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WILLIAM WELLS OF

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And

His Descendants,

A. D.

1638 TO 1878

BY THE REV.

CHARLES WELLS HAYES.

CANON OF
ST.

LUKE'S CATHEDRAL, PORTLAND, ME.

;

CORRESPONDING SECRE-

TARY OF THE MAINE HISTORICAL SOCIETY

MEMBER OF THE NEW

SOCIETY.

ENGLAND HISTORIC GENEALOGICAL

BUFFALO,
BAKER, JONES &
CO.,

N. Y.:

PRINTERS AND BINDERS.

MDCCCLXXVIII.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year BY CHARLES W. & ROBERT P. HAYES,
In the Office of
tlie

1878,

Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C.

PREFACE,
THE
ago, to

present volume has grown out of the request of a relative, four years fill up some blanks in a Family Bible. How the response to that
;

request grew from a letter into a pamphlet, and from a pamphlet into a volume

by what unthought-of study, correspondence, and

the family, a labour of love has reached
detail to
its

visits to

the old

homes

of

present stopping-place, I need not

any who have had anything

special

to

do with genealogical research.

is

Some
ing.

acknowledgment, besides that given on each page,

due

for

co-operation in this work, without which I could have done comparatively noth-

Mr. Charles B. Moore, of

itself a

New

York, has kindly added

material,)

to his " Southold

letters

Index of 1698," (in

torical notes,

mine of genealogical
all his

many
city,

and

his-

and a transcript of
cousin, Mr.

MS. Index

of 1775 relating to the

name

of Wells.

My

George

E. Sibley, of the same

all its

has taken a large

share of the labour involved in the work, and nearly

his patient

pages bear witness to

the accomplished

and accurate

research.

To

Mr.

John Ward Dean,

Librarian of the

New England
and

Historic Genealogical Society, I

am

indebted for

valuatjle assistance

direction.

Among

the largest contributors of unpub

lished material are the Rev.

Joseph Wickh \m Case,

N. Y., Dr.
of Nashville, Tenn.
the work, are due to
all

Eurystheus H. Wells, of Upper Aqueboguc, Benjamin F. Wells, of Wellsburgh, Elmore H. Wells, of Meshoppen, Pa., and Miss Sarah M. Wells,
Esq., of .Southold,

But most of

all,

my

thanks, and those of

P.

all

interested in

my

brother,

Robert

Hayes, of

Buffalo,

who

has

made

the arrangements for the printing, and superintended and corrected the proof
first

from

to last, with a care

its

and judgment which have made the book

if

attractive,
in

and worthy of
this, I

purpose, in appearance,

not in contents

And

saying

do not forget our obligations

to the Printer.'; for their skill

and patience

in a

kind of work testing both

severely.

The numerous
for

errors inevitable in such a

if

work need no apology, and those

of

carelessness or wilful blindness,

such there be, admit of none.

it

To

the family
first

whom

the

book

is

printed, I hope
all,

may

plead

its

own

excuse,

for

venturing into print at

and
its

ne.xt for

not awaiting a ten or twenty years' longer

incubation before making

appearance.
C.

W. H.

135 State St., Portland, Maine,

November

i,

1S78.

Plan of Numbering.
THE
Integral Figure
after

each name, beginning with Chapter

;

II.,

p.

33,

denotes the Generation in America

and the Decimal, the Number in that

one mentioned of the third generation,
;

Generation in the order in which the names occur in the book.

Thus, William

III.^''

(p.

39)
I.

is

the

first

or grandchildren of William

of Southold

and Mary*-

(p-

272) the eightieth

and

last

here given of the fourth generation, or his great-grandchildren.

CONTENTS.
Chapter.
I.

Page.

The Wells Name and

William
I:

Family

in

II.

of Southold, 1638-71

III.

IV. V.

VI. VII. VIII. IX. X. XI. XII. XIII.

William II. and his eldest son Elder Branch: John, second son of William II. Henry, third son of William II., and his eldest son Obadiah, second son of Heniy I. Henry of Montague, son of Obadiah Elder sons of Henry of Montague Richard, fifth son of Henry of Montague
. .

....
England

17

34
51

61 76

90
113 128
171 195

Younger children of Henry of Montague Abner, youngest son of Henry I. Younger Branch: Joshua I. and his
. .

XIV.

XV.
XVI. XVII. XVIII.

Samuel, second son of Joshua I. Daniel, third son Solomon, fourth son Nathaniel, fifth son Fregift, sixth son Daughters of William I. of Southold
.

...... ...... ......

.
. .

eldest son

209 218 233 262 265 271 2S1

Supplement and Indexes,

285-300.

Notes on

Allied Families, 89, 106, 145, 192

The Special Attention

of the Critical and the Uncritical Reader
is

asked

to the

CORPages

RECTIONS AND Additions

285-9.

in

the

SUPPLEMENT,

Mistakes

may

be avoided as well as corrected, by

noting the number of each paragraph of the Supplement

on the margin

of the

Page

to

which

it

refers.

CHAPTER
THE WELLS FAMILY
English name Wells tHE derivations.
(i.)

I.

IN ENGLAND.

appears to have two distinct

The Saxon
quelle,
-is

zuell,

a well or spring, from wellan, to

spring, bubble up, or flow, and the kindred Danish wel and

German
meaning
the

found

in

Domesday Book

as " Guella,"

there, apparently, a stream or rivulet flowing into

German Ocean, and

its

applied to the ancient Norfolk sea-

port at

mouth.*
" of

No

doubt many

families of the
in

name

may

find a like origin for their

patronymic,

some John

or Robert

the Well"; and possibly the old cathedral

their appellation

and other towns in England, have derived from the same familiar word.f As a family name, however, it is more commonly de(2.) rived through the Norman-French val, a vale, and its plural Val, Vals, Vaux, Valvals or vaiLv, from the Latin vallis. De, are found m numerprefix without the LIBUS, all with and ous records from the Norman Conquest of 1066 to the end of the fifteenth century, apphed to famihes in almost every
city of Somerset,

county

in

England, but mostly

in Lincoln, Norfolk,

Essex,

*Blomfield, Hist. Norfolk, 1808, IX. 282.

f

As Well, Lincoln and York; Upwell and

"

Outvvell, Norfolk,

"where

lived

the ancient family of Wells," &c.

Sometimes a cottager or small proprietor

into

would get the name At the Welle, or De La Welle, afterwards shortened Blomfield, VII. Wells." Lower's Patronym. Brittan.. London, 1S60.
(George E. Sibley.)

470.

THE WELLS FAMILY

of

IN

ENGLAND.

CH.

I.

and Kent, and

French

origin. *
(1475).

little

later
(1463),

we have
Wills,

Wallys

(1220),

Wellys

Wyllys

(these last

two

rare,)

Well, De Well

(1401-89),

Welles,

(1283), and finally Wells, this last form as Wels early as the beginning of the thirteenth century.f appears to be Dutch, found at New York, 1678, and Ley-

De Welles

den,

*-

1723.:};

There
wich, or

is

no doubt that the ancient cathedral

vicinity,

city of

Nor-

its

was the birthplace

of

of Southold, the

common

ancestor of the

WiixiAM Wells Long Island fam-

name. According to a Southold tradition of two centuries, he was the son of the Rev. William Welles, Rector of the Church of St. Peter Mancroft, Norwich Cathedral, 1613-20, 1 598-1620, and Prebendary of whose tombstone in St. Peter's Church shows him to be descended from the Norfolk and Lincolnshire family known in England since the Conquest, and holding from 1299 to 1503, one of the most ancient baronies in the kingdom.
iHes of that

Hubert, Ranulf, and Robert, three sons of Harold de Vaux, a Norman baron, are said to have came into England about 1120, and
the youngest in Norfolk.

two elder in Cumberland, and About 1194, Adam, a grandson of Robert, holding the manor of Welles, near Alford, LinHe appears to colnshire, took the name De Welles.
settled, the
* Robert de Vals, Vallibus or Vaux, 1066;

John De Vallibus or Vaux, Constais probably the same as our vford /all, from the Hebrew root natiphal, Greek sphallo, French avaler. So Duval, Delaval, Avalon, Fr.; Vail, Eng., &c. Blomf. Norfolk, I. 157, \ Harrod, Castles and Convents of Norwich, 315-17.
ble of

Norwich

Castle, &c.

In this derivation the word

V. 43, 303, VII. 470, IX. 38, &c. Records of Dutch Ch.. N. Y., 1678. (N. Y. Gen. & Biog. Record, VIII. Gideon Wels matr. Lugd. Bat. 1723. (Albany MSS. 22. G. E. s.)
11. 313, III. 171, 191,

172).

Dugdale, Baronage of England.

A. D. 1299.

THE BARONS WELLES.

have died without issue, and to have been succeeded in his manor by his younger brother WiUiam, and he by his son William, and grandson Adam. The latter was summoned
6, 1299, as first Baron Welles*; was Constable of Rockingham Castle, and Warden of the Forest. His arms are described in a MS. Roll of Arms of 1308,!

to Parliament, Feb.

" Sire

Adam

de Welles, de

od

la

courve fourchee."
1311. 1320.
1345.
1 36 1.

un Lion rampaund de sable, His successors in the Barony were

or, a

II.

Robert, son of Adam.

III.

Adam, brother
John, son of

of Robert.
II.

IV.

Adam

V.
in

John, son of John; a distinguished soldier

Leo, grandson of John
at

France and Scotland.

VI.
142 1.
1 46 1.

II.,

k.

Towton

Field,

VII.
VIII.

1469.

Richard, son of Leo, also Baron Willoughby Robert, son of Richard,

de Eresby.
1469.
1483.
d.
s.

p.

Richard Hastings, brother-in-law of Robert, d. s. p., 1503, when the Barony fell into abeyance between the descendants of the four daughters of Leo, 6th Baron, and so remains, a decision to that effect having been given as
IX.
lately as
1832.:]:

From some offshoot of this noble house was descended William Welles of Norwich, the father of William of
Only four English Peerages older than this are now in existence. Ed. by Nicholas Harris Nicholas, Esq 1S29. (g. e. s.) Burke, Extinct Peerage, where a full account of the Barons Welles may be found. Atiothe? peerage of the name, sometimes confounded with this, Viscount Welles,was conferred in 1487 by Henry VII. on his uncle, John Welles, s. of Leo, 6th Baron, by his second wife Margaret, widow of John Beaufort, Earl of Somerset, and by him gr. mo. of Henry VII. Lord Welles had m. the Princess Cicely, or Cecilia, 2d dau. of Edw. IV., and sister of Elizabeth, Queen of Henry VII. He d. 1489, without male issue, and the title became extinct. The crest of the Barons Welles was a demi-lion sable as in the arms; motto, semper
*
f
,

if

THE WELLS FAMILY

Such search
as has

IN

ENGLAND.

CH.

I.

been practicable in Norwich and the Heralds' College, gives no account of his parentage. He was born in 1566, ordained Priest about 1590, and in 1598
Southold.

became Rector (or Minister) of St. Peter Church, Norwich, of which Blomfield says:

of

Mancroft's

" This Parish is a small ward of itself, and at the beginning of the Confessor's reign was uninhabited, being field

That part now the market-place, was the Magna Crofta Castelli [Great or Outer Court of the Castle] and Hence the church joining to the outward ditch thereof. on the S. W. front of it is distinguished from the other churches of St. Peter in this city, by the name of Magna Crofta or " Mancroft." At the latter end of the Confessor's time, it began to be inhabited, and in the reign of William the Conqueror was held by Ralph, Earl of Norfolk, who founded the church, which became a Rectory in the gift of In 158 1 it was conveyed to Gloucester Abbey. Trustees for the parishioners." *
only.
. . .

St. Peter's Church, begun in 1430, consecrated 1455, and thoroughly restored in i860, is described as the largest

parish church in the city, and with one exception (St.

Redcliff, Bristol), the finest in the
aisles

Mary

kingdom

a nave and

of

six

bays and chancel of three, with transepts,

height through the whole

and a

lofty clerestory of equal

length, (212 feet,) giving with the massive

stages at

tower of four the west end, and the octagonal turret and spire

S. E. of the chancel, quite a cathedral-like effect, f

*

Blomfield, IV.
city.

The Magna

Crofta

and

its

church are

now

in the heart of

the

f" The tower

tracery.

contains a peal of 12 bells, weighing gj^ tons.

filled

The

clerestory

has on each side 17 obtusely arched windows,

with rich perpendicular

The windows

of the aisles are large and light.

its

recessed, with rich sculpture in

is

hollow mouldings.

imposing, the splendid stained glass in the high east

effect.
.
.

The west door is deeply The interior of the church window having a magnifi-

cent

The
.

roof

is

supported by 14 slender clustered columns and lofty

aisle, is
is

arches.

The

old Font stands under a canopy supported by pillars.

a piece of tapestry,

Near

to

it,

at the

west end of the N.

In the vestry

much

faded, of

the Ascension, 1573.

a portrait of the celebrated Sir

Thomas

A. D. 1598.

ST.

PETER MANCROFT, NORWICH.

friend says of a recent visit to the church,

" I found in his house near the door of the south aisle, the parish clerk and sexton, a queer old worthy, who told' me he had been fifty years in the employment of the Church, most of the time as bell-ringer. He had a wholesome regard for venerable things, like me, preferred what was old to what was new in the church, and did not speak of the recent repairs as a restoration.' He took me into the open space below the belfry tower, pointing to the long and grand vista through the nave, and the lofty ancient chestnut roof, and finally the great east window at the end of the fully open choir, covering its whole breadth and reaching t5 the roof, as the finest view in any church in the world,' and indeed it is very beautiful. then went to the vestry, which is directly behind the altar, and he opened an ancient wooden box, iron-bound, and black with age, from which he produced the Parish Registers, beginning in 1538, and continuing to the present time."*

'

'

We

In 161 3, (Sept. 28,) Mr. Welles, being then S. T. B., and Chaplain to the Queen (Anne of Denmark), was appointed
to the First Prebend.(called the

Prebend

of the Chancellor)

in

Norwich Cathedral.
five in the

him on the
one of
the
first

The Prebend had been granted to next vacancy, as early as March 30, 1605.+ It is
patronage of the Crown. His
stall

was

on the N. side of the choir, next the Archdeacon's, and then belonged to this Prebend, an arrangement now done away with, the Prebendaries taking their seats according to seniority. ^ An incidental notice of the Prebendary
will
is

found

in the
26,

of

Thomas Doughty
a

of

Norwich, Draper, Aug.

;

Browne (author of
baster carving
the Epistles
;

the Religio Medici)\Nh.o lies buried in the church

an old ala-

MS. Bible on vellum, 1340; and a still more ancient MS. of of St. Paul, with a comment, beautifully illustrated." Jarrold's
50.

Norwich Guide,
*

Josiah Pierce, Esq., of London, and Portland, Me.,

who kindly

visited

the

church, and
will for
f

made some examination

21, 1876.
p.

of the Registers and of Prebendary Welles'

me, Feb.

Eng. State Papers, 1603-10, tBlomfield, III. 661-2.

205.

(g. e. s.)

10

THE WELLS FAMILY

2,

IN ENGLAND.
five

CH.

I.

i6i

who

gives

^4 each

to

"Mr. Wells" and

other

ministers, legacies paid as late as i6i8 Alderman of Lynn. *

by William Doughty,

He
where
stone,

died
his

May

26, 1620, at

Norwich, and was buried

fiat

May
tomb-

30, t in the

chancel and near the altar of his parish church,

grave was marked until i860, by a

its

now removed from

shown
in
fine

original place, but carefully

preserved, as

the fac-simile here given, photo-

graphed from a very

^876.;!;

rubbing taken

in the

summer

of

The loving
of

inscription will be

deemed
it

in this day,

perhaps, exaggerated in language, but

bears evident

marks

sincerity,

and

tells

something, certainly, of his

character
"

among

those of his

own day and

generation.

of

Tomb is sacred to the learning, virtue, and memory most eloquent and beloved man, Mr. William Welles, Bachelor in Sacred Theology, Rector of this Church, and Prebendary of the Cathedral Church who after thirty years spent in this famous city with the highest
This
that
;

great sanctity of life and- suavity of manners, together with notable and unwearied diligence in pastoral work, full of good report, and beloved by all good men, prematurely for the Church of God, but happily for himself, fell asleep in the Lord, in the certain hope of resurrection, May 26, A. D. 1620, in the 54th year of his age."
praise, in

It

appears then that his entire ministry of thirty years

was spent in Norwich, very likely in the one Parish of which he was Rector twenty-two years. His " diligence in pastoral work " could hardly have been quickened by its
* Blomfield, III. 364.

He was

the 7th Prebendary in succession from the

1538.

re-organization
(Id.) f

of the

Chapter in
St.

The Prebend

is

of

small value.

Record of "Burialls"in

Peter Mancroft,

"Anno Dom.

1620.

May

30,

Rev. William Wells.",

J

(j. p.)

The

stone

is

described (with inscription and arms as above) as being " in the

in 1808.
It I

altar-rails,"

by Blomfield,

was

removed on the repaving of the

indebted to the Rev. Edward
S.

chancel with encaustic

tiles in

i860

am

Medley, Minor Canon of Norwich Cathedral, for the rubbing here engraved.

)iSSi^\\S^KAii& ;y!i^<SK^>^.p-S^^
I

A. D. 1620.

ARMS OF PREBENDARY WELLES.

I3

emoluments, which are even at the present day but ^'j a His private property, however, appears by his will year. to have been considerable. The armorial bearings on his tombstone, described plainly by Blomfield, " Welles, or, a Lion double quevee sable, in a bordure engrailed gules,'' correspond exactly to those of the first Baron Welles in 1308, except the "bordure," which

may

be a

" difference " distinguishing a

younger branch

of

value of the coat of arms thus displayed, as evidence of descent, can hardly be measured by the ideas
the family.

The

and practice of this day in such matters. It is to be judged of (i) by the date of the monument, a day when heralds' *' visitations " were still in full force, and the Court of the Earl Marshal by no means obsolete (2) by the pubhc and official character of the claim thus made, not, perhaps, by Prebendary Welles himself, but by those who must have known his ancestry; and (3) by the remarkable circumstance that the " Lion double quevee," the principal charge in the arms of the Barons Welles, was never borne by any other family of the name in the kingdom.* The will of Prebendary Welles, dated May 20, 1620, (six
;

give this on the authority of two of the present officers of the Royal College

Edward The latter adds his opinion of the value of the arms on Prebendary \Velles' tomb as evidence of his descent, agreeing with the note subjoined, by a legal friend who has given special attention to
of Arms, George
Bellasis, Esq.,

H. Rogers-Harrison, Esq., Windsor Herald, and

Blue Mantle Poursuivant.

the subject

" This sort of evidence of pedigrees

is

recognized by the Courts in

all

cases

prior to the year of the last Heralds' Visitation in 1686, in which year the cor-

rection of usurpations war, completed.

Tliis principle

was

fully

settled in
is

the
that

Chandos Peerage case. by the assumption of that he was connected

'

The ground
in that

of the admission of such evidence

a particular bearing, the party must have

meant

to affirm

manner with

the family to which such bearing

it

belonged,' (i Phillips on Evidence, 223.)

And

is

also declared

by the same

text-writer that the claim of Sir Michael Blount to the Barony of Mountjoy in Q. Elizabeth's time, turned almost wholly upon the arms in a window of Iver in

Bucks, set up in the reign of Henry VII.

established the like doctrine."
(g. e. s
)

And

other

trials in

the Courts have

14

THE WELLS FAMILY

his death,)

IN

ENGLAND.

CH.

I.

days before

gives to his wife Elizabeth, "his

" for life, and after her, the messuage in St. same to "John Welles his [eldest] sonne," and if John left no issue, then to " his sonne WiUiam Wells " to Susan Wells, his daughter, his " messuage and house in Heigham; Norfolk," with rent charge to his wife till Susan's majority to his daughter Ehzabeth, when twenty years of age, other

Peter Mancroft

lands,

till

then given to his wife Elizabeth.

will

A
is

further be-

recorded (in quest is made to a daughter Anne. The an old legal handwriting like that of the will of Shakspeare)
in six closely-written

pages (100-105) of the wills proved in Court of the Bishopric of Norwich, A. D. the Consistory 1620 and the record is now preserved in the District Court
;

of Probate, a

the Cathedral. property,

"

modern brick building against the cloisters of Annexed to the will is a schedule of his The two forms of the name, " Wells " and

Welles," appear to be used indifferently both in the will and the Parish Records. The copy of the signature to the
will is " Welles." *

In the Register of " Christninges " in St. Peter Mancroft

we find: "Anno Dom.

after

1604.

[Evidently old style, the next date

March
of

17, 1604,

being April

19, 1605.]

Feb'' 10. Will'"

ye sonne

Mr. Will"* Wells, pbr.

of this parish,

and

Eliz''

his wife."

"Anno Dom. 1607. Nov. 15. Mary y^ daughter of Mr. William Wells, prh. of this parish and Elizabeth his wife."* From the will and records taken together, the children of the Prebendary and his wife Elizabeth would appear to be
nearly as follows
I.

A. D. 1640.

WILLIAM OF NORWICH AND SOUTHOLD.

William
" is

undoubtedly the younger "sonne the will of 1620. According to family tradition, he is also the William Wells, who, educated in England as a lawyer, came from Norwich or its vicinity to America in 1635-40, and in the latter year, or soon after, became the first founder of Southold, L. I., next to the Rev. John Youngs. Of the probability of this tradition the reader can form his own conclusion from the facts given in this and the next chapter. It is to be noted, (i) that it is contemporary with the widow and children of William of Southold, who must have known something of his parentage and (2) that it has been handed down to this day, independently of any reference to English authorities, as is shown by its representing the father of William of Southold to have been " William Wells, Dean of Norwich," a title much more familiar to the Southold Colonists and their descendants than that of Prebendary. I add in a note some
William Wells" named
in
;

Of

these, "

other points in the case as they appear to me.*

of A^ame, There is abundant evidence that the two forms "Wells and "Welles" were used indifferently, in Prebendary Welles' time, as in his own Registers (see p. 14 above) and the record of his will by William of
*
I.
'

Identity

Southold

(p, ig, 21), his

v/idow, and others of his day

(p.

27-8-9, 32).

In

fact,

until the last century, all proper

names varied

in orthography very

much

accord-

ing to " the taste and fancy of the speller."

II.

Birth.

colonists,

Norfolk.

William of Southold may have come with others of the L. I. from Lynn, Hingbam, or Southwold; but he was undoubtedly born in His tombstone (see p. 29) says " aged 63 " in 1671, making the year of
sonne of Mr. Will" Wells
"

his birth 1608, while " Will-" y'

was baptized Feb.

The inscription, written and cut probably as early as 1700, by persons 10, 1605. unknown, was re-cut a few years ago (see p. 31), and there may be an error in
estimating his age (not unusual in old tombstones), or in the cutting or re-cutting
(3 for 5

or

6).

III.

Parentage.

Mr. Charles B. Moore, who, with the

late

William H. Wells

of Southold, investigated carefully the various traditions in regard to William of calls Southold, without being aware then of the existence of Prebendary Welles,
the former in his Southold Index of 1698,

Wells,

Dean

of

Norwich

;"

and adds

in

"supposed son of the Rev. William a MS. note, " He was undoubtedly the

l6

THE WELLS FAMILY

IN

ENGLAND.

CH.

I.

son of some noted clergyman."

To me, both
"

the coincidence
"

and the discrep"

ancy between the traditional " Dean

furnish a very strong evidence

and the actual

Prebendary

of Norwich,

of their identity.

The discrepancy would have

from English

been impossible, had the tradition been of

books; nor
IV.
is

late origin, or derived

there any probable motive for the fabrication of such a story.

Education and After Life.

fifteen to the care of his

The younger son

of the Prebendary,

left at

the

age of

mother and elder brother, and without and as

inherit-

ance, would be likely to receive just such an education, general and professional,
as

William of Southold had in England

(p. 20);

likely to seek his fortune

in the

New

World, on coming
I.

to the

prime of manhood in the disastrous reign

of Charles

dignitary, should have

Nor would it be at all strange if he, though the son of a Cathedral become a Nonconformist, even in England, in that day of
There
left

changes, bitter partizanship, and gathering storms in Church and State.

is

no evidence, indeed, that William of Southold

England

as

Noncon-

formist,

Puritans.*

much less that he or his The nonconforming

fellow-colonists of

Long
it

Island were strictly

clergy and laymen,

must be remembered,

claimed, however mistakenly, to be the true representatives of the Church of

England; not, like the

"Pilgrims"

of

Plymouth, separatists from her com-

munion, though time and distance combined with their own errors and those of
their

opponents to make them such in the end.f

(p.

therefore that the Rev. John Youngs was of " Puritan" principles used the word, carelessly, I confess, in its popular, not its true historical sense; though his conduct to John Booth (p. 272) savors of Puritanism.

*In saying
17), I

The

first

distinct trace of

William of Southold

in

America

is

at

Lynn, Mass.,

in 163S; and this date is therefore the initial point of the American history of the family. In mentioning below (Ch. II. p. lS-20) George Wells as a settler at Lynn and possible relative of William, I followed Lewis (Hist. Lynn) and Sav-

age (Geneal. Diet.) in what appears from the Southampton Town Records to lu an error; the name of this George being really " Welby" or " Welbe." Sec Howell's Hist. Southampton, L. I., pp, 15, 18, 21, 27, 48, 310-13; where also my statement (Ch. II. p. 17) that Southold " was probably the beginning of English settlement on Long Island," is disproved by the fact that Southampton was settled in June, instead of October, 1640. (Aug. 16, 1878.)

CHAPTER
WILLIAM WELLS
-TTN
I.

11.

OF SOUTHOLD.
local tradition,

September, 1640, according to

and

certainly not far from that time, a party of emigrants,

men of good families in Norfolk and SufEngland, folk, began the settlement of the little village of SoUTHOLD, on the long, narrow peninsula which forms the north-eastern extremity of Long Island. The tradition
mostly well-to-do

names thirteen heads of families, all save one with wives and children but though all these were early settlers, some
;

did not reach Southold

this little colony,

till

long after 1640, and others were

certainly not heads of families in that year.

The

leader of

which was probably the beginning of English settlement on Long Island, was the Rev. John Youngs, a clergyman of the Church of England, but of Puritan principles, and after leaving England, a Congregationalist in practice. He, and several of his fellow-colonists, had come to New England several years before this, and they undoubtedly formed themselves into a religious society under his direction, in New Haven, before beginning the
settlement of Southold.*
Rev. John Youngs had been curate in St. Margaret's, Reydon, near the Southwold, Suffolk, and was probably nephew of the Rev. Christopher Youngs, whose Vicarage included both these places. The latter doubt-

*The

seaport of

less furnished the

name, as well
is

as

some of the

settlers of the
" in early

Long

Island

vil-

and by old inhabitants. In 1643 it was recognized as part of the New Haven colony, under its Indian name of Yenycot " or " Yennycok." Gardiner's Island had been purchased, but not settled, in 1639, and Southampton was begun later in 1640.
lage, which,

however,

generally called "South hold

records,

''

l8

WILLIAM

I.

OF SOUTHOLD.

CH.

II.

William Wells is generally named first (after the Rev. John Youjigs) among these early settlers of Southold. It is probable, but not certain, that he was a member of Mr. Youngs' New Haven congregation, and one of those who first landed at the beautiful beach of Southold Bay, known
for

two centuries

as " Hallock's Point."

We
;

find that one

William Wells sailed from London, June lo, 1635, in the Trite Love of London, " for the Bermudas " and one Richard Wells in the Globe, Aug. 7, the same year, for " Virginia." ^" Three years later, 1638, Richard, George, and William

Wells are found among the early settlers of Lynn, Mass. The first, who was undoubtedly the passenger of the Globe, soon went to Salisbury, Mass., became a deacon " and prominent citizen, and died there s. p., July 17, i672.f George removed in 1640 to Southampton, L. L, with the earliest settlers of that place, and I find no further trace of him.:}; William is mentioned in the Colonial Records of Massachusetts, Sept. 7, 1641, as being " enjoyned in \o'' to answer to a charge of " oppression," and we hear no more of him at Lynn but in the Town Records of Southampton, L. L, March 15, 1643, "William Wells, Gent.," is named as present in court when Thomas Halsey was censured for
'*
;

The

tradition as to the early settlers

is

given very fully in "

Griffin's

Journal,"

N. Y., 1856. See also Thompson's Hist. Long Island, I. 374, seq.: Moore's Southold Index Savage, Geneal. Diet. I. 489, II. 465, IV. 672 Hollister, Hist. Conn. I. 113: N. Haven Col. Records.
: :

* Southold Index,

6, 45.

Savage,

I.

123.
set.

Hotton's Passenger Lists, 120.

17, vi^hich

Wil-

liam Wells

is

said in the lists to be

would be conclusive proof

whether accidental, or both

against his identity with

Wm.

of Southold, but that errors in figures are not un-

common
to

in these

lists,

(especially

where age

is

in question,)

evade the rigid enforcement of emigration laws.

The

real destination of

the Tr^ie Love and the Globe was probably

found soon after in Massachusetts,

ences above.
f Lewis, Hist.
:j:

New England, their passengers .being New Haven and Rhode Island. See refer-

Lynn,

174.

Savage, IV. 477.

88.

Winthrop's Journal.

Hutchinson's Mass.,

Thompson's L.

I., I.

328,

Doc. Hist. N. v.,

678.

Mass. Col. Rec, 1641.

Lewis, 192.

Savage, IV. 477.

GEN.

I.

COLONIZATION ON LONG ISLAND.

;

19

some irreverent speech

York), April
29,

* and at Fort

Amsterdam (New
Kieft, Director-

1643,

William Wells, with three others,

to

Southampton men, signs a note

General of

WilHam

Netherlands, for advance of freight and supplies, of which note he pays his share, Aug. 28, i646.f

New

The one unquestionable

1643
;^

reference to

Wilham

of

Southold
of

in all these notices, is that in the

Southampton Record

but the others (except perhaps the Trzie Love passenger) are so linked in with this as to make it probable that

they

all

belong to the same person.

in

infer that

William of
;

Southold was

Lynn
ing to

in 1638

New England perhaps as early as 1635 at at New Haven and Southold 1639-40, returnLong
Island, the strong opposition

Lynn
in

the next year, perhaps to forward the great

emigration of 1640-1 to
to

which

Massachusetts

may

possibly have been the real

"

cause of the charge of " oppression

*
f

(whatever that

may

Southampton Records,

1643.

(C. B. Moore:.)

The note

II. 52,

Dutch MSS. in the Secretary of State's Office, and furnished me by Mr. Henry L. Gladding of Albany,) is as follows
(translated from the
:

the undersigned, acknowledge to be well and truly indebted to the Hon51? William Kieft, Director General of New Netherland, in the sum of Five Pounds, ten shillings, English, for freight for which the Director has made himself responsible, and thirteen guilders, ten stivers additional for thirteen skepels and a half of salt received from the aforesaid Director which aforesaid sum they, the undersigned, promise to pay free of costs and charges, in grain when it will In testimony this is signed by us, the underwritten, this year be cut and threshed. submitting to all courts and judges. " Done the 29th April, an" 1643, in Fort Amsterdam, New Netherland.
;

"

We

" William Welles hath this day [ paid ] his third part amounting to twenty two guilders,

"

sixteen stivers

and

one
" "

%
"

part of

William Welles Thomas Smith (?) William Haarcks, hath paid Terry Robert

stiver.

his

marke.

Ady 28 August 1646

To my knowledge " Cornells Van Tienhoven,

"

Sec-T"

To my knowledge CoRNELis Van Tienhoven, Secretary."

The names of the first two signers are in the original obliterated with ink, (probably on the payment of the note) so that the characteristic autograph of William " Smith," which the translator has of Southold cannot be certainly identified. marked doubtful, may be " Sayre." "Haarcks" is certainly for " Harcher."
Sayre and Marcher (or Harker) were both early at Southampton. :|:No other of his name and date is thus designated in New England or N. Y. (C. B. M.) See also below, p. 22, note on the title " Mr."

/
20

WILLIAM
for

I.

OF SOUTHOLD.
;"

CH.

II.

Southampton, with York, 1643-6; the Lynn and permanently settled at Southold before 1649. It seems also likely that he was a relative of George, and perhaps of Richard Wells though he cannot have been brotJicr to either of them, unless the well-founded Southold tradition of his parentage be disproved. It is to be noted that he was not

mean)

which he was

''

enjoyned

at

settlers of that place, and in

New

one of the Lynn settlers of Southampton in 1640. The earliest record I find of him at Southold

is

the

fol-

lowing

At General Court, New Haven, May 30, 1649. " Mr. Wells being questioned about some land he had received of some Indians on Long Island by way of gift, in which Mr. Odell of Southampton had a part, and himself did draw a deed, wherein the land was passed over from the Indians to them, which is contrary to an order made in this Jurisdiction, against which carriage the Court showed their dislike. But Mr. Wells doth now before the Court fully resign up all his
interest in that land to the jurisdiction, and will be ready to give a deed to declare it, when it shall be demanded of him."*

Mattatuck and Aquabouke " from the Indians was accepted this same Court, and the fee simple of Southold, hitherto held by New Haven, was made over to the inhabitants. New Haven retaining jurisdiction until her union with Connecticut in i662.f We find him here acting as a lawyer, for which profession he had been educated in England. The Southold

The purchase

of "

tradition to this effect is fully confirmed by his public acts, by the offices held by him, by the legal records and documents in his handwriting (which is quite plainly the peculiar
* N. H. Col. Rec. 1649, quoted by Thompson, L.

I., I.

378.

The passage does

he has been unable

not appear in the printed copy of the Records, and the Editor, referring in a note
to

Thompson's quotation (which was made long

it

before), says

to find
f

in the original.
p. 463.

N. H. Col. Rec. 1649,

GEN.

I.

A LAWYER.

21

/^Juu/h^
AUTOGRAPHS OF WILLIAM WELLS.

hand " of his day), and by the law books brought by him from England, some of which are still in the possession of his descendants. The most curious of these is a large 8vo. volume in good condition, (the leather covers black with age,) and bearing the following ponderous title
"

attorney's

Kalendar, or Table, comprehending the effect of all the Statutes that have been made & put in print, beginning with Magna Charta, enacted Anno IX. H. III., & proceeding one by one until the end of the Session of Parliament holden Anno 4 R. Jacob. I., declaring by certaine Characters which of the same Statutes or Braunches of Statutes be repealed, which be expired, which be altered in the whole or part,which be worne out of use, which were ordained for particular persons or places, and which being general in force and vse are inserted in the severall Titles of this Abridgement. Whereunto is annexed an Abridgement of all the Statutes whereof the whole or any part is generall, in force and vse, with certaine Quaeres, Cautions, and Advertisements of such things that be doubtful, together with the Authoritie and Duetie of lusticesj Sherifes, Coroners, Escheators, Maiors, Bailifes, Customers, Steuards of Leets and Liberties, and what things by severall Statutes in force they must, may, ought, or are compellable to doe. Editum per mandatum Domini Regis. Collected by Fardinando Pvlton of Lincoln's Inne, Esquire, and by him again augmented sithence the Session London, of Parliament holden Anno quarto Regis Jacobi. Printed for the Company of Stationers. An. Dom. i6o8. Cum Privilegio."*
"
ten,

*In possession of Mr. J. Albert Wells of New York. On the fly-leaf is writ"William Wells his book given to him by his Mother this 27 of ffeberuara

22

WILLIAM

I.

OF SOUTHOLD.
in fact, the
;

CH.

II.

Mr. Wells appears to have been,

authority of Southold until his death

and

his

younger son

(the

one legal and both his widow elder dying in the prime of life)
of his reputation

seem to have inherited

some

among

the

people for wisdom in matters of law.

Two
1653-

notices of

him are found

in the Colonial

Records

of

General Court. " Letter from Mr. Wells of Southold, ;" complaining of sundry high miscarriages of John Youngs learning that account, the Court, but who is to be called to he is imprisoned " at the Diich,'' send a letter to the " Duch Governor " ordering (or perhaps requesting) " that he be not released, but delivered to the Court at New Haven."*

Mr. Wells was at this time a Deputy to the General Court from Southold. The John Youngs here mentioned was " Colonel John," son of the clergyman, an active, influential, erratic and turbulent man, often engaged in public business,

and as often

in trouble,

till

his

death in 1698.

General Court, 1653. " Mr. Wells of Southold sent in a petition to be freed from all publique service in this jurisdiction hereafter, which the Court saw no cause to grant. "f

tion of early

Both the request and its reception are a curious illustraNew England politics. The prefix of " Mr.," by which he is invariably designated in the Colonial Records, implies much more than our present customs would suggest. The following from Hollister's
Connecticut
(I.

424)
'

is

quite to the point

'

" The prefix of Master (Mr.) embraced clergymen, and planters of good family and estate who were members of the General Court those bred up at a university, and those of sufficient education to manage the general affairs of the
;

ib%%," evidently the autograph of William mentioned in the father's will bequeathing all *N. H. Col. Rec. 1653, p. 51. N. H. Col. Rec. 1653, P- 96. J-

II.,

the " oldest sonne " specially

s.)

his property to the mother, (g. e.

GEN.

I.

PUBLIC SERVICES.

23

Colony, either in a civil or ecclesiastical way, and who had been sufficiently well born. Comparatively few of the representatives from the several towns, even though they might be returned year after year, were honoured with this ti^le. To be called Master, or to have one's name recorded by the Secretary with that prefix, two hundred years ago, was a more certain index of the rank of the individual, as respects birth, education, and good moral character, than any one of the high-sounding appellations with which many men in our day are content to cajole others. It may be observed, by reference to our colonial records, that there were scores of men of good family and in honourable stations,

who
ters.

did not possess all the requisite qualities of masthat young men, of whatever rank, were called masters."
still

It

was seldom

He must
1654, as
t, 5s. for
lic

have been

in "

publique service

"

the next year,

two years afterwards (May

expenses in going to

28, 1656)

he

is

allowed

New Haven
;

business.*

He was Deputy

from 1657 to 1661 ^^d Recorder (or Town wards. John Lyon Gardiner thus describes the duties these offices in the eastern towns of Long Island.f
1657-9,
"

New Haven

on pubto the General Court of Constable of Southold in Clerk) in 1660 and afterin 1654

of

Their public

officers

were few

three magistrates

who

were

called resentatives

Townsmen
and

[also Deputies, and elsewhere RepSelectmen, the legislative and judicial

Their functions being combined] were chosen annually. oath of office points out their duty it was as follows "'You being chosen by the Court for the careful and comfortable carrying on of the affairs of this Town, do here swear by the Name "of the Great and Everliving God, that you will faithfully, and without respect of persons, execute all such laws and orders as are or shall be made and estabHshed by this Court, according to the trust committed to you during this year for which you are chosen, and until new ones be chosen, if you remain among us, so help you God.'
;

*N. H.
f

Col. Rec. 1656, p. 173.

I.

Notes on East Hampton, L. I., 1798. Doc. Hist. N. Y. was one of the well-known family of Gardiner's Island.

679.

J. L.

G.

24
"

WILLIAM

I.

OF SOUTHOLD.

CH.

II,

Recorder and Constable were the only other public chosen their oath points out their duty, and is, mutatis mutandis, similar to the above. The Constable was always a reputable citizen, and of great authority. He, by The Recorder, or Seclaw, moderated the General Court. retary, not only recorded all orders of the General Court, but the decisions of the magistrates, and by a vote passed
officers
;

in

1656, the depositions of witnesses in trials at law, for

which he was allowed a stated price, as were the MagisTheir trials were sometimes with a trates and Constable.
jury, but mostly without."

In 1658-9, Mr. Wells, as one of the Deputies of Southold,

New Haven the plantation of " Mattatvick and Aquabouke " (Mattituck and Aquebogue) for ^7.* In
repurchased of
1659 he " informs the Court of the proposal of a neighbour
to sell land to a Quaker,

which

is

forbidden."

This appears

to have been in pursuance of his duty as a Magistrate,

the intolerant laws of

under the Puritan regime, and may have

:

some connection
"

also with the following record in 1660

We

whose names are underwritten, inhabiting on the

commonly called Hashamammock " [agree that any one desiring to remove] " shall put in such neighbour as the other inhabitants living with him shall approve " Copy by Will. Wells, Recorder." of. f
neck
of land

In this year, 1660, he

is

appointed as

first

Deputy

of

Southold, with John Youngs, to administer the oath to the

Court once a quarter, if need require. In the same year we find him acting as attorney at New Haven, and arbitrator at Southold. In 1661, Mr. Wells being " Assistant Magistrate," an action of slander was brought against Lieut. John Budd by Deputy John Youngs. It appeared that the slander was against the whole Court, and that Mr. Wells had used means to reclaim
others.

The Deputies

to hold

:j:

* Becoming responsible for the difference between

pay."
f

''''

wampum" and "good

I.

Thompson,
H.

I.

379.
p. 30,

N. H. Col. Rec. 1659,

and 1660,

p. 350.

See Thompson,
p. 45.

380.

X N.

Col. Rec. 1660, p. 397.

Southold Index,

GEN.

I.

OFFICES
his

UNDER NEW YORK.

25

him by

son.
"

John Budd acknowledged the

slander,

and Mr. Wells,

not willing to bring further trouble upon him," " conferred with him " till he professed penitence.

The Court thereupon order him

Wells." *

to "miike

up with Mr.

The union of New Haven and Connecticut under the name of the latter Colony, in 1662, was strongly opposed by
Mr. Wells,

who declined
him

the appointment of freeman of Con-

necticut offered

in that year,

and was

in

consequence

accused at Hartford,

May

14, 1663, of " revolting." f

on the conquest of
tions of

New York

But from the Dutch, the Planta-

Long

Island being included in the

Duke

of York's

Patent, the jurisdiction hitherto exercised by Connecticut

and New Haven over the three towns of Suffolk County was relinquished by the joint act of Gov. Nicolls, Gov. Winthrop and others, Dec. i, 1664.:!:

Gov. Nicolls gained at the outset the good will both of the Dutch and English in his new and wide jurisdiction. By the former he is described as " A wise and intelligent Governor ;" by the latter, as a refined and scholarly man, excelling all his New England neighbours in liberality in matters
of conscience

and

religion.

He

certainly displayed both

wisdom and

liberality in appointing to
all

Government

offices

representatives of

the various classes of inhabitants in

the Province.

the City were retained

The Dutch burgomasters and schepens of and of the four persons named by
;

the Governor, and appointed by the Crown, as his Council,

Robert Needham, Thomas Delaval, Thomas Topping, and William Wells, the two latter were residents of Suffolk
County, though Topping had perhaps come recently from
*N. H.
f X

Col. Rec. 1661, p. 412, seq.

P- 388, seq.

Conn. Col. Rec. 1662-3,

Doc. Hist. N. Y.,
I.

See also Southold Index,

p. 45.

685.

Address of City Council, 1664.

Lamb,

Hist. N. Y. City,

I.

219, 227.

26
Milford, Ct.*

WILLIAM

I.

OF SOUTHOLD.

CII. II.

This Council, with the Governor as

constituted the
fact,

Supreme Court
in

of the Province,

its Head, and was in

name, the legislative as well as judicial authority. f How long Mr. Wells continued a member of it I have not learned. In February, 1665, he, with Col. Youngs, represented. Southold in a Convention of
Deputies assembled by the Governor at Hempstead, to adopt a code of laws for the Province. The Code of Laws, though amended and accepted by the Deputies, (not without some objections to certain points in which it differed
materially from the Connecticut Charter and Code,) was

though not exactly

drawn up by the Governor, with the help

and

of his Council,

after a careful study of the laws in force in the several

New

England Colonies.

We

should be glad to

know what
title of

share the legal training and experience of Mr. Wells had in

the preparation of these statutes, which, under the
''His

Royal Highness's," or "the Duke's Laws," were in many years, and are certainly far in advance of their day in some things.:|: On the adjournment of the " Hempstead Convention, Councillor William Wells" was appointed by the Governor " High Sheriff of New York
force for

Shire on

Long
what

Island," comprising the Eastern half of the

is

Island, or

now
This

Suffolk County,
is

an

office

held until i66g.^

I

his latest public service of

which he which

have found any record. He married first, as early as 1653, and perhaps before 1650, Bridget, widow of Henry Tuthill of Southold.
SaxlingAlice, of

Her first husband, a grandson of John Tuthill, of ham Nethergate, Norfolk, and son of Henry and

Thorston, in the same county, came with her to Hingham,

*
t

Lamb,

I.

220.

Savage, IV. 255.

I.

Brodhead's Hist. N.

Y., II. 43.

Doc. Hist. N. Y.,

87.
I.

X See abstract in

Thompson,
I., I.

132-6

Lamb,

I.

228

Doc, Hist. N. Y.,

II.

I.

148.
[
|

Thompson's L.

188,

382.

Brodhead's N. Y.,

43, 48, 73, 76, 109.

Lamb,

I.

229.

GEN.

I.

MARRIAGES.

27

Mass., in 1637, and thence

1644.*

removed to Southold as early as His brother John was doubtless among the first
b. 1635,

settlers of 1640.

dren, John,

Henry and Bridget Tuthill left two chiland Elizabeth. The mother appears to

have had no issue by her second marriage with William Wells; and it was probably her decease in or before 1654 which brought John and Elizabeth Tuthill under Mr. Wells'
guardianship,

May

31, 1654,

and explains the following entry

on the Records of that year

" Upon some question propounded to the Court concerning Mr. Wells his children, which were Henry Tuthill's of Southold, it is ordered that what evidence can be procured further concerning the children's portions, should be speedily sent to the Governor at New Haven and if Mr. Wells should remove from Southold, that so much of his estate be securied as may answer for the portions appointed. "f
;

Soon after this (probably on coming of age, in 1656) the son, John Tuthill, executed a release to Mr. Wells, for his right and interest in the estate of Henry Tuthill, his late father, deceased, and Bridget Tuthill, his mother, also deceased, which came into the hands of his father-in-law, William Wells, by marriage of his mother also his right and interest in whatever was given him by his father's brother, In 1660 a similar release was executed by John Tuthill. WiUiam Johnson, who had married the daughter, EHzabeth,
;

:j:

for her share of

her parents' property.

second, probably about
it,

He
to be

married

''Marie,'' as

she herself wrote

Mary, or whose family name is said

1654,

I infer from the have been born must fact that his oldest daughter, Bethia, about 1655, and was, in all probability, the child of this sec-

Youngs.

The

date of the marriage

* Southold Index, 41-2.

f

Savage, IV. 350.

97.

N. H. Col. Rec. 1654, p. % Southold Index, p. 41-2.

Id.

28
;""

WILLIAM

I.

OF SOUTHOLD.

CH.

II.

and also from the order of the General Court ond wife quoted above (1654), which seems likely to have some connection with the second marriage as well as the decease of
the
''

first wife.

It is

much more

difficult to ascertain the

value of the tradition which calls the second wife

Mary

Youngs." Thus far I have found nothing to throw any light on the question of her family. WiUiam Wells died at Southold, Nov. 13, 1671.:}: On the

same day he executed a deed, evidently in place of a will, conveying his entire estate to his wife Mary, for herself and their children, in the following words, which we copy verbatim, from the Town Records of Southold.
"
"

November

y 13:

Anno

167 1.

These presents witnes that I WiUiam Wells of Southold Riding of York Sheere in Long Island doe for good and serious considerason mee hereonto mouving give
in the East
* Bethia Wells m. before 1680, Capt. Jonathan Horton. "

She

is

said

by the
fix

Salmon Records"

to

have been

set.

80 at her decease 'in 1733, which would

These "Salmon Records" were a private, yet semi-official register kept for many years, at first by William Salmon, afterwards by other members of the 2d Congregational Society of Southold. Though generally acher birth in 1653.
curate,

known to The dates of birth of the other children of William I. and Mary Wells will show the grounds of my probable conclusion as to BeIn regard to her parentage, Mi\ Moore says (in a letter of Oct. 29, 1875), thia's.
it

often errs in over-estimating ages, especially of old persons,

the writer only

by

report.

" that Bethia was not a

sister of

the whole, without being able to

tell

John Tuthill, I gather from a general study of you from memory, perhaps but a small part

of the data that influenced me."

She can hardly have been Mary, the sister of the Rev. John Youngs, (who (I. 277) is said to have m. Wm.^ Brown, of Salem, and d. 1636,) or his daughter Mary, who was b. 1631, and more prob. m. Edward Petty, The tradition may have arisen from the fact that Wm. Wells' of Southold. daughter Mary became Youngs by marriage. It comes to me from the family of
f

according to Savage

Capt. Benj. Wells, of Southold, a source entitled to

cient

much
I.,

respect,

but

how

an-

and well-founded

it is I

do not know.
is

\ yEt. 66, if his

parentage

correctly given in Ch.

though his tombstone

says 63.

Lib. A. 155. (Copy by G. E. course that of the " Recorder."

S.,

Oct. 12, 1S75.)

The orthography

is

of

GEN.

I.

HIS WILL

AND BURIAL PLACE.

all my Riht title and interest of in and unto all houses Lands teniments a Lottments and meadowes within the bounds of Southold with all my goods and chattels unto my well beloved wife Mary Wells for her comfortable subsistance and education of my children but not to dispose of any part or parcell [there ?] of otherways but for portions to the children as chooseth [her?] havino- re-

and grant

my

spect to my oldest sonne. As witness the daye and yeare fifirst above written.
"

my

hand and

*seall

Signed sealed and

p' of

"

Entered upon Record

y 17 of

delivered in

us

Barnabas Windes Richard Terry

In the old Burial

Ano

September 1672 by me

Richard Terry, Recorder."

of Southold, near the edifice
first

Ground

(Presbyterian) which occupies the site of the

meeting

house, and not

end

of

more than ten or twelve yards from the west the Cemetery, is the tomb of Wilham Wells, a suband covered with cement, and the lapse of two centuries, in perfect pres-

stantial structure of brick

now

(1876) after

ervation, thanks to the reverent care of his descendant in

the sixth generation, the late William H. Wells, of South-

tomb is a single slab of dark brown by two and a half, and four or five inches in thickness, completely filled by the curious inscription, a facsimile of which is here given, photographed from the rubbing taken by me Oct. 13, 1875. William Wells' " Home lot," and probably his residence, was on the ground now occupied by the one hotel of Southold, on the N. W. angle of the Main street with that leading to the railway station. A number of deeds to him and by him are on record, showing that he must have held conold.

The top

of the

stone, five feet

siderable real
plantations.
I

estate

in

Southold and the neighbouring

In the earliest

find the following property inherited

* Doc. Hist.

"Rate List" of Southold, by his wife

1675,*

Y., II. 453.

26 54

o o o o

OEN.

I.

HIS CHILDREN.

33

wife.

His children were seven, perhaps eight, all by the second Two daughters died in infancy, and two sons and
1

three, possibly four daughters, survived him.

Bethia,
"

b.

Abigail 2- 2 Patience, ^-s William, -

b
b. b. b. b.

Mary,

22- 6

1655, 1657, Oct. 17, 1658, May 5, 1660, 1661,

c.

Joshua, Mehetabel,

2.'

b.

m. 1672-S0, Jonathan Horton. d. inf. Aug. 19, 1658. d. inf. Feb. 18, 1659. m. 1681, Elizabeth Tuthill. m. c. 1678, John Youngs III. 1664, m. 1686, Hannah Tuthill. 1666, m. c. 1685, John Tuthill III.

and perhaps
8.

Anna,

b.

c.

1667-8, m. 16

John Goldsmith.*

Southold. The Tuthills William, Joshua, and Mehetabelf married were the daughters and son of John Tuthill, son of Henry and
all

These children were

born

in

whom

Bridget.
* Index of i6g8, p. 45, and annotations.
f

Written most often Mehitable, also Mehitabel, and Mehetable.

See the

name

(feminine) in our English Bible, Gen.

XXXVI.

39.

NOTES.
this
18. In a curious Order in Council, a copy of which I found (after Chapter was printed,) among the papers of the late Rev. Dr. Ballard, of Brunswick, Me., the True Love is mentioned among several vessels which were to be " suffered to depart on their intended voyage to New England," their Mas-

A. Page

compliance with the regulations blasphemy or profanity under severe penalties, enjoin the Daily Service on board ship, forbid the embarkation of persons who have not taken the oaths of allegiance and supremacy, and direct a return to be made of actual passengers. The Order may be seen in full in N. E. Hist. Gen. Reg. IX. 265. It is dated Feb. 28, 1634 (1633 O. S.), so the True Love
ters in

having given bonds

;^ioo each for

strict

concerning emigrants.

These

rules prohibit

probably made one or more voyages under

B.

it,

before that of June, 1635.

Page 26. " New York Shire on Long Island " comprised the tvhole of the and for each of the three " Ridings," now the three Counties of Kings, Queens and Suffolk, a Deputy Sheriff was appointed. This continued till the See Thompson, I. 161. erection of the Counties by the Assembly in 1683.
Island
;

CHAPTER
DESCENDANTS OF WILLIAM
F the
L4\J
,

III.

II.

OF SOUTHOLD.

five,

or

six,

children of

Wilham Wells

I.,

who

survived him, married, and

sons,

left

descendants, two only

were
the

William
I

II.,

and Joshua.
first

two

branches of the family bearing the

give here

These two founded name of Wells

at this day,

the elder of these lines of

descent.

William

II., ^-^ b.

Southold,

May

5,

1660,

was a boy

of

eleven at his father's death,

commended

in his will, as

we

have seen, to special consideration in the management of In the the property by the widow, as the " oldest sonne." " Rate List" of 1683, however, the brothers are assessed for nearly equal sums, William at ^85, and Joshua at ;^8i. Their mother was then wife of Thomas Mapes, who is rated on the same list at 2^.'^ William II. resided on " Quash Neck," and d. Southold, Oct. 17, 1696, aet. 36 y. 5 mo. His grave is near his father's in the old Southold churchyard but the inscription on the headstone would seem to indicate

that the exact place of

it,

as well as the

day
:

of his death,

was unknown
*Doc.

to those
IL
535.

who

erected the stone f

Hist. N. Y.

The headstone f From a rubbing taken Oct. 12, 1875. inches, above ground, the letters well cut, and surmounted
face filling the

(dark red)

is

20x24

by the usual winged

rounded

top.

<5EN.

IT.

WILLIAM
"

II.

OF SOUTHOLD.

35

M'-

Who

Near Here Lyes The Body of William Wells The Oldest Son of William Wells Esq*" .|

Departed This Life In October 1696 Aged About " 37 Years

His long and curious Will

o^ 4 /^ IrVoOX^X
.T
-

is

here given in

full."

of God, Amen. This 25th da}^ of Sept in our Lord Christ 1696 I William Wells of y"' town of S'hold in y'^ county of Suff. in y*^ Province of N. York in America Yeoman being sick in body but sound in mind thanks to Almighty God therefor and calling to mind

In

y'^

name

y"^

3^ear of

y^ uncertainty of this

transitory

life

do make constitute

ordain

appoint this to be my last will and testam'^ hereby utterly revoking disannulling & making void all

&

and

all

manner

of wills

and testam* whoever heretofore by

published & declared & that this only & none other shall be taken deemed or reputed for my last will and testam'^ in manner and form following

me had made
" Tinprimis

bequeath

whence

it

came and

interred according

my soul to Almighty God from my body to y" earth to be decently to my degree & quality by my execu*

trix hereafter named " Item I give bequeath to

William y^ farm dwell on called Ouashnecke with all y*^ houses after m}^ wife's interest in y*' dwelling-house is expired gardens orchards lands meadows fioodings pastures & appurtenances w*soever thereunto belonging as likewise my neck of land commonly called little hog neck, with half my meadow of Creekthatch adjoining to Peck's Neck and also all my meadow situate and being on y'' south side of Aquabogue River to have & to hold" all y*" s'^ houses gardens orchards lands & meadows to y*" only use & behoof of my eldest son Wilham & the issue of his body lawfully begotten for ever Item, I give & bequeath to my second son John Wells all my three lots of upland & meadow that lies w'^' in y*"
I

&

my eldest son

now

''

(G. E. S.)

C. B. Moore from Suffolk Wills, Co. Clerk's Office, Riverhead. In printing this will (evidently drawn up by a lawyer) I have not supplied the punctuation, (wanting, as usual in legal wills of this date), nor ven*

Copy by

tured to correct

some apparent

errors

36

WILLIAM

II.

OF SOUTHOLD.

CH.

III..

new division within y*^ bounds of y old town my meadow lying & being at Kachogue Great meadow & half my meadow of Creekthatch adjoining to Bull's Neck and also half my meadow of Creekthatch y*
north side as also half
S'hold situate to hold all y^ said lands & meadows with all & every their appurtenances & privileges to y only use & behoof of my s'^ son John & y*^ issue of his body lawfully begotten for ever '^ Item I give & bequeath to my third son Henry all y^ residue of my town accommodations not before bequeathed with y^ other half of my meadow of Creekthatch laid out to me in y^ last division situate & being near Pull's Neck as also one lot of undivided common & 3^*^ other half of my meadow lying and being in Karchogue great meadow to have and to hold y'" s'' lands and meadow with their & ever}' of y'^ priveleges & appurtenances to y'^ only use & behoof of m}^ said son Henry & y*' issue of his body lawfully begotten forever and also my meadow commonly called Ketcham meadow to my s'' son Henry & y^ issue of his body lawfully begotten forever " Item I give to my daughter Mary twelve pounds current pay of this Province to be p*? unto her y** s** Mary when she shall come to lawful age or be married by my eldest son William or his heirs out of y*^ produce of y lands & meadows b^ore given & bequeathed to him y^
laid out to in
y'^

was

me

last division y*
afores"*

was

in

&

being near Pulle's Neck

To have &

said William Wells

& bequeath to my daughter Mary when to lawful age or be married y*^ sum of eight pounds of y'' like current pay to be paid to her y'' s*^ Mary by my second son Henry or his heirs out of y^ produce of y*-* lands & meadows before given & bequeathed to my s'*
" Item she shall
I

give

come

Henry Wells
" I give to my well beloved wife y*^ full use of my now dwelling house with all y*" priveleges thereunto belonging for her my s*^ wife Elizabeth quietly & peaceably to enjoy & dwell in during her widowhood " Item I give to my well beloved wife Elizabeth all my moveables both within doors & without and also all my stock of horse kind cattle sheep & swine to y^ only use & behoof of my s** wife Elizabeth so long as she shall live widow but in case she shall marry then I give y^ one hal of y^ said moveables & stock to my s'^ wife Elizabeth forever and y^ other half of y" said moveables & stock to my three sons to be equally divided among them forever.

GEN.
"

II.

HIS WILL

AND MARRIAGE.

37

Lastly of this my last will & testam' I do appoint & order well beloved wife Elizabeth to be executrix & my son William to be executor. " In witness w'of I have published & declared this to be my last will & testam* and have thereunto set my hand &

my

fixed

my
y""

seal

in

necke
"

day

&

my dwelling house on year above written

my

farm of Quash(seal.)

Signed sealed published & declared to be y^ last will and testam* of W"' Wells above mentioned in presence of Sam*^i Wines W"' Whitehair Dehverance Whitehair"

"WILLIAM WELLS

Probate.
"

By

y'^

tenor of these presents

3^*^

know ye

that on y^ 19th

day of Januar}- 169 Sjy at manor of St. Georges in y^ County of Suffolk before y*" hon*"<= Coll. W^^ Smith Judge of y'" Prerogative Court in y'' s*^ county was proved & approved y"" last will & testam* of y*^ s" William Wells deceased at S'hold on y"" 17th day of Octob. 1696 who by his nominate & appoint Elizabeth his wife his s*^ last will did executrix to whose care & trust was committed y*^ administration of all & singular y*^ goods chattels & credits of y*^ s'' deceased to execute & pform her duty herein according to law &c"

Much
is

of the land

mentioned

in this will

remained

in pos-

session of his descendants for several generations,

and some

day under the names here given. William Wells II. m. Southold, June i, 168 1, Elizabeth TuTHiLL, second child and eldest daughter of John Tuthill William King, father of DeliverII. and Deliverance King. ance, b. Eng. 1607, came from Weymouth, Dorset, to Salem, Mass., in the Abigail, 1635; was admitted freeman of Mass., Savage quaintly says that " in the Antinomian per1636. versity of 1637, he was one of the five men in Salem required to be disarmed for the public safety and in the more vioheld by

them

at this

lent ragings of spiritual insubordination, in

tian

1659, his Chris-

kindness to the Quakers exposed him to whipping and

38

DESCENDANTS OF WILLIAM

II.

CH.

III.

banishment.
in 1661."""

From

the latter he

was restored on

repentance

William King had at Salem, by his wife Doroth}-, four children, Mehetabel, John, Deliverance, and Samuel, and perhaps others.f The second daughter, Deliverance, bapt.
at

Salem Oct.

31, 1641,

m. at Southold, Feb.

17,

1658,

John
Eliza-

Tuthill II.+

Of

their four sons

and
b.

five daughters, three, as

I.

already stated, married children of William Wells

beth, the wife of William
11.
,

was

Southold, Jan.

ig, i66i,

and surviving her husband, perhaps m. 11, John Goldsmith of Southold, c. 1698. Deeds are on record from William II. and his mother to this John Goldsmith, at Cutchogue, 1684; to Thomas Osman, at Aquebogue, 1688-9; ^"^^ to Jonathan and Bethia Horton (his sister,) in 1695, of 18 acres.^ The children of William II. were three sons and one
daughter.
1.

William
John,3-Henry,^--'

III.,-''

b.

Southold,
"

March

30, 1683.

2.

b. b.
b.

3.

"
"

4.

Mary, 3*

Jan. 31, 1689. Feb. 7, 169O. 1691-2.

Mary,^-^ the only daughter, b. 1691-2, d. Dec.

1719, as second wife, (" Lieut")

19, 1744,

m.

Thomas Reeve,
1738,

of Southold,
five,

blacksmith,
six children.

b. 1671, d.

Nov.
here

9,

and had

perhaps

The

first

named may be son

of Bethia

Horton,

first

wife of

Thomas Reeve. *'^

Nathaniel,-*--'
James,-'-^-'

Elijah,--2o

(Reeve)

(Reeve)

Bethia,4-2i
Keturah,-*-'-

b. 1736. Thomas."*-'^"

* Savage, III. 27.

-j.

f C. B.

Moore, Notes to Index of 1698.

Savage, III. 27.

Original Entry in Southold

Town

Records, Lib. A.
G.
said to have m. " Eliz. Wells in
if it

Griffin's Journal.
II

Index of 1698,
date
1696.

p. 45,

80,

Notes.

J.

is

The widowed till

1693."

is

perhaps an error, certainly

was

this E.

W.,

vi'ho

was nof

^ Index

before 1698,

p. 46.

** Index of 1698, p. iii.

GEN.

III.

WILLIAM

III.,

ELDEST

SON.

39
I

Of the two elder sons and

this

their descendants,

give in

Chapter such account as I have been able to find each branch by itself, not by generations merely and shall follow the same plan with the younger branches of the
;

family,

/.

e.

the descendants

of

Henry

I.,

third
I.,

son of

WiUiam

II.,

and those

of the six sons of

Joshua

second

son of the

first

William.

WILLIAM
Born, Southold, March
herited, as
30, 1683,

III.,3-i
,2-^

ELDEST SON OF WILLIAM

II.

died Feb.

7,

1762.

He

in-

we have

Neck."

seen, his father's residence on " Quash quit-claim deed from him to Joshua Wells,
1703,

and a deed to John Goldsmith of a "fresh meadow," 1708, are on record. He married, in 1703, Esther (or Hester) HoMAN, dau. Mordecai and Esther Homan of Southold, b.
168 1, d. Jan.
II,

1754.*

They had
6,

nine children, four sons

and
1.

five

daughters.
^-^

Elizabeth,
Esther,
Cravit,
*-^

b.
4.2

1704, d June

1745, m. 1727, Daniel Case.

2.
3.

William IV.,
'

b. 1706. b. 1708, d. Sept. 12, 1776. b. 1711. b.

4.
5.

**

m. 1731, Solomon Wells.f

6.
7.

David, '5 Phrebe, 4-e Deliverance, ^-^ Benjamin, *'^ Mehetabel, '^-^

1713, d. 171^.

b. 1716, d. 1717. b. 1718, d. prob. b. 1721.

Feb. 1744, m. 1735, Joshua

(s.

[ruiah)Case.t Sam. & Ze-

b. 1724, d. 1730.

Of these four sons of William III., one (David) died young one (Benjamin) married, but had no children one
;
;

had children who all died young and one only (the eldest, William IV.) is now represented by descendants in the ninth generation from William I.
(Cravit)
;

* Index of

1698, p. 21,88, 128.

The Romans came perhaps from Salem,

Mass.

(See Savage, II. 457.) f Fourth son of Joshua I.,--^ q. v. infra. X The will of Deliverance Wells, proved Feb. 14, 1744 (N. Y. Wills,
sister

XV.

174),

mentions her
11698, p. 128.)

Esther Wells (see above) and Mordecai Homan.

(Index of

40

DESCENDANTS OF WILLIAM

II.

CH.

III.

WILLIAM
IT.

III.
IV.,*-^

FOURTH GENERATION.
eldest son, born
1706, d.

William

Aug.

22,

1778.

In 1776, after the disastrous battle of

Long

Island,

and the occupation of Suffolk County by the British army, he went, with many other Southold residents, to Saybrook,
Conn., where his petition for permission to return was twice
refused.'-^

He m. I. about 1740, Hannah White, sister of John

....
16,

of Southold,

and II. in 1761, and Thomas

ist

of
s.,

New
1.

Jersey, b. 1721, d. April

issue.:}:

I785.t

By

mar.

by 2d no
James.

William

V.,

='

b. 1743.

2.

^-

IV.
in

Cravit,*-* 2d son, b. 1711, d.

May

24, 1783

a signer

support of Congress, 1775, and of a petition for relief at Saybrook, 1776, his property being in possession of the
British;

m. 1737, Sarah Reeves,

who

d.

July

16,

1791.

Children
1.

William,

'-^
s--*

b. 1740, d. 1741. b. 1759, d. 1774. b. 1762, d. 1774.

2.
3.

Elizabeth,

Deborah,

'=

VIII.

Benjamin,*-^ 4th son,

b. 1721, d.

Sept.

17,

1800;

in

1775 in Capt. Horton's or Capt. Goldsmith's

company
;

of

Long

Island troops, and signer in support of Congress

on

the census of 1776, with " two females and five slaves" in In 1791, (April 18), he took out letters of ad-! his family.
* Revolutionary Incidents of Suffolk and King's Cos.. L. I., by Henry Onderdonk, Jr., N. Y. 1849. (Date of death may be Aug. instead of April.) Her nun-i f Index of 1775. cupative will of April 9, 1785, (N. Y, Wills, XXXVIII. 318) names her sisterj

Elizabeth Cook, niece Johanna Fordain, brother

Executor, Benjamin Wells
;

Reeve.
:]:

Her

bro.

Thomas White of Newark.,' Benjamin Wells, James Wells, and Mary' John, of Southold, who died 1762, m. 1739, Bathsheba Corwin.
witnesses,

For the account of the sons and their descendants (comprising all the posterity of William III.) I am indebted to Joseph Wickham Case, Esq., oi
Southold.

GEN.

IV.

WILLIAM

III.,

ELDEST SON.

41

ministration on the estate of the

as her uncle.*

widow Martha Wickham,

26,

By

his will of

June

proved Oct.

i,

1800,

he makes a bequest to the parish of Cutchogue, in which he was " Deacon." f The bulk of his estate, which was

very large, went to William V.,^-^ eldest son of William IV., ^-^ and William C.,''-^ 3d and only surviving son of His will mentions also James,^-^ 2d son of William IV.:{: " Benjamin Wells Case, son of his nephew Zaccheus Case,"
of

Goshen, N.

Y.,

and many other

b. c. 1722, d.

legatees.

He

m.

I.

in
;
|!

1743,

Hannah Wells,

Nov.

11, 1753, aet. 31

m. n. in 1754, Iravine Terry, b. c. 1718, d. April 3, 1786; and m. HI. Hannah Booth, b. 1752, d. Jan. i, 1820, aet. 67, as his widow. In Jan. 1824, letters of administration on the
estate of

Hannah Wells were granted

to

her

brother

Charles Booth, her brother-in-law Nathaniel Boisseau, and

Ruth Terry. I suppose this Hannah to be the " Deacon Benjamin." He left no children.

widow

of

WILLIAM

III. FIFTH

GENERATION.
IV.^'^

children of WILLIAM
I.

William
b.

V.,^-^

eldest of
15,

the

two sons
In

of

Wilham
was on

IV.,-*-^

1743, d.

Dec.

1825, aet. 82.

1775 he

signer of the

engagement

to support Congress;

in 1776

the Census, " having in his family

* Index of 1775. f Index of 1775.

two males and one female

Inscription to the

widow

of " Dea. ^Benjamin Wells " in

Southold Churchyard.
:|:

J.

Wickham

Case.

this must be his second cousin, dau. Joshua Wells II. and Mary Brewster, but that she is mentioned in her father's will of 1760, from which we must infer that she was then living. I find no other Hannah Wells likely to
II

Suffolk Wills. I should think

have been the

first

wife of Benjamin.

42

DESCENDANTS OF WILLIAM
i6,

II.

CH.

III.

In 1800, he 50,) and four children."* from his uncle large estate a above, mentioned inherited, as Benjamin,^-^ but made it over at once to his eldest son.f His will of Aug. 5, 1822, proved Dec. 27, 1825, names two He m. c. 1769, Hannah two daughters.:}: sons and Goldsmith .(dau. of John Goldsmith III. of Southold,) b. c. (She was sister of the Rev. 1740, d. June 17, 1820, aet. 80. Benjamin Goldsmith, Pastor of Aquebogue and Mattituck

over

(and under

for forty-six years, b. 1736, Y. C. 1760, d. 18 10.)

1.

JJ

Children

Bethia,

6-1

2.
3.

William VI.,
John,
Sarah,
'^

^-^

b. 1770, d. 1821. b. Sept. 24, 1773. b. Dec. 30, 1781.

4.
5.

''*

Hannah,

^-^

m. Alexander Bushnell. Youngs. m.

Horton,| dau. of " Good 2d son, m. Jonathan Horton," and Abigail (dau. Joseph) Horton, and had three sons (one only surviving him) and two daughters.
II.

James,^'^

VWilliam
Bethia,
C.,'8
^-^

young.

m. Barnabas Horton.

Rebecca.

6.10

* Index of 1775.
f J.

Wickham

Case.

Suffolk Wills, E. 166. X Index of 1775. Thomas Goldsmith was J. W. Case (g. s. of the Rev. Benj. Goldsmith). probably of Salem, Mass. (where he had grant of land in 1643 ) but was an early settler at Southampton, L. I., found there in 1641, and in 1673 an old resident.
;

Ralph Goldsmith of Mass., i66i, had deeds at Orient, L. I., 1664-5 called in Southold Records (C. 114) "Captain," "Mariner," and "Citizen of London." Thomas m., perhaps as 2d wife, Susanna, wid. of John Sheather of Guilford, (Savage, II. 26q, IV. 67.) One of these (if Thomas, by a Conn., after 1670. former wife) was father of John I. of Southold (d. 1703) who m. I. 1679, Prudence Wines, dau. Barnabas Wines II. and Mary Mapes (dau. Thomas Mapes I. and Sarah, dau. William Furrier). He (John Goldsmith I.) is said to have m. 2. in 1683, Ajine or Anna Wells (perhaps youngest dau. of William I.) and 3. Feb. 2, 1697, Elizabeth Wells (perhaps wid. Wm. II. see p. 38, and note.) His s. John Goldsmith II., b. 1681, d. 1725, m. Mary, dau. Jeremiah and Anna Vail, and his sou John III. was b. c. 1704.
;

(Index of 1698, p. 18, 26, 47, 80-1, 126-7-30.)

II

Mehetabel, Abigail, Phoebe, or Hannah.

GEN.

VI.

WILLIAM

III.,

ELDEST SON.

43

WILLIAM

III. SIXTH

GENERATION.
IV.*-^

GRANDCHILDREN OF WILLIAM
II.

William

Vl.,^' eldest

s.

of

William

V.,'-'

b.

Sept. 24,

1773, d. Oct. 29, 1855.*

From

1800 he had the sole use and

left to his father by his greatand dispensed it wisely and liberally. He is well remembered by the present generation as a most estimable man, " of an open, honest disposition, and generous to a fault," ^a pillar in the church at Cutchogue, of which he was " Deacon " for many years, and one of the

control of the large property

uncle Benjamin,''-^

largest contributors to

its

support.f

He

m.

I.

April

2,

1796,

Mary Reeve,
26,

dau.

Thomas and
m.
II.

Parnel, b.

c,

1772, d.

May

1823, aet. 51 ;*

Jan.

11, 1831,
;

Mehetabel Halni. III.

lock, dau. Joseph,

who

d. Jan. 5, 1833

i834,Waite
is

Case, dau. Gershom, who m. II. William Prince, and living. By the ist mar. 4 s., by the 2d. i dau.
Benjamin,'-'
Oct. 19, 1799. Feb. 19, 1801. b. April 22, 1804. b. Nov. 20, 1806. b. Aug. 2, 1S32, d. Sept. 11, 1833.
b. b.

now

William, 'Phineas, Barnabas,

'-3
''*

Hannah,'-^

III. 30, 1 78

JOHN,"-^ 2d.
1,

s.

of

Wm.
I.,

v., b. Guilford, Conn., Dec.

5,

d.

Mattituck, L.

Sept.

185

fanner and harSept. 21,

1802,

ness-maker, at Mattituck; m,

Mattituck,

of Mattituck, b.
1.

Lydia Corwin, dau. Major John Corwin and Joanna Mapes Children : Nov. 7, 1785, d. April 30, i860.
:{:

Esther,'-^
Joanna,''-''

b.

Dec. 2i, 1803.

2. 3.

b. b. b.

Aug.
. .

22, 1805. 22, 1807.

.

Lydia,'-*
Sarah,'-''

March

4.

1808, d. 1829.

* Index of 1775.
X

f J.

W.

Case.

For an account of this Major Corwin and his heroic wife of Revolutionary fame, see the Corwin Genealogy, p. 121, and Griffin's Journal, p. 185. Maj. C. was the fifth John in direct descent from Matthias, of South-

Aquebogue Records.

old, 1640.

44
Bethia,'-" William,'-"
John,'-'^

DESCENDANTS OF WILLIAM
i8ro. t8i2, d. 1824. b. Nov. 2, 1813. b. Sept. 11, 1815. b. 1817, d. 1822. b. Sept. 30, l82t).
b.
7,

11.

CH.

III.

May
.

b.

James, ''' Jeremiah,'"

Joseph,'-''

William Cravit,"^
III.

b.

March

14, 1825.

William
Dec.

C.,^-^

3d

s.

of James/-^ the 2d
off

s.

of

William

Smithtown Harbor, L. I., IV./-^ d. 24, " Christmas Eve snowstorm " of that in the memorable year, being then Master of the sloop Rosette!*' He m. Nov. Letters of ad20, 1806, Eunice Goldsmith, dau. David. ministration were granted Feb. 19, 181 2, to her as his widow,
1811, lost

Capt. Wells and her brother-in-law Barnabas Horton.f resided at Cutchogue. He left no children. IV. Bethia,"-^ eldest dau. of James,^-- m. Barnabas HorTON, and left three sons and two daughters.f
Sons
:

I.

Barnabas (Horton),

'"

2.

3.

James W. (Horton), '-'s WilUiam B. (Horton), '-'^

Bethia (Horton), '-^o Mehetabel (Horton),
'^'

aeceasea.
living 1876.

Dan.:

i.

^aeceasea.

2.

WILLIAM
I.

III. SEVENTH

GENERATION.
Vl.^'^

CHILDREN OF WILLIAM

I.

Benjamin,''-^ eldest son, b. Oct. 19, 1799,

3,

m. Feb.

1824,

Hving 1876; Polly Hallock, (dau. Benjamin and Jerub.

sha Hallock of Southold,)

1874.
1.

March

11, 1799,

d.

Dec.

19,

Children:
Thomas
Anson
B.,
8''

b. Jan. 2, 1827.

2.

3.

Joshua H., *-2 Lydia J.,^-^

T.,^-*

b.
b.

June Aug.

4,

1829.

10, 1831,

unm.

4j

b. Sept. 5, 1834.

J.

W.

Case.

Griffin's Journal.
I., I.

See account of this remarkable storm in

Thompson's L.
f

276.
J.

Index of 1775.

W.

Case.

GEN.
II.

VII.

WILLIAM

III.,

ELDEST SON.
19, 1801, d.
.

45

William
.

VII., ^- 2d son, b. Feb.

18

m.

Helen Penny, who

survived him and m.

II.

Austin Hempstead.
1.

His children were

m. Charles Wells.

Mary,*-5

d. c. 1851.

2.

Martha,^'"^ living 1876,

III.

Phineas,^-^ 3d son, b. x\pril 22, 1804, d.

John,*'-^)

18

m. 1825, Joanna Wells," (dau.

1872.

who

d.

April

24,

Two

children,

:s:8

d. y.

IV.

Barnabas,^-* 4th son,

1-1,1831,

b.

Nov.

20,

1806, living

1876;

m. Jan,
d.
c.

Matilda Latham,

(dau. Jonathan,)

who

1870.

Children:

1.

2.

Susan,^-^ iinm. Mehetabel.s-'"* m. Daniel G. Case.

George,**-'^

3.

4.
5.

Mary,* William. ->'

''^

m. Charles E. Terry.

II.

CHILDREN OF

JOHN."'^

I.

Esther,''-^ eldest child, b.

7,

Dec.

21,

1803, d.

June
4th
s.

11,

1874; m. Ma}'-

1845, as. 3d wife,

(s.

Abner Wells,

of

John Calvin Wells

old, b. Jan. 27,
II.
1

Abner) and
8,

Amy Homan,
No

of South-

79 1, d. Oct.

1866.

children.

Aug. 22, 1805, d. April 24, 1872; m. 1825, her cousin Phineas Wells/*^ above. III. Lydia,^-^ 3d child, b. March 22, 1807; m. 1829, Robert N. Wilbur. Children:
Joanna,"-^ 2d
child, b.
I.

46 V.

DESCENDANTS OF WILLIAM
Betiiia/-^" 5th child, b.

II.

CH.

III.

May

7,

1810;

m. Dec. 1838,

Lewis Terry.
1.

Children
M.

Henry

2. 3.

Leander Theodore
Charles

P. (Terry),-'^' *-^'"

"

^-^^
s-^^

D., m. Maria Skidmore. m. Lucilla Thayer. m. Julia Stevens.

4.

"

and 2d son, b. Nov. Rogers, who d. 1853 m. mer; m. I. Martha nerva Hooper. Children by ist marriage:
VII.
JoHN,'-^^ 7th child
;

2,

181 3

far-

II.

1853, Mi-

1.

Jeremiah,'^-^''

2.
3.

Matilda,^--"

Thomas,

^'^'

4.

Daniel.*-^*

By
5.

2d marriage
Charies,s'
Katie.s-30

6.

VIII.

James,^-^^ (Rev.),

3d son,

b.

Sept.

11, 181 5

m. 1839,

Jane
1.

P.

Webb.

Children

Fanny.*-^'

2.

Joseph

Storer.'-"-

X.

JosEPH,^-^^ 5th son, b. Sept. 30, 1820;

I.
;

farmer, Matti-

tuck, L.
1.

m.

May

16, 1843,

Hannah Wilbur.

Children

Jennie,-*^
Robert,8-3-i
Lillie,^-^'
Lizzie.^-^'''

2. 3.

4.

XL

William

Cravit,^-^^ b. Franklinville, L.
J.,

I.,

March
I.,

14, 1825, res.

Cranford, N.

carpenter; m. Quogue, L.

Nov. 29, 1848, Seleucia Franklin Hallock, (dau. of James and Rhoda (Hallock) Hallock of Quogue,) b. Quogue, Dec.
5,

1824.
1.

Children:

William James,^-^^

2.

3. 4.

b. Brooklyn, Feb. 17, 1850. " Hallock,8-38 b. July 18,1853. Frederick Howell,^-^^ b. Riverhead, Aug. 9, 1858. " Suiren Goldsmith.^-^o b. Sept. 24, i860.

Harvey

GEN.

VIII.

WILLIAM

III.,

ELDEST SON.

47

WILLIAM
I.

III. EIGHTH

GENERATION.
VI.*^'-^

GRANDCHILDREN OF WILLIAM
B.,^-^
1,

I.

Thomas
24, 185
Martha.'-i

eldest

s.

of Benjamin/-^ b. Jan.

2,

1827,

m. Dec.
I.

Cecilia Fields, and has one daughter.

II.
I.

Joshua

H.,^-^

2d

s.

ol Benjamin,'-^ b.

June

4,

1829,
1
;

m.

Dec.

30, 1849,

Mary
C.

J.

Hallock, who
;

d. Sept. 185
i

and

m.

II. 185..,

Emily

Fordham

has

s.

dau.'^-^'^*

IV.
I.

Anson T.,^-* 3d s. of Benjamin,^-i b. Sept. Agnes Booth m. II. Mary J., widow of O.
;

5,

1834,

m.

T.

Allen.

He

has one daughter,

'^^*

II.

Martha,- 2d dau. of
(s.

WiUiam

VII.,^-^

m. Charles

Wells
r.

Henry and

Catharine) and has one daughter,

Maiy.^-^

II.

Mehetabel,^-^ 2d dau. of Barnabas,^"* m. Nov.

24,

1863,
1.

Daniel Gilbert Case, and

Wilfred H. (Case), "-6 Gilbert D. (Case).^-''

has

two

children.

2.

III.

George,^-^ ist

s.

of Barnabas, m.
1

Osborn.
867,

IV.

Mary,^-^ 3d dau. of Barnabas, m. Nov.,

Charles

E. Terry.""
1. 2.

Children
(Terry),''-^

Charles G.
Lillie

M.

(Terry).-9

11.

grandchildren of

john.^-^

I.

Harriet

(Wilbur),^-^* eldest dau. of

Robert N. Wil-

bur and Lydia Wells/-^ b, c, 1830, m. Moses Hallock, and has seven children. '^^"^"^^*^'
* J.

W.

Case.

48
III.

DESCENDANTS OF WILLIAM

II.

CH.
1834, d. in

III.

Sarah

(Wilbur),^-^''

2d dau.

b.

c.

the

Sandwich
in

Islands,

18..;

m. 1854, the Rev. E. T.

Doane,

then Presbyterian missionar}^ at the Sandwich Islands,

Japan.
1.

now

Children

Edward
Lillie

2.

(Doane),^-'' ''i* "

VI.

Isaac N, (Wilbur),^'-'^ 2d son, m.

:

Fanny Luce.

Children
1.

2. 3.

Niles (Wilbur),'-''^' s-^" " Oliver ^-' " Henry

I,

Fanny,^-^^ only dau. of

the Rev, James

Wells,''-^^

m.

the Rev. George Putnam.

1.

Children

George
Jennie

2.
3. 4.

(Putnam),'*''*^-^ "

Fanny
Florence

"

^--i

"

^^'

I.

Jennie,^-^' eldest

dau, of

Joseph,^-^^

m.

Henry W.

Prince,
1.

Children

Anna W,
Frederick

(Prince) ,*-
"
^-''

2.

II.

Robert,^-^* eldest son, m.

LiLLiE,^-^^

Amanda

Parsons.
Child
:

III.

2d dau., m. D. A. Youngs,

I.

Albert

W.

(Youngs),^'-'^

I.

William

James,^-^^

eldest
I.,

son

of

WiUiam Cravit
m. Dec.
13, 1871,

Wells,^-^" b.

Brooklyn, L.

Feb.

17, 1850,

Jennie Williams,
Nevins,)
1,

(dau. of

Samuel Williams and Janet

b.

Dec.

24, 1852.

Children:

2.

Jessie.^-'*''

Maud,8-29 b. Nov. 4, 1872. b. June 7, 1874.

GEN.

V.

WILLIAM

III.,

ELDEST SON.

49

Since the
that
I

first

part of this chapter was printed,

find
"

may be

in error in saying (p. 39) that "

one only

of

the four sons of

WiUiam

III.,^-'

"is

now

represented by

descendants."

Cravit/-* * the second son, had at least three

daughters

in addition to the three children

named on
I

p. 40,

and perhaps left a son, yet no trace. The list

of

which

latter,

however,

have as
to

of his children, so far as

known

me, should be as follows

1.

2. 3.

William,'-^ Sarah, ^* Deborah,'-^

4.
5.

Esther.^"
Phoebe,^-'

6.

Elizabeth,

^-^

b. 1740, d. 1741. received into communion at bapt. at Mattituck, 1752, d. " bapt. June 16, " bapt. Oct. 16, " bapt. I759, d.

Mattituck, 1767.
1774. 1754. 1757. 1774.

Cravit Wells was received into

communion with

the

"Church

His wife's family 21, 1776, (Reeve, as the name is usually written in Southold,t not Reeves) appear to have had their residence at Mattituck.:};
at

Mattituck," Jan.

The descendants
With them,
* Mr.

of the eldest son of

William

11.^-^

still

cluster about the original hive of the family in America.

that

is,

in the villages of Southold, Mattituck,

Moore
it is

suggests the Latin " Creavit" as the origin of this curious name.

Perhaps
in

as

probably the English "Crave-it" as the name

seen since Ch.

is

actually written

some old
f

records.
(first

Howell's History of Southampton

II.

and

III.

were

in

type).

Moore, Esq who " James Reeve, b. 1709, d. 1791, (bro. or cousin of Sarah, wife of Cravit Wells,) was an early deacon at Mattituck, probably son of Capt. James and Deborah (Index of 1698, p. iii), and a large landholder, deriving much of his estate from his great-grandfather, William Purrier, of Olney, Bucks, Eng., (see note, p. 42, above, and Southold Index, p. 32,) one of the first colonists. The pioneer families of Wells, Mapes, Reeve and Purrier were closely connected by marriage and otherwise, and were all, at an early day, comparatively wealthy, having each about 500 acres of wild land in Mattituck and further west, in
X

Mattituck Ch. Records, communicated by Charles B.

adds:

'

'

addition to their

more

central Southold property."

50

DESCENDANTS OF WILLIAM
all

11.

CH.

III.

Cutchogue and Greenport,

ship,

in the

same ancient townyoungest son

are the descendants of the oldest son of Abner/-^"

I.,^-^

youngest son of Henry

of

and

of Fregift,'*'^^

Joshua

I.^-^

In the adjoining

town

of Riverhead, orig-

inally a part of Southold, are the posterity of

Henry

11./-**

eldest son of Henry I.,^-^ and of five of the six sons of Joshua I.,^*^ mostly farmers, and holding in the aggregate a very great amount of landed property. But besides this, there is perhaps hardly a town or village in Suffolk County,

family of William
at this clay.

comprising the greater part of Long Island, in which the I., the Colonist of 1640, is not represented

CHAPTER
JOHN
I.,

IV,
II.

SECOND SON OF WILLIAM

to this

GIVE a separate chapter

second branch

of the de-

_j scendants of WilHam II., (contrary to the intention expressed on page 39,) having received fuller accounts of it
since the last sheet

was

printed.

John

II. ,^-^

old, Jan. 31, 1689,

second son of William II./-Mvas born at Southand died at Goshen, Orange Co., N. Y.,

date unknown, but probably 1740 to 1760.

He removed
and

from Sovithold to Goshen, with

left

his family, before 1730,

there numerous descendants.

5
;

as 171

and II., in 1722, The first wife, 2, 1723 ;* and he may have married again. whose name I have not found, was the mother at least of one son and one daughter and he left three other sons, and perhaps daughters, of whom I have no account.
;

He married, I., as early widow Martha Case, who d. June

Sons

I.

John

II. ,-*-"^

b.

prob.

1715.

2. 3.

Benjamin, ''^
Abijah,*-i2

4.

Samuel,*-!^
Deborah,*-^-*
b. 1717.

Dau.

I.

JOHN
I.

I, FOURTH

GENERATION.
c.

John

11.,*-^

eldest son, b. prob. Southold,

4,

1715, d.
,

Goshen, N.Y., July

who

1776; m. before 1740, Abigail survived him, and is named, with four children, one

* Index of 1698, p. 128, annot.

He

is

not on the Index of 1730.

52

DESCENDANTS OF WILLIAM

II.

CH.

JV.

grandchild (other grandchildren mentioned) and a [son of

his brother

Samuel,
:

in his will of

1776."

Children
1.

Israel,'-^

b. b.

Goshen,
"
" "

c. c.

2.
3.

Abigail, ^-'^
Joshua,'^-"

b.
b.

4.

Mary, 5-'-

1740. 1742. 174417...

IV.

Samuel/-^^ 4th son, m. and

left

a son

named

in the

will of his brother John, above.

t.

Richard,

'-^^

DEBORAH/-^Mau. of John I.,^-2 b. 171 7, d. (prob. Middle-, town, Orange Co., N. Y.,) Nov. 24, 1798; m. 1732, David of CORWIN, (s. John Corwin II. (s. John I.) and Sarah
Southold,)
list

b. c.

7 10, d.

Middletown,

c.

1780.

of freeholders of Suffolk

Co., 1737,

He is on the and the Census of

Southold, I776;f probably removed to Orange County during the Revolution. Children
:

Sons:

I.

David

(Corwin),"-'^

2.

4
5

Joshua Joseph Phineas

Eli

"
"

"-^5 5-'^

b. c. 1733, m. Mary Wells, dau. Daniel b. March 16, 1735. b. c. 1737-40, m. Anna Wells, dau. b. Sept. b.
11,
i,

I., q.

v.

" "

'^"
'^'s

April

1749. 1757.
others. |

Dau.

Anna

"

-"

and perhaps

JOHN
1.

I. FIFTH

GENERATION.
II.^-'"

CHILDREN OF JOHN
ISRAEL,^-^ eldest son of
18
.

d.

Albany, N. Y.,

John II.,''-^" b. Goshen, c. 1740, He was one of the signers at

1775; in 1784

Goshen in support of Congress,

*
f
:]:

(Nov.

17)

he pur-

N. Y. Wills, XXXVI. 21. (G. E. S.) Doc. Hist. N. Y., IV. 201. Index of 1775. Corwin Genealogy, 38, seq., where the curious and patient reader may trace out to his satisfaction the descendants of the forty-nine children of these five
sons of Deborah Wells.

The

eldest,

David
I

II.,

had by

his

two wives fourteen

to

children and fifty-seven grandchildren.

have not ventured

count the

off-

spring of the other thirty-five.

GEN.

V.

JOHN

I.,

SECOND SON.

53

chased the estate of Judge Ludlow, of Hempstead, L. I. (300 acres), for i;2,ooo, under a sale by the Commissioners of forfeiture. Judge L. having been a lo3^aHst. In 1787, (April 5,) still residing in Goshen, he "offers for sale that valuable
plantation of near 400 acres situated near the Great Plains, on Nassau Island, late the seat of Judge Ludlow."* But

he removed soon after to Albany. t

Hem.

I.

c.

1765-9,

branch of the well known Long Island family, who were the first settlers of "Golden Hill," in the town of Goshen; + and, probably after his removal to Albany, he m. II. Hannah FIilton, sister of John and Benjamin
of a

L'HOMMEDIEU,

Hilton, of Alban}^
St.

b. 1756, d.

Albany,

May

15, 181 7,

bur. in

Peter's Cemetery. (In her will, proved

May
to

24, 18 17,

she bequeaths her

pew

in St. Peter's

Church

two

sons,

WiHiam
sister of

S.

and

Israel,

and

niece,

Mary Tallmadge, and

names her late husband, Israel Wells, and Susan Tallmadge, Mary, and as executors, her brothers, John and Benjamin Hilton.) He left two sons, one, probably both, by
!i

the

first
1.

marriage.
S.,'*-'i

William

2.

Israel,"-'-

b. c. 1770. b. 17 . .
.

eldest dau. of John 11.,^-^ b. Goshen, c. DxWiD SwEEZY, of Goshen, Goshen, 1812 m. 17 a Captain of N. Y. Troops in the army of the Revolution, and left descendants. One son is named in the will of
II.

Abigail,

^^''

1742, d.

his great-uncle,
I.

John

II.

David

(Sweezy)."-^^

III.

Joshua

1744, d.

second son of John 11.,^-^ b. Goshen, Goshen, June 14, 1819; signer of pledge of support
I.,^-"

* Onderdonk, Queens Co., in the Olden Time, 67, 70. (G. E. S.)
f Eager's Hist.

Orange Co., 500.

Alfred Wells of Goshen.

X Eager's Orange Co.

II

Albany Wills, IV.

526.

See Munsell's Annals of Albany, IV. 303.

Alfred Wells.

54
to

DESCENDANTS OF WILLIAM

II.

CH.

IV.

Congress from Goshen, 1775 ;* m. Montgomer}^ Orange Co., N. Y., c. 1770, Sarah Booth, of Montgomery, who d. Dec. 20,1825. Children:
1.

Mary,'^'-*

b.

Goshen,
" "
"

c.

1771.

2.
3.

John,"-"
George,''-^'^

b.
b. b.

March

10, 1773.
c.
c.

4.
5.

Dolly ,'^-"
Christiana,^'*^
Joshua,''-'^

b.

6.
7.

b.
b.

" "
"
.

Sarah.G-^o

1774-5. 1776-7c. 1778. Sept. 6, 1779. 17

. .

IV.

Mary

,^-12

2d dau. of John

II.,''-^"

b.

Goshen,
dren
1.
:

1820,

m. James Carpenter,

of

d. Goshen, 17 ChilGoshen.
.

.,

2.
3.

James, Mary, Fanny,

(Carpenter),"--'

d.

unm.
;

" "

"'-'"'-''

m. Jerome Johnson, of New York. m. New York, Dr. Egbert Jansen

[Dr.

her dau. m.
f

Henry Haight.

JOHN I SIXTH GENERATION.

JOHN
I.

II."

ISRAEL.^-^

William
. .

S.,^-"

eldest son of Israel,^-^ b. (prob. Goshen,)

6,

c.
.

1770, d.
.

Albany, March
b. 1779, d.

1821,

ast.

51

m. Elizabeth
40.

December

23, 18 19,

set.

intestate, leaving four children

under age, to

He died whom John

Wilkinson was appointed guardian.

1.

2.

3.

James,"-^^ Matilda,'-23 Mary Ann,'-"^

4.

Ann,'-25

II.

IsRAEL,*^-^^

2d
23,

s.

d.

Albany, Feb. Cemetery.

Goshen,) 17 1826, and was buried in St. Peter's

of Israel,^-^ b. (prob.
.

riage thus

He was perhaps the magistrate officiating at a mar" Married at Amity, announced in the Orange Eagle of the day Dec. 10, 1804, by Joshua Wells, Esq., Mr. Garret Decker, of Brimstone Hill, to the delicate Miss Keziah Gardenhouse, of Mare's Point, both near Skunk's Misery,
* Eager's Orange Co., 500.
:

in the village of
I-

Mount Eve."

(Id. 442.)

Alfred Wells.

John A. Wells, of

New York.

GEN.

VI,

JOHN JOHN

I.,

SECOND SON. JOSHUA

I.^-"

55

II."-^'^

I.

Mary,-^^ eldest dau. of Joshua

\.,'-^

b.

Goshen,

c.

1771,

m.

George
II.

Phillips, of Philhpsburgh, Orange Co., N. Y.

eldest son, b. Goshen,
20,

JOHN,*^-^^

March
;

10, 1773, d.

burgh, Orange Co., Feb.

1847

settled early at
28,

burgh, as a merchant; m. Goshen, Aug.

1798,

NewNewSarah

Everett, (dau. of James Everett and Mary Waters of Goshen), b. Goshen, May 25, 1777, d. Newburgh, Aug,
28,

1852.
1.

Children:
Augustus,'--^
b.

John

2.

Mary,'--'

b. b.
b.

New

Goshen, Nov. 27, 1799. York, July 12, 1801.

" "
" "

3. 4.
5.
6. 7.

Henryj'-^*

James

Everett,'--'

April 25, 1803. Feb. 8, 1805, d. New York, Jan. 27, 1827.

Egbert Benson,'-2"
Charles Ferdinand,'-'"
William,'-^Walter,'-3
Daniel,'-'**

b. b.
b.
5_

May

Newburgh, July

8.

"...
"
" "

9.

b.
b.

10.
11.

Fanny,^-35 Sarah Ann,'-^^

1807, d. Newburgh, Nov. 22, 1867. " 8, 1808, d. March 7, 1864. Aug. 2, 1810. 1812. March 21, 1814. Oct. 23, 1816.
6,

b.

Feb. 27,

1819, d.

Newburgh, Jan.

27,1824.

III.

George,*^-^*^

2d son,

b.

Goshen,

c.

1774-5, d,

'.
. .

m. an Englishwoman (name unknown to me) in Ithaca, N. Y. Children

:

1.

2.
3.

John,'--" Henrietta,'-^^ George.'-^'

IV.

DoLLY,''-^^

2d dau.,

b.

Goshen,
b.

c, i'/y6-'/, d.

m.

Edward
V. m.

Ely, a lawyer of Goshen.

No

children.
c.

Christiana,^-^^ 3d dau,,

Goshen,

1778, d.

John Decker, of Hamptonburgh, Orange Co., N. Y. VI. Joshua II.,''-^^ 3d son, b. Goshen, Sept. 6, 1779,
; ;

d.

Goshen, Nov. 24, 1865 farmer, inheriting and residing on m. I. the farm settled by his great-grandfather John I. (dau. Jemima Sayre, Hamptonburgh, N. Y., Feb. 10, 1801,

Jonathan Sayre and Martha Morrill of Hamptonburgh,) CathHe m. II., 18 d. Jan. 6, 1812. marChildren first by N. J. arine Ford, of Morristown,
of
b.

April 27, 1779,

riage

56
1.

DESCENDANTS OF WILLIAM
Adeline,'-"*
George,'^-^'
b.

II.

CH. IV

2.

b. b.

3.

Alfred,'-*-

Goshen, Dec. " Oct. " Nov.

"

5,

i8ox.

11, 1803, d.

July 26, 1805.

17, 1805.
6,

4.
5.

Mary

Jerome,'-*"'

Jane,"-^" b. b.
b.

Oct.

1807, d. Feb. 26, 1833,

imm.

6.

Frances,'-'*^^

" "

Dec. 3, 1809. Dec. 17,1811.

By
7.

2d marriage
Julia,'-*'^

b.

Goshen, 18
"

8.

Elizabeth,'-*'

b.

iS

unm.

VII.

Sarah,*'-^''

4th

clau., b.

m. James Tuthill, of

Goshen, 17 Bloomingrove, Orange Co.

.
. .

cl.

JOHN

I. SEVENTH
II.*-^

GENERATION.
JOHN
b.
III.*'-^^

JOHN
I.

JOSHUA

I.^-"

John

Augustus/'^*^ eldest son,

1799, res. 1877, 50 East 53d St.,

Mills,

New

Orange

Co.,

N. Y., Nov.

20,

Goshen, Nov. 27, York; m. Salisbury 1838, Elizabeth Tobias,

of Salisbury Mills,)
11, 1810.

(dau. of Isaac Tobias

b.

and Letitia Lattin,

Cornwall, Orange Co., N. Y., March

Children
I.

GEN.

VII.

JOHN

I.,

SECOND SON.

57

8,

Charles Ferdinand/-^^ 5th son, b. Newburgh, July Newburgh, March 7, 1864; m. 18 Julia Anne Walsh, dau. of Henry Walsh, of Newburgh. Children
VI.
1808, d.
.

.,

1.

John.s-^'-

2.

3.

Annie,^-^" Charles.^-"*

VII.

WlLLiAM,^-^- 6th son,

b.
. .

Newburgh, Aug.
Children
:

2,

1810,

res. 1877,

Newburgh

m.

18

Mary Anne Walsh,

dau.

of

William Walsh, of Newburgh.

I.

Mary

Elizabeth.^-^s

,2.

Margaret,^-'''^

3.

4.

Lewis, ^^' William. ^-58

M. D., 8th son, b. Newburgh, March 21, Newburgh, Physician m. Newburgh, Nov. 1846, Anne Gardner, (dau. of James Gardner of Newburgh,) b. Newburgh, 18 Children:
IX.
Daniel,^-^*
1

8 14, res. 1877,

James

Gardner,*"*' Walter,s-6o

b. b. b.

New
"
>.

York,

Emma,^-^'
Annie,^-^2
Everett.^-*'^

^
b.

"

18 18 iS 18 18

JOHN
I.

II.*-^'*

JOSHUA

I.^-"

JOSHUA
b.

II."""

Adeline,"-*" eldest daughter,

. .

Goshen, Dec.

5,

1801,

m.

18

who
1877,

d.

James Cooper Reeve, of Hamptonburgh, N. Y. 18 She res. 1877, in Goshen, as his widow.
.

res. x^lfred,''-''- second son, b. Goshen, Nov. 17, 1805 on the farm held by John Wells I. and this branch of his descendants, for more than a hundred and fifty years. He removed about 1835, to Tyrone, Steuben Co., N. Y., and there resided till 1842, when, at his father's Request, he
III.
;

returned to the family estate in Goshen.

He

m.

at

Wheat

58

DESCENDANTS OF WILLIAM

11.

CH.

IV.

Plains, Pike Co., Pa.,

Nyce
I.

(dau. of

June 19, 1833, Lydia Westbrook John Nyce and Lena Westbrook, of Wheat
7,

Plains,) b.

June

1809, d. Oct. 12, 1871.*

Children

GEN.
1.

VIII.

JOHN
A.,''-''

I.,

SECOND SON.
29, 1861, d. Oct. 17, 1863. 22, 1863.
2,

59

Harriet

b. b. b.

2. 3.

William
Frances

Alfred.^-^'^'b.

Goshen, Oct. " Mar.

" "

Selena,''-33

Oct.

1869.
d.

4.

Emma,^

Feb. 24,

March
b.

it, 1875.

IV.

Mary

Frances,*^-^' eldest

clau.,

Tyrone, Sept.
3,

7,

1837, res.

1877,

Goshen; m. Goshen, May

of

1855,

Lewis

Goshen, Civil Engineer, (s. of Alfred Coleman and Sarah Jane Kirk of Middletown, N. Y.,) b. Scotchtown (Walkill), Orange Co., N. Y., June 1834. Children
.

Edson Coleman,

.,

r.

6o

DESCENDANTS OF WILLIAM
John Hamilton.^-*" Virginia Grant,^-*''
Grantina Bates,"-* Robert^^ Grace W.,"-^"
b.
b.

II.

CH. IV.

Sept. 23, 1867. b. New York, Jan. 18, 1870. " Sept. 13, 1871, d. Jan. b. " Aug. 16, 1875. b.

Princeton, "

July 21, 1866,

d. inf.

9,

1875.

b. Goshen, July i6, 1844; res. merchant; served during the Civil War in the 22d Regt. N. Y. V.; m. May 22, 1869, Elizabeth Southard, of Rockford, 111. No children. VIII. Eugene Franklin,^-'^' b. Goshen, June 16, 1846; A. B. Princeton, 1869, A. M. 1872; res. 1877, Waverly, N.

VII.

Moses

Alfred,^-^

1877, Chicago,

111.,

Y.

Druggist unm. X. Charlotte,^-^*

;
;

b.

Goshen, July

13,

1850; m. Goshen,

13, 1873, Samuel Wickham Slaughter, of Waverly, N. Y., Druggist, (s. of De Witt Slaughter and Caroline

May

Mills, of

Waverly,)

b.

Hamptonburgh, N.
b.

Y.,

Nov.

8.

1837.

No

children.

XI.
Feb.

Charles

Snodgrass,--"^

Goshen, April

2,

1852,

res. 1877,

Goshen, farmer; m. Chester, Orange Co., N. Y.,

2, 1876, Alice J. Hadden, (dau. of Samuel Hadden and Eliza Jarrett M'Gill, of Chester,) b. Sugar Loaf, Oi"ange

Co., Sept. 14, 1842.

I.

Child
^-^^

Samuel Hadden,

b.

Goshen, Jan.

21, 1877.

JOHN
JOHN
IL''-^

I. NINTH
I.^""

GENERATION.
II.^'^'-

JOSHUA

JOSHUA

ALFRED."'^

MARY

F.**'*^^

Frances Louisa (Coleman,)^-^^ eldest dau. of Lewis I. Edson Coleman and Mary Frances Wells, b. Deposit, N. Y., 1856, m. Goshen, May 7, 1874, James Mapes HagGERTY, (s. of John Edward Haggerty and Frances A. Mapes, of Monroe,) b. at Hamptonburgh, N. Y. i8 Child:
. .
.

I.

Charlotte Wells (Haggerty),"-'

b.

Port

Jervis,

N.

Y., April, 1875.

CHAPTER
HENRY
I.

V.

AND

HIS ELDEST SON.

in this family,

ENRY,^-^ first of the

name
in

and third son

at

M^_ .-^;:5^ of
old,

WilHam Wells
7,

II.

of Southold,

was born

SouthI

Feb.

1690,

and died

the same town, Jan.

18, 1760.

have no other record of his life of threescore and ten years than is found in several deeds by him, noted in Mr. Moore's Index of 1698, (p. 129) and in his will, which is of some intei"est both for its date and contents.*
" In the name of God, Amen, the 24 day of December in the year of our Lord Christ 1755 I Hennery Wells of the town of Southold and County of Suffolk in the Province of New York, Yeoman, being in health of body and of perfect

minde and memory, thanks be given unto God but calling to minde the mortality of my body and that itt is appointed for all men once to die, do make and ordaine this my last
and testement that is to say principally and first of all give and recommend my soul into the hands of God y* gave itt, and my bod}' I recommend to the earth to be buried in descent Christian burial att the discretion of my executors hereafter named. " And as touching such worldly estate whearwith it hath pleased God to bless me in this life I give demise & dispose of the same in the following manner and forme " Imprimis I give and bequeath to my beloved son Hennery and to his heirs & assigns forever all my right of Lands lying in Little Neck so called in the said Town allso a
will
I
:

Records of Southold, Lib. C. 52, by J. Wickham an accurate transcript of the Record, but whether the orthography of the latter is that of the clerk, or of the original will, I do not know. Compare names of places with those mentioned in the will of his father,
* Copied from the

Town
is

Case, Esq.

The copy

William

II.,

on

p. 35-6

above.

62

DESCENDANTS OF WILLIAM

II,

CH.

V.

piece of thatch meadow lying on the East side of Pool's Neck so called in the said Town. " Secondly. I give to my beloved son Obediah and to his heirs and assigns foi" ever all my Land whearon my buildings now stand, being two lotts containing fifty acres be itt more or less lying in the said town and allso all my right of Crickthatch ground lying on the crooked fiatts so called that lyeth betweene the necks of Land called Booths Neck & Pools Neck in the said town. " Thirdly. I give and bequeath unto my four grandchildren the children of my daughter Hannah thirty shillings to each, to be payd unto them by my executors. " Fourthly. I give and bequeath unto my daughters namely Patience and Dorothy four pounds to each to be payd by my executors. " Fif{hl3^ I give and bequeath to my beloved wife Catharine one room of my house which she shall choose during the time she continues my widdow and to be kept in repair by my son Obediah and my son Obediah to hnd firewood and for my said wife so long as she remains my wicldow and allso I allso y^ privilidge of keeping a cow and a hogg give and bequeath to my s*^ wife the one halfe of all my movable or personall estate that shall remain after the above legacies are payd all of which Is given to my s'^ wife only for and in liew of her dower.

" Sixthly.

give and bequeath unto

my

beloved son

rehalf of s'' personall estate that shall maine after the above said Legacies are pa3'd. " Lastly, of this last will and testement, I do hereby

Abner the other

my

my

nominate constitute and appoint my said three sons Hennery Obediah and Abner to be my executors with full power and authority to act in and about the premises hearby enjoy ning upon them to pay my just debts and
funeral charges. " In witness wheareof I have hearunto sett my hand fixed my seal the day and year first above written.

&

"HENNERY WELLS"

[seal.]

Signed sealed published pronounced and declared by the s*^ Hennery Wells to be his last will and testement in the presence of
us witnesses.
"

"

Thomas Pain Thomas Goldsmith

"

Joseph Peck

GEN.

III.

HENRY
copie
of

I.,

THIRD SON.
entr^
p""

63

"A

true

the

originall Will

Hempsted Town Clerk. "So: hold 19 March 1760."

Robert

I. is on the list of Freeholders of Suffolk County, His residence and burial place were probably at Cutchogue, in the town of Southold. " Little Neck," bequeathed to the oldest son, is now owned by the families of Terry, Case and others. He was three times married I. about 1712-13, to Patience b. 1694, d. Oct. 2, 1719, set. 25. II.

Henry

1737."'

in 1720, to

Dorothy OSMAN,
54.

of Southold, b.
1754, to

20, 1754, set.

III.

Oct.

2,

1700, d. June Katharine, Avidow

(prob. of John)

Penny.* Of his six children, four (2 s. 2 dau.) appear to have been by the first marriage, and two, (i s. dau.) by the second.
I I.

2.

64

DESCENDANTS OF HENRY

I.

CH. V.

the

Deborah, and great-grandson of Edward Howell, one of first settlers of Southampton, L. I., in 1640." The three sons, Henry II., Obadiah and Abner, divide the
descendants of Henry
the
first
I.

in the
is

male

line,

into three branches,

only of which

given

in this

chapter

the second

alone occupying the five following chapters.

HENRY
HENRY
H.^-^^

I. FOURTH

GENERATION.
I.,^-^

ELDEST SON, AND HIS DESCENDANTS.

of

Henry

II.,'*'
;

eldest son

Henry

b.

Southold,

c.

on the Census of 1776, " having in his family one male over 50, (himself,) two males and two females under 50 and over 16." His will of Jul}^ 15, 1791, proved July 20, 1793, names five children and a son-in-law, [the
1 7 14, d. c. 1793

Rev.] Jonathan Robinson. t

He

m. (perhaps

I.)

1736, Abi-

gail Dickerson, dau. of

Reeve, of Southold, (and

Thomas Dickerson and Abigail may have m. II. Sarah

one,) d.

who, or Abigail,
Children
Sons
I.
:

if

there was but

March

1786.:!:

Daus.

GEN.

V.

HENRY
I. FIFTH

II.,

ELDEST SON.

65

HENRY
I.

GENERATION, ELDEST SON.

HENRY
11.^-'^

Thomas

Dickerson,^--" eldest son of

c.

Henry
I.,

II.''-^^

b.

prob. Cutchog-ue,

1740, d. Baiting-

Hollow, L.

c.

1798;

farmer; signer in support of Congress, 1775. For many years he was quite deaf, so that, as is said, "he never heard one of his children speak," He perhaps m. I. in 1763,

Bethia Terry,
d.

b. c.

1743, d.
11,)

March

16,

1785; and about

b.

1785-6 he m. (perhaps
Oct. 30, 18
.

Mary
6,

Dains,

Oct. 20, 17
is 2,

64 tioned in his will of Aug.

.,

set.

y. 10 d.

The

last

named

men1802),

1798 (proved April

with his

five children

'^
:

Henry,8--''

b.
b.

c.

1786.

Thomas,''--^

May

15, 1788.

Manin
Pgjg,.

Lulhen/--^

b. Oct, 17, 1790.

c.;7

b
b.

J,

1792,

d.

1838, bur.

Aquebogue

[mute. deaf
;

Hannah,^-'

c.

1794-5.

Cutchogue, Dec. 27, 1755, d. and Riverhead signer in support of Congress, and in Capt. Lupton's company of N. Y. troops, 1775; m. c. 1778, Joanna Downs, and had five sons and four daughters.
III.

Obadiah,^-- 3d son,
1837;

b.

May

12,

carpenter in

New York

Sons

I.

Daus.

66

DESCENDANTS OF HENRY

I.

CH. V,

Daniel Robinson and Phoebe Norton, of Miller's Place, L. I.,) b. Miller's Place, 1755, d. Moriches, L. I., Feb. 16, 1848,
bur.

Good Ground
L.
I,,

Pastor of Presbyterian Cong, at Manor-

ville,

(where he built a church,) from about 1800. Children, nearly in this order
I.

GEN.

VI.

HENRY

II.,

ELDEST SON.

6/

III.

Martin Luther^-^s 3d
d.

son, b. Baiting Hollow, Oct.

17, 1790,

(drowned

in

1839; Captain of coasting vessel

Port Jefferson Harbor) Jan. 24, m. Port Jefferson, 1817,

;

HuLDAH Brown,

(dau. of Sylvanus,) b.
26, 1862.

Nov.

2,

1801, d.

Port Jefferson, Nov.

Children:

I.

68

DESCENDANTS OF HENRY

I.

CH. V.

By
5. 6.

2d marriage
Sarah E., "2 Daniel M.^-'^ Daniel O.,"-* Betsey Adelaide,'-"
b.

Dec.

27,1834.
[q, d.

7.
8.

b. July b. Oct. b.
b.

July, 26, 1836.

12, 1837.

Dec.

10, 1839.

9.

William

A.,'-'"^

March
s.,

29, 1842.*

V.

Charles,^-" 5th

m. Nov.
Silas,
s.

30, 1826,

Puah Tuthill
Corwin and PaChildren
:

CORWIN,

(dau. of Jabez

(s.

Daniel)

tience Tuthill, of Riverhead,) b. Dec. 25, 1805.

Patience C.,'-"
Velnelle,'-'^ Charles Edwin,'-''*
Rosabella,'-*""

Mary

Puah

Frances,'-^'

m. J. G. Mead, of Jamesport. m. James Scribner. m. Elizabeth b. July 1835, d. June 14, 1836. m. Albert Valentine.
.
.

Isaiah Corwin.'-^* f

I.

JOANNA,''-^^ eldest dau.,

b.

Baiting Hollow, Jan. 25,

(s.

1779, d. B. H., Oct. 31, i860;

rael, of
3
s.

m. David Howell,

of Is-

B. H.,)

b.

Aug.

31, 1773, d. Sept. 8, 1852.

Children,.

gdaus.

C-^^-^01:

HENRY
VI.
L.

11.^-'^

HANNAH.^-^

Naomi,*^-^^ 4th dau. of the

Wells,^-^^ b.

Rev. Jonathan Robinson

River, L.
I.,

and Hannah
ville,
I.,

Wading

1792, d. Say-

m. Manorville, 1806, John RobJohn farmer, of Capt. Robinson and Julia Lane, (s. inson, Children : of Manorville,) b. M., 1783, d. at M.
April
20, 1876;
1.

Eliza,'-'^

b.

Manorville, 1807, m. Carter.

"

2.

3. 4.
5.

b. Naomi,'-^* Martin Luther,'-" b. Oliver Hazard Perry,'-'^ b.

Cynthia,'-^'-'

"
" " " "

b.

6.
7.

Edwin,'
Janet, '^*"

b. b. b.
b.

8. 9.

Orlando S.,'-i02 Phoebe A.,'-'""

"
"

1809, 181 1. T813. 1815, 1818. 1821, 1829. 1831,

m. Raynor.

d.

m. Wines.
m. A. T. Terrell.

*
f
Ij.

Henry E. Wells,
Israel

of Greenport.
182.
(s.

Corwin Genealogy,

Howell, of Baiting Hollow

David and Joanna),

GEN.

VII.

HENRY

IL,

ELDEST SON.

69

HENRY

I. SEVENTH

GENERATION, ELDEST
D.^""'^

SON.
HENRY
I.
11.^-'^

THOMAS

THOMAS.^-^^

Thomas

erhead, June

Maria
I.

Wickham,"-^^ eldest son of Thomas,"-'" b. Rivi, 1813, d. New York, Dec. 28, 1871 m. Tuell, of Newport, R. I. Child
; :

Thomas

Clinton,^-'^

b.

Newport, R.

I.,

Nov.

23, 1853,

res.

[machinist

Newport, unm.
;

II.

Martin
13,

Luther,''-"' 2d son, b. April 18, 1816, d. Riv-

erhead, Feb.

1859;

^^'

Baiting Hollow, April

18,

1843,

Mehetabel Wells
vid, 7th
b.
s.

Samuel

I.)

Sept. 29, 1819, d.

:

James Youngs Wells (4th s. Daand Lydia Osborn, of Baiting Hollow,) Norwich, Conn., Jan. 19, 1855. Chil(dau.

dren
1.

James

Y.,^-"
L.,*-'^
C.,^-''*

b.
b. b. b.

Good Ground,
"

April

3, d.

Sept. 20, 1844.

2.

Maskell

March
Feb.

3.

Emma

Ponquogue,
Greenport,

23, d. April i, 1845. iH, 1847.

4.

Charles M.,^-*"

Oct. 11, 1852, d. Jan. iq, 1853.

III.

Ann
Ninth

Maria,'-"^ eldest dau., b. April

St.,

7,

1818, res. 1877, 1841,

75 S.

Brooklyn, E. D.; m. Jan.

(s.

4,
s.

William Corwin
II., s.

William

(s.

Joseph,

David,

Joseph s. John

Matthias) Corwin and Polly Brown) of Brooklyn, N.

Y., b.
1.

June

8,

1816. Children:

2. 3.

Epenetus Lester James Barrett Rose

Frances Althea

4.
5.

(Corwin),'**' b. Nov. 2, 1841, d. Feb. 27, 1842. " **- b. Oct. 22, 1842. s-*^ " b. Aug 25, d. Sept. 15, 1S47. ^-^^ h. Feb. " 9, 1850.
"
-85

William Melville

185

IV.
1862;

Albert Mapes,^-"^ 3d s b. Mar. 8, 1820, d. Sept. 20, m. Joanna Hutchinson, of Baiting Hollow. No

children.

V.
1822,

1848,

Micah Edmund,''-"" 4th son, b. Riverhead, March 30, m. I. Yaphank, Aug. 27, res. Good Ground, L. I.; Catharine Howell, (dau. of James Howell and

70

DESCENDANTS OF HENRY
Y.,) b.
5,

I.

CH. V.
i6, 1824, d.

Louisa Terrell, of
Springville, Dec.

Chary Robinson.
1.

Middle Island, March He m. 11. Nov. 27, Children by ist marriage:

1871.
b. Springville,

1872,

Mrs.

William

S..'^-^"

Aug.

ii, 1851, d.

Mar.

5,

1859.
1859.

2.
3.

Henry

T.,8S'

b.
b.

Sarah,8-88

" "

May
Jan.

it, 1854.
15, 1859, d.

May 15,

Sophia,^'^" 2d dau., b. Riverhead, Dec. m. Riverhead, Dec. 24, 1862, as 2d wife, Sylvester Homan, of Yaphank, (s. of Philip Homan and Polly Hedges, of Middle Island,) b. Middle Island, Aug. 24, 181 5.

VI.

Charlotte

30, 1824;

No

children.

VII.

Morgan
;

Lewis,^'^^

5th son, b. Jan.

12,

1827, res.

Good Ground m. Mary Culver.

VIII.
1

No

children.

83 1,

1853,

lock

George Syrene,^-^ 6th son, b. Riverhead, June 7, res. Good Ground; m. Atlanticville, L. I., Dec. 29, Theresa Hallock, (dau. of Benjamin Frankhn Haland Sarah Ann Hobby, of Quogue,) b. New York,
13, 1837.

June

Children:
Franklin,^-^^
b. b. b.
b.

Benjamin
Chariotte

Good Ground, Dec.

"
" " "

25, 1854.
15, 1856, d. 25, 1858.

Althea,^-*'"
s-^'^

Jan.

Aug.

5,

1875.

Anne

Leonora,*-'^'

June
Dec. Dec. Feb. Aug.

Minnie Hallock,

Willis Weston ^93 Lilian Florence, *"*

b. b. b.
b.

Oct. 23, 1862. 2,1864.

6,
7,

"

1866.

Ralph Brunelle,8-^5 Robert EugencS-""

"
"

1874.

16,

1876.*

HENRY
I.

n.*-^^

THOMAS

D.^'^"^

MARTIN

L.^'^^

Azel

Roe,^-^^ eldest
1

son of Martin
Bridgeport,

L.,^-^*'

b.

Port Jef-

ferson, Feb. 23,

8 19, res.
4,

Ct.;

shipwright; m.

Bridgeport, Feb.

1840,

Harriet Elizabeth M'Ewen,

able information,
also to

* For the above Record of the children of Thomas Wells,""' and much valuI am indebted to Mrs. Charlotte S. Homan,'-*'^ of Yaphank

Micah E. and George

S.

Wells, of

Good Ground.

GEN.

VII.

HENRY

II.,

ELDEST SON.

7I

(dau. of

ford, Ct.,) b. Bridgeport, Feb. 4, 1821.

John Pease M'Ewen and Harriet Mills, of WallingChildren:

Daniel Maurice Smith,^-^'b. Bridgeport, Nov. Nov Emily Clifford.s-^s b Henrietta Stevens,-'** b.

Mary Elizabeth,-"'" Fanny Ermina,-'"'

Arthur George,-^"7.

b.
b.

b.

Julia Ella,8-i3

b.

72
of

DESCENDANTS OF HENRY
Lyme,
Conn.,) b. L3mie, June
:

I.

CH. V.

i,

1815.

Children (by

ist

marriage)
1.

2.
3.

Mary Eleanor (Booth),^-'*"' ^^"'' " Evelina Elwood " ''"' John Francis

b.
b.

April li, 1845. April 4, X847.

b.

Nov.

17, 1842.

IV. Ann E.,'-^^ 2d dau., b. Riverhead, Jan. 11, 1830, res. Greenport; m. Greenport, Nov. 7, 1849, Henry Fordham, (s. of Rufus and Hephzibah Fordham, of Saybrook, Ct.,) b. Saybrook, April 7, 1828. Children:
Emmeline A.
H. Fletcher Frank W. R.Bertram Annie W.
(Fordham),8-io'
"
b.

May

26, 1852,
30. 185S.

m. Sept.

2,

1874, Dr.

*"" b. July
"
s-"-!

[C. Bolton,

A. N. Y.

"
" "

b. Sept. 18, 1863, d. Sept. 25, 1865.

b. Sept. 29, 1866. b.

'^"^

April 23, 1871.

V.

Sarah

E.,^-'^

3d dau.,

(ist child of

2d mar.,)

b.

Green1854,

port, Dec. 27, 1834, res.

Greenport; m. G., Sept.

(s.

24,

Cfiarles H. Tuthill,
G.,) b. G.,
I.

of

A. B. and Claretta Tuthill, of

July

22, 1832.

Children:
b. Oct. 13, 1S59.

J.

Clarence (Tuthill),""^

VII.
d.

Daniel

O.,"^ 4th son, b. Greenport, Oct.

12, 1837,

manufacturer of oil; m. G,, Oct. 13, Eliza Conkling, (dau. of Richard C. Conkling 1 86 1, A. and Almira Terry,) b. at Madison, Ct. Children
G.,
20, 1870;
:

May

1.

2. 3.

Marshall O-.^''^ Henry E.,'"s

b.

June
Dec. Aug.

24, 1862.
15, 1865.
3,

b.
b.

4.

Richard B..^-"' Daniel D.,^-''s

1868.

b. Oct. 11, d.

Nov.

29, 1870.

VIII.
10,

Betsey
^'cs.

Adelaide,^-"^ 4th dau.,

b.

Greenport, Dec.

1839,

Greenport; m. G.,
(s.

Roger Sherman,
bor, L.
I.

of

May 18, 1868, George Lyman Gabbet Sherman and

Hampton,
L.
I.,)

Fanny Miller Payne,

I.,

of East

b.

Sag Har-

Jan. 25, 1840.

Child:
March
30, 1876.

Fanny Wells

(Sherman),*-''^ b. Sept. 2i, 1872, d.

GEN.

VII.

HENRY

II.,

ELDEST SON.

73

A.,"*' 5th son, b, Greenport, May 29, 1842 manufacturer of oils m. Edgecombe, Me., Jan. 4, 1869, Ada B. Chase, (dau. of Capt. James and Betsey Chase, of Edgecombe,) b. E., June 10, 1847. Child:

IX.

William
;

res.

Greenport

I.

Irving Chase,^-!^" b. Damariscotta, Me., Oct. 28, 1870.*

HENRY

11.*-^^

HANNAH.^-^*

NAOMI

(rOBINSON).*^'*^

IX. Phcebe a. (Robinson),""'^ youngest child of John and Naomi Robinson, b. Manorville, L. I., 1831, m. 1847, Allen Townsend Terrell, of Riverhead, merchant and marketman, b. New Haven, Conn.,
.
.

April
I.

2,

1825.

Children:

74

DESCENDANTS OF HENRY

I.

CH. V.

HENRY
IL'

II>^*

THOMAS
2d
s.

D.^'^"

THOMAS.*^'^^

MICAH

eJ'^^

Henry

T.,^-^^

(and only surviving child) of Mi-

cah

E./-^^ b.

Springville, L. L,
13, 1876,

May
E.

11,

1854; m.

New

Lon-

don, Conn., Jan.

Annie

Nott.

HENRY

11.^-^^

THOMAS
I.,

D.^'^"

THOMAS.*^'^^

GEORGE

S.''-^

Charlotte I. Good Ground, L,

15, 1874,

Althea,*'-^" eldest dau. of

Jan.

15, 1856, d.

Harmon
n.^-'^

Payne,

of

George S./-^^b. Aug. 5, 1875 m, Oct. Good Ground.

;

henry
I.

THOMAS

D.^""*'

MARTIN

L.''-^''

AZEL

R.^"^^

Daniel Maurice
s.

Smith,^-^^ eldest (and only surviv8,

ing)

of

Azel

R.,"-^" b.

Bridgeport, Conn., Nov.

;

1840, res.
3,

Bridgeport, shipwright

m. Stony Brook, L,
(dau. of

I.,

Jan.

1870,

Annie Primrose Smith,

line

Smith, of
:

George Smith and CaroStony Brook,) b. S. B., March 26, 1849.

,

Children
1.

Nellie Smith."-53
'

b.

2.

Hattie Lucille, '-s-i

Bridgeport, Oct. 31, 1872. " b. Feb. 4, 1876.

II.

Emily

Clifford,^-^^ eldest dau,, b. Bridgeport,

Aug.

31, 1842;

m. Bridgeport, April 19, 1866, George Welles Keeler, of B., merchant, (s. of Charles Keeler and Sarah
(dau. Ralph) Welles,* of B.,) b. Hartford, Conn.,

Ann
8,
1.

March
May
16,

1843.

Children:
(Keeler),^-'^^

2. 3.

Clara Henrietta Sarah Elizabeth

b. b.

Bridgeport,
"

May
Oct.

25, 1870,
4, 1872.
i,

d.

Ralph Welles

" "
s.

' "-s"

[1871.

b.

"

Feb.
Welles, of

1877.

* Descendant of John, 2d

of Gov.

Thomas

H artford, b.

Northants,

Eng., 1621.

Samuel,
s.

s.

of John, b. Stratford, Conn^,

b. 1710, d. 1775,

1656, d. 1727,

had Samuel
of
'

XL, b. 1686, whose

John,

had Bazy,
is

b. 1744, d. 1814, father

Ralph,

b. 1775, d. 1849.

The

" Gov. Welles " family

probably descended from

it
i

from Hubert of Gillesland, Cumberland, eldest s. of Harold de Vaux, founder of the Welles family in England, and elder bro. of Robert of Dalston, Norfolk, ancestor of the Barons Welles. See Morant's Essex, II. 401, and Hist, of the Welles Family, i)y Albert Welles, N. Y., 1876, pp. IT-18, 132, 174.
(or Welles) Hall, Essex,

that of Welles of

Rayne

and through

'

GEN.

VIII.

HENRY

II.,

ELDEST SON.
2d
dau.,
b.

75

III.

Henrietta

Stevens,^-^^

Bridgeport,

Nov. 21, 1843, d. Aug. 29, 1868; m. Sept. 3, 1866, Frederick Goodrich, of New York. No children.
V.

Fanny
June

Ermina,^^-^"^

4th dau.,

b.

Bridgeport, Aug.

19,

1848, d.

Bridgeport.
1.

3, 1874; m. Dec. Children

:

24, 1867,

Hugh Lawton,

of

2.
3.

George Wells (Lawton),9-58 ^^'^ Minnie Henrietta "

b.

May
July

15, i86g.
8,

b.
b.

March

Fanny Gertrude

"

^-^

3,

1871. 1872, d. June

5,

1873.*

henry
I.

II.^-^^

OBADIAH.^-^^

DANIEL

D.*^-^^

MARY

"^^

F.'

Mary Eleanor
nr.
:

(Booth),^-^"*^

eldest

dau. of John T.
11,

Booth and Mary Frances

1845;

Wells,^-'^'' b.

Greenport, April

Greenport, Dec.

.6,

1863,

Jeremiah

S.

Biggs.

Children
1.

Nellie

M.

2.
3.

Jennie E. -Frank W.

(Biggs),^-" ^.ea "

b. b_

Dec.

2,

1864.

Nov.

22, 1866.
10, 1868.

"

^-^^

b. Oct.

II.

Evelina Elwood
4, 1847,

(Booth),^-"'^ 2d dau., b.
18, 1868,

Greenport,
Child

April
I.

m-

G-.,

May
b.

Jesse Reeve.

Charles B. (Reeve),^-"

May

29,

1871.!

* D. M.
\

S. Wells and George W. Keeler, Bridgeport, Conn. Henry E. Wells, Greenport, L. I,

CHAPTER

VI.

OBADIAH, SECOND SON OF HENRY

I,

BADIAH

Wells,*-^*^

second son of Henry

I.,^-^

was born
at

at Southold, in

November,

I7i6,

and died

Monleft

tague, Mass.,

May

27, 1800, get. 83

years 6 months.

He

his birthplace at the age of eighteen, perhaps earlier, and

never returned to it as a residence, New York City being The earliest docuhis home during most of his long life. him is follows regard as in to find ment I

"New
"

York, 23d June,

1735.

Received from Obadiah Wells the sum of Five Pounds for which he is to travel or trade as a Pedler within this Province for the space of one Twelve Month to commence from the date hereof
"

A.

DE PEYSTER

";^5.

"Treasurer"*
" travel "

He
in

did not, however,

1

long in this capacity, for

his first wife
in 1738,

August,

736,

he was admitted a freeman of the City of New York.f He soon after joined with others from Long Island and Connecticut in the purchase and settlement of a large tract of land in

CONKLING,

at

him married to East Hampton, L. L, and

find

we

Mary

Union County,
* Eng.

New

Jersey,

(now Union

Village,)

which

MSS.

in Secretary of State's Office,

Albany,

LXX.

135.

(Copy by H.

L. Gladding, of Albany.)
f Valentine, Hist. N. Y. City, 378.
(G. E. S.)

GEN.

IV.

NEW YORK

IN

750.

'jy

was

by the settlers /' Connecticut Farms." * Between and 1742 1746 he returned to New York, and established himself in business, as appears by sundry advertisements of 1746 and following- years.
called

fine,

"Glazing and Painting and Paints made 29, 1746. dry or ground in oil to be sold by the Hundred or lesser Quantity also Lead drawn and Lead Glass to be sold likewise Painting Brushes made and sold and Ready Money for Hog's Bristles by Obadiah Wells, hving in the Sloat, behind Mr. Henry Cruger's in New York."
Dec.
;

May
Painter,

16,

who

1748. lately lived in the. Sloat

"OBADIAH WELLS,

Glazier and and kept a Shop of

Dry Goods in Hanover Square, is now removed to the House where Daniel Gautier, deceased, lately lived, in
usual.
"

Prince's Street, and continues to carry on his Business as Said Wells has a Negro man to dispose of."t

The Sloat" or " Sloat Lane," no longer in existence, appears on early maps of New York as a short L-shaped street, opening south-west into " Smith," now William St., and south-east into Hanover Square both this and " Prince's
;

St."

being nearly identical with the present Beaver

:|:

St.

on

either side of William.

" To be sold by Obadiah Wells in Prince's Jan. 16, 1749. Street a likely negro boy about 20 years of age, is well recommended and suitable for either town or country. Also a parcel of cordage, spunyarn, Iron Pots, and sundry Likewise a quantity of square sorts of European Goods. timber, short cedar shingles for shipping off, and six foot cedar clapboards. Glaziers' lead, bar, sheet, white and red ditto, Spanish Brown, Verdegrease, Indian red, spruce yellow and divers sorts of other colours. Glass by wholesale
* N.
J. Hibt. Coll., 1857.
7,

The

place was destroyed by the Hessians under

(G. E. S.)

Gen. Kiiyphausen, June

\

1780.

New

York Weekly Post Boy oi these dates.

(G. E. S.)

Valentine's Manual, 1865, pp.

806-25.
X

Lyne's

Map

of 1728, pub.
(G. E. S.)

Montgomerie."

byWm. Bradford, dedicated to " Capt. Genl. John See Mrs. Lamb's Hist. N. Y. City, 535.

78

OBADIAH WELLS.
retail,

CH.

VL

and

where

all

sorts of glazier's

done.

He

likewise gives ready

work and painting is money for Hog's Bristles."

May I, 1749. "Obadiah Wells, Glazier and Painter is removed from Prince street to a house opposite to Abraham De Peyster Esq Treasurer, near the Fly Market,'" where he continues to sell glass of all sorts, paints, oils, and a good assortment of Dry Goods at the cheapest rate."
"The several lotteries heretofore adverJersey are all now finished except one at Turkey near Elizabeth Town which the managers had thoughts of dropping but they having since met with more encouragement than they expected and it having been the last allowed or likely to be in these parts are resolved to proceed in it. 1450 tickets at 14s. each money at 8s. per ounce. Tickets are likewise to be sold by Obadiah Wells in New York and the printer hereof with the assurance that those tickets bought here which shall be fortunate shall have their money paid here also."f
Jan.
8,

1750.

tised in

New

These lotteries were for religions purposes, the one at Turkey, (now New Providence,) N. J., being for the erection of a parsonage.

ous,

For five years his business appears to have been prosperand he had acquired considerable property in the city.:{: But in the Post Boy of Dec. 23, 1751, a meeting of his creditors is called " to consult what is most proper to be done to secure their interest," and in the same paper Mr.
Wells has the following notice
:

" Whereas the creditors of me, the subscriber, are desired to meet to-morrow, and I being in a very poor state of health, this is to desire them that they would be pleased to appoint one or two of their number to call on me at my

*Near
lowed
city for

Ihe foot of

Maiden Lane

originally a slaughter-house,

and

in 1683 al-

to

be used

in part

for storing

f
X

both these purposes. Weekly Post Boy of these dates.

powder, being sufficiently remote from the (Watson, Ann. N. Y., 157, 160.)
(N. Y. Hist. Soc. Lib.

G. E.

S.)

And some on Long

Island, as appears
S.

" 50 acres on the North Sea, near

by a deed of 1750 from John Hunter, Wines." (Index of 1730.)

GEN.

IV.

TRANSACTIONS IN CITY LOTS.

79

when I will endeavour to convince them that I intend no deceit and that I have effects, bonds and outstanding debts more than sufficient to satisfy them all and am determined not to give the preference to one creditor behouse,
fore another.

"OBADIAH WELLS."
On the 17th of January following, (1752,) he made an assignment of his property to Philip Livingston,* John Lawrence and William Alexander, for the benefit of his creditors
;

and a

sale

is

advertised Oct.

22, 1753, of

"three good
East Ward,"
street in the

dwelling houses situate on Golden Hill

" three small

in the

dwelling houses situate

" in

in

Dye

West Ward," and

two small dwelling

houses, a stable and

three lots of ground

fence, situate also in the

West

Vanbeing part of the estate of Obadiah Wells conveyed by him," &c.t His failure seems to have been by no means ruinous, as his younger brother Abner and his son Henry were entered
fronting the
lot,

Ward

Common

and adjoining

to

Adam

denberg's

at Princeton College in this very year, (1753,) and no less than twelve deeds and mortgages to and from him are re-

corded between 1755 and 1763, all of city property. Most of these convey one or more of seventeen lots between Chatham and Cross (now Park) Sts., and on both sides of

Orange (now Baxter) and Mulberry

varying from
*

Sts.,

the consideration

^^15 to i^ioo per

lot.:|;

Who

then had a shop of dry goods, linseed

{Post Boy, Dec. lo, 1750.

oil, &c.,

on " Burnet's Key," near

the Fly Market.

G. E.

S.)

The property described as " situate on f New York Mercury, Oct. 22, 1753. Golden Hill " was between Gold and Pearl Sts on John St., one-sixth part of it, having sixteen feet on the latter street, being conveyed by the assignees to George Harrison, May 14, 1754. The whole had been leased for fifty years by David Clarkson to Obadiah Wells, April 27, 1750, for ^120 and a yearly rent of 3 6s.
,

8d.

of

The deed to Harrison is in L. XXXVIII. 144. N. Y. (G. E. S.) Shown on the Kingston Map," being a part of thirteen acres a little west Chatham Square, owned by John Kingston, and sold by him in lots. The
*'
:

deeds and mortgages referred to are as follows

80

OBADIAH WELLS.

CH.

VL

in

and probably in business Henry, who is said to York about that in New have had an apothecary's shop time but no transactions in city lots are on record between His two children, who lived beyond this year and 1784. mai-ried and settled in New York, the daughwere infancy,
living in

He was

Mulberry

St.,

1763,* perhaps with his son Dr.

ter in 1760,

and the son

in 1764.

find the following curi:

ous advertisement in a

Long

Island paper of Feb. 25, 1765

" Wanted by the Society for promoting Arts, &c., fifty good Spinning Wheels. Apply to Obadiah Wells, James Armstrong, and John Lamb, Neiv York." f

1.
I.

May
Jan.

7,

1755.

Mortgage by O. W. and

wife, lot 60, ;i^6o 4s.

Mortgages,
for ^^27.

24.
2.

15,

1759.

Deed
Deed
467.

to O.

W., (Mulberry,

W.

side,)

lot

60,

Deeds,
3.

XXXVI.
Deeds,

464.
"

Jan. 16, 1759.

to O.

W., (Mulberry, E.

side,)

lots

38, 39, 40,

for

^4.
4.

XXXVI.
452.

Jan. 17, 1759.

Deed

to

O. W., (Orange, E. side,) lots 72, 73, for ^30.

Deeds,
5.

XXXVI
454

Jan. 25, 1759.

Deed Deed

to

O. W., (Orange, E. side,) lot 74, for 1$-

Deeds,

XXXVI.
6.

Jan. 31, 1759.

456.

to O.

W., (Orange, E.

side,) lot 75, for ;^28.

Deeds,

XXXVI.
7.

Feb. 13, 1759.

Deed
Deed

to O.

W., (Orange, W.
W., (Orange, E.
O.

side,) lots 106, 107, for j[jo.

Deeds,
8.

XXXVI.
June
7,

469.
to O.
side,) lots 69, 70, 71, for ;i^iio.

1760.

Deeds,
9.

XXXVI. 458. May 4, 1761. Mortgage by

Mortgages,
II. 294.

W. and

wife, (Mulberry, E. side,) lot 43, for

^100
10.

Aug.
Deeds,

17, 1761.

Deed
471.

to O.

W., (Mulberry, W.

side,) rear

of 61-2-3, ^or

^20.
11.

XXXVI.
8,
I.

June
Mort.

1762.

Mortgage by O. W.,

lots 6g, 79, 71,

and

adj. " gore," for

^iio.
12.

402.
1763.

Dec.
I.

3,

Mortgage by O. W. and
Sts.

wife,

lots

74, 75,

for

;{^20o.

Mort.

394.
lots are 25'

These
now.
*

102' 2", or

on Orange and Mulberry somewhat more than 45,000 square

18, 1763,

(except 69, which

in all,

is

35')

by

feet

a valuable

property

(G. E. S.)

JVc'iv

Yotk Gazette, July

where he advertises " a likely strong young

(G. E. S.)

negro
f

man who

has had the small pox."

Onderdonk, "Queen's County

in the

Olden Time,"

p. 36.

(G. E. S.)

GEN.

IV.

THE NEW HAMPSHIRE GRANTS.

In 1766, a
full of

new

field of

adventure opened to father and son,

promise, but barren enough in the long run. They became in that year patentees, with a number of others, of

two of the tracts of land granted by Sir Henry Moore, Governor of New York, in what is now Vermont, then a territory long disputed between New York and New Hampshire.

The

first

of these grants, dated July 22, 1766, con-

veys to twenty-three persons,

among them

"

Henry and

Hannah

Wells," 19,500 acres, being "a tract of land on the west side of the Connecticut River, in the County of Cumberland, erected into a township by the

name

of Brattle-

boro," * and

now covered by

the prosperous village of that

23,)

name.

The

second, of nearly the same date, (July

con-

veys to Obadiah Wells, John and Benjamin Stout, (father and uncle of Mrs. Henry Wells,) and others, an adjoining

township of Hartford.f 1767-8 soon brought the patentees into collision with the settlers claiming under New Hampshire. On the New York side, the controversy,
tract of 23,000 acres, called the

The occupation

of these grants in

which had been carried on from 1750, was supposed to be Order of the King in Council, July 20, 1764, fixing the West bank of the Connecticut River as the boundary line. But many of the New Hampshire settlers were not at all disposed to acquiesce in a decision which required them to take out new titles from New York and from 1769 till the close of the Revolution, they kept up a series of riots, and acts of lawless violence, accompanied often with great cruelty, which made the condition of the New York settlers far from comfortable. New York, on becomclosed by the
:}:
;

ing a State, endeavored in vain to maintain her authority and the Continental Congress, though passing repeated
*

N. Y. Col. MSS. and Doc. VII. 903. See also Vermont Hist. Coll., where the area of this last tract (now White River Junction) is given and Doc. Hist. N. Y. IV. 785, and Map, p. 531. X Doc. Hist. N. Y. IV. 574.
fid.
;

82

OBADIAH WELLS.

CH.

VL

declarations and resolutions in support of her claims, and

pledging

itself to

maintain them, never dared to take any

of
in

decisive measures to put

Mountain Boys,"

enemy they stood

Green whose services against the common too great need, and who were encourthe outrages of the
"

down

aged by prominent men

of

Massachusetts and Connecticut.

her jurisdiction, receiving a

New York
trifling

finally relinquished

out of

compensation for the sufferers from the the chaos of disorder and misrule arose

mob and
;

finally the

State of Vermont.*

Neither Mr. Wells nor his son Dr. Henry took any active part in this controversy, as far as I can learn, but both suffered considerably from
of 'history
"

The same curious perversion it. which has lost sight of the outrages of the Green Mountain Boys " in their Revolutionary exploits,
all

has created the belief that

" tories."

the

New York

settlers vvrere

As
is

far as

Obadiah Wells and

his son

were con-

cerned, there

not only

no foundation for such a

beHef, but
it is

expressly

contradicted
acts.
first

by

their
is

The former

the

signer of a declar-

ation

by the people
April

of
25,

Brattleboro,

1777, "that all the Peo-

AUTOGRAPH, APRIL

25,

777.

ple

in

this

Town

are

Loyal to the State of New York, and think

* Doc. Hist. N. Y. IV. 575 to 1026. I have not found in them
See also various Vermont histories and
all

pamphlets.

any evidence in support of the com-

plaints cf the

New Hampshire settlers, which were chiefly in regard to the fees required in New York for new patents. Sir H. Moore strongly denies these allegatioas. Many of the New Hampshire claims were within twenty miles of the Hudson River, and thus confessedly in the New York jurisdiction before the
Order
in

Council of 1764.

GEN.

IV.

HIS LAST YEARS.

in

83

themselves

duty Bound to Put in Execution all orders of the Continental and this State Congress;" and first on the Committee of Safety of the County, sending a representation of the state of the country to the Legislature,
Sept. 3d of

On the final settlement of the controversy, he received from the State a grant of
the same year.*

450 acres of land, in consideration of his losses and sera property from which, vices during the Revolution
;

however, neither he nor his son appear to have derived any more benefit than they did from their grand estates on the
Connecticut, f On the death of his wife in 1780, Mr. Wells removed

from Brattleboro to Suffield, Conn., thence to Glastenbury, in the same State, and a year or two later to New York, where he resided at least part of the time during the rest His last residence, however, was in Montague, of his life. X
* Doc. Hist. N. Y. IV. 936, 949. Hall's East. Vt. 552. He was also head of a sub-committee of the same body to erect a small-pox hospital in Brattleboro,

June
f

17, 1777.

(Hall.)

Doc. Hist. N. Y. IV. 1029.

Hall (East. Vt

gives the grant as the

1st

part of

lot

99 of No. 2, or Clinton Township, now Bainbridge, Chenango Co., N. Y., 220 acres, recorded in Land Office Minutes in Sec. State's Office, Albany, I. 169. Among other grantees were Israel Smith, the Representative sent by the Com-

mittee of Safety in 1777, and Rutherford Hayes, an officer in the N. Y. Brattleboro Regiment, great-grandfather and grandfather of the present President of (See in/ra, Ch. IX. note B., Hayes.) the United States. mortages recorded in 1784-92 refer to the property X The following deeds and

on Orange and Mulberry Sts., noted on pp. 79, 80. 1. Nov. 2, 1784. Deed from O. W. and wife, lot 39, ^150. Deeds, XLIL 128. 2. Nov. 13, 1784. DeedfromO.W. andwife, lot43, ^125. Deeds, XCIV. 477. Mortgage by O. VV., lots 60, 72, 73, ;^I20. Mortgages, July 2, 1785. 3.
IV. 108.
4.
5.

July

7,

1792.
1792.

Nov.

21,

DeedfromO. W. and wife, lot6o,^r50. Deeds, XLIX. 284. Deed from O. W. and wife to Dr. H. Wells, lots 72,
495.
2,

73, ;^200.

Deeds,
(Deeds,

XLIX.

Dr. Henry Wells conveyed lot 72, by deed of Aug.

for;^iio.

1793, to

Winard

Mitchell,

and wife conveyed lot 73, by deed of Dec. 15, 1799, to Edward Livingston, this last deed reciting that lot 73 had been conveyed to H. W. Jr. by a deed of Sept. 29, 1797, which had been lost. Lot 69 is |he one bequeathed in the will of Obadiah Wells (in/ra) to the

XLIX.

498.)

Henry Wells

Jr.

heirs of his grand-daughter.

84

OBADIAH WELLS.

CH. VI.

Mass., directly opposite that of his son Dr.

Henry

Wells. *

His grave
inscription,
"

in the

more distinguished

Old Burial Ground, beside that of his son, is marked by a headstone with the

In

New

York,
will,

Memory of M*". Obadiah Wells, late who died May y*^ 27, 1800, set. 83

of the City of
y.

&

mo."t

without date or signature, (a mark doing duty for the latter, evidently in extreme weakness,) was proved Aug. 13, 1800, in New York, and is as follows

His

::|:

" In the Name of God City County and State of

Amen. I Obadiah Wells of the New York being in sound mnnd

and memory do make and ordain this my last Will and Testament. And first of all I give and bequeath my soul to God who first gave it to me and my body to the dust in hopes to receive the same by the mighty power of God through faith in Jesus Christ at the general Resurrection. " Item I give and bequeath to Abigail my beloved wife
of her Dower two feather beds, towell furnished with bedsteads and curtains and three pair sheets to each bed with six pillows and twelve pillow cases and two bolsters, one warming pan, two tables, ten chairs, two Iron potts, one Tea kettle, one tea table, one stand, four candlesticks, four pewter platters, twelve pewter plates, one quart pewter pott, one pint ditto, four basons, four porringers, six spoons, six tea spoons, six tea cups and saucers, two tea canisters, two china bowls, two Iron Kettles, one Gridiron, one pair brass headed hand irons, one pair tongs, one shovel, one iron tramel, three chests and one trunk, with all her wearing apparel of every kind whatsoever, one pair bellows, one wood stove, one iron spider, one toasting iron, two tea potts, together with all table furniture in my house at the time of my decease, one looking glass, twelve pictures, one large bible, Drelincourt on death, Whitefield's Sermons, Hervey's Sermons, Watts' Psalms & Hymns, Edin lieu
* Com. by his grand-daughter, Mrs. Rowe.
f

Copied by me, Jane 3, 1875. N. Y. Wills, XLIII. 275. (Copy by G. E. S.) " " Qu. to wit ? The error, if any, is in the original, whiclj
i

is

plainly

" to-

well."

GEN.

IV.

HIS WILL.

85

wards' fourteen Sermons, and it is my will that she shall have her choice of all the things above mentioned of what belongs to me at my decease and twenty pounds in cash New York currenc}^ to be paid' her by my Executors. " Item after my just debts and funeral charges are paid give and bequeath to my Granddaughter Mary Jones I Iselstine the sum of five shillings current money of the State of New York to be paid her by my Executors. Item I give and bequeath to the heirs of my Granddaughter Mary Jones Iselstine a lott of land in the sixth ward of the City of New York Bounded northerly by land belonging to Benjamin Wade and Jared Beach, Easterly by land belonging to Archibald Gatfield, Southerly by land belonging to Abner Wade and Westerly by Orange street containing in breadth twenty five feet and in length on each side one hundred feet to them and their heirs forever (which lott of land being mortgaged at the Loan office of the Province of New York by Reuben Fairchild, Father of the said Mary Jones Iselstine, I redeemed by paying the sum of fifty three pounds ten shillings and ten pence New York currency on the second day of September one thousand seven hundred and eighty five). " Item I give and bequeath to my beloved son Henry Wells all the residue and remainder of my estate both real and personal to him and to his heirs forever. And -lastly I appoint my well beloved son Henry Wells of Montague, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Howel Woodbridge Esq'" of Glastenbury in the State of Connecticut and Benjamin North Esq'' of the City of New York to be Executors of this my last will and testament
l]lS

"OBADIAH mark X WELLS"

(seal)

" Signed sealed publish'd and declared to be the last will and testament of Obadiah Wells in presence of Arch'd Gat" field, Abner Wade, Jared Beach

Obadiah Wells married I. at East Hampton, L. I., Aug. 19, 1736, Mary Conkling, 6th child and youngest daughter of Capt. Cornelius Conkling of that place, born at East Hampton, c. 1710, baptized March 12, 1710.* She died at Brattleboro, Oct. 31, 1780, and just at this time their lonely
* E.

Hampton

Ch. Records.

(C. B.

M.)

See note A.,

p. 89,

Conkling Family.

86

OBADIAH WELLS.
(a

CH. VI.

home

fully in

farm house two miles from the village, described Ch. VII.,) was threatened with an attack from the Indians, so that her body was buried temporarily near the
in

house," and only after

Ground
hill

West

Brattleboro, on the very

some days removed to the old Burial summit of a lofty

overlooking both farm and village.

The

grave, not far

from the country road which crosses the hill in front of the cemetery, is marked by a handsome marble headstone, three inches thick, bearing between a well-cut border of flowers on either side, the following inscription, curiously recalling that of the first William of Southold.f
"

Memento Mori

"In Wells

Memory
She

of Mr^ Mary Wells wife of M'" Obadiah Dec'^ Ocf y*^ 31*^ 1780 in y'^ 71^* year of her Age
"

As was her life so was her blest deceafe She livd in love & sweetly died in peace
this

"

A fine cabinet portrait of

Mary Conkling

is

preserved

by the family of the late Mrs. Rowe (her grand-daughter) at Montague. It is about 14x20 inches, in water colours, and considering what water-colour painting was (and was not) in "New York, 1775," (the date on the back of the picture,) it seems to me a work of considerable merit.
Mr. Wells m. II. at Sufheld, Conn., Jan. 25, 1781, Patience Bement, probably a descendant of John Bement of Greenfield and Northfield, Mass., (the name however is a corruption of Beaumont,) who lived but a few months from her marriage, dying in Glastenbury, Conn.:|: He m.
Mrs. Rowe. Copied by me, Sept. 20, 1876. See Ch. II. j). 29. Records of Cong. Soc. Suffield. (Com. by the Rev. D'Estaing Jennings.) "January 25, 1781. Married Obadiah Welles to Miss Patience Bement, by Rev. Ebenezer Gay." John Bement of Northfield, (prob. s. John of Greenfield,) b. 1701, m. Mary, dau. Benj. Wright, and had John, Phineas, Jonathan and Jesse.
f
:}:
,

*Com. by

Hist. Northfield.

On

the

name

see Savage,
I

I.

T47, 150.

Mrs.

Rowe

is

authority

for the place of her death, of

which

have found no record.

GEN.

VI.

MARRIAGES.
i,

87

III. at

Glastenbury, Sept.
of

John Hodge
1727, d.

1782, Abigail Hodge, dau. of Glastenbury (an Englishman by birth), b.

Deerfield, Mass.,

March

11,

18 17, set 90,

She

is

described as of good family, and a

woman

of fine character

and culture, adding greatly

last years.*
I

to the comfort of her husband's

have no dates of birth or death of any of his six children Only one son and one daughter lived beyond childhood.
except Dr. Henry Wells.
1.

Cornelius,^--'^

2.

William,5-27

3.

4.
5.

6.

1737, d. young. 1738-9, d. inf. Mary Hamutal,^--^ b. c. 1740. Heni-y,=--'' b. June 14, 1742. Elizabeth,-3o b. 17..., d. inf. b. 17..., d. young. John Calvin, ^-2'
b.
b.

Mary
March,
father,
it

Hamutal,^-^^ the eldest daughter, m. by Hcence of

1760,

Reuben Fairchild.+

From

the will of her

would seem

that she d. before 1800, leaving one

daughter,
I.

Mary Jones

(Fairchild)/-'*^

b. prob.

c.

761-2.

This daughter m. before 1800, and prob. before

1788,

John

(The name is spelled in a dozen different ways. In sundry entries of marriages and baptisms in the Dutch Church, New York, 1669 to 1720, "Van Yselsteyn," " Yselsteyn," " Isselstein," and " Isselstyn ;" in N. Y.
Isselstine.
Directories,
1794-1807, " Isleton,"
" Islestile,"

" Isenstein,"

" Iselton," " Isletine,"

But

in the

deeds of

most often " Iselstine " as in the Will. 1827 mentioned below it is " Issels-

Rowe

*S. Clapp Wells of Greenfield, Hon. George Sheldon of Deerfield, and Mrs. also Records of the " first Ecclesiastical Society of Glastenbury," com.
;

by the Rev. Thomas H. Gordon.

Suffield

" Marriages. 1782, Sept.

i.

Obadiah Wells
(S.

of

&

Abigail

Hodge

of Glastenbury."

She was bur.

at Deerfield (where she

resided, after her husband's death, with a niece)

f
:j:

March

13, 1817.

C.

W.)

Record of Dr. Henry Wells.

N. Y. Marriage Licences
to 1784, Sec. State's Office,

Albany.

88
tine."*)

OBADIAH WELLS.

CH.

VL

They had one daughter, probably

the survivor of

others.
I.

Mary

(Isselstine). ''"'* b.

prob.

c.

1785-8.

property (Lot 69 of Deed of 1760, p. 80, note) and in 1827, being "only surviving heir-at-law of Mary Jones Isselstine," and unmarried,
St.

This daughter inherited the Orange

gave two deeds, one (dated Mar. 20, 1827,) of the front (then No. 9 Orange St.) 82^9" deep, the other, (July 31, 1827,) of the 21' of the rear, to James I. Ryan and John M. J. Labatat respectively.:}: I have no further knowledge of her
at present.
* Records of

Dutch Ch. N.

Y.; N. Y. Directories, var. years.

27, 131.

(G. E. S.)

N.

Y. Gen. and Biog. Record,

Ysselstein, on the
f Letter of O. " her child."
t

VL

According

to

Mrs. Rowe, this

the

"John
city of

Iselton" was of Wilmington, Vt.

The name is derived from Lower Yssel River, near Utrecht. W. to Dr. H. W., May 23, 1788, mentioning

Dutch

" John," " Polly,"

and

N. Y. Deeds,

CCXVIIL

35,

and

CCXXIX.

380.

(G. E. S.)

GEN.

VI.

THE CONKLING FAMILY.

89

NOTE

A.

THE CONKLING FAMILY

OF EAST HAMPTON, LONG ISLAND.*

Ananias Conkling,
up a
glass-factory, near

a glass

manufacturer, came with John, probably his

brother,! from Nottinghamshire, Eng., to Salem, Mass., in 1637-8, and there set

which he and John had four acres each.

Ananias was

admitted freeman of Mass.,

successful.

May

iS,

1642.

The

glass-factory

was probably not

Hampton, L.
d.

About 1650-55, John removed to Southold, and Ananias to East I., and the two left numerous descendants in those places. John
Benjamin, Joseph and Timothy.

1683, leaving five sons, John, Jacob,

His

eldest son's

tomb

at

Southold
in

is

inscribed, "

Here lyeth the body of Captain

this
life

John Conkelyne, born

D. 1694."

Nottinghamshire in England, .who departed

the 6th day of April at Southold on

Long

Island, in

the 64th year of his age, A.

Ananias had
Lewis.
I.

four sons (perhaps

more), Cornelius, Jeremiah, Benjamin and

Of

these,

Cornelius d. Salem, 1668, w. and ch. not

known.
14, 1712,

II.

Jeremiah,

b.

1635, d. E.

Hampton, Mar.
b. 1638, d.

m.

c.

1655, Mary, dau.

Lyon Gardiner
III.

of Gardiner's Island,

June

15, 1727.

Children, Jere-

miah, Lewis, David, Ananias, and Mary (m. Thos. Mulford).

Benjamin,

b. c. 1641, d.

Feb.

3,

1709, m.

Hannah

b. c. 1647, d.

Feb.

4, 1712.

Children, John, Ananias, Lewis, Hannah, Frances, Mehetabel and

Lucy.
IV.
children,

Lewis,

b.

Salem

(bapt. Apr. 30,) 1643, d. E.

Hampton,
c.

1721; m.

unknown;
of

Lewis and Cornelius.

1705,

The

latter,

b.

1670,

Supervisor

E.
(b.

Hampton,
1695-8, d.

Town

Clerk, 1718, m.

unknown, had

six children;

Cornelius
5 s. 3

1766-7, Supervisor 1744-63, m.

Deborah Mulford, had

dau.),

Martha (bapt. 1700, perh. m. 1714, Ephraim Halsey), Deborah (bapt. 1700, perh. m. March 1719, Stephen Herrick). Rachel (bapt. 1703), Jeremiah, and Mary, bapt. 12, 1710, d. Brattleboro, Vt., Oct. 31, 1780, set. 70; m. E. Hampton, August 19,
1736,

Obadiah Wells,

of

New

York.

* For nearly all of this note I am indebted to Mr. Charles B. Moore and to Mr. Eleazer M. Conkling, of Parma. N. Y., through the Hon. Roscoe Conkling,

both desc. of Jeremiah.

f

Savage

(I.

441) says prob. his father, but that

is

hardly possible.

CHAPTER

VII.

HENRY WELLS OF MONTAGUE.

^^J^ENRY,^-^^ third son of Obadiah Wells*-^*' and Mary Conk,4l^J- ling, and the only son who attained to manhood, was

born at Connecticut Farms, now Union, Essex Co., New From 1745-6, however, his home, for Jersey, June 14, 1742. twenty years and more, was the City of New York, then covering somewhat thinly a space of three-fourths of a
square mile between the Battery and City Hall, with a popHe could not have been ulation of less than ten thousand.'^

much more
at "
J.,

than eleven

Nassau Hall," then lately

when he began his college course removed from Ehzabeth, N.

in his

to

Newark, and thence,

its

second year,

1854-5, migrat-

ing to

present

home

in Princeton.

Here he took
fifteen. f

his

first degree, Sept. 28, 1757, at the

age of

Among
Peter

his classmates
five

were

his uncle

Abner Wells,

(only four or

years his senior,) Nicholas Bayard of

New York,

Faneuil of

Boston,
"

Dr. Alexander McWhorter, Stephen

Sayre, afterwards Lord

the "incorruptible
*

Mayor of London, and Joseph Reed, member of the Congress of 1776.:!:

of the city was a line of palisades erected this very

The Northern boundary

year (1746), as a defence against the French and Indians of Canada, and extending from James Slip to the City Hall, and thence to the foot of Warren St.

(Watson, Ann. N. Y., 191.) " Quarto Kalendas Octobris f

Anno Erae

Christi

MDCCLVII."

See ch. XI.,

Diploma of Abner Wells.) It must be remembered that a college course in America, a century and more ago, was very little like what it is in our day and on the other hand that very few had the benefits of it, such as they were. "It was a feather in a young man's But he gives on the -cap," says Cooper, " to have gone through College in 1755."
:}:

GEN.

V.

HENRY WELLS OF MONTAGUE.

9I

He must have gone immediately on his graduation, to New Haven, to begin the study of medicine with the celeyears.*

brated Dr. Hull, under whose instruction he remained four In 1760 Yale College conferred on him, then a stu-

dent of eighteen, the honorary degree of M. A.,f and in the following year he returned to New York, and there continued his studies
till

1764.

have studied Divinity for a short time after this, and to have added the business of an apothecary to his early medical practice in New York.:}: But his seven years of study were hardly over, when he was married, in the old Dutch Church on Nassau St., May 28, 1764, to Hannah Stout, (daughter of John Stout and EHzabeth Sibley of New York,) b. New York, Feb. 19, 1747. They lived together within a few months of half a century.
is

He

said to

same page

{Satajistoe,

I,

39.)

a lively, perhaps not inaccurate, picture of " Nassau

Hall " at that date.

Cicero's Orations
Iliad
;

" I read all of the

New

Testament, in Greek
;

several of

every line of Horace, Satires and Odes

;

four books of the

Tully de Oratore, throughout

besides paying proper attention to Geog-

Moral Philosophy, in parwas closely attended to, senior year, as well as Astronomy. We had a In other respects, Nassau telescope that showed us all four of Jupiter's moons. might be called the seat of learning. One of our class purchased a second-hand copy of Euripides, in town, and we had it in College all of six months, though it was never my good fortune to see it, as the young man who owned it was not much disposed to let profane eyes view his treasure. * * * We had a tutor who was expert among the stars, and who, it was generally believed, would have
raphy, Mathematics, and other of the usual branches.
ticular,

been able to see the ring of Saturn, could he have found the planet, which, as turned out, he was unable to do." * Dr. S. W. Williams, Amer. Medical Biography, (Greenfield, 1845,) p. 609. See infra, p. 94. f As he himself wrote it in 1768.
X

it.

Am. Med.

Biography.

The Dutch Church (that of her parents,) was See Note A, Stout. the one so well known for many years at a later day by its use as the N. Y. Post Office. The marriage licences for Dr. Wells and his wife respectively, are dated

May 4 and 26, and the record as quoted in Valentine's Manual reads " Henry Wells & Hanna Stout, May 29, 1764," an error of a day in the date. They must have attached themselves soon after to the " First Presbyterian Church," on the " De Peyster Garden," N. side of Wall St., between Nassau and Broadway.
:

In this church, which stood from 1719 to 1814, their two children b. in N. Y. Doc. Hist. N. Y., Ill, 403, 460, 484 were baptized. (See that record, infra N. Y. Marriage Licences, 1764 Lamb's Hist. N. Y., 505.)
:

92

HENRY WELLS OF MONTAGUE.

CtL VIL

Dr. Wells was. hardly more than twenty-five, and his wife twenty, (and the mother of two young children,) when they

new home in the wilds of what is now VerThe town of Brattleboro, of which he and his wife were two of the twenty-three patentees, had been partly settled from New Hampshire as early as 175 1-2; but after the question of boundary had been decided by the King in favour of New York, new grants were taken from that
set

out for their

mont.

Province, and one of the names on this very patent

of a

is

that

Hampshire settler of 1852, Col. (afterwards Judge) Samuel Wells, who became conspicuous in opposition to the lawless bands styling themselves " Green Mountain Boys."* The best, and indeed almost only practicable means of effecting this removal of two hundred and fifty miles into the wilderness, was by a small sloop or schooner to New Haven or Hartford, and thence up the Connecticut River Such was their course. An old lady by a " flat-boat." living but a few years since, well remembered receiving the Doctor and his family for a night's sojourn in her log house
on the Connecticut, near Greenfield they doubtless glad enough to escape from the monotony of their slow-moving
;

New

boat,

and she perhaps as glad

of the

chance which brought

far

the visitors from the City to her lonely cottage.f

Their new home was a farm then containing not

a thousand acres,
tiful village of
hill,

from

some two miles west

of the present beau-

Here, on the brow of a lofty whose crest was then crowned with the first " meetingBrattleboro.
" in all that region,

house

(and

is still

occupied by

its

burial

ground,:]:)

Dr. Wells erected a substantial frame house of

size,

considerable
*
6.

which stood almost unaltered

for a cenAug.

He was
;

son of Capt. Jonathan of Deerfield of Mass.;

d. Brattleboro,

1786

not connected with our family.

A handsome monument marks his grave

Five sons and two daughters mar-

in the old

Cemetery of West Brattleboro.

(Hall's East. Vt. 718.)

ried there.
f
:j:

She related the incident to his grandson, S. Clapp Wells of Greenfield. The burial-place of his mother and one daughtei". (See Ante, p. 86.)

GEN.
tury,

V.

HOME AT BRATTLEBORO.

93

and was finally taken down in 1875, In 1801, it was purchased from Col. Townsend, probably its second proprietor, by the late Chief Justice Tyler, who occupied it for

The following sketch of the place is from a by Judge Tyler, March 18, 1801, a fortnight after it became his residence " The house is entirely secluded from the view of any neighbours. Though on the crown of a hill, it is yet in a

many

years.

letter written

but the necessary out-buildings give it an air of being in a little neighbourhood. It consists of an upright part, with a handsome portico two handsome front rooms, and two handsome chambers over them. Back, is the sitting room, and by the side of it a room for the office, which has a door into the sitting room, and another out of doors, so that ingress may be had to it independent of the house back of the sitting room a good kitchen, from whence you go into two bedrooms, one for the boys and the other for the maids and overhead a meal granary and over the sitting room an apartment for our hired man and boy. Back of the kitchen is a long wood-house, about twenty feet of which makes a summer wash-room and here stands the water-trough constantly supplied with plenty of excellent water. * * * For all we live down, or rather up a lane, you will scarcely see three persons pass in as many days. We cannot see a single house from our windows, though if we climb our orchard we can see the country thirty miles around. In a word, if one can love a retired farmer's life, here he may have it to perfection."*
; ; ; ; ;
;

hollow

The

place

is little

changed

at this day, except of

by the new

farm-house occupying the

site

the old homestead.

this,

more secluded spot can hardly be found than

by a
let

reached

steep, winding, lonely road, a mile

of

West

that of
tains,

hammore glorious view than the Connecticut Valley and its surrounding mounfrom the
Httle

Brattleboro,

nor

from the " orchard " near the crest quiet burial ground on its summit.
* For this letter, and information pertaining to
it,

of "the hill, or the

am

indebted

to

an old

friend, the Rev,

Thomas

P. Tyler,

D. D., of Brattleboro, a son of the late hon-

oured Chief Justice of Vermont.

early

The

old homestead was his birthplace and

home,

as well as that of

my own

grandfather.

94

HENRY WELLS OF MONTAGUE.

The people
of Brattleboro,

CH.

VII.

whatever their origin, were generally loyal to the State of New York, and Dr. Wells no doubt found a pleasant home among them, until disturb" ances came from without.. At the first " town meeting in " chosen the place, in March, 1878, Henry Wells, M. A.," was

Town

Clerk,

Overseer of Highthe

Avays and Overseer of

Poor.

He was Town Clerk for five years, and from 1768 to his removal in
1

n^

78 1,

he constantly held some pub-

^w^^j^y freA^
autograph OF
1768.

/ /J'/^/

lie

office.

His name appears for

time on the records
of

the
"

last

as
of

Moderator " March, 1781.^

the

meeting

The country around, however, must have

Williams remarks,
its

been, as Dr.

" a

rough one

for his practice, "f

and

in

then disturbed condition, an uncongenial residence for a only of culture and intellect, but Quaker-like in
his ideas

and especially a hater of broils and enmities. He appears to have taken little part in political affairs, and his medical practice, indeed, soon became quite sufficient to occupy his whole time. I find his name attached to two memorials to the King, before the revoluhabits,
tion, in behalf of the legal

man not many of

and

government,

ernment,

in fact,

under the Province

first
it

the

onl}^ civil
York.:|:

gov-

of

New

Dr. Wells took an active part, as might be expected, in

the organization of the
religious society in Brattleboro,

and the

efforts to

provide

with the services of a minister.

me
Sept.
20,

* Brattleboro To\yn Records, shown

1S76,

by the kindness of
See Hall's Eastern

William

S.

Newton, Esq., Town Clerk.

7,

Dr. Wells was commissioned as Justice

of the Peace, April

1768, but never acted in that capacity.

Y., IV. 611, 654.

Vermont, 725, Doc. Hist. N.

f

His

earliest

autograph above

is

the notice of an "Intention of Marriage," Dec. 27, 1768, in the

Town

Records.

Amer. Med. Biog. 610.

IV, 667, 669.
is

\ Doc. Hist. N. Y.

The

general sentiment of the people of

in this

Brattleboro in this controversy

abundantly shown

volume.

GEN. V.

REMOVAL TO MONTAGUE.

95

record of such action, dated April 18 and 21, 1769, names him as one of a committee to confer with the people of the adjoining town of Guilford in regard to the support of a minister for both places also one of the three
earliest
;

The

" Assessors," the " Collector,"

and " the person to sue for and recover the money that shall be assessed, if need be." In the original " Covenant" of this society, Nov. 12, 1770, written on parchment, and still preserved at Brattleboro, his name is second among the seventy-nine signers, that of Col. Samuel Wells being first. In the same year, (June 12,) Samuel Wells, Henry Wells and Nathaniel Church are appointed the Committee "to agree with Mr. Reeve," the minister of this congregation from 1770 to 1794.* Seven more children were born to Dr. Wells during his thirteen years' residence in Brattleboro, f one of them dying
in infancy.:};

In 1781, he finally relinquished the magnificent

estate (in acres)

fering,

which had cost him so much toil and sufremoved to Montague, Mass., a quiet, pleasant and

village forty miles lower

down on

the Connecticut River.

*The Rev. Abner Reeve, b. Southold, Feb. 21, 170S, was eldest s. of Thomas Reeve of Southold, of Scotch descent, by his first wife Bethia Horton. Thomas Reeve m. II. 1719, Mary Wells, '^' only dau. of William II., -"' and great-aunt of His son, the Rev. Abner, graduated at Dr. Henry Wells. (See above, p. 38.) Yale 1731, began his ministry at Smithtown, L. I., 1735, removed to BloominHis grove, Orange Co., N. Y., 1756, and d. Brattleboro, May 6, 1798, xt. 91. He grave is in the Old Burial Ground on the hill above the Wells homestead. is described by those who knew him personally as "a fine-looking man, well built, large and portly, dignified, yet easy and gracious in his carriage, noble and
generous in mind and heart, and much beloved by his people." A son of his, the late Judge Tapping Reeve, attained much distinction at the bar, and as founder in 1784 of a long-celebrated Law School at Litchfield, Conn. The old Southold family of Reeve is still represented in Brattleboro by the descendants (Early Hist, of Cong. Ch. in W. Brattleboro, by the Rev. of the first minister.

Lewis Grout,
in the

to

whom

am

founding of that Society,

indebted for the above account of Dr. Wells' share See also Index of 1698, p. 11 1.) ^

old meeting house on the hill. f Undoubtedly all bapt. in the (v. p. 86) with headstone and inscription, "In I Bur. beside Dr. W.'s mother Mr= Hannah Wells Memory of Elizabeth Sibley, Daughter to Docf Henry

&

Who

died Auguft

y"

ist 1776,

Aged

17 days."

96

HENRY WELLS OF MONTAGUE.

settled in the

CH. VIL

His family were soon

to be the

house which continued

It is still
:

home

of the children for eighty years.

standing, though no longer in possession of the family

long,

low cottage, apparently innocent of paint, (though I the only ornamental it has been painted,) feature of the exterior being the Doric porches, with their pediments, cornices with triglyphs, and square fluted colThe first of these umns., which shelter the two front doors. (entering from the little uninclosed green at the angle ol the country road) opens into a little inner porch or entry,

am

assured

giving access on one side to the ample kitchen, (ample in

area, but not in height,)
;

whose huge chimney forms the

back of the porch and on the other to a sleeping room. In the'entry, and formed out of the shoulder of the chimney, is a wooden bench-like bin, which the Doctor kept stored with oats for the faithful horse on whose back his long journeys over the Hampshire hills were performed and
;

and pleasantly near the oat-bin, is the " hitching-post." The second and more important porch, though perhaps less used, opens into a wide hall running through the depth of the cottage, and communicating with the great kitchen on one side, and on the other
directly before this porch,

with the parlour, (probably nui"sery

containing once

also,)

with

its

quaint

devices in wainscot, and innumerable cupboards and closets,

much

curious glass and china,

now mostly
The

distributed in the family as relics of a long-past day.*

hall contains the stairs to the half-story above,

and a door at the further end once opened upon a stoo/>, as it would have been called in its day, looking out on the little farm and the beautiful hills beyond, no doubt a pleasant resting

Two

of them are in

my

possession,

a quaintly engraved punch-glass holding

its

a quart, and a breakfast plate of the cloudy-gray china of old times, with

impossible and indescribable Chinese landscapes.

are a very beautiful silver cream pitcher of

Among

the relics at

Montague

the initials

S (Hannah

Stout);

Dutch manufacture, engraved with and some curious engravings and furniture.

GEN.

V.

THE EPIDEMIC OF

l802.

97

when rest was the and ever}^ man, whatever else he might do, was a tiller of the ground. In the associations of his new home, and the better
reward
of long

place on a

summer

evening, in times
toil,

days of hard

opportunities for the practice of his profession, Dr. Wells no doubt found compensation for the visionary fortune as

landed proprietor, for which he and his father had left New York. He soon acquired a reputation as a physician,

which made long journeys from Such occasional calls extended from Boston to Albany, and to New Hampshire and Connecticut, as well as to and beyond his old home in Vermont. In 1785, he was elected a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society, with which he was connected until his death, most of the time as Counsellor.'-^
especially in consultations,

home

often necessary.

In 1802, a formidable epidemic

made

its

appearance

in

Eminent physicians," says Willard in his history, " did what they could to stop the plague. That excellent physician and estimable man. Dr. John Stone of Greenfield, f the late Dr. Williams of Deerfield, and that Nobleman of Nature, Dr. Henry Wells of Montague, were employed the last and the first-named, mostly. The sick seemed to have the impression generally, although they had great and well-founded confidence in Dr.
its

Greenfield and

vicinity.

"

Stone,

that they should certainly recover

if

Dr. Wells-

attended upon them, so great was their reverence for that

philanthropist.

The

writer of

this,

then in his twelfth

)^ear,

as though it were of yesterday, the gentle manners, the mild and benevolent countenance of the good and venerable man, in his plain suit of brown, cut in the Quaker style." Soon after this, and perhaps as a recognition of his

remembers

:|:

* Williams, Amer.

Med.

Biog. 610.

f B. 1763, d. Greenfield, 1S38.

He

well deserved these epithets.

i Willard, Hist. Greenfield, 183S, p. 93.

98

HENRY WELLS OF MONTAGUE.

CH. VIL

Dartmouth College conferred on Dr. Wells the honorary degree of M. D., a degree not usually given in those days on completing a course of medHis diploma was not the only recognition at ical study.*
services in this pestilence,

Dartmouth of his character and attainments. Professor Nathan Smith was accustomed frequently to quote him in his lectures, and to speak of him in terms of the highest
respect. " Dr. Wells," adds Dr. Alden, " in his profession

attained the most distinguished rank.

His natural powers

were good

his

medical reading extensive and judicious

his application

methodical and patient.

however, in the management of disease, from his own observation and experience. Possessing a clear and discriminating mind, and an accurate judgment, In difficult his practical deductions were remarkably just. cases, his advice was much sought and highly appreciated. Punctual in his professional engagements, courteous in his manners, modest and unassuming in his intercourse with his

His eminent skill, was derived chiefly

was highly respected by the proDr. Williams ixmarks that " Dr. public." the and fession f Wells had the confidence of all his professional brethren throughout the country ;" a fact which, considering how rarely such entire confidence is given by physicians to each
professional brethren, he
other,
is

as creditable to his private as to his professional

character.
" His habits and manners," continues Dr. Williams, " were conformable to what is called the old school of gentlemen. His dress was Quaker-like in simplicity, velvet or buckskin
* The date on the Triennial is 1803, but the diploma, in possession of S. Clapp Wells of Greenfield, is dated Aug. 22, 1804, -written on parchment, and signed by the President (the Rev. John Wheelock,) and ten Trustees. The Seal attached Crest, is a College Hall near the water, towards which Indians are hastening Supporters, two Clergymen, one the Hebrew Name Jehovah, on a triangle with a cross Motto, VOX CLAMANTIS IN DESERTO. quoted also in \ Dr. Ebenezer Alden, in N. E. Hist. Gen. Reg. I. 178 "Princeton College during the Eighteenth Century," by S. D. Alexander, p. 51.
;

(G. E. S.)

GEN.

V.

PERSONAL TRAITS.

99

breeches, long jacket with flapped pockets, and broad-

brimmed, low-crowned
little

broad-chested, and a never saw him when I was not reminded of the portrait of the venerable Dr. Franklin. A miniature portrait which I have seen of the Rev. Dr.
hat.

He was
I

inclined to corpulency.

J., so nearly resembles him that have pronounced the likeness correct. Notwithstanding his peculiarity of dress, and general appearance,

Smith, of Princeton, N.
his family

his

address rather excited familiarity than awe.

Many

of

worshipped him, and his presence has often smoothed their passage to the tomb. " A stranger laboring under a mortal complaint was induced to send for him, hoping that he might do somehis patients almost

thing towards alleviating his distress, though he had no

expectation that he could cure him.
several hours with his patient, who,
to
sit

The Doctor spent when he left, was able

up and write a

letter to his family physician, stating

that the presence of Dr. Wells, his urbanity, cheerfulness, attention, and good sense, as evinced in his conversation,

had so completely enraptured him that he had almost

forgotten his complaint, and he would rather have given a
fortune than not to have seen him.
"

The proverb

that

'

a prophet
is

is

not without honour save

life

in his

own

country,'

many

times true in the

of a

country physician.

Even

Dr. Wells was destined to

;

know

decKning years but the patronage and applause bestowed on him by his professional brethren remained through a long life, and after his death was transmitted to his descendants, and follows as a rich legacy

and

feel it in his

which can never be

lost,*

* " Dr. Wells was an honour to his age and country to human nature and who in his later days would have derogated from his merits to exalt their own, were to him but as the puny shrub to the giant oak." Willard (the historian
those

of Greenfield) in his articles in the

Greenfield

Mercury of 1837-8, sent me by

J.

Mrs. Georgiana (Clapp) Leggett of Elizabeth, N.

lOO
"

HENRY WELLS OF MONTAGUE.

CH. VII.

patients,

Dr. Wells was always facetious and cheerful with his when their circumstances would admit of it, thus

inspiring

them with great confidence

for to a patient

in their recovery.

He

was once sent

gerously sick.

who was

considered dan-

He

spent the evening at his bedside, and

on his retiring to rest, before he blew out his candle, a messenger entered his room with a boot-jack in his hand, which he informed the Doctor the patient had sent in to him for the purpose of enabhng him to pull off his buckskin breeches. The Doctor sent back word to him that he need be under no fear of dying for the present. The effect was most salutary upon the sick man.
"

Dr. Wells was supposed to be successful in some cases

I

of hydrophobia.

think the

remedy on which he
I

princi-

pally depended,

was

a preparation of mercury."*

singular accident, which

well remember, deprived

not only Dr. Williams, but every one else, of much interesting material for a fuller account of Dr. Henry Wells, A

number

books and MSS., including valuable records of his long study and practice of medicine, in possession of his son Dr. Richard Wells, were completely destroyed by a lunatic who entered the office before dayhght, one mornof his

ing in 1838, and kindling a

discovered.

fire first

with his

own
until

clothing,

burned every book and paper within reach,

he was

Dr. Wells' eminence as a physician, and the love and veneration of so

many

friends,
;

must have made

his life in

Mon-

tague a very happy one but they did not shield him from severe trials. His large family of children, some of whom

were necessarily dependent on him to the

erty of
*

last,

and the povit

all

that country in the last century,

The memoir

made

impossi-^

Amer. Med. Biog. 613.

there 2;iven, to which

am

largely

indebted, was derived by Dr. Williams partly from the late Dr. Bachelder ol

Royalston, Vt., a pupil of Dr. Wells, and partly from Dr. Richard Wells of Can-

andaigua.

GEN.

V.

LAST YEARS.

lOI

ble for him to lay aside much for his later years, and he remained poor, as far as money goes, to the last day of his
life,

leaving for his children

little

besides the small farm

But a much heavier trial was the fact that four of his thirteen children were deaf-mutes, and one of these, his oldest daughter, at times insane. She died only two years before him, at the age of forty-two; the other three survived him many years. To these and other sources of anxiety, was added in his later years, the distressing and eventually fatal complaint. Angina pectoris, which made it necessary to relinquish most of his practice a necessity which he dreaded, as did his son after him, much more from the feeling that he could no longer be useful to others, and that in some cases his immediate successors were inferior or worthless men, than from any pecubelonging to his homestead.
niary loss to himself.
"

he should be taken from us," writes Dr. Stone in 1808, no man would be more missed, and he would leave no

" If

better

man behind

him."

Richard Wells, speak freely, but cheerfully, of the trials of his last years, and are full of devout and simple faith in God. His wife, the faithful and beloved companion of half a century, was taken from him
His
letters to his son. Dr.

Oct.
left,"

I,

81

3,

after a long

and painful

illness.

"

am now

"

he writes to his son, without one in the house

I

that

can converse with.

God
trial

2:rant that this severe

may

be sanctified to

myself and all my children, and that we may be prepared to meet her in realms
of bliss."

y7 /j //^ /P // CCc^cy^^ /^ /O ///

.

autograph.
life

His long,
August,
1

useful,

and peaceful

ended on the 24th

of

8 14.

In a letter written only twelve days before.

I02

HENRY WELLS OF MONTAGUE.

"

CH. YII.
still "

he speaks of himself as
out a mile and back
"

rather decHning," but

riding

each day, while

failing.

" strength, appetite,

and
"

flesh "

were slowly

"His

funeral,"

writes his son Cornelius, Sept.

i,

1814,

was attended by a large concourse of people, and a great number of physicians from the neighboring towns paid him His grave is in the Old Burial the last token of respect." Ground at Montagvie, between those of his father and
his wife.

well cut stone (dark limestone) bears the

in-

scription,
" In

Memory

of Doct.

Henry Wells, who

Hannah,

died the 24

August

1814, aet. 72."

is,
i

The wife's Wells, died

Very
little

"

Mrs.

wife of Doct.

Henry

Oct. 18 13, ae. 66^^

acter and principles.

professional,

need be added in regard to Dr. Wells' charHis whole life, family, social, and

was permeated with a deep sense of religious duty. Among the few of his papers which have come into my hands is a little MS. volume of seventy pages, chiefly of family prayers, doubtless used most of the time through the half century in which his household were daily called

together for worship.

quoted, says, "he was

Dr. Alden, in the article already

much

attached to the moral and

;

reli-

gious institutions of his country

a patron of temperance,"

and he might have added, a pattern of temperance in all things. But there was nothing of the severity of New England Puritanism (in some of its aspects) in his religious life. In a secluded country home, with little access to books or cultivated society, he never lost his early culture and literary taste first acquired at Nassau Hall. He was an admirable reader, and it was his great delight to gather his family in the evenings to listen to passages from his favourite
* Copied June
3,

1875.

GEN.

V.

WIFE AND CHILDREN.

English authors,

103

among

no

other than

William Shak-

SPEARE.*

His gi-andson Henry Wells of Meriden, N. H., who was several years in his family as a youth, says, " Grandfather Wells was one of the noblest men I ever knew kind, generous, hospitable

to sum

it

all

up, a

Christian Gentle-

man." f

have little information beyond her family history. One granddaughter speaks of her as " a stately dame, very proud of her high Dutch ancestry, and exacting much reverence from those around her.":|: Others say that she retained always something of the Dutch costume, and many of the habits and tastes of her early years in New York, among the latter a strong predilection for the service of the Church of England, and the Feasts of the Christian Year, which she had observed in the city. Although Dutch Reformed by birth, and Presbyterian by marriage, her English Prayer-Book was her constant companion through life, and her views in this respect had a considerable influence on those of her children whose homes were within
his wife
I

Of

reach of

its

services.

two daughters died in their them in infancy, and three others, a son and two daughters, were deaf-mutes. The remaining eight, six sons and two daughters, married and left families.. These thirteen children were
Of the thirteen
children,
parents' life-time, one of
1.

Henry,^-""
John,*^-^'

b. b.

New

2.
3.

York, "
"

March
Nov.

20, 1765.
12, 1766.

Obadiah,''-52

b. Brattleboro, July
b.

23, 1768.
3,

4.

Hannah,"-"*

May

1770, d. Oct.

11, 1812,

unm.

pieces) in prose

*Mrs. Rowe. A little MS. vol. of selections (with perhaps some original and verse, made by him while in College, and still extant, shows the beginning of his literary culture. f Letter to me, Nov. 18, 1875. Letter from Mrs. S. D. Hubbard of Montgomery, Ala., (dau. of Frances Mrs. Rowe, her youngest daughter, adds, "she was very Wells,) Feb. 24, 1876. 7nce in all her habits and tastes."
:j:

104
5.

HENRY WELLS OF MONTAGUE.

Cornelius,''-^-*

CH. YIL

b. Brattleboro, Sept.
b.

6.
7.

Richard,''-"

Elizabeth
Phoebe,"-"

Sibley,''-^'^ b.

8.

b.
Stout,*'-^^^

9.

Benjamin

b. b. b.
b.

" " " "

9,

1772.

June
July Oct.
Sept.

24, 1774.
14, d.

Aug.

i,

1776.

28, 1777. 10, 1780.

i,

10.
11.

Katharine,"''^^
Abigail,"-""

Montague,
" " "

July

1782, d. April

3,

1857.

Aug.
April

15, 1784, d.

Dec.

13, 1858.

12.
13.

Mary

Hamutal,"-'"''

28, 1788.
13. 1789, d.'

William,"-"-

b.

Nov.

Aug.

30, 1866.

By
1

Dr. Wells'

will,

dated Jan.

12,

and proved Nov.

8,

8 14,

bequests are made,

among

others, to his four older sons,

Henry, John, Obadiah and Cornelius, of the tract of land granted by the State of New York to his father (p. 83) and of his Montague propert}^ to the four younger children, then living there, Benjamin and the three deaf-mutes, with some
;

personal bequests to Mrs. Clapp and Mrs.

son, Richard,
is

Rowe.

The

fifth

excepted, as being the only one of the

his father

children for

whom

had

" already
is

done much by

way
"

of education."

To Benjamin

given

My

silver cased

given

me by my

China faced watch and my best cane, brother-in-law Jonathan Tremaine my

;

writing-desk and book-case which I keep in my North room, my Johnson's Dictionar}^ my Medical and Agricultural Register, edited b}' Daniel Adams, my Eliot's Essays on Field Husbandry, m}" Taggart's Sermons, my Doddridge's Sermons, and one third part of my English Library, (excepting such books as treat on Ph3^sic, Surgery, Chemistry, Philosophy, and Logic, or are otherwise bequeathed,) and my share in Montague Library. Also I give him my Tooth Instruments and Gum Lancet and best Lancet which I carry in my pocket case of Instruments." To Phoebe, " m}^ side saddle," another third of the English Library, and ten dollars, or sundry articles of bedding, " if she shall prefer them to the ten dollars." To Mary, a like sum of ten dollars, or " m}^ high case of draws which stand in my South Room " also " ni}' Quarto Bible, m}' Watts' Psalms and Hymns, m}^ Porteous' Lectures, my History of Joseph, ni}^ right in the Children of the Abbey," and the remaining third of " m}- English Li bra r}'."
;

GEN.

V.

HIS WILL.

105

To " Katey," " my best bureau, and my large chest with a double spring lock." To Abigail, " my smallest Bureau, and my other laro-e
chest."

To the three deaf-mute children, the homestead (described above, p. 96) and its furniture and they, and Benjamin, are residuary legatees. To " my Grandson Jonathan Tremaine Wells, my German Flute, and my Pocket Knife with four blades, which was given to me by my Father in Law John Stout in the
;

year 1783."

To "my five grandchildren Hannah Stout Clapp, Eliza Stout Wells, Eveline Stout Wells, and Hermon Stout Wells, and Hannah Stout Wells, five ewe Sheep to be purchased by my Executors (unless I should put them out before my Decease) and let out for them until the youngest of them shall arrive to the age of eighteen years, when they are to be equal sharers in the returns." To " my worthy friend, Dr. John Stone, my Quarto
Gates, for him Latin Greek, and French Authors, "all my treatises on Physic, Surgery, Chemistry, Anatomy, Philosophy, Rhetoric and Logic," surgical instruments and office furniture.
to dispose of as he shall think proper,
all

Volume of Doctor Mead's Works." To " my honoured friend, the Rev** Aaron

my

He appoints as Executors, the Rev. Aaron Gates, Elisha Root, Esq., and his son Benjamin Stout Wells.

A Will of Mrs. Hannah Wells, May 8, 1813, ''with her husband's consent" disposes of her wearing apparel and some money. To her daughter Phoebe, her " gold necklace," with remainder to Hannah, dau. of Phoebe, also her "best bonnet and silk shawl;" to "Katey," her ''gold locket, gold wires and black silk gown " to Abigail, her " brown silk gown and a gold ring;" to Mary, her "best gold ring and satin cloak ;" to Mehetabel (wife of Benjamin,) her "silver shoe-buckles;" to WiUiam, her "gold sleeve buttons " to Benjamin, eight dollars to Henry, son of John, five dollars to Katy, Abigail and Mary, the rest of her wearing apparel; to the three deaf-mutes threefourths of her money laid by, and to Phoebe, Mary and Mehetabel, the remaining fourth.
;

" Tesf/s,

Henry Wells."

NOTE
OF

A.

THE STOUT FAMILY

NEW YORK.
in

THE
1603,

Stout

family,

first

known

eighteenth Century, were from the

New York about the beginning of the Low Countries, and probably descended
IT,

from those who, fleeing from the persecutions of Philip

England, mostly in the Southeastern counties,
it is

and Alva,

settled in

in

the reign of Elizabeth.

In

said, there

were one hundred thousand of these refugees in England,

and they composed two-thirds of the population of Canterbury.* them were early emigrants from England to the West Indies.

Many

of

John Stout, Gentleman,

1679,
for ten acres of land

is

rated in St. James' Parish, Barbadoes, Dec. 20,

five

and

negroes.f

Power of Attorney dated

Gent.," to collect

March 6, 1699, is given by Abraham Walker, to " Thomas Childe, and John Stout of Port
due Walker
in

of St. Catharine's Parish, Jamaica,

Royall,

money
"

New

York.X

In the same year, letters of administration are

of Bellemont," Governor of

granted by " Richard Earle

New

York, to

Mr.

Thomas Wenham

of the City of

New

York, Merchant," as

trustee,

on certain

goods of " John Stout,

late of Jamaica,

merchant, in a voyage from thence to

;"

New York
is

on board the sloop Content, Capt. Luke Gall, Commander, deceased

leciting that the said

John Stout had

lately died intestate, " otherwise than

is

what

contained in the annexed will or order," which

a letter consigning the goods

to " Captaine

Wenham," and beginning

thus

* Davies' Hist. Holland, I. 567, seq. On the Rolls of Leyden we find three "Johannes Stout, Francus, of the name who may or may not be of this family matr. July 5, 1630;" '" Nicolaus Philippus Stout, matr. March 13, 1683;" "Jacobus Stout, Amsterdamensis, matr. Dec. 16, 1689." (Album Stud. Acad. Lugd. Batav. 1575 to 1875, 20 L. 23 i, 23 p. l.) The name is not found at all in the early history of New England. f Hotton's Lists, 505. ^N. Y. Deeds, XXIII. 170. And a prominent man in political affairs. See Lamb's Hist. N, Y. City, 455-61.
:

NOTE

A.

THE STOUT FAMILY.

10/

" S'' this comes to advice you that I not haveing my helth in Jamaica was a coming over to York in hopes that the Bare [air] might doe me Good, but God

who
on

is

the Ruler and Governour of

to that degree that I

me

am

all things has been Pleased to Lay his hand extreamly weak." *

It is

voyage.

not clear from either document whether he died in Jamaica or on the His widow Ameraniia d. in- or before 1714, in which year,
(II.),

John Stout

eldest son

and

heir,

administered on the estate of

"Ame-

rantia Blagrove, deceased, late

widow

of Benjamin Blagrove, deceased, formerly

Amerantia Stout, widow^and

merchant, deceased."f

relict

of John Stout, late of the Island of Jamaica,

24,

And on June

1714,
Bill

John Stout m.
and Geesje
(or

in

New

York,

Abigail Bill, prob. eldest dau. of Benjamin

Grace)

Geertruyd, or

Van Fort

of N. Y., b. Nov. 13,

16954

By deed of Aug.

31. 1720,

"John

Stout of N. Y., mariner, and Abigail his wife," convey certain real estate in N. Y. to Jasper Busle. They had three children, perhaps more.

1.

Anna

2.

3-

Benjamin, John,

Maria, bapt. in Dutch Ch., N. Y., March " "

4,

June
Feb.

2,

1715. 1718.

"

"

10, 1720.II

Benjamin, the elder son,

b. 1718, d. c. 1788.

I find the

following notices of

him

in

N. Y. Records:

1742.

Admitted freeman of N. Y.

City.
for expenses in

Allowed 1755. July 17. necticut on public business.

1758. April 22.

los. 6d.

going express to Con-

Mortgage by Benjamin Stout of N.

lot

matie his wife, to John Halsted, ^400, Mort. I. 81.)

Y., /keeper, and Fahaving 35' 1" on Pearl St. (N. Y.

1760. Residence on Queen (Pearl) St., opposite (the Walton House, 324 Pearl St.)

"Hon. Wm. Walton's Esq."

*N. Y. Wills, V. 337-8. Among the goods mentioned are certain "spices, 100 hhds. musque'^ sugar seven lihds. lOO dusen or thereabouts of Lamblacking, three Baggs of money " containing " 1200 piesis of eight weighty money, 53 Spanish Pistoles, one small cask of old Porter," &c. fN. Y. Wills, VIII. 294. See note B, infra. Bill. i Records of Dutch Ch. N Y. I find in the Dutch Ch. Records " Willem," son of Richard Stout, bapt. Oct. This Richard was prob. brother or younger son of John I., and per12, 1707. haps the name Richard came through him into the Wells family. (See Hist, of Bill Family, by Ledyard Bill, N. Y. 1861, p. 77: Doc. Hist. N. Y. I. 613; N. Y. Wills, V. 84.) " Harman Stout, sailmaker," deeds property in N. Y. Nov. 25, 1730, and takes property by deed May 12, 1720. (N. Y. Deeds, XXXII. 400, and XXIX. 102.) The name " Hermon " occurs twice in the children of John III.The lot is N. E. cor, of Maiden Lane (45 ) and N. Y. Deeds, XXX. no. William St. (25') See below, Note B, p. 112. Records of Dutch Ch., N. Y., 1715-20.
II

I08

HENRY WELLS OF MONTAGUE,

CH. VII.

Mortgage of the same property by Benjamin Stout, of N. Y., 1766. Aug. 18. (N. Y. Mort. II. 108.) Vintner, and Phcebe his wife, to Mary Darcy, i^400.
Patent to John and Benjamin Stout, Obadiah Wells, and 1766. July 23. others, of the town of Hartford, Cumberland Co., N. 23.040 acres, (now White River Junction, Vt.,) under grant from Sir H. Moore, Governor of N. Y. (See ante, Ch. VI. p. 81, and references there given.)

Benjamin Stout, wholesale dealer in wines, &c., signer of petition Lord Howe. (N. Y. City in the Revolution, N. Y., 1861, p. 134.) Will of Benjamin Stout of N. Y., Grocer, naming wife 1783. Nov. 10. Phoebe and six children. (N. Y. Wills, XL. 112 ) Deed of Benjamin Stout, Senior, late of N. Y., Innkeeper, 1786. March 28. now of Bergen, N. J., Gentleman, and Famatie his wife (signed "Femmetje"). (N. Y. Deeds, XLIII. 316.)
1776 Oct. of loyalists to
1788. Probate of Will.

He

m. N. Y.,

May

6,

1738,

Femmetje

(or Phcebe) de

Foreest* dau. of Parent

,

de Foreest and Catalyntje Scherly, bapt. in Dutch Ch.

N. Y., Nov.

27. I7i4.-f'

They had

six children,

Benjamin,

Jr.,

John

B., Jacob, Abigail, Sarah,

and Helena

or Eleanor.

Of

these,

Benjamin, Jr., eldest son, d. c. 1799; described in deeds as " Merchant," 1. "Shopkeeper," and "Gentleman;" signer of above petition of loyalists, 1776; deed of Benj Jr., and Jacomentje his wife (signed "Jamime") March 22, 1785 (N. Y, Deeds, XLII. 327); will of May 24, 1798, names w. Jemima and 9 children; deeds of Jemima as executor of Benjamin, Oct. 31, and Dec. 16, 1800 (N. Y. LXIX. 396, and LIX. 304) m. N. Y. Aug. 24, 1766, Jemima Brevoort. (N. Y. Mar. Lie.) Children, Lanah (Eleanor? m. John De Lanoy), Sarah, Benjamin (HI.), Phoebe (m. Anthony Rainetaux, Abigail (m. Francis Menier), Samuel, Elizabeth (perhaps m. Amos Butler,) Charlotte, and William. 2. Johti B., 2d son, d. prob. c. 1793; baker; signer of petition to Gov. Colden, .1774, on building with brick and tile; administrator of Mrs. Effie Van Varick, 1782; m. Jan. 23, 1772, Effie (or Aafje) Varick (pr Van Varck,) dau. of Andries (s. Jacobus, s. Jan, from Rhenen, Holland) Varick and Aafje Ten Eyck, (See N. Y. Mar. Lie. 1772; and Varick family, in N. Y. G. and B. b. 1751.
;

Rec.VIII.
4.
5.

16-19.)

Abigail, m. Caleb Hyatt.

(m. Catharine W. Morin), George, rine, and Elizabeth,

6.

Sarah, m. John Carpender (Carpenter). Children, William, Sarah, John had Charles, John, William and Elizabeth), Sarah (m. Wm. Ann, and Frances (m. Jacob Stout, had John, Jacob, Catha,

who m.

Field.):}:

Helena, or Eleanor, m. by License of Sept. 29, 1766, William Gregg.

" Fem* Called in N. Y. Mar. Licenses (April 29, 1 738) Ffamiiie De Froseest. metje," according to the translator of the Dutch Ch. Records of N. Y., (the Rev. A. H. Bechthold,) answers most nearly to " Euphemia." (Letter of April 30, But in this case it is clearly equivalent to " Phcebe." 1877.) f Isaac De Foreest, of Leyden, an early and prominent merchant of N. Y. Schepen, &c., m. N. Y., June g, 1641, Sara du Trieux, the 2d female b. and m. in N. Y., (Valentine's Manual, 1862, p. 767,) and had 14 children. Hendrick, the 7th son, b. c. 1657, m. July 5, 1682, Femmetje Van Flaesbeeck, and their eldest s. Barent, b. 1684, m. May 29, 1708, Catalyntje Scherly. :t:All these were tenants in common on W. side of Smith (now William) St., The will of Jacob Stout of N. J., 1822, names w. Frances and mentions T807. (N. Y. Wills, LVIII. 250.) inf. children.

NOTE
John

A.

THE STOUT FAMILY.

2d son of John
II., b.

109

(III.).

1720, d. after 1783; res. in N. Y., in Capt.

Cuyler's Co. N. Y. militia, 1738, freeman 1742;

had a "pasture

at

Fresh Water,"

or the Collect (the present site of the

the

"Tombs")

in 1764;* in 1766, patentee of

;

town of Hartford,

(Vt.)

with his brother Benjamin and others

as living in 1783; m.
I.

mentioned

in

the will of Dr.

Henry Wells

N. Y. May

4, 1740,

Elizabeth
1720, d.

Sibley^ prob. dau. of

John Sibley and Elizabeth Peale

of N. Y., b.

c.

N.

Y.,

March

4, 1764.!
1st

He

m.
11

II.

N. Y. July 28, 1764, Susannah Lewis, who d.

(5
s.

1771.

By

the

wife he had

children

6 dau.), by the 2d 3

(2

s.

dau).

1.

Hannah, b Feb.
John,
b.

3,

1742, d. Oct.

9, 1746.

2.

Dec.

8,

1743, d. July 29, 1744.

Catharine, b. March 27, 1745; m. I. by License of April 23, 1760, 3. John Shaughnessy, who d. 1764; she m. II. by license of Aug. 2, 1765, Thomas Pyne Williams. Child by 1st marriage, Elizabeth (Shaughnessy), d. y. By 2d mar., Thomas (d. y.), Mary, Elizabeth, Thomas, and Harry (Williams).
4.

Hannah,
28, 1764,

b.

Feb.

19,

May

Dr.

Henry Wells

1747, d. Montague, Mass., Oct. i, 1813 m. N. Y., of New York, afterwards of Brattleboro, Vt
;

and Montague, Mass.

John (IV.), b. June 3, 1749, fireman of N. Y., 1776, lost at 5. N. Y. by License of Sept. 26, 1772, Margaret Hunt, who perh. m. One child, John Davis, d. y. July 29, 1783, William Rigby.
, ;

sea,
II.

1779 m. by Lie. of
;

6. Elizabeth,, b. Aug. 2, 1751 m. N. Y., Nov. 20, 1768, Richard Somarindyck children, Jacob, Elizabeth, Catharine (d. y.), Richard, Teunis, and John (Somarindyck).

Abigail, b. March 24, 1754 m. by Lie. of Feb. 15, 1770, Jonathan Tre7. maine. Children, Jonathan, Mary (d. y.), Richard, John, Abigail, Joseph, Benjamin, Elizabeth, William, Mary, Henry (Tremaine).
;

8.

Richard,

b.

Feb.

16, 1756.

Benjamin, b. Feb. 13, 1758, John (d. y.), and Elizabeth.

9.

lost at sea

1779; m. and had two children,

10.

Phoebe, b.
;

May

who
mar.,

d. c. 1781

m.
b.

II.

James (Conn).

1760 m. I. by Lie. of Nov. 16, 1778, James Conn, by Lie. of Feb. 4, 1782, Peter Miller. Child, by ist. By 2d. mar., Phoebe and Peter (Miller).
28,
;

11.
12.

Harman, Harman,
1779.

June

29, 1762, d.
1st

June

12, 1763.

(or

Herman),
b.

child of the 2d marriage, b.

May

3,

1765, d.

Feb.

7,

13. 14.

John Lewis,
Effi,e,

Nov.

i,

1767.

youngest child,

b. Sept. 14, 1769.

* Advertisement in N. Y. Mercury, Nov. 5, 1764. Wells, Esq.) See f Record of John Stout's Family (in possession of S. Clapp also N. Y. Mar. Licenses, 1740-64. John Sibley of N. Y. m. Elizabeth Peale, He was perhaps s. of Richard, of Salem 1656, d 1676, (Savage, IV. July 4, 1695 94, and Felt, II. 184) and had a daughter who married c. 1720, John Cooper, an He was prob. father apprentice of Harman.. Stout, sailmaker (see note above). also of Richard Sibley, who m. Apr. 19, 1744 Hanna, dau Hendrick and Teuntie Wessells of N. Y., and had a s. Richard, (of Stamford, Ct., as late as 1792,) m. N. Y., May 31, 1770, Mary Peet. (See Ch. VIII. Note C. Sibley.)

no
It will

HENRY WELLS OF MONTAGUE.

be seen that
all

CH. VIL
are repeated in the

but the three

last of these

names

children of

Henry and Hannah Wells.*

* The will of Abraham Stout, 1780, (N. Y. XXXn.-338,) names w. Sarah, bros. David and Seymour, sisters Rebecca, Eliz., and Mary. Will of Eflie Stout, widow, 1829, proved 1830, (N. Y. LXVL 235,) names dau. Phcebe, sons Andrew And the will of Phcebe Stout, maiden V. and James D., daus. Helen and Effie. lady, 1854, proved 1855, names her sister Effie Hyatt, and E.'s two daus. Nancy and Phoebe Caroline sister Helen Sickles, and H.'s dau. Mary Jane Hatch, prob. The widow is peril. Eflie Varick, widow of John B. Stout, w. of Isaac Hatch. above and the Phoebe of the last will (N. Y. CXIV. 118.) is evidently her dau. Other early marriages which I cannot place, are Sarah Stout to James Taggart, Abigail .Stout to John Agnew, June 19, 1758 Sarah Stout to lie. Nov. I, 1756
; ; ; ;

Aris Ryersz,

lie.

Sept. 2g, 1779

S.

1780 (see will of A.

above)

Abraham Anne Stout

\

Stout to Sarah Terrat, lie. Sept. 14, to Jacob Busleree, lie. Aug. 5, 1782
,

James Stout to Jane Smith, April 12, 1783. Deeds are recorded in N. Y. from Catharine Stout, spinster, of N. Y. 1758 Peter (carpenter) and w. Hannah, 1797-8 Jacob and Jane, wid. Joseph, 1796 w. Frances, 1801-11-12 James D. and w. Jane (see will of Eflie, above) 1805-7 W^m. G. (prob. s. Jemima, wid. Benj. Jr.), 1800 Jacob and w. Susan B., 1826 John B. and w. Rose Anna, 1837, etc.
; ; ;

NOTE

B.

THE BILL FAMILY.

OF

NEW YORK.
historian (Ledyavd Bill of

THIS
the

family

is

supposed by

its

New

York) to be

same

as that of
first

John Bill

of London, bapt. 1576, in Much-Wenlock,

I.,

Co. Salop, Eng.,

King's Printer, publisher of the works of James

1636.

1616,

and of the Standard Prayer Book of

He
3,

m.

I.

Anne, dau. of the Rev.

Thomas Mountford, D.
of St. Paul's Cathedral)

D., b.

c.

1588, d.
;

May
II.

1621, bur. in St. Faith's (crypt

London

and

Joan, dau. of Henry Franklin, of

Throwley, Kent.

John,

and

is

d. Boston, Dec. 10, 1638, m. Dorothy who survived him, noted in 1639 ^s a " widow sojourning in the house of Richard Tuttell,"
,

(Tuthill,

Boston 1635) and

in 1640 as
(also of

purchaser with her son James of the house

and garden of Robert Mears

Boston

1635).

(Drake, Hist. Boston,

2.^5.)

They had James, Thomas, Philip, John and Mary. Thomas, b. Eng. c. 1618, d. Boston, Oct. 9, 1696,
man,"
in 1686 " innholder,"

called in 1666 " lighter-

168S "mariner," 1696 "planter," lived in Black

St.
;

Horse Lane, now part of Prince

1671

member

of 2d church, under Increase

Mather, 1670, and of the Artillery Co., 1674 (1657 according to Savage), freeman
;

m.

I.

Jan.
c.

14,

1653,

Elizabeth, dau.

Wm.
5,

Sargent, and
;

widow

of David

Nichols, b. Eng.
of Michael
d.

1633, d. Boston,

March

1658

m.

II.

1658, Abigail, dau.

c.

and Mildred Willis of Boston

1696,
bur.

(d. q.

see Savage, IV. 576), b.

1633,

Nov.

7,

Copp's Hill, Boston, with tombstone yet extant, and

y

inscription "

Here Lyeth Buried

Body of Abigal
(or James),

Bill

wife to
;

Thomas

Bill,"

with date and age.

By

1st

mar. 2 sons, Samuel and Sargent

by 2d mar., Sarah,
(this last

Mary, Thomas, Susanna, Michael, Jacob

given by Savage,
I.

and Benjamin

not

177).
c.

Benjamin,

b.

Boston,
will

1674, youngest
;

s.

of

Thomas and

Abigail, mentioned

in his father's

of 1696

apprenticed to Dea. Robert Cumbery of Boston, a

is

cooper, rem. prob. to N. Y., where he

on census of 1703, with wife and two

112
children

HENRY WELLS OF MONTAGUE.

;

CH. VIL

m. Dec. 1694, (by license of Dec.

5,)

Geesje (or Geertruyd, or Grace)

Van

Fort.

See N. Y. Wills, V. 84. The surname may be intended for Van Voort or Van Vorst, but is plainly " Van fforl " in the record the abbreviated Christian name may be either of those given above, the two first very common in Dutch
;

records.

Benjamin

Bill

of

New

York, mariner, and Grace his wife, conveyed

to Garrett Ketteltass, " joyner," of the

same

city,

June

29, 1716, a lot

at
1 711

the

N.

E. corner of William St. and Maiden Lane, conveyed to them in

by one
76.

Jacob

Yselsten, (see p. 87,) bricklayer, of

p. 107, for

New

York.

(N. Y. Deeds,

XXX.

See Note A, above,

(Abigail
Bill), 1720.)

deed of the same property by John Stout and wife

They had
I.

the following children :

CHAPTER

VIII.

DESCENDANTS OF HENRY OF MONTAGUE: OLDER SONS.

tF
^
sons,

the five older children of

Dr.

Henry
;

Wells, the

fourth, a daughter, died

unmarried

the other four,

married and

left

descendants.

They were Henry,

John, Obadiah and Cornelius.

HENRY, ELDEST SON.

Henry,^-^ eldest son,
b.

New

York, March

20, 1765

bap-

tized in the First Presbyterian Church,

21, 1765
;

New York, April York, July 29, 1827 bur. in St. John's Cemetery, Carmine St., New York.f He resided as early as 1796 at Athens, (then Lunenburgh,) N. Y., removing in Montreal, where he was some years a commission 1 816 to merchant, and in 1821 to New York. He was the first of
* died,

New

his father's family (following

however
Oct.
5,

at least his mother's

preferences) to

become

a decided and earnest

I.,

Churchman.

:}:

1794, Mrs. Martha (Woods) Smith, (dau. of John and Lavinia Woods of New

He

m. East Norwich, L.

York, and widow of John Smith of the same

*The
record of his baptism
is

city,) b.

New

as follows

" henry Wells son of henry wells

and of hannah his wife Born March lo^ and Baptized April the 2i<^ 1765-" (N. Y. Gen. and Biog. Record, VI. 49.) f Henry W. Clapp of Greenfield, and J. Tremaine Wells of New York. There is no gravestone. X Letters to his brother, Dr. Richard Wells.

114

DESCENDANTS OF HENRY OF MONTAGUE.

28,

CH. VII.
6,

York, Dec. Children

:

1763,

d.

Cobourg, Ont, Feb.

1835.*

1.

2.
3.

4.
5.

Athens, 2, 1795, July " June 11, 1797. b. New York, Sept. 26, 1799, Henry Woods, May 12, 1801. Julia Ann Matilda.'-'os ^ Athens,

Sarah Cornelia,'-'^^;" Sarah Maria,'-i

''^'"

b. b.

d. Sept. 29, 1796.

[30, 1824,
d.

unm.

Montreal, Oct.
3,

Augustus Stout, 'I**"

b. b.

" "

Nov.
Jan.

i,

6.

James

Stout,'-""

8.

1805, d. April I808.

1806.

HENRY. SEVENTH GENERATION.

II.

Sarah
24,
1

Maria,''-^""

second daughter,
14,

b.

Athens, June

II,

1797, d.

Hamilton, Ont., Feb.

1832; m. Montreal,

Francis Leonard, merchant, of Montreal, afterwards of Cobourg and New York, (s. of Elias Leonard of West Springfield, Mass., (a descendant of John, from Staffordshire, Eng., 1639) and Susanna (dau. Bilston,
8 19,

May

Joseph) Selden,)

b.

West

Springfield,

March

23,

1793, d.

Brooklyn, N. Y., Feb.

1.

28, 1875.
^-'s^
^-'^'^

Children:
lo, 1820, d.
3,

Martha Ann (Leonard),

Matilda James Horatio

b. b.
b.

2.

Ann

" "

Montreal, July
"

Apr. 27, [1821.

d.

March
Nov.

1822.

3.

^-'^^

"

12, 1823,

April 14,

[1859,

unm.

By her

ist
4.

husband, John Smith,

(b.

July 23, 1750,

d.

Jan. 14, 1789,)

whom

she m. Oct.
1.

1781, she

had children
b.

Lavinia (Smith),
Eliza (Smith),
b.

2.

New York, Oct. 21, 1782, d. July 24, 1783. Cow Neck, L. I., Aug. 16, 1784, d. Hamilton,
d.

Ont.,

Jan. II, 1833,

3.

unm.
Cobourg,

4.

Lavinia (Smith), b. Hempstead Plains, L. I., Nov. 8, 1786, Ont., Feb. 24, 1859. John Woods (Smith), b. Feb. 22, 1789, d. Aug. 27, 1790.

Lavinia, the 3d dau.,

b. c. 1779, d.
I.

m Athens, March 28, 1807, Benjamin Throop of Cobourg, Cobourg, Jan. 19, 1841, and had one child, Robert Henry, b. 1812, d. May 5, i860, m. Cecilia Ann, 2d dau. of John
niece of the present Bishop (Bethune) of Toronto), b.
,

Henry of Cobourg (and

1824, d.

is

Benjamin John, Arthur, and Cecil, all living 1876. James Woods, a younger bro. of Mrs. Henry Wells, b. 1772, d. Oct. 22, 1812, commemorated by a mural tablet in Ch., New York. (From Records
Nov.
2,

1854

3 s

in possession of Fran.

H. Leonard, Brantford, Ont.)

GEN.
4.
5.

VII.

HENRY, ELDEST SON.

(Leonard),
^-'^^ ^-'^^

II

Norman
Henry
Sally

b.
b.

Montreal, Aug.
"

21, 1825, d.

Nov.

13, 1834.

6.
7. 8.

Joseph Christmas " " Susan Eliza

"

May
April Oct.

10, 1827.

8.134
^-'^s 8-is

^ b
b.

21, 1829. 16, 1830, d.

5, d.

Aug. 1831.
5,

Maria

"

Hamilton, Feb.

March

1832.*

IV.
12,

Julia
16,

Ann

Matilda/-^"^ 3d dau.,

b.
;

Athens,

May

1801, d.

Brantford, Ont., Dec.

1822,

22, 1875
(s.

m. Montreal,
Stephen, and
b.

April,

Reuben Leonard,

of

cousin and business partner of Francis, above,)

field,

Spring-

Mass., April 23, 1791, d. Brantford, Ont., Dec. 26, 1836.

:

Children
1.

Francis Henry (Leonard),

^'3''

2. 3.

Martha Wells Lavinia Throop

"

b.
b. b.
b.

Cobourg, July
Montreal, Jan.

6, 1823.
9, 1825.
2, 4,

^-'^^
^'^^'^

4.
5.

Ann

Eliza

6.

Sarah Woods Sarah Matilda Tremaine "

" " "

*""
*"'-

Nov. Prescott, Nov.

"

1826.
1829.
d.
d.
17, 1848.

[1833.

8.141 ^^

Brantford, Oct. 24,1831, " April 9, 1834, b.

Aug. 25,

[March

VI.

James

Stout,''-""

3d

s.

and

youngest

child,

b.

killed,

Athens, Jan. 8, 1808, d. New 15, 1840. with one other person, by the falling of a wall at a fire in Eldridge St., being at the time Assistant Engineer

York, April

He was

Department, and an exempt fireman. The Common Council adopted resolutions recognizing his heroic conduct on that occasion, and appropriating an annuity to his widow and children. + He m. Aquackanock, Smith and N. J,, June 25, 1832, Susan Smith, (dau,
of

the Fire

the Author, a

* Parsons and Leonard Genealogy, by Samuel L. Parsons, N. Y., 1867. (From nephew of Francis Leonard.) Also Earn. Record of Henry Wells,

from F. H. Leonard of Brantford.

The latter says (Feb. E. Leonard of Brantford. f Francis H. and Miss Ann " Her life v^'as one of great trial and affliction, but mother, her 187-) of 26, paralytic stroke three years before her never did a murmur escape her lips.

death deprived her wholly of speech, and of the ability to read or write, without Through life she affecting her general health of body or soundness of mind.

was a consistent and devoted Christian."

X

Minutes of

Common

Council, VII. 182-3, City Hall, N. ..

May

14, 1840.

Il6

DESCENDANTS OF HENRY OF MONTAGUE.

CH. VIII.
1810. *

Rachel
Children
1.

Van
:

Buren
b. b. b.

of

Aquackanock,)
York, May " May " Aug.
4, 1833. 15, 1836.
2,

b.

May,

2.

Joseph Henry, 8-'-*3 James Edmund,*'-'-'

Eliza Matilda,
'^''5

New

[J.,unm.

3.

1838, res. Passaic Bridge, N.

HENRY. EIGHTH GENERATION.

SARAH
MARIA.'-^"

VI. Joseph Christmas (Leonard),^-*^^ (so named from a clergyman of some celebrity in Montreal,) third son of Sarah M. WelV-^" b. Montreal, May lo, 1827, res. 1877,
Millburn, N.
J.,

tinsmith

m. Fort Wayne, Ind., Dec.

24,

1855, Lavinia Louisa Morgan, (dau. of Enoch Morgan and Lavinia Sampson of Easton, N. Y.,) b. Plattsburgh, N.

Y., Oct. 24, 1829,

1.

Children
^-^^
"-oe
^

[15, 1858.
2.

3. 4.
5.

Charles Sumner (Leonard). " Nellie Eliza " Francis Horatio " Lilian

b.
b.

"

b. b.
b.

'''^

Gertrude Wells

"

s-^s

Plymouth, Ind., Nov. 3, 1857, d. Oct. " March 19, 1858. " Nov. 6,1860. [1863. " Nov. 6, 1862, d. May 17, Millburn, N. J., Dec. 25,1872.

The two surviving daughters of Sarah Maria Matilda,^-^^" and Susan Eliza (Leonard),^-^^*
25

Wells,

ANN

res. 1877, at

De Kalb Avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y.

JULIA
I.

ANN

MATILDA.''-^"^
,^-^^^

Francis

Henry (Leonard)

eldest

s.

of

JuHa A.

M. Wells,''-^"^ b. Cobourg, July 6, 1823, res, Ont; m. May 7, 1855, Elizabeth Cotton,
b.

1877, Brantford,

(dau. of

Cotton and Mary (dau. Thomas f) Hill of Huntington, Ont., Dec. i, 1826. Children:
* She subsequently m.
II.

Richard London, Eng.,)

Henry

J.

Kip, of Passaic Bridge, N.

J., b. c.

1778,

and

res.

1876 at that place.

Hill) -was with
left

f" He (Thomas
numerous other

Charities in England, having

objects."

one exception, the largest giver to Public ^20.000 to the Bible Society, and largely to F. H. Leonard of Brantford.

GEN.

Il8

DESCENDANTS OF HENRY OF MONTAGUE.

CH. VIII.

HENRY. NINTH G^ENERATION.

JULIA
I.

A.

M.^-^*^^

MARTHA

W. (LEONARD)

."^-^^"^

Harriet. Sarah (Griffin)/-^^ b. Brantford, May 19, m. Brantford, Aug. 26, 1875, George Vidal Salter, 185 Canon (G. J. R.) Salter, Incumbent of St. (s. of the Rev. Jude's Church, Brantford,) b. Sarnia, Ont., Oct. 31, 185 1.*
1
;

Child :
I.

George Leonard

(Salter),'^-^ b.

Brantford, Sept. i6, 1876.

JOHN, SECOND SON.

John,*^-^'
12, 1766,

2d son of Dr. Henry Wells,

b.

New

York, Nov.
8,

bapt. in ist Presb. Ch.,

i,

New

York, Dec.

1766, f

d.

Chelsea, Vt., Dec.

life

1831, bur. at Chelsea; farmer,

"

and
a

in

early

a shoemaker.

My

Father," says his only surVt.,

in

viving son,
country, and

"removed
7to

to

Chelsea,

1801,

new
in
I

apples for the children to eat.

He was
man

disposition very

much

like his father, the

noblest

ever knew.

Mine were good and kind

very precious to me."
:|:

parents, and their

memory

is

m. Greenfield, Mass., Jan. 13, 1789, Anna Arms, (a descendant of William Arms of Hatfield, ) b. (prob. Greenfield,) June 14, 1770, d. Chelsea, July 19, 1832, bur.
Chelsea.

He

Children

* Francis H. Leonard.
f

Record :"

Decern'' 8"^,

John, Son of Henry

1875.

Wells

& Hannah

Stout his

Wife, Born Nov"" I2, 1766."

X

Henry Wells of Meriden, Nov.

18,

Also Family Record of John

Wells'*'^' in

my

possession.

I.

soldier in
d.

King

Philip's

War, 1676 m.
;

1677,

field,

and

1731, leaving there three sons, John, Daniel,

Joanna Hawks, rem. to Deerand William. (Savage,

63.)

ST.

I20

DESCENDANTS OF HENRY OF MONTAGUE.

(dau. of Daniel

CH. VIII.

Warner Blodget,
Jan.
1.

Blodget and Sally AlSuperior, Mich.,

len of Chelsea,) b. Chelsea,

19,
1

June

i6, 1803, d.

841.

Children:
b. b,
b.

2.
3.

Sally Annette,*"* Eveline Sophia,^-!^

Chelsea,
"

June Aug.

4, 1823.
7,

1825.

John

Blodget.s-i-"

4.
5.

Josephine Auroia,*-'-'^ Caroline Matilda.^-i^

b.
b. b. b.

" "
" "

May May
Aug.
July

27, 1827.
19, 1829.
7, 7,
S,

6.
7.

Royal Edvvard,s-i50 Raiisom Allen, s-'"

Willard Dana.^-i'-

b. Superior,

March

1S31. 1S35.

1837.

"

8.

May

17, 1839.*

V.

Lyman,^-"^ 4th son,

b.

Brattleboro, Dec.

2,

1795, d.

East Hanover, N. H., Sept.

ker, at Chelsea, Vt.,

29, 1874;

farmer, and shoema-

and Cambridge, Bakersfield and Lebanon, N. H.; m. Chelsea, Feb. 8, 1820, Fanny Parker, (dau. of Thomas Parker and Lucretia Johnson of Chelsea,) b. Walpole, N. H., Nov. 5, 1798, res. 1877, Lebanon, N. H.

No

children.f
,^-"''

VL Henry
Wells;

5th son, b. Brattleboro,

March

2,

1798,

res. 1877, Mericlen, N. H., the only surviving child of

John

and formerly hatter and shoemaker, at m. Charlestown, Nov. 13, 1822, LuciA Hunt, (dau. of James Hunt and Almira (dau. of the Rev. John W.) Southmayd of Charlestown,) b. Charlestown, Aug. 24, 1804. No children. XL Emily,^^^^ 3d dau. and youngest child, b. Chelsea, July 20, 1810, d. Mt. Pleasant, Mich., Aug. 8, 1846; m.
farmer,

Charlestown and Meriden

:j:

Ypsilanti, Mich., June, 1839,

gan, a native of

the

Ernest Wiseman of MichiKingdom of Hanover, Germany.

b. Ypsilanti,

Children
1.

George Ernest (Wiseman),--'^"

Charles

2.

Ludwig

"

^'^'

b.

"

Dec. Dec.

6,
5,

1843, d. 1845.

c.

1848.

* John B. Wells of Ypsilanti.

f Mrs. ^

Lyman

Wells.

Henry Wells. The Rev. John W. Southmayd was a clergyman of the Church of England, and as Mr. Wells thinks, a Chaplain in the British Army perhaps of the Newfoundland branch of the Salem and Middletown family, whose genealogy is given fully in the History of Waterbury, Conn., p. 187, seq. The father m. II. Philomela (dau. Rev. Cook of N. Y.
)

GEN,

VIII.

JOHN, SECOND SON.

121

JOHN. EIGHTH GENERATION.

RANSOM.''-^^*

I.

Sally Annette,^-"^
4,

eldest dau. of

Ransom

Wells/-"*

b.

Chelsea, Vt., June

1823, d. Jackson,
15, 1843,

Mich., Oct. 25,

1847; m- Superior, Mich,, Sept.

Samuel Wells,

machinist.
II.

No

children.
Sophia,'^-i^*'

d.

2d dau., b. Chelsea, Aug. 7, 1825, m. Nankin, Mich., Sept. 20, 1846, Abel D. 19, 1855 Maynard, farmer. Child
Feb.
; :

Eveline

I.

Rowena Louisa (Maynard),

^-^^

b.

May

21, 1850, d.

March

24, 1865.

III.

John

Blodget,^-^*^ eldest son, b. Chelsea,

(P.

May

27,

1827, res. 1877, Superior,

O. Ypsilanti,) Mich., farmer,

unmarried.

Josephine Aurora,^-"^ 3d dau., b. Chelsea, May 19, m, Superior, June 19, 1855, Cyrus Baker, farmer, 1829; now of North Lawrence, Kansas. No children.
IV.

V.
1831
;

Caroline Matilda,-"^ 4th

m. Mt. Clemens, Mich., Oct.
Children
:

dau., b. Chelsea,
3,

Aug.

7,

1850,

Peter Robtoy

of Ypsilanti, farmer.
Eli Wells

John Dana

(Robtoy),9-S9 b. " 8.90 i,

" "
"

March
Nov,

27, 1852.
2,

1854.

Edward
Phcebe Ann Ida Josephine

^-'^ b. Jan. 31, d. Feb. 3, 1856. ^^- b. Dec. 8, i860.

"-"^

b.

March

13, 1863.

VI.
VII.

Royal

Edward,^-^^" 2d son,

b.

Superior,

March

7,

1835; res. 1877, Ypsilanti, unmarried.

Ransom

Allen,^-^^^ 3d

son,

b.

Superior, July

8,

1837; res. 1877, Jackson, Mich., commercial agent; m. Canton,

Elizabeth Ann Milspaugh, (dau. of Hiram Milspaugh and Roxa Jaycox of Van Buren, Child Mich.,) b. Van Buren, June 8, 1843.
Mich., Jan,
22,

i860,

I.

John

Jay,-8'' b.

Feb. 27, 1861.

122

DESCENDANTS OF HENRY OF MONTAGUE.

CH. VIII.

VIII.
b.

WiLLARD

Dana,^-^^^ 4th

son and youngest child,

Superior,

May

17,

1839, ^- ^^

U.

S. Service,
i,

on Steamer

Sultana, on the Mississippi River, Jan.

1865.*

OBADIAH, THIRD SON.

Obadiah,''-^- 3d son of Dr.

Henry

Wells,

b.

Brattleboro,

Vt., July 23, 1768, d. 1848.

He

resided at Charlestown, N.

H., as a hatter, from before 1800, almost to the year of his

death, which occurred on the journey to a

Illinois,

new home

in

when

nearly eighty years of age.

c.

He

m.

I.

at

Northiield, Mass.,

1785,

Alethea Southmayd,
sister of

(dau. of

the Rev. John

W. Southmayd, and
Henry Wells
noted
"
;

Almira, the

mother

of Mrs.

of

Meriden,

q. v.

and
"

note,)

b. 1767, d.

Charlestown, N. H.,
"
is

May

20, 1837.

An

Althea

Southmade
marriage.

.famous spinner

in the History of Northfield as "a perhaps this one, about the time of her

She

is

and

principle, every

remembered as way worthy

woman

of refinement

of respect.

He

m.

II.

Charlestown, 1838, Mrs. Lucy (Osgood) Merrill, widow of Capt. Isaac Merrill of Charlestown, N. H. He left one child,
a daughter.f

OBADIAH. SEVENTH GENERATION.

Frances,^-i==2
field,

only child of Obadiah

4,

Wells,^-^^

b.

North1862,

Mass., April

1786, d. Springfield,

Dec.
of

28,
27,

bur. Springfield;

m. Charlestown, N. H. Nov.
Ct.,

1806,

Russell and

Ebenezer Russell (Col.) of Springfield, (s. Hannah Pember,) b. Ellington,

* For
f
all

Ebenezer
Oct.
10,

the above I

am

indebted to John B.

Wells,^''*''

of Ypsilanti, Mich,

Henry Wells of Meriden.

Hist. Northfield, 589.

GEN.

VIII.

OBADIAH, THIRD SON.

123

1776, d. Springfield,

Nov.
:

26, 1854, bur.

Springfield.

Col.

Russell was at one time a noted landlord in and near

Springfield.

Children
" " " " "

Caroline Alethea(Russell),si55

b. Springfield,
ij_
..

Aug.
y^^^

26, 1807. ^^^

Henry Wells
Catharine Maria Frances Wells Jane Cordelia Melissa Phelps

s.ue
i57
s-i^s 8.159 s-'eo

b.

" "

^g^^
d.

j-^g^^^

May
Oct.

13, 1811,

Oct. 7

'

b.
b_ b.

u "

^^g_
April

30, 18 13. ^^^ ^g^^^

i,

181S.

OBADIAH. EIGHTH GENERATION.

FRANCES."-^-^

Caroline Alethea (Russell),^-^^^ eldest dau., b. Aug. 26, 1807, res. 1876, Lancaster, Mass.; m. Springfield, Sept, i, 1831, John Holder, (s. of Thomas Holder and Sarah Gaskill of Berhn, Mass.,) b. Berhn, July
I.

Springfield,

23, 1799, d. Berlin,

j r.
(

Feb.

5,

1864, bur. Berlin.

^-^^ 9.96 ^^''
^

Children:
,

Ebenezer Russell (Holder),

2. 3.

Thomas Henry Henry Russell

"
"

b.
^

Apni
June

14, d.
^

April 28, ^^^.^ ^^^

i32.

b.

9,1835.

II.

Henry Wells

(Russell),'^-^^*^

only son of Frances

Cincinnati, O.,

Wells,^-^^^ b. Springfield,

May

16,

1809, d.

July

14, 1848; m. I. Boston, Mass., Dec. 2, 1831, Elizabeth Longley, (adopted dau. of John and Judith Longley of Boston,) b. Sept. 17, 1809, d. Montgomery, Ala., Dec. 22,

1837; nati,
c.

II-

Cincinnati, O.,

c.

1841,
!

Jane Tate,

of Cincin-

i^^- HI- New Orleans, La., d. there Nov. 7, 1843 Elizabeth Copping of that city, who d. Cincinnati, Dec, 14, 1845 and m. IV. at Cincinnati, c. 1847, Eliza

who

1845,

French
1.

of that place.

Children :
^-^^
^-^^

2.
3.

John Longley (Russell), Henry Ebenezer " " Elizabeth

b_ b.

Boston,

July,

b. Cincinnati,

''i

"

Aug. Dec.

4, d. July 7, 1832. [1S59. 11, 1842.

8,

1845

d.

March

26,

124

DESCENDANTS OF HENRY OF MONTAGUE.

CH.

VIII.

IV,
field,

Frances Wells

(Russell),^-^^ 3d dau., b. Spring-

Montgomery, Ala.; m. Montgomery, Aug. 16, 1837, Samuel Dana Hubbard, (s. of Samuel Hubbard of Berlin, Ct., and Phcebe Hatch of
Oct, 30, 1813, res. 1877,
Marshfield, Mass.,)
b.

Wiscasset, Me., Sept.

4,

1807.

Chil-

dren
1.

Mary

(Hubbard), ''loi
"
'i"'-

b. Springfield, b.

Aug.
Jan.

8, 1838.

2.
3.

Samuel Dana Ebenezer Russell

Charles Russell

Montgomery, April
Nov.
Sept.

" "

4.
5.

^^"* b. ^-'^ b. ^'^"^

29, 1841. 10, 1844.

6.
7. 8.

William Henry Lewis Wales Fanny Wells Russell"

Ellen Caroline
"

" "

h.

24, 1845, d. Sept. 26, 14, 1848. [1873.

I,

^'^^ b. "" b.
''">

Feb. July

1851.

6, 6,

b.

March

1864. 1853. 1856, d. Aug. 24,

1

Jane Cordelia (Russell),^-^^^ 4th dau., b. SpringAug. 13, 1815, res. 1876, Pittsfield, Mass.; m. Springfield, Nov. 27, 83 1, Isaac Augustine Coolev, (s. of the Rev. Timothy Mather Cooley and Content Chapman of
V.
field,
1

Granville, Mass.,) b. Granville, Dec.

1.

12, 1798.
1832.

Children:

2. 3.

William Henry (Cooley), " Frances Russell " Jane Melissa

^"'

b. Sept.

5,

^" b.
''" b.

Aug.
Jan.

26, 1834.
6,

1839.

field,

Melissa Phelps (Russell),^'*-^'^'' 5th dau., b. SpringI, 1818, d. Montgomery, Ala., June 26, 1837; m. Montgomery, March 15, 1836, Perley S. Gerald of Montgomery, b. New York, 1808, d. Montgomery. Child:
VI.
April
I.

Melissa Antoinette (Gerald),

'-^'^

b.

Jan.

3,

1837, d. Feb.

2,

1855.

OBADIAH. NINTH GENERATION.

FRANCESJ-^^^
III.

CAROLINE

A. (RUSSELL).^'^^^
,'''^^

Henry Russell (Holder)

;

b.

June

9,

1835, res.
b.

m. Dec. 1876, Berhn, Mass. Nov. 10, 1838. Children:

1.

8,

1858,

Almira Crosby,
29, i860.

John Henry Russell (Holder),

Leslie Elbridge
"
"

i"-''

b.

Feb.

2.

i^-* 'o-s

b.

March

3.

Minnie Melissa
Wilfred Everett

b.

4.

"

"6

Feb. b. Dec.

24, 1862. 13, 1863.

i,

1864.

GEN.

IX.

OBADIAH, THIRD SON.

FRANCES."-^^-

12$

FRANCES W.

(RUSSELL).^-'^^

Mary (Hubbard),^-'"^ b. Springfield, Aug. 8, 1838; m. I. Montgomery, Ala,, Dec. 6, 1855, William Thomas Taylor of Montgomery, (s. of William Taylor and Anne Scott M'Gehee of Wilkes Co., Ga.,) b. Feb. 10, 1835. Children:
I.

126

DESCENDANTS OF HENRY OF MONTAGUE.

Fanny Russell
(Cooley),
"'^'

CH. VIII.

b. b.

Jan.

20, 1865.
ig, 1867.

Jenny Goodrich William Henry Kate

Abby Louisa
II.

" " " "

'"'"-^^

May
July

b. b. b.

i, d. Oct. Dec. 30, 1868.

"'**
'"-"^

Nov.

19, 1871.

25, d.

Aug.

8,

1873.

Frances Russell (Cooley)/-""

Feb.
18,

eldest dau., b.

Aug.

26, 1834, d.

i860; m. April

14, 1857,

ROGER Brown

HiLDRETH, of 1823, d. March

III. res.

Springfield, b. Mariboro, Mass., April lo,

26, 1872.

No

children.
dau., b. Jan. 6, 1839,
7,

1876,

Jane Melissa (Cooley),^-"^ 2d Portland, Oregon; m. Oct.

of

1857, J.

PuTNAM

Smith,
1.

N. H.,

b.

Dec.
^"-'^^

16, 1830.

Children:
June
6,

2.

3. 4.
5.

Minnie (Smith), Grace Putnam " " Frederick

h. b.

10-'

March March
Sept.

9, d.

1859.
2,

31, 1&60.
8,

Lena Putnam Putnam

" "

'^-s b. '"-' b.
'"-^o

1865, d. Jan.

1866.

b.

Aug. Nov.

15, 1867, d. Jan.

il, 1868.

23, 1073, d.

Aug.

15,

1874.*

HANNAH, ELDEST DAUGHTER,

And
3,

fourth child of Dr.

Henry

Wells,

b.

Brattleboro,

May

Montague, Oct. ii, 1812, tet. 42, unm., bur. Montague, Old Cemetery, next to her mother, with a similar headstone, inscribed " Miss Hannah, daughter of Doct. Henry and Mrs. Hannah Wells, died 11 Oct. 1812, se. 42." She was the first of the four deaf-mute children, and in the latter part of her life an invalid, and at times insane.
1770, d.

CORNELIUS, FOURTH SON.

CORNELIUS,^-^* 4th
Sept.
s.

of Dr.

Henry Wells,

b.

Brattleboro,
25, 1852, bur.

9, 1772, d. East Hartford, Conn., Feb.

Old Cemetery, East Hartford. A farmer, produce-merchant, and inn-keeper, at East Hartford, from about the
*For the above and other valuable Hubbard and Mrs. Jane C. Cooley.
material
I

am

indebted to Mrs. Frances

W.

GEN.

VII,

CORNELIUS, FOURTH SON.

in the old

12/

year 1800,
days, in

house

still

occupied (1877) by his only

is

surviving daughter.
for half a century.

The house

a curious relic of old

in

good preservation, but unchanged

the interior

m. Uxbridge, Mass., July 11, 1799, Parla Taft, (dau. of Samuel Taft and Mary Murdoch, of Uxbridge,) b. Uxbridge, March 24, 1774, d. East Hartford,
6,

He

April

1864.

Children:
Sept. 9, 1800. E. Hartford, July 17,1804. " b. Nov. 16, 1805, d. Apr. 16, 1867. " b. Oct. 6, 1808, d. Apr. 13, 1846 " b. June 22, 1810, d. Apr. 14, 1864.
b.

Jonathan Tremaine,'-^^^

b Montague,

Mary Murdoch.'-'^-* Samuel Taft,'''''5 Henry Watson, '126

Hannah

Stout.'-^-'

None

of these married.

CORNELIUS. SEVENTH GENERATION.

I.

Jonathan

Tremaine,^-^^'^ eldest
1877,

son, b.

Mass., Sept.

9, 1800, res.

New York

(office 117

Montague, Maiden

Lane), where he
II.

was many years a merchant, and Brooklyn.

eldest dau.,
b.

Mary Murdoch^-^^
17,

East Hartford,

July
ford.

I804, res, 1877, in the old

homestead. East Hart-

She and her

sister Hannah''-^^''

were

for

many

years

teachers in the Hartford schools.*

*

The Record

of the family of Cornelius

is

from

this daughter.

The

father,
at

mother, and three children are buried side by side in the old Cemetery
Hartford.

East

The

date of birth on the father's headstone

is

1792, an obvious mis-

take for 1772, and understood, but not yet corrected (1875), by his surviving
children.

CHAPTER

IX.

RICHARD WELLS OF CANANDAIGUA.

Wells,"-^^ (named probably from his uncles, Richard Sibley and Richard Stout,) 5th son of Dr. Henry Wells and Hannah Stout, was born at Brattleboro, Vt., June 24, 1774. As it proved, he was the one among the

ICHARD

^^V

seven sons to receive a professional education, following

thus an old

England tradition though his father would have given all his sons, had it been possible, a more liberal education than this one received. Richard began the study of medicine under his father, in 1792, when only eighteen, and after four years commenced his practice in Conway, Mass., (a few miles S. W. of Greenfield and Mon;
,

New

tague,) in

1796.

find

the following certificate of

his

studies in the handwriting of his venerable father:

" This may certify those whom it may concern that the Bearer, Richard Wells, has spent four years under my Tuition, & has since been in the Practice of Physick Six Years, & met with approbation and success in his practice in the

Township

of

Conway,
Sept.
6,

in

Hampshire County, MassachuM. M.

setts. " Montague,

1802.

"

HENRY WELLS,
18, 1804),

S.

S."*

Two
low
*

years after this (Oct.

he was elected Fel-

of the

Massachusetts Medical Society.

is

But he did not

M.
D.," adding that

Appended

a similar certificate signed " C. L. Seeger,

to

" the Bearer deserves

be respected as a Gentleman and Physician."

GEN.

VI,

RICHARD WELLS OF CANANDAIGUA.

in obtaining a living in

29

succeed

Conway,

(he

had married

there in 1798, only two years after completing his studies,) and in 1806 he turned his steps towards Western New York,

going at

and after spending a few months at in Canandaigua, at that time perhaps the largest town, certainly the most important, west of Utica. Here he remained until his death, or for thirty-five years, and attained a professional standing unequalled by any other physician of his day and place, with the excepfirst

alone,

other places, settling

tion,

perhaps, of

his

son-in-law.

Dr.

Pliny

Hayes.
of

His
toil,

daily journeys extended through

all

the towns in the neigh-

bourhood

of

Canandaigua, involving an amount

to undergo,

watching, and exposure, which few physicians of this day

would consent

and which

finally

much even

for his robust health.

In consultation, he

proved too was

often called to

much

greater distances.

As

a student, he

was by no means the equal

of his father,

(whose advanin-

tages of early education were denied the son,) but in

duction from experience he was remarkably successful, and

his

treatment was generally such as to inspire his patients

with the most implicit confidence in him.

would be deemed by some a failmaking " or saving money. had Generous, hospitable, and warm-hearted to a fault, reluctant to ask even the fees which his labours and success had fairly earned,* and still more unwilling to enforce their paymejit from ungrateful or dishonest patients with a large he family, and many years of sickness in his household, never laid up anything from his large practice and even his modest cottage, and the miniature farm on which most of his children were brought up, were only spared to him
In one respect, his
life

ure.

He

not the art of "

* E. g. I remember a charge of three dollars grudgingly paid for a drive of twelve miles and back over the long " Bristol Hills," and a night's watching. A So my father's accounts "visit" in the village brought yf/?/ cents in those days. against his patients testify.

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RICHARD WELLS OF CANANDAIGUA.

his Hfetime.

CH. IX.

and them during

He

struggled long and hard,

but in vain, to free himself from the entanglement of debt which fettered him through life. But his kindly and unselfish

even when arising from the dishonesty or injustice (or what he thought such) of others and he retained through all, the thorough
nature Avas never soured by his
trials,
;

respect and firm friendship of the best citizens of Cananthe social and proWestern New York. During the war of 18 12, he was commissioned as Surgeon of one of the New York Regiments, and served in that rank on the Niagara frontier. And some years earlier,

daigua,

a royal centre, in early days, of

fessional Hfe of

with a mingling of
offices

more

com-

mon

then than now,

he was for some time

C^^c^rS^^-^
AUTOGRAPH OF
1805.

Sheriff oi
ty.

theCounfor
Presi-

He was
years

many

dent of the Ontario

County Medical Soof which he was one of the founders, and was also a Curator of Geneva (now Hobart) College in its Medical School.* Never seeking office, he was nevertheless always much interested in public and municipal affairs; and his political opinions, of the old Federal School, were strongly held and freely^expressed. In the earlier years of his Canandaigua life, when Fourth of July celebrations were matters of much more moment than now, he was often called upon to officiate in
ciety,
* His degree of M. D. (an honorary one) was, I think, from this College,

though

do not

find his

name on

the Triennial,

as was,

in fact, the

case with given,

his father's for

many

years after the date of his

Dartmouth diploma.

It is

however, with his degree, on the Annual Catalogues for several years before his
death.

GEN.

VI.

HIS

HOME

LIFE.

131

the reading of the Declaration of Independence, being, like

his father,

an admirable reader.
if

His
little

early,

not

first

cottage on Main

St.,

residence in Canandaigua, was a nearly opposite what was then

the finest house in the village, that of Gideon Granger, the Postmaster-General of that day. But before 1820, he had

moved

into the house

St.,

farm on Bristol

home

to his

which he built on his eight acre and which was for many years a happy children and grandchildren, and in the young
a palace.
It is still (1877)

eyes of the

latter,

standing, and

recognizable, though greatly changed.

But the " eight acre farm," with its gardens, orchard and meadows, has long since been cut up into innumerable village streets and
lots.

Dr. Wells'

life,

however unsuccessful
and
"

in

gaining wealth,

was

as active, busy

useful, as an}^ life could be.

He
in his

used to say of himself that

that " he might live
trait

he had not a lazy hair

head;" and his one great dread in approaching old age was
till

his usefulness in

was gone."
of

But the

most prominent
is

my memory

him, next to his

thorough manliness, conspicuous both in mind and body. It impressed itself even upon a stranger at first sight. He had an utter abhorrence of all sham and pretence, even in the simplest mattei's of household life and of all indirect or underhand ways of accomplishing the most desirable ends. He loved an out-door life, and all things in the natural world were full of interest to him. He delighted in gardening and the cultivation of fruit and our two gardens, each covering an acre of ground, were noted for the earliest fruits and vegetables of the village, and one of them always brilliant with the finest of old-fashioned flowers. Next to his garden and orchard, perhaps I should say equally with them, he loved (it is not too strong a term,) his horses, whose qualities and training he thoroughly understood and teaching his grandsons to
kindness of heart,
his
; ; ;

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RICHARD WELLS OF CANANDAIGUA.

CH. IX.

ride well

morninp: hour,

and boldly was a favourite occupation for his early an hour which was indeed his choicest

time for either out-door or in-door occupations. He was rarely in bed after four o'clock, often rising long before that
time.

From
in

conviction as well as choice, he attached himself to

it

the Protestant Episcopal Church, as soon as

was planted

Canandaigua,

in 1816.

The

tradition

is

that an old-fash-

ioned Christmas Eve service in a Vermont village, to which

forest,

he had found his way, by the accident of being lost in the made an early impression on him which he never
All his children

forgot.

who

lived

beyond infancy became

tions,

communicants, and all his daughters' baptisms, confirmaand marriages took place in the old " St. John's
Church."'"

The
of

best testimony, perhaps, to Dr. Wells' real excellence

is

character,

those to

whom

to be found in the love and devotion of he ministered longest as a physician,

regard which, from the rich and poor

alike,

never

failed

him through life, and which manifested itself in his last illnot ness, and at his death, by a thousand acts of kindness ceasing then, indeed, for his children and grandchildren
;

have many a time

in later years felt the benefit of

it.

In August, 1840, an attack of palsy

somewhat disabled

him from

his

more

active habits, but he continued his proIn the following year, while at

fessional labours to the last.

Avon Springs
illness at his

for the benefit of the water, he

had a second

stroke, which, after five

days of prostrating, but not painful home, ended his life, Sept. 12, 1841, at the age of
All his children were with him, and his last

sixty-seven.

*The old Church, (the admiration of Bishop Hobart,) after celebrating its " semi-centennial " in 1866, has given way to a far costlier one of stone, designed
by Emlen
ioners.
Littell,

one of the most perfect and beautiful

first

parish churches in the

country, but hardly replacing the

one

in the affections of the older parish-

GEN.

VI.

MARRIAGE AND CHILDREN.

133

hours were peaceful and hopeful. His funeral, on the 15th, was attended by a great number of people of all classes, but there were none, beyond his own family, who felt his loss more deeply than the poor, to whom he had given ^-"^^ /Xl
freely a great part of his
life-work,

/\y

and who had

oft-

'

.-1

/I

^ ^^ct-t^

/^

/^

en experienced his benefi-

AuTOGRx\Pii, 1841.

cence
Dr.

in

many ways.
at

Wells married,

Miriam Hayden,
d.

(dau. of
of

Conway, Mass., July 30, 1798, Moses Hayden, M. D., and Tryb. there,

phena (French) Childs,

Canandaigua, July

Conway,)

Dec.

25,

1780,

She was a woman of great excellence of chai^acter, and especially of deep religious principle. Their remains rest side by side in the old
26, 1831, cet. 50.

Burial

Ground

at

Canandaigua, with those of

five of their

children, and of Dr.

Hayden, the father

of Mrs. Wells.*

Of

their eleven children, three died in infancy,

and

six

married and had families; one only

1.

now

(1877) survives.
17, 1799.

Maria Cleomira, ''-'*

Eliza Stout,'-'-'

b.
b.

2.

3.

Maria Hamutal

''^

b.

4.
5. 6. 7.

Nancy Williams,'-'"' Mary Tryphena,'-'-^Mary Augusta,'-''*^

Martha Hayden,''^-*
Henry,'-'35 Richard Henry,'-'^^ Katharine Elizabeth,'-

b.
b.

Conway, " " "

March 31, d. April Feb. 23, 1800.

Aug.
3,

1802.
3,

March

29, 1804.

Canandaigua, Feb.

1806, d.

Nov. 13,1807.

b.

8. 9.

10.

IX.

Charlotte Miriam,'-''**

*Their headstones are inscribed

"Richard Wells, M.

D.,

born

at Brattle-

boro, Vt., June 24, 1774, died in Canandaigua, Sept. 12, 1841, aged 67 years. Extensively known as a judicious and successful practitioner of Medicine in this
vicinity, for forty years, highly

esteemed

for his

many

social virtues, a devoted

husband, an affectionate and indulgent

and sympathizing friend." " Sacred to the memory of Mrs. Miriam Wells, wife of Dr. Richard Wells, and daughter of the late Dr. Moses Hayden, who died July 26, 1831, in the 51st
father, "

year of her age.

Mourn

not,

my

friends,
I

His summons

my Saviour calls obey."

For the

Hayden

family see note

to this chapter.

134

RICHARD WELLS OF CANANDAIGUA.

CH. IX.

RICHARD. SEVENTH GENERATION.

Eliza Stout/-'^^ 2d dau., b. Conway, Feb. 23, 1800, Nov. 4, 1831; m. Canandaigua, Dec. 19, Canandaigua, d. 1822, Pliny Hayes, Jr., M. D.,* (s. of Pliny Hayes and LuII.
* See infra. Note B, Dr. Hayes received his early education at Hayes. Canandaigua Academy, where he was ceriified as a "' qualified teacher " in 1806, In (ast. 18), but began life as a journeyman printer in Utica, N. Y., in 1807. i8r2. after spending some years in New York, Philadelphia, Washington, and Easion. Md., he began the study of Medicine under Dr. Gamage, in Boston; and soon after obtained the appointment of Captain's Clerk and Acting Assistant Surgeon of the U. S. Ship Hornet, commanded by Capt. James Lawrence, in which he made the famous cruise of the Constihiiion and Hornet to the West Indies and South America, taking part in the action between the Hornet and Peacock. Returning to Boston in April, 18 13, he resumed his studies, becoming pupil and aflerwards assistant to the late Prof. John C. Warren, of Boston, and He began his practice in receiving the degree of M. D. from Harvard, 1815. Boston, and in 1815-17 was chosen a member of the Massachusetts Medical
Soci-ety, the

the

Linnean Society of New England, the Howard Benevolent Society, Handel and Haydn Society, President of the Boylston Medical Society, In December, 18 17, he removed to Physician of the Boston Dispensary, &c.
Canandaigua, N. Y., taking the place
of the first physician there (Dr.

a position which he held until his death.

He was

a musician

Dungan), and composer of

Society (which
till

considerable merif, President of the Ontario Handel and

Haydn

he founded), and Organist of

St.

John's Church, Canandaigua, from 182 1

his

death; and his only publication was a

Manual of Instruction

in Music,

though

he

and volumes of notes, on a variety of medical, a thorough student in Botany, Chemistry, Natural Philosophy and Technology, and in the latter capacity, aided by an inherited mechanical genius, built in 1827, the first Railway in New York, (and one of the first in the United States,) to the pier on Canandaigua Lake. He was a frequent lecturer, and recognized authority in Western New York, in
left

many MS.
and

lectures, treatises,

literary,

scientific subjects.

He was

In 1825 he established a on the part of some of his associates, was shortlived. Among his intimate friends and associates as physicians were the late Drs. Martyn Paine of New York, and Usher Parsons of Providence,
scientific matters, as well

as in his

own

profession.
failure

Medical -chool

at

Auburn, which, through

R.

I.,

the latter a classmate.

in St. John's

Dr Hayes was buried

Churchyard,

New

York, but in 1854 his

is

sons removed his remains to Canandaigua.

Grave of Pliny Hayes, M. 1831, aged 42 years.

" But

D,,

His headstone of Canandaigua, who died in

that

inscribed,

"

The

this city, July 28th,

there

is

which

shall

awake

E'en from the grave's unconscious dreaming, light of glory which shall break The gloom with everlasting beaming.''

GEN.

VII.

CHILDREN.

135

cretia Jewett, of

Granby,

Ct.,

and

Bristol,

N.

Y.,) b.

Dec.

5,

1788,

d.

New York

City,

July

28,

1831.

Granby, Both

buried in the Old Cemetery at Canandaigua.*

life was spent with her mother's family, chiefly at York, on the Genesee River, the country home of her maternal uncle. Judge Hayden,f who

Much

of

Mrs. Hayes' earlier

regarded her as an adopted child, and bequeathed to her part of his estate; and partly in the family of his wife's
the Hon. John Chandler WiUiams, at Pittsfield, where she received most of her early education. To say that she was an accomplished and intellectual woman, greatly esteemed and beloved, will be thought very little by those yet living who knew her personally. Their remembrance of her, and yet more her numerous letters still preserved, to and from a wide circle of friends, show that her work and influence, social, moral and religious, must have been extraordinary for a life ended long before
father,

Mass.,

its

prime.

As daughter,

wife,

and mother, few

lives

have
her.

been happier or more

useful, in

the years allotted

Her

early death

was hastened by incessant care and anxiety

her husband,
:

in the last illness of

whom

she survived only

three months.
t.

Children

2.

Charles Wells (Hayes),*'^' 8i-2 " Robert Pliny

b.

b.

Canandaigua, March 19, 1828. " Feb. 25, 1831.

b.
set.

III.

Maria

Hamutal,^-'^" 3d dau.,

1802, d. Rochester,
in

N. Y., Sept.

8,

1876,

Conway, Aug. 3, Buried 74, unm.

After her father's

the Old Cemetery, Canandaigua.:}:

in 1841,

death

she resided most of the time in Rochester

with her sister Mrs. Mathews, or with the children of her

* In the newer or eastern part, not with her father's family. Her headstone text, " Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His saints."
f
X

has the

See Note A.

Hayden.

at her grave is marked by a small Greek cross in a circle cut through the stone, and on the reverse side the words of the Litany, " Grant us

The headstone
Peace."

Thy

136

RICHARD WELLS OF CANANDAIGUA.

She had few advantages

CH. IX.
of edu-

elder sister Mrs. Hayes.

cation
;

but she had a natural energ}', practical good sense,

quickness of comprehension, and ready wit, which

made

up

in a

great measure for

its

deficiencies,

and combined
chief

with a
friends

warm

heart and kindly S3ai-ipathy,

made her many

wherever she was known.

is

But the

memory
The two

of her long life

that of rare devotion to a trust.

sons of Mrs. Hayes, mentioned above, were committed to

her care by their mother's wish, and from that time her one
great object in
life

Avas their welfare

life I

more thoroughl}'
IV.
in the

unselfish

and happiness. have never seen.

b.

Nancy

Williams,''-'"'^

4th dau.,

29, 1804, d.

Canandaigua, Aug.

4, 1844, ast.

Conway, March Buried 40, unm.

to
filial

Old Cemeter3^""

Her

life

was devoted

duty,

especially during

the ten years for which

her mother's

death devolved upon her the chief care of her father's house.
VI.

Mary

Augusta,''-''*^ 6th dau., b.

13, 1870, set.

Canandaigua, Sept.
nearly 62.

19, 1808, d.

Rochester, July
Buffalo.

Buried

at Forest

Lawn,

Oscar Easterly Sibley,

Easterly of

She m. Canandaigua, Oct. 7, 1828, EHza (s. of James Sibley and Albany and Canandaigua,) b. Canandaigua,
N.
J.,

March
every

30, 1805, d. Elizabeth,

;

Dec.

7,

i876.t

A woman

way admirable but especially in the union of a sound judgment with a warm loving heart, which made her Can* Tier headstone has the words,

never more appropriate than for the

and

last

years

of her slowly fading

life,

" I waited patiently for the Lord,

He

inclined unto

me, and heard my calling." Sibley. f See infra, Note (Z.

business of his father, a well

Oscar E. Sibley succeeded in early

jeweller, of

life to

the

known watchmaker and

Canandaigua,

from the year 1803

cupation until

and in 1848 removed to Buffalo, continuing in the same ocand maintaining an unblemished character, not only in business, but in all the relations of life. His son, George E. Sibley, to whose research I am indebted for so large a portion of this family history, says of him He was a devoted husband and father, generous and liberal to the extent of his means well read, though in great part a self-educated man blessed with a remarkable memory, and a ready writer." In his last years he prepared a volume as yet unpublished, of great value and interest, entitled " School Day Recollections of Canadarque," a most minute and vivid account of social and business
;

1875,

'

GEN.

VII.

CHILDREN.

137

andaigua home for twenty years, a centre of happiness, and its memory a very pleasant one. Children
:

1.

2.
3.

Richard James (Sibley), " George Edward " Charles Henry Wells

s-ies
-^"''

b.
b.

-"55

b.

Canandaigua, July " Feb. "

b.

28, 1829.
7,

April

6,

1835. T837.

VII.
April

Martha
19,

Hayden,"''^ 7th dau.,

Buffalo,

Canandaigua,
;

nearly 55 m. Canandaigua, April 5,' 1835, Cyrenius Chapin Bristol, (s. of Dan Bristol and Mary Lock wood Reynolds of Buffalo,)
17, 1866, ast.

1811, d.

Feb.

b.

Buffalo, July

8,

1811, res.

1877,

New
in

York;

for

many

years a well
this family of

known druggist
daughters
;

in Buffalo, afterwai"ds

Editor
belle of

of the Republic.'^

Mrs. Bristol was,

youth, the

in after life, a striking

example

of

Christian faith, courage and patience, under the discipline

of long years of painful

and wearing

disease.

Children,

all b. at

Buffalo

:
Dec. 27, d Dec. 28, 1835. Dec. 17, 1836. b. July 9, 1838.
b.
b.

Henry Mary Wells

4.
5.

(Bristol),8'e6
S.KV

Maria Harrison Augusta Gibson

Jessie
1.170

b. Sept. 2. 1840. b. b. b.

May
"

16, 1842, d. Jan. 19, 1864.

Charlotte Miriam
Elizabeth-

s'"
^'-

b Jan.
Feb.

Mathews Martha Hayden

II, 1844, d. " " d.

8,

May

25, 1859.
17, 1849.

March

"
8.174

Cyrenius Wells

1846. b. Oct. 26, 1850.

IX.

Richard Henry

,^-^^''

2d son, (the only son

5,

who

lived

beyond
Jan.

infancy,) b. Canandaigua, April 26, 181

d. Buffalo,

4, 1868.

He was

for

many

years a merchant at Mos;

cow, N. Y., Rochester, and elsewhere afterwards bookkeeper with the American Express Co., Buffalo. He m. Moscow, June
25,

1845,

Homer Sherwood and

life in

Delia Harriet Sherwood, (dau. of Harriet Dutton,) b. Moscow, Dec.

Always reduring the first quarter of this century. he became in mature years a communicant of the Church, and his Christian character grew evidently deeper and stronger to the very hour of death. " It was his boast," says his son, " during the later years of his life, that he had not an enemy in the world and all who knew him can testify that he had
Western
ligiously inclined,
;

New York

hosts of steadfast friends." * Dan Bristol, father of C.

C, one
;

of the earliest settlers of Buffalo, was b.

New

Haven,

Ct.,

April lo, 1782

his wife

on L.

I.,

Jan. 12, 1787.

138
II,

RICHARD WELLS OF CANANDAIGUA.

1825,
d.

CH. IX.
at

Rochester,

May
b.

28,
:

1877."

Both buried

Forest Lawn, Buffalo.

1.

Children
b. Utica,

2.

^''^ Alice Sherwood, Richard Richmond,^-''"^

Rochester, March 20, 1846.

3.

Edward IngersoU,

*'"

13, 1853. b. Buffalo, Sept. 19, 1859.

May

X.
Sept.

Katharine

Elizabeth,^'^^^ 8th dau., b. Canandaigua,

19, 181 7, res. 1877,

Rochester, only surviving child of

Dr. Richard Wells; m. Canandaigua, Dec.

Marsh Mathews, M. D., (s. of Nancy Osborn, of Newark, N. J.,)

1809, d.

MoSES Rensselaer Mathews and

28, 1841,
b.

Benton, N. Y., July

7,

Philadelphia, Nov. 23, 1867, buried at

Mount Hope,

Rochester.f
[.

Children

2. 3.

4.

(Mathews)/-"'* b. Can'a, Aug. 9, d. Aug. 10, 1842. -i' " " Feb. 22, 1844. b. ^.iso ^ Roch., Sept. 2, 1845. Elizabeth Gibson " ^'^^ b. " " April 17, 1851, d. Aug. 20, 1853. Anna Kip

Maria

Henry Wells

Canandaigua, April II, 1820, d. Buffalo, Feb. 29, 1872; m. Canandaigua, Nov. 6, 1845, Henry Kip, (s. of Henry Kip and Christina Dakin of Kip's Bay, N. Y., and Buffalo,) b. Utica, Jan. 2, 1 81 7, res. 1877, Buffalo, Vice President and General
XI.
Miriam,'-'^*

Charlotte

youngest

child, b.

Superintendent of the United States Express Co.:{: Mrs. Kip's married life was spent wholly in Buffalo, where
her brilliant social qualities, and her earnest zeal and usefulness in
for the Church and the poor, made known and much beloved. She was by natural endowments a favourite and leader in society, almost from
all

good works

her widely

* One whose personal loveliness was a true expression of her whole character; and whose faithfulness in eveiy duty had its rewar.d in the home life and the Christian death, both of her husband and herself. f Dr. Mathews became, about 1840, a partner of Dr. Richard Wells, and in 1844 removed to Rochester, where he soon attained a high standing in his profession. A patient and accurate student, thoroughly happy in scientific and philosophical research, and yet indefatigable in the labour which his large practice devolved upon him, his life was a rare example of successful energy, both in study and active duly; and with these qualities a warm heart and Christian principle were happily combined. See in/ra, Note D. Kip.
:j:

GEN.

VII,

CHILDREN.
;

139

but her best elements of character were developed most conspicuously in her later years.*

childhood

Children,
1.

all b. at

Buffalo
" " "
^.iss
^'*-'

2.
3.

Henry Wells Edward Dakin

William Fargo
Charles

(Kip),^'^^ b.

March
April
8,

8,

1847.

^
b.

jyf^y 39, 1850, d.

Nov.

29, 1851.

4.

Haydeu

^-'^^

b.

June

1855. 27, i860.

RICHARD. EIGHTH GENERATION.

ELIZA
I.

STOUT.^-^^^
s.

Charles Wells

(Hayes),^-^''^ eldest

of Pliny

Hayes

and Eliza S. Wells/-^-" b. Canandaigua, March 19, 1828, (bapt. Aug. 29, 1830,) res. Portland, Me., Chaplain (to the Bishop of Maine) and Canon (of St. Luke's Cathedral);f m. Trinity Church, Geneva, N. Y., June 13, 1854, Frances Elizabeth Gladding, of Geneva, (only dau. ol Timothy and Cynthia (dau. Benjamin) Whipple of Gladding Albany,) b. Albany, Dec. 22, 1835. Children:
:|:

Mary Frances

Charles, ''"* Anna Williams,^"''

(Hayes),^-''^ b. Fayetteville, Sept. 11, bapt. Nov. ii, 1855. b N. Hart., Aug. 25, bapt. and d. Aug. 26, 1858.
b.

Margaret Alice,^"'' Katharine Elizabeth,^-''' Henry Wells Stanley, ^-'^s

Oct.21, bap.r)ec.25, l859,d. Jan.9, 17, bapt. Dec. 25, 1861. " b. July 19, bapt. Oct. ii, 1063 b, Portland, March 28, bapt. April 5, 1874.
b.

" "

i8(

Nov.

* Her active interest in the work of the Church, more especially among the German population of Buffalo, called forth an eloquent eulogy from the Bishop of Western New York at her funeral in St. Paul's Cathedral. Academy (1837-45) and Hobart (then Geneva) Colf Educated at Canandaigua Theol. School of Hobart, 1850-52, Ordained Dealege, B. A. 1849, M. A. 1852
;

con (Trinity Ch., Geneva, by Bp. (C. Chase) of N. H.) July 2, 1852, and Priest (St. Paul's Church, Rochester, by Bp. (De Lancey) of W. N. Y.) June 28, 1853 Rector in W. N. Y., at Newark, Hamilton, Fayetteville, New Hartford, and Holland Patent, 1852-67 Chaplain to Bp. (Neely) of Maine, 1867, Canon of the Cathedral 1869, Examining Chaplain, Secretary and Registrar of the Dio;

cese,

Deputy
t

President of the Standing Committee, Trustee of the Gen. Theol. Sem., to Gen. Convention, Memb. Maine Historical Society 1872, Correspond-

ing Secretary from 1874,

Memb. New Eng.

Historic Genealogical Society, 1876.

||

See Note E.

Gladding.

See Note F.

Whipple.

I40
II.

RICHARD WELLS OF CANANDAIGUA.

CH. IX.

Robert Pliny

(Hayes),'^-^'^^

2d son,

b.

Canandaigua,

emy and Brown

1855
;

Feb. 25, 1831, (bapt. 1834,) educ. at Canandaigua AcadUniversity, B. A. 1851, Auditor of United
States Express Co., and resident of
Buffalo, N. Y., since

m.

I.

Buffalo, April 22, 1858,

Sara Elizabeth
Buffalo,

Sizer,

(dau. of

Henry H.

Sizer

""

and Mary I^lizabeth Whiting

Sept.
16,

of Buffalo,) b. Buffalo, Jan. 22, 1839, d.

1868, bur. Forest

May

19,

1870,

Lawn. He m. II. Trinity Church, SuzETTE Linzee Ingersoll, (dau.

Buffalo,
of

the

Rev. Edward Ingersoll,t D. D., Rector of Trinity Church, Buffalo, and Catharine Frances (dau. Gurdon) Seymour of Savannah, Ga.,) b. Troy, N. Y., Sept. 23, 1841. Child b}^ ist
marriage:
1.

Mary

Sizer (Hayes), -'"^ b.

Buffalo, Tan. 15, bapt. July 24, 1859.

By
2.

2d marriage

3.

Maud Ellen (Hayes),9'2o b. Buffalo, Dec. 25, 1871, bapt. Feb, 13, 1872. " b. Suzette Ingersoll,^-'-' June 5, bapt. July 12, 1874.

MARY AUGUSTA.'
I.

'''

Richard James (Sibley),^-^*^'' eldest s. of Oscar E. Sibley and Mary A. Wells,^''" b. Canandaigua, July 28, 1829,
Accountant; m. Foster. (dau. of Norman C. Foster and Emmeline (dau. Moses) Cleveland, of Canandaigua,) b. Canandaigua, June 11, 1836.
(bapt. July
5,

1848,) res. since 1854, Buffalo,

23, 1852,

Geneseo, N. Y., Sept.

Mary La\vrence

Children
1.

Emily Mott

(Sibley).''-''^-

b. b.

2.

Charles Mallaby.^'i^s

Buffalo, Feb. 4, 1857. " March 8, i860.

II.

George Edward
7,

(Sibley) ,^-^^* 2d son,

b.

Canandai-

gua, Feb.
i860, B.

1835, bapt.

A.

(Grace Ch., Newark, N. J.,) Nov. 5, Williams College, 1855, Counsellor at Law,
Sizer.
f See

* See Note G.

Note H.

Ingersoll.

GEN.
54

VIII.

GRANDCHILDREN.

I41

Wall
N.

St.,
J.,

New
14,

York,
dau.

res.

Elizabeth, N. J.;*

m. Harri-

son,

Oct,

1858, his 2d cousin

Mary Elizabeth

Benjamin Winthrop Clapp^-"^ and Mary Ballard Hills, of New York, and Harrison, N. Children: J.,)f- b. New York, Feb. 25, 1837.
Clapp,^--'^

(eldest

of

1.

2.

Mary Clapp (Sibley), ''-^ George Wells,^''^^

Alice Easterly,
'''21;

b.

3.

Harrison, N. J., Aug. 21, 1859, bapt. Nov. 5,1860. Elizabeth, Jan. 29, bapt. May 10, 1867, d. Jan. 3, >* ^ May 29, bapt. Aug 16,1874. [1868.
b.

III.

Charles Henry Wells

6,

(Siblev),^-^'''' b.

Canandai-

N. J.,) Jan. 13, 1871, res. Accountant m. I. Toledo, O., May 4. 1858, Matilda Calhoun Hazlett, (dau. of Isaac Newton Hazlett, M. D., and Emma C. Moore, of Toledo, O.,) b.
gua, April
1837, bapt. (Elizabeth,
1877, Elizabeth,

N.

J.,

Dresden, O., Feb.

1839,
J.,

^^-

Toledo, Feb.
12, 1871,

24,

i860.

He

m.

II.

Elizabeth, N.

Sept.

his

2d cousin Jose-

phine Clapp,^-^^'^ (3d dau. of Benjamin Winthrop Clapp"'"' and Mary Ballard Hills, of New York,) b. New York, Nov. Child by 2d marriage: 29, 849.1'
1

I.

Winthrop Clapp

(Sibley),"'^' b. Elizabeth,

June

21, bapt.

Dec. 1872.

MARTHA HAYDEN.
II.

''''

Mary Wells

(Bristol),"-'''^ eldest

dau. of C. C. Bris-

tol

and Martha H. WelV"^'* b. Buffalo, Dec. 17, 1836; m. June 25, 1862, Edward Seymour Ingersoll, (eldest s. of the Rev. Edward Ingersoll, D. D., and CathaBuffalo,

* Mr. Sibley's indefatigable research in New York and New England history and genealogy, has furnished a great part of the material for this Memoir. For many years he has given efficient service in all Church work, and is now Deputy to the Gen. Convention, Trustee of the Gen. Theological Seminaiy, &c. for the Diocese of New Jersey.
f

See Ch. X. and Note.

142

RICHARD WELLS OF CANANDAIGUA.

Seymour,)
b.

CH. IX.
1837,

rine Frances

Westport, Conn., Nov.

3,

res. 1877, Buffalo.'"

1.

Children:
'-*

Katharine Maria (Ingersoll),^

b.

2.

3.

Martha Hayden Sevmour

"
"

^'-"'

b.

Buffalo, "
"
"

March
"

19, 1864. 21, 1866.

"'*'
^'^'
^^'-

b. b.
b.

Dec.
Jan.

12, 1868.
2,

4
5.

Mary
Charles Anthony

"
"

1871.
29, 1877.

"

March

III.

Maria Harrison

(Bristol);--^"^ 2d dau., b. Buffalo,

7,

July

9,

1838: m. Rochester, N. Y., Jan.

(s.

1875,

Lafayette

Rogers, of Rochester, Merchant,

Mary Shaw
1830.
I.

of Wales,

Mass.,)

b.

Rogers and Wales, Mass., Nov. 19,

of Joel
Aug.
ig, 1876.

Child:
Kate Luvan
(Rogers),"'^-' b. Rochester,

IV.
Sept.
2,

Augusta Gibson

(Bristol),'*-'''''
J.,

3d dau.,

b. Buffalo,

1840; m. Manchester, N.

June
then

30, 1870,

the Rev.
of
St.

David

Harmon

Lovejoy, M.

D.,

Rector

Stephen's Church,

New

Hartford, N. Y.,
(s.

now Chaplain

of

the Episcopal Hospital, Philadelphia,

of Isaac

Lovejoy,

M.

D.,

and Minerva Adams,

8,

of

Ann

x\rbor, Mich.,) b. Riga,

N. Y., Jan.
VIII.
falo,

1839.

Feb.

Martha Hayden (Bristol),^'-'^^ 7th dau., b. Buf8, 1846; now (1877) Sister in the Church Charity
J.,

Foundation, Brooklyn, N. Y.; m. Tom's River, N.

1871,

March,

Richard Douc;las James, M.

d.

D., of

Tom's River,
[1875.

who
I.

there June

11, 1872.

Child
U.,

Lilian Augusta (Jame.s), '''* b.

Tom's

March

20,

1S72, d.

N. Y. Jan.
b.

24,

IX.

Cyrenius Wells

(Bristol),"-''^

only son,

Buffalo,

Oct. 26, 1850, res.

New

York.

RICHARD
I.

HENRY.^-'^'^

Alice Sherwood,^-"^ only dau., of Richard H.Wells'-'-* and Deha H. Sherwood, b. Rochester, N. Y., March 20, 1846; m. Utica, N. Y., Oct. 3,* 1877, John Harry Stedman,
* See

Note H.

Ingeksoll.

GEN.
of

VIII.

GRANDCHILDREN.

I43

Rochester, Contractor,
of

Hannah W. Brownell
Nov.
II. 15, 1843.

John R. Stedman, and (s. of Newport, R. I.,) b. Newport, R. I.,

Richard

Richmond,-^^*^ eldest son, b. Utica, N. Y.,

May
III.

13, 1S53, res. 1877, Bnffalo,

N. Y.

With U.

S.

Express

Compan}^

Edward

Ingersoll,^-'"' 2d son, b. Buffalo, Sept. 19,

1859, iiow (1877) preparing for College at Phillips Exeter, N. H.

Academy,

KATHARINE
E.

ELIZABETH.'"^'^^

II.

Henry Wells
res.

(Mathews),'-^'-* only son of Dr.

Wells,^'^'^^ b.

M. M.

Mathews and Katharine

22,
5,

Canandaigua, Feb.

1844,

1877,

Rochester, N. Y.; m. Rochester, Oct.

1868,

Searles

Nettie Lucretia Searles, (dau. of Edward D. and Marietta L. Byam, of Rochester,) b. Brockport,

N.

Y.,
III.

May

24, 1844.

Elizabeth Gibson
N. Y., Sept.
2,

(Mathews),^-'^"^ 2d dau., b.
17,
(s.

ester,

1845

- Rochester, June

bert

Mathews, of Rochester, Merchant, Mathews and Bridget Reilly, of Grenard,

5,

Roch1873, Roof John

b.

Ireland,)

Grenard, July

1842.

CHARLOTTE
I.

MIRIAM.'*^^

Henry Wells
Buffalo;

(Kip),"-^^"-

eldest son of

Charlotte M.
ufacturer,

Wells,^-^'^^ b.

Buffalo, N. Y.,

Henry Kip and March 8, 1847, ManOct.

21,

m.

Hartford,

Conn.,

1869,

Charlotte Filley,
*See Genealogies

(dau. of

Edward
b.

Filley

and Frances
31,

A. Chapman, of Hartford,)"
in Stiles'

Brooklyn, Jan.
Filley,
s.

1848.

Windsor.

Mark

of Hezekiah, b. 1.745,
b.
s.

m. 1785, Eleanor Bissell, dau. Jonathan (s. Jonathan, s. Nathaniel, s. John, Their Eng. 1591) Bissell and Elizabeth Holliday, of Windsor, Conn., b. 1758. Horace Filley, b June 23, 17S7. m. c. 1808, Tirza Thorp, and their s. Edward,
April
4,

b.

1817, d Oct.

i.

186S, m. Hartford, Conn.,

May

1839, Frances A.

ChapFort

man, of Hartford, b. iVevvtown, Conn., Nov. 3, 1821. Charlotte Filley, Edward, .ni. Col John Hamilton, U- S. A., now. (1877) commanding Preble, Portland, Me.

sister of

at

144

RICHARD WEFXS OF CANANDAIGUA,

:

CH. IX.

Children
I.

Henry Edward
Frances Anne,

j 2.

(Kip), "
"

*''''

b. Buffalo,
b.

''"*'

"
"

July 27, 1870. Oct. 16, 1876.

"
"

^3.

Charlotte Miriam

"'^^ b.

"
b.

III.
8,

William Fargo
B. A.,

(Kip),'^-^"^

3d son,

Buffalo, April

1855;

Harvard University, 1876; Harvard Law

BulTalo,

School, 1877.

IV.
27,

Charles Hayden (Kip),^-'^^ 4th son, b. i860, now (1877) preparing- for Colleg-e.*

June

* Since the last sheet was printed, my grandfather's diploma from Geneva (was It is dated Jan. 22, 1839, but the Hobart) College has come into my hands. degree (M. D. causa honoris) was conferred by Resolution of the Trustees of July 31, 1S38. Letter from Prest. Hinsdale, Aug. 8, 1877.

NOTE

A.

THE HAY DEN FAMILY

OF WINDSOR AND CONWAY.

AYDEN
:

{Heydon, Haydon), an ancient

family of Norfolk and Devon, Eng., took

this

Saxon name from the

village of

Heydon

{high

down
"

or plain) in Norfolk, 14 m. w. of Nor-

known resiHeydon Manor" and " Heydon Hall," in Eyresford Hundrud, now S. Erpingham, (at the
dence.

wich, near which was their earliest

Conquest apart of Stinton Manor, and so called

in
c.

Domesday Book,; were held by

the family from

1200 to 1567, when they sold the Manor to the

Bulwer-Lytton family, by

whom

it is still

held,

and removed
branch remained
in
till

to Baconsthorp,

where the Norfolk

1689, generally of knightly rank, and often distinguished

camp and
^i.)

at

Court.*
of

Thomas de Heydon,
for Norfolk. 1221,

Heydon,

b. c.

1185, d.

c.

1250, King's Justice

in

Eyre

was father of

(2.)

William,
in

b. c. 1220, d. 1272,
I.

whose
(1273),

2d

s. (3.)

John de Heydon, an eminent Judge

Devonshire, Edw.

was founder of the Devon Line, from which sprung the Haydens of Windsor and Conway. Hiss. (4.) Robert Haydon of Boughwood, near Ottery St. Mary,
Devon, changed the
culiar to the
first

vowel of the name

to , a spelling
,

from that time pe-

Devon

family.
(5.)

He

m. yoan

and

in I2gi,

deeded

his estate of

Boughwood
of a cousin,
s.

to his son

Henry, who m. yulian

(6.)

{a 7)
s

Havdon, dau. and heiress

(7.)

Haydon
(8.)

of Ebford.

William,
(9.)

of Henry. of

Robert,

of

William.

John,

s.

of Robert.

Henry,

Boughwood and

* The account of the Hayden family hi England I take wholly from the recent researches of one of the Braintree, Mass. branch, the Rev. William B. Hayden, long of Portland, Me., now of Southport, Eng., in a valuable pamphlet just received (Sept. 1877) from him, " The Heydons in England and America," London, 1877, to which I must refer for fuller and very interesting details, especially descriptions of Cadhay and other family seats, monuments, &c., in both the Norfolk and Devon lines.
,

146
Ebfoid, 1397.
s.

RICHARD WELLS OF CANANDAIGUA.

of John.
(10.)

CH. IX.
s.

John,

ist

s.

of Henry, inheriied 1407, d.

p.,

and was succeeded by

(d. y.),

his bro. (10 B.)

William, of Lymston, who had Richard

and William.
(11.)

Geoffrey, John, Richard again,

(12.)
St.

Richard, 4lh Joan

s.

of

William, 1476.

Richard,

s.

of Richard,
3 s
,

1522, m.

Trent, dau. of

Morice, of Ottery

Mary, and had

John, and George, and a dau. Joan, w. of John

Thomas (of Boughwood and Ebford), Coram of Ottery. George, the

s.

3d

s.,

was

father of John. Sheriff

(13.)

and Alderman of London, and a great public

of (12) Richard,

benefactor.

Sir

John Haydon, 2d
St.

became an eminent

lawyer and Bencher of Lincoln's Inn,* foundei of the present endowed parish

and grammar-school of

Mary Ottery

(the birthplace

and school of Coleridge,

;

whose father was

Granville,

its

Master) and of other existing public charities

m. yoan
its

dau.

and heiress of Hugh, of Cadhay, which estate with

grand

country-seat near Ottery thus

came

into the family.

The domain
and
his

(400 acres) and

mansion have passed by descent

in the female line to their present possessor Sir

d.
s.

Thomas Hare,
tended
heir,

Bart.

Sir

John Haydon
(s.

p., 1587,

nephew and

in-

(14.)

TnOAtAS,

of his elder bro.

Thomas, and yoan, dau. of

to

Richard Weeks of Honeychurch,) who m. Christiana, dau. and heiress of Robert

TidersL'igh of T., Dorset, having
(15.)

predeceased him, the Cadhay estate came

Robert,

s.

of

Thomas and

Christiana, living in 1620,

who m. yoan,
7

dau. of
s.

Sir

Amyas
s.

Patilet of

George Hinton, Somerset.

(16)

Gideon, eldest
s.

of

Robert, m. Margaiet, dau. of John Davy, Esq., of Creedy, and had

eldest

dau-

His
at

(17) Gideon, gr.

s.

(18.)

William, and

gr. gr.

s.

(19.)

CiiDEON,
d.

res.

Cadhay, and on the decease of William in 1722,

tate passed to the female line.

(his

s.

Gideon

1706) the es-

England

the well

known

painter

The name in the Devon family still remains in Haydon belonged to this branch, and it is now
Esq.,

represented

by Frank Scott

Haydon,

of

the

Record

Office,

Chancery

Lane, London.
(17.)

John, William and James Haydon or Hayden (the

this

latter spelling gradto

ually superseding the older form in

country)
all

who came

Boston and Dor-

chester in

1630-32. from Dcvon, were in

probability three of the seven sons

* " Though his profession was the law, which is a kind of vocal war and tongue combat, yet his practice was peace, whereof he was a studious conservator among his neighbours. He did not blow the coal of discord for his own private advantage, and to warm his hands thereby (as some mean sneaking spirits often do) but his business was to extinguish contention and prevent its growing into a flame." (Prince, Worthies of Devon.) His arms in the chancel of Ottery St. Mary (for description of which see Klihu Burritt's "Walk from London to Land's End," p. 143) are, A-i-.^ bars gemels az., on a chief gu a barrulet dancette or. Crest, a bull sa. vulned by a lion of the first. CA seal of 131 5 has the motto I EO AY, PRis et MORIER.) An elaborate monument near the altar, and an inscription in Latin verse in the south porch (which he built) also commemorate " that most glorious man, John Haydon, Knight." (Heydon Family, 38. The
;

arms engraved

in Stiles'

Windsor,

p. 653,

belong

to the

Norfolk branch.)

NOTE

A.

THE HAYDEN FAMILY.

John went
to Braintree, Mass..

147
where
his

of (16) Gideon of Cadhay. *

ants
still

descend-

remain, and James to Charlestown, Mass.

(17.)
settlers,-

William Hayden,
(prob. in the

of Devon,

came

to Dorchester, Mass.,

with the

first

Mary and Jolm, May

Mason
in the

30, f)

1630

was made freeman

in

1634
the

served under Capt.

life in

famous Pequot

fight of 1637,

and saved

Commander's
in his

the storming of the Fort, an exploit thus

commemorated

by Wolcott

poem

of 1721

" But fate, that doth the rule of action know, Did this unequal combat disallow; For quite too much to force one man alone. To beat an army, take a garrison. Sent Hayden in, who with his sun-steeled blade Joining the Gene) al, such a slaughter made,

That soon the Pequots ceased

to

oppose

The matchless

force of such resistless foes."

The "sun-steeled blade" which turned

the tide of battle

is

now

in the collecis

tion of the Connecticut Historical Society at

Hartford, and the deed

repre-

sented by one of the crests on the book-plate of his great-great-grandson. Dr.

Moses Hayden, a

fac-simile of

which is given on

p. 150.

William Hayden became

in the

a proprietor at Hartford in 1637, and at Windsor in 1639, building

latter

place a house on the site since occupied by the residence of the late Ezra H.

Hayden, South-east of Hayden

stone quarry (now called "

Station.

Beyond, on the West, he opened

")

in 1654 a

Rocky

Hill

which furnished most of the

In 1657-8 he
is

early grave-

stones and foundation walls of Windsor.

first

one of 17 making the

7s. for

troop of horse raised in Connecticut.

In 1660 he

is

charged

a " short
Fairfield,

seat" in the Old Windsor Meeting House.

But in 1664 he removed to

and the next year

to

Killingworth

(in

each place becoming a proprietor) and rep(at

resented the latter place as Deputy to the General Court in 1667; and there

Killingworth) he died, Sept. 26, i66g.

1655,
first

His

first

wife (name

unknown)

d.

July 17,

and he m.

LI.

in Fairfield,

Margaret,
1642;

wid. of William

WiLCOXSON.
June

By

the

marriage he had two sons, Daniel,

2,

b. Sept. 2, 1640,

(who alone perpetuated

b.
6,

the name,) and Nathaniel, b. Feb.

and a dau. Mary,

1648, m.

Judah Everts,
(18.)

of Guilford.:};
ist
s.

Daniel,

of William, bought in 1683 the "Great Island " in the Con-

necticut River, or Enfield Falls,

now

called " King's Island;" described as

"a

* His family was connected with the Massachusetts Bay Co., which sent out Mary and John in March, 1630, and at this lime his younger sons, then grown up, disappear from England. The eldest s. Gideon, and John, were masNearly or quite all the Haydons in (State Papers.) ters of ships in 162S. Devon were of Ebford and Cadhay. (Heydon Family, 42 ) f Savage, I. 3S6. end of Old Windsor \ The neighbourhood of William Ilayden's house at the N.
the
is

yet called

" Haydentown."

148

RICHARD WELLS

OP^

CANANDAIGUA.

CH. IX.

mile in length by I4 of a mile wide, and containing 150 acres, mostly under cultivation."
sor,"

He and
their

his

townsman Capt. Cook

are called "the

Nimrods of Wind-

for

havoc among the wolves, for which bounties were frequently

granted them.

He was

freeman 1668, one of a troop of horse in King Philip's

War, 1675, Lieut.. and Selectman i6g8; d. March 22, 1713. Hem. March 17, 1664, Hannah Wilcoxson (or Wilcox) of W'indsor, (dau. of William, whose

widow his father m. IL) who d. April ig, 1722. Their children were Daniel, Hannah, Nathaniel, William, (d. inf.) William, Samuel, Ebenezer and Mary.*
(ig.)

Samuel, 5th

s.

of Daniel, b. Feb. 28, 1678, d. Oct. 12, 1742; m. Jan. 24,

(dau. of

1704,

Anna Holcombe,
b.

Benajah Holcombe and Sarah, dau. James Enos

and Anna Bidwell,)

March

ig, 1675, d.

June

13, I756.f

Their children were

Anna, Samuel, Nathaniel, Joseph, William and Sarah.

(20.)

Samuel

IL, eldest
of

s.

of Samuel

I.,

b. Oct. 7, 1707, d. 17

.,

m. Nov.

7,

1737,

Abigail Hall,

Somers, Conn.:}:

Children, Samuel, Augustine,

Moses,

Abigail, Samuel, Aaron, Luke, Seth.

(21.)

Moses, M. D.,3d

s.

of Samuel II. ,b. Sept 23, 1742, d, Canandaigua, N. Y.,

June

28, 1813, bur.

Old Cemetery, Canandaigua.

his life

He removed from Windsor

as a physician,

to

Conway, Mass., where most of

to
c.

was spent
m.

and

in

1811-12

Canandaigua, the residence of his son-in-law Dr. RiCHARD Wells.

1765-8,

He

m.

I.

Eunice Haroon, who

(by
Mass.,)
III.

d. c. 1775-6;

widow of David Childs

Hoyt,
of Deerfield,
Billings of

whom

she had a

and only dau.

Tryphena French, dau. Anna, who m. I. Howard, II. of Thomas French and Miriam
II. c.

1777.

||

Conway; m.
i s.

Martha Leland,
Conway,

dau. of
i8ii.1[

James Leland and Lucy

Children by
ist mar.,

Warren,
dau.,

of Phelps,

N. Y.,
4.

b. 1752, d.

by 2d mar.,
I.

dau.

(22.)

LuCRETlAm. Elisha Owen, and had

(Gifford);

10 ch., Cynthia (m.

II.

I.

Gifford,

and had Elijah and William E.

m.

Woolworth, and had

Rosanna Hart, Calvin and James (Woolworth); Patty (m.

Wood

of Ohio),

Rhoda
Eliza,

(m. in N. Y.), Sally (m,

Holden (who
Samuel Van Pelt
Stiles'

d. bef. 1837),

and had Charles,

and

others), Lucretia (m.

of

Providence, Saratoga Co.,

* Their genealogy

is

given fully in

"Ancient Windsor," from which

much of this note thus far is taken \ The Holcombe family {Holt-cotnbe
Devonshire villages of
this

or Wood-vale), prol:). from one of the three name, is first represented in N. Eng. by Thomas, of Dorchester, Mass., 1630, and Windsor, 1635, d. 1657. His widow Elizabeth m. II. James Enos (or Enno) who by his 1st w. Anna Bidwell was father of Sarah, who m. Benajah, 2d s. of Thomas. \ I have not been able to find her parentage, or the date of death of Samuel II. His headstone says that " tcr an eminent degree of professional skill, exerted in the course of a long and extensive practice, he added a charity and benevolence rarely surpassed, and which the poor and depressed have often felt and fully acknowledged." He was a desc. of the Frenches of Ipswich, Mass., one of the greatest landholders and wealthiest men in Western Massachusetts, his estate extending five miles, from Conway to Ashton. But a large family of sons brought him at last to comparative poverty. (Com. by his g. g. dau. Mrs. Hinckley, 1876.) II Hist, of the Leland Family.
II

NOTE
N. Y.),

A.

THE HAYDEN FAMILY.

(m.

I49
N.
Y.),

Tryphena

Call

of

Montgomery Co

Abigail (m.

Charles Meads of Mont. Co.), Eunice (m.

(m. in

Joslyn of Mont. Co), Samuel

Oneida or Lewis

Co.),

Sophia (m.

Gray of Albany).
(desc.

IL

Eunice m. John Boyden of Conway

1634),

of

Thomas, from Ipswich,

:

Eng., to Boston,

who

d.

thereat, go, and had co ch.

(d,

William

(d.

at
(d.

Canton, N.
in

Y.),

Eliza
(d.

(d. y.),

Augustus

in a

Southern State, unm.), Luther

(b.

Mich.),

Moses
Dennis

in

New

Orleans), Electa

1795),

Nathaniel

(b.

1796),
these,

Leicester,

(d. in

a Western State) and one other (son).

b.

Of

the 5th son,

Nathaniel Boyden,
and
at

Conway, Aug.
his uncle

16, 1796, d. Salisbury,

N. C,
of
in

Nov.

20,

1873; graduated at Union,

1821; studied law with

Henry Stone
fifty

Rensselaerville, N. Y.,

York with

Judge Hayden; removed

1823 to North Carolina, where he continued in the practice of law for

years,

attaining the highest standing, and. having in his best days no equal as an advocate in the State; at various limes

member

of both

Houses of the Legislature,

in

and of the State Constitutional Convention of 1865-6; Representative

gress in 1847

Con-

and 1867, and Judge of the Supreme Court of N. C. from 1871.

sympathies; faithful and honourable in
Co., N.

He

was a man of deep religious principle, an earnest Churchman and communi-

cant; of
tions of

warm and generous

life.

all

the rela-

He

m.

I.

Ruth Martin of Surrey

C, and

II.

Mrs yane

{Hen Jet- soil) Mitchell, dau. of the Hon. Archibald Henderson of

the 1st mar. he

Salisbury.

By

had 4 ch., Sarah, (b. Aug. 25, 1829, d. Feb. 24, 1861, m. May 16, 1848, her cousin Theodore H. Hale, q. v. infra,) John, Nathaniel and Ruth; Electa, 2d dau. of John Boyden by the 2d mar., i s., Archibald H. and Eunice Hayden b. 1795, d. Phelps, N. Y. July 29, 1854, m Abner Arms of
,

Conway, who
Jan
22,

d.

N. C. Nov.

\\, 1845,

and had Jane Maria,

(b.

Feb.

17, 1820,

m.
(b.

1840, the Rev.

Feb. 26, 1832,

III.

Samuel Adsit of Rochester, N. Y.), and Eliza Hayes m. Oct. 9, 1862, as 2d w., her cousin Theodore H. Hale).
Leonard.

Abigail, 3d dau., m.

IV.

Naomi, 4th

dau., m.

Woodward, and had

Edgell and had 3
,

18 ch.

She

d.

York,

May, 1839.

dau. Charlotte m.

ch.; another, Elizabeth,

m. Gen. Abner Hubbard, and had 3 ch

of

whom Martha
Y.,

m.

I.

George Sibley,
I'oud

and

II.

Horatio G. Wolcott, both of Rochester, N.

and Julia m.

of the same city.

V.
VI.

Cynthia, 5th dau.

Miriam, 6th

(ist of

2d marriage,)

d. inf.

dau., b. Dec. 25, 1780, d. July 26, 1831,

q.
v.

Conway, July

30,

1798, Dr.

Richard Wells,

above.
1785,
d.

VII.
B. A.,

Moses, only son,

b.

Conway, June,
to

Albany, Feb.

13,

1830,

Williams 1804, removed early

York, Livingston Co., N. Y., where he

as a farmer
;

acquired a large estate and

of

much eminence
Clinton,
;

and lawyer;

First

Judge
an

Livingston Co.; Repr.

in

Congress 1824-5

Senator of N. Y.
he

at his death;

intimate friend of Gov.

De Witt

whom

much resembled
8.

in traits of

character and political popularity

m. Canaan, N. Y., Aug.

1809, Elizabeth,

ISO

RICHARD WETJ,S OF CANANDAIGUA.

who

CH. IX.
d. s. p.

dau. of the Hon. John Chandler Williams of Pittsfield, Mass.,

2,

Jan.

1825.*

VIII.

TiKZA, 7th dau.. m. Col. Asa Stanley of Canandaigua, afterwards of

O.,

Akron
IX.

and had Decius Wads-ivorth, and Tirza Hayden.

b.

Ann

E. (m.

Wheeler, and had

m. Canandaigua,
Children:

Henrietta),

Mary, youngest,

July 18, 1790, d. Jan. 27,

b.

1861,
2,

Aug.
(i.)

20, 1814,

Ebenezer Hale,

Jan.
b.

8,

1787, d.

Maixh
d

1871.

Henrietta Hayden {Hale),

May

19, 1815,

Feb.

10, 1838,
b.

m. Oct.

14.

1836,
(2.)

John A. Welles of Detroit, Mich., had i s., John, Theodore Hayden {Hale) h. Nov. 22, 1816, d. Sept.
cousin Sarah Boydeii, above
;

1838, d. inf.

15,

1865; m.

I.

May

16, 1848, his

and

II.

Oct.

9,

1862, his cousin Eliza

1st

Haves Arms, above, who survives him.

He

had by the

mar.

s.

2dau.
Dec.

Edward Boyden, 2, 1852. d. March

(b.

May

7,

1849, d. April 4, 1850,)

Henrietta Welles,

(b.

23, 1869,)

Ruth,

(b.

May
(b

[5, d.

June, 27, 1854,) Charles Ebe(b.

nezer, (b. Feb. 25, d. Sept. 16,

X858,)

and William Ebenezer

Apr. 27, 1863).

Feb, 21, 1861).

By

the 2d mar.

I s.,

Theodore Frederick

(3.)

Edivard Moses Hayden

{Hale), b. Dec. 30,

1826, d. Jan. 22, 1839.

AH

this family bur. in the

Old Cemetery, Canandaigua.

26, 1862

Mr. Hale m.

II.

June

Emily Almira, dau. of the

Feb. 25, 1813

late

Horace Hills of

Buffalo, (and sister of

the Rev.

Horace Hills of Minn., and the Rev. George

b. d.
s.

Morgan
*

Hills, D. D., of

N.

J.,)

p.

April 13, 1873.

Pittsfield; another,

Her sister Sarah m. the late Hon. Edward Newton of Lucretia, the late Harris Seymour of Canandaigua.

Book-Plate of Dr. Moses Hayden, 1742-1S13.

NOTE

B.

THE HAYES FAMILY

OF WINDSOR AND GRANBY.

FOUR
tionary of

families of the

in Savage's great

work,

name of Hayes are given The Genealogical Dic-

New

England," * as having settled in

New
are,

England during the seventeenth century.

1.

These

Thomas Hayes,
Nathaniel,
John,
at at

at Milford, Ct., 1645.

Ct., 1652.

2. 3.

Norwalk,

Dover, N. H., 1680.

at

4.

George,

Windsor, Ct.

1682.

All these,

it is

said, are of the

same stock, and from

Scotland. f

The

latter

is

certainly true of the families of

Dover and Windsor.

in re-

Both the Dover and Windsor families have long preserved a tradition

gard to their origin, which really belongs to the far more distinguished family of

Hay,

of Scotland.
A. D. gSo,

The

story runs thus:

Scotland,

the Danes,

"In who had invaded

the reign of

Kenneth

III., of

Scotland, having prevailed at

the battle of Luncarty, near Perth, were pursuing the flying Scots from the field,

when

a countryman

and

his

two sons appeared

in a

narrow

pass,

through which
'

the vanquished were hurrying, and

said the rustic,
in the field?
'

impeded

for a

moment

their flight.

What,'-

had you

rather be slaughtered by your foes than die honourably

!'

Come,
army was

rally, rally

And he headed
at

the fugitives, brandishing the

yoke of

his plough,

and crying out that help was

falling

hand

the Danes, believing

that a fresh

upon them,
lost,

fled in confusion,

and the Scots thus

re-

covered the laurels which they had

and freed their country from servitude.

The
and

battle being

brought

to the king,

won, the old man, afterwards known by the name of Hay, was who. assembling a parliament at Scone, gave to the said Hay
reward for their valour, as much land on the River Tay,
till
it

his sons, as a joint

in the district of

Gowrie, as a falcon from a man's hand flew over

.settled,

* Vol. II. p. 387.

f

Hon. Rutherford

B.

Hayes.

152

RICHARD WELLS OF CANANDAIGUA.

Errol
;

CH. IX.
and the king,
in
life, as-

which, being six miles in lengtli, was afterwards called

being desirous to elevate

Hay and

his sons

from their humble rank

signed them a coat of arms, which was

(z;-^^^,

three escutcheons, ^?</^j, to inti-

mate
land.

that the father

and two sons had been the three fortunate shields of Scotis still

The

stone on which the falcon lighted

to

be seen

in the

'

Carse of

* Gowrie,' in a small village called Hawkstone."

The

tradition,

however embellished by time and romance, has, undoubtedly,

;

a foundation in truth

hundred

years, not only the

and the lordly family of Hay have borne, for at least eight " three escutcheons gules," but a broken ox-yoke as

part of their crest, two

Danes

in

armour

as their supporters (one of

call
it),

them with
"

plough -staff, Qx plough-paddle^ as the Scotch

and the apt motto,

Reno-

vate Animos."
the

f
all

There are several versions of the story besides the above, but

agree that
that
it

name

"

Hay

" or "

Hayes

"
;

came from

this incident,
it

some adding
of the

was

part of the reward of valour

others, that

was the war-cry of the

father.:):

One

of the best authenticated accounts gives the

name

hero as yo}m de

If the

Hayeses of

New

England, who have so long cherished

it,

this

tradition,

have really any claim upon

they must, of course, be of the same stock as their

more

illustrious

countrymen, and their name originally the same.

;

Some

of them
I

claim to have documentary proof of this identity of origin

but this proof

have not seen.

It is certain,

however, that the surname of the Scotch family of

Hay
the

is

found in several different forms.

For

six

generations from William, to

whom King
century
it

William the Lion granted the lands of Errol, and who died 1170,
In 1451
it

name was De Haya.

is

first

appears as

Hay; and

in the seventeenth

given (perhaps by mistake) as Hays.\

Again, the only English

family of the

name

of Hayes whose arms are recorded (of Arborfield, Berks)

have the
crest.

''

three escutcheons gules" as the principal bearing, and the falcon

But among the Scotch arms emblazoned in the Library at Abbotsford,

are those of Rutherford (family of Sir Walter Scott's mother) and

latter a cross

HAYES, the

between four

stars,

with the falcon

crest,

and motto, " Recte." **

Commoners of Great Britain," I. 504. See also the admirable articles on " Heraldry " in Miss Yonge's " Monthly Packet," Vol. XII., p. 290, October, 1856. The motto above and a falcon, cx&si are borne by the Earls of Errol. " Trowbridge Family," 1872, p. 42. Sim, " ScotX Note by Geo. W. Noyes,in Anderson, Scottish Biography, 414. The name is perhaps tish Surnames," 55 from Ang. Sax. haga, field, dale. (Charnock, Local Etymol. I2g.) " Heraldry," in " Monthly Packet," XII. 290. Burke, " Commoners," I. 504-5. I " Peerage," 1847. *5[ Burke, John McNamara Hayes, M. D., Surgeon in the British Army, N. Y., 1768, m. in N. Y., Anne, dau. Hon. Henry White; created Baronet 1798 succeeded by his eldest son Thomas P and he by his bro., the Rev. Sir John Warren Hayes, present Bart., (1876,) of Arborfield, b. 1797. ** Copied by H. S. Noyes (g. s. Rutherford Hayes I.) at Abbotsford, 1856.
f

* Burke, "

Burke.

NOTE

B.

THE HAYES FAMILY.

the

53
(or

George Hayes,
home, about 1675,
he lived for a time

common

ancestor of

the

Windsor and Simsbury

;

Granby) family, was born in Scotland, somewhere about 1650

to Derbyshire, \\here,
;

went from

his

it

is

said,

he had an uncle, with

whom
there,

* thence to London, to see the great capital,

and

hearing of the new " land of promise " in the western world, embarked for

New

England.

He

is first

known
first

at

Windsor,

in 16S2.

He

is

said to have married,

is

several years earlier, his

wife,

Sarah (whose surname

;

illegible

on the
is

Windsor record),! and

wife died

to

have had by her three children

but only one

3,

refirst

corded, George, born in Windsor,

March

26,

and died April

1683.

His

March

27, 1683,

and he married, second, Aug.

tombstones),:}: daughter of

2g, 1683,

Abigail Dib(fourth son

of

ble or DiBOL

(as

on early

Samuel

Thomas, from Dorchester,

Mass.), born in

Windsor, Jan.

19, 1666.

Soon

after

1697 he removed to Simsbury (the part of the town

taxed in 1700 and afterwards, and
is

now

Granby), where he was

enrolled as freeman from about that date.

He

died there before 1734, probably near 1730.

his second wife he

By

had ten children, four sons and

b.
b.

six

daughters

Abigail, Daniel, Sarah,

Windsor, Aug.
" "

31, 1684. April 26, 1686.

b.

Jan. 22, 16S7.

Prob.
order.

" Mary, b. Jan. 6, 1689. " Oct. 2, 1692. Joanna, b. " March 9 1695. George, b. " William, b. June 13, 1697. Samuel, b. Simsbury, " Thankful, b. 11699101705. " Dorothy, b. )
)

All these ten children of George

Hayes married, and the

four sons,

and prob-

ably

all

the daughters, left families.

all

The names

of the ten, with the daughters'

husbands, and signatures of

in

except Daniel, are given in two deeds recorded

22), the subscribers call

Simsbury

in

one of which, dated 1734 (March

them-

selves "brethren of Daniel Hayes," to

whom

they convey a certain parcel of

land in Salmon Brook Street, next the house which Daniel built in 1720. In the other they mention " our honoured father, George Hayes," then apparently deceased.

The

six

daughters married as follows

Abigail m. Paul Tompkins.

Sarah m. John Gosard

(s.

Nich. and

Eliz.), b.

Windsor, 1682.
John) Hillyer and Mary

Mary

m. William Rice.
(s.

Wakefield^

Joanna m. James Hillyer, of Simsbury (s. James widow of Ebenezer Dibble), b. Windsor,

Jan. 28, 1679, d. after 1760.

* Ezekiel Hayes, of New Haven, great-grandson of George, quoted in 'Trowbridge Family," p. 72, and " Life of R. B. Hayes," by W. D. Howells, p. i. f CuUen Hayes, of Granby, 1875. % At Granby (Salmon Brook). Phelps' Hist. Simsbury. Stiles, Ancient Windsor, 663.

154

RICHARD WELLS OF CANANDAIGUA,

m., Granby, Oct.
9.

CH. IX.
s.

THANKFaL
Nath.
Peter)
I., s.

1717, Nathaniel Holcombe III.,

Nath.

II.

(s.

Thos., from England to Dorchester, Mass., 1630) and Martha (dau.

BuelU of Windsor.
her cousin,

Dorothy m.
Of
I.

of Dorchester) by his second wife,

the four sons
:

Abraham Dibble (3d Mary Tucker),

s.

of Thos. (and

g.

s.

of Thos.,

b.

May

15,

1684.*

Daniel, the

elHest,

was taken prisoner by the Indians,

to

at

Simsbury, in

1707, at the age of twenty-one, carried

Canada, and kept in captivity seven

(for

years

finally released

by earning his own ransom

which he was afterwards

in his seven years'

reimbursed by order of the General Court of Connecticut),! and i-eturned to

Simsbury.
captivity
is

The romantic

story of his sufferings

and heroism

given in Phelps' History of Simsbury, Hartford, 1845, and again in

"A
in

bury,

Long Journey," printed by me in 1876 (Portland, Me.). He lived in Simsnow Granby, to the age of 70, a prominent citizen, much respected, often public offices, and of great excellence of character. The inscription on his
:

tombstone (the oldest in the Granby (Salmon Brook) Cemetery) runs as follows %

Here
of
m''

lies

y''

Body

Daniel Hays Who Served his Gene Steady ration in a Course of Probity & Piety & was a Lover of Peace & God's
I'ublick

Worship
satisfied
left

and
with
this

being

Long Life World with

rtable

Comfo
of Life

Hope

Eternal Sept 23 1756 In y' 71 year of his Age

Daniel

I.

m.

I. c.

1715,

(name unknown
(prob. dau. of

to me),

and

II.

Westfield,

Mass., in 1723,

Sarah Lee

John

(s.

Walter) Lee and Elizabeth

Crampton, of Westfield),

b. Westfield,
II., b.

April 24,

1692, d. after 1735.

mar. he had one son, Daniel

Granby, Dec. 27, 1716.

By By 2d mar. 3

ist
s.

dau.: Ezekiel (b. Granby, Oct. 21, 1724),

1728), Sabina (Nov. 11, 1731),

Martha (Nov.

8,

1726), Joel (Oct. 2,

Aaron

(Sept. 6, 1733), Zilpah (Aug. 25, 1735).

A very brief
I.

notice of
II.

His

s.

Daniel Daniel

some of these is all the limits of this sketch allow. m. Abigail Hayes, dau. of his uncle Samuel I., and d. 1786.
(m.

III., b. c. 1745

Mary

(dau. Thos.)

Holcombe,

b. 1753),

and

*('ullen Hayes, Stiles, Phelps.

f

Conn. Col. Records. Copied by me from the stone, June

III. 72.

i,

1875.

Savage,

NOTE
g.
s.

B.

THE HAYES FAMILY.

IV., b. 1775, d.

55

Daniel

Aug.

18,

1859 i^- Desiah

b.

1782, d. Dec. 15.

1853), both lived in

2.

Granby.*
s.,

EZEKIEL ("Capt."), the 2d

and large proprietor,
(dau. of
s.

removed

to

New
83
;

Haven,
m.
I.

v^^as

a prominent

citizen

d.

Oct. 17, 1807,

(s.

set.

Dec. 26, 1749,

s.

ReRev.

becca Russell

John of Branford

Rev. Samuel of Deerfield,

John of Hadley,

John of Cambridge,

1636), Dea., Col., Judge,

(s.

Speaker of AsE. H. m. II.

sembly, and Sarah Trowbridge (dau. Thos.

Thos. and Sarah Rutherford) and

Mary Winston)

of

New

Haven),

b.

Feb.

6,

1723, d.

May

27, 1773.

May
dau.,

5,

1774, Abigail, wid.

(b.

John Brown, of
1753),

New

Haven.

Py

ist
i,

mar. 2

s.

Rebecca

1750), Ezekiel (b

Rutherford (bap. Aug.

1756), Sarah,

Maiy (b. 1761), Abigail (b. 1764). By 2d mar., Abigail, Billy, Elizabeth, Martha. Of the sons, Ezekiel II., of New Haven, " scythe-maker," d. Oct. 20, 1828 m. I. c. (i.)
;

1775,

Mary Hemingway
By
ist

(1756-99)

m.

II. 1800,

Wealthy Trowbridge,

dau.

Rutherford, and wid. Sam'l Barnes ; m.

Jiice.

III.

1822,

REBECCA, wid. Archibald

(m. Roswell Trowbridge),

mar.

s.

8 dau.,

Mary, Sarah, Rebekah, Ezekiel, Lucretia, John,

Harriet (m.

Henry Trowbridge of New Haven), Nancy

Rebecca Russell, and Mary Rebecca.
to Brattleboro, Vt.,

James

Russell,

By 2d

mar., 2

s.,

Ezekiel

Russell,
(2.)

and Samuel.

Rutherford removed
settlers
;

and there was Ensign of N.

for services

Y.

S.

Troops, 1782, and had grant of land in

New York

and

losses

by

Chloe Smith, dau. Col. Israel Smith, of Thetford, Justice, Representative, etc., a man of high standing, and prominent in the New York and New Hampshire controversy in Vermont. f (See Ch. VI. of this Mem.
moir, linda (m.
(II.),

New Hampshire

They had 3 s. 6 dau., Polly (m. Hon. John Noyes of Putney), BeJohn Pease, 2, Samuel Elliot), Russell (Brattleboro), Rutherford Clarissa (m. Azor Moody), Sarah (m. Dyer Bancroft), Abigail, Fanny (m.
p. 83.)
I.

Levi Smith of Granby, Mass.), and William Rutherford (Y. C. 1825,

lawyer, m. Harriet

d.

1852,

Emily Trowbridge, dau. of Henry and Harriet (Hayes) T. of

;

New
does,

Haven, above

resident partner of H. T.

and Sons, and Consul,

at

Barbas.

W.

I.).

Joanna, dau. John and Polly Noyes, m. Samuel Hayes,

above.

of

Ezekiel

II.,

The 2d

son,

Rutherford

II.,

removed

to

Delaware, O,,

where he
son

d.

1822.

He

m. 1817, Sophia Birchard, of Brattleboro, a descendant

Delaware, O., Oct.
1822,

of Thomas, of Hartford and Saybrook, 1635, and their 2d and only surviving
is

Rutherford Birchard Hayes,

S. V.,

b.

4,

Kenyon

College, 1842,

Gen. U.

Cambridge Law School, 1845, LL. D., Keny. and Harv., Maj. Rep. U. S. Cong., Governor of Ohio, 1868-75, nineteenth Presi-

* Granby tombstones.

Samuel Smith, from Ipswich, Eng. to Watertown, Mass., and Hadley, Mass., 1658. Col. Israel, b. 1739, m. Abigail, dau. Isaac Chandler (s. Henry, s. Thos., s. Wm., from Eng. 1637) of Andover, Mass. (Hon. R. B. Hayes. Savage, I. 357-8, IV. iii-35-) Another I. S., b. Ct. 1759, Y. C. 1781, Ch. Just., U. S. Senator, Gov. Vt. 1807, was of Rutland.
" Lieut." f Desc. of

1634,

156

RICHARD WELLS OF CANANDAIGUA.

;

CH. IX.
dau. Dr.

dent of the United States, 1877

m. 1852,
:

Lucy Ware Webb,

Camb. Law^

James
Cin-

Webb
(b.

and Maria Cook, of Chillicothe, O.

Nov.
4,

Children, Birchard Austin

Sch. 1877),
24,
(b.

(b.

cinnati, O.,

1853, Cornell Univ. 1874,

Webb Cook
Joseph

Cine.

March
(b.

20,

1856), Rutherford Piatt (b. Cine.

d.

June

1858),

Thompson d. May 24,

Feb.
3.

Dec. 21, 1861,

June

24, 1863),
2,
i,

George Crook

Sept. 29, 1864,

1866),

8,

1871),

Fanny (b. Cine. Sept. Manning Force (b. Aug.

s. s.

1S67), Scott Russell (b.

Columbus, O.,

1873, d. Aug. 28, 1874).*

Joel, 3d

Daniel

I.,

Lieut, in the

army of the Revolution,

1800, leaving a

Calvin, probably others.

d. May 27, Horace and Curtis Hayes of

New

York, are sons of Calvin.

II.

George

(IL), 2d son of

George Hayes, m. and

descendants

left 2 s.,

Jonathan,
s.,

vi'ho

removed

to Rupert, Vt.,

and

left

unknown

to me, except a g.

the

Rev. Philander Perry, of

New
II.
,

York; and Benjamin, who m. his cousin Ro-

SANNA, dau. Samuel Hayes

Alice.
III.

and had Thaddeus, Alpheus, Elizur, and

descendants unknown to me.

Thaddeus and Alpheus m. Eunice and Elizabeth Higley, of Granby.f

William, 3d son, m. and
left

IV.
s.

Samuel, the youngest

1635) or

son, m. c. 1729,

Lydia Wilcox
s.

(dau. of Samuel,

" Sergt. Samuel," of

c.

Meadow

Plain, Simsbury,

of William, of Hartford, from

London,
Susanna.

WiLCOXSON,

as in early records.:):
5 dau.,

They had 4
s,

s.,

Samuel,

Asahel, Andrew, and Silas, and

Dorcas, Abigail, Elizabeth, Sarah, and

Of

the dau.,

Dorcas m. her cousin Ephraim Holcombe,

b. 1721.

Nath. III.
II.,
s.

and Thankful (Hayes),

Abigail m. her cousin Daniel Hayes

above.

Elizabeth m. Joseph
(a

Gillett,

of Granby.

Susanna m. Reuben

Holcbinbe,

David
Hol-

brother of Nath. III.) and Mehetabel Butiolpli, of Granby.

Dr.

Wm.

F.

combe, of

New

York,
is
,

(to

whom

I
s.

am

indebted for
the sons,

much

of the genealogy of the

Holcombe family,) Samuel II I.

man,
etc.,

their g. g.

Of

b. c. 1730, d.

Granby, Dec.

25, 1801

Representative, Selectrespected
;

a prominent citizen, of high character and

much

renowned

for strength
s.

and
s.

athletic feats;
1.)

m.

c.

1750,

RoSANNA HoLCOMBE,
b. Jan. 24.

dau. Judah (3d

Nath.
7
s.

II.,

Nath

and Hannah Buttolph,

(b. c. 1751),

1732
III.,

d.

i8i4.

They

had
6,

3 dau.,

Rosanna

Seth (1753), Samuel

Levi, Pliny (June

1766),

Simeon (Feb.

17, 176S),

Joseph, Martin, Theodosia, and Temperance.

* Trowbridge Family, 72. H. S. Noyes, Hon. R. B. Hayes. Rev. P. Perry, f Cullen Hayes :}:See Note A, above, p. 147-8. Nathaniel Holcombe I., 3d s. of Thomas (see Note A. above, p. 148), b. 1648, m. 1670, Mary, dau. of Nath. Bliss of Springfield, (s. of Thos. of fartford, 1640,) and Catharine Chapin (b. Eng., dau. Dea. Samuel and Cicely Chapin, from Eng. to Roxbury 1642, thence to Springfield). Their s. Nath. II. b. 1673, d. Granby, 1766, ast. 93, m. 1695, Martha Buell, dau. of Peter (s. William and Mary, from Wales lo Windsor 1635), and Martha Coggan, prob. dau. of John of Boston, 1633. (Savage, I. 420.) Judah, 3d s. of Nath. II., b. Granby, 1705, d. 1802, Kt. 97, a noted Revolutionary soldier and civil officer, m. 1730, Hannah Buttolph, (dau. of David, s. John (s. Thomas, b. Eng. 1603, came to Boston with w. Ann, 1635) and Ann Gardner, dau. Geo.) b. 1711, d. 1765.
I

NOTE
2.

B.

THE HAYES FAMILY.

dau. David (2d
s.

57

AsAHEL m. Martha Holcombe,

Silas
("

Nath.

II.,

and bro. of
of Rosanna,

Nath. III. and Judah, above) and Mehetabel Btittolph

4.

(sister of

Hannah, above).

Capt.") m.
d.

above, b. 1738,

Jan. 23, 1823.

Hannah Holcombe, dau. Judah, He d. April i, 1801.

II., Rosanna m. Chauncy Pettibone,

and

sister

Of
m.

the three daus. of

Samuel

her cousin Benjamin Hayes,

of Granby; and

above; Theodosia m. Gen.

Temperance

Luther Foote, of Norfolk, Ct. All left Seth m. Mehetabel Topping, dau. (I.)
2,

descendants.

Of Of

the sons,

Dr. Josiah (Y. C. 1749), of Granby,

1839.
their 6 children,

b Feb.

1762, d. Oct. 13, 1846.

He

d.

Jan. 23,

Hilpah,
(2.)

Melissa, Mehetabel, Seth, Cullen, and Ansel,

(b. 1794),

the only surviving son,

much
to gather

CuLLEN Hayes,

of Bushy Hill, Granby, has done very

and preserve the history of the family.

Samuel

III.

m.

Anna Pettibone, removed

Children,

to Prattsburgh,

N.

Y.,

and

there died, Jan. 27,

1831.

Sarah, Nancy, Cephas, Samuel, Casson,

Chauncy.
(3.)

Levi m. Pliny

Ruhama

Parsons, and removed

to

Granville, O.

Children,

Levi Loring, Orlin Parsons, Ruhama, Rosanna, Byron.

(4.)

m.,

Lyme, Nov.

14, 1787,

Lucretia Jevvett,

dau. Joseph Jewett*

and Lucretia Rogers,! of Lyme,

*

b. April 24, 1767, d. Livonia,

N. Y.,

May

15,

Joseph Jewett L, from Rowley, Yorkshire, Eng., to Dorchester and RowRepresentative 1651-60, d. i66i,m II., 1653, Afine, wid. Bezoan Allen, of Boston (a noted merchant), and had I s., Joseph II., b. 1656, who m. Mary ffibbert {da.n. Robert II s. Robert I., of Salem). His s. Nathan, b. 1706,
ley, Mass., 1638,
,

Deborah Lord, dau. Lieut. Richard (s. William, s. Thos. of Hartford, from London, 1635) and Elizabeth Hyde^ dau, Samuel (s. William of Norwich, from England, 1633) and Jane Lee (dau. Thos. from England, 1641), b. ("Madam Hyde," Deborah Lord's mother, b. Norwich, 1660, 1st i6g8, ^. 1777. Richard Lord, her husband, was b. 1647, d. 1727, at white child, d. 1736. Lyme.) Joseph Jewett III., ist s. of Nathan and Deborah, b. 1732. Capt. in Col. Huntington's Conn. Reg., was k. in battle of Long Island, Aug. 31, 1776. Eng. (a relative, but probably f The Rev. John Rogers, Rector of Dedham, not descendant of the famous Prebendary and Martyr, d. q. v. Savage, and (1\^&%His 2d s., the \.&xs Memorial), b. England, 1571, d. 1636, m. Elizabeth Gold. Rev. Nathaniel, b. England, 1598, d. 1655, Rector of Booking and Assington, Eng., came to Boston and Ipswich, Mass., 1636, and was minister of Ipswich till m. Alargaiet, dan. Robert Crane, Gent., and Mary Sparhawk, of his death Nathaniel's 5th s., EzEKlEL, b. 1640, d. 1674, H. Coggeshall, Essex, who d. 1656. U., 1659, m. 1662-3, Margaret, A^M Wm. and Judith /i''2^^i^rt;-^(England, 1635), and wid. Thos. Scott, of Ipswich, d. 1678. Their 4lh s. (Capt.) Ezekiel II., b. 1667, d. 1707, m. 1694, Lois Lvory., dau. Thos. II. (s. Thos. I. and Anne of Lynn, from England, 1638) and Mary Davis, and widow Samuel Bly, b. 1661, d. 171-. Their 2d s. (Dr.) Thkophilus Rogers, a distinguished physician and citizen of Norwich, Cc., b. 1699, d. 1753, 1720, Elizabeth LJyde II., (niece of E. H. I., (Ann Bushabove), dau. of Wm. Hyde II. and Ann Biishnell, b. 1700, d. 1753. nell, b. 1674, was ist dau. of Rich. II. (s. Rich. I." and Mary, dau. Matthew and Elizabeth Marvyn) and Elizabeth, dau. Thos. Adgate.) Lucretia, 4th dau. of Dr. Theophilus Rogers, b. Norwich, May 4, 1740, m. her second cousin, Capt. Joseph Jewett, May i, 1758, and survived him nearly sixty years. In 1782 she m. II. Capt. Abner Zf^ (also her second cousin), and d. at Lyxiie, Jan. 18, 1836, jet. nearly 96. Her sight and mental faculties remained perfect to the last.
d. \']b2,xa..\12^,

'"'I-

158
1843.

RICHARD WELLS OF CANANDAIGUA.

He
2,

CH. IX.
d.

removed, 1798, to Prattsburgh, thence

Children, Pliny
II. (b.

to Bristol,

N. Y., and there

Aug.

1831.

Dec.

5,

1788),

Laura

(1790),

Henry
of

(1792),

Emma
field,

Lucretia (1794), Harold (1796, father of Richmond,

Y.),

M. D.,
(1799),

Bloom-

and Pliny H., M. D., of Binghamton, N.

Hector
(1804),

Gunilda

Mumford
b. 1770,

(1801),
(5.)

Guy

(1806), Elizabeth

Adelaide (i8og).
Israel of

Simeon m. I.
1801,

1790,

Elizabeth Holley, dau. Rev.

he had Betsey Maria
(b.

Granby,
(1796),

d. Sept. 6,

by

whom

1794),

Emily

Simeon

(1801).

He
(b.

m.

II. 1801,
inf.),

George

1803, d.

Elizabeth Gilbert (d. Buffalo, N. Y., 1870), and had George Edward (b. Nov. 7, 1804, eminent for many years
Joseph Byron (1809,
(1S15).

in dental surgery, at Buffalo, N. Y.), Willis Gilbert (1807),

father of Byron,
at Prattsburgh,

M,

D., of

Canandaigua, N.

Y.),

Henry Osmond
ch. of

He res.

N. Y.

Harriet, dau.

and only surviving

,

Geo. E., m. 1875,

the Rev. Charles H. Smith, Rector of St. James' Ch.

(6.)

Buffalo.
to

Joseph m. Clarissa Gillett, of Granby, removed

Priscilla,

Ohio, had Mary,

William,
(7.)

and Pliny.

Martin
ist
s.

m.

Mary Camp,
III., b.

and removed
Granby, April

to Erie, Pa.

Children, Leicester,

Alson, Martin, Miranda, Roxa.

Cephas,

Samuel

15, 1789, d.

June

6,

1868, farmer,

Prattsburgh, N. Y., m. Ilezedia Edson, of Vt., (b. 1792,

d. 1873,)

and had Sarah,

Peter

P.,

George

G.,

Chauncy, Samuel, Anna

P.,

Drayton, Allen.
II. 1846,

The 2d

s.

George

G., b. Dec. 25, 1819, res.

3
s.,

Penn Yan, N. Y., m.

(b.

Eleanor (dau.

Andrew) Robson, and has

Pliny Hayes
28, 1831, Kt.

Warren Howard
I., b.

Aug. 22, 1847, Architect,

(b. 1859).

Elmira, N. Y.), Charles Evelyn

II., ist
s.

(b. 1849),

and George Ray

5.

Pliny
19,

Granby, Dec.

1788, d.
(dau.

New

York, July

42; m. Dec.

1822,

Eliza Stout Wells

for

Richard Wells,
,^34.

M. D., and Miriam Hayden, of Canandaigua),

whom

see above, page

NOTE
BY GEORGE
E.

C.

THE SIBLEY FAMILY.

SIBLEY, OF

NEW YORK.
(Sybley,

TORN

SIBLEY,

Sebley,

Siblie,

Sibly) of Charlestown, Mass., prob. before

1629, freeman 1635, admitted to the church in

Charlestown, Feb. 21, 1635,

of the Sibley family of
St.

is

supposed

to

be

Alban's, Herts, Eng.,

where a John Sibley was Burgess and Mayor

temp. Edw. VI., and others of the
held municipal or County

name have
and sub-

offices in that

sequent ages.

Sarah

John Sibley of Charlestown m. and d. Chariest. Nov. 30, 1649,

leaving prob. two sons, John and Richard.

The

inventoiyof his
of Cambridge, Mass., where the
II.

ef^tate is in

the Probate Records

name
d.

is

spelt "Siblie."

John, of Salem,
Sept.
3,

b.

Eng.,

prob. Manchester, Mass., June i6i, adm. free1629,)

man
orig.

1634, (prob. in the

Colony before
i6th on

Selectman 1636, Juryman 1639,

1640, Constable 1647, m.
c.

grantee of Jeffery's Creek,

now Manchester,
list

1641, Rachel, prob. Pickworth,

of

members

of ist ch.

in

Salem;

Ch. Sarah, Mary, Rachel, John, Hannah, William, Joseph, Samuel, Abigail.

[Richard,
,

" traiemaker," b. prob.

Eng., of Salem, 1656,

d.

1676, m.

Hannah

had Samuel, Hannah, Sarah, Damaris, John, Mary, Elizabeth. His 2d son may have been that John of New York, who m. there, July 4, 1695, Elizabeth Peale, and was prob. father of Richard who m. Hanna Wessells in 1744,
and Elizabeth, who m.
in 1740,

John

Slout, father of
p. log.]

Hannah

Stout, wife of Dr.

Henry Wells.
III.

See above, ch. VII.

s.

Joseph, of Salem, 3d
in

of John of Salem,

b. 1655, d.

prob. April 25, 171

1,

engaged

the fisheries, impressed

and detained
Sable,

mo.

in a British frigate

in

1693, while

homeward-bound from Cape

4,

and released by the intervention

/'(!'//if//

of the Governor; m. Feb.

1683, Susanna, pr^b. dau. Robert

and Persis

Black, and had Joseph, John, Jonathan, Hanna, Samuel, William, Benjamin.

l6o
IV.

RICHARD WELLS OF CANANDAIGUA.

Joseph
II.,
,

CH. IX.

eldest

s.

of Jos.

I., b.

Salem, Nov.

9,

1684, d. Sutton, Mass.,

others.

m.

Mary
V.

had Joseph, John, James, Jonathan, perhaps

s.

James, 3d

of Jos. II., b. Sutton,

May

7,

17 14, d. 1794, farmer, res. E.

of

Putnam
VI.

Hill, in Danvers,

m.

Chase,

had Moses, Aaron, James, Arch-

elaus,

perhaps others.

James

II.,

3d

s.

of

James

I.,b. Sutton, 1748, d. Chelsea, Vt., 1831, soldier in

Revolutionary Army, m.
Israel,)

Hannah Putnam,
c.

(prob. dau. David, elder bro. of Gen,

who

d.

Canandaigua, N. Y.,

1826,

had James, Rufus, a dau. m. G. Con-

verse of Chelsea, Vt., a dau. m.

Snell of Auburn, N. Y.
II., b.

VII.

James

III., eldest

s.

of James
to

Canandaigua, July 31, 1865; rem.

1803, where he passed nearly
all

Albany, N. Y.

Thompson, Conn., March 19, 1779, ^ c. 1800, and Canandaigua

,

the remainder of his long

life,

greatly respected
;

as a citizen, and was for

many

years a well-known

watchmaker and jeweller

m.

Albany, June

5,

1804, Eliza Easterly, b. Albany, Aug. 27, 1780, d. Canandaigua,

Nov. 11,1852.
VIII.
I.

Children:
b.

Oscar Easterly,
7,

Canandaigua, March
7,

30,

1805, d. Elizabeth,

N.

J.,

Dec.

1876,

m. Canandaigua, Oct,

1828,

Mary Augusta Wells.

16, 1877,

(See above,
2.

p.

136 and note.)

b. Jan. 9, 1807, d.

Amanda Malvina,
8,

Saginaw, Mich., March

m.

May
3.

1828, Charles

Lot Richman, of Saginaw.

Maria,
3.

b. Sept. 5, 1809, d.

New

York, April

ig, 1842,

m. Aug.

10, 1826,

Henry
4.
5.

Bancker of

New
b.

York.
1,

William James,
Charlotte

b. Sept. 19, 181

d.

prob. Valparaiso, S. A.
5,

Ann,

Nov.

24, 1813,

m. June

1845, S. F.

Ambler

res.

Brook-

lyn,
6.
7.

N. Y.
Eliza yane, b, Nov.
4, 1815, d.
.

m. Sept.

5,

1838, Charles
i,

Coy of Canandaigua,
July ig,
1842.

Mary,

b. Sept. 2, 1819,

Saginaw, March

1848, m.

William L.
8.

P. Little of

Saginaw.
3,

Caroline, b.

Aug.

1821, d. Oct. 14, 1824.

The arms

of the Sibley Family of St. Alban's are given above as certified t

their descendants in this country,

by the present

officers of the

Heralds' College,

and thus described

cents, ar."

" Per pale az.

and

o-m.
I.,

a griffin passant between three cres-

In Fairbairn's Crests, Vol.

or.

and

PI. 83

of Vol. II.

is

" Sybyle,

Eng.

Out of a ducal coronet

a swan's head between wings."

But whether

this is the crest of the St. Alban's Sibleys,

we

are not informed.

NOTE
OF

D.

THE KIP FAMILY kip's bay, new YORK.

BT HENET
KIP, OP BUrFALO.

RULOFF
b.

DE KYPE, of
a

Alenon, Bretagne,

1525,

warm

partizan of the

House of

Guise, fled to
in 1562,

Amsterdam on

the triumph of
later,
fell in

Cond6

and returning seven years

joined the
the battle

army of the Duke of Anjou, and

of Jarnac,

March
his

13, 1569.

He was

buried in a

small church near the battle-field, where an Altar-

tomb bearing

the French Revolution.

name and arms remained until The inscription desig-

nated him as Ectiyer^ and the arms were surmounted by two crests, one a game-cock, the
other a demi-griffin holding a cross.*
married, Jean
Protestant, at
Baptiste,

He

left

three sons

Henri,

who
b.

died un-

who became
coming
to

a Priest,

and Ruloff,

b. c. 1544, d. 1596, a
c.

Amsterdam.

Family tradition makes Hendrick Kip,

1576,

the son of Ruloft, and as

New York

in 1635, with his son

Hendrick

Hendricksen and family.

I.

Hendrick Hendricksen
one of the
earliest settlers
;

Kip,

b.

Amsterdam,

c.

1600, d. New:

York

after

1680,
office

and leading men of

New Amsterdam,
;

often in

under Gov. Stuyvesant

m. Margaret de Marneil

children, Baertje, Isaac,

Jacobus, Tryntje, Hendrick, and Femmetje.f

* The Kip arms in a window of the earliest Dutch church in New York, are Az. a chevron 07 between two griffins sejant of the same and a described thus sinister gauntlet ar. Crest, a demi-gnffin of the second, holding in his talons Motto, Vestigia, nulla retrorsum. a cross moline ^. Hendrick I., was father of f Isaac II., s. of Jacobus, s. of Isaac I., eldest s. of the late Leonard Kip of N. Y., whose eldest s. is the present Bishop of California a dau. (of Leonard) m. the late Rev. Henry L. Slorrs of Yonkers, N. Y., and another the late Bishop (Burgess) of Maine both the dau. now (1877) res. in Albany. (C. W. H.)
:

162
II.

RICHARD WELLS OF CANANDAIGUA.

Jacobus or Jacob, 2d
d.
s.

CH. IX.

of Hendrick of N. Y., b. Amsterdam,

May

16,

163

r,

Oct. 24, ibgo, Secretary of the Court of Burgomasters

and Scliepens from

1653 (xt. 22) to 1657, Schepen 1659-74, and in the latter year President of the

Board of Schepens,
at Kip's

in 1655 built of brick

st.)

from Holland the well-known house

for

Bay (now 2d Ave. and 35th

its

which stood

near two centuries

in the

possession of the family, and at

removal in 185 1 was the oldest house on N.

Y. Island, in

its

day also one of the most splendid.

8,

He

m. in the old Fort,

New
De
N.
d.

Amsterdam, March
Y. Aug. 25, 1711.

1654,

Majia De La Montagne,
b. at sea

(dau. of Dr.

Johannes

La Montagne and Rachel Monjour,)

near Madeira, Jan. 26, 1637,

Children, Johannes, Jacobus,

Abraham,

Jesse, Rachel,

MaryJohan-

kin (Maria), Hendrick, Catharine, Petrus, a dau., Benjamin and Samuel.

nes, the eldest son, b. Feb. 3, 1655, d. 1702,

m. Jan.

21, 1681, Catharine Kierstede,

(dau. of Dr.

Hans

Kierstede, one of the earliest physicians in

b. c.

New
c.

York, 1638,

and Sara, dau. Roelof Jansen and Anneke Jans,)

13 ch.,

1660, d.

1701,
s.

and had
of Jaco-

one of whom, Catharine, m. Jacobus,above.

s.

of Samuel, youngest

bus

I.

III.

Samuel, 8th

s.

and 12th

ch. of

Jacobus L,

b.

Nov.

4,

1682, d. Oct. 19,

(dau. of Capt.

1740, m. Albany, Oct. 20,

1705, Margnetje (Margaret)

Ryckman,

Albert Janse

Ryckman

of Albany,) b. Albany, Sept. 17, 16S1, d.

Nov.

13, 1748.

Children, Jacobus, Maria, Albert, Nelletje, Albert, Johannes, Samuel and Rachel. IV.

Jacobus

II.,

eldest

s.

of Samuel, b. Aug. 19, 1706,

d.

Oct.

i,

1777, m.

July 27, 1729, his cousin Catharine Kip, (dau.

Kierstede, above,)
uel,
b.

of Johannes Kip and Catharine

Children, Catharine, Sam-

Oct. 15, 1699,

'd.

Oct. 24, 1777.

Johannes, Margaret, Maria, Margaret, Margaret.

V.

Samuel

II., eldest

s.

of Jacobus II., b. Nov. 13, 1731, d. Kip's Bay, Feb.

after the battle of

14, 1804,

was a staunch Whig during the Revolution, and

Long

Island was driven from the old mansion at Kip's Bay to find a refuge at Tappan,

Rockland Co., with 7^500 offered

for his arrest; while the old house, greatly in-

jured by a storm of shot from the British men-of-war in the East River, was

occupied for a long time as quarters for the British

officers.

Under

its

roof
fatal

Major Andre

ate his farewell dinner in

New

York, on the eve of his

last

journey to meet Arnold at West Point.

Samuel

II.

m. June
b.

7,

1764,

Ann
d.

Herring, (dau. of Elbert Herring and Eliza-

beth Bogert,)

Dec. 31, 1744,

Kip's Bay,

May

20, iSoi.

Children, Elizabeth,

James, Elbert, Samuel, John, Catharine, Cornelius, Mary, and Henry.

VI.

Henry, youngest

s.

of Samuel

II., b.

Kip's Bay, Aug.

i,

1785,

d.

N. Y.,

Oct. 16, 1849, resided at Utica, and afterwards

Aug.

2,

t8o6, Christina Ddkin, (dau. of

many years in Buffalo; m. Utica, Thomas Dakin and Elizabeth Middleton

17S4, d.

of Derbyshire, Eng.,) b. Liverpool, Oct. 24,

Children, Thomas, Christina, Catharine,

N. Y., March

15,

1862.

Mary, Elizabeth, Henry, Samuel and

John.

NOTE
VII.

D.

THE KIP FAMILY.

s.

163
1S17, res.

Henry, 2d
Y.,

of Henry, b. Utica, Jan.

6,

2,

1S77, Buffalo,
(dau. of

m.

Canandaigua, N.
Wells,

Nov.

1845,

Charlotte Miriam Wells,

for

Richard

M.

D.,

and Miriam Hayden,)

whom

and descendants, see above, pp.

138, 143.

NOTE
OF BRISTOL,
R.
I.,

E.

THE GLADDING FAMILY

AND ALBANY,
N. Y.

JOHN
John
28, 1729,

GLADDING,

(Glading, Gladwin,) b. England,

Bristol,

c.

1620,

came

to

Ply-

mouth, Mass., and thence to

Sarah, Ebenezer, Phoebe.
II., b. Bristol,

R.

I.,

1640, m.

c.

1640,

and had John,

1641, d. April 27, 1726, m. Alice

who

d.

March
June

and had John, Ebenezer, Mary, Joseph, William, Martha, Jonathan.

III., b. Sept. 19, 1694,

John
6,

m. July

12, 1716,

Martha Smith,

b. 1695, d.

and had John, Charles, David, Martha, George, Samuel, Phoebe, Mary. John IV., b. c. 1717, d. April 14, 1759, m. I. Sept. 25, 1738, Mary Drowne, dau. Solomon (s. Leonard of Kittery, Me., and Boston, and Elizabeth, dau.
1767,

Thomas Abbot
m.

of Portsmouth, N. H.), b. Bristol, June

7,

1719, d. April 14, 1759

II. Sept. 6, 1759,

Han7iah

Short.

Ch.

John, Josiah, Peter, Martha, Daniel,

s.

Martha, Mary, Solomon, Joshua.

The

eldest

John V. had John

VI.,

and he

John VII., (both eldest

Josiah, 2d
s.

sons,) the latter res. Pharsalia, N. Y.

John

IV., b. Bristol, 1741,

removed
1804
;

c.
c.

1775 to Middletown, thence

1769,

to Wethersfield, Conn., there d. Sept. 5,

m.

Mary

Allen, b. R.

I.

1744, d. Albany,

1817

had Ezra, Josiah,

Polly, Joseph,

Timothy, Susan, John,

Albany,

James, Daniel

S.
s.

Timothy, 4th

Josiah
I.

I., b.

Glastenbury, Conn.,

Feb.

12, 1776, d.

May

2,

1846, Painter, m.
12,

Albany,
.

May

8,

1814, Lticy Morton, b. 1791, d. Alb.,

March

1822

m.

II.

1825, Cynthia Whipple, dau. Benj.

Whipple

and Susanna Hall of Albany,

q. v.

next note.
.

By

1st

mar. he had Freeman,

;

Timothy Allen, (d. in U. S. service, 186 Lucy (d. inf.), Henry Langdon (b. Sept.
Katharine Amelia, dau. John
J.

.),

James M., and John

res.

by 2d mar.
7,

14, 1827,

Albany, m. Oct.
Eliz., b.

1S51,

Hemstreet, has Jessie

5,

May

15, 1858,

and Edward Livingston,

b.

Aug.

i860), Charles (b. 1830,

d. 1842),

George

Whipple

June 8, 1833, res. Albany, m. Sept. 20, 1870, Alice Stockdale Burn,) and Frances Elizabeth, b. Dec. 22, 1835, m. June 13, 1854, Charles Wells Hayes.
(b.

(Partly from a Chart

also Savage,
I.

by Allen
74
;

I.

Gladding, of San Francisco, Cal., 1865.

See

4, 5, II.

R.
I.

I.

Col. Rec. IV. 493, seq.; Greenleaf, Eccl. Hist.

;

Me. 241

Farmer's Belknap,

485

Munsell's Ann. Albany, VII. ill, &c.)

NOTE

F.

THE WHIPPLE FAMILY

OF PROVIDENCp;,
R.
I.

JOHN
his house

WHIPPLE

(perhaps related to Matthew and John of Ipswich,) at

Dorchester, Mass., 1632 or earlier, carpenter, "church

member"

1641, sold

and 40 or 50 acres of land, 1658

Clerk 1676-81-3,

removed soon

after to Providence,

R.

I.,

there Lieut., Representative 1666,-74-6,

d. c.

Town

Treasurer 1668-83, Coun-

cillor 1669-81-2,

1685

by w. unknown had John (Repr.

1693,

1669-84, Councillor 1674-87), Sarah, Samuel (Rep. 1691), Eleazer (Rep.

1701),

Mary, William, Benjamin, David, Joseph (Rep. 1698 and

father of Joseph,
gr.

after.

Councillor

1703-4,

Wm.

Hopkins, and was

Dep. Governor 1743-53), Jonathan, and Abigail (m. mo. of Stephen, Gov. R. I. and Signer of Declara-

tion of Independence).

David, 6th

s. (s.

of John

I., b.

Dorchester, Sept,
settler of

28, 1656,

bought in 1692 of
v.

John Blaxton
I.

Rev.

Wm.,

ist

Boston and of Providence,

Savage,
I.,

199, et.

al.)

his estate

and homestead of "Study Hill," Cumberland, R.

which has remained

1676,

in the family to this day.

He

m. Hingham, Mass., Nov. 11,

Hannah Tower,
b. c.

Hingham,

1647,

dau. John Tower and Margaret (dau. Richard) Ibrook of and had Israel, Deborah, Jeremiah, William, Sarah, Han-

nah, Abigail.

Jeremiah. 2d

s.

of David

I.,

b.

June

26, 1683, d. 1760,

m.

c.

1717,

Deborah

Buckland, prob. of Rehoboth, who survived him, and had Jeremiah, David, Martha,

and Sarah.

The

eldest
s.

s.,

Jeremiah

II., b.

1718, d. 1800,

had Jeremiah HI.,

V., b.

b. 1749, d. 1819,

whose

Jeremiah

IV., b. 1802, d.

1852,

had Jeremiah

1838, possessor in 1853 of

"Study

Hill."

David

II.,

2d

s.

of Jeremiah

I., b. c.

1720, m.

Martha Reed, and had 10

ch.,

Otis (of Utica, N. Y.), Cynthia (m. Brayton of Western, Oneida Co., N. Y.), Ben-

jamin, Simon (of Cumberland), Lydia (m. Benedict Arnold of Smithfield, R.

I.),

Amy
well

Buckland of Rehoboth), Jonathan (of Uxbridge, Mass., m. Mary (dau. Dr. Wm.) Jennison, was f. of Charles of Newburyport and Col. Henry of Salem,
(m.

known

booksellers),
s.

George

(of Providence),

David and Joseph (both

17, 1754, d.

d. y.).

Benjamin, 2d
30, 1819,

of David

II., b.

Cumberland, Nov.
8,

Albany, April

m. Wi-entham, Mass., Jan.

1783,

Susanna Hall,

b.

Wrentham, Jan.
Albany:

14, 1762, d.

Adams, N.

Y.,

May

13, 1840,

and had 10

ch., all b. in

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1.

RICHARD WELLS OF CANANDAIGUA.

Nancy,
b.

CH. IX.
1856, m.

Dec,

8,

1784, d.
(d. y.),

Lockport, N. Y., Aug. 27,

Cyrus

Trowbridge, had Benjamin

B. Ilarwood,

Susan W.

(d. y.),

George E., Mary E. (m. E.

L.,

had Anne

Eiiz.,

Martha, Frances, John, Jane, Mary), Joseph

Susan

W.

(m. Rev.

W.

D. Wilson, D. D., LL. D., Prof. Cornell Univ., has

Mary

T. (m. John Clark),

Wm.

D. (Rev.), Frank and Martha),

R.
(d. y.),

Anne

E.

(d. y.),

Frances

E. (m. Beiij. Wright), Charles

and Charlotte Maria (m. Lewis HarN. Y., April, 1818.

18, 1828.

mony).
2.

Susanna,

b. Jan. 10, 1787, d. I.owville,

5,

3.

Esther, b. Feb.
George, b.

1789, d.

Adams, Feb.

4.
5.

March
b.

28, 1791, d.
3,

Albany, July

22, 1796.
14,

Cynthia,

Feb.

1793, d.

Adams, July
q. v.

1847; m. Albany,

1825, as 2d w.,

Timothy Gladding,
b.

above, and had

Henry

L., Charles,

George W., and FRANCES Elizabeth,

Dec. 22, 1835, m. June 13, 1854,

Charles

Wells Hayes.
6.

John Hall,

b. Sept. 22, 1795, d.

Adams, Dec.
(b.

15, 1859,

merchant, m. Eliza-

beth Wager, had Sarah, Henry Benjamin

1822, Bishop of Minnesota 1S59,

m. Cornelia Wright), Susan, Frances, John and George (Rev.).

7.

Martha,

b. Sept. 29, 179S, d.

b.

Albany, Oct.

6,

1799.
April, 1825.

8.

Benjamin Brayton,

Nov.
3,

23, 1800, d.

Adams,

9.

Ann

Frances, b. Feb.
of Lockport,

1803, d. Brantford, Ont., Dec. 30, 1875,

(d.

Hon.

Elias

Ransom Frances W. (m.

Nelles,
10.
s.

N. Y., had Laura

1856,

m.

J.

B. Caldicott),
J.

Fred. Haycock), Elias Boughton, and

Mary E.

(m.

Cummings

Rev. Abraham Nelles, of Brantford).

. .

George (Rev.), b. June 4, 1804, d. Brooklyn, N. Y., Oct.

1876, Presb.
(bro. Daniel)

minister,

many

years Sec.

Am.

Miss.

Soc, m. Alice, dau. Ezekiel

of Col.

Webster, and wid. of

(Partly from

Gregg, had George, Mary, Webster.

J.

Note by Charles

Whipple of Boston

(s.

Henry

of Salem)

in " Genealogy of the

Whipple Family

" (of Ipswich), sent

me by
s.

Mrs. Oliver

M.

Whipple of Lowell, through Geo. M. Whipple of Salem

See also Savage, IV.
V. VI.; Coll. R.
199, etc.;
I.

(also
;

of Col. Henry).

5t>5-6, 316, II. 463, 516, I. 67,

285

R.

I.

Col. Rec. II. IV.

Hist. Soc. V.; N. E. Hist. Gen. Reg. VI. 316, VII. 22, VIII.
127, etc.)

Trowbridge Family; Munsell's Ann. Albany, VII.

NOTE
ANTHONY
De ZOCIEUR,

G.

THE SIZER FAMILY.

a Frenchman, b. of wealthy parents on the Issailor,

land of Terceira, in the Dominion of Portugal, 1707, a

came
10,
v.

to

Middletown, Conn., and there

d. Sept. 21,

1753

m. Middletown,

May

1727,

Sarah Tryon, dau. of Abel Tryon (perh. same as Trians, Saybrook 1667,
age, IV. 330) of

Sav-

Middletown, and on

this

marriage assumed the name of Sizer.

He

had 10

s.

2 dau.,

Mary, Jabez,
i s

Anthony, Abel, Daniel, Lemuel, Sarah, And. inf.

thony, Jemima, Samuel, William,

Samuel, 7th

s.

of Anthony, b. Middletown, Nov.

12, 1746, d.

there 1823, m.
5
s.

April 30, 1767, Abigail Mitchell of Wallingford, Conn., and had

dau.,

Samuel, Anna, Rebecca, Samuel. Joel,

s.

d. inf.,

Asa

Bill.
5,

Asa
March
ington,

Bill, 5th and youngest son of Samuel, b. June

25, 1801, Elizabeth Starr, dau. of

1780, d. Nov. 22, 1S29,

m. Dec.

Elihu Starr of Middletown, confirmed

i s.

28, 1802, d. Jan. 22, 1817.

They had

2 dau.,

Mary

B.,

Henry HuntN. Y.,

Anna Maria (d. inf.). Henry Huntington, only son

28, 1S49,
8,

of Asa B., b.

May

8,

1804. d. Buffalo,
;

June
Sept.

an early and prominent merchant of Buffalo

Elizabeth

m. Utica, N. Y,,

1830,

Mary

Canfield,
1.

who

d. Buffalo,

Aug.

Whiting* dau. of Henry Starr Whiting and Sarah They had 2 s. 4 dau. 24, 1874.

Evelyne, b. June 20, 1833, m. Nov. 2g, 1854, Richard Hilliard of Cleve-

land, O.
Starr, b. March i, 1837, d. Sept. 17, 1870. Sara Elizabeth, b. Jan. 22, 1839, d. Buffalo, Sept. April 22, 1858, Robert Pliny H.ayes, q. v. p. 140.
2.

Henry

3.

16, 1868,

m. Buffalo,

b. Norwich, Conn., July 5, 1759, d. Danbury, 1804, a Lieut, in Conn. Line in the Revolution, and afterwards Member of the Society of the Cincinnati, m. May 8, 17S3, Rachel, dau. Major Samuel Starr of Danbury, b. there May 8, 1759, d. Herkimer, N. Y., July 7, 1815. Their eldest son, Henry Starr. Whiting, b. Danbury, March 20, 1785, d. Herkimer, Aug. 10, 1824, m. New Milford, Conn., May 8, 1808, Sarah, gr. dau. Mary Elizabeth, wife of Henry H. Sizer, Col. Samuel Can/ield,\). New Milford was the 2d ch. of Henry S. Whiting. An incomplete but valuable account of this family is given in Goodwin's Genealogical Notes.

Frederick Jones Whiting,

7,

Conn., Oct.

l68
4.
r

RICHARD WELLS OF CANANDAIGUA.

Mary
Louise, b. Aug. 28, 1840, d. Feb. 14, 1845.
b.

CH. IX.

5.

William Small,

March

22, 1843

m. Nov.

15, 1870,

Susan

S. Sears,

dau.

of Selim Sears of Buffalo.

6.

Clara Augusta, b.

May

5,

1845

m. April

12, 1871,

Albert

J.

Barnard of

Buffalo.

(Com. by

Wm.

S. Sizer, of Buffalo.)

NOTE

H.

THE INGERSOLL FAMILY

OF CONNECTICUT.

JOHN
(dau. of

INGERSOLL,

of Hartford, Conn., 1651 or earlier, and Northampton,

3,

Mass., 1655, d. Westfield, Ma.ss., Sept.

1684, m.

I. c.

1651, Dorothy Lord,

Thomas
c.

of Hartford, and gr. aunt of Deborah, gr. gr. mo. of Dr. Pliny
;

Hayes,) b.

1631, d. Jan. 1656 or 7

b. c.

m.

II. ib^^,
c.

Abigail Bascom, (dau.

Thomas
dau. of

of Windsor,)

1640, d.

c.

166&
Sept.

m. III.
1690.

1667,

Mary Hunt,

(gr.

Gov. John Webster,) who

d.

I,

Ch.,

Hannah, Dorothy, Margery,

Abigail, Sarah, Abiah, Hester,

Thomas, John, Abel, Ebenezer, Joseph, Mary,

b. Westfield,

Benjamin, Jonathan.

Jonathan, youngest
Nov.
ford, Feb. 14, 1748.

ch. of

John,

May

10, 1681, d.
,

Milford, Conn.,

28, 1760, joiner at

Milford from 1698, m. Sarah

b. c. 1687, d.

Mil-

Ch., Jonathan, Sarah,

d.

Mary, David, Jared, Sarah.

(The

3d

s.,

Jared, b. 1722,
Distributor,
d.

1781, Y. C. 1742,

was the well known Admiralty Judge,

his
s.

Stamp

and Agent of Connecticut under the Crown, 1757-70, and

1822, Y.

Jared, b. 1749,

1766,
s.

LL. D. was an eminent Judge, Attorney

,

General of

Pa.,

&c

Joseph R.,

of Jared II., Princeton, 1804,

LL.

D., D. C.
s.,

L. Oxon., was Repr. in Congress and

Minister to England, and another

Charles

J.,

Repr. in Cong, from Pa.)

II.,

Jonathan
(dau.

eldest

s.

of Jona.

I.,

b. Milford,

1713, d. Oct.

2,

1778, Y. O.

1736, minister of Ridgefield,

Conn.,

1738-78, m. Nov. 10, 1740, Dorcas Moss,

b. c. 1726, d. Sept. 29, 1811.

Rev. Joseph, of Derby, Conn.,)

Ch., Sarah,

Dorcas, Jonathan, Mary, Abigail, Joseph, Hannah, Esther, Moss, Ann.

Jonathan
I,

III., eldest

s.

of Jona.

II., b.

Ridgefield, April 16, 1747, d, Jan. 12,

1823, Y. C. 1766,

LL.

D.,

Judge of Sup. Court, and Lieut. Gov. Conn., m. April

17S6, Grace Isaacs, (dau.

:

Ralph of Branford,)

b. c. 1771, d.

March

30, 1850.

Children
1.

Gmce,
Ralph,

b. 1787, d. Paris, July, 1816,

m. M. Grellet of
I.

Paris,

and was known

as one of the beauties of the Court of

2.

Napoleon

b. 1789, d. 1872,

Repr. in Cong, and Minister to Russia, father of

Colin M., Repr. in Cong., and Charles R., Governor of Connecticut.

3.

Mary,

b. 1791,

m. Ralph

I.

Linzee, of Boston.

I/O
William

RICHARD WELLS, OF CANANDAIGUA.

Isaacs, b. 1793.

CH. IX.

Charles Anthony.
Harriet, m. Capt.
7.

Ralph Voorhees, U.
U.

S. S.

N., d. June

7,

1872.

Jonathan,

b. 1804, d. 1875, Lieut.

N., resigned 1831.

26.

Edward,
ter's,

youngest, b.

New
;

Haven, Conn., Nov.

m.

1810, Y. C. 1831,

D. D. Hobart 1856, Rector of Trinity Ch., Buffalo, N.

Y., 1844-74, 14,

and of

St.

Pe-

Niagara

Falls, since

1874

New

Haven, Sept.

1836,

Catharine

Frances Seyniour, (dau. of Gurdon Seymour and Catharine Costigan of Savannah,

Ga.,) b.

Savannah, Jan.
(m.

6,

1813, d. Buffalo, July

6,

1866.

Children,

Edward
(d.

Seymour,
set.

Mary Wells
(m.
(d.
inf.),

Bristol,

q. v. p. 142,)

Catharine Maria,
q. v. p. 140,)

1853,

14,)

SuzETTE LiNZEE,

Robert Pliny Hayes,

William De

Lancey, Jonathan
Grellet,

Gurdon Isaac Seymour, James Williams, Albert

and Henry William Rogers.

See also Savage,

(The above chiefly from Goodwin's " Genealogical Notes," through the Hon.
Charles R. IngersoU.
II. 520, seq.)

CHAPTER
YOUNGER CHILDREN OF

X.

DR.

HENRY WELLS.

f^HOEBE,^-^^ third daughter of Dr. Henry Wells, (so named ^ doubtless from her aunt Phoebe Stout, and great aunt

Femmetje de
Wilmington,
13, 1796,

Foreest,) b. Brattleboro, Vt., Oct. 28, 1777, d.

Vt.,

Dec.

3,

1853, aet. 'j^;

m. Montague, Nov.

of

Parsons Clapp, (s. of Daniel Clapp, (a descendant Roger of Dorchester, 1630,)* and Abigail Root,) b. Mon1772,
d.

tague, July 26,

Wilmington,

Vt.,

Feb. 27,

1855.

Old Cemetery at Montague, with headstones giving simply names and dates as above. Parsons Clapp was a farmer and mechanic, of feeble health, and in middle age crippled by an accident, so that their life was one of many trials, much softened however in their The oldest later years by the filial duty of their children. son, especially, used his wealth freely for their comfort and happiness. Both husband and wife were much respected by all who knew them well. They had ten children
in the
:

Both are buried

Henry Wells

(Clapp), ^i"^ b. April 20, 1798.

Hannah

" " Robert }{arris William Augustus " Benjamin Winthrop "
Catharine Hamutal " " Lois Elizabeth

Stout Daniel Parsons Abigail Root

"
"

''*"
''*'

b.

b.
b.

Nov. Nov.
Aug.

4.

1799.

21, 1802.
19, 1804.

'' b. Aug.
'-^^^
'-i-*-*

23, 1806, d. Oct. 13, 1833.

1.

b. Sept. 23, 180S.

'-^^^

b. Oct. 6, 181 b.

''*'

Oct. 13, 1812.

John Taylor

"

'"' b. Sept. 11, 1816. '-^^ b. Feb. 10, 1821.

* See infra, Note A.

172

DESCENDANTS OF HENRY OF MONTAGUE.

CH. X.

PHOEBE SEVENTH GENERATION.

I.

Henry Wells

(Clapp),"'^^ eldest son, b. Springfield,

Mass., April 20, 1798, d. Greenfield,

the

New

Cemetery

at Greenfield.

March 17, 1869; bur. in At the age of sixteen,

he left his home to become the apprentice of a goldsmith and jeweller in Newark, N. J., and continued steadily at his work for six years, never seeing his home during the first In 18 19, he writes to his five years of his apprenticeship.
uncle, Dr.
as a

Richard Wells, that

"

he

is

receiving $65 a

month

jeweller, wages which no other journeymanufactory has had for eight years, and nearly double that received by those working with him, he only being able to do the finest parts of the work, especially In 1820, he entered into business for himself, and chasing." in ten years became a man of wealth, retiring from his

journeyman

man

in the large

work in 1833, and removing in 1835 to Greenfield, Mass., where he built and planned the beautiful home still occupied by his family. Here he lived thirty-four years, taking
a deep interest in
in
all

public

affairs,

and contributing freely

money and

effort to

every enterprise for the good of the

place.

He was

President of the Connecticut River Rail-

road, the Franklin

field

County Agricultural Society, the Green-

etery Association,

Bank, Franklin Savings Institution, Greenfield CemGas Company, and Library Association,
of

some

which institutions originated with him, while of others he was one of the founders. He took a deep interest in the work of the Church, and for the beautiful parish
church
him.
at Greenfield (St. James'), a fine early

English edifice

of stone,

two thirds of the cost, or $8,000, was given by The large cutlery works near Greenfield, one of the
,

most important manufactures in that region, was established by him in company with several others. He was a lover of books and pictures, of all things contributing to household comfort and refinement, and emphatically " a lover of

GEN.

VII.

PHOEBE, THIRD DAUGHTER.

;

73

interested in historical and family " deeply memorials and local antiquities.* One who knew him intimately says, " he was loyal to friends, and capable of strong and enduring attachments. The influence which he
hospitality

exercised was not acquired by efforts to be popular, but

resulted from native force and sagacity, persistent will, and

recognized integrity." t

He was

proverbial in Greenfield,
in all business affairs.

both for generosity, and exact justice

10, 1823, Eliza Baldwin, (dau. of Ezra and LiUis Baldwin of Newark, N. J.,) b. Newark, May 28, 1802, d. New York, Sept. 16, 1831 bur. at Newark. He m. II. New York, June 28, 1833, Anna Crane HilLiARD, (dau. of Robert Bell Hilliard (s. of Nicholas Hilhard
I.
;

He

m,

New

York, April

and Jane Bell) and Sophia Crane (dau. of William Crane and Anna Pennington) of New York,) b. New York, Oct. 5, 1807, and still residing at the home of forty years past,
in Greenfield.

Children by the
1.

ist

marriage
s.'se
^-'^^
^^'^^

2.
3.

Caroline Matilda Cornelia Wells

(Clapp),

b_

Henry Baldwin
Johnson Tremaine Palmer
ElizalDeth

4.
5.

" " " "

b.

b.
b. h.

^-'^^
^-'^^

n_ y., Feb. " Dec. '' Nov. " Aug.

21, 1824. 29, 1825.

7,

1827.

28, 1829.

"

Sept. 16, 1831, d. Feb. 23, 1832.

By
6.
7. 8.

2d marriage

9.

Frederick (Clapp),*-!" b_ j^Iew York, May 18, 1834. ^'^^" Henrietta h. Greenfield, Nov. 23, 1836, " 8.193 b Emmeline " June 20, 1838, " " smb. Isabella
Jan. 15, 1840.

d.
d.

Nov.

21, 1854. Sept. 14, 1849.

'

II.

Hannah Stout
Nov.
4,

(Clapp),^-"" eldest dau.,

b.

Spring-

field,
*

1799;

^^'^-

Montague, Feb.

15, 1820,

Henry

One

instance of which, I remember, was his preserving on his

own grounds

the original guide-post which in early days directed the traveller from Greenfield
to all

New England
first

and

New

York.

To

his interest in family history I

am

in-

debted for the

his

genealogical chart and tree of the Wells family, taken from

in 1854,

copy of Dr. Henry Wells' Record

which chart was the original foundlate

ation of this Memoir.

f

Hon. George T. Davis, formerly of Greenfield,

of Portland, Me., d.

there June 17. 1877.

174

DESCENDANTS OF HENRY OF MONTAGUE.

CH. X.

ESTABROOK, of Wilmington, Vt., Farmer, (s. of Aaron Estabrook and Margaret Thomson of Montague,) b. Montague, Aug. 21, 1793, d. Pomfret, N. Y., July 10, 1854. Mrs. Estabrook now resides (1877) with her youngest daughter, at
Sheffield,
111.

Children

(all

born

in

Wilmington,
b. b.

Vt.):

Harriet Newell (Estabrook)/-'^' *-''"^ Minerva Ann

Nov. Aug.

29, 1820.
5.

1822.
31, d. April 2, 1824.
3,

Hannah

Stout

8.197 8-198 8.199 8-200

s-201

b
b.
b.

Henry Wells Marietta Caroline Thomson

William Clapp

March March

1825.

May
June June

20, 1827.

b. b.

27, 1831. 2S, [S34.

III.

Daniel Parsons
21,

(Clapp),^-^^^
c.

2d son,

b. Springfield,

Nov.

1802; m. Thetford, Vt.,

1829,

Martha

P.

Dan-

iels, dau. of

Samuel Daniels

of

Pembroke, N. H.

Children

Martha Catharine William Daniels

(Clapp),^-'^"^ b.

Lebanon, N. H., June

15, 1830.

"
"

^.203
'^2"*

b. b.

Thetford, Vt., Feb. 16, 1833.

Mary Ann

Benjamin Winthrop " " Samuel S.

^-'"^ ^-^^^

h.

New York, June 8, 1837. Elyria, O., Aug, iS, 1845. b. Amherst, O., Dec. 12, 1850.

IV.

Abigail Root

(Clapp),^-"-

2d dau.,

b.

Springfield,

Aug.
2,

19, 1804, d. Alexandria,

Douglas
1835,

Co., Minnesota, Jan.

(s.

1876; m.

Montague, Jan.

7,

Ezra Rice,

of

Moses

Rice and Esther

Feb.
13,
1

De Wolf

of Deerfield, Mass.,) b. Deerfield,

8 10; res. 1877,

Alexandria, Minn.
Deerfield, " " "

Children:
2,

Cornelia Parsons Clapp

(Rice),*--"' b.

Jan Nov-

i6, d.
8,

Aug.

1836.

"

^-^os
*
'-^o'

b.
b.

April

1838.

Benjamin Winthrop " " Henry Wells " Francis

s-^io
^-^'i

b.
b.

Plymouth, Wis., June

2, 1839. Sept. 6, 1842, d. Mai. 16, 1869. 27, 1847, d. Sept. i, iS

VI.

William Augustus

(Clapp),"-^" 4th son, b.

Ludlow,
I.

Mass., Sept. 23, 1808, res. Saratoga Springs, N. Y.; m.

Montague, Jan. 20, 1835, Ruth Exoa Phinney, (dau. of Jason Phinney and Ruth Tyrer of Montague,) b. New Sa-

GEN.

VIII.

PHOEBE, THIRD DAUGHTER.

5,

1/5
1865.

lem, Sept. 20, 18 14, d. Saratoga Springs, Feb.

He

m.

II.

Saratoga, July

4, 1871,

Mrs.
July

Mary
6,

(Kelsey) Fenn,
of Rensselaer-

(dau. of
ville,

Robert Kelsey and Lydia Baldwin

Y.,) b. Rensselaerville,
:

N.

1820.

Children by

ist

marriage
1.

Emma

Antoinette

(Clapp),"''"'- b.

Saratoga,
"

March
"

2. 3.

Mary Elizabeth Benjamin Winthrop

" "

'^'"^

b.
b.

19, 1843. 26, 1846.

^^''

"

June

5,

1S48.

VII.

Benjamin Winthrop
6,

(Clapp),^-^*^ 5th son, b.

Gran-

by, Mass., Oct.

1811, d.

New

York, Dec.

19,

1869; for

many

years a practical and very successful manufacturing

'j^

jeweller at

John

St.,

New York, residing

his death,

in the city until

1856, afterwards,

until

at Harrison,

N.

J.

He

was not only a thorough business man, but a genial pleasant companion, and a warm friend. He m. New York,

May
Hills

16,

1836,

Mary Ballard
res. at

Hills,' (dau. of William

Conn,,),b. Hartford,
J.

and Lydia Cook

I,

of Hartford,

May

181

5,

now

EHzabeth, N.
\,

Children:

Mary Elizabeth
3

(Clapp),^-^''

-^^^ York, Feb.

" "
"

is
<6

William Hills Samuel Deniilt Benjamin Winthrop Josephine Georsiana

"
"

8-2i
'^

b.

-'''

b.

"
" "

'^-^''^

b,
b.

^--'^
s-^'^o

b.

" "

25, 1837. Sept. 18, 1S38, d. May Dec. 27, 1840. 184-, d inf. Nov. 29, 1850. " " "

i,

1844.

ford, Mass., Oct. 13, 1812, res.

Catharine HAMUTAL(CLAPP),^-^^''3d dau.,b. Bland1877, 5^ E. Huron St., Ann Arbor, Mich.; m. Montague, Jan. 23, 1833, Salmon Stone, Mass.,) who (s. of Abraham and Sarah Stone of Wendell,
VIII.
d.

Burton, Mich., Oct.

:

17, 1856.

Children,

all

born

in

Bur-

ton

1.

2.

Charles Harris Albert Wells

(Stone),*-'^-'

b.

May
June

ii, 1840.

3.

George Lewis

" "

^-'^'-^

b. Sept. 30, 1842.

b.

*-^^'"

29, 1844.

IX.

Lois Elizabeth
II,

(Clapp),^-"^ 4th dau., b.

Montague,

Sept.

1816;

Matron

of the
rl;

N. Y. State Lunatic Asylum,

Bloominofdale, Nev/ Y(

176

DESCENDANTS OF HENRY OF MONTAGUE.

CH, X.

X.

John Taylor
1846,

(Clapp)/-"^ youngest child, b.

Mon-

tague, Feb.
I.

10, 1821, d.

Jersey City, N.
of

J.,

Feb.

7,

1856; m.
b.

c.

Mary Augusta Cascaden

29,

New
3,

York,
1853;

New
II.

York, July
1854,
23, 1824.

1824, d.

Jersey City, July

I.,

m.

Mary Sanford
.

of Moriches, L.

b.

Moriches, April

Children by
1.

ist

marriage

2.

Charles Augustus (Clapp),*-'-* b. N. York, June 23, 1S47, d. Apr. 15, 1S70. " ^--'' b. " 1855. June 18, 1850, d. Oct. Mary Elizabeth
.

By
3.

2d marriage

Nov. 1856.

William Henry

(Clapp),^'- b. Jersey City, Jan. 8, 1855, d.

PHOEBE EIGHTH GENERATION.

*

henry wells
Caroline Matilda
"^9

(clapp).^-^^-'

I.

(Clapp),^-'^" eldest dau. of

b.

Henry
i,
;

Wells Clapp
m. G.,
(s.

and Eliza Baldwin,

New

York, Feb.

1824, d. Greenfield, Mass., Sept. 17, 1846; bur. Gi"eentield

May

10, 1843,

Daniel Wells Alvord,

(s.

of Elijah

Caleb) Alvord and Sabra (dau. Col. Daniel) Wells of G.,)

1

b. G., Oct., 21,

8 16, d.

Spring Hill Farm, Fairfax Co., Va.,

Children:
'''^'^^

Aug.
1.

3,

1871, bur. there.*

Elijah

Henry

(Alvord),

2.

3.

" Daniel Wells Caroline Matilda Clapp "

i39
"-'^o

b.

b. Greenfield, " b.

"

March IT, 1844. Oct. 1845, d. Sept. 17, 1846.

. .

inf.

A. was graduated at Union, 1838, (M. A.) and was most of his life a first of his uncle Judge Daniel Wells, Chief Justice of C. P. of Mass., and then of his cousin Col. Geo. D.
practising lawyer at his native place, partner

* D.

W.

Wells, 34th Mass. V. Infantry (killed at Cedar Creek,

Com

of Insolvency, Franklin Co., 1848-53,

tion, 1853, State

Senator 1854, District Att'y

Internal Revenue, 1863-9.

Va Oct. member of Mass. of N. W. Dist. of

1864).

He was
Conven-

Const.

Mass., 1856-62,

Collector U.

S.

O'^

account of impaired health he

(H. E. Alvord.)

then removed with his 2d wife and children to Virginia, where he purchased a
farm, as above, and there resided until his death.

GEN.
II.

VIII.

PHOEBE, THIRD DAUGHTER.

77

(Clapp),-'^^ 2d dau., b. New York, m. Greenfield, Dec. 25, 1849, David Tilden Brown, M. D., of New York, (s. of Israel Brown and Mary

Cornelia Wells

Dec.

29, 1825;

Phillips of Boston, Mass.,) b. Boston,

June

12, 1821,

Resi-

dent Physician, N. Y. State Lunatic Asylum, Bloomingdale, New York. Children

:

I.

James

2
3.

Phillips (Brown), " Frederick Tilden Cornelia Elizabeth "

^'*'

b. ""- b.

4.
5.

Henry Clapp

"

6.

Francis Pennington " " Edward Chapin,

July 29, 1851, d. Oct, 17, i860. Oct. 7, [S53, H. U. 1877. ''''*^ b. April 19, 1857, d. Aug. 19, 1857. ^-'^ b. Oct. 5, 1858, H. U. 18S1. "''' b. July 23, i860.
' b.

Nov.

26, 1869.

III.

Henry Baldwin
7,

(Clapp) ,^'^'^ eldest son,

b.

New
;

York, Nov.
field.

1827, d. Greenfield,

June

9,

1861, bur.

Green-

Superintendent of the Greenfield Cutlery Works m. Newark, N. J., Jan. 13, 1852, his cousin JuLiA Frances Bolles, (dau. of Nathan Bolles and Abby (dau. Ezra) Baldwin of Newark,) b. N., March 30, 1827. Children:
1.

2.

Julia Frances (Clapp), " Eliza Baldwin

s-'*'
'^''*
^-i^''
''''"

3.

4.

Henry Wells Nathan Bolles

" "

Greenfield, Nov. lo, 1853. Y}/\f^ Newark, May 25, 1855. b. Greenfield, Dec. 5, '.856. " b. July 21, 1859, d. Sept. 1863.
b.

^"

'V^l^vr

b.

IV.

Elizabeth Johnson
28, 1829;

(Clapp),^-'^''''

3d dau.,
23, 1848,

b.

New

York, Aug.

m. Greenfield, Feb.
(s,

William
Children,

Henry Allen,
all b. at

of Greenfield, Banker,
G.,) b. G.,

of Sylvester Allen
i,

and Harriet Ripley of

Greenfield
:

Feb.

1820.

178
res.

DESCENDANTS OF HENRY OF MONTAGUE.

Greenfield
;

CH. X.

(dau. oi
b.

m. Boston, April 15, 1863, Ella A. Peirce, Henry A. Peirce and Susan Thompson of Boston,) Boston, Oct. 4, 1838. Child:
I.

Anna

(Clapp),

-"^

b. Greenfield, Oct. 6, 1864.

IX.

Isabella
(s.

(Clapp),^-^^^

youngest

child, b. Greenfield,

Jan. 15, 1840; m. Greenfield, July

Russell,

of

Francis Burg John Russell and Juliana VVitmer of G.,) b.

15, 1863,

G., Dec. 12, 1838, d. G., July 4, 1870.

Mrs. Russell resides

:

with her mother at Greenfield.

I.

Child
b.

Katharine Dennison (Russell),'-""

Greenfield, June 20, 1S6S.

HANNAH STOUT
I.

(CLAPP).^-""

Harriet Newell (Estabrook),^'^^^ eldest dau. of Henry Estabrook and Hannah Stout Clapp,^-" b. Wilmington,

Vt, Nov. 29, 1820; m, Wilmington, Aug. 13, 1844, Otis Haynes, of Conway, Taylor Co., Iowa, Farm^er and Insurance Agent, (s. of Nahum Haynes,) b. New London, Conn., March 2, 18 17. Children:
1.

2.

(Haynes) '''Edward Wells " '-'"^ Henry Estabrook

Franklin Otis Phoebe Elizabeth
" "
"

b. b.

Wilmington, Sept.
Oct.
"
" "

17, 1846.

b. Brattleboro,

11,1854.
12, i860, d.

3.

"'"
'-'"^

Feb.

May 2i,
1876.

4.
5.

b.

June

20, 1861.
9,

Robert Augustus

a.ieu

b.

March

1863.

II.

Minerva Ann
5.

(Estabrook),^^-'^*'

2d dau.,

b.

Wilming-

ton,

August

1822; m. Wilmington, Oct.

12, 1843,

Oliver

Mii.TON Harris, of Mineral, Bureau Co., 111., Farmer, (s. of Oliver Harris and Rhoda Fisher of Marlboro, Vt.,) b. Marlboro,

Aug.

21, 1820.

Children:
Aug. Aug. Feb.
Feb. July
Feb. Feb.
30, 1844.
16,

Henry Milton (Harris),'"^' b. Holden, Mass., 9.16S Franklin Winthrop b. Wilmington, '" b. " Frederick Wilbur " '"Ob. William Oscar ^'i'' Charles Edgar b. Pomfret, N. Y., ""2 b. Hanover, N.Y., Lyman Newton 51" b. " Lucian Clapp ^''' " Lucy Emmeline b.

18, 1848.

21, 25,

Sept. 25,
24, 24,

1846, d.Oct,27, 1864. 1851. d.June3, 1868. 1855. i860. 1863. 1863.

GEN.
IV.

VIII.

PHOEBE, THIRD DAUGHTER.

79

Henry Wells
3,

(Estabrook),^-^^^ eldest son, b. WilIII.,

;

mington, March m. Hamilton,

Daniel,) b.

Oct. 7, 1863 Farmer; Nov. 30, 1854, Jane Brown, (dau. of Nauvoo, III., Feb. 19, 1830. Children, all b. in
1825, d. Carlyle,
III,

Carlyle
1.

2. 3.

Harriet Jane William Henry John Franklin

(Estabrook),*'-!'' b. Sept. 23, 1855. ''i'" " b. May 15, 1858.

"
"

"' b.
''-''s

Aug.

18, i860.

4.

Marietta

b.

Feb. 25, 186}.

V.

Marietta
20,

(Estabrook),^-^*-* 4th dau., b.

17,

Wilmington,

May
VI.

1827;

m. Brattleboro, Feb.

1859,

James D.
dau.,
b.

Ward,

of Putney, Vt.

No
1831
;

children.
(Estabrook),^--"" 5th

Caroline Thomson
27,

Wilmington, June

Watson Freeman
(s.

m. Wilmington, Jan. 24, 1856, Lawton, of Sheffield, III, Stock Jobber,

of Wilmington,)

of Israel

Lawton and Mehssa Freeman

29, 1828.

b.

W., Dec.
I.

Children,

all b. in

Sheffield

rt2.

Alice Carrie (Lawton),'''" b. Dec. 25, 1856. 'i8 " Kate Melissa b. Feb. 9, 1858, d. Feb. 21, i860.

3.

Edwin Watson

"

''*'

b.

Aug.

30, 1864.

child, b.

s. and youngest Wilmington, June 28, 1854, d. Boston, July 3, 1868 Merchant in Boston; m. Boston, Nov. 30, 1863, Alice Bul-

V^II.

William Clap? (Estabrook),^'^*^^ 2d

LARD

of that place,

who

d. there, Sept., 1876.

No

children.

DANIEL parsons
I.
P.,''-^*^

(CLAPP)."^^

Martha Catharine
b.

(Clapp),^-^*^^

eldest dau. of Daniel

Lebanon, N, H., June 15, 1830, d. Danbury, Conn., June 19, 1868; m, Sanford of Danbury. Child:
I.

Mary

(Saniord).^-'^-

II.

William Daniels
16,

(Clapp),^-^'''*

eldest son, b. Thetford,

Vt, Feb.

1833

m. Oct. 1854.

l80
III.

DESCENDANTS OF HENRY OF MONTAGUE.

CH. X.

York, June Logan, who 1856, 8, 1837; m. Tipton, Iowa, June was killed in the U. S. Service during the civil war of
(CLAPr),--"*

Mary Anne

2d dau.,
i,

b.

New

86

-5

the

widow

resides in Tipton.

One

child.*"-^-'^^

IV.
O.,

Benjamin Winthrop (Clapp),^-^"^ 2d Aug. 18, 1845, d- Victor, Iowa, Jan. 21,

son, b, Elyria,

1874; m.

May
Dec.

21, 1868.

No

children.
S.
(Clapp),^'-'""

V.
12,

Samuel

3d son,

b,

Amherst,

O.,

1850; m.

Aug.

29, 1874.

WILLIAM AUGUSTUS
I.

(CLAPP).^'^^*

Emma Antoinette
b.
5,

(Clapp),^-^'^ eldest

dau. of

Wilham
m.

A. Clapp,"'^*

Saratoga Springs, N. Y., March

1870,
8,

19, 1843;

Saratoga, Oct.

George
1845.

B.

Strong

of Saratoga, b.

Dryden, N.
I.

Y., July

Children:

Mary Lois

2.

Ruth Clapp

(Strong),"-'*-* b. i3 " b.

July 13, 1874. April 18, d. Sept. 12, 1876.

II.

Mary Elizabeth
26, 1846;

(Clapp),**-^^^

2d dau.,
of

b.

Sarato'^a,
J.

March

m. Denver, Col., Oct.

26, 1871,

Andrew

Curtis,

of

Schenectad}^ N. Y.,

now

San Mateo, Florida.

only son,
Sara-

One
toga,

child.<^-'^'

III.

Benjamin Winthrop
June
&c.,
5,

(Clapp),^-^'^

b.

1848;

Manufacturer

of

Architectural Iron

Saratoga Springs, Water Commissioner, 1877; m. Saratoga, June 20, 1872, SusAN Irene Fonda, (dau. of
Cornelius Fonda and Lydia Dunsback
of

Work,

Saratoga,)

b.

Chfton Park, N.
1.

Y.,

Nov.

21, 1850.
b.
b.

Children:

2.

Walter Fonda (Clapp,)"'" ''** Benjamin Winthrop "

Nov

20, 1874.

Dec. 22, 1877.

BENJAMIN WINTHROP
I.

(CLAPP).^'^''^

Mary Elizabeth
25,

(Clapp)

,^-215

eldest
J.,

dau.,
15,

b.

New
her

York, Feb.

1837; m. Harrison, N.

Oct.

1858,

GEN.

VIII.

PHOEBE, THIRD DAUGHTER.

Sibley,^-^"
(q. v.

l8l

cousin

George Edward
N.
J.

above, ch. IX.

p.

140) of Elizabeth,
1.

Children:
31, 1859. ig, 1867, d. Jan. 3, 1868.
29, 1874.
8,

2.

Mary Clapp (Sibley), ^'-^ b. Harrison, Aug. "'^s ^ " George Wells Elizabeth, Jan.
Alice Easterly
"
"
^'^'^
''S'*

3.

b.
b.

"
"

May
Oct.

4.

Edith Putnam

1877.

III.
b.

Samuel Demilt (Clapp),^-^'^ 2d

York, Dec.
of
27, 1840; res.

(only surviving) son,

New

New

York, Merchant, and

8,

Elizabeth, N. J.; m. Stamford, Conn., June

1869,

Helen
Child-

Canfield, (dau.

David Warren Canfield and Catharine

b.

Quintard, of Stamford,)
ren, b. at Elizabeth
1.
:

Stamford,

1841.

Caroline Canfield (Clapp),-i8o b.

2.

Mary

Hills

3.

Samuel Demilt

" "

''i^'

b.
b.

May May

8,

1870, d. Jan. 31, 1873.

21, 1872.

"''''

Dec. 23, 1874.

V.

Josephine (Clapp)

,^2^''

2d dau.,
12, 1871,

b.

New

York, Nov.

29, 1850;

m. Elizabeth, Sept.
Sibley,^-^*'^ of

her cousin Charles

(Ch. IX. p.
141.)

Henry Wells
Child :
I.

Elizabeth.

Winthrop Clapp

(Sibley),-'-'-'

b. Elizabeth,

June
b.

21, 1S72.

VI.

Georgiana

(Clapp),^-^-'^

3d dau.,
1875,

New

York, Nov.

29, 1850;

m. Elizabeth, Nov.

16,

Edward Howard

Leggett, of Elizabeth, Merchant, (s. of Thomas B. Leggett and Sarah Maria Huggins of Ehzabeth,) b. Morrisania, N. Y., Dec. 2, 1845. Child:
I.

Howard Clapp

(Leggett), ^'-'^-^ b. Elizabeth,

Nov.

22, 1876.

CATHARINE HAMUTAL
I.

(CLAPP).^^**^

Charles Harris
U.

(Stone,)*-^-' eldest
Clapp,^-'*" b.

son of Salmon

Stone and Catharine H.

1840, d. in

Burton, Mich.,

May
9,

11,

S. Service, at

Alexandria, Va.,

March

1862,

unmarried.

82
II.

DESCENDANTS OF HENRY OF MONTAGUE.

CH. X.

Albert Wells (Stone)

;

,'^22-

2d son,

b.

Burton, Sept.

30, 1842

res.

Burton, Farmer
Oct.

m.

Flint, Mich.,

Nov.

7,

1872,

Nancy Jane Gage,

Scarr of Burton,)

(dau. of William
16,

Gage and Hannah

Children,
all

b. B.,

1849.

b.

in

Burton
1.

Minnie

2.
3.

" Charles Carrie Lawton "

(Stone),^-!^ b. Feb. iS. 1874. ''^' h. Feb. 20, 1875.

''^'^

b.

Oct.

8,

1S76.
D.,^-^^^

III.

George Lewis
29,

(Stone), M.

3d son,

b.

Bur-

ton,

June

1844; res. 52 E.

Huron

St.,

Ann

Arbor, Mich.,

Physician, unmarried.

PHOEBE NINTH GENERATION.

HENRY W.
I,

(CLAPP).^-^^^

CORNELIA

M.

(CLAPP).'^-'*'^

Henry Elijah
;

(Alvord),''-^^ eldest

s.

of Daniel

Wells

Alvord and Cornelia Matilda Clapp,^-^^" b. Greenfield, March B. S. and C. E., Norwich University, Vt. In 1862, 1 1, 1844
while in College, he enlisted in the 7th R.
as private, corporal, serg't
I.

Cavalry, served

and ist serg't; was in the battles of Winchester, Harper's Ferry and Antietam 2d Lieut. 2d Mass. V. Cav., Nov. 1862, ist Lieut. June 1864, Capt. Oct. 1864, Major 1865, ist Lieut. loth Cav. U. S. A., July
;

1866, Capt. July 1867,

on duty

in

Kansas and Indian Terr.

Coll. 1869-71, resigned

1867-9, Prof. Milit. Science,

Amherst

from U. S. A. Dec. 1 871, to take charge, on his father's death, of Spring Hill Farm, Fairfax Co., Va. now (1877) Prof, of Drawing, Williston Seminary, Easthampton, Mass. m. Spring Hill, Va., Sept. 6, 1866, Martha Swink, dau. of William Swink and Margaret Lindsay of Va, No children.
; ;

III.
b.

Caroline Matilda Clapp

17,

(Alvord),^-"" only dau.,

Greenfield, Sept.
Sept.
13,

1846; m. in St. James' Ch., Green-

field,

1867,

Farm, Fairfax

Co., Va.,

Franklin Sherman, of Ash Grove (s. of James Sherman and Fidelia

GEN.

IX.

PHOEBE, THIRD DAUGHTER.

83

Fairchild of

New

York,) Capt. loth Reg. Mich. U. S. V.

Children,
1.

all b. at

Ash Grove Farm

b.

2.

3.

4.

Wells Alvord (Sherman),i-3> i0-32 " Mary Alvord lo-^s " Ruth Brewster 'o-^-t Henry Franklin "

July ig, 1868.

b. April 15, d. June 16, 1871. b. April 14, 1872. b. Oct. 16, 1S-5.

HANNAH
I.

S.

(CLAPP).^-^^

MINERVA

A. (ESTABROOK).^-^^^
s.

Henry Milton
30,

(Harris),^-^"" eldest
Estabrook,^-^^'' b.

of Oliver

M.

Harris and Minerva A.

Holden,

Mass.,

Aug.

Bureau Co., 111., Farmer and Stock Raiser; entered 112th Reg. N. Y. S. V., Nov. 13, 1863, and served through the war; m. Oswego, 111., Feb. 10, 1873, Elizabeth M. Culver, (dau. of Sherwood Culver and Arminda Nichols of 111.,) b. German Valley, N. J.
1844; res. Fairfield,

Children
1.

George F.
Franklin H.

2.

(Harris),'"-^'' b. '"" b. "

Fairfield, Jan. 17, 1874. " Feb. 17, 1875.

Franklin Winthrop (Harris),^-^*^ 2d son, b. Wilmington, Vt., Aug. 16, 1846; entered the 112th N. Y. S. V., Nov. 13, 1863, and was killed in the service, before Richmond, Va., Oct 27, 1864.
II.

Frederick Wilbur (Harris),^-^^^ 3d son, b. Wilmington, Feb. 18, 1848; Farmer and Grazier, Gold Township, Bureau Co., 111.; m. Mineral, 111., Jan. 2, 1876, Margaret Ellen Gingrich, (dau. of Otto Gingrich and Anna
III.

Leidolf of Mineral,)

b.

Concord,

111.,

April

2,

1853.

BENJAMIN STOUT, SIXTH SON.

Benjamin
Stout,"-^^ 9th child

IX.

Henry Wells, (named

b.

after his
10,

and 6th son mother's brother and

d.

of Dr.

uncle,)
3,

Brattleboro, Vt., Sept.

1780,

Montague, April

84
a2t.

DESCENDANTS OF HENRY OF MONTAGUE.

63; resided
all

CH. X.

Montague, whither his was a farmer, much respected, Col. of Mass. Militia, and Deputy Sheriff of Franklin Co. from 1816 till his death; m. Montague, Sept. 10, 1805, Mehetabel Clapp, (dau. of Solomon Clapp*
1844, his life at

parents

removed the year

after his birth

and Lois Bard well of M.,) b. M., March 5, 1782, d. there Feb. 2j, 1859. Both are bur. in the Wells corner of the Old Cemetery at Montague. Their six children were all b. at Montague.
Hermon
Stout,
'''^ b.
'-'^o
'-'^i

July

3,

1806.
26, 1808.

Solomon Clapp,
Lois Bardwell,
4.
5.

b. b.

March

May

i,

1812.

Spencer Root,

''=-

b. Jan. 16, d.

April

5,

1814.

Anna

'-'^s b. Field, July 14, 1818. Benjamin Spencer,'-'^^ b. July 30, 1820.

BENJAMIN S. SEVENTH GENERATION.

I.

Hermon
i,

Stout,'-'*' eldest son, b.

22,

1806, d.

Montague, Nov.
1829,

1864;

Montague, July 3,. Farmer; m. Prescott,

Mass., Jan.

Harriet TiTUS,

(dau. of Sylvester Titus

and Nancy Draper of Prescott,) b. P., Sept. 4, 1807, d. MonBoth bur. in New Cemetery, Montague, July 18, i860.
tague,
1.

Children,
Mary,
Maria,
Isabella,

all b. in

Montague

2. 3.

^--' b. *-^* b.
'^^^^

Dec. Aug.
July

31, 1829, d. Jan. 2, 1S30. 22, 1831.

9,

b.

1833.

4.
5.

Eveline,

s.sso

Mary,

s--"

b_ Oct. 8, 1835. b. July 30, 1838, d.

Dec.

4,

1848.

6.

Henry

Elwyn,^--"'" b.

Aug.

5,

1S46.

II.

Solomon
;

Clapp,'-'-'^"

2d son,

b.

Montague, March

26,

1808

res.

Greenfield, Farmer, and Sheriff of Franklin Co.

1852,

m.
b.

I.

Northfield, Mass., Oct. 21,

(dau. of
9, 1822,

Mary Wheeler
of Northfield,)
1854.

Stratton,
N., Oct.

Arad and Electa Stratton d. Montague, March 16,

He

m.

* See Note on

Clapp Family,

infra.

GEN.

VII.

BENJAMIN, SIXTH SON.

85

II. South Abington, Mass., April 24, 1866, Elizabeth Howard, dau. of Oliver and Lucy S. Howard of S. Abington,) b. North Bridge water, Mass., March 2, 1824. Child by ist

marriage
Mary
III.

Stratton.^-^sa b_

peb. 27, 1854.

Lois Bardwell,^-^^^ eldest dau., b. Montague, May Montague, Aug. 3, 1873, bur. New Cemetery, Montague; m. M., April 25, 1843, John Dwight, of Belchcrtown, Mass., farmer, b. B., June 2, 1795, d. there Aug. 7,
I,

1812, d.

185

1.

Children:
Esther Bardwell (Dwight), ^-^^^
Julia A.
"
8.235

1.

b. b_

Belchertown, Jan. 22, 1844.

u
pg{3_ jg_ ^

2.

ggpj^ 2g, 1845.

V.

Anna
4,
(s.

Field,^-^^'^

2d dau.,

b.

Montague, July

14,

1818

m. June
farmer,

1847, Sandford Armstrong of Wendell, Mass., of Timothy Armstrong and Dolly A. Crosby of
b.

Wendell,)

W., June

9, 1803,

d.

Montague, June
20, 1851.

18, 1861.

Children
1.

Kate Annette
Julia B.

(Armstrong),^-^-^'' b.

2.

"

Wendell, March
'.

8.237

b_

March

15. 1855, d.

April

2,

1858.

VI.

Benjamin

Spencer,"'^* youngest

child,

b.

Mon-

tague, July

30, 1820, res.

Worcester, Mass., Organ Builder;

4, 1847,

m. Fitchburg, Mass.,
S.,

May

Duley Ann
of

Cross, (dau.
H.,) b.

of Otis Cross and Charlotte

Read
b. in

Swanzey, N.

June
1.

21, 1824.

Children,
5,

Fitchburg:

2. 3.

Anna

Isadore Emma,^-*'^^ b June 8.239 5. May Maria,

8,

Frank

Merton.s-'^-") b.

June

1850. 1853. 30, 1856.

BENJAMIN S. EIGHTH GENERATION.

HERMON
II.

STOUT.^-"^

Maria,^-^^^
22,
1

2d dau., of

Hermon

S.,^-^'*^

b.

Montague,
8,

Aug.

83

1,

res. Deerfield,

Mass.; m. Montague, Oct.

86

DESCENDANTS OF HENRY OF MONTAGUE.

CH. X.

1855,

SuMNER Monroe Conkey,

Mass.,

(s.

of

Ansel Conkey and

Nancy D. Titus
Westfield,

of Prescott, Mass.,) b. P.,

March

26, 1831, d.

March
b

21,

1864,

bur.

Prescott,

Child-

ren

1.

Genevieve

(Conkey),-i'

April 27, 1857.

2.
3.

Willie Wells,

"

'" b.
'-"^ b.

March
June

14, 1859.

Eddie Monroe, "

12, 1864.

m. b. Montague, July 9, 1833 Crossett, of Liberty Prescott, Montague, April 11, 1861, Merchant, (s. of James Crossett and Polly Conkey of PresNo children. cott,) b. P., Aug. 16, 1824.
III.

IsABELLA,^-^^^

3d dau.,

IV.

EvELiNE.^-^^" 4th dau., b.

Montague, Oct.
B.

8,

1835

m.

Montague, Farmer, (s.

May
of

31, 1859,

George
Childi-en

Sheldon

of Deerfield,

Ora and Lydia Sheldon

:

of Deerfield,) b. Ber-

nardston, Dec. 30, 1830.

1.

2. 3.

4.

(Sheldon),8-2o b. July 9. 1861. Nettie W. " "--"^ b. Belle Jan. 24, d. Sept. 21, 1865. " ^-^^^ ^ Nov. 15, 1867, d. Feb. 3, C869. Charles Ora ^'"'^ " b. March 22, 1872, d. Aug. i, 1873. George Reuben

Lena

VI.

Henry

Elwyn,^-^^^ only son, b.

Montague, Aug.

5,

Farmer; m. Enfield, Mass., Feb. 21, 1871, Myra Eliza Phelps, (dau. of WiUiam Harrison Phelps and Mary Needham of Northfield,) b. Wendell,
1846, res. Northfield,

Mass.
1.

Children:
Henry Elwyn,s-2o-i b. Jan. ^'^^^ ^ Roy Titus, ^ug.
i,

1872.

2.

13, 1873.

LOIS BARDWELL.'^-"^^
I.

Esther Bardwell

(Dwight),^-^^ eldest dau. and only

surviving child of John

Dwight and Lois

B. Wells,^'^' b.

Belchertown, Mass., Jan. 22, 1844; m. Montague, May 10, 1865, Rollin Neale Clapp, Merchant, (s. of Martin Harvey Clapp and Maria Russell of Montague,) b. M., Aug. 18,^
1843.
I.

Child:
Martin Harvey
(Clapp),"-^^'* b.

Montague, Aug.

9,

1874.

GEN.

VI.

MARY, YOUNGEST DAUGHTER.

8/

MARY HAMUTAL, YOUNGEST DAUGHTER.

XII.

Mary
Wells,
b.

Hamutal,^''^ 12th child and 6th dau. of Dr.

Montague, April 28, 1788, d. there July 23, For 1876, get. 88; bur. in the New Cemetery, Montague. the ten years preceding her death she was the last survivor of Dr. Wells' thirteen sons and daughters. Her whole life was spent at Montague. She m. there, Jan. 3, 18 10, Daniel RowE, (s. of Daniel Rowe and Lucretia Austin of Montague,) b. Litchfield, Conn., Dec. 10, 1782, d. Montague, Oct. 26, 1863, set. nearly 81.* He was a farmer, a man highly esteemed and respected, through a long life in the same
little village.

Henry

The memory of Mrs. Rowe is a very pleasant one, not own children, but to all who knew her well. Her life was one of faithful and loving discharge of every duty, first in her own household, next to the deaf-mute brothers and sisters whose infirmities made them in their
only to her
later years

and
act

and and

dependent on her watchful care, then to all whom she could help or comfort by word or of kindness. A deep religious principle entered into ruled every part of her long life, as it did her father's bore its fruit not merely in good works, but in a quiet,
less

more or

cheerful evenness of disposition especially noticeable in her

later years.

She was a communicant

of St. James'

Church,

Greenfield, for

many

years.
all b.

She
years.

left five

children,

and

still

living in

Montague,

four of them in the same house which was her's for so

many

Touisa Matilda (Rowe),'-'"* '-'^e " Henry Wells ''5'' " Richard Julius

Mary Hamutal
Martha Augusta

"
"

'-'^s
'1=''

March 28, 1811. Oct. 20, 1S14. b. Aug. 30, 1816. b. Nov. 26, 1818. b. March 12, 1820.
b.
b.

* See infra.

Note

B.

Rowe.

DESCENDANTS OF HENRY OF MONTAGUE.

CH. X.

MARY H. SEVENTH GENERATION.

4

Louisa Matilda (Rowe)/-^^^ eldest dau., tague, March 28, 1811, res. Montague; m. Nov. Hiram Root ot Deerfield, Mass., who d. Nov.
I.

b.
13, 18,

Mon1856,
1874.

No

children.

II.

Henry Wells (Rowe,)

1

Oct. 20,
13, 1843,

Montague^ 8 14, res. Montague, Farmer; m. Montague, Dec, Harriet Atwood Grout, (dau. of Martin Grout
eldest son, b.
b.

"'^^^

and Elwina Johnson of Montague,)

1820.
1.

Wendell, Sept.

8,

Children:
Julia Grout (Rowe),^-^-'' b. '^^'' " b. Ellen Wells 8.243 b. Harriet Louisa "

2. 3.

Montague, Oct. " Nov.

"

26, 844. 26, 1847, d. Oct. 11, 1871.

9,

May

1852,

d.

Aug.

30, 1874.

reside in the
III.

home-

Richard

Julius,^-^^^

2d son,

IV.

V.

Mary Hamutal,"^^ 2d dau., Martha Augusta,^-'^^ 3d dau..

stead,

on the farm

with the eldest dau.,

at

Montague.

MARY H. EIGHTH GENERATION.

HENRY W.
I.

(ROWE),^-^'^^

b.

Julia Grout (Rowe),^-^^' eldest dau., of Henry W.,^-'^*' Montague, Oct. 26, 1844; m. June 20, 1877, Auret Mann Lyman, of Granby, Mass., (s. of Israel Franklin Lyman and Catharine A. Mann, of Springfield, Mass.,) b. Bainbridge,
Mich., Jan. 23, 1843.

HAiiRiET Louisa (Rowe),^-^^ 3d dau., b. Montague,, Aug. 30, 1874; m. Montague, Oct. 15, 1873,. Martin Edward Moore. Child
III.

May
I.

9,

1852, d.

Grace Beulah (Moore),"-"''

b.

July 29, 1874.

GEN.

VI.

THE DEAF-MUTES.

THE DEAF-MUTES.
Four
ch.
of the thirteen children of Dr.

Henry Wells were

mentioned
;

deaf-mutes.

The

eldest of these, Hannah,''-^^

in

Vin.

(p. 126) d. in

the lifetime of her parents

years.
"

the other

three survived

them many
(

These were
father's record),*^-^^ 4th
3,

X.

Katharine

"

Katey
i,

on her

dau., b.

Montague, July

1782, d.

there April

1857,

^et.

nearly 75.

XI.

Abigail,'^-'^'^

5th dau., b.
cet.

Montague, Aug.

15, 1784, d.

there, Dec. 13, 1858,

75.

XIII.

WiLLiAM,*^*^^ 7th
13, 1789, d.

tague, Nov.

and youngest there Aug. 30, 1866,

s.

child,
set.

b.

Mon'jj,

nearly

buried with the three deaf-mute

at

sisters, in

the Old Cemetery

Montague.

The

three younger of the deaf-mute children retained

possession of the homestead and farm, in accordance with

the will of their father and the wish of his other children,

and there spent their long and silent, but by no means use" Uncle William " was an industrious and intelliless lives. gent farmer, (in his younger days also a shoemaker,) and "Aunt Katy " and " Aunt Abby " were noble housekeepers in their own way, the way of the last century, in which they were brought up, and from which they never varied. Carpets, stoves, and other such modern necessities, were unknown to the quaint simplicity of their household as I last saw it, in 1854. They had of course no such opportu-

90

DESCENDANTS OF HENRY OF MONTAGUE.

have been provided

CH. X.

nities of instruction as

of late years for

their class. their

all

Their sign-language was an arbitrary one of

invention, but wonderfully intelligible to those at

own

and their inteUigent comprehension of things outside their own silent home was equally remarkThis was particularly the case with the brother, who able. home much more than the sisters, and once from went (before the days of railways) made the long journey to Canandaigua, N. Y., to visit his brother " Doctor Dick " a visit
intimate with

them

of
of

some months, which formed an era in his quiet life, and which he delighted to tell, in his own way, to his latest

years.

They were much respected and esteemed, notwithstanding their infirmities, by the people of the
their
little

village

where

and where they maintained to unworthy act. The thoughtful kindness of their brothers and sisters in Montague, and of their nephew Henry Wells Clapp of Greenfield, kept them supplied with every comfort which their primitive way of living permitted, and guarded them against many of the dangers incident to their infirmity. Their life, spent together for near three-quarters of a century, and
whole
life

was

spent,

the last a character unsullied by any

for almost half

a century alone together, without a

per-

son in the house

who
;

could speak or hear, was

still

on the

whole a happy one and, as is often the case with deafmutes, they were usually full of mirth and glee. As they grew older, their relatives would have been glad to take them to their own homes but they clung to the old homestead, and it was only after the death of the two sisters, and when disabled by paralysis, that the brother was removed to the house of his sister Mrs. Rowe to end his days. There is something very singular in the fact of four out of thirteen children being thus afflicted. I know of no circumstances in the family history which help to explain it. "Their father," says Dr. Richard Wells in a letter to Dr.
;

GEN.

VI.

THE DEAF-MUTES.

I9I

Cogswell of
the system

New

York,

in

18 17,

"cherished the hope that

of the

Abbe

Sicard, of

which rumours had

reached him, would ultimately bestow on his children those faculties of which Nature had deprived them and this belief cheered his declining years, and solaced his last
;

hours."

But such advantages never came

to them.

NOTE

A.

THE CLAPP FAMILY

OF DORCHESTER AND MONTAGUE.

ROGER
in

CLAP,

the famous " Captain," and

Au-

thor of the well

known "Memoirs"
b.

reprinted

Young's Chronicles of Mass.,

6,

Salcombe Regis,
s.,)

Devon, Eng., April

ton, Feb. 2, 1692
;

1609, (youngest of '5

d.

Bos-

came

to Dorchester, Mass., in the

Mary and John, May

1646, Lieut,

30,

1630; of the Artillery Co.

of the same 1655, Capt. of the Castle

1665 and afterwards, Representative 1652-73; m. Dorchester,

Nov.

6,

1633,

Joanna Ford, dau. Thos.,

s.

b.

Eng., June
Elizabeth,

8,

1617, d. Boston,

June

29, 1695.

Ch. 10

4 dau.,

Samuel, William,
Hopestill,

Experience,

Waitstill,

Preserved,

Experience,

Wait,

Thanks, Desire, Thomas, Unite and Supply; of

II.

whom

d. y.

Preserved, 4th

s.

of Roger, b. Dorchester, Nov. 23, 1643, d.

Northamp4,

ton, Mass., Sept. 20, 1720,

freeman 1690, Captain, and Ruling Elder, m. June

1668, Sarah Newberry, (2d dau. of

ter) 3,

Benjamin of Windsor,

Ct.

(s.

Thos. of Dorches15, 1650, d. Oct.

and Mary, only dau. Matthew Allyn of Hartford,)

Ch. 4
s.

b.

June

1716.

4 dau.,

Sarah,
s.

Wait, Mary, Preserved, Samuel,

Hannah,

Roger, Thomas.
III.

Preserved

II.,

eldest
c.

of Preserved

I.,

b.

Northampton, April

29,

1675, d. Oct. II, 1757, m.

1703, Mehetabel Warner, (dau. prob. of Daniel of

i,

Hadley, and Martha (dau. Robert and Mary) Boltwood,) b. Oct.

I,

1683, d. Oct.

1767.

Ch. Mehetabel, Preserved, John, Eliphaz, Ezra.

IV.

John, 2d

s.

of Preserved

II.,
(s.

b.

1708,

d.

m. Feb.

10,

1732,

Eunice Parsons, (perh. dau. Daniel

Joseph) of Northampton, and Abigail

Cooley of Springfield,) and had Eunice, Mehetabel, John, Martha, Daniel, Solomon, Elihu, Susan, Eleanor, Sarah. V. Daniel, 2d s. of John, b. Montague, Aug. 7, 1743, Deputy Sheriff, m.

Abigail Root, and had Parsons and Winthrop.

Solomon, 3d

s.,

b. 1751, d. Sept.

NOTE
15, 183S,

A.

THE CLAPP FAMILY.

who
d.

I93
and m.
II.

m.

I.

March

5,

1781, Lois Bardwell,

June

30, 1789;

1804,

Anna, wid. Allen, of Bernardston, who

Parsons, eldest
of Daniel, b.

d.

March

21, 1842.

Ch. by

ist mar.,

Mehetabel, Polly, Henry, Eliphaz.

VI.
s.

ton, Vt., Feb. 27, 1855, m. Montague, Nov. 13,

Montague, July 26, 1772, d. Wilming1796, Phoebe, 3d dau. of Dr.

Montague, March 5, 1782, Benjamin Stout Wells, 6th

Henry Wells,
Mehetabel,

q. v. p.

171.
d.
s.

eldest dau. of Solomon, b.

10,

there,

Feb. 27, 1859, m. there, Sept.

1805,

of Dr.

Henry Wells,
Boston, 1876
;

q. v. p.

183. in

(Partly from "

Records of the Clapp Family

from various family records.
Parsons Genealogy,

America," by Ebenezer Clapp,

I

a.nd

See also Savage,

p. 11.

43, 208, 390,

II. 183,111. 363, IV. 419;

The arms
pike naiant,

of the Clapp Family of Devonshire, as given in the

work
or.

first

menin-

tioned, are, " Vairy, ^.

//)^-.

and

ar.

aquarter

az.

charged with the Sun

Crest, a
I

Motto, Fais CE QUE DOis, advienne que pourra."

am

debted

to the kindness of

Mr. David Clapp of Boston for the above engraving

from the ''Records" published by him.)

NOTE

B.

THE ROWE FAMILY.

TWO

principal families of the

of

name

of

RowE
of

are found

among

the 165
1,

early-

colonists

New

England,

John,
d.

Gloucester,
date.

Mass.,

and

Matthew, of

New

Haven, Conn., about the same

The Montague

family

are undoubtedly of the Connecticut line.

Matthew Rowe,
2 dau., Elizabeth,

of

New

Haven,

May

27,

1662, w.

Daniel, John,

Hannah, Joseph, Stephen.

unknown, had 4 s. Only John and

1680,

Stephen survived childhood.

ToHN

I.,

2d son of Matthew,
I.

b.

April 30, 1654, m. July 14, (from Eng.

1635),

Abigail

Alsop, dau. of Joseph Alsop

of

New Haven
s.

and Elizabeth
Mass.,

Preston (dau. of William, of Giggleswick, York, Eng., and Dorchester,

1635), b. Sept. 4, 1656;

and had
of John

3 dau.,

John, Matthew, Stephen, Abigail,

Hannah, Sarah.

John John
all sons.

II., eldest

s.

I.,

b.
c.

Oct. 23, 1681, was probably the

1710,

father

of

III.,

of Suffield, Conn., b.

who m. Joanna
Suffield,

and had

7 ch.,

Daniel

I.,

youngest

s.

of John III.,

b.

Dec.

13, 1744,

d.

Montague,
1798,

April 21, 1839, was an Iron Merchant in Litchfield, Conn., from 1769 to

when he removed

to

Montague

a staunch

Churchman

in the old parish of St.

Michael, Litchfield, under Bishop vSeabury; " strong, and of untiring energy, and a
stern sense of right."

He

m. Jan. 22, 1769, LUCRETIA Austin, b Suffield, Jan. 27,

25, 1832,

1750, d.
field,

Montague, April
ID,

and had

11 ch., of

whom Daniel II., b.

Montague, Jan.
3,

Litch1810,

Dec.

1782, d. Montague, Oct. 26, 1863,

m.

Mary Hamutal Wells,

Sophia Austin,

youngest dau. of Dr. Henry Wells.

sister of Lucretia,

m. Roger Birchard of
II.,

Suffield,

Conn., and

their dau. Sophia Birchard

m, Rutherford Hayes

of Brattleboro, and was

States, 1S77.
45, III. 483,

mother of RUTHERFORD Birchard Hayes, President of the United

(Com. by Miss Mary H.
580;

Rowe

of Montague.

See also Savage,

p. 187.)

I.

and above,

ch.

IX. Note

B. p. 155,

and ch X.

CHAPTER

XI.

ABNER, YOUNGEST SON OF HENRY

I.

tBNER
Henry
rina, (wid. of

WELLS/-2"
I.,^-^

third son and

the only child

by

his third wife

youngest child of Kathe-

John Penny,) and half-brother of Obadiah/-"' the father of Dr. Henry Wells of Montague, was the founder of a numerous branch of the family in Southwestern New York and Northern Pennsylvania, of which I can give but a very imperfect account.* Abner Wells was born at Southold, Nov. 13, 1737, and died at Wellsburgh, Tioga (now Chemung) Co., N. Y., Sept. He graduated at Princeton College, 21, 1797, cet. nearly 60. Sept. 28, 1757, in the same class with his nephew Dr. Henry

Wells, being then nineteen. f

father's personal estate
;

He

inherited one-half of his

resided in

of 1776, in

which he children; and was one

is

of

Southold at the census named, with his wife and seven the Southold signers of 1775 in
years after the Revolution,
he.

support of Congress.:]:

Some

removed with his third son. Judge Henry Wells, to Tioga county, where the latter had acquired a large tract of land
* Chiefly from letters and notes by Wickham Case, Esq., and Capt. BenjaJ. min Wells, of Southold; Benjamin F. Wells of Wellsburgh; Mrs. Aug. P. Roosa of Elmira; and J- Albert Wells of New York, through his son William H. Wells.

His Diploma, in the possession of his grandson Benj. F. Wells of Wellsis written with much pains-taking penmanship on a sheet of parchment eleven inches by nine; "datum Aula Nassovije Neo-Ctes. quarto Kal. Oct. MDCCLVH;" and signed by " Wm. Smith, pro hac vice Prjeses," and six other
f

burgh,

Trustees.
:j:

have had

it

See his father's

\ill,

p.

photographed as a curious relic ot that day. 62 siipia. and Southold Index of 1775.

196

DESCENDANTS OF HENRY

1.

CH. XI.

by purchase from the State of New York; and where all the children of Abner, except the eldest son, finally settled." Abner Wells married at Southold, Dec. 10, 1758, Mary Case, daughter of Benjamin (s. of Henry, s. of WiUiam)
Case of Southold,
21, 1806.
b.

Southold,

c.

1741, d.

Wellsburgh, April

Both are buried in Wellsburgh.f Of their eight children, (five sons and three daughters,) all but the youngAll were born at est son married and left descendants.
Southold.
I.

GEN.
II.

V.

ABNER, YOUNGEST SON,

b.

197
d.

Mary/-^^ eldest dau.,

Southold, 1763,
of Angelica,

Standing

Stone, Pa.; m.

Solomon Tracy
res.
)
[

N. Y. Child-

ren
Sons

2 3

Ira (Tracy), ''2 ^-'^ Isaac, ^''* Lester,

Belmont, N. Y.

dec.
p.

4
5

Guy,

"
)

Henry W.,
Catharine,

^'^
^'"

Daus:

Standing Stone; m. Emma Wells, '--'^ m. Jona. Noble; and two others. *^-''*^'res.

III.

Abner,^-^* 2d son, b.
i,

Southold, March

5,

1765,

d.

1831; m. Dec. 25, 1785, Keturah Tracy, b. 1763, d. Wellsburgh, July 5, 1838. Children (the last six b. at Wellsburgh)

Wellsburgh, Sept.

Mary, William,

'

'

b. 1787. b. 1789. b. 1791.

8^ 95

Fanny,
Isaac L.

'

m. David Griswold (who

d. 185

1),

d.

s.

p.,

Pa

'

Mehetabel,
Charles,
Clarissa,

'

b. 1793b. 1795-

'

b. 1797- d. 1798. b. 1798, d. Onondaga Co.,

b. 1801.

N. Y., 1817.

Henry,

'

John

Calrin,'
'

b. 1803.
b. 1807, d.

Keturah,

1S74,

m. Simeon F. Whittemore, of Chenango Co., N. Y.; I ch. d. inf. "-s'*'b.

IV.

Katharine,^-^^ 2d dau.,
4, 1792,

Southold,

c.

1767-8, d. c.

1797; m. Feb.

William Halstead,

of

Orange

Co.,

N. Y.
I.

Child :
Margaret (Halstead), ^-9
b.

Nov.

4, 1795,

m. Capt. Benj.

Wells.^-'^'

WiUiam Halstead m.
Wells.^-^'^

II.

Aug.

25,

1798,

Mary
Capt,

Hallock,

and had by her a dau. Katharine,

V.

who m.

Henry
March

S.

Henry,^^*^ (Judge), 3d son, b. Southold,

26,

1770, d.

Wellsburgh, Feb.

27, 1845.

He was

the leader in

the family settlement at Wellsburgh,

which was named

from him and

his brothers, as
'

was probably the adjoining

town

of Wells, Pa.

He

entered the U. S.

Army

at the

beginning of the

and served throughout the war as Quarter Master on the staff of Gen. Stephen Van
of 18 12,

War

198

DESCENDANTS OF HENRY

I.

CH.

XL

In 18 15 he was apUnited States, principal pointed by the President of the U. S. Assessor for his Congressional district. He repre-

Rensselaer, with the rank of Colonel.

sented Tioga county in the New York Legislature in 18 12 and 1819; was Sheriff (under Gov. De Witt CHnton) three
Justice of the Peace thirty years Judge eight years and a merchant in Wellsburgh more than twenty years. He m. at Goshen, N. Y., July 2, 1791, Mary Hulse, (dau. of Justice Hulse of G.,) b. G., June 17, 1771, d. Wellsburgh, Children, all b. at Wellsburgh: Jan. 9, 1841.

years

1.

2. 3.

Elizabeth, Daniel Hulse,

*-^^

b.
b.

May

ig, 1792.

''^-

March

23, 1795, d. inf.

(Feb. 10, 1830.

,

Horace,
Sally,

^"^
''* '^^^

b.
b. b. b.

Dec. 26, 1796, m. Eliza. A.

d.

s.

p.

N. Y.

4.
5.

May
Nov.

15, 1799.
8,

Abner,

1801.
inf.

6
7.

Benjamin

Franklin,*-"'*
*'"
^-^^
'*"''

8. 9.

Henry Baldwin, Henry Case, Mary Maria,

John Calvin,
N,^-'^^

April 27, 1804. b. June 12, 1S06, d. h. Sept. 25, 1808.

b. b.

May
Jan.

15,
3,

10.

'''"^

1811. 1814.

4th son, b. Southold, c. 1772-3, d, B EN J AM I m. Desire Hulse, (sister of Chemung Co., Sept. 1831 Mary, above,) who d. at Newtown, Adams Co., 111. Child-

VI.

i,

ren

I.

GEN.

VI.

ABNER, YOUNGEST SON.

I99

ABNER SIXTH GENERATION.

JOHN
CALVIN.^-^2

I.

John Calvin

II. ,'^-'^

eldest son of

John Calvin
m. Oct.

I.,

b.

Southold, Oct.

14, 1782, d.

Dec.

28, 1850;

18, 1808, b.

Caroline Conkling,
1786, d. 1872.

(dau. of

Jonathan and Elizabeth,)

No

children.

IV.
10,

Abner,*'-'^'^
I.

4th son,

b.

Southold, Jan.

27, 1791, d.

Oct.

1867; m.

1815,

Harriet Lucretia- Griffin,

(dau. of
;

Augustus and Lucretia,) b. May 8, 1792, d. Oct. 14, 1842 m. 11. 1843, Susan Corey, (dau. of Abijah,) b. c. 1806, d. Dec.
26, 1844, get. 38
;

m.

III.

May

7,

1845,

Esther

Wells,^-'' (dau.

John Wells ^-^ and Lydia Cor win of Mattituck,) b. Mattituck, Dec. 21, 1803, d. June 11, 1874. (See ch. III. p. 45,) Children by ist marriage:
of
1.
''" Maria L., Augustus G.,'-i"

b. Oct. i8, b.

2.

3.

Desire L.,

'-'s-

4.

Walter A.,

'^'^s

i8r6. 1818, d. y b. 1819, d. Oct. 4, 1842. ^^ May 26, 1834.

V.
the

Benjamin,^-*^^ (Capt.)

5th son, b. Southold, June 27,

1793, res. 1877, Southold.

first

As

early as 18 16, he

commanded

packet-sloop, the Juno, (a vessel of considerable size

for her class,

and well fitted for passengers,) making regular trips between Southold and New York and continued in command of successive packets until 1852, since which time he has been a substantial and respected farmer at Southold.* He m. I. July 6, 18 14, his cousin Margaret Halstead,"-'-'" (dau. of William Halstead and Katharine Wells,^-^^ above,) b, Nov. 4, 1795, d. May 2, 1854; m. II.
;

* Griffin's Journal.

200

DESCENDANTS OF HENRY
8,

I.

CH.

XL

March

1855,
ist

Catharine Edwards,
marriage:
'-i" b.
'i'^^ ''"
],

b.

Nov.

22,

18 19.

Children by
1.

John Calvin,

2. 3.
4.

Henry Halstead, Mary Catharine.

Margaret

Caroline,'-''^''

Dec. 13, 1815. Qct. 17, 1818. b. Dec. 20, 1820. b. April 6, 1829.

By 2d marriage
5. 6.

David Benjamin, '-'"s

Oscar L.,

b.

March
Dec.
i,

15. 1856.

^-"^ b.

1858.

VI.

Mary,*'-*'^
cet.

eldest dau., b. Southold,

c.

1796, d.

May
1833,

30, 1827,
tet. 37.

31

m.
;

Alvah

Case,

b. c. 1796, d.

June

i,

Children

1.

2. 3.

Benjamin Wells Ebenezer W.,

Jerusha,

{Case),'-i'o b.
'"'
'^'-

1820.

b.

Dec. 8, 1822. b. Feb. 1824.

VIII.
1804, d.

Henry
Aug.
5,

S.,"-'"

(Capt.) 6th son, b. Southold, April

5,

5,

1834; m. Dec.

1825,

Katharine

Hai.-

stead, (dau. of William Halstead, above, and his 2d wife

Mary Hallock,) b. Feb. 17, 1805. She survived him and m. Children: II. March 27, 1859, Aaron Burr Tuthill.
1.

2.
3.

Margaret, Charles H.,

'-"^ b.
'''''

May

26, 1828, d.

1832.

John

b. April 4, 1832. Calvin,'-"^ b. June 7, 1S34.

IX.

William
I,

Homan,"-^^ 7th son and youngest child,

1806, d.

b.

Southold, April

Feb.

i,

1871

a Merchant, and

Post Master and Notary Public in Southold, for

years,

many

owning and residing on the " Home Lot" of the first William Wells,, now occupied by the village hotel a man
;

of intelligence

tions

of hfe.*

and high character, esteemed in all the relaHe m. Feb. 26, 1835, Esther Tuthill

*To
of the
the

his interest in the family history and memorials is owing the restoration tomb of William I, at Soiuhold (see above, p. 29), and the preservation of books and desk belonging to him, mentioned on pp. 21 and 32.

GEN.

VI.

ABNER, YOUNGEST SON.

(dau. of

20I

Albertson,

Joseph C. and Phoebe,)

Child:
Aug.
23, 1836.

b.

March

12,

1814, d. Oct. 29, 1846.

I.

Joseph Albert,'-'"

b.

abner.^-^
b. 1782, d. in Michigan Roberts, Wellsburgh, m. at Jonathan son of Nathan, 1856 Children of Wellsburgh.
I.
;

Mary/-^" eldest dau. of Abner,

Jasper (Roberts),'-'"

Henry, George, John, Nelson,

,

'-"^ d. '-'"
'-'50
'-'S'

March, 1871.

'-182
'-'^^

d. inf.

Abner,
Maria, William,
Isaac,

'-'8*
'-185

'-'^^

Caroline.

'-""

II.

WiLLiAM,*^-*^ eldest son, b. 1789, d. 1853

II. all
;

m.

I.

Phoebe
CanSouth-

Fenton; m.
field.
port,

m.

III.

Elizabeth
all

(wid.)
b.

Children,

Chemung
/-I

Co.,

by ist marriage, and N. Y.

:

in

'

Clarissa, ''*'' Flizabeth,'-'o

7 IRQ r
)

living 1876. ^
'

d. d.

Fanny,

'-'''

Elmira. Southport.

Amy,
Sarah, Harriet, Charlotte,

'-'"^ '-'^^ '-'^^

'-'^^

d. Illinois.

living 1876.

IV.

Isaac

L.,*'-^^

2d son,

b. 1793, d.

Elmira, Jan.
(dau. of

10,

1876;

m. Southport, 1824,

Temperance Smith,

Samuel
b.

Smith and Elizabeth Hulse of Sugar Loaf, Orange Co.,) Sugar Loaf, d. Elmira, 1869. Children, b. in Southport:
1.

Mary,

''S'S

2. 3.

Amanda, Chauncy

'-'^'

K.,'-'^^

m. Susan (dau. Isaac) Linderman; 4

ch.

(S-'ss ti)*

* Mrs. A. P. Roosa.

202

DESCENDANTS OF HENRY
Mehetabel,''-^* 3d dau.,
1864;
b.

I.

CH. XI.
d.

V.
igan,

Wellsburgh, 1795,

Mich(s.

m. Wellsburgh, Nathan,) of W. Children :

William Roberts,

of

Emma
lulia,

(Roberts),'-i^
''

^
I

Sally,

"^
'-^f^
'-^^'^

U^^
f
'

Rebecca,

Thomas. Andrew,
w'lr^' \\ illiam,

'^"J

;';;[ living 1876. '^ ^""'

\

Wellsburgh, 1801, d. Payson, Adams Co., Illinois, 1872; m. I. at Wellsburgh, his cousin Mary Wells,"-^"^ dau. of Benjamin Wells,^-^'^ above m.
VIII.
,''-^^

Henry

4th son,

b.

II.

Children by
'^"7

ist

marriage:

1.

Harriet, Charles,
,

2. 3. -^

Catharine,'-^''*
'-'-'"s

^ Wellsburgh, living 1876. '" b d. in Illinois.

)

4.

J Edmond,

,.

, 0,0 '"'''

r
)

living ^ 1876.

^.

By
me.
IX.

2d marriage, three children

(7-2"-i2-i3)

names unknown

to

John

Calvin,"-^^ 5th son,

b.

Wellsburgh, 1803,
Pa.,
:

cl.

Elmira, 1870; m.
living 1876,
1.

Standing Stone,
b.

Jane Ann Read,

Children,
'"''*

Southport, N. Y.

Sarah,

d.

Elmira.
Tracy,'^-"^
s.

(above.

2.

Emma,

'-^'^

m. Henry W.
} ,

Solomon and Mary

(Wells),^"-^

3.

Frank, r ^ Charles,'"' r^-"^f-^S53.

'-'

HENRY,
I.

^^'^

Elizabeth,'^-^! eldest dau. of

Judge Henry
1876,

Wells,^"'"' b.
;

Wellsburgh,
Abiel,) b.

May

19,

1792,
1812,

res.

Osceola, Mich.

m.
of

Wellsburgh, Dec.

25,

Henry Laurens
5,

Fry,

(s.

Orange

Co.,

N. Y., July

1796.

Children:

GEN.
1.

VI.

ABNER, YOUNGEST SON.

(Fry),'--'^ b.
'2^*'

203

Mary,
Harriet Nowell,

Chemung,
"

Y.,

May

15,

1814, m. Dec.

25, 1837. Claud. T.

2.

Thompson.

b.
b. b.
b.

Sept. 25,

3. 4.

Henry Wells,
Sally,

'-^^i

"
"

'-222

1816, m. June 28, 1840, Timothy Smith, who d. 1842. Dec. 4, 1818, d. June 5, 1851. April 12, 1821, m. Jan. 9, 1846,

Geo.
5.

W. Kneeland.

Benjamin Franklin,
Elizabeth Maria, Horace Geo. Wash., Charlotte Amanda,

6.
7.

8.

Sept. 10, 1823. Sept. 25, 1825. '---' b. '--^ b. Wellsburgh, Aug. 8, 1828. '-'^-^ b. Columbia, Pa., April 12, 1833.
'--^^

"

"

IV.
April,

Sally,^-^^ 2d dau., b.
c.

Wellsburgh,
1822,

May
1876.

15,

1799, d.
b.

Elmira, Oct. 30, 1844; m.

1797, d.
St.

James

Ward
18,

Dudley,

Paul, Minn., Sept.

:

Children

nearly in this order

Horace W. (Dudley),'--'
Frances, Harriet E.,
'--^^
'^^'^

b. 1823, d. Sept. 1S39.

b. c. 1825. h. 182S, d. b. 1831, d.

Henry C,
James, George, Louis W.

'-^^o
'-^^i

Nov. Aug.

11, 1845.
6,

1867.

b. 18 b. 18

'-^s^

L.,

'-233

b. 1840, d. in

U.

S.

Service,

c.

1863.

V.

Abner,*'-^^

3d son,
18,

b.

Wellsburgh, Nov.
;

8,

1801, d.
6,-

Wellsburgh, March
at

r86i

m. Southport, Jan.
L.

1825,
b.

Smith, dau. Wellsburgh

:

of

Solomon

and

Julia.

Children,

1.

2. 3.

Horace Dudley, Timothy Smith,

Julia,

'-23^

d.
^j

'-^'s

Owosso, Mich., Jan.

Wellsburgh, Feb.

11, 1873.

'-'"e

d.

II, 1859.

Others d

inf.

VI.

Benjamin Frank lin,'^-^'^ 4th

res.

son,

b.

Wellsburgh,

April 27, 1804,

1877,

Wellsburgh, Farmer;* m. Che-

*To him
nearly
all

am

the genealogy of

indebted for much valuable material for this Memoir, including Abner Wells' descendants here given; for the privi-

lege of photographing the Princeton

Diploma of

his

a curious folio copy of Burkitt's N. Test.

Comm.
|

Grandfather, 1757; and for of 1701, with the autograph of

|

Henry I., "Henry and Katherina Wells Their Book Given To Their Son Abner Wells After There IDeceace, Given By Consent May the 26 Day Anno que Domini, 1741." The handwriting resembles that of the first William of (See p. Southold, and still more closely that of William II., father of Henry I.
|
|

21,

and note.)

204
miing, Oct.
3.

DESCENDANTS OF HENRY
1827,

I.

CH. XI.
dau. of Abra-

Charlotte Miller,
of

(gr.

ham

Miller, first

Judge
:

Tioga Co.

at its

organization in
all

1791,) b.

Elmira, Feb. 22, 1810.

Children,

b. in

Wells-

burgh, and living 1877

I.

Mary

Margaret,'--'^' b.
'-=* ''
'''^^
''''^'

May

30, 1829.

2
3.

Martha, Maria, Susanna, Henry.

Elizabeth, Charlotte,

b. Jan. 15, 1831. b. Oct. 31, 1833 b. Maich 10, 1836. b.

b.

Helen,

1839. 1841. '-^^^ b. Jan. 16, 1844. ''^^ b March 29, 1849.
7,
''''*'

May May

i,

Wellsburgh, Sept. 25, Southport, Feb. 3, m. 1850; Smith, (dau. of Solomon L. and Julia,) b. and 1830, Child : d. at Wellsburgh.
VIII.
Case,''-^^

Henry

6th son,
16,

b.

1808, d. Wellsburgh, Jan.

I.

James Henry,

'-"^

b.

March
^^

i6, 1839.

IX.
1811, d.

Mary
b.

Maria,"

3d dau.,
Elmira.

b.

Wellsburgh,
10, 1828,
:

May

15,

Elmira; m. Wellsburgh, Nov.

Samuel D.

Kress,
1.

Wellsburgh,
(Kress).

d.
7.546

Child

Samuel Jacob

X. John Calvin,''-^'^^' 7th son and youngest child, b. Wellsburgh, Jan. 3, 18 14, d. there April 10, 1856 m. Vernon, N. J., Feb. 14, 1837, Hannah De Kay, (dau. of Charles and
;

Clarissa,) b.

Sussex Co., N.
1

J.,

Aug.

181

5,

d.

Greenpoint,

L.

I.,

Sept.

87 1.

Child:

I.

Augusta. '"

ABNER SEVENTH GENERATION.

JOHN
I.

CALVIN.^-^2

ABNER.''-'"'

Maria

L.,^-^^"

eldest dau. of
1839,

Abner,''-'"' b.

Southold, Oct.
Children:-

18,

1816; m. Jan.

[6,

Orin

E. Prince.

GEN,

VII.

ABNER, YOUNGEST SON.

(Prince). ^'-^ b.
8.545

205

Henry W.

Nov.
April

17, 1839,
3, 18.^3,

Harriet D.,

b.

Grin A., Maria Louisa,

Ezra,

8.246 b. *-" b. 8-2 b.

Sept. 11,

- Jennie P. Wells, ^-^-^ p ^g. m. A. J. Beebee; r s. 1 dau. (9-208-9) 1849, m. Harriet Hobart; i s. (^-^i")

March
Aug.
2,

21, 1855.

1858.

IV.
old,

Walter May 26, 1834;

:

A.,''-^'''^

2d son and youngest child, b. Southm. Dec. 11, 1859, Elma A. Young.

Children
1.

Harriet G., ^'^ b. Jan. 20, 1861.

2.

Hannah

W.,-25o
^--^i

March

10, 1863.

3.

E. Theresa,

b. Sept. 17,

1872.

JOHN
I.

CALVIN.^-'^

BENJAMIN.''

"^^

Calvin,^-^''^ eldest son of Capt. Benjamin and Margaret Halstead, b. Southold, Dec. 13, 1815, d. at sea, Jul}^ 6, 1862 Merchant and Sea Captain, at Greenport; m. Feb. 14, 1837, Mary Caroline Horton, (dau. of Rensselaer (s. of Captain Jonathan) Hcrton and Ruth Rachel (dau. Moses and Sarah) Halsey of Greenport,)

John
''''^

Wells

b.

Greenport, July
:

17, 18 19, res.

1876,

Greenport.^

Child-

ren

1.

Margaret,

s-^^s
-='^

b.
b.

183

2.

William Henry Harrison,^

March

i,

1841, d. Jan. 17, 1847.

II.

Henry Halstead,

^^''^

2d son,

b.

Southold, Oct.

17,

Aug. 28, 1864; m. Oct. Landon. Children:

1818, d.
1.

25, 1840,

Hannah Sanford

2.

Louise, Julia L.

*-'5*

b.

June

27, 1842,

m. William

J.

Buckley.

,*-"

b. Sept. 23, 1S44.

III.

Mary

Catharine,^-^*'*' eldest dau., b.

15,

Southold, Dec.
Child-

20, 1820;

m. Feb.

1843,

Enoch
b.

F.

Carpenter.
1844, m. in Texas.

ren

1.

2.

Margaret Elizabeth (Carpenter),^--''' 8-" David Gibson Floyd,

Oct.

3,

b.

Nov.

23, 1850, res. Texas.

Horton Chronicles,

199.

2o6
IV.
April

DESCENDANTS OF HENRY

I.

CH.
b.

XL

Margaret Caroline,
6,
:

^-"^^

2d

dau.,

Southold,

1829; m. July

17,

1845,

Allen

A.

Goodliff.

Children

Joseph Benjamin (Goodliff),*"^

b. Oct. ii, 1846.

AnnaL.
Allen A.

"
'

^-^^ b. '''" b.
''''

May
Aug.

30, 1849.
9.

1853.

William

"

Henry

"

''''

JOHN
I.

CALVIN.^'^2

MARY.'^-''^

Benjamin Wells
Wells,"-'^^ b.

(Case),"'" eldest son of Alvah Case

and Mary

1820, d.

Aug.

10,

1846,

aet.

26; m.

Phoebe Ann Prince.

I.

Child

Benjamin W.

(Case),^-^"^ b.

Feb. 20, 1847.

II.

Ebenezer W.
16,

(Case),"^^ 2d son, b.
24, 1847,
15, 1829.

Dec.

8,

1822, d.

June

1871

m. Feb.
b.

Elizabeth Cox,
Children:

(dau. of

George Cox,)
1.

April

Alvah

(Case), ^'^'H. Jan. II, 1849.

2.

Emma

C,

s-'f'^

b.

Feb.

i,

1852.

3. 4.
5.

Elizabeth A.,

s-^ee
^.267

b. b,
b.

June
Yeh.
Oct.

10, 1855,
15, 1858.

m. Dec.

i,

1875,

Wm.

Clifford.

6.

Frank W., William E., GroverW.,

s-^ss
8.269

18, 1859.

b. Oct. 15, 1869.

III.

Jerusha

(Case),^-'^^

only dau.,
:

b.

Feb. 1824; m. Ben-

jamin TUTHILL.
I.

Children

GEN.

VII.

ABNER, YOUNGEST SON.

20/

dau. of William Wells VII.^-^ and Helen Penny, ch. III. pp. 45-7,) and has one child
:

I.

Mary

E.,8-2i6

and

^-^

b.

April

4,

185&.

III.

John Calvin,

^-'^^

2d son,
;

b.

June

7,

1834

merchant,
Child-

residing at Liverpool, Eng.

(dau. of Capt.

m. 185 1,

Mary Fullerton,

James Fullerton

of Portland, Me.)

ren

1.

Henry
Albert

S.,^-"''

b. Sept. 30, 1859.

2.

A.^-^'s b.

1872.

JOHN
I.

CALVIN.^-^2

WILLIAM

HOMAN.^-^^

Joseph Albert,^-'^" only son of William H. Wells,*'-" b. Southold, Aug. 23, 1836; res. New York, (Merchant,) and Brooklyn m. I. Oct. 14, 1857, Helena M. Goldsmith, (dau. of Joseph H. and Maria Goldsmith of Southold,) who d. March 24, 1859; ^' U- Sept. 10, i860, Amelia Hallock CORWIN, dau. of Nathaniel (s. Abel) Corwin and Mary Ann (dau. of John and Thankful) Lemmaa of Greenport,) b. Oct. Child by ist marriage: 30, 1837.
;

1.

William Hull.s-^"

b.

March

i8, 1859.

By
2. 3. 4.

2d marriage:
Nathaniel Corwin,8-28o Percy Albertson, ^-^^^^ ^-^^'-^ Joseph Albert,
b.

July 18, t86i.

b. b.

Dec. 30, 1866. Feb. 21, 1873.

ABNER
I.

11.^-^*

ISAAC

L.^'^

Mary,^-^^^ eldest dau. of

. ;

Isaac L. Wells,*'-^
of

m. Daniel K. Fitch, (son Children of Elmira.

port, 18
:

b. SouthEzra and Lucina,)

2o8
1.

DESCENDANTS OF HENRY
Clara
Harriet, Jennie,
(Fitch),^-^*^
8-;|

I.

CH. XI.

2. 3.

^-^^^
*-

4.

William,

II.

Amanda,'-^-'^ 2d daii., b. Southport, res. 1876,

P.

m.

Augustus

Roosa, son

of

Elmira Egbert and Catharine.

Child :
I.

Frances E. (Roosa),*-^*'

ABNER EIGHTH GENERATION.

JOHN
II.

CALVIN.-'^-^-

BENJAMIN."-''^

HENRY

H.^'^'"

23,

Julia L./-^^^ 2d dau. of Henry H. Wells, ^-"^^ Children: 1844; m. David T. Conkling.
Eugene
Louisa,
(Conkling),'^--" b. iS66.
'-''^''^

b.

Sept.

1.

2.

b. 1S72.

JOHN
I.

CALVIN.^''^^

MARY.'^-'^^

BENJ. W.
,^-^''^

(CASE).^'^^"

Benjamin Wells (Case) II. jamin Wells Case^-^ and Phoebe Ann
1847;
1^^-

only son of BenPrince,

(dau. of
b.

Feb.

20,

J^^i^s 7' 1870,

Lucy

J.

Wood,
1871.

Thomas H.

and Fanny,)
1. 2.

b.

Aug.

31, 1849.
b.

Children:
i,

Fanny
Albert G.

(Case),'-'-'-^'-'

July

'-'*
,

b. b.

June

7,

3.

William W.,

'-^' "^^'^

May
March

4.

Phoebe Ann,

b.

1873. 1S75. d. inf. 28, 1S77.

CHAPTER

XII.

JUSTICE JOSHUA AND HIS ELDEST SON.

ri^oSHUA

Wells.^'^

the
was
set.

youDp-er of the two sons whose

t^ descendants
died there in

divide the Southold family of Wells into

two great branches,

1744,

born

in

Southold

in

1664,

and

80,

surviving his elder brother

William nearly half a century. In the Rate List of Southold, 1683, being then nineteen, he is assessed for iS"8i.*
Various deeds with his name are recorded from 1684 to
1715.1

He

is

generally

known

as

"Justice

Joshua,"

having been a magistrate for many have been also a carpenter, as the

seems to will of Capt. Horton, Dec. 30, 1699, puts his son David " apprentice to Mr. Joshua Wells " till he comes of age, " Mr. Wells to profit him in his
years.:|:

He

reading, and learning

him

to write,

carpenter work."

He was

of course a

and instructing him in farmer as well, in-

heriting, like nearly all the sons of early settlers, a large

landed estate, lying in great part,

it

would seem,
in

in Matti-

tuck and Aquebogue, and

still

held by the family.

Hi&

grave

is

near those of his father and brother

the old

*Doc.
f
X J.

Hist. N. Y. II. 535. Index of 1698, p. 127.

Albert Wells'-"^ of

passed in the Province of

New York, New York

has a volume entitled "Acts of Assembly

from 1691

to

1725.

Examined and Com-

G ll^l R Printed and sold by William Bradford, Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty for It contains the autograph "Joshua Wells the Province of New York, 1726." his book," which may be Justice Joshua or his son Joshua II. (g. e. s.) Copy by C. B. Moore, (g. e. s.) g Suffolk Wills, Co. Clerk's Office, Riverhead.
pared with the Originals in the Secretary of State's
Office.

210

JUSTICE JOSHUA.
of Soiithold village.

CH. XII. the universal tradi-

churchyard
he was a

By

tion of Southold, as well as of his

descendants elsewhere,

man worthy

in all respects of his father,

whom

he
in

succeeded not only

in

some

of his public

duties, but

esteem and influence, especially after the early death of his elder brother William II. left him the only representative
of the first William.

Justice Joshua married, at Southold, Jan. 19, 1686,

Hanand

nah TuTHiLL, second daughter

of

John Tuthill

II.

Deliverance King, and sister of Elizabeth, the wife of his

brother William. She was born at Southold, Nov. 7, 1667, and died there, July 27, 1752.* They had fourteen children, six sons and eight daughters.
Mary,
16S6-7, d. inf. 16S8-9, d. inf. ^' b. 1691.
],

^.s

Hannah,

^.6

b.

Joshua, Deliverance, ^-^ b.

Abigail,
^Jt

b_ b. b.

Anna,
Samuel,
Daniel,

^-^^
^-'^

^'^ b.
^-'^

Solomon,

b.

Nathaniel, ^-^ b. Bethia, ^-^^b. Mehetabel, ^'^ b.

Deborah,
Fregift,

^^ b. ^'s b.

1693, m. Benjamin Reeve. 1695. c. 1697. 1699. 1701. 1703. 1705. c. 1707, d. 1754, m. 1725, John Goldsmith III. c. 1709, m. Jan. 2T, 1730, Dea. Wm. IIorton. c. 1711. April 21, 1714.
c.

can trace here only some of the descendants of the six

and those chiefly in the male line. Of the daughters I have no further account than is noted on this page. The personal knowledge and innumerable family papers which have enabled me to compile the Memoir thus far, are not
sons,

available for the history of the

younger branch, which

a few ot
its

is

made up from correspondence with

members, the Southold Index
* Index of 1698.
t

many

living

of 1698,

and MS. Notes from

Griffin's Journal. See also Ch. III. p. 37, above, Index of i6g8, p 113. See above, ch. III. p. 42, and note. X MS. Note by C. B. Moore. g For their descendants see Horton Chronicles, 184, seq.

GEN.

III.

JOSHUA

II.,

ELDEST SON.

211

The genealogy thus colby personal intercourse, must necesbrief and imperfect, often incorrect, rnore sarily often fragmentary, and almost wholly wanting in biography. only print it in the hope that this mere outline may incite
the unpublished Index of 1775.
lected,

and not be very

verified

some descendant
write a
full

of each of the six sons of Justice Joshua,

familiar with the old

homes and

traditions of the family, to

history of his

own

line.

JOSHUA
Eldest son of Joshua
I.,

II.,^-7

b.

Soulhold, i69i,d. April

9,

1761.

proved April 14, 1761, names his married in June, 171 5, Mary Brewster, (prob. dau. of John, Timothy, or Daniel, the three sons of the Rev. Nathaniel of Brookhaven, L. I.,) b. 1695, d. March 30, 1761, ten days before her husband.f They had 4 sons and 6 daughters. His
will of
15, 1760,

May

wife and 8 children.*

He

Sons

I.

Daus.

212
b. c. 1718, d.

JUSTICE JOSHUA.
Dec.
20, 1748;

CH. XII.
1749, wid.

m.

II.

June

5,

Mary

Benjamin, perh. a Reeve, and widow of John Benjamin.*

Children
Sons:
:

Joshua David,
Selah,

IV.,5'*i'b.
5.41

1742

5.4i
,

Daus.

Mary,

5.4.3 d. inf. ^" peril,

Hannah,
Deborah,
Sarah.f

^'^^
^-^^ 5.47

1756, John Paine. perh. m. 1762, Sam. Benjamin. perh. 1765, Benj. Hutchinson.*

II.

Timothy,^-"

("

Rev.")

b.

Cutchogue,, 1719,

d. Jan. 16,

1782; Congregational Minister of

Upper Aquebogue from

Oct. 25, 1759; signer in support of Congress, 1775, and on

Census of 1776 described as " a man of strong sound mind, and exemplary character ;" ^ " uneducated, but of considerable talent."^ His will of April 30, 1774, proved Jan. 28, He m. 1742, 1782, names his wife and four children.
;

Martha Terry,

b. 1722, d.

Nov.

13, 1796.

Children:

Timothy.5-^s b. 1743. Martha, 5-49 ]^^ 1744, d. 1763. Richard, 5-50 b. 1746. =' b. 174S. Elijah, ^.ss Mary, ^ 1750, d. 1752. Deborah,5-53 b. 175.., m. Dec 27, 1781, Sam. Tuthill of Cutehogue.TT

III.

JOHN,'--^ b. 1729, d.

Dec.

15,

1797; signer for Con1797,

gress, 1775,

and on Census

of 1776; will of Jan. 24,

proved March 28, 1798, names four daughters, and son-inlaw J. H. Goldsmith, and mentions his residence as "on a neck of land."*'" He m. Southold, Nov. 21, 1751, Mary
WELLS,^-*"=tt (prob. dau. of
b. 1734,
(*.

Nathaniel

I.^'"

and Mary Parshall,)

Jan. 26, 1805.

See ch. XVI.

Salmon Records.

* Index of 1775.
f

See Index of 169S, p Record of Dr. Henry Wells.

Prime, Hist. L.

57.

X Griffin's Journal.
t^

I.

N. Y. Wills, XXXIV. 454. (g. e. s.) Aquebogue Record.s, Tl Index of 1775.

II

** Suffolk Wills, A, 525.

ft

Salmon Records.

GEN.

IV.

JOSHUA
:

II.,

ELDEST

SON.

21,

Children
1.

2.

John, Mary,
Abigail,

5.54
'''"''

|j_

1^53^
c.

j3_
5.,

i^5g_

b.

3.

^^''
5.57

b. c.
j^^

4. 5
6.

James,

m. 1773, Dea. Timothy Wells.^-^* 1756-7, m. Joseph Hull Goldsmith. 1758, d. 1764.
1754
.

Hannah,^-"* b. 176. ^-^a Sarah, b. 176^.

.,

m.

Fleet. *

JOSHUA

II. FIFTH

GENERATION.

JOSHUA
I.

III.**-^*'

1742,

Joshua IV.,^-*" eldest son of Joshua III.,^-^'^ b. Southold, two years before the death of his great-grandfather

Justice Joshua ;f signer for Congress, 1775, and on Census

"Joshua Jr.," with wife and three children,:}: I believe to be the same who was in the N. Y. Troops on Long Island, c. 1776-9, with his eldest son Joshua, and whose
of 1776, as

descendants are therefore given

in

this Chapter.^

find

no names of wife or children except the eldest there were at least two others in 1776.
<'^-i'--^"'>

son,

but

I.

Jo.shua

V.,''-"' b.

Jan. 19, 1763.

II.

Selah,^-*^'

1776,

and

in

Capt.

3d son, signer for Congress, on Census of Lupton's Co. L. I. Troops, 1775 ;:|:
April
30,

m. Aquebogue,
Child
I.

1772,

Mehetabel Tuthill.

:
Nancy
Jane,''-"Mj. 1774, d. iSiS.|:

* Index of 1775.
f

Aquebogue Records.

Record of Dr. Henry Wells.

of T775.
is.

I Iiid<j.\

^
ol

Their record

given

me by

the

widow and

children of Asa Wells, '-=- g.

I.,

s.

the above Joshua,

who

n\zy possibly turn out to be a son of Samuel

or of

some other Wells of Southold. (See Ch. XIII.) But I have little doubt that is rightly placed here, and none at all of his lineal descent from Justice Joshua; tton o/istante a vague and improbable tradition that he was " born in
he
Wales.'-'
II

Aquebogue Kecords.

214

JUSTICE JOSHUA.

CH.

XII.

TIMOTHY
I.

I."^

Timothy
c.

I [.,^-*^

eldest son of the Rev. Timothy,^-^^ b.

d.

June 8, 1790; "Deacon" of the church at Cutchogue on Census of 1776, with wife and one child. He and his father were driven from their large estates in Southold after the battle of Long Island, and their petition to return from Connecticut was granted in 1777.*
Cutchogue,
1743,
;

He
1.

above.

m. 1773, his cousin Children:

Mary

Wells,^-^^ dau. of John/-^.

2. 3.

John, ^"5 b. c 1774. Mary, ^'"^ b. after 1776. Martha,^'" prob. m. Aquebogue, Aug.

6,

1801, Jerem. Davis.f

wife and children are named in his will of Dec. 26, proved July 28, 1790, of which her father and uncle 1789, Manly Wells were executors.:}:

The

^''^

III.,

IV.
early

moved

Richard and Elijah,^-'"'' 2d and 3d sons, reto " Drowned Lands," near Goshen, N. Y.,
^-^^

and there were farmers.

scendants.

have no account of their de1784,

Elijah ^-^^ m. Aquebogue, March

HAM.II

2,

Sarah Wick-

JOSHUA
I.

II. SIXTH
III.-*-"^'^

GENERATION.
IV.-^"

JOSHUA

JOSHUA

JOSHUA
b.

V.,*^-''i

eldest son of

Joshua (prob.)
I.,

IV.,^-'"'

(see

note above,)

(prob. Southold,) L.

Jan. 19, 1763, d. Peru,

L.
I.

* Griffin's Journal,
f

Onderdonk, Revol. Incidenls on Aquebogue Records.

Index of 1775. Eager's Hist. Orange
of
C"o., 18,

Index of 1775.

i Suffolk Wills, A. 1S9.

II

Griffin's Journal.

485.
is

The " Drowned Lands"

wick, on the

New

Orange Co., Jersey border, from a

last

chiefly in
tract

what

now

Aquebogue Records. the town of War-

of 17.000 acres formerly covered

with water, reclaimed in the

the mountains.

century, and rich in alluvia brought

down from

GEN.

VI.

JOSHUA

II.,

ELDEST SON.
;

21

Clinton Co., N. Y., Oct.

20, 1855

in
c.

N. Y. Troops on L. m.

I.,

with
L.
II.

his father,

1776-9;

removed

1793 to Chesterfield,
;

Essex Co., N. Y., (on Lake Champlain,) there a farmer

I., c.

I.

1785,

Hannah
'MS
'-*<*

Finch,

who

d. Chesterfield, c.
all

1810;

widow
1.

Tripp.
b.
b.

Children,
c.

by

ist

marriage:

Joshua,

L.

I.,

2.

Phoebe,
George,

"
" "

c.

1786. 178S, d. Claremont, N. H.; m.

3.

'-^''

b.
b. b.

c.

4.
5.

Emma,
Asa,

'-""^
'^''^

c.

Archibald Harwood. 1790, d. Birmingham, N. Y.; m. Laura Norton. 1792, d. Essex, N. Y.; m. Thos. Burgess.
1796-7.

Peru, Aug. 18, 1794.

c.

6.
7.

8.
9.

Henry, William, Levinna,

'-^^^

b. Chesterfield,

'-''^ b. '-^^ b.

10.

Theodorus,'--^^ b. '-^^^ b. Lucius,

" " " "

d. Birmingham; m. Mary Beckwith. m. Port Kent, N. Y., Bronson Merritt, of Ga. d.;m. Adeline Bushey, of Peru. d. Utica; m. Amanda Fuller, who d. Peru.

TIMOTHY
I.

I.^-^^

TIMOTHY

II.^'^
.''"^^

JOHN,''-"^ eldest

son of Dea. Timothy

b.

Cutchogue,

c.

1774, d. there, 1832;

Davis, of Cutchogue,
I.

who

m. Aquebogue, Jan. 2, 1803, Sarah Child (perh. others): d. 1850.

John,'--53 b.

iSog.f

JOSHUA
JOSHUA
I.

II. SEVENTH
lll.^-^*^

GENERATION.
JOSHUA
V.*''"^

JOSHUA

IV.^'*"

Joshua VI.,^-^''^ eldest son of Joshua V.,^-"^ b. L. I., c. 1786; removed c. 1835 from N. N. Y. to Canada West, (near Buffalo); m. Chesterfield, Essex Co., N. Y., Cynthia Strachan, who d. there c. 1835.
V.
18 18,
AsA,^-2^2

2d son,

b.

Peru, N. Y., Aug.

11,

18,

1794, d.
12,

Keeseville, N. Y.,

May

1865; m. Keeseville, Feb.

Mercy Taylor,
Hanks s-^^^

(dau. of

Stephen Taylor and Anna

* Mrs. Harriet E.

of Vergennes, Vt.

[John Wells, '^'' of Mattituck.

Aquebogue Records.

2l6

JUSTICE JOSHUA.
b.

CII.

XII.

Hammond,)
res.

Petersburgh, N. Y., June

8,

1795,

now

(1878)

Vercrennes, Vt.
Harriet E.,
^^''^-'^'^ 8-2''*

Children
b.

(b. in

Birmingham, N.

Y.):

Sidney K., Jane A.,

b_

Nov. Aug.

28, 1818. 26, 1821.

. .

Benjamin

T.,8-''''5b.
8.206

Euretta E.,

Asa

R.,

^-^^
^-^'^
8.2a

Sarah E., Stephen T.,

Thomson, Saratoga, N. Y. m. Rev. Jan. 17, 1S25. ^ Oct. 21, 1827, res. Boston; m. Sellars, ship-smith, (who d. there. b. Jan. 12, 1829. b. March 28, 1831, m. Swan, farmer, Arlington, Mass.. b. Dec. 20, 1833, d. Keeseville, June 11, 1857*
b. Sept. 9, 1822,
I.^

TIMOTHY
I.

TIMOTHY

II.

JOHN."*

JOHN,"-^^^

s.

of John,*^-"^ b.

Cutchogue,

1809, res. at

Mat-

tituck,

on the farm formerly owned by John Gardiner of Gardiner's Island; m. Riverhead, Dec. 6, 1829, Bethia Davis, (dau. of Chapman Davis and (Elizabeth (dau.

Jeremiah)
Children
:

Corwin

of

Riverhead,)

b.

R.,

July 20,

1809.

John C. Oliver Howard,

Sarah Elizabeth, Maria Louisa, Vicior Harrison, David Benjamin, Morris Hallock, Charles Burton,

Dec. 20, 1833.

Jan. 3, 1836. April 7, 1838. Oct. 3, 1840. Aug. 20, 1S42. Oct. 16, 1844. Oct. 18, 1846. June 28, 1S48.

Eugene

G.,

Dec. 22, 1849.

JOSHUA n. EIGHTH GENERATION.

JOSHUA
I.
iii.^--'^

Joshua

iv.^-^

joshua

v.*^-"^

asa.'--^-

Harriet
28,

E.,^---*^

eldest dau. of Asa,^-^^- b.

1878,

Birmingham,
I.

N. Y., Nov.

18 1 8, res.

Vergennes, Vt; m.

Bir-

mingham, Sept. 20, 1836, William Brooks, (s. of William Brooks and Phoebe Parker,) b. Jay, N. Y., April 5, 1817, d. March 17, 1867; m. II. Somerville, Mass., April 24, 1873,
Mrs.

Asa Wells.
Wells.'-^5s
Griffin's Journal.

John

GEN.

VIII.

JOSHUA
(s.

II.,

ELDEST SON.
and Betsey,)
marriage:
b.

21/

Philander Hanks,
Vt.,
1.

of Eleazer

Addison,

May

13, 1800.

Children by
b.
b. b.

ist

2. 3.

Lorin S. (Brooks),^-^!'' ^-^^^ Jennie Adelaide,

July 30, 1837.

Sept. 27, i84i. Aug. 29, 1858.

Howard W.,

s-^ii'

II.
1

Sidney

K,,^--''^

eldest son, b.

Birmingham, Aug.

26,
I.

82 1, d. Burlington, Vt., Jan. 31, 1875; coal merchant; m.

Birmingham, Nov. 21, 1843, Mary Appleyard, (dau. of Isaac and Mary, of Leeds, England,) b. in England, Jan. 10, 1818, d. Chesterfield, N. Y., Nov. 3, 1861; m. II. Westport, N. Y., Sept. 3, 1862, Ann Gibbs, (dau. of Warren and
Abigail,
of

Westport,)
ist

b.

Essex,

N. Y.,

May

15,

1855.

Children by
1.

marriage:
^-^ao
^-S'l

2. 3.

Cassius Henry, Mary Adelaide,

b. Oct. 8, 1844.
b.

Annette

Sept. 17, 1846. Ophelia.^-'-s^ b. Jan. 6, 1852.

:

By
4.
5.

2d marriage
Ella L.,9-223 Hattie, "-s"

b.

b.

May May

22, 1S64.
19, 1S66.

T.,"^-^^^ 2d son, b. Birmingham, Jan. 17, Black Hawk, Colorado, Manager of Gold Co.; m. Birmingham, Jan. 12, 1847, Priscilla Appleyard, sister of Mary, above. Children

IV.

Benjamin

1825, res. 1878,

Ida

E.,

^-"-^

h.
b.

Dec. lo, 1849, m. John Nitschke, London, Ont.

Frank

A.,

s-^ss

May

17, 1852.

Emma
Charles

T.,

William

24, 1856. b. Jan. 14. 1858. H.,s-229 b. Dec. 30, 1S60.

S.,''-22s

s-^" b.

March

VI.

Asa

R.,^-^'"'

3d son,

b.

Birmingham, Jan

12, 1S29, res.

;

San
of

Francisco, Cal., Prop, of Mechanics' Mills

9,

m. Water-

town, Wis., Aug.

1864,

Mary Hadley,
:

dau. of Jona. A.,

Watertown.
Laura M. Susan H.,

Children
^-^S"
s.ssi

b.

Nov.

6,

1865.

Asa H.,

9-232

Arthur T., s.233 William W.,9-234

b. July 11, 1S67. b. Aug. 19, 1S69. b. Nov. 9, 1871.

b.

June
S.

7,

1874.*

Mrs. H. E. Hanks, Mrs.

K. Wells, and Benj. T. Wells.

CHAPTER
'AMUEL,^-" seventh
'

XIII.
I.

SAMUEL, SECOND SON OF JOSHUA

child

and second
in 1699,

son

of

Justice

and died 1773;* Joshua,^'^ resided at Upper or Old Aquebogue, where he had a large farm on the South of the " South Road," still held by his
^

was born at Southold

descendants *
;

is

on List of Freeholders of Suffolk Co.,

c.

1737 ;t married, I. Oct. 16, 1738;:!: m.

1723,

Bethia Goldsmith,*
27,

b. 1702, d.

If.

Southold, July
d. 1785.*

1739, Mrs.

Mar-

tha

(Vail) Goldsmith, (dau. of John (from Wales 1700)

and Hannah Vail,) who six by each marriage

:

He

had twelve children,

Youngs, Samuel,
Joshua, John,
vlatthew,

^^^
^-3'

1).

Aug.
c.

b.
b. b.

*-^^
^35

17, 1724. 1726. 1728-30.

5,

'

^-^o

b.
b. b.
b.

Zaccheus, *" Benjamin, '*-'*^ ^'^ David,

Isaac,

*"
'-'5

b.

Paul,

b.

1733, d. Feb. 10, 1737.1: c. 1735-6. c. 1737-8. c. 1741. May, 1744. Nov. 1745. (See Note under Isaac,'*" Ch. XIV.) 1748.

Aug.

Deborah, ^.46 Memucan.^'*'

SAMUEL L FOURTH GENERATION.

L YouNGS,*-^*^ March 2, 1754
;:j:

eldest son, b. Southold,

will of 1754,

Aug. 17, 1724, d. describing him as "Yeoman,

* Rev. E. H. Wells.
f Doc. Hist. N. Y. IV. 201.
I

Grave

at

Aquebogue.

|Salmon Records.

GEN.
of

IV.

SAMUEL, SECOND SON.

219

Southolcl,"

names

his wife,

three

sons,

and

brother

survived him and m.

dieu.f
1.

Samuel*; m. Southolcl, Oct. II. Dec.

Children
Youngs, 5-^
Joseph,
^-^^
:

18, 1744,

13, 1757,

Abigail Paine, who Benjamin L'Homme-

b.

2.

b.

Aug. 1745, d. July c. Nov. 1746.

:j:

29, 1755.

3.

Samuel,

^-^^

b.
d. inf. 1752.

4.

,^-^3

II.

Samuel
{''''')
-^

II.,'*-^''

2d son,

b. c. 1726,

d. July, 1783 ;
(2
s.

on

Census
16).

of 1776, with

wife and seven children

over

III.

JOSHUA,*-^^ 3d son, b.

c.

1728, d.

c.

1780

blacksmith

Orange Co., where his will of May i, 1775, proved July 17, 1780, names his wife, nine children, and " brother Samuel, of Long Island " m. Joanna who was living in 1790. Children:
removed
to Goshen,
;

Gershom,
Bethia,

^-'^

5.72 "-'^ ^-'^

'''

Samuel, Joanna, Joshua, Deborah,

Deliverance,

had prob. Samuel. ^'^'' had prob.

Benjamin,''-'-' Joshua, ''''^'^ Lydia.^''^^

="
^-'^

Mehetabel,

^-'^
5.79
II

Huldah,

V.

Matthew,^-""

th son,

b.

c.

1735

farmer

at

Aque-

bogue, on the South Road, next

West

of his next brother

*N.
f
:];

Y. Wills,

XIX.

67.

(g. E. S.)

(Index of 1775 says he

d.

May

2.)

Salmon Records.
Index of 1775. N. Y. Wills, XXXIII.

Grave at Aquebogue.
II

184.

(g. e. s.)

The widow gave

power of attorney

in 1790 to

David

Wells,'*-'*''

who became,

in

1789, guardian to the four children

named above
ren of Joshua

(''ise-s.)^

Goshen, and heirs

"^-"^

one of "Samuel " and three of "Joshua," all under 14, of "Samuel Wells of Southold ;" therefore prob. grandchildand Joanna. (See Note on Joshua IV-.^--*" Ch. XII. p. 213,
ot

above.)

220

DESCENDANTS OF JUSTICE JOSHUA.

of 1776,

CH. XIII.

Zaccheus;* on Census (5-'-i) and one slave m.

;

with wife, two children

Whitmore.-jb.
c.

VI.
;

Zaccheus/-^^ 6th son,

1737, d.

prob. before

farmer on the South Road, next West of his brothers 1775 David and Paul;* m. Southold, Dec. 8, 1764, Mehetabel

Griffing.
VII.
I.

:{:

Benjamin,*-*^ 7th son, b.

m.
I.

c.

1741, m.

and

left

a son.

David.'-s-

Eleanor,

1759)

^^-

(b. 1763, d. Nov. 12, 1783, ) II. Prudence, (b. No children.f J^"- 21, I788,) daus. of Eleazer Luce.

VIII.

David,"-'^ 8th son, b.

May,

1744, d. Jan. 14, 1828

on Census of 1776. He, with Paul,^*^ inherited the East He was noted section of the great farm at Aquebogue.* for integrity and religious principle; a constant worshipper

His will of Oct. proved May 27, 1828, names his wife, one son, five daughters, and grandchildren.^ He m. Northville, L. I., c. 1768, Abigail Youngs, dau. of James, b. 1750, d. July 26,
in

church and at home, for sixty years,

jl

13, 1827,

i833-

Children
Charlotte,

^-^^
^^'^

b_ c. 1770. b. c. 1772-3. b. c. 1776. b.

b.

Mehetabel,
Abigail,

5-^= ^-^^ ^.si

Benjamin, Samuel, Moses, Joanna,

Feb. 1779. Dec. 1781.

5-^^ 6-S9

b. Sept. 21, 1784. b. Feb. 29, i78S,m Elijah Wells. -i89 (Ch.
b. 1791, d. July 7, b. July 6, 1794.

XIV.)
;

Harma

(or Harmony),^-^"
^'^

1842

James Youngs,

m. John Corwin no (Cor. Gen. 123.) [ch.

X.

Paul,*-^" loth son, b. 1748, d.

April

7,

1809 ; on Cen-

sus of 1776; inherited the S. E. portion of the

Aquebogue

farm

by occupation a tiller of the land, by trade a carpenter he had the implements of shoemaking, and knew
; ;

"

* Rev. E. H. Wells.
f
:|:

Index

of

1775.

Index of 1730. Salmon Records. Grave at Aquebogue.

II

Rev. Christopher Youngs.

Suffolk Wills, E. 348.

T[

Index of 1775.

GEN.

IV.

SAMUEL, SECOND SON.

221
his

how
His

to use them.

quiet, peaceable

man, dwelling by

next neighbour forty years without a

will of

word

of difference."*

Nov.

28, 1807,

two survivors of four Downs, dau. of William and Penelope,

i797-t
I.

May 13, 1809, names the children, f He m. c. 1767, Anna

proved
b. 1748, d.

July

19,

Children:

222

DESCENDANTS OF JUSTICE JOSHUA.

DAVID.

CH. XIII.

Charlotte,^-^^ eldest dau. of David/-^^ b. c. 1770, d. July 9, 1842;* m. Benjamin Horton, (son of Joseph HorChildton and Mary Hallock, of Riverhead,) b. c. 1769.!
I.

ren

I.

e-133

ni.

Jonathan T. Horton.

(Horton Chron.

i86.)

GEN.
1803,

V.

SAMUEL, SECOND SON.

(dau. of

223
of R.,)

Cynthia Terry,
Nov.
Buell,

James and Cynthia,

:

b. 1778, d.
1.

25, 1828."'^
^1"
I,

Children

1804, d. 1845; m.

Amanda Downs. "'^'^

2.

3.
4.

'58 b. 1808, d. c. Lydia, 1874; m. John Tuthill. Albert Terry.^iss b. 1810. "-^"'^ Caroline, m. Daniel Tutbill. f

V.

Aug.
m.

Samuel,^-^^ 2d son, b, Dec, 1781, d. April 3, i826,:{: or 3, 1828 * m. I. Harma Case, b. 1784, d. Sept. i, 1803,*
;

II,

Amelia Wells,
18, 1869.*

(dau. of
ist

Nathaniel,):|;

b.

1792, d.

March
1.

Children by
b. b.
:

marriage:
;

Harmony/'^'
Abigail,
^'^^^

c.

2.

iSoi, m. 1803.

I.

Burleigh

II.

Renss. Jennings.

By
3.

2d marriage
David C.,-i3 John O., ^'^*

4.

res.

N. Y. m. dau. Benj. Glover and Mary Wells. '^i^"

VI. MOSES,^-^^ 3d son, b. Sept. 21, 1784, d. Dec. 26, 1870; m. Esther Terry, (dau. Dea. Daniel and Elizabeth,) b.

June
1.

28, 1788, d.
Harriet, Ursula,

Oct. 25, 1850.

^^'^^

Children:

b.
b.

2.

^-'^^

3.

4.
5.

"'" b. Elizabeth, Daniel Terry, ^^'^^ b.

6.
7. 8.

Fanny, Mary,

^-'"^
''''

b. b. b. b_
b.

Henry C,
David,

^'''
6.172

9.

James Henry, ^'''^

Feb. 5, 1808, m. I. Abijah Tucker; II. Burnet. April 20, 1810, d. Aug. 2, 1850; m. I. Moses Reeve; II. David A. Gardner. April 30, 1812, m. Isaiah Hallock. March 10, 1815, m. Eliza Tuthill. June 18, 1817, m. Alfred Overton. 25, 1S21, m. Elisha Aldrich. Nov. 15, 1824, d. Aug. 3, 1825. July 20, 182S, d. inf. Sept. 13, i830.
. . .

IX.

James

Youngs,^-^^

("

Dea.") 4th son,

b.

July

6,

1794,
b.

d. Jan. 2,

1838; m. Lydia Osborn, (dau. of Gershom,)

1790, d. Sept. 24, 1842.

1.

Children:

Gershom
Lester,

O.,*'-^''*

2. 3.

^-''^

b.
b.

Mehetabel,

""'' b.
'^'"

4.

Amanda,

d. Nov. 9, 1833. Sept. 29, i8iq, m. Martin L. Wells. '-^^ 1829, d. Oct. 27, 1S44.

May, 1816,

||

(p.

6g.)

* Grave at Aquebogue.
t Oliver J. Wells.

"'

J Rev. Christopher Youngs. Rev. E. H. Wells.

Grave at Aquebogue. But Rev. was 3d son of SamueP-^' above.

I

C.

Youngs

says this Lester

(whom he

bur.)

224

DESCENDANTS OF JUSTICE JOSHUA.

PAUL.^-^^

CH. XIII.

IV.

Joshua Livingston/-^^

3c1

son of Paul/-'^

b.

Sept

13,

"He was a 1776, d. June 13, 1855;* farmer at Aquebogue. peculiar genius; brought up a farmer, he became a repairer of carriages, which were brought to his shop for thirty
and varnish them in o-ood style; his varnish, of vivid lustre, was of his own manHe made ploughs, carts, stage coaches, and ufacture. riding-chairs, (sold in New York and Ohio,) harness and
miles round.

"He could

trim, paint,

other equipments for the horse, harrow, &c. One of his farm-waggons, made in 1811, is in use on the farm at this
day, as perfect as

when made."t

Bethia Howell,
I.

(dau. of Lieut. Silas

23, 1776, d. Jan. 13, 1863.*

m. June 20, 1796, and Jemima,) b. Nov. Their only child was

He

Eurystheus Howell,'^-"^ b. March 30, 1797.

SAMUEL L SIXTH GENERATION.

YOUNGS.'''^'^
I.

JOSEPH.^-"
Joseph,^-*^^ b.

JOHN,*^-"^ eldest

son of

1774, d.

Aug.

8,

1850;* farmer, and captain of a coasting vessel;

command-

ing as Capt. of militia in the gallant defence of the coast

against a British force.
6.

May

31, i8i4;:|:
b.

1795,

Mehetabel Tuthill,
:

m. Aquebogue, Jan. 1771, d. Jan 12, 1854.*

Children
1.

2.
3.

Franklin, Polly B.,

"s^
'-260

b.

b.

Feb. 27, 1796, d. Feb. 28, iSoo.* 1798, d. 1872, m. Geo. Howell.

4.
5.

Benjamin F.,'-^''' John Tuthill,'-262 '^'^^ Hannah,

Sophronia, Alden,
at
'--s*
'-^^s

b. b. b.

Aug. 1801.

6.
7.

1803. 1S04, m. John F. Hallock (s. John). b. 1807, m. Nicoll Downs (s. Daniel).
b_

iSio.f

Aquebogue. fRev. E. H. Wells.

*

Grave

:j;See his letter to

Col.

Moore

(father of Charles B.) describing the action, in

Thompson's L. I. i. 407; and Aquebogue Records.

Baylies' Suffolk Sketches, 283.

GEN.
IV.

VI.

SAMUEL, SECOND SON.

b.

22$
1850,

Abigail/-^"* 2d dau.,
(s.

1783, d.

c.

m. Daniel

Terry,
I.

of Daniel

and Phoebe,) who

Wells.-2i<5(Ch.

d.

soon after 1850.

Child :
Maria (Terry),"6 m. Salem

XIV.)*

david.^-*^

mehetabel.^-^^

VI.

Joshua
(dau. of

(Downs),*^-^*^
b.

3d

s.

of

Nath.

hetabel Wells,^'^^

Terry,

June 22, 1811; m. Sept. i, Dea. Daniel,) b. Feb. 6, 1815.

b.
b.

Downs and Me1834, Laura

Children:

Sheldon Roe (Downs),''-^*''' '-^^^ George Augustine,

Nathaniel,
'-^e^
.

Oct. ii, 1S35.

Feb. 12, 1838.

b.

May

25, 1S41.
. .

Joshua Harrison, Daniel Terry,

Rosalia

'"" b. Sept.
'-^'i

1846.

'"'^
,

Feb. 27, 1848. b. Feb. 10, 1857.

b.

(Lawyer. N. Y.) (Teacher.)

James Youngs (Downs),'^-'-"' 5th son, b. 1813; m. I. 1836, Jane Robinson, (dau. of John,) b. 181 5, d. 1838; m. II. 1839, Joanna Tuthill,^-"^^ (dau. of Daniel Tuthill and Phoebe (dau. Daniel III.) Wells,''-^^^ Ch. XIV.) b. 1809, d. 1872; m. III. wid. Mary (Hallock) Benjamin, dau. of Daniel and Parmelia Hallock. Children by ist marriage
VIII.
:

1.

Martha Jane

(Downs),''-^'^ b.

1838, d. i860.

By
2. 3.

2d marriage :
Albert T. (Downs), '"*
b.

John

T.,

'--''5

b.

1842, m. Miranda Wells-S-'S (Ch. XIV.) 1849, m. Rachel H. Wells.s-3si (Ch. XIV.)f

DAVID.^-^^

BENJAMIN.^-^'^

III. Albert Terry,'^-^^^ 2d son, b. Northville, 1810, d. Brooklyn, 1861; Builder; m. West Hampton, L. I., c. 1833,

1-^111^6.195

OKver Jaggar and Mehetabel Tut^^^^^ James Tuthill and Temperance Wells,^-'" Ch. XIV.) of West Hampton. Children
Eliza Jaggar, dau.
of
:

1.

2. 3.

Albert P., Oliver Jaggar,

'-^'^

b. b.
b. b.

Sept. 1838.

'-^^
'-^'^ '-s's

July 23, 1845.

Marie E.,
Nellie

May, 1850.
June, iSse.f

4.

C,

* Rev. E. H. Wells.
t

Oliver

J.

Wells of Brooklyn.

226

DESCENDANTS OF JUSTICE JOSHUA.

DAVID.--*'^

CH. XIII.

SAMUEL.^-^^
of

III.

David
I.,

C.,*^'''^

eldest son

Samuel,^-^^ res.

James-

port, L.

Wells,''-^^''

(dau. of Israel
b.

mechanic; m. Greenville, N. Y., Sophia Jane Wells '-'^^ and Charlotte Hedges,
Baiting Hollow, 1823.
Riverhead.*

Ch. XIV.)
I.

Child:

Herbert.''-^" b.

DAVID.^-^

MOSES.^'^^
s.

IX.

James

Henry,'''-'" 4th

of

Moses,'-^^ b.

Sept.

13,

'^'^^ and Joan1830; m. Lavinia Wells,^-'^^ (dau. of Elijah : Children na,^-^ Ch. XIV.) b. April 15, 1833.

1.

George
Charles

E..

'"^'
'-"^'^ ''"^'^

b.

May
May
Nov.

6,

1853.

2. 3.

Mary Lavinia,
J.,

b.
h.

Dec. 29, 1854.

13, 1856.

4.
5.

Anna

E.,

''"^*
'^''5

h.

27, 1858.

6.
7.
8.

^ Sept. 3, 1864. John Edwards, '-se b. Feb. 26, 1865. Asa Hill, '-^^^ b. Jan. 21, 1S71. Minnie D.,
Grace
E.,
'-ss b.

May

29, 1875.

DAVID.*-*^
I.

JAMES

Y.^'^'

Gershom

O.,*^-'^^

eldest

son of Dea. James

Y.,^-^'

m.

Temperance Benjamin,
and Desire Terry.
1.
'-^S"

dau. of the Rev.

:

David Benjamin

Children

Orville,

2.

Orlando

O.,'-*^"

Bookseller, Riverhead.

PAUL.^-"
I.

JOSHUA

L.^-^^

Eurystheus
b.

Howell,*^-"^ (Rev,) only son of Joshua

30, 1797, res. 1877,

L.,^-"^

Aquebogue, March

on the farm
of

of his father

and grandfather.

With few advantages

education, he

became a successful teacher, and in Oct. 1842, a Minister of the " Strict Congregational Convention " of
Suffolk Co., labouring as an Evangelist at
tions
;

some

forty sta-

apt to teach, and untiring in exertion, he has accomf

*S. Goldsmith Wells of Baiting Hollow.

Rev. E. H. Wells.

GEN.

VI.

SAMUEL, SECOND SON.

22/

plished a great deal in the ministry, without forsaking the

His long and patient researches in family history have furnished most of the framework and many of the details of this Memoir, so far as it relates
toil of a

practical farmer.*

to the descendants of "Justice Joshua."

1817,

He

m. Jan.

17,

Mary Corwin,

(dau. of Capt. Jedediah

2,

Corwin and

Mary Luce,
1.

of Riverhead,) b. Oct.
b.

1797.

Children:

2.

3. 4.

Wilkinson Washington Warren/--"' '^''^ Mary Corwin, '-^'^ Anna Jemima, ''^^^ Eurystheus Howell,

Dec. 24, 1S18.

b. b.
h.

Jan 25, 1824 Aug. 19, 1826. June 17, 1829.

SAMUEL L SEVENTH GENERATION.

YOUNGS.*-^'^
JOSEPH.*^-^^
("

JOHN.*^'"^
John,"-''^ b.

IIL

Benjamin

F.,^-^''^

Dea.") 2d son of

Aug.

i8o[, d. Oct. 21,

i87i;t m.

Maria Downs,

dau. John and

Huldah.
*I add an
" I

extract from his MS., giving a lively sketch of his early

:

life

as a

pupil and teacher

had some advantages over

my youthful
that Jack
'

associates; such as a select library

Built,'
is

of eleven volumes,
Crusoe,'
'

'The

House

'Tom
still

Jones,'
fresh
in

'Robinson
mind), &c.

The

Picture Alphabet in Verse

(which
I

was old enough to drive cows and ride a horse, I was kept at home during the summers. A careful estimate shows the entire value of my school books to be $4 60, not including a new Spelling Book; besides which, ihey were the Child's Instructor, the New Testament, the Westminster Catechism, the American Reader, Webster's Selections, DaboU's Arithmetic, Dwight's Questions and Answers in Geography, and " The I taught school some eighteen Monitor," this last used by the highest class. winter terms; it was not in those days a lucrative occupation, the teacher's wages As an illustration of the state averaging $27 a month, and he boarding himself. of society, and also of my government, I may add that the little stock of paper, quills, and pencils which I kept to supply my scholars, and the pennies they brought in exchange, remained safe in my unlocked desk from week to week;
Study was
occupation; but as soon as
.

my favourite

and

never had to

call

my

pupils to their lessons,

nor to use corporal punishor College, having been

ment.

...

never saw the inside of an

toil

Academy

born and brought up to the heavy f Grave at Aquebogue.

of a farmer."

228

DESCENDANTS OF JUSTICE JOSHUA.

:

CH. XIII.

Children
1.

2.

3
4.
5.

William Henry,8-3" ^'^' Benjamin F., ^-^^ Theodore,

b. b.
d.

March

2i,

1840*
4,

Huldah Maria,
,

s-^'s
S.313

Dec. i. 1843, d. March inf. Feb. 4, 1857.*

'-'^^

1849.*

IV.

John Tuthill,
I.

3cl

son, b.

1803, d.

March
II."^-^^

14,

1876*; m.

Mary

Wells,^-^^^ (dau. of Isaiah

and

Mary Hallock, Ch. XIV.) b. Aug. 3, 1806, d. Dec. 13, 1850;* m. II. Jerusha Youngs, dau. of James and Amanda.
Children by
I.

ist
F.,

marriage (born at Aquebogue)

^-^^^
8.315

George
Isaiah,

b. Oct. 30, 1832.

]-,_

2. 3.

Frances,

-3' 8-3'' ^-^'^

b. b. b.

4.
5.

John, Annie.

6.

Elma

Sophronia,*-^" d.

1835, m. I. Horace H. Wells,^-^^^ April, 1838, d. Feb. 19, 1855.* 1840. 1842. March 18, 18 -f
. .

u jdm

(Terry. P.

By 2d marriage
7.

Eva

Bell.8-3'

VII.

Alden,^-25 4th son, b.

I.

May

26,

1810, d.

Oct.

16,

1873;* m.
(s.

3,

Jane Frances Wells, (dau. of James Wells James,^-^^) and Ernest Augusta Howell, Ch. XVI.) b. Feb. b. 1819. 1820, d. July 6, 1842;* m. II. Amanda M.
, :

Children

:|:

John Jay, James Madison,

Daniel H., Jane Frances,

s.sii
*''"

b_
b. b.

jggg^

April 28, 1842.

1845. 1846, m. Ellsworth Reeve (s. Austin) of N. Y. 1848, m. Henry Dimon. ^-^'^^ b. 1850, m. Mary Terry (dau. Geo. A. and Cath.). 8.327 Rowena M., b. 1856. Adrianna Isabella,8-32s b, Feb. 19, i860, d. Feb. 2, 1862.*
*-^'"'

-323

b.

Edna, Edgar Alden,

^-^'s

b.

DAVID.*-*^
II.

BENJAMIN.^-^*'

ALBERT

T.'''^'^^

Oliver
N. Y., July
at

Jaggar,^-^^^
23, 1845,

2d son of Albert

T.,"-^'^^

b.

Brook-

lyn,
* f t

J"es.

Brooklyn, Lawyer, 82 Nassau

Grave
Grave

Aquebogue. Aquebogue. Rev. E. H. Wells.

at

This was perhaps an older child.

GEN.
St.,

VII.

SAMUEL, SECOND SON.

229

New

HiNMAN,
1876.
1.

(dau. of

York; m. Brooklyn, Oct. Grove P.,) b. 185

16, 1872,
1,

Margaret

F.
9,

d.

Brooklyn, April

Child :
Fiederick

De

Witt,8-329 b.

March, 1874.*

PAUL.*-*-'

JOSHUA

L.^-^^

EURYSTHEUS

H."-'^^

Wilkinson Washington
14, 1838,

Warren,^-^^^ eldest son of

the Rev. Eurystheus H.

1818; m. June

Wells,"*^^*' b.

Aquebogue, Dec.
1824, d.

24,

Jerusha Rogers Hudson,

Skillman,) b.

(dau. of

Daniel
i870.t
I.

Hudson and Rachel

Children:
**"3^"
,

June

17,

b. Jan. 13, d. Jan. 20, 1842.

2. 3.

4.

Jane Rosaline, ^-^^^ b Aug. 20, 1843, m. Jan. II, 1865, James E. Baylies. Belhia Howell, ^-^^^ b. Jan. 12, 184S, m. Feb. 1877, Geo. A. Jennings. ^-^^a Milnor H., b. June 6, 1856, Engineer on N. Y. Va. Packet.

n.
Feb.
(Ch.
1.

Mary
10,

Corwin,^-"^^ eldest dau., b. Jan. 25,

1824,

m.

1872,

James N.

Fanning,^-^''
^^'^^)

s.

of

Bartlett*^-^'^^ (s.
.

NathanieP-^^^ and

Anna Wells

XIV. and XVI.)

Mary Celeste

Fanning and Eliza Children:

b. Sept. 21, 1843. b.
^-^''^

(Fanning),^-''^"'

2.

Anna

Rosalia,

Oct. 31, 1846.

III.
2,

Anna

Jemima,^-^^^

2d dau.,
b. in

1853,

Francis Kappell,
Children
Frances,
:

b. Aug. 19, 1826, m. Aug. Hungary, d. set. 45, a watch-

maker.
1.

Mary Antonia (Kappell)/-^^'^

b.
b.

2.

Anna

^-'^^

Aug. 27, d. Oct. i, 1854. July 12, 1856, d. Dec. 12, 1857.

IV.

Eurystheus

Howell,^-^''* 2d son, b.

m, Dec. 2, 1858, Avis Rhoda Rhoda, of Quogue,) b. 1829. Children:

1.

June 17, 1829; Hallock, (dau. of James and

2.

s.sas Avis Arabella, Elizabeth Helen,-339

b. b.

Aug.

2,

1S59.
1863.:!:

Jan. 13,

* Oliver
f
i

J.

Wells.

Grave

Aquebogue. Rev. E. H. Wells.

at

230

DESCENDANTS OF JUSTICE JOSHUA.

CH. XTII.

SAMUEL L EIGHTH GENERATION.

YOUNGS.^-^''
JOSEPH.^-''^
JOHN.''-"**

BENJAMIN.^'"*'^

William Henry Matilda Griffing, dau.

I.

,^-^"^

eldest son of
of Daniel

Benjamin

F. /-''

m.

and Laurinda.

Child-

ren (perh. others)

1.

2. 3.

4.

^-^^^ b. Aug. 17. i860, d. April 18, 1861. Carrie M., Carrie Matilda,^-^^^ b. Nov. 20, 1863, d. Sept. 10. [864. Benjamin F., ' b. Dec. 1866, d. Nov. 16, 1868. ^-'^s b. William C, July, d. Oct. 24, 1874-*

II.

Benjamin

F.,^"'*'^

2d son, m.
:

Mary Ann ComviN,

4,

dau.

Henry.
I.

Child (perh. others)

T.,
^-^-^

Frank

b.

Dec

31, 1S53, d.

N. Y. Sept.

1841.*

YOUNGS.^-.^"
I.

JOSEPH.^'^^

JOHN.''-"^

JOHN

T.^'^^^

George

F.,^-^"

eldest

son of John

T./-^"^

b.

Aque26,

bogue, Oct.
1853,

30, 1832,

farmer at Upper Aquebogue; m. Jan.

(dau. of Dea. Nicoll
2,

Mary Jane Youngs,

b,
^--^^ lona Zitella, William Nicoll,"''^'

Youngs and
Children
:

Huldah Reeve,)
1.

Aquebogue, June
b.

i834.t
6,

2. 3.

John,

s--^'

Sept. 21, 1855, m. Dec. 24, i860. b. Sept. 20, 1865, d.

b.

May

1872,

David H. Youngs
(s.

Joshua).

March

18, 1867.*

V.

Annie,^^'^^^

2d dau.,

b. 1842,

m.

Alonzo Terry,

son of

John
I.

P,

Child

:
1862.

William

(Terry),-^ b.

youngs.^-^^
I.

joseph.^-"^

john.*'-"^

alden/-^'^^

John

Jay,^-'^^!

eldest son of Alden,^-25 b. 1839, Teacher;

m.

Wells,^-^''^

dau.

of

Hermon W.

Wells^'^"^

and

Charity Youngs, Ch.

I.

XIV.
1864.:!:

Child :

Hermon

Jay,9-'''

b.

* Grave at Aquebogue.
f i

George F. Wells.^ Rev. E. H. Wells.

GEN.
11.

VIII.

SAMUEL, SECOND SON.

23

James Madison,^-^- 2d son, b. Hackaback, L. I., Lumber Merchant at Greenport m. Steeplechurch, Dec. 23, 1863, Catharine Mehetabel Terry, (dau. of Lewis H. Terry and Harriet Fanning,) b. Nov. 20, i8z|4.
April
28, 1842,
;

Children

James Clarence.^-^^
Sheridan.

b. ''^^ b.

Henry Alden, Adrianna,

Frank Terry,
^

Oct. 2, 1S64. Jan. 14. 1867. 9" b. Oct. 19, 1S68. '-'^ b. Feb. 23, 1870. ^"^^ b. May 15, 1874.*

in.
1.

Daniel

H.^-^^

3d son,
1870.

b. 1845,

^- and has children

2.
3.

Ernest Alden, Clarence Eugene,

^-=" b.
^'"^

Maud

Louise.

'-^-

PAUL.^--*^

JOSHUA

L.^-'*^

EURYTHEUS

H.^"^^^

MARY

C.^"^^

Mary Celeste
^^^'^

(Fanning) ,^-^^* eldest dau. of James N.

Wells,^-^^^ b.

Fanning m. June

and Mary Corwin

1869,

Sept. 21, 1843,

of

3,

Robert Joseph Black,

b.

New
Child

York,
:

Superintendent of Dodd's Express Company.

I.

Florence Estella (Black,^-^^^

Jan. 27, 1874.

IL
1846,

Anna Rosalia
m. Nov.
26,

(Fanning) ,^*^^ 2d dau., b. Oct. 31, 1866, Henry A. Elliott, Printer, b. 1841.

Child
I.

:
Harvey Clinton
(Elliott),^-^^^ b.

June

6,

iSGg.f

* James M. Wells of Greenport.

t Rev. E.

H. Wells.

CHAPTER

XIV.
I.

DANIEL, THIRD SON 'OF JOSHUA

ANIEL,^'^^

eighth child and third son of Justice

in

Joshua,--*^

^^was

born at Southold

1701

died

March

20, 1761,

He 8et. 59; buried in the old church3^ard at Aquebogue.* is on the list of Freeholders of Suffolk Co., 1737; f designated generally as
himself as
"
"

Captain," also as "

Deacon
I.,"

"
;

^ describes

will of yeoman, of Southold, L. March, proved April 2, 1761, in which all his children are named. His large farm in Aquebogue lay between the North and South Roads, opposite that of his brother Samuel, and most of it is still possessed by his descendin

his

ants.!

He

m.

I.

Southold, Jan.
1722; m.

8,

1722,

Elizabeth Downs,^[
20,
(p.

b.

1702, d. Oct.

Goldsmith,!" (dau.

of

n. Southold, Dec. John Goldsmith II.

1724,

Mary

42 above) and

Mary
6,

(dau. Jeremiah) Vail of Southold,)** b. 1706, d. April

c.

1740; ft m. HI.
1753; ft

1742,

Hannah
4,

b. 1721, d.

Dec.

14,

m. IV. Southold, Oct.

1755,

wid.

Jemima

Terry. ^

Nme

of his eleven children

3,

were by the second

*S. Goldsmith Wells, "'" March

f
:j:

1877.

Doc. Hist. N. Y. IV. 201.

Index of 1730.

Rev. Christopher Youngs.

(g. e. s.)

N.
II

Y. Wills, XXIIl. 68.

Rev. E. H. Wells.

^Salmon Records.
** Index of 169S, p. 81.
ff

Grave

at

Aquebogue,

GEN.
wife,

III.

DANIEL, THIRD SON,

third
all b.

233

two bv the Aquebogue).

c.

at

Southolcl (ihen including

Ann,
Sarai,

''^

b. b.

Dec.

8,

1725,

m.

Dec.

24,

1743,

Christopher

Youngs IV.*
2.
*--*^ -^-^f

3.

Mary,
Daniel,

b. b. b. b.
b.

4.
5.

*"'

6.
7. 8.

*Micah, Jane Elizabeth, '^^ *-^'' Jeremiah, 4.55 Abel,

14, 1727, m. 1749, John Albertson.f Oct. 28, 1729, m. 1750, David Corwin.f May 13, 1731. Feb. 10, 1733. June iS, 1735, m. Nov. 18, 1755, John Corwin.f Feb. 26, 1737.

Aug.

b.

Dec. 23, 1738.

9.

10.
11.

Natlianiel, Isaac,

^-^^

b.
b.

March
Jan.
6,

27, 1740.

*-"_b. Nov. 10, 1745.

^-^^

Mehetabel,

1749, m. Nov.

3,

1773,

Barnabas

Horton.:]:

DANIEL
IV.

I. FOURTH
II.,^'^'

GENERATION.
" Esq.,")
d.

Daniel
I., ^^-

("

Hon.,"

eldest

son

oi

Aug. 18, I793. 13, 1731, He was Justice of the Peace 1763, Signer for Congress 1775; on Census of 1776; first Supervisor of the town of Riverhead, 1 792.1 His will, dated July 21, proved Oct. 2, 1793, names his wife and five children. ^| He m. April 16, 1752, Joanna Youngs, dau. of Christopher III. (s. Christopher II. (s. Christopher I. s. Rev. John Youngs) and Elizabeth, dau. Nathaniel Moore) by his wife Joanna.** She was b.
Daniel
b.

Southold,

May

1733-4, d. Sept. 25, i8i3.

* Index of 1730.
f
X

Rev. Christopher Youngs.

Salmon Records.

From

the Family Record of Daniel

g.

I.,^''''

in a

MS. volume dating back

^-4'

to

1680, in possession of his g.

son

S.

Goldsmith Wells

of Baiting Hollow.

eldest daughters are called in the will, "Anna " and "Sarah," and the 4th dau. " Elizabeth." David Corwin II., who m. Mary, had 14 ch., by which

The two

of his two wives I cannot find.

(See Ch. IV. p. 52, and

Corwin Genealogy,

38.)

Grave at Aquebogue. Index of 1775. Thompson's L.

II

I., I.

251, seq.

if

Suffolk Wills, A. 312.

** Salmon Records.

Index of 1775; comp. Index of 169S, pp. 102, 182.

234

DESCENDANTS OF JUSTICE JOSHUA.

:

CH. XIV.

Children
Isaiah,

Daniel,

^-'^

b. "'' b.

Temperance,-^"" b. ^"' b. Joanna,

Anna,
Patience,

*"'- b.
''"''

b.
b. b.

Prudence,
Abigail,

^-'"^ ^-'"^

1752. 1756. 1758. c. 1760. 1762. 1764. 1766, d.

c. c.

June

i,

1775.*

1769, d. April 30, 1796.*

2d son, b. Feb. lo, 1733, d. March 23, of 1776, with 6 ch. under 16 years; m. on Census 1790;* Children (perh. Mary b. 1734, d. May 6, 1786.*

V.

MlCAH,-*-^-

others)

Micah, s-iof' Youngs, 5-""

Elisha,
5-108
5.

(
'(

d.
d.

^\

^"^'

June

28, 1781.*

1831.*

b.

1767.

Mary,
,

109

5-""
^-'^
,

m.
prob. d.
y.

Overton of Middle Island.

VI.
April
(s.

Jane

Elizabeth,*-^^ 4th dau., b.

June

18,

1735,

d.

13, 1799,

m. Cutchogue, Nov.
181

18, 1756,

John Corwin,
of Southold,) b.

of Daniel

Corwin and Elizabeth Cleaves

8,
5.

1732, d.
1.

Nov.

Children

::|:

John

2.

3.

4.
5.

(Corwin), 5-^^^ b. Aug. 5, 1757, d. Apr. 30, 1839, ^n- Julia Hedges. ^-"^ b. Aug. 20, Nathaniel, 1759, d. y. 5.114 Abel, b. March 21. 1762, d. Oct. 8, 1S08, m. Ruth Hedges. ^-^^^ Deliverance, b. May 2, 1764, d. Nov. i, 1821, m. Wm. Horton. '"'^ b. Lina, April 25, 1766, m. Samuel Phillips.
Phila,
5-1" b.
^.iis

6.
7.

June Nov.

22, 1770, d. y.

Daniel,

b. b. b.

p^eb. 8, 1773,

d 1818,

1800,

Mary

Tuthill.

8.

George,
Sarah,
Elsie,

^-^'^
^.120
5-'2i

26, 1776, d. y.

Q.

10. 11.

Polly,

^''''

Dec. 12. 1777, d. y. m. Silas Corwin. m. I. David Bishop, II. Jona. Rackett.

VII.
head,

Jeremiah,

*-^*

3d son,
set.

b.

Feb.

26,

1737, d. River;

March

5,

18 14,

yy,^

res.

Riverhead

Signer

in

* Grave at Aquebogue.
f Rev. Christopher
X

Youngs.

Corwin Genealogy, 120, &c. (Date of marriage from Salmon Records; Corvv. Gen. says 1755.) John Corwin m. II. Anna, dau. Fregift Wells (q. v. ch. XVII.), by whom he had no issue. " Jeremiah Wells was born February the 26 in the year 1736' " " He dide March 5th between break of Day and Sunrise in the year 1814." (Family Record.) Grave at Aquebogue.

I.

236
6. 7. 8.

DESCENDANTS OF JUSTICE JOSHUA.

Nathan, Mary,
Abel, Elizabeth, Pamela,
^-'-^^
'''^1

CH. XIV.

'''''*-5

9.

10.

'''-'

April 22, 1777. Oct. 8, i779b. Dec. 14, 1781, d. Aug. 21, 1799. b. Feb. 14, 1784, m. James Little, d. b. March 21, 1786.*
b.

b.

s.

p.

Mar. 27, 1827.

X, IsAAc/-^^ 6th son, b. Nov. lo, 1745, d. Oct. 20, 1784 ;t Signer for Congress, 1775, and on Census of 1776;:}: will

proved Nov. i, 1784,) names four children, under age, and brother Jeremiah ; m. c. 1766, Jemima who prob. survived him and m. II. Aquebogue, April
(Sept. 4,
1777, Thos. Skilman.
1.

all
,

i,

Children:

2. 3.

4.
5.

1767, prob. m. 1788, dau. James Reeve, d. s. p. m. Tuthill Reeve, Sheriff. b. 1770, d. 1788. m. Dan. Youngs (s. Rev. Daniel). Joanna, Mehetabel,"'-'"'^ b. c. 1772, m. Jerem. Youngs, (s. Jas. M.)b. 1769, d. 1832. Hannah, ^'-''' b. c. 1775, d. 1823, m. Calvin Cook, d. s. p.||
Isaac,
''''*

b. c.

Jemima,

^-'^^

b. c. 176S-9,

^'*''

XI.

Mehetabel,^-^'- 5th dau., b. Jan.

3,

6,

1749, prob.

m.

Nov.

1773,
s.

Barnabas Horton,
I.

James,

Jonathan
b.

sanna Bailey,)
1.

(s. of Barnabas (s. Dea. and Bethia Wells ^^) Horton and SuSouthold, March 7, 1745. Children:^

James Wells
Justice,

(Horton),^'''' b. Oct. 28,' 1774.

5 '"'

2.

b.

June

13. 1776.

DANIEL
I.

I. FIFTH

GENERATION.
II.^-^i

DANIEL

Daniel

III.,^-^^

eldest son of the

b, 1752, d.

Oct. 26, 1822

6,

1822,

proved June
c.

Hon. Daniel Wells,''-^^ on Census of 1776; will (June 11, ;f 1826) names his wife and seven child,

ren;** m.
* Dr. E.
f
I

1777,

Phoebe
Pa.

b. 1754, d.

Nov.

18,

i828.t

Grave

at

H. Wells, Meshoppen, Aquebogue.

Index of 1775.
Y. Wills,

N.
II

XXXVII.

402.

(g. e. s.)
(-)
s.

Rev. E. H. Wells.

Another Isaac

Sam.

I.

(eh.

XIII.

Nov. 1745, also m.

in the will,
s.

&

d early; w.

& ch. not

traced.

The name

p. 218) also b. " of " bro. Jeremiah

and subseq. mar. of Wid. Jemima (Aqueb. Rec.) prove tMs one
I.

to

be

of Daniel
1"

Horton Chronicles,

184.

Four others there given are prob. misplaced.

** Suffolk Wills, E. 217.

GEN.

V.

238

DESCENDANTS OF JUSTICE JOSHUA.

CH. XIV.
ch.

Fanning and Mehetabel (dau. Solomon) Wells^''^ see Child: b. 1751, d. 1826, a tanner and shoemaker.
Bartlett (Fanning),"-"' m. Eliza
,

XV.

and had James

N.^'^^^ (ch.

XIII.

p.

229)*

Patience,^- 4th dau b. c. 1764, d. 1815, m. Dea. James Terry, s. of Daniel Terry and Rachel Youngs.
VI.

Children
1.

Elijah,

(Terry),''-52
''"'''

2. 3.

James,

Huldah,
Jared,

'''"'

4.

"-"^f

MICAH.*-^^

II.

YouNGS/-^'^^:):

2d son of Micah
ll.,'-^""^)

I.,^-^-

(apparently twin;

brother with Micah

1778,

b.

1760, d. 1831

m. Aug.

30,

Anna
of
:

Corwin, (dau. of Jedediah Corwin and Abiah

Riverhead,) bapt.
Mattituck,

Sweezy
Children

Feb.

3,

1754.I

John, Micah,

1779, d. c. 1799, unm. 1781, d. c. 1803, unm. Richard,'--* b. c. 1783. Howell, ''^09 b. c. 1785. Anna, "-'" b. Aug. 30, 1787, d. April
*--"^

b. c.

^--' b. c.

Thomas
III.

16, 1862, Wells.s-^s

m. Jan.

16, iSii, (See ch. V. p. 66.)

Elisha,^-^"*^

3d son,
b.

b.

1767, d. July 28, 1848

m.

c.

1790,

Rhoda Tuthill,
'2"

1767, d.

Aug.

27, i844.

Child-

ren, (prob. order):

1.

Elisha,

2. 3.

Micah
Polly.

Tuthill,"-"''^
i^-^is '^^'^
'^i"

4.
5-

Rhoda,
Sally,

6.

Salem,

-2i6

24, 1796.! [XVI.) 29, 1852, unm.f 1797, d. May 23, 1865, m. Manly Downs.^-'*' (ch. b. c. 1799, m. John Conkling, I brothers * b. c. iSor, m. Rodney Conkling, J b. 1S03.
b. 1795, d.
b.

b.

1792, d.

May

Aug.

* J.
t X

H.

Petty.

Rev. E. H. Wells.
Called by mistake on
p. 66,

Ja7nes Youngs, 3d

s.

of

Micah.

^ Grave at Aquebogue. Corwin Genealogy, 13.

II

GEN.
IV.

V.

SAMUEL, SECOND SON.

Mary,^-^^ dau.,

239
s.
:

babel Hallock and Eunice Howell.

1.

m. Daniel Hallock, Children

of

Zerub-

2.
3.

4.

(Hallock), s-'^i' b. April 17S5, m. Isaiah Wells II.-"8 ^-^'^ m. Benjamin Howell (s. Richard). -2i Micah Wells, m. Puah B. Tuthill (dau. David). ^'-^ Ezra, m. Youngs.*

Mary

Huldah,

JEREMIAH.*-^*
I.

Caleb,^-^^^ eldest

son of Jeremiah,^"^*

b.

Riverhead, Feb.

1759; m. Aquebogue, April 11, 1782, Hannah Petty,! (dau. of Ezekiel Petty and Elizabeth Youngs of Southold,)
12,

and removed, with

his

younger brother Cleaves,

Children
:

to

Royal

Grants, Herkimer Co., N. Y.

I.

240

DESCENDANTS OF JUSTICE JOSHUA.

:

CH. XIV.

Children
Sons;
I.

George,-233

2.

Junius,
Sybil,

*'-^-*

Daus:

<''''

i.

2.

Esther. ^-^''*

IX.

ISRAEL,^-^''

7th son, b. April

4, 1775, d.

April

14,

1862

m. c. 1804, Charlotte Hedges, (dau. ot and Haiinah Hudson of Baiting Hollow,)

there Oct.
1.

Matthew Hedges
b.

B. H., 1779, d.

9, 1832.

Children,
^-^^ b.
^-^^^

all b. at

Baiting

Hollow:

2.

Eleanor, Alpheus' Harmon,

b. 1807, d.

3
4.
2.

Matthew
Marietta,

Hedges.^-^^s b_
^-^^^
--^'

b.
b.

Jeremiah,
Morris,

6
7.

Barnabas Horton,""-*^
Sophia Jane,

8.

b. ^"^^ b. -2 b.

1805, res. 1877, Brooklyn, unm. Savannah, Ga., 1830. igog. 1813. 1815, lost at sea, 1847. 1817. 1S20. 1823. m. David C. Wells.-ie3

XII.
25,

Seth
d.

Hallock,^-^^^ 9th son, youngest child, b.

i6-,

Nov.

1783,

Baiting Hollow, April

8,

1854; Farmer; m.

Wading
Tuthill

Phoebe Tuthill, (dau. David and Phoebe Bowers of Wading River,) b. SouthRiver, Nov.
181
5,

ampton, L. L,

d.

Baiting Hollow.

Children,

b. at

Baiting

Hollow :
1.

Nancy Jane,
David Tuthill,

^'^'*=

2.
3.

".246

Seth Goldsmith, 6-2^'

4, 1817, d. June 26, iSiS.f b. Oct. 13, i8i8, d. Nov. 1869, m. Eliza Petty, b. Aug. 27, i820.f

b.

May

s.

p.

NATHANIEL.'*"'^^
I.

Daniel,^-^^^ eldest son, b. Wallkill

(Middletown), Feb.

20, 1766, d.

New

York, Dec.

i8,

1806; wholesale
15

grocer in

South St., the " were origiBoth being 10 Front residence of both St." Daniel m. I. c. nal corporators of the Mahattan Co., 1798.:!; 1788, Julia Knapp,( dau. of John Knapp and Abigail Turton of Orange Co.) b. Nov. 1 1, 1768, d. New Windsor, N. Y., (of the yellow fever then prevailing in New York,) Aug.
York, with his brother Nathaniel, at
* Barnabas
f S.

New

H. Wells.e-M^ Goldsmith Wells.

of Original Stockholders of

X List

Manhattan

Co.,

N. Y., reprinted 1876.

GEN.

V.

DANIEL, THIRD SON.

241

23, 1799.

He
1829.

m.

Dr.

Thomas Wickham
6, Abigail, Gabriel,
^^'*
>-*'

April
t.

Abigail Wickham, (daii. of Goshen, N. Y.,) who d. Goshen, Children by ist marriage:
11.
c.

1801,

of

b.
b.

April 21, 1789,

d.

Newburgh, Mar.

21, 1853,

unm.

2. 3.

Nov.
April

12, 1791.
i,
5,

John Wickham,^-^"
Cynlhia,
Julia,
"''^i

b. b.
b.

4.
5.

March

1794. 1796.

"--"'^

May

14, 1799.

By
6. 7. 8.

2d marriage
Jane,

^--'^

b.

Ihomas Wickham,^-*"
Daniel,
"--^^

b.

April 10, 1S02, Feb. 12, 1S04.

d.

March

24,

1S54,
(C.

m. John Wallace.

b.

Maich

4,

1S06.

II.

Samuel,^-^^" 2d son, b.

May

2,

1768, d.
b.

N. Y.,

May

19,

1849;

- April
1830.

19, 1796,

Jan.
1.

6,

Children:

Lydia Wood,

July

20, 1778, d.

2.

3.

4.
5.

6.
7.

Elizabeth W.,^-^'' b. March 11, 1797, d. May 7, 1829, unm. Jerusha W., *-=' b. Feb. 26, 1799, d. Nov. 23, 1S46, unm. (ard, s. p. ''^^ h. March Parker W., 26, 1801, d. Oct. 11, 1S59, m. Christine Col^-=" Caroline B. b. July 23, 1803, res Jersey City, N. J unm. ^-^" Elmira, b. July 19, 1805, d. Dec. 12, 1864, unm. '-'' Albert S., b. July 26, 1809. -26i Gabriel J., b. July 18, 1811.
,

III.

Abigail,^-^^^ eldest dau., b.

Dec.

5,

1770, m.

Aug.

12,

1789,

Urian Hulse;
Sarah

res.

Indiana.
8,

Children:
8,

(Hulse), ''^''' b. June

^-'^ ^"^5

1790, d. Jan

1797.

Hannah,
Nathaniel W.,
4.
5.

b.
b.

Dec. 10, 1791.

June

14, 1794.

Jerusha,

^-^^ b.
'

Corwin,

-' b.

17^6. 1798.

IV.

Jerusha,^-^^^^
16,
:

2d dau.,

b.

Jan.

5,

1773, d.
d.

May
Dec.

9,
3,

1838;
1831.

m. June Children
1.

1811,

Edward
(Price),-2<5

Price,

who

Pamela W.
Nathaniel Wells,

b. b.

Feb
July

27,
i,

2.

-2'i

1S12, m. Feb. 1S35, J. Calvin Post, Vineland, N. J. 181 5, m. Miranda J. Wells.'-^'

V.

Nathaniel
in

grocer
1795,

3d son, b. Feb. 9, 1775; wholesale N. Y. with his brother Daniel, above m. I. c.

;

II. ,^-'^^

Cynthia Corwin,

(perh. gr. dau. of

David Corwin
13,

and Deborah Wells,

p. 52,) b. 1774, d.

Oct.

1824; m.

II.

242

DESCENDANTS OF JUSTICE JOSHUA.

CH. XIV.

Abigail Wickham, b. Sept. 12, 1777, d. Oct 18, 1845; m. III. Frances Belknap, who survived him, and m. II. at NewChild by ist marriage: Falls. burgh,
1.

Nathaniel Corwin/'-'"

b.

1795.

By
2.
3.

2d marriage
Cynthia,

'-'"

m.

Riker.

William Wickham,
Franklin.

"
'"3

4.

VI.

Nathan,^-^^" 4th son, b. April 22,

11,

1777, d.

MiddleChild-

town, March
b.

1842;* m. Nov.

9, 1799^

Sarah Coleman,
1845.

Aug.

22, 1777, d.

Meshoppen,

Pa., Oct. 22,

ren
^"^ Temperance, John Ledyard, ^'^^ '^" Arminda,
b. Sept. 30, 1800.
b.

Dec. 28, 1802.

b.

March

*-'^" b. Aug. Esther Jane, Abel Wickham,6-2 b. Oct. -2" b. Oct. Nathan, s-^^" b. Oct. Sarah Ann,

[1823, John Irwin. 1805, d. April 28, 1843, ^- Dec. 30, 2, 1808, m. Nov. 20, 1829, Jona. Purdy. 31, 1810. 15, 1815. 29, 1818.
24,

VII.

Mary,^-!^^ 3d dau., b. Oct. 8, 1779, d.

Dec.

5.

1847,

m. Jan. 15, 1803, Eli H. Corwin, (s. of Eli Corwin (eldest s. of David Corwin and Deborah Wells, p. 52) and Dorothy (dau. David, s. Barnabas III.) Horton,) b. Riverhead, April
3,

1779, d. Oct. 25, 1864.

1.

Children:
b.

Nathaniel Wells (Corwin, "^8'

Abel,
8-5S8-'S3

Dec. 29,
Dec.
7,

1803, d. Feb. 14,

1837, m. Jane E. Felton.

2. 3.

b.

1805, m. 1827,

Dorothy,

b.
b.

May
Jan

12, 1809, d.

Mary Poillon. March lO, 1846.

i8i2.-j-

4.

John Wickham,

^-^^^

31, 1811, d.

Dec. 29,

X.
town,
July

Pamela,^-^" 5th dau.,

b.

March,

22,

1786, d.

Middle-

May

15,
I.

1843;

^^- c.

1820,

JOHN BOAKE,

b. c. 1778, d.

21, 185

* He succeeded to his father's farm and homestead at Middletcwn, but afterwards exchanged them for a farm at Minisink, where some of his descendants still remain. In his later years, being disabled by palsy, he resided with his dau. Mrs. James Mills, at Middletown; and on his death, his widow found a home with

her son Dr. Nathan Wells of Meshoppen. (Dr. E. H. Wells.) f See Corwin Genealogy, 2, 172, for ch. of N. W. and A. Corwin.

GEN.

V.

DANIEL, THIRD SON.

:

243

Children
1.

Robert
Mar)' E.,
Letilia,

(Boake),-'^^^5

2.

b. Sept. 22, 1821, d. March 17, 1853. [N. Y. s.m b_ Yeh. 24, 1S23, m. John Palmer, Otisville,
-2S7 6.388

3.

b.
^^

4.

Pamela Ann,

Qct. 13, 1830, d. Feb.

4.

1855.

DANIEL L SIXTH GENERATION.

DANIEL
I.
11.^-^^

DANIEL

III.^"^*'

Daniel
4,

IV.,^-^^^

eldest son of Daniel

c,

III.,^-^^ b.

1778, d.

June

1827;* "carpenter;" m.

1802,

Deborah Terry,
b.

(dau. of Dea.
1779, d.

Henry Terry and Abigail Youngs,)

19,

May,

Dec.

1858.*
'-"^s

Children (prob. order):

1803. 1805. John Memucan,'-'" b. iSoS. '^^'^ Abigail, b. 1809-10, m. Na'han Reeve. Deborah Ann, '-" b. 1811, d. 1871, m. Geo. O. Luce. ''"'>" h. 1813. Joseph, ''^*" Huldah, m. Nathan Williamson (s, Joseph).
b.

Daniel V.

Jesse,

'-236

b.

II.
I.

Christopher,*^-^^^ 2d son, b. 1779, d, Jan. 4, 1825 ;* m.

(dau. of Zechariah Hallock
d.

Fanny Hallock,
b. 1779,

nah Owen,)

Jan. 18, 1804;* m.

II.

1804,
b.

and HanSusan1778, d.

nah Howell,
Oct. 31, 1847.*
1.

(dau. of

Matthew and Phoebe,)

ist

Children by
b.
c.

marriage:
(p. 222.)

Fanny,

'--^"^

1800,

m. Dan Y. Downs. ''''=

2.

Phoebe.'-303

By
3.

2d marriage
Fanny,

'-so*
'-Sf's 's'"'

b.
b.

1805, d. Sept. 12, 1808.*

4.
5.

HermonW.,
Matthew
Philip,

Feb. 28, 1807.

6.
7.

Susannah, b. Jan. 22, ]8i4, d. May 7, 1815.* Christopher Austin, '-t"' b. I815, d. Jan. 8, 1825 *
'-at'S

5_

April 20, 181

1.

III.

Joshua,*'-^^^

3d son,

b. 1786, d.

Jan. 1866; m.
b.

Debod.

rah Youngs,
1872.
* Grave at

(dau. of

Rufus and Mehetabel,)

1797,

Aquebogue.

244

DESCENDANTS OF JUSTICE JOSHUA.

:

CH. XIV.

Children
1.

2
2,

4.
5. 6.
7.

8.

9.

10. ir.
12.

Sept. 24, 1814, d. March 6, 1817,* i8ig, m. V. R Benjamin (s. David). '-3" b. 1821, d. Jan. 22, 1822.* -, Joshua Minor,'-^'^ b. June 22, 1823. '-si^i b. Oct. 20, d. Nov. S, 1S25.* Phoebe Jane, '"'* b. 1830. '''= b. 1835, d. Dec. 25, 1844.* Anna, '''' b. 1837, d. 1S60. Maria, '^" b. 1847. Mary E.. ''"* b. 1850. Julia Frances, '-sis b. 1856, d. i860. David, '-'^o b. 1858, d. i860. John,
Tolly,
''^^

b.

Mary,

''^"*

b.

IV.

Phoebe,''-^^ eldest dau.,

m. Daniel Tuthill.

Child-

ren

1.

2.

Joanna John M.

(Tuthill),''-^-'
'^'^-

b. b.

1809, d. 1872, m. James Y. Downs.'^-'' 1810, d. Jan. 27, 1S49, - Joanna Wells. '-^^

DANIEL
I.

11.^-^^

ISAIAH.^-^^
I.,

Isaiah
1779,
d.

II. j*^-'^^

("Dea.") eldest son of Isaiah

b.

Sept,

18,

Jan. 29, 1852;*

m.

Mary

Hallock,^-^'^ (dau.

Daniel Hallock and

Mary

(dau. Micah) Wells,'-'^) b. April,

1785, d. Oct. 13, 1856.*

1.

Children:

Laura,

''^^

2.
3.

Beulah Mary,

C.''-^^^
'-'^s ''^^^

4.

Arietta,

b. Nov. 9, 1801, d. March 15, 1802.* m. Oliver Albertson. m. John Tuthill Wells. '-^s^ h. Dec. 23, d. Dec. 26, 1810.*

11.

Elijah,*'-^^^

2d son,

b.

Aug.

31, 1785, d.

Oct.

17,

1866;*
29,

m.

c.

1788,

1807, Joanna Wells,^-^^ (dau. of David,^-*^) b. Feb. d. March 24, 1875.* Children (prob. order)
:

Orletta,

''"
'-^^^
'-329

b. 1808, d. Oct. 22, 1839,

h. c.

unm.

Memucan,
Joanna, Lemuel,

'-^so

Rosanna W., ''

Mary,
Isaiah,
''332

'-333
'-s'-i

Lavinia,

181 [. b. 1814, d. Jan. 25, 1864, m. J. M. Tuthill. '-^^^ b. Nov. 12, 1817, d. Jan. 5, 1845.* b. 1822. b. c. 1827, d. Oct. 5, 1845, m. Aug. Terry. b. Aug. 4, 1829, d. Feb. 13, 1838.* b. April 16, 1833, m. James Wells."-'" (p. 226.)

III.

Mary,*'-'^"

only

dau.,

m. Benjamin

Glover,

car-

penter.
* Grave at Aquebogue.

GEN.

VI.

DANIEL, THIRD SON.

:

245

Children

Harriet

(Glover),''-335
'^^*

Benjamin, David,
Frederick, Daniel,

m. James Glover, has I son, m. Rebecca ch. , 4

daughter.

'-33' '-^^^
'-^^^
''^'"'

Thomas,
Elizabeth,

'-^-n

Conkling,
Charles, Erastus,

'-2^'--^^^

m. Rebecca

2 sons, i

dau.

^-3"
'-345

Maria.

MICAH.^-^2
III.

YOUNGS.^-^"^

RiCHARD,'^-2^ 3d son of

Youngs, m. and had child-

ren

1.

2. 3.

John, Micah,

'-s^
''^*s

Richard L.'-3^s*

MICAH.^-^^

ELISHA.'-'"^

V.

Salem,^--^^
;

3d son and young-est child of Elisha,

Terry,^-^'^'^

b.

1803, d. 1871

m. Maria
(p.

dau. of
:

Daniel Terry

and Abigail Wells,

1.

225)

Children

Elisha,

2. 3.

'-330 b. 1825. Emmeline,'-35i m. Jehiel Raynor. Eliza T., '-^o^yg js^ 1S39.*
]-,_

JEREMIAH
III.

l.^-^^

JEREMIAH

ll.^'^^^

Jeremiah

III.,^-^^^

2d son of Jeremiah

II.,

b.

River-

head,
1

8 14,

May 20, 1792, res. 1877, Brooklyn, N. Y.; m. Brooklyn, Mary Stryker, (dau. of Burdett Strykerand Hannah
of L.
:

Walters

I.,)

b.

L. L,

Aug.

27, 1794.

Children,

all b. in

Brooklyn

Jeremiah IV.,

'-^ss

b. Sept. 1815.

July 1818. V d. inf. Burdett Stryker,'-355 b. Feb. 1S51. ) Harriet Stryker, '"^^e b. Aug. 8, 1822, m. M. P. Whitlock of Brooklyn. '-^s" Mary, b. May 1825, ) e '^- '"'f '--^s Hephzibah, b. July 1S28, >
,
,

Hannah Ann,

''" b.

* Rev. E.
t

H. Wells, M. W. Whitlock.

246

DESCENDANTS OF JUSTICE JOSHUA.

JEREMIAH
I.*-^-'

CH. XIV.

ABEL.^-^2^
:

I.

George,*^-^^^ eldest
:

son of Abel, m. and had children

Sons

I.

2.
3.
I.

George, Jonathan,
Cornelia,

'-^^^

'^

unm. unm.
m., res. Brooklyn.

Marshfield,'-^^' dec.
'-362

Dau.

JEREMIAH
III.

I."-^''

ISRAEL.*-^^^

Matthew
1809,

Hedges,^-^^^ 2d son of Israel, b. Baiting

1877,

Hollow,

res.
:

California;

m. N.

Y.,

Hannah

Watts.
I.

Child

Esther, '"''^ b.

New

York.

IV.

Marietta,*^-2^
b.

2d dau.,
Children
:

b.

1813,

m, N. Y., Charles

Hodgetts,
1.

Eng.

2. 3.

David (Hodgetts), 5" d. Brooklyn, 1859. '^'^^ Charlotte, '-'^''^ Sarah.

Horton,*^-^^^ 4th son, b. 1817 res. Baiting River, 1845, Eliza Ann Reeve, (dau. Wading m. Hollow; Childof Peter and Elizabeth of W. R.,) b. W. R., 1822.

VI.

Barnabas

ren

1.

2.

Charlotte Elizabeth, '^^ b. 1846. '-^ss Charles Hedges, b. 1857.

VII.
1875
;

Morris,''-'^' 5th

son, b. 1820, d.

m.

c.

1848,

Mary Hawkins,
June

Brookhaven, L. I., (dau. of Selah of Brook-

haven,) res. 1877, Brookhaven.

I.

Child;
18, 1866.*

Harmon, '-sw'

b. Oct. 1849, d.

JEREMIAH."*-^*
III.

SETH.^-^^^

Seth

Goldsmith,''-^^^

2d son of Seth

H.,^-^^* b.

Baiting Hollow, Aug. 27, 1820, res. 1877, Baiting Hollow;

Farmer; m. Jan.

20, 1848,

Phila Corwin.

* Barnabas H. Wells.^-^-'*

GEN. VI.

DANIEL, THIRD SON.

:

247

Children
J.

2. 3.

'-3'" b. Oct. 22, 1851. Charles E., Ernest Everetti'-^" b. Nov. 13, 1S54, Frederick S., '3'- b. May 15, 1859,

d. d.

Dec. Dec.

3,
i,

4.
5.

Lillie E.. Sarah E.,

'-^'s

b.

'-3" b.
'-'"s

6.

Ellen E.,

4, 1865, d. Oct. 28, 1871. b. Dec. 11, 1873.*

Nov.

March

1864. 1864. 4, 1875.

NATHANIEL.*-^^
II.

DANIEL.^'^^^
Daniel,^-^^ b.

Gabriel,^-^"*^ eldest
12, 1791, d.

son of

New

York,

March 5, 1852; Merchant at Middletown, 1819-32, then removed to a farm in Michigan served in the war of 1812 m. Middletown, Jan. 12, 18 15, Maria Wisner, (dau. of Henry B. and Ruth,) b. Aug. 2, 1797, d. March 6,
Nov.
; ;

1852.

Children:
Henry
Wisner.'-^'^ b. Jan. 14, 1822. ''3" b. Feb. 11, 1S25, d. '-^'s b. May 8, 1828.
'-"9 b.
'3''''

Jane, Daniel, Harriet Eliza, Sarah Maria,

Julia,

Big Rapids, Mich.,

May 29,

1876.

Oct. 29, 1830.

'-381

April 15, 1834. b. Feb. 4, 1837, d. Feb. 20, 1858.

b.

Mary,

'-ss^

b.

March

16, 1840.

III.
kill,

John

Wickham,*'-^^'^
;

2d son,

b.

April

i,

1794, d. Fish-

Merchant at Middletown; m. I. Aug. 9, 1820, Mary Ann Eldridge, who d. Oct. 12, 1823; m. 11. March 9, 1831, Maria Carpenter. Children:
N.
v., Jan. 20, 1871

Mary Ann, John Henry, Nehemiah

Francis Brewster,

'-^^^ ''^^*

b. b.

May
Aug.

31, 1821.
29, 1832.

Denton,''-^'*^ b.
'-^^^ '-^^^ '-^^s

Jacob Carpenter,
Julia Maria,

July 21, 1835. b. Aug. 28, 1837. b. Dec. 31, 1839.

b. Sept. 6, 1842.

IV.
d.

Cynthia,*'-^^^

2d dau.,
;

b.

Middletown, March

5,

1796,

Newburgh, Dec. 24, 1867 m. May 7, Corwin, (6th s. of Eli Corwin^-^^ (p. 52) and Dorothy HorScotchtown, N. Y., July holder in Orange Co. from 1820.
*
S.

18 17, John Howell

ton,) b.

17, 1793,

Uving 1872; land-

Goldsmith Wells.-2

248

DESCENDANTS OF JUSTICE JOSHUA.

:

CH. XIV.

Children
1

Elizabeth Wells (Corwin),'-*^ b. Feb. 28, 1818. '-"^^ b. July 31, 1820, Enoch Bouton,

Daniel Wells
4
Eli

'

'-^^ b. ''"' b.
'''''

I
6.
7.

John,
Isaac Little,

b.

Howard,
Albert.

'''' b. '''' b.
'^"^

8
9.

b.

Edward Payson,
JuLiA,''-==-'2 .^1 (j^^y^^

'=" b.
|3_

d. Nov. 16, 183S. Oct. 10, 1822, d. Oct. 18, 1826. Oct. 30, 1824. Aug 4, 1826. Feb. 3. 1829. July 28, 1831. March 4, 1835, d. March 4, 1837. June 27, 1838.

N. Y., May 14, 1799, d. Dec. 6, E. and 1873; m. May 7, 18 17, GEORGE Hill, (s. of Hilton Children: March d. 1839. July 21, 3, b. 1792, Esther,)
V.
(Hill),'-ss Evelinda '-^"^ Daniel Wells, '4"<* Abigail Malvina, '-^"^ Harriet Maria, '^''^ George Washington,

b. Jan. 29, 1818. b. March 14, r820, d.

Dec.

3,

1847.

Julia Ellen,

'-^^

Feb. 24, 1826. b. April 11, 1829. b. Feb. 13, 1832. b. July 23, [836.
b.

VII.

Thomas

Wickham,^--^^ 3d son,
ni.

b.

Feb.

12, 1804, d.

Marshall, Mich., Feb. 21, 1845;

N. Y., Jan.

31, 1826,

Mary

Ann

Steele, dau,

of

Wm.
b.
b.

Steele,

who

survived him, and

res. 1877,

Marshall, Mich.

Children:
May
Nov. 30, 1830,
19, 1828, d. y. d. y.

'-^o^ Anna Steele, Thomas Wickham.'-'*'''^

Sarah Eleanor,
Eliza Byron,

''^'"'

b.
b.

Thomas Wickham, '*'"

'*''^
'''''

Dec. 30, 1832. April 17, 1834.

b.

June

9,

1837.

William Steele,

b. Sept. 25,

1840.*

VIII.

Daniel

II.,''--^^

(Rev.)
Prairie

York, March
educ. at
1837;

4, 1806, d.

youngest child, du Lac, Wis., Aug.

b.

New

29, 1873;

Goshen Academy and Princeton, A. B. 1834, A. M. Hcensed by N. Y. Presbytery, April 16, 1837; in 1839

appointed Prof, of Biblical Criticism and Oriental Literature in Indiana Theol. Sem., but declined, serving as Assist-

ant Secretary and Acting Treasurer of the Presbyterian

Board

of

Foreign Missions
"

failing health,

till 1848, when on account of he resigned and removed to Goshen, thence

to Wisconsin.

He was

a great and patient sufferer.

Wells.'-^so

He

* Dr. Elmore H. Wells.'-"'

Miss Sarah M.

GEN.

VI.

DANIEL, THIRD SON.

life

249

could only preach occasionally, but his whole

was a

sermon.

When

he spoke,

it

was with the

lip,

spirit of a

man
in-

true to his Master.

The quivering

the earnest voice,

the glistening eye, told of the heart's desire for the best
terests ol his hearers,

and the honour of the Saviour." He m. June 11, 1838, Elizabeth S. Hamilton, (dau. of George W. Hamilton and Maria Hart of Princeton,) b. Princeton, May 7, 18 17, who survives him, res. Waverly, N. Y. Children:
1.

Jane

E.,

''""
''^^

b. b.

2. 3.

Henry Martyn,
Frances Hamilton,

'-"^ b.
i,_

4.
5.

6.

'-^i^ Daniel, Caroline Hamilton,'-'*'-* '-^'^ Harriet Bradner,

b.

b.

Brooklyn, Aug. 7, 1841. Brooklyn, Dec. 27, 1843, d. Jan. 7, 1845. Brooklyn, June 16, d. Oct. 7, 1847. Brooklyn. Nov. 9. 1848, d. Oct. 4, 1874. Goshen, Aug. 30, 1852, d. May 4, 1866. Goshen, Sept. 13, 1855.*

NATHANIEL.'*-^''

SAMUEL.^-^^"^

VII.
uel,^-'^*^

Gabriel
b.

,"-262

J.

^d son and youngest child of SamJan. 17, 1876; m.

:

July

i8, 1811, d.

March

29, 1846,

Phoebe Palmer.
1.

Children
b. b.

Stephen

L.,'-'""
''1"

June

5,

1847, d. April

7,

1849.

2.

Virgil E.,

April 29, 1848.

Helen

Y.,

''^^^

b.

May

17, d.

May

20, iSsi.f

NATHANIEL,'*-'^'^
I.

NATHANIEL
s.

II.^"'^^

Nathaniel
1831
;

Corwin,'^-"'^ eldest

of Nathaniel

H,^-^^^

b. 1795, d.

m. Patience Clark, (dau. of Vincent and

Grier,

Hannah,) who survived him and m. II. the Rev. and III. the Rev. Clark. Children:
I

2.

William Henry,'-'3 ' John Clark,

NATHANIEL.^-^^
I.

NATHAN.^-*^
b.

Temperance,*'-^^* eldest dau. of Nathan,^-""

30, 1800,

Middleof

town, Sept.
*

m.

May

2,

18 18,

James Mills,

Mid-

From

the Family of the Rev. Daniel Wells.

^^'^*

fDr. E. H. Wells. '-^^ ifCorwin Genealogy, 172.

Dr. E.

H. Wells.

250
dletown,

DESCENDANTS OF JUSTICE JOSHUA.

(s.
:

CH. XIV.
10,

of

Peter and

Deborah,)

b.

April

1795.

Children
(

I.

Jan. 23, 18 19, m. TloUovvay W. Stephens. Jan. 23, 1819, d. Nov. i, 1822. Nov. 22, 1820, Merch., New Hampton; m. [Claris.sa Treat. March 27, 1822. Feb. 3, 1824, d. Aug. 28, 1827. Sept. 15, 1826, d. Aug. 23, 1827. July 27, 1828, d. Oct. 16, 1838.
1829, d. June 22, 1836. [Mary T. Durlin. 1831. March 27, 1833, farmer, Middletown; m. Oct. 14, 1835, carpenter, Wawayanda, N.

Aug.

5,

Sept.

5,

[Y., unmarried.

May

16, 1837, farmer,

unm.

Jan. 16, 1839, m. M. T. Crawford. Aug. 26, 1840, m. John H. Crawford. Oct. 27, 1842, d. Oct. II. 1843.

GEN.
VI.
1

VI.

DANIEL, THIRD SON.

II.
,"-'*

25

Middletown, Oct. 15, 18 5; a pupil in medicine of Dr. Bush, of Orange Co., and Dr. Geo. F. Horton, of Terrytown, Pa.; M. D. Geneva, 1839; practised a year with Dr. Horton, but on his marriage in 841, removed to Brantrim, Wyoming Co., and thence in 1842 to Meshoppen, where he has been in full practice for thirty-five years. He found there a new country, few buildall his early journeys were on horseback. ings, no roads, The building of a canal soon brought population and patients, but for a long time his life was one of hard work without much remuneration. He was, with his wife, among the founders of the Presbyterian Church of Meshoppen, in
3d
son,
b.
1

Nathan

1850;

was

five

years Associate Judge of

estates,

Wyoming
is

Co.; has

been executor of several large

general integrity and ability.
15,
1

and

esteemed for

charitable offices and kindness to the poor, as well as for

He

841,

Mary Horton,

(dau. of

m. Terrytown, Pa., June John Horton and Nancy

of

and Lydia Gilbert) Miller, Terrytown, Nov. 19, 18 18. Children:

(dau. John,
1. 2.

Terrytown,)

b.

Elmore

Horton,'-*^' b. April ig, 1842.

3. 4.

Lydia Louisa, Mary Helen,

Nancy

Nov. 23, 1845. Oct. 31, 1850. Amanda,'-''*' b. Jan. 21, 1853.
b. b.
''^^^

''^^^

VII. Sarah Ann,*^-^^*^ 4th dau., M'Cutcheon, of Waverly, N. Y.

1.

b.

Oct. 29, 18 18, m.

John

Children:
Nov. 184S, m. Dec. 27, 1S76, James Aug. 1851. [Kooney, Athens, Pa.
April, 1854. Sept. 1S57. *

Mary

Emma

(M'Cutcheon), '*"
''^^'^ '''^^
'^''^

b. b. b.

2.
3.

Charles Nathan, Temperance Jane,

4.

John Edward,

b.

DANIEL
DANIEL
I.

I. SEVENTH

GENERATION.
DANIEL
IV.^-i^i

11.*-^^

DANIEL

III.^*^^

Daniel

V.,^-^^^

eldest son of Daniel

IV.,^-^^' b.

1803;

m.

Ann Corwin,
Sweezy,)

(dau. of the Rev. Joseph

Corwin and Mary

b. c. 1804, d. 1864.

* Dr. E. 11. Wells

252

DESCENDANTS OF JUSTICE JOSHUA.

:

CH. XIV.

Children
1.

Elma(or Eleanor?)
Electa Sarah T

A., 8-34" b.
"""'^

2
2.

M
,"
P.,

''''

1831. Sept. 1832, m. Tuthill. m.

b.

Nathan Foster.

4.

Joseph

^-^^ res.

Patchogue.

II.

Jesse/'-^*'

2d son,
b.

b.

1805,

m.
I s

Mabel
,

Child-

ren

I.
2".

Henty T..^-^^ John M. -3

Albert,
^-^^^

b. h.

3.

1837, d. 1864 1S39. 1S40, d. 1S61.

m.

Henry

Theodore,-26^ b. 1S64.

III.
II.

m. Children
1.

John Memucan,^-^^^ 3d son, b. Catharine Van Dyke; m.

:

1808,
III.

m. I. Martha Deborah BiiOWN.

;

John H.,
Robert,

8..347 ^^"'^

b
b.

2. 3.

1833. 1841.

Rebecca

M.,^-^^^

m. Hibbert Lane.

VI.

JosEPH,^-^^'"'

4th son,

b. 181 3,

m. Aug.

13, 1838,

Eliza-

beth Jane Benjamin,

1.

b. 1816.

Children:

2.

Oliver Elizabeth Jane,

,

8.350

3.

Hannah A
Mary,

b. ^^^- h.
^-^"^

^-51

jggg^ j. 1841. 1S41, m. Robert Wells.^-s^s

4.
5.

b. b. b.

Harma

Frances,

^^^'
^-^^^
'^^'^

6.
7.

George Henry,

8.

b. Rosetta Frances, S-^s' b. Franklin B.

1844. 1847. 1850, d. 1851. 1852. 1855. 1S60.

III.^-^^

DANIEL
IV.

11.'^^'

DANIEL

CHRISTOPHER."-^^^

Hermon

W.,^-'-^

eldest son of Christopher,''-^^^^ b. Feb.

28, 1807, d.

Oct. 27, 1864;* m.

Charity

Youngs,''-^^''

dau. of

Luther Youngs and Abigail

Sons:

Wells,^'^^ p. 222.

Children:

I.

2. 3.

Dau.

b. April, 1S35 d. Aug. 23, 1863,* Law[yer; m Frances Wells, ^^' p. 228. Christopher Franklin,^-^^^ m. Martha Youngs (dau. Dea. Nicoll). ^-^^o Warren, m. Jane Hallock (dau D. W. and Fanny). ,*'^'" m. John Jay Wells, ^2-' (s. Alden,) p, 230.

Horace H.,

^-^^^

VII.

Matthew

Philip,^-^"^

3d son,
of

b.

April

20, 1818;

m.

Jan. 24, 1842,

Eliza Cooper, dau.

Zophar Cooper and

Anna

Hallock.
Aquebogue.

* Grave at

GEN.

VII.

DANIEL, THIRD SON.

:

253

Children

Susan Howell,

^-^^^

Albert Herbert/-^^-* -3" Oliver C,

Mary

A.,
,

^-^^^

8.366

Sept. 20, 1842. Feb. 184-, d. June 13, 1847. b. Feb. 11, 184S. b. June 16, r8co, m. 1868, Capt. I, Jan. 6, 1857, d. inf.
b.
b.

[Jamesport.

Simeon Hawkins,

DANIEL
IV.
1823;

II."*'^^

DANIEL

III.^"^

JOSHUA.^'^^

Joshua
ra.

Minor,^-^^^ eldest son of Joshua,*^-^^^ b. Jan. 22,

31,

Dec.

1843,

Elizabeth H. Youngs, dau.

:

of

John and Maria.

I.

Children

254
III.

DESCENDANTS OF JUSTICE JOSHUA.

b.

CH. XIV.

Eliza T./-'^- 2d dau., TUTHILL. Children

:

Aug.

i8,

1839,

m.

Samuel

1.

2. 3.

Samuel Terry (Tuthill)/^-^^^ -^*'^ Emerson Sherwood,

Elsie,
'^''

b. b.
b.

Nov. Nov.

May

1869, d. Sept. 14, 1870. 1871. d. Aug. 19, 1S75. 22,

29,
8,

NATHANIEL.^-^"
I.

DANIEL.^'^^^

GABRIEL.^'^^^

Henry

Wisner,""'' eldest son of

14, 1822, d.

Gabriel,*'-^^^ b.

Mid-

dletown, Jan.

Evelina Barkley,
1822,

6, 1852; m. Feb. 26, 1846, Robert and Amy,) b. Jan. 17, who survived him and m. II. F. B. Van Patten.

April

(dau. of

Children
1.

2.

Agnes Maria, ^-^^^ John Wisner,'^-^^^

b. b.

Aug. 26, 1848.

Sept.
8,

1850.

III.
I.

Daniel/-^'^ 2d son, b. Middletown,

Ypsilanti, Mich., Dec. 22, 1863,

b.

May 8, 1828; m. Mahala Ingram, (dau. of

Nov.
July
6,

Davis,)

Feb.

14, 1835, d.

Jonesville, Mich.,
1875,

1870;
(dau.
1836.

m.
of

II.

Jonesville, Jan.

22,

Mary

E.

Knowles,
b.
12,

William Knowles and

ist

Olive Davis,)
:

Children by
1.

marriage
b.

2.

George Henry, ^-^S" Frank Carpenter, ^-^'^

April 17, 1S65.

b.

March

14,

1869

V.

Sarah

Maria,"*'^ 3d dau., b. Mich., April

15,

1834,

res. 1877,

Fisk University, Nashville, Tenn.; in 1864 in U. S.

Service, in the care of soldiers in Clay Hospital, Louisville,

Ky.; since 1865 a Teacher among the freedmen, under the American Missionary Association.*

The two other surviving daughters of Gabriel Wells, Harriet Eliza and Mary,^-^^^ ^^^-g ^igo Teachers.
'=^'''

To

her industry in collecting Family Records

am

indebted for a great part

of this account of the descendants of Nathaniel. *=''

GEN.

VII.

DANIEL, THIRD SON.

NATHANIEL/'^"
DANIEL.-^^'^

255
w."'^^"

JOHN
John

I.

Mary
31,
1

Ann/-^^'^ eldest

dau.

of

Wickham,'^-^^^^ b.
s,

May
1.

82 1, m. Feb. 23,

1841,

John H. Milspaugh,
:

of

Samuel and Dorothy.

Children
b.

Samuel Wells (Milspaugh), '^"^-

Dec.

3,

1841, m.

Amelia Wells (dau.

2.

Mary

Lutetia,

^-^^^ ^-^^^

b.
b.

3.

Julia Denton,
,^-^^*

Rev. J. O.) Oct. 23, 1843, m. i86g, Mortimer B. [Anston. Sept 26, 1856, m.

II.

19,

John Henry eldest s., b. Aug. 29, Lee Ann Blackburn. Children: 1853,
Henry Blackburn, s-^^^
Florence, Ann Elizabeth, Artemisia,
^.396

1832; m. April

b.
i,

s-^" b.
^-^^^
s-39

Martha
III.

Julia,

1854. 1856. Jan. 28, 1858. b. Jan. 20, i860. b. Dec. 27, 1865.
2,

Feb.

March

9,

Nehemiah
27,
:

Denton,"-^^''^

2d

s.,

b.

July

21,

1835,

d.

May
1.

1864;

m. June

28,

1861,

Cassandra

P.

Smith.

Children

2.

Denton Wickham.^*" S-'*'" Martha Maria,

b.
b.

Aug.

2, 1862, d. April lo, 1868. Oct. 14, 1S65.

Francis Brewster,''-^^'' 3d Katie A. Breth. Children

IV.
:

s.,

b.

Aug.

28, 1837,

m.

1. 2.

Jacob Carpenter, ^''"William Wickham,s-403

Caroline Ely,
Francis,
*-'"^*

b.
b.

3.

4.

^-^^^

11, 1864, d. March 19, 1872. b. Jan. 5, 1867, d, March 24, 1872. b. May i, 1869, d. April i, 1872.

June Aug.

25, d. July 5, 1863.

NATHANIEL.^-^"
I.

DANIEL.^-^^^

CYNTHIA.*^-^^

Elizabeth Wells (Corwin)/-^^^ eldest dau. of John H. Corwin and Cynthia Wells,-2^^ b. Feb. 28, 1818; m. Jan. res. Eliza21, 1847, Merville Saunders, b. April 22, 1805
;

beth, N.
I.

J.

Child :
b.

William Merville (Saunders), ""

Jan. 28, 1848,

d.

Dec.

17, 1856.

IV.

Eli (Corwin,)'-^^- 3d son,

b. Wallkill,

Oct.

30,

1824;
;

A.

B.,

Williams, 1848, grad. Union Theol. Sem., N. Y., 1851

256

DESCENDANTS OF JUSTICE JOSHUA.

CH. XIV,

Chaplain and

Pastor (Congregational) at San Francisco,

San Jose, and Oakland, Cal, and Honolulu, Sand. Islands Teacher in Mills Seminary, Brooklyn, Cal. Sec. State Ag;

ricultural Society; m. July

16,

185

1,

Henrietta Sophia
Children:

Howell,

b.

Newburgh, N.
(Corwin),^-"' b.
8.4us

Y., Feb. 4, 1830.

San Jose, July
"

John Howard
Cynthia Sophia,
Charles Abel,
Cecil Sherman,

5, 1S52. Oct. 13, 1854. **"" b. Newburgh, Jan. 6. 1857. ^"" b. Honolulu, Feb. 26, i860.

Arthur Mills, Walter Bartlett,

8.4ii

b.

" "

s.-ns ^-^'^

b.
b.

March March

24, 1S64. 24, 1867, d.

May

24, 1870.

Mary Margarita,

Oakland,

May

24, 1870.

V.

John (Cor win)

;

,^-^^^

4th son,

burgh
Oct.
1.

m. Dec.
1827.

24,

1850,

b. Aug. 4, 1826, res. NewHarriet Elizabeth Finch, b.

8,

Children:

2.
3.

4.
\

5.

Henrietta Elizabeth (Corwin),^-^'^ b. Oct. 15, 1852. =**"* b. March 15, 1854. Finch, ^-^'^ b. Oct. 28, 1856. Harriet Augusta, ^"'' b. Feb. 22, 1859. Mary Frances, ^.iis ^ ^^^^^ 29, 1863, d. Nov. 13, 1864. Sarah Wells,

Emma

} 6.

Jessie,

^-'^'^

b.

Sept. 29, d. Nov. 6, 1863.

VI.

Isaac Little (Corwin),^-^"^ 5th son,

5,

b.

Feb.

3,

1829;

m. Sept.
1836.

1854,

Margaret Jameson Marquis,

b.

b. Jan. 28,

Children:
David Jamison (CorwinX^-^^" ^**' Jane Elizabeth, "-i^^ John James.
Margaret Ross,
^'''^

July 19, 1855, m. 1877, Ida White.

b. b. b.
b.

Nov.

2,

1858.
1.

March
Aug.

28, 186

24, 1864.
ii, 1866.

Annie M.,

8.494

May

VII.
Jan. 12,

Howard (Corwin),^-^**^ 6th son, b. 1853, Emma C. Conger, b. March

(Corwin),*-'*^^ b.
8-*-'

July 28, 1831 m. Child21, 1832.

;

ren

1.

Andrew King Chandler

Robert Walsh,

2. 3.

Elmer Ellsworth.
Ida,

^*^''

4.

8-428

Sept. 26, 1855. March 13, 1857. b. July 7, 1861, d. Jan. 12, 1862. b. Nov. 16, 1863.
b.

IX.
child, b.
b.

Edward Payson
June
27,
9, 1838.

(Corwin),'-^^' 8th
i,

s.

and youngest
F. Frisbie,

1838; m. Jan.

i860,

Mary

Nov.

GEN.

VII.

DANIEL, THIRD SON.

:

257

Children
1.

2.
3.

Charles Edward (Corwin),8-9 b. July 4, 1861. ^-^^u Mary Louise, b. Jan. 28, 1865. ^-^^i Frank Rogers, b. Sept. 10, 1874 *

NATHANIEL.^-^"
I.

DANIEL.^-^^^

JULIA.''-^^-

EvELiNDA
Wells,''--^- b.

(HiLL,)^-'^^^

eldest dau. of

George
1841,

Hill and

Julia

Jan. 29, 1818, m.

s.

May
Jane.

22,

Stephen
:

Decatur Bross,
1.

of

Moses and
*-*^^

Children

Julia Helen

(Bross),8-432

2.

Stephen Decatur,

V.

George Washington
Children
Ella,
:

(Hill),^-^''2,

2d son,

b.

Feb.

13,

1832, d. April 17, 1873;

m. Dec.

1863,

Mary Caroline

TUTHILL.
I;

George Wallace

(Hill),^'*^-'
8.435

b.

June

12, 1S65.

2.

Mary

b.

May

20, 1S67.

NATHANIEL.*-^''
III.

DANIEL.^-'^^

THOMAS

W.*^"^^

Sara
of

Eleanor,^-^"*^

2d dau. of

Thomas
1855,

W.,^'--^* b.

Dec.
C.

30, 1832;

m. Marshall, Mich., Sept.

12,

Chauncey

WiNANS,
1.

Brooklyn.

Children :

Roland M.

2.

Graham

E.,

(Winans),^-'*'^^ b. ' b.
8.433

New

3.

4.
5.

6.
7.

Mary, Effie Kempshall, Eleanor Hope, Robert Fleming,

b.
b.

^.m
8.44o
'^'""

b.
b. b.
b.

York, " " " "

Sept. 25, 1856.

May

28,

[858.

March March

26, i860, d. Oct. 1861.

26, 1863.

Dec. 21, iS6i.

Theodore Sheldon,
Bessie Flint,

s.442

8.

'^^-

Chicago, July, 1864. New York, May, 1S67. " iS72.f

IV.

Thomas

Wickham,^-*"^ 2d son,

b.

N.

Y.,

April

17,

1834, res. Marshall, Mich., U. S.

Express Co's Service; m.

Parma, Mich., April, 1876, Emma Jane Parmalee, (dau. of Anson Parmalee and Cynthia Sturdevant,) b. Eaton, O.,
Dec.
I.

10, 1843.
Mary,'^--*'"

Child:
b.

Marshall, June 14,

1877.:}:

* Miss Sarah
f Miss Sarah

M. Wells. M. Wells.
Wells. ''

Corwin Genealogy,

i:ThomasW.

258

DESCENDANTS OF JUSTICE JOSHUA.

CH. XIV.

V.

William
at

Steele/-''"^

3d son,

b.

Sept. 25, 1840, Stock

Farmer
Ina

Adele Lawrence,

Denver, Col.; m. Kansas City, Mc, Oct. 24, 1871, (dau. of Charles Wheeler Lawrence
b.

and Grace Caroline Goodyear of Lawrence, Kansas,) New Haven, Ct, Aug. 8, 1855. Child:
I.

Charles William,*-"' b. Lawrence, Aug. 24, 1873.*

NATHANIEL.^-^'^

DANIEL.^-^^^

DANIEL.''-^^^

Jane

E.,^-^^*^

eldest dau. of the Rev. Daniel Wells,--^5 b.

23,

Aug. 7, 1841, m. Goshen, March Charles E. Merriam, of Goshen. Children

Brooklyn,
:

1864,

1.

Frank Wells

2. 3.

Bessie Reeve,

4.

Mary Evans, Anna Alma,

(Merriam),*--'*'^ b. s-"' b. ^'"^ b.

^.449

Goshen, May 9, 1866. " May 4, 1868. " Nov. i, 1871. Waverly, Jan. 8, 1875.

NATHANIEL.^-^^

NATHAN.^-"''

JOHN

LEDYARD."-^''^
b.

IL

Miranda
1825,

Jane,'-^^^

2d dau. of John Ledyard,''-^"

30,

April 24,

m.

May

1845,

Nathaniel Wells

Price,*^--^^ (s.

of

Edward

Price and Jerusha Wells,^-'^ p. 241,)

b.

July
1.

I,

1815.
J.

Children:
(Price),*-^50 ^ ^^^^ b.

Annabel

2.
3.

4.

Frances Maria, Pamela Boake, Minnie Quick,

Sept. 20, 1848. Sept. 16, 185 c, m. *-^^ b. Jan. 17, 1855. ^*'^ b. Aug. 21, 1863.

Nov.

22, 1870,

Theo. A. [Gardner.

NATHANIEL.^-^''

NATHAN.^-^^"

ABEL

W.*^-^^^

IIL
1835,

Arminda,'-^^" eldest dau. of

Abel

W.,^-^'^ b.

Oct. 29,

m.

I.

Jan.

3,

1852,

1868; m. n. June, 1869,

lusing. Pa.
1.

David Lathrop Cooley, who d. Lyman D. Chamberlain, of Wyaist

Children by
^''^

marriage:

Burton (Cooley),*-*"
Charles,

2.

3.

Alma,
Clark,
S.

s-iS'

4.

William

Wells. '-^'S

GEN.

VII.

DANIEL, THIRD SON.

:

259

By
1.

2d marriage
Mary
Eva, Asa,
(dau.)

(Chamberlain),^-''^^
8.459

2. 3.

*"
8.461

4.

VI.

Etna/-^^^ 3d dau., b. July

8,

1839,

m.

May

26, 1858,
:

Andrew Jackson
Effie

Elliott, of Merryall, Pa.

*-**'^

Children

Lois Lottie Mary,

(Elliott,8-2
*''*^

Louisa Jane, William Henry, Emma Augusta, Joseph Edward,

8.465 8.466
8.467 ^.463

Arminda,

WickhamN.,
Virginia,

^-^^ s-* d.

Feb. 1S77.
b.

VII.

William

Ney,^-*^*'

4th son,

April

9, 1841,

farmer,

Hornet's Ferry,

Rachel
I.

m. Elmira, N. Y., June 6, 1876, Homet, (dau, of Francis Hornet and Ada ChamPa.;

berlain,) b.

Bradford Co.,
b.

Pa.,
9,

March,

1856.

Child:

Arthur Wells,'-^"

May

1877.

nathaniel.-'-^^
I.

NATHAN.^-^*
s.

NATHAN.*^'-'^

Nathan Wells,'^-^'* b. Brantrim, Pa., April 19, 1842; Educ. at Susquehanna Collegiate Institute, Towanda, and Univ. of Michigan, A. B. 1862 A, M. Lafayette Coll., Pa., 1869 M. D. Bellevue Med. Coll., 1867; Civil Engineer in 111. and Wis., 1862-3 assoc. of Dr. J. W. Lyman, Tunkhannock, Pa., 1863-9, since then with his father Dr. Nathan Wells, at Meshoppen m. Meshopperi, May 8, 1873, Lavinia Wadsworth Eppes, (dau. of Wm. P. Eppes* and Rebecca Nunnally of Petersburg, Va.,) b.
Horton,^-^^' eldest
of Dr.
;
;

Elmore

Petersburg, July
*

12,

1853.

of the

p. Eppes (b. Aug. i8, 1823, d. Petersb. Aug. 19, 1859,) was a merchant, well-known Va. family of that name his widow (b. Feb. 27, 182S, d. A son, John Richard Laceyville, Pa., Aug. 23, 1865,) m. II. 1S61, M. L. Lacy. Eppes, resides at Petersburg, and a younger daughter, Ida, with her sister ai. Meshoppen. ( Dr. E. H. Wells, whose interest in this Memoir and correspond;

W.

ence with relatives has furnished the greater part of

all

this

genealogy of the

descendants of Nathaniel.^-*^

260

DESCENDANTS OF JUSTICE JOSHUA.

:

CH. XIV.

Children
1.

Katie Merritt,

s-"'-

b. b.

July

9,

1874.

2.

3.

Nathan Ernest,*--"^ ^'-' John Eppes,

June

12, 1876.

b. Jan. 15, 1878.

II.

LvDiA

Louisa/-^^^ eldest dau., b.

9,

Meshoppen, Nov.

23,

1845,

m. Meshoppen, Jan.

1867,

Thomas Alfred

WiCKHAM.
III.

r^Ierchant, of Tioga, Pa.

Helen,'^-'''*

Mary

2d dau.,

b.

Oct.

31, 1850,

m. Me-

shoppen, Feb.

20, 1872,

Joseph W. Bishop,

of Sayre, Pa., b.

Wysox,
1.

Pa., 1847.

Children:
b. b.

2.

(Bishop),^--*'" Louise Wells *--^'Kate Wellington,

Meshoppen, Dec. 25, 1S72. Towanda, April, 1875.

DANIEL
DANIEL
I.
11.*-^'

I. EIGHTH
III.^-^^

GENERATION.
IV.''-'^^

DANIEL

DANIEL

DANIEL
of Daniel
d.

V.^'^^^

Eleanor) A.*^-^^" eldest dau. b. 1831, m. I. 1851, James Hallock, who Children: 1857, George T. Tuthill.
(or
I

Elma

V.,'-'^^

1853; m.

II.

2
3

(Hallock),9-255 Jacob A. Sarah Matilda ;,Tuthill), --'5

b. b.
i,_

1854.

July 21, 185S.

gept. 12, i860. Jan. 4, 1863. Feb. 21, 1S66. Dec. 6, 1868. Feb. 21, 1871. Dec. iS, 1873. April 10, 1875.

4
5

Charles D., Oliver T.,

9-7
''258

b.
b. b. b.
b.

Edwin

D.,

9.259

6
7

Isaac T.,

9-2o

8
.

Ellen A., Jennie A.,

^-S"
s-^^a

George

^--^^

J.,

h.

DANIEL
I.

11.^^^

DANIEL
eldest

III.^'^^

DANIEL

JV.'^-^^'^^

JOHN

M.'-^^^

John

H..^-^^'

s.

of

John M. ,'-'"

b. 1833,

m. Sophia
t

Terry, dau.
I.

of Mitchell
1870,

and Fanny.

Child :

Robert,"--'" b.

GEN.
II.

VIII.

DANIEL, THIRD SON.

b.

26

Robert/-^^^ 2d son,
Wells,'''-'^^^

1841,

d.

1866,

m. Elizabeth
p.

Jane
1

(dau. of Joseph'-^*'

and Elizabeth,

252,) b.

84 1.
1.

Children:
Ellsworth
M.,-26'5
9-2'

2.

3.

William Ada,

E.,

3--s

DANIEL
II.

11.^-^'

DANIEL

III.^--

JOSHUA.*"^-^^^^

JOSHUA

M.^'^^'

Addison
12, 1849,

Joshua,--^'^^^

eldest son of Joshua M.,

^-^^^

b.

Feb.

No'^'- 6, 1369,

Elsie M.

Wells,^'-^'-'

dau. of

Elisha,'''^^" p.
1.

253.

Children:
b.

2.
'

3.

Thaddeus S., ^-^^^ ^-"o Eva A., Horace Joshua.'-^"

Aug. 30, 1S71.

Sept. II, 1872. Sept. 21, 1S75.

b. b.

micah.''-^^

elisha.^-^"^

salem.*^--^*^

elisha.^-^^**

I.

MiRANDA,^^-^'^ eldest dau. of Elisha,'-^^ b. 1851,

m. 1867,

Albert
Joanna
1. 2.

T.

Downs,

'^-'^

(s.

of

James Youngs Downs and

Children:

Tuthill, p. 225,) b. 1842.

(Downs),-'-'- b.
^--"^ ^'-"^ ^''''

Maria
Frederick, Charles A., Oliver F.,

Daniel Lewis,

b.

3.

b.
b. b.

4.
5.

9--'8

1867. 186S. 1870. 1873. 1S76.

IV.
(bro. of
1.

Rachel
Albert

H.,^-^''

3d dau., m. 1872,
b. 1849.

John

T. Downs,'--"

T.^-^^-*

above,)

Children :

2.

Alice E.,

Elsie A., (Downs),-'-'' b. 1873. ^--'s b. 1875.

NATHANIEL.^-^''
I.

DANIEL.

-'-^^^

GABRIEL.'^'--^^

HENRY

W.^"^"*^

Agnes
m.

Maria,^-^^ only dau. of

Henry
b.

W.,'-^"^ b.

Aug.
1S38.

26, 1848,

May

18,

1875,

SiLAS

WOOD,
1876.

March

8,

Child :
I.

Harry Wisner

(Wood),^--^'^ b.

April

4,

CHAPTER

XV.
I.

SOLOMON, FOURTH SON OF JOSHUA

OLOMON,^-^^ ninth child
at Southold,

and fourth son

of

Joshua

I.,"'^

born.

about 1703, and died there, Nov. 6, 1769, 66;^ List of Freeholders of Suffolk Co., 1737; t on the cet. m. I. Dec. 9, 1725, Esther Wines, (dau. of Capt. Barnabas

Wines

of Southold,
set.

by
II.

his first wife

Anna,)

b. 1708, d.

Sept.

Esther 2, 1730, Wells,^-^^ (dau. of William III.^-^ and Esther Homan, ch. III. They had two p. 39,) b. 1708, d. Sept. 12, 1776, cct. 68.*
22;+ m.
Sept. 23, 1731, his 2d cousin

sons and five daughters.

Sons:
I.

Daughters:

2.
i.

^'^ Joseph, -"-eo David, *-^' Mehetabel,

d.

young.

2.
3.
-J.

Bethia, Esther,

*-^^
-^-^'^

perh.

m. Gershom Terry (1749) or Joshua

[Terry (1765).
c.

Anne, Deborah,

'**'*

perh. m.
b.

1767, Joseph

Corwin

(p. 52).

*"

1734, d. I740.

SOLOMON. FOURTH GENERATION.

11.

David,^-*^"
;

2d son, born blind,

d. 1792

residence Cut1

chogue
*

Signer for Congress, and on Census of

2/6,

with

Index of 1730. t Doc. Hist. N. Y., IV. 201. X Capt. Barnabas Wines was prob. eldest son of Barnabas II. (who d. 1697) and Mary, dau. Thomas Mapes I. and Sarah (dau. Wm.) Furrier. Barnabas II. was of Barnabas I., who came from Eng. to Mass. c. 1635, adm. freeman of
.s.

May 6, 1635, proprietor at Watertown 1636, at Southold c. 1642, d. c. 1676. (See Index of 1698, pp. 26, 47, 129; Savage, IV. 593; also ch. III. p. 42, above.)
Mass.

Solomon Wells

is

named

in the will of Capt.

Barnabas, 1762.

(Index of 1730.)

Both his marriages are on the Salmon Records. Record of Dr. Henry Wells. Salmon Records.

Corwin Genealogy,

p. 131.

GEN.

IV.

SOLOMON, FOURTH SON.

i,

263
17, 1792)

wife and three children; will (July

proved Sept.

names wife Sarah and son David.

He

m.

Sarah

(perh.

was

CojiWiN, dau. of Matthias, and sister of the Rev. Jacob, who his brother-in-law,) who d. June 26, 1791, by the Index of 1775; but either this date or that of the will must be
I

wrong.
I.

have the name of only one child

b.

David, ^''-

April 11, 1776.

III.

Mehetabel,"-''^ eldest dau., m. 1749,

III., ("

ning

Col.")
:

s.

of

Phineas

Jr.,

Phineas Fanand had two children,

perhaps others

Nathaniel (Fanning),5-i53 5.154 Mehetabel,

b.

1751, d. 1826, m.

Anna Wells
[^jgl

^'o^

(^au Dan-

II. .-^-^i

237). *

SOLOMON. FIFTH GENERATION.

DAVID.*'""
I.

David,^-^^' {" Rev.")

s.

of " Blind

David,"'*-*"'

and the
Sept. 12,

only child
1

named

in his will, b. April

11,

1776, d.

821;
;

from 1785 lived with

in 1809

his uncle, the

became Pastor of the " Church " at Riverhead (Wading River), which had been organized in 1785 by the Rev. Daniel Youngs, and of which the Rev. Jacob Corwin had charge from 1787 to 1800. The Rev. David Wells retained this charge until his death, twelve years, and was the last settled minister,f He ni. Children: c. 1797, Huldah Tuthill Payne.
win
Patience,
^-^^^

Rev. Jacob CorStrict Congregational

b.

April 13, 1798, m. Geo. Hudson.

David,

^^^'^
T.,''-'-'^'

Benjamin Huldah,
Moses,
Eliza,

unm. unm.
m. Isaac Terry.
m. Benj. F. Hudson.:]:

-292

-293
"ss-'

* Index of 1775; Rev. Christopher Youngs; Rev. E. H. Wells. f Index of 1775: Corwin Genealogy, p. loi: Rev. Christopher Youngs; Prime's
Hist. L.
X J.
I.

H.

Petty.

264

DESCENDANTS OF JUSTICE JOSHUA.

CH. XV.

Of these, David was a merchant at Wading River; Moses was a pupil of the Rev. Christopher Youngs of Upper Aquebogue, about 1825.* I have no further knowledge of the descendants of Solomon Wells.'^'^^f
* Rev. Christopher
f

Voungs.

One David Wells m. March i, 1750, Bethia Parshall. The same, or another, Either or both of these may have been " Blind m. May 20, 1764, Mary Moore.
David," son of Solomon.
the second
I find no others likely to have married thus was the son of Joshua III p. 212 above.
,

early unless

CHAPTER

XVI.
i.

Nathaniel, fifth son of joshua

SaTathaniel,^-^*
{"

Deacon,") tenth child and

1705,
d.

fifth

son of

^(^

Justice Joshua, b. Southold,

there Sept. 26,

1781,331.76;* Freeholder of'Suffolk Co., 1737; signer in behalf of Congress, 1775 on Census of 1776, with three in
;

proved Dec. 26, 1781, names He m. Nov. 3, 1726, Mary his wife and five children.f Parshall, (or Pearshall,) dau. of David (s. James) Parshall and Mary Gardiner, dau. of David (s. David, s. Lyon) Gardiner and Martha, dau. Col. John Youngs b, Southold, They had four sons and 1707, d. July 19, 1779, ast. 72.
his family
;

will of Jan.

3,

1774,

:|:

four daughters, nearly in this order.

Nathan iel,'*-**'
Mary, James,
Abigail, Bethia, Sarah,
'*"

b.

b. b. b. b. b.
b. b.

Oct. 1729,(1. July 9, 1736.* 1733, d. Jan. 26, 1S05, m. Nov. 21, 175
1735. 1738, d. Oct. ig, 1755.* 1740-1, 1764, Wm. Luce. c. 1743-4, ""i- Wm. Downs. 1746. 175 1.
c.
c.

[(p. 212.)
1,

John Wells

/'"^
'^''^

*"'
^"'

Manly,

*'-

Nathaniel,-*-"

* Grave at Aquebogue.

N. Y. Wills, XX-XIV. 456. (g. e. s.) Grave at Aquebogue. ("July 29" by Ind. of 1775 ) Lyon Gardiner, Engineer, b. Eng. 1599, d. c. 1663, m. Mary, dau. Derick Williamson of Worden, Holland, came to Saybrook, Conn, 1635, and in 1641 purchased and settled
f
:{:

Isle of Wight," as he called it, still held by his His s. David, b. 1636, d. 1689, m. 1657, -wid. Mary Lingman of London, and their 2d s. David, b. 1662, d. 1732, m, Martha, dau. Col. John Youngs, Wells,) and Patience. Mary, b. and had David, Mary, Bethia, (who m. 16S5, (eldest dau.,) d. 1725, m. c. 1705, David Parshall, s. of James and Margaret.

"Gardiner's Island," or the "

descendants.

(Index of i6g8, pp.

17, 78, 108.

Thompson,

L.

I., I

305.

Savage,

II. 22C, &c.)

266

DESCENDANTS OF JUSTICE JOSHUA.

CH. XVI.

NATHANIEL FOURTH GENERATION.

III.

James,'-*^^ 2cl

son,

b.

c.

1735; signer

for Congress,

1775;

Ensign
29,

in 2cl

Co. 3d Batt. N. Y. Troops, commissioned

June

1776; in the

of the

went to Say brook petition for relief. He m. 1771, Bethia (s-iss)/^ Griffing, and d. early, leaving one child
Island, he

same year, after the battle of Long Connecticut, and was one of the signers

VII.
1802,
aet.

iManlv,^-"
54-6 ;t

("

Rev.") 3d
of

son, b.
1776,

1746-8,

d.

May
19,

8,

on Census

and signer for Con1764;

gress; united with Cong. ch. at

Aquebogue, Feb.

became Pastor
in

of the

August, 1793,

church at Riverhead (Baiting Hollow) and served long, faithfully and acceptably

in that charge. +

Hem.

I.

1768,

Joanna Youngs,
11,

(eldest

dau. of James,) b. 1748, d. June

1785,

1785 ; m.

II.

Sept.

4,

Mary Benjamin,
is

(dau. of William,)

who

survived

him, and

named, with
24, 1802.
1

six children, in his will of

proved
I.

May

His children

were

May

7,

rySg.^

VIII.

Nathaniel

II.,

'"

4th

son,

("Chorister,")
4, 1773,

b.

c.

1751, d. Jan. 19, i82o; m.

Aquebogue, Feb.
Sept-

Mehet-

abel Mathews,**
*

b. 1752, d.

13, 183 1.

f Grave at birth.
if

Onderdonk, Revolutionary Incidents of N. Y. (g. e. S.) Index of 1775. Aquebogue; Rev. C. Youngs, differing two years in age and date of
Prime, Hist. L.
I.;

Griffin's Journal;

Rev. C. Youngs.

^ Grave at Aquebogue,
II

Suffolk Wills. B. i8g.

Index of 1775.
is

Rev. C. Youngs says 7 ch. by 2d wife, which

perh.
is

correct,

but the will

names 6 in all, 2 by isl mar. ** Aquebogue Records.

The order

of 4,

and 6

only probable.

GEN.

IV.

NATHANIEL, FIFTH SON.

267

Children
Sons
:

Nathaniel, ^'^ b. April, 1776.

Manly,
Jeffrey,

=-'^'

m. Nancy Leek.
rem. to Orange Co., N. Y.
;

Daus.

3 2

^"^^

''^'' Bethia, m. Wm. Griffmg of Riverhead. Mehetabel,^-'*^ m. I. Sam. Griffing II. Judge ^-'^^ m. Parshall Howell. Charity,

Henry Langdon.

Mary,

^ ^'^

m. Chapman Davis.*

NATHANIEL FIFTH GENERATION.

MANLY. '^2
II.

Mehetabel,^-^^'' 2d dau. of
1790,
David,

Manly

j"*-'^

b. c. 1771, d. 1823,

m.

c.
1.

David Downs,

b. 1768, d. 1858.
b.

Children:

Mehetabel Wells (Downs), ''-s

^-2^"

2.

3.

Manly Wells,
James,*'^^^ eldest

b. -2" b,

1792, d. 1794. 1793. 1795.

Aug. 14, 1774, d. Dec. 8, proved i8o7;t Jan. 25, 1808, names his 7, 1807, wife and four children m. c. 1794, Lydia Terry, (dau. of Dea. Daniel and either Rachel or Elizabeth, ]) b. 1774. d.
III.

son, b.

will of

Dec.

;:|;

July 23, i84i.t

1.

Children:
b.

2.

3.

4.

''^^* James, Daniel Terry, ''-^' "^''" Mehetabel, "-S"' Mary,

1795. 1800. b. 1802, m. Lawrence b. 1 80S, d. 1850.

b.

Brown

(s.

David).

V.

Nathaniel,^-^*"^ 2d son, b. 1786, d. 1821 ;t

.

Merchant;

m. Esther
I. Son Daus-. I.
:

Children
6-303
-30-J

James
Esther,

M.,^-^"- living 1877.

b. b.

2.

Fanny,

July 4, 1813, d. Feb. 18, i8i4.f July 16, 1814, d. Feb. 17, i8i5.f

VIII.

Manly
Child:

,^-'''^

4th son,

b. 1795, d.

July

17,

1835 ;t m.
b.

Susanna Reeve,
i845.-tI.

(dau. of

Moses and Susanna,)

N. Y.

1788, d.

Henry

Eckford,^-^"^ res. 1877,

* Rev.
f

E H.
at

Wells,

Grave

Aquebogue.
Index of 1775.
that Dea. Daniel

i Suffolk Wills, B. 472.

II

Rev. E. H. Wells,
gr. gr. ch.,

who adds
g

Terry had 51 grandchildren,

261

500

g.

gr. children.

268

DESCENDANTS OF JUSTICE JOSHUA.

CH. XVI.

NATHANIEL
I.

II/'^^

Nathaniel
Feb.

III./-^*^*

eldest son
:

cf Nathaniel

11.,"'^ b.

April, 1776, d.

12,

1859 * " Captain " of a ship in South16, 1797,

ern trade; m. Aquebogue, Nov.

(daii. of

Anna Youngs, f
Dec.
14,

James and Anna,)

b.

c.

1778,

d.

1862."

Children nearly in this order:

I.

Irene,

'^"^ -30'
'^''*

b. iSoo, d. b.

2.

Anna,
David,
Harriet,

3. 4.
5.

1861, m. Dea. Rich. Terry, Feb. 28, 1803. lost at sea, date unknown.

'^^"^ "=""

6.
7.

John T., James Y.,

='"

m. Gamaliel Vail (s. Silas). Feb. 1813, d. June 3, 1825,* b. 1S21, m. Elizabeth Wood, b. 1S20.
b.
1824.:}:

Fernando,'^-"- b.

NATHANIEL SIXTH GENERATION.

MANLY.-*-"
I.

MEHETABEL.^-'^"

David

(Downs),"-'^* eldest son of

David Downs and

Mehetabel
1867.
1.

Wells,^-'^^ b. 1793, d.

1849;

i"'"'-

Sarah Griffing,
b. 1794, d.

(dan. of Bartlett Griflfing

and Mehetabel Terry,)

Children:
Christiana

(Downs),

"-^^^
''*^^ '"''
"""'*

2.
3.

4.

David, Daniel Albert, Mehetabel,

m. Joseph Benjamin. m. Abigail Youngs, gr. daus. of Luther and Abigail. m. Youngs, m. Chas. L. Williamson (s. David and Jerusha).
}_

II.

Manly Wells

(Downs),''--"^

2d son, born 1795,

d.

Oct.
b.

4, 1859; m- Polly Wells,*^-^' (dau. of Children: 1797, d. May 23, 1865.

Elisha,^-"* p. 238.)

Sarepta
Betsey,

Downs), ''^'' b. iSig

''"o
'*"

b. 1825. i d. inf. b. 1830.

b,
)

Jane,
4.
5.

Manly Wells, Nathan A.,

Jane,

'-"''''

May

24, 1832.

b. 1836.

6.

'^"
''^'''^

Joanna,
Melissa,

'-^'^

m. Daniel W. Reeve, Att'y. m. John Eraser Hallock. m. E. Hallock, Fraiiklinville:!:

* Grave at
f
i

Aquebogue.

Aquebogue Records.
Rev. E. H. Wells.

GEN.

VI.

NATHANIEL, FIFTH SON.

MANLY.^'"
JAMES.^-^^^

269

I.

James,^--^^ eldest

son of

James,^-'^^ b.

1795,01.

Ernest

Augusta Howell,
i876.'^

(dau. of Silas

and Jemima,)

b. 1797, d.

Children:
7.477
1

d. inf/ d. inf.

James Joshua

Madison, ^-"^
L.,

'
''*^'

Oct. 19, 1S28.*

Jane Frances,

b.
ni.

Lydia Jemima, George M.,

II.

''^^

1S20, d. 1842, m. Gilbert.

Alden Wells '-'>'

(s.

John), p. 228.

''^^

Daniel
(dau. of

Terry,''--^''

2d son,

b.

1800,

m. Harriet HoChildren:

MAN,
1.

Benjamin and Patience,)

*^''

b. 1802.

James Edward,'
Fanny,

b. 1820.

>

2. 3.

'-^^ b.
'--"^s

Mary
Alma,

Belinda,

4.
5.

Daniel Manly,
P. Arabella,

'is'' '*'^
''**'3

6.

1823, m. Daniel W. Hallock. b. 1S25, m. I. Moses B. Reeve. IT. Rev. F. S. Benb. 1828. [edict. b. 1S30, m. Edw. Fanning (s. Israel and Clarissa). b. Aug. 1S39, d. Jan. 6, 1857.*

NATHANIEL
II.

II.'*-''^

NATHANIEL

III.^^"*

Anna,''-^^^

2d dau. of Nathaniel

III.'-"^^ b.

Feb. 28, 1803,

of

d.

March

11, 1831,

m. Nicholas Hallock,
:

s.

William

and Elizabeth.
1.

Children

2.

John N. (Hallock),'-o b. 1821, d. 1S30. "' Anna, m. Tuthill.f

NATHANIEL SEVENTH GENERATION.

MANLY.*-^^

MEHETABEL.^-^-'"

MANLY W.
II.
,'^-*''^

(DOWNS)*^-^^^

IV.

Manly Wells (Downs)

eldest son of

Manly

W. Downs''--^'' and Polly Wells,'^-^'^ b. Upper May 24, 1832, res. 1877, North ville (Success P.
ter;

i\quebogue,
O.),

Carpen-

m. Riverhead, Dec.
at

27, 1857,

Augusta

E.

Smith, (dau,

* Grave
f

Aquebogue.

Rev. E. H. Wells.

270
of

DESCENDANTS OF JUSTICE JOSHUA.

of R.,) b. R.,

CH. XVI.

George Smith and Sarah Downs

Children:
Caroline Luella (Downs),*^-"'
b.

March

26,

1839.

Oct. 14, 1858.

Euphemia,
Walter,

^'"
^'"^

b.
b. b.

Aug. 25, d. Sept. 27, 1861. Aug. 27, 1862.

Manly,
Smith, Sarah,

^-^^^
^'^1

March
Dec.
Oct.
2,

23. 1865.

b.
b.

11, 1866.

^^^- b.
^''^^

186S.
23, 1870.

Monroe,
Sewell,
Ellis

March

**
^.485 ^-^^^

Wickham,

Elizabeth,

b. Feb. 13, 1872. ^ peb. 27, 1874. b. March 31, 1876.*

V.

Nathan
b. 1840.

A.

(Downs),^-*^''

2d son,

b.

1836,

m. Geor-

GIANA Griffing, (dau.

Young,)
1.

of

Daniel Grifihng and Laurinda

Children:
^*^
^^-^sa

Julius

(Dovvns),^-*^' b. i860.
b. 1862.
b.

2.
3.

Herbert,
Alice,

1864.

MANLY.^-"-

JAMES.^-'^^

JAMES

U^^^^
II.,^'-^^*

IV.
b. 1823,
I.

Joshua L.,^-^^^" eldest surviving son of James m. Frances Terry, b. 1826. Child:
'^'^

Waldo,'

m. Feb

2,

1870, Eveline Blanche Corwin, (dau. of Hubbard Corwin and Emmeline Aldrich,) b. April 29, 1848 f

MANLY.*-^^

JAMES.^'^^^

DANIEL

T,''-^^^

I.

James Edward/-^-^

eldest son of Daniel

T.,*''^^''

b. 1820,

m. Cordelia E. Youngs, dau, of Dea. NicoU and Huldah.

Child
I.

:
Mary Emma,*-*^' m. Samuel T. Hudson.

IV.

Daniel

Manly,^-*^^ 2d son, b. 1828, d.

Nov.

30, 1871,:}:

m.

Mary Ann Conkling.

1.

Children
5,

Arabella,*-'*''^ b.

2.

Florence,*-^''' b.

Aug. Dec.

2,

1857, d. July

1858.
i86o.:j:

31, 1859, d.

Dec. 25,

*
f X

Manly W. Downs. '''" Corwin Genealogy, 66, 96. Rev. E. II. Wells. Graves

at

Aquebogue.

CHAPTER

XVII.
I.

FREGIFT, YOUNCtEST SON OF JOSHUA

'JT^REGIFT.
^^^i^lold

This curious name, spelled with one

in all

records, and on his tombstone, was bestowed on the

sixth son of

Joshua

I.

by

his

mother, "because he was the

six sons
II.,

youngest,"* not only of her

but of her fourteen

children; the eldest son, Joshua

being at this time a

man

of twenty-three.
1

Fregift Wells

^-'^

old, April 21,

7 14,

and died there,

is

was born at SouthNov. 26, 1785. His

26, 1785, in

gravestone in the old churchyard

"
72*^

inscribed,

Deacon Fregift Wells, who died Nov.

year of his age and
"
15^*^

the

of his Office.
e'er

True peace with God and man he

pursued

He

The

sought the Church's weal, his neighbour's good loving parent and to Christ a friend "f

Caetera

desiint,

or rather, hidden by the ground in which

is

the old headstone

half buried.

He

resided at "Booth's Point,"

Great Peconic Bay, a few miles S. which his wife inherited from her father. X A deed of land on " Hogneck " from him to P. Backus, 1784, and one of " Commons " from him and others to Daniel
;

now New Suffolk, on W. of Southold village

a property

* Rev. E. H. Wells.
f
:j:

Copied by me Oct. 13, 1875. Record of his gr. grandson, B.

F.

Wells of Matiituck.

Z/Z

DESCENDANTS OF JUSTICE JOSHUA.

CH. XVII.

Hay, arc on record.

of his father-in-law, of 1776,
will of

In 1756 he administered on the estate

Thomas Booth.
in

He

is

on the Census
in 1775.*

and a signer
10, 1784,

support of Congress
9, 1786,

His

Aug.

proved Jan.
25,

mentions seven
dau. of

children and one grandchild, f

He

m. Southold, Dec.
II., (a

1735,

Anna Booth,
I.,

Thomas Booth

John, a settler of Southold in or before

and grandson of and Bethia of Watertown, Mass., of Richard, Benjamin, a descendant She was b. Aug. 2, 1632, and Southold 1652 or earlier.
son of
1652,:}:)

Thomas

1720, (therefore not

and

d.

June

15,

much more than fifteen at her marriage,) They had four sons and 1793, cct. 73.5
Nov.
1741.
15, 1737.

three daughters.
1.

Giles,

*"
*"

b.
b.

2.

Thomas,
Bethia,

April 16, 1739.

*'"

3.

b.

4.
5.

>'' b. 1743. Joshua, Jonathan, *'* b. 1746.

6.
7.

Anna, Mary,

^-'^ J-*"

b.

b.

1749. 1752. d.

inf.

(i753)

FREGIFT FOURTH GENERATION.

I.

GiLES,^^'' eldest
5,

son of

Fregift,^'^^ b.

Nov.

15,

1737, d.

Dec.

1804,

ast. ^"j;

signer in behalf of Congress, 1775, and

on Census

of 1776;

m.

Anna

b. 1740, d.

Jan. 22, 18 14.

She
I,

is

named

in his will of 1804,

with his brothers and their

children, (but
1806,

no children

of his own,)

and her

will of Ma}^

proved Oct.

13, 18 14,

mentions her

" sister

Olive Bur-

* Index of 1775.

|N. Y.
\

Wills,

XXXVIII.

313.

(g. e. s.)

See in Doc. Hist. N. Y. III. 341, a curious letter from Gov, Lovelace to the
for refusal of

him on a complaint of this John and seizing his cattle for minister's taxes; from which I should infer that Booth was, or claimed to be, a Churchman. Index of 1698, pp. 7, 8, 56-7-8: Index of 1775; Record of B. F. Wells of
Rev. John Youngs, 1671, sharply reproving

Booth

Baptism

to his children,

Mattituck.

GEN.

IV.

FREGIFT, YOUNGEST SON.

273

gess of Guilford and daughter Betsey, and sister Lucretia

Cook." *

set. 80; "

Thomas/-" 2d son, b. April 16, 1739, d. May 2, 18 19, Deacon " m. I. July 14, 1763, Keturah Jennings, b. 1744, d. March 9, 1764, set. 20; m. II. in 1766, Abigail YouNGS.f The 2d wife and 9 children are mentioned in his will of 8 14. Child by ist marriage:
II.
;

I.

Kelurah,'-'" b.

c.

March

1764, m.

Wm.

Downs.

By

2d marriage
Seth,
5.172

b
b.

c.

1766-7.
1770. 1772.

Thomas,
Calvin, Luther,

''" b. c. 1768-9.
^-'^ b.

Benjamin, ^"'
^.ne
s-"'
5.118

Hannah,
Abigail,
Jesse,

5-"^
-i80
^.isi

Stephen,
Fregift,

one sooner or and became a leader among them. All died unmarried except Benjamin and Calvin, who had married before joining the Shakers, and except for these two, I have found no dates of birth or
wife, every
later joined the sect of " Shakers,"

Of the ten children by the 2d

death.
III.

:{;

Bethia,"*"" eldest dau., b. 1741, m. prob.

in the will

Jonathan

Overton, named
and had one
I.

of her bro. Jonathan, below,

dau.,

perhaps others,

Bethia (Overton),5-i82 g

IV.
of 1776,

Joshua,^-" 3d son,

b. 1743, d.

Feb.

6,

1787

on Census

with wife, and three children under 16; in 1787 his Thomas and Jonathan administered on his estate. bros.
* Suffolk Wills, B. 280,

and C. 448.

Index of 1775.
for the ist

Index of 1775, which however gives (in the MS.) the wrong name wife, here supplied from record of B. F. Wells.
f X B. F. Wells.

Index of 1775.

274

DESCENDANTS OF JUSTICE JOSHUA.

:

CH. XVII.

Children
1

Anna,

^-'^^

2 3

Bethia,5-i8J

Naomi. '-'^^ *

V.

JONATHAN,-*-^^ 4th son, b.

1746, d.

c.

1809; signer in

support of Congress, and on Census of 1776; will of Jan. names his wife, three sons, 19, 1808, proved June 27, 1809,

and three married daughters brother, and two brothers-inHe m. law, and mentions three unmarried daughters, f Horton Barnabas of Capt. dau. (3d Horton, 77 1, Joanna Bailey, and sister of (s. Dea. James, s. Jona. I.) and Susanna Barnabas who m. Mehetabel,^-^^ dau. Daniel Wells I.,) b.
,

Southold, 175 1. Children, will in this order

:

3 s.

6 dau., given in the father's

Sons:

GEN.

V.

FREGIFT, YOUNGEST SON,

2/5

FREGIFT FIFTH GENERATION.

THOMAS.^-"
IV.
et.

Benjamin/-'^^ 3d
1798,

s.

of Thomas/-^^ b.
d.

1770, d.
1828,

1851,

81; m.

Patience Dingee, who

and two
:

years after her death he joined the Shakers.*

Abigail,
Jesse,
6.313

Children

b_

Mary, Lewis T., Horace,

Rebecca,
Eliza,

Benjamin Franklin,^-^'^" ^-^^^ George .,

b. b. b. b.

Nov.

27, 1814 Dec. 28, 1816.

Thomas
Nancy,

G.,

-322
^-^^^

1819.

March, 1821.

2/6
II.

DESCENDANTS OF JUSTICE JOSHUA.

GiLES,*-'^^
17,

CH. XVII.
1794, d.
b.

prob. youngest child,

b.

Sept.

3,

Nov.

1869; m. Dec. 22, 1813,

Jane

S.

Phillips,

May

22, 1794, d.

March

9,

1874.
^-'-^^^

Children:

Joseph Franklin, John Phillip, Julia Ann,

=**

""'

Mary Louisa,
J.

^^^'
^^'^'^
'^^'^^

Sidney.

Willliam H.,

"-^^^ William G., Benjamin de Forrest, '^^^ George C,

Nov. 24, 1814. Oct. 23, 1816, d. Aug. 13, 1841. b. Jan. 18, 1819 h. March 27, 1821, d. Oct. 24, 1855. b Feb. 2. 1824. b. May 24, 1826, d. July 9, 1828. b. Sept. 24, 1829. b. Dec. 6, 1832, d. April 21, 1853.
b. b. b.

'^^'

Nov.

22,

1835*

FREGIFT SIXTH GENERATION.

THOMAS.^-^^
Abigail,*^-^^^ eldest

BENJAMIN.^-^^*
of

I.

dau.

Benjamin,^-^^*
II.

b'.

1799, d.

1867,

m.

I.
:

1829,

Rensselaer Hart; m.
m

Jonah Halsey.

One
I.

child

Matilda

(Hart),''-'^^

S.

Bailey Corey.

II.

Jesse,''-^'^

eldest son, b. 1800, d. 1849, ^- 1S22,

:

Abigail

Conkling.
I

Children

GEN.

VI.

FREGIFT, SIXTH SON.

:

277

Children

Rebec-ca Jane Lydia,

Eliza,

(Tuthill),''-^"^
''-^"^

m.

Wm.

O. Belts.

"-'o^

Warren

L.,

'-505
'-"^'^

Seymour,

res.

N. Y. unm.

VII.

Eliza,"-^" 4th

dau., b.

1813,

d.

1833,

m. William

Hudson.
I.

Child:

Elizabeth (Hudson),'-5'"

VIII.
res. 1876,

Benjamin
Mattituck
: ;

FiiANKLiN,^'-^^'^

4th son,

b.

Nov.

27, 1814,

m. Somers, N. Y., Sept.

14, 1836,

Jane

Teed.
1.

Children
Harriet Louisa, Susan Frances,

'-"^'^

b.

2.
3.

'

^"^

b.
b.
b.

Mary

A.,
F.
,

's"' b.
'=''
'-5''-^is
'''''

30, 1840. Oct. 20, 1842.

Aug. Nov.

14, 1838.

4.
q.

Benjamin
George

Nov.
Jan.

19, 1844.
8,

Sarah Eugenia,
T.,

1847.

6. 7.
8.

b.

Emma Jane, Klla Augusta,

Nelson

b. ''"^ b.

Feb. 16, 1849. April 7, 1851. April 11, 1855.

9.

Thonias,''-^'^ b.

May

22, 1857.

IX.

George
I.

C.,*'-^-'

5th son,

b.

Dec.
d.

28, 18 16, d.

March
II.

2,

1874; m.

1836,

Hester Ray, who

:

1864; m.

Chil-

dren by
1. 2.

1st

marriage

Frances, '"'' m. 1S56, Charles Odell. Elizabeth, '-5'^ d. unm.

'-s's

d. inf.

X.

Thomas
Anna, William

G.,''-'^^^
:

6th son,

b.

1819, d. 1867;

m.

Mary

Brower.
1.

Children

'"-"

2. 3.

Franklin,'-^-'
'^^

Jennie M.,

m. G. Green; no ch. m. adopted by S. B. Corey, above.*

4.

Thomas,

'-^'^

JONATHAN.*''^
I.

JONATHAN

II.^-^^"

Luther

T.,'^-^^^

eldest son of Jonathan

;

II.

,^-'^''

b.

April

22, 1799, res. SoLithold

d. April, 1866.

m. March, 1826,

Mary Corey, who

*B.

F.

Wells of Mattituck.

278

DESCENDANTS OF JUSTICE JOSHUA.

:

CH. XVII.

Children
1.

2. 3.

Marv, Jonathan Franklin

''" b.

J.,'-'"

m.

G.,'"-^ b.

March 2, 1827, m. Henry M. Beebe; 5 ch. I. Fanny Glover; II. Mary J. Mapes,'-^'^ 7 ch. Aug. 1832, d. Feb. 1S75, m. Althea Hawkins; 2
b.
:

s.

II.

James,''-^^''

2d son,

Dec.

27, 1800;

m. 1826, Mehet-

ABEL Bailey.
1.

Children
b.
'-'"-^

Ann

Louisa, '-5-''
'-^-^

1830, m.

Henry

Vail;

dau.
i

2. 3.

Sarah A., Frances A.,

b. b.

m. Ralph Ryan; 183S, m. Van Buren Hulse; 2 s.

Nov.

26, 1832,

i.

dau. dau.

IV.

WiLLiAM,^-^- 3d son,
I.

1872; m.
(s.

Dec.

26, 1829,

Aug. lo, 1805, d. Aug. 18, Laura Corwin, (dau. of James

b.

John) Corwin and Catharine Hallock,)

b.

1800, d.

Dec.

31,1833;
of

m.

II.

April

Tabor, (dau.

of Jesse

1840, Charlotte E. (Terry) 9, Terr}^ and Hannah Brown, and wid.

Edward
1.

F. Tabor,) b. 1806, d.
'-'"'^

June

16, 1871.

Children

2.

James C, George Lewis,"-^"'

b.
b.

Aug. June

27, 1832, d.

June 25, 1855. 16, 1846, d. Sept. 20, 1S4S.

VIII.
1840,

ALFRED,''-^=^Vth son, b. Oct. 13,

1814,

m. Oct.

28,
b.

Cynthia H. Terry,
Children:
'532
'-^ss

(sister of Charlotte, above,)

Oct. 25, 1812.

1.
,

2.

Horace
Etta

A.,

3.

4.

Hannah C,

Sept. 14, 1843. 1S46, d. Sept. 4, 1S4S. B.,'-534 b. Oct. 29, 1S48, d. April 6, 1868. '-535 b. Jan. 26, 1S51.
Sept.
7, d.

b.

July

7,

IX.
I.

Jonathan

Gilbert,''-^^^ 8th son,

;

b.

Dec.

Mary C. Glover
1.

m.

II.

Roxana Weaver.

6, 1818, m. Children :

2.

3.

Daniel T., ''^^^ b. Mav, 1854. Gilbert W.,'-33' b. Sept. 1856. Joseph G. '-^'^

Seth T.,"-'^^'' 9th son, b. June 13, 1821, m. I. Mary Overton; m. II. 1856, Harriet Jennings. Children:
X.
1.

Julia B.,

2.

3.

Franklin, Lida,

'53M ""' '-41

)

b.

before 1S56.
1856.

4.

Stevana

'-542

J.

b. after

JONATHAN.''-"*
I.

GILES.^-^*^

Joseph
1

Franklin,*'--^^ eldest son

19,

of Giles,'-'*' b.

Nov.

24,

8 14,

m.

May

1839,

Esther M. Golds.mith.

GEN.

VII.

FREGIFT, SIXTH SON.

:

279

Children
1.

2.
3.

Albert G., Lucy H.,

'* b.
'-s-"

June
Aug.
Dec.

i,

b.
b.

July 29, 1S42,

7,

1840, d. April 19, 1857. d. Nov. 16, 1866.

Mehetabel J
. .

,'"'

31, 1844, d. April 5, 1853.

4.

(son),''-5-""'

b.

1850, d. Dec. 20, 1850.

II.
9,

Julia

1844,
1.

Ann Henry Fitz.

,'^^''1

eldest d ail., b. Jan. i8, 1819, m. June

Children:
b.

Louisa H.

(Fitz),'

*'

April

6.

2. 3.

Henry

4.
5. 6.
7.

Lewis Benjamin R., Robert v., George W.,

Charles R.,

G., R.,

b April 3, 1847. '5 b. Sept. 4, 1849, d. '-ss" b. Feb. 5, 1S55. '"' b. Oct. 14, 1857.
'-^s-'

'^***

1845, m. Nov. 12, 1872, Silas F. Over[ton; i s. April S, 18s r.

b.
b.

March

16,

i860

'"'

Jan. 30, 1863.

V.

J. SiDNEY,''-^^^

3d son,

b.
:

Feb.

2,

1824,

m. Nov.

20, 1849,

Ann
1.

E.

Horton.
P.,

Children
'ss'i

John

2.

3. 4.
5.

Julia A., Jesse G.

'-5=5
'-'^'^

b. Aug. b ggp(

Catharine L.,

''^" '-""^

Henry Eugene,
(son).

1850, m. Aug. 25, 1872, Alice Ryder; i dau. i8g2, m. Nov. 7, 1870, Wm. F. Terry; b. Dec. 7, 1857. [r s. 2 dau, b. June 13, i860. b. Nov. 30, 1864.
i,

^^

6.

'=59 b.

Dec

10, d.

Dec 1853
b.

VII.
8,

William
Ida
'-'w b.

G.*^-^^^

5th son,

Sept. 24,

1829,

d.

Aug.

1858; m. Nov.
I.

2,

1854,

Hannah

A, Corwin.

Child:

S.,

July 26, 1855.

C.,''-'''^"

IX.
1858,
1.

George
Frank
T.,
'-s"

7th son, b.

Nov.

22, 1835,

m. Dec.

15,

Harriet M. TuTHiLL.
b.

Children:

Aug.

g,

i860.
6,

2.

Edward

A.,'-""'2

b.

March

1873.

FREGIFT SEVENTH GENERATION.

THOMAS."*-^^
I.

BENJAMIN.^-''^

JESSE/'"^^^
Jesse,*'-^^^

Benjamin
:

F.,"-^"^

eldest son of

m. and had

children
1.

Gardiner,

8^
'^*^''

2.

Quesada,
Winfield,

3.

8-6

4.

Ferdinand, ^--^^i

28o
III.
I.

DESCENDANTS OF JUSTICE JOSHUA.

Lewis/-^''^
Ida May.'-8

CH. XVII.

3d son, m. and had one child,

REBECCA."''"^

THOMAS.^-^^
1.

BENJAMIN.^-^^^

Rebecca Jane
Georgiana
Lily,

(Tuthill),^-'^"^ eldest dau. of Silas

Tut:

hill

and Rebecca Wells,'"'*

1.

m. Gilbert Fanning.

Children

(Fanning),^-^''''
^^'

2.

III.

Eliza
:

(Tutiiill),^-^"^

3d dau., m.

Thomas H. Reeve.

Children
1.

Benjamin (Reeve), ^-^''^

Ida.
8.50S

2.

3.

William

B.

s-^os

IV.

Wakren
Howard

L. (Tuthill),^-^^

eldest 'son,

m.

Sarah

Wells.
I.

Child :
(Tuthill).8-504

THOMAS.*-^^
I.

BENJAMIN.^-^^*

BENJAMIN

F.''-^^

Harriet
14, 1838,
:

Louisa,^-^"* eldest dau. of

8,

Benjamin

F.,^'^^"

b.

Aug.
dren
1.

m. Jan.

1857,

James

B.

Crawford.

Chil-

William F.

(Ci-awford),8-'5 b.
^'-506

2. 3.

4.

Edith, Clinton Lee, Charlotte,

b.

*^"''

b.
b.

Nov. 25, 1857. Nov. 1859. Aug. 12,1862.'

Jan. 31, 1869.

'^""^

II.

Susan
Jennie

Frances,^-^*^^

2d dau.,

16, 1865,
1.

Isaac N. Teed.
(Teed),8509 b.
s-^ic

b. Nov. Children:
7.

30, 1840,

m. Nov.

Oct.

1866.
1871. 1872.

2. 3.

4.

Harry Nelson, Elizabeth C, Louisa.

b. b.

July 16, 1868.

Jan.
3, 3,

8="
'*-5'-

b.

Nov.

III.

Mary
George

A.,^-^'"

3d dau.,

b.

Oct. 20, 1842, m. Dec.

:

4,

1865,
I.

T. Lorigan.

Child

Nellie (Lorigan), ^-^'^ b. Nov. 25, 1870.

VII.
6, 1873,
I.

Emma

Jane,"^^ 5th dau.,

S.

b.

April

7,

1851,

m. Nov.

Robert

Russell.

Child:
20, 1S74.*
-^-'^

John Franklin

(Russell),^-"!-' b.

Aug.

* All this account of the descendants of

Thomas
at

is

from the Record of Ben-

jamin

F.

Wells " of Mattituck, printed

Southold

in 1875.

CHAPTER

XVIII.
I.

DAUGHTERS OF WILLIAM

#F
only.
I.

the

five,

perhaps
all

six

daughters of WiUiam Wells

seen (Ch.
II.

I.

of

..<^vi>-Southold,

two,

we have

p.

33) died in

infancy.

The

others
is

married and

left families, of

which

a brief account

given here for one or two generations

Bethia,^-^ prob. eldest child of William

I.

(see Ch.

I.

p. 28,

and note)
I.,

b.

prob. 1655, d. April

]68o, Capt.

Jonathan Horton
one of the

14, 1733; m. before of Southold, youngest s. of

Barnabas

earliest settlers of Southold,

from

Mousely, Leicestershire, England, whose house

standing though considerably altered,

of 1649, still

graved
b.

in the "

Feb. 23,

is described and enHorton Chronicles." Capt. Jonathan was He is recorded as 1648, and d. Feb. 23, 1707.

"

Captain of the
1693;"
is

first

Company

of

Cavalry
los.,

in

Suffolk Co.,
in 1683

in

assessed in 1675 for ^171

and

for
of

^"440, the largest

assessment

in the

town.

The inventory

his "goods and chattels" (personal estate) at his death amounts to ^^304 5s. 3d. His will of Feb. 21, 1707 mentions ten children. According to the Horton Chronicles, he had eleven, but the order and some of the dates there given are

uncertain.*
1.

2.

Caleb Bethia

(Horton),'^-'"

"

s-^o

b. 1673, d. y. b. 1674.

*
366.

Horton Chronicles, VII. 11, 12, Index of i6g8, pp. 22, 90. N.Y.Wills, Vll. See also Horton Chronicles, pp. 180-223, ^or a full account of their de-

scendants.

282
ISarnabas
4.
5.

DAUGHTERS OF WILLIAM L
(Ilorton),'*-^ " ^--^ " ^"^
^ -*

CH. XVIIL

b.
b. b.

William Mehetabel
Abigail

6.
7.

" "
"

b
b.
b. b. b. b.

Jonathan

^"^
^-^^
'"'

S.

Mary
Caleb
Patience

"

"
"

^-"^
''"'*

James

1675, d. Nov. 15, 1705, m. Elizabeth Burnet. Christiana Youngs. 1677, d. Sept. 1728, 1679, m. L Peter lliadley, II. Daniel I'uthill. Lyons, II. David Brewster. 16S1, m. I 1683, (Dec. 23,) d. Apr. 2, 1768, m. Mary Tut[hill. 1687, m. David Horton. II. wid. Mary Goldsmith. ibgo, m. I. 1692, d. unm 1694, d. May 16, 1762, m. Anna Goldsmith.

The marriage
the first of

of Jonathan Horton and Bethia Wells was innumerable alliances between the families, from

1680 to this day.

The arms
"

of "

Horton

of Derbyshire,"

as given in the
ar., at-

Horton

Chronicles," are, sa. a stag's

head cabossed
Crest, out of

tired or; for difference a

canton erm.

waves
shell.

ppr. a tilting spear erect of the third, enfiled with a dolphin

of the second, finned of the third

and charged with a

Motto,

QUOD VULT, VALDE VULT,

Mary,"
and 4th
dau., b. 1661, d. 1729, m. as

V.

5th child

early as Dec. ..1678, 'John

ner," son

Youngs

HI., of Southold, "Mari" (see p. 22-4),

(prob. eldest) of "

Colonel John

and

grandson of the Rev. John Youngs, the leader of the Southold Colonists of 1640 (see p.
c.

1653,

and

d. c. 1684-5.

I^^

John Youngs III. was b. 1^74 ^^e has a deed from his
17).

father of land at Greenport; in

1675

is

assessed for

;^ 148,

and

in 1683 for ;^225.

In

1678

(Dec. 26) his wife's mother

to her dau.

Mary, then wife

of

Thomas Mapes, deeds

Mary,

wife of John Youngs, "a messuage and dwelling house,"

doubtless a marriage portion in fulfilment of the intentions

of

William

I.

in his will (see p. 28).

In 1685 letters of adas "

widow and John Youngs, Mariner, deceased." In 1698, she was living at or near what is now Greenport, with her two sons, and a nephew (s. of Zerubbabel), afterwards
ministration are granted to
relict of

Mary Youngs

GEN.

II.

DAUGHTEUS OF WILLIAM The two

m. prob

I.

283

Judge Joshua Youngs. were

:

sons (her only children)

1.

Daniel

(Yqungs),^-^''

b. c. 1680,
j^

had 4
p.*

ch.

2.

William

"

^.si

16

d.

s.

The

children of Daniel were Daniel, Bethia, Fitz-John,

d. inf.
;

and one
VII.

no descendants

of these are

known

to me.

Mehetabel,^^

5th dau., b. 1666, d. Southold,

Aug.

m. as early as 1685, John Tuthill III., eldest s. of John II. and Deliverance King (see Ch. II. p. 26, and III. p. 37), and bro. of EHzabeth and Hannah, wives of William
26, 1742;

and d. Nov. 21, In 1685, Mary (W^lls) Mapes, mother of Me1754, 2et. 96. hetabel, deeded to John Tuthill and wife " land at Cutchogue bounded East by the highw^ay, West by the sea," doubtless as a marriage-portion. John Tuthill III. was a
II.
I.

and Joshua

He was

b.

Feb.

14, 1658,

Member
1692-4-6-8,
life

of

the

Colonial
;

Assembl}^

of

New York
in

in

and Justice

" a

wise and useful man,

public

from 1690 to 1740; an extraordinary natural arithmetialways using chalk to solve every problem, and from The names of five this familiarly called Chalker John.' " children are given on the Index of 1698, but there were probably others.
cian,
'

1.

2.

3.

4.
5.

John (i'utliill " James Joshua Dorothy "

'

^")

b.

c.

1683
16S8.

6,

d-

June

24,

1743, m. Eliz (dau. Jona.)

'*^
'^*

b. c

[Horton.
1782.
,

b. c. 1690, d b.

'^^ ^''^

169

m. Joseph Brown.

Daniel

"

b. c

1700, d. 1785.

VIII.
I.,

Anna,--^ prob. 8th child and 6th. dau. of William

b. c. 1668, d. 1696-7,
I.

m.

c.

1683, as

2d wife,

John Gold-

smith
hill),

of Southold, for

whom, and
III.

the Goldsmith famil}^,

1697, Elizabeth (Tut-

see Ch, III. p. 42.

He

m.
II.

Feb.

2,

widow

of

William
49, 136.

The only reasons

I.

that

know

Index of 169S, pp.

Doc. Hist. N. Y.

449, 535.

f lnde,x of 1698, p. 123.

Griffin's Journal.

284

DAUGHTERS OF WILLIAM

I.

CII.

XVII.

of for supposing this Anna to be daii. of William I., are a deed from William II. and'his mother to John Goldsmith, 1684, and the impossibility of finding- any other place Her children were to which the name can be assigned.

probably
1.

Thomas
Richard

(.loldsniith),'*-^''

b. c. b.

1683-4, d.

c.

"
"

1731, m. Abigail Booth.

d. 1707, et. 16.

2.

''^
'-'^^

3.

Mary

b.

June 30, 1691, Aug. 1694."

*Inde5s of 1698, pp. 46, 80, and Mr. Moore's annot. on

p. 45.

SUPPLEMENT,
ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS
TO SEPTEMBER
9,
1

878.

1.

Page
P. 40,

21, line 2.
1.

Read

" Februarij,"

not (as the engraver has

it)

" February."

2. 3.

16.
I.

Cravit Wells m.

May

or June, 1737.
(p. 39)

P. 41,

1.

Dau. of (Daniel or Joshua) Case

and wid. of Joseph

Wickham,
4.
1.

9.

He

mar.

I.

March

23,

1744;

and

II. April

21,

1754.

Naomi

Terry.
5.

(Salmon Records.)
5.

P. 42,

1.

William V. m. April

i,

1767; his wife's mother seems by Salm,

p. 210.

Rec. to have been Bethia,"-^^ 6th dau. Justice Joshua,

6.
7.

P. 43,

1.

II.

r
44,

Aquebogue Record

says

Nov.

17.

1-

24.
12.

Marriage Sept. 20, by Aqueb. Rec.

8.

P.

i.

"Jerusha" by Aqueb.

Rec; but

letters

of admin,

are

to

" Eunice."
9.

P. 51,
P. 52,

1.

7.

For "John

10.
11.

1.

20.
II.

P. 63,

1.

II.," read "John I." "Anna Wells" was prob. 4tli dau. Solomon, ^-^^ p. 262. Henry I. m. II. Feb. 11, 1720; this 2d wife d. June 20, 1734
et.

(not 1754),

Katherina,
youngest son
12.

(see

34 (not 54); and he m. III. Oct. 2 of the same year, 1734, p. 203, note), wid. Penny, who was mother of his
p. 195.

Abner,''-'^"

P. 64,

1.

10, 14, 17.

9,

Henry

11.^'^ d.

Mar. 21, 1792

adm.
8,

to

communion
and

at

Aqueb., July
d.

1781; m. Abigail Dickerson April

1736;

his wife

Mar.
1.

16, 1786.

(Aqueb. Records.)
to

13.

P. 64,

22.

Naomi, 5-^^ adm.

comm., Aqueb., July

26,

1781, m.

Feb.

2,

1780,
14.
15.

Matthew Hedges.
8.

(Id.)

P. 65,

1.

Thomas

D.^-^o

m. Aqueb., Oct.
^--^

24, 1785,

Mary
7,

Dains.
(Id.)

(Id.)

last line of text. P. 66,

1.

Hannah

m. Aqueb., Feb.
5,

1776.

16.

26.

Thomas

'=2

bapt. Nov.

1788, at Aquebogue.

(Id.)

286
17
18. 19.

SUPPLEMENT.
P. 74, P. 90, P. 92, P. 94,
1.

17. 13. 10.

5.

Add "3. Arthur

For
"

Maurice,"-'^" b. Bridgeport, Oct. 18, 1877."

1.

" 1854 " read " I754-"

"

1.

For ' 1852 For

read " 1752"

" 1768."

20. 21.
22.

1.

1878" read
last line. "

P. 109,

2d foot-note,

For " Ch. VIII." read 'Ch. IX."

read "Joan."

P. 111,1. 22

For

'

Mildred

23. 24. 25.

P. 119, P. 127,
P. 140,

20.
19.
17.

For. " Rev." read "

Hon."
E. Hartford.
. .

1.

Mary M. Wells

'i^-*

d.

1877.
22, bapt. Sept. 8,

1.

Add

"4. Robert

Pliny,^-''**'

b. Buffalo,

June

1878."
26.

P. 141,

1.

7-

27.

1.8.

" For Jan. " 29 " read Jan " 19 Putnam,9-i88 "4. b. Elizabeth, Oct. Edith Add

8,

bapt.

Nov.

18, 1877."

28. 29. 30.

1.

16.

For "3d" read "2d."

Cyrenius

P. 142,
P. 146.

1.

28.
28.

W.

Bristol s-"* d. Philadelphia,

Aug.

7,

1878.
the family,

1.

The

three

New England

brothers were prob

their parentage

of

\,\x1not sons, of

Gideon of Cadhay, and

Soc, names
on a bend

does not yet

J.

appear.

The Devon

Visitation of 1620 lately edited

all

by Dr. J
s.

Howard
are

for the Harleian

the

sons of Gideon.

Arms
at

pre-

served by the desc. of John of Braintree, in use by his g.

Ct., 1664, Arg.,
az.,

Saybrook,
to all

three eaglets or; crest

first

(common
sa.

but

one Hayden family) a talbot passant of the

late

spotted

(Com. by the
E.

Rev. Gilbert B.

Hayden
Pa., to

of Essex, Ct. to the

I

Rev.

Horace

Hay-

den of Brownsville,
31. 32.

whom

am

indebted for this correction.)

P. 149,1. 27. P. 150.

For "1832" read "1833."

It is

Book-plate of Dr. Hayden.

is

only

fair to say th^t this

wretched

print
itself

but a travesty of the original plate, from a blurred copy (the plate
is

having lately disappeared), and

of

inserted only to

show the

crest

and cipher
33.

William Hayden
I.,

P. 165,

1.

4.

John Whipple
c.

b.

Eng. 1617,

d.
,

Providence, R.

I.,

May

16,

1685; m. Dorchester,

1640, Sarah

b. 1624, d. Prov. 1666;

tomb-

stones of both in the North Burying Ground, Providence.

34. 35.
1.

14.

Read, "

b.

Dorchester, bapt. Sept. 28, 1656."

26.

David

II., b.

Cumberland, R.

I.,

May

i,

1714,

m. July

7,

1737,
1.

Martha Read (not Reed) and had

;

2.

3.

4.
5.

6.
7.

8.

9.

Simon, b. Sept. 28, 1738, m. c. 176^, Mary Miller 7 ch. David, July 14, 1740, d. unm. George, July 11, 1742, m. .Sarah Corey Otis, Aug. 19, 1744, d. Mar. 5, 182 1, m. 1767, Mary Arnold; 9 ch. Cynthia, Aug. 17, 1746, d. Jan. 29, 1809, m. 1765, Isaac Brayton; 7 ch. Lydia, Sept. 7, 1748, m. Zebedee Arnold. Amy, Nov. 2, 1750, m. Joseph Bucklin; 5 ch. Jonathan, Sept. 8, 1752, m. c 1776, Mary Jennison 11 ch. Benjamin, Nov. 17, 1754, d April 30, 1819, m. Susanna Hall.
;

10.

Joseph,

March

21, 1761, d. y.

ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS.

36.
P. 166,
1.

28/
(s.

8.
i

Add, " m. Lowville, 1S13, Otis Whipple,

dau., Charlotte E., res. Utica, N. Y."

Jr.

of Otis, above),

and had
37.
38. 39.

P. 177,

1.

7.

James
For and
"

Phillips

Brown

d.

Oct. 17, 1870, xt. 19.

"

1.

10. 12.
8.

Transpose "
1869
"

}{.

U. 1881

to the next line.

1.

read " 1862."

40. 41.

P. 1S2,

].

4.dd "4. George,-2S2 b. Feb. 14, 1878."

15.

1.

13

For

"

42.

P.

21. Hennon S. 184 Lucy Ann Partridge,

1

Cornelia" read " Caroline." Wells '"^ m. II. Ewing, Mass., Jan.
of Northampton, Mass.
^"'-

i,

1863,

43.

P.

196,

1.

20.

John C. Wells

m. Aquebogue, March

7,

1782.

(Aque-

bogue Records.)
44. P. 231, last line of text. P. 239, running-title.
P. 247,
1.

For "Harvey" read "Harry."

third."
" S."

45. 46. 47.

For "Samuel, second," read "Daniel,

read Frederick "A."

4.

For Frederick
(:};).

P. 233, third foot-note

This curious book consists of 120 leaves about

at the short

6x4 inches in

size,

sewed together

end.

About twenty pages

I.

are occupied with records of the families of Daniel

and
is

his son Jere-

miah, from which

have printed (pp. 233-5 above) Nearly

all

that

of any value,
"

and accounts,

chiefly of building or repairing the "

all

meting hous
is filled

and

" parsnedg houes" from 1731 to 1761.

long-forgotten short-hand text,

the rest
to
its

with a

supposed until now

conceal family
mystery.
After

records or other matters of value proportioned to

much
ton,

patient study, the key to the riddle was found by Mr. George E.

Sibley, in an obsolete system of "

Tachy graphy
series

"

by one Thomas Shel-

London, 1671

and revealed only a

of Scripture texts

and

comments by some clergyman in 1691-3, perhaps the Rev. Joshua Hobart, successor of the Rev. John Youngs at Southold, 1672 to 1716.

The most
prised in the

curious,
first six

and perhaps most ancient part of the book,

pages, and
is

is

com-

a graphic

account, apparently by an

eye-witness, of a Protestant demonstiation in

London

against Catharine

of Braganza,

Queen of Charles

II

and others accused of complicity with

the pretended " Popish plot" of 1678.

Whatever

its origin,

the account
Sir

must have been written not long

after

the reputed
this

murder of

Ed-

mondsbury Godfrey
copy of Uter date.

in that year,

though

MS. may

of course be a

One
I

or

more
I

leaves at the beginning are wanting.

Of

the remainder

give what

have space for here.

"First marched six Whifflers [pipers or fifers] in Pioneers caps

coats:
all y"
2.

&

red wast-

A
y<=

Bellman ringing

his bel

&c & with

:

a loud

& dolesome

voice criying

way Remember

Justice Godfry

3.

dead Body representing Justice

Godfrey in
his

habit he usualy wore

&. y"

carvat wherwith he was murdered about

neck with spots Blood on his Wrists, Breest

&

Shirt

&

whit Gloves on his

288
hands, his face pale

SUPPLEMENT.
&
wan, riding upon a whit Horse
falling, in y^

&

one of

his
to

Murderers
Primrose-

behind him
hill
:

to

keep him from

maner
a

as

he was carried

4.

Priest

came next

in a Surplic

&

Cope Imbroidred with Dead mans

plentifully
. .

Souls & Bones & Skeletons, who gave out pardons very would murder Protestans, proclaiming it meritorious:
.

to

all

who

Lastly the Pope

in a Lofty Georgious Pageant, representing a Chair of State ^covered with Scarlet, y'

Chair being richly Embroydred

&

Fringed

&

bedekt with Golden Balls

sat

&

Crosses; at his Feet was a Cushion of Stat

in Surplices

&

two Boyes

on each side

y^

Pope Back

with White Silk Banners painted with

for

Red

Crosses

& Bloody
.

Conse-

crated

Daggers

murthering Protestant Kings

&

Princes.

At

his

stood y* Divil, his Ilolinesses Privy Councellor, frequently Charessing,

Hugging
his

&

Whispering him

all y^

way & oftentimes

instructing

him aloud

to destroy

Majesty, to contrive a pretended Presbyterian Plot,

w"^*"

&

to fire

y''

City againe, to

purpose he held an Infernall Torch in his hand;

1 he whole Procession

was

attended with over 150 Torches

& Flambaus

by order, but their was so

many

more who came

were

in

Voluntiers as

y' Balconies,

made number to be several Thousands. Never Windows & Houses more numerously filled nor y^ stree s
all

more thronged with multitudes of peopel

Popery with continuall shouts

expressing their abhorrence

y* in y^

of

&

exclamations so
it

whole progress of the

less

procession by a modest computation

is

urged their could not be

stat in

than

200000 spectators.
at

Thus with a slow and solemn

some hours they arrived

Temple-bar where the Houses semed

to be converted into

Heaps of Men
It

Women
it

and Children who were deverted with variet of excellent Firew;orks:

y'
.

known
.

Temple-bar since
y" statue of

its

rebuilding

is

adorned with four satly Statues of

a

Stone

Queen Elizabeth was adorned with

Crown

of gilded

Laurel on her
their on,

Head &

in

her hand a golden Shield with this Motto inscribed

The

Protestant Religion,

Magna

Charta.

Several lited Torches were

y""

placed befor her and y^ Pope being brought up rear

Gate

y''

Song following

was sung

in parts

betweene one who represented

y*'

English Cardinall

Howard and

another y^ peeple of England

" Cardinal

Howard

"

Your Popish Plot

.t

Smithfield Threats

From York

to

London town we come

all to

We
For

do not

fear at all

to talk of Popish Ire

loe beneath

Queen Besses

feet

To

reconcile you

Rome

and prevent Smithfield Fire The Peopel Answer.

Ceas Ceas to Norfolk Cardinal
Se yonder stands Queen Bess

You fall you fall you fall Now God preserve Great Chals our King And eke all Honest men

And

Traytor's

all to

Justice bring

Amen Amen Amen

Who

sav'd our souls from Popish Threats

Queen Bess Queen Bess Queen Bess

ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS.

[

289
]

Here the Pope

is

thrown into

" a very great Bonefier"

it

"with such
reach

a prodigious Shout of Joyful Spectators y'

might be heard

far be-

yound Sommerset House [the Queen's Palace]

all

& we

hope the sound ther of

will

JEurope.

The same eveing

there were grea Bonfires in most streats of

live

London &

&

Papists with Plots and Counter-Plots be ever

to

beene

King Charles & let Popeiy perish Confounded as they have hitherto which every honest English man wil redily say Amen."
universal! Acclamations

Long

INDEX

OF THE NAxME OF WELLS.

235-6-9 Ann L 70, 27S 250 69 Abiel 235 Anna, 33, 52, 210, 221, Abigail. .33, 53, J89, 210237-8. 244,26s 9,27411-13, 222-3-5, 2345-7. 283-5. 226 E 5. 241-3, 265-6, 2734-6. F 185 Abijah, 229 51 T Abner 1S5 '95-7-9, 203 1 ig S A 248 26! Annette O Ada 217 Annie Adam 6, 7 57, 230 Addison J 261 Anson T 47 Adeline 269, 270 57 Arabella Adrianna 231 Arietta 244 I 228 Arminda, 242, 258 Agnes 261 Artemisia 255 Albert ... 252 Arthur G 71 II A 207 253 2H6 Ci 279 T 217 253 6q 259 P 225 Asa. 21S S H 217, 226, 241 T R.. 225 217 228 Augusta Alden .204 Alfred. 199 57, 119, 275-S Augustus G Alice S S 142 114 Alma.. 229 269 Avis A Alpheus H .70 240 Azel R. Amanda 208, 223 Amelia 223, 255 45 246 Amy 201, 250
A

BEL

il

Benjamin
S

F. 70, 203, 227, "230, 277-9.

183-5 217, 263

V. R 250 Bertha 73 Bethia 28, 33, 42-4-6, 210,

219, 239, 273-4, 281.

262-5-7,

Betsey
Heiilah
liuell

M A
C
..

lUirdett S,

229 72 244 223 245

pALEB
yj
Calvin

n
Caroline

H M

M Carrie M Cassius H
Catharine

239 275 275 223 241 255 249

l'2I

'.

E L R
Charity Charles

230 217 1S9, 197-8, 202 138 279

59
237, 267
46, 57, 68,

DARNABAS
H

197, 202.

216
68, 247, 253

Andrew
Ann, Anne,
14, 54,

250
2^3,262 ". 67
.

Benjamin

40, 44, 51,

E
F
H.
..

A
E

198-9, 219, 275, 285.

220-1-2,

57
.206, 217, 246

72,255

DeF

276

226

292
Charles

INDEX

I.

M
.

W
Charlotte
.60,

A E

69 60 258 201-4, 222 74 246

13S 70

Edwin R Egbert B
Eleanor

.117
55

r^ANNY,

48, 55, 196-7, 201, 223, 243, 267-9

A
Electa
Elijah Elisha Eliza

M
S Chauncey E.
Christiana

E 240 75 260 Ferdinand 279 Fernando 26S 252 214, 244 Florence 255, 270 238, 253 Frances .58, 122, 228, 277
263, 277

20 r
55

M
S

248 116
134

A E
B

27S
59

.H
Francis

Christopher

A
F
Clapp
Clarence

H
Clarissa

243 243 252 184 231 253

197, 201

249 255
255 202 217 254
185 230-1, 279 .224, 242, 27S

T
Elizabeth,

254
14, 39, 40, 49, 71, 87, 201-2-4.

Frank

56,64, 223,235-6, 277.

A
C

H
J
S.

Cleaves Cornelia Cornelius

Cravit

235
246, 250
87, 126

.......

.95,

Ella

40, 49, 2S5

Cynthia

242-7

r\ANIEL..46,

Ellen Ellsworth
57,

A L E

229 252 104 241 253 277 217

2 J7

M
'1"
.
.

Franklin

G
Frederick

261

DeW H

176,

Elma A
S Elmira

232-3-6,240-3-8-9,
25I-4-

260 Fregift 228

241

2^2 27S 56 247, 287 229 46 271-3

M
M. S

67, 72 198, 231 6/-8, 270

Elmore
Elsie

M
C
J

Emilius

O
David.
.
.

74 72

Emily

T. .223, 267-9, 278 .39, 2ii-2,220 3.

lunma

244, 262-3-4-8, B 200, 2i6

C
J

221-6
40, 49, 52,

T
Deborah
262, 274.

240 Emmeline
Erastus Ernest A

210-11-12-19,221,237,

Denton

A 66, 243 Deliverance 39, 210-11-19 255 Desiah .65 Desire 19S, 221

E
Esther
1^^

247 249 259 J 253 Gardiner 279 119 George 47, 55-6, 120 201, 215, 246. C 277.9 74 D 176 253 E 117, 226 57, 202, 215 F. 230 73 280 H 252-4 217 250 J L 27S 245 269 275 S 231 70 T 277 247

pABRIEL

39, 45 240-6, 262-7.

9,

239,

59, 66-7,

73

Gershom

L
Dolly

Etna
Etta

199
55

Dorothy

E. Theresa

63
196 22S 117 202 22S 279 143 253

Eugene F

"PBENEZER
J_j

G
Euretta E Eurystheus
II.
.

Edgar

Edith

250 242 Gilbert VV 259 27S Giles 205 Grace E 60 216 Grantina B 216 Guy 226, 229

219 226 275 278 272-6 226 60 60

19S
. .

Eva A

Edmond
Edna Edward A
1

B
Eveline S Everett Ezekiel
.

261 22S 119, 1S6 112

57

"QANNAH
2S5.

.41, 42-3,

l-L 63-5,

126,

210 11-12-

13, 224, 235. 6-9, 273,

A
B

245.252
27S

239

WELLS.
Hannah S

293
201

127 205

Harma
F Harmony
Harriet
223, 26S.

220 252
220-3
65, 201-2,

Isaac L Isabel E Isabella Isadora E Isaiah

.

Jonathan

92, 246, 273-4-5

250
186 185
228, 237, 244

G
J

W
262.

27S ?78 127

73

C
Israel

68
52-4, 240

Joseph

.46, 64, 221, 252,

A
B
E.
.

59

G L
y Harvey H
Hattie

L
Helen

T V
Henrietta S

249 ..216, 247, 254 205 280 245 46 217 74 204 56 249

JACOB C U James
C E

247, 255

...42-6,54-6,
213, 239. 250, 266-7-9, 274-8 231, 278
55-8, 117, 270.

F G

H
P
S

207 278 278 117 252 46 275

G
H.
.

57
..117, 204, 226 231, 267-9

121 Josephine A Joshua 33, 53-5, 209, 21113-14-15-19, 239,

243, 273-

M
S

115
69, 223, 268

H
L
J.

Henry
90,

55 75 ..56, 61-4-5-6-7,
133, 215,

Y
Jane

47
224, 270

120, 113, 196-7-8, 202-4,

A E
F

285.

R
231
Jeffrey

A B C

198,255 Jemima 204,223 Jennie P

E. ..71-2, 186, 267,

M
Jeremiah
. . .

239, 241-7 216 234, 258 22S, 269 229 267 236 48 277
.44-6, 234-9,

M
Sidney
Julia

253 279
58, 203,

247-8

A
A.

279 115 278

71

E F L
Junius

M
S

279

240-5205 249 Jerome 200-7 Jerusha

244 208 247 240

58

T
W,
.
.

74-252
.114, 127,254

Jesse

241 241 252, 273-6

KATHARINE 189, 197

E
Katie
13S

G 279 245 Herbert 226, 253 Jessie 48 Hermon 246 Joanna ..45, 68, 219, 220, 236-7, 244, 266, 274 230 J S 184,287 John ..7, 14, 43-6,51-5-7, 118, 212-33-15-16-18, 252 Horace 221.4-8, 230-8, 244-5, 198, 275-6 A 266, 285. 278 A 56 203 121 B 252 202-4261 C. 87, 196-9, J Howell .238 5-7, 216, 249,287 E Huldah 65, 219, 243,263 226, 260 H. ..60, 119,253-5, 67 260. 228
Hephzibah

M
Keturah

46 260 197, 273 244 217 244 244

7

T
I

W
H

AURA M

Lavinia

Lemuel Leo
Lester Letitia

Levinna Lewis

223 56 215 280 57,

53 275 278 70 4S 247

A T
Lida

IDA E
i
lona Z
Irene Irving Isaac

T2I,

M
C

217 280 279 230 268

73
218, 236

230 Lilian F 250 Lily

N
P

252 50 223 276 9 228, 268

E
Lizzie Lois B

46
185 253 205
21=;

247,254

Louisa Louise Lucius

294
Lucy

INDEX

I.

H
Luther

T
Lydia
J

Lyman

250 253 Melissa 279 Memucan ... 218, 22 [,244 234-8, 245 273 Micah E 69 277 T 238 45. 219,223 229 269 Milnor 226 260 Minnie D H 120 70

Polly

221,238, 244

B
Prudence

224 234
68

Puah F

p^UESADA

279

Miranda

261

RACHEL H
Ralph B

261

MANLY Margaret
C
Maria

266-7 .57,200-5 206

Morgan L
Morris

185, 204, 244

H
Moses

H
Marie

133 135

258 70 246 216 223, 263-4 60

Ransom

A
Rebecca

70 119 121
42, 276

M
Rhoda
Richard.
.. .7,

L E

204,216
225

252 238 18,20,128

Marietta Marshall Marshfield

246
72
.47,

n^T. ::::: :::.lfl

J

214, 245.

Martha

H
J

M
L

Martin

246 136 204,212-14 Naomi 64, 274, 285 137 Nathan 242, 251 255 E 260 255 Nathaniel 235-9, 241, 67-9 265-6-7-8.

213, 240

H
L R
Robert
. .

.7,

E
Rosabella

Rosanna
Rosetta

72 137 245 143 48, 60, 260-1 70 68

Mary

14, 33-8,45-7,

C
Nehemiah
Nellie

207, 249

A
B

54-5-6,184,197-8, 200-1-7, 210-1112-13-14, 223, 233-9. 242-4-5-7, 252-4-7, 265-6-7, 272-4-6-8, 282. 54, 136, 217, 253-5, 280.

C
S

255 225 74 277 67

65, 76, 122,

F
Rovvena

Roy T
Royal

253 250 252 228 1S6

121

Nelson T Nichols

p\BADIAH

OABRA
Salem

176 245

C. 71, E. 57, 71, 207, 244, 270. F 59. 71

269 Oliver 205,229, 250

Sally

203,238

196.

A
253 253 216, 252 228 226 244 226 250 200

i2r
.

Samuel..

.52, 92, 218-19,

H
J

221-3, 241.

H
T
Sarah 42-3-9,

H
J

87,

187,260
56
226, 276

Orlando
Orletta Orville

60 127
56, 70, 201-2,

L
M.
S
.
.

.127, 204, 286

Oscar

H
L

185 133
j68

Maskell Matilda

242 P. Arabella 69 1 269 Parker ... .46, 54, 276 T 241 Parshall Matthew 219 239 Sarai 246 Patience 33, 63, 238, 263 Selah C 68 Selena P 252 220 Seth Maud 48 Paul L 231 Percy A 207 G Mehetabel. .33-9, 47, 198, Peter 65 202, 210-19, 222- Phineas T 45, 235 263-7, Phoebe .39, 49, 171, 215, Sheridan 236, 3,

pAMELA

211-12-13. 233, 265, 280. A 55-6, 251,278 C 114 E. 66, 72, 216, 247, 250-7, 277.

114, 254

283.
J

243-4-

Sibylla

279

244

Sidney

252 233 213 59 273 246 240 278 231 240 279

WELLS.
Sidney

295

K
C

Solomon
Sophia J Sophronia Spencer R

Stephen

T
Stevana J Suiren G Susan

217 262 184 240 224 1S4 273 249 216 278 46 45 2S0
.

Thomas B C

D
G
W.
Timothy
S
Tirza
.

TTRSULA

122 47 Willard D 69 William 6,7,14,17,34-9, 40-1-3-4-5-9, 57, 65, 285 87, 189. 201, 215, 277 .6g, 24S, 257 278, 285. A 212-14 59. 73 C 203 44-6, 230 E 261 119 F 277 G 223 279 H. 15, 31, 200-7,
. .

230, 249, 276.

H
Susanna
Sybil
. .

217,253 .204, 243 274 Virgil E 240 Virginia

TTANVORST V Victor H
G

117

H.
J

216 249
56

205 48

60
Willis

230, 259 S. .54, 70, 217, 258 W. .217, 242, 255

fpEMPERANCR
i

Thaddeus Theodore Theodorus

Theresa

..237, 249, 250, 274 261 S

.

WALDO Walter
A
Warren Wheeler
Wilkinson W. Willard

270 Winfield
55-7

70 279
221,

228 215 205

205
252, 276

VOUNGS.. 218-19,
I
238.

Thomas

46, 56, 66, 273-7, 2S5.

253 229 119

fVACCHEUS

220

INDEX

11,

OTHER NAMES
A
XTl.

BBOT
Adams

164 142
\S1

Belknap
Bell

Adgate
Adsit

Bement

149 Benedict

242 Bristol. 173 Brooks 86 Bross 269 Brdwer

137, 141-2, 286

216 257 277

.28, 67-9, 117, 155,

Agnew
.

no
.

Benjamin. 211-12, 221-5-6,

244, 252, 266-8, 272.

Brown

Albertson. .201, 233, 244 Aldrich 223, 270 Allen. .47, 120, 157, 164,
177, 193-

177-9, 252, 267, 278, 284-7.

Bethune
Betts

114 277
148
75 107, III 148
155, 194 234, 260

Allyn Alsop

Alvord

Ambler
Anston Appleyard

Arms
Armstrong Arnold
Austin

192 Bidwell 194 Biggs 176, 182 Bill 160 Billings 255 Birchard 217 Bishop 118, 149, 150 Bissell 80, 185 Black

Brownell Buckland Buckley Bucklin

Buell Bullard

Burgess Burleigh

143
159, 231

Burn
Burnet

Blackburn 187, 194 Blagrove

165, 286

Avalon

Bliss

BAILEY
Baker Baldwin Bancker
Bancroft Bardwell Barkley

Blodget 236, 274-8 Ely

121 173.5-7

Boake
Bogert Boisseau

Barnard Barnes

Bascom
Batty Baylies Beaufort

160 155 184, 193 254 168 155 169 45

BoUes
Bolton

Boltwood
Booth..

255 Bushey 107 Bushnell 156 Busleree 120 Butler 157 Buttolph 242 Byam 117, 162 41 Call 177 72 Camp 192 Canfield

143 165 205 286 154-6 .179 i6r, 215, 272 223 164 223, 282 215 42, 157

no
108 156-7 143

pALDICOTT

166 149 158

167, 1,81,201
54, 108, 205,

16, 41-7, 54, 63-7,

71-5, 272-5,

Bowers Boyden

Beaumont
Beckwith Beebe

229 Bradley 7 Brayton 86 Breth 215 Brevoort 205, 278 Brewster

247 68 284 176 240 Cascaden 149, 150 Case... 39, 41-2-3-5-7, 51, 282 63, 196, 200-6-8, 165, 286 223, 285. 71 255 Chadwick 108 Chamberlain 258-g 71 41, 211, 282 Champion
I

Carpenter Carter

OTHER NAMES.
Chandler Chapin.
155 156
124, 143

297
Fitch
Fitz Fleet Follett

Chapman
Chase

DeKype De La Montague DeLanoy

6,

161

162 108
25
5

73, 160 Delaval Childs 133- 14S De La Welle Clapp..i4l, 171-2-3-4-5-6- DeLuz

Fonda
Foote Ford

7-8-9, iSo-l-3-4-6,

DeMarneil

192-3.

DeVaux
166, 249 234-5, 274

Clark Cleaves Cleveland

Clifford

DeVallibus

152 161 74 6
6, 7

207 279 213 159 180 157

55-8, 192 40-7, 72 140, 252

Fordham
Foster Franklin

DeWelles

Coggan
Colard

Coleman Conger Conkey

140 DeWolf 206 Dey 156 De Zocieur 241 Dibble 59, 60, 242 Dickerson .... 256 Dickinson 186 Dimon

Conkling...5S, 72-6, S5-9,

199, 20S, 221, 23S, 253, 270-6

Dingee

Doane Downs. .65,

ill 179 174 Freeman 123, 133, 148 45 French 256 167 Frisbie 202-3 153-4 Fry 215, 250 .64, 285 Fuller 207 119 Fullerton 228 182 275 48 Ur Gardiner ... .23, 8g,

pAGE

221-2-3-4-5-7,

216, 265.

Conn
Converse

109 160

Cook..

40, 120, 148, 156, 175,236, 273. Cooley, ..124-5-6, 192,258

Cooper Copping

109, 252

Coram
Corey
.

123 146

199, 221, 276-7, 286 Corwin. 40-3, 52, 66-7-8-9, 73, 199, 207, 216, 220, 227, 230-3-48, 241-2-6-7, 2515-6-7, 262-3, 270-

232-8.243-4, 253, 261-5-7-9, 270-3 Draper 184 Drowne 164 Dudley 203 .... 180 Dunsback 250 Durlin 108 Du Trieux Dutton 137 6 Duval 1S5-6 Dwight

Gardner.
Gaskill

57, 156, 223,

Gerald Gibbs
Gififord

Gilbert
Gillett

Gingrich
.

Gladding Glover Gold Goldsmith 33-8-9, 40-2-4

. .

258 123 124 217 148 158, 251, 269 156-8 183 19, 139, 164 223, 244-5, 27? 157
.

EASTERLY... 136,
Edgell

t6o

62, 207, 210-13

18, 232, 282-3-4.

4-S-9.

Costigan

Edson 170 Edwards

116 Eldridge 206 Elliott 160 Ely 154 Enos 157, [73 Eppes
250, 280
124, 185

149 158

278,

Cotton

Cox Coy Crampton

'.

200 Goodrich 247 Goodyear 155, 231, 259 Gosard 55 Grant

148
174-8-9
55

Goodliff

206
75, 125

Crane Crawford Crosby

Cross
Crossett

Estabrook
Everett Everts

Culver
Curtis

185 1S6 70, 183 180

65
138, 162

Gray Green Gregg .i}7

Grier

259

Granville

258 153 59 146 149 277

loS,

i66

Grellet

TT'AIRCHILD.. 85-7,

r
T^^AUNS

Falls
.
.
.

183 242

169 ... .249 Griffmg. 117-18, Griffin, igg, 211,220-2, 230,

. .

Fanning

Dakin

.229, 231-7-8, 263-9, 280.

266-7-8, 270.

Daniels 174 Felton Davis. 157, 173, 214-15-16, Fenn

254, 267.

Griswold 242 Grout

175 20I 108 47 I43

197 188

Fenton
146
54-5

TJADDEN
ll

Davy
Decker
DeForeest

108, 171

Field Fields Filley

DeHaya DeKay

152 Finch 204 Fisher

Hadley Haggerty Haight 215, 256 Hale

178, 250

..60 217

Hall

60 54 149, 150 148, 164-5, 286

298.
Hallock. .43-4-6-7, 63, 70,

INDEX
Homan.
Hornet
.

II.

197, 200, 222-3-4-58-9, 239, 243-4, 2523, 260-S-9, 27S.

.39, 45, 70, 196, 262-9.

Knapp

Kneeland 259 Knowles

46 Kress
165

Halsey,

..18, 89, 205,

.

Halstead

Hamilton

Hammond
Hanks
Hare

Harmony
Haroon
Harris

Hart Harvvood Hastings

Hatch Hawkins

276 Ilorton. .28, 33, 38, 40-2107, 197-9, 200 4, 58- 63-5, 71, 59, 143,249 210, 95, 205-9, 216 222, 233-46, 242217 251, 274-5-9, 7, 146 281-2. 166 Howard 148, 185 148 Howell .. ,63-5-8-9, 222-4178, 1S3 8, 239, 243, 256, 249, 276 267-9. 166, 215 Howells 153 7 Hoyt 148 no, 124
.246, 253, 278

Hooper Hopkins

240 203 254 204

259
.

T
J_j

ACY
Landon
.

.205, 237

Lane Langdon Latham

Lattin

68 267 45

Hubbard. .103,

124-5, I49,

Hawks Hay

Haycock Hayden, Heydon.

118 151, 272 166

.

Hudson

157. . ig6, 229, 240,

.
.

133-5, 145-50, 286. Hayes.. .83, 129, 134-5-9, 140, 151-8, 169, 194

Haynes
Hazlett

17S
141
70, 226, 234, 240,

253, 263, 270-7. Huggins 181 Hulse. .198, 201, 221, 241, 278. Hunt 109, 120, 169 Hutchinson 69, 212 Hyatt 108,

56 258 75, 179 154-7 267 Leggett 99, 181 Leidolf 183 Leland 148 Lemmaa 207 Leonard 114-15-16-X7, 149 Lewis 109

Lawrence Lawton Lee Leek

L'Hommedieu.53, Linderman
Lindsay

63,

2/9 201

Lingman
Linklettcr

182 .265

no
157

Linzee
Little

Hedges.

Hyde

Logan

285.

TBROOK
155
45, 63

Hemingway
Hempstead
Hemstreet Henderson
. . .

165 Ingersoll. ..140-1, 169

Longley Lord

Ingleton

Henry
Herrick Herring Hibbert Higley Hildrelh
Hill Hilliard Hills Hillyer

Hilton

Hinckley

164 149 114 89 162 157 156 126 ii6, 24S, 257 167, 173 141, 150, 175 153 53 148
205, 2S7

Ingram
Innis

Irwin
Isaacs
Isseltine

Ivory

TAGGAR U James

Jans Jansen Jaycox 121 Jennings. 206,223-9,253,

273-8.

59 Lorigan 142 254 Lovejoy 56 Luce... 48, 220-7, 243,265 188 242, 250 Lyman 169 Lyons 282 85-7-8, 112 ...251 157 M'Ewen 70 225, 237 M'Gehee 125 60 142 .M'Gill 162 Mann 188 32 34, 42-3-9, 54, 162 Mapes

237 169 160, 236 180 123 157, 169 280

M'CUTCHEON

60-4, 262, 276-8.

Marquis. Martin

Hinman
Hobart

Hobby Hodge
Hodgetts Holbert

Holbrook

Holcombe Holden
Holder Holley

HoUiday

229 Jennison 165, 286 Jewett 135, 157 70 Johnson .27, 54, 120, 188 87 Joslyn 149 246 58 229 198 Keeler 74 .148, 154-6-7 Kelsey 175 148 Kierstede 162 123-4 King 37, 210, 283 15S Kip. 116, 138-9, 143-4, 161 143 Kirk 59

Marvyn

256 149 157

121

Mathews... 138,143,266

Maynard

Mead

KAPPELL

68 149 Menier 108 Merriam 258 Merrill 122 Merritt 215 Middleton 162 Miller. 109, 204, 251, 286 Mills 59, 60, 71, 249

Meads

OTHER NAMES.
Milspaugh
Mitchell
121. 255 149, 167

299.
1

Phelps
Phillips. .55, 177,

Monjour

Moody
Moore
Mori 11
Morrill

162 155 .141, 188,233,264,

276.

Phinney Pickworth
Poellnitz Poillon

186 Sanford 234,276 Sargent 174 Saunders 159 125

76-9

in
19,

Morgan
Morton
Mosier

116 108
55

Pond.. Post

Pray
Preston Price Prince

Moss Mountford
xMulford

Murdoch

164 66 169 ill 89 127

1S6 166 48 192 94, 150

Purdy
Purrier

Putnam

242 149 241 125 194 241, 258 43-8, 204-6 242 42-9, 64, 262 48, 160
181

^ayre Scarr Scherly

Scott

255 55, 90 182 108

152-7 68

Scribner

Seabury
Searles Sears

276
143 168

T\IEEDHAM....25, In Nelles
Nevins

PjUINTARD
RACKETT....196,
Rainteaux

114 Sellars 216 Seymour. .140-2, 150, 170 Shaughnessy log Shaw 142, 253 Sheather 42 Sheldon 186

Selden

Newberry

Newton Ney
Nichols Nitschke

250
Ill, 183

Noble Norton
Nott

217 197 66, 215 74

,

234 108 Ransom 166 i<ay 277 Raynor 63, 245 Read.. 165, 185, 202, 286 Reeve. .38, 40-3-9, 57, 64, 71-5, 95.210, 223230-6-7, 243-6, 267-8-9, 275, 280
8,

Sherman 72, 182-3 Sherwood ...... 137, 142

Short
1-9, 159, 181.

164

Sibley.. 91, 109, 136-7 140-

Sickles Sizer

no
T40, 167

Skidmore

46

143 126, 155-8, 164, 137 201-3-4, 255. 269 153-5, 174 p^DELL kichman 160 Snell 160 277 Orsor 63 Somarindyck 117 Rider VJ 109 Osborne. .47, 69, 138, 223 Rigby 60 109 Southard Osgood 122 Riker 120-2 242 Southmayd Osman 38, 63 l^ipley 177 Sparhawk 157 Overton. 223, 234, 273-8-9 Roberts 237 59, 201-2 .Spencer Owen 14S, 243 Robeson 150 59 Stanley Robinson. 167 .64-5-8, 70-3, Starr Payne. 62-4, 72221-5,237 Stedman 142 Robson 248 158 Steele 4, 212, 219, 263. Palmer 121 Stephens, Stevens. 46, 250 243-9 Robtoy Parker 120, 2 16 Rogers 175, 181-2 46, 142, 157 Stone Parmalee 161 257 Rooney 251 Storrs Parshall 208 Stout.. 81, 91-6, 106, 159, 212, 264-5 Roosa Parsons. .48, 115, 157, 192 Root. .105, 171, 188, 192 171. Partridge 215 187-8, 194 Strachan 287 Rowe Paulet 184 146 Rumsey 58 Stratton Peale 180 109, 159 Russell .122-3-4, I55i 178, Strong Pease 186, 280 Stryker 245 155 Peet 152-5 Sturdevant 257 109 Rutherford 216 Peirce 17S Ryan 278 Swan Pember 162 Sweezy.. .53, 67, 238, 251 122 Ryckman 182 Pennington 279 Swink 173 Ryder Penny.... 45, 63, 207, 285 Ryersz no Perry '"PABOR 278 156 Taft 127 Peltibone T18 1 157 no Petty ... .28, 65, 239, 240 116 Taggart Sampson
."

Noyes Nunnally Nyce

.152-5

259
58

Reilly

Skillman... .229, 236, 253 Slaughter 59, 60 Smith.. 74, 83, 110-13-15,

Reynolds
Rice

PAINE,

OALTER

300
Tallmadge Tate
Taylor
53 123 125,215
277, 280

INDEX
Tyler Tyrer

II.

71, 93

White
Whitlock

40,

152,256
140, r67

174 Whiting

239, 245

Teed Ten Eyck

Terrat
Ten-ell

108

no

73, 218, 232, 268, 278. Val, Vals, Vallibus...5, 6

T TAIL.. 42,

Whitmore Whittemore

220

Wickham
Wilbur

197 41,214,235,2412,

Terry

68, 70, 73 Valentine 31,41-5-6-7,63- Van Buren 5,72, 211-12, 222-3- Van Dyke
19,

68 16

252'

Wilcox, Wilcoxson

260, 285. 45-6-7-8 147. .

5-6-8,230-1-2-7-8-9, 243-4-5, 260-2-3-78,

270-5-8-9,

Thayer

Van Flaesbeeck Van Fort Van Patten 285. 46 Van Pelt

Varick

108 107, 112

8, 156.

Williams 48, 109, 135, 150. 254 148 Williamson. 243, 265-S
.
. .

Thomas Thompson Thomson

Thorp Throop
Tidersleigh Titus

275 178, 203

174, 216

108,

no
5

Willis

Ill
119, 166
. .

Vaux
Voorhees

Wilson

Tobias

Tompkins Topping Tower

Tracy Treat

143 114 146 184-6 56 153 25, 157 165 197, 202

250 109 Trent 146 Trians, Tryon 167 Tripp 215 Trowbridge 155, 166 Tucker 154, 223, 239 Tuell 69 Turton 240

Tremaine

Tuthill...26-7, 33-7-8, 56,

67-8,
71-2,

III.

200-6,210-11-1213, 223-4-5,2347-8-9, 240-4, 2524-7,260-1-9,2767-9, 280-2-3.

257 V/ines .31-7, 42, 68, 78, 166 262, 276. Wakefield 153 Winston 155 Wallace 120 241 Wiseman Wallish 247 237 Wisner Wallys 6 Witmer 178 Walsh 57 Wolcott 149 Walters 245 Wood 58, 71, 148, 20S, Ward 241, 261-S. 179 Warner 113-14 65, 192 Woods Warren 148 Woodward 149 Waters 148 55 Woolworth Watts 86, 166 246 Wright Weaver 278 Webb 46, 156 Y'OUNG. 205, 239, 270 Webster 166-9 Youngs ... 16, 17, 22, Weeks 146 24,27,33,42-8, Welles 206, 220-2-8, 6, 7, 74, 150 Wellys 6 230-3-6-8-9, Wels 6 243,252-3,263Wessells 4-5-6-8, 270-2109, 159 Westbrook 58 3, 282-3, 287. Westervelt 117 Wheeler 150 Whipple. 139, 164-5, 286-7

170

Winans

WAGER

in the

The above Index does not include some historical and other names mentioned Memoir: e. g. Governors Kieft (p. 19), Sfuyvesant (161), NicoUs (25),
(272),

Lovelace
Secretary

Bellamont

(106),

Winthrop

(25),

and De Witt Clinton

(149, 198);

Van Tienhoven (19); Col. William Smith (37); Major Andre (162);^ Nicholas Bayard (90), Henry Gruger (77), Abraham De Peyster (76-8), Peter Faneuil (90), Joseph Reed (90), Gideon Granger (131), Philip Livingston (79), Alexander M'Whorter (90), Stephen Van Rensselaer (197); Drs. Martyn Paine
(134),
(97,

Usher Parsons
105),

(134),

John C. Warren
Hull
(91),

(134),

Nathan Smith

(98),

John Stone

Gamage

(134),

Cogswell

(191),

Bachelder

(100).

Dungan

(134),

and a few

others.

2990