
high, and looking as though it might turn to smoke without a puff!
And Jack in the Pulpit ! His theology is good if he does Uve in
an Indian Turnip, and grow from inside outward ! "What's in a
name?" Jewel- Weed or Touch-Me-Not grows luxuriantly along brooks
and in rich mpist grounds. It is sometimes wrongly caUed wild cel
andine. [Celandine is a European plant of the poppy familj', some
times found wild, having orange-colored juice.] The "Jewels" are
little ear-dops, richer aud more delicate than those from the mines.
There are two varieties, one bright golden yellow, the other more
ruddy, both with sunny brown dots. The matured pods fly asunder
on the slightest "touch" and disperse the seeds.
There are at least two varieties of June-Berry — one with small
purple fruit, and the other larger, bright red, and earlier,
Knot-Grass (many jointed) or Doorweed, with branching stems,
both creeping and erect, flourishes along old paths, and is relished
as a grazing plant,
Laciniate Toothwort differs from common Pepper-root in hav
ing broad, flat expansions in the root, connected by cord-like liga
tures, making the whole resemble a necklace, and in having leaves
more cut and divided, and flowers not white but slightly colored, .
The Lily of the VaUey is not native here though some have claimed
it; but the Clintonian Lily with similar leaves of lighter green, and
with larger yellow fiowers, often occurs. The whole Uly tribe belongs
to the endogenous class, the growth increasing from inside outward.
This class may be known by its having parallel veins in its leaves,
while the other has a network of branching veins, "Consider the lilies,
how they grow ! Yet Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like
one of these,"
The Locust tree belongs to the leguminous or pod-bearing division
of plants, like peas, beans, &c,, having buttei fly-shaped blossoms. It
is an American tree though probably not a native of Brooklyn, but
it easily spreads wild where unopposed. The wood has a yeUowish
hue, is hard, strong and durable, and grows rapidly. It has racemes
of fragrant white flowers.
Several kinds of Milkweed abound, oa.., --.^ moist grounds, with
branching stems and little pods of seeds and cottony fibre, like the
larger unbranched kind.
There are many kinds of Mint other than those already mentioned,
all characterized by having square stems, and more or less aromatic
leaves and flowers. Beside the balms and mints proper, many other
plants belong to this class, as catnip, sage, pennyroyal, imotherwort,
&c. One of these is Germander, growing in moist ground with a
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trees and PLANTS, 213
late -flowering purple blossoms in spikes. It or its conesponding
European kind was once much used for medicine.
The Mountain Maple is a pretty little tree found growing abun
dantly on dry banks and high land. It is smaller than the Striped
Maple, has reddish-brown, mottled bark, with gray blotches and
streaks on the young wood. It is the latest-flowering species and
has clusters of seeds with diverging wings.
Deciduous leaves change their color in autumn. The green turns
to a golden or crimson tint and then to russet. This accrues whether
cold and frost come on or not. Brooklyn leaves are unsurpassed in
this variegated beautj-, and the maples and ashes with their glowing
red and royal purple are prominent in this transmutation. Some call
it melancholy. Why?
"September strews the woodland o'er
With many a brilliant color;
The world is brighter than before —
Why should the heart be duller?
Sorrow and the scarlet leaf.
Sad thoughts and sunny weather !
Surely this glory and this grief
Agree not well together!
Eattlesnake Plantain (an unnecessary name in this section) is an
attractive woods plant with thick leaves of dark bluish green, deU-
cately netted and mottled with smoky white.
Salsify (Goatsbeard, from the hairy attachments to the seeds) is
found wild, doubtless from the cultivated sort, but with flowers
"sported" back from the violet-purple of the European kind to yellow.
It is the vegetable oyster.
Speedwell with creeping stems and finely serrate leaves, small but
prominent, the pairs extending in alternately opposite directions,
with spike-like racemes of light blue striped flowers, is quite com
mon. Purple Thoroughwort or Joe-Pye Weed, 3 to 5 feet high, with
large showy heads of reddish purple flowers, is found in low grounds.
Water-leaf, a wood plant, growing in clumps, with fleshy stems
and leaves at flrst mottled and clouded, with white or sUghtly tinged
flowers, was the "Cow-Cabbage" greens of early times.
White Baneberry, a foot or two high with white, cylindrical ber
ries, several on a stem -with thick, short, red branch-stems, grows in
rich woods,
Winterberry or Black Alder, 8 or 10 feet high, with little obovate
and finely serrate leaves, small white flowers, and bright scarlet
benies with 4 ox 5 little stony seeds in late autumn, is found in
moist grounds. It is a briUiant shrub of the Holly family, and
though it may never have exchanged kinship greetings, it is a cousin
of the English holly so celebrated for ornament and as a Christmas
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214 HISTORY OF BEOOKLYN.
" 'Neath cloistered boughs, each floral bell that swingeth
And tolls its perfume on the passing air.
Makes contemplation meet, and ever ringeth
A call to prayer:
Not to the domes where crumbling arch and column
Attest the feebleness of mortal hand.
But to that fane, inviting, free and solemn,
"V^rhich God hath planned;
Whose quenchless lamps sun, moon and stars supply,
Its choir the winds and birds, its dome the sky ! "

Native Animals.

Few if any remains of primitive animals have been found here.
There are petrified collections of aquatic shells, with deposits of
stones poUshed by the attrition of ages.
"A wondrous traveler was of yore
The rounded pebble-stone
As he rolled along from shore to shore.
In rivers now unknown.
Where ancient forests grew and waved.
Where ancient streams did fiow.
That little pebble journeyed on.
In the river's bed below.
Early and late he must have gone,
No rest nor sleep had he.
Until he slept in his gravel bed
Or in the sounding sea."
But other traces of the animal life that may have accompanied
these have disappeared. Yet, as to some of its component particles,
"Where is the dust that has not been alive?
The earth has gathered to her breast again
And yet again, the millions that were born
Of her unnumbered, unremembered tribes.''
The Panther was the king of Brooklyn's wildbeasts. It belongs
to the cat family like the lion, tiger, and leopard, and is one of the
most ferocious of carnivorous mammals. It has disappeared, though
one was kUled as late as 185- between New Milford and Susque
hanna, and its skin was preserved and stuffed by Dr. Smith. Like
the rest of the cat tribe it takes its prey by a stealthy, crouching,
crawling, noiseless approach and a final spring, or darts upon it from
some position above like the over-hanging limb of a tree. Like the
rest, its long, sharp nails, of which it has 5 on each fore foot and 4

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on each hind one, are drawn up when not in use,- so as not to be
dulled. It has, like the rest, keen eyes with pupils capable of en
largement in the night, sharp hearing and acute scent, -with the long
hairs about tbe mouth that serve as "feelers," and teeth so ananged
as to cut like scissors. It belongs to the digitigrade class, like
the dog, wolf, and fox, walking on its toes more than on the soles of
its feet, and the soft cushions with which these are furnished enable
it to move unheard. Its color is brownish yellow above, the hairs
being tipped with black, fading down the sides till it becomes nearly
white beneath. Its length of body is 4 or 5 feet with tail perhaps |
as long or less. Jonathan Sabin killed one on the hill side south
east of his old cabin, probably on land now belonging to George L.
Gere, measuring 9 feet from end of nose to end of tail. He killed Si
in the 4 yrs. that he lived in the McNamara houpe. After he moved
to the upper house, he caught some young panthei's and kept them
for a time in the old cabin. They are said to be quite docile when
so tamed, but they are not to be trusted. These became troublesome
and were killed. The young are spotted at first. The panther wa^
sometimes called catamount, and the common name was "painter."
It was not gregarious as is the wolf. Formidable as it was, it was
not accustomed to attack human beings, such an event not being
known here unless the disappearance of Fanny Giles may have been
from such cause.
The Wild-Cat, much larger than the common cat, was also found
here in considerable numbers, and the Canadian Lynx with long tufts
of hair from its ears would occasionally w anuer to this region. And
our wild-Cat really belongs to one branch of the lynx kind, having
a short "bob" tail like the Lynxes, while the European wild-cat has
a long one. Our domestic cats came with the settlers, and have been
known to history ever since its earliest record among the Egyptians
thousands of years ago, varying in color and other characteristics
almost infinitely, and some having tails nearly as long as the cat,
while others have none at all. AU cats easily collect electricity on,
their fur.
The next animal in unenviable importance was probably the Amer
ican Black Bear, It is an omnivorous creature eating flesh when
pressed by hunger, but subsisting largely on berries, tender vege
tables, sweet ears of growing corn, &c,, and is said to be very fond
of honey. It hibernates in part through the winter, in dens and
hollow trees. It belongs to the plantigrade class, walking on the
soles of its feet. It has five toes on each foot, but the nails are not
retractile Uke those of the cat. It is about 5 ft. long at maturity,
-tvith short tail, and a concave face. Its young are blind for a time
after birth. It strikes, scratches, digs, and climbs with its paws,
but it cannot thrust its nails into the flesh of its prey to hold it as
the panther does. Its most effectual mode of fighting is by rising
on its hind feet and hugging its victim with its arms, and it was thus
on two feet that it walked away with a pig, a calf, or lamb. It is not
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216 HISTOEY OF BEOOKLYN.
seen. Bear's flesh was often used for food. It is said to resemble
pork, only the fat is more oily than lard.
The Eaccoon belongs to the same species— is a pretty little bear.
Its food is simUar to that of its bigger brother, sometimes consist
ing of birds, chickens, &c. but it Ukes fruits, roots, aud gr^en-corn.
It is about 2 ft. or less long, and has a tail half as long, with a black
tip and 5 black rings around it. It also has dark patches on its
cheeks and behind its ears. Its hair is mostly gray, but it has a
coat of fur or wool beneath. It is noctumal — going abroad, from
its hollow-tree home, at night.
The Wolf and the Fox belong to the dog family. Foxes bark and
wolves howl. They are digitigrade, mammaUan, carnivorous quadru
peds, and are fleet-footed. The gray wolf which was abundant here
was 2 or 3 ft, high, and 3 or 4 ft. long, cowardly alone but bold and
dangerous in packs, especially if pressed by hunger. It was of a
tawny gray color, portions being nearly black. It had short, erect,
pointed ears, with fierce, green eyes, and offensive breath, and a
bushy tail. The hair was coarse, and longest on the neck, shoulders,
and haunches. Jonathan Sabin, Bloomfield Milbourn, and others
killed numbers of wolves. They were hard to trap. Occasionally a
black one would be found from other regions. Wise Wright killed
one Pf this kind as late as about 1838. It weighed a Uttle over 80 ft)S.
It is generally believed that dogs and wolves were originally of the
same race. The wolf does not bark nor recurve its tail. The dog
has many modulations of voice. It barks, howls, yelps, whines, and
growls. The Fox resembles the dog much less closely than the wolf does,
and modern zoologists often assign it a separate class. The red fox,
most common here, has a bushy tail -with white tip, reaching to the
ground. Its ears and feet are black. There is also, though more rare,
a Cross Fox with a line of black extending along its back, and a
transverse stripe of the same color running over the shoulders. Its
fur is finer. And there is now and then a Black Fox found with fur
still more valuable. Poxes of quite inferior fur and of different
shade of color have also been caught, A number of Brooklyn people
have given considerable attention to fox-hunting.
Deer were abundant here before the woodlands were cleared away.
Its flesh added largelj' to the food supply of the early settlers. It is
a delicate, graceful, agile creature, herbivorous and ruminating. It
has divided hoofs, and the male has branching horns,, curving for
ward and upward; They are shed every year, and rapidly succeeded
by larger ones each time, till in old age they begin to decrease. It
is said to be a remarkable fact that cast-off horns are seldom found.
The color of the deer is reddish gray, in cold weather, with a bluish
lustre, but tbe under part of the body is lighter. Pawns are gaily
spotted. The deer has a short tail, and graceful, slender limbs of
great swiftness. It is an expert swimmer and often w'as found in
ponds of water in warm weather. They frequently go ih small herd[s
of three or four or more. - i . *

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Elks were not as numerous as deer but larger and darker colored.
Its antlers were sometimes 5 or 6 ft, high, with points as far apart.
Its horns and branches were mostly round, while the mpose, found
further north, has flat or palmate horns. All the deer family are
gentle, timid creatures, unless driven to extremitj' when they flght
desperately, striking with hoof and hom. Then
"On the brink of the rock, lo, he standeth at bay !
Like a victor that falls at the close of the day;
While the hunter and hound in their terror retreat
From the death that is spurned from his furious feet!"
Of the Weasel kind, Brooklyn had, beside the Weasel itself, the
Marten, Mink, and Skunk, The ferret (imported) also belongs to the
¦ same class. They are all blood-sucking or carnivorous, fur-bearing
animals, aU emitting a more or less disagreable odor when alarmed
or excited, and oearlj' all having long slim bodies, and short legs,
-with sharp claws.
The Weasel is of a reddish brown color, white underneath, with
short, round ears and short, small tail. It is about 7 or 8 inches long
and 2^ high, is alert and active, often taking long jumps after its
prey. It feeds on rats, mice, &c., and sometimes on birds and chickens.
Further north it sornetimes turns white in winter, and white ones
are occasionally seen here. The ermine, a little larger animal of the
same kind living mostly a little fm-ther north, invariably turns more
or less white in cold weather.
The Otter, found abuniantlj' further north, was a-so occasionallj'
met with here. It was 2 ft. or more in length, witli flat tail half as
long, and webbed feet. Its burrow is entered from the water, inclines
\ipward, with ventilating hole under some clump of bushes. Its color
is bright brown, and its food chieflj- fish.
The Beech Marten is a little larger than the weasel, perhaps 12 to
14 in. long, with bushy tail, body yellowish brown, with yellowish
white below, and chocolate-colored tail and feet. It Uyes near
streams, though its toes are divided, not webbed. This creature
seems to have been common at first, and quite a peltry trade was
carried on, as the accounts of Capt. Bailey show, the skins passing
at 50 cts. each. They appear to have been caught chiefly along
Martin creek. It is comnionly supposed that this stream was first
called Marten, and was finally changed to Martin's. The name is
now generally spoken "¦Martin," which iS lietter than "Martin's."
The Mink frequents streams and ponds, is about 15 to 18 inches
long with tail half as long or less, and moderately bushy ; color,
brownish black. It has semi-palmate feet, is an expert swimmer and
diver, eats fish, frogs, &c.
The marten is gone, but the Skiink remains. His chief business
is catching moles and crickets, but he is an epicure and has an ac
quired taste for chicken. He delights in moist grounds for frogs,
but is not a [uatic like the mink and marten.
Eodents or gnawing quadrupeds are abundant here. The common
Mouse was brought here from Europe, and was probably brought
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218 HISTORY OF BROOKLYN.
mouse is the Deer or Wood Mouse. So were both kinds of Eats
imported— the gray or -wharf rat and the black or ash colored one.
The native is the Muskrat. Its habits are much like those of the
beaver, living on roots and vegetables and often having the entrance
to its hut under water. It is of a reddish brown color, has a flat tail,
and is much larger than are ordinary rats. It is partly web-footed,
and seldom lives alone.
Squirrels abound. The striped Ground-Squirrel is the smallest
and has the most names, being called Chip-Squirrel, Chipmuck or
Ghip-Monk. and is the only one that burrows iu the eaith.
The Plying Squirrel is a graceful little creature with a furry mem
brane extending between its fore and hind legs on each side, by
which it is enabled to gUde from tree to tree. But it cannot make
an upward flight. It Ughts lower than it starts. Its fur is light yel
lowish brown, very soft and silky. All our squirrels have the same
kind of flying power only in a much less degree, but enough so that
if they make a failure in jumping from tree to tree from the limbs
(they seldom miss) the fall to the ground is so buoyed up that they
are not injured by it.
The Eed Squirrel or Chickaree every body knows, fOr he tells his
name as he scampers away.
The Black and Gray Squirrels have graceful tails longei- than
their bodies. Years ago black squirrels were plentiful and gray ones
a rarity. Now the conditions are reversed.
"The squirrel is provident, merry, and wise.
For true wisdom and mirth go together ;
He lays up in summer his winter supplies.
And then he don't mind the cold weather."
"Chip" has not as strong incisors as the others and leaves the
hard shelled nuts to them. But he is busy in autumn stuffing his
cheeks with grain, seeds, and smaller nu'ts which he takes to the
rooms of his subterranean house. Chickaree and the blacks and
grays carry stores of butter-nuts and hickory -nuts to their nests in
trees, or bury them in the ground or deposit them in piles of brush
— they never forget where, never take a false one, and never gnaw
into the wrong side. Their knowledge is instinctive and unerring,
by weight or scent or observation. They dig through, deep snows
to their hoards, and if these fail, they resort to nature's stock of
cones, or to the bark of sumach trees.
The Eabbit or Hare is found, of two varieties — the small Gray
one being plentiful, and the larger White one more rare. The true
Hare has a divided or hare lip, has longer hind legs, and does not
dig burrows in the ground; while the Eabbit has shorter hind
legs, a whole lip, and digs its own dwelling. The mode of locomo
tion of both is by leaps. Some of the class chew the cud like sheep
and goats. Both are timid creatures, the hare perhaps being more so.
Ours resemble hares more than rabbits, for though they often occupy
open spaces in the ground or under rocks they do not make them.
The scientific name fpr the rabbit is Lepus Ctmiculus — tunnel-maker ;
for the hare, Leptis Timidus, referring to its timorous nature.

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Though the Beaver may have inhabited the surrounding regions,
there is no evidence left that he ever built his dams or introduced
his colonies vPithin tlie township. And a corresponding statement
must be made in regard to the Porcupine, which is also one of the
rodents. But the Woodchuck! no romance can be written on his declining
days. He is here, was here, and will be here. He was never a for
eigner but alwajs "to the manor born." The wood pigeon, the brook
trout, and the wild Indian have dwindled away under the white
man's dominion. But the woodchuck delights in the improvements
of advancing civilization, and only concerns himself to secure his
share of the benefits. He thrives in Christendom like "pigs in clover."
He is a permanent adjunct of modem institutions, belonging to the
corps of "sappers and miners," He tunnels the hillside with laby
rinths of passages, and if you look for him in one department he is
most Ukely to be in another. He makes his excavations with his own
hands and doubtless with his feet also. He is not an isolated being.
If you discover one, you are pretty sure to find another one or more
in the same vicinity, or if you don't find him you may be sure he
is there. When on the alert he rises on his haunches to the dignity
of the situation, sitting bolt upright and looking like a miniature
post, taking observations. In his leisure hours he climbs a tree to
feed on leaves and enlarge the scope of his vision, and there assumes
a posture of supreme content. If he sees signs of encroachment on
his prerogatives, he retreats to his fortifications with a whistle of
defiance and a chuckle of delight. If you see a choice young tree
with many ragged scars torn by sharp incisors in bark and wood, but
with no portion carried away, and if you ask what did it, you can
safely answer, "the woodchuck," But if you ask why he did it,
-whether to sharpen teeth or strengthen jaw or to leave tooth-prints
on the bark of time for the encouragement of a coming brother,
nobody knows. He hibernates all winter, but on the approach of
spring, he is facetiou'sly said to come oi.t to cast a horoscope of
the coming season !
Moles spend most of their time in the galleries and passage-waj's
which they make under ground in pursuit of their favorite food —
earth-worms. They have small eyes mostly covered with the fur-
closing over them— have no external ears but have sharp hearing.
Their feet are short, strong paws for diggin.o-, in which work they
are aided by a long, flexible nose. We have 3 kinds — the common,
and screw nosed or strawberry-nosed, and the '"Meadow" Mole which
both burrows in the ground and also eats grain and seeds, and is
like-nHse a bark-gnawing rodent.
The Bat was once thought to be the connecting link between
animals and birds. But it is a true quadruped and mammal. At
the same time it has true wings and is capable of true flight in any
direction. The flying squirrel lacks tliis power. But the bat can
navigate the air with great expertness and agUity, as its pursuit of
insects requires. Our little bat or fl'ttermouse is noctumal, coming
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220 raSTOEY OF BEPdKLYN.
hangs with the head downward when it rests ai^d sleeps. It hippr,-
nates, large numbers often collecting together in hollow trees, ajjd
in dark attics of old buildings.
Of amphibious animals and reptiles l^>rooklyn has its quota, "What
boy from eight to eighty years, does not remember the song, so full
of mystic lore, piped in the shrill concert of the little frogs, in their
fancied Eunic chime, by which he was so often lulled to sleep in the
spring-time nights of his earlier years ! Nor has he forgotten the
little curious. tadpole, polUwog shapes in which he used to see them
sporting in tbe little pool by the, marsh. And he still can hear the
deep bass monotone that came sweUing in sonorpus volume from
the accumulated harmony of graver throats in the neighboring
ppnds on a mid-summer rainy daj'.
We have trim little Tree Toads or Tree Frogs that seem to have
something of the reputed chameleonic power to make their color
correspond in some degree to that of the rail or limb on which they
are stationed. This may be owing to reflection, from its coat, of sur
rounding colors. Or it may be that it has so manj- shades of color
that some of them will correspond with most objects around it. They
utter a loud shrill note, not unlike that of some birds, and it is a re
liable harbinger of an approaching storm. They rear their young in
water. There are other toads of various sizes and various grades' of
dignity. Of crustaceans and moUusks we have the brook Crab, the Mud
Turtle of two or three varieties, 4nd the Snail, aud of bivalves, there
are black-shelled Muscles in the ponds.
The Eattlesnake, though thriving in regions roundabout, seems
never to have made Brooklyn (in its present dimension) a permanent
residence. It prefers the vicinity of larger streams and bushy
moutains. Our largest snake is the Black-snake. It is sometinjes ^x
feet in length, is not poisonous or harmful to man. Its mode of
attack is by coiling and constricting. ltr<\B a rapid runner, but is
not numerous. The most abundant ophidian here is the common in
offensive striped snake. The Milk-snake (often called the Checkered
Adder) i^ quite prevalent. They are harmless, though some have a
hoi-ny appendage at the ends of their tails. Water-snakes are found
near still -jvater. The tinyblack fellpw with an ornamental j-ellow
ring around its neck is our smallest specimen. Snakes increase from
eggs, but in some species these are hatched before being produced.
They move partly by aid of their sinuous motion, but chiefly by^the
propulsion of the muscles attached to their movable ribs. Most of
them can erect the head. .They have forked tongues, but these are
not stings. They swallow the animals that constitute their food,
whole, the mouth, throat, and digestive organs being susceptible of
great distention. They can spring, dart, climb trees, suspend them
selves, swim, and dive. They shed the outer skin annually, and these
cast-off garments are often seen in the crevices the snakes have oc
cupied. We have Leeches in the ponds. Newts or Efts in springs, and

INSECTS, 221
three kinds of Lizards, black ones in water, and red, and black-
backed ones on land. Eeptiles like fishes have cold blood.

Insects.

These constitute a world of themselves. The kinds are many and
the aggregate number is beyond compute. Some of these are an aid
to agriculture and some an injury. The Bees perhaps stand at the
head of the list in point of utility. The common honej' bee was
doubtless imported, but we have several native species, of which the
Bumblebee is most important. The boys have a habit of saying that
they are biggest when first hatched ! Bees seem to have their thor
oughfares and routes of travel. There are places where, on every
pleasant day in summer you can hear the sound of their voices as
though there were au army of them passing in the air above. In
other places you hear only those busy in the vicinity. It is said
that bumblebees are necessary to the raising of clover seed in much
quantitj', as they distribute the pollen that fertilizes the blossom.
The female has a white face and no sting. Of other insects, there
may be mentioned Plies of many kinds. Butterflies, MiUers, and
Moths, (the Hawk-Moth is as large as a humming-bird and makes a
similar buzzing with its wings), Hornets (yellow, and black and
white), Wasps, Fireflies (emitting phosphoric light). Spiders of
several kinds, 'Stalk Horse" (on basswood trees). Angleworms or
earthworms, "Sowbug," Mealbeetle, Woodtick, Deathtick, "Stink-
bug," Ladybird (2 kinds, red, and blue — eats plant-lice and eggs),
Crickets (black and brown). Grasshoppers (jumping and flying).
Blue-bottle (fly). Cicada or Harvest-fly (with a loud, long-continued,
piping note), Katydids, Dragon-Fly or Devil's Darning-needle,
and Day-fly (the last living but one day). Ants (of several sizes and
colors), Span worms. Centipedes (3 kinds). Mosquitoes (from "wig-
glers" in stagnant water), Snapping-bugs (one large black and white,
and one smaller black). Horse-flies (2 kinds), Eose slugs, Leaf-
rollers, and Parsnip-worms, Of injurious insects there are Squash-
bugs (striped, and black), Caterpiilars (some of the kinds), Gadflj^
(cattle and sheep). Bot-fly, White-grub (eats strawberry roots), and
June-bugs, Turnip-flea, Codling-moth, Curculio or Plum-weevil,
Tomato worm. Wire-worm, Cut worm. Of new-comers that are in
jurious we have the Colorado Potato-beetle and slug, the Cabbage
moth and worm, the Currant-fly and worm, the Flea-beetle (on pota
toes), and the Buffalo-bug (on carpets &c.). There are others, among
them, swarms of tiny winged creatures that flit away a brief exist
ence of only a day or an hour, and the air and the water are full of
microscopic Ufe.

222 HISTORY OF BEOOKLYN.

Fishes.

At the head of om- native fishes the Trout with its delicate form
and tasty colors and markings, and its brilliant yellow and vermill-
ion dots, was unrivaled. It ascended and descended all the brooks
and larger streams, and slight water-falls offered no obstacle. But
the clearing of the woods and exposure to the scorching sun, the
increasing inconstancy of the water supply, with the impurities that
creep in from manufactories and other sources have well-nigh extir
pated it here.
Next among the native food fishes is undoubtedly the "Bull-head"
with its horns, and the Eel with its snaky insinuations. In the smaU
streams there are little fishes probably belonging to the Minnow
class, but usually called "chubs." The larger streams contain
Horned Dace, Mud Chubs, Eels, and in the spring time Suckers
come up from the streams below. The, first fishes remembered in Ely
lake were Sun-fish or "Pumpkin-seed," and Yellow Perch. About
1830, Gurdon Ely, Zarah Sutliff, Lodowick Bailey, and Jas. Tewks
bury caught Pickerel from Lord pond (where thej' had doubtless
been introduced by transportation) and brought them in a wash-
tub and put them in this pond. Thos. Sterling first introduced Cat
fish ("Bull-heads" or Horn Pout) into this pond bringing them from
North pond where they were doubtless indigenous, as were also Sun-
fish and Yellow Perch. Ammi Ely afterward put in Eels taken from
Hopbottom creek, arid he has recently introduced Black Bass from
abroad. Andrew Eogers and Gurdon Elj- took Pickerel from South
pond to North pond.

Brooklyn Birds.

"The gaily-plumed birds are mysterious things,
With their earth-treading feet and their cloud-cleaving wings.
Where shall man wander, and where shall he dwell
That the beautiful birds yet come not as well?
They have nests on the mountain all rugged and stark,
They have nests in the forest all tangled and dark; *
They build and they brood 'neath the cottager's eaves,
They sleep on the sod 'mid the bonnie green leaves ;
They hide in the brush-wood, they lurk in the brake,
They dive in the sweet-flags that shadow the lake ;

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They skim where the stream parts the orchard-decked land,
They flit where the foam sweeps the desolate strand;
They lave in the brook, then dart through the air.
These creatures of Ught so charmingly fair.
The bright, cheerful birds come thickly around
When the bud's on the branch — when the snow's on the
They come when the richest of roses flush out, [ground;]
They come when the yellow leaf eddies about;
And the land would be drear with no carolUng words
Prom the rufiiing throats of the joyous birds."
There are said to be more than 10 000 different kinds of birds in
the world. Brooklyn has more varieties than most people observe
or suppose. Only a "bird's-ej'e view" of them can be given here,
and that chiefly "on the wing." They are all admirably adapted to
their modes of life. Their bones are hollow, like their quills, and
filled with warm air, and they have membranous sacks, as fishes have,
which they can inflate at pleasure, and so add to their comparative
lightness and buoyancy. Their eyes are keen, and so placed as to
see in all directions by a slight and easy turn of the head. The mus
cles that move the wings are exceedingly strong, so much so that
larger birds can thus administer a powerful blow to an antagonist.
The tail serves as a rudder to guide or retard the flight. This can
easily be observed when a bird alights. Some of the heavier-bodied
birds like the wild turkey, the partridge, and the owl fly but little,
while smaller ones are much on the wing, and hawks often remain
a long time poised in the skj', sometimes for a minute entirely sta
tionary, patiently watching for their prey on the ground.
"The hawk in mid-air high.
On his broad pinions sailing round and round.
With not a flutter, or but now and then.
As if his trembling balance to regain,
Utters a single scream but faintly heard.
And all again is still."
¦The humming-bird is in motion most of the time during the day,
and it can sustain itself in one position at pleasure, while it inter
views the flowers.
Birds have good memories, as many tests of their returning to
accustomed places after months of absence proves. By various calls
and intonations of voice they express sensations of hunger, fear, love,
joj', warning, and release from danger. Some, in time of emergency,
will feign lameness, or other striking demonstrations, to distract the
attention of, pursuers, from the nest, or while the young birds
secrete themselves or escape. Among song-birds it is only the male
that sings in continuous strains. Almost every hue and shade of
coloring is found in the plumage of our birds, and there is nearly
as great diversity and delicacy in the markings of their eggs. These
often have some resemblance to the color of the bird, like those of
the song-sparrb'W'. But they are often quite different and sometimes
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224 HISTORY OF BEOOKLYN.
color, almost black, while those of the humming-bird and crow are
white. In size, eggs correspond considerably with the size of the
bird, the smallest ones from our native birds being produced by the
humming-bird, 2| inches long (eggs about as large as good-sized
peas), and the largest by the turkey, 3^ feet long, and eggs propor
tionately large.
Birds' nests are very various. The gallinaceous tribe (quails, part
ridges, and turkeys) make their nests of leaves, &c,, on the ground
and cover the eggs when they go away from them. The bob-o-link
and meadow-lark make unela borate nests of grass, on the ground,
usually in meadow-s, and the song-sparrow also builds on the ground
under cover of a turf or bush, or tuft of grass — nest of root fibre,
&c., and lined with hair. Snipes also nest on the ground. Others
build not very high upon and within the limbs of trees and bushes,
so extending as to hold them in position. The cat-bird builds low,
the robin sometimes higher and sometimes on fences, &c., and uses
mud and fibre, lined with dry grass. The cuckoo and jay make rude
nests of sticks and twigs. The thrush builds in deep woods, as does
sometimes the cliff martin, the latter using mud plastered against a
roCk, with soft lining. The humming-bird also builds on a naked,
high limb, often in tne woods, selecting a slightly depressed curve
in the limb and constructing the nest of moss of the same kind as that
growing on the tree, by sticking it together either with spider-webbs,
or, more likely, with some kind of glutinous substance obtained from
plants or flowers, or furnished by the bird itself. The nest is thus
almost completely concealed, and disguised, for the moss-work is
extended around it even with the limb, making it appear like a little
knot socket. The only one that ever came under the observation of
the writer was on a beech.
Other birds found here place their nests, not upon the limb or
other support, but suspended under it. The finches make such nests,
selecting little spaces nearly surrounded by horizontal twigs to
which the fabric is attached as a rim, while the nest hangs just far
enough below to afford the required depth, the entrance being at
the top. The oriole makes a longer nest and enters it below the
support. The wood-pecker familj' make holes in old stumps and
trees for nesting places, and the -wrens and blue-birds select con
cealed nooks and crevices for that purpose. And crows and hawks
make nests of sticks, twigs, &c., in tall trees.
Years ago the crowing of cocks was one of the timekeepers for
the common people — was "the shepherd's clock." They begin to
crow at a certain period before light. So that these signals are
first heard to the east of any place, and so pass on toward the west.
The same is true of the firtt morning notes of other birds. In the
spring, after the bluebird, the robin and the sparrow have come,
and before the oriole, and the bob-o-link are here, and before the
fairy and half supernal strains of the thrush are heard, the day is
ushered in at dawn by these warbling salutations of the birds, which
the listener first hears faintly in the east and which grow cleai-er
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BROOKLYN BIRDS. 225
west as the morning twihght reaches them, and so the gush of song
l)asses like a wave along before the sun.
Ornithologists have classified birds into various orders, divisions,
and subdivisions according to their structure, their character,
and their habits. Birds of prey are divided into several classes of
which we have really but two. Owls and Hawks, though Eagles,
another branch of the falcon tribe, are sometimes seen. We have
none of the vulture family. Of water birds there are Waders (long-
legged), and Swimmers (web-footed). They are both rare with us —
except swimmers, by adoption. Of running birds that do not also fly
Ave have none. There are Perchers, Climbers, and Scratchers, and
many subdivisions. The Perchers are divided into Toothed-Bills,
Cone-Bills, Cleft-Bills, Thin-Bills &c. Of course, birds must some
times belong to two or more divisions. The perchers have 3 toes in
front and one behind, on the same level. They are fitted to grasp
limbs of trees, &c. The young are naked and blind at first.
Of birds of prey, or carnivorous birds, we have, of the Hawk
family, the common red-tailed Hen-Hawk, the Fish-Hawk or Osprey,
less common but quite as large, with white head and throat and
nearly black back, the "Chicken Hawk" (bluish gray above and
grayish white beneath), the smaller reddish brown Sparrow-Hawk,
and the Shrike, or Butcher-bird which looks like a little hawk.
Of the Owl kind, with their large nocturnal eyes and imposing
feather disks around them, and with their nocturnal habits, we have
3, the Hoot Owl "horned" with tufts of feathers over the ears, the
white, Snow Owl (more rare, and hooded), and the little Screech
Owl with proportionately longer liorns which he is able to erect
perpendicularly. The Gray Owl is also sometimes seen.
The perching birds, which include most of the song birds, and
which subsist on insects and seeds, have manj' representatives in the
township. The toothed-bill division of this class are so called because
they have the upper mandible of the beak notched near the tip. This
is a very large class, and upon it we must largely depend for the
lessening of insect ravages. The Shrike familj' are perhaps the larg
est birds of the class. We have but one Shrike or Butcher-bird.
It resembles a little hawk and is not tbe same as that found further
north. It seems to be a connecting- link between the carnivorous
and insectivorous birds as it sometimes eats smaller birds. It often
kills grasshoppers, sticking them on a thorn or pointed stake or
limb to be eaten afterward if wanted. We have the Wood Thrush,
speckled-breasted, with blue eggs, and the Brown Thrush or
Thrasher which lays yellowish eggs iu a nest in brush and briers,
near or on the ground. The Eobin and the Cat-bird or northern
Mocking-bird belong to the same class. The Blue-bird is also ranked
with the thrushes by some. Of the Chatterers (so called from their
peculiar notes) we have tbe Cedar Wax-wing or Cedar-bird (the flat-
crowned "cherry-bird"). Among Fly-catchers we have the King-bird
(which is also a bee-eater), the Phebe bird or Pewee, and perhaps
one or two others. The king-bird is an intrepid creature. It often
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226 HISTORY OF BEOOKLYN.
trees. The Phebe builds of mud and moss plastered against a build
ing or a rock— sometimes in the woods. 'iUe little Warblers which
belong to the toothed-bill class, are a numerous family, most of them
very diminutive. They are so called from their melodious songs,
often full of quavers and modulations. Common Blue-birds (which
also resemble the thrushes) are among the largest of the class. Yel
low-birds (not the finches -\\hich go in flocks, but smaller, slimmer
birds) belong to it, with suspended nests iu upiight forks. But
there is a large class of tiny birds usually colored \\ith a mixture of
black, blue, brown, olive, j ellow, red, aud white, some of them hav
ing always a white spot on the tail, one kind being white-throated,
another j-eUow -throated, and another black-throated ; and one with a
red spot on its head. Some of their nests are on the ground, and
some are hung to the twigs of a bush (one kind, in the woods); all
of them are great insect-hunters, often seen peering sharply arouud
a bunch of leaves or flowers for that pui-jjose; these are our most
attractive warblers. The Eedstart (black, and red or orange) belongs
here. It jerks and wags its tail at every motion. The Ovenbird (roofs
its nest on the ground with a covering of dry leaves) or Pifebird
(loud, shrill note) is also a wagtail. The 'Vireos (mostly of a yellowish
olive color) build dainty pendant nests, suspended from horizontal
twigs to which the upper edge of the nest is attached.
The Cone-Bills, another class of perchers, are so called from hav
ing stout cone shaped beaks. Thej' are insectivorous, but on the
whole are less so than the Toothed-Bills, and subsist more on seeds.
One division of this class embraces the Crow, and the Blue Jay.
Another division contains our Meadow Lark, Bobolink, Baltimore
Oriole, and the common Black-bird or Crow Blackbird or Grackle,
the Eed-w-inged or Swamp Blackbird (found along streams, &c,),
a,nd the Cow-Bird that follows close by the heads of grazing cattle
to catch the insects thej' start up. They lay eggs to be hatched in
other birds' nests. There are other smaller Black-birds that visit us
in flocks in the fall which perhaps belong to the same class. Another
class contains the finches — our Gold Finch or Thistle Finch, Indigo
Bird (bright blue), the brilliant red Tanager, and the Snow-Bird,
the Chickadee, and the Titmouse, and Cross-Bill, and Buntings, and
Grossbeaks, and most if not all of the little fiocks of birds that are
driven down to us from the north in fall and winter, to pick up tbe
weed-seeds the farmer has left, including also the Linnet and the
Sparrows — the Song-Sparrow, Chip-Sparrow, and WhitC-breasted
Sparrow and others. The English Sparrow has also been recently
introduced to some extent. Our gold finch often makes its nest iii
a sharp angle formed by small uiiright limbs in a fruit tree, but it
is always attached to these prongs by fibrous ligatures around each,
thus suspending the nest from the top.
Some also place in this order the Creepers and Climbers. The
Nuthatch or Nut-cracker resembles the wood-peckers, but it has only
one claw behind and three in front, the same as the perchers, and it
has a complete cone bill. It is a little bird, ashy blue above and
whitish below, with black head, which runs up and down trees.

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oftener than other'«'ise with the head downward. The woodpeckers
do uot do this. It fastens nuts and seeds in crevices to hold them
while it picks out the kernels.
The Cleft-Bills are so called because their broad beaks are deeply
cleft, so that the mouth may be opened very wide. The most nji-
merous representatives of this class of perchers are SwaUows and
Martins. Tne Barn Swallows build of mud on the rafters in the
jjeaks of barns if they can get there. The Cliif Swallows rarely build
on "cliffs'' but under the eaves of buildings, making a roof of mud
over the nest. The Purple Martin does not use mud, but makes its
nest in such places as the blue bird does. The Chimney Swallow or
Swift makes its nest in unused chimneys, &c., building them of
sticks or twigs (which it breaks from trees) glued together by the
bird's sticky saliva, or, as some say, with cherry gum, and finely
finished, without lining. It has spike-like appendages at the end of
some of its tail-feathers which help it keep its place on naked walls.
We have also Night-Hawks fiying in companies, at dusk, and occa
sionally a wandering "Whippoorwill is heard, and very rarely eggs
are laid and hatched on the ground. It is quite abundant near lar
ger streams around. Neither of these birds collects material for nests.
They are allied to each other, come from the south in summer, feed
on insects, and are sometimes called Night-Jars. We have also the
King-Fisher, another wide-mouthed bird, which fishes along the
creeks, making his nest in holes in the banks.
The Slim-Billed birds belong chiefly to the warm countries. We
have but one — the Humming-bird, the smallest and daintiest of all,
and adorned, like all the rest, in glitteiing and changeable colors.
The order of Creepers and Climbers is represented with us prin
cipally bj' the Wood-pecker family of which there are the large red-
crested, the common red-headed, and several other kinds of varia-
gated colors, most of them haviug more or less red around the head,
and one, the "Wake-up", with gold and dark wings. These birds are
often seen flying, by giving two or three vigorous strokes of the
wings, and then close-reefing them, the impetus bearing them on for
some distance, when the wings are again spread and used as before.
One or two kinds are called Sap-suckers (speckled), because they
peck holes through the bark of trees, mostly for grubs and worms,
but sometimes for the sap which they drink. They all have two toes
before and two behind. We find the little Nuthatch here again,
with head downward as before, and only one toe behind. The order
also includes the Cuckoo, and the Wrens — one sort of the latter a
little "littler" than the other. The American Cuckoo makes its own
nest — the European, lays in nests of other birds.
Of the Scratchers or Poultry- Birds, the Quail ("Bob White"),
Partridge (or Euffed Grouie, so called from its power to ruffie the
feathers of its neck), and Turkey were natives. Hens, Peacocks, and
Guinea-hens have been introduced. The wild turkey is extinct here,
though it was abundant, thriving on beech-nuts, &c. It is gregarious
in its habits. The drumming of the male partridge was a familiar
sound to the early settlers. But the remaining patches of woodland

228 HISTOEY OF BEOOKLYN.
have been driven so far back from our dweUings that this love-signal
of the bird is seldom heard. He selects a fallen tree, retaining it
through the season, upon which he produces this sound, doubtless
by striking his wings against the air, at first slowly aud then very
rapidly. The turkey cau make a similar noise in a smaller degree
by the vibration of his qmlls wMle drawing the ends of his wmgs
on the ground. In winter, the partridge eats t: e buds of birch, pop
lar, apple, &c.
The Pigeon or Dove family are also Scratchers, often seeking
their food by scratching in the leaves and giound. But they are
perchers and are much on the wing. They also have some habits
peculiar to themselves. They feed their young by eating the food
themselves and converting it into chyme — "dove's milk" — and then
disgorging it into the little hungry, open mouths. Years ago, large
flocks "of wild Passenger Pigeons used to pass over the township
every spring, many of them alighting for food. These were on their
way to their enormous encampment in some chosen beech forest or
other food-supplying region where their brooding was to be carried
on. Arrived at that ground, the noise of their wings would be deaf
ening. Brooklyn was not selected for that breeding station, after its
historic period began, but in 1834 such a camp, miles in extent, was
estabUshed to the east in the vicinity of Elk mountains. That spring
our township was full of them before the final rendezvous Avas deci
ded on, and they afterward sought contributions of mast and forage
for a great di.'^tance around. The same condition occurred here at
another time when the pigeons nested in the west part of the county,
perhaps as late as 1839 or '40. It is remembered that the male birds
came in vast numbers in the morning, and the females in the after
noon. Now, a pigeon is very seldom seen here. The Mourning or
Turtle Dove is sometimes heard here and occasionally a nest is found.
Of Wading birds our largest is the Crane (4 or 5 ft. bigh) which
is sometimes found along the streams. But more common than this
is the Snipe or Woodcock on moist grounds, living largely on earth
worms for which he thrusts his bill into the ground. 'We have also
a smaller species usually called "Tip-up" or "Tilt-up," found in
marshes. Coots or Mud-hens or Water-hens are also sometimes met
with, as large as a small duck.
To the Swimmers our township can really lay but Uttle claim.
Some of the Diving division of the class, Loons, and Grebes, often
tarry for a short time in the ponds. The Summer or Wood Duck
which, unlike most other Swimmers, usually makes its nest on the
broken and splintered limb of a tree or in a hollow trunk (always'
over or near water) is found here and may sometimes breed here;
The Eed-breasted Merganser is also seen, and perhaps also the Hood
ed Merganser, which latter resembles the wood duck in nest-build
ing. Other wild ducks are sometimes found in ponds aud sti eams,
and perhaps more rarely a goose, but they are doubtless stragglers
from some passing flock. Still, twice each year these wondrous mi
gratory birds are ours. In the astonishing semi-annual passage which
they make, without a halt, over half a continent, flying from South-

OLD OFFICEES. 229
ern waters to the northern lakes, and returning with their progeny
in the fall, many of them become ti ansient navigators of Brooklyn
air. This remarkable flight is made in flocks, each usually arranged
m two angular lines, one generally shorter than the other, but meet
ing iu a point at the head where the leader is placed, so that his po
sition may be seen or known by all. Sometimes they form in one
straight Une but in such case that Une never coincides with the di
rection of flight, nor is it ever at right angles with it, but always
diagonal to it, thus better showing the place of the leader and giv
ing him a better chance to control the line of motion, and leaving
each successive bird a little behind the one next in front, so that
wings will never clash, and the position of each can be easily main
tained. "Whither, midst falling dew.
While glow the heavens with the last steps of day.
Par through the rosy depths dost thou pursue
Thy lone, unerring waj-?
All day thy wings have fanned;
At that far height, the cold, thin atmosphere ;
Yet stoop not, weary, to the welcome laud.
Though the dark night is near.
And soon thy toil shall end ;
Soon shalt thou find a summer home, and rest.
And scream among thy fellows ; reeds shall bend
Soon o'er thy sheltered nest."
No matter how cheerless or stormy the night,
"We hear the beat of their pinions fleet.
As from the land of snow and sleet
They seek a southern sea;
We hear the cry of their voices high.
Palling dreamily through the skj',
'While their forms we cannot see.''

Old Officers.

Supervisors. Pred'k Bailey and David Sutliff, 1814; Chas. Perigo,
1815; Jacob Tewksbury, 1816; and the following down to 186.0,
some of them two terms — Stephen Breed, Thos. Giles, Amos Bailey,
Geo. Cone, Elisha Mack, Stephen Williams, Samuel Weston, Enoch
Mack, David Morgan, Chas, Gere, Joseph Peckham, David Bissell,
Amos Tewksbury, David Kent, Peletiah Tiffany, Lodowick Bailey,
Esek H, Palmer, S. D. Townsend, Gm-don Ely, Geo. L. Tewksbury,
J. E. Howe, Amos VanAuken, Daniel Tewksbury, Francis Pish,
Nelson Tiffany.

230 HISTOEY OF BROOKLYN.
Constables. CyrU Giddings, 1814 & '15 ; Asa Crandall, 1816 ; Thad
deus Palmer, 1817; Cyril Giddings and Sam'l Yeonnins, 1818; Sam 1
Yeomans, 1819; Sam'l Yeomans and David Morgan, 1820; Jeremiah'
Gere andWin. Weston, 1821; Sam'l Yeomans, 1822; Sam'l Yeomans
and Thos. Garland, 1823; Lyman Elv and Jonas E. Adams, 1824;
Joseph Lines and L. Ely, 1825; Joseph Lines and WilUam Weston,
1826; Wm. Weston and Abel Hewitt, 1827; Same, 1828; Wm. Wes
ton aud Joseph Lines, 1829; Joseph Lines and D. Morgan, 1830;
Jesse Bagley and EUjah Newton, 1831; J. Bagley and A. Hewitt,
1832; J: H. Cliapman and Washington Bagley, 1833; J. Bagley and
W. Bagley, 1834; L. Ely and D. B. Bagley, 1835; L. Ely and J. B.'
Mack, 1836.
Freeholders — examined the accounts of supervisors till 1830, when
Auditors were chosen. The following were Freeholders, beginning
with 1815: Jeremilb Gere, Joshua Miles, Joseph Chapman, Stephen
Breed, Thos. Giles, Frederick Bailey, Elisha Mack, Edward Paine,
Cyril Giddings, Chas. Perigo, James Smith, Edw'd Packer, Justice
Kent, Samuel 'Yeomans, Augustus Birge, Joshua Miles, Jr., Henry
Mitchel, M. L. Mack, Dan'l Tewksbury, Ammi Ely, 1st, Jacob Wil
son, Thos. Garland, Chas. V. Gere, Nathan Jewett.
Auditors. Fred'k Bailey, Edw'd Packer, Joseph Chapman, Edw'd
Otto, A. G. Bailey, Abel Hewitt, EUjah Newton, Braton Eichardson,
A. B. Merrill, '^Hem-j' Bagiey, David Kent, Horace Thayer, Anson
Tiffany. The Freeholders (and Supervisors) for Waterford met at Noah Tif
fany's, Mar. 25, 1817; at same place. Mar. 28, 1818; at Arunah Tif
fany's, Mar., 1819, & 1820; at Jonas E. Adams's, Mar., 1821 ; at house
of Samuel Yeomans (probably "Old Abbey") March 28, 1822; Free
holders for Hopbottom met at hou&e of S. Yeomans, 1823, and 1824;
at Jesse Bagley's ("Abbey?"), 1825; Freeholders for Brooklyn met
at Center school-house, 1826; at Seth Bisbee's ("Abbey"), 1827; at
school-house, 1828; at Josse Bagley's, 1829; and Auditors, at s.nme
place, 1830, and at Stephen Breed's, 1831.
Assessors and Assistant Assessors. Amos Bailey, Justice Kent, Chas.
Perigo, Samuel Yeomans, Cyril Giddings, David Bissell, Stephen
Williams, Wm. Weston, Geo. Chapman, E, H, Palmer, Jos. Peckham,
Amos Tewksbury, I. H. Sterling, Anson Tiffany, Eiehard Willir.ms,
Amos B. Merrill.
Town Clerks. Frederick Bailey, Ebenezer Gere, David Bissell,
Elijah Newton, Wm. Weston, Daniel Bagley, Jplin Stroud, Samuel
KeUam, Edwin Tiffany, Abel Hewitt, E. T. Ashley, L. JU . Kellam.
; School Directors. (Began to be elected in 1836); Fred'k ,!)3Miley,
Amos G. Bailey, Amos Tewksbury, Geo, Chapman, Nelson Williams,
Joshua Miles, Lyman Ely, Ferdinand Whipjile, EU B,. Goo(:|iich,
Eodney. Jewett, J. H. Chapman, Nelson Tiffanj', Sam'l D, Townsend,
Eiehard WiUiams,, J. E. Ely, L H. Sterling, S. B. Blake, AmpsB.
Merrill, Anson Tiffany, C. C. Daley, C. M. Gere, Braton Eschar clson.

INCIDENTS AND REMINISCENCES. 23"l

V:

Justices of the Peace. Edward Paine, Edward Packer, Samuel
Bissell, Jas. Noble, Abel Hewitt, Marvin L. Mack, Ebenezer Gere,
A. G. Bailey, E;'0. Miles, A. E. Tewksbury, Chauncey Tingley, E. A.
Weston, G. B. Eogers, E. G. WilUams, Moses Caldwell. Present,
a: S. Waldie, A. W.' Kent.

Incidents and Reminiscences.

SOThe dinner HORN was no mean concomitant of the early time, and
^ there are still many who hold it in cheerful remembrance.
Beside its appropriate office, it was often emjjloyed to send many
other signals echoing over the hills and througii the forests. And
though the bill of fare of to-day, as judged by the tastes of to-day,
may exceed in.merit the homelier dishes of the pioneer, j-et it may
well be doubted whether the real pleasure of its kind ever exceeded
the simple pleasure of that call — "¦come to dinner !"
'TTt is RELATED of Mr. Harkius that he was one evening returning
5, home from the house of a distant noighbor whom he had beeu
helping during the day, when he heard some wolves not far awaj'.
He immediatelj' sought a suitable tree and climbed it. The wolves
soon came up and began jumping and leaping upward trying to
reach his feet. They came so near that he thought best to go a little
hio-her and in doing so he unfortunately or luckilj' seized a dead
limb which suddenly gave way under his weight, and he fell precip
itately to the ground. The sharp report of the breaking limb closely
followed by the crash of the brush aud the thud on the earth so
frio-htened the wolves that they fled and left him to pursue his
journey unmolested.
& story is told of Mr. Page one of the earliest settlers of the
township, illustrative of the austerity practiced toward chil
dren and of the intolerant spirit in religious matters even when only
involving ceremonious goodness, that prevailed at that early daj',
and which the childien themselves were liable like a contagion to
catch. It wa'^ the custom of this sturdy Dutchman to conduct fam
ily worship either by reading prayers from a book or by uttering
them in his owu language, while the wife and children were to re
peat his words. On one occasion, a neighbor's boy happened to be
present, produciug some diffidence in the juvenile minds, when the
head ofthe family observed that John, his son, did not join his voice
in the exercises, and said with some severity -'John, why don't you
pray?" "I don't want to, dad," was the reply.' "John, I tell j'Ou to
pray." "I won't, dnd." "John, d'mn you, pray!" said the father
angrily. And John prayed.

232 history of Brooklyn.
BEANS constituted a staple article of food among the first settlers.
They were wholesome and nutritious, easily produced, and
gave quick returns. Even on ground just cleared and full of green
roots they were planted by striking an old ax into the soil, dropping
in the seed and covering the aperture slightly with the foot or with
the head of the ax. Corn was often planted in the same w ay on
such ground. This was the lavst planter. The sprc^uts and fire- weeds
were then kept down, and a toleiable crop secui ed. Potatoes were
raised by selecting a mucky or mellow spot, and the "old-fashioned"
kinds are still remeinbered^ — two round sorts, one orange and the
other blue, the "Mercer" earlier, mottled with blotches of purple,
and with purple streaks inside, and the "Merino" larger, longer,
coarser, later, red, with deep eyes, and a great yielder; and after
ward the "pink eyes" round, and long. But beans seemed always in
order. Bean soup had the reputation of becoming better the oftener
it was cooked over. The bill of fare had grown into verse :
"Bean porridge hot and bean jjorridge cold.
Bean jjorridge in the pot nine daj's old !"
And "Boston baked beans" seem to have become as popular in the
new home as in the old. They were baked in a pot by the fire. The
pot was like a kettle only it had a bulge around the middle, and
was contracted at the top, with a flaring flange to hold the lid in place.
Among baked-bean episodes, Sally Tracy (Mrs, Hayden) still re
lates, always with a laugh, a balced-bean gallopade that she wit
nessed in the early daj's. It will be observed that the Tracy cabin
stood on the brink of a steep hillside of a number of rods in length
down to an old-time celebrated spring. One day a pot of steaming
baked-beans had been prepared for dinner and had been set out at
the door to cool. The children were having their noon-time frolic
about the door when bj' some unlucky move, one of them hit the
little globe of beans with sufficient impetus to send it over the little
intervening space of comparativelj' level ground and it went whirl
ing and bounding down the hill scattering the beans from top to
bottom. The dinner was materially diminished but the deficiency
was made up in merriment and other things.
€HiLD-LOEE rhymes Were abundant in the early days, many of them
snatches of the "Mother Goose" melodies which tie Pilgrims
brought from mother England. Though often appearing but mere
idle jingles, they were woven into lullaby songs and never cau l)e
effaced from memory,
"Hie, diddle, diddle, the cat's in the fiddle, the cow jumped over
the moon;
The little dog laughed tp see the sport, and the dish ran away with
the spoon,"
was gaily coupled with
"Twinkle, twinkle little star.
How I wonder what you are,
Up above the world so high
Like a diamond in the sky,"

INCIDENTS AND REMINISCENCES, 233
and both were blithely harnessed to the game coach —
'.'Intra, mintra, cutra, corn,
Apple seed and apple thorn.
Wire, brier, limber, lock.
Three geese in a fiock ;
One flew east and one flew west.
And one flew over the cuckoo's nest.''
Aud some of the primitive teachers had conceptions of the "object
lessons," the "busy work" and the reUef exercises which have been
rendered so effectual in later times. The writer remembers a num
ber of such. One was Miss Sarah D. Gere who would come to a
class of her boys sitting on the flat side of a slab, without back, and
start them up to march round the bench and repeat in concert —
"Sixty seconds make a minute.
Time enough to tie my shoe ;
Sixty minutes make an hour.
Too much time for naught to do;
Twenty-four hours make a day,
Too much time to spend in play.
Too much time to spend in sleep
For seven days will end the week."
iT SEEMS to be regarded as the duty of the historian "to tell the
truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, ' if he can
help it. "It takes all sorts of people to make the world" and in con
firmation of this fact Brooklyn has sometimes had a guiding star a
Uttle awry pass, comet-Uke, over it. It is said it was a Brooklyn
pair that appUed to a "Nine Partners" Justice to know if he could
"on-marry 'em," to which he gruffly replied that it was his judicial
opinion "if he could marry 'em, he could on-marry 'em." However
this may be, it is a current report that one man about that time ran
away with another man's wife, and after this, probably about the
time the township was yet called Bridgewater, it is said that another
man got to stealing other things, and was sent "down the river" to
Philadelphia. It so happened that after he had been confined there
for awhile, a neighbor was one time going to the city and the friends
of the culprit asked the traveler to carry a letter to the other city-
boarder, to which he readily assented, and on taking the parcel he
remarked— "I shall be apt to find him at home, shan't I?"
ST IS WELL understood that spirituous and vinous Uquors were in the
early time considered indispensable on all occasions rare or com
mon It was thought obligatory to furnish them, and necessary to use
them In the first stock of merchandise brought into the township
bv widow T. in 1806, was a cask of brandy, and her daughter still
remembers funny things regarding it. Isaac T. was the first sawyer
and had heavy lumber to handle. The facetious way in which he
always expressed himself when bringing his Uttle jug to be fiUed,
fixed itself on themiud of the little giri, and, despite the pleasantry,

234 HISTOEY OF BEOOKLYN.
forcibly expresses the sentiment of the time— "Ef I saws I must
hev brandy."
Many amusing circumstances are still related by the remaining
few whose childhood reached back to that day. Laban C, in the
north part of the township, was digging a well. He had got it down
some 15 ft. when he concluded he must have some whiskey to dig
the rest. So he went out into his lot to find the old mai-e (blind) to
go to Montrose for that purpose ; but he could not find her. He
hunted and hunted over and over without success. Finally he went
to one of the neighbors and said he wanted to borrow a horse to go
to the village, for his horse had been stolen, and he must have some
whiskey to "finish his -well. On returning with his purchase he went
to resume his work, when to his surprise he found the old mare m
the bottom of the weU. She had evidently jumped at conclusions or
stumbled into them, and had reached the result before her owner
was aware of it. He was thus obliged to have a horse raising. With
some ropes and bags and poles and the help of the neighbors and
the whiskey the horse was recovered in as good condition as that
before her experience in the pit-fall, unavoidable wear and tear and
deterioration alone excepted.
On an other occasion Mr. C. was returning from Montrose with
two jugs of Avhiskey and when nearly home they were by accident
both thrown to the ground and broken, and their contents spilled.
The road at the time happened to be covered with a coating of ice
upon which a loose snow had fallen, and this soon absorbed the
splashing fluid. But whiskey was too precious to be thus recklesslj'
dissipated. So Mr. C. went to the nearest house and got a large
brass kettle into which he dipped up the commingled snow and
whiskey and took it home to boil it down to its proper consistency,
witli some loss from that which assumed an evanescent and ethereal
form. The supposed harmless and needful cUstom has grown to be a
curse, and the curse has grown to be a monster. When will its rav
ages abate?
fOTsE BRILLIANT and woudcrf ul meteoric display which occurred be-
JL fore daylight on the morning of Nov. 13, 1833, when the heavens
were full of "shooting stars," is still remembered. To those who saw
it, it seemed a pyrotechnic exhibition of nature executed on tl e
grandest scale, inspiring admiration and awe. Meteoi's are stiU often
seen, and auroras, of much brilliancy occur. We have resplendent
rainbows ; and fine displays of "Zodiacal light," in the east before
sunrise and in the west after sunset, are often seen. And Brooklj-n
has her "harvest moons" though her latitude is not sufficient to give
them prominence.
f2!^HE FOLLOWING LETTER froui Judgc ' Chapman, in relation to the
J[ burning of the Perigo barn, which occurrence he distinctly re
members, well illustrates the disposition to make common cause of
heavy tasts, which prevailed in the early time :

INCIDENTS AND REMINISCENCES. 235
"My grandfather, known as Capt. Joseph Chapman to distinguish
him troin my father, Joseph, Jr., had, after the dealth of his wife and
the breaking up of his family, come to live at my father's, and being
^ a very active, energetic, and pubUc-sinrited man, and very sympa
thetic for the mi-fortunes of others, and especially for one so well
esteemed as was Mr. P., who was making great efforts to pay for
his land and clear it up, he (my grandfather) at once resolved upon
a plan to relieve Mr. P. of his sad misfortune.
It was Saturday, I believe that the fire occurred, and we heard of
it that night. On Monday morning, bright and early, my grand
father saddled his horse, and started with a subscription paper
through the township and vicinity, arrousing the sympathy of the
community, and arranging with those who could best help in labor,
what days some could be on hand with axes to fell and score timber,
and with carpenters to hew and frame it— some with teams to draw
it and others to draw plank and boards from the mill, and still others
to bring shingles, and others, who could contribute money, to buy
nails and other materials needed, and such was the success of the
undertaking that in just one Aveek from the time the barn was burned
Mr. P. had a new one in which to store the remainder of his hay and
grain. [August was the usual fallow-burning month and most of the
haying at that time was also done in that month.] My grandfather
was ever after proud of the job, and I presume he never, while a sea
captain, took more pride in any successful voyage to the West Indies
than he did in this. Yours truly,
Montrose, Nov., 1889. James W. Chapman."
JN THE EARLY TIME ecouomy was not -only a virtue but a necessity.
It was practiced in every manner aud in all directions. Waste
substances -of an oily character were carefully saved for "soap-
grease," which, boiled with lye leached from the abundant store of
strong wood-ashes, supplied the household with a convenient wash
ing and cleansing preparation, which the discoveries of science
have almost entirely superseded. The earliest lights were resinous
knots burned in the blazing fire. Then candles were made by doub
ling pieces of wicking over smooth rods and dipping them repeat
edly into a brimming kettle of melted tallow (as far as the protruding
rods would allow) and letting each coating cool. The room was
kept cold during the process, and the kettle kept full by turning
in hot water whi(!li settled to the bottom. Soft grease was also
burned in little open ii-on lamps with a little tube or semi-tube at
one side to hold the wick upright, the resulting heat keeping the
burning material iu a fluid state. Even an old saucer was sometimes
lised. There Avere no explosions I Afterward came whale oil, then
burninf fluid, then kerosene and now electricity is on its way ! Small
pieces and remnants of woven fabrics were made into bed-quilts and
comfortables. Later the practice became a fashion and is now cai-ried
to a "crazy" extent, as to irregularity and oddity of scraps, with
small pretense of economy. This requirement to make the most of

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HISTORY OF BEOOKLYN.

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all resources sometimes assumed amusing shapes. Mrs! M. now in
her 85th year remembers that old Mrs. P. used to come to her
father's, from the Lyman Saunders place, to buy apple*- In deter
mining her choice of the kinds of fruit to tajke she would go round •
to the trees and vigorously shake an apple from eachjOjie in her
hand. If she found one in which the; seeds would rattU she would
reject that sort as having too large core cavities to buy to advantage !
THERE ARE MANY who stiU remember, among other associations of
childhood, the merry refrain played by the rain around their
little attic sleeping rooms. And to them still,
"When the lurid storm clouds gather
Over all the starry spheres.
And the melancholy darkness
Gently weeps in rainy tears,
'Tis a joy to press the pillow
Of a cottage-chamber bed,
And to listen to the patter i
' , Of the soft rain over head.
Every tinkle on the shingles
Has an ecbo in the heart.
And a thousand lively fancies
Into busy being start;
And a thousand recollections
Weave their bright hues into woof,
As they listen to the patter '
Of the rain upon the roof."
^NE TIME Bloomfield Milbourn set a trap for a wolf. On going
to it not long after he found a wolf large, strong, and snarling,
caught. He had bad sufficient experience with these creatures. to
know that the only safe way to kill it was to shoot it. So, taking
deliberate aim with his rifle, he fired. Going up to the wolf he
thought it nearly dead, and loosing the trap, he took the animal
by the'hind legs, but soon discovered unmistakable, an,d to him ap
prehensive signs of life. He quickly attempted to give the , creature
a swing to strike its head on the ground. Before he could accom
plish his purpose the wolf caught him above the knee in its powei;-
ful jaws. He seized its throat with his right hand and after a con
siderable struggle succeeded in forcing it to relax its hold.; VVil;li
his left hand he,tbtik out his knife (Avhich happened fortunately to be^^
in his Ifeft pocket) and opened it with his teeth. With this he cut
the hamstrings of the Avolf .ind, throAving it from him*as well as he
could, sprang back. He still had to move back thre.ei pr f oiij- times
before he could reload his gun to shoot again. It frove^l, that the,
first ball struck the head of the wolf not low enough to jjenetrate,,
but it glanced off. Mr. M. carried the scars of the wolf's tushes ou
each side of his leg as long as he lived.

INCIDENTS AND UEMINISGENCES. 237
faoM 1800 when the Harford Congregational church was estab
lished, till 1810 when the Brooklyn church was formed (under
name of "the 2d Congregational church of BridgeAvater") BrOoklju
Congregationalists often attended the Harford meetings, usually on
horseback. One Sunday after the Tracy family had thus set ott for
Harford church, leaving two of the Weston children, William and
Johu at home, the boys heard the little dog (the same one that
chased the panther) barking at the foot of a large hemlock standing
a little way north of the house. On going out they saw a big bear
in the tree. They Avere old enough to know that something should
be done. So they hurried over to the Sabin place to make the situ
ation knoAvn. One or tAvo of the larger Sabin boys came back AAuth
them with a gun and shot the bear. At that time bear's flesh Avas
relished by some aud the oil Avas used for culinary purposes. But
others thought it unsuitable for food. It seems the Tracy people,
including Silas Lewis who Avas then boarding- with them, regarded
the matter in the latter Ught. After the bear Avas killed, the idea
occurred to some of the youthful party — probably the Sabin boys,
tho' possibly not — that it would be rich to pass off' the bear meat
for venison. So after dressing the carcass seme of the most appro
priate and deceptive portions were selected and placed upon the table
and covered with a cloth, Avhile the rest was concealed. On the arri
val of the family, the impression was conveyed that some Sabin venison
had been brought by the boys. Some was cooked and as all Avere
hungry it was partaken of bountifullj-. The next morning, more was
prepared for breakfast, and as Mr. LeAvis Avas goiiJg to do a job of
work at Jeremiah Gere's, he took some for his dinner. After Mr. L.
was gone the boys brought in the head and claws of the bear and
laid them on the table with the remark that there Avas tlie rest of the
venison ! The joke was taken in good humor, but Mr. L. never for
gave the boys for allowing an extra meal to be palmed off on him.
"^jnTsEti Benj. P. was teaching the old center school, one of the :
"Haf scholars (whom we will call Pieeinan) had the then common
habit of drawing out his words to remarkable length in reading his
primary lessons. One day his class .being up to read, he came to the
word "hay" which not being familiar to him he failed to recognize.
The teacher repeated the letters h-a-y, but the pupil still hesitating
the teacher asked— "What does your father feed his cow ? " The boy's
face assumed a flush of animation as he replied — not in answer to
the question, but in pronunciation of the Avord and A\ith his inost
sonorous drawl — "s-t-a-l-k s" ! A ripple of merriment ran through the
school-room which the teacher did not try to repress, but the wonted
quite was soon resumed.
Tfl REMARKABLE fall of SUOAV is remembered as having occurred in
,£^ the latter part of May or fore part of June, 1836. Fruit trees.
Avere in bloom, aud the damp snow clinging to the branches broke
many of them and made great havock. It was supposed to be from
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trees, that Eufus Pierpont lost his life. And late in the winter of
1842-3 a heavy snow fell, and remained long upon the ground. The
winter had begun earfy and this accession so prolonged it that
many farmers were forced to browse. their cattle, the supply of hay
faiUng. Many animals perished. Apr. 20, 1857, snow fell to the
depth of 3 or 4 ft. In later years tornadoes have several times
passed through portions of the township, in narrow streaks, uproot
ing trees, unroofing buildings, &c. And we have had ice storms that
did much injury by loading and breaking down the branches of trees.
9he pollowi.ng is from the pen of Mr. James A. Ashley now of
Washington, D. C.
"My recollection of political events extends to the contest of 1840,
which was more remarkable than any that had preceded it. At the
outset, the nomination of the whig candidate Harrison, who was
comparatively obscure and unknown, Avas met bj' sneers and jeers on
the part of the democrats, Avhose leader, Mr. VanBuren, had long
been prominent in public life, and after having served under Jack
son as Secretary of State, had, in 1836, been elected to succeed him
in the presidency. So strong were the democrats throughout the
oountry, and so confidant of success at the polls, that the nomination
of Harrison was regarded somewhat as a huge joke, and for a long
time, few democrats were willing to, concede to Harrison more than
seven of the twentj'-six states, of which the Union then consisted.
But I am not writing a political historj', and will make no further
general reference to the Log Cabin and Hard Cider fight, than to
record the fact that, in the outcome, Harrison received the electoral
votes of nineteen of the states, while VanBuren obtained those of
but seven.
The excitement of the struggle extended to even the most seclu
ded hamlets, and no portion of Susquehanna countj' escaped its
influence, partj' spirit running as high in Brooklyn as in the most
populous parts of the county.
Among the more prominent adherents of VanBuren, were included
the Bagleys — Jesse (with several sons), Chas, George, and Washing
ton; the Hewitts, Abel, William, and James; Seth Bisbee — known as
Maj, Bisbee — a, veteran of the war of 1812; and most of the numer
ous familj' of Lord, who resided in that part of the township which
is now known as Lathrop,
Of the whigs, were the Baileys, with Col, Frederick at the head ;
the Breeds; Cbristopher M, Gere; the Palmers; the Keuts; the
Jewetts ; Thomas Garland ; and Eollin T. Ashley,
Of the deniocrats, the most conspicuous were Maj, Bisbee, Esq,
Hewitt,' and Enoch Lord, the latter being probably as zealous and
active as anj', and having a fair share of intelligence and influence.
A few days previous to the election, Mr. L. procured a broad strip of
silk velvet, of a rich, dark blue shade;, which under his direction,
was emblazoned with the words, in bright gilt letters —
',' , "British Whigs — VanBuren ^^^ Johnson,"

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the lettsriug being skUlfuUy executed by Daniel B. Bagley. On the'
day of the election. Lord appeared upon the scene, leading a large
wagon load of earnest democrats, from his own neighborhood. At
the front of the vehicle rose a suitable flag-staff which was surmount
ed by the body of an eagle, from the mandibles of which floated the
banner aforesaid, with its remarkable legend, the somewhat enigmat
ical character of which afforded no little amusement to some of the
whigs, Avho guyed their opponents without mercy, for thus openly
admitting their identity Avith a foreign political organization. The
democrat-!, however, had the laugh upon their side, at the counting
of the votes, the result showing a democratic majority in the town
ship, as usual, although here as elsewhere, it Avas reduced, somewhat
below its ordinary numbers.
The campaign of 1844 was, at its commencement, an almost exact
contrast to that of 1840, the democrats, at the outset, being by no
paeans confident, while the Avhigs, rejoicing- at the nomination ( f
Clay, the matchless orator, and "the founder of the American Syi--
tem," were elated and euthusiastic in their assurance of certain
success. In Brooklyn, excitement Avas not less high than it had been in
1840. Meetings were frequent, and speeches Avere made by sharp
young laAvyers from the county seat, and other places. At that time,
both political parties in Pennsylvania Avere fully committed to the
principle of protection, and at these meetings it Avasthe effort ofthe
whigs to show that this system would be in danger if committed to
the hands of their opponents ; while the democrats were equally
earnest in their asseverations that Polk Avas as truly a Tariff man as
Clay, The whigs had again introduced vocalism into the contest, as an
active element, and their rollicking songs Avere heard from one end
of the land to the other. The democrats responded in like manner;
and in one of their songs they repelled the assertion of the wliigs
that they Avere not true to the principle of protection, the refrain
being '
"Heigh ho poor cooney Avhigs,
What makes you look so blue ?
We'll have Polk and Dallas,
And the tariff of '42."
With the Brooklyn delegation to a mass meeting at Montrose, in
July, went Eufus Kingsley, of Harford, Avho, sixty-nine years before,
had been a drummer boy, at Bunker HiU.
The result in the township Avas again a democratic victory. Clay
receiving 99 votes, as against 124 for Polk.
The whigs Avere terribly disappointed, in the national contest a.s
until near the close of the campaign they had counted on a certain
triumph. An incident of the election day may be here recalled. During the
canvass it had been the practice of the democrats Avhenever the
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body, and drown the songs by continuous hurrahs. Annoj-ed bj- fre
quent repetitions of this expedient, the whigs by preconcert massed
tueir singers in a bodj , and in such number s that the democrats
utterly failed in their efforts to disturb them, and were compelled
to abandon tiie attempt, to their great chagrin.
^F QUASI RELIGIOUS excitements Brooklyn has had its quota. Even
Joe Smith's "prophetic revelations," and treasure-findings, his
wretched and Avicked mummery with white-dog and black-ram sac
rifice, incantation and blood, found two or three temporary semi-
adherents, about 1826 or 7. This was before the system had devel
oped into a "patriarchal" multiplicity of wives. The marvelous and
supernatural — no matter how absurd — often win admirers. Electric
and mesmeric influences, the powers of mind and will, and the magic
and potent forces of faith and hope and of life itself (always truly
and admirably wonderful) have been carried to the region of the sup
erstitious and miraculous, ignoring other vital hygienic laws of our
phj'sical and spiritual existence, and have paved the waj' for "Spir
itualism'' and "Chiistian Science." "Millerism" with its "ascension
robes" perhaps found less avowed believers than did Mormonism,
but it produced its impressions. And a traveling band of "Howar-
dites," years ago, seem to have been the advance guard of the "Sal
vation Army."
2N THE Danville expedition there appears to have been some un
pleasant feeling in regard to the officers for the regiment to which
tlie Susquehanna county companj' Avas to belong. Frederick Bailey
was chosen colonel (Jesse Bagley being promoted to the captaincy
of the comjiany) but David Scott wanted the position, or thought it
belonged to him, he having been a major in the state militia. Twelve
or thirteen yfeara afterward quite a controversy sprung up in relation
to the matter, aud it partly assumed a political phase. The dispute
grew warm. Col. B. was finally induced to publish a statement and
an explanation of the Avhole affair, and it was understood that
Elisha Bibbins, Avho had strongly espoused the the other side, would
reply, but he failed to do so, and the matter died awaj'.
Coueage and an undaunted will were requisites of the early time,
and thej' were characteristics that the necessities of that time
well developed. One evening at the house of Dea. Miles (the "old
Abbey") the young people, of whom Miriam Worthing was one, weie
talking on the subject of steady nerves, when in some way reference
was made to a candle that had been used in the saw-mill the even
ing before and had been left there in a certain place. The road then
crossed the creek near where Mrs. Loomis's house now stands and
ran along by the then newly estabUshed burying-ground to the
south-east point of Avliat is now the New Cemetery. Miriam was per
haps 14 or 15 yrs. old. The night was dark. But she said she Avould
just as lief go after the candle as not — there was nothing to be afraid
of. The rest predicted her fortitude Avould fail. She Avent and in due
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three score and ten years after, that the Old Cemetery opened its
gates to receive her.
FOR SOME YEARS after Dea. J. came, in 1816, he kept a horse but no
wagon, doing his riding- on horse-back. Some time after Eben
ezer G. came in 1821, Dea. J. who was at that time a neighbor,
came to Mr. G.'s one day to borrow a wagon to go to Montrose to
get "a hired man" to help do his haying. The request was readily
granted, and the deacon proceeded on his Avaj'. Arrived in toAvn he
bought a keg of whiskey, and iu due time set out to, return. All went
Avell till he got to the Eiehard Smith place (Avliere Guy Wells noAV
lives) when, at the foot of the hill, Dobbin, not being used to the
vehicle and perhaps also to the load, thought best to begin opera
tions with "the hired man' not only by refusing to go ahead but by
persisting in going backAvard, till he finally tipped the whiskey and
the wagon off' the high bridge, the former bursting and the latter
being broken. In the after part of the day, Dea. J. came back a\ ith
the wagon in a sorry plight, aud said (he had the habit of stuttering
badlj') that his hired man had left him and gone dcmm the creek ! His
words, in after time, proved to be the expression of a general truth.
The FAMILIES of Judith Tewksbury and Sally Tracy at one time
had both become interested in the first saw-miU (east of New
Cemetery) and the girls became familiar with its surroundings.
They we're nearly of the same age (Judith a few months older) and
they were often together. At that time the Hopbottom Avas filled
with fine large trout, and the girls used to catch long strings of
them from a large pine log that lav across the creek — perhaps part
of the dam which stood near and a little below the small pine noAv
growing on the east side a little south of A. TitsAvorth's house. One
day they were fishing and Judith, by some means, had her grand
mother's pepper-box to hold the bait. After a Avhile, Sally in walking
the log accidentally brushed the box cover into the water and it
could not be recovered. The girls were in trouble. Even little uten
sils were of no slight importance at that day. Sally happened to be
the possessor of a sixpence — all she bad ! She gave this to Judith
who contrived to buy another box and all Avas right.
Judith became IMrs. Thos. Garland. Her daughter Susan M. was
born in the old mill house near by and used to go to nearly this same
spot to play by the \sater, and she (Mrs. G. V. Adams) is now buried
uot far away. Sally (Mrs. Hayden) stiU lives, nearly 92 jrs. old.
TO)ROOKLYN has doubtless suffered less from the demoniac spirit of
/O inebriation than most places of its number of people. But it
has sometimes had s:id victims. Mrs. Geo. H. Baker cairied to her
{rrave a bullet lodged iu her neck, which her husbautl, ordinarily
kind-hearted, deposited there, iu a fit of intoxicated madness, Avhile
attemptiiio- to sho..t through her ear with a revolver. Legal pro-
ceedinos were instituted, but the defendant was released on bail
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pay, turning the wife and a large family of interesting children upon
the world to care for themselves.
SOThe FOLLOWING INCIDENT lias bceii related as having transpired in
i Brooklyn. If so it has since had a Avide circulation. However
it maj' have originated, it betrays yankee traits, and though it has
just passed the round of the papers, and like the extravagant story
about our old blacksmith, John Potts, it has been published far and
wide throughout the whole land, it remains essentially as Dea. W.
used to tell it here 40 years ago : A farmer was one day hoeing corn
in a field beside the road. A stranger came riding by, and as was
the custom in early times, he stopped to have a short friendly con
versation. After a little the growing grain before them became the
topic. "Your corn is not very large" said the traveler. "No," was
the reply, "I planted a small kind."' "It looks pretty yellow" obser
ved the other. "Yes, the seed was a yellow sort" returned the farmer.
*'It may do very well, but it does not look as though you would get
more tjian half a crop" persisted the stranger, "That's all I expect,"
rejoined the man Avith the hoe, "I planted it on shares,"
jf\/ff ANY YEARS AGO, tAvo residents of the township were once con-
^Wi vened with a fcAv others at a little Aveek-day evening meeting.
One of these was a tempoiarj' dweller who Avas generally known as
being habitually too sharp and over-reaching in his business trans
actions, and the two men had had some difficulty iu this way. In
the course of the evening, remarks from indiAuduals came to be in
order, and among others who improved the occasion the first of these
two men made a sjjeech in which he grew over-profuse, in a general
Avaj', in.regard to his oavu short-comings and derelections. When he
had taken his seat, the other one got up and said that it afforded
him a very melancholy pleasure to be able to corroborate all that the
brother had j ust said, but he Avas soirj' the brother had consumed
so much time in telling how bad a man he Avas, for every body knew
that already. Soon, a prominent member of the congregation took up
his hat and Avent quietly out, and home. Then another and another
till the assembly dissolved without further comment,
THE FIRST "corner" iu Wheat may be set doAvn as follows: — Years
ago Peter H, happened one day to be at New Milford on foot,
Wnile there he learned that Avheat Avas becoming scarce in the
county, with a tendency to speculation, and that a merchant there
had agreed to furnish quite a large amount Avhich he had not got,
and that he — the merchant — had been informed that Mr, O, (a neigh
bor of Mr, H, over in Brooklyn) had that year raised a large crop
which was for sale, and the merchant's team was that moment ready
to start to make the purchase. Mr. H. at once saw a chance for a
joke and a little gain. He was familiar with the ground betAveen the
two places and kuew that a footman could avail himself of a route
somewhat shorter than the jiublic road. The first his family knew of
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OU his arm and the little dog that accompanied him following behind
with a weary trot and tongue protruding at fuU length. The dog
was glad enough to stop at home, but Mr. H. hurried on and bought
the wheat. The result Avas that when the second buyer came up the
grain cost him $10 more than he had expected. Since then the
practice has expanded into a game of chance of enormous proportions,
often krgety controlling the grain markets of the Avoiid; and the
"Uttle ticker" run by Ughtning, is busy announcing movements and
results ; but it may be doubted Avhether a quicker guess or surer
grasp on "futures" has ever beeu performed thau that which this
little foot-and-dog race across the fields achieved.
^F CHANGES iu the customs of the people many have been hereto
fore mentioned, but there are others. One of these is the dis
continuance of the periodic aud regular visits Avhioh neighbors used
to pay to each other, the women going early in the afternoon, and
the men often coming in to supper. Or a Avhole sleigh-load Avould
go at dark, the table to be spread at 10 o'clock, or refreshments
passed on a "server."
Another is the disappearance of hand-knitting as one of the house
hold industries. This Avas once carried on largelj' in connection
with spinning, each family supplying its own wants, and many pro
ducing products for the market.
Another worthj' of mention and commendation is the abandonment
of the habit of snuff-taking by the Avomen, Avhich Avas once very com
mon. But it is to be feared that the gain in this respect is more tijan
counterbalanced by the greater prevalence of smoking, ic, by the
men and boys.
Another is the almost universal cultivation of house plants to be
kept green and blooming through the winter. This in the early time
was impossible, with but one fire in the house, and that covered and
nearly extinguished at bed-time.
Still another is found in the old-time appointment of evening meet
ings to commence "at early candle-light.'
)OYS WILL BE BOYS till thej''i-e 50 years old," and the boj's of the
 olden time diil not differ much on the whole from the boys
of to-day. They Avere full of the same spirit of inquirj- — the same
tliirst for information, the same liking for cuiiosity and merriment,
aud the same love of adventure. A storj'is told of one little fellow — •
an inveterate teaser — Avho could not be content to limit his scope of
personal observation to the period of his oavu existence. He onco
heard his mother and another lady talking of some event that had
transpired some years before, and he immediately began repeating
th') question — "Ma, Avas I there?" After being somewhat annoj-ed
by his importunity his mother replied — "No my son, it Avas before
you Avere born ;" to Avliich the boy responded in a disappointed and
deploring tone — "Well,- 1 wanted to be there!"
ffTTSHEBE ARE GOOD PEOPLE Avho pride themselves on being jokers and
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244 HISTORY OF BROOKLYN.
literary or refined point in their witticisms. Brooklyn had a tempo
rary resident of this sort at this early day, in the person of Mason
P. On one occasion when one part of the first Jacob TcAvksbury
house, on the knoll, was occupied by a family, and the other part
Avas being used as a meeting house, just as the congregation was
about to disperse Mr. P. discovered, in the other room, a codfish
Cooking in a pot over the fire, the tail of the fish sticking out at the
top. An inoffensive dog was sitting by the fire enjoying the blaze,
when Mr. P. adroitly slipped in, caught and jerked out the fish by
the protruding tail, and striking it toward the dog Avith a loud "get
out!" said: "There, if I hadn't come just as I did, that fish would
have baen devoured !" The sharp eyes of some of the boys detected
the ruse that the danger and the rescue had both been rudely fab
ricated by the jester. Whether his object was to imitate some
Quixotic Knight-errant of old, or whether there was "method in
his madness" — philosophy in disguise — whether his prank Avas
intended as a comment on the sermon, the dog, or the devil does
not appear, but the incident has continued to be handed down
among the jocose with a zest.
, R. Caeey C. Worthing gives his extensive and reliable reminis
cences of Brooklj'n schools of Avhich the following is a con
densed statement : In the summer of 1823 1 boarded at Mr. Milbourn's
and Avent to school to Mary Bailey in tbe Isaac Smith old school
house. Among the scholars Avere Eob't Breed, Sam'l Howard (Jr.),
and Wm. P. Bailey. I was in a class in "baker" with Jas. Bailey —
both at the head. In the winter of 1823-4, Amos Tewksbury taught
in the Milbourn block house. Among the scholars were Nelson,
]31izur, and Thos. Tiffany, Sally Milbourn, and children of Nathan'l
Sterling, Alden Seeley, aud Mr. Crandall (UniversaUst minister) who,
I think, lived in the "old Mr. Jones house," John, Chas., Samuel,
and Nancy Howard also attended. The same winter, Alfred W.
Mack (then but 15 yrs. old) taught at Mack's Corners. I attended
the latter part of the term from uncle Sargent Tewksbury's. In sum
mer of 1824 I attended school in one of the "old factory" buildings,
taught by Sally Miles, a sister of Joshua. I also Avent to school about
this time in the "old Mr. Jones house." [Jas. Eobinson, teacher.]
In the fall of 1824, I Avent to school 4 weeks to Mr. P. Wright, iii
the academy at Montrose, boarding at Mr. Sayre's where father Avas
engaged in making Vertical Spinners. The next Avinter — 1825, the
winter that Treadwell was hung. Aunt Miriam taught in a room in
Anthony Wright's house. In the summer of 1825 I boarded at
Jesse Bagley's (he kept the old tavern) and went to the center school
taught by a daughter of Col. Parke. The scholars were TeAvksbury,
Wilson, Fish, Packer, Bissell,' and Sam'l Weston children. The next
Avinter ("25 & 6) I boarded at Mr. Milbourn's and went to school to
A. G. Bailey in the I. Smith school house. Fredk., Lodowick, Sally,
and Pitt Bailey, Giles, Hallam, Saml. K., and Mary Smith, Eob't
Breed, and the Palmer children Aveie among the scholars. The latter
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in the Jonas E.Adams house, and went to the Center school taught
by James W. Chapman. Among the scholars Avere Charles, Mary,
Sarah, and Harriet Miles, Abel Hewitt, Jared Baker, and Edward,
Joseph, and Chas. Packer. Asa Packer then lived at Esq. Packerls,
but I am not sure whether he came or not. In summer of 1826
Emarenza Kidder taught in a room in the Kingsley fulling-mill. In
winter of 1826-7, Dea. Giddings taught in one of the Factory buUd-
ings. Among the scholars I recollect Charles Miles, Heury Brown
(Mrs. NeweU Eobinson's son), Chas. Griffis, John Williams, Eemy
Miles, and Henry Caswell. Sarah D. Gere taught near Mr. Kent's.
Edw'd, Eliza, and Harriet Smith [children of Eich'd Smith and hali-
brother and sisters of Mary and Fanny Hall], Mary Ann and Nelson
Judd Wilson, the Kents and Austins and, I think, Heniy Mitchell
attended. In the summer of 1828 Sophronia Wilson taught the
Perigo School, and the next winter, A. W. Mack. John and Mary
Perigo, Silas Sterling, and Julia, Lucy, Prudence, and Joseph Ed
monds were scholars. Aunt Miriam taught the Center school in
summer of 1829, and Jas. Lewis, the folloAving Avinter. I attended
both terms from the Birge place. This Avinter was the first I was
sensible of learning anything at school. The next summer father
moved into the old Miles house, by remains of old dam, and in the
Avinter occupied part of the old tavern kept by Jesse Bagley. Fred'k
Bailey, Jr., taught the Center school 1830-1 — the first I kiicAv of
geography with maps. I had Olney, and Charles Miles had AVood-
bridge. Dwight's geography had previously been used as a reading
book. I remember as scholars, Horace Yeomans, Sophia Skidmore,
Henry Gere, and the Packer, Fish, Baker, Bagley, Garland, and
Morgan children. EdAvard Bagley and I built fires for the ashes.
With the ashes I bought a Daboll's arithmetic Avhicli I still have.
In 1831-2, 1 boarded Avith Amos Tewksbury and Avent to school to
Lyman Kellam near Eeuben Tewksury's. Stephen Bieed taught at
same time at Mack's Corners and I think Enathan Smith at the Cen
ter, and Eodney Jewitt near the Newbury blacksmith shop, and John
T. Giddings in one of the Factory houses. In 1835 Elisha Loomis
taught in Newbury school. Elizur and Thomas Tiffany, L. A. and
E. N. Smith, Esther and Eobert BaUey, and N. J. Wilson and the
Palmer children were among the scholars. In 1836 Azur Lathrop
taught on the hill above Mr. Dewitt's. In 1835-6, E. S. Kent taught
near Wm, Weston's, and the next Avinter, in the Perigo school. In
1836-7, O. C. Ely was at Mack's Corners where I attended, boarding
at H. 'W. Bagley's. In 1837-8 Addison NcAvton taught at Mack's
Corners and I taught in the Perigo School — No. of scholars, 33, per
ct. of attendance, 96, salary, $12 per month of 26 days, $20 public
money, rest paid by proprietors.
M DAY OF GREAT INTEREST and attraction to the children Avas that
^£^ on which the advent of a traveling menagerie in the place first
occurred — the onlj' one that ever exhibited here. Its tent w-as set
up on the little village greeu in front of the school-house on land
noAV between the house of I. S. Tewksbury and that of Dr. Cham-

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berlain. It presented quite a number of the animal AA'onders of
foreign lands — an elephant, one or two each of lions, tigers, leopards,
&c. The elephant seemed most imposing to the boys. He was
quietly regarded, however, while foot-tied to his post. But when
the keeper unfastened him and began to march him around the
arena, some of the little fellows, judging the size of the danger by
the size of the beast, crept under the guard rope and by degrees
backed up against tbe lion's cage, from Avhich risky position some
<of the good mothers of the crowd soon relieved them. Among the
performers and performances were some Shetland ponies gaily
¦caparisoned and ridden by monkeys gaudily dressed in caps and
ooats of red, purple, and gold, holding the reins and whips in their
hands. An eccentric youth of the toAvnship among the spectators
volunteered a gratuitous addition to this display; as the procession
•of ponies was about to enter from a side department, and the band
were touching preliminary notes in readiness to strike up as the
ponies came in, this youth rose to his full height, which was more
athan medium, and said, in a loud ceremonious tone — "Now sound
double-0" ! Menageries soon began to visit only larger places, and
-a few years after that to combine with circuses.
s TO REMARKABLE seasous, the winter of 1887-8 may perhaps be
Avorthy of mention for its blizzards and extreme cold, while
tfrom the autumn of 1888 to that of 1889, the rain-fall has been ex-
•cessive, the average as reported for a number of years past being
44 in., Avhile that of 1889 was 59 in. — enough to cover the ground to
the depth of nearly 5 ft.
"It rained and the wind seemed never weary."
But no calamities have visited Brooklyn like that which so sadly
'devastated the Conemaugh Valley, or like the destructive floods
sand Avaterspouts that have made their appearance in many parts of
the country, during this rainy advent. And the early winter of 1890
'Continued so mild that grass was growing green in many places and
'dandelions and pansies were seen in bloom in open grounds, in the
middle of Jan,, while summer birds put in an appearance sparingly,
5iiE FOLLOWING tcrsc and racy reminiscences are from a former
resfdent of the place who thus writes :
"Of the events which most impressed me, in the days of my boy
hood, none are more distinctly remembered than the aimual meet
ings of the 'Brooklyn Light Infantry.' This was a military
organization which flourished late in the thirties, consisting of a
single company of fifty or sixty men, officered by a captain,
lieutenants, sergeants and other non-commissioned officers, — the
company constituting, if my memory serves me, a part of the 136th
Eegiment, 3d Brigade, Eighth Division, Pennsylvania Militia,
The uniform of this company was a black swallow-tail coat, the
collar and skirts of which were turned up Avith bright red ; white
trousers; boots or shoes; and a black 'plug hat,' from the front
upper extremity of which rose to the height of about one foot, an

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ornamental attachment Avhich was composed of a central stem of
whalebone, and a covering of short plumes, laid on from the top
downwardly, the main portion being of Avhite [for the commissioned
officers] but the upper portion being of 'uright scarlet feathers.
The captain and the lieutenant, like the rank and file, Avore a
'plug' or stove-pipe hat, but the oruament thereon was much more
lofty, elegant, and imposing, th.in those of the privates.
The company was armed with a heavy flint-lock musket, of ancient
pattern and enormous boro, and provided with a bayonet.
Whether the Army Eegulations of those days Avere specific as to
height or breadth of collar, or length of skirt, of the coat ; or height
of crown, or Avidth of rim, of the hat, I know not; but if they were,
it is certain that much lenitj' Avas exercised in enforcing them, for
the company uniform was uniform in nothing but its lack of uni
formity. Many of the coats, instead of being black, were of a rusty brown ;
and a blue one was no uncommon sight.
Some of them had doubtless beeu constructed in the days of Jack
son's first administration, for thej' had enormous collars which exten
ded high up on the back of the head of the wearer, and A>'ere made
stiff and unyielding by quantities of canvass and padding, in connec
tion with the use of soap. Some had skirts of extreme narrowness
and extraordinary length. Others were of the bob-tail order, con
trasting strikingly with their attenuated neighbors.
Many of the hats were of the most pronounced bell-crown type,
with rims which, at either side, were closely rolled, and Avitli a long,
loose nap which never Avould lie dowu except when thoroughly wet
ted. Others were of the pure stove-pipe order — a true cylinder as to
crown, and the narroAv, flat rim projecting straight out from the base
of the cylinder. Between these distinct classes Avere all varieties and
modifications of form, with croAvns ranging from five to ten inches
in height, rims from one to four inches iu Avidth, and composed, some
of silk, some of fur, and some of avooI, the latter being a dead black,
and without a nap.
The trousers were of bleached cotton jeans, aud much latitude
was exercised in their cut — some being wide and baggy while others
were almost too narrow to be drawn over the woolen trousers which
the temperature at that season of the year — 'the first Monday in
]yiay'  made it necessary to Avear under them. The jean trousers,
after a fcAV Avashings [aud they Avere to be kept scrupulously clean]
would lose several inches of their length, and it was not unusual to
see five or six inches of the black, brown, or other color exposed to
view beloAV the lower extremity of the white ones.
But, Avhatever the regulations may have required, all these and
various other little informaUties, though they likely did not escape
the notice of the officer in command, Avere practically overlooked.
By the rank and file they were, doubtless, as a rule, wholly unob
served or if not unobserved, Avere regarded as of too Uttle importance
to be worthy of remark; and thus the annual meetings continued

248 HISTORY OF BROOKLYN.
from year to year, all the maneuvers of the 'parade and drill' being
executed (or intended to be) in strict conformity with the provis
ions of law, and, for the most part, in the utmost good faith, on the
part of both officers and men, Avho were bj' no means deficient in
patriotism or valor, but the spectacle presented was unavoidably
unique and grotesque.
To attempt a description of the manner in which this company
went through the manual of arms, would be sheer presumption, for
it was simply indescribable. The pieces [brightly scoured and glit
tering] were almost as dangerous at the rear, as the front, and it
was not uncommon for a private to quietly disregard the order to
fire, through apprehension of jjersonal inj ury by bursting, or by the
recoil. The music was good; 'the spirit-stirring drum, and the ear-
piercing fife' being played with such skill as to leave little to be
desired. I have seen hundreds of thousands of armed men of infinite va
riety of uniform and of every degree of discipline and effectiveness,
but I have never yet seen another military body that could create
upon BroadAvay or Pennsylvania avenue, so marked a sensation as
would 'The Brooklyn Light Infantry' of fifty years ago, if it Avere
possible to reproduce them in all respects as Avlien they disported
themselves upon the green by the old Methodist church. It Avould
be a sight which would well repay a tri^D across the continent."

"As already intimated, Susquehanna Co. boasted of several other
military organizations besides 'The Brooklyn Light Infantry';
and to one of these, 'Tlie Susquehanna Troop,' Brooklyn contribu
ted several of her most prominent and active young men. This com
pany of cavalry usually met for drill, at the countj' seat. In Sept.,
of each year, the entire regiment of infantry, the company of cavalry,
and an organization known as 'The Harford Artillery' met for bat^
talion and brigade drill and inspection. This meeting ordinarilj' at
tracted a large number of spectators, and to provide for the Avants
of these, and of the military, many of the neighboring farmers
repaired to the place of meeting, Avith Avagon loads of refreshments.
Concerning one of these — Zerah S. of Brooklyn, commonly knoAvn
as Uncle Zerah — a Avell authenticated story Avas told which, at the
time, Avas greatly enjoyed — by others.
Driving early to Montrose, Uncle Zerah had promptlj' set up his
stand or booth, Avliich was well supplied Avitli seasonable fruits and
also with a quantity of excellent honey together with its appropriate
concomitants, cold biscuits aud sweet milk.
Aware of Uncle Zerah's high reputation as a caterer, several of
the Brooklyn boj'S avIio appreciated the 'delicacies of the season,' ap
proached him with au eager desire to satisfy the cravings of an appe
tite sharpened by several hours' tramping on a crisp autumn morn
ing. Deputing one of their number as spokesman, they succeeded
in effecting an agreement with Uncle Zerah, the conditions of which

INCIDENTS AND REMINISCENCES, 249
were that he, as party of the first part, A\as to supply to each of the
hojs one-half as much honey as he could eat, together \\ ith biscuits and
milk in quantity sufficient to prevent injurious efl'eots from the honey;
whUe the boys, nine in number, as party of the second part, were
each to pay to the party of the first part, the sum of eight cents, in full
compensation for the honey, and accessories, aforesaid. The prelim
inaries being concluded, the boys fell to Avith vigor, and in a few
minutes caused so great a diminution in the stock of milk and hopey,
as to aAvaken in Uncle Zerah serious apprehensions concerning the
results of the agreement, as a business engagement, and as to the
uncertain and indeterminable position of the dividing line between
enough and half enough !
Like 'Zekle' — 'He stood awhile on one foot fust, and then awhile
on 'totlier,' and at last, becoming so uneasj' that he could on longer
attempt to conceal his anxiety, he Avith much hesitation in his tone
and manner, ventured to inquire : 'Boys, don't you think you've had
pretty near half enough ? '
The boys, almost bursting with suppressed laughter and with
compressed refreshments replied, 'O no, Uncle Zerah, Ave've only
just begun to eat ! '
It is hardly uecessarj' to state that Uncle Zerah's profits from the
transaction were a minus quantitj', or that he never afterward
engaged in a similar one.
In those days before the advent of railroads, vi'hen literary mag
azines were unknown, and when ncAvspapers were not numerous nor
of wide circulation a trivial affair like this Avas food for merriment
for many weeks."

"Somewhat later than the date of this occurrence, as the story is
related, although I do not undertake to vouch for it, a Avild prank
was played upon an officer, probably a steward, of one of the village
congregations. It appears that the steAvard called at the store of one
of the local shop keepers, to obtain a supply of wine, for sacramen
tal purposes. To annoy the steAvard, one of the clerks suggested that
as the wine Avas weak, it would be Avell to strengthen it by an ad
mixture of brandy. The steward, assuming that the proposition
 ^really offered in a spirit of badinage — had been made in seriousness,
defied the clerks to do it, and threatened them with the vengeance
of their employer, departing with instructions concerning the dispo-
'sition of the decanter, Avhen filled, and for Avhich he would call later.
No sooner had he disappeared than the clerks, unwiUing to be influ
enced by a threat, proceeded to do Avhat had at the outset, been
proposed duly in jest. The consequences, in streaming eyes and
flushed faces, when the Avine (?) came into use at service the next
day, may better be imagined than described. They were so marked
and' serious, in fact, that more than one Avho Avas in the secret, re
tired precipitately from the church, in apprehension of others, possi
bly still more serious, from the mixed and shaken condition of
conflicting and concurrent moral conclusions! Nearly all who partook,

250 HISTOEY OF BEOOKLYN.
noted the unusually stimulating effect of the wine, but probably not
one was sufficiently acquainted with such preparations, to suspect
the real cause thereof."

The Infantry Company alluded to by tlie above mentioned wiiter
was organized, according to its record. May 7, 1824, under title oif
"The Hopbottom Light Infantry Company," the name being after
ward, changed with the change of name of township, to Brooklyn.
From its by-laws it appears that the uniform diess was to consist of
"Black coat with red facings, white vest and pantaloons, citizen's
black hat, with black feather and red top, and cockade, black hand
kerchief or stock, and boots or black stockings." "The unifoim of
commissioned officers shall correspond with that used in the United
States' service. The uniform of the musicians shall be red rounda
bouts trimmed Avitli black, Avliite vests and pantaloons, with black
stocks or handkerchiefs, aud red feathers." Military dress in later
year's has assumed more neutral colors, as affording less conspicuous
objects of marksmanship. The following are names of members as
copied from the muster-roll, but the time of enlistment is not ahvays
definite .if ter the first: —
Eowland MUes, Capt., Samuel Weston, 1st Lieut. (Capt. 1827),
Amasa Knight, 2d Lieut., Augustus Birge, 1st Sergt., Ammi Ely,
2d Sergt. (1st Lieut., 1827; Capt., 1829), Erastus BroAvn, 3d Sergt.'
(2d Lieut., 1827), Amos Tewksbury, 4th Sergt., John E. jEly, 1st
Cor. (1st Sergt,, 1827), Eeuben Tewksbury, 2d Cor, (2d Sergt., 1827),
Nelson WiUiams, 3d Cor. (3d Sergt., 1827; 1st Lieut., 1829; Capt.,
1831), Josiah Mack, 4th Cor., Marvin L. Mack, fife (3d Cor., 1829),
George Chapmau, fife, Edward L. Gere, fife (4th Cor., 1827), Asa
Crandall 2d, snare drum, James M. Eobinson, snare drum, Heniy
Mitchell, bass drum, Joseph Lines, bass drum. Privates — Charles-
Perigo, Amos G. Bailey (3d Cor., 1827), Dan'l Tewksbury (2d Lieut.,
1829; 1st Lieut., 1831; Capt., 1833), Thomas E. HoAve, Ephraim
Tewksbury, Jr., Francis Fish, Orson Eeed, Caleb Jackson, Joseph'
Jackson, Jas. Oaklej', Lebbeus Eogers, Geo. NeAvbury, Enoch Lord,
James E. Howe, Daniel Wood, Zelotus BroAvn, Orra Wright, Abel
Green, Luke A. WUUams (4th Cor., 1828 ; 1st Cor., 1829), Charles
Miles (4th Sergt., 1827), Jas. W. Chapman (1st Cor., 1828; 3d Sergt.,
1829), Silas Sweatland, Horace Wright, Isaac Fletcher, Lodowick
Bailey, Jabez Giles (3d Cor,, 1829), Edward Otto, Timothy Penny,
Eph'm K, Howe, David Whitney, Nathaniel Eeynolds, Jacob Wilson,
Jr,, Dimock Wilson, John Davison, Eden Brown, John Gates, Eras
tus Caswell, Jas. Eeynolds, Wm. Squires, David Morgan, EUjah H.
Howe, Andrew Tracy, Edmond Garland, Hiram HoAve, Chas. V. Gere.
Names added in 1827: Abel HcAvitt, 1st Cor. (3d Sergt., 1828;
2d Sergt., 1829; 1st Sergt., 1831; 1st Lieut., 1833; Capt., 1835),
Jefferson Sterling, 2d Cor. (4th Sergt., 1829; 2d Sergt., 1831), Jacob
Tewksbury, Jr., (2d Cor., 1831), Sylvester Wright, Youngs L. Cul
ver, Wm. S. Champlin, Gurdon D. Hempstead, snare drum, Natlnin
W. Waldron.

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Enlisted 1828. EU B. Goodrich, John H. Chapman, Jas. Hewitt
(2d Cor., 1829; 3d Sergt., 1831; 1st Sergt., 1833), John V. Eosencrantz.
In 18'29. Anson Tiffany (3d Cor., 1833). In 1830. Luther Seeley.
In 1831. Fred'k W. Bailey, 2d Lieut., Jas. L. Adams, 4th Sergt.
(2d Lieut., 1833; 1st Lieut., 1835), Benj. S. Saunders, 1st Cor., Ezra
S. Brown, 3d Cor. (3d Sergt., 1833; 1st Sergt., 1835; 1st Lieut.,
1837), Wm. C. Giles, 4th Cor. (2d (Jur., 1835), Lyman Kellam, fife,
Dan'l B. Bagley, tit'e, Samuel Kellam, snare drum, Eeuben O. Miles,
snare drum, Lorin L. Bagley, bass drum, Julius Simons, George
H. Giles, Sam'l E. Brown, Aaron Saundeis, Cornelius Westbrook,
Daniel Baker, Henry BroAvn, Amos IJ. Merrill (4th Sergt, 1835;
Capt., 1837), Stephen Smith, Samuel H. Miles, John Tewksburj-,
Nelson Tifl'any (4ih Sergt., 1833; 2d Sergt., 1835; 2d Lieut., 1835),
Nehemiah Mack, William Miles, Hiram EockAvell, George TewksburA'
(2d Cor., 1833; 3d Sergt., 1835; 1st Lieut., 1835), Asa Fish (1st Cor!',
1835), John WiUiams, John Brittou, Alfred W. Mack.
Enlisted 1832. Samuel Crandall, Joseph Hawlej', Jonas Adams
(2d Lieut., 1835), Ch-arles W. Miles, Elihu Smith.
Enlisted 1833. Eeuben Baker (4th Cor., 1835). EnUsted 1834.
Joshua Saunders, Jas. Bennett, Myron Fairchild, Moses B. Yeomans,
Elizur Tiffanj', Silas Sterling, Amos VanAuken, Benj. W. VanAuken.
Enlisted in 1835. Judson Tiffany, 3d Cor. (2d Sergt., 1837; 1st
Sergt., 1839; 1st Lieut., 1839), Elisha Mary ott, David Sutliff. In
1837. Harlo Simons, G. W. Palmer, 3d Sergt., Joseph E. Hawlej',
4th Sergt. (2d Sergt., 1839), WeUingtou Case, 3d Cor., Samuel
Wright 2d, Calvin Simons, 4th Cor., Daniel B. Ehodes, Joel Jones,
Jeremiah BroAvn, Chas. N. Griffis, Joseph F. Jackson, Stanley Bee-
man, Austin A. Knight.
EnUsted 1839. Win. Hewitt, 2d Lieut. (1st Lieut., 1840), Joshua
Stage, Jas. G. Packer, 3d Sergt. (1st Sergt. 1841), Stephen H. Will
iams, J. Alonzo Oakley, 4th Sergt. (3d Sergt., 1841), EUsha Mack,
Jr., music, Geo. Sweet, John T. Perigo, 2d Cor. v4th Sergt., 1841;
2d Lieut., 1842), John L. BaUey, 3d Cor., Abel BroAvn, Orrin C. Ely,
4th Cor., Thos. J. Tifl'any, 1st Sergt (2d Lieut., 1841), Christopher
M. Gere, 2d Lieut., Elisha G. Williams, 2d Cor. (1st Sergt. 1842;
Capt., Aug., 1842), Wm. Eobiu-^ou, 2d Sergt., Geo. W. Tiffany, 1st
Cor. (2d Lieut., 1845), Dan'l M. Yeomans, 2d Cor. (1st Sergt., 1842).
In 1842 (aud before). Johoi da Millard, tst Lieut., Benj. B. Jack-
sou, 2d Cor. (2d Lieut., 1843; 1st Lieut., 1845), Horace Jayne, 4th
Cor,, Geo, W. Burdick, David Davison, Alvin Aldrich, Wm. Lord,
Drew Lord, Charles Mack, Warren E. Griffis, Joshua S. Whiting,
Alanson Wright, EUphalet Bailey, music, John D. Safford, music.
Iu 1843 (and some before). Jotham Oakley, 2d Cor., Harvey
Whitney, Geo. Whitney, George Wright, Jefferscn Barnes, Willard
Fuller, Wm. Bloomfield, Wm. B Thomas, Daniel Westbrook, Elias
Sta"-e, Henry C.-isweU. Ebenezer M. Cole, Wm. M. BoAven, AndreAv
llo'^ers, Daniel Miles, Jose]ih Hawley. snare drum, Chas. P. BisseU,
bass drum, Ephraim -A Vail, Wm. Titsworth, Sam'l Thurber, Thos,
Eobinson, Eobert D. Shappee, Edmond Tewksbury, Geo. M. Elj',
Thomas M. Oakley, bass drum, Elam Hawley, music, John Squiers,

252 HISTORY OF BEOOKLYN.
Joseph Saunders, Wanton Green, S. Warren Spencer, Woodbury S.
Wilbur, Joshua Jackson, Francis Tewksbury, Charles Lord, John
Lord, Levi Bisbee, Chas. Maryott, music, Wm. P. Tewksbury, JuUus
Lord, Joseph Lord, Abel Green, David Hutchins.
In 1844 military "Pioneers" were introduced consisting- of the
foUowing:  Stephen H. WUliams, John Squires, Edmond G.
Tewksbury, Austin A. Knight, Henry Caswell, Levi Bisbee. These
were stalwart men, dressed in becoming uniform, equipped with
implements to remove obstructions and open tre Avay; and, placed
at the head of the column, they helped give the whole an imposing
appearance. 1844, Privates. Curtis Tewksbury, Chauncey Tingley, George
Miles, Orlando Wright, Horace Ball, Daniel Hawley, Dudley B.
Packer. Enlisted in 1845. Eufus TeAvksbury, Orimal Davison,
Gilbert Lord, Wm. P. Crandall, Geo. D. Oakley, Dan'l Langstaff.
Daniel M. Yeomans was elected Capt., May 4, 1846, and other
offices were filled, but that is the last meeting that appears on record,
the organization soon disbanding, after a flourishing career of 22
years, as successful as any of that time. Each member serVed for a
certain number of drills\about three a year) the first enUsted being
discharged about 1831. C. M. Gere was at one time Colonel of the
regiment.

Names of Members of Susquehanna Troop, residents of Brooklyn,
(chiefly as collected by J. A. Ashley and A. E. Gere) : —
Jacob Ainey, John Ainey, Seth Ainey, Galen V. Adams (Capt.),
Obadiah Bailey, Eobert P. Breed, Horace C. Bagley, Chas. Baker,
S. Augustus Bissell, Isaac Bissell, Orson Case, Isaac M. Dewitt,
Amos T. DcAvitt, Edward P. Garland, Albert E. Gere, Henry Gere
(Capt. and after, Maj.), Benj. B. Jackson, Joshua Jackson, Harmon
E. Kittle, Chas. J. Lathrop, Horace G. Mack, John B. Mack, Elisha
Packer, Chas. Packer, Dudlej' B. Packer, Edw'd Packer, Jr., Chas.
Eogers, Christopher Eogers, D. Gardner Smith, Hubbard N. Smith,
Sam'l K. Smith, Hallam Smith, Jas. N. Smith, Jas. Sterling, Ansel
E. Tewksbury, Isaac S. Tewksbury, Jos. W. Tiffany, P. Horace
Tiffany, Chauncey Tingley, Francis Tingley, Eliot C. Wilson, Peter
Woolsey, Sam'l Horace Yeomans. Thej' were substantially capari
soned and armed Avith swords and heavy pistols.
The first military organization seems to have beeu about 1806,
when Amos Bailey was commissioned by Gov. McKean as Capt. of
the 3d Company, 129tli Eeg., 2d Brigade, 9tli Division (comprising
the counties of Northumberland, Lycoming, and Luzerne), Peiina.
Militia. And after the disbanding of the Infantry and Troop above
mentioned, an unarmed and ununiformed companj' of miUtia Avas
formed and kej)t up for some time. The first training of the early
settlers seems to have been at Thos. Parke's, Avho Avas then Capt.
(afterAvard Col.), Joseph Chapman being Ensign, or color- bearer,
and Jesse Bagley, Sergt. This Avas in 1806. Another Avas held ort
grounds of Joseph Chapman (Jr.) in 1808.

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Jhe first MARBLE TOMBSTONE put lip in the Old Cemetery is said
to have been that of Andrew Tracy, and judging- from its quaint
appearance, this is doubtless true. He died in 1801 and was buried
a little south of the old pear tree standing- on the east margin of
the road (now belonging to W. L. Sterling) and his remains, Avith
those of his son Leonard, the first New England teacher of the
township, Avere removed by the assistance of Caleb Crandall, iu 1827,
and the little slab placed at the spot.
CONSIDERING tlic prevalent and necessary use of fire-arms among
the early settlers, it is fortunate that so few accidents occurred.
Edwin, a son of Thos. Oakley, in his early ambition to become a
marksman had been out with a shotgun, when his younger sister,
Eunice, who was standing near, playfully remarked — "You'd better
shoot me." Her brother said, slipping one hand back toward the
lock, "It would take but a little touch back here to do it." In some
unaccountable manner the gun was discharged and the contents
lodged in the knee of the sister. It A\'as for some time feared that
amputation of the limb would be necessary, but it was finally saved.
At another time Mr. O. (the father) one day saAV three deer crossing
the road near the bouse, and took his rifie to try for some venison.
On returning to the house, he Avas wiping his gun to put it away
when it was accidentally discharged, the ball passing into a chest
standing near, then througii a roll of flannel (30 yds.), through a
weaver's reed, and out of the chest into the side of the house.
(Oamuel W. enjoyed a joke. When his house was burned in 1823
© there were in the basement a couple of barrels of meat. It had
been closely packed and the salt and brine prevented its being much
injured by the fire. The falling timbers did not happen to strike it
and after the fire went out it stood there — two pillars of pork, the
barrels having been burned away and onlj' the outside pieces some
what broiled. About this time, a resident of the north part of the
township had his barn burned, and it so happened that it then con
tained all his provisions, which were consumed. So one of his neigh
bors started a subscription to give him a little help. In passing
around he met Mr. W., and thinking he had already just suffered a
greater loss, was about to go by when Mr. W. said, "Hold on, you
needn't skip me ; put me down for $5, and I'U pay it in pork; I've got
plenty and Mr.  hasn't any."
"es. Susan VanAuken, the 4th child and 2nd daughter of Elisha
..a.-.— and OUve Safford, born here January 22, 1815, in speaking of
the"home manufacture of toAV and linen cloth that still prevailed at
the time of her marriage in 1834, says there was no happier young
woman than Tierself when her father brought home her new and
dainty little Avheel, Avhich though noAv disused, she stiU preserves
with its bright painted rings of red and black. She used to spin
from the shining flax suspended on its distaff while she rocked the
cradle with one foot, and Avith the living religion of the mother's

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HISTORY OF BROOKLYN.

heart, which dwelt in mother hearts before her, inspired and in
born from the great Spirit of the Good and True, and which is
deeper and purer tlian aughi the creeds can tell, she sang —
"Hush, my babe, lie still and slumber;
Holy augels guard thy bed.
Heavenly blessings Avithout number
Gentlj' falling on thy head.
Sleep, my child, thy food and raiment.
House and home thy friends provide ;
Aud, Avithout thy care or payment.
All thj' wants are wCU supplied."
'®2^HE OLD-TIME eveiiing spelling school or "spelling bee" has become
' JBL obsolete. Years ago it was customary to have frequent spelling
contests. This was itone by one school sending a special invitation
or challenge to another school to test comparative proficiency, and
sometimes by a general invitation to all scholars in the vicinity.
When assembled upon the latter plan, two persons Avould be desig
nated as "choosers" and would alternatelj' select the scholars present,
seating them on opposite sides of the house. A teacher would then
pronounce words to each "side" in rotation, an account being kept
of the number of misspelled words on each side. Sometimes an in
dividual competition would be instituted, all the scholars present
standiiig up till every one should miss a word and sit down. The
spelling wa-i all oral, Avtthout the efficiency of practical application,
and champion spellers would sometimes sit down to Avrite a letter
and make bad work of orthography.
THE STAGE^HORN was au institution iu itself, real and tj'pical. It Avas
of tin, three or four feet long, but its influence and signiflcance
were far-reaching. It Avas the en gine- whistle aud the telegraphic
'"call" of that day. It proclaimed that the means of interchange of
business, news, and friend.shij) was apjjroaching and about to pass
on its continuous round. As the majesticallj'-moving railroad train
always attracts the ej'e near Avhich it passes, no matter how many
times it may have been seen before, so at that day of smaller things,
the arrival of the stage coach — witli its tin-decked roof, its rocking
thoroughbraces (its springs of leather — not of steel) and its pranc
ing four-horse team — drew the attention of all the by-standers and
of everyone Avithin the reach of oliservation. And as this mode of
travel was on a comparatively small scale it served to call forth the
exercise of those spontaneous interests Avhich people feel in fellow
beings, aud thej' wondered Avho Avere on board, and Avhither bound,
and with Avhat intent. And the driver's reverberating horn became
a speaking index on the iiigli-ri>ad of changes through which Ave have
passed and !>re passing — an index long gone by, but still pointing
toward the future. It Avas a signal betokening man's sympathy for
his kind, and his thirst for kuoAvledge and advancement; and, through
all our historj' to the last, other heralds of the triumjAs of communi-

CONCLUSION. 255

cation and association seem destined still to follow in the stages of
human progress, still further over-leaping the barriers to the kin
ship of the earth.

Conclusion.
The uses of history are at least twofold. An instinctive and in
nate love for retrospect has been implanted in the human breast,
and for wise purposes. The memory takes us back to by-gone days
with pensive and persuasive but irresistible impulse.
"There are moments Avhen years of occurrences meet.
When the past steals upon us Avith fairy feet;
When the song of the birds or the rustle of leaves
Wakes the feeling that gladdens or feeling that grieves."
"And all uuAvoithy of thj- trust thou art.
If with dry eye and cold unloving heart.
Thou tread'st the solemn Pantheon of the past.
By the great future's dazzling hopc made blind
To all the beauty, poAver, and truth behind,"
But the keeping of historic records marks the distinguishing line
between civilization and savagery. Man can attain his best estate
only by exercise of reason, his croAvning endoAvment: and reason
must be guided largely by experience — by
"Foot-prints on the sands of time."
And it is here that the old and the ubav must meet and blend their
influences to aid the judgement and the conscience to choose the
course to pursue, and the course to shun. It is thus onlj- that the
human family can most effectually learn and jiractice its relations
of brotherhood— thus only it can fully realize that "an injury to one
is an injurj' to all" — thus onlj' it can knoAv that the true rule is, not
"the greatest good to the greatest number," but "the greatest good
to every one." And Avhile we cling to the inalien.-ible right of free
dom of thought, of sentiment, and action, and exercise the keenest
vigilance, and while Ave recognize the vital fact that a desire to ex
cel is the noblest and most potent factor in securing man's welfare
and his true greatness, yet all history proclaims the folly of the race
in banding themselves into clans and factions, sects and guilds, to
oppose each other in secui'ing benefits which all are seeking, instead of
combining the efforts of all to make those benefits surer and greater.
The world's great need is a higher moral standard than that of destruct
ive competition, and a higher economy, Avith much less loss and waste
in supplying its Avants, Avhile still leaving those wants but half sup
plied. If a great "Trust" be necessary to help secure that economy,
that Trust must be made to include all the people of the country in its

256 HISTORY or beooklyn.
benefits and responsibilities. But in any event, that greater economj'
must be attained. Pacts — history and its logic — are busy with these
great problems. "The out-worn rite, the old abuse,
The pious fraud transparent groAvn,
The good held captive iu the use
Of .wrong alone—
These wait their doom from that great law
Which makes the past time serve to-day;
And fresher life the world shall draw
From their decay.
O, backward looking son of time,
The new is old, the old is ucav,
The cycle of a change sublime
Still sweeping through.
'Tis but the ruin of the bad —
The wasting of the Avrong and ill;
Whate'er of good the old time had
Is .living still I
And it devolves upon the people of to-day to rid that good of still
attending evils and to turn it to the best account.

257

Index.

[This index is designed for perusal. Manj- short facts are here
stated independently. And some statements from more reliable
sources afterward obtained are here made. Piesent family names
are in alphabetical order in the body of the book, and older ones in
the index. Other names in the family, if known, Avill appear in the
family account.]

A.

Adams, Jonas E.,  101, 113.
Adams, John (from Mass.),  23, 159.
Adams, John (from N. J.), [First Avife, Eliza Giier.]  168.
Adams, James,  23.
Adams, WilUam H.,  38.
Adams, James (brother of Jonas),  101.
Adams, James L,,  159, 58.
Adams, James Wallace,  173.
Adams, Caroline,  141.
Adams, Galen V.,  69, 82,
Adams, Walter,  117, 118, 150.
Adams, Samuel,  182-
Ainey, William,  61.
Ainey, Jacob,  63.
Ainey, John, on Dr. Bissell place, 1830, and on Mitchell place in 1832.
Aldrich, Nathan, [Died Sept., 1872, in his 89th yr., and his wife,
June 4, 1869, age, 83, East Bridgewater Cemetery.]  24.
Aldrich, Isaac,  113-
Aldrich, David and Solomon, on tax list, 1823-25.
Allen, Francis W.,  24, 152, 159.
Allen, Erastus,  24.
Animals,  214-22L
Apple grafts,  48, 62, 148.
Apple-drying,  1 J-
Area of township,  • 4-
Art development,  • . . . ¦  .• •  • ¦ • • ¦ • • • • !'•
Asberv fOne is also said to have been carried on north ot old
"I'a'ctory," west of creek.]  29, 68, 87, 102, 162.
Ashley, EoliinT  25,82.
Ashley, Leonard N.,  • • • • •••-¦¦•  '=*'' ^*-
Ashley, Leonard, [Born in Pittsfield, Mass.]  25.

258

HISTORY OF BEOOKLYN.

Aten, Harbert,  28.
"Aunt Judy" on theology,  51.
Austin, James,  51.
Austin, John,  79.

B.

Babcock, John E.,  127.
Bagley, Orlando,  93, 175.
Bagley, Jesse, [He was born in N. H. Lived on Edward Paine
place, 1827.]  42, 52, 58, 93, 102, 181.
Bagley, Stephen,  119, 174.
Bagley, Thomas,  93, 123.
Bagley, George,  73.
Bagley, Washington,  48, 128.
Bagley, Daniel B.,  48,
Bagley, Horace, [Married Ann, daughter of Walter Adams.] 42, 145.
Bagley, Henry,  73.
Bagley, Loren L.,  105, 137.
Bagley, J. Harrison,  42, 138, 145.
Bailey, Amos, [Voted for Thos. Jefferson in 1804.]  29, 129.
Bailey, Frederick,  33, 51, 129.
Bailey, Lodowick, Sr.,  28, 129.
Bailey, Isaac (a brother of Amos),  89..
Bailej', Giles (a cousin of Amos),  123.
Bailey, Eunice G.,  29, 89,
Bailey, Mary, taught the I. Smith school, 1823,  244.
Bailey, Amos G.,  46, 89.
Bailey, John L.,  ,'  129,
Baker, Joshua,  37, 51, 111, 117,
Baker, Elisha,  139.
Baker, Jared,  41, 138, 141.
Baker, George H.,  139, 141.
Baker, WilUam,  ,  119,,
Baking-board,  17,
Baldwin, Burr,  38,
BaldAvin, L. Mumford,  24,
Banzette, WilUam E,,  141.
Barn, burned and rebuilt,  234.
Barney, E. N.,  ,  44.
Basswood Printing Paper, first experiments,  118.
Beans, Baked, and Bean-Porridge,  . . 232.
Beardsley, James M,,  153.
Bears, , , ",  136, 174, 215,
Bear Venison,  237,
Beebe, Gideon,  78,

INDEX, 259
Beebe, Harry or Henrj', [On tax list, 1828-30.]  79.
Beebe, Calvin, on tax list, 1828-33 — 16 acres.
Beech region,  6.
"Bees" — working,  16.
Bell, Ira D.,  99.
Benjamin, Samuel S.,  168, 171.
Benjamin, N. C, married Dellie F, Webster, 1889,
Bennet, John,  58.
Bennet, Fred, married Annis C, Bailey, 1889,
Bibbins, EUsba,  91.
BidweU,  3, 4.
Birds,  222 to 229.
" Perchers,  225.
" Insectivorous,  225-7.
" Creepers and Climbers,  226, 227.
" Scratchers,  227.
" Carnivorous,  225.
" Waders  228.
" Swimmers,  228.
Birge, Augustus,  94, 95, 100.
Birge, Elijah, and William,  35.
Births, The first,  76, 27, 146.
Bisbee, Seth, [First wife died April 22, 1827, aged 33 years.
Buried in Harford Cemetery.] , . ,  58, 60.
Bisbee, Elisha,  61.
BisseU, Samuel,  61, 166.
BisseU, David,  131, 169.
Bissell, Charles P.,  169.
Bissell, Eliza (a teacher),  62.
Blake, Samuel B.,  97.
Blakeslee, E. L.,  24.
Blanchard, Jeremiah,  55.
Bloomfield, Wm., [Two children deed., Elias andLovisa.]. .40, 176.
Blowers, Isaac,  39.
Bolles, Avery and Eunice (Witter), parents of John Bolles,  40.
Bolles, Lj'man  162.
Borrowed Fire,  I'i^-
Boughton, Harvey, [Died in fall of 1889.]  120.
Bonney, Asa,  166-
Bowen, Samuel G.,  24.
Bowen, Wm., lived with Archibald WiUiams several yrs. about 1835.
Boyd, John H.,  77.
Breed, Stephen, Sr., [Died Mar. 9, 1852.]  75.
Breed, Stephen W.,  184.
Breed, Eobert P.,  75.
Brick-kilns, early,  46,58,132,138.
Bridge, -County,  ¦ ¦ • -o*-
Broadhead, C. W.,  24, 141.
Brook, The circuit of,  • • • • ¦¦¦¦¦¦fl-
"Brooklyn Light Infantry,"  117, 246, 250.

260 HISTORY OF BROOKLYN.
BrookljTi-village Warrantees,  26.
Brook-Lyn,  3.
Brooms,  8,
Brown, Ezra, Timothy, and Eoswell,  42, 124.
BroAvn, Jacob,  107.
Brown, Isaac C, [Had also other children, , Zelotus, Fanny
(Mrs, Jos, Fisk), Hannah (Mrs. Follet), and Nancy (Mr-s.
Francillo Wright).]  138!
Brown, Ezra S.,  172.
Browsing,  7, 238.
Burbank, Phillip, a carpenter, married Pannj', a daughter of
Melvin Packer.
Burch, PoweU G.,  81, 159.

c.
Caldwell, Moses,  44, .45.
Camp-meetings, [That of 1828 Avas near Elijah Mack's large
spring.]  53, 93, 127.
Cannon, Timothy,  31.
Caperton, phj'sician of 1787,  62, 157.
Carding-MUls,  41, 82, 118, 123, 124, 170.
Carr, Eobert,  83.
Casualties, &c.,  208-10.
Caswell, Erastus,  125.
CasweU, Henry,  112, 121.
Catlin, Eli, [A Capt. in the Eevolution ; he and Lynde. doubt
less buried in Old Cemetery.]  99.
Catlin, Putnam, [Had a son Lj'nde who died hereabout 1815—
age, 7 or 8 years.]  99, 131.
Catlin, Luther,  131.
Catlin, George,  131.
Catlin, Henry,  100, 132,
Catlin, Martin L.,  132.
Milbourn,  157.
Old,  59.
HUl (enlarged on the south in 1877),  120,
Prince Perkins,  ,  51,
Newton, . . ,  101,
NcAv,  117.
Chamberlin, "Wright,  4, 128.
Chamberlin, Lewis H., and Abraham,  24.
Champlin, Wm. S.,  69.
Change of Customs,  243.
Chapman, Joseph, Sr.,  27, .54, 171.
Chapman, Joseph, Jr.,  27, 47, 171.
Chapman, Edward,  51, 172.
Chapman, George,  27, 96, 171.

Cemeteries

INDEX, 261
Chapman, Jas. W.,  163, 171.
Chapman, John H., [Lived at John Kingsley's from 1817 to
27.]  54, 123.
Chapman, Betsey,  95.
Chapman, Chas. Marvin, [His son, Eobert E., died in Florida,
Sept. 6, 1889.]  96, 171.
Character of Pioneers,  16.
Charcoal Pits,  35.
Charlton, WUliam,  86.
Chase, Benj. Grant,  87.
Cherry, William,  128.
Chester, Charles,  37.
ChUd- lore Ehymes,  232.
Chm-ches,  202 to 208.
Clay, Cyrus,  41,
Climate,  5.
Cogswell, H, E.,  164.
Cold Summer (1816),  17,
Conclusion,  255.
Cone, George,  79,
Cone, Daniel,  27, 41, 125,
Congregational, First Meetings aud Organization,  38-9, 204,
" Members,  204,
Connecticut Title,  3.
Connor, William, [Shoemaker from London, Eng,]  135.
Conrad, WilUam,  145.
Converse, Augustus,  86.
Cooke, Sylvester,  30, 38, .
"Coonrad HiU,"  26.
Copper Ore, [Dug for extensively by the spring near the house,
and Amos Smith afterAvard dug on the bill side.]  125.
"Corner" in Wheat,  242.
Cornet Band; has existed for twentj'-five years.
Corroborative Evidence,  242.
Cotton Factory,  86, 95, 123.
County Seat,  100.
Coyle, James,  75.
Crandall, Asa, Wheel-wright,  89, 125, 139.
CrandaU, Caleb,  39, 86, 91, 112, 117, 128, 208.
Crandall, Asa,  96, 123.
Crandall, Amos,  117-
Crandall, George E.,  49.
CrandaU, Joshua  ¦49-
Craver, WUUam,  49, 132.
Craver, Harry H., married Sarah E. Gere, 1889.
Craver, W. B., Postmaster, 1889.
Creeks,  ¦_4-
Crocker, Austin,  '^•
CrOAvfoot, Ezra,  •41-
CroAvfoot, Albert,  1-^^-

26-2 HISTORY OF BEOOKLYN.
Culver, Youngs L.,  108,
Curtis, Ira,  105.
Cushing, David C,  113,
dishing, Moses,  107.
Cushing, Laban,  107.

D.
Daley, Chas. C,  44, 118, 145.
Dandolo,  3, 4, 149.
Daniels, Samuel, [Also lived on the Jas. Tewksbury place.] .... 124.
Danville Expedition, [Started for Danville via Wilkes-Barre in
Oct., 1814; arrived there Nov. 13th, and Avas discharged
Nov. 25th.]  199, 240,
Diivis, John,  69,
D.'ivison, Jobn,  107,
Davison, Calvin,  41, 1^7,
Davison, James,  65, 107,
Davison, Thomas,  107.
DiiAison, Benjamin,  107.
Day, Jairus,  163.
Deans, James, of South Bridgewater,  89.
Deeds,  145, 148.
Delaware, LackaAvanna, & Western E. E.,  4.
Denison, Mason, [Died Sept., 1838. a., 50 yrs.]  62, 160, 173.
Dennis, Henry W.,  51.
Dennison of 1787,  85.
DeWitt, Aaron,  99.
DeWitt, Jezreel,  132.
DeWitt, Increase,  94.
DeWitt, Chauncey B.,  132.
Dickerson, Andrew J.,  108.
Dickinson, Solomon,  99.
Dinner Horn  231.
DistUleiies,  61, 63, 86, 154.
Doolittle, Lyman,  51, 145, 182.
Doolittle, EdAvard,  182.
Doolittle, Nelson, [A son of Benj, and Fanny (Ward) Doolittle,
died at Washington, D. C, May 6, 1886. Buiied beside his
Arife who died Feb., I860.]  120.
DoAvd, Harrison,  30, 182.
Drainage,  4.
Droves of cattle and sheep were, before the advent of rail-roads,
often driven over the turnpikes, presenting imposing ar
rays ; hogs were sometimes driven, and one large drove of
turkeys. ,
DuBois, Jacob,  84.
"Dutch Meadow,"  i68.

INDEX. MB

E.
Early Economy,  235.
Early -time Courage,  240.
East Bridgewater M, E. Class,  78, 207,
Eclipse of June 16, 1806,  17.
Edmonds, Jos., [His chUdren, JuUa, Lucy, Prudence, Joseph,] 86,
Ely, Zelophehad,  57.
Ely, Gabriel,  .' .' [{oi)^ i70.
Ely, Lyman,  165,
Ely, Ammi, 1st,  41
Ely, Silas P,,'  '.'.['.'.'.57.
Ely, Gurdon,  57.
Ely, Hiram,  61, 86, 127.
Ely, Erastus, and William, on tax list in 1815.
Ely, Orrin C,  61.
Ely, Horatio Gates,  170.
Ely, Everett P., married Hattie Benjamin, 1889.
Eldridge, Eobert, [He had also a daughter, Sarah, Mrs. Cor mac
Cusbman of Montrose.]  23.
Eldridge, Orlando A.,  24, 42, 52, 102.
Emmons, Bird, [A brother of Mrs. I. H. Sterling]  122.
Endogenous Plants,  11.
Enforced Praying,  231.
Ensilage,  134.
Ermine, [Ansel Sterling caught one here, Jan., 1890.]  217.
Evergreens  11.
Excitements, Semi-religious,  240.
Exogenous growth,  10.

F.
Fairchild, H. C, was a soldier for a time; came from Conn, to
Montrose aud came here in 1853 or 4.
Fantastics. Late one autumn afternoon some 50 years ago, the
town Avas surprised by the appearance of a large troop of
horsemen, dressed in grotesque costumes, and performing
strange evolutions. It Avas then a new thing and made
quite a sensation.
Farnam, John D.,  _. . 135.
Farrar, Joseph and Susanna,  113, 114.
Fire-making  17.
Fire-place, The old,  178.
First Settlement,  19, 27, 76.
Fish, Anthony, Sr.,  63.
Fish, Anthony, Jr.,  41, 64.
Fish, Asa,  63.
Fish, Frederick,  145. 171

264

HISTOEY OF BEOOKLYN.

Fish, Francis, [Lived also for several vears onthe EUjah NeAV-
ton place.1  ,"  31, 111, 140, 145, 150,
Fishes,  '.  222,
Fisk, Joseph,  114.
Flax-dressing,  17-
Fletcher, Isaac,  37.
Fletcher, Josiah,  151-
Fletcher, Joshua,  66.
Flowers and Plants,  11, 210.
Folding Plants,  , . 15,
Follet, Lewis, assessed Avith 160 acres from Elisha Williams in
fall of 1817, and marked "deceased" in 1827. He Avas a son
of Eobert Follet, and the first Avhite child born in Harford,
Sept. 27, 1794.
Forse, Albert,  64, 108.
Forse, Gilbert, [Died, Jan., 1890.]  108.
Fortified Wine iu Church,  249.
Poster, Eiehard,  82.
Tester, Ira H.,  96.
Pox, Dana  73, 127.
Pox of 1787,  157.
Fox, Chas., on assessment, 1818, and on Dr. Bissell's accounts
in 1822. Not a relative of Dana.
Fraser, Orris,  38.
Fuller, Consider,  166.
Puller, Noah,  75.
G.
'Gardner, John, father of Edward and grandfather of Barney
Gardner, lived for some jears on the Ashley knoll, and on
, the C. S. Perkins place, and went to Loomis Lake.
'Gardner, Edwin P., taught a select set ool over E. S. Kent's store.
Garic, Frederica (Mrs. Oonran of Carbondale),  146.
Garland, Thomas,  117, 125, 126, 182.
" Apprentices,  183.
'Garland, Ephi-aiai B.,  34, 46.
'Garlan'd, Samufel, '  34.
•Garland, Edmond, [Here in 1824.]  76.
•Gairi-iSOta, John P.,  85.
<Gavtlt, Asa P., [On PliUip Frick Warrantee.]  65.
Gavitt, George (deaf and dumb), brother of Stephen, killed on
E. E. track. May, 1889.
Geological Indications,  3, 214.
Gere, Jeremiah,  171, 185,
Gere, Stephen,  23, 45.
Gere, George M., [Died Oct. 13, 1871, at Chatfield, Minn.] 25, 30.
Gere, Chas, V  37, 134, 152, 179.
Gere, Capt. Charles, [J. W. Tiffany built the new house on this

INDEX, 265
place, but the old one is stiU standing, P, H, Tiffany be
gan farming here in 1848.]  58, 160.
Gere, Ebenezer,  44, 93, 106.
Gere, EdAvard L.,  68.
Gere, Chas. Denison,  160.
Gere, Henry,  45, 185.
Giddings, CyrU, [Died Nov. 28, 1853, a., 72, and Mrs, G, died
June 17, 1865, a., 83 yrs., 3 ino., and 9 d.]  122,123.
Giles, Thomas,  56.
Giles, Fanny (lost)  56, 208.
GUes, George H.,  192.
Gimlets, Home made  17.
Glaciers,  3,
Goldenrod,  :  13,
Goodrich, Eli B,, [Had a daughter. Content, Avho died young,] 69, 107.
Good Templers  135,
Goodwin, Edward,  ,  75.
Gordineer, Norman,  142.
Goss, John, on tax list from 1825 to 1830,  132, 149,
Goss, Edward,  39.
Graham, .John, on tax list from 1825 to 1830.
Grand Army,  135.
Grangers or Patrons of Husbandry,  135.
Grannis, Lyman,  167.
Green, Obadiah,  127, 159.
Green, Abel, [Assessed Avith 74 acres of land from Dr. BisseU in
1817.]  30, 145, 170.
Griffis, Stephen, Sr., and Jr.,  184.
Griffith, Wm. E. and Mary,  .46, 113.
Grist-miUs,  58, 77, 97, 117, 118, 154, 155, 182.
Guernsej', Joseph,  25, 124.
Guernsey, John and Mercy,  24.
Guernsey, Hiram C, [A soldier of 1812.]  32.
Gun-shot Accidents,  253.
H.
"Half Enough,"  248.
Hall, John B., blacksmith, brother of Mary and Fanny— on
tax Ust in 1818.
Hai-kins, Wm.,  :  .136, 231,
Harrison, G. E., a son of N. S. Harrison, m the grist-mill, 1889,
W. P. Eemaly having removed.
Harrison, NeAveU S.,  118-
Hartley, Mark,  -32.
Hatch, Dr., a dentist,  o^ i!,^'
Hawley, Abel,  «6, 176.
Hawley, Joseph W.,  Iqs'onQ
Hawley, Asa,  138, 209.

266

HISTORY OF BROOKLYN.

Hawley, Isaiah  91, 112, 128, 172.
Hayden, Barney, [On assessment roli, 1830.]  117-
Hemlock Brooms,  8-
Hempstead, Gurdon D., [Was a blacksmith at Dimock Corners
for several years.]  164, 176.
Hempstead, Orlando G.,  24, 58, 120.
Herb Vestiges of the Pioneers,  16.
Herkimer, Peter, [Died Mar. 18, 1865, age, 74 yrs., 3 mo., and
his wife died May 16, 1835, age, 53.]  24.
Hewitt, Israel (a Eevolutionary soldier),  129.
Hewitt, James,  72.
Hewitt, Abel,  82, 109, 129,
Hewitt, Jedediah,  109.
"His Hired Man,"  241,
Hocum, Samuel,  209,
Holdridge, Eufus,  ,, , 58, 128.
Holister, AmosG,, [Died Sept, 1, 1885, in his 70th year; Mrs.
H. died Dec. 3, 1887, in her 68th year.]  77.
HoUster, Mi-s. O. D., died, Jan., 1890.
Homesteads and People,  22.
Honeysuckles and red elder had developed new leaves Feb. 1st,
1890, and soft maple and lilac buds seemed about to burst.
Hops and Hopbottom, [Wild hops are well remembered, and
the clambering clematis may also have been regaided as
simUar to hops, and may have added to the vine-clad ap
pearance as seen bj' the first settlers.]  13, 148.
Horizon,  5.
HoAvard, Samuel,  22, 48, 91, 177.
Howe, Ephraim  27, 34.
Howe, Jas. E.,  35,
Howe, Hiram,  ,  67.
HoAve, Ephraim K,,  :  „ . . 94, 150.
Hyde, Ezekiel, [His land under Ct, title was on the Wyalusing,
in "Usher," as was that of his uncle, Jabez Hj'de,. at "Ein-
daw," He died in 1805, probably at WUkesbarre,] 130, 148, 178.
I.
Imperiled Codfish,  243,
Indians,  ,  3.
Industrial Economy — errors in,  19.
Industries,  193 to 198.
Insects,  221,
Isothermal lines,  5.

J.
Jackson, Joshua, Sr,,  .,.,,,... 113, 139.

INDEX. 267
Jackson, Joseph,  .*. 114, 137.
Jackson, Joshua, Jr.,  41, 96, 137.
Jacksop, Caleb,  52.
Jackson, Benjamin B.,  ' 115,
Jackson, Thomas and James,  44.
Jewett, Nathan,  78.
Jewett, Eodney  79,
Johnson, Lawrence and Persia,  77.
Johnson, Prince and Phillis,  '  67, 88,
Johnson, Obed,  32, 67,
Johnson, Anthony,  68,
Jones, John,  ;  22, 29, 48, 177.

K.
Keeler, Edwin,  [  ,  163, 209,
KeUam, Mi-s, Panny,  58.
Kellam, Samuel ,  ,',,..,  23.
Kellam, Lyman,  23, 26, 42, 129.
Kenner, Asa,  41.
Kent, Justice,  77.
Kent, David,  78.
Kent, Eobert,  37, 81.
Kent, Elijah,  .80.
Kent, Henry W., [Bought part of the E. CasAvell place.]  136.
Kent, Ezra Stuart,  26, 82.
Kent, George J.,  95.
Kent, Eiehard H.,  4^
Kimball, Eleazer,  65.
Kimber, Abram,  82.
King, John D., [Also once lived on the E. W. Gere farm.]  184.
Kingsbury, Williston and Sarah,  104.
Kingsbury, Ebenezer,  38, 104.
Kingsley, Eufus,  112.
Kitchen "poles,"  17.
Kittle, Harmon E  54, 63, 93.
Knapp, Henry S.,  26.
L.
Lambert,  , mUler, [Had a large family.]  125,
Langstaff, Eachel  ¦  ¦  133.
Langstaff, Daniel L., lived on the James Tewksbury place.
Land Title— False Plan,  4, 19.
Landscapes,  ¦ ¦ • • • -f-
Latham, Erastus,  31, 41, faO.
^Latitude,  io ¦-iiV
Lathrop, Jedediah,  *0) ^»i-

268

HISTORY OF BROOKLYN,

Lathrop, EUsha,  '• 172.
Lathrop, Nathan, [Last wife, Parmelia Swartz,]  169, 209.
Lawrence, Daniel,  62, 63, 181, 182.
Lawrence, Amos,  33, 63, 181.
Lawrence, William,  63, 181.
Lawrence, Allen,  63, 182.
Lawrence, Freeman,  125, 182.
Lee, John C, [Came about 1851.]  150.
Lewis, Samuel, [On tax Ust, faU of 1816,]  23.
Lewis, Valentine,  96,
Lewis, Silas  170.
Lewis, William, [On Dr, Bissell's account, 1819 ; on assessment,
1830; and Wm. LeAvis, Jr., 1820.]  46.
Libraries. As early as 1830, or before, a circulating library was
established, D. B. Bagley, librarian. It contained 40 or 50
volumes of Cooper, Eiley, Bulwer, &c., with one or tAvo books
of Natural History, Life of Columbus, &c. It afterward ,
went into the hands of Dr. Eichardson, and was divided
among share-holders. Two or three collections have since
been made, and one exists now.
Lindley, Levi  176.
Lindsey, Amherst, Sr., [Was an early settler on the Wm. Austin
place, Bridgewater.]  86.
Lindsey, Malinda,  60.
Lindsey, Frederick L.,  167,
Lines, Joseph, Sr.,  44, 106.
Lines, Orrin A. ,  44,
Lines, Joseph, Jr.,  126, 164.
Little, Horace, [Wife, Sarah M. ; children, Ira L., Abigail,
Daniel, and Fanny.]  39, 111.
Longitude,  4.
Lord, Josiah, [His first wife Avas Sally, a sister of Mary and
Panny HaU.]  69, 90.
Lyman, Prentis, [Was sometimes a resident as was his grand
daughter Lia. He died in Kansas.]  156.
Lyon, Isaac, on tax list, 1825 to 30.
M.
Mack, Elisha, Sr., [Probably came Avith family in 1810. He
helped build a boat for trial on the Susquehanna at Wilkes-
Barre  161.
Mack, Elijah B.,  90.
Mack, Josiah, Sr  90,
Mack, Elisha, Jr,,  92,
Mack, Josiah,  181,
Mack, Marvin L„  92.
Mack, Enoch,  .77, 181,
Mack, Alfred,  139.

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Mack, Ansel P.,  175.
Mack's Corners,  161.
Maglothlan, "Aunt Molly" (Scotch),  59, 83.
Magnetic Meridian,  4.
Mammon, Peter,  176.
Marsh, Charles E., [Taught private pupils in Elijah Newton's
house.]  120.
Marten,  217.
Mayflower, Ship and Blossom, . ,  14,
Maynard, George,  131,
McAlpine, George,  122, 182.
Mclntyre of 1787,  105, 106.
McKenzie, Edwin,  58.
McKinney, Allen,  58, 94, 102, 145.
McNamara, Eiehard,  130.
McVicar, Marshall,  50, 164.
Meacham, Isaac J  139,
Mead, Amos,  77, 96, 138.
Menageries,  36, 49, 245,
Merchandise, The first,  143,
Merrill, Amos P,, [Had but tAvo children, Amos B, and Jona
than H„  139,
Merrill, Jonathan H.,  139.
Merrill, Amos B.,  140.
Merriman, David  131.
Merritt or Maryott, WilUam S.,  84, 165.
Merritt, Anson,  37.
Meteors, &c.,  234.
Methodist, First class,  27, 206.
" Class of 1811  74.
" Church Buildings and Deed,  117.
" Ministers and Elders,  80, 81.
" Members,  205.
Milbomn, Bloomfield,  29, 156, 177, 236.
MUes, Joshua, Sr.,  27, 58.
Miles, Mary (Cady),  122, 145.
Miles, Joshua, Jr., [Went west, Sept., 1843.]  39, 59, 116, 137.
Miles, Sarah, [Was also an early teacher.]  122.
Miles, Ebenezer,  179-
MUes, Jonathan,  137.
MUes, Jesse,  cc '-iii " ;^?"
Miles, Eowland,  86, 121, 145.
Miles, Parker,  *>6, 175.
MUes, Edmond,  6j.
Miles, S. Hartshorn,  "5.
Miles, Eeuben O., [Died July 9, 1889, in his 78th year]. .44, 52, 98.
Milford and Owego Turnpike  .59.
MiUtia,  ^^i:
Miller, Adam,  '2'
Miller, William A., Letter from,  7b.

270 msTOEY or beooklyn.
Millers,  117,118,
Miner, Charles,  177-8.
Missionary to Africa,  37.
Mitchell, Henry,  lOO.
Moore, Asher,  120. '_
Moore, Eliza (Boardman), [Eleazer Brown was her mother's •» "
previous husband.]  72.
Morgan, Isaac,  67.
Morgan, Elijah,  58.
Morgan, Joshua, [Name on acct. book of Joshua Miles, 1810.] . . 56.
Morgan, David,  58, 85, 149.
Morgan, James C,  99.
Morning, five hours later than in England,  14.
Munger, James,  132, 175.
Munger, Aaron W.,  73.
N.
Name,  3, 147, 148, 191-2.
Natural Features,  3.
Newbury, George,  68.
Newton," Elijah,  177, 209.
Newton, Saiuuel A.,  101.
Newton, Asa,  101.
Newton, Deborah,  119, 177.
Newton, Addison, a teacher and medical student.
Nichols, Christopher, built a house sout'n-east of Caswell house.
Was a soldier. Married a daughter of Woodbury Wilbur.
Nichols, Amos,  58.
Nicholson, John,  19, 75, 98, 182.
Nickerson, Jeduthan,  30, 37, 134.
Noble, James, [John, a son of Putnam Catlin, Avas once a clerk
of his.]  25, 58, 102, 162.
North Windows and the Sun,  18.
Nugen (or Nugent), Patrick (about 1823-4),  86.
Number of the Population,  21.
o.
Oakley, Sally (Milbourn), [Her children were James, born, 1794;
Thos., 1796; Daniel, 1798; Betsey, 1800; Milbourn, 1802;
Polly, 1805; Cyrus, 1807; and Sarali W,, 1812.]  105.
Oakley, James  108.
Oakley, Thomas,  105,
Oakley, Cyrus  109,
Oakley, Jotham,  107,
Oakley, Edward G.,  176.
Odd FelloAvs,  135.

INDEX. 271
"Old Abbey," [One of the Avings Avas removed and attached to
the rear of the D. B. Bagley house, and was taken down by
Dr. Chamberlin. The main building having become un
sightly and unsafe Avas one night aided to tumble by the
boys who laid it jokingly to the ministers!]  53, 58.
Old Abbey Bam,  49.
Old Abbey Spring, [It is said to have been once enclosed, per
haps about 1820, in a high log fence so nobody could get
water. The structure took fire and burned up.]  26.
Old Oifieers,  229-31.
"Old Shag,"  136.
Old Brooklyn,  21.
"Old Pan," [She had a daughter who became a woman of much
esteem — the adopted child of C. V. Gere.]  122.
Old "Young America,"  243.
Olney, Hezekiah,  45.
"On-married,"  233.
Otto, Edward,  105, 169.

P.
Packard, Ary T., [Mrs. P. died Sept., 1889; Mr-. P., before.] 44, 83,
Packer, Edward, Sr,  106,
Packer, James, Sr,,  158.
Packer, Asa,  106.
Packer, Edward, Jr.,  23, 106.
Packer, Albert,  73.
Packer, James G.,  85, 93, 139, 158,
Packer, Samuel B,,  105.
Packer, Melvin E,,  _ 107,
Page, Mortimer,  26, 167,
Pafne, Edward,  52, 73, 86, 123, 209,
Paine, Ebenezer,  76,
Paine, Edward, L,, [A school in his house Avas once taught by
Louisa Tewksbm-y,]  25, 52, 73, 163, 183.
Palmer, Esek H.,  • ¦ -36.
Palmer, Thaddeus, [Worked m cotton factory.]  41, 86.
Palmer, Mason, [Worked in cotton factory.]  ^41,
Palmer, James S„  119' 120-
Palmer, G, W,  ¦ • -68-
Palmer, C. E.,  ^7, 45.
I^JEs!; ''•::;.:.:.:.::.:.- -¦.¦.¦.¦.:.¦.¦ .¦:.v.:.-:.-:.-.-23,i47, 2?!:
Paper mill, [Scorched paper was bloAvn a long distance up the
vaUev, when it was burnt, Nov., 1842.]  118.
Parke, Benjamin (a son of Col. Thos. Parke),  ...89.
Parke, Thomas, (of Parkevale)  87, 88.
Parke, Henry, (brother of Thos.)  S9.

272 HISTOEY OF BEOOKLYN.
Parke, Louisa, a teacher in the Geo. Gere store and in the
Jeremiah Gere old house,
Parmeter, Samuel, on tax-list from 1821 to 28.
Patterson, Eobert,  59, 88.
Paul, Peter, [On Dr, BisseU's accounts, 1816,]  184-
Peckham, Joseph, Jr.,  109, 136.
Peckham, Joseph, Sr.,  100,
Peckham, Clark,  101, 145.
Peckham, J. D,, married Anna L, Lathrop, 1889,
Penny, Christopher,  110, 122, 149.
Penny, Timothy,  111.
Pepper-box Cover Lost,  ;  241.
Perigo, Charles  46, 113, 149, 234.
Peters, L, M,, [Was also a butter-maker at the creamerj',]  141.
Perry, J, T,, [Died Oct, 5, 1872, age, 62 years, and Mrs. P., Apr.
28, 1873, age, 60 yrs., 11 mo.]  72, 105.
Physicians, Early,  62,
Pierpont, Eufus and EU  176, 237.
PiUars of Pork,  .253.
Pine,  9, 90.
Pioneers, Character of,  16.
Native,  27,
Pioneer Brandy  233,
Plan of this History,  21,
Planter, The first,  232.
Plants and Flowers,  11, 210.
Political Parties,  91.
of '40 and '44,  '238.
Pond, Artificial,  138.
Population, Number of,  21.
Postage, Early,  192.
Post-Office,  25, 58, 100, 117, 159, 162, 170, 183, 191.
Potatoes, "Old fashioned," [Eot and beetle were then unknown,] 232.
Potter, Henry,  139, 158, 181.
Potts, John,  161,
Pratt, Noah, wagon-maker,  90.
Presbyterian Ministers,  38.
" Buildings,  39,135.
Members,  204-5.
Perkins, Prince,  36, 51.
Pussy Willow showed its white, silky catkins, Feb. 1, 1890,

Q-

Quick, Andrew C,  , . . , 158.
Quick, Johnson,  102, 121,
Quick, David,  80,
Quick, Mark S,,  61, 160.
Quick, Josejih, 1st,  158.

INDEX. 273
Quick, Will E., married Geraldine Eldridge, Feb, 12, 1890.
Quit-claim Titles,  I37 147,
R.
"Eain upon the Eoof,"  236
Eain faU of 1888-9,  246!
Eand (or Eahn), Eobert, [His wife was Mehitabel Eeed.] si, 86, 123!
Eandall, Stepben,  _ 44.
Eaver, AVilliam,  42.
Eaynale, E.,  !!!!!!! i3l!
Eeed, Orson, [A relative of Mrs. Jacob Tewksbury.]  69.
Eelease of Land Title,  I45.
Eesinous Eoot-Eeinains,  9.
Ees].onsibility of Descendants,  18, 256.
Eeynolds, J. N.,  32.
Eeynolds, Hosea,  85.
Eej'nolds, Josepb L.,  39.
Eeynolds, Albert G.,  41.
Eej'nolds, John, on tax list, 1822.
Eeynolds, Eeuben and James,  78.
Eeynolds, Israel, Nathaniel, and Samuel,  124.
Ehodes, EUzur,  39.
Eic'nards, Lemuel,  124.
Eichardson, Braton,  49, 58.,
Eichardson, Caleb and Caleb, Jr., [Came Avith Nine Partners in
1790, but returned for some years before settling'^ in Pa.] . .49.
Eichardson, William L.,  49.
Eing, Eeuben P., [His mother was Nancy Eeed.]  54.
Eisiey, George,  35.
Eoads, Old, [The old road from the J. Dewitt place to the J.
E. Howe place, Avas up on the hill-side. Old road from
Montrose to Harford passed through the Laban Cushing
lot crossing the creek by an old bridge, remains of Avhich
siill exist, and thence to "Eichardson's Mills." Order to
lay a road from Factory toAvard E. Paine's, on west side of
creek (at same time and with same viewers as for road from
Factory to saw-mill of Joshua Miles) Avas reported nega
tively.]  47, 48, 50, 53, 59, 62, 65,
77, 84, 88, 93, 99, 111, 117, 145, 153, 155, 158, 162, 166, 180.
Eoberts, EU IT.,  152.
Eoberts, Eobert,  134.
Eobinson, John W.,  177-8.
Eobinson, Lucius,  87, 122, 123.
Eobinson, NeweU, [He also Uved on the Jas. Tewksbury place
about 1830. Second wife,  Brown.]  87, 122.
Eobinson, John,  •,-••-.  • ^^•
Eobinson Joseph, taxed ou 82 acres from Jacob \\ orthing, 1826-8.
Eobinson,' John, of 1787,  157, 171, 172.

274 HISTOEY OF BROOKLYN.
Eocks and Soils,  4.
Eockwell, Hiram,  84, 122,
Eogers, Lebbeus, [His daughter Elizabeth died Jan. 25, 1855,
age, 38 yrs,, 4 mo,, 2 da.]  41, 127.
Eogers, Andrew, [The family trace their genealogy back to
John Eogers the Martyr.]  125.
Eogers, G. B., once a photographer.
Eogers, Samuel,  95.
Eose, Eufus,  184.
Eose, Nathaniel,  65, 184,
Eose-bush, Old,  30.
Eoss, Jesse,  74, 109.
Eound, John W., taught a select school in the basement of
the M, E, Church, 1843-4,
"Eule of Three,"  97.
s.
Sabin, Joshua,  27, 130,
Sabin, Jonathan,  27, 130.
Sabin, Ezekiel, [Named after Ezekiel Hyde.]  91, 130.
Sabin, John (shoemaker),  82,
Sad Work of Eum,   241.
Safford, Felix T.,  94.
Safford, EUsha, [His son, Levi N,, died at Vestal, N, Y., Nov.
12, 1889, just 77 years old.]  93.
Salt Spring, Indian,  55.
Sampson, Bristol Budd  22, 164.
Sap-Trough Cradles,  142.
Saunders, Joshua,  174.
Saunders, Nathan,  174, 208.
Saunders, Thomas,  51, 66.
Saunders, Eliza (Mrs. Lyman of Springville, another daughter
of Tbomas Saunders)  66.
Saunders, Aaron,  91, 153.
Saunders, Benjamin S.,  102, 111, 122, 153.
Saunders, Varnam,  53, 111, 174.
Saw-Mills, [A portable steam mill belonging to Silsby Bros.
Avas employed by Geo. L. Gere and others, 1889-90, sta
tioned north of Pred'k MUler's.] 27, 41, 92, 118, 154, 155, 168.
School-reading Episode,  23T,
School Books,  ,30,
School Law of 1834,  97, 230,
School County Superintendent,  141, 173,
School, Graded, [The present building recently erected in the
village stands on part of the former Presbj'terian parson
age. The teachers have been: — Principals, Messrs, Beards
ley, Peck, Burman, Giffin, Hine, Eesseguie, and Stearns ;
Assistants, Messrs, Eogers and Perry, and Misses Spen-

INDEX, 275
cer, Eoy, Perrj-, Greenwood, Squier, and Webber, and Mrs,
Burman. There are 10 grades. Aud there are 9 ungraded
schools in the township.]  . 142
Schools, Early,  24, 27, 30, S^'sS,' 38,' iO, 42, 47, 'si, 56 '
73, 78, 88, 89,91, 99, 102, 110, 118, 123, 127, 132, 133, 134,
142, 151, 153, 156, 160, 161, 165, 166, 177, 179, 181, 184, 185.
Schools and scholars (by C. C. Worthing),  244.
Schools, Sewing in,  " '90
Schoonmaker, William,  !!!!!!!!! i7o!
Scythe and Stick,  I7
" Snaths,  127
Seed-distribution, by wings, burrs, Avinds, birds, bursting pods,
^^¦'  9, 12, 13, 14.'
Seeley, John,  131^ 168.
Seeley, Alden,  125, 153.
Sermons, First,  39
Settlers on Streams,  20.
Settlers, Chronological list,  186 to 191.
Seymore, John & Co., [J. Seymore was a brother of Saxa, and
Joab Tyler is said to have been a partner. It is claimed
that they put in more siiindles and tried weaving and dye
ing in the cotton factory.]  123.
Shappee, Jesse B., on tax-list in 1840.
Shipman, A. E.,  44.
Shoemakers, Itinerant,  17, 196.
Shrubs,  5.
"Silver Lake Bank,"  100.
Simmons, Ira, on tax list 1825 to '28.
Simons, Levi,  65.
Simons, Julius,  69, 154.
Simons, Harlo,  154.
Simrell, George  154, 182.
Skidmore, Tirzah,  102.
Skidmore, Mary and Adaline,  26.
Sons of Temperance,  135.
Smith, James,  136.
Smith, Isaac,  87.
Smith, Latliam A.,  22.
Smith, David,  23, 88.
Smith, Amos,  79.
Smith, Stephen,  123, 170, 174.
Sinith, Elihu B.,  90, 133.
Smith, D. G.,  87, 88, 175.
Smith, Moses,  35, 85.
Smith, Samuel K.,  81, 87, 89.
Smith, Henrietta,  125, 135.
Smith, James P., [His wife was Eoxanna JosUn of Mass. Their
children Avere Inez, Nancy, Harvey, Latham, Sarah, Mary,
and Emma.]  58, 95.
Smyth John A.,' killed on the E. E. track. Married a daughter

276 HISTORY OF BEOOKLYN.
of AV. P. CrandaU, and bought the Eufus Eose place. His
father once lived 011 the north farm of Joseph Oakley.
Snow. Storms, &c.,  237.
Snyder, Johu M.,  124.
Soils and Eocks,  4.
Soldiers of the Eevolution,  198-9.
" 1812,  199-200.
" the EebelUon,  200-202.
Spalding, George,  38.
Specknagle, Joseph, on Dr, Bissell's accts., 1823.
Speckuagle, Wm. and Wm. Jr.,  '.  132.
Spelling-Schools,  254.
Spencer, Jeremiah, [Born Aug. 3, 1794. His daughter, Panny
(Mrs. Yeomans) has a letter from her grandfather, Samuel
Spencer, jvritten from Clarmont (N. H. 1 ), Feb. 13, 1814,
to his son, Jeremiah, in which he mentions bis (Jeremiah's)
mother's brother Eeuben, and sister Lucy.]  58, 75, 173.
Spencer, Samuel W.,  173.
Spencer, Benjamin N.,  40.
Spencer, Miles, an occasional teacher,
Sperry, A. C,  124, 150.
Spinning-wheel and Lullaby,  253.
Sprague, Joseph,  55, 56, 178.
Springs and Streams,  4.
Squier, Lewis B  98.
Squires, William  140.
Stage-Horn,  254.
Stanton, William,  181.
Sterling, Thomas,  150.
Sterling, Isaac,  113, 183.
Sterling, Nathaniel,  61, gg.
Sterling, I. Hilliard, [Had also a daughter Harriet who died
June 1, 1837, age, 1 yr., 2 mo.]  117, 137.
Sterling, Jas. W., [He died June 13, 1864, age, 73 j'rs., and Mrs.
S., June 8, 1877, age, 82 vrs. His daughter Mary Belcher,
died Oct. 19, 1889, age, 75 yrs., 6 mo.]  83, 149.
SterUng, Albert G,,  ".  145.
Sterling, James,  83, 149.
Steriing, S, Smith,  83,
Sterling, T. Jefferson,  69.
SterUng, Collins M,,  145.
" " Letter from,  70.
Sterling, Thomas S,, [His widow recently manied Edward '
Parke.] , ,  150, 171,
Storms, Direction of,  5.
Stroud, John,  42, 45.
Suicides,  209.
Sugar-making,  9.
Sullivan, Johu, [Eemoved to Alford where he died.]  68.
Susquehanna Troop,  248, 252.

INDEX. 277
Sutliff, David,  Igg.
Sutliff, Harris,  63, 166,
Sutliff, Joel,  155
Sutliff, Zarah,  165.
Sweet, John C.,  155.
Sweet, EUas, [Elias Avas the name of his father and also of his
grandfather, of Harford,]  85.
T.
Temperance Union, Young Women's,  136.
Temperance Organizations, [Many have existed.]  136.
'Temperature,  :  5.
Tewksbury, Isaac,  51, 87, 106.
Tewksbury, Jacob, [His 2d place (west of the ereek) is ou the
James Dunlap Avarrantee.]  20, 83, 167.
Tewksbury, Jonathan,  G6, 105, 116.
Tewksbury, Sargent,  4.0.
Tewksbury, Daniel,  27, 95, 1'23, 150.
Tewksbury, Samuel,  55.
Tewksbury, John, of Auburn,  83.
Tewksbury, Betsey, it was she that Sally Tracy remembers as
coming into Col. Bailey's school in the Isaac Tewksbury
log house, and saying with tears in her eyes, that "-4,unt
Molly" Avas dead,  50.
Te\A'ksburj', Eeuben,  40.
Tewksbury, Amos,  43, 13.5, 141.
TeAvksbury, James  66, 152.
Tewksbury, Ephraim and Isaac, 2d,  87.
Tewksbury, Asa,  85, 120.
Tewksbury, George Lane,  44, 60.
Tewksbury, Franklin,  151.
Tewksbury, John,  150.
TeAvksbury, George W.,  140.
Tewksbury, Benjamin Franklin,  43, 141.
Thacher, D. C, of Harford,  89.
Thayer, JSfathan, [His Avife Avas Sally Eeed.]  64, 86, 123.
Thaver, Horace, [Died in Lathrop, Aug., 1877, aged 77 years.
"He Avas a son of Esek Thaj-er (Eevolutionary soldier) of
Bridgewater.]  67, 11.5.
Thayer, Christopher C, [His son Frank died Jan., 1680.]  115.
Thayer, Edmond or Edgar (a son of C. 0. Thayer),  115.
Tiffany, Noah,  58, 59, 136.
Tiffany, Alfred,  • ¦  133.
Tiffany, Pelatiah,  32, 39, 129, 134.
Tiffanv, Preston,  133, 158, 161.
Tiffanv, Anson M.,  156.
Tiffany, Nelson,  154.
Tiffanv, A. J.,  133.

278 HISTORY OF BEOOKLYN.
Tiffany, Arunah,  58, 60.
Tiffany, Thomas, J. P.,  178.
Tiffany, Elizur, [His widow died Jan., 1890.]  154.
Tiffany, Edwin,  58, 162.
Tiffany, George W.,  50, 156.
Tiffany, Marvin L.,  55, 128, 134.
Tiffany,.P. Horace, [p. 159] began farming for himself on the
Capt. Gere place — not on his father's.
Tiffany, Judson D., lives at his father's [1889] ; has a son Lynn.
The ViUage Inn,  42.
Time, Standard and Mean Solar,  5.
Tingley, Elkanah,  85, 181.
Tingley, Chauncey,  181-
Tingley, Francis,  85,
Tin Oven,  17.
Titsworth, William,  77.
Titsworth, D, A,,  43, 58, 161.
Tombstone, The first Marble,  253,
Tompkins, Skidmore,  152.
Torrey, Daniel,  125,
Towusend, Sam'l D.,  34, 99.
ToAviisend, Nicholas,  169.
Tracy, Andrew,  47, 142.
Tracy, Andrew H.,  27, 35, 123.
Tracy, Peleg,  27, 29, 136.
Tracj', Leonard,  47.
Tracy, Sally,  27, 91, 174.
Trees,  5, 210.
" 2d Gowth of different kind,  6.
Tree Voices,  6.
" Curiosities,  11.
Trials of the Pioneers,  16.
Trout of 1787,  35.
Truesdell (miller),  182.
Tubbs, Oliver,  92, 93.
Tuttle, Chester,  102.
Twining- Vines in different directions,  12,
Tyler, Mrs, Mary E., Letter from,  103,
u.
UnderAvood, Abram,  164,
UniversaUst Clergymen,  119.
Church Buildings,  119-20.
Members,  207.
V.
Vail, Ephraim A.,  50.

I.NDEX. 279
VanAuken, Isaac, 1st,  165.
VanAuken, Amos  84.
VanAuken, Benjamin W.,  165.
VanAuken, J. T.,  84, 134.
VanDerKar, Eebecca,  83.
VanHousen, Martin,  65.
VanNess, William,  44.
Vergason, N. J. and Ansel,  164.
Very, M. T  24.
Violin — This was one of the first musical instruments in use
here. Prince Perkins was the earliest player remembered;
then perhaps Noah Pratt, and next probably Joseph Blan
chard, known as "Blind Joe." Then, Palmer Williams (also
blind eventually), John Chapman, EdAvin Oakley, H. E.
Kittle,  Mcintosh (in the Sam'l Yeomans house), S. A.
Newton, Chas. Bissell, Lodowick and Avery Bailey, Eich'd
Kent, "Wia. Nutt, Martin Crock, and others.
The bass-viol, accordion, bassoon, dulcimer, triangle
(martial), clarionet (Chas. Tiffany played it), flute, fife, and
jew's-harp, and, last but not least, the boy's bark and wood
whistle, and the corn-stalk fiddle were early instruments.
The mouth-organ, then only a toy, has assumed a recog
nized musical position.
Vote of Brooklyn, 1864, for Lincoln, 188; for McClellan, 75,
In 1889, for Prohibitory Amendment, 224; against, 25.
w.
Waldie, James,  112,
Waldron, WiUard, on tax list, 1825,
Walker, Thomas,  105,
Walker, George,  158.
Walker, WiUiam T.,  42, 82.
WaUace, John B.,  20.
Warner, Stetson,  38, 49.
Warrantee Title,  21.
" Lots,  46.
Water -washed stones,  3.
Water-shed, Attempt to change,  1  67.
Watterson, WUliam,  118, 121.
Way, Palmer M.,  49, 58, 124.
Way, William, father or brother of Dr. Way. On tax Ust, 1832.
Weather Signs— Our people have handed down many of these,
some being mere whims, usually repeated with a smile of
increduUty, but others indicating the conditions of the
atmosphere, and showing the approach of storms with as
much certainty as do the predictions of the Weather-
Bureau from actual observation of storm movements. But
the lono--time predictions of "forty days and forty nights"

280 HISTOEY OF BEOOKLYN.
and the like, and prognostics of future seasons, can have
little reliability, as often proving false as true, as yet. The
following are some of the popular weather-signs : Still, thick
morning fog ou streams betokens a pleasant day; the full
moon has a dissipating effect on storm clouds; "rain before
7, fair before 11 ;" dark, dull-red clouds at sunrise or sun
set indicate storm; bright red, fair; light yellow, wind; a
halo or luminous circle around sun or moon, or a "sun-dog,"
when the sun shines through a cloud and is also reflected
from another, so as to appear like tAvo suns, foreshows
storm; when birds and fowls oil their feathers, or Avhen the
quail whistles "more Avet," or the tree-toad calls merrilj',
it is supposed they perceive approaching storm ; so Avhen
the wood-pecker drums with his bill on the vibratory wood
of a dead tree or limb, so rapidly as to appear almost as
one continuous sound, it is said to presage a thaw and rain ;
Avhite frosts are believed to be followed by rain ; Avhen wa
ter boils away rapidly it is said it Avill storm soon; "when
the fog goes up [up stream, shoAving course of wind] the
rain comes down;" when smoke settles to tbe ground it
shows a light atmosphere, and, like a faUing barometer,
indicates storm.
Webber, [Mentioned, as living near, in diary of Betsey Leffing
well (afterward Mrs. Joseph Chapman) kept while tarrying
with her sister, Mrs. Peleg Tracy, in 1799.]  88.
Westbrook, George,  86.
Westbrook, Samuel,  172.
Westmoreland,  3.
Weston, Samuel,  27, 51, 138.
Weston, Mary E.,  27, 51.
Weston, Wm.,  27, 173.
Weston, John N., [Married Nancy Dodson, whose mateual
grand-mother A\'as Susanna Franklin, a cousin of Benjamin
Franklin.]  27, 143.
Whalley, Ann and James,   83, 99.
White, James E.,  44.
White. WilUam  84.
Whitford, Varnam,  69, 111, 14.5, 151.
Whiting, James, physician,  62, 171.
Whitman, Jacob,  114.
Whitney, Ebenezer,  32, 115.
Whitney, Ephraim, [Father of Ebenezer and grand-father of
Eoswell ; he died with his daughter Anna (Mrs, Nathaniel
.Rose,1  65, 184.
Whitney, Eoswell,  115,
WUd-cats,  34,' 215,
Wilderness, The Unbroken,  5.
Wilkinson, E. Mott,  62, 91, isi, i82!
Wil liams, Latham  81, 129.

INDEX. 281
Williams, Stephen, Sr.,  -^c^
WUliams, Eiehard,  !!!!!!!!!! !43,' 46! '93,' 139!
WilUams, Isaac,  gj j^yg
WUUams, Samuel, [On assessment, 1830.]  ! ! ! ! !i65', 176!
Williams, Elisha,  gl ' jgg'
Williams, Peter, [Made first clearing on the Lodowick Bailey
Pl^ce,]  25, 129.
WilUams, Archibald,  131 igQ
WUliams, F. M.,  .',','.'.",',',",' .'iii,' 145,' 18o!
WiUiams, Nelson, [His childien v,ere Jacob, Harriet, Luke,
Egbert, and James A.]  26, 81.
Williams, Ijuke,  28.
Williams, John S ,  gl^
Williams, Stephen H.,  .176.
Williams, Frank,  119^
Williams, Palmer,  '. . , . 81,
Williams, Josiah B.,  180
Williams, Nancy H., [Died Dec, 1889.]  !.!!!! 176!
Wilson, Jacob, Jr.,  32, 100.
Wilson, Jacob, Sr.,  31.
Wilson, Dimock,  31, 131
Wilson, Eliott C  31.
Wilson, William,  83.
Wind-mills have never been employed in the townshiij, except
as scare-crows or for amusement,
Windom, Hezekiah,  116.
Winthrop, John, , . ,  95,
Wolves,  23, 55, 216, 231, 236.
Wonderful Ee-migratiou of a Brooklyn Dog — When David Mor
gan came in 1810, he was accompanied by a dog Avhich
manifested luiich intelligence. If the coavs did not all come
at milking-time, by a sign the clog would go and bring the
strays. After Capt. M.'s first wife died in 1817, his sister
Eliza kept house foi' him for some time. One evening the
do<>' was in tije house when Eliza said to her brother that
she wished he Avould turn that great dog out — she could
not beai' to, have him there. Mr. M. opened the door and
told the dog to go out. As he went by, lie turned and looked
back and Avagged his tail — which Avas afterward taken for
his good- by address, for he wa not there in the morning,
and they never saw him again. Some months subsequent
Mr. M. got a letter from his people saying the dog was there.
He had gone back to his okl uome •in the land of steady
habits." If he, returned over tlie route he came, he must
have swum the East Eiver or ridden on the ferrj'-boat.
Wood, (on the David Morgan place, in 1800),  48, 85.
Woodj Dan'l and John,  106.
Woodchucks,  219.
Woodland, Primitive,  130.

282 HISTOEY OF BEOOKLYN.
Worthing, Barnard, [Died at Sargent Tewksbury's. He was a
soldier at Bunker Hill and Saratoga.] ... .30, 59, 95, 123, 170.
Worthing, Jacob,  87, 94, 117, 123, 154, 170.
Worthing, Jonatban,  105.
Worthing, Winthrop,  154-
Worthing, Miriam,  96, 170, 240.
Worthing, Lydia E., [Lives in the new house on the Lucius
Eobinson place.]  87, 105.
Wright, Wise  :  HO-
Wright, Samuel, Jr.,  50.
Wright, Samuel, Sr.,  HO.
Wright, Mary S., (Mrs. Eeynolds of Abington),  123.
Wright, Orra, [Lived near his father, Samuel, Sr.]  65.
Wright, John C,  40, 42, 81.
Wright, Edward E., [Son of Alanson and grandson of Wise.] . . 65.

Y.
'^YeUow Corn,"  242.
Yeomans, Samuel, Sr.,  53.
Yeomans, Samuel, Jr.,  52, 53, 58, 85, 123, 18L
Yeomans, Joseph  166.
Yeomans, Moses B  76.
Yeomans, S. Horace, [His children are Pi ed., Ed., Herbert, Sa^
rah (Mrs. Miles Crandall), and EosaUne.]  53, 166.
Young! [We are wont to regard the first settlement of Brook
lyn as an occurrence of long, long ago, when the township
was new while uoav it is old. It is old aud Avas then old, so
far as material existence alone is concerned — as old doubt
less as the infinite age of time itself. But in transformation
and development it is still comparatively young, and as a
human dwelling-place it is still younger — is in its youth —
its very infancy. What is a hundred years compared with
the past ages of man's history even, sajing nothing of the
eternal years to come! or of "the everlasting hills" with
which our laud abounds ?
"The cities of yore that Avere reared in crime.
And renowned by the praise of seers,
Went down in the tramp of old King 'Time,
To sleep with his gray-haired years;
But the beautiful hills rise bright and strong
Through the smoke of old Time's red wars,
As on that day when the first deep song
EoUed up from the morning stars."]  ;{.

ALPHABETICAL ADDENDA:
CONTAINING MANY NEW ITEMS, AND SOME MORE AUTHENTIC STATE
MENTS OF THOSE ALREADY GIVEN. ^
Albinos— Mx=,. Abel Green, and the oldest daughter of C. C. Daley;
Mr. p. also had a son, Chauncey (who died 1842-3), having this
peculiarity.
Alworth, Mrs. Eliza (p. 24), died Dec. 27, 1890; New Cemetery.
Apple Grafts — Referred to on pp. 48 and 148, included a very sweet,
tirm red russet, later thau the one named, famous for making sauce
with condensed sweet cider boiled in large brass kettles — a barrel full,
to last all Avinter. The "Mike Apple" was an early fall fruit, having
little bright red spots interspersed through it. It was said that a
man was long before murdered under the original tree, and that
these red flecks were attributable to this cause !
Ashley, J. R. (p. 25), served as captain most of the time while in the
U. S. army.
Ashley, N. B. (p. 25), oAvned and occupied the Caldwell house (p. 43)
in 1866-7.
Austin, John, had a son John, and a daughter who lived in the family
of Jas. Packer, and died at house of Walter Adams (p. 117) in 1830.
Bagley, Jesse, removed the old center school-house and converted it
into a dwelling (p. 119) as early as 1842. His wife died there in
1845. He afterward sold to Asa Tewksbury.
Bailey, Miss Adaline (p. 28), died May 23, 1890.
Bailey, Jas. W. (p. 33), died at Bradford, Mass., Apr. 23, 1891, aged
72 years, 9 months.
Bailey, Robt. M. (p. -t,-^, died suddenly March 5, 1892. He was
born June 15, 1822.
Baker, Joshua (p. iii), did not build the barn still standing. F.
-Whipple built it.
Baker, Jane (p. 139), married Lambert W. Frey, of Freytown, Lack
awanna Co. Her brother Charles married Clarissa Frey, of same
place, and her brother Edwin also lives near.
Ballou, Jas. H., a grand-nephew of Hosea Ballou, one of the first
Universalist preachers of America, became pastor here in 1891.
Barnes, D. C, was appointed the Methodist minister of the Brooklyn
charge in 1891.
Beardsley, Mrs. Sarah E. (p. 25), died (at Montrose) Nov. 28, 1890.
Old Cemetery.
Bedstraw, or Cleavers, a delicate vine four or five feet long, clamber
ing by its rough, angular, jointed stems, with whorls of little leaves
around the joints, and minute white flowers at ends of branches,
groAvs in low-ground thickets.

284 history of BROOKLYN.
Benjamin, Luther M. (p. 35), married Edith Smith (p. 130), Jan. i4>
1891.
Betts, Zopher (p. 39), and Loomis Betts occupied the "Old Abbey"
at one time.
Birds sometimes utter a solitary strain of their most melodious songs in
the midst of the deepest darkness. We have no nightingale, but we
have "birds, in the night, that softly call."
Birge, John, used to make his home much of the time with Mr. Mil
bourn, from 1823 to '27 or 8. His business seemed to be fishing,
hunting and trapping. He used to shoot black squirrels — always
throtigh the head — with his rifie. Discussing their comparative skill
one day, John told Mr. M. he could not hit his (John's) hat at ten
rods. Mr. M. accepted. Mr. B. took his hat (a soft, limpsy one)
and folding it into the smallest compass, laid it on a flat rock and
put a stone on top of it, then told M. to fire. The hat was riddled
with ball and broken stone.
Blind — The list thus afflicted has been B. B. Sampson, Joseph Blanch
ard, Palmer Williams, Mrs. Abial Tiffany, R. W. Gere, Mrs. Chester
Watrous, O. G. Hempstead, L. F. Porter, Geo. Packer.
Breed, S. W., was in the harness business about 1850, and employed
Chas. V. Bagley and others to work.
Brook-growing Herbs — The grinning Monkey -Flower, violet - purple ;
Skullcap, resembling Spearmint, but without its taste or odor ; Tear-
Thumb, or Water Pepper, a vine covered with rough, rasping spines;
and Stone-Crop, about one foot high, with flowers and seeds at top
of branches in peculiar whitish-green, zig-zag-looking spikes.
Broom Rape — A curious little plant growing in clusters four or five
1 inches high, with a single tubular flower extending horizontally on
each naked stem — white, slightly tinged with purple. It has no
plant leaves.
Brown, Wm. Z. (p. 138), — born Nov. 21, 1827, and died Aug. 7,
1891. New Cemetery.
Campmeeting, "Chestnut HiU" (p. 127), began on the last days of June
or first of July, 1841.
Candles Avere usually lighted by taking a live coal in the tongs and
blowing it with the breath until it was aglow, and then touching the
wick to it.
Carpenter, Asahel, of Harford (p. 162), was the father of Cyrus C.
Carpenter, ex-governor of Iowa.
Caswell, Mary (p. 126), died Jan. 12, 1892. Old Cemetery.
Chapman, John H., died in Scranton, Jan. 27, 1891. Dunmore Cem.
He was married Nov. 2, 1836.
"Chimney Sweeps," itinerant, used to ascend the chimney, climbing by
aid of back, feet, knees and arms, to brush down the soot.
Cone, Geo. (p. 79), and Daniel Cone (p. 27) were both descendants
of Daniel Cone (b. 1626, d. 1706) Avho settled in East Haddam,
Ct. Sally (Rathbun) Cone died at her father's in East Haddam,
Sept. 4, 1818. They had three children— Geo. Brainard, deceased,
was president of Macon College, Ga. ; Helon R. lives in Brooklyn,

alphabetical addenda. 285
N. Y. ; and Wm. A., who was born here Dec. 10, 181 7, is a preacher
at Dunkertown, Iowa.
Conklin, Perry C. (p. 175), died at Montrose, March 8, 1892, aged
52 years.
Conrad, Eve (p. 145). — Her maiden name Avas Koakquaspraguer.
There is a lingering tradition that the Conrad hut of boughs and
bark was made in a triangular space between three large hemlocks
on the Birge (E. N. McKinney) place between the huts of Dennison
and Trout. Possibly, but it is generally supposed the hut was built
near the site of the permanent cabin. Some think this was another
Conrad (it is said there were " forty families" in Nicholson's colony),
and that another Conrad child was born here.
Cradle-knolls — These little hummocks are often found in great numbers
on ground that has never been plowed. It is well known that some
of these Avere produced by trees upturning at the root Avith a mass of
earth adhering, the cavity where the tree stood forming the "cradle,"
and the accumulation of soil dropping from the decaying roots pro
ducing the mound, or "knoll." But if all these resulted from this
cause, cyclones in the early ages must have swept over many portions
of the township.
Cranesbill (of the geranium tribe), a foot or two in height, with light
purple flowers, is found.
Craver, Wm., died Feb. 25, 1874, age, 51 years. Old Cemetery.
Culver, Mrs. Y. L., died at Elmira, N. ¥., Aug. 5, 1883. Her son
Charles lives in North Carolina, and son William in Kansas. George,
James, Jared and Emmer are dead. (p. 108.)
Customs, Old (p. 243) : Of these, one was the habit of carrying letters,
papers, etc., often including the handkerchief, and sometimes the
spectacles, in the top of the hat. Stable doors and small gates were
fastened by a movable pin in a diagonal hole in the post; the "big
barn doors" (double) were fastened by a cone-shaped button cut on
the end of a strong piece of wood, leaving a shank running back
through a hole in the standard, and held in proper position by a stick
fastened to it and hanging down inside, the button being turned one
way to open one door, and the other way to open the other; while
big gates Avere made by placing a long tapering pole midway upon
the top of a post, and securing it by a pin, so as to swing easily, the
gate having been constructed on standards reaching down from the
small end of the pole, which protruded a little, so as to pass through
a notch in the other post, the weight on the opposite end raising the
projection into a slot above the notch. Rennet was saved and cheese
made at home. "Slash fences" consisted of smaU timber partly cut,
but carefully left attached to the stump at the proper height, the tops
being bent over among them so as to continue growing to form a
living horizontal hedge. Powder was carried by hunters in the out
side shell of the horn of a cow or ox, with wooden bottom fitted
in and wooden stopper at the apex; these "powder-horns" were
sometimes large, and carried under the arm by a string or strap fast
ened at each end and suspended over the opposite shoulder. Ink-
horns or horn inkstands, were also used. Shot was carried m a

286 HISTORY OF BROOKLYN.
pouch of home-tanned squirrel or Avoodchuck skin firmly tied at top
around a wooden tube, with stopple.
Daley, Chas. H. (p. 44), died at Carbondale, Apr. 7, 1891, a. 60 yrs.
Daley, Robt. Waller, died at the house of Dr. B. Richardson, Avhere
his father then lived, Nov. 4, 1850, a. 4 yrs. He was kicked and
thrown into the air by the horse of a messenger for the doctor, but
revived and lived till next day.
Deruelle, Daniel (commonly spoken DeervA-ell), p. 38, was Presbj-*
terian minister at Montrose for about three years ending in 1833.
Doak, Wm. (p. 23), was a cattle dealer.
Dolaway, A. C. (p. 51), died Nov. 24, 1891. Ncav Cemetery.
Eastman, Mrs. Lydia (p. 62), Avas buried Aug. 10, 1890. Her hus
band, Geo. K. Eastman, was buried July 12, 1891. New Cemetery.
Election of 1840 — The following incidents are remembered: N. J. Wil
son challenged the vote of Col. Townsend, who had said, "I'U bet
a treat Van Buren will be elected " ; vote rejected. Chas. Kent had
said, "I'U bet Harrison will be elected" — no sum or article being
named; vote received. John Lord had bet a jack-knife; he was
detained discussing politics while the other party to the bet was
escorted to the window, and voted, but Mr. L.'s vote was rejected.
A. W. Mack kept so busy giving out ballots that he forgot to vote him
self. The Abolition vote in Pennsylvania was 343, same as Harri
son's majority.
English Plantain, from Europe, with longer, narrower leaves, of darker
color than the native, is plentiful in some places.
Elm puts out its brown blossoms as early as does the soft maple, and
before the Juneberry (p. 8). .
Ely, Gurdon (p. 57), was born at Lyme, Ct., Nov. i, 1796, and died
Aug. 3, 1873. His chUdren were Jeremiah, Mahala (Mrs. Johnson,
of Rockford, IU.), Ammi, Rozetta, d. Oct. 2, i860, Lydia C. (Mrs.
Seeley, III.), Martha A. (Mrs. Kelsey, IU.), and Olive S., died May
16, 1877.
Fairchild's Hemlock Umbrella: Several years ago Mr. F. (p. 61) trimmed
up, or rather down, a large old-time hemlock of 100 feet (fearing it
might be overturned by the wind), leaving only a tuft of green boughs
at the top and a few at the base, making it a striking object as seen
from the hUls surrounding ' ' Chestnut Hill," on which it stands.
Field Avens, having branching and hairy stems three or four feet high,
with yellow flowers, succeeded by bristly seeds in a bur-like cluster,
is found. Also White Avens, in shady woods.
Fish, Francis, lived in the present E. P. Bailey house when the New
bury house was burned, in 1841.
Follet, Lewis (p. 264), lived near the Eden Brown place in what is
now Lathrop. His wife was Hannah, daughter of Isaac Brown. He
-had a son Robert, and one or two other children who removed to
New York state.
Foote, O. W., died in New York City, Mar. 27, 1890. He was born
in New Milford, Jan. 13, 1828. New Cemetery.

alphabetical addenda. 287
Forgery: It is said to have been another man's name that was stolen
(P- 233)- .
Franklin Fireplace was a stove open in front.
Frost, George, lived with R. T. Ashley for a time after Mr. A. left
the Paine-Noble house, in spring of 1838.
Gama Grass, or Sesame, with joints and leaves like corn (when,ce
called Corn-grass), is found on moist land. Cattle are fond of it.
Gere, Stephen, came in 1810 or 'n — not 1806.
Gere, Wm. Beecher (p. 185), was a Union soldier.
Gere, Mrs. C. M. (p. 22), died at Montrose, June 29, 1891.
Gere, Mrs. Harriet (p. 45), died at Chatfield, Minn., Jan. 8, 1892,
from fire or suffocation in her room, age, 80 years.
Ghosts, a haunted house (the Sabin house on the hillside) and a mur
dered peddler, got into story among the marvelous, and the story is
remembered yet.
Hallstead (p. 55). — This was probably the HaUstead that came from
Wyoming "V'alley (whence Sprague doubtless came) soon after the
massacre and settled on the Tunkhannock about a mile above Nich
olson village.
Harkins, Wm. (p. 136), is said to have had a family of six,
Hawley, Isaiah, had also a daughter Lucy,
Heard, Mrs. Sarah E., occupied the B. T. Case house in 1853.
Hempstead, O. G. (p, 119), bought back the parsonage in 1891,
Hewitt, Abel (p, 109), died May 18, 1891,
Hinkley, Mrs, O. W,, died May 13, 1890.
Hobble Bush (p. 211) often roots at the ends of the drooping branches.
Horton, Nicholas (p. 206), was a son of Foster Horton, and brother
of Samuel Weston's first wife.
Howe, Mrs. E. K., died west. May 28, 1891, age, 85 years, 3 mo.
Howe, Mrs. Pamela (p. 35), was buried in Old Cemetery beside her
brother, as was also her sister, Mrs. R. W. Gere (p. 66).
Kellam, L. W., died Aug. 24, 1880— not '86. His wife died Sept. 19,
1 89 1, age, 75 years.
Kittle, H. R.— His first wife was Harriet, daughter of Richard
Smith. She died in 1841 or '42, leaving one child.
Knapp, Henry Spencer, began his clerkship with R. T. Ashley m
spring of 1839.
Land, Price of, to the State (p. 133)— From 1792 to 181 4 it was six and
two-thirds cents per acre, or fifty shillings per hundred acres (not
counting the allowance of six per cent, for road purposes). Before
and afterward it was ten pounds a hundred acres, or twenty-six and
two-thirds cents for one. .,,,£•
Lisht Infantry and Troop: On "training days" considerable firing was
practiced before and after the drUl. As A. J. Tifl'any was returning
home on one of these occasions (in 1834), and was about half way
down the hill below his uncle Pelatiah's, while loading his gun it was

288 history of BROOKLYN.
accidentally discharged before the iron ramrod was withdrawn. The
rod Avas afterward found by Carey Worthing a hundred rods away,
near the old pear tree by Mr. Milbourn's.
Lindsey, Mrs. Malinda, died Dec. i6, 1891 (p. 60).
Lines, Joseph, Sr., built the house (p. 106) which he sold to Mr.
Gere, and afterward bought it back, or exchanged the Randall house
for it (p. 44).
Little, Horace (p. 268), has two other children, Esther and Horace
B. Daniel P. was born in Brooklyn (on the Joshua Baker place,
p. Ill), Sept. 20, 1848. Ira L. died at Marathon, N. Y., March 22,
1890, age, 59 years, 7 months, 22 days.
Lj)belia (p. 13) is also called Indian Tobacco (p. 211).
Mack, Ledyard P. (p. 92), died in Jetmore, Kan., June 22, 1890.
He was born Dec. 9, 1838.
McIntosh; George, see p. 279.
Meadow-rue, with branching stalk four or five feet high, and small
white flowers, grows in low grounds.
Menageries (p. 245): As early as 1824 or '25, a few imported animals
were shown at the "Abbey" barn, each in a separate enclosure, with
a small price for entering each.
Miles, Mrs. Joshua, Jr., should be in the chronologic list of 1810.
Milford and Owego Turnpike — Was a little over 100 miles in length, as
some remember. The figures on p. 59 were taken from the record
of the secretary and surveyor, but seem evidently too short.
Milkwort — Is ten or twelve inches high, with awl-shaped leaves and
showy hop -shaped pink -purple flowers standing erect at top of
branches.
Miller, Mrs. J. C, died Apr. i, 1891.
Mints, beside those already mentioned, include Calaminth or Basil,
slightly aromatic, on dry ground; Wild Bergamot, sweet-scented,
three or four feet high, in stony soil, and several low-ground wild
varieties,
Moore, Asher, died at Hammonton, N. J,, April 27, 1891, His
daughter Mary also died there, April 22, 1891,
Newbury, Geo., had his dwelling burnt in winter of 1 840-1, probably
February, He lived in the school-house for a time afterward.
Noble, Chas. (p. 162), died Aug. 12, 1869.
Noble's Old Dog Lion — Was a character of some renown in the town
ship. When a wild animal was caught in a trap. Lion was sometimes
sent for to dispatch it. He did police duty at the little red store.
In the loft of the building grain was stored in bins, access to which
was up steep, narrow stairs from the floor below. One day in the
Avinter of 1 830-1, John Catlin, the clerk, took Lion up to help catch
rats and mice in the attic grainery. In the ardor of pursuit Lion
rushed down stairs and broke his neck. The boys who had come in
to hear John play on his flute, before the raid on the rodents began,
could not bear to tell Mr, N, , so they placed Lion in his accustomed
position on the paper-rags under the counter. But next morning he

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was not to be seen. Two or three weeks after, he was found up the
little brook to the north, Mr, N, gave Silas P. Ely fifty cents to
make a post-mortem examination. "Mr. E,, acting as coroner, sur
geon and jury, reported unanimously that the dog came to his death
by violence from some means unknown,"
Oakley, Mrs. Paulina (p, 102), died May 18, 1891, age, 70 years,
Oakley, Mrs, Laura (p, 153), died March 15, 1892,
Orchids, with their fancied resemblance to bees, butterflies and birds,
have several representatives here. The Showy Orchis grows in rich
mould on hill lands, with thick glossy leaves four or five inches long,
and flower stalk a little higher, with fine pink-purple flowers, erect,
except the "lip" petal, which, is white and opens horizontally.
Packer, Albert, also lived for a time on the E, N, McKinney place.
Packer, Mrs, D, B., died March 5, 1891,
Paine, Edward, was a supervisor of BridgcAvater (then including
Brooklyn) in 1813,
Paine, Mrs, Edward L,, died at Oshkosh, Wis,, March 18, 1891,
Parke, Margaret (p, 142), married Henry C, Hickock, She died in
Philadelphia, Jan, 28, 189 1, in her 78th year.
Penny, Timothy, on the S, "i^eomans place about 1839-40,
Perigo, John T., married Sarah Oakley (p, 105), and the children are
Marvin, and Polly (Mrs, M, C, Tifl'any), He died in Harford,
Apr, 6, 1 89 1, aged 75 years.
Perigo, Miss Mariett (p, 113), died March 5, 1841, not '44,
Perry, Mrs, D, C, (p, 115), died Feb. 23, 1892.
Pigeons (p. 228) encamped in Lenox in 1798.
Population of Brooklyn (census 1890), 1,000; of Susq. Co., 4o,o93-
Postage (p. 192) — from 80 to 150 miles, 12^ cents, about 1834.
Prickly Ash is found, but it may have been introduced. It is a spiny
shrub, with pungent bark.
Quick, H. D. (p. 123), died Jan. 24, 1891.
Quill Pens, from which the present metallic pens Avere fashioned, were
made with "pen knives" with sharp, narrow blades.
Quit-claim Land Prices: Elder Miller remembers being often told that
his grandparents, Eleanor and Adam Miller, sold their interest m
the improvements first made on the Breed place for a very small
sum, to James Coyle. It is quite possible that Coyle's note, turned
over to Wm. Conrad by Andrew Tracy (p. 148), may have been the
identical one given to the Millers in part or entire payment for their
premises. Notes, especially of large amounts, were not common at
that time.
Resseguie, Geo. E. (p. 247), died June 9, 1891. He was editor of
the Transcript and the Ledger of Susquehanna, and was a grandson
of Fitch Resseguie and Mary TeAvksbury (p. 27), and his wife was a
great-granddaughter of Wright Chamberlin (pp. 4, 128). Buried at
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290 history of BROOKLYN.
Reynolds, Euphemia, died suddenly in church (East Bridgewater),
Sunday, July 27, 1890 (p. 124).
Richardson, Lucy Caroline (p. 116), died at Pana, IU., August 2,
1890, age, over 80 years.
Road, the Old South, may yet be seen, with the remains of the "cordu
roy" where it crossed the little swale and spring run at the south-east
corner of the old orchard on the Ashley Knoll, a few rods below the
old spring, and may still be traced just east of the place of the Jacob
Tewksbury cabin, where stands a young pear tree.
Roberts, Eli F. (p. 152), was a Union soldier.
Robinson, Mrs. Lucius (not Mrs. Newell), had a former son, Henry
Brown (p. 245).
Rogers, Andrew (pp. 125, 182). — His foster-son, Freeman H. Law
rence, married Clarinda Myers (at one time a Brooklyn teacher),
Jan. I, 1844, They had two daughters, C, Jennette (Mrs, Gilbert)
and Sarah, He was born in Brooklyn, May 26, 1819, and died
Feb, 25, 1851, His wife died (in Rush) Nov, 18, 1872,
Ross, Jesse (pp, 74, 109), was a son of Perrin Ross, who was slain in
the Wyoming massacre. He married Betsey, daughter of Isaac
Hancock (who was justice of the peace for Rush, which then included
that part of Brooklyn west of the line of Horton creek), and their
children were Isaac H., Perrin, Nelson, Eleanor (Mrs, E, L, Paine),
George and Irene, He had two brothers, older — Joseph, who settled
on Wyalusing North Branch, had a son Otis, who married Eveline,
oldest daughter of Latham 'WiUiams (not mentioned on p, 81); and
Daniel, who married a sister of Jesse's wife, and whose son Daniel,
Jr,, married Esther Day (p. 183), one of the tailoress apprentices of
Thos, Garland,
Routes of Trade : For many years merchants visited New York City for
goods, over the Milford and Owego Turnpike, requiring an absence
of two weeks. Merchandise came first to Newburgh, afterward to
Honesdale, and later to Carbondale, to be hauled from these places
by teams of horses. Still earlier, goods came from Philadelphia by
way of Wilkes-Barre. After the N. Y. & Erie R. R. Avas made, this
traffic was carried on via Great Bend. After this Alford, and then
Hopbottom, became Brooklyn's stations on the D. L. & W. R. R.
Mercantile commodities are now largely bought through traveling
agents.
Sabin, Jonathan, also made a clearing on the Jewett place.
Sabin, Joshua, is said at one time to have been a member of the
"O. C." Baptist church of Mt. Pleasant.
Safford, Catherine A., of Binghamton, N. Y., a daughter of Felix
T. Safford, not mentioned on p. 24.
Saunders, Abigail, it seems, died in Ohio (p. 66), only the girls Char
lotte, Lucy and Eliza returning.
Saunders, Sheffield, lived for a time on the hill-side on the Roper
place — not on the S. Westbrook place. His daughter Henrietta was
born here.
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was sold, leaving his affairs in charge of Asa Crandall, whose Avife
was a Saunders (p, 52),
Schoonmaker, Wm, D, (p, 170), was a Union soldier, from Auburn,
Settlement attempted in the county before 178 f, but soon abandoned (p. 76) :
Judge D. W. Searle is familiar with a tradition in his father's family
that a sister of his grandmother (maiden name, Scott) married
 Hall, and came from the head of Wyoming Valley, beginning
a clearing near the site of Glenwood, but remaining only a year, and
then removing to the vicinity of Binghamton, N. Y.
Seymour, John (p. 123), a brother, or more likely a cousin, of Saxa
Seymour, of Harford.
Skidmore, Adaline, taught once in the school-house near where L. K.
Tewksbury's house now is (p. 153), as did also Sarah Newton.
Smith, Dr. L. A. (p. 22), died June 13, 1890. He was born Aug. 14,
1816. He was a taxidermist, and had a fine collection of birds, as
did also Dr. Richardson, with whom Dr. S. studied medicine.
Smith, Eliza (p. 245), became the second wife of Elisha Lord, a son
of Josiah Lord (p. 90). She died in 1831.
Smith, Hallam R. , bought the Paine-Noble house of R. T. Ashley,
Nov. 21, 1837, but concluding not to occupy the premises, he as
signed the title to Edwin Tiffany and Lyman Bolles, Dec. 24, 1838
(p. 162).
Smith, Mrs. Mianda — not Miranda (p. 130): The infant daughter's
name is Lelah.
Snakes, green (about the size of the striped ones) are seen — rarely.
Snowstorm (p. 237): Many say it occurred in June, and many say it
was on the 5th and 6th of October; and some say it was both. The
snow was tAVO feet deep, Oct. 6th, 1836.
Sow -Thistle— Has fleshy branching stalks and clasping spiny leaves,
milky juice and yellow flowers. Not native.
Spicewood is dressed in yellow bloom as soon as or sooner than the soft
maple puts on its scarlet.
Spurrey is an annual plant growing in moist ground, about a foot high,
with thread-like leaves in Avhorles around the joints of the stalk,
making it look like a trailing piny evergreen.
Stanton, Wm. E. (p. 181), died Dec. 14, 1890. New Cemetery.
Stanton, Joseph H. (p. 134), died AprU 6, 1892.
Sterling, Fredk. Goodrich (p. 139), died of injuries from striking a
bridge, on the railroad cars, Feb. 17, 1891.
Sterling, Isaac H., died Oct. 15, 1882, age, 83 yrs., 4 mos., 19 d.,
and Harriet, his wife, died Jan. 15, 1888, age, 84 yrs., 3 mos., 29 d.
Sweet, John (p. 155), had a son Martin.
Telegraph and Telephone— K through line, "The American," was put
up (1890) across the southwest corner of the township, but with no
office of communication therein.
Tewksbury, Samuel (p. 26), died Dec. 17, 1889.
Tewksbury, Isaac (p. 87), was living m the Ashley house when Mr.
A. bought it in 1848.
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292 history of BROOKLYN,
was then living with her daughter, Mrs, Milbourn, and died suddenly
at the breakfast table.
Tewksbury, Jesse W, (pp, 67, 156), had two sons, A, Llewellyn and
Elbert L,, of Binghamton, N, Y.
Tewksbury, Jacob: In setting a pear tree on the Ashley knoll (in
1 891) an artificial collection of stones was found underneath the sur
face, doubtless placed there to fill the cavity of the old cellar under
the cabin made by Mr, T, in 1800, It is on the east side of the
knoll, just west of the remains of the old road. The tree stands on
the northeast corner of the cellar.
Tiffany, Mrs, Fanny M,, daughter of Silas P, Ely, was born in the
old log house of her father, Aug, 8, 181 1. She is living at Hopbot
tom (1890) with her son Frank M, Her husband, Alson Tiffany
(b, July 2, 1806), died Aug, 8, 1884,
Tiffany, Arunah, — was born in Attleborough, Mass., Aug. 8, 1785,
and died in Gibson, Pa., Dec. 22, 1863. He settled in Gibson in
1806, near his sister, Mrs. Eliab Farrar, who had come two years
before, but Avho subsequently removed to Harford. Mr. T. came to
Brooklyn from Gibson, and returned there, Jan. i, 1821. He mar
ried Lucy Follet, Oct. i, 1809, who was born Aug. 29, 1791, and
died May 6, 1836. Their children were Calista C. (p. 30) — Mrs.
Leighton and afterward Mrs. Lines — who died at Great Bend, Jan.
23, 1892, in her 8ist year; Ferdinand B., deceased; Loring O.
(now of Thompson), born in Brooklyn, Oct. 11, 1819; Harriet N.
(Mrs. Ambrose F. Brundage) ; and Newell S. , deceased. His sec
ond wife Avas Clarissa (Lawrence) Bronson, who died in 1885, age,
84 years, and who had one son, George B., living on the Gibson
homestead.
Tiffany, Mrs. Edwin M. (pp. 60, 134), was buried AprU, 1892. '
Tiffany, Orvill W. (p. 39), died Sept. 20, 1842, not '32.
Tiffany, Eva A. (p, 160), died Sept. 14, 1891, age, 34 years.
Tiffany, Hosea E,, died at Danville, Pa., in faU of 1891.
Tiffany, Edson M. (p. 133), married Mary E. MUes (a relative of the
Joshua Miles family), who died Jan. 31, 1888, leaving a daughter,
Grace P. His second wife was Florence May Ballou.
Townsend, Mrs. Sally M. (not "Mrs. C," p. 99), died Nov. 24,
1884. Her daughter Cornelia, second wife of N. C. Benjamin, died
Oct. 28, 1884.
Treadwell, Jason (p. 244), Avas hung at Montrose, Jan. 13, 1825.
Turnpike Toll — At the Otto gate (p. 169) was once sought to be evaded.
A drove of cattle staid over Sunday on the Catlin place, then occu
pied by the Aineys. Monday morning the cattle were driven through
the lots down to the Birge place, and so out to Jezreel Dewitt's.
This avoided the gate. But Mr. O. was on hand for the toll.
Turtles — age of: Bloomfield Milbourn used to say that in 1797 he
caught a turtle near Martin Creek and marked the date on its shell.
He saw it several times after, once as late as 1834,
Universalist Church (on the hill) was dedicated Nov. 17th (not 25th),
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^7^t'. f/tl '"'"^ ^^t^-three or four feet high, branched, with long
Snl b^*^^ o'-JTh'te flowers blossoming in succession from thi
bottom upward. The stalk inclines to the square form, Uke verbenas
3.nQ mints.
Vetch with seed and vine resembling slender peas, grows from one to
four feet high with twining tendrils, and usurps the ground as far as
It spreads. Not common, and probably not native.
Vtlhge Land 7J'&.- Arunah Tifl'any was the defendant in the case of
Wallace vs. Tiffany," disputing the validity of the Nicholson-Wal
lace title to the old lot on which Brooklyn village is built This
involA^ed various complications from the claims arising under Chew
and Allen Avarrants (and perhaps others), including the fact that
Alien s title had been confiscated to the state (for treason, in 1778)
and that the Nicholson surveys had covered some of these Chew and
Allen lands. After a long contest, it Avas decided by the Supreme
Court that the Nicholson title was irregular, and that legislation
(which was afterwards enacted) was needed to cure the defect. But
the case was compromised in 1840 by Mr, T's deeding (for $1,000)
all of said lot except fourteen pieces, containing in all some thirty-two
acres, Avhich had been previously disposed of to other parties, to
Messrs, Jessup and Mulford, claimants under Nicholson title, the
latter confirming the title to the thirty-two acres to the several occu
pants.
Voting Places and Precints and Township Boundaries were quite indefi
nite in early times. Old Nicholson (named from John Nicholson,
comptroller of the State from 1782 to 1794) and set ofl" by Luzerne
county m August, 1795, began where Tunkhannock township line
crossed a small creek west of Martin creek (Horton creek likely, and
the point was probably some two miles south of the south boundary
of Susquehanna county), and ran thence north 13 miles; thence
east to Wayne county ; thence south to Tunkhannock township, and
thence west to the beginning. This would make a township 13 miles
north and south by about 20 east and west, and appears to have cov
ered the east part of Brooklyn and of what is now Lathrop. In
November, 1801, the township of Rush was set off, from Brain trim
or Auburn to the state line on the north, and practically to Lawsville
or Liberty and to Nicholson on the east. This large Rush territory,
including all the west part of the county except Auburn in the south
west corner, seems to have constituted one election district, in 1804
when Jefferson was elected, and Lawsville, Willingborough and Nich
olson formed another. Elections for Rush were held at Jabez
Hyde's, and for Nicholson, etc., at C. Longstreet's, in New Milford.
So the west part of Brooklyn must then have been in the Rush dis
trict. Some Brooklyn people were on the Rush tax list, and may
have gone to Hyde's, at Rindaw (forks of the North Branch and East
Branch Wyalusing), to vote, while the east part went to New Milford.
The lower Wyalusing seems to have been early recognized as a desir
able place for settlement. There was once an Indian viUage at its
mouth, and the Moravians established a missionary station there, and
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294 history of BROOKLYN.
few years. Many New England people had located on the Wyalu
sing from 1794 to 1800. Jabez Hyde, Jabez, Jr., and Col. Ezekiel
Hyde, Isaac Bronson (toAvn clerk), Enoch- Reynolds (who had estab
lished a store) and Daniel Ross (afterward postmaster) were at or
near Rindaw, now Rushville. Isaac Hancock, Jesse Ross (pp. 74,
109, 290) and others were lower down, in what is now Pike, in Brad
ford county. Isaac Hancock, though below the border of Susque
hanna county, was still in Rush, in Luzerne county, and was the
justice of the peace for this large Rush district, Avhile Thos. Tiffany
and afterward Hosea Tiffany in Nicholson, at " Nine Partners," Avere
justices for the eastern part of the county, with Asa Eddy at Willing-
boro' (Great Bend) and John Marcy in Nicholson, but south of the
county line. Rindaw seems to have been "headquarters" for the
Connecticut claimants under the " DelaAvare Company" that had the
management of this part of their territory, Ezekiel Hyde being agent
and surveyor, though Esq. Tracy, of Dandolo, was secretary and
recorder for the company. In 1806 Bridgewater was set off, with its
southeast corner on Martin creek, a mile above its junction with the
Tunkhannock (taking a strip of what is now Wyoming county) ;
thence northerly to Lawsville ; thence west to the southwest corner
of Lawsville ; thence northerly to the state line ; thence west to the
thirty-second milestone on state line; thence south to intersect a
line drawn west from place of beginning. This included Lathrop,
Brooklyn, Springville, Dimock and Silver Lake, beside present
Bridgewater and parts of other tOAvnships. In 1813 elections were
held at I. Post's for part of this Bridgewater, and at Thos. Parke's
(now in Dimock) for the rest. It is still remembered that older
people here used to say they went to Col, Parke's to vote, Mr, P,
came from Rhode Island in 1796, and spent much time in surveying
lands and townships under Connecticut claim. He was a supervisor
of Rush in 1805, He died on the old homestead in the little roman
tic dell, in 1842, after which his son-in-law, Geo, M, Gere (whose
Avife, Sarah C, Avas born here Dec, 5, 1802), occupied the place,
Avhich went into possession of Col, P.'s son Benjamin in i860.
Miss Blackman mentions that elections were held in 1792 at Horatio
Strong's, Willingboro', and about 1800, at Isaac Ousterhout's, five
miles below Tunkhannock, on the river, for a district including part,
at least, of Nicholson in our county. So it seems probable that if
any of our people voted at that early period, it must have been at
one or the other of these places. After the township became Water
ford, in 1814, at same time Springville was also taken from Bridge-
water, there is tradition that once, at least, an election was held at
the house of Cyril Giddings, though it is probable that, mostly,
elections were held at the public house ("Abbey") as kept by Noah
Tiffany, etc. After the Bagley inn was built, elections doubtless
began to be held there, where they still continue.
Waldie, Mrs. Emily (p. 112), died Jan. 23, 1891.
Walker, 'Wm. T., was a brother of Gilbert C., who was once governor
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Water Veins sometimes change their underground channels so as to in
crease the supply at one spring and diminish it at another. When
Dr. Richardson's well Avas dug, the water in the old-time Ashley
spring is said to have ceased to flow while the well was filling.
Water Ways and Water Craft: In the early time our people were
obliged to avail themselves of the advantages of navigation for ac
complishing objects which would have been very difficult by other
methods of transportation: Our own streams afford small facilities
for this purpose (p. 195), but the canoes, flatboats and rafts borne on
the Tunkhannock and the Susquehanna, and pushed, rarely by oar,
but chiefly by setting-pole or current, were often employed for com
munication with Wilkes-Barre, Philadelphia, etc. ; and ' ' Horton's
Mills" (Nicholson) became a sort of river port, in times of sufficient
water, for this intercourse; and many "errands" were freely done
by these inland navigators. The Nicholson party came to their
prospective homes here (p. 20) by way of this channel. The previ
ous ineffectual attempts at settlement from Wyoming were also made
by the same route. This affords an additional and quite conclusive
evidence that the first settlement of the county was made here in the
time of the spring freshet, and that the first birth within the county
occurred here in the spring of 1787. Peck's History states that
Enoch Bishop Merriman, or Merriam, was the first white child born
on the Susquehanna (presumably at Great Bend), and that he died
in 1850, aged 63 yrs. If this is true, this may have been the second
birth in the county (pp. 76, 146). There is a portion of the Hop-
bottom, for two and a half miles north of the village, that would be
navigable for small, light floats if the stream were not there so wind
ing and crooked (p. 9).
Weather Signs (p, 279) — " Sky-tails" or " strati" are long, striated, hor
izontal wisps of cloud, on a pleasant day, Avhich indicate a stormy
day to follow. When the wind turns the summer leaves on the trees
so as to show their under, light-colored sides, it is said to foretell a
.storm. "Weather-breeders" are exceptionally fine days in late fall or
winter considered as forerunners of a storm. The movement of migra
tory birds betokens change of temperature. Huge heaps of thin white
clouds — "cumuU" — which the fancy forms into vast mountains, and
enormous temples, and fabulous beasts and birds, are signs of fair
weather, as are light, fleecy clouds with blue sky beyond, "If it
rains when the sun shines, it will rain the next day,"— that is, be
"catchy" weather, A heavy dew indicates a fair day, A rainbow
near evening is a fair harbinger, but in the morning, a foul one;
a bright sunset "betokens a goodly day to-morrow." When gossamer
structures are abundant, covering the ground and filling the air with
this insect-made web and filament, it is fine, sunny Aveather, but not
sure it will long continue such. Converging streaks made by rays of
light passing through cloud or haze, and extending from the horizon
toward the sun above, are said to be caused by the "sun's drawing
water" preparatory to a storm. Moving shadows like those "by a
cloud on a summer's day made over a field of grain or clover," are
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296 HISTORY OF BROOKLYN.
as they seem also to do in "a wet spell." But the U. S. weather
bureau has reduced weather-divining to a science, by giving us fore
casts from actual observation of moving storms,
Weston, Eliza (p, 138-9), Avas born June i, 1808, and died suddenly
at Carbondale, Pa,, Apr. 2, 1892.
Whitlow-grass — A low herb in sandy waste places, probably foreign.
Wild Lettuce — Common tall plants with hollow stalks and branching
heads Avith inconspicuous yellow, white dr reddish flowers and downy
seeds, usually ranked with "fire weeds," but unlike these they have
milky juice like lettuce.
Wild Senna is a leguminous plant of much beauty, groAving in alluvial
soil, four or five feet high, having leaves and pods resembling those
of the locust, Avith yellow flowers having dark stamens.
Williams, Eveline, the oldest daughter of Latham Williams (omitted
from p. 81), married Otis Ross, of MiddletOAvn, Pa.
Williams, Mrs. Emily (p. 179), died March 28, 1890. HiU Cem,
Willow-herb — Two or three feet high, with lanceolate leaves and pink-
purple flowers, and seeds with downy tufts bloAvn by the air,
Wilson, Wm. (p. 83) — His wife's name was Margaret WhaUey, and
their oldest daughter, Annie E., who married Evi Dewitt, of New
MUford (p. 132), AA'as born in England, Jan. 24, 1826, and died Feb.
I, 1892.
Windmill: In 1891, A. W. Kent made application of air currents to
force water from the outlet of the Fairchild spring, on the Stephen
Smith place (which Mr. K. now owns, B, O, Watrous having removed
to Binghamton), up to the bmldings above, the first employment of
wind for the purpose in the township, though several hydraulic rams
have been put in use.
Wooden Latches, with wooden catches and wooden hinges, secured the
outside cabin doors. The latch was managed by a string attached to
it, passing out through a gimlet-hole in the door. The house could
be "locked" at night by pulling in the string. "Latchstring hang
ing out" became an expression for free hospitality.
Wood Prongs were used for various purposes. Beside the "well-crotch"
in which the sweep was hung, and beside the little angular branches
nailed against the side of the house, or over the fireplace, or on the
joists overhead, to hold the gun, larger hooks were driven upward
into the girt in the stable to hang up the harness; while larger,
longer angles were made into harroAvs, holes being bored through
them, and the straight iron "teeth" driven in to project (backward
in rooty ground) on the under side. They were also used for pig
and goose "pokes" by putting the pliable ends through two holes in
a stick in front to hold these projections on the neck; and cherry
prongs were used for "water-witching," to bend down in the hands
of the carrier over veins of water. They were also sometimes used
to lengthen the ox-chain, by cutting a stick of suitable size and
length with a prong at both ends, one to be hooked into the ring of
the yoke, while the chain was wrapped round the other.
Worthing, Lydia E, (p, 105), died July 19, 1890, New Cem,
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ture: Laban C, who began on the Jas. Oakley place, gave out to
his neighbors (the customary way of advertising at that time) that he
would like to sell his farm. One day a customer came. Mr. C. told
him he wanted to sell his place because it was so poor. Said he plant
ed corn on it, but the sprouts and fireweeds grCAV so thick and high
he could not find his crop, and had to go in with his dog and gun
and hunt it out!
Wright, Orlando (p. no), died at Hopbottom, Feb. 7, 1892.
Years of Brooklyn Village : The first settlement Avithin its limits was
made on its southern border, just south of the Hopbottom and west
of the Old Cemetery, in 1787, by Mortimer Page (p. 26), who lived
there for twelve or fifteen years, and perhaps longer. Jacob Tewks
bury (p. 27) built the next log house, on the Ashley knoll, in 1800;
and he afterward used the Page cabin in which to boil maple sap.
The next cabin was built and occupied by Isaac Tewksbury (father
of Jacob) in 1804 (p. 51), near the hotel barn. The first frame struc
ture was erected by Deacon Miles in i5io (p, 58), The next was
bmlt by Joshua Miles, Jr, (p. 116), in what is now the new cemetery.
The next frame house was that of Jonas R, Adams (p, 101), and the
fourth was built by E, L. Paine (p, 162), but soon occupied by Jas,
Noble, The post-office Avas first here in 1817, having previously been
at the CatUn house (p. 191), where it was expected the county seat
would be located. The first resident blacksmith was Ephraim Howe,
Avho lived in the J. Tewksbury cabin in 1812 (p. 27). The first shoe
maker located within the present limits of the village Avas probably
Thos. Saunders, in the Isaac Tewksbury house, about 1808 (p. 51).
The first store or stock of goods was doubtless kept by Deacon Miles,
at first in the Jacob Tewksbury house in 1809 and '10, and afterward,
tUl 1815, in the "Abbey." This was the continuation of the Mary
Tracy store of merchandise started in 1806 (p. 143)- The first stone
mason was Jacob Tewksbury— 1800. The first carpenter and mill
wright, Joshua Miles, Sr., 1807 or '08. First resident physician.
Palmer M. Way, about 1829, and B. Richardson soon after. The
first school within present village limits was taught by Samuel Wes
ton in the I. Tewksbury house, winter of 1807-8— not the first m the
township (p 47). Old first frame school-house built, 1814; first
teacher in it, CyrU Giddings, 1814-15 (PP- i°2-3). First church
edifice buUt, the Methodist, 181 2-13 (p. 117)- Oldest church edifice
left standing (p. 135). the old Presbyterian, of 1829 First hotel-
keeper, Noah Tifl'any, 1816 (p, 59)- First buth that of Daniel
Tevv'ksbury, Nov. 22, 1801, (unless some of the children of M. Page
were born here, of which no account can be obtained). First burial
in Old Cemetery, that of Molly Maglothlan, a Scotch woman much
esteemed, in northeast part, Feb., 1810 (pp. 59, 83)- First death m
vUlage territory, that of Deacon Miles, July 6, 181 5. Oldest de.
ceased eariy resident (from 1809 to 1816— in J. Tewksbury house,
and "Abbey"), Mary Tracy Miles, who died Jan. 28, 1856, age 93
vrs 7 mo Oldest later resident, Olive Ely (p. 57), who died m the
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290 history of BROOKLYN.
born Sept. r, 1798. (Old Cem.) Oldest living early resident (from
1809 to 1816), Sally (Tracy) Hayden (now of Montrose), who was
born Apr. 16, 1798, being 94 yrs. and 2 mo. old, June 16, 1892.
— Such was the beginning, the early progress, and some of the remi
niscences of the cozy little hamlet of some fifty dwellings situated in an
angle of the Hopbottom (here flowing first southerly and then south
easterly in its passage from Heart Lake to Martin Creek), and nestling
beneath the hills, — Mclntyre hill east, Conrad hill north, Wilkinson or
Bissell hill west, Paine or Lathrop hill southwest, and Tubbs (Roper)
knob south, — while the rippling brook from Weston pond (p. 138) runs
through its center from north to south. Seen from the high ground on
the west, or better, on the southwest, it presents a picturesque appear
ance, Yellow-Jackets: "Uncle Zarah" (p. 165) used to explain to the boys
how the hornets would all fly straight back to the place where the
nest had been built, without attacking the carrier, if the nest should
be carried rapidly aAvay with the entrance at the bottom held out
backward at arm's length. The boys lacked courage or confidence,
but persuaded Uncle Z. to try the experiment himself. He was a
large, fleshy man, with bald head. His hat came ofl" in the race,
and the hornets, abandoning the rule, if such they had, stung him
badly. Hornets make their paper for constructing their houses from
weather-beaten Avood fibre scraped from old rails, etc.
Yeomans, Saml. Sr., died in winter of 1836, as C, C, Worthing re
members,
Yeomans, Mrs, Huldah, died July 2d (not 21st), 1841 (p, 53).
Yeomans, Mrs. Moses B. (p. 76), died Feb. 10, 1891.
Young Philosophers on cause and effect as to the wind's blowing
"where it listeth" and our inability to tell "whence it cometh or
whither it goeth" : A native of the township, 66 years old, says his
first impression about the breezes came from his experience with fans
in warm weather; and he thought the leaves and branches of the
trees in some way got into motion and like a host of fans produced
the wind. Others have a similar recollection.
Zenith : Historic retrospects reveal the sIoav, sure progress of humanity
toward its meridian. But many crowning triumphs are yet to be
ardently and vigorously sought by our people. The striving for the
better and the right cannot be given up.
" Swing inward, O gates of tlie future,
Swing outward, ye doors of the past,
For tlie soul of the people is moving.
Still rising from slumber at last ;
The black forms of night are retreating,
The white peaks have signalled the day,
And Freedom her long-roll Is beating,
Still calling her sons to the fray.
Swing inward, O gates, till the morning
Shall paint the brown mountains in gold.
Till the hfe and the love of the New Time
Shall conquer the hate of the Old."

ADDITIONAL ITEMS.
Bailey, Edwin F. (p. 46), died at Maiden, Mass., Aug. 2, 1892, age,
60 years, 7 months.
Boughton, Mrs. Paulina (p. 40), died at Danville, Pa., Sep. 17, 1892.
Chapman, Jas. W., died at Montrose, Pa., Sep. 8, 1892.
Craver, C. M. (p. 49), died Sep. 21, 1892. New Cemetery.
Fish, Ida (p. 63), died Aug. 17, 1893. Hill Cemetery.
Gere, Christopher. Morgan, died at Montrose, Pa., June 12, 1892.
Hemp Nettle, of the mint type, with purple flowers, is found in culti
vated grounds.
Latham, Albert (p. 31), was a Union cavalry soldier.
Lawrence, Wm. (p. 33), had eleven children — Phebe (Mrs. Geo. Bag-
ley), Lucy, Clarke, Charlotte, Sally Ann, George, Daniel, Amos and
Elizabeth. After his wife Amy died, he married the widow of
Latham (?) Hewitt (son of Israel Hewitt and father of Mrs. N. R.
Mack, and brother of Mrs. Allen Lawrence, p. 182), and their chil
dren were William and Charles. Mr. L. lived for a time, after leav
ing Brooklyn, on the Allen Upson or Sumner Dean filace in Dimock,
as it is said Amos Lawrence did also.
McKinney, Mrs. Polly, died Oct. 6, 1892. Old Cemetery.
Mullein, White, is found sparingly in old rocky pastures, lower than
the common, with smooth leaves and white or whitish-yellow blos
soms and seed-pods scattered over its numerous branches.
Newton, Jas. M., died September, 1892.
"Secret Ballot," freeing the voter from outside influences, is to be first
used at the election Nov. 8, 1892.
Smith, Hubb.\rd N., died Oct. 6, 1892. Hill Cemetery.
Snakeroot, White, of the thoroughwort family, two or three feet high,
in dry ground, has dark bluish leaves and pure white flowers.
Sterling, Silas P., died in summer of 1892.
Stevens, Mrs. Wm. B. (p. 33), died at Leraysville, Pa., July 22, 1892.
Thunder-storms: It is sometimes thought that nature's electric opera
tions are on a grander and more dangerous scale tha.n formerly.
Some attribute this to the present artificial use of electricity m con
nection with light and railroad, telegraph, telephone and phono
graph But severe thunder showers were frequent in the olden time,
and accidents sometimes occurred, though there were then fewer
people and buildings, and more trees and woods. An ox was killed
by lightning on the Tracy place on the hill just west of the house,
and a few years after a young man, Henry Warner, was killed at the
Allen Upson house (Sumner Dean's) in Dimock, on the place previ
ously occupied by Wm. Lawrence, after he left Brooklyn. Julia
Gere, a teacher, was in the room at the time. . , ,
Trapping— y^as carried on by means of steel-traps of various sizes, dead
falls or "figure-fours," snares, box-traps, etc. Partridges were some-

300 history of BROOKLYN.
times caught by constructing two slanting wings of brush with a
snare made at the apex, by cutting off the top of a sapling and bend
ing it over, with a cord and noose held down by two sticks driven
into the ground, the bird disadjusting the noose in attempting to
pass through the opening. Wolves were occasionally caught by set
ting traps in shallow streams, where there was little current, putting
a piece of moss on the pan, on which the wolf would step in reach
ing for the bait. — But there are many lasting monuments among the
cliff's and crags where trapping was done in the early time. On the
old "Worthing lot" there is a pit in the rocks with three narrow
entrances, two of which still remain stoned up, in which a dead
horse was once deposited by Samuel Weston, from the opening
above, and a trap was set at the open entrance left below. The
place is known in the vicinity as "the bear trap," and remains of
bones are still to be found at the bottom.
"Westward the star of empire takes its way." — Columbus braved the
perils of an unknown sea and sailed west four centuries ago, with
bright hopes and visions he never realized, but found ignominy and
chains instead, with even the honor of giving name to the new
world stolen. This is the old, old story of vanished compensation.
But what would he say of the achievements of to-day, which his
heroic deed made possible! New England people were induced to
"go west" to Brooklyn, with slow and weary toil. In succeeding
years they continued to "go west" to Ohio, Indiana and Illinois,
then to Minnesota and Nebraska, and then, still towards the "setting
sun," to California, Oregon and Washington!
What amazing strides have been made in the facility and celerity
of intercourse since the early time, till in this four-hundredth anni
versary of the discovery of America, the continent and the ocean are
crossed in a week, and the electric messenger darts through time and
space; while the Columbian exposition at Chicago will present the
grandest display of the triumphs of science and art, skill and industry
that the world has ever seen, and scientists are aspiring to aerial nav
igation and even to communication with neighboring planets !
The most momentous and vital problem now confronting us is
that of adding beneficence to all this progress, and securing to the
discoverer, the earner, the laborer for the common need and com
mon good a just and sure reward.
Brooklyn, Pa., October, 18^2.

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