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Spafford
Onondaga County, New York
BY
Captain George Knapp follins
1902
PUBLISHED BY
Onondaga Historical Association
DBHLER PRESS
1917
This work is dedicated in fiilial respect to the memory of
Dr. John Collins, the father of the Author, who practiced
his profession among the people whose names are recorded
in this record, for nearly twenty-five years, and whose living
descendants still hold his memory in grateful recollection,
after a lapse of forty-nine years since he ceased his labors
and went to rest among those who were his companions and
patrons in life.
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CAPTAIN GEORGE K. COLLINS
INTRODUCTION
The town of Spafford, one of the most picturesque in the
County of Onondaga, is about ten miles in length from north
to south, and about four miles in width from east to west.
Its surface consists of high ridge land bounded on the west
by Skaneateles Lake, and on the east by Otisco Lake and
Valley, descending abruptly on either side to these lakes
and valley, and gradually declining northerly from the
summit at Ripley Hill, situate near the southern boundary
of the town between this and the town of Scott, Cortland
County.
Ripley Hill is 1,122 feet above Skaneateles Lake, and
1,982 feet above tide water ; and from it can be seen in fair
weather, not only lands in the towns of Skaneateles and
Marcellus, which bound the town on the north, but the sur-
rounding country for twenty to thirty miles distant.
Cold Brook, which flows to the south through a beautiful
valley bearing its name, and the Inlet to Otisco Lake, are
the principal streams; but beyond the fact of their per-
ennial character, and that they mark the course of two deep
and beautiful valleys, they are not worthy of mention.
The soil is a sandy gravelly loam, and in early times was
covered by a dense growth of maple, beech and linden trees
on the uplands, interspersed with hickory, chestnut, pine
and hemlock trees in the deep valleys, and especially along
the eastern border of Skaneateles Lake.
Spafford boasts of no valuable mineral products within
its borders, yet there is a weak spring of salt water, and
indications of the presence of natural gas along the western
shore of Otisco Lake. A spring of sulphur water exists
near Borodino on the eastern shore of Skaneateles Lake,
and an outcropping of the Hamilton group of limestone
appears at different places in the southern portion of the
town. None of these natural products, however, have been
developed or turned into practical use.
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No earthworks or other marked indications of aboriginal
occupation of the lands in this town have been discovered,
yet tradition says that at one time there was an Indian
Encampment or settlement near Borodino, and different
Indian implements found in that vicinity, and burnt and
blackened soil discovered near that village indicates Indian
occupation at some remote period at that place. The dis-
tance between the two lakes is not very great, and an early
Indian trail from lake to lake ran through this locality,
rendering more than probable the truth of this tradition,
and that in aboriginal times these early peoples not only
had knowledge of these two beautiful lakes, but made abun-
dant use of the excellent fish with which they were so
bountifully supplied.
Town and County Organizations
The first white settler within the present limits of the
to^^Ti of Spafford was Gilbert Palmer, who has been credited
with taking up his abode in the southwest part of lot 76,
Marcellus, in the Spring of 1794, but in the absence of this
statement made by Clark, in his history of the County of
Onondaga published in 1849, which we assume was based
upon substantial grounds, we would put his occupation at
least one year earlier, as his deed from Thomas Ostrander,
the original soldier who drew this lot for services performed
by him in the Revolution, is dated September 21st, 1792.
To our mind it is more than probable that his occupation
was earlier than the date given by Clark.
With the settlement of Gilbert Palmer begins the true
history of this town, yet we trust that a brief statement
of the early transactions affecting the town and county
organization will be interesting.
The first division of the Province of New York into
dependencies or shires was by a law passed by the " Chief
Commander, Council and Representatives " November 1,
1683, ratified by the " Board of Trade," October 17, 1684,
by which the present State of New York was divided into
twelve Counties: New York, Westchester, Ulster, Albany,
Dutchess, Orange, Richmond, Kings, Queens, Suffolk, Dukes
and Cornwall. The boundaries of the County of Albany
are described as follows : " The County of Albany to con-
teyne the town of Albany, the Manor of Renslaerwyck,
Schonechteda, and all the villages, neighborhoods and
Christian Plantacons on the east side of Hudson's River
from Roeloffe Jansens Creek; and on the west side from
Sawyers Creek to the utmost end of Sarraghtoga."
Owing to a change made in the government of the Prov-
ince of New York following the usurpation of Jacob Leister
as Colonial Governor, commonly called the Revolution of
1690, a law was passed by the " Governor, Council and
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Assembly," October 1, 1691, in effect re-enacting the former
law of 1683, and at least so far as the County of Albany
was concerned the boundaries of that shire remained the
same. The boundaries of that county were not very
definite in either act, but subsequent statutes treated them
as covering a much larger area than a casual perusal of the
wording of these enactments would seem to warrant.
By an act passed March 12, 1772, by the " Governor,
Council and General Assembly " the County of Albany was
divided into three ocunties: Albany, Tryon and Charlotte.
The County of Tryon in substance is described as including
within its bounds all that part of the Province of New York
lying west of a line drawn north and south just west of the
Schoharie Patent.
By a separate act passed March 24, 1772, at the same
session by the " Colonial (Governor, Council and General
Assembly " the county of Tryon was divided into five towns
or districts: Mohawk, Stone Arabia, Canajoxharie, German
Flatts and Kingsland. The latter was bounded in substance
as follows: On the north by the Mohawk River — on the
east by a north and south line drawn through Little Falls,
— and on the south and west by the south and v/est colony
lines.
By an act of the Colonial Legislature passed March 8,
1773, the names of three of the towns or districts named
in the act of March 24, 1772, were changed as follows:
Stone Arabia district was changed to Palatine district;
German Flatts district was changed to Kingsland; and
Kingsland was changed to German Flatts district ; the latter
only affecting the territory included within the present
boundaries of the County of Onondaga. These are all the
enactments under the Colonial period making division of the
Province of New York affecting lands in the present County
of Onondaga.
The first Constitution of the State of New York, adopted
at Kingston, N. Y., April 20, 1777, during the progress of
the War of the American Revolution, recognized the exist-
ing counties of the State as follows: New York, Albany,
Dutchess, Westchester, Ulster, Suffolk, Queens , Orange,
Kings, Richmond, Tryon, Charlotte, Cumberland and Glou-
cester, fourteen in all ; the two latter are now a part of the
present State of Vermont.
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By an act of the New York Legislature passed April 2,
1784, the name of the County of Tryon, a name that had
become odious by acts of the Tory Colonial Governor of
that name, was changed to Montgomery; and by a sub-
sequent act passed March 7, 1788, the boundaries of that
county were described as follows: "And the County of
Montgomery to contain all that part of the State bounded
easterly by the Counties of Ulster, Albany, Washington
(formerly Charlotte) and Clinton — southerly by the State
of Pennsylvaina — and westerly and northerly by the west
and north bounds of the State."
By an act of the same date the State was re-divided into
towns, and the town of Whitestown created, which con-
tained within its limits the whole of the Military Tract and
certain lands east thereof extending below Utica, and was
named in honor of Judge White, the first white settler in
the present village bearing his name, four miles west of
the City of Utica.
On February 16, 1791, an act was passed dividing the
County of Montgomery into four counties: Tioga, Otsego,
Montgomery and Herkimer; the western part of the State
having been previously taken from Montgomery and created
into a separate county called Ontario. The County of
Herkimer in this division was briefly described as follows :
On the east by the Counties of Clinton, Washington and
Saratoga — on the south by Montgomery and Tioga — on the
west by Ontario — and on the north by the north bounds
of the State.
The next year, April 10, 1792, Whitestown was divided
and a new town created called Mexico, which included
within its limits all of the Military Tract lying east of the
west bounds of the townships of Homer, Tully, Marcellus,
Camillus and Hannibal.
On the 5th day of March, 1794, an act of the Legislature
was passed creating the County of Onondaga from the
County of Herkimer. It was made co-extensive with the
Military Tract, and was divided into eleven civil towns:
Homer, Pompey, Manlius, Lysander, Marcellus, Ulysses,
Milton, Scipio, Aurelius, Ovid and Romulus. The town of
Pompey was described as follows: "All that part of said
County comprehending the townships of Pompey, Tully and
Fabius, together with that part of the lands called the
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Onondaga Reservation bounded northerly by the road called
the Genesee Road, and westerly by the Onondaga Creek " ;
and the town of Marcellus was described as : "All that part
of said county comprehending the townships of Camillus
and Marcellus, together with all the residue of the Onon-
daga Reservation, and the residue of the several lands lying
south west of the said Salt Lake."
From time to time thereafter, by several acts of the
Legislature, the County of Onondaga as then created was
subdivided, and other counties taken therefrom until it
was finally cut down to its present limits, but without
change of the county organization so far as its present
territory is concerned.
On the 7th day of April, 1801, the County of Onondaga,
as then diminished in size, was re-divided into eight civil
towns : Solon, Homer, Fabius, Onondaga, Pompey, Manlius,
Lysander, Camillus and Marcellus. The town of Fabius
contained within its limits the townships of Fabius and
Tully, and all that part of the township of Semphronius
lying east of Skaneateles Lake; and the town of Marcellus
was reduced in size to the limits of the township of that
name.
On the 4th day of April, 1803, the civil town of Fabius,
and all that part of the township of Tully within the County
of Onondaga, and all that part of Semphronius east of
Skaneateles Lake, was created a civil town called Tully.
By an act of the Legislature passed April 8, 1811, a new
town was created as follows : " That from and after the
first Tuesday in April next all that part of the town of
Tully lying west of a line beginning at the north west
comer of Lot No. 25, and running south to the south line
of said town, be and hereby is erected into a separate town
by the name of Spaiford." The name of this town was
given in honor of Hon. Horatio Gates Spafford, the author
of the first Gazetteer of the State of New York. At this
point it seems proper to state that Mr. Spafford, in return
for the compliment paid him, donated to the town its first
blank book for the preservation of its records, and also
a fair sized library for the use of its inhabitants ; the record
book is still preserved in the custody of the Town Clerk,
but the library has long since been scattered and lost.
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The town of Otisco was created prior to the town of
Spafford and in part was taken from Tully.
Since 1811 several changes have been made in the
northern boundaiy of the town of Spafford, by adding to
and taking- from the town territory originally from the
township of Marcellus. These changes occurred from 1830
to 1842 inclusive, and during that period the people of this
and the adjoining towns of Marcellus and Skaneateles,
were greatly exercised and excited over the territorial
question.
In the year 1830 the town of Skaneateles was formed
from the western part of the town of Marcellus, and in
the same act, "All that part of the town of Marcellus lying
south and east of a line beginning on the north line of
Lot No. 71 at the north west corner of the town of Otisco
and running down the center of the Outlet of Otisco Lake
to the north line of Lot No. 62; thence west on the north
line of Lots Nos. 61, 62 and 60; thence in a straight line
west across Lot No. 59 to the center of Skaneateles Lake;
thence southerly along the center of said lake to the south
line of Marcellus, shall be annexed to and form a part of
the town of Spafford."
This act engendered much bitter feeling among certain
influential citizens residing within the limits of that part
of the town of Marcellus, thus summarily set off to the
town of Spafford; and the various town meetings there-
after were flooded with resolutions to be offered for pas-
sage in the different sessions of the Legislature; and the
latter body v/as importuned and petitioned from time to
time by the discontents to be restored to the town of Mar-
cellus or set off to the town of Skaneateles.
The town books show a continuous and apparently
acrimonious strife which resulted in the passage of the
act of March 18th, 1840, setting off to the towns of Mar-
cellus and Skaneateles all that part of the town of Spafford
lying north of the south lines of Lots Nos. 69, 70 and 71,
Marcellus.
This act, if anything, created more dissatisfaction than
the prior one; so on March 30th, 1842, the Legislature
passed an act compromising the matter by which Lots 70,
71, 68 and 69, Marcellus, were re-annexed to the town of
Spafford. This seemed to give full satisfaction, and the
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bounds of the town have remained the same ever since,
and from that time forward there has been no change in
town or county organization affecting the town of Spafford.
It will be noticed that the act of 1830, above referred
to, fixes the western boundary of that portion of the town
taken from Marcellus as the center of Skaneateles Lake,
a fact which v/ould have been the case by law in the absence
of anything said on the subject; but the reader's attention
is also called to the notable exception to this rule of law
and custom make by the Revised Statutes of the State of
New York as to the other portion of the town.
By these statutes the western boundary of this portion
of the County of Onondaga, and by operation of the law
the western boundary of the Tully end of the town of
Spafford, is along the westerly shore of Skaneateles Lake.
The Revised Statutes on this subject reads as follows:
" from a point in the south bounds of the township of
Marcellus southward along the westerly shore of Skanea-
teles Lake until it strikes the west boundary of the county
of Cortland, and thence northerly and easterly along the
latter county lines, &c." These are facts not only of in-
terest to the general reader, but of great importance as
affecting jurisdiction in civil and criminal proceedings.
MILITARY TRACT.
During the period of the American Revolution the mili-
tary forces of the Colony of New York were divided into
four classes: The Militia, Minute Men, The Levies, and
The Line.
The Militia, included all able bodied men residing within
the Colony who were between the ages of sixteen and
sixty, not specifically exempt by law.
Minute Men, were taken from the Militia by allotment
or volunteering, and were specially drilled, equipped and
kept in readiness for any emergency. This organization,
formed under a resolution of the Provincial Congress of
this Colony August 22, 1775, was discontinued about a
year afterwards by a like resolution adopted June 5, 1776.
The Levies, were drafts from the Militia, called into
service on special occasions, and could be required to per-
SPAFFORD, ONONDAGA COUNTY, NEW YORK U
form duty during the entire period of their enlistment
outside the Colony.
The Line, consisted of four regiments of Infantry, to
which were sometimes attached a company of cavalry, a
regiment of Artillery, and a corps of Sappers and Miners.
These were turned over to the General Government as a
part of the Continental Establishment, and were subject
to the orders of General George Washington.
Every member of these several forces was by law re-
quired to keep himself fully armed and equipped, and as
the people of this Colony had always been surrounded by
wild beasts, and the still more treacherous and sometimes
hostile bands of American Indians, most of the men com-
posing these forces were accustomed to handling fire arms
and were expert marksmen in the use of the same. What
was most needed to fit these men for efficient soldiers was
military training and such discipline as would render them
obedient to orders of their superior officers; this took
much time and instruction to accomplish.
The Line was organized by enlistment from the Militia
in 1775 and turned over to the Continental Establishment,
and as the term of service of these men was at first so
short, sometimes for only a few months and never to exceed
a year, the efficiency of this branch of service was poor
in comparison with the trained soldiers employed in the
British Army, against whom they were to contend.
The superiority of their marksmanship was not always
an offset for the superior discipline of the enemy. This
early became apparent, and on September 30th, 1776, a
letter was received by the Provincial Congress of this
Colony from John Hancock, President of the Continental
Congress, enclosing resolutions of that body. In that letter
he says : " You will perceive by the enclosed resolutions,
that Congress has come to the determination to augment
our Army and to engage troops to serve during the con-
tinuance of the war. The many ill consequences arising
from a short and limited enlistment of troops are too
obvious to be mentioned. In general, give me leave to
observe, that to make men acquainted with the duties of
a soldier requires time, and to bring them under proper
subordination and discipline not only requires time, but
has always been a work of much difficulty."
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"As the troops now in service belong to the several
States they will be considered as a part of their quota in
the American Army. You will please take such steps as
you judge necessary to ascertain what number of troops,
as well as what officers, will engage to serve during the
war." *****
The following are a part of the resolutions referred to,
viz:
" Congress, Sept. 16, 1776," Resolved, That eighty eight
battalions be enlisted as soon as possible to serve during
the present war, and that each state furnish their respec-
tive quotas in the following proportions, viz. :
New Hampshire 3 Battalions
Massachusetts Baj^ 15 Battalions
Rhode Island 2 Battalions
Connecticut 8 Battalions
New York 4 Battalions
New Jersey 4 Battalions
Pennsylvania 12 Battalions
Delaware 1 Battalion
Maryland 8 Battalions
Virginia 15 Battalions
North Carolina 9 Battalions
South Carolina 6 Battalions
Georgia 1 Battalion
" That twenty dollars be given as a bounty to each-non-
commissioned officer and private soldier who shall enlist
to serve during the present war, unless sooner discharged
by Congress.
" That Congress make provision for granting lands in
the following proportions, to the officers and soldiers who
shall engage in the service and continue therein to the
close of the war, or until discharged by Congress, and
representatives of such officers and soldiers as shall be
slain by the enemy. Such lands to be provided by the
United States, and whatever expense shall be necessary to
provide such lands, the said expense shall be paid and borne
by the States in the same proportion as other expenses of
the war, viz:
To a Colonel 500 acres.
To a Lieut. Colonel 450 acres.
To a Major 400 acres.
SPAPFORD, ONONDAGA COUNTY, NEW YORK 13
To a Captain 300 acres.
To a Lieutenant . 200 acres.
To an Ensign 150 acres.
To each Non Commissioned
Officer and Soldier 100 acres."
By a subsequent act of Congress passed August 12th,
1780, there was given " To a Major General 1100 acres, and
to a Brig. General 850 Acres."
In pursuance of this generous offer of the General Gov-
ernment many officers and men then in the Line from this
Colony re-enlisted, and some of those entering this service
afterwards enlisted for the war; so when peace was de-
clared there were many who had been members of the
Continental Army for periods ranging from four to seven
years. The First and Second Infantry, under Colonels
Goose Van Schaick and Philip Van Cortland, Col. John
Lamb's Artillery regiment and the Corps of Sappers and
Miners, had a more continuous service than other Con-
tinental organizations from this Colony, and eventually had
within their ranks a large proportion of these long term
service men, and even some of those who had originally
entered the service in other Continental organizations. By
reason of this fact, and the expressed intention of these
organizations to remain on frontier duty for the further
period of three years, in pursuance of the resolutions of
the Provincial Congress adopted March 20, 1871, the
Legislature of the State of New York March 27, 1783,
enacted, after reciting the resolutions of the Continental
Congress above quoted from, as follows:
" Whereas the Legislature of the State are willing not
only to take upon themselves to discharge the said engage-
ments of Congress so far as it relates to the Line of this
State, but likewise as a gratuity to the said Line and to
evince the just sense this Legislature entertains of the
patriotism and virtue of the troops of this State serving
in the army of the United States:
" Resolved, Therefore that besides the bounty of land
as promised as aforesaid, this legislature will by law pro-
vide that Major Generals and Brigadier Generals now
serving in the Line of the Army of the United States and
being citizens of this State, and officers and non-commis-
sioned officers and privates of the two regiments of in-
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fantry commanded by Colonels Van Schaick and Van Cort-
land, such officers of the regiment of Artillery commanded
by Colonel Lamb and of the Corps of Sappers and Miners
as were when they entered the service inhabitants of this
State, such of the non-commissioned officers and privates
of said last mentioned corps as are credited to this State
as part of the troops thereof, all officers designated by
Congress subsequent to the 16th of September, 1776, shall
have severally granted to them the following quantities of
land, to wit:
To a Major General 5500 acres.
To a Brig. General 4250 acres.
To a Colonel 2500 acres.
To a Lieut. Colonel 2250 acres.
To a Major 2000 acres.
To a Captain and Regimental
Surgeon each 1500 acres.
To every Subaltern and
Surgeon's Mate 1000 acres.
To every Non-Commissioned
Officer and Soldier 500 acres."
Owing to the delay incident to the extinguishment of
the Indian title, by Treaty, to the lands desired for distri-
bution under this act, and also the time required to survey
and plot the same when acquired, the lands eventually under
the act of 1783 were not ballotted for and patents issued
until July, 1790. In the meantime the soldiers entitled to
these bounty lands became disheartened, discouraged, and
an easy prey to speculators, who obtained the warrants for
most of these claims for a trifle compared with their true
value. Only one soldier receiving bounty lands under the
act of 1783 settled on the lands patented to him in the
town of Spafford, viz: Henry Wentworth (Winford), Lot
77, Marcellus; and he remained only a few years until he
had sold his possessions in parcels to actual settlers.
The Military Tract, as first laid out, consisted of twenty
five townships of one hundred lots of a mile square each,
and its boundaries were the same as that of the County of
Onondaga when first organized under the act of 1794. The
lines of lots were drawn east and west and north and south
and contained within their limits 640 acres of land: 100
SPAFFORD, ONONDAGA COUNTY, NEW YORK 15
acres in lieu of that given by the United States, 500 acres
by the State of New York, and 40 acres for roads.
If the soldier released his claim against the United
States he received a patent for the whole lot, otherwise
one hundred acres in the south east corner of the lot was
reserved, hence came the name : " State's Hundred." The
charge of the Government for surveying a lot was forty
eight shillings; if this was not paid by the patentee fifty
acres was also reserved, known as " Survey Fifty," this
could be taken from either corner of the lot excepting the
south east. Two lots in each township were reserved for
the propagation of the Gospel, and for Schools, and the
amount received from the sale of them was devoted to these
purposes.
A statement of the services performed by the soldiers
who drew lots in the town of Spafford is worthy of mention,
but space precludes any recital other than the following,
in reference to the recipients of bounty lands in this town :
NAMES OF SOLDIERS DRAWING BOUNTY LANDS
IN SPAFFORD.
Township of Tully.
Lot 1 Pr. Joseph Sevey, 2nd Co. 1st Regt. Inft.
Col. Goose Van Schaick 600 acres.
Lot 2 Pr. Joseph Ball, 2nd Regt. Inft., Col.
Philip Van Cortland 500 acres.
Lot 11 Fifer John Cheery, 2nd Regt. Inft., Col.
Philip Van Cortland 600 acres.
Lot 12 Sergt. Benjamin Lawrence, 2nd Regt.
Inft., Col. Philip Van Cortland 600 acres
Lot 12 Gospel and Schools 600 acres.
Lot 21 Surgeon Caleb Sweet, 1st Regt. Inft.,
Col. Goose Van Schaick 500 acres.
Lot 22 Pr. Richard Whalling, 1st Regt. Inft.,
Col. Goose Van Schaick 600 acres.
Lot 23 Matross George Allen, 1st Regt. Art.,
Col. John Lamb 600 acres.
Lot 24 Capt. Abraham Livingston, 1st Regt.
Inft., Col. James Livingston 600 acres.
Lot 31 Gospel and Schools 600 acres.
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Lot 32 Pr. John Pierson, Regt. Inf., Gen.
Moses Hazen's Congress Own 500 acres.
Lot 33 Capt. John C. Ten Broeck, 1st Re^. Inft.,
Col. Goose Van Schaick 600 acres.
Lot 34 Pr. Shorter Smith, 2nd Regt. Inft., Col.
Peter Van Cortland 600 acres.
Lot 41 Pr. John Frederick, 1st Regt. Inf., Col.
Goose Van Schaick 600 acres.
Lot 42 Ser^. Elias Wilcox, 1st Regt. Art., Col.
John Lamb _ 500 acres.
Lot 42 Corp. Joseph Smith, 2nd Regt. Inft., Col.
Philip Van Cortland 500 acres.
Lot 44 Pr. Nathaniel Brock, Regt. Inft., Col.
James Livingston „ 500 acres.
Township op Sempronius.
Lot 10 Major Nicholas Fish, 2nd Regt. Inft.,
Col. Philip Van Cortland 600 acres.
Lot 11 Pr. Aaron DeWitt, 1st Regt. Inft., Col.
Goose Van Schaick _ 450 acres.
Lot 12 Pr. Daniel Ogden, 1st Regt. Inft, Col.
Goose Van Schaick 600 acres.
Lot 13 Corp. Solomon Barnes, 1st Regt. Agt.,
Col. John Lamb 600 acres.
Lot 14 Pr. John Tucker, 4th Regt. Inft, Col.
Fred Weissenfels 500 acres.
Lot 21 Pr. John Wyatt, 1st Regt. Inft., Col.
Goose Van Schaick _ 600 acres.
Lot 23 Pr. Samuel Wheeler, 2nd Regt. Inft., Col.
Philip Van Cortland 600 acres.
Lot 23 Corp. Cornelius Ammerman, ^nd Regt.
Inft., Col. Philip Van Cortland 500 acres.
Township of Marcellus.
Lot 68 Surgeon Ebenezer Haveland, 2nd Regt.
Inft., Col. Philip Van Cortland...- 500 acres.
Lot 69 Sergt. Daniel Ludlam, 2nd Regt. Inft.,
Col. Philip Van Cortland._ _ 500 acres.
Lot 70 Sergt. and Matross Elijah Pierce, 1st
Regt. Art., Col. John Lamb 600 acres.
Lot 71 Pr. Burdice Campbell, 1st Regt. Inft,
Col. Goose Van Schaick. 500 acres.
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Lot 74 Gunner Frederick Dayton, 1st Regt. Agt.,
Col. John Lamb 600 acres.
Lot 75 Fifer John Factor, 2nd Regt. Inf., Col.
Philip Van Cortland 600 acres.
Lot 76 Second Lieutenant Thomas Ostrander,
3rd Re^. Inft., Col. Peter Gansevoort 500 acres.
Lot 77 Fifer Henry Winford, 1st Regi:. Inf., Col.
Goose Van Schaick 500 acres.
Lot 88 Pr. Philip Fields, 2nd Regt. Inft., Col.
Philip Van Cortland 500 acres.
Lot 89 Pr. Frederick Wybert, 1st Regt. Inft.,
Col. Goose Van Schaick 500 acres.
Lot 90 Sergt. Philip Steves, 2nd Regt. Inft., Col.
Philip Van Cortland 600 acres.
Lot 91 Capt. Peter L. Vosburgh, Regt. Inft.,
Col. James Livingston 600 acres.
Lot 96 Fifer Henry Davis, 1st Regt. Art., Col.
John Lamb 600 acres.
FIRST SETTLERS.
Under the law granting bounty land to soldiers a settle-
ment had to be made on the land within a limited period
subsequent to the date of the patent. As a majority of the
claims had been assigned by the soldiers to speculators
residing along the Hudson River, who had no intention of
making a settlement themselves, when the patents were
issued the lands were offered for sale in large quantities
and sold to purchasers at prices much below their true
value. The consequence was that many persons residing
east of the Hudson River in Washington, Saratoga, Van
Rensselaer, Columbia and Westchester Counties, came to
this town for settlement within a few years after the date
of the Patents in July, 1790. The first settlers, however,
were not confined to the river counties in this State, many
coming direct from Rhode Island, Connecticut, Massachu-
setts, New Hampshire and Vermont; they were all, how-
ever, with very few exceptions, of New England origin.
GILBERT PALMER AND HIS SON JOHN.
The first settler within the present limits of this town
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was Gilbert Palmer, who came from Amawalk, Westchester
County, New York. Mr. Joshua V. H. Clark, in his excel-
lent history of the County of Onondaga, says he came in
the Fall of 1794 and settled on Lot 76, Marcellus. He also
says he served for this lot in the War of the Revolution,
but as to this we know Mr. Clark is incorrect, as his deed,
which is dated September 21, 1792, is from Lieutenant
Thomas Ostrander, the soldier who drew this lot for serv-
ices which he performed in the New York Line, during
that war. Mr. Palmer did not purchase the State's Hun-
dred Acres on that lot, as it was excepted from the deed.
It is presumed from the fact that Mr. Palmer is not joined
by a wife, in any of his seven or eight conveyances made
from his original purchase, that he was a widower during
his residence in this town.
Mr. Clark relates the following pathetic incident in re-
ference to Mr. Palmer and his son John :
" In the Fall of the year 1794, soon after his arrival,
Mr. Palmer and his son, a youth of some sixteen years of
age, went into the woods chopping for the purpose of
making a clearing. Some time in the afternoon they felled
a tree, and as it struck the ground it bounded, swung
around and caught the young man under it. The father
at once mounted the log, cut it off, rolled it over and liber-
ated the son. Upon examination one of his lower limbs
was found to be badly crushed and mangled. He there-
upon carried the youth to his log hut close at hand, and
with all possible diligence made haste to his nearest neigh-
bors, some three or four miles distant, desiring them to
go and minister to his son's necessities, while he should
go to Whitestown for Dr. White. The neighbors sallied
forth with such comfortable things as they thought might
be acceptable in such a case ; but amidst the confusion, the
dense forest and the darkness of the night which had just
set in, they missed the way; and after wandering about
for a long time gave over pursuit and returned home, leav-
ing the poor sufferer alone to his fate. Early the next
morning all hands again rallied, and in due time found
the young man suffering the most extreme anguish from
his mangled limb, and greatly benumbed with cold. They
built a fire, made him comfortable with such palliatives
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as could be procured in the wilderness, and waited in
patience for the return of the parent.
" In the meantime he had proceeded rapidly on his
journey on foot and found Dr. White at Clinton, N. Y.
Here he eng-aged an Oneida Indian to pilot them through
the woods, by a nearer route than to follow the windings
of the old road. Dr. White and Mr. Palmer were at sundry
times fearful the Indian would lose the way, but upon
every expression of doubt on their part the Indian would
exclaim ' Me know,' and told them he would bring them
out at a certain log, which lay across the Outlet at the foot
of Otisco Lake. The Indian took the lead and within
forty-eight hours after the accident had happened the
Indian brought them exactly to the log, exclaiming tri-
umphantly, 'Me know.' Here Mr. Palmer arrived upon
familiar ground, and at once proceeded to the cabin where
he had left his son, whom they found greatly prostrated,
and writhing under the most intense suffering. No time
was lost. The case was thought desperate, the limb was
amputated at once half way from the knee to the thigh."
The youth recovered and lived many years afterwards.
He became a tailor, and Hon Sidney Smith said, " I re-
member him very well, going about his duties with his
wooden leg." In a deed dated August 21, 1797, given by
Gilbert Palmer to John Palmer, the latter is described by
the grantor as, " My son," and the latter is described as
then a resident of Westchester County, indicating that after
his terrible accident with the falling tree, related by Clark,
he must have returned to his old home in Amawalk, to
grow up, recover his strength, and possibly learn the trade
of a tailor, afterwards pursued by him while a resident
of this town.
Gilbert Palmer's last sale of land on Lot 76 was January
9, 1815, and the last sale of land on the same lot by John
Palmer was September 28, 1814. About the latter date
the two Palmers moved into the village of Borodino, where
the son carried on a tailor shop. In the year 1819 father
and son moved to Hannibal, Oswego County, New York,
where the former is supposed to have died. In John
Palmer's last deed dated July 2, 1819, he is joined by his
wife Rachel, whom he probably married after 1814.
Mr. Gilbert Palmer has always been credited with being
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a soldier of the American Revolution, and probably was
such, as a Gilbert Palmer served for a short tour of duty
in a Militia organization both in this State and in the
State of Connecticut, the latter being the home of a prolific
and influential branch of the Palmer family.
NAMES OF OTHER FIRST SETTLERS.
The next settler in town was undoubtedly Samuel Conk-
lin, who came in 1796 and purchased a farm of one hundred
nine acres of Gilbert Palmer, situate in the north west
corner of Lot 76, Marcellus. Mr. Conklin is credited with
having erected the first frame dwelling house in town,
which was built in 1807, near the north west corner of
Lot 76, Marcellus.
Mr. Conklin was followed, a few months afterwards, by
Henry Winford (or Wentworth), the only soldier who
settled on a lot in this town for which he served ; he came
in the Spring of 1797, and settled on lot 77, Marcellus. We
have no knowledge of him after May, 1809, the date of his
last deed, which was to John Campbell, who was probably
then a resident on said lot 77, Marcellus.
James Kirkum, from Fredericksburg, Dutchess County,
New York, settled on lot 77, Marcellus, in the Fall of 1797
or Spring- of 1798, but of him we know nothing more after
September 8, 1801, at which time he sold out to Justus
Blakely, then an owner of land and probably a resident on
said lot since June 11, 1799. These are all of whom we have
any knowledge who became settlers in town before 1800.
It is very difficult to tell just when the different persons
classed as first settlers took up their abode here, by reason
of the prevalent custom among them of going into occupa-
tion of the land under a contract, and a deed following
later, with a date several years posterior to the time of
their reputed claim of settlement. Nevertheless the dates
given in the following statement are believed to be reason-
ably accurate and trustworthy, notwithstanding some of the
dates may differ from those that have been published on
the subject.
According to recorded deeds the northern end of the
town led in the matter of settlement, both before and after
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the year 1800. Principally from the same source of in-
formation it appears Elias Harmon and Zadock Randall
settled on lot 77 or 76, Marcellus, Medad Harvey, William
Collins and Gershom Hall on lot 75, Marcellus, and Eben-
ezer Taylor and Nicholas Otis on lot 90, Marcellus, in
the year 1801 ; John C. Hillebert on lot 89, Marcellus, Jesse
Peck on lot 90, Marcellus, David Smith on lot 77, Marcellus,
Valentine and James Rathbone, Jeremiah Van Benschoten
and Jason Gleason on lot 74, Marcellus, and Benjamin
Chaffee on lot 69, Marcellus, in the year 1802 ; Edward Bur-
gess and Lemuel Smith on lot 77, Marcellus, and Warren
and John Kneeland on lot 74, Marcellus, in the year 1803.
All these, with perhaps the addition of Daniel Tinkham on
lot 89, Marcellus, who is reputed to have settled there in
1802, although his deed is dated in 1804, were made before
any one had broken silence in the Tully end of the town,
unless it be with the single exception made in favor of
Jonathan Berry, who is claimed to have settled on lot 12,
Sempronius, in the year 1803. Although Mr. Berry's first
residence was just over the southern line of Marcellus, in
the Tully end of the town, yet all his business and social
relations were with the people residing in the vicinity of
Borodino.
In the year 1804, Nathan Howard, from Stephentown,
N. Y., settled on Lot 74, Marcellus, Samuel Tyler, Asa Chap-
man, Alvah Smith and Joseph Enos on Lot 69, Marcellus,
Avery and Asa Mason and Nathan Parce on Lot 68, Mar-
cellus, Benjamin Sweet from Brutus, N. Y., on Lot 76,
Marcellus, and Jabish and Luther Hall and Samuel Maclure
on Lot 75, Marcellus.
In the year 1805 Isaac Hall made his first appearance
at Spafford Corners, and settled on the States 'Hundred
Acres on Lot 21, Tully; he probably should be called the
first settler in the southern or Tully end of the town. Mr.
Berry, as suggested above, should be classed with the
Northern or Marcellus settlers, with whom he soon after
and in 1810, became in fact as well as by association a part.
During this same year James Cravath also settled on Lot
21, Tully, (near where Joseph Cole resides in 1900), and
the name of Amos Miner, the well known inventor and
wheelwright, who settled on Lot 68, Marcellus, was added
to the northern settlers in town.
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The year 1806 witnessed the following additions to the
list of settlers, distributed as below : John Hunt and James
Fitzgerald, Lot 70, Marcellus, Levi Appleby Lot 89, Mar-
cellus, Gideon Colton from Whitestown, N. Y., Lot 10,
Sempronius, Job Smith from Greenfield, N. Y., Lot 74,
Marcellus, Peter Knapp, from Brutus, N. Y. on Lot 42,
Tully, John Babcock, the first Supervisor of the town, on
Lot 21, Tully, and Dr. Archibald Farr on Lot 11, Tully.
(Tradition says Dr. Farr carne in 1803, see subsequent
statement of him.)
From this time forward settlers came in quick succes-
sion, and distributed themselves over the town in both its
northern and southern extremities; among whom were the
following: Asahel Roundy, Samuel Seeley, Charles Whaley,
Joshua B. Bearse, Warren Baldwin, Alexander M. Beebe,
Joseph Humphrey, Cyrel Johnson, James Cornell, James
Hiscock, Oliver Hyde, Ebenezer Lewis, Benjamin Eggle-
stone, Joseph Baldwin, Benjamin Stanton, Joseph Bulfinch,
Moses and Joseph Prindle, Psalter Pullman, James Wood-
worth, Elias Davis, Joseph and Job L, Lewis, Silas Cox,
Aaron Bearse, Daniel and Edward Baxter, Messer Barker,
Daniel Scranton, Asa Ferry, Thomas Whiting, James
Wightman, Pardon Cornell, James McCausey, John Gould,
Benjamin Homer, James Avery, Jonathan Ripley, Elisha
Sabin, John Rainey, Shadrack, Daniel and Uriah Roundy,
Joel Palmer, Amos Palmer, John and Elihu Babcock, Bena-
jah Cleveland, Horace Pease, Ruluf Barber, Rathbone
Barber, Rathbone Barber, Jr., Thompson Burdick, David
Carver, James Williamson, William Bacon, Amos Bacon,
Isaac Town, Luke Miner, William O'Farrell, William D.
Cornell, Robert K. Kidney, Alpheus Winchester, Eleazer
Hillebert, William Strong, Samuel H. Yates, Loami W.
Johnson, Timothy Mills, Silas and Stephen Randall, Robert
Almey, Alexander Streeter, Truman Hinman, Jesse Manley,
Dr. Benjamin Trumbull, Stephen Crane, William Dedrick,
Amasa Kneeland, Dr. Jeremiah B. Whiting, Col. Phineas
and John Hutchens, Edwin S. Edwards, Augustin McKay,
Calvin Patterson, Daniel Wallace, Sr. and Jr., Samuel
Holmes, Peter Churchell, Abiathar Melvin, Amos Fisher,
Christopher Green, Osmer Orton, John and Samuel Gale,
Timothy Owen, Dr. John Collins and many others, which,
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SPAFFORD, ONONDAGA COUNTY, NEW YORK 23
for greater particularity, the reader is referred to the
second part of this work.
These men, as has been said before, were nearly all of
New England origin, mostly from Rhode Island, Connecti-
cut, Massachusetts, and Vermont, although a large pro-
portion of them came to this town from the counties in this
State east of the Hudson River, where they had made a
temporary sojourn prior to coming here. Perhaps the
County of Washington, north of Albany, contributed in
numbers as generously as any to these early settlers. They
were an energetic, God fearing, well informed and indus-
trious people; among whom were many remarkable men,
who have left an indelible impression upon the character of
the people of this town; and some of their descendants
have gone forth and made an honorable record for them-
selves in the several communities in which they have
resided. Of some of these we have given a more or less
extended account in the second part of this work, and will
not repeat here. We deeply regret, however, our inability
to do justice to all owing to want of further information
on the subject. Social life among the early settlers in this
town was much the same as in all other communities
settled by New England people, much that was good in it
and very little that was evil ; and yet there was a humorous
side to it as well as a serious one. We trust the following
anecdotes will not detract from the general high social
character of these settlers, nor be imacceptable to the
reader.
CAPTAIN ASAHEL ROUNDY.
Captain Asahel Roundy, whose family genealogy appears
in the second part of this work, came to Spafford on horse-
back from Rockingham, Vt., in 1807. His father, Uriah
Roundy, died in 1813 at the latter place, and soon after his
mother and brothers and sisters followed him from the old
home in Vermont and took up residences about him in this
town, from whence in after years they were scattered to
different parts of the Great West. Mr. Roundy obtained
his rank of Captain from the State of New York, he having
commanded a Company from this town in the 96th Militia
from this State in the War of 1812; that regiment having
done a short tour of duty in the Fall of 1814 in the vicinity
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of Sackett's Harbor, New York. In this service Phineas
Hutchens was his Lieutenant. At the time of receiving
orders for this service Captain Roundy was at Onondaga
Hill, attending a meeting of the Board of Supervisors of
Onondaga County, of which he was a m.ember, and at once
communicated the order to his subordinate. Lieutenant
Hutchens, who warned out the Company, came on to Onon-
daga Valley, and was there joined by Captain Roundy.
The Company was absent from home under his command
for about a month and was then discharged at Smith's Mills,
New York, November 22nd, 1814. Captain Roundy in-
herited his military instincts from a patriotic ancestry ; his
father, his grandfather, and three of his uncles did military
service in the American Revolution.
The general character of the early settlers of this town
is well illustrated by the following anecdotes told of Captain
Roundy, in a recent publication from which we copy:
" During the early history of the County of Onondaga
a large share of the litigation was in Justice Courts in the
different towns, and not in the higher Courts at the County
seat, as at the present day. On such occasions the best
talent in the county was employed, and every one suspended
work to be present at the law suit. At such times Captain
Roundy was frequeently called upon to try one side or the
other of these cases, and Hon. Daniel Gott, who in olden
times was considered one of the strongest trial lawyers in
the county, paid Captain Roundy the compliment of being
one of the strongest advocates before a jury of any man
he ever met. There were several remarkable men among
the early pioneers of this town, but it is no disparagement
of any of them to say that he was the most remarkable of
them all. He was six feet tall, well proportioned, a perfect
athlete, and an adept in all the sports participated in by the
men of those times. His education was acquired only in
the common school, but he had a remarkably retentive
memory, and his mind was well stored with valuable infor-
mation including much poetry and song, all of which he was
able to command and use to advantage, both in public speech
and in private conversation. He was a man physically and
mentally well equipped.
" The first settler at what is now known as Randall's
Point or Spafford Landing, on Skaneateles Lake, came to
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Spafford early, while the country was then a wilderness,
and undertook to build a log house at that place. In doing
so he broke his leg, by a log rolling upon him. Captain
Roundy, finding him in this condition, and no help being at
hand, took him upon his back and bore him through the
woods up an almost vertical pathway for a mile and a half
to his house, where he was cared for until his recovery.
" Captain Roundy at an early date purchased lands in
the eastern part of the town, and laid out and built the road
known as the Bucktail. Any one who has ever passed over
this road vnW be likely to remember that its ruggedness is
equal to its picturesqueness, which is saying a good deal.
In early times this road has been and is now a subject of
jest. At that time the two principal political parties in
this State were known as Bucktails and Clintonians. Of
the former he was at that time a prominent member, so
much so that the people dubbed the road the " Bucktail,"
in recognition of that fact, and it has borne the name until
the present time.
" At an early time one or two burials had been made in
what is known as the Spafford Cemetery, east of the Cor-
ners, which was then open pasture land. One day a
funeral party came there with a corpse for burial, and the
man who owned the land refused to let the interment take
place, whereupon as usual in such cases, an appeal was
made to Captain Roundy, who went to the owner and bought
and paid for the original land, (one acre) which forms a
part of this Cemetery, and the title to the same rests in his
name, or that of his descendants to this day.
" Before 1831 it was common to imprison people for debt.
On one occasion a man living on the main road in the
southern part of the town was in debt. He was abusive
and resisted arrest. For a long time he kept himself con-
cealed and locked indoors. He kept out of the way of the
oflficers, as they were not permitted to break down doors
to make such arrests. The officer went to Captain Roundy,
and he undertook to assist him in making service. It
was Winter time. He got a two horse rig, put on all the
bells he could find, and in the middle of the night drove
down to within half a mile of the man's house, got out, and
taking two bundles of straw under his arm, walked down
to the north end of the house, which had no windows in it.
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the only door of admittance being on the east side, near the
northeast comer of the house. Arriving at the place he
set fire to the straw, whereupon the man with the bells and
horses drove at a furious rate, yelling " Fire," which
brought the man to the door in his night dress, where he
was met by Captain Roundy, who took him gently in his
arms and turned him over to the officer.
"At an early date Captain Roundy built a sawmill, on
the upper falls of the stream, near the Bucktail road, with
a flume running over the precipice, and subsequently built
a carding mill a little higher up stream. About this time
a supposed distant relative of his came to town and claimed
to have knowledge of carding, fulling and making cloth.
He put him in charge of the mill. After he had been in
possession for a time, Captain Roundy thought it time to
go over and investigate, and count up the profits of his
venture. To his mute astonishment he found the building
entirely empty and his carding machinery carried away.
This he subsequently found hid under a straw stack near
the Village of Cardiff.
" At one time a log house stood on the village green, now
existing at the Corners, between the two churches. A
woman living in this house, after a time, was discovered to
have won the affections and regard of a neighboring
woman's husband, with whom she agreed to elope. On the
night fixed for this episode to take place, there was a gath-
ering of men on horseback in a distant part of the town,
and after the elopers had gotten a mile or so on their
journey, they were overtaken by this cavalcade and escorted
to Borodino. After a short stop they were persuaded to
return ; the man after making over his property to his wife,
was permitted to go away with his new found charmer
undisturbed.
" At an early date a dilapidated old house stood a short
distance east of the Corners. It was rumored that an
undesirable family had hired it, was going to move into
to^vn and likely to become a town charge. The people called
upon the owner and tried to dissuade him from letting the
property to these people; but he persisted, and was more
or less abusive, much to the annoyance of his neighbors.
One fine morning, just before the new settlers were to
arrive, people were surprised to find this house razed to
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SPAFFORD, ONONDAGA COUNTY, NEW YORK 27
the ground. The owner was furious and charged one of
his neighbors with perpetrating the mischief, went to
Captain Roundy, who was then Justice of the Peace, and
swore out a warrant for the man. At that time the party
to a criminal or civil proceeding could not be sworn on the
trial in his own behalf, and the defendant was often at
the mercy of unscrupulous witnesses. At the time of the
trial every one turned out and very much regretted the turn
of affairs, which seemed to be against the defendant. The
complainant produced a witness who swore that he was
passing along the road in the night, saw the defendant
tearing down the house, and he tried to get away from him,
but he knew him and was certain of his identity. The
defendant was so unfortunate as not to be able to prove
even an alibi. When the case was rested, much to the sur-
prise of every one present, Captain Roundy discharged the
defendant, claiming that there was no cause of action
against him. Of course it was a high handed proceeding,
but every one submitted because it was Captain Roundy's
decision, and they all believed that he must have some inter
light not discernible to the rest of them. Sometime after-
wards one of his daughters said to him : ' Father, how
could you make such a decision, when you knew that wit-
ness swore point blank to the guilt of the defendant, and
there were no mitigating circumstances?' 'Well,' he said,
' If you will never say anything about it, I will tell you.
I knew that witness lied, for Colonel Hutchens and myself
pulled down that building.' "
URIAH ROUNDY, ESQ.
Uriah Roundy, one of the sons of Capt. Asahel and
Hannah (Weston) Roundy, was born in the town of Spaf-
ford, July 24, 1819. Like his father before him he was
prominent in his native town, and was frequently called
upon to perform matters of public trust and confidence.
Among the public offices held by him were : Supervisor of
the Town of Spafford, three terms, Justice of the Sessions
of the County of Onondaga two terms. Excise Commissioner
one term, (from which he resigned), and Loan Commis-
sioner of the County of Onondaga two years. He was also
Justice of the Peace in Spafford between twenty-five and
thirty years, and Postmaster at Spafford Corners for many
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years ; he was an incumbent of both of the latter offices at
the time of his decease which occurred May 29th, 1902.
For many years prior to his decease nearly all the Wills,
Mortgages, Deeds and other legal documents executed in
his portion of the town were drawn by him, and he was
frequently called upon to perform other duties of an
attorney at law. He married Mary Ann Tinkham and by
her had two sons, Adelbert and Jay C. Roundy, the former
only surviving him.
PULLMAN FAMILY.
Captain Asahel Roundy, during his active career, was the
owner of considerable real estate in this town, and at one time
owned jiearly all of Lot 32, Sempronius. This he conveyed
in parcels to different settlers, who moved on the lands,
cleared away the forests, built houses and reared families
there. Among these early settlers, to whom he conveyed
land on this lot, v/as Psalter Pullman. He cleared away
the timber and settled on the farm afterwards known as
the Rathbone Barber, Jr., farm, and now (1900) owned by
the estate of Edwin S. Van Benschoten, deceased. On this
farm most, if not all, of Mr. Pulhnan's children were born.
Among them was Lewis Pullman, the father of George M.
Pullman, the late multi-millionaire and sleeping and palace
car magnate, of Pullman, Illinois, whose decease is a matter
of recent occurrence. Psalter Pullman moved to the
western part of this State about 1829. There are very few
now living who have any remembrance of him or of any
of his family, except his son, John Pullman, who married
Mabel Pettis, sister of Ebenezer Haven's wife. He con-
tinued to reside here for about twenty years after the
departure of his father.
John Pullman at one time resided on the Skaneateles and
Homer road, about one mile south of Spafford Corners, and
kept a house of entertainment there called " The Nimble
Sixpence." The house and barn were close to the road on
either side, and passers by at night were much annoyed
by John's cattle, who were wont to sleep in the highway
for want of a better barnyard. " The Nimble Sixpence,"
according to the memory of " Old Inhabitants," had only
one room in it, and that was occupied by Mr. Pullman's
numerous family as a bed room, living room, dining room,
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SPAFFORD, ONONDAGA COUNTY, NEW YORK 29
pantry, etc., besides being used as a bar-room and lounging
place for guests, after Mr. Pullman set himself up in busi-
ness as a tavern keeper. It is probable that Mr. Pullman's
patrons were mostly confined to neighbors' boys, who
thought it great sport to give landlord Pullman an occasional
house warming. Mr. Pullman was an honest, upright and
well meaning man, but possessed of certain vagaries and
crank notions, which leads those who knew him to believe
that George M. Pullman, the great Palace Car magnate,
absorbed all the brains and nervous energy of the entire
Pullman family.
After the removal of the major part of the Pullman
family to the western part of the State, as above stated, an
occasional correspondence was kept up between John Pull-
man, who was left behind, and other members of the family.
One day John Jullman came to the village Postmistress with
an unsealed letter in his hand, and with unfeigned pride,
asked her to examine it, saying : " Don't you think that
pretty good writin' for a man like me?" She took the
letter in her hand, examined it, and found among other
things that Mr. Pullman had made an indiscriminate use
of capital letters, without any reference to any known rules
on the subject, sometimes even placing them in the middle
of a word. She turned to Mr. Pullman and said : " Mr.
Pullman, your writing is very good indeed, but why don't
you put your capital letters at the beginning of words and
sentences, as other people do?" " Well," says he, " I think
that makes my writin' look a leetle better to scatter them
more evenly through the letter, than to bunch them up as
some people do."
COLONEL PHINEAS HUTCHENS.
Colonel Phineas Hutchens was born in Herkimer County,
New York, in 1785, and came to this town and settled on
Lot 22, Tully, in 1811. He remained on the farm where
he first settled, until his decease in 1870. He was a man
of great physical strength, strong personality, a natural
leader of men, a prominent member of the Baptist Church,
and led a blameless life. His personal influence was
always wielded for the good of the community in which he
resided, yet, having a strong sense of humor in his make
up, he fully enjoyed all the sports and military functions
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which were popular in those times and engaged the atten-
tion of the people. In those matters, and in the conduct
of the public affairs of the town, he was always a cordial
and able assistant of his life long friend. Captain Asahel
Roundy. Prior to 1830, when a portion of the township
of Marcellus was added, all public business of the town
centered about Spafford " Comers," where these two men
resided, and their influence was most potent.
Both were strong men, yet their influence and control
over their fellows was much strengthened by their sympa-
thetic and fun loving natures.
ROSWELL HUTCHENS.
Mr. Hutchens had a son, Roswell Hutchens, who in-
herited his humor, purity and fun, but not his commanding
physical strength and personality. " Roz," as he was
familiarly called, died January 16, 1854, at the age of thirty-
three years, unmarried, yet where is there a man or woman,
who was a boy or girl residing within a radius of ten miles
of Spafford " Corners," in his time ,who does not cherish
a pleasant recollection of him and his fun loving disposition.
His sleigh or wagon was never so small or overloaded as to
prevent him giving a boy or girl a lift on the way to and
from school, and generally his sleigh or wagon had as
many boys and girls upon it as could safely hang on. In
the Fall of the year " Roz " ran the Hutchens' Cider Mill,
which at noon hour of school days was a favorite resort for
boys to congregate, eat dinner and drink cider. No boy
was ever refused a drink of cider and as much of the
beverage as he could carry away in his dinner pail. Like
his father before him he was a lover of fine horses and
was seldom without a pair of his own, yet like most
admirers of horsekind he was a successful and mveterate
horse trader: — in fact he would trade anything he owned
if he got his price. His desire for traffic frequently led
him from home, and it was not unusual for these absences
to be extended for weeks at a time; then followed the tri-
umphal home coming, when all the people left their work
and gathered along the highway to witness the entertain-
ment which " Roz " was sure to have in store for them.
On one of these occasions, it will be remembered, that the
procession consisted of two or more spans of horses attached
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to an ordinary farm wagon, bearing a hay-rack filled with
all kinds of household goods and farming implements.
Following this came a yoke of oxen, a dairy of cows, and
a drove of sheep. The entire outfit comprised everything
necessary to stock and run a farm except a wife, and no
doubt there was some disappointment in not finding among
his belongings this essntial commodity.
At another time he brought home a camel-back pacer
mare, as ugly looking a nag as man ever derw a line over,
but as speedy as she was ugly, and that was saying a good
deal. For a month or more after that every farmer boy,
who thought he had a horse particularly fast, had a chance
to test his claim on the road. It is not probable that
" Roz's " sisters or girl friends were ever seen going to
church or a quilting bee behind this animal, yet all were
willing before a month went by to concede the right of way
to him and his pacer mare. " Roz " was a great favorite
with old and young, and on festive occasions among his
acquaintance, was not only present but generally the center
of interest, where innocent fun held sway. No one pre-
sumed to make him the subject of a practical joke but once,
and that nearly broke his heart.
" Roz " brought home a raw-boned animal, called a Pie-
balled horse, of very light color and in bad condition; this
was put to pasture in a back lot, to recuperate and gain
flesh, as a basis for a future trade. With his long ears and
measly condition he looked more like a mule than a horse,
so much so, that a wag thinking to define his identification
in the animal kingdom more perfectly, trimmed his tail
down to a " nubbin " at the end, and cut his mane down
to a row of short bristles along the top of his neck; then,
still more to improve the identification, he put a few stripes
around his body with a brush and a pot of black paint ; the
animal, thus disfigured, was then turned loose to meet the
doting gaze of his master. When " Roz ' discovered this
transformed quadruped he was furious, and for the first
time in his life was unable to see the funny side of a joke.
The wag soon discovered this unusual element in " Roz "
nature, and wisely kept his identification so securely that
" Roz " died without knowledge of the creator of this, his
first and only specimen of the Zebra kind.
Among the efforts made to discover the person who per-
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petrated this practical joke, was one made by " Ranse "
Coon, the village harness-maker. At " Roz " solicitation
he jyot a small boy, who was supposed to know something
of the matter, into his shop and inquired of him who dis-
figured " Roz " horse. The boy being reluctant to answer,
Coon pressed the question, by saying he might as well tell
then as at any time, for if he did not answer he would be
brought in Court and made to swear. The boy replied that
his mother told him "never to swear." Coon, perceiving
the boy did not understand the nature of an oath, pressed
his question still more. Finally the boy, in despair,
exclaimed, " Well, if I have got to swear, I say B — G —
I don't know anything about it." This settled the examina-
tion, and " Roz," being told the result, was so well pleased
that he gave up farther investigation.
On the face of the tombstone placed at the grave of
Roswell Hutchens, in Spafford Cemetery, is firmly set a
small daguerrotype of himself, in a plug hat; this, when
last seen by the writer, after a lapse of nearly fifty years
since it was first put there, was as perfect as when first
taken.
AMOS MINER.
Amos Miner was born in Norfolk, Litchfield County,
Conn:, November 10th, 1776. He came to Marcellus, (now
Skaneateles), about the year 1800, and settled on a cross-
road leading east from the lake road, and about two miles
south of the village of Skaneateles. Here he built himself
a shop and commenced the manufacture of his famous
accelerating wheel-heads, to be attached to spinning wheels
then in use by farmers' wives for making woolen yarn. In
the Fall of the year 1805 he sold his possessions in Skan-
eateles and located on Lot 68, Marcellus, (now Spafford),
but soon after established himself in Factory Gulf, where,
as a member of the firai of Miner, Deming and Sessions, he
built a factory for the manufacture of his celebrated accel-
erating wheel-heads and other wooden articles. Among
the articles invented and manufactured by him about this
time were Miner's Patent Pail, Miner's Half Bushel
Measure, Miner's Wooden Bowls, Miner's Grooved Window
Sash, and Miner's Wooden Pumps. He also manufactured
many other articles from wood, then in common use.
THOMAS MAXSON FOSTER
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After a few years Miner sold his interest in the busi-
ness at Factory Gulf, and located himself at the head of
another Gulf on Lot 76, Marcellus, leading- into Otisco
Lake, where he built another factory, and a grist mill,
commonly called " The Pudding- Mill," from the fact that
Miner here ground large quantities of Indian meal, com-
monly used by the early settlers as an article of food, under
the name of pudding and milk. Miner's superior inventive
genius was more often brought into requisition in the
manufacture of tools and machines used in the process of
manufacture of his inventions, than in the conception and
completion of the finished product itself.
The genius of Miner was particularly illustrated by the
manner in which he accumulated and applied the power to
run his machinery at the mill, situate at the head of the
Pudding Mill Gulf. The mill was so located on the edge
of a precipitous rock, that the water coming to his mill
passed over a series of three overshot wheels, one above
another, giving him the accumulated power of three wheels
instead of one.
Miner, like most men of his class, was a better inventor
than financier, so when his invention was completed and on
the road to success, he generally tired of it, sold out, and
others were premitted to reap the fruits of his genius
instead of himself. The Pudding Mill venture was no
exception to the rule, so another was soon in possession of
the mill, and miner was engaged in starting another factory
or mill at Mottville, on the outlet of Skaneateles Lake.
From there he soon moved further dov/n stream, to a place
midway between Elbridge and Jordan, and was finally lost
sight of in the Far Distant West. When he left the State
it is said he carried with him the sum of $10,000, the
accumulation of a lifetime, while others accumulated great
wealth, as a product of his brain power and inventive
genius.
BARN MOVING.
In the early fifties Asahel Madison Roundy was a mer-
chant at Spafford " Corners,' and owned and occupied the
Joseph R. Berry store (now occupied by John Van Ben-
schoten), and Thomas Maxson Foster was and had been
for many years his clerk. This store was a favorite place
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for men and boys to gather evenings, tell stories and dis-
cuss matters of general interest. Before Mr. Roundy's
death, which occurred in 1857, an incident occurred which
Mr. Foster, familiarly called " Mac," related to the writer,
and we here transcribe in his own language :
" A short time before Asahel M. Roundy died he pur-
chased a part of the Samuel French farm, west of the road
and just south of the " Corners." Being dissatisfied with
the location of the barn on the premises, he undertook to
move it nearer the road and the house on the place. He
made a bee and invited his nieghbors to assist in the moving,
which was in the old way, with rollers under each corner
of the building, revolved by hand spikes inserted in holes
made for the purpose. After two half days' effort the
building still stood within a rod of the place where it was
at the beginning, and Ase came in to the store where I was
at work, discouraged, and said to me: 'I don't believe I
can ever get that bam moved in the world.' I replied:
* If you will leave that job to me I will get it moved, and
won't go near it either, but if you do you must not inter-
fere.' 'Well,' says he, 'you go ahead, and I will stand
aside and you can do as you please.'
" Roundy, at that time, was a prominent member of the
Baptist Church and a pronounced advocate of temperance.
After the matter was turned over to me I waited until one
evening, when a number of men had gathered in the store
to tell stories and discuss the news of the day, and I said
to them quietly, that on such a day I intended to move
* Ase's ' barn, and I wanted them to turn out and help me
and invite their friends. That there would be plenty of
lemonade for all, and I would see there was plenty of stick
in it to suit their taste; and if they came I would see they
had a good time.
" When the day arrived the clans began to gather ; there
was not only enough to move the building, but a goodly
number to spare. There was Silas Randall and two or
three of his boys, Avery Burdick, Russel Rounds, Jencks
Harrington, Uriah Morris, and many others whose names
I cannot recall ; most of whom have long since gone to their
final reward. They were honest and faithful men, good and
generous neighbors, and every one of them fond of good
cheer and of the sports of that age.
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" As I began to mix my first pail of lemonade, Silas Ran-
dall sang out : " Well, boys, if we are going to move that
building let us be about it," and all hands following his
lead and moved off for the bani. By the time the last man
had moved out of the store I had my lemons, sugar and water
in the pail, and I went down cellar and drew a generous
measure of alcohol, and added that to the other ingredients
in the pail ; I then started for the barn. When I got there
I saw that Silas Randall was in charge and every man in
his place, so I carefully put my lemonade where all could
see it and returned to the store. On my return I took do-wn
another large milk pail and commenced my second decoction
of lemons, sugar, water and alcohol. As I pursued my work
I looked out of the store window and saw that the barn
was not only moving, but seemed to be walking to its place
of destination. When I had prepared my second pail of
lemonade I again started for the moving. On the way I
met M M , who accosted me, saying : " Mac ! there
seems to be plenty of help without me, so I guess I will go
home and hoe my potatoes. I did not get any of the other
lemonade, and if you are willing, I would like a bit of this/
I put down the pail, and he took the tin dipper and took up
a generous draught of the beverage. As he put it to his
lips, I said : ' M , be careful, there is a stick in that and
I don't know the size of it.' He either did not hear the
remark, or did not heed the caution, and quaffed off the
contents of the dipper without a halt, and started for home.
M M and his wife were at that time well known
church members and professed strict teetotalers, hence my
caution; which I would not have deemed necessary for
others. When I arrived at the building it was nearly in
place, so I put down the pail, stood around and looked on.
Before the building, with his back to the front, stood the
tall form of Silas Randall, with his bare brawny arms
gesticulating like a bandmaster. ' Here, take hold of this
plank, Avery, and put it do^^Ti here. Take hold of that
handspike, Nathan. Russel Rounds, come round here and
help William,' sang out his clear voice, and then: 'All
together. He! Hoe! Hee! He! Hoe! Hee and the
building moved like a creature of life. It did not take long
to put the barn in place, and then came the jacking up of
the building and the leveling of the sills. There was no
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use for me, so I started back for the store. As I walked
along I looked do-wni the road and saw Mrs. M , with her
sunbonnet in her hand, coming towards me as fast as she
could walk. When she overtook me she said : * Mac, what
has M been doing up here to-day?' I said: ' Nothing;
there was sufficient without him, so he went home. Why?'
She replied : ' I never saw him act so before. He came
home, took his hoe and went into the patato patch, and there
he stood leaning on it. The moment he tried to do any-
thing, he pitched forward and could hardly keep his feet;
I did not know what was the matter.' I said : ' He is not
to blame, if any one is it is me ; but no one is to blame. I
told him there was a stick in the lemonade, but I guess he
did not understand it. You go home, put him to bed, and
he will sleep it off by morning. Don't say anjrthing to any-
one about it. He is all right.' She turned around and went
home. As M lived afterwards to a good old age I guess
the lemonade did him no harm.
" After the moving was completed the young folks gath-
ered on the village green and played ball, and the old folks
looked on and applauded the winners. At tea time all went
home, feeling that they had a good time. No one seemed
to be worse for having drank of the lemonade with a stick
in it."
DANIEL WALLACE, JR.
This brief sketch of first settlers would be incomplete
without some reference to the large, influential and respect-
able Wallace family, who were inhabitants of the northern
portion of the town. Daniel Wallace, Sr., the head of the
family, came from Pittstown, Rensselaer County, New
York, and settled on Lot 88, Marcellus, about 1808. He had
a large family, some of whom were born before coming here
and some afterwards. They were all persons of marked
character, but possibly none of his sons were better known
than his son Daniel Wallace, Jr., who at one time was one
of the largest real estate holders in town. " Uncle
Daniel," as the latter was familiarly called, died at a
great age and was buried in Borodino Cemetery. He
always claimed his family was of Scotch origin, but the
old stock spelled the name Wallis in a very un-Scottish way.
Uncle Daniel took great interest in town affairs, and his
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neighbors early discovered the neecssity of consulting his
wishes in such matters. Political questions were of vital
importance to him, and all measures submitted to public
vote usually received his cordial support or unyielding
opposition. He was a lifelong Democrat, and like most
members of that party, was generally opposed to new inno-
vations, or so called reform movements. He firmly believed
in the right of every man to think and act for himself in
relation to religious and political questions, and therefore
rebelled against all restaints in such matters. When the
temperance movement was first advocated it met his deter-
mined opposition; and when local option as to the sale of
intoxicating liquors become a question of town politics he
was furious, and threw his strength with the License Party.
There are some still living who well remember the bitter
fight which Uncle Daniel and his followers put up in the
Special Election, held April 27, 1847, when the question of
License or No License was first determined by vote of the
town. The Liquor, or License men, turned out early and
strong, and during the fore part of the day it looked as if
the question was going their way, and Uncle Daniel was
happy, but in the afternoon the other side had their inn-
ings, and the question was finally determined in favor of
the No License men, by a vote of 181 to 171. This was too
much for Uncle Daniel and for years afterwards he did not
forget the leaders of the men who were opposed to him in
this movement.
Uncle Daniel was a thrifty and prosperous farmer and
at one time raised many turkeys for the Syracuse market.
In the Fall of the year it was not uncommon, at evening
time, to see turkeys roosting on the fences and trees for
a quarter of a mile on either side of his house; and at
Thanksgiving Syracuse was made happy by the luscious
character of his. birds, and Uncle Daniel was enriched by
Syracuse silver received in return. The frequent reoccur-
rence of these annual visits to Syracuse obtained for him
the sobriquet of " Turkey Wallace," a name which he bore
to the time of his decease.
Uncle Daniel had a large, intelligent and respectable
family of children whom, for reasons best known to him-
self, he named after distinguished notables and royal per-
sonages which attracted his attention, as follows : " Simon
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Bolivar, Napoleon Bonaparte, Santa Anna, Maria An-
toinette, Demetrius Ypsilanti, and Andrew Jackson."
Andrew Jackson was a name particularly to his liking, for
the first of that name having died young, he named a second
after that distinguished character in American history.
SCHOOLS.
Like other communities settled by New England people,
the first settlers in town had hardly put their things to
rights in their log cabins before they organized schools and
churches. The first school teacher at Spafford " Corners "
was Hannah Weston, who came from her home in Skan-
eateles Village and returned to it weekly on horseback ; the
road through the wilderness between the two places not
permitting of any other mode of travel. This school, the
beginning of District School No. 2, was taught in a log
cabin, standing near the present residence of Nathan Ran-
dall, two doors south of Roundy's store in 1900. Miss
Weston was born in Fitz William, N. H., September 22,
1786, and came to Skaneateles with her parents before 1800,
among the first settlers in that village. It was while teach-
ing that school she made the acquaintance of Captain Asahel
Roundy, with whom she was afterwards united in marriage,
January 19, 1809.
The school thus organized was continued for a short time
at the place where it was first instituted, but soon after,
as a compromise between the patrons residing on the two
main thoroughfares running north and south through this
portion of the town, a building specially designed for school
purposes was erected on " The Hill," a quarter of a mile or
more east of the " Corners," on a cross road leading from
one to the other of these two leading highways.
The first two or three generations of village boys and
girls who attended school on " The Hill,' have many reminis-
cences to relate in reference to these times, pleasant and
otherwise. We imagine, however, that none of them were
ever exactly satisfied with that location for a school house.
In the Summer it was dreary, nearly half a mile from any
residence, and in Winter it was the bleakest and windiest
place on earth. The cold northwest wind, coming over
Skaneateles Lake, had a free and unobstructed sweep of
twenty miles or more, and struck the school building fair
SPAFFORD, ONONDAGA COUNTY, NEW YORK 39
and square in its full strength and vigor. In looking back
to those days we only wonder why the building was not
blov/n away. It took many cords of three foot wood to
feed that old box stove, in use at that time, to keep the
boys and girls in comfort on the back seats and their ink
stands from freezing. Every scholar had to carry a dinner
pail in those days, the noon hour being too short to permit
going to the nearest house for the mid-day meal. In Winter
the east and west road between the school house and village
v/as always drifted full, so it was imperative for teams and
pedestrians to pass through the open fields, in going from
one to the other of these places. Then there were many
other objections to this location for a school house that a
pupil could allege, besides those already noted, and not least
of these was the fact, that it was altogether too near a fine
old grove of beech woods, which was just opposite of the
school house grounds. Teaching school in those times was
very niuch like driving oxen; it was attended with much
talking and a dextrouse use of a beech gad. We doubt if
there is any boy living or dead, who attended school on
" The Hill," who has not a score of vows registered in High
Heavens to " lick " some teacher who taught in that old
house, " as soon as he got big enough to do the job." There
was something in the very air of that old school house to
make a schoolmaster " whale ' a boy ; and so far as heard
from there were no exceptions to the rule in teachers.
About 1824 or 1825 the first school building accidentally
(?) burned and the boys and girls were happy. But the
time was not then ripe for a change, so a new building was
promptly erected on the old site to replace the old one.
During the interim school was continued in Webster's barn,
then standing a few rods east of the village cemetery. The
second building was used for school purposes until about
1860, when a new generation of fathers having come In
power, a new building was erected just south of the Comers,
where school has been taught ever since.
Among the pleasing incidents which occurred at school
on the hill was the raising of a flag and pole. At a Summer
term the small boys had under discussion the subject of
pole and flag, when the school mistress good naturedly
observed, that if they would erect the pole she would furnish
the flag. This put the youngsters to work, and very soon,
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with the aid of their friends, the pole was in place, obligat-
ing the teacher to perfonn on her part. In her dilemma
she engaged the services of the village wagon maker, who
professed knowledge on the subject of flags, to furnish the
article required. At the time appointed the flag was pro-
duced ; it consisted of a strip of white cotton cloth striped
with paint in all colors of the rainbow, and on the field,
where stars usually are placed, instead appeared this motto :
" What man has done, man can do again. No. 2 will try
it."
The flag was a grievous failure, for when hoisted to
the top of the pole, like any piece of oil cloth, which in fact
it was, it would not float in any zephyrs known to Spafford
Hills. Yet, the motto was there and made an indelible
impression, which we trust will endure as long as a scholar
of that old school shall survive to repeat the sentiment.
In April and May, 1813, the original town of Spafford
was divided into five school districts, very much as now,
with the exception of the Spafford Hollow district, which
was then included in, and afterwards taken from, the Cold
Brook district. The Nunnery district was then designated
as No. 1, Spafford Corners as No. 2, East Side Hill as No.
3, Cold Brook as No. 4, and the North district, sometimes
called the Woodworth District, as No. 5.
From time to time subsequent to this first school order,
slight changes were made in district lines to accommodate
patrons of these schools ; and from time to time, to meet the
wants of school children, new districts were created out of
old ones, or discontinued, as the exigencies of the times
seemed to require. Among the changes made which seem
worthy to be noted are the following :
In 1817 School District No. 2 was divided by a line drawn
east and west though the center of Lot 31, Tully. and the
southern portion created into a new district, known as No.
6. The next year (1818) Ripley Hill was taken from
School District No. 4, and, after a separate existence as
School District No. 7 for a short time, was finally dissolved
in 1821, and its territory added to School District No. 6.
In this district school was first taught in a log house which
stood west of the highway on Lot 41, Tully, just south ot
Prindle's Woods. In 1831 a new frame building was
erected east of the same highway and at its junction with
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41
a cross road south of Barker's house, leading to Ripley
Hill. In the latter building school was continued until
the Spring of 1850, when this district was dissolved and
its territory re-annexed to School District No. 2. At this
time the school building was sold, moved to Spafford
Corners and re-modeled into a dwelling house, lately occu-
pied by Alexander Green. This house is now the first
house south of Roundy's store, on the west of the highway.
In January, 1824, after a protracted controversy among
the patrons of School District No. 3, over the location ol
a new school building, that district by order of the School
Commissioners was divided into two districts numbered
3 and 7, but in 1835 the latter was dissolved and its terri-
tory re-annexed to School District No. 3.
In 1831, after the annexation of a portion of the town-
ship of Marcellus to the original town of Spafford in the
prior year, the schools then existing in the new territory
were recognized and re-numbered, so as to make their
numbers consecutive in order with those then existing In
this town. There have been some changes in these school
districts since that time, owing principally to changes in
town lines by acts of the Legislature of the State of New
York, so there are now in the Marcellus end of the town,
three full districts instead of seven, as at the beginning
of 1831.
In addition to the schools above enumerated there have
always been joint districts, supported by this and adjoining
towns, notably the Scott and Ripley Hill District, and the
school in Spafford Hollow, supported by the towns of
Spafford, Otisco and Tully.
It seems unnecessary to add that these schools have been
for years free schools, supported by public tax, are under
the general supervision of State authorities, and, like all
schools of the State, are justly commended for their
excellence and efficiency.
CHURCHES AND LIBRARIES.
One of the oldest churches in the County of Onondaga is
that of the Baptist Church at Thorn Hill, which was organ-
ized largely through the instrumentality of Elder Elias
Harmon, its first pastor, who came to this town and settled
on Lot 77 or 76, Marcellus, on or before February 25, 1801.
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The first records of this church are dated April 19, 1806,
but the general belief is that the organization of the church
preceded that date. The incorporation of the society under
the name of " First Baptist Religious Society of Marcellus,"
took place May 7, 1815, when the church building was
begun, and at which time Alexander Enos, Elijah Cody,
John Wiltsey, Medad Harvey, Joshua Chandler and John
Hunt, were made trustees. It is probable that the church
building was completed in 1816 ; prior to which time church
services were held in school houses and private residences.
The names of Nathan Thompson, Amasa Sessions, John Ten
Eycke and Charles Nichols were additional names mentioned
in said letters of incorporation, which were recorded in
Onondaga County Clerk's Office in Miscellaneous Records,
Book " D," page 2, etc., April 4, 1816.
The following account of said society is taken, corrected,
and adapted from Israel Parsons, M. D.'s, Centennial
Address delivered at the Village of Marcellus, New York,
July 4, 1876.
" The materials concerning the Baptist Church at Thorn
Hill were taken from a manuscript history of that church
prepared by Elder Hatch in 1867, during his pastorate of
that church. At the date of the first records of the church
on April 19, 1806, Elder Elias Harmon was pastor, and
the following were among the most active male members:
Amasa Sessions, Amasa Kneeland, John Kneeland, Warren
Kneeland, Jesse Manley, Chauncey Deming, Nathan Thomp-
son, and Joshua Chandler.
The following is a list of the early pastors of this churcn :
Elias Harmon 1805 (or earlier) to Feb., 1816
Salmon Morton Aug., 1816 to Aug., 1818
Jesse B. Worden Nov., 1816 to Mar., 1835
W. Benjamin Capron Mar., 1835 to Mar., 1840
Thomas Brown Apr., 1840 to Feb., 1848
A. R. Palmer Feb., 1848 to Dec, 1849
Sylvester Gardner Spring, 1850 to May, 1851
William Wilkins May, 1851 to Mar. 1852
Jno. Baldwin June, 1853 to Sept., 1854
Alexander Milne Mar., 1855 to Mar., 1857
Hiram Powers Mar., 1857 to Mar., 1858
Thomas Bowen Apr., 1858 to June, 1858
the date of his decease.
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J. N. Seeley Dec, 1858 to Nov., 1860
William Roney May, 1861 to May, 1864
E. B. Hatch Apr., 1865
(The latter was pastor when this record was made.)
" From the org-anization of the church to September, 1867,
(when the record was made) a period of sixty-two years,
there had been united to it by baptism five hundred ana
twenty-two, and by letter three hundred and eight.
Elder Vv^orden's pastorate was the longest, eighteen years,
and Elder Hatch says was the period of the Church's
greatest prosperity. He preached two thousand sermons,
attended two hundred funerals, and solemnized one hundred
and twenty marriages. Over four hundred were taken into
the church during that time.
Dr. Jonathan Kneeland is quoted as saying : " The Baptist
Church at Thorn Hill was built fifty-nine years ago, and
previous meetings were held in school houses. Elder Jesse
B, Worden preached to the people from the high pulpit of
this church, standing on one leg, (not Worden but the
pulpit), for about 18 years, when he went to Montrose,
Pennsylvania, where he died. He was Captain of Volun-
teers in the War of 1812. His church salary was $250.00
per year, one-fifth in cash, and the balance in produce, prin-
cipally corn and wheat, the former at three shillings and
the latter at six shillings per bushel."
Dr. Kneeland is further quoted as saying : " Elder Morton
will be long remembered for his strong Calvinistic sermons."
" Elder Harmon moved to Chautauqua County, N. Y., and
many of his sons became men of mark." Hon. Sidney
Smith says " Elder Morton died and was buried at Thorn
Hill." He " died January 22, 1822, in his 55th year and
the 23rd of his ministry," according to the inscription on
his tombstone at Thorn Hill.
A public library was instituted and incorporated at Thorn
Hill, February 12th, 1811, at a gathering of twenty or more
people at the residence of John Hunt. The name of the
society was entitled as " The Harmonical Library," and the
following were chosen as its first trustees : Elias Harmon,
Thomas King, Amasa Sessions, Jeduthan Lamb, Jesse Copp,
Lewis Smith and Amasa Kneeland.
The good results flowing from the establishment of this
church and library at Thorn Hill at such an early date are
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noteworthy and can be seen and felt in that rural community
even to this day. Dr. Parsons, in speaking of the Thorn
Hill community says : " More of her sons and daughters
have entered the literary field than is usual in that amount
of population. Besides others that I have mentioned as
having become statesmen in the Great West, the following
have been members of the New York Legislature one or
more times : Daniel Baxter, S. S. Kneeland, Sidney Smith,
Charles R. Vary and Lewis Smith (three times) ; the last
also once held the office of Sheriff of the County of Onon-
daga." It is to be regretted that Dr. Parsons did not
mention the names of others who grew up in this Thorn
Hill community subject to the influence of this Church and
Public Library, and who have gone forth to make an honor-
able record for themselves in the learned professions and
in the business pursuits of the world. Among others be-
sides those already named, who should be mentioned in this
connection are the names of William Smith, who became
a lawyer, college graduate, and successful business man,
but who died early of asiatic cholera; Stephen and Job L.
Smith, two college graduates and distinguished physicians;
Stella Kneeland, missionary to India ; Amasa Spencer Knee-
land, Baptist minister; Hon. A. Judson Kneeland, lavv-yer;
Dr. Jonathan Kneeland, a distinguished physician of Onon-
daga County from whose comments on Thorn Hill people
we have already quoted; Horace Kneeland, sculptor; John
Sessions, a lawyer of Brooklyn, New York ; Alonzo Sessions,
Lieutenant Governor of the State of Michigan, Member of
the State Legislature, and also of the State Constitutional
Convention of the latter State, and a Bank President and
successful business man; two or more of Elder Harmon's
boys whose names are not known, also attained eminence in
professional and business life ; and undoubtedly many others
whose names are unknown to the writer. It is much to be
regretted that the moral influence of this church, the incen-
tive to study and to higher literary attainments emanating
from this public library established at such an early date
cannot be better told and described at this writing.
On the 25th day of August, 1829, a religious society was
incorporated in the Village of Borodino under the name
of the " First Religious Society of the Village of Borodino,'
of which Merrit Leonard, John Baxter, Dyer Coe, Charles
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Vary, Benjamin Trumbull and Ira Coe were the first
trustees. George Dickson, Jr., John H. Fargo and Ransom
Howard were additional names mentioned in said letters of
incorporation. This society, according to statements made
by Simon B. Wallace, built a church building in which
services were held for a number of years, and owing to
want of membership was finally abandoned as a place of
worship ; the building has since been occupied and used as
a town hall and a place for public gatherings in the Village
of Borodino.
October 18, 1853, the Methodist people in Borodino and
that vicinity who prior to that date had been meeting in
the school house and other places met and were duly incor-
porated under the name of the " Borodino Methodist Epis-
copal Church," with^ Isaac Harris, William Hayford, Isaac
Morrell, Charles Ferry and William Cowan as its first board
of ti'ustees. Mr. S. B. Wallace says, this society at the time
of its incorporation purchased a church building in the
Village of Skaneateles, took it down, and rebuilt it in this
village where it stands to-day and is still used as a church
building by this society. This society and the M. E. Society
at Spafford " Corners " have for many years been presided
over by a minister assigned to them by the M. E. Conference
of this district as one charge ; the minister residing formerly
at Spafford Corners, but latterly in the Village of Borodino.
Like most country religious societies neither of these two
Methodist societies have the power and influence that they
once had.
The members of the Methodist Episcopal Church in
Spafford Hollow were incorporated on the 5th day of March,
1834, under the name of " The Spafford Hollow Methodist
Episcopal Society," and Wliliam O'Farrell, Esq., David B.
Boutell, Elias Jacobs, Jonas Terbush and Isaac Smith were
chosen the first Board of Trustees. The same year a church
edifice was built on the following described real estate,
which was conveyed to said Board of Trustees by Isaac
Smith and wife Lucy, on the 9th of January, 1835, as
follows: Being part of Lot 23, Tully, and bounded on the
east by the highway running northerly and southerly
through said lot and Hollow — on the south by a cross road
running easterly and westerly across said Hollow, and unit-
ing with said first highway — and on the west and north by
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parallel lines to said two highways so as to contain said
church edifice and one-half acre of land. The Spafford
Hollow Cemetery is located only a short distance from this
church. Among the early active members of this church
society were the OTarrells, Boutells, Jacobs and Smith
families, and the family of Bene j ah Cleveland. Since these
families have died out or moved away the active spirit of
the church has been much impaired.
About fifty years ago the Methodist Episcopal Society of
Cold Brook built a church building, opposite the Cold Brook
Cemetery, but no articles of incorporation have ever been
filed or recorded in the Clerk's Office of Onondaga County,
and no deed of conveyance has ever been recorded granting
the church lands to any Board of Trustees, although these
lands have been excepted on one or two occasions from
deeds granting surrounding lands. Among the active
church members of this society in former years were the
families of Justus N. Knapp, the Churchills, Tafts, Maxons,
and Crosleys. The present state of this society is not
knoAvn.
A Baptist Church Society at Spafford Corners was incor-
porated under the name of " Spafford Baptist Society,"
March 21st, 1817, in which John Babcock, John Hutchens,
Asahel Roundy, Amos Palmer, and John Knapp were named
as trustees, but the society never had any church building,
or left any records, except these articles of incorporation.
What is supposed to be the same society was afterwards
re-incorporated on the 7th day of May, 1838, with Phineas
Hutchens, Cornelius Williamson and Samuel French as
trustees, and Asahel Roundy and John C. Harrington also
named in said Articles of Incorporation. This society
under its re-incorporation built a church building in the
year 1839, which was dedicated January 8, 1840. Among
the stated ministers who presided over this church were
Elders Benjamin Andrews and Alanson Boughton. After
a season of prosperity and usefulness this society went into
decline and finally failed for want of membership. The
church building was sold in 1860 to Uriah Roundy, Esq.,
who converted it into a store for the sale of general mer-
chandise, and it is now in use for that purpose on the old
church site at the " Corners."
This church edifice was, during the early forties, the
SPAFFORD, ONONDAGA COUNTY, NEW YORK 47
scene of a remarkable disputation between the two resident
ministers of the Methodist and Baptist denominations, on
the subject of baptism by imm.ersion as an essential saving-
ordinance. People came from far and near to attend these
meeting's, which continued for several days, and at the end,
as usual in such controversial debates, both sides retired
feeling that each had won a great victory over the other
side. One thing is certain, baptism by immersion may
have been efficacious in saving the members of this church
from eternal damnation, for all or nearly all have gone to
their final reward, yet it did not save the church buildings
from subsequent desecration as a place of religious worship.
On the 22nd day of August, 1829, a religious society was
incorporated at Spafford " Corners " under the name of
the " First Presbyterian Society in Spafford," and Erastus
Barber, Ellis Taft, and Silas Cox were made trustees.
Uriah Roundy, in speaking of this church society, says : " I
have no knowledge of this society, and yet I knew all the
men named in the Articles of Incorporation. Erastus
Barber resided at the head of the Buck Tail road where Sey-
mour Norton subsequently resided ; he was once a Member
of Assembly in the New York Legislature in this State.
This society never had any meeting house, and must have
* died a borning.' "
MORMON EXODUS.
At an early period in the history of this town there were
a number of persons residing here who were known as Free
Will Baptist, and were presided over by Elder John Gould,
who resided in a log house standing east of the Homer road,
on Lot 31, Tully, near the present residence of Mrs. Norton,
widow of Erastus Norton. This society was duly incor-
porated December 13, 1825, v/ith James Avery, Shadrack
Roundy, Thomas Smith, John Lawrence, Rogers Ide and
Alexander R. Jackson as its first board of trustees. At the
meeting held for the purpose of incorporation, Daniel
Owen, a soldier of the Revolution, presided as Chairman,
and James Smith acted as Secretary. In the year 1828,
this society built a church building on the hill east of Spaf-
ford Corners, adjoining district school house No. 2, on
premises conveyed to it by Asahel Roundy and Hannah, his
wife, February 12, 1828. The Board of Trustees at that
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time were Roswell Prindle, Shadrack Roundy, James Avery
and Zerah Pulsifer. At this time this was the only church
building in this portion of the town, the society had a large
and respectable membership, and the church gave promise
of a long and useful career, but about 1832 or 1833 it was
struck by a proselyting wave from the newly discovered
Mormon religion, and a large share of its membership,
under the lead of its pastor, Elder Gould, were carried from
the fold of the church into the embraces of the new faith.
Among those who are said to have severed their connection
with the church at this time, sold their possessions in town,
were rebaptized into the new faith, and who departed from
this State with the Mormons' movement, were the follow-
ing: Elder John Gould, Zerah Pulsifer, and his brother
Daniel Pulsifer, Shadrack Roundy and Uriah Roundy, his
brother, Elias Humphrey, Mayhew Hillman, James Oliver,
Mr. Ensign, and Mr. Cheeney and their several families;
also Mrs. Maxson, Miss Maria Ripley and Miss Maria
Brown. Some of these people separated themselves from
the Mormon movement, on or before the Nauvoo incident,
which resulted in the death of Joseph Smith, the Prophet,
and settled in the Great West; among whom were Elder
Gould, Uriah Roundy and Maria Ripley; but the greater
number of them finally settled in Salt Lake City, where
their descendants remain to this day. It was not possible
for this church to recover from this exodus of membership
into a movement like this, so the church went quickly into
decline. After the church building had stood open for a
long time to the weather and been a place where cattle in
the fields had found shelter, it vv?-as finally sold in the early
forties to Captain Asahel Roundy, who moved it near the
Homer road, south of the " Corners," and converted it into
the dwelling house lately occupied by Seymour Norton.
When this building was first erected, the frame being a
large and heavy one, nearly every person in town turned
out and assisted in the " raising." After the plates and
rafters were in place, as was common in those times, one of
the men assisting climbed up, and standing on the upper
plate in his stocking feet, broke a bottle of whiskey upon It,
dubbing the building *' God's Barn." This at the time
raised a great laugh, but many in after years recalled the
prophetic character of the incident.
SPAFFORD, ONONDAGA COUNTY, NEW YORK 49
Maria Brown, named above among the Mormon prose-
lytes, was a daughter of Judge Brown, of Scott, N. Y., and
a sister of Porter Brown, a present resident of that place.
After leaving Spafford she married Elder Ward, a Mormon
leader, and finally settled in Salt Lake City, Utah, v/here
she remained for several years, but ultimately renounced
Mormonism and returned to the States, where she wrote and
published, in 1857, the work entitled " Female Life Among
the Mormons."
The following are condensed extracts from that work
relating to Spafford people, and incidents which occurred in
this town. " My early life was passed in that beautiful and
picturesque region which borders Skaneateles Lake, in the
State of New York. Circumstances over which I had no
control determined me to abandon my home and pivately
visit relatives of my mother, who were living near Albany.
For that purpose I left the house of A J (Alex-
ander R. Jackson, a member of the Free Will Baptist
Church?) residing in Spafford , Onondaga County, New
York, and took the stage for Utica in the same State. Hold-
ing a conversation with a middle age gentleman in the stage,
(Elder Ward her future husband), I said: Many people of
my acquaintance in Scott and Spafford have embraced
Mormonism. There was a family in Cold Brook by the
name of Cheeney, suggested the man. " Yes," I answered,
" Mr. Cheeney's family were considered very fine people,
were members of the Free Will Baptist Church, and the
Pulsifers too ; Pulsifer, the " Swamp Angel," (Uriah Roundy
says the "Swamp Angel" was a Mr. Ensign instead of Pul-
sifer) , and I burst into a laugh. There were two families
by the name of Pulsifer, both believers in Mromon. A
child died in one of these families, and the Mormons gave
out that on a certain night an Angel would come and carry
the body to Heaven. The time appointed arrived, the rela-
tives of the child were assembled, when a figure in white
and with small bells attached to its garments, appeared.
A party of unbelievers lying in ambush immediately gave
chase. The figure ran for the neighboring swamp, but was
pursued, taken and stripped of its angelic robes, and proved
to be Pulsifer, the uncle of the deceased child."
" False," said my companion.
" I assure you it was the truth, I continued, and poor
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old Mr. Humphrey was deceived by them too. The old
man was determined to be right if possible. He was first
a member of the Free Will Baptist; then he joined the
Seventh Day Baptist, left them, and was baptized to the
faith and order of Mormon; subsequently, he deserted the
Mormons and united with the Baptist again, and then finally
returned to the Mormons, by whom he was dipped seven
times in succession, on account of his apostacy. He re-
mained faithful to them after that, but always observed
the Seventh Day.
"Were you ever acquainted with Elder Gould?" he
inquired.
" I have seen him, he used to preach in Spafford."
" He did and with great acceptability, yet he joined the
Mormons.
" And poor Mrs. Maxson was induced to leave her husband
and children and go with them ; and Maria Ripley, a young
woman, left her aged and infirm parents and went off, too.
" My companion informed me that his name was Ward,
and that he was a man of property and a widower with two
children, that he was well acquainted mth many people in
Scott, my native place, and had frequently heard the name
of my father mentioned as a citizen of exalted reputation."
About the time of the Mormon exodus a Mrs. Gale, the
wife of a respected citizen of Spafford, was a subject of
" second sight," frequently saw visions, and claimed to hold
daily intercourse with the spirits of her departed friends;
on one of these occasions she saw and conversed with the
departed spirit of a Mrs. Mapes, who exacted a promise on
her part to intercede in behalf of her two young lady daugh-
ters, whom she exclaimed, were in danger of ruin by the
improper influence over them of Elder John Gould, Pastor
^ of the Free Will Baptist Church. This delicate duty Mrs.
Gale discharged by entering the church, during divine
service, and in the persence of the worshippers denounced
the conduct of their pastor in reference to the Mapes girls.
Mrs. Gale, afterwards describing her experience on this
occasion, said : " For several days after being charged by
the spirit mother with this delicate task, I was greatly
oppressed and wished to escape the duty, but when I entered
the church door my burden rolled away, and as I opened my
mouth, language came freely, and a calmness came over my
SPAFFORD, ONONDAGA COUNTY, NEW YORK 51
feeling, such as I had been a stranger to since I first saw
and was charged by the spirit of Mrs. Mapes.
Uriah Roundy, Esq., in speaking of Elder John Gould
when pastor of this church, said he was once tried by a
church tribunal in this old church building, for alleged
improper conduct on his part in kissing Mrs. Alexander R.
Jackson, one of the parishioners of the church, and humor-
ously explains that after a long and protracted trial, he
was finally acquitted, because the church tribunal was
unable to determine from the evidence whether the alleged
kiss was a " carnal or spiritual one."
SHADRACK ROUNDY.
The following abbreviated sketch of Shadrack Roundy,
and his two sons Lorenzo and Jared, was taken from a more
extended account written by Elizabeth D. Roundy, wife of
Jared.
" Shadrack Roundy resided in the town of Spafford, New
York, where he heard of the Revelations of God to Joseph
Smith, and embraced the Gospel as taught by Our Lord and
Saviour Jesus Christ. Soon after he moved to Pennsyl-
vania, and from thence to Kirtland, Ohio, where he assisted
in building a temple to the Most High.
" After receiving blessings and ordinations, he went from
there to Caldwell County, Missouri, where he received a
Commission as Captain of a Company of fifty. He was
afterwards made Captain of Police, and also chosen aide
de camp to Lieutenant General Joseph Smith, in the Nauvoo
Legion. About this time he became a member of General
Smith's life and body guard. After the Nauvoo persecu-
tions he was chosen one of the pioneers to search for a new
home, and subsequently was appointed Major and Presi-
dent of the Second Division of Mormon Colonists that
crossed the Plains. Arriving at Salt Lake City he was made
Bishop of a Ward, elected a member of the first Legislature,
and subsequently of the High Council. He was a man of
influence among the people and stood high in the Council
of Leaders of Latter Day Saints. He died in Salt Lake
City."
LORENZO WESLEY ROUNDY.
" Lorenzo Wesley Roundy, second son of Shadrack, was
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bora in Spafford, June 18, 1819, and shared all the hardships
and vicissitudes of his parents, before arriving at Salt Lake
City. At the latter place he was a member of the Nauvoo
Legion, and took part in all the Indian Wars of the Mormon
Colon5^ He was made Superintendent of the Co-operative
Mercantile Institution at Kanarra, Iron County, Utah, was
two or three times elected to the Legislature, was ordained
Bishop in 1860, and finally made President of the Southern
Colony of Mormons. He was drowned, crossing the Colo-
rado River with a party of Mormon emigrants, May 24,
1876."
JARED CURTIS ROUNDY.
" Jared Curtis Roundy, third son of Shadrack, was born
in Spafford and moved with his parents to Salt Lake City.
Like his brother Lorenzo, he also took part in all the Indian
Wars, was at one time Sheriff of Summit County, was
ordained Bishop of Wanship, and at one time was Justice
of the Peace. He was a man of influence among the
Mormons, and was generally respected by every one. He
died in Arizona, May 21, 1895."
HON. WASHINGTON ROUNDY.
Hon. Washington Roundy, son of Uriah Roundy, was
born in the town of Spafford, September 26th, 1824, and
left that place with his father during the Mormon exodus.
After the Nauvoo incident his father separated from the
main branch of the Mormon Church, renounced the doctrine
of polygamy, and settled with his family at or near Man-
teno, lov/a, where his son Washington grew to Manhood
and became a man of wealth and prominence. By occupa-
tion Washington Roundy became a farmer, and owned and
managed a farm of over a thousand acres of land. He was
a man of, marked character and wielded a strong political
influence in his adopted State; among other political offices
held by him v/as Member of the Legislature of the State of
Iowa.
SPAFFORD UNION MEETING HOUSE.
On the 14th day of April, 1838, a number of religious
people of different denominational beliefs, met at the school
house on the hill east of Spafford " Corners," for the pur-
SPAFFORD, ONONDAGA COUNTY, NEW YORK 53
pose of organizing a society, preliminary to building a
church building at that place. At that meeting a consti-
tution was adopted, which will explain the wants of the
people and the purposes of the meeting better than any
statement we can give on the subject.
" Constitution of the Spafford Union Meeting House
Society."
"Whereas, we the subscribers, inhabitants of the town
of Spafford, feeling desirous of having some suitable place
for public worship, have resolved, at a public meeting held
for that purpose on the 14th day of April, A. D., 1838, to
form ourselves into a society called the ' Spafford Union
Society,' of which society every person subscribing a sum
shall be a member thereof, and own rights and privileges
therein according to the amount so subscribed by such
persons. The object of the society is to build and keep in
repair a meeting house. ' Said meeting house shall be called
the " Spafford Union Meeting House " and shall be situated
at Spafford Comers, on a site where the blacksmith and
wagon shop of G. Lewis now stands. Said shops are to
be removed and the site purchased by said Union Society.
Said meeting house shall be finished off in a good work-
manlike manner, on a plan to be adopted by a Committee
to be appointed by the subscribers for that purpose.
" There shall be Trustees appointed by the subscribers
according to. law, whose duty it shall be to see that said
meeting house is kept im, repair, and to transact all business
appertaining to said Society. Said Trustees shall appor-
tion the time of preaching among the several denominations
in manner as follows, viz. :
" Every Gospel Denomination, a majority of whose male
members who meet at Spafford Corners for public worship,
and who may join in this Society, shall have the privilege
of having stated preaching in said house. All other denom-
inations shall be considered as transient preachers. Every
Gospel Denomination shall have the privilege of preaching
in said house ; but no transient preacher shall interfere with
the stated preaching of any denomination, without the
consent of such denomination.
" It is understood that whenever any Quarterly Meeting
Association or funeral is proposed to be held in said house,
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every denomination whose time the above mentioned meet-
ing's shall encroach upon, shall give up that part of the time
for use of such meeting-. All rights owned by members of
this Society shall be transferable. It is hereby understood
that no denomination shall occupy more than an equal part
of the time, provided the other societies, who are members
of this Union, wish to occupy an equal part of the time.
" This Constitution shall not be altered or amended with-
out the consent of at least three-fourth of the subscribers."
At a meeting held the 30th of April, 1838, for the pur-
pose said Society was duly incorporated under the name of
the " Spafford Union Society " and Joseph Bulfinch, John
R. Lewis, Martin E, Knapp, Samuel Gale, Joseph Cole,
Jacob W. Darling and John Collins were chosen its first
Board of Trustees. At a subsequent meeting of the Board
of Trustees, by ballot it determined that John R. Lewis
and Samuel Gale should hold office for one year, Joseph
Bulfinch and Jacob W. Darling for two years, and Joseph
Cole, Martin E. Knapp and John Collins for three years.
In the book of minutes of this Society, under date of
April 30, 1838, when said Society was incorporated, is the
follov/ing :
" Now for the purpose of carrying the foregoing plan,
(meaning the constitution above quoted) into operation,
We, the subscribers do hereby agree and bind ourselves
to pay the sum set opposite our respective names, to the
Trustees of said Union Society; one-half of the sum sub-
scribed to be paid by the first day of January next, and the
remainder to be paid one year from the first day of January
next.
Spafford, April 30, 1838.
John Collins $ 100.00
Thos. B. Anderson 50.00
Joseph Cole 50.00
Sylvanus N. Grout 50.00
Gershom Lewis 50.00
Joseph Bulfinch 75.00
Alexander Hill 6.00
John R. Lewis 100.00
Easten Cole 100.00
Silas Randall 25.00
Russel M. Burdick 20.00
Levi Hurlbnt $
25.00
Russel Tinkham
10.00
John Baxter
10.00
Titus Haight
5.00
John Grout
50.00
Willard Doty
15.00
Edwin S. Edwards...
10.00
Timothy Owen
5.00
Moses Pressy
5.00
Samuel Gale
20.00
James Mellen _
5.00
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Odin Brown
10.00
Alonzo Sanford
10.00
Levi Applebee
20.00
Horace Pease
10.00
Isaac Day
10.00
John Fisher
5.00
John Harrington
5.00
James H. Norton
10.00
Hiram Mason
5.00
Orrin Town
5.00
Jonathan Ripley
5.00
Randall Palmer
2.00
John L. Ripley
5.00
Jonas TerBush
3.00
William Billings
5.00
Stephen Randall
10.00
Edward Scribens
5.00
John Ford
5.00
Lydius D. Whaley
15.00
Oliver S. Smith
1.00
Zebulon Davis
2.00
Nathan Palmer
10.00
Jonathan Johnson
20.00
Hiram W. Hays
15.00
Total
Bezaleel W. Taft
Peres Miner
Nelson Isdell
Martin E. Knapp
Nelson Berry
Whipple C. Har-
rington
Erastus Hays
A. M. Roundy
Benjamin Stanton ...
Homan Barber
Emily Barber
Annis Barber
Titus French
Stephen Crane
David T. Lyon
Rufus Breed
Phillip Fisher
Elias Davis
Leonard Melvin
Franklin Smith
Richard Gale
Kortright Knapp ..
Zara Berry
John R. Connine
2.00
5.00
1.50
10.00
18.00
5.00
10.00
3.00
25.00
5.00
2.00
3.00
3.00
15.00
20.00
5.00
15.00
10.00
2.00
2.00
5.00
5.00
10.00
10.00
$1,170.00
In accordance with the suggestion made in the fore-
going Constitution, Joseph Bulfinch, John R. Lewis, Mar-
tin E. Knapp, Joseph Cole, Jacob W. Darling and John
Collins, Trustees of Spafford Union Meeting House, re-
ceived a deed from Gersham Lewis and Mehitable, his wife,
oi one-quarter of an acre of land, known as the wagon
and blacksmith shop of G. Lewis, bounded on the
east and south, by the north and south highways, and
on the north and west by lands of Joseph Cole. Said
deed of conveyance was dated July 7, 1838, consideration
$75.00, and acknowledged the same day before Daniel R.
Robinson, Commissioner of Deeds, but not recorded. In
the years 1838 and 1839 said Board of Trustees erected
the present meeting house, on said lot, and had the same
ready for occupation in the Spring of 1840.
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ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
April 30, 1839, Russel M. Burdick and Lewis C. Davis
were elected trustees of said Society, in the place of John R.
Lewis and Samuel Gale, whose tei-m of office had then
expired.
Under the date of April 30, 1840, the following entry, in
the handwriting of Dr. John Collins, appears in the book
of minutes of said Society :
"At an annual meeting of the members of the Union
Meeting House Society, held at the school house in District
No. 2, pursuant to a legal notice, and adjourned to the
Union Meeting House this 30th day of April, A. D., 1840,
Joseph Cole was appointed Chairman and John Collins
Secretary of said meeting. Then elected by ballot, Silas
Randall and Benjamin Stanton to fill the vacancies of
Joseph Bulfinch and Jacob W. Darling. The resignation of
Lewis C. Davis was accepted and Solomon S. Rowe was
elected to fill the vacancy. Thomas B. Anderson was
unanimously elected salesman to sell slips in the Union
Meeting House, pro tern. The following is a list of the
purchasers, and number and price of slips purchased:
Hiram Hayes No. 1, price $ 32.00
Solomon S. Rowe " 2, " 32.00
Gershom Lewis " 6, " 60.00
Joseph Bulfinch " 32, " 110.00
Easten Cole " 12, " 74.50
Joseph Bulfinich " 16, " 60.00
Moses Pressey " 44, " 31.75
John R. Lewis " 11, " 70.00
John R. Lewis " 8, " 70.00
John R. Lewis " 30, " 95.00
John Collins " 7, " 72.50
John Collins " 33, " 95.00
Russel M. Burdick " 18, " 51.00
Zenos Tinkham " 3, " 50.00
Silas Randall " 22, " 40.00
Erastus Hays " 4 " 50.00
Silas Randall " 20 " 45.00
John Grout " 29, " 95.00
Levi Hurlbut " 34, " 95.00
Samuel Gale " 17, " 50.00
S. N. Groiit " 35, " 90.00
S. N. Grout " 15, " 60.00
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Edwin S. Edwards
David T. Lyon
Lemuel Bessey
J. Johnson and A. Burdick
H. Anthony and J. H. Norton
Stephen Randall and R. Palmer
Homen Barber
A. Hill and Wm. L Skelley
Lewis C. Davis
Aaron Brown (half slips)
Jeremith Cotterell (one-half slip).
Hiram Mason (one-third slip)
W. Doty and M. E. Knapp
Henry S. Grinnell (one-third slip)
Stephen Crane (one-third slip)
John R. Lewis
Coomer Anthony (one-half slip) ...
13,
5,
36,
19,
21,
43,
23,
10,
37,
39,
38,
41,
14,
28,
28,
9,
38,
70.00
60.00
90.00
46.75
40.00
31.00
30.00
70.00
85.00
70.00
85.00
60.00
70.00
85.00
85.00
70.00
Assignments.
" John R. Lewis to Gersham Lewis, slip No. 9.
John R. Lewis to Anson Churchell, one-half slip No. 12.
Gershom Lewis to Abigail Stringham, slip No. 9.
" Joseph Cole, Chairman. John Collins, Secretary,"
From a pencil memoranda made on the margin of the
book of minutes of said Union Meeting House Society in
the handwriting of John Collins, it appears there were
twenty slips in the body of the meeting house and tewnty-
four slips under the galleries on the sides of the house,
making forty-four slips in all.
In the book of minutes of this church society, in addition
to the foregoing report, appears from year to year a brief
statement of the results of the election of trustees. This
brief record continues down to the year 1889, and there-
after there is no record whatever.
This church building has now stood for upwards of sixty
years, and by reason of its substantial character bids fair
to stand for sixty years more. It is now the only church
building at the " Corners," or in that portion of the town
in use for religious purposes. All denominations which
formerly held religious services here have died out except
the Methodist, and they are in the last period of dissolu-
tion ; and still the people cherish with respect the old church
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building, and protect it from desecration and the insidious
attack of the elements. All funeral services are held in
this building, and occasionally divine services are .con-
ducted here by a minister from the Borodino charge of the
M. E. Church at that place. On these occasions the people
attend irrespective of denominational belief. The word
" Union " appears on the weather vane perched on top of
the belfry of the church building, and well typifies the
religious character of the people who have always wor-
shipped in this old Meeting House.
OTHER CORPORATIONS.
A Society commonly known as the Farmers' Alliance,
was organized in the Village of Borodino on the first day
of January, 1871, and incorporated under the name of
" Spafford Agricultural Society," with Dr. Van Dyke Tripp
as President, Edwin A. Clark as Vice President, Simon B.
Wallace as Recording Secretary, Aretus M. Legg as Corres-
ponding Secretary, Otis Cross as Treasurer, and Jeremiah
Olmsted, Orson B. Morton, Francis Ide, Albert E. Fulton,
Moses P. Moule, and Samuel H. Stanton as Trustees. The
following additional names are also mentioned in said
articles of incorporation: Horace Prindle, H. L. Darling,
Benjamin Monk, Ansel Grinnell, C. B. Morton, William N.
Stone and Moses Crane. Mr. Uriah Roundy says there was
some sort of insurance connected with this organization,
but beyond this fact, and the general purpose indicated by
its name, we have been unable to obtain any further infor-
mation of this Society.
" The Skaneateles Lake Park Company" was duly incor-
porated December 4, 1888, with a capital stock of $30,000,
and time limit of fifty years, to build a hotel building on
Skaneateles Lake. In the Articles of Incorporation John
E. Waller, John McNamara, Mai-tin Fennell, William F.
Gregory and Lewis B. Fitch, were named as first trustees.
This corporation purchased " Ten Mile Point,' planted it
with shade trees, built a steamboat dock, and put up a
dancing pavilion ; but up to the present time have not erected
a hotel building. Since this incorporation, the Skaneateles
Railroad and Steamboat Company, of which this company
is supposed to be an adjunct, has changed hands and is now
owned or controlled by William K. Niver of Syracuse, New
SPAFFORD, ONONDAGA COUNTY, NEW YORK 09
York ; the property of this corporation is supposed to have
gone into the same control. Whether the hotel building
proposed will ever be built or not is an uncertainty, depend-
ing largely on the future of Skaneateles Lake as a place of
summer resort.
The " Borodino Creamery Company," with a capital of
$3,000.00, was formed and incorporated February 16,
1898, with Orrin I. Hayford, Marcus Patterson, Hiram A.
Colton, Francis Ide, Frank Harvey and Edgar L. Bockes,
as its first Board of Trustees. This creamery is located at
Borodino Village, and is still in active operation and doing
a prosperous business.
Since the foregoing was written the capital stock for a
new Creamery has been fully subscribed, the building of
which is to be erected at Spafford Corners.
MILLS, DISTILLERIES AND FURNACES.
The first necessity of the early settler was a grist mill
to grind his wheat and corn, a saw-mill to saw his lumber,
and a carding and fulling mill to card his wool and prepare
his cloth for domestic use. When he first penetrated the
wilderness which enshrrouded these Spafford Hills, the
brooks and streams, which to-day seem too insignificant
to be of any practical use, were full and powerful and cap-
able of turning the machinery necessary for the use of the
wheelwright, the sawyer and the clothier. Nearly as soon
as the woodman's axe had made a clearing in the dense
forests, then covering the land, and the early settler had
erected his rude log cabin for the reception of his family,
these useful conservators to his comfort and happiness
sprang up along the principal brooks and streams; but as
time progressed and the requirements of the people changed,
these mills, once so useful, became no longer a necessity and
went rapidly into decay. To-day the existence of most of
them is unknown to the present occupants of the land.
About the year 1805, Amos Miner built a factory on the
west side of the Skaneateles and Homer Road, in what has
since been known as " Factory Gulf,' for the manufacture
of wheel-heads, used by farmers' wives in spinning woolen
yarn. The water for this mill was conducted from a pond,
well up stream, in a raceway along the northern bank of
the gulf, to an overshot wheel at the factory building.
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standing just west of the highway. Here Miner, in addi-
tion to wheel^heads, made wooden pails, wooden bowls, half
bushel and peck measures, and various other wooden articles
useful for farmers and their wives. Four or five years after
the factory was in successful operation. Miner sold out his
interest in the wheelhead business, which was moved else-
where, and the factory building was ultimately converted
into a carding mill and clothing works.
Among the persons who subsequently carried on business
here as clothiers were Edmund C. Weston and William
Patten, tv/o of the son-in-laws of James Rathbun, who
cleared and improved the land where the factory stood.
There are many persons still living, who in their boyhood
days carried wool to this mill to be carded into rolls, for
their mothers to spin into woolen yarn ; and probably still
more who have worn garments made from' fulled cloth, pre-
pared or manufactured in these works. After a period of
usefulness this mill, like all others of its kind, went into
decline, finally suspended operation, and the building years
ago was converted into a cider mill.
In this connection it seems proper to observe, that the
women folks in olden times spun yarn from the wool shorn
from their own sheep, wove it into cloth, and in many
instances cut and made it into garments for the use of the
major portion of the hosueohld. In these matters they
were very proficient and often displayed much delicacy and
skill. The bedding in use in those times was a matter
which received the especial consideration of the female
portion of the household. The linen sheets, woolen blankets
and coverlids made by these old dames of a hundred years
ago, have challenged the admiration of all women folks
that have succeeded them, and will continue to do so for
years yet to come. Such rich blues, and such vivid and
lasting colors. Probably very few of those who look upon
and admire these remaining specimens of feminine art of
olden times, have any personal knowledge of the manner
of obtaining these beautiful colors, or of the old time dye
tub, once so familiar an object, standing in a corner of the
living room. In those times a spinning wheel, a reel, a
pair of swifts, a loom, and a dye tub were deemed a very
necessary pai-t of the outfit of any household; and as the
women manufactured cloth and made the garments of the
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household, Miner's Patent Wheelhead and the carding
machine were two very useful inventions in lightening her
labors.
In about the year 1814, Oliver Hyde, a soldier of the
Revolution, bililt a sawmill in Factory Gulf, on Lot 69,
Marcellus, above Miner's Pond, which supplied water for
his wheelhead factory.
When Amos Miner sold out his interests in Factory Gulf,
he moved to Lot 76, Marcellus, where he erecter a grist mill
at the head of the Gulf, leading from near the center of
said lot easterly to Otisco Lake, as has been before fully
described in a paragraph relating to Miner under the head
of " Early Settlers." This mill has been continued in one
form or another until the present day.Near this mill was
erected, at a very early date, a sawmill which was in opera-
tion at a comparatively recent date.
About the year 1813, William Marsh erected a carding
mill and clothing works, west of the highway and north of
the stream at the head of the Pudding Mill Gulf, on Lot 76,
Marcellus, near Miner's Grist Mill. Among the names of
those who have been interested in this mill and works
besides Mr. Marsh, are Eleazer Hillebert, Charles Richards,
Jr., Richard S. Eggleston, William D. Potter, Roger Tolls,
Jonathan S. Niles, Ichabod Sheldon and Ebenezer Failing.
These works went to pieces many years ago and very few
persons, if any now living, have any personal knowledge
in reference to them.
On the east side of the same highway, and north of the
Pudding Mill Gulf, was erected before 1819, by Alexander
Webster, a distillery. Dr. Jonathan Kneeland, in speaking
of this distillery said, " it did not last very long, as its owner
soon boiled himself to death in his o\^^l mash tub." The
widow, Barbara Webster, conveyed away the lands on which
the distillery stood in 1825.
At a very early date the little huddle about Miner's mill
gave promise of something more than it is at the present
date. Eleazer Hillebert had a blacksmith shop there, David
T. Lyon had a shoe shop, and there undoubtedly were other
industries at that place. Borodino Village ultimately
absorbed all that at one time seemed to give it promise of a
better future.
Amasa Kneeland, at a very early date, carried on business
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as a tanner and currier, on the northwest corner of this
same Lot 76,, Marcellus, near the Borodino and Thorn Hill
road. David T. Lyon, also, in after years, carried on this
same business at Spafford Corners; whether he carried on
this business while residing at the Pudding Mill huddle is
not known.
Seventy-five or a hundred years ago public sentiment, in
reference to the use of intoxicating liquors, was different
from what it is at the present, and distilleries were deemed
more of a necessity at that time, when the custom was to
drink whiskey instead of beer. There were no restrictions
in those times on the manufacture of whiskey ; consequently
it was very cheap, three cents a glass, and pure, as there
was no object in its adulteration; and distilleries for its
manufacture were everywhere. Before the year 1819,
Jonathan Berry erected a distillery, in what was then known
as the Stone Gulf, below the Little Falls, and a short dis-
tance east of School House No. 1, in the Nunnery neighbor-
hood. This was apparently run by a man named Ephraim
Colby. Mr. Berry subsequently conveyed away the lands
where the distillery stood to John K. Stone, in the year 1832,
and nothing more is known of these works. In one of the
deeds of the surrounding lands appears the following
reservation, being a description of the distillery lands.
" Reserving distillery land as follows : Beginning at the
head of Little Falls and running thence westerly along the
brink to the south bank of said Gulf to the Narrows —
thence across the narrows to the brink of the north bank —
thence easterly along said brink of north bank to the round
rock — thence to the head of the Falls — and thence to the
place of beginning. Also a log house standing on the brink
of the Gulf (lately occupied by Ephraim Colby) ; also a
road to pass and repass from said distillery in a north-
easterly direction without interruption."
April 19, 1806, Dr. Archibald Farr purchased fifty acres
of land on Lot 12, Tully, at the foot of the Bucktail Gulf,
on the west side of Spafford Hollow, of Judge William
Cooper, the father of James Fenimore Cooper, the great
American novelist, and author of the Leather Stocking
Tales, for the expressed consideration of one hundred silver
dollars. At the foot of the lower Falls Dr. Farr, on this
purchase, erected the same year a grist mill ; being the first
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of its kind in the original town of Spafford. This mill
went out of existence soon after its erection, probaby
destroyed by a Spring- freshet. Uriah Roundy, born in
Spafford July 24, 1819, in speaking of this mill says : " The
Archibald Farr mill was built and out of existence before
I can rem.ember. A man by the name of Earl Barrows built
a second mill at the lower end of the Bucktail Gulf about
1848, or 1850. This was a feed mill only, and was destroyed
by a Spring freshet."
In a deed dated May 11, 1844, by Mathew Morse (Moss)
of Spafford, to Ebenezer Morse of Homer, mention is made
of a furnace once existing on the Dr. Farr land, at the foot
of the lower Falls, at the mouth of the Bucktail Gulf. Uriah
Round}'- says this furnace was out of existence before he
had any m.emory on the subject; and no one seems to be
able to tell who ran it, if not Dr. Farr, on whose land it
was built.
On the top of the upper Falls, in the Bucktail Gulf, Capt.
Asahel Roundy built a sawmill about 1840 ; a few feet south
of this mill, Dr. Zachariah Derbyshire, at an earlier date
erected and carried on a furnace; and a hundred rods or
more further up stream, near the upper end of the Bucktail
Gulf and road, Capt. Asahel Roundy, before 1828, erected
a carding mill and clothing works. The latter is the same
mill from which the machinery was stolen and carried away,
as related in a prior paragraph of this work, under the title,
"Early Settlers." Uriah Roundy, in a letter dated January
9, 1899, in speaking of this carding mill, furnace and saw-
mill says : " The carding mill at the top of the Bucktail
must have been built about 1820. I helped tear it down
and move the building to Spafford Corners before I was
married, and that was fifty-six years ago. I remember
when it was doing business, I have carried wool and cloth
there to be finished. Somev/here betv/een 1828 and 1830 a
man by the name of Worthington ran it. " The Furnace
above the upper Falls of the Bucktail was built soon after
the carding mill ; I have nothing to show when it was built.
I think Dr. Derbyshire built it. I remember that John
Beeler, a one-legged soldier, had a cannon cast there to
celebrate the Fourth of July ; I was probably eight or nine
years old at the time. It was loaded on the morning of
the Fourth of July, and William Bell, a boy living with
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Sumner Allen, touched it off; it burst and broke his arm,
and killed a cow for James Knapp. This must have been
in 1828 or 1830. I have no recollection of having been to
the furnace when in operation. About the furnace at the
foot of the Bucktail Gulf, I know nothing, except I have
been told there was one there. There was a grist mill built
there since I can remember ; a man by the name of Barrows
built it, but it did not run long ; it was only a feed mill.
"The sawmill at the upper Falls on the Bucktail was
built by my father, Asahel Roundy, about 1840. My
brother Charles and myself did most of the blasting of
rocks, necessary to fix a place for the mill and flume. This
was in 1840 just before Charles left home. Father owned
the land where the sawmill, furnace and carding mill stood,
ever since I can remember."
This saw mill, like all the other early mills in town, had
an upright saw, standing in a wooden frame, which was
raised up or down when sawing a log or board, the power
came from an undershot wheel, which in this instance was
suspended at the mouth of the flume, several feet down and
over the edge of the Falls, which were seventy-five or more
feet in height. The process of sawing was not a very rapid
one and there was much waste of power; it required a
freshet to make the mill an available one. This mill went
out of use when the writer was a small boy; he can re-
member it when in operation, a man by the name of Darius
Plummer acted as sawyer at that time.
In 1810 Josiah Walker built a sawmill in Cold Brook, on
the cross road running east from the main road, north ol
the school house. It was in the mill pond to this mill that
Franklin Weston, Orange Norton and Lucius Pease, three
small boys aged respectively 14, 13 and 9 years, were
drowned June 24th, 1816. Franklin Weston was the
youngest brother of Mrs. Asahel Roundy; and after the
accident, was brought home to the residence of Mrs. Roundy,
on horsebaick by her husband ; Orange Norton was an older
brother of Seymour Norton, who recently died at Spafford
Comers at great age ; and Lucius Pease was the oldest son
of Horace Pease, one of the early settlers in Cold Brook.
This accident at the time caused a profound sensation,
which has been more enduring than the mill itself, which
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would have been long ago forgotten but for this terrible
calamity.
The next sawmill erected on the Cold Brook stream was
built in 1826 by Peter Picket, about a mile south of Walker's
Mill, on a cross road leading east from the main road, just
south of the Cold Brook M. E. Church and Cemtery. This
mill, very soon after its erection, was transferred to Beza-
lel Taft, and ever since has been known as Taft's Mill. The
upright saw, formerly in use years ago, has been replaced
by a circular one, and the mill is now, or was at a very
recent date, in use, whenever it could find anything to do.
Soon after the sale of the Taft mill, as above stated,
Peter Picket built another sawmill higher up stream,
between the Walker and Taft locations, on a cross road
leading east from the school house. This mill was after-
wards owned and known as the Orren Gary's Mill; this,
like the Walker mill, went out of existence years ago.
About 1830 Dr. David Mellen built a grist mill, a few
rods south and down stream from Taft's saw mill; this
was burned in 1852 and a feed mill was erected in its place
by John P. Taft in 1863. The latter mill is still in opera-
tion and owned by the builder.
At an early date David Carver built a saw mill in Spafford
Hollow on lot 34, Tully; this was afterwards operated by
Lorenzo Boutell; on the same stream, leading into Otisco
Lake, near the northern line of said lot 34, as early as 1822,
was a carding mill and clothing works, supposed to have
been built by Samuel Draper ; and still further down stream
at the first cross roads leading easterly across the Hollow,
was a saw mill, at one time operated by Frank Smith, son
of Ira Smith. These mills and works have long passed out
of existence, and even the memory of them is confined to
a very few of the older inhabitants of the town. At Brom-
ley, in the town of Tully, a little huddle formerly known as
Shawville, near the Spafford line, there was a grist mill
and saw mill at a very early date ; these were in operation
in recent years, as well as a sawmill on Lot 13, Tully, in
the town of Otisco, just over the Spafford line, on a cross
road leading easterly from the Bucktail road. Of late years
there has been very little use for these mills, once so flour-
ishing and so necessary to the early settler.
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TAVERNS, STORES, SHOPS, POTASHIRES,
TANNERIES.
The first merchant at Spafford Corners was Jared Bab-
cock, who came first to Scott, Cortland County, N. Y., in
1804, probably from Leyden, Mass., where most of the
Babcocks in that place came from, and from there to Spaf-
ford, where he opend a general store, in 1809. The building
occupied by him is supposed to have been located on a half
acre of ground owned by John Babcock, also from Scott,
situate on the west side of the Skaneateles and Homer road,
between the present blacksmith shop of John Pendergast
and the residence lately occupied by Parmenus Norton, Mr.
Babcock conducted this store for a short time, sold out to
Anthony Mason, and moved to Homer, N. Y.
Mr. Mason conveyed his interest in this store property,
December 12, 1822, to Isaac Knapp, who in connection with
his brother, James D. Knapp, carried on a general mer-
chandise business at the same place until about 1827 or
1828, when they failed and were sold out by Sheriff. The
store property was conveyed by that officer January 16,
1829, at which time Joseph R. Berry was in occupation as
a general merchant at that place. From that time forward
Mr. Berry carried on business there, until his new store
was in readiness for occupation, which was erected by him
on the northeast corner of the cross roads at the "Corners"
in 1831. The old building then went into decline and was
not occupied for mercantile purposes afterwards. At the
raising of the frame of the new store building it was christ-
ened, according to the custom of the times, " The Proud
Farmers' Ruin." The new building has been occupied sub-
sequent to Mr. Joseph R. Berry by the following merchants :
Nelson Berry, Zach. Berry, Thomas B. Anderson, Levi Hurl-
but, Asahel M. Roundy, James Churchell, T. Maxson Foster,
and John G. Van Benschoten, the present occupant.
Lauren Hotchkiss, a brother-in-law of Captam Asahel
Roundy, opened a store for the sale of general merchandise
on the southwest corner of the same cross roads at the
Comers, in 1810. The land on which this store stood was
subsequently occupied after 1840 by the Baptist Church;
but before it went into occupation of that society, and sub-
sequently to Mr. Hotchkiss, these lands were owned by Dr.
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Ashbel Searl (subsequently of Otisco), Thomas Stevens,
John Evans and Nelson Berry; but whether any of them
had a store there is not known.
About 1867, after the Baptist Society became extinct,
Uriah Roundy purchased the church site and converted the
church building- into a store for the sale of general mer-
chandise, for which purpose it has been in use ever since.
The mrchants who have occupied this reconstructed church
building for store purposes since 1867 are : Uriah Roundy,
Benjamin McDaniels, George King, Caleb E. King and
Andrew Lieber a^d son, the present occupants.
Early in the forties, Jonathan F. Woodworth opened a
store at the " Center," in a building on the west side of the
road subsequently occupied by Samuel Purchase as a dwell-
mg house. Soon afterwards he erected a new store build-
ing on the east side of the road and just south of the hotel
at Spafford Corners, where he carried on a general mer-
cantile business for many years. Subsequent to Mr. Wood-
worth's occupation this latter building was owned and used
by Charles B. Lyon as a shoe shop.
According to tradition, Dr. Archibald Farr in 1803 set-
tled on the southwest corner of Lot 11, Tully, and the
following year Isaac Hall located at Spafford Corners ; and
each of these gentlemn threw open their log cabins as public
inns for the entertainment of guests. In the absence of
direct knowledge on the subject, we infer from circum-
stances, that this means no more than being the first settlers
in the southern portion of the town, they were obliged to
and did open their houses for the entertainment of the
numerous prospecting parties, seeking unoccupied lands for
purchase and settlement, and for which they very probably
received a compensation. Very little is known of these two
public houses, but it is probable they ceased to be such
as soon as the temporary demand for them passed away.
In the case of Dr. Farr we are unable to verify the date of
his reputed settlement, as his deed was never recorded, but
as to Mr. Hall, we find his deed is dated in 1805; he may,
however, have gone into occupation a year earlier under
contract.
Mr. Hall's log house stood in the garden connected with
the present hotel, just east of the horse barns. Mr. Hall
sold out his possessions at the " Corners ' in 1811, and was
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followed in occupation by John Williamson from Minden,
Montgomery County, N. Y., in 1814. The latter gentleman
sold to Captain Asahel Roundy in 1821, who erected that
year the presnt hotel building, then known as " Roundy's
Tavern." This has been the only public house at the
Comers since its erection. Mr. Roundy kept the place until
1843; then sold it to Col. William W. Legg, who has been
succeeded by Thomas Babcock, Amon J. Ripley, Dr. G.
Eugene Barker, John C. Van Benschoten, Andrew Lieber
and Thomas McAuliffe, present occupant.
About 1828, Elias Woodworth opened a house of enter-
tainment on the southwest corner of Lot 13, Sempronius,
east of the main highway near the Center; this was suc-
ceeded by a new tavern, supposed to have been built by
Thomas Babcock, just south of Woodworth's, and on Lot
14, Sempronius, known as " The Center House." This
house was subsequently owned by Isaiah BufRngton, Hop-
kins Perkins, Daniel Vail, Jr., Edward M. Allen, Amos
Austin, Willis S. Nelson, John C. Tinkham and William
Cowan. The building was destroyed by fire in the fifties
and has never been replaced.
It would be unprofitable to attempt to recall the names
of all who have worked at blacksmithing and wagon making,
in the original town of Spaff ord, since its settlement ; suffice
it to say, that in olden times there were those who worked
at one or both these trades at the Center, the Comers, Cold
Brook, East Side Hill, and in Spafford Hollow. Early in
the thirties Edward Baxter, Thomas Mitchell and Gershom
Lewis opened a wagon and blacksmith shop on the site of
the present Union Church at the " Corners " ; their interest
in this site was afterwards purchased by the Trustees of
that Church, July 7, 1838, and Gersham Lewis immediately
thereafter erected a new shop for the prosecution of the same
business, just south of the Baptist Church, where the late
Alexander Green subsequently resided; here he remained
until his decease about 1850. In wagon making Mr. Lewis
never had a successor at the " Corners " ; but in repairing of
wagons and farm implements and in smithing he had many ;
among whom are the following : Asa Wellington, Franklin
Roundy, Alexander Green, Perry Norton and John Pender-
gast. At an early date Anson Churchell did a very profit-
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able business for many years as blacksmith in the northern
end of the village ; he died in 1849.
Just south of Mr. Churchell's blacksmith shop Mr. Loami
W. Johnson had a cooper shop; he came from Cambridge,
in this State, and first settled north of Borodino. From
there he came to this village at an early date and carried
on a profitable business as cooper until his decease, which
occurred in 1861 ; he had no successor in business.
There never was but one resident tailor at the Corners,
William Quick, who was born in London, England. -He
first came to Canada, and from there to this village, where
he married a Miss French. He remained here a few years
and then moved to Borodino. Before his coming a tailor
residing in some other place came to the tavern on stated
days, cut the clothes of the people, and they were then made
up in the family or by a practiced seamstress who went
from houses to house for that purpose. The business of a
tailor and seamstress in those days was a respectable and
profitable one.
Another lucrative business in olden times was that of
currier and tanner and shoemaker. There are those still
living who can remember when a shoemaker, carrying his
kit of tools with him, went from house to house, shoeing
the family from skins taken from the domestic herds, and
prepared by a neighboring tanner and currier. Among the
itinerant shoemakers who came to the "Corners" was David
Havens, father of Clark and Ebenezer Havens. He came
from Rhode Island, was a Seventh Day Baptist, and was
buried in their cemetery at Scott, New York. Among the
early tanners and curriers were Sumner Allen, father of
William Bulfinch Allen, now a resident at the Corners, and
David T. Lyon ; each carrying on business west of the main
road, in the northern part of the village at Spafford Corners.
Mr. Lyon was also a shoemaker, and with his coming here
the itinerant business came to an end; he and his sons
Charles B. and Cyrus Lyon were expert craftsmen, and for
many years made the foot wear of the southern residents
of the town.
Another industry of considerable importance in early
times, now in disuse by reason of changed conditions, was
that of Potashery. At a very early date a building for the
manufacture of potash from wood ashes stood where the
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present residence of Mrs. Benjamin McDaniels now stands,
on the south side of the east and west road, just west of the
" Corners." Here " Uncle " EH Fisher, under the manage^
ment of Levi Hurlbut and Asahel M. Roundy, year after
year gathered wood ashes from all the neighboring farmers,
and in the Fall of the year boiled the lye from them into
potash, for the eastern market ; and here many a good house-
wife came with her pot grease to have " Uncle " Eli assist
her in making her annual barrel of soft soap for domestic
use. Uncle Eli was a familiar character of those early
years, and his coming and going, as the years went round,
was watched by the villagers with pleasurable satisfaction.
His glowing open arch fire always gave out a generous heat
and light, and many a man will recall with pleasure the
memory of, when a boy, he spent the cold Fall evenings
in that light and heat with Uncle Eli, as the latter pursued
his evening toil.
Jeremiah Van Rensselae Coon and his father David Coon,
at an early date carried on the business of harness making,
the foiTTier at the Corners, and the latter at the cross roads
east of Spafford Cemetery; David Coon died in 1857, and
his son moved away soon afterwards ; they had no successors
in business.
The following business references to the Village of Boro-
dino are taken in part from Bruce's History of the County
of Onondaga. The first merchant there was Daniel G.
Burroughs, who kept a store in a log cabin on the site of
the present dwelling house and store of Alphonso Deerman,
east of the Skaneateles and Homer road, as well as the one
leading to Thorn Hill. It is said he was an expert swimmer,
and at one time swam from Borodino Landing to Mandana,
a distance of thee miles.
Borodino at one time had three stores for the sale of
general merchandise, thee taverns, three tailor shops, three
blacksm.ith shops, and other things in proportion ; but, like
Spafrord Comers, was materially affected by the building
of the Binghamton and Syracuse Railroad, and the conse-
quent diversion of travel to that road.
Mr. Burroughs was succeeded in business by Stephen and
Horace Childs, said to have been natives of Connecticut, but
before or after coming to Borodino resided in Owasco, N. Y.
Other merchants in Borodino were Daniel Baxter, Messer
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Barker, Washington Wallace, William Leg-g, David Becker
(his son-in-law), Thomas B. Anderson, Charles M. Rich,
Churchell & Eddie, Grinnell & Howe, William Quick & Son,
Captain Zach Berry, Caleb E. King, and Alphonso Deerman.
The first tavern was built by Ira Rider in 1823, on the
present site of the Churchell House ; the second was erected
by Col. Lewis C. Davis, where John Uncless now resides;
and the third was kept in the house lately occupied by Mark
Harvey as a residence, on the northwest corner of the cross
road in this village. The two latter taverns were discon-
tinued many years ago, and the former is still in use and
occupied as a hotel by Mr. Churchell.
The first blacksmith shop was kept by Eleazer Hillebert,
on the site where the Legg Block recently stood. Other
blacksmiths in the village were William Legg, Mr. Stowell,
Isaac Wallace, Orrin F. Eddy, A. Griffin and John Weston.
The first wagon maker was William Legg; who had as
workmen John Babcock, Solomon Sprague, Seymour
W^arner, and Simeon Morchell.
Among the early shoemakers were Milton Streeter,
Renona A. Cady, and Harman Cady. Thomas Howard at
one time had a tannery here; Daniel Baxter a Potashery;
and William Hayford a tinshop and foundry.
In May, 1856, a fire destroyed the tinshop and foundry,
a tailor shop, and other things, entailing a loss of about
$8,000.00; and on September 12, 1871, the business places
of William W. Legg & Son, William Quick, Charles M. Rich,
H. Linus Darling, and Charles Benton were burned;
destroying nearly the whole business center of the village.
The site of the major portion of the burned district was
subsequently built upon by Col. William W. Legg, for a
business block adapted for the use of stores, shops and
offices ; this was also destroyed by fire in 1901, and has not
since been restored. Since the destruction of the Legg
Block three stores have catered to the wants of the Borodino
people, two on the site of the original Burroughs store, and
one in the building known as the Town Hall.
In early years the country merchants purchased their
goods direct from the wholesale dealer and importer in
New York City, and for that purpose made at least one
trip annually to that metropolis, and the particularly smart
ones made two, one in the Spring and one in the Fall of
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the year. These sojourns from home generally lasted from
two to three weeks at a time. By reason of their much
travel and their extensive business experiences, the society
of these gentlemen was much sought after in the communi-
ties where they resided; and their patrons never wearied
of the relation of their travels and their business experi-
ences in the great City of New York. Their comments on
facts coming within their personal obsei^s^ation seemed to
have force and certainty, which comes from special knowl-
edge and privileged information, and were received by their
auditors accordingly. If they were good fellows, and their
business instincts generally led them to be, their stores
naturally became club-houses, where men and boys con-
gregated, not only to look over the latest importations from
New York, but to hear the latest news from the outside
world. Newspapers were not as common then as now, and
consequently the country merchant was a power politically
and socially in the community. Men naturally congregate
together during the relaxation of business, and in early
years, what better place was there for a country man or
boy to spend a long winter evening, than around the big
box stove in the rear part of a country store? Here the
elders smoked their pipes, told stories, and all listened to
the merchant as he related his adventures, and expounded
matters political and otherwise to his patrons congregated
about him. A popular merchant has always been a great
power in the community, and it is a pleasure to note that
in this town the store, as a club-house, has always taken
precedence in popularity over that of the tavern.
HIGHWAYS.
Joshua V. H. Clark, in his History of Onondaga, In
speaking of the original town of Spafford as organized in
1811, says: "The first settler in that part of the town taken
from Tully was Jonathan Berry. He first settled a short
distance south of the village of Borodino, in March, 1803.
In April, the same year, Archibald Farr located himself on
th« southwest corner of Lot. 11.
" To facilitate the progress of Mr. Farr's imigration^
Berry sent his teams and men to clear out a road, that Farr
might proceed to his place of destination. This was the
first road attempted to be made within the limits of the
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town, and is the same that now leads from Spafford Corners
to Borodino." The next year " the road was cleared from
Farr's, on Lot 11, to the Comers; and the next year, 1805,
Elisha Sabins and John Babcock cleared and cut a road
from Scott (then loiowTi as Babcock's Comers) to Spafford
Corners."
The same time they moved their goods on sleds over
this newly made road from Scott to their new abode in this
town at Spafford Corners. Mr. Goodwin, in his history of
Coi-tland County, say that the next year, 1806, Isaac Hall,
who had ecently settled at Spafford Comers, drove a wagon
over this road from his home to Babcock's Corners, loadea
it with hemlock boards, and then drove it back to his
residence in Spafford.
Goodwin, in this same history, says that Peleg Babcock,
accompanied by his brother Solomon Babcock, coming from
Leyden, Mass., settled on Lot 82, Tully, now Village of Scott,
in the year 1799 ; and was soon afterwards followed to that
place by John Babcock, Jared Babcock and others. How
these latter gentlemen were rlated to Peleg, if at all, is not
known. Soon after taking up his residence in Scott, Peleg
Babcock puchased Lot 21, Tully, on which Spafford Corners
is situate, and immediately afterwards commenced the
sale of it in parcels to purchasers. Among his early con-
veyances is one to John Babcock, dated October 8, 1806,
one to James Cravath, dated September 7, 1805, and another
to Elisha Sabin, dated September 8, 1811 ; probably preceded
by contract of anterior date. Mr. Babcock never owned
the State's Hundred Acres on this lot, which was puchased
by Isaac Hall, August 1, 1805; perhaps by contract of an
earlier date ; it is claimed he was in occupation as early as
1804.
In view of these traditionary statements, it is interesting
to note the survey bill of this first highway in town, which
has been transcribed in the first book of records ot the town
of Spafford, from an earlier record in the town books of
Tully. This is the first road record in this book of records :
" Survey of a road, beginning at the north west comer
of Lot 12, in Sempronius; and running from thence S. 47°
E. 185 chains — thence S. 35° E. 60 chains — thence S. 14°
E. 183 chains — thence S. 7° E. 245 chains — thence S. 30
chains — thence S. 7° E. 40 chains — thence S. 15° E. 10
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chains to the north line of lot No. 82, Tully. Nicholas
Howd, Surveyor. ?
Recorded this 3rd day of July, 1804.
Amos Skeel, Clerk.
James Cravath,
Solomon Babcock,
Commissioners of Highways."
This is a survey of the main highway, running north and
south through the original town of Spafford, (now known
as the Skaneateles and Homer road) , commencing at Jona-
than Berry's house, on the north line of the then town of
Spafford, and the south line of Marcellus, and extending to
the Village of Scott, in the County of Cortland. That would
indicate that, at least, the portion of this highway from Dr.
Archibald Farr's location, on the southwest corner of Lot
11, to the Village of Scott, was surveyed before the tradi-
tionary opening of the road. The lands purchased by James
Cravath of Peleg Babcock, on Lot 21, Tully, were the same
now owned and occupied by Joseph Cole in 1900 ; and this
survey bill also indicates that he must have occupied his
purchase early in 1804 or he must have formerly resided in
Scott, before settling in Spafford.
The town books show the record of another survey bill,
of a cross road leading from the Skaneateles and Homer
road, easterly on Lot 11 to Lot 12, in the direction of Farr's
Mill at the foot of the Bucktail; this road ran along the
northern line of the Breed Farm of to-day, and was aban-
doned years ago and taken up. This bill is also dated in
1804, showing the early date of Dr. Farr's efforts to locate
a grist mill, and perhaps a foundry in Spafford Hollow.
Other survey bills of roads are recorded, commencing
January 7th, 1807, and rapidly thereafter until the original
town was well supplied with these means of intercommuni-
cation, before it was organized as a separate corporate body
in 1811 ; in fact in early days there were more roads than
there are to-day; many of those first laid out have either
been regularly condemned and taken up, or abandoned to
the use of the adjacent owners of the land. Among those
abandoned or gone into disuse, was one extending along the
county line between Onondaga and Cortland, commencing
in the Skaneateles and Homer road, and extending easterly
to the main road, running northerly and southerly in Cold
SPAFFORD, ONONDAGA COUNTY, NEW YORK 7«
Brook ; another cross road, extending from the Skaneateles
and Homer road to the Cold Brook road, ran along the
southern line of the Barker farm of 1900, and was aban-
doned years ago, and fenced in by the owners of the land.
The cross road along the north line of the Breed farm, above
spoken of, was also abandoned over fifty years ago. There
are others Avhich have suffered a similar fate, but a recital
of them would be wearisome and unprofitable.
There are other roads which have been laid out or re-
surveyed, since the organization of the town in 1811, and
particularly since the addition of the Marcellus acquisition.
The early records of the original town of Marcellus were
burned before 1830, so a re-survey of that portion of the
town was ordered by vote, early in the thirties. The last
survey bill appearing of record in the town books, is one
of the road leading from Edwin Morris' house, (1900) on
Lot 31, to the head of Skaneateles Lake, by way of Spafford
Landing and the cottage of the writer on that beautiful
sheet of water.
In this connection it seems appropriate to remark, that
the main road running northerly and southerly through
this town, from the village of Homer on the south to the
village of Skaneateles on the north, is one of the most
attractive and picturesque in Central New York, so cele-
brated for beautiful drives, and in early times, before the
cross-country railroads had diverted the natural course of
travel, was much used by travelers, passing from the north-
ern to the southern portions of the State. A regular line of
stages passed daily both ways over this route, to accom-
modate the demands of travel, and taverns at stated places
along the road did a prosperous business. In the Fall of
the year, large droves of cattle and sheep were frequently
seen going along this highway, and the farmers along the
route found a ready sale for their surplus fodder to the
drovers accompanying these domestic herds, destined for
the New York Market. The Stage Driver and Tavern
Keeper were important personages in those early times, and
held a position in the community entirely diflPerent from
their successors of the pesent day.
The highway from the village of Homer to Skaneateles,
a distance of twenty-five miles, is nearly in a direct course,
and so gentle in its rise and descent that a traveller can trot
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a smart team, attached to a light conveyance, nearly the
whole distance between the two places. Leaving the Village
of Homer, the route to Scott, eight miles, is up a wide and
fertile valley, and from thence to the county line, two and
a half miles, is up a gentle ascent along a small water, couse.
As the traveller approaches the county line, there is sud-
denly opened to his view an expanse of fifteen or twenty
miles of landscape, covering part of the county of Cayuga,
nearly all of the to\vn of Spafford, parts of the towns of
Skaneateles and Marcellus, and the whole of Skaneateles
Lake, with its surrounding hills and v/ooded points mirrored
in its placid waters. The highway at this point, is over a
thousand feet above the waters of the Lake, less than a mile
away on the left, and thence, in its northerly and parallel
course to that body of water, gradually descends to the sur-
face level of the Lake at Skaneateles Village, fifteen miles
away, the traveller never losing sight of that beautiful sheet
of water, from the time it first came in view in the hills of
Scott. This old stage route may have lost some of its points
of interest, by the removal of the old time stage coaches,
and the discontinuance of travel by pivate equipages, once
so frequently seen on this favorite route of travel, yet there
is a satisfaction in knowing that the graceful Spafford Hills,
the fair waters of Skaneateles Lake, and God's pure air and
the sunlight of Heaven spread over all, are still there, and
cannot be diverted by the commercialism of man.
Another road in town, known as the " Bucktail," leading
from Spafford Comers to Otisco Hollow, will always attract
the attention of the traveller, by reason of its wild and
rugged character; without question it has no counterpart
in Central New York, and possibly not in the whole State
of New York. It was laid out about 1818 by Captain Asahel
Roundy, and surveyed in May, 1819, by Lauren Hotchkiss,
Surveyor. The naming of this road was mentioned under
the head of First Settlers, in connection with the name of
Captain Roundy.
PROFESSIONAL MEN.
PHYSICIANS.
The first resident physician, in the southern end of the
town of Spafford, was Dr. Archibald Farr, who, according
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to tradition, settled on \he southwest corner of Lot 11, Tully,
in the Spring- of 1803. Very little is known of him, beyond
the fact that he was the first settler in the southern portion
of the town, that he opened his log- cabin for the entertain-
ment of guests, and that he built a grist-mill in 1806, and
perhaps a foundry, at the foot of the Buck Tail Gulf, in
Spafford Hollow. He must have moved away before 1811,
for according to deed records in the County Clerk's Office,
the Leggs were in possession, that year, of the land where
he is reputed to have resided.
Dr. Farr was followed by Dr. Ashbel Searls, who first
settled east of the main road, on Lot 42, Tully, on land
purchased of Elijah Knapp. He erected there a log house,
but did not remain long before he re-deeded the land to
Mr. Knapp, and moved to Spafford Corners, where he pur-
chased a house and lot on the southwest corner of the cross
roads, of Lauren Hotchkiss. From there he moved to Otisco
about 1815, and finally to Onondaga Valley, where he died
in 1875 at a great age. He became a member of the Onon-
daga County Medical Society in 1816, while a resident of
Otisco.
The next physician in the southern part of the town, of
whom we have any recrod, was Dr. Zachariah Derbyshire,
who resided on the west side of the highway, half way
between the residence of Lyman C. Bennett and that of Mrs.
Isaac Fisher, on Lot 22, Tully. His first wife, Pruella
Derbyshire, died August 12, 1823, and was buried in Spaf-
ford Cemetery; he then married Hannah Williamson,
daughter of Cornelius Williamson, for a second wife. We
have no record of his coming or going, but it is probable his
stay in town filled the interregrum, between the going of
Dr. Searls as above stated, and the coming of Dr. Collins,
who came about 1830. He at one time had a foundry, just
above the upper falls in the Buck Tail Gulf.
Dr. John Collins came to Spafford Corners from Brook-
field, Madison County, New York, where he was born, about
1830, and remained here in active practice of his profession
until his decease, August 15, 1853.
Among the early students who read medicine In his office
was Daniel G. Frisbie, who after being admitted to prac-
tice, entered into partnership with him. Dr. Frisbie was
admitted to the Onondaga County Medical Society in June,
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1845. Dr. Frisbie, while associated in business with Dr.
Collins, married Mary Bulfinich, daughter of Joseph Bul-
finch, and a short time afterwards went West, where he
became a successful practitioner and business man.
A short time before the decease of Dr. Collins he sold his
last residence (the late T. Maxson Foster residence) and
business interests to a Dr .Davidson, who continued practice
here for a few years and then moved away.
Since the departure of Dr. Davidson, the southern portion
of the to\vn has been sevred by resident physicians, in the
persons of Dr. H. D. Hunt and Dr. G. Eugene Barker. Dr.
Hunt was admitted to the Onondaga County Medical Society
in June, 1875. He moved to Cortland County.
Dr. Barker, son of William Barker, was born in this town,
and after a successful practice in other places finally
returned here, where he has had a prosperous career in his
chosen profession, for a number of years last past. He is
a Homeopath, and was admitted to the Onondaga County
Medical Society of that persuasion in 1891, while he was a
resident of the village of Tully. He now has a residence
and office at Spafford Corners.
In the northern, or Marcellus end of the town, the first
resident physician was Jeremiah Bumbus Whiting, who is
reputed to have located at or near the present village of
Borodino in 1802, and continued practice there until 1819,
when he moved to Sempronius, N. Y. He afterwards went
to Michigan, where he died. Dr. Jonathan Kneeland, who
commenced the study of medicine in his office, said of him ;
he was a good classical and medical scholar, well skilled in
the use of indigenous remedies, but too much addicted to the
use of spirituous liquors to make a successful practitioner
in the field of medicine.
Dr. Whiting was succeeded at Borodino by Dr. Benjamin
Trumbull, who came in 1816. He was admitted to the
Onondaga County Medical Society in 1822, and was Presi-
dent of that body in 1832-3. He continued practice in this
village until his decease, which occurred May 28, 1835, at
the age of 46 years. He was invariably represented by
physicians, who knew him, as a gentleman, scholar and a
skillful physician. He was a nephew of " Brother Jona-
than " Trumbull of Connecticut, the intimate friend and
associate of Washington, and one of the most noted War
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Governors of the Revolution. It is claimed that this village
is indebted to him for its name, Borodino, and that during
his residence here he did much to foster the churches, public
schools, and the Chistian morality of the community. He
died of heart disease.
Dr. Jonathan Kneeland, born near Borodino in 1812, early
had a predilection for medicine, and when a small boy,
entered the office of Dr. Whiting as a student; but this
engagement was soon terminated. He then entered a
medical school in Ohio, but his entry into the practice of
his chosen profession was interrupted by severe illness,
which delayed the fruition of his desires until he was over
thirty years of age. He first opened an office in Tully, but
soon afterwards settled at or near Thorn Hill, v/here he had
a successful career as physician and surgeon, among his old
towns people near Borodino, for several years. He then
moved to Onondaga Valley, v/here he remained until his
decease. He joined the Onondaga County Medical Society
in 1842, and in 1892 was honored by that body by a public
banquet, on account of his long and honorable career of
fifty years, as member of that society. He was President
of that body in 1852.
Dr. Trumbull was succeeded at Borodino by Dr. Isaac
Morrell, who continued a successful practice there until
1866, when he moved to Fulton, N. Y. After a short
absence he returned to Boodino, but soon after went to
Elmira, N. Y., where he. died. He was admitted to the
Onondaga Medical Society in January, 1841.
Since the departure of Dr. Morrell this end of the town
has been served by Dr. Van Dyke Tripp and Dr. William
G. Bliss. Dr. Tripp was admitted to the Onondaga County
Medical Society in 1869, and represented his town in the
Board of Supervisors of the County of Onondaga in 1881-3.
He is now deceased. Dr. Bliss was a native of Georgia, in
the State of Vermont, and after a successful business career
at Borodino for a number of years, moved to Tully, N. Y.,
where he is now engaged in the pactice of medicine.
Several of Spafford's sons have gone forth from this,
their native place, to other localities, and risen to eminence
in the profession of medicine, among whom are Jonathan
Kneeland (spoken of above), Stephen Smith, who went to
Brooklyn, N. Y., and there became a leading physician and
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surgeon; who was at one time Commissioner of Charities
there, was Commissioner of Lunacy in 1882, was selected
as a Delegate to the International Sanitary Congress at
Paris in 1894, and is especially remembered for his valuable
gift of a medical library to the medical department of the
Syracuse University.
J. Lewis Smith, who was a graduate of Yale Coilege,
became a prominent physician, and medical instructor in
the schools of the City of New York. He is also well known
to the profession as a medical writer and the author of
several medical works, particularly for a Treatise on the
Diseases of Children.
Dr. Edward Cox, son of Silas Cox, studied medicine with
Dr. Trumbull at Borodino, and then went to Michigan,
where he established a lucrative practice at Battle Creek.
Dr. Polaski Prindle, son of Moses Prindle, born near
Spafford Corners, studied with Dr. Morrell at Borodino,
and located first at Cashtown, and afterwards in Michigan,
where he died.
Dr. James R. Weston, son of Edmund C. Weston, studied
medicine with Dr. Collins at Spafford Comers, and finally
moved to Montana, where he became a successful physician,
a Bank President, a Judge of the Probate Court, and a
successful business man.
Dr. S. Elis Crane is a successful physician in Syracuse,
N. Y.
Dr. John E. Lyon, son of David Lyon, died soon after
coming into a lucrative practice ; he was buried at Spafford
Cemetery.
LAWYERS.
There has never been a resident practicing lawyer in this
town; although there has always been some one skilled in
the practice of Justice Courts, and able to serve the people
in that tribunal ; among these were Captain Asahel Roundy,
Jonathan Johnson, James H. Isdell, Uriah Roundy, H. Linus
Darling, and Simon B. Wallace. The latter is the only
one now living; he resides in the Village of Borodino, and
is ready to serve the people when his services are required.
While there are no resident lawyers, there are several
persons born here who have settled in other localities, and
risen to eminence in their chosen profession ; among whom
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are Hon. Mai-tin A. Knapp, Judge Elliott Anthony, Captain
George K. Collins, Hon. A. Judson Kneeland, late practicing
attorney in the Village of Homer, N. Y., William Smith, a
graduate of Yale College, an attorney and counselor at law,
but who died early in California; Lee Olmsted and Harley
J. Crane, each of whom is actively engaged in the practice
of law in the City of Syracuse ; Judge Charles Vandenburg,
a graduate of Yale College, an attorney at law, and a
Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of Minnesota;
and Mr. Harmon, son of Elder Harmon, an eminent lawyer,
late of Washington, D. C.
MINISTERS.
Among the ministers who have gone from this town and
risen to prominence elsewhere, are Amasa Spencer Knee-
land, Stella Kneeland, Josiah N. Knapp (died a young man),
and David M. D. OTarrell.
TEACHERS.
The following, born in Spafford, have graced the
profession in other communities : Prof. Charles 0. Roundy,
first principal of the Syracuse High School, Prof. Silas M.
Betts, bom in Borodino in 1828, was at one time principal
of the High School in Niles, Michigan, for several years
principal of grammar schools in the City of Sryacuse, and
a teacher in the Normal School in the State of New Jersey ;
Prof. Alfred G. Harrington, at one time a successful teacher
in the high grade of schools in this State, now retired to
his farm in the town of Spafford; Prof. Joseph Addison
Prindle, at one time a successful teacher in one of the
Normal Schools of this State, now retired and residing in
the Village of Skaneateles, N. Y. ; and Prof. James Foster,
an old time teacher, moved to South Dakota, but now
deceased.
ARTIST AND SCULPTOR.
Sanford Thayer, son of Sanford and Sally (Miner)
Thayer, Portrait and Landscape Painter, was bom July 19,
1820, and resided in boyhood in Cold Brook.
Of the works of Horace Kneeland as a sculptor, very little
is known by the writer.
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SURVEYORS.
This brief sketch of the professional men who were bom
or resided in.^pafford, would be incomplete without some
reference to the old time surveyor, who with compass and
chain divided farms, settled disputes, and fixed boundaries
betw^een contending factions. One of the most skillful,
accurate, and tactful of the old surveyors in this town was
Joseph Bulfinch. He was born in Boston, and when a young
man, as principal taught school in a young ladies' seminary
in the State of Vermont, and at an early date, when the
country was new and the land boundaries undefined, settled
in this town, just west of Spafford Corners. He was a man
who took pride in his calling, spared no pains for accuracy,
and for that reason his decisions were respected as in the
nature of a judicial conclusion. In Summer or Winter he
served his patrons as occasion required. He died at the
advanced age of 88 years in 1873, and was buried in
Spafford Cemetery.
After his decease he was succeeded for a time by his son,
Joseph H. Bulfinch; he moved years ago to South Dakota,
where he died ; and later came Cyrenus Woodworth, whose
decease is a matter of recent occurrence.
POSTMASTERS.
It would be unprofitable at this time, to make the neces-
sary search to obtain the names of all persons who have
held the impotant office of Post Master, at the different
postal stations in this town, but the following are given as
the major portion of those holding this important office
under the General Government, at Spafford Comers. Cap-
tain Asahel Roundy was the first to receive this appointment
in 1814, and he has been succeeded by the following: Isaac
Knapp, Joseph R. Berry, Thomas B. Anderson, Dr. John
Collins, William W. Legg, Uriah Roundy, Benjamin Mc-
Daniels, and Mr. Lieber, the present incumbent.
SKANEATELES LAKE AND COTTAGES.
Ekaneateles Lake is about seventeen miles long, averaging
about one mile in width, and contains an area of not far
from seventeen square miles of water, two-thirds of which are
within the bounds of the town of Spafford. The water in
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depth is from twenty-five feet, at the foot and head, to two
hundred sixty-five feet throughout the major portion of its
course. There are no marshes or swamps along its shores,
which are for the most part rocky and precipitous.
The Village of Skaneateles, of two or three thousand
inhabitants, comes down to the water's edge at the foot of
the lake, and extends for a short distance up the gentle slope
of the hills encircling its northern extremity. Passing
from the Village of Skaneateles and going southward up
the lake five or six miles, the hills on either side come down
to the water's edge, in a gentle decline, graced with culti-
vated fields, and picturesque farm buildings environed with
fruit and other shade trees. At Five Mile Point the lake
makes a change in course to a more easterly direction and,
passing this Point, there is suddenly presented to the eye
of the traveller an extended view of pure limpid water sur-
rounded by bold, ynld, and rugged highland scenery, such
as is seldom seen elsewhere or excelled in beauty and
picturesqueness. On the west side of the lake, at the
beginning of this highland district, is the hamlet of Man-
dana, and, on the east side, the pretty little village of Boro-
dino. Proceeding southward Point after Point successively
come into view, extending outward from either shore, with
their green verdue and graceful sweeping elm trees mirrored
in the placid waters of the lake. The view from every
steamer landing is most entrancing, and impresses the mind
of the beholder. From Five Mile Point upward the shores
of the lake become more and more precipitous, and the sur-
rounding lands increase in elevation, until reaching the
head of the lake at Glen Haven there is an amphitheater of
precipitous hills, rising to a height a twelve or thirteen
hundred feet above the surface of the v/ater. The follow-
ing is an abbreviated and adapted extract, taken from a
recent publication concerning this lake, by the well known
artist, John Barrow of Skaneateles, who for half a century
has studied and delightfully painted the woods, hills and
waters of Skaneateles Lake.
*' The water of Skaneateles Lake is of the clearest and
purest. I believe it has a color and beauty not reached by
any other lake in our land. All the other lakes of our
region have a clear and beautifully tinted water, each a
little different from any other. Ours has a delicate emerald
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tint, less pronounced than that of the great lakes, a tint of
its own, I think it the fairest of all.
" We know how gracefully the shores rise from the lake
as far as Mandana, and then rise more precipitously, until
they pass around the head of the lake in a grand amphi-
theater of hills, still partially clothed with forests.
" Trees are standing and increasing around the Village
of Skaneateles and its adjacent shores, filling up gaps that
once were there. Nature still plants trees along the shore,
and already we see a great change in that respect in the
last twenty-five or thirty years. In some places the second
growth has reached the height of the old trees, and in other
places the saplings are covering the ground. There is still
a grand wood on the west shore, half way up the lake, that
keeps green the memory of the primeval forests.
" The Points that were barren a few years ago, are now
owned by men who own summer cottages there, and have
taken care to add to such trees as have been spared to them.
Ten Mile Point has a new and beautiful grove, freshly
planted a few years ago, and also a fine old group, marking
the end of the Point as it was since the lake was known.
Three Mile Point, owned by Mr. Hooker, has since his
occupancy become a charming spot. Fall Brook Point has
changed some since I knew it, but not to its detriment, with
its fine cottage, pleasant lawn of flowers, and summer houses
planted there. I notice with satisfaction the same improve-
ment at Nine Mile Point, Sycamore Point, Randall's Point
and others.
" There is a ravine and brook at every Point, for the
brook makes the Point, and some are very interesting and
beautiful. The gorge at Appletree Point is one of the finest
on the lake. It has a stream of water more copious than
the Inlet at the head of the lake. There are two fine falls
in its course, one seventy-five or eighty feet in height, the
waters falling over a cavern in the slaty rock beneath, from
a ledge of Tully limestone above. Another one lower down
the gorge, of forty feet in height, is most picturesque in
time of freshet. There are other ravines at Ten Mile Point,
Hall's Point, Jenny's Point, Collins' Point, Hooker's Point,
and Gregory's Point. All these and many other smaller
brooks, with their varied rocky architecture and plant life,
are of interest to the lover of Nature.
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" Of the scenery of the lake much can be told. The
region in which this beautiful sheet of water lies is very-
rich in varied landscape; its hills, valleys and woods are
very beautiful; and the views from the hills bounding the
lakes are very charming. It would take too long to enum-
erate the different places where good views can be obtained,
but some of the best are from the head of the lake. There
are some excellent ones from, the hills back of Three Mile
Point, and from there down to Mandana. From the hills
south of Spafford Corners to the village of Skaneateles are
many charming views. Anywhere along the shores of the
lake it is very beautiful, but I think the finest views of all
are from Captain George K. Collins' cottage on Randall's
Point. This cottage commands splendid views up and down
the lake, the former being supplemented with the finest
view of the valley beyond Glen Haven. On the eastern
shore of the lake the summer sunsets can be seen in all their
variety and glory.
"There is a view from Ripley Hill, in the town of Spafford,
near the head of the lake, that ought to be famous. From
there the beholder has spread out before his vision a stretch
of county extending from the spurs of the Adirondack
Mountains on the east, to the hills of Seneca County on the
west, and from the mountains of Pennsylvania on the south,
to the waters of Lake Ontario on the north. One may well
be impressed with the beauty that is spread before him
here of our county and the setting of our lake We only
need great artists and poets to make the people understand
and appreciate how generous Nature has been, in giving us
this beautiful lake and surrounding hills."
STEAMBOATS.
The first steamboat on Skaneateles Lake was the " High-
land Chief," brought here from the Hudson River by Cap-
tain William Fowler, its owner. It came by canal, and
from thence was trucked to the lake by oxen. It was forty
feet in length, a side wheeler, and had a very uncomfort-
able habit of careening on slight provocation. According
to John Barrow it was introduced here about 1824 ; but we
have no record of it on the lake prior to 1831. As a steam-
boat it was not a success, and it was eventually remodelled
into a sail boat for carrying freight and wood.
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The next boat was built here, was about one hundred feet
in length, a side wheeler, and was named " Independence,"
because launched on Independence Day, July 4, 1831. It
was built in part by public subscription, had a cabin partly
below decks, and, like its predecessor, was a losing venture.
After a brief struggle for business and meeting with indif-
ferent success. Captain Wells, its pincipal owner, converted
it into a sail boat for carrying v/ood to the village of Skan-
eateles. It is said that D. B. Hillis, afterwards District
Attorney of the County of Onondaga, and then a student
in the law office of F. G. Jewett, delivered the Fourth of
July oration at Skaneateles, the day this boat was first put
in the water.
These two disastrous failures in the steamboat business
seemed to deter any further ventures in that line for many
years ; but the opening of the Water Cure Establishment at
Glen Haven, at the head of the lake, and a hotel and bowl-
ing alley at Fair Haven on the opposite side, each connected
by daily stages with the village of Homer, gave fresh encour-
agement to men who were anxious to open lake transporta-
tion ; so in 1848, about the time of the opening of the Water
Cure, the side wheel steamer " Skaneateles " was placed on
the lake. This boat was owned or managed by Thomas
Hecox, a son of Warren Hecox, one of the promoters of the
Water Cure Establishment at Glen Haven.
On July 4, 1848, a rival steamer named " Homer," made
its maiden trip up the lake in company with the Skan-
eateles, each soliciting and carrying passengers on that
occasion. The " Skaneateles " appeared to be a steady and
safe boat, but the " Homer " was top heavy and had an
uncomfortable way of careening from side to side, alter-
nately lifting one after the other of its side paddle wheels
out of the water; in windy weather this was particularly
noticeable, and people for that reason were afraid to ride
on the boat.
Whatever increased trade the Water Cure Establishment
may have contributed to lake transportation, it certainly
was not sufficient to sustain two boats; so one evening,
after returning to Skaneateles from an unsatisfactory
voyage to Glen Haven, Captain Hecox, with a full head of
steam, ran the Skaneateles on to the western shore of the
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lake, vv^here he subsequently removed her machinery and
boiler, and then converted her hull to other uses.
The Homer was never popular, and after making a valiant
fierht for three or four years, gave up the struggle and sub-
mitted to the inevitable transformation into a sailing craft
for hauling wood.
The Ben. H. Porter, built soon after the close of the Civil
War, was a propeller modelled after an ocean steamer, and
altogether too slow and clumsy to meet the requirements
of lake travel. This, after a few years, went the way of
the others, and about twenty-five or thirty years ago was
supplanted by the small but very serviceable steam propeller
" Glen Haven," still in use. The latter boat is now owned
by the Skaneateles Railroad Company, which in 1901 put
upon the lake the " City of Syracuse," modelled after its
sister boat but much larger in size.
No steamboat has ever paid running expenses here until
after the erection of summer cottages on the lake, since
which time traffic has steadily increased, so that now, during
the summer months, one or both of these boats are con-
stantly required to meet the demands of travel.
A number of years ago a small steam yacht was placed
on the lake by private parties, and named "Ossahinta," but
by reason of commutation tickets and cut rates on rail-
roads connecting with the regular boat, this opposition line
was put out of business ; what the effect of trolley lines of
railroad running into Skaneateles may be on lake transpor-
tation, is yet to be seen.
Sailing yachts for pleasure have for years been a special
feature of the lake, and during recent times numerous
steam and gasoline launches have been introduced to its
waters.
GLEN HAVEN SANITARIUM.
In the winter of 1847-8, a Water Cure Establishment
was opened by Dr. Jackson at Glen Haven, on the west
side, near the head of the lake. The first building used
was a large white house, with a chimney at each end, built
in 1846. by Deacon Hall of Skaneateles. The soft water
for the Water Cure was taken in pipes, from a large spring
issuing from the steep and almost inaccessible mountain
side, in rear and several hundred feet above the house. At
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the beginning of its career the rules and regulations of the
"Water Cure were stringent and exacting, and many who
were ill, or thought they were, flocked to the new Sanitar-
ium. Among other regulations the patients were required
to wear skull-caps, kept constantly moist by dipping in
water, to partake of a rigid coarse diet, drink copiously of
the cool soft water of the establishm.ent, take baths once or
twice a day, exercise frequently in the open mountain air,
and all women patients were to wear bloomers.
The skull-caps, bloomers, and coarse diet of the old regime
eventually passed away, and this old time Water Cure under
the liberal management of Dr. Thomas and John Mourin,
who have been in charge for the last twenty-five or thirty
years, has at last become well known throughout the
United States as a popular Sanitarium and Summer Resort,
for the latter purpose its reputation has long been
established.
The first house was destroyed by fire about 1850, and a
new and more commodious building erected in it s place.
The new building was soon outgrown, and numerous cot-
tages from time to time were added to supplement the main
establishment. After the lake became popular, by reason
of private parties erecting summer cottages at different
places along its shores, a large and commodious hotel build-
ing was added to the other structures of the Water Cure
property, to meet the demands of summer trade.
No spirituous liquors have ever been sold on the Sani-
tarium grounds, a fact which no doubt has contributed to
its popularity as a place of resort for women and children.
This institution, during its long career, has at times been
subject to adversity, and probably justly open to criticism
for unsatisfactory management, yet on the whole there is
much to be said in its favor. Its future seems established,
and its many pleasant surroundings ought to make it bright
and prosperous.
COTTAGES.
In the Spring of 1881 the writer erected on Randall's
Point, now knov^Ti as Spafford Landing, the first summer
cottage on Skaneateles Lake; this at the time produced a
mild sensation among the people residing in the vicinity,
and scores of people visited the place to look upon the new
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innovation. No one before had even suggested Skaneateles
Lake as a place for private summer homes, and certainly
no one had ever ventured an outlay of money in that direc-
tion. The general comment of those who visited this un-
pretentious first effort, in the direction of a summer cottage,
was that it was a foolhardy thing to do, and summer
cottages on the lake would never amount to anything. This
first building is now in use, as it was designed at the begin-
ning, as a dining room and kitchen ; the family of the writer
were then sleeping in tents.
The writer had one guest that first summer, however,
who came, stayed over night, said he never enjoyed himself
better in his life, in the morning bought a piece of land on
the lake shore, and soon after commenced the erection of
a cottage of his own; that was E. M. Ford of Syracuse.
That property and cottage is now owned by his daughter,
Mrs. Weed, of Brooklyn, N. Y.
Soon after Mr. Ford's purchase, in 1881, he sold a part
to Mr. James H. Blair of Syracuse, who erected the third
cottage on the lake; this property is now owned and
occupied by Mr. Cronell, of Skaneateles.
In a year or two after his first venture, the writer supple-
mented his belonging on the lake by erecting his main
cottage, on the bluff or elevation just north of his first
building.
From this time forward, the following cottages were
erected in quick succession upon the lake : Mr. Allen built
" Rockland " Cottage, on the high rocks just south of Mr.
Blair; a Mr. Ford built on Barber's Point the cottage now
owned and much improved by Col. James Manning of
Syracuse; Dr. Pease erected the cottage now known as
Jenny's, on Havens' Point, and Mr. Hall and Mr. Bench,
both of Skaneateles, built cottages farther down the lake.
All that have been now mentioned were in the toAvn of
Spafford.
On the opposite side of the lake, in the County of Cayuga,
about this time were erected four cottages on Pray's Point
(Glen Cove) , by three Gregory Brothers of Skaneateles, and
by Prof. R. Bruce White (a brother-in-law) of Syracuse.
Mr. Carpenter and Mrs. Casper erected two elegant summer
and winter homes on Appletree or Sawmill Point. The last
two were soon supplemented by ten or twelve other tasty
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summer cottages on the gentle declivity of the shore south
of Carpenter ; these are known as the New Hope Colony.
From this time forw^ard the popularity of the lake as a
summer resort was established, and year after year elegant
summer cottages were added, until there are now about a
hundred in all, distributed along the shores and points of
the highland poi-tion of the lake. Among the most note-
worthy of these, in addition to those already mentioned,
are the following: Two owned by Mr. Pennock and Mr.
Cooper in Pine Grove, one by Mr. E. C. Stearns on Wheat
Point, four owned by Mr. Salem Hyde, Mr. Maslin, Mr.
James Eager, and Dr. Marlow on the shore between Wheat
and Ten Mile Point, three owned by Dr. Wright, Mr. Stone
and Mr. Willett on the shore between Ten Mile and Hall's
Point, one owned by A. C. Chase on Barber's Point, one
owned by Rev. Samuel Calthrop on Stag Horn Point, one
owned by Dr. A. C. Mercer on the shore further south. In
addition to these there are five or six others belonging to a
Homer Colony perched on the high rocks south of Rockland
Cottage. All of these are in the town of Spafford.
On the western side of the lake the following have been
added to those already mentioned : One by Mr. Allen, near
the grounds of the Glen Haven Water Cure, and one by
each of the f ollov/ing named persons on the shore and points
on the west side of the lake: Mr. Olmstead, Dr. Guilford,
Dr. Darby, Mrs. Fields, Mr. Paul, Mrs. Bennett, Mr. Van
Esseltyne, Hooker Brothers, Mr. Stevens, Mr. Posthill, Mr.
Weeks Mr. Holden, and several others whose names are not
known to the writer.
Skaneateles Lake has been recently appropriated as a
water supply for the City of Syracuse ; what the effect may
be upon this beautiful sheet of water as a place of resort
and for summer homes is yet to be determined. The
matter of cottage building has been one of great importance
to the town of Spafford and has added very much to its
material wealth and prosperity. Its revenue from that
source has been a constant and increasing one, from the
time the first building was erected within its limits, and
barring the effect of this appropriation of the lake as a
water supply, its future revenue from that source looks
better than ever before. The facilities for reaching and
enjoying Skaneateles Lake were never in the past what they
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are to-day, and certainly, in salubrity and attractiveness,
this beautiful sheet of water has no equal in Central New
York.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Within the last fifty or sixty years there have been great
material changes in the welfare of the world, and especially
in the United States. The most noticeable of these have
occurred in our great cities and along our routes of com-
merce; and yet even an isolated country section, like the
town of Spaff ord, has been affected by this current of passing
events, which has marked the progress of nations. The
discovery and application of steam, and electricity as motive
powers, and the invention of the telegraph and telephone,
have had the effect, to a greater or less extent, of annihilat-
ing time and space; while the invention of a multitude of
modern labor saving devices has revolutionized the ordinary
methods of man, and the manner of obtaining his daily
bread; even his tastes and habits have changed. It would
seem as if the country farmer would be the last to be affected
by these modern innovations, and yet a careful study of the
situation shows, that even he has succumbed to the force
of modem ideas. These changes are unregretable, because
they are the logical sequence of current events, so it is not
our purpose to speak of them farther than to note the fact,
without expressions of regret; but of other changes we
desire to speak :
MAPLE SUGAR MAKING.
Fifty years ago the ordinary sweet used in a farmer's
family, for domestic purposes, was made from the sap of a
maple tree, and a farm without a " sugar-bush " was in-
complete. Maple groves were preserved and protected, with
all the care and attention of an apple or fruit orchard.
Early in Spring the sap buckets were taken from their
storing place, repaired, hoops tightened, and the buckets
carefully washed, soaked and put in readiness to catch the
first sap run of the season. The boiling was generally done
in long copper pans, set in brick arches covered by rough
wooden sheds, to protect them. from, the inclement weather
of Spring. The sugar season, always a short one, some-
times required a day and night service of the attendant.
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Sug-ar making was always a happy service for young people,
who generally attended the " sugar off," and delighted to
make the hot sugar into wax, by dropping it on a panful of
clean snow or a cake of ice. In olden times it was not an
unusual thing, to behold in an early Spring evening, the
fire light from half a dozen sugar bushes from the village
of Spafford Comers. The early farmers, in this town, not
only made sugar for themselves, but had a surplus to sell
to people in their localities. Muscovado, or a crude sugar
made from Southern sugar cane, never was a very desir-
able sweet,' and the clarified and granulated article is a
matter of com.paratively recent origin. The making of
maple sugar, in this locality, is growing less and less every
year, and will soon be a lost art; there are even now very
few maple groves worth the tapping. A cake of maple
sugar will soon be a curiosity, and maple syrup on pan-
cakes a luxury that the Vv^ealthy only can indulge in.
MAPLE GROVES.
Another noticeable and very regretable matter, which
has occurred within the last fifty years, and which naturally
affects the physical aspect of this town, is the destruction
of nearly all the fine groves of trees, which once existed in
close proximity to the villages and residences of the people.
From appearances, the people who have possessed the land
had an antipathy against both trees and shrubs, and have
wielded the axe with an unsparing hand. With the trees
have gone the Spring flowers and native birds, and all that
feasted the eye and stirred the soul of man to higher aims
and brighter thoughts. There is some satisfaction, however,
in knowing there are some places in town so steep and
rugged as to stay the course of the Avoodman's axe, and
where there is still a retreat for trees, birds and flowers.
There are a few shade trees along the waysides, particularly
in the tv/o villages, but even these are a memory of fifty
years ago. Very few, if any, fruit trees have been planted
in a half century. We are very glad, however, to note that
along the lake shore, where the summer residents have a
foothold, there is a reaction from this general tendency to
destruction and decay; here Nature, aided by sympathetic
hands, is fast restoring the land to its primitive charms.
We trust that the coming generation will catch some in-
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spiration from the Lakers, that will result in restoring the
lands in this picturesque town from the vandalism of the
last fifty years.
HUNTING, PIGEONS, BIRDS, ETC.
In the forepart of the nineteenth century every man and
boy was a marksman, and possessed a rifle or a firing iron
of some description. Fox hunting, hunting for black and
gray squirrels, partridges, pigeons, rabbits, and other small
animals and birds, afforded abundant sport for those who
were so minded. Others found pleasure and profit in trap-
ping fur bearing animals and in hunting for bee trees.
All these pastimes are now practically a memory of the past ;
and perhaps it is well it is so, for certainly it has always
been a question whether the companionship of these birds
and small anmals has not always been of more value to the
people, than the temporary pleasure of the few who prac-
ticed the art of killing them.
There are a few who will remember when flocks of wild
pigeons darkened the air with their Spring and Fall migra-
tions ; now, not a bird is left to tell the story ; a few bobo-
links still frequent our meadows in Summer time, and
enliven our labors with their sweet warbling song ; but, like
the pigeons, their days will soon be numbered and their song
cease in the land.
With the rapid flow of current events have also passed the
old time quilting bees, paring bees, husking bees, and the
old fashioned singing school; possibly there has something
succeeded to take their place, but in innocent fun and
generous sociability, we doubt if there will ever be a sub-
stitute for these old time gatherings.
JUDGE ELLIOTT ANTHONY.
(From The Syracuse Herald of February 26, 1898.)
" Elliott Anthony, one of the most illustrious sons of Onon-
daga County, died on Thursday night, February 20, 1898,
at Evanston, Illinois. For twelve years he was Judge of
the Superior Court of Illinois, and one of the leading author-
ities on law in the Middle West. He was born in Spafford
on June 10th, 1827, of Quaker ancestors. His father, Isaac
Anthony, married Pamelia Phelps of Vermont, and to them
were bom sons and daughters. The sons were educated in
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the academy at Homer. In the autumn of 1847, Elliott
entered Hamilton College at Clinton, as sophomore. He
was graduated in 1850 with high honors.
" In the following year, he and his classmate, Joseph I.
Hubbard, had charge of the Clinton Academy, in which
Grover Cleveland was then a pupil. Anthony's first experi-
ence at the school showed his character and determination.
The school had the reputation of being hard to control,
and had, previous to Mr. Anthony's advent, sent away in
quick succession five or six teachers. When he entered the
school-room on the first morning and called for order, there
was a violent slamming of books and slates on the desks.
He repeated the order, and a like demonstration followed.
Without a word he walked through the center aisle to the
back of the room, took two of the largest boys by their
collars and dragged them to the front, where he knocked
their heads together, and sent the lads to separate comers
of the room. He again issued his command for order and
it was obeyed. From that day on he had no further trouble
with his school. A gray-haired man came into his Court
room, where he was a Judge on the Chicago bench, and
thanked the jurist for that trouncing, saying that he had
learned more in that one day than he had in all his previous
schooling.
"Young Anthony pursued a course in law under Prof.
Theodore W. Dwight, and was admitted to the bar at
Oswego at 24 years. A year later, and after pleading his
first case into a Court of Record in Sterling, 111., he returned
to the East, married Mary, the sister of Professor Dwight,
and a grand-daughter of President Dwight of Yale College,
on July 14th, 1852. Returning West he went to Chicago,
celebrating his first year of married life by compiling "A
digest of the Illinois Reports," which was received with
great favor by the legal profession. In 1858 he was elected
City Attorney of Chicago, during which administration he
became the means of establishing many new points in law,
such as, that special assessments cannot be enjoined by a
Court of Chancery, and that the City of Chicago cannot be
garnisheed to collect salaries or wages of those employed
by it.
" Five years after his election he was chosen general
solicitor of the greatest railway corporation then in the
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Northwest, the Galena and Chicago Union Railroad Com-
pany. He was with it when the great fight over its con-
solidation with the Chicago and North Western was on,
and led the minority stockholders, in one of the most stub-
bornly contested cases in railway law, and enlisted some of
the most eminent capitalists of the country, among them
Samuel J. Tilden. All the contentions of Mr. Anthony's
brief were sustained, and the parties patched up their diffi-
culties. Out of this brief grew " The Law Pertaining to
the Consolidation of Railroads," which still remains a
standard work on that important subject.
" He was one of the leaders of the two great constitutional
conventions held in Illinois in 1862 and 1870. In the second
he v/as chairman of the executive committee, and also served
upon the committee on judiciary and railroads.
" Mr. Anthony was one of the founders of the Republican
party in Illinois, and was a delegate to the first Republican
Convention in Cook County. In 1880, when the conflict
over the third term idea came up, he was elected chairman
of the Cook Countj^ Convention, and delegate to the State
Convention, where he became contesting delegate to the
National Convention, where, in a stormy debate, he
answered Green B. Baum, General Logan and Emory Storrs,
and was finally admitted to the Convention which nomi-
nated General Garfield for President.
In the following Autumn he was elected to the bench of
the Supeiior Court, vv^here he sat for twelve years. While
on the bench Mr. Anthony devoted much time to the com-
pilation of legal treatises, v/hich included a work entitled
" Lavf of Self Defense," " The Trial by Jury in Criminal
Cases," and " New Trials in Criminal Cases." His sketches
of the Courts of England, published in "The Legal Adviser"
attracted much attention about this time, as also did his
treatise on " The Law of Arrest in Civil Cases."
" In 1889 Mr. Anthony was honored by the degree of
LL.L., conferred upon him by his Alma Mater, Hamilton
College.
" Among other v/orks that have come from his pen are :
" The Constitutional History of Illinois," " The Stoiy of
the Empire State," " Sanitation and Navigation," a series
of articles published in the Western Magazine of History
on "Old Virginia."
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Mr. Anthony's first wife died in 1862, and eight years
later he married her younger sister. For forty-five years
he lived in Chicago, but for the last four years he made his
home with his son, Charles E. Anthony, at Evanston. He
is survived by two other sons, State Senator George D.
Anthony, and Dr. Henry G. Anthony, making three in all."
PROFESSOR SILAS M. BETTS.
The following is an abridged extract, taken from Prof.
Edward Smith's History of Syracuse Schools:
" Silas M. Betts was born in Borodino in 1828. When
a child he moved with his parents to Memphis, in this
county, where he attended the public school. He also
attended school at Warners, Onondaga Academy, and Homer
Academy when Samuel Woolworth was principal. His first
teaching was at Belle Isle in the winter of 1844-5. After
this he attended the Normal School at Albany and graduated
in 1849.
Soon after, he became principal of School Number Nine
in this city. In 1851 he was principal of Number Eleven,
where he remained until his transfer to School Number
Seven, in 1855. He taught in the latter school until his
appointment as principal of a High School at Niles, Michi-
gan, in 1859 ; and was instrumental in making the schools
free in that State. While teaching in Michigan he held
teachers' institutes in that State during vacation time. His
health being impaired by overwork, he resigned the prin-
cipalship of the Niles High School about 1860. After a
rest for about a year, he accepted the Vice Principalship of
the Normal School in the State of New Jersey. He con-
tinued in this work for about three years, and then resigned
to accept the Presidency of the American Guernsey Cattle
Club at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Writing Mr. Smith
from that Club, he said : " I have lived to see the schools
made free in the State of New York, Michigan and New
Jersey, and I trust they have all been made better by my
labors. My most pleasant memories are connected with
the schools of Syracuse."
DR. JOHN COLLINS.
Dr. John Collins came to Spafford Corners from Brook-
field, Madison County, New York, where he was bom, about
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1830. His father and mother were of New England origin
and came from Stonington, Connecticut, on or before 1796.
He was educated in Hamilton Academy (now Colgate Uni-
versity) , and in the Medical College in Castleton, Vermont,
where he graduated in 1829. He came to Spafford Comers
the next year, joined the Onondaga Medical Society, June
14, 1831, and remained here in active practice of his pro-
fession until about the time of his decease, August 15, 1853;
he was buried in Spafford Cemetery. He first opened an
office in Roundy's Tavern, where he boarded, but soon pur-
chased a lot adjoining the hotel property on the south,
where he erected an office. In 1831 he married Miss Mary
Ann Roundy, daughter of Captain Asahel Roundy, and
soon after remodeled his office into a dwelling house, where
three of his first children, including the author of this
sketch, were born. He then purchased a farm of fifty
acres on the opposite side of the highway, which, prior to
that, had successively been owned by Peleg Babcock, John
Babcock, Silas Cox and Joseph Cole. He continued to
reside on this farm until a short time before his decease,
when he moved into a new house built by him just south,
and adjoining the Union Meeting House lot; this he sold
to a Dr. Davidson, preliminary to moving to Syracuse, but
died prior to the transfer of his family to the latter place.
In Bruce's History of Onondaga County appears the
following : " Dr. John Collins came to Spafford about 1830,
and practiced medicine until his decease, August 15, 1853.
He was a descendant of Henry Collins, starchmaker, who
came to America from Stepney Parish, London, England,
in 1635, and settled in Lynn, Mass. Dr. Collins was of the
seventh generation, in an unbroken line of Johns from
Henry his emigrant ancestor. He was graduated from
Castleton, Vermont Mediacl College in 1829, settled first in
Madison County, but soon removed to this town, where he
acquired a wide professional business. He was one of the
leading physicians in the County during his career, and a
prominent member of the County Medical Society. He was
a fine botanist, knew the medical properties of almost all
varieties of plants, held several important town offices, and
was one of the first to espouse the cause of temperance.
" Owing to the interaiarriage of his ancestors with well
known families of Washington County, Rhode Island, a full
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account of his lineage would involve the recital ot nearly
every tradition, and nearly every early transaction of the
State of Rhode Island, which is not within the province of
this ai-ticle ; but of him it can be truthfully said, every drop
of blood in his veins was English, pure and simple, in the
strictest sense of the word. His boyhood was spent on the
farm of his father in Brookfield, and was subject to all
the hardships and deprivations of pioneer life; yet, with
indomitable pluck and perseverance, he was able to acquire
an excellent education for his time, and far above the
average of the community in which he lived. Like many
other young men he taught school several winters, to obtain
the means to meet the expenses for a higher education.
Soon after settling in Spafford he acquired an extensive
practice in his chosen profession of medicine, and ever led
an active life; commanding respect from all, and by merit
alone was able to retain possession of his chosen field of
labor, against the encroachment of all new comers. He was
never an aspirant for office, yet for several years acted as
School Commissioner and Postmaster, because the first was
congenial to his tastes, and the latter involved no part of
his personal attention, its duties being performed by his
wife. He was one of the founders of the Methodist Epis-
copal Church at Spafford, and generally supported any good
and worthy cause, which he believed would advance the
moral interests and material welfare of his townspeople.
" On the 4th day of April, 1831, he was united in mar-
riage with Mary Ann Roundy, daughter of Captain Asahel
Roundy, and sister of Prof. Charles 0. Roundy, first prin-
cipal of the Syracuse High School, and by her had eight
children ; two only of whom are still surviving. One of his
sons. Captain George Knapp Collins, is a prominent attorney
and counselor at law, in practice in the City of Syracuse,
and during the War of the Rebellion served as Captain in
the 149th New York Volunteers Infantry, with distinction.
Dr. Collins was generally respected by his brethren of the
medical profession, for his social and professional attain-
ments. After a lapse of near half a century since his
decease, his memory is treasured in nearly every household
embraced with the scope of his labors, with affectionate
regard."
SPAFFORD, ONONDAGA COUNTY, NEW YORK 09
CAPTAIN GEORGE KNAPP COLLINS.
Captain George K. Collins, author of this work, and son
of Dr. John Collins and Mary Ann Roundy, his wife, was
bom at Spafford Corners, April 15, 1837. As President of
the Collins Family Re-Union, which holds its annual meet-
ings in Madison County, New York, Captain Collins in 1901
prepared and published a short genealogy of his branch of
that family, by which it appears that his ancestors were
originally Rhode Island Quakers, descended from Henry
Collins, who came to this country in 1635, from Stepney
Parish, London, England, and settled in Lynn, Mass. On
both sides his family are of New England origin and
patriotic stock; all four of his great grand-fathers havmg
served in the patriot cause in the War of the Revolution,
and his grandfather, on his mother's side, having com-
manded a Company as Captain, during a tour of duty in the
War of 1812 ; it was only following natural impulses of the
blood that flowed in his veins, that he gave his services to
the cause of his country, in the great War of the Rebellion.
The following extract is taken from a recent publication
concerning the subject of this sketch: "Captain Collins
was mustered into the service of the United States, Septem-
ber 18, 1862, as First Lieutenant in Company I, 149th Regt.,
N. Y. Vol. Inft., in the War of 1861, served for a period of
near two years, and was brevetted Captain at the close of
the war for meritorious services. He participated in all
the battles, skirmishes and marches of the regiment, both
in the Army of the Potomac and the Army of the Cumber-
land, up to the time of his discharge, excepting the battle of
Ringgold, from which he v/as prevented by injuries received
in battle a few days previous. Among the engagements
and campaigns in which he saw service were Chancellors-
ville, Gettysburg, Wauhatchie, and Lookout Mountain. He
was twice wounded, first at Chancellorsville and again at
Lookout Mountain; the latter was the occasion of his dis-
charge, which occurred April 24, 1864. He was admitted
to the bar of the State of New York soon after his discharge
from the Army of the United States, and soon after to the
District Court of the United States and Department of the
Interior. He is now engaged in active practice of his pro-
fession at Syracuse, N. Y. He is Past Commander of Root
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Post, G. A. R.; Past President of Central N. Y. Micro-
scopical Club; Member of the National Microscopical
Society; for fifteen or sixteen years he was Grand Treas-
urer of the Royal Arcanum for the State of New York;
he is a Companion of the Loyal Legion, New York Com-
mandery; he is the author of the history of his regiment,
entitled " Memoirs of the 149th Regt. N. Y. Vol. Inft., 3d
Brig., 2 Div., 12th and 20th A. C.;" is a member of the
Central New York Genealogical Society, and a member of
the Sons of the American Revolution.
" Captain Collins' father, who was a physician and sur-
geon, died while residing in Spafford, a small country
village, when the subject of this sketch was sixteen years
of age, and a country boy living on a farm. A few months
afterward Captain Collins, accompanied by his mother and
two infant brothers, moved to the City of Syarcuse, and
commenced the struggle of life under very discouraging
circumstances, working alternately at whatever he could
find to do, and going to school until the Spring of 1858,
when he was graduated from the Syracuse High School,
then considered an excellent educational institutinn. He
then entered the law ofRce of the well known firm of D.
and D. F. Gott, at Syracuse, as a student, but his labors
were soon interrupted by the event of the Civil War, and
his admission to the bar was delayed until about 1866. .
Whatever success the Captain may have achieved at the
bar, or otherwise, he owes to himself and the indomitable
pluck and perseverance inherited from an excellent father
and mother. He has never professed religion in the
general accepted interpretation of that term, still he has
generally attended the M. E. Church, of which his parents
were members, and among other church offices was at one
time Superintendent of the Sabbath School connected with
that society. In habits of mind in relation to religious
subjects. Captain Collins has a strong penchant to many of
the characteristic tenets believed in and adhered to by his
Quaker ancestors, for whom he cherishes a devout attach-
ment."
Captain Collins married early in life Catherine Sager,
daughter of Jacob Sager and Rebecca Groot his wife, a
member of a typical New York Knickerbocker family, by
whom he had seven children, five of whom survive: Kath-
SPAFFORD, ONONDAGA COUNTY, NEW YORK lOl
arine Mary, Grace Virginia; Helen; Flora Belle, wife of
William W. Wiard, and Clara Bessie, wife of William S.
Teall, all of Syracuse, New York.
PROFESSOR EZRA BABCOCK KNAPP.
Ezra Babcock Knapp, son of Peter, Jr., was born in the
town of Scott, Cortland County, N. Y., February 26, 1830,
where he resided until three years of age. He then moved
with his parents to Spafford, where he was brought up a
farmer boy, on a farm near Spafford Corners, and received
a common school education. He then attended the Cortland
Academy at Homer and prepared himself for a teacher,
an occupation which he followed from 1848 for twenty-
three terms, and then entered the service of the well known
school book publishing house of A. S. Barnes and Burr, and
later with Taintor Bros, and Company. His field was
mainly the New England and Middle States. Mr. Knapp
has been closely identified with the Public Library in Skan-
eateles, his place of residence since 1870, and donated to
that institution a geological collection. In 1884 he was
elected School Commissioner, and was re-elected in 1887,
but declined the nomination for a third term, three years
later. The honorary degree of Master of Arts was con-
ferred upon him by Colgate University in 1887. He was
elected President of the Village of Skaneateles in 1892, but,
after having served in that capacity about six months,
resigned on account of ill health. He married in 1857 Miss
Loretta E. Wilson of Skaneateles, where they now reside.
Mr. Knapp has been an ardent Republican since the organ-
ization of that party, and takes a lively interest in State
and National questions, and in all local matters which affect
the community in which he resides. He has a well stored
mind on scientific subjects, and particularly in matters
relating to local geology. He has spent much time and
research in the prosecution of the latter study, and in refer-
ence to it his knowledge and opinions are deemed of great
value.
HON. MARTIN AUGUSTUS KNAPP.
Hon. Martin Augustus Knapp, son of Justus N. and
Polly P. (McKay) Knapp, was born in Cold Brook in this
town, and educated in Homer and Cazenovia Academies,.
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and the Wesleyan University at Middletown, Connecticut.
After his graduation and the completion of his college
course, he entered the law office of Oliver Porter, Esq., at
Homer, N. Y., as a student, and afterwards accepted a
clerkship in the law office of Hall and Chamberlin in Syra-
cuse, N. Y., where he remained until he was admitted to
the Bar of the State of New York in the year 18 — . Soon
after Mr. Knapp was admitted to the Bar the latter firm
was dissolved, and by the retirement of the senior member,
and a new one organized, of which he was the junior and
Mr. Chamberlin the senior member; the latter firm con-
tinued for several years, doing a prosperous business, when
Mr. Knapp withdrew, and for seven or eight years continued
in business alone. The new firm of Knapp, Nottingham
and Andrews was then formed and has continued without
interrupation and with signal prosperity to the present day.
During Mr. Knapp's business career in Syracuse, he
has been City Attorney for one or two terms, has been
School Commissioner of the Ward in which he resided, has
once been a candidate for Mayor on the Republican ticket,
but defeated, and is now Interstate Commissioner, by
appointment under the General Government, an office which
he has held for upwards of eight or ten years.
Mr. Knapp possesses all the elements of busienss success,
being a fine scholar, a good lawyer, a fluent speaker, affable
in manner, and possessed of great industry and unexcep-
tionable habits. He was united in marriage, many years
ago, v.ith Marion H. Hotchkiss, of Middletown, Conn.,
whose acquaintance he made when attending the University
at that place, but by her has had no issue.
DR. JONATHAN KNEELAND.
On the occsion of Dr. Jonathan Kneeland (son of Warren)
attaining his 50th year in the Onondaga Medical Society,
at a banquet held in the City of Syracuse, Dr. H. D. Didama
of Syracuse, N. Y., in speaking of the guest of honor, said :
" Dr. Jonathan Kneeland was born February 20, 1812, in
a log cabin in Marcellus Township, between Skaneateles
and Otisco Lakes. His father, Warren Kneeland, was an
accomplished Yankee Schoolmaster, vv^ho taught in district
schools for 30 years in Saratoga and Onondaga Counties —
training, in 1798-9, the twigs which grew into sturdy trees
SPAFFORD, ONONDAGA COUNTY, NEW YORK 103
on Pompey Hill. When but eleven years of age he (Jona-
than) was apprenticed to learn the art of healing to Jere-
miah Bumbus Whiting of Sempronius. Bumbus was a
college graduate, and agreed to reward Kneeland for faithful
services in ten years, with a horse and saddle-bags. This
delightful experience and prospect was rudely ended, by
the relapse of the learned Whiting to his old but relinquished
habit of quaffing the flowing bowl. Jonathan returned to
his father's log house, left home without leave when but
fifteen years old, attended district, select, and academic
schools, and taught for two winters at the encouraging
remuneration of $10 and $18 per month. After this he
went to Lane Seminary, where he taught for a while, and
then entered the Collegiate Department a year in advance,
under the old Presidency of Dr. Lyman Beecher. Prepar-
ing about this time to go as a medical missionary to Persia,
China, or Burmah, he attended m.edical lectures at the Ohio
Medical College. This was in 1832, the year when the great
epidemic of Asiatic Cholera devastated the country. Jona-
than was sent to Cincinnati to study the disease, and came
back to care for his fellow students at Lane Seminary,
working day and night without undressing, and witnessing
the death of ten of his associates. Then he was attacked
himself by the dire disease, and under the eminent treatment
of the learned Doctors Eberle and Drake, he became an
altered man, his shrinking nature manifesting itself to
such an extent, that his weight came down from 140 to 71
pounds. The doctor was brought home to Marcellus, a
distance of nine hundred miles, to die. For nine long years
he was an invalid. His intellect during all this time, and
ever after, remained clear and unclouded. He regained
health, and with four relapses, has exercised delightfully
ever since his faculty of fluent speech. In 1841 he gave up
his life plans to the practice of medicine in his native land.
He open an office in Vesper, then removed to Thorn Hill,
where he remained twelve years.
" Dr. Kneeland has received the honorary degree of
M. D. from the Regents of the University of New York,,
and also from the Ohio Medical College. These were con-
ferred for well kno^vn merit, and were unsought by the
deserving doctor. Dr. Kneeland faithfully attended at the
various county. State and National Medical Societies to
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which he belonged. He was a delegate to the State Medical
Society for four years, and an active member for twenty
years, serving many times as censor. He has been for
thirty-five years a member of the American Medical Asso-
ciation. Bright, witty, humorous, learned and instructive,
he has often awakened a dull and prosy meeting into one
of vigorous activity. He has written many papers on
various diseases and medical subjects. He held the office
of Coroner eighteen years, Superintendent of Onondaga
Indians twenty-five years, and for ten years was their
physician. He has many friends. He has observed strictly
the golden rule, and is generally loved for his affectionate
disposition.
" Dr. Kneeland married Mariam Dwelle, February 7,
1845, and to whom were born three children : Frank Joel,
born December 10, 1845, married Etta Edwards at White-
hall, Wisconsin, December 5, 1883, died October 15, 1898;
Martin Dwelle, born September 24, 1848, married Sarah
A. Lord, and resides at Roxbury, Mass.; and Stella, born
February 20, 1854, graduated at Holyoke Seminary,
teacher in Syracuse High School five years, married Fred-
erick Colburn Eddy, Cashier of the Bank of Syracuse, and
resides at Syracuse, N. Y."
Dr. Kneeland died and was buried at South Onondaga,
N. Y., where he had been physician and surgeon for many
years.
COLONEL WILLIAM W. LEGG.
The following is an abstract from a published obituary
notice, appearing in the public press at the time of his
decease :
" Col. William W. Legg died at the residence of his son-
in-law, William H. Bass, near Borodino, on Sunday last,
in the 79th year of his age. He was born in Spafford,
February 18, 1814, and continued to reside in his native
town until his decease. He married Minerva A. Prindle,
daughter of Hon. Joseph Prindle, formerly of this town,
with whom he lived in happy marital relations for over
fifty years, her death preceding his own by about four years.
In politics he was originally a Whig, and subsequently
accepted the nomination of Sheriff on the Know-Nothing
Ticket, but on the breaking out of the Civil War joined the
PROF. CHARLES O. ROUNDY
SPAFFOKD, ONONBAGA COUNTY, NEW YORK IO5
Republican Party, with which he afterwards continued,
vigorously sustaining its principles and giving to it his full
support, in suppressing the rebellion and preserving the
Union. When a young man he joined the State Militia,
and continued his connection with it until he had risen from
rank to rank, to that of Brigadier General in that organ-
ization. At the time of the breaking out of the Civil War,
he was offered the Colonelcy of a regiment in the volunteer
service, but on account of age and sickness in his family,
was obliged to decline the flattering offer. Colonel Legg
was not an aspirant for political honors, yet occasionally
was induced to serve his town, by the acceptance of minor
offices within its gift; among these was Supervisor. He
also received the appointment of Postmaster from the
General Government, both at Spafford Corners and Boro-
dino. Col. Legg was a public spirited and useful citizen,
and he had many friends; his death was generally
regretted."
PROFESSOR CHARLES 0. ROUNDY.
Mr. Edward Smith, formerly Superintendent of Syracuse
Schools, in speaking of Prof. Roundy, said :
" Prof. Charles 0. Roundy, son of Captain Asahel Roundy,
was born in Spafford, Onondaga County, New York, May
23, 1823. He received his education in the public schools
of his native town and in Homer Academy. The degree of
A. M. was conferred upon him by Hamilton College in 1853.
Almost his entire active life has been spent in teaching,
beginning in his native town at eighteen years, soon after
leaving Homer Academy. He afterwards taught as Prin-
cipal in the Skaneateles and Baldwinsville Academies,
coming from the latter place to Syracuse in 1852, and taking
the Principalship of old No. 5, where he remained in charge
until the establishment of the Syracuse High School in 1855.
He was then installed as Principal of the latter school, and
remained as such until failing health compelled him to
resign, in the Spring of 1871. After a year or two of
travelling, combined with some light work, he again began
teaching as Principal of the Union Free School at Moravia,
N. Y., and remained there ten years. Leaving there he
spent a year or more in Dakota, and then returned to his
farm in the town of Skaneateles, N. Y. Mr. Roundy was
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always noted for his zeal and enthusiasm as a teacher, and
when engag'ed as such spared no labor, however exacting,
that he might have something new to present to his classes
the coming day, illustrative of the principles to be eluci-
dated, or to awaken interest in his pupils. Until late at
night, with his books about him, he would continue to study
and investigate until he had mastered his subject, and then
would appear before his classes the next day, to inspire
them with something of his ovm spirit. His pupils in this
city, graduates of the High School, for sixteen years, will
never forget the love for study, and the ambition awakened
in them for learning by his eneregtic spirit."
One of his former pupils, and now a successful teacher
herself, in a recent publication, said of him:
"Professor Roundy's personality was wonderful. The
pupil must have been obtuse indeed who could successfully
resist his forceful logic. Other principals may have been
m.ore polished, but none were better loved than he. The
snows of many winters have fallen upon his grave, over
which has been erected a monument by his former pupils,
attesting a love that endures beyond the grave. Pupils who
through his teaching have attained eminence in the sciences,
on the rostrum, at the bar and in every walk of life.
" Professor Roundy was a student to the day of his death,
digging and delving as a day laborer in the rich mines of
abstruse sciences, and making himself a master of all he
sought. He died at his home in Skaneateles, September 30,
1892, and a fev;- days afterwards was buried in Indian
Mound Cemetery at Moravia, followed to the grave by many
of his former pupils, sincere mourners of a dear teacher
and friend."
HON. SIDNEY SMITH.
The following are extracts taken from obituary notices
appearing in the public press, at the time of the decease of
Mr. Smith, September 10th, 1900.
" In the death of Sidney Smith, which occurred at his
residence on West Lake Street, in the village of Skaneateles,
Monday morning, September 10, 1900, this village lost one
of its oldest and most respected residents. He was born in
the town of Spafford, in the vicinity of Borodino, January
29, 1815, on the farm of which he was the owner at the
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time of his decease ; he moved from this farm in 1870 and
come to this village, where he resided ever afterwards. His
ancestors were of New England patriotic stock, his grand-
father Job Smith, being an officer in the Connecticut Line
in the War of the Revolution, and his father Lewis Smith
being a Lieutenant in the War of 1812. His father was also
a Member of Assembly in the New York Legislature, and
at one time Sheriff of the County of Onondaga. Mr. Lewis
Smith came to the town of Spafford, (then Marcellus) , with
his father. Job Simth, about 1795, married Chloe Benson
of Owasco, and brought up a remarkable family of children
near Borodino, in the old New England way, among whom
was the subject of this sketch, Mary Smith of Skaneateles,
Dr. J. Lewis Smith of New York City, William Smith, Esq.,
an attorney at law, late of Sacramento, California, and Dr.
Stephen Smith, also of New York City.
" Mr. Sidney Smith first married Adelia E. Blodgett, who
died in 1843. He then married Miss Jennie A. Calkins,
by whom were born his only children : Adelia, wife of Prof.
H. F. Miner, Principal of the Skaneateles Academy, and
Anna W. Smith, both residents of Skaneateles. Mr. Smith's
last wife died in Skaneateles in 1887.
" Mr. Smith, while on the farm (in 1856), was elected a
Member of Assembly in the New York Legislature, and
after coming to this village was elected Justice of the Peace,
an office which he held for about ten years. He was fre-
quently called upon to act as executor and administrator, a
function which he performed to the satisfaction of every
one. He was made administrator, with the will annexed,
of the estate of the late Charles Pardee of this village, and,
after seventeen years of litigation, finally settled his
accounts to the satisfaction of every one concerned.
" During the later years of his life he lived quietly,
managing his Spafford farm, in which he took great
interest, and attended to his insurance business in this
village. He had a clear recollection of the early events of
his native town and vcinity, (and the writer of this work
is pleased to acknowledge his indebtedness to him for much
valuable information in the preparation of this work.)
" Mr. Smith was a Republican in politics, and attended
the Baptist Church in Skaneateles village. The writer of
one of his obituary notices says of him : " His life was one
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of faithful service to dailj^ duties, a life of unusual good
health and genial disposition, a life of many friendships
and no enemies ; all men at all times found him reliable."
SANFORD THAYER.
Sanford Thayer, Artist, son of Sanford and Sally Miner
Thayer, was born in Cato, New York, July 19, 1820, and in
early boyhood moved with his parents to Cold Brook. His
father, who was a wheelwright by occpuation, died at the
latter place, August 26, 1836, leaving him surviving a large
family of small children in indigent circumstances. Soon
after his father's decease young Thayer who was then about
seventeen years of age and the oldest of Sally Miner's chil-
dren, left home and sought emplojonent in John Legg's
wagon shop, in the village of Skaneateles; here he met
CharlesElliott, who was then engaged in painting pictures
on the back of the old fashioned high back sleighs and
cutters, then in use, and which were then being manu-
factured by Mr, Legg. The life of Thayer up to this period
had been spent in the woods and fields; he was an ardent
fisherman, and had become a lover of nature in all its forms
and features; it was therefore natural, when these two
artistic loving natures met, that an abiding friendship grew
up between them. In these early years, when Thayer was
in his prime and beauty, Elliott painted his celebrated
portrait of him, which was exhibited in this and foreign
countries, and first called attention to the latter, and estab-
lished his reputation as one of the great artists of the world.
Young Thayer, under the tutelage of Elliott, made rapid
progress in the use of pencil and brush, and his reputation
as an artist was also soon established in Central New York ;
from the time of the meeting of these two men the course
of Thayer in the realm of art was ever onward and upward.
At an early date he established himself in Syracuse as a
portrait painter, and retained a studio there until the time
of his decease. As a painter of portraits he had in early
years many flattering commissions, and after the decease
of Elliott, it can be truthfully said of him that in this field
of art he stood for many years without a rival in Central
New York. His inherent love of nature led him frequently
to visit the Adirondack Wilderness, and his numerous
sketches of that wild and rugged country have always been
SANFORD THAYER, ARTIST
JEFFERSON J. BROWN
SPAFFOKB, ONONDAGA COUNTY, NEW YORK 109
sought after, and demanded a good price. Me was a true
lover of Nature, and always interpreted her in his pictures
in her happiest mood. The woods, the lakes, the fields, the
fiTiits and the flowers, seemed to inspire him with their
beauty and charms, and in his portrayal of them he appeared
at his best.
He married Nancy H. Smith in 1850, and by her had two
children: Mary Brownell, born in 1852 and died in 1853,
and Albert F. Thayer, born in 1858. The latter lived to
manhood, married a Miss Carrie Cook, but died without
issue. Mr. and Mrs. Sanford Thayer died in Syracuse, the
former in the Fall of 1881.
TOWN OFFICERS.
On the first Tuesday of April, 1812, one year after the
formation of the town, there was held a town meeting at
the house of Elisha Sabins, at which were elected the follow-
ing officers, constituting the first public officials of this
town:
John Babcock, Supervisor; Sylvester Wheaton, Town
Clerk; Benjamin Stanton, Asahel Roundy and Elijah Knapp,
Assessors; Asahel Roundy, Jonathan Berry and Adolphus
French, Commissioners of the Poor ; Levi Foster, Constable
and Collector; Sylvanus Learned and James Williamson,
Commissioners of Public Land; Elisha Sabins, Pound
Master; Nehemiah Billings, Ebenezer Grout, Samuel
Holmes, Daniel Scranton, James Whitman, Joel Palmer,
Cornelius Williamson, Asahel Roundy, and Amos Reed,
Pathmasters.
From the foregoing the reader will discover the names of
some of the first residents of the town, and their status
among their fellows. It would be a very unprofitable
matter to give the names of all who have held office since
this first meeting, and besides any list would be more or
less imperfect, for the reason that some of the first officers
were appointed, and not elected, and no town record made
of them ; also some of the leaves in the first book of records
have been lost and destroyed, leaving the record incomplete.
The following is believed to be a perfect list of the Super-
visors elected in town, from the beginning to the present
time:
John Babcock, 1812; Asahel Roundy, 1813-19; Peleg
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Shearman, 1820-22; Erastus Barber, 1823-4; Peleg Shear,
man, 1826 ; Asahel Roundy, 1826 ; Phineas Hutchens, 1827 ;
Asahel Roundy, 1828-9; Daniel Baxter, 1830-2; John R.
Lewis, 1833-36; Charles R. Vary, 1837-8; John R. Lewis,
1839-41; Joseph Bulfinch, 1844; William O'Farrell, 1845;
Joseph Bulfinch, 1846; William W. Legg, 1847; Russel M.
Burdick, 1848; William W. Legg, 1849; Oscar E. Moseley,
1850; Thomas B. Anderson, 1851; James H. Isdell, 1852;
John L. Mason, 1853-55 ; Reuben T. Breed, 1856 ; Samuel S.
Kneeland, 1857-59 ; David Becker, 1860 ; Edwin S. Edwards,
1861-3; Orrin Eddy, 1864-6; Uriah Roundy, 1867-69;
Samuel H. Stanton, 1870-1; Justus N. Knapp, 1872; John
McDowell, 1873-74; Henry Weston, 1875-7; Benjamin Mc-
Daniels, 1878-80 ; Van Dyke Tripp, 1881-3 ; Perry F. Wood-
worth, 1884-6; Harry J. Haight, 1887; William H. Bass,
1888 ; Willard Norton, 1889 ; William H. Bass, 1890 ; Marcus
Patterson, 1891-3; Willard Norton, 1894-5; John Unckless,
1896-7; Caleb E. King, 1898-9-1900; Marcus Patterson,
1900-1903.
COMPANY AND GENERAL TRAINING.
From a very early period the American people have been
accustomed to the use of firearms. Nearly every household
in the town of Spafford, in early times, had a gun of some
sort for the purpose of defense ; and in fact a man, entering
the primeval forests which at first covered these hills, would
have been foolhardy without a trusty rifle at his side.
Our emigrant ancestors had hardly landed on American
soil, before they discovered they had not only to deal with
the wild beasts of the forests, but the American Indian was
disposed to contest every advance made by them in the
occupation of the land ; so, almost at the beginning of their
settlements about Massachusetts Bay, they were called to-
gether for military drill and Company organization. This
first organization is now known as the " Ancient and Honor-
able Artillery Copmany of Boston." When new colonies
were established other military organizations were formed,
so that, eventually, every community throughout the inhabit-
able portion of these United States had its separate military
company or organization, which was fully armed, equipped,
drilled, and ready for any emergency that might arise.
This universal military organization, known as the
EDWIN S. EDWARDS
SPAFFORD, ONONDAGA COUNTY, NEW YORK HI
Militia, was continued in the town of Spafford down to a
period subsequent to the War of the United States v/ith our
Sister Republic of Mexico. Every man in town capable of
bearing arms, not exempt by law, was enrolled in some
Company or military organization and obliged, under
penalty of Court Martial to keep himself armed and
equipped, and to attend Company and battalion drill when
ordered.
There was generally at least one battalion drill, known as
" General Training," in each year; these were holiday occa-
sions, looked forward to by old and young as periods of
general festivity and enjoyment.
A man holding a commission as an officer, in one of these
early m.ilitary organizations, was generally looked up to
and respected in the community where he resided, for the
distinction conferred upon him, and was generally addressed
by his military title.
Soon after the Mexican War compulsory service in the
State Militia was discontinued, and that organization ever
since has been maintained by volunteering.
SOLDIERS.
Among the Soldiers of the American Revolution who
settled in the town of Spafford were the following:
Paymaster Job Smith Oliver Hyde
Captain Samuel Holmes Elias Jackson
Stephen Albro Peter Knapp
Allen Breed Joseph Lewis
Thompson Burdick Jesse Manly
James Churohell David Owen
John Churchell Gilbert Palm.er
Elias Davis Samuel Prindle
Robert Fulton Job Smith
John Green Isaac Town
James Hiscock Benjamin Wallace
Samuel Holmes Henry Wentworth
Among those who served in the War of 1812 were :
Captain Asahel Roundy Jabez Melvin
Lieut. Phineas Hutchens Isaac Mills
Lieut. Lewis Smith Moses Norton
Stephen Applebe Samuel Parker
Samuel Barber Silas Randall
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John Beelar Samuel G. Seeley
Thompson Burdick, Jr. Russell Tinkham
Kelley Case Cornelius Williamson
William Dedrick Samuel Gale
The town of Spafford contributed the following soldiers
to the Union Army, during the War of the Rebellion of
1861:
Lieut. George J. Foster
William B. Allen
George C. Anderson
William H. Brown
John M. Churchill
Porter Davis
William Derbin
Ensign D. Filkins
William E. Fisher
Horatio Harrington
George L. Hines
William Henry Lyon
Phineas B. Marshall
William H. Moon
George Anthony
John Anderson
Ira W. Burdick
Daniel Bradley
George W. Case
Sidney Case
Asa Clark
Van Buren Davis
Lewis Davis
Edgar Alonzo Eddy
Charles H. Enos
William Nesbitt
Parmenus Norton
Perry Norton
Willard Norton
Jacob Pollock
Francis H. Patterson
Charles Weston Roundy
John Unckless
John A, Uncless
George A. Patten
Edwin S. Van Benschoten
Napoleon B. Wallace
James B, Wilber
Perry F. Woodworth
Martin Goff
James Nesbit
James McCausey
George Phippins
George W. Ripley
Calvin P. Stanton
James Stringham
Henry Sage
Santa Anna Wallace
John Worth
Samuel Williams
Part II
Mortuary Records
with Genealogical Notes
OF THE
Town of Spafford
Onondaga County, New York
BT
Captain George Knapp Collins
PUBLISHED BY
Onondaga Historical Association
DIHLER PRBB8
181T
INTRODUCTION
There are nine burial places within the town of Spaftord,
six public and three private, none of which have been
incorporated, although some steps have been taken in that
direction in two instances, but as yet there is no public
record of any act of that kind. Of the six public cemeteries
two, known as the old Borodino and the Nunnery Ceme-
teries, have been abandoned and are now in disuse, leaving
four, one at Borodino, one at Spafford Comers, one at Cold
Brook, and one at Spafford Hollow, still in public use and
in fair condition. Of the three private burial plots, known
as the Davis, Lewis, and Stanton Yards, only the latter is
now in the possession and keeping of the family making use
of it, and is in fair condition, but in the case of the other
two, which have gone out of the possession of the original
families for whose use they were set apart, they are sadly
neglected and gone to waste, as such plots sooner or later
always will be under similar circumstances.
Outside of the places enumerated above, there is a single
grave of a Mrs. Parker, on the Breed Farm on Lot No. 11,
Tully, and there is said to be one or two unmarked graves on
Lot 77, Marcellus ; but as to these, in the absence of stones
to designate them, even the names of those interred cannot
now be ascertained.
Just north of the town line, in the adjacent town of
Marcellus, is a public cemetery connected with the Thorn
Hill Baptist Church, which is quite generally used by the
people residing in the northern end of this town as a burial
place for their dead. The tombstone records of this Ceme-
tery also appear in the following pages, as a full statement
of the dead of this town would be incomplete without them.
In closing this brief introduction it seems proper to say
that, in the preparation of the following pages, it become
necessary to visit the several burial places located in this
town, and observe their condition. It appears that, in many
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instances, private care and attention has been bestowed
upon portions of the several general cemeteries now in use,
but there has been no general or systematic care and atten-
tion given to these burial places, such as the enlightened and
progressive spirit of the present age seems to demand.
These four public cemeteries, now in use, should be incor-
porated, and proper officials appointed, who will receive the
generous gifts which tender and loving hearts are always
willing to make, for purposes of this kind, and judiciously
expend the same in beautifying, preserving and caring for
these sacred places, made hallowed by the ashes of our
beloved dead.
Mortuary Records and Genealogical Notes
ACKLES.
Almira (Davis), wife of Ovid Ackles, died February 14,
1861, age 34 years.
Ovid Ackles, son of Horton and Mary Ackles, and
grandson of William Ackles, was bom in LaFayette, N. Y.,
and came to this town, with his parents and his brother
Samuel, about 1840; his father and mother returned to
LaFayette, where the former died in 1880, and the latter
in 1883. Ovid Ackles married (1) Almira Davis, daughter
of Zebulon and Hannah (Ames) Davis, (2) Cook,
and (3) Esther Cornue. After the decease of his first wife,
he also returned to LaFayette, where he died. His childrn
by his first wife, born in Spafford, were : Robert, married
Cecelia Woolsey; Mary, married Martin Strail; Frank H.,
married Flora Garfield, daughter of Daniel Garfield of La-
Fayette; and George H., married Jennie Carr. By his
second wife (Cook) Mr. Ackles had one daughter, Dora,
married Louis Ruhlman; and by his third wife (Esther
Cornue), Mr. Ackles had: Jennie and Lena, each now
(1899) residing in Tully unmarried.
William Ackles, the grandfather of Ovid Ackles, at an
early date came from Orange County, N. Y., first to Cayuga
County, and then to LaFayette, with five brothers and a
sister: John, Charles, Brant, Richard, Tartulus and Sarah,
and resided there until his decease.
Robert Ackles (son of Ovid) by his wife, Cecilia Woolsey,
had several children.
Frank H. Ackles (son of Ovid), who is a commercial
traveler, by his wife Flora Garfield, has one son, Horace F.
Ackles, who is unmarried, an artist, and resides in
Washington, D. C.
George H. Ackles, (the third son of Ovid), resides in
Preble, N. Y., and by his wife Jennie Carr had : Mortimer
A., married Annie Colton, daughter of David Colton, Editor
of Skaneateles Demcorat, resides in Skaneateles, N. Y.:
C ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
Harley Jaman Ackles, unmarried, assistant editor Skane-
ateles Democrat, resides in Skaneateles, N. Y. ; and Ina May
Ackles unmarried.
(Thorn Hill)
Matilda (Spaulding), wife of Samuel Ackles, Died
January 15, 1864, age 36 years, 9 months, 8 days.
Samuel Ackles, son of Horton and Mary Ackles and
grandson of William Ackles, was bom in Christian Hollow,
in the town of LaFayette, N. Y., May 20, 1819. He came
to this town with his parents and brother, Ovid Ackles,
about 1840. Like his father before him he is a farmer;
resides near Thorn Hill, N. Y. ; he married (1) Matilda
Spaulding, daughter of Isaac and Didama (Allen) Spauld-
ing, February 10, 1853, and (2) Mary Harvey, daughter of
Paul and Sally (Hisocck) Harvey. By his second wife Mr.
Ackles had two children : Grace, bom March 4, 1868, mar-
ried Frank B. Mills, (seedman at Rose Hill) , son of George
C. and Eliza J. (Finch) Mills, P. 0., Rose Hill, N. Y., (they
have one son, Frank B. Mills, Jr.) ; and W. Harvey Ackles,
bom October 22, 1870, married Nettie Smith; he is a
farmer, residing near Thorn Hill, N. Y. Mr. Samuel
Ackles' first wife, Matilda Spaulding, was a descendant of
Edward Spaulding, who settled in Braintree, Mass., about
1634, and died at Chelmsford in the same State about 1653,
in the eighth generation: Matilda, Isaac, Jeremiah, Jere-
miah, Isaac, Edward, John, Edward.
(Borodino) .
ADAMS.
In Memory of Roderick C. Adams, Died July 27, 1844,
age 70 years, 7 months, 7 days.
(Borodino) .
Philander C, son of Roderick C. and Nancy Adams, Died
November 17, 1844, age 16 years, 9 months, 22 days.
(Borodino).
In Memory of Timothy Adams, who died 16 August,
1812, in the 52 year of his age.
(On February 25, 1806, he received a deed of the north
half of the States Hundred Acres on lot 74, Marcellus,
and conveyed the same in March following, without wife.
In his will, dated January 29, 1812, and probated September
8PAPF0RD MORTUARY RECORDS WITH CaSNEALOGICAL NOTES 7
5th of the same year, after a small bequest to the lit
Baptist Church of Marcellus, (Thorn Hill), he gave his
estate equally to his mother, Reley Adams, and his sisters,
Lydia Case and Rebecca Woodford.)
(Old Cemetery, Borodino).
ADLAM.
Stephen, son of Richard and Charlotte Adlam, Died
March 24, 1872, age 20 years.
(Richard and Charlotte Adlam, bom in England, were
the common ancestors of the Spafford Hollow Adlams.)
(Spafford Hollow.)
Emma Jane, daughter of Richard and Charlotte Adlam,
died July 5, 1854, age 1 year 9 months.
(Spafford Hollow.)
Alice P. (Moss), wife of John Adlam, died January 6,
1891, age 30 years, 5 months. (John Adlam, son of Richard
and Charlotte Adlam, married Alice P. Moss, daughter of
William Moss.)
(Spafford Hollow.)
R. Lewis, son of John and Alice P. (Moss) Adlam, died
January 15, 1891, age 11 months,
(Spafford Hollow).
ALBRO.
Freelove, wife of Stephen Albro, died January 23, 1838,
age 75 years. (Stephen Albro was a soldier of the
Revolution.) (Borodino.)
ALLEN.
Aaron Allen, died October 25, 1848, in 68 years.
(Aaron Allen, at the time of his decease, resided on lot
52, Marcellus, in the present town of Skaneateles. In his
will, dated October 17, 1848, and probated January 10,
1849, he mentioned his wife Tryphena S. Allen, and his
children: Julia S. Wiltsie, Harriet R. Benedict, Mary D.
Allen, and Arvine K. Allen.)
(Thorn Hill.)
Tryphena S., wife of Aaron Allen, died October 12, 1873,
age 90 years.
(Thorn Hill.)
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Ellen M., daughter of Aaron and Tryphena S. AUctl,
died May 22, 1856, age 22 years, 5 months, 5 days.
"Reader stand still and drop a tear,
Think of the dust that slumbers here.
And when you read the fate of me
Think of the glass that runs for thee."
(Thorn Hill.)
Mary D. Allen, (daughter of Aaron and Tryphena S.
Allen) , died April 26, 1892, age 71 years.
(Thorn Hill.)
ALVORD.
Deary, son of Thomas R. and Sarah A. (Webster)
Alvord, died September 10, 1864, age 4 years, 8 days.
(Thomas R. Alvord married Sarah A. Webster, daugh-
ter of William and Mary Webster.)
(Cold Brook.)
ANDERSON.
John Anderson, died September 30, 1890, age 83 years,
3 months, 16 days.
(He was bom June 14, 1807, and married Catherine
Olds, June 25, 1832. Mr. Anderson was, for many years,
Captain of an Artillery Company organized at Borodino,
where he resided nearly all his lifetime. In his will, dated
September 23, 1890, and probated December 1, 1890, he
mentions his wife Catherine (Olds) Anderson, and his
children : John H. Anderson of Georgetowm, California ; and
George C. Anderson of Spafford; he also mentions his
daughter-in-law, Delphene Anderson, wife of John H.; his
sister, Catherine Tupper of Michigan ; and his niece, Betsey
Tupper, daughter of his sister Catherine. George C.
Anderson is an employee of the general government at
Washington and unmarried.)
(Borodino.)
Catherine Olds Anderson, (wife of John Anderson),
died March 13, 1891, aged 78 years and 3 days.
(Borodino.)
Jennie, daughter of John and Catherine (Olds) Ander-
son, died Januaiy 11, 1880, age (No stone.)
(Borodino.)
SPAFFORD MORTUARY RECORDS WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES 9
Cornelius Anderson, died June 9, 1843, age 30 years.
(He was a brother of John Anderson and died unmarried.)
(Borodino.)
Rebecca Anderson, died October 22, 1830, age 24 years.
(She was an adopted daughter of Stephen Smith and died
unmarried.)
(Thorn Hill.)
Among the Andersons who resided in this town, and
who left no dead were : Thomas B. Anderson and his three
sisters: Eliza, Susan and Louisa, who were bom on the
east shore of Maryland, and from there first moved to Eli-
cott Mills in the same State, and at an early date to this
town and settled in Borodino. Thomas B., married Caro-
line Grout, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Clark) Grout,
he was a merchant. He and his wife died in Pennsylvania,
but were buried in Oakwood Cemetery, Syracuse, N. Y. ;
they were father and mother of Mrs. R. A. Bonta, whose
husband is Cashier of New York State Banking Company
of Syracuse, N. Y. ; Eliza, married Edward Baxter, died
and was buried in Liverpool, N. Y. ; Susan, married Thomas
Jenkins at Elicott Mills, Md., she died in Syracuse, N. Y.,
mother of Clinton Jenkins of Syracuse, N. Y. ; and Louisa,
married Orrin Stebbins, resided in Betts' Corner, but died
and was buried in Phoenix, Oswego County, N. Y.
ANDREWS.
Little George, son of Dudley and Calista (Perkins)
Andrews, died August 31, 1853, age 6 months.
(Dudley Andrews was a son of Elder Benjamin
Andrews, who came from Groton, Tompkins County, N. Y.,
and for many years ministered over the Baptist Church at
SpafFord Comers. By his wife Mary, Elder Andrews had
the following children: Dudley, m. Calista Perkins,
daughter of Hopkins and Polly Perkins; John P., m.
Harriet ; Christopher, died unmarried; Susan,
m. Nelson Perkins, son of Hopkins and Polly Perkins;
Mary, m. (1) Nelson Shaw, (2) Stephen Foote; Sophia,
m. in Groton and never came to this town; Lovlna,
m. Elder Bennett ; and Melissa F., m. Asahel M. Roundy,
son of Asahel and Hannah (Weston) Roundy.
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John Andrews, by his wife Harriet, had the following:
Dudley B., m. Helen Ripley, daughter of David and Sarah
Jane (Eliot) Ripley, (7 children) ; Sophia, m. Charles
Ripley, son of David and Sarah Jane (Eliot) Ripley, (3
children) ; and Benjamin, died in the army in Florida, near
close of War of 1861.
(Cold Brook.)
ANGEL
In memory of Anna, wife of Abraham Angrel, died
February 17, 1839, age 79 years, 3 months, 13 days.
" Gk) home my friends
Wipe off your tears.
Here I must lie
'Till Christ appears."
(She came to this town about 1830, and probably
resided with her daughter, Polly Angel, wife of Peleg
Sprague, on lot 10, Sempronius, in the Nunnery settlement.
In her will, dated September 1, 1834, and probated April 30,
1839, she mentioned her children : Polly Sprague, wife of
Peleg Sprague, and (Gerusha) Mehitable Lewis), wife of
Gershom Lewis.)
(Borodino.)
ANTHONY.
Isaac Anthony, (son of Giles and Alice (Chase) An-
thony) , born August 12, 1796, died November 16, 1858.
(Borodino.)
(Mr. Anthony was of Quaker descent and born in Ports-
mouth, R. I. He came to this town from Cambridge, Wash-
ington Co., N. Y., where he probably married his wife Par-
melia Phelps, daughter of Daniel Phelps, and settled June
10, 1823, on Lot 12, Sempronius, where he remained until
his decease.
His emigrant ancestor, John Anthony, (born 1607, died
July 28, 1675) came to this country, April 16, 1630, from
Hemstead, England, in the ship Hercules, and finally settled
in Portsmouth, R. I., where he was made freeman, March
16, 1641. His wife Susanna died in 1675. Their children
were : John, Susannah, Elizabeth, Joseph and Abraham.
Abraham Anthony (John) , died Octobed 10, 1727. He was
SPAFFORD MORTUARY RECORDS WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES H
Deputy in 1703-4-5-7-8-9-10-11. In the years 1709-10 he
held the office of Speaker of the House of Deputies. He
married December 26 1671, Alice Wodell, daughter of
William and Mary Wodell, and by her had: (at Ports-
mouth, R. L), the folloiwng children: John, Susanna,
Mary, William, Susanna (2), Mary (2), Abraham, Thomas,
Alice, James, Amy, Isaac and Jacob.
Abraham Anthony, Jr., (Abraham, John) bom April
21, 1682, married February 7, 1716-7 at Swansey, R. I.,
Elizabeth Gray, and had children : (first seven in Swansey,
and the balance in Portsmouth) as follows: Abraham,
Mary, Edward, Thomas, Philip, Elizabeth, Isaac, Sarah,
Elisha, Jonathan, Peleg and Daniel.
Isaac Anthony (Abraham, Abraham, John) bom 7th,
3 m 1727 at Swansey, R. I. (ml) February 15, 1758,
Ruth Russell ( daughter of Seth and Hannah Russel of Dart-
mouth, (2) November 19, 1760, Hannah Slocum, daughter
of Giles and Ann Slocum, (3) Rebecca and
had the following: (by first wife) : Honnah, Isaac, and
Seth, and (by second wife) : Giles, Ruth, and Seth, and (by
third wife) : Rebecca, Alice and Isaac.
Giles Anthony (Isaac, Abraham, Abraham, John) b.
October 20, 1761, married at Portsmouth, R. I., January 4,
1786, Alice Chase, daughter of Aaron and Elizabeth Chase,
and by her had the following (bom at Portsmouth) :
Hannah, b. October 27, 1789; Alice, b. October 11, 1792;
Giles, b. July 15, 1794 ; Isaac, b. August 12, 1796 ; Harriet,
b. July 21, 1799 ; Elizabeth, b. February 1, 1802 ; and Mary,
b. February 25, 1805.
Isaac Anthony (Giles, Isaac, Abraham, Abraham, John)
b. August 12, 1796, at Portsmouth, R. I. In his will, dated
August 2, 1858, and probated March 3, 1859, he mentions
his wife, Parmelia Anthony, and his children: Julius, P.
Anthony and Catherine Gait, wife of Thomas A. Gait, of
Sterling, Whiteside Co., Illinois; Elliott Anthony, of Chi-
cago, Illinois; Daniel P. Anthony, Jane Harvey, wife of
Dorwin Harvey, son of Medad and Anar (Buell) Harvey,
Sarah Anthony, and Ruth Anthony of Spafford, N. Y. Giles
died before his father.)
(Borodino.)
Sarah P. Anthony, (daughter of Isaac and Pamelia
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(Phelps) Anthony), born October 16, 1837, died January
28,1862. (Borodino.)
Giles, son of Isaac and Pamelia (Phelps) Anthony, died
November 9, 1853, age 30 years.
" Rest brother, rest from all thy toils
Now death hath set thee free ;
Though thou art seen no more by us
Thou shalt with Jesus be."
(Borodino.)
Martha A. (Shaw), wife of George H. Anthony, died
October 26, 1868, age 35 years, 6 months.
" Gone but not forgotten."
(George H. Anthony, son of Harvey Anthony, married
(1) Martha A. Shaw, daughter of James Shaw of Spafford
Hollow, and (2) Esther Root, daughter of Henry and Anna
Root, also of Spafford Hollow.)
(Cold Brook.)
Esther (Root) , wife of George H. Anthony) .
(Cold Brook.)
ARNOLD.
Lydia, widow of Joseph Arnold, died October 1, I846,
in the 76th year of her age.
(She was the mother of Mrs. Harriet Lyon, wife of
David T. Lyon, and came from Otisco, N. Y.)
(Spafford.)
AVERY.
James Avery and his wife Mercy came to this town at
an early date, and settled on the southwest corner of Lot
21, Tully : these lands he and his wife conveyed to Benjamin
Homer, November 29, 1811. He then purchased and re-
sided for a short time on the southwest comer of Lot 33,
Tully, but sold it to Jonathan Berry in 1824, and moved on
to Lot 41, Tully, all of which he had purchased except Sur-
vey 50 acres in the northeast comer. His residence, during
his remaining stay in town, was near the Joseph Prindle
residence, so well known on said lot in subsequent years.
Lot 41 was conveyed by him in parcels to Thompson Bur-
dick (1819), Elmer D. Jenks (1822), Elijah Baker (1826),
and to Caleb N. Potter (January, 1829 and December 1829) .
SPAFFORD MORTUARY RECORDS WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES Ig
He was Trustee of the 1st Free Will Baptist Church in
1828, and as such was one of the grantees of the lands upon
which the church edifice of that society was erected about
that time. He left no descendants in this town, and very-
little is known of him even by the old residents, outside of
his numerous business transactions, which indicate that he
was an active and successful business man. Of his family
no record remains.
BABCOCK.
Elihu Babcock, (son of John and Ruth Babcock), died
January 8, 1819, age 40 years.
(He came probably from Cambridge, Washington Co.,
N. Y., to Spafford, (then Tully) , before February 13, 1810,
and settled on Lot 10, Sempronius, amnog the first settlers.
At the time of his decease he was residing on a farm of
131 acres, owned by him in the southwest comer of said lot,
running down to the east shore of Skaneateles Lake. In his
will, dated January 19, 1819, and probated March 4, 1819,
he mentions his wife Hannah Babcock, and his children:
Thomas, Malentha, (m. Calvin Streeter), Cyrus, Ruth,
Worden and Sophia.)
(Thorn Hill.)
Ruth, daughter of Elihu and Hannah Babcock, died
March 19, 1836, age 22 years.
(She died unmarried.)
(Thorn Hill.)
John Babcock, Jr., (son of John and Ruth Babcock),
died October 24, 1849, age 68 years.
(He probably came early from Washington Co., N. Y.,
among the first settlers, and took up his residence near
his brother Elihu, on Lot 10, Sempronius, and subsequently
moved into the Village of Borodino, where he remained until
his decease; he was a cooper by trade. He married first
Nancy Stoddard, second Ellis Wallace, daughter of Daniel
and Mary (Low) Wallace, and third Lucy Sprague, widow
of Solomon Sprague. His children were: Laura Ann, m.
Asa Hall, son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Macumber) Hall;
Lovina, m. Worden Babcock, son of Elihu and Hannah Bab-
cock; Ira, m. Julianna Palmer, daughter of Amos and Mary
(Barber) Palmer, April 13, 1834; Matilda; Mercy, m.
14 ONONDAGA HISTOKCAL ASSOCIATION
Willet Palmer, son of Amos and Mary (Barber) Palmer;
Rebecca, Hannah, John, Elihu, Darhis, Isaac, Permelia, m.
(1) Jacob Pollock and (2) George W. Breed, son of Rufus
and Mehitable Breed; and Charles, b. February 21, 1840,
died in Dallas, Nebraska, December 16, 1897, m. Charlotte
Walker, January 1, 1863, in Pennsylvania.)
(Borodino.)
Worden Babcock, died January 3, 1849, age 29 years,
7 months, 5 days.
(Borodino.)
John H. Babcock, bom October 11, 1807 died May 5,
1874.
" At Rest."
(He is not known to be related to the other Babcock
families of this town. He resided, at the time of his
decease, on the place known as " Split Rock," east of the
Skaneateles and Homer road, on the N. W. comer of lot 12,
Sempronius.)
(Borodino.)
Willie J., son of William and Elizabeth Babcock, died
January 23, 1875, age 1 year, 1 month.
(William Babcock was a son of John H. Babcock.)
(Borodino.)
Sarah Lavinda (Carr), wife of Thomas A. Babcock.
Died January 9, 1873, age 38 years 2 months, 14 days.
(She was a daughter of Thurston and Lorane (Green)
Carr. Sarah, Thruston, William, Thurston, Caleb, Caleb,
Caleb, Robert, Benjamin.)
(Spafford.)
Elizabeth (Bulfinch), wife of John Babcock, died De-
cember 18, 1851, in her 74th year.
(She was a sister of Joseph Bulfinch. Her husband,
John Babcock, was one of the first settlers in town, (Oct.
8, 1806) and lived on 47 acres west of the Skaneateles and
Homer road, on lot 21, Tully, at Spafford Corners, the same
farm afterwards owned and occupied successively by Silas
Cox, Joseph Cole and Dr. John Collins. He was at one time
prominent in town affairs, being the first Supervisor at the
organization of the town of Spafford in 1812. He went
West about 1825.
(Spafford.)
SPAFFORD MORTUARY RECORDS WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES 15
BACON.
Amos Bacon, died July 24, 1840, age 72 years.
(He married Abigail Cady and had : William, m. Phebe
Isdell, daughter of Andrew and Mary (Harris) Isdell;
Amos, Jr., m. Clarissa Fowler; John, m. Sally Churchill,
daughter of John and Martha Churchill; Achsah, m. Wil-
lard Doty, son of Warren and Sarah (Wood) Doty; and
Abigail, who died at 22, unmarried.)
(Cold Brook.)
Abigail (Cady) , wife of Amos Bacon, died February 14,
1844, age 72 years.
(Cold Brook.)
Abigail, daughter of Amos and Abigail (Cady) Bacon,
died March 1, 1835, age 22 years, 1 month, 10 days.
" Death is a debt to nature due,
Which I have paid and so must you."
(Cold Brook.)
John Bacon, (son of Amos and Abigail (Cady) Bacon),
died April 22, 1844, age 43 years, 9 months.
(He married Sally Churchill, daughter of John and
Martha Churchill, and had: Warren, died unmarried;
David, m. Ruth E. House, and moved to Chautauqua Co.,
N. Y. ; Phelena, moved to Campbell, Mich., and married a
Mr. Gibson; Harrison, m. Frances Churchill, daughter of
Orville and Mary J. (Riggall) Churchill; and Irene, died
young.)
(Cold Brook.)
Sally (Churchill), wife of John Bacon, died May 24,
1899, age 90 years.
(Cold Brook.)
Warren Bacon, (son of John and Sally (Churchill)
Bacon) . Died June 6, 1850, age 24 years.
(He died unmarried.)
(Cold Brook.)
Irene Bacon, (daughter of John and Sally (Churchill)
Bacon) . Died December 16, 1836, age 15 months.
(Cold Brook.)
Cora, daughter of David and Ruth E. (House) Bacon),
died October 9, 1860, age 20 months.
(David Bacon, son of John and Sally (Churchill) Bacon,
16 ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOaATItN
married Ruth E, House. He moved to Chautauqua County,
N. Y.)
(Cold Brook.)
Frances (Churchill) , wife of Harrison Bacon, died Feb-
ruary 11, 1885, age 30 years.
Harrison Bacon, son of John and Sally (Churchill)
Bacon, married Frances Churchill, daughter of Orville and
Mary J. (Riggall) Churchill.)
(Cold Brook.)
In memory of John H. Bacon, who died June 18, 1834,
in the 24th year of his age.
(Cold Brook.)
Orson, son of Amos (Jr.) and Clarissa (Fowler) Bacon,
died March 3, 1857, age 14 years, 9 months, 19 days.
" ! that with yonder sacred throng
We at his feet may fall,
And pour the everlasting song
And crown Him Lord of All."
(Amos Bacon, Jr., son of Amos and Abigail (Cady)
Bacon, married Clarissa Fowler.)
(Spafford.)
Augustus, son of Amos (Jr.) and Clarissa (Fowler)
Bacon, died June 5, 1858, age 21 years, 8 months, 15 days.
(Spafford.)
Sarah E., daughter of James and Martha (Woodworth)
Bacon, died August 17, 1877, age 1 year, 9 months, 24 days.
(She sleeps."
(James Bacon, son of William and Phebe (Isdell) Bacon,
married Martha Woodworth, daughter of Joel C. and Sarah
(Eadie) Woodworth. William Bacon, son of Amos and
Abigail (Cady) Bacon, in his will dated December 14, 1878,
and probated February 10, 1879, mentions his wife Phebe
Bacon, and his children: James (above mentioned), of
Spafford, N. Y. ; John, of Junius, Seneca Co., N. Y.;
Charles, m. Emma J. Davis, daughter of Col. Lewis C. and
Mary (Pressy) Davis of Spafford, N. Y., Emeline, m. Arlo
Woodworth, son of Joel C. and Sarah (Eadie) Woodworth,
then of Spafford, N. Y.; Wesley, of Junius, Seneca Co.,
N. Y., and Frank of Spafford, N. Y., then all of full age.
William died at Spafford, December 17, 1878, three days
after making his will, at the age of 68 years.
(Spafford.)
SPAFFORD MORTUARY RECORDS WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES 17
Perry D., son of Charles and Emma J. (Davis) Bacon,
died November 15, 1878, age 5 years, 5 months, 25 days.
(Charles Bacon, son of William and Phebe (Isdell)
Bacon, married Emma J. Davis, daughter of Col. Lewis C.
and Mary (Pressey) Davis.)
(Spafford.)
BAKER.
Ashbel S. Baker, (son of Simeon C. Baker) , died Decem-
ber 25, 1849, age 29 years, 1 month, 22 days.
(He was a son of Simeon C. Baker of Marietta, N. Y.,
and m. (1) Sarah A. Streeter, daughter of Alexander R. and
Susan (Carpenter) Streeter, and (2) Norrissa .
He died from an injury received in a friendly scuffle with
Charles Bailey. He left him surviving, his widow Norrissa
Baker, and children: Sarah Ann, afterwards m. Roland
Rollo of Sennett, N. Y. ; Charles, and Clarrissa Baker, all
three minors; the first of whom was adopted into the family
of Orrin Eddy, whose wife Harriet Streeter was her aunt.)
(Borodino.)
Sarah A. (Streeter), vdfe of Ashbel S. Baker, died May
5, 1845, age 21 years, 3 months, 13 days.
(She was a daughter of Alexander R. and Susan (Car-
penter) Streeter).
(Borodino.)
Sally Ann (Taft) , wife of Ziba D. Baker, died March
26, 1846, age 34 years.
(Ziba D. Baker, son of Josiah and Sally Baker, married
Sally Ann Taft, daughter of Ellis and Cynthia (Knapp)
Taft; they were father and mother of Cynthia, widow of
Benjamin McDaniels, deceased, and now a resident of this
town. Josiah Baker died in this town and was buried in
Borodino Cemetery (no stone) . He had by his wife Sally
the following children: Sally, m. Mr. Carley; Ziba D.,
(mentioned above) ; Susan, m. Gardner Barber (dead) ;
George, m. Mary Ann Austin, resides in Chicago, 111. ; and
Morris Baker, resides in Independence, Iowa.)
(Cold Brook.)
18 ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
BALL.
Charles T., son of J. M. and H. M. Ball, died October 28,
1850, age 2 years, 1 month, 21 days.
(Mr. J. M. Ball was a shoemaker, and a transient resi-
dent of Borodino.)
(Borodino.)
BARBER.
Ruluf Barber, died May 31, 1832, in his 49th year.
(In his will, dated May 29, 1832, and probated July 27,
1832, he mentions his wife Annice Barber, and his children :
Ruluf Jerome, (m. Samantha Young ; she subsequently m,
James H. Isdell), of Spafford, N. Y.; Emily; Calvin, (m.
Amanda A. ) ; Everett, (m. Louisa ) ,
moved to Michigan; Lucian; Sylvia, (m. Ira Young of
Cayuga Co., N. Y.) ; Homon (m. Harriet Mason) ; Sarah
Ann, (m. James Smith) ; and Daniel Hugh Barber.)
(Cold Brook.)
In memory of Jerome Ruluf Barber, (son of Ruluf and
AnniceBarber) , who died October 23, 1837, age 33 years, 9
months, 17 days.
" He's gone to rest, thy husband dear.
Then why shoulds't thou complain,
Or grieve, or sigh, or shed a tear,
Or wish him back again?"
(He married Samantha Young, who after his decease
married (2) James H. Isdell, son of Andrew and Mary
(Harris) Isdell ; she and her second husband are both now
deceased.)
(Cold Brook.)
Emily, daughter of Ruluf and Annice Barber, died Nov-
ember 24, 1839, age 34 years, 5 months, 6 days.
(Cold Brook.)
Loin, son of Ruluf and Annice Barber, died August IS
1827, in his 3rd year.
(Cold Brook.)
Mr. Lucian, son of Ruluf and Annice Barber, died June
4, 1835, age 21 years, 2 months, 18 days.
(Cold Brook.)
SPAFFORD MORTUARY RECORDS WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES lO
James M., son of Samuel and Thankful Barber, died
Oct. 10, 1825, acre 10 months, 16 days.
(Spafford.)
Rathbone Spafford, 1807-1887.
Julia A. (w.), 1816-1888.
Meniy J. Barber, 1814.
(Spafford.)
Robe (Wilcox) , wife of Rathbone Barber, died Novem-
ber 4, 1859, age 77 years, 9 months, 11 days.
(After the death of his wife Robe Rathbone moved to
Junius, N. Y., where he married a second time. He died
at the latter place and was buried there by the side of his
second wife. By his wife Robe he had the following chil-
dren : Rathbone, Jr., m. Julania Ann Harris, daughter of
William and Nancy (Davis) Harris; Jeremiah, m. and lived
in Junius, Seneca Co., N. Y. ; Reuben W., m. Purlina Morris,
daughter of Samuel and Jane (Springer) Morris resided in
Barry Co., Mich., and had three daughters there; Charles,
m. Betsey Randall, daughter of Silas and Mercy (Harring-
ton) Randall; Ruth, m. Jerome Reed, and resided in Alle-
gany Co., N. Y. ; Robey, m. Clark Havens (both dead) ; and
Daniel, m. Cornelia Belknapp, and died in Pennsylvania.
Rathbone was a brother of Mary Barber who married Amos
Palmer.)
(Spafford.)
Paulina Morris, widow of Reuben W. Barber, 1825-1857.
(Spafford.)
Henry E., died March 3, 1874, age 8 months, 2 days.
Julia A., died July 2, 1878, age 2 years, 7 months, 6 days.
Children of Bradford and Phebe (Cox) Barber.
Bradford Barber was a son of Rathbone, Jr., and Jul-
ania Ann (Harris) Barber. Rathbone Barber, Jr. lived
most of his life on the Psalter Pullman farm on Lot 32,
Sempronius, where were born to him by his wife Julania
the following children: Addison, m. Juliette Servant, and
resides in the town of Niles, Cayuga Co., N. Y. ; Frederick
m. Alvira Servant, and resides in Niles, N. Y. ; Frank, m.
(1) Mary Owen, (2) Samantha Belknapp, and resides in
Skaneateles Village, N. Y. ; Bradford, m. Phebe Cox, resides
in Niles, N. Y.; Alice, m. John Randall, son of Hosea and
Charlotte (Clark) Randall, resides in Scott, P. 0. address,
Glen Haven; Mary, m. Harrison Morris, son of Uriah and
20 •NONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
Frances (Worden) Morris, Skaneateles Village, N. Y.; Jane
(mute), resides unmarried, in Spafford, N. Y., and Lewis,
m. Amy Johnson and resides in Niles, N. Y. Rathbone, Jr.,
and his wife Julania, at the time of their decease, were living
in the town of Niles, N. Y., but both were buried in Spafford
Cemetery. (No stone.)
(Spafford.)
BARKER.
Darius Barker, died July 3, 1840, age 43 years, 9 months,
23 days.
(Darius Barker came to this town from Easton, Wash-
ington Co., N. Y., May 4th, 1832, and settled on lots 41 and
42, Tully, where he remained until his decease ; by his wife
Mary Cooper, he had the following children: William C,
m. Betsey Ann Knapp, daughter of Elijah and Betsey (Bur-
dick) Knapp, resides in Homer, N. Y. ; Charles, moved to
Chautauqua Co., N. Y. ; Cornelia, m. (1) George W. Lyon,
son of David L. and Harriet (Arnold) Lyon, and (2) John
Wallace, born in Ireland, she resides in Spafford, N. Y. ;
Sarah Mary, m. John Cotterall, he is dead and she resides in
Scott, N. Y. ; Charlotte, m. (1) James Hill Norton, son of
Robert and Susan (Hill) Norton; (2) Mr. Tanner, she is
now dead ; Caroline, m. William Smith and moved to Cali-
fornia; and Benejah, m. in Oregon and died in Washington,
D. C, his widow and one child still reside in the latter place.
Wliliam Cooper Barker, by his wife Betsey Ann Knapp,
had the following children : George Eugene, (physician and
surgeon) m. (1) Helen Elisiff Westcott, (2) Ada Scammell
(both wives now dead), resides in Spafford, N. Y. ; Charles
Emerson, m. Ida Norton, daughter of Erastus and Mary
(Isdell) Norton, of Spafford, N. Y., and Perry Knapp, m.
Cornelia Desdemonia Knapp (second cousin), daughter of
George Frink and Betsey Ann (Gale) Knapp, resides in
Homer, N. Y.)
Mary, widow of Darius Barker, died February 18, 1889,
age 93.
(Spafford.)
Messer Barker at an early date was a merchant in the
Village of Borodino ; he also dealt extensively in real estate,
SPAFFORD MORTUARY RECORDS WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES 21
commencing' these transactions April 28, 1818 and ending
April 1, 1840, in which his wife, Ann Eliza, joined. In the
latter part of the year 1838 he moved from Borodino and
settled in Plymouth, Richland Co., Ohio.
Hon. Sidney Smith says : " Messer Barker had a family
of one son and I think four daughters. They were an
unusually bright family ; they left Borodino for Ohio before
they were fullj'- grown." The son, Frank Barker, married
and died in Ohio.
BARNES.
Harvey Barnes, died May 14, 1891, age 87 years.
(He married Avalinda Holmes, daughter of John and
Lydia Holmes, and by her had: Edwin F. m. Mary A.
Travis, daughter of John Travis; and Christina, m. (1860)
William H. Clark, son of Amasa P. and Lydia (Bingham)
Clark, of Borodino, N. Y.)
(Borodino.)
Edwin F. Barnes, (son of Harvey and Avalinda
(Holmes) Barnes.) Died December 10, 1872, age 32 years,
10 months, 17 days.
(He married Mary A. Travis, daug'hter of John Travis.)
(Borodino.)
Laura, daughter of Noah and Julia Barnes, died April
23, 1835, age 23 years, 1 month.
(Borodino.)
Hiram Barnes, died November 1, 1842, age 42 years, 3
months, 6 days.
He was a brother of Harvey Barnes.
(Borodino.)
BATES.
Mary A. (Sharp), wife of Ransford R. Bates, died
February 23, 1862, age 39 years, 9 months, 10 days.
(She wasa daughter of Chester and Anice (Churchill)
Sharp, and a granddaughter of John and Martha Churchill,
one of the first settlers in Cold Brook.)
(Cold Brook.)
22 dNONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
BAXTER.
Several members of the Baxter family came to this
towTi from Pittsfield, Mass., at an early date, and settled at
Borodino and in that vicinity, among whom were Daniel,
John, William Bently, Edward and Septimus, five brothers,
and possibly one or more sisters, but of the sisters we have
no positive information ; and in fact nothing more is known
of Septimus than his name. Daniel Baxter came before the
Fall of 1817, and first settled on lot 14, Sempronius, west
of the Center, but in course of one or two years thereafter
moved to the Village of Borodino, where he carried on a
general mercantile business for twelve or fifteen years there-
after. From 1817 to 1832 he had numerous real estate
transactions in Borodino and in that vcinity, in which he
was joined by his wife Susan, He was Supervisor of the
tov/n in the years 1830-1-2, and his general reputation was
that of a substantial business man. He was Member of
Assembly of the New York Legislature from this town in
1828. He went West early in the thirties.
John Baxter resided in the Village of Borodino before
the Marcellus end of the town was incorporated into the
original town of Spaflford. He was a successful farmer and
business man, and sometimes acted as surveyor; several of
the roads of the town were laid out and surveyed by him,
and are so recorded in the town records. In his real estate
transactions he is joined by his wife Delia; he also went
West and settled in Michigan.
William Bentley Baxter married Mary Hillebert,
daughter of John C. and Elizabeth (Berry) Hillebert. He
was also a farmer residing near Borodino and went West.
Edward Baxter came originally from Pittsfield, Mass.,
to Volney, Oswego Co., N. Y., and from there moved to
Borodino, where he carried on a general mercantile business
for a number of years. From Borodino he moved to Phoe-
nix, Oswego County, N. Y., and from there to Liverpool,
N. Y., where he remained until his decease. While residing
in Borodino he married Eliza Anderson, sister of Thomas
B. Anderson, then of that place, and by her had three chil-
dren, the first two born in Borodino and the last in Phoenix ;
George, born March 6, 1839, married Anice Sitts, of Clay,
N. Y. ; he has been for several years Supervisor of the Town
STAFFORD MORTUARY RECORDS WITH GENBALOGICAL NOTES 23
of Salina, is a successful business man and now resides in
Liverpool, N. Y. ; Charles, born 1843, married and resides
in Arizona ; Clinton, bom 1846, and is also married, resi-
dence unknown.
Mr. Edward Baxter died in Liverpool in September,
1895, at the advanced age of 91 years, and was buried at
that place; his wife died in 1862 or 3, and was also buried
at the same place.
BEARSE.
Aaron Bearse, died February 14, 1842, age 58 yeai-s.
(He married (1) Phebe Smith, (2) Rebecca Earl,
daughter of David and Anna Earl, and (3) Harriet Cleve-
land, sister of Benajah Cleveland. He came to this town
among the early settlers and took up his residence on a
farm, probably under a contract, on lot 13, Sempronius, for
which he subsequently took a deed, February 29, 1812. In
his v/ill, dated November 16, 1841, and probated February
24, 1842, he mentions his wife Harriet Bearse, and his
children: David; Ljnnan, m. Mary Emily Langdon, he
died West before October 13, 1853; Isabenda (m. 1) Ans^n
Churchell, son of James and Hannah (Dobbs) Churchell,
and (2) Albert E. Fulton, son of Emerson Fulton; Ford;
Aaron E. ; Ward, m. Mary Bums, daughter of Felix and
Elizabeth (Walace) Bums; Harriet; and Esther M. Bearse;
the two latter died unmarried.)
(Borodino.)
Phebe (Smith) , wife of Aaron Bearse, died October 11,
1819, in the 35th year of her age.
(Borodino.)
In memory of Rebecca (Earl) wife of Aaron Bearse,
died February 7, 1830, age 38 years, 9 months, 22 days.
(Thorn Hill.)
BECKER.
Peter Becker, son of David and Gertrude (Van Buren)
Becker, born June 11, 1800, died July 29, 1889. Age 89
years, 1 month, 18 days.
" He rests well."
(He was bom at Easton, Washington Co., N. Y., and is
supposed to have been a descendant of John Becker, who
24 ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
in 1656 was Clerk at Fort Casimir on the Delaware, in.
1660 kept school in New Amsterdam (N. Y. City) , and in
1663 and afterwards was a Notary Public and School-
master, in Greenbush and Albany, N. Y. He was one of a
family of seven children, three boys and four girls, who
resided in Washington and Saratoga Counties in this State.
After his marriage to his first wife, Mary Eadie, he first
settled in Scriba, Oswego Co., N. Y., in the year 1836, and
from there came to Scott, N. Y., and resided for about four
years on the Vincent Farm. March 9, 1840, he purchased
a farm of ninety-nine acres of Henry Ide, on Lot 12, Sem-
pronius, and resided in this town afterwards until the time
of his decease. His wife, Mary, died April 2, 1866, and he
married (2) Asenath Patterson, widow of Calvin Patterson,
and former widow of William Case, her maiden name was
Asenath Warner. His children were by his first wife.)
(Borodino.)
David Becker, born July 7, 1820.
William Becker, born April 18, 1823.
Elizabeth Becker, bom Sept. 6, 1825.
Henry Becker, born July 27, 1827.
James Becker, born October 8, 1830.
Alexander Becker, bom June 2, 1833.
John Becker, bora July 12, 1836.
Thomas Becker, born Febmary 12, 1838.
Children of Peter and Mary (Eadie) Becker.)
(David Becker married Eunice Legg, daughter of
William and Amanda (Fulton) Legg, and had two children:
Mrs. Ellis A. Tucker of Little York, N. Y., and Mrs. Emma
Gere of Beatrice, Nebraska. Mrs. David Becker was bom
in February, 1833, and is now deceased, buried by the side
of her husband in Borodino Cemetery. (No stone) ; Wil-
liam Becker, married Joanna Robinson, daughter of Archi-
bald and Amy Robinson ; Elizabeth Becker died unmarried ;
Henry Becker died unmarried ; James Becker married Mary
Boothroy, resides in Syracuse, N. Y. ; Alexander Becker
married Mary Newell, daughter of Stephen and Mary (Cuy-
kendall) Newell, his wife is dead and he resides in Syra-
cuse, N. Y. ; John Becker married Elizabeth Shuttleworth,
born in England and now deceased; and Thomas Becker
married Elizabeth Babcock.)
(Borodino.)
SPAFFORD MORTUARY RECORDS WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES 25
Mary (Eadie) Becker, wife of Peter Becker, died April
2, 1866, age 67 years, 9 months, 27 days.
(Borodino.)
Asenth (Patterson) (Case) (Warner) Becker, wife of
Peter Becker, died January 23, 1886, age 74 years, 6 months.
(No stone.)
(Borodino.)
Elizabeth (Shuttle worth) Becker, wife of John Becker,
born 1842, died 1894.
(John Becker was a son of Peter and Mary (Eadie)
Becker.
(Borodino.)
Henry Becker (son of Peter and Mary (Eadie) Becker) .
Bom July 27, 1827, died September 8, 1895.
(Borodino.)
Alexander Becker, (son of Peter and Mary (Eadie)
Becker) . Bom July 2, 1833.
(Borodino.)
Mary Newell, wife of Alexander Becker, born November
27, 1833, died December 13, 1895.
(Alexander Becker, son of Peter and Mary (Eadie)
Becker, m. Mary Newell, daughter of Stephen and Mary
(Cuykendall) Newell. Alexander resides in Syracuse,
N. Y.)
(Borodino.)
Joanna (Robinson) wife of William Becker. Died May
30, 1878, age 55 years, 5 months, 7 days.
" Mother we miss Thee."
(William Becker (son of Peter and Mary Eadie) Becker
m. Joanna Robinson, daughter of Archibald and Amy
Robinson.)
(Borodino.)
David Becker, (son of Peter and Mary (Eadie) Becker) .
Died November 19, 1862, age 43 years, 4 months.
(He married Eunice Legg, daughter of William and
Amanda (Fulton) Legg. He was a merchant at Borodino,
and prominent both in business and town affairs. He was
Supervisor of the town in 1860.)
(Borodino.)
Eunice Legg, wife of David Becker. Died at Geddes,
N. Y., July 31, 1879, age 46 years, 5 months.)
26 ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
(She was bom February, 1833. No stone.)
(Borodino.)
Fannie, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Shuttleworth)
Becker, Died September 28, 1864, age 2 years, 6 months.
(Borodino.)
BEjEjLrjIv.
(Private in Capt. Kean's Co. 4th U. S. Regt. of Riflemen
in the War of 1812, is buried in an unmarked grave in the
southeast comer of the Spafford Cemetery. He was a pen-
sioner of the United States for loss of a leg, resulting from
a wound received in battle in the year 1814. He came to
Spafford from Springfield, New York. He died after 1821,
but at v/hat date is not known. At the time of his decease,
he was living at Roundy's Tavern at Spafford Corners.)
No stone. (Spafford.)
BENNETT.
Lucinda, wife of Isaac Bennett. Died October 20, 1830,
age 39 years, 4 months, 21 days.
(Thorn Hill.)
Lucy Hutchens, wife of Lyman C. Bennett. Died April
5, 1882, age 52 years.
" In life beloved, in death lamented."
(Lyman C. Bennett (b. in Virgil, N. Y., November 20,
1831), son of Stephen and Waity (Hill) Bennett, married
Lucy Hutchens, daughter of Col. Phineas and Betsey
(Backer) Hutchens. She was bom in Spafford, N. Y.,
April 6, 1830; one child.)
(Spafford.)
Phineas Hutchens, only child of Lyman C. and Lucy
(Hutchens) Bennett. Died March 29, 1866, age 9 months,
11 days.
" Our Little Phinney."
" O ! the little feet, in the glorious street.
Can never go astray. Too frail, too pure for Earth."
(Spafford.)
William J. Bennett, (son of Stephen and Waity (Hill)
Bennett. Died October 9, 1860, age 21 years.
SPAFFORD MORTUARY RECORDS WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES 27
(He was a cripple, and at the time of his decease was
living with his brother, Lyman C. Bennett.)
(Spafford.)
The family of Christian Bennett resided and buried its
dead just over the SpafFord line, in the town of Tully, in
the locality commonly called " Bennett Hollow," yet on
account of its close business and social relations with the
people of this town the following is offered :
Christian Bennett the elder, (called by himself Chris-
John Bonats) , was bom at Frankfort on the Rhine, and was
a soldier under Napoleon the First in the French Revolution.
After his discharge from the French Army he first settled
in Germantown, Pennsylvania, and from there emigrated
to the town of Tully among the first settlers. He died in
Bennett Hollow, and was buried there by the side of his
wife, Hannah Fralick. He had three children registered
in the family Bible, as Peter Bonats, Gershom Bonats, and
Christian Bonats.
Christian Bonats, Jr., born in Germantown, Pa., August
14, 1781, married January 8, 1812, Elizabeth Adare. He
came to Tully at an early date, and in 1816 purchased his
large farm, of 155 acres in Bennett Hollow, where he re-
mained until the time of his decease, September 25, 1866.
He was trustee of School District No. 8 (a joint district for
the towns of Spafford, Tully and Preble) from 1852 to 1857
inclusive. He and his wife, Elizabeth, were buried in the
Cemetery near the School House, in Bennett Hollow, His
children, all born in Bennett Hollow, were: Jane, bom
February 7, 1813, died January 1898, in Iowa, married
William A. Higley ; Joseph Adare, born March 18, 1815, died
March 23, 1836, in Bennett Hollow ; Lydia Maria, born Feb-
ruary 22, 1817, married Isaac Hollenbeck in 1839, and
resides in Tully, N. Y., (7 children) ; Henry Staley, born
December 20, 1819, died in Pennsylvania, (2 children) ;
Sarah Ett, born April 5, 1823, died March, 1872, married
(1) Anthony Straile and (2) George Warne, (2 children) ;
Mary Elizabeth, bom August 17, 1829, married Richard A.
VanDenburg, resides in Scott, N. Y. (4 children) ; James
Edward, born March 23, 1827, died in Preble, N. Y., mar-
ried Hannah Van Denburg, (2 children) ; and John Chris-
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tian, born November 13, 1833, married May 20, 1856, H.
Amelia Doran of Syracuse, N. Y.
Col. John Christian Bennett born November 13, 1833,
and living in 1888 in London, England, married May 20,
1856, at Syracuse, N. Y., H. Amelia Doran, now living in
Syracuse, N. Y., and by her had : John Christian, Jr., bom
in 1858, residing in Boston, Mass., unmarried; Joseph
Adare, born in 1862, married and lives in Texas, Sergeant
in 23d United States Infantry ; Andrew Doran, born in 1865,
merchant in Syracuse and married; and Carl Lee, born in
1867, married Jessica Marie Kline in New York City, where
he now resides. John C. Bennett obtained the rank of
Colonel from the State of New York, as commanding officer
of the 51st Regiment of New York Militia, located at
Syracuse, N. Y.
BERRY.
Jonathan Berry. Bom March 17, 1771, died August
13, 1849.
Jonathan Berry came from Cambridge, Washington Co.,
N. Y., and settled on Lot 12, Sempronius, in March, 1803.
He remained there until March 3, 1810, when he purchased
the States Hundred Acres on Lot 89, Marcellus, of Daniel
Tinkham. Soon after he took up his residence near where
Jeremiah Olmstead now resides on this purchase, and re-
mained there until the time of his decease. Mr. Berry was
a leading business man, and without question dealt more
extensively in real estate in his adopted town than any of his
fellow townspeople. Among other transactions he pur-
chased nearly all of lots 10 and 12, Sempronius, and sold
out in parcels to suit his purchasers, who cleared and settled
upon the lands. His real estate transactions, however, were
not confined to the vicinity of his residence, but extended
to all parts of the town, without reference to his individual
uses and purposes. The public records indicate that he had
a natural born taste for speculation in real estate, which to
a certain extent met with success, for at his decease he left
a very valuable property of this kind, to be distributed
Smong the members of his family. By his wife Thankful
he had the following children: Joseph R., married Sarah
Kneeland, daughter of Asa and Hannah (Green) Kneeland^
SPAFFORD MORTUARY RECORDS WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES 29
resided in Winslow, Stevens Co., Illinois; Mary, married
Isaac Knapp, son of Peter and Dinah (Guion) Knapp; Eliz-
abeth, married John C. Hillebert of Borodino, N. Y. ; Nelson,
married (1) Lucretia Lyman, (2) Amy Ann Eddy, and (3)
Abigail Stringham, after his decease his last wife married
(2) George Maxson of Scott, N. Y., he left him surviving
two sons, William G. and Fred M. Berry ; Thankful, married
James Bemus, resided in Chautauqua Co., N. Y. ; Sophia M.,
married John J. Rowan, son of John and Nancy Rowan, she
died in Otisco, N. Y. ; Adeline, married Edwin Eddy, then
of Borodino, N. Y. ; Ann W., married Winchester,
she died before her father and left four sons; Jonathan
Berry, Joseph R., Andrew J., and George W. Winchester;
Simeon, married , he died before his
father and left four children : Jonathan, Timothy M., Mary
Ann, married Job Springer, and Edward G. Berry; and
Ruth Frances Berry, who died before her father, un-
married.)
(Borodino.)
Thankful, wife of Jonathan Berry. Bom May 15, 1777,
died August 26, 1847.
" There is rest for the wearied spirits above."
(Borodino.)
Ruth Frances, daughter of Jonathan and Thankful
Berry. Died July 27, 1841, age 21 years.
(Borodino.)
Nelson Berry, son of Jonathan and Thankful Berry.
Died March 30, 1884, aged 84 years. (No stone) .
(He married (1) Lucretia Lyman, (2) Amy Ann Eddy,
and (3) Abigail Stringham, who after his decease married
(2) George Maxson of Scott, N. Y.)
(Borodino.)
Lucretia (Lyman) , wife of Nelson Berry. Died January
22, 1856, age 36 years.
(Borodino.)
Amy Ann (Eddy), wife of Nelson Berry. Died June
22, 1857, age 42 years.
(Borodino.)
Zara Berry. Bom February 22, 1801, died March 14,
1875.
(He was a nephew of Jonathan Berry, and probably
came from Washington Co., N. Y., the home of the Berry
30 •NONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
family. He married (1) Harriet Rathbone, daughter of
James and Margaret (Ashley) Rathbone, and (2) Sophia
Hillebert, daughter of John C. and Elizabeth (Berry) Hille-
bert. By his first wife he had Harriet, married Shuler
Conover of Skaneateles, N. Y.; and by his second wife:
Mary, married John Perry Lewis, son of John R. and
Roxana (Moon) Lewis, now dead and buried in Borodino
Cemetery; Charles and Helen, who died young; George,
married and living at Grand Lodge, Mich.; and Frank,
married and living at Minneapolis, Minnesota.)
(Borodino.)
In memory of Harriet (Rathbone), wife of Capt. Zara
Berry. Died October 12, 1828, age 21 years, 10 months, 16
days.
(Thorn Hill.)
Sophia (Hillebert), wife of Zara Berry. Born Decem-
ber 26, 1813, died April 29, 1886.
(Borodino.)
Charlie, son of Zara and Sophia (Hillebert) Berry. Died
November 16, 1865, in his 9th year.
(Borodino.)
Helen, daughter of Zara and Sophia (Hillebert) Berry.
Died September 14, 1838, in her 4th year.
(Borodino.)
BIERCE.
Several members of the Bierce family formerly resided
in Cold Brook and the town of Scott ; Augustin Bierce mar-
ried the widow Niles, and by her had the following children :
Chauncey, married Harriet Brown, daughter of Judge
Brown of Scott, N. Y., he resided both in Spafford and in
the town of Scott, N. Y. ; Datus W.„ married Emily Cole of
Cazenovia, N. Y., he resided in Cole Brook, but died in Cort-
land, N. Y. ; Niles H., married (1) Laura Smith of Roches-
ter, N. Y., and (2) Mary Smith of Batavia, N. Y., he resided
first in Scott and then in Batavia, where he died; and
Emeline, married Albert Rowe of Scottsville, N. Y., she last
resided in Albany.
Mrs. Bierce, by her first husband Niles, had four chil-
dren (half brothers and sisters of the foregoing) who also
resided in Spafford and Scott: John E., married (1) Sarah
SPAFFORD MORTUARY RECORDS WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES 31
Peters, and (2) of Smithport, N. Y.;
George, married Mahala Bowdish and resided in Scott,
N. Y. ; Lucinda, married Martin E. Knapp as his first wife,
resided in Cold Brook, and later in Scott, where he died,
buried in Cold Brook; and Harriet, married Ambrose S.
Higgins and resided in Scott, N. Y.
BILLINGS.
William Billings. Died July 3, 1846, in the 76th year
of his age.
(He married Rebecca Fisher, daughter of Amos and
Margaret Fisher, and by her had: Delos W., married
Rhoda Stanton, daughter of Benjamin and Amy (Perkins)
Stanton; Clarinda, married Mr. Ausmond; and Waterman
Billings of Seneca Falls, N. Y.)
(Borodino.)
Rebecca (Fisher), wife of William Billings. Died June
15, 1864, aged 75 years.
" Gone but not forgotten."
" She was the sunshine of our hearts.
An angel to us given,
Just when we came to love her most
God called her back to Heaven."
(Borodino.)
BITTLES.
Samuel Bittles.
(The headstone in this case is so badly weather worn
that no part of the inscription can be read except the name.
Mr. Bittles came to this town from Homer, N. Y., with his
brother Thomas Bittles, October 26, 1818, and settled on
lot 88, Marcellus, where he remained until the time of his
decease in 1827. In his v/ill, dated June 12, 1827, and pro-
bated December 18, 1827, he mentions his wife Mary Bittles,
and his children: Margaret Bittles, and Eliza Shearman,
wife of Charles Shearman.)
(Old Borodino Cemetery.)
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BLUNDEN.
Eliza (Alvord) , wife of Thomas Blunden. Died January
15, 1888, age 74 years.
" Our dear mother at rest."
(She was a sister of Anna Alvord, the last wife of Silas
Randall, and of Thomas R. Alvord of Kellogg Settlement,
in the town of Scott, N. Y.)
(Cold Brook.)
BODLEY.
Mary A., wife of Henry Bodley. Died June 26, 1886,
age 84 years.
(The Bodley s came from Cayuga County, N. Y.)
(Thorn Hill.)
Olive E. Bodley. Bom March 15, 1839, died August 23,
1877.
" I would not live always."
(Thorn Hill.)
BOUGHTON.
The Boughton family was represented in the town of
Spafford in the persons of Rev. Alanson Boughton, Nathan
Culver and Mrs. William I. Skellie, the mothers of each of
the two latter being a Boughton.
Alanson Boughton was of the seventh generation, in
line of descent from John Bouton, born about 1615 and came
to America in the " Assurance," July 1635, and landed in
Boston, Mass., in December of the same year. After resid-
ing in Boston and Watertown, Mass., he finally settled in
Connecticut, first in Hartford and afterwards in Norwalk.
(John, Joseph, Jackin, Ebenezer, Timothy, John, Alanson.)
Alanson Boughton, born in Scipio, N. Y., May 23, 1807,
died in Moravia, N. Y., March 21, 1878. He was a Baptist
minister, but first followed teaching in Jamesville, Onon-
daga County, N. Y. He first ministered over the Baptist
Church in Volney, Oswego Co., N. Y., then in Nonesuch and
Sempronius, Cayuga Co., N. Y. Also in Milan and Locke,
in the same State, and then in Spafford, N. Y. In 1857 he
was School Commissioner in Cayuga County. He married
(1) April 15, 1829, at Onondaga, N. Y., Charlotte Keeler,
SPAFFORD MORTUARY RECORDS WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES 33
daughter of Jeremiah Keeler; she died in Jamesville, Sep-
tember 12, 1835, and then he married (2) at that place,
March 29, 1836, Hannah Squire, formerly of New Baltimore,
N. Y. His children were: Nelson, born in Nunda, N. Y.,
October 1, 1830, murdered September 6, 1859, married Mary
Fisher, daughter of Philip and Harriet (Legg) Fisher, at
Spafford October 2, 1854; and perhaps others.
Nelson Boughton (son of Alanson and Charlotte
(Keeler) Boughton), by his wife Mary Fisher, had two
children, one of whom, Angeline, was born in Skaneateles,
N. Y., November 7, 1855, married December 11, 1875, James
Allen, Jr., and settled in Julian, Clark Co., Da. (3 children:
Harly Hall, William Nelson, and Daniel Hall Boughton
Allen, the latter is a graduate of West Point Academy, a
son-in-law of General Thomas Wilson, and is now 1st Lieu-
tenant or Captain in the regular army.) Nelson Boughton
died in Nunda, Freeborn Co., Minn.
BOWEN.
Elijah Bowen. Died May 20, 1807, age 50 years.
(Thorn Hill.)
Patty Bowen, widow of Elijah. Died July 15, 1851, age
90 years.
(Elijah and Patty Bowen were related to Delina Bowen,
wife of Dr. David Kingsbury of Clintonville, N. Y.)
(Thorn Hill.)
Joseph W. Bowen. Died Januaiy 3, 1875, age 68 years.
" An honest man is the noblest work of God."
(In his will, dated March 11, 1874, and probated in 1875,
he mentions his wife Hannah Bowen, and his son Alonzo
Bowen.)
(Spafford Hollow.)
BOUTELL.
Hannah, wife of Alpheus Boutell. Died November 8,
1849, age 75 years, 9 months, 3 days.
(Alpheus Boutell lived and Died in Spafford Hollow. By
his wife Hannah he had : Samuel, married Catherine Wil-
liamson, daughter of James and Hannah Williamson; Lor-
enzo, married (1) Margaret Rainey, daughter of Robert
Rainey, (2) Cornelia (Stanley) Rood, widow; David B.,
married Anna Hobert, and lived and died in Tully, N. Y.;
34 ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
Harriet, married Warren Kinney, lived and died in Amber,
N. Y.; and Parmelia, married Charles Kingsley, and lived
and died in Otisco, N. Y.
Samuel Boutell and his wife, Catherine Williamson are
both dead. Their children were: Samuel G., married
Carrie Fish, both dead and left one child ; Carrie E. Boutell ;
Alexander J., married Jennie M. Gay, daughter of Bamett
A. and Amanda F. (Smith) Gay, wife dead and he resides
in Tully, N. Y.; and Martin J. married Helen Grout,
daughter of John and Elizabeth (Brown) Grout, he is an
astrologer and resides in Syracuse, N. Y.) )
(Spafford Hollow.)
]\Iargaret (Rainey), wife of Lorenzo Boutell. Died
April 19, 1850, age 38 years, 7 days.
(Lorenzo Boutell, son of Alpheus and Hannah Boutell,
married (1) Margaret Rainey, daughter of Robert Rainey,
and (2) Cornelia Stanley, widow of a Mr. Rood of Moravia,
N. Y., deceased; he died and was buried in Amber, N. Y.
He first settled on the west side of Spafford Hollow, on the
first farm south of the Buck Tail Road, and for twelve years
was Justice of the Peace in that town, commencing his term
in 1838. From there he moved to the Village of Amber,
where he remained to the time of his decease. He had
seven children, (three by the first and four by the second
wife), among whom were: Spencer, Catherine, Parmelia
and Charles ; the latter by the second wife, now residing in
Amber, N. Y.)
(Spafford Hollow.)
In memory of Sarepta A. P., daughter of David B. and
Anna (Hobart) Boutell. Died April 28, 1830, age 4 years,
1 month, 8 days.
(Spafford Hollow.)
Parmelia M., daughter of David B. and Anna (Hobart)
Boutell. Died October 24, 1883, age 10 years.
(David B. Boutell, son of Alpheus and Anna Boutell,
married Anna Hobart, and resided over the Spafford line
in the Town of Tully. In his will, dated July 28, 1876, pro-
bated October 30, 1876, he mentions his Vvife Anna
(Hobart) Boutell, and his children: Emily Boutell; Mary-
Barker, Harriet Waggoner, Herbert Boutell, Edward Bou-
tell and Martha Boutell.)
(Spafford Hollow.)
SPAFFORD MORTUARY RECORDS WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES 35
BREED.
Rufus Breed. Born April 24, 1785, died 1865.
(Rufus Breed married his cousin Mehitable Breed,
daughter of Allen and Lucy (Taylor) Breed, November 28,
1805, and came to this town from Hope, Hamilton County,
N. Y., July 12, 1839, and settled on Lot 11, Tully, on premises
formerly owned by Samuel Parker, and now known as the
Breed Homestead, on the Skaneateles and Homer Road.
His children, all born before coming to this town, were:
Asa, born September 11, 1906, married October 30, 1828,
; Elizabeth, born November 11, 1808,
married May 20, 1828, ; Rufus, born
June 3, 1811, married April 2, 1834, ;
Nathaniel, born July 2, 1813, married Tryphena Proper of
Trumansburg, N. Y. ; George Washington, bom April 12,
1818, married (1) March 20, 1840, Polly Ann Owen,
daughter of Timothy and Lydia Owen, (2) Parmelia Bab-
cock, daughter of John, Jr. and Ellis (Wallace) Babcock,
and widow of Jacob Pollock, he died in Sempronius, Cayuga
Co., N. Y. ; Allen, bom August 25, 1820, married Minerva
Rounds, daughter of Russell and Lydia (Harrington)
Rounds; and Reuben, born July 24, 1825, married April 2,
1834 , and moved to California where
he died.)
(Borodino.)
Mehitable (Breed), wife of Rufus Breed. Born in Nel-
son, N. Y., December 8, 1783; died February, 1865.
(She was a daughter of Allen and Lucy (Taylor) Breed.
Her father, Allen Breed, was born in Marblehead, Mass.,
July 14, 1759, and died at her home in Spafford, April 2,
1842. Allen Breed was a soldier in the War of the Revolu-
tion, having enlisted in the beginning of the war in 1775,
at the age of 16 years, and served during nearly the entire
period of that conflict to its close, and for meritorious
service was advanced from Private to Lieutenant. At the
time of his decease he was a pensioner of the United States.
His wife, Lucy Taylor, died March 23, 1825, and was buried
in a private cemetery at Mayfield, Montgomery Co., N. Y.
Allen Breed died of old age, and may have been buried in a
private plot, on the farm occupied by his son-in-law, Rufus
Breed. (Allen Breed's wife says he was buried in Spafford
Cemetery but has no stone.) Mehitable Breed, through her
3^, ©NONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
father, was descended from Allen Breed, bom in England
and settled in Lynn, Mass., in 1630, as follows : Mehitable,
Allen, Josiah, John, Allen, Allen Allen.)
(Borodino.)
Nathaniel Breed (son of Rufus and Mehitable Breed).
Died May 18, 1876, age 63 years.
" Dead but not forgotten."
(He married Tryphena Proper of Trumansburg, N. Y.
In his will, dated April 17, 1876, and probated April 15,
1888, he mentions his wife, Lorantia E. Breed, and his chil-
dren, Delia and Frank Breed. In the petition made by the
widow she described herself as Lorantia E. Anthony,
formerly Breed.)
Allen Breed, (son of Rufus and Mehitable Breed). Bom
August 25, 1820, died 1891.
(He married Minerva Rounds, daughter of Russell and
Lydia (Harrington) Rounds. In his will, dated December
19, 1891, and probated February 4, 1892, he mentions his
wife Minerva Breed, and his children : Helen Breed ; Anna
Trip, wife of George Trip; and Lettie Burns, wife of
Charles Burns. His wife still resides on the old Breed
homestead, on Lot 11, Tully.
(Borodino.)
George Washington Breed, (son of Rufus and Mehitable
Breed) . Born April 12, 1818, died 1898.
(No stone.)
(He married (1) Polly Ann Ov/en, daughter of Timothy
and Lydia Owen, and (2) Parmelia Babcock, daughter of
John Jr. and Ellis (Wallace) Babcock. He moved to Sem-
pronius, Cayuga County, N. Y., where he died. He had at
least three children by his first wife: Martha, married
Horace G. Cady, of Auburn, N. Y. ; Mary, married Alonzo
Cady, now deceased, and Jewett, married Miss Williams.
(Borodino.)
Polly Ann (Owen), wife of George W. Breed. Died
June 7, 1869, in her 54th year.
" Dearest Mother how we miss thee,
And thy loss we deeply mourn.
But again we hope to meet thee
Where we never shall part again."
(She was a daughter of Timothy and Lydia Owen.)
(Borodino.)
SPAFFORD MORTUARY RECORDS WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES 37
Reuben T. Breed, (son of Allen and Lucy (Taylor)
Breed. Died June 20, 1888, age 82 years.
(He married (1) Purlina M. Patchen, widow of Moses
Prindle, (2) Juliette Legg-, widow of LeGrand Rathbone.
By his first wife he had one child : Helen Breed, who married
Edwin Johnson, son of Jonathan and Esther (Woodworth)
Johnson, she is now deceased and left one child: Grove
Johnson, residing in Spafford, N. Y.)
(Borodino.)
Juliette. Died June 6, 1899, age 78.
Purlina M. Breed. Died October 27, 1861, age 61 years,
4 months, 10 days.
(Borodino.)
BRIGGS.
Daniel Briggs. Died August 17, 1849, age 80 years.
(Daniel Briggs resided over the Spafford line in the
town of Skaneateles. In his will dated May 15, 1848 and
probated in 1849, he mentioned his wife Rhoda Briggs, and
his children : William S. Briggs, Russel Briggs, and Harriet
De Reimer, wife of Cornelius D. De Reimer ; his son Hiram
Briggs was then deceased since 1817. Hon. Sidney Smith
says : " Russel Briggs, one of the sons of Daniel and
Rhoda Briggs, settled in Michigan ; his son, Clinton Briggs,
grandson of Daniel and Rhoda, settled in Omaha, Nebraska,
and was the first Maj^or of that City."
" William. S. Briggs, the other son of Daniel and Rhoda
Briggs, succeeded his father as owner of the farm upon
which he settled when he came to Skaneateles, and occupied
it until his death in 1898, at the age of 89 years.")
(Thorn Hill.)
Rhoda, Avife of Daniel Briggs, died August 17, 1857, age
78 years.
(Thorn Hill.)
Hiram, son of Daniel and Rhoda Briggs. Died October
25, 1817, age 16 years, 6 months and 23 days.
(Thorn Hill.)
Nettie H., daughter of Charles and Ida (Taylor) Briggs,
died February 15, 1884, age 1 year, 9 months.
" Our loved one has gone."
(Charles Briggs, son of George W. and Charlotte M.
38 ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
(Rich) Briggs, married Ida Taylor, daughter of Rev. Albert
Taylor, she is now deceased and buried in Borodino Ceme-
tery. No stone. George W. Briggs, married Charlotte M.
Rich, daughter of Dorr and Anna (Becker) Rich, and by
her had: Charles, married Ida Taylor; Phylitta A., died
young; and Gertrude, married Albert Thompson.)
(Borodino.)
BROWN.
Jacob Brown, (son of John and Catherine (Ritiker)
Brown) . Born May 17, 1809, died November 2, 1891.
John Brown, born in Massachusetts, married there Cath-
erine Ritiker, born in Germany, and after his marriage
settled in Rome, N. Y., where his son Jacob was born; from
there he moved to New Hope, Cayuga Co., N. Y., where he
died. He was a cooper by trade, as also was his son, Jacob,
who followed him to his new home in Cayuga County
Jacob Brown, married Debora C. Morris, daughter of
Samuel and Jane (Springer) Morris, born April 7, 1815.
By his wife Debora C. (who in 1898 resided in Fair Haven,
in the town of Scott, N. Y.),he had the following children:
Phebe Ann, m. William H. Craig, residing in Cold Brook,
N. Y.; Jefferson Jacob, born August 5, 1836, m. (1) An-
geline Hibbard, died in Seneca Falls, N. Y., (2) Juliette
Daniels, born November 4, 1842, died November 5, 1884,
and (3) Jennie Harrison, resides at Fair Haven, in the
town of Scott, N. Y. ; Ellen, born January 7, 1838, died Sep-
tember 22, 1859, m. Clark Spencer; William H., born Feb-
ruary 29, 1839, m. Esther A. Craig, resides in Spafford,
N. Y., (member of Co. " H," 16 N. Y. Heav. Art. Vols. War
of 1861) ; Charles, m. Melissa Webster, residing in Borodino,
N. Y.; Charlotte, born April 10, 1846, m. (1) Byron Van
Benschoten, (2) Charles Hurd, residing in Fair Haven in
the to^vn of Scott, N. Y.; Jane (Tian), born April 10, 1846,
m. James Hibbard, she died and was buried in Spafford;
Diadama Lucy Ann, born May 31, 1848, died April 4, 1864,
unmarried; Harriet M., m. William Henry Lyon, son of
George W. and Cornelia (Barker) Lyon, husband dead and
she resides at Fair Haven, town of Scott, N. Y. ; Schuyler,
m. Angeline Hibbard (dead) ; James, m. Catherine Almy,
residing in Borodino, N. Y. ; and Vincent, m. Emily Bennett,
residing in Fair Haven, town of Scott, N. Y.)
(Spafford.)
ftPAFFORD MORTUARY RECORDS WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES 39
Debora C. Morris, wife of Jacob Brown. Born April 7,
1815.
(Spafford.)
Diadama Lucy Ann, daughter of Jacob and Debora C.
(Morris) Brown. Born May 31, 1848, died April 4, 1864.
(She died unmarried.)
(Spafford.)
Juliette Daniels, wife of Jefferson J. Brown. Died Nov-
ember 5, 1884, age 42 years, 1 day.
(Jefferson J. Brown was a son of Jacob and Deborah
C. (Morris) Brown.)
(Spafford.)
William H. Brown, (son of Jacob and Deborah C.
(Morris) Brown.) Bom February 29, 1839. (He married
Esther A. Craig) .
(Spafford.)
Esther A. (Craig), wife of William H. Brown. Bom
April 29, 1840.
(Spafford.)
Arthur E., son of George H. and Jennie (Craig) Brown.
Died January 13, 1892, age 11 months.
(George H. Brown, son of William H. and Esther
(Craig) Brown, married Jennie Craig, daughter of Wesley
and Amy (Randall) Craig.)
(Spafford.)
Melissa (Webster), wife of Charles Brown. Died Sep-
tember 26, 1879, age 33 years.
(Charles Brown, son of Jacob and Deborah C. (Morris)
Brown, married Melissa Webster. She was from a New
Hampshire family.)
(Thorn Hill.)
Margaret, wife of Aaron S. Brown. Died April 24, 1874,
age 37 years, 6 months.
" Gone but not forgotten."
(Borodino.)
Jedidiah Brown. Died July 28, 1838, age 65 years, 6
months, 6 days.
(Jedidiah Brown was killed by the kick of a horse. In
the petition for Letters of Administration by his widow,
Emma Brown, dated August 7, 1838, she mentions his chil-
dren as follows : Clarissa, Jedidiah, Jane, Huldah, and Loa
Brown, of Spafford, N. Y. ; Hannah Pool, wife of Alfred
40 ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
Pool of Erie Co., N. Y. ; Alvah Brown, and Stephen Brown
of Ann Arbor, Mich. ; Lovina H. Hosford, wife of Isaac D.
Hosford, and Lucy Brown, of Grass Lake, Jackson Co.,
Mich. ; Phebe Lawrence, wife of Zimie Lawrence, of Addi-
son Co., Vt. ; and Betsey Brown of Addison Co., Vt. ; all of
full age except : Jedidiah, Jane, Hulda and Loa, who were
minors.)
(Thorn Hill.)
BROWNELL.
Edward J. Brownell, (son of Simon and Mary Ann
(Churchell) Brownell).
Born September 19, 1821, died October 4, 1851.
" Farewell my wife and children dear,
Farewell my father and mother near,
My brothers and sisters all farewell,
I am going home with Christ to dwell."
(Simeon Brownell married Mary Ann Churchell, daugh
ter of James and Hannah (Dobbs) Churchell, and had the
following children: Lorenzo, married South and died in
St. Joseph, Mich. ; Charles, married in Navarino, N. Y., and
died in Dowagiac, Mich.; Mary Ann, married a Mr. Wilder
and died in Dowagiac, Mich.; Sidney, married (1)
Scrivens, (2) Springer and resides in Cleveland,
Ohio ; Edward J., married Rachel Martin, daughter of Ran-
dall B. and Rachel (Clark) Martin; Jane, married Stephen
Tinkham, son of Relly and Chloe (Grinnell) Tinkham;
George, married (1) a Miss Wellington and (2) in Michigan
where he now resides ; and Simeon, Jr., who married West.
Simeon and his wife, Mary Ann Churchell, also moved
West about 1852 or 1853.
Edward J. Brownell, by his wife Rachel (Martin)
Brownell, had two children: Irving and Edna Jane, the
latter married Perry McKay, son of Frederick and Louisa
(Hutchens) McKay, as his first wife, she is now deceased.
After the death of Edward J. Brownell his widow, Rachel,
married (2) Richard E. Loss of Skaneateles, N. Y.)
(Spafford.)
"Mother" — Rachel (Martin) Brownell, (wife of Ed-
ward J. Brownell). Born October 3, 1823, died August 5,
1876.
SPAFFORD MORTUARY RECORDS WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES 41
" Servant of God well done,
The glorious warfare past,
The battle is fought, the race is won,
And thou art crowned at last."
(She was a daughter of Randall B. and Rachel (Clark)
Martin. After the decease of Mr. Brownell she married
Richard E. Loss of Skaneateles, N. Y.)
(Spafford.)
BRYAN.
Lena L. Bryan, (daughter of William and Fannie (Mas-
ters) Bryan). Died May 24, 1895, age 3 years, 8 days.
(William Bryan married Fannie Masters, daughter of
Stephen Masters.)
(Spafford Hollow.)
Clara M. Bryan, (daughter of William and Fannie
(Masters) Biyan). Died April 22, 1895, age 9 months.
(Spafford Hollow.)
BRYANT.
Louisa (Gregory), wife of Thomas Bryant. Died June
28, 1873. age 37 years.
(Thomas Bryant married (1) Gregory, (2)
Louisa Gregory, a sister of his first wife, all three bom in
England, and (3) Ruth Eggleston, daughter of Deacon Ben-
jamin and Elizabeth (Wiltsie) Eggleston of Thorn Hill.
He had one child: Anna, married Eudelbert Churchill, of
Cold Brook, by his first wife, and two: Sarah, married
Seymour Churchill of Cold Brook; and Joseph Henry, who
died young, by his second wife. No issue by the third
wife.)
(Borodino.)
Joseph Henry, son of Thomas and Louisa (Gregory)
Bryant. Died August 26, 1872, age 5 years, 9 months, 23
days.
(Borodino.)
BUFFINGTON.
Charles H. BufRngton. Died January 6, 1852, age 35
years. 3 months.
42 ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
" This stone was erected by Borodino Lodge, I. 0. of
O. F., as a token of esteem for their deceased brother."
(He was a teacher and died single. At the time of his
decease he was reading medicine with Dr. Isaac Morrell, of
Borodino. He was related to Mrs. Jacob W. Darling, prob-
ably a nephew.)
(Borodino.)
BULFINCH.
Joseph Bulfinch. Died October 3, 1873, age 88 years.
" Where the weary are at rest."
(Joseph Bulfinch was born in Boston, Mass., was liber-
ally educated, and in early life was a teacher in a Vermont
Seminary. In 1818 he came to Spafford and settled on a
farm on Lots 32, Sempronius, and 21, Tully, where he
remained until the time of his decease, pursuing the occu-
pation of farming and civil engineering. He was frequently
called upon by his townspeople to fill tov/n oflEices, and
seldom during his active life did his name fail to appear in
the list of town officials. Among the offices held by him
were Supervisor, Assessor, Poor Master, School Commis-
sioner, Inspector of Schools and Town Trustee, but most
f reuuently his name appears in the town books as Inspector
of Schools; in fact for many years teachers in the schools
of Spafford obtained their permit to follow this vocation
from Joseph Bulfinch. He married Lydia Harrington be-
fore coming to this town, and by her had the following
children : Sarah Ann, married Andrew J. Eliot, son of Elias
and Charity (Warner) Eliot, he is dead and she is residing
(1899) in Onondaga Valley, N. Y. ; Lydia, died at 11 years;
Joseph Harrington, married Lucy Ann Eliot, daughter of
Elias and Charity (Warner) Eliot; and Mary, married Dr.
Daniel George Frisbie, residing in Grinnell, Iowa.
Joseph Harrington Bulfinch, born in Boston, Mass.,
December 6, 1816, and died at Yankton, S. D., November 12,
1897, inherited the literary tastes and studious habits of his
father without his self confidence, and while he had few, if
any, peers in the community in which he from time to time
resided, as a man and a scholar, his inherent modesty fre-
quently prevented him from holding positions of public trust
and confidence, which his natural and acquired ability fitted
SPAFFORD MORTUARY RECORDS WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES 43
him to occupy. In early life he followed the avocations of
his father, farming and civil engineering, and at one time
he held a commission as Major in the Militia of the State
of New York. By his wife, Lucy Ann Eliot, who survived
him and in 1899 resided in Yankton, S. D., he had : George
W., married Jennie Swartz, he is now deceased, leaving his
widow and one daughter, Alice May Bulfinch, residing in
Williamsport, Pa.; James, a twin of George, died young;
and Alice M., who married Nelson J. Cramer, (lawyer),
resides in Yankton, S. Da.)
(Spafford.)
Lydia Harrington, wife of Joseph Bulfinch. Died De-
cember 31, 1861, age 73 years.
(Spafford.)
Lydia, daughter of Joseph and Lydia (Harrington) Bul-
finch. Died Monday, February 13, 1837, age 11 years, 6
months, 22 days.
" Pause, my young friends a while before you further go,
I once was gay as well as you, but now here lie low ;
Nor did I think I so soon must take my leave of you,
But death called loud, I must obey and bid you all adieu ;
Remember you must soon like me be mouldering in the clay,
Those earthly fleeting joys must soon pass away;
But there is a heaven of endless joy where saints immortal
reign,
There free from sin, from sorrow, from grief and every
pain."
(Spafford.)
BURDICK.
Russell M. Burdick, Esq. Died December 29, 1850, age
53 years, 11 months, 24 days.
" Man knoweth not his time."
(Russell M. Burdick, descended form a Seventh Day
Baptist ancestry, came to Spafford from Scott, N. Y., where
he had brothers and sisters; he probably came originally
from Brookfleld, Madison Co., N. Y. He married (1)
Esther Whiting, daughter of Thomas and Esther Whiting;
and (2) Philura Seeley, daughter of Samuel G. and Ada
(Fowler) Seeley, and widow of Mr. Eldridge. He came to
this town before 1825, and from time to time held various
44 •NONDAGA HISTORICAL AtmemATL&S
town offices, among which were: Supervisor, Assessor,
Tov/n Trustee and Justice of the Peace; the latter he held
for many years, and by reason of which he was commonly
called Esquire Burdick. He had eight children, seven by his
first wife and one by his last: Lovinia, married George
Youst Fisher, son of Dakin and Sally (Youst) Fisher, she
died in Seneca Falls, N. Y.; Melissa, married John S. Cole,
son of Easton and Polly (Lewis) Cole, she died in Michigan;
Oscar F., married Lovedy Tinkham, daughter of Russel and
Mary (Cook) Tinkham, he died in Michigan; R. Verona,
accidentally killed when young; Fernando Cortez, died
South; Ira Whiting, died single in Michigan; Dorleska L.,
married Porter P. Cole, son of Easton and Polly (Lewis)
Cole, resides in Michigan; and Mary E. (by second wife),
married William Cullen Bockes, the latter is dead and she
resides in Scott, N. Y.)
(Spafford.)
In memory of Esther (Whiting), wife of Russell M.
Burdick. Died July 3, 1841, age 39 years, 4 months.
(Spafford.)
Russell Verona, son of Russell M. and Esther (Whiting)
Burdick. Died October 14, 1845, age 13 years, 4 months, 7
days.
(Accidentally killed by a wagon running over him.)
(Spafford.)
In memory of Thompson Burdick, (son of John and
Elizabeth (Babcock) Burdick). Died October 5, 1830, age
77 years.
" For the great day of his wrath cometh.
And who shall be able to stand."
(Thompson Burdick was born in the town of Westerly,
R. I., September 1, 1753, and was a soldier in the War of
the Revolution, serving as a member of Capt. Samuel Ward's
Co., Col. Varnum's 1st Reg-t. R. I. Line (Continentals) from
May, 1775, to January 1, 1777, participating in the Siege of
Boston, the battles of Long Island, White Plains and Tren-
ton, and receiving a gunshot wound in the battle of White
Plains. He was discharged from the Continentals at Cross-
wick Meeting House, in the State of Pennsylvania, but
afterwards served on different tours of duty as part of the
Militia of his native State, among which was one made in
an endeavor to drive the British from Newport, R. I. On
SPAFFORD MORTUAHY RECORDS WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES 45
this latter occasion he came near losing his life, from drown-
ing off Judith Point, R. I., by the capsizing of barges used
in carrying soldiers employed in that expedition ; sixteen in
all were thrown into the water, of whom only eight were
saved, among the latter was Thompson Burdick.
Mr. Burdick was fouth in line of descent from Robert
Burdick, the first settler in this country, and the common
ancestor so far as known of the Burdick family generally
in America. Tradition says that Robert Burdick came to
this country from a small village in England, near the
border line of Wales, but at just what time is not recorded.
In November, 1652, he was baptized at Newport, R. I., and
four years afterwards was made Freeman at the same place.
In 1661 a company was formed, at the latter place, to
colonize v/hat was afterwards known as Westerly, R. I. Of
these were Robert Burdick and Tobias Saunders. In Nov-
ember of that year, Mr. Burdick and Mr. Saunders made a
clearing, and put up a log house at the latter place, but were
promptly arrested by order of Governor John Endicott, of
Massachusetts, carried prisoners to Boston, tried and fined
forty pounds apiece as trespassers, and ordered to give
bonds to keep the peace. They were kept in prison several
months, during which time they appealed to England for
redress, but in the end the colonization company paid their
fines, and they returned to Rhode Island. On November 2,
1655, Robert Burdick married at Newport, R. I., Ruth Hub-
bard, daughter of Samuel and Tacy (Cooper) Hubbard, who
was said to be the first white child born in Springfield,
Mass., (January 11, 1640) , and by her had nine children who
arrived at maturity: Robert, Hubbard, Thomas, Naomi,
Ruth, Benjamin, Samuel, Tacy and Deborah. Samuel Hub-
bard and his wife Tacy Cooper, and their three daughters,
Ruth, Rachel and Bethia were among the first to embrace
the doctrines of the Seventh Day Baptist in this country,
and to them, more than to any other persons, belongs the
credit of the establishment of that denomination in America.
Robert Burdick, after passing through various vicissitudes
incident to the settlement of the Narragansett country, in
Rhode Island, finally established himself at Westerly, R. I.,
where he reared his family and continued to reside until the
time of his decease.
Hubbard Burdick, son of Robert, resided in the Town
46 •NONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
of Hopkinton, R. I., and was one of the grantees of 5,300
acres of land in that town, sold by order of the Rhode Island
Court, October 2, 1711. This grant was situate in the
westera part of that town. He married Hannah Maxson,
daughter of John and Mary (Moshier) Maxson, and had
four sons : Hubbard, Nathan, John and Ezekiel.
John Burdick, son of Hubbard, was bom May 19, 1721,
and married Elizabeth Babcock, by whom he had eight
children: Maxson, Thompson, Anne, John, Paul, Abigail,
Sarah, and Frances.
Thompson Burdick, son of John, married Tabitha Wil-
cox, daughter of Nathan and Tabitha (Prosser) Wilcox, at
Stonington, Conn., and by her had ten children, all of whom
were born at the latter place, except one or possibly two of
the younger, born at Brookfield, Madison Co., N. Y., to which
place he moved his family in or about the year 1796. From
Brookfield he moved to the town of Scott, N. Y., in the year
1809, and settled in the northern part of the village of that
name, and resided there until about 1819, when he settled on
Lot 41, Tully, and there remained until the time of his
decease. His children were: Paul, moved to Milwaukee,
Wis.; William, moved to Pennsylvania; Thompson, Jr.,
married Lucy , he was killed or died in the war of
1812; Ethel, died unmarried; Lucy, bom December 1, 1779,
in Stonington, Conn., and died in Brookfield, N. Y., August
20, 1833, married John Collins, December, 1796, at Brook-
field, N. Y., she was the mother of Dr| John Collins who
resided and died in this town ; Nabby, born 1782, and died
April 29, 1866, married David Gates in 1796, at Brookfield,
N. Y. ; Nancy, married George Frink ; Pollina, married John
Barber of Scott, N. Y., and died November 12, 1852, age
62 ; Betsey, born November 30, 1793, died in Spafford, De-
cebmre 31, 1872, married Elijah Knapp, son of Peter and
Dinah (Guion) Knapp, December 9, 1812, at Scott, N. Y.,
and resided and died in this town; and Sophia, born 1802,
married Hosea Palmer of this town and died in Scott, N. Y.,
Thompson Burdick, by reason of his military services, was
a pensioner of the United States.
(Spafford.)
In memory of Tabitha (Tabothy on stone) (Wilcox),
wife of Thompson Burdick. Died December 4, 1827, age
71 years, 8 months, 11 days.
SPAFFCRD MORTUARY RECORDS WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES 47
(Tabitha Wilcox was of the sixth generation in line of
descent from Edward Wilcox, who came to America from
England and settled in Portsmouth, R. I., before 1638, and
was in trade there at that date, with Roger Williams and
Richard Smith. He died in Kingston, R. I., where he left
at least two children : Stephen and Daniel.
Stephen V/ilcox, son of Edward, bom 1623 at Ports-
mouth and died at Westerly, R. I., in 1690, married 1658,
Hannah Hazard, daughter of Thomas and Martha Hazard,
and by her had seven children: Edward, Thomas, Daniel,
William, Stephen, Hannah, and Jeremiah. Stephen Wilcox
was a deputy in the R. I. Court in 1670 to 1672, and the
ov/ner of 500 acres of land in the Pequoit Country.
William Wilcox, son of Stephen, died at Stonington,
December 27, 1757, married (1) January 25, 1698, Dorothy
Palmier, daughter of I\Ioses and Dorothy (Gilbert) Palmer,
and granddaughter of Walter and Rebecca (Short) Palmer
of the first settlers of Stonington, Conn., and (2) Mrs. Abi-
gail Palmer. His children born at Stonington, Conn., were
by his first wife, and were as follows : Dorothy, Anna, Wil-
liam, Jemima, Mary, Amey, Sarah and Nathan. Wliliam
Wilcox was commonly called and known as Dea. Wm.
Wilcox.
William Wilcox, Jr., son of William, bom June 3, 1703,
married (1) March 24, 1725-6 at Stonington, Hannah
Brown, and by her had one child. She died January 4,
1826-7 and he married (2) June 5, 1727, Elizabeth Brown,
daughter of John and Elizabeth (Miner) Brown, and by
her had six children. His children were: Hannah, Pru-
dence, Nathan, William, John, Dorothy and Hannah (2),
both Hannahs died young.
Nathan Wilcox, son of Wm., Jr., bom April 6, 1730, at
Stonington, Conn., married January 25, 1753 at the latter
place Tabitha Prosser, and by her had four children, bom
at Stonington: Nathan, William, Tabitha, bom March 15,
1757, married Thompson Burdick; and Prudence.
(Spafford.)
Christopher Avery Burdick, (son of Thompson, Jr., and
Lucy Burdick) . Bora July 6, 1807, died February 6, 1882.
(Thompson Burdick, Jr., son of Thompson and Tabitha
(Wilcox) Burdick, was killed or died in the War of 1812.
By his wife Lucy he had the following children : Leonard,
48 ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
David, Ezra, Aurilla, Chritopher Avery, married Eugenia
Jane Nash, daughter of Joel and Lovina (Whiting) Nash,
and granddaughter of Thomas and Esther Whiting.
Avery Burdick by his wife Eugenia Jane Nash had four
children : Elnora, married Lovinas Tinkham, son of Russel
and Mary (Cook) Tinkham, resides in Scott, N. Y. ; Medora,
married (1) Ira Hill, (2) Albert Hill, resides at Kipton, O.,
and Charles C, married Emily Norton, daughter of Erastus
and Mary (Isdell) Norton. There was another daughter
older than these, who died a young girl.
(Spafford.)
Charles C. Burdick, son of Christopher Avery, by his
wife Emily Norton has: Lillian, married Waldo Emerson
Gilbert, son of William Gilbert, attorney-at-law, resides in
Syracuse, N. Y. ; and Majestic, married Russell D. Eddy,
son of David Eddy. A third child, Dora A., died young.)
(Spafford.)
Eugenia Jane (Nash), wife of Christopher Avery Bur-
dick. Born in 1813, died in 1892.
(Spafford.)
Dora A., daughter of Charles C. and Emily (Norton)
Burdick. Died June 27, 1870, age 8 months.
(Spafford.)
Benjamin C. Burdick. Died April 2, 1835, age 44
years, 6 months.
(Borodino.)
BURLTON.
James Burlton. Died January 14, 1883, age 56 years.
" The Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not want."
(Mr. Burlton was born in England; his wife, Charlotte
Greene, after his decease married (2) George Clark of
Skaneateles.)
(Thorn Hill.)
Charlotte Green, wife of James Burlton. Died March
13, 1896, age 70 years.
(Thorn Hill.)
BURNS.
Mary A. (Travis) (Barnes), wife of Michael Bums.
Born 1831, died 1889.
SPAFFORD MORTUARY RECORDS WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES 49
" Pain and sickness has been my lot to bear,
And in the Eternal Home I hope I shall have a crown to
wear."
(Michael Bums was born in Ireland; he married Mary
A. Travis, daughter of John Travis, and widow of Edwin
F. Barnes.)
(Borodino.)
Felix Burns. Died July 18, 1872, age 85 years.
(He married Elizabeth Wallace, and by her had : Mary,
married Ward Bearse, son of Aaron and Rebecca (Earl)
Bearse; Thomas W., married Anna Earl, daughter of Wil-
liam and Polly (Pitts) Earl; Francis, married Harriet M.
Streeter, daughter of Calvin and Melentha (Babcock)
Streeter; and Phillip, married Emma Taylor, daughter of
William Taylor. Felix Bums and his wife, Elizabeth Wal-
lace, came to Spafford from Washington Co., N. Y., about
1835, and settled on Lot 12, Sempronius.)
(Borodino.)
Elizabeth (Wallace) , wife o Felix Bums. Died June 15,
1863, age 72 years, 1 month, 12 days.
(Borodino.)
Philip Burns, (son of Felix and Elizabeth (Wallace)
Burns) . Died July 10, 1882, age 48 years, 2 months.
(Philip Burns married Emma Taylor, daughter of Wil-
liam Taylor, and by her had four children : Francis, Fred-
erick, Mary and Charlotte. He was drowned in Owasco
Lake outlet.)
(Borodino.)
Thomas W. Bunrs, (son of Felix and Elizabeth (Wal-
lace) Burns) . Died June 10, 1883, age 54 years.
" An honest man is the noblest work of God."
(Thomas W. Bums married Ann Earl, daughter of Wil-
liam and Polly (Pitts) Earl, and by her had: Flora E.,
George and Emma, the latter died before her father and died
young.)
(Borodino.)
Our Little Emma, only child of Thomas W. and Anna
(Earl) Burns. Died June 18, 1869, age 5 years, 9 months,
14 days.
50 ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
" Here thy laughing face we miss,
Miss thy smile, thy loving kiss.
Yet our hearts must own it best,
God has taken thee to rest."
Harriet M. (Streeter), wife of Francis Bums. Died
August 13, 1866, age 30 years, 5 months.
" Dear child ! the grave must be your bed.
Yes, thou art numbered with the dead.
That aching head and sunken eye
Now in the grave must mouldering lie."
(FrancisBums, son of Felix and Elizabeth (Wallace)
Bums, married Harriet M. Streeter, daughter of Calvin
and Melentha (Babcock) Streeter.)
(Borodino.)
BURROUGHS.
John P. Burroughs, (son of Alvin Burroughs of Skan-
eateles) . Died December 9, 1884, age 62 years.
Alvin Burroughs of Skaneateles died January 4, 1877.
In his will, dated November 14, 1874, and probated Feb-
ruary 17, 1877, he mentions his wife Deborah Ann Bur-
roughs, and his children : Phebe Jane, of Skaneateles, she
died September 1, 1887, unmarried; Charles, of Groton,
Tompkins Co., N. Y. ; John P., of Spafford, N. Y., married
Eliza Lowery, daughter of William Lowery; Nancy
Ann, married Prof. Charles 0. Roundy, son of Asahel an<X
Hannah (Weston) Roundy, her husband is now dead and
she resides at Moravia, N. Y. ; Mary A., married February
27, 1853, Charles W. Foster, son of Albert and Clarissa
(Maxson) Foster, of Yankton, South Dakota; and Eliza-
beth, married George H. Taylor of Camillus, she died before
her father and left one daughter, Elizabeth Taylor. De-
borah Ann Burroughs, mentioned as the wife of Alvin in
his will, was his second wife and not the mother of his
children. At the time of her marriage to Mr. Burroughs
she was the widow of a Mr. Gamble. She died April 20,
1876, and was survived by Mr. Burroughs, her second hus-
band. Mr. Burroughs* first wife was Sally Purchase, she
was the mother of all his children.
John P. Burroughs by his wife, Eliza Lowery, had one
son, George A. Burroughs, who married Helen Churchill,
SPAFFORD MORTUARY RECORDS WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES 11
daughter of Chauncey and Catherine M. (Merry) Churchill
of Cold Brook.
(Cold Brook.)
Eliza (Lowery) , wife of John P. Burroughs. Died May
2, 1875, age 52 years.
" We have met."
(Cold Brook.)
CADY.
Renona A. Cady. Died January 2, 1849, age 23 years, 18
days.
" Is not dead but sleepeth."
(He was a shoemaker, and a brother of Harmon Cady.)
(Borodino.)
Harmon Cady. Died March 21, 1861, age 45 years.
(He was a shoemaker, and a brother of Renona A.
Cady.)
(Borodino.)
CALKINS.
Elizabeth, relict of Abram Calkins. Died July 8, 1855,
age 85 years.
(Abram and Elizabeth Calkins were father and mother
of Charles A. Calkins, formerly of Thorn Hill. After her
husband's death Mrs. Calkins came to this town, and died
at the residence of her son Charles.)
(Thorn Hill.)
Wilmot P., son of Charles A. and Diana (Shelden)
Calkins. Died January 4, 1865, age 16 years, 11 months,
25 days.
(Charles A. Calkins, born September 2, 1805, son of
Abram and Elizabeth Calkins, married Diana Shelden,
daughter of William and Abigail (Udell) Shelden, August
21, 1831. His wife was born at Stephentown, N. Y., July
30, 1804, and died at the residence of her son-in-law, Hon.
Sidney Smith, in the Village of Skaneateles, N. Y., May 19,
1892, age 88 years ; she was buried in Lake View Cemetery,
in the latter village. Her daughter, Jennie A., married Hon.
Sidney Smith as his second wife, and her son, George S.
Calkins, at the time of her decease resided in Chicago, 111.)
(Thora Hill.)
52 ©NONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
CALLENDER.
Richard Callender. Died January 3, 1853, age 67 years,
11 months.
(He was born in Ireland, and died in Marietta, N. Y.,
leaving- him surviving his wife, Naomi, and the following
children: Richard, Jr., who married Mary A. Hicks;
William; Mary A.; Margaret, wife of Hiram Eastman;
Julia A., wife of Francis Bailey; Catherine and Edward
Callender.)
(Thorn Hill.)
Richard Callender, Jr., son of Richard Callender. Bom
March 11, 1822, died May 12, 1891.
(He married Mary A. Hicks and by her had at least two
children: Frank Earl, died March 16, 1862; and Francis
R., born February 24, 1863, m.arried 1888, Jennie M. Tripp,
daughter of Dr. Van Dyke Tripp of Spafford, and by her had
two children: Flora M., born December 17, 1888, and
Russel v., born September 24, 1890.)
(Borodino.)
Mary A. Hicks, wife of Richard Callender, Jr. Bom
March 14, 1826.
(She was born in Dutchess Co., N. Y., and in 1898 was
residing with her son, Francis R. Callender, in Borodino.)
(Borodino.)
Frank Earl, son of Richard, Jr., and Mary A. (Hicks)
Callender. Born April 14, 1857, died March 16, 1862.
(Borodino.)
CARR.
Thurston Carr, (son of William and Mary (Brown)
Carr) . Died January 23, 1859, age 54 years, 7 days.
" Afflictions sore a long time he bore.
Physicians were in vain,
Till God pleased to give him ease
And free him from all pain."
(Thurston Carr's pioneer ancestor, Benjamin Carr, came
to this country from London, England, in the ship " For-
tune," and landed at Plymouth, Mass., Nov. 6, 1621. A
short time afterwards he left Plymouth with a party of
friends, and finally settled in Rhode Island. He married,
before coming to this country, Martha Hardington, and by
her had four children: Robert, Caleb, Richard and An-
SPAFFORD MORTUARY RECORDS WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES 63
drew. He and his wife Martha afterwards returned to
England, where they both died, but his sons Robert and
Caleb remained, and are the ancestors of two distinct and
numerous families of Carr in this country. William Carr,
a lineal descendant from Robert Carr, one of these two
brothers, was born February 14, 1778, at Stephentown,
N. Y., where his father, Thurston Carr, then resided. He
married (1) Mary Brown, January 8, 1800, at Stephentown,
N. Y., and (2) Widow Harvey. He had ten children, among
whom was Thurston Carr of Spafford, N. Y., bom of his
first wife January 13, 1805, at Canaan, Columbia Co., N. Y.
The latter married Lorane Greene, November 16, 1826, and
by her had the following children : An infant born May 17,
1828, died young; Emeline, born September 29, 1829, died
March 29, 1831 ; Eliza Maria, born April 23, 1831, died at
Scott, October 26, 1894, age 63 years, married Lucius Scott
in Spafford, December 30, 1851; Mary Ann, born March
31, 1833, married Lafayette Tinkham son of Russell and
Mary (Cook) Tinkham, at Spafford, April 25, 1850, resid-
ing 1899 in Spafford, N. Y. ; Sarah Lavinda, born March 23,
1835, died January 8, 1873, married Thomsa A. Babcock at
Spafford, October, 1857; Julia Barnes, born March 31, 1837,
died February 15, 1838; an infant son, born February 20,
1839, and died young; Harriet Emeline, born August 1,
1840, married Ammon J. Ripley, son of John L. and Clarissa
E. (Loss) Ripley, resides at Glen Haven, N. Y.; Julia
Louisa, born October 17, 1843, married (1) John M. Ca/r,
July 3, 1862, (second cousins) and (2) Henry B. Wood, of
Chemung Co., N. Y., as her second husband, residence Spen-
cer, Iowa; Lucy Jane, born January 21, 1845, died August,
1848; George Spencer, born September 27, 1847, married
Angeline Filkins, daughter of (^orge D. and Margaret
(Fisher) Filkins, residence Heber, Arkansas; and William
Thurston, born April 23, 1851, died May, 1857.
The first four of the above children were born in Ste-
phentown, N. Y., and the balance in Spafford, where Mr.
and Mrs. Carr settled about the year 1833. The line of
descent of Mr. Thurston Carr, of Spafford, as traced in the
family genealogy published by Edson L Carr, is as follows :
Thurston, William, Thurston, Caleb, Caleb, Caleb, Robert,
Benjamin.)
(Spafford.)
54 ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
Lorane Green, wife of Thurston Carr. Bom August
28, 1808, died at Glen Haven, N. Y., January 19, 1898, age
90 years.
(She was a daughter of Mariam Green, who died at her
home in this town, October 20, 1866, at the age of 98 years,
8 months and 13 days, buried in this cemetery. (No stone.)
(Spafford.)
William T., son of Thurston and Lorane (Green) Carr.
Bom April 23, 1851, age 24 days—
" Sleep on sweet babe and take thy rest,
God called thee home when he thought best."
(Spafford.)
Lucy J., daughter of Thurston and Lorane (Green) Carr.
Died August 12 1846, age 6 months.
CARROLL.
John P. Carroll, son of Burnett M. and Eady Carroll.
Died September 4, 1853, age 30 years.
(Thorn Hill.)
CARVER.
Mary, wife of George Carver. Died November 4, 1829,
age 33 years.
(George Carver was a teacher.)
(Thom Hill.)
David Carver came to Spafford from Holland Co., Conn.,
and settled in Spafford Hollow on Lot 44, Tully, March 22,
1815. In his will, dated August 27, 1863, and probated
December 17, 1863, his age is stated at 76 years. He men-
tions no wife, but the following children : John, David W.,
married Hannah , residence Pompey; Erastus H.,
and daughter, Anna J. Caple. At the date of the will
Erastus H. Carver was a soldier in the Union Army.
CASE.
Mabel, wife of Kelley Case. Died August 27, 1851, age
68 years.
In his will, dated October 10, 1859, and probated Sep-
tember 13, 1866, Kelley Case mentions among others, his
wife, Hannah Case. His children were: Reuben, Willis,
John, Stennett, Silas, Lucina, married Alfred Munson,
5P AFFORD MORTUARY RECORDS WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES 55
father and mother of Dr. W. W. Munson of Otisco, N. Y.;
Sophronia, married Edgar Crofoot of Preble, N. Y.; Mary-
Ann, died young, and Susan. Mr. Kelley Case was one of
the School Inspectors for the Town of Spafford for the
years 1813-14-15-16-17-18-22-24-28-29, and Assessor for the
year 1815. Kelley Case was a member of Capt. Asahel
Roundy's Co. in the War of 1812.
Sergeant Kelly Case, N. Y. Mil., War of 1812.
(Spafford Hollow.)
Mary Ann, daughter of Kelley and Mabel Case. Died
October 17, 1830, age 2 years, 11 months, 25 days.
(Spafford Hollow.)
Silas Case, (son of Kelley and Mabel Case) . Died May
21, 1848, in his 23rd year.
(Spafford Hollow.)
Willis Case, (son of Kelley and Mabel Case). Died
September 15, 1884, age 70 years, 4 months.
(In his will, dated 1885 and probated July 13, 1885, he
mentions his wife Chloe M. Case and his son, Ansel K.
Case.)
(Spafford Hollow.)
Ansel K., son of Willis and Chloe Case. Died August 24,
1855, age 3 years, 10 months, 20 days.
(Spafford Hollow.)
Infant daughter of Willis and Chloe Case. Died Sep-
tember 2, 1847, age 7 weeks.
(Spafford Hollow.)
Isaac C. Case. Died May 23, 1864, age 78 years. 3
months, 12 days.
(His first wife was Polly ; and his second,
Nancy . His children were: William, married
Asenath Warner ; Aaron G., married Rebecca Monk, daugh-
ter of Benjamin Monk ; Arvilla M., married Charles Nichols ;
Eunice, married Isaac Olmstead; Mary Ann, married
Stephen Crane; Betsey, married Henry Howe; Lydia, mar-
ried Picket, and Isaac E. Case.)
(Borodino.)
Polly, wife of Isaac Case. Died August 27, 1859, age 69
years, 1 month, 18 days.
(Borodino.)
56 ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
William Case, son of Isaac and Polly Case. Died August
26, 1852, age 42 years, 25 days.
(He married Asenath Warner.)
(Borodino.)
Asenath Warner, wife of William Case. Died January
28, 1886. age 74 years, 4 months.
(She first married William Case; second Calvin Patter-
son as his second wife; and third Peter Becker, as his
second wife.)
(Borodino.)
Rebecca (Monk), wife of Aaron G. Case. Died March
18, 1852, age 28 years.
(Aaron G. Case, son of Isaac and Polly Case, married
Rebecca Monk, daughter of Benjamin Monk. He died in
Memphis, N. Y., March 7, 1888, age 66 years.)
(Thorn Hill.)
Isaac E., son of Isaac and Polly Case. Died December
22, 1837. Age 9 years.
(Thorn Hill.)
A man by the name of Russel Case formerly resided at
the foot of the Buctail, in Spafford Hollow, who had four
sons: Stephen, Lewis and Leonard (twins), and Reuben,
who afterwards moved to Marcellus, N. Y.
CHANDLER.
Joshua Chandler. Died August 19, 1834, age 71 years.
(He came from Connecticut and left no issue. In his
will, dated February 19, 1827, and probated November 15,
1834, he mentions his wife Hannah Chandler, and brothers
and sisters: John Chandler, Polly Chandler, Thomas
Chandler; nephew Nathan Chamberlin; niece Fanny Eaton;
Emily Nye (probably a sister), and her son, Benjamin
Nye.)
(Thorn Hill.)
Hannah, wife of Joshua Chandler. Died February 2,
1841, age 79.
(Thorn Hill.)
CHAPMAN.
Lydia (Hunt), wife of Amasa Chapman. Born March
9, 1780; died April 13, 1849.
SPAFFORD MORTUARY RECORDS WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES »f
Amasa Chapman is also dead, and buried in this ceme-
tery. He married Lydia Hunt, sister of Deacon John Hunt
of Thorn Hill.
Amasa Chapman, bom June 29, 1771, died March 21,
1847.
(Thorn Hill.)
CHAPPELL.
Martin Chappell. Died Au^st 24, 1836, age 32 years.
He married (1) , and (2) Adeline
Force, daughter of Henry Force. He left him surviving
two children : Zipporah and John, aged respectively at that
time 6 and 3 years.)
(Thorn Hill.)
, wife of Martin Chappell. Died
February 16, 1834, age 27 years.
(Thorn Hill.)
CHURCHELL.
James Churchell. Died March 8, 1821, age 60 years, 4
months, 23 days.
(He came from Rensselaer County, N. Y., with his wife,
Hannah Dobbs, and settled on Lots 1 and 2, Tully, in this
town, in the year 1816. By his wife, Hannah Dobbs, he
had the following children: James, Jr., he resided in
Auburn, N. Y. ; Frederick (" Fade "), married a Miss Wil-
lard; Peter, married (1) Lucina Crane, daughter of
Stephen and Elsie (Grinnell) Crane, and (2) Charity
Rainey, widow of James B. Williamson, and sister of Robert
Rainey ; William, married Celinda Fisher, daughter of Dakin
and Sally (Youst) Fisher; Alexander M., married (1)
Lydia McKay, daughter of Augustin and Polly (Partridge)
McKay, (2) Jane Robertson, daughter of James and Isabel
(Eadie) Robertson, and (3) Margaret Fisher, daughter of
Dakin and Sally (Youst) Fisher, and widow of George D.
Filkins; Gilbert Ward, married (1) Elnora Rainey, daugh-
ter of Robert Rainey, and (2) Harriet Littlefield; he is
now deceased ; John, married Polly Palmer, daughter of
Amos and Mary (Barber) Palmer; Ansel, married Izabenda
Bearse, daughter of Aaron and Phebe (Smith) Bearse; and
Mary Ann, married Simon Brownell.))
(Spaflford.)
58 ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
Hannah (Dobbs), wife of James Churchell. Died June
17, 1843, age 72 years, 5 months, 24 days.
" We leave you here till Christ shall come the sleep of death
to break,
Thou mayest then leave this silent tomb and in his likeness
wake."
(Spafford.)
Alexander M. Churchell, son of James and Hannah
(Dobbs) Churchell). Born April 10, 1809, died September
10, 1890.
(He survived his three wives mentioned above. In his
will, dated August 11, 1885, and probated October 16, 1890,
he mentions no wife, but the following children : Aderesta,
wife of H. B. Swetland; Jane, wife of Orlando Grinnell; and
grandson: Milton A. Swetland.)
(Spaiford.)
Lydia (McKay) Churchell, (wife of Alexander M.
Churchell) . Born March 30, 1818, died June 14, 1843.
(She was a daughter of Augustin and Polly (Partridge)
McKay.)
(Spafford.)
Jane (Robertson) Churchell, (wife of Alexander M.
Churchell) . Bom October 5, 1818, died November 5, 1850.
(She was a daughter of James and Isabel (Eadie) Rob-
ertson. Mr. Churchell's third wife, Margaret Fisher, was
buried by the side of her first husband, George D. Filkins,
in this cemetery.)
(Spafford.)
Elnora (Rainey) wife of Gilbert W. Churchell. Died
October 3, 1851, age 35 years, 7 days.
(She was a daughter of Robert Rainey.)
(Spafford.)
Harriet (Littlefield) , wife of Gilbert W. Churchell.
Bom April 24, 1828, died June 16, 1868.
(Spafford.)
Anson Churchell, (son of James and Hannah Dobbs)
Churchell.) Bom November 30, 1813, died October 25,
1849.
SPAFFORD MORTUARY RECORDS WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES 59
" Disease I met with when far from home,
No friend or kindred to me come,
And when to native land returned
The vital spark had ceased to burn,
My wife and child with tears and pain,
Cannot call back from deaht's cold chain."
(He married Izabenda Bearse, daughter of Aaron and
Phebe (Smith) Bearse; and by her had one daughter, Eliza,
who married Erastus E. Brown. After his decease his wife
married (2) Albert E. Fulton. She died May 21, 1875, and
was buried by the side of her second husband in Borodino
Cemetery.)
(Spafford.)
Peter Churchell, (son of James and Hannah (Dobbs)
Churchell) . Born May 29, 1798, died July 23, 1876.
" No sighs are heard in this shadowy place.
No voice of them who weep.
He has fought the fight and finished the race,
God giveth him rest in sleep."
(He married (1) Lucinda Crane, daughter of Stephen
and Else (Grinnell) Crane, and (2) Charity Rainey, widow
of James B. Williamson, and sister of Robert Rainey. His
children were: James, married Carr, daughter
of Almon and Arathusa (Morse) Carr, residence Onondaga
Valley, N. Y. ; he died May 21, 1899, leaving widow, one son
and three daughters: George, married Eveline Norton,
daughter of Robert and Susan (Hill) Norton; Caroline Gale
of Otisco, N. Y. ; and Lorilla Patten, wife of George A.
Patten of Spafford, N. Y., the latter has two children, Alton
W., of Spafford, N. Y. ; and Flora B., wife of Emmett L.
Gordon, of Preble, N. Y.)
(Spafford.)
Lucinda (Crane), wife of Peter Churchell. Bom Feb-
ruary 10, 1800, died February 16, 1831.
(Spafford.)
Charity (Rainey) , wife of Peter Churchell. Born April
14, 1799, died March 1, 1869.
" When the day at last is done.
When the race of life is o'er,
God will give his wearied one
Rest for evermore."
(Spafford.)
60 •NONDASA HISTORieAL ASSOCIATION
William Churchell, (son of James and Hannah (Dobbs)
Churchell). Died May 15, 1882, age 76 years, 2 months.
(He married Celinda Fisher, daughter of Dakin and
Sally (Youst) Fisher. He left no descendant, but an
adopted daughter Jennette, who married Sullivan A. Carr,
son of Almon and Arathusa (Morse) Carr.)
(Spafford.)
Celinda (Fisher), wife of William Churchell. Died
May 15, 1878, age 69 years, 25 days.
(Spafford.)
George Churchell, (son of Peter and Lucinda (Crane)
Churchell) . Died October 4, 1893, age 64 years, 5 months.
(He married Eveline Norton, daughter of Robert and
Susan (Hill) Norton, and left him surviving, his wife Eve-
line, and the following children: Arthur B., of Syracuse
N. Y. ; Lena E., of Titusville, Pa.; and the following grand-
children: Mabel E., Russel, Arthur, Harold, and Edward
J. Churchell, minor children of his deceased son, Edward J.
Churchell, then residing with their mother, Olive Churchell,
at Syracuse, N. Y. ; Eveline, Mary, Bessie, John, and Flora
Morgan, minor children of his deceased daughter. Flora
Morgan, residing with their father, William H. Morgan, at
Cortland, N. Y.)
(Borodino.)
CHURCHILL.
In memory of John Churchill, who departed this life Sep-
tember 27, 1817. Age 59 years, 6 months, 15 days.
(Mr. Churchill by his wife, Martha, had the following
children. John, Alvin, married Sally Seeley, daughter of
Samuel G. and Ada (Fowler) Seeley; Chauncey, married
Catherine M. Merry; Sally, married John Bacon, son of
Amos and Abigail (Cady) Bacon ; Irene, married (1) Lucius
Vail, and (2) Harvey Anthony, Jotham, and Joab, who died
at 18 years.)
(Cold Brook.)
Martha, wife of John Churchill. Died February 13,
1839, age 63 years.
Joab, son of John and Martha Churchill. Died Novem-
ber 24, 1846, age 18 years, 14 days.
Alvin Churchill, (son of John and Martha Churchill).
Died March 27, 1878, age 84 years, 4 months, 20 days.
SPAFFORD MORTUARY RECORDS WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES 61
(He lived on the East hill in the Cold Brook neighbor-
hood, jnst over the county line in the town of Scott, N. Y.
He married Sally Seeley, daughter of Samuel G. and Ada
(Fowler) Seeley, and by her had the following children:
Mary Fidelia, married Edwin Pratt of Homer, N. Y. ; Clar-
issa Marisa, married Peter Curtis, of Scott, N. Y. ; Orville
C, married Mary J. Kigali, daughter of Milo Kigali, resi-
dence Corning, Steuben Co., N. Y. ; Ljnnan S., married (1)
Mary Ann Alvord, widow of Ezra Kandall, and (2) Harriet
A. Alvord; Philena S., died young; and John M., died in
the War of 1861.)
(Cold Brook.)
Sally (Seeley), wife of Alvin Churchill. Died June 23,
1885, age 79 years, 6 months, 6 days.
(Cold Brook.)
Philena S., daughter of Alvin and Sally (Seeley)
Churchill. Died August 16, 1834, age 3 years, 2 months, 19
days.
" Gone to rest."
(Cold Brook.)
John M. Churchill, (son of Alvin and Sally (Seeley)
Churchill.) Company " D " 157 Kegt., N. Y. V. Died at
Annapolis, Md., September 4, 1863. Age 22 years, 4
months, 14 days.
" He rests in God"
(Cold Brook.)
Little Martha V., daughter of Samuel Lyman and Har-
riet A. (Alvord) Churchill. Died June 3, 1882, age 5 years,
4 months, 26 days.
" Suffer little children to come unto me."
(Samuel Lyman Churchill, son of Alvin and Sally
(Seeley) Churchill, married (1) Mary Ann Alvord, widow
of Ezra Kandall, and (2) Harriet A. Alvord.)
(Cold Brook.)
Mary Ann (Alvord) , wife of Samule Lyman Churchill,
and formerly wife of Ezra Kandall. Died April 6, 1862,
age 34 years.
(She was a half sister of Silas Kandall's second wife.)
(Spafford.)
Chauncey Churchill, (son of John and Martha
Churchill) . Born in 1808, died in 1896.
(He married Catherine M. Merry, and by her had the
63 •NONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
following children: Sylvester, married Helen Doud; John,
married twice in Illinois, where he resides; Senneth, mar-
ried Mr. Shaw and died in Illinois without issue ; Sylvenus
A., married (1) Caroline Eadie, daughter of John W. and
Abigail (Doty) Eadie, and (2) Minnie Woodworth, daugh-
ter of Cyrenus and Charlotte (Norton) Woodworth, (he
had two boys and a girl by first wife and a boy and a girl
by his second) ; Oliver, married Roe, daughter of
John Roe, (one daughter) ; Caleb W., married (1) Achsah
Eadie, daughter of John W. and Abigail (Doty) Eadie, and
(2) in Illinois, where he resides, (two sons and a daughter
by first wife and several children by second) ; Benjamin,
married Carrie Churchell, daughter of James and
(Carr) Churchell, residence Onondaga Valley, N. Y. (one
daughter) ; Jason, married in Illinois, where he resides;
LaFayette, married Amelia Pratt, resides in Illinois ; Olive
C, died young in 1838; Olive (2) married William Kellogg;
Helen, married George Burroughs, son of John P. and Eliza
(Lowery) Burroughs; Anice, married Chester Sharp and
moved to Michigan.)
(Cold Brook.)
Catherine M. (Merry), wife of Chauncey Churchill.
Born in 1812, died in 1865.
(Cold Brook.)
Olive C. Churchill, dauhter of Chauncey and Catherine
M. Merry) Churchill. Bom in February and died in May,
1838.
(Cold Brook.)
Carlie (Eadie), wife of Sylvenus A. Churchill. Died
September 2, 1888, age 44 years.
(She was a daughter of John W. and Abigail (Doty)
Eadie.)
(Cold Brook.)
Achsah Eadie, wife of Caleb W. Churchill. Died August
11, 1882, age 32 years.
" Asleep in Jesus."
(Cold Brook.)
CLARK.
John G. Clark. Died October 7, 1855, in his 50th year.
(He married a Town.)
(Cold Brook.)
SPAFFORD MORTUARY RECORDS WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES 63
Ann, wife of Richard Clark. Died April 5, 1860, age 54
years.
(Spafford Hollow.)
Elvira, ^ife of John Clark. Died April 7, 1864, age 34
years.
(Spafford Hollow.)
Asa G. Clark, (son of Amasa P. Clark.) Enlisted at
Albion, N. Y., July 15, 1862, in Co. " C," 4th N. Y. Heavy
Artillery, and was killed at the Battle of Reams Station, Va.
August 25, 1864, age 27 years.
" No bugle call now disturbs the weary one ;
Rest noble spirit in thy grave unknown.
We will find and know you among the good and true,
When the Robe of White is given for the coat of blue.'"
(Borodino.)
CLEVELAND.
Benajah Cleveland. Died December 18, 1862, age 73
years, 10 months, 20 days.
(He married Maiy Clark and by her had: John, mar-
ried Caroline Doty, daughter of Willard and Achsah
(Bacon) Doty, dead; Lydia S., married William S. Smith,
son of Ira and Ruth Smith; Mary, married Charles H.
Ferry, son of Chester and Saba (Buffington) Ferry; Emily,
married Lansing Sheldon, son of Caleb and Lillis (Howard)
Sheldon, she is dead and buried in Oakwood Cemetery, and
he resides in Syracuse, N. Y. ; and Martin H., died March
20, 1838, at 4 years.)
(Borodino.)
Mary Clark, wife of Benajah Cleveland. Died April 19,
1883, age 86 years, 1 month, 2 days.
(Borodino.)
Martin H., son of Benejah and Mary (Clark) Cleveland.
Died March 20, 1838, age 4 years, 2 months.
(Spafford Hollow.)
COBB.
In memory of Elizabeth, wife of Caleb Cobb, who died
September 26, 1827, age 39 years.
(Thorn Hill.)
Oi ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
COE.
Almena A, Coe, wife of Ira Coe. Died January 27,
1843, age 42 years.
(Ira Coe, from 1823 to 1839, owned lands on lot 10,
Sempronius.)
(Borodino.)
Coe, Edward B., son of Ira and Almena A. Coe. Died
January, 1837, age 1 year, 2 months.
(Borodino.)
COLE.
Electa A., daughter of Easton and Polly (Lewis) Cole.
Died January 2, 1838, age 20 years, 8 months, 22 days.
" Weep not for me, my parents dear.
Because I leave your arms ;
My work is done, I am going home
To feast in Jesus' arms."
(Easton Cole, son of Ebenezer and Chloe (Easton) Cole,
and grandson of Samuel and Anne Cole, bom at Foster,
R. I., married Polly Lewis, daughter of Joseph and Mary
(Stanton) Lewis, at Foster, R. I., December 6, 1807, and by
her had children: Nelson, married (1) Sarah Savage, and
(2) Amy Vincent, daughter of Michael and Amy Vincent,
formerly of Scott, N. Y., and (3) Babcock, he
died in Michigan; Susan, married Asa B. Knoble, died in
Michigan; Purlina, died unmarried in Michigan; Electa,
died young in Spafford; Joseph Lewis, married (1) Philura
Lyon, daughter of David T. and Harriet (Arnold) Lyon, (2)
Julia Wilson, widow of Dr. John E. Lyon, and (3) Julia A.
McDaniels, daughter of John and Polly (Hankins) Mc-
Daniels, resides in Spafford, N. Y. ; Lauren, married and
died in Michigan ; John S., married Esther Medissa Burdick,
daughter of Russel M. and Esther (Whiting) Burdick, she
died in Michigan and he now resides in Norville, Jackson
Co., Michigan; and Porter P., married Dorleska Burdick,
daughter of Russel M. and Esther (Whiting) Burdick,
resides in Brooklin, Mich.
Easton Cole, his wife and family, excepting Joseph L.,
all moved to Michigan many years ago, and he and his wife
died there.)
(Lewis Yard.)
SP AFFORD MORTUARY RECORDS WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES 65
Philura (Lyon) Cole, (first wife of Joseph L. Cole).
Died May 4, 1872, age 53 years.
" Thou art gone loving mother,
Where the weary are at rest."
(She was a daughter of David T. and Harriet (Arnold)
Lyon.)
(Spafford.)
Cassius E., son of Joseph L. and Philura (Lyon) Cole.
Died October 17, 1848, age 3 years, 5 months, 2 days.
(Spafford.)
Charles E., son of Joseph L. and Philura (Lyon) Cole.
Died May 7, 1851, age 8 months, 9 days.
(Spafford.)
J. Bardett, son of John T. and Esther Medissa (Burdick)
Cole. Died January 2, 1852 age 11 days.
" Sleep on sweet babe and take thy rest,
God called thee home when he thought best."
(Spafford.)
Joseph Cole, who in 1835 purchased land at " Spafford
Corners," on Lot 21, Tully, was a half brother of Easton
Cole, and came from Foster, R. I. His first wife was an
Arnold and his second was Mercy, who came to this town
with the Biddlecoms. He had two children: Silas, who
married a Miss Nostrant of Preble, N. Y. ; and Amanda, who
married Russel Cook, son of Joseph and Mary Cook, of Fal-
mouth, England. The whole family moved to Michigan,
and all the older members of it died there.
COLLINS.
John Collins, M. D. (son of John and Lucy (Burdick
Collins). Born February 10, 1804, died August 15, 1853.
(" Dr. John Collins was born in Brookfield, Madison
Co., New York; graduated from Hamilton Academy, and
from the Medical College at Castleton, Vt., in 1829; came
to Spafford in 1830, and practiced medicine there until his
decease. On his paternal side he was of the seventh gener-
ation, in a continuous line of succession of Johns from
Henry, starchmaker, and Ann, his wife, who came in the
ship " Abigail," with their three children and five servants,
June 29, 1635, from Stepney Parish, London, England, and
settled in Essex Street, Lynn, Essex Co., Mass.
66 ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
Henry Collins was possessed of property, was a man of
influence and more than ordinary intelligence, and his name
is often spoken of in connection with the early transactions
of Essex County. He was at one time a member of the
General Court ; was one of the men in charge of the public
lands, and his name on one or two occasions is spoRen of as
an advocate, employed in the defense of persons tried in
Court for public offenses. By his wife, Ann, he had four
children: Henry, John, Margery, and Joseph; the latter
probably born on shipboard during the passage to America,
as his name is not mentioned in the Custom House Clear-
ance bill, or in public records of Essex County.
John Collins (son of Henry and Ann) , was a ship owner,
and was lost at sea with a son bearing his name. By his
wife, Abigail Johnson, he had sixteen children, Mary, John,
Samuel, Abigail, John, Joseph, Elizabeth, Benjamin, Mary,
Daniel, Nathaniel, Hannah, Sarah, Lois, Alice and William,
twelve of whom survived him. The name of the youngest,
a young child still in the arms of the mother, was on the
death of the father changed by her from William to John
and afterwards was so called.
This John Collins, who was a Quaker, married Susanna
Daggett and, probably on account of religious persecution,
moved to Rhode Island, and with five others took up a tract
of 3,000 acres of wild land, in what is now the northeastern
part of the town of Hopkinton, Washington Co.
Of Susanna Daggett, who was born in Saco, Me., tradi-
tion has handed down this story, which years ago found its
way into print. When a small child, she was taken to the
wigwam of an Indian Chief by his squaw, who found her
lost in the woods. Late at night the Chief, returning home,
told the squaw of a plan to exterminate the whites. She
cautioned him, saying there was a little pale face sleeping
in a bed of skins in the wigwam. The Chief then told her
the child must die, to which she remonstrated, saying that
she had promised to take her home in the morning. The
Chief, passing a firebrand over the face of Susanna and
observing no signs of consciousness, spared her life, and she
was able afterwards to give her friends timely warning of
the plans of the Indians. From John and Susanna are
descended a large share of the numerous Collins families
who have resided or originated in Washington Co., R. I.
SP AFFORD MORTUARY RECORDS WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES 67
Their descendants have been scattered to all parts of the
Northern States, and everywhere have been classed among
the reputable men and women, in the communities in which
they have resided. They have been represented in all pro-
fessions and business pursuits, and notwithstanding the
Quaker stock, in times of war have contributed generously
of their numbers to the armies and navies of the United
States. This John Collins, by his wife Susanna, had ten
children : Rebecca, Hazekiah, Sarah, Jedediah, Lydia, John,
Ebenezer, Benjamin, Samuel, and Abigail of whom:
John Collins, the great grandfather of the subject of this
sketch, was a Quaker preacher of unusual talents, and great
power and influence in the denomination to which he be-
longed. According to the custom of this sect his remains
and that of his wife, Mehitable Elizabeth Bowen, now repose
in unmarked graves, in the " burial yard " near the little
Quaker Church one mile west of the Village of Hopkinton,
R. I. To John and Mehitable were born nine children, six
in Hopkinton, and three of the youngest in the town of Ston-
ington. Conn.: John, Susannah, Amos, Benjamin, Samuel,
Sarah, Abigail, Stephen and Ruth.
John Collins, the first born of John and Mehitable, had
a large family of children ; by his first wife, Mary, he had :
Mary, John, Mehitable, Stephen, Samuel and Daniel. The
last named :
John Collins, bom at Hopkinton, R. I., April 18, 1771,
moved to Brookfield, Madison Co., N. Y., before 1796, with a
party of first settlers in that town, from Washing-ton Co.,
R. I., and Stonington, Conn. After arriving in Brookfield
he was united in marriage with Lucy Burdick, daughter of
Thompson and (Tabitha (Wilcox) Burdick, another first
settler from Stonington, Conn., and a Revolutionary soldier
in the 1st Regt. of Continentals of the Rhode Island Line.
Lucy Burdick, wife of John Collins, was of the fifth genera-
tion by descent from Robert Burdick, one of the first
settlers in the tow^n of V/esterly, R. I., and one of the first
Deputies for that tov/n in the General Court of Rhode Island.
He came from England between 1633 and 1650, and prior
to coming to W^esterly, was a freeman in Newport, R. I.
By his wife Lucy Burdick, John Collins had eleven children,
all born in Brookfield, N. Y., as follows : Lucy, born August
30, 1798, died October 17, 1798; Polly, born October 20,
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1799, died August 9, 1875, at Unadilla Forks, N. Y., un-
married; Betsey, born April 12, 1801, died May 2, 1843,
married William Palmiter, October 12, 1829; John, bom
February 10, 1804, died August 15, 1853, married Mary Ann
Roundy, daughter of Capt. Asahel and Hannah (Weston)
Roundy, widow still living, 1899, with her son, Capt. George
K. Collins, in Syracuse, N. Y. ; Oliver, born August 8, 1805,
died in Ohio, leaving him surviving two sons and a daughter,
among whom is Hon. A. P. Collins, President of the Wes-
leyan College of Salina, Kansas ; Alvin, born April 19, 1807,
died March 23, 1811 ; Nancy, bom May 27, 1809, died April
16, 1875, married William Lewis March 4, 1830; William,
bom June 1, 1811, died March 5, 1878, at Unadilla Forks,
N. Y., married (1) Esther Spicer, (2) Susand Crandall, and
(3) Emeline Knapp, daughter of Elijah and Betsey (Bur-
dick) Knapp, the latter residing 1899, in Spafford, N. Y. ;
Henry, born July 14, 1815, killed in 1864 by Rebels in
Missouri, married Lucinda Wheeler; Lydia Ann, bom
August 15, 1820, died in Niles, Mich., married (1) John
Orton, son of Osmer and Rachel (Fisher) Orton, and (2)
Elihu Fisher, son of Dakin and Sally (Youst) Fisher;
Samuel, born March 17, 1822, married Mary Yaw. John
Collins and his wife, Lucy Burdick, were buried at Unadilla
Forks, N. Y.
Dr. John Collins, by his wife Mary Ann Roundy, had the
following children : Albert, born April 1, 1834, died April
12, 1834; Lucy, born May 27, 1835, died June 8, 1836;
George Knapp, born April 15, 1837, married June 9, 1858,
Catherine Sager, daughter of Jacob and Rebecca Smith
(Grote) Sager, attorney and counsellor at law, resides at
Syracuse, N. Y. (five children) : Charles, bom December
14, 1841, died July 5, 1843; Henry, born 1844, died 1844;
John Asahel, born July 17, 1845, died August, 1900, married
February 18, 1862, Eliza Button, at South Hollow, N. Y.;
Edwin, born May 19, 1847, died July 22, 1849, and Frank,
born April 27, 1850, married Julia Holzer, January 22,
1874, residence, Syracuse, N. Y. (Spafford.)
Albert, 1834-1834. Henry, 1844-1844.
Lucy, 1835-1836. Edwin, 1847-1849.
Charles, 1841-1843.
Children of John and Mary Ann (Roundy) Collins.
(Spafford.)
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COLTON.
Gideon Colton. Died September 10, 1832, age 70 years,
3 months, 2 days.
(Gideon Colton came to this town from Whitestown,
Oneida County, N. Y., and settled on one hundred acres in
the northeast corner of lot 10, Sempronius, which he pur-
chased from Nicholas Fish, the soldier who drew that lot,
January 17, 1806. He probably came to Whitestown from
Vermont, and perhaps earlier from the State of Massachu-
setts. By his wife, Rhoda Fowler, who was buried in Boro-
dino Cemetery, he had two children : Alanson, bom Decem-
ber 18, 1813, died April 27, 1885, married Charity Ide,
daughter of Rev. Rogers and Esther Ide ; and Harriet, born
January 2, 1812, died January 13, 1871, married Henry Ide,
son of Rev. Rogers and Esther Ide.
(Nunnery.)
Rhoda Fowler, (wife of Gideon Colton). Died April 9,
1842, age 65 years.
(Borodino.)
Alanson E. Colton, (son of Gideon and Rhoda (Fowler)
Colton.) Born December 18, 1913, died April 27, 1885.
(In the application for letters of administration upon
his estate, dated February 23, 1886, mention is made of his
widow, Charity (Ide) Colton; and his children: Hiram A.,
married Sarah Van Allen ; Henritte, married Mark Harvey ;
Frank, married a Harris ; Harriet, married Wiltsie of Mar-
cellus; Eudora, married Henry I. Haight of Spafford; ana
David Colton, married Mason, daughter of John L. and
Phebe (Newell) Mason, all of full age.)
Charity Ide, his wife, 1814-1901.
(Borodino.)
COOK.
Elnora, daughter of Russel and Amanda (Cole) Cook.
Died October 21, 1843, age 2 months, 4 days.
(Russel Cook, son of Joseph and Mary Cook, born in
Springfield, N. Y., married Amanda Cole, daughter of
Joseph Cole, half brother of Easton Cole. His father and
mother, Joseph and Marj^ Cook, cam_e to this country from
Falmouth, Cornwall Co., England, settled in Springfield,
N. Y., and had a large family of children, among whom
70 ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
were: Mary, bom in Falmouth, England, married Russel
Tinkham, son of Daniel and Ada (Winsor) Tinkham; Pea-
body; Elliott; Russel, married Amanda Cole, both died in
Michigan; Lovedy, married Zenas Tinkham, son of Daniel
and Ada (Winsor) Tinkham; Susan, married Mr. Curtis;
Charlotte, married John R. Conine; Fanny, married Mr.
Benson; Isabel, married Erastus Stark. All of this
family, except Mrs. Russel Tinkham, so far as known, moved
to Michigan, and most of them died there.)
(Spafford.)
CONKLIN.
Samuel Conklin. Died November 22, 1839, age 73
years.
" 'Tis finished, 'tis done, the spirit has fled.
The prisoner is gone, the Christian is dead,
The Christian is living through Jesus love.
And gladly receiving a kingdom above."
(Samuel Conklin settled on Lot 76, Marcellus, before
December 22, 1796, on which day he received a deed of 109
acres of land in the northwest corner of that lot, from Gil-
bert Palmer the first settler within the present limits of this
town. His first wife was Elizabeth, and after her decease
in 1821, he married the widow Converse of Onondaga, but
had no issue by either marriage.)
(Thorn Hill.)
Elizabeth, wife of Samuel Conklin. Departed this life
April 1, 1821, age 58 years.
(Thorn Hill.)
COON.
David Coon. Died August 16, 1857, age 80 years, 1
month, 22 days.
(David Coon, born in Saratoga County, N. Y., married
(1) Phebe Van Camp, born in Cayuga County, N. Y., and
died in Skaneateles, N. Y., and (2) Elizabeth Nye, born In
Saratoga Co., N. Y., and died in Spafford. His children
were: Polly, died in Skaneateles; Parmelia, died in Skan-
eateles; Ruth, married Edwin S. Edwards, both dead, and
buried in this cemetery, (no stone) ; Betsey, died in Cayuga
County ; Sylvia, died in Skaneateles ; James Van Rensselaer,
SPAFFORD MORTUAKY RECORDS WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES 71
died in Michigan ; Phebe, died in Pennsylvania ; Catherine,
died in Lysander, N. Y. ; and Samuel, died in Skaneateles,
N. Y. David Coon and his son, Van Rensselaer, were both
harness makers by trade.)
(Spafford.)
James Coon. Died November 16, 1817, age 38 years.
(His wife's name was Olive.)
(Thorn Hill.)
Olive, daughter of James and Olive Coon. Died October
31, 1838, age 28 years.
(Thorn Hill.)
Atlanta, daughter of James and Olive Coon. Died Feb-
ruary 2, 1842, age 26 years.
(Thorn Hill.)
COPP.
Timothy Copp. Died March 24, 1836, age 81 years.
(In his will, dated May 1, 1835, and probated August
10, 1837, mention is made of his wife, Patience Copp, and
of his children : Jesse of Skaneateles, N. Y. ; Isabella Han-
sen, wife of John B. Hansen of Lysander, N. Y. ; Sally Enos,
wife of James Enos of Allegany Co., N. Y. ; Daniel ; Rebecca
Wood, wife of Orry Wood ; Anna Coville, wife of Jonathan
Coville; Lovina Coville, wife of Elisha Coville; John E.;
Timothy D. ; Sally Ann Benedict, wife of Odin Benedict ; and
Alcina Baldwin, wife of Philander Baldwin, each of Chau-
tauqua County, N. Y. ; and Thomas Copp of Spafford, N. Y.,
all of full age.)
(Thorn Hill.)
Derinda, daughter of John and Mary Copp, died January
18, 1824, in 17th year.
(Thorn Hill.)
CORNELL.
Pardon, son of William and Hannah (Green) Cornell.
Died November 11, 1844, age 5 years, 29 days.
(William W. Cornell, son of Pardon and Candace (Otis)
Cornell, married Hannah Green, daughter of John Green.
Pardon Cornell was a teacher, and supposed to be a son of
William D. Cornell, who died January 3, 1866, at the age of
80 years, and was buried in Borodino Cemetery. He and
his brother William moved to Michigan. By his wife, Can-
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dace Otis, he had the following children: Cynthia Ann;
Jane ; William W., married Hannah Green, daughter of John
Green ; Blakely and Pardon.
(Spafford.)
William D. Cornell. Died January 3, 1866, age 80 years.
(His wife was Jane . He is supposed to be
the father of Pardon and William Cornell, who moved to
Michigan.)
(Borodino.)
John Cornell, of a different family, resided on the " Side
Hill." He married Miranda Cady, and by her had the fol-
lowing children : James Cornell, he died at Cedar Springs,
Kent Co., Mich., February 22, 1894, age 56 years ; Mary Ann,
married Simon B. Wallace, son of Daniel and Caroline (Mar-
shall) Wallace, resides at Borodino, N. Y. ; and Adelia,
married William Quick, son of William Quick from London,
England, resides at Navarino, N. Y.
COWAN.
John William, son of Thomas M. and Keziah D. Cowan.
Died June 11, 1843, age 6 years, 11 months, 13 days.
(Borodino.)
David H. Cowan. Born in 1838, died in 1887.
(He married Biancy E. Crane, daughter of George W.
and Mary Ann Crane. Their children were: George
Thomas, married Nora Woodworth, daughter of Arlo and
Emma (Bacon) Woodworth; Flora B., married Charles M.
Davis, son of John Davis; Nora M., now residing in Spaf-
ford, N. Y., unmarried; and Lena K. Cowan, died young.
The Cowan family came to this town from Cambridge,
Washington Co., N. Y.)
(Borodino.)
Biancy E. (Crane), wife of David H. Cowan. Living
ing in 1899.
(Borodino.)
Lena K., daughter of David H. and Biancy E. (Crane)
Cowan. Died October 4, 1881, age 1 year, 8 months, 12
days.
" This sweetest bud of earth so fair,
Has goile to Heaven to blossom there."
(Borodino.)
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COWLES.
Harriet S. (Smith), wife of Ebenezer Corning Cowles.
Died December 25, 1871, age 43 years, 1 month, 11 days.
(Ebenezer Corning Cowles, son of Ebenezer and Lydia
(King) Cowles, married Harriet S. Smith, daughter of Jared
Smith. He was one of the famous "Cowles' Triplets," who
formerly resided at the head of Otisco Lake, in Otisco
Hollow, N. Y., Ebenezer Coming, Cornelia, and Cordelia
Cowles. After the decease of his wife, Harriet S. Smith,
he moved to Lawrence, Kansas, where he married a second
time.
(Thorn Hill.)
COX.
David, born September 30, 1821, died December 4, 1831.
Harriet, born May 9, 1827, died August 8, 1833.
Children of Silas and Abigail R. (Spaulding) Cox.
(Silas Cox came to Spafford on or before 1819, and
settled on lots 12 and 14, Sempronius, where he remained
until 1825; he then bought the farm at Spafford Corners
owned by John Babcock, on Lot 21, Tully, afterwards owned
by Dr. John Collins, and resided there until about 1835 or 6.
He then moved into the town of Otisco, N. Y. From Otisco
he moved to Battle Creek, Mich., and died there July 29,
1855. He married February 4, 1815, Abigail Rowland
Spaulding, daughter of David and Ruth (Clare) Spaulding,
and sister of Ann Spaulding (teacher) , who married George
Spaulding of Borodino, N. Y.; she died August 12, 1864.
Besides the foregoing infant children, Mr. Cox had by his
wife, Abigail R. Spaulding, the following additional chil-
dren: Ruth, married Dr. Simeon French, she is dead and
Dr. French was living 1898, at Battle Creek, Mich., at the
age of 82 years; Susan, married Rev. Mr. Gardner, resides
at Battle Creek, Mich.; Edward, moved to Michigan;
Adeline, residing at Battle Creek, Mich. The descent
of Mrs. Cox through the Spaulding Line is as follows:
Edward, Benjamin, Edward, Benjamin, Asa, David,
Abigail.)
(Spafford.)
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CRAIG.
William H. Craig (son of John and Polly Craig) . Bom
August 18, 1818, died November 2, 1890.
" Gone but not forgotten."
(William H. Craig was born in Wells, Hamilton Co.,
N. Y. He first settled in Truxton, where he married
Hannah Hollenbeck, and by her had four children. She died
in 1852, and he then married Phebe Ann Brown, daughter
of Jacob and Deborah (Morris) Brown, and by her had four
more children, making eight in all. In 1854 he moved from
Truxton to Glenville, and from there to Cold Brook, in the
town of Spafford in 1867. He remained at the latter place
until the time of his decease. Among his children, who have
resided in Spafford, are: Esther A., married William H.
Brown, son of Jacob and Deborah (Morris) Brown, resides
in Spafford, head of Buck Tail Road ; Abram, married Mary
J. Randall, daughter of Robert and Mary Ann (Fay) Ran-
dall, (he has four children) : William, married Jennie Weeks
and has two children, Olive E. and Ralph; Ella J.; Robert,
and Mary E.) ; Wesley, married (1) Amy Randall, daughter
of Silas and Anna (Alvord) Randall, and (2)
(Cold Brook.)
Horace, infant son of William H. and Phebe (Brown)
Craig. Died February 1, 1856. (Cold Brook.)
CRANE.
Stephen Crane. Born 1775. Died May 17, 1851.
" Gone but not forgotten."
(He married Elsie Grinnell and by her had: George
W., married Mary Ann ; Samuel, married (1)
Almira L. Bishop; (2) Parthena Hutchens, widow of Lewis
B. Marshall and daughter of Col. Phineas and Betsey
(Bocker) Hutchens, and (3) Catherine Shaw, daughter of
James Shaw of Spafford Hollow; and Harriet, who died
single.) (Spafford.)
Else (Grinnell), wife of Stephen Crane. Died March
12, 1844, age 67 years.
" I have fought a good fight.
I have finished my course,
I have kept the faith."
2 Timothy 4 :7.
(Spafford.)
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Harriet Crane, daughter of Stephen and Else (Grinnell)
Crane. Died June 10, 1865, age 44 years, 11 months, 11
days.
(She died single.)
(Spafford.)
George W. Crane, (son of Stephen and Else (Grinnell)
Crane) . Died February 26, 1879, age 67 years, 7 months,
16 days. (No stone.)
(In his will, dated May 18, 1878, and probated in 1879,
mention is made of his wife, Mary Ann Crane, and his chil-
dren: Moses, married Margaret ; Rebecca Holmes,
wife of John Holmes; Biancy Cowan, wife of David H.
Cowan; Lucinda Streeter, wife of George Streeter, and
Lovilla Purchase, wife of Charles H. Purchase.)
(Borodino.)
Mary A., wife of George W. Crane. Died December 22,
1885, age 71 years, 1 month, 9 days.
(Borodino.)
Samuel Crane, (son of Stephen and Else (Grinnell)
Crane) . Died June 10, 1887, age 72 years.
(Borodino.)
CROSS.
In memory of Abigail, wife of Joseph Cross, who died
February 3, 1829, age 73 years.
(Thorn Hill.)
Truman Cross. Died November 17, 1842, age 34 years
1 month.
" Go home, dear wife, dry up your tears,
I must lie here 'till Christ appears.
I trust we soon shall meet again
To celebrate redeeming love."
(He married Emma Legg, daughter of Capt. Otis and
Polly (Sabin) Legg, and by her had one son Otis, who mar-
ried Hortense Ide, daughter of Henry and Harriet (Colton)
Ide, late of Borodino, N. Y. After the decease of Mr. Cross
his widow, Emma, married Jonathan Woodworth, son of
James and Hannah (Fish) Woodworth. She and her
second husband are now deceased.)
(Thorn Hill.)
Otis Cross, (son of Truman and Emma (Legg) Cross).
Born in 1840, died in 1892.
ii ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ABSO®IATI©N
(He married Hortense Ide, daughter of Henry and Har-
riet (Colton) Ide, and by her had one son, Frank Cross,
married Ida Hicks, October 2, 1889, and resides in Syracuse,
N. Y.)
(Borodino.)
Hortense Ide, wife of Otis Cross. Bom in 1836.
(Still living, Borodino, N. Y.)
(Borodino.)
CULVER.
Helen E., daughter of Nathan and Amanda (Skellie)
Culver. Died March 3, 1853.
(Nathan Culver, son of Moses and Amy (Boughton)
Culver, was born in Cambridge, Washington Co., N. Y., he
married Amanda Skellie, daughter of William I. and Eliza-
beth (Boughton) Skellie, and came to Spafford about 1844,
and resided there and in the Village of Scott for a number
of years, and finally settled in Syracuse, where he died;
(buried in Oakwood Cemetery, in that city) . Besides him-
self, his father and mother had other children, as follows:
Andrew, twice married and lived and died in Cambridge,
N. Y. ; Maria, married James Donahue, moved to Brooklyn,
N. Y., and finally lived and died in Vermont; Azor, married
Caroline Pratt, and resided in Lyons, N. Y. ; Rhoda, married
David Doagg (Scotch) and moved to Washington Territory j
Mary Ann, married Mr. Hornbeck and resided in Vermont ;
and three others, who died young.
Nathan Culver, by his wife, Amanda Skellie, had the
following children: Elizabeth, died young in Cambridge,
N. Y. ; Helen E., died young in Spafford; Eva A., living
unmarried in Syracuse, N. Y. ; Oscar W. Culver, living
unmarried in Syracuse (letter carrier.)
(Spafford.)
CURTIS.
Peter Curtis, son of Eli Curtis. Died September 9, 1869,.
age 43 years.
" He is gone but not forgotten."
(He married Clara Marisa Churchill, daughter of Alvin
and Sally (Seeley) Churchill.)
(CJold Brook.)
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Leonidas M., son of Peter and Marisa (Churchill)
Curtis. Died February 3, 1860, age 2 years, 6 months, 19
days.
" So do our treasures ever die."
(Cold Brook.)
DARBEY.
Squire Darbey, son of Truman Darbey. Died February
20, 1851, ag-e 28 years, 10 days.
(Mr. Truman Darbey lived on the west side of Spafford
Hollow, a short distance south of the head of Otisco LaRe.
Besides his son, Squire, he had a daughter Rebecca, who
married James R. Williamson, son of James B. and Charity
(Rainey) Williamson.)
(Spafford Hollow.)
DARLING.
Joseph Darling. Born November 11, 1806, died May 6,
1895.
(He married Polly Spaulding.)
(Borodino.)
Polly Spaulding, wife of Joseph Darling. Born August
16, 1822, died September 28, 1876.
(Borodino.)
Hiram Linus Darling, (son of Jacob W. and Mary H.
(BufRngton) Darling.) Died November 1, 1874, age 48
years.
" Good night dear friends, nay do not weep,
I am weary now and want to sleep ;
But I shall wake with the morning light of day
Eternal ; good night, good night."
(Jacob Darling, commonly called Elder Darling, was a
Free Will Baptist minister. He came to Spafford early and
was first known as a teacher. He attended the Free Will
Baptist Church, presided over by Elder John Gould, which
then had its place of worship near the school house, on the
hill east of Spafford Comers. After the Mormon exodus,
which materially affected the membership of this church,
Elder Darling came forward as a leader, and ministered
over the remaining membership for many years thereafter.
About 1827, he settled on a farm on the west side of the
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Homer and Skaneateles road, on Lot 12, Sempronius, and
remained there until about 1855 or 6. He then moved to
Virgil, Cortland Co., and soon after to Caroline, Tompkins
Co., both in this State. By his wife, Mary H. BufRngton,
he had the following children : Hiram Linus, married Annie
Eliza Holmes, daughter of John and Lydia (Barnes)
Holmes; James H., of Waverly, Van Buren Co., Mich.;
Francis A., of Eleroy, Stevenson Co., 111.; Eugene M., of
Luveme, Rock Co., Minn.; Harriet D. Cox, of Leseur, Minn.;
Helen M. Miller, of Lanar, Carroll Co., 111.; Ella L. and
Carrie A. Darling, of Freeport, Stevenson Co., Illinois.
Elder Darling was deceased at the time of the death of his
son Linus, and his widow was then residing at Eleroy, Stev-
enson Co., 111., and his children as above stated. His son,
Linus, was by profession a dentist, but was also a respect-
able practitioner of law among his friends and acquaint-
ances. He was never admitted to practice in the higher
Courts of the State, but in Justice Court he was generally
recognized as a competent practitioner. He left no issue of
his marriage with Miss Holmes, who survived him.)
(Borodino.)
Annie Eliza (Holmes), wife of H. Linus Darling. Died
June 30, 1892, age 65 years, 5 months.
" My trust is in Jesus."
(Borodino.)
DAVIS.
Elias Davis. Bom in 1763, died June 17, 1851, age 88
years. (No stone.)
(Elias Davis was one of the first settlers in this town,
to which he came in 1806, in a boat from Skaneateles, where
he first settled in 1803. The deed of his farm of 200 acres,
(in the southwest corner of lot 14, Sempronius) , was dated
April 27, 1812, but in this he is described as a resident ol
Spafford, showing that he was already residing on the land,
which he probably held under a contract of much earlier
date. He is claimed to have been buried in this burial yard,
by the side of his wife Freelove, although no stone marks
his last resting place. By his wife Freelove he had the
following children: Nancy, married William Harris; Col.
Lewis C, married (1) Margaret Fisher, daughter of Amos
and Margaret Fisher, and (2) Mary R. Pressey, daughter
SPAFFORD MORTUARY RECORDS WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES 79
of Moses Pressey ; Capt. John, married Sybel ; and
Julia, married a Mr. Canfield.)
(Davis Yard.)
Freelove, wife of Elias Davis. Died August 20, 1840,
age 72 years, 1 month, 21 days.
(Davis Yard.)
In m.emory of Capt. John Davis, (son of Elias and
Freelove Davis.)
Who died after an illness of one hour. Died in a fit at
Onondaga, on the 27th day of May, 1829, aged 33 years, 2
months, 13 days.
(In the application of his wife Sybel, June 23, 1829, for
letters of administration upon his estate, no mention is
made of any children of the deceased.)
(Davis Yard.)
Col. Lewis C. Davis, (son of Elias and Freelove Davis).
Died May 7, 1853, age 63 years, 1 month, 12 days.
(He married (1) Margaret Fisher, daughter of Amos
and Margaret Fisher, and (2) Mary R. Pressey, daughter
of Moses Pressey. In the petition for letters of administra-
tion upon his estate, by his widow Mary R. (Pressey) Davis,
dated May 13, 1853, mention is made of the following chil-
dren: Joline, of SpafFord, N. Y. ; Laurette, wife of Ben-
jamin Wallace of Niles, Cayuga County, N. Y. ; John C,
married Maria Arvilla Conine, daughter of Richard Conine,
of Preble, N. Y. ; Lewis B., of SpafFord; Rhoda, wife of
Richard Van Vranken of Geddes, N. Y. ; Moses J., of Spaf-
f ord ; Van Buren, married a Miss Hathaway and moved to
Dakota ; Porter ; Mary E. ; Prery ; Emeline A. ; Orlanda, and
Julia E. Davis, all of Spafford, N. Y. Judson Davis, an
older son of Lewis C. Davis, married Elizabeth Spaulding,
daughter of David and Lucy Carry Spaulding ; he moved to
Missouri and died there. As he is not named in this peti-
tion he may have been dead at that time.)
(Davis Yard.)
In memory of Margaret (Fisher), wife of Lewis C.
Davis. Died October 26, 1833, age 41 years, 26 days.
(Davis Yard.)
Perlina Davis, (daughter of Judson and Elizabeth
(Spaulding) Davis). Died August 28, 1849, age 6 years,
1 month.
go ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
(Judson Davis was a son^of Col. Lewis C. and Margaret
(Fisher) Davis.)
(Davis Yard.)
Jefferson Davis, (son of Judson and Elizabeth (Spauld-
ing) Davis) . Died May 21, 1849, age 4 years 2 months, 25
days.
(Davis Yard.)
Byron Davis, (son of Judson and Elizabeth (Spaulding)
Davis). Died August 26, 1849, age 2 years, 4 months, 23
days.
(Davis Yard.)
Porter Davis, (son of Col. Lewis C. and Mary (Pressey)
Davis) , Co. "F," 122 Regt., N. Y. V., Civil War. Died April
17, 1889, age 49 years.
(Borodino.)
Zebulon R. Davis. Died May 23, 1871, age 71 years.
" Though lost to sight to memory dear."
(Borodino.)
(Mr. Davis married first Hannah Ames, and second,
Polly Gale, daughter of John and Martha Gale of Spafford,
N. Y. He and his first wife were from Washington Co.,
N. Y., and first settled in Marietta, N. Y. From there they
moved to Skaneateles, and thence to Thorn Hill, where his
first wife died and was buried. At the time of his decease
he and his second wife were residing with his daughter,
Mrs. John Maxson, in Cold Brook. He had no issue by his
second wife.)
(Cold Brook.)
Hannah (Ames), wife of Zebulon Davis. Died August
25, 1835, age 31 years.
(Thorn Hill.)
Polly (Gale), wife of Zebulon Davis. Died December
24, 1869. age 76 years.
" Mother, we miss thee."
(Cold Brook.)
Farrand, son of Zebulon and Hannah (Ames) Davis.
Died September 4, 1844, age 20 years, 2 months, 23 days.
(Thorn Hill.)
Esther, wife of Farrand Davis. Died September 4,
1865, age 89 years.
(Thorn Hill.)
»r AFFORD MOITUAXY RECORDS WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES 81
DEDRICK.
William Dedrick. Died October 25, 1855, age 61 years.
(He came from Rhode Island, married Thurzy McCausey
and by her had three children: William John, married
(1) Sophronia E. Babcock, and (2) Sarah Lindsey; Eliza-
beth, married Isaac Eglin ; and Robert A., died unmarried.
William Dedrick had a brother, Constant H. Dedrick, who
died in Skaneateles after his decease. In his will, Constant
mentions no wife or children, but the following: Thurzy,
" widow of my brother William Dedrick, deceased, his son
John, and his daughter Elizabeth Eglin, wife of Isaac
Eglin." He also mentions the following: Sarah Bennett of
Skaneateles ; Helen A. Young, wife of Orsen Young ; Sophia
Stiles, wife of Ezra Stiles; and Minerva J. Vandenburgh,
wife of John H. Vandenburgh.)
(Borodino.)
Note. — Hon. Sidney Smith, writing of Constant H.
Dedrick, says : " Constant H. Dedrick had a wife, but no
children. His wife probably died before his decease.
Sarah Bennett was the daughter of Cephas and Stella
(Kneeland) Bennett, Baptist Missionary to Burmah and
gYL^d daughter of the distinguished Baptist minister. Rev.
Alfred Bennett of Homer, N. Y. She was sent to America
and lived for a considerable time with the Dedricks. Sophia
Stiles was a sister of this Dedricks' wife, and Helen A.
Young and Minerva J. Vanderburgh were the daughters of
Mrs. Stiles."
Thurzy (McCausey), wife of William Dedrick. Died
March 20, 1878, age 82 years, 7 months.
(Borodino.)
Robert A., son of William and Thurzy (McCausey)
Dedrick. Died October 28, 1850, age 30 years.
(Borodino.)
William John Dedrick, (son of William and Thurzy
(McCausey) Dedrick). Born February 26, 1822, died
(Borodino.)
Sophronia (Babcock), (wife of William John Dedrick).
Died September 9, 1878, age 49 years, 8 months.
(Borodino.)
Sarah (Lindsey), wife of (Wm.) John Dedrick. Bom
November 13, 1843, died December 24, 1893.
(Borodino.)
82 ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
DERBYSHIRE.
Mrs. Pruella, wife of Zacharia Derbyshire. Died Au^st
12, 1823, age 31 years, 7 months.
" Death is a debt to nature due,
Which I have paid and so must you."
(Zacharia Derbyshire married for a second wife Hannah
Williamson, daughter of Cornelius and Eliza (Ostrander)
Williamson.
(Spafford.)
Mrs. Hannah (Williamson), wife of Zachariah Derby-
shire. Died September 17, 1834, age 30 years, 3 months,
17 days.
" I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course,
I have kept the faith, thenceforth there is a crown of right-
eousness
Laid up for me which the Lrord, the Righteous Judge,
Shall give to me at that last day."
(Spafford.)
James, son of Zachariah and Hannah (Williamson)
Derbyshire. Died August 4, 1827, age 4 years, 4 days.
(Spafford.)
DERBIN.
William Derbin, Private Co. " B," 3rd N. Y. Artillery.
War 1861. Died June 25, 1888, age 61 years.
(Mr. Derbin was an Englishman.)
(Thorn Hill.)
DIBBLE.
Fannie, daughter of Leroy A. and W. D. Dibble. Died
April 2, 1865, age 1 year, 3 months.
(Borodino.)
DOOLITTLE.
Warren Doolittle. Died August 6, 1884, age 72 years.)
(Warren Doolittle was bom in Wallingford, Conn.,
September 13, 1812, and married Ruth L. Stacy of North
Haven, Conn., October 5, 1834, and by her had four chil-
dren : Gilbert M., born September 1, 1835, and died July 2,
1843; Millicent C, bom December 20, 1839, died January
SPAFFORD MORTUARY RECORDS WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES 83
25, 1840; Ellen M., born June 1, 1844; and Gilbert M., bom
April 14, 1846. The two latter are now residing at Boro-
dino, N. Y. Mr. Doolittle, about 1840, moved from Walling-
ford, where he was bom ,to Hartwick, Otsego Co., N. Y.,
where he remained until the Fall of 1841, and then came to
Borodino, where he remained until the time of his decease.
Early in life he joined the Baptist Church in his native
place, and after coming to this town united with the First
Baptist Church of Marcellus, at Thorn Hill, and there held
the office of Deacon twenty-nine years. He was first a
Democrat, but on the organization of the Republican party
identified himself with that organization. He was an active
and useful citizen, and generally respected. Mrs. Doolittle
died in 1900.)
(Thom Hill.)
Gilbert M., son of Warren and Ruth L. (Stacy) Doo-
little. Born 1835, died in 1843.
(Thom Hill.)
DOTY.
Sarah (Wood), wife of Warren Doty. Died July 31,
1862, age 90 years, 2 months, 18 days.
(Warren Doty, son of Samuel and Mercy Doty, was bom
at Saybrook, Conn., April 23, 1768, and died at Martins-
burgh, Lewis Co., N. Y., in 1807. He was of the sixth
generation, in line of descent from Edward Doty, who came
to Plymouth, Mass., in 1620, in the ship " Mayflower," as
follows: Edward, Edward, Samuel, Samuel, Samuel War-
ren. (See Doty genealogy.) He married at Stephentown,
N. Y. Sarah Wood, bora at Cherry Valley, N. Y., March
13, 1772, and by her had five children : Reuben, Diana, Silas,
Willard and Mercy; of whom Williard only settled in this
town.)
(Spafford.)
Willard Doty (son of Warren and Sarah (Wood) Doty.
Died March 13, 1882, age 83 years, 8 months, 9 daj^s.
(He was born in Lowville, Lewis Co., N. Y., July 4, 1798,
and came early to Spafford, where he married (1) Decem-
ber 11, 1817, Achsah Bacon, daughter of Amos and Abigail
(Cody) Bacon, and second, Sarah Jane Eliot, widow of
David Ripley, and daughter of Elias and Charity (Warner)
Eliot. He had no issue by his second wife, but by the first
84 ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
had: Abigail, bom December 11, 1818, married John W.
Eadie, son of James and Martha (Smith) Eadie, March 15,
1843; Warren, bom January 21, 1821, married March 15,
1843, Emily Tinkham, daughter of Russel and Mary (Cook)
Tinkham, (they had four children: Orlando, born March
27, 1846, married March 27, 1872, Maria Scribner, no living
issue; Willard R., bom June 18, 1847, married September
15, 1859, Jennette Maxson, daughter of Henry (" Dork ")
Maxson, has two children, Rollo and Nellie, the latter mar-
ried William Barber; Mary A., bom March 6, 1849, married
February 15, 1870, Willard Norton, son of Erastus and
Mary (Isdell) Norton, has one daughter, Angeline; and
Sarah, bom August 26, 1854, married June 4, 1872, John
Robinson son of Peter ;) Sejmiour, born Jefferson Co., N. Y.,
April 3, 1823, died Sept. 10, 1862, married in Spafford,
October 10, 1852, Emily Isdell, born in Saratoga Co., Janu-
ary 15, 1828, daughter of Andrew and Mary (Harris) Isdell,
she died April 10, 1864, no issue; Caroline, bom in Lewis
County, August 7, 1825, married John Cleveland, son of
Benajah and Mary (Clark) Cleveland, February 8, 1860,
and has one child Emeline, (Lina), bom October 6, 1865,
married Irving Harrington, son of Alfred G. and Vestelina
E. (Wood worth) Harrington ; Emeline, born Lewis County,
December 12, 1827, died October 24, 1862, at Spafford, un-
married ; Willard, Jr., bom March 16, 1830, killed by a run-
away horse September 15, 1846 ; and Orphana, born March
26, 1834, died May 31st, 1898, married James Hill, son of
Alexander and Ann (Kenyon) Hill.)
(Spafford.)
Achsah (Bacon) , wife of Willard Doty. Died November
5, 1862, age 67 years, 27 days.
" Verily there is rest for the righteous."
(Spafford.)
Emeline, daughter of Willard and Achsah (Bacon)
Doty. Died October 24, 1862, age 34 years, 9 months, 13
days.
(She died unmarried.)
(Spafford.)
Willard, Jr., son of Willard and Achsah (Bacon) Doty.
Died September 15, 1846, age 16 years, 6 months.
(He was accidentally killed by a runaway horse.)
(Spafford.)
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Seymour Doty, (son of Willard and Achsah (Bacon)
Doty. Died September 10, 1862, age 39 years, 5 months, 7
days.
(He married Emily Isdell, daughter of Andrew and
Mary (Harris) Isdell. He was born in Jefferson County,
N. Y., April 3, 1823. No issue.)
(Spafford.)
Emily Isdell, wife of Seymour Doty. Died April 12,
1864, age 26 years, 2 months, 27 days.
(She was born in Saratoga County, N. Y., January 15,
1828. No issue.)
(Spafford.)
Lottie S., daughter of Willard and Jennette (Maxson)
Doty. Died December 14, 1877, age 4 weeks.
" Sweetly sleeping in Jesus."
(Willard Doty, son of Warren and Emily (Tinkham)
Doty, married Jennette Maxson, daughter of Henry
(" Dork") Maxson.)
(Cold Brook.)
Lovedy E., daughter of Willard and Jennette (Maxson)
Doty. Died April 15, 1879, age 1 year, 5 months.
" Sleep on and take thy rest."
(Cold Brook.)
DUNBAR.
Caroline M., our mother, wife of Thaddeus Dunbar.
Died June 12, 1845, age 39 years, 4 months.
" Angels have called thee from us, have piloted thee home.
Oh ! from our sore bereavement may true submission come.
Pen cannot paint our sorrows, nor words our anguish tell,
How can we dearest Mother, how can we say farewell."
(Thaddeus Dunbar married (1) Caroline M., and (2)
Eliza Williamson, daughter of Cornelius and Eliza (Os-
trander) Williamson.)
(Spafford.)
EADIE.
James Eadie, a native of Scotland. Died November 2,
1839, age 79 years, 6 months.
(Mr. Eadie first settled in Albany, N. Y., where he
married Martha Smith, a native of that place. From there
86 ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
he moved to Rensselaerville, Rensselaer County, N. Y., and
from there to this town, where, after a short stay in the
Marecllus end, he finally in 1829, settled on Lot 11, Tully,
on the Saneateles and Homer Road, and there continued
until his decease. By his wife, Martha Smith, he had the
following- children : Elizabeth, married David Jenkins, Syra-
cuse, N. Y. ; Margaret, married (1) Luther Manley, and (2)
Truman Skeels; Jerusha, married James H. Fitzgerald;
Daniel S., married Matilda Cowan and went to Chautauqua
County, N. Y., where he died; James, Jr., married Zeruah
Monk ; John W., married Abigail Doty, daughter of Willard
and Achsah (Bacon) Doty; Delila, married Shubal Waldo
of Aurora, N. Y.; Sarah A., married Joel C. Woodworth,
son of James and Hannah (Fish) Woodworth; Euphemia,
married David Wiltsie; Charlotte, married John Wiltsie;
both Wiltsie families are of Panama, Chautauqua County,
N. Y. ; Mr. Eadie, while residing in Albany, followed mer-
cantile pursuits, but in this town was a farmer.)
(Spafford.)
Martha (Smith), wife of James Eadie. Died October
11, 1853, age 77 years.
(Spafford.)
Margaret, (wife of Truman Skeels), and daughter of
James and Martha (Smith) Eadie. Died June 18, 1857, age
58 years, 9 months, 27 days.
(Spafford.)
James Eadie, Jr. (son of James and Martha (Smith)
Eadie. Died May 27, 1879, age 60 years, 11 months, 11
days.
" He is not dead but sleepeth."
(James Eadie, Jr., married Zeruah Monk, and by her
had two sons and three daughters: Frank married Eva A.
Bass, daughter of Wliliam and Catherine (Eglin) Bass;
Charles A. Eadie, Angeline, Anise and Alice.)
(Spafford.)
Zeruah (Monk), wife of James Eadie, Jr. Died Nov-
ember 4, 1881, age 56 years, 3 months, 14 days.
(Spafford.)
John W. Eadie, son of James and Martha (Smith)
Eadie. Died October 20, 1873, age 57 years. (No stone.)
(John W. Eadie married Abigail Doty, daughter of
Willard and Achsah (Bacon) Doty, and by her had the
SPAPFORD MORTUARY RECORDS WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES 87
following children: Caroline, married Sylvenus A. Chur-
chill, son of Chauncey and Catherine (Merry) Churchill;
Achsah, married Caleb W. Churchill, son of Chauncey and
Catherine (Merry) Churchill; Mary, Ella, Nettie, Sarah
Elesebert, Willard Eadie, and Martha Eadie, who died
young.)
(Spafford.)
Abigail Doty, wife of John W. Eadie. Died January 8,
1899, age 82 years. (No stone.)
(Spafford.)
Martha, daughter of John W. and Abigail (Doty) Eadie.
Died March 22, 1849, age 2 years, 6 months, 7 days.
(Spafford.)
Peter, son of David S. and Mathilda (Cowan) Eadie.
Died May 26, 1849, age 22 years, 21 days.
(David S. Eadie, son of James and Martha Smith Eadie,
married Matilda Cowan.)
(Borodino.)
Frank Eadie, son of James, Jr., and Zeruah (Monk)
Eadie. Born September 4, 1852, died in 1895.
(Frank Eadie married Eva A. Bass, daughter of William
and Catherine (Eglin) Bass, bom in Hamilton County,
N. Y., and by her had one daughter, Linnie, bom September
6, 1885. At the time of his decease he was a merchant in
the Village of Borodino.)
(Borodino.)
Eva A. (Bass), wife of Frank Eadie. Born in 1855,
(living in 1899.)
(Borodino.)
EARL.
In memory of David Earl. Died August 16, 1818, age
66 years.
(In his will, dated May 22, 1818, and probated October
19, 1818. he mentions his wife Anna Earl, and the following
children; William, married Polly Pitts; Nathaniel; David;
Peter; Rebecca, married Aaron Bearse, second wife;Mary;
and Anna Gordon.)
(Thorn Hill.)
Anna Earl, relict of David Earl. Died February 2,
1843, age 86 years.
(Thom Hill.)
88 ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASBOeiATION
David Earl, Jr. (son of David and Anna Earl). Died
March 1, 1838, age 56 years.
(Thorn Hill.)
William Earl, (son of David and Anna Earl). Diea
July 1, 1873, age 75 years, 6 months.
William Earl, by his wife Polly Pitts, had the following
children: Shepard, married Emeline Smith, daughter of
Jared and Rhoda (Harvey) Smith; Ulyssa, married Ed-
ward Weston, son of Edmund C. and Clarinda (Rathbone)
Weston ; Sarah, married Henry Weston, son of Edmund C.
and Clarinda (Rathbone) Weston, her husband is now
deceased and she resides in Spafford; Anna, married
Thomas W. Burns, son of Felix and Elizabeth (Wallace)
Burns, her husband is now deceased; David, and William
P. Earl, both died young and are buried at Thorn Hill. The
Earls and Pitts both originally came from the Town of
Onondaga, N. Y.)
(Thorn Hill.)
Polly (Pitts), wife of William Earl. Died April 26,
1889, age 86 years, 8 months.
(Thorn Hill.)
In memory of David, son of William and Polly (Pitts)
Earl. Died August 6, 1827, age 4 years, 7 months.
(Thorn Hill.)
William P., son of William and Polly (Pitts) Earl. Died
April 5, 1842, age 15 years, 4 months, 17 days.
(Thorn Hill.)
Other Earls at Thorn Hill.
EDDY.
Sylvanus Eddy. Died September 2, 1852, age 64 years.
" Weep not for me, my companion and children dear.
But prepare to meet me in Heaven."
(Mr. Eddy, at the time of his decease, was residing on
the west side of the road, leading from the residence of Col.
Hutchens to Edwin S. Edwards, on Lot 22, Tully. ' His wife,
whose name is not known, died in Auburn, N. Y. Among
his children were : Sylvanus, Jr., married Sarah A. Knight
(who died on the east side of Otisco Lake, in the town of
Otisco, and who in her will, dated February 12, 1874, pro-
bated July 10, 1886, mentions the following children : Asa ;
SPAFFORD MORTUARY RECORDS WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES 89
Mercy P. Eddy; Mary Lewis, and one grandson: William J.
Eddy, son of Myron Eddy, deceased) ; Samuel, who resided
in Auburn, N. Y. ; Martin; Lovina, married Washington
Babcock; Catherine; Mary; and perhaps others who died
young.)
(Spafford.)
Richard M. Eddy. Died April 20, 1875, age 57 years,
11 months, 4 days.
(He married Rich, daughter of Dorr and Anna
(Becker) Rich. They came from Washington County,
N. Y.
Mary A., his wife, died January 31, 1848, age 76 years,
2 months.
(Borodino.)
Seth Eddy. Died June 19, 1839, age 65 years.
(Seth Eddy came to this town from Floyd, Oneida Co.,
N. Y. By his wife Terzy he had the following children:
Theron ; Edwin, married Adeline Berry, daughter of Jona-
than and Thankful Berry ; Lilley (or Amelia), married Wil-
liam Wallace, son of Daniel and Mary (Low) Wallace ; and
Olive, married Morgan Wallace, son of Daniel and Mary
(Low) Wallace.
(Borodino.)
Sophia B., daughter of Edwin and Adeline (Berry)
Eddy. Died March 5, 1873, age 22 years.
(Edwin Eddy and his wife, Adeline Berry, are both
dead, and buried in this cemetery.) (No stone at the
graves of Ed^vin and Adeline.)
(Borodino.)
Orrin Eddy. Died August 26, 1897, age 88 years. (No
stone.)
(He came to this town from near Fort George, N. Y.,
and married Harriet Streeter, daughter of Alexander R.
and Susan (Carpenter) Streeter. He had by her one son:
Orrin F. Eddy, who married (1) Nettie Smith, and (2)
Harriet Alvord, daughter of Shubel Alvord of Scott, N. Y.
Mr. and Mrs. Orrin Eddy also had an adopted daughter,
Sarah A. Baker, daughter of Ashbel and Sarah A.
(Streeter) Baker, who married Roland Rollo of Sennett,
N. Y. Mr. Eddy was living with his adopted daughter in
90 ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
Sennett at the time of his decease. He was a blacksmith by-
trade, a Republican in politics, and much respected.)
(Borodino.)
Harriet (Streeter), wife of Orrin Eddy. Died March
31, 1872, age 52 years, 5 months.
(Borodino.)
Nettie (Smith), wife of Orrin F. Eddy. Died October
7, 1852, age 34 years, 10 months, 3 days.
(Borodino.)
(Harriet Alvord, the second wife of Orrin F. Eddy, died
at Scott, N. Y., January 19, 1890.)
(Borodino.)
Julia Ann, daughter of John and Fanny (Williams)
Eddy. Died October 31, 1840, age 5 years, 2 months.
(John Eddy, by his wife Fanny, besides Julia Ann, above
mentioned, had other children, among whom were: John,
Jr., and Deborah B., who married Washington Wallace, son
of Daniel and Mary (Low) Wallace. John Eddy and his
wife moved away from Spafford.)
(Borodino.)
EDWARDS.
Edwin Seymour Edwards, son of Solomon and Abigail
Edwards. Born in Skaneateles, N. Y., March 30, 1806.
Died in Spafford, September 23, 1890.
(Edwin S. Edwards married April 24, 1832, Ruth Coon,
daughter of David and Phebe (Van Camp) Coon, and by
her had the following children : Julius A., born December
2, 1833, married Esther Lowery. She died March 7„ 1894,
and was buried in Spafford Cemetery, they had one son,
Edwin W. Edwards, who married Jennette B. Haskins, and
have one daughter, Julius now resides with his son near
Preble, N. Y.; Edwin D., born October 13, 1838, married
Charlotte C. Adkins, and has one son and one daughter
living, having had three other children who died young,
resides in Syracuse, N. Y. ; and John Orlando, born January
25, 1842, died June 30, 1843. Mr. Edwards was a farmer,
but read and practiced medicine. He was Supervisor of
this town in 1861-3, Overseer of the Poor in 1848-9, besides
at different times holding other minor town offices. He
was frequently called upon to act as executor and adminis-
trator in the settlement of estates, and was generally re-
SPAFFORD MORTUARY RECORDS WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES 91
spected by his townspeople. He and his wife were members
of the M. E. Church, in which society Mr. Edwards was for
a long time the chorister of the choir, and superintendent
of the Sunday School. He was descended from Alexander
Edwards, who came from Wales in 1640, and settled early
in Springfield, Mass., as follows : Edwin, Solomon, Solomon,
Ebenezer, Nathaniel, Nathaniel, Alexander. (No stone.)
(Spafford.)
Ruth Coon, wife of Edwin S. Edwards. Born December
22, 1805, died in Spafford. (No stone.)
(Spafford.)
John 0., son of Edwin S. and Ruth (Coon) Edwards.
Died June 30, 1843, age 1 year, 5 months, 5 days.
" Suffer little children to come unto me and forbid them not
For of such is the Kingdom of Heaven."
(Spafford.)
Esther Lowery, wife of Julius A. Edwards. Died March
7, 1894, age 52 years. (No stone.)
(Julius and his wife Esther had one son, Edwin W.
Edwards, who married Jennette B. Haskins, and has one
daughter.)
(Spafford.)
Ebenezer Edwards, son of Solomon and Catherine
(Clark) Edwards. Died January 11, 1830, age 52 years.
" Come hither mortal, cast an eye
And go thy way and prepare to die."
(Ebenezer Edwards was an uncle of Edwin S. Edwards.
In his will, dated December 15, 1829, and probated April 10,
1830, he mentions his wife, Sybel Edwards, his adopted
daughter Calista Mead, and his children : William ; Solomon ;
Sereno; and Polly Edwards. The branch of the Edwards
family through which Ebenezer and his nephew, Edwin S.
Edwards, trace their descent from Alexander Edwards, the
emigrant ancestor, came to Skaneateles from Nothampton,
Mass., in the year 1809: Ebenezer, Solomon, Ebenezer,
Nathaniel, Nathaniel, Alexander.)
(Thorn Hill.)
EGGLESTON.
Dea Benjamin Eggleston, left us January 9, 1868, in the
full assurance of a blissful immortality, through Christ his
Saviour, age 85 years.
92 •NONDAQA HISTORI«Ai AM«€iATI«<N
" Precious in the sight of the Lord is the
Death of his Saint."
(He married Elizabeth Wiltsie. In his will, dated Feb-
ruary 18, 1865, and probated March 23, 1868, he mentions
his wife, Elizabeth Eggleston, and his children: Myron;
Rolf e ; John ; Theodore, married Sarah A. Gardner ; Delilah
Goodridge; Adeline Wood; Catherine Coon; Rebecca, mar-
ried Austin Wyckoff of Navarino, N. Y.; Mary, married
Augustin Vanderburgh, son of Stephen and Maria (Cal-
kins) Vanderburg; Ruth M. Eggleston, and Sarah E.
Patterson.)
(Thorn Hill.)
Our Mother, Elizabeth (Wiltsie) ) , wife of Dea Benjamin
Eggleston. Departed this life August 31, 1874, age 85
years, 5 months.
" With a good Hope in Christ of a Blessed and glorious
Resurrection to Eternal Life."
(Thorn Hill.)
Sarah A. (Gardner) , wife of Theodore Eggleston. Died
February 20, 1874, age 37 years, 6 months.
" In earnest of Heaven was her pillow in Death."
(Theodore Eggleston was a son of Dea. Benjamin and
Elizabeth (Wiltsie) Eggleston.)
(Thorn Hill.)
EGLIN.
Isaac D. Eglin. Bom October 4, 1824. Died Novem-
ber 22, 1904.
(He married (1) Elizabeth Dedrick, daughter of William
and Thurzy (McCausey) Dedrick; and (2) Ailce Case,
daughter of Aaron G. and Rebecca (Monk) Case.)
(Borodino.)
Elizabeth (Dedrick), wife of Isaac Eglin. Died April
14, 1886, age 58 years, 10 months, 25 days.
" Dearest husband ! thou dearest friend of my
Mortal years, thou trusted one thou tried,
Thou art still living in the valley of tears,
But I am at thy side."
(In her will, dated June 25, 1878, probated July 7, 1890,
she mentions her husband, Isaac D. G. Eglin, but no chil-
dren. She also mentions her brother, William J. Dedrick,
of Spafford; her uncle, Samuel Dedrick of Rhode Island;
STAFFORD MORTUARY RIOORDS WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES 93
her uncle, Henry Dedrick of Rhode Island ; Tilson Wood and
his sister, Louisa, children of her Aunt Harriet Wood, late
of Rhode Island, deceased; her aunt, Sally Reed, of Rhode
Island; her aunt, Catherine, sister of her father, William
Dedrick ; and Mrs. Helen Williams, daughter of Charles Mc-
Causey of Spafford.)
(Borodino.)
. Alice (Case), wife of Isaac Eglin. Bom January 16,
1859. Died December 14, 1905.
(Borodino.)
Lehana Delbert, only son of Isaac and Elizabeth
Dedrick) Eglin. Died July 5, 1877, age 24 years, 6 months,
5 days.
" No sin, no grief, no pain,
Safe in my happy home.
My fears all fled, my doubts all slain,
My hour of triumph come."
(Borodino.)
ELDRED.
Louisa M., daughter of James and Juliett Eldred. Died
April 17, 1843, age 2 years, 3 months, 21 days.
" None but a parent's heart can tell
How much it costs to bid this lovely child farewell."
(Cold Brook.)
ELIOT.
Andrew J. Eliot, (son of Elias and Charity (Warner)
Eliot) . Died September 27, 1886, age 70 years.
(The paternal grandparents of Andrew J. Eliot were
Andrew and Jennie (Ayers) Eliot. Their children were:
Daniel, married Hannah Carpenter; Lucretia, married Ste-
phen Giles; Elisha, died young; Jacob, married Patience
Tripp; George, married Jennie McCarthy; Mollie, married
William Seward; Peter, married Jerusha McCarthy; Luke,
married Betsey ; Hannah, married Daniel Hoyt;
Betsey, married Nahum Thompson; and Elias, married
Charity Warner.
Elias Eliot, bom in Decatur, Otsego County, N. Y., in
January, 1793, died in Spafford, May, 1841 age 48 years, and
buried in Geddes, N. Y., married in 1813 Charity Warner,
born April 9, 1795, and died in Deadwood, S. Da., September
94 •NONDAGA HISTORICAL ASfiOCIATI«N
2, 1895, age 100 years, 4 months, 23 days, daughter of
Charles and Sarah (Stockwell) Warner, and by her had the
following children : Sarah Jane, bom March 1, 1815, mar-
ried (1) David Ripley, son of Jonathan and Ruth (Corey)
Ripley, and (2) Willard Doty, son of Warren and Sarah
(Wood) Doty, and by her first husband had seven
children (see Ripley) ; Andrew J., born February 11,
1817, married Sarah Ann Bulfinch, daughter of Joseph
and Lydia (Harrington) Bulfinch; Lucy Ann, bom
February 17, 1819, married Joseph H. Bulfinch, son
of Joseph and Lydia (Harrington) Bulfinch, she had
three children, only one surviving : Mrs. Alice M. Cramer,
with whom in 1899 she resided in Yanton, South Dakota
(see Bulfinch) ; Charles, born December 1, 1821, married
Lodemia Hawkins, and has one child, Nellie; Elias E., bom
July 28, 1822, married Helen Morey, had two daughters,
Nettie and Nellie ; Wesley S., born January 5, 1824 ; married
Jennie , and has one daughter Jennie; Lewis H.,
born February 13, 1826, married (1) Henrietta Morey, (2)
Mary Treadwell, no issue ; James M., bom October 11, 1828,
died at the age of 26, unmarried, at the Globe Hotel, in
Syracuse, N. Y. ; George W., bom November 11, 1831, mar-
ried in Chico, Cal., no issue; Warner A., born January 31,
1833, married Lottie Spaids, and had seven children:
Charles, Chauncey, Craig, Willie, Kathlyn, Flora, Raymond ;
Helen C, bom April 9, 1836 married Col. Gideon C. Moody,
her husband has been United States Senator from South
Dakota, she has had five children: Nellie, Charles, James,
Burdett, and Warner, she now resides in Deadwood, S. Da. ;
and Mary Elizabeth, bom April 5, 1838, married Thomas
Chandoin, Louisville, Ky., five children, Alice, Thomas,
George, Eliot and Charles. She is now deceased. Elias
Eliot, when he resided in Spafford, lived on Ripley Hill,
south of the Ripley Place, so called, on Lot 42, Tully.
Andrew J. Eliot, by his vdfe Sarah Ann Bulfinch, had
five children : Jane Ann, married Newton Bates (no issue) ;
Mary, (now deceased) , married John Van Benschoten, son
of James and (Price) Van Benschoten, two chil-
dren : Sarah, married Edwin Van Benschoten, son of James
and (Price) Van Benschoten, husband dead, one
son, resides at Onondaga Valley, N. Y.; Andrew, died
young ; and Lewis Henry, died young.
SPAFFORD MORTUARY RECORDS WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES 05
Mrs. Charity (Warner) Eliot, the mother of Andrew J.
Eliot, was in many ways a remarkable woman, of strong
personality, high Christian character, and full of kindness
and motherly tenderness. Her father, Charles Warner,
was a soldier of the Revolution, and died at Geddes, N. Y.
By his wife, Sarah Stockwell, he had nine children : Esther,
Lucy, Charity, Sophia, Betsey, Mary Sarah, Charles and
Israel ; several of whom, besides Charity, lived to a remark-
able old age.)
(Spafford.)
Lewis Henry, son of Andrew J. and Sarah A. (Bulfinch)
Eliot. Died September 12, 1851, age 9 months, 11 days.
(Spafford.)
ELISON.
Hannah, wife of George Elison. Died August 1, 1841,
age 28 years, 4 months, 12 days.
" When ere my children do draw nigh
And on this marble cast an eye.
Then on this willow drop a tear
For one who always loved you dear."
(Spafford.)
Mary, daughter of George and Hannah Elison. Died
December 24, 1830, age 4 months, 15 days.
(Spafford.)
EMMONS.
Mary A. (Abbott) , wife of Lewis Emmons. Died April
14, 1884, ag-e 54 years.
(Lev/is Emmons came from LaPayette. By his wife,
Mary A. Abbott, he had two children : George, married Mary
L. Grinnell, daughter of Ansel and Asenath (Bennett) Grin-
nell; and Milton, married Laura Stanton, daughter of
Samuel H. and Sarah (Patterson) Stanton.
(Borodino.)
Anna M. Patten, wife of William A. Emmons. Died
February 2, 1869, age 40 years.
(William A. Emmons came from LaFayette; his wife
was a daughter of William and Fanny (Rathbone) Patten.)
(Borodino.)
Frank, son of William A. and Anna M. (Patten)
Emmon. Died June 2, 1868, age 3 years.
(Borodino.)
90 ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
ENGLISH.
Mary (Taft) , wife of John W. English. Died November
14, 1849, age 33 years.
(John W. English, son of Richard and Eliza English,
married Mary Taft, daughter of Ellis and Cynthia (Knapp)
Taft. The English family, through mistake, were from Ire-
land. The family left Spafford about 1836, and settled in
Ohio and Michigan, where its descendants remain.
(Cold Brook.)
ENOS.
Chloe, wife of Joseph Enos. Born May 4, 1777, died
January 19, 1843.
(Joseph Enos also died at Thorn Hill, September 20,
1852, age 73 years.)
(Thorn Hill.)
Jessie, daughter of Charles H. and Josephine (Williams)
Enos. Died July 18, 1878, age 1 year, 2 months.
" God's little angel gone home."
(Charles H. Enos was an adopted son of Joseph Enos,
Jr. In 1898 he was residing at Rock Creek, Minn.)
(Borodino.)
FAY.
John Fay. Died June 23, 1857, in his 68 year.
(Mr. Fay, by his wife, Isabel, had the following children :
Andrew, married Milly Harris, daughter of William and
Nancy (Davis) Harris; Jeremiah, who died unmarried at
the age of about 28 years ; and Mary Ann, married Robert
Randall, son of Silas and Mercey (Harrington) Randall.)
(Spafford.)
Isabel, wife of John Fay. Died June 2, 1859, in her 68th
year.
(Spafford.)
Jeremiah Fay, (son of John and Isabel Fay) . Died
June 3, 1859, age 27 years, 10 months, 14 days.
(Spafford.)
FERRY.
Asa Ferry. Died January 9, 1864, age 84 years, 3
months, 12 days.
(He married first Ruhama , who died Novem-
SPAFFORD MORTUARY RECORDS WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES 97
ber 5, 1818, second, Christina BufRngton, who died May 11,
1852, in her 73rd year, and third. Harmony . In
the petition for letters of administration upon his estate,
made March 9, 1864, by his wife, Harmony Ferry, mention
is made of the following children : Chester, married Saba
Buffington, of Spafford, N. Y. ; Harvey, then residing in
Wisconsin; Malinda, married Joseph K. Lamb, he then
deceased and she then of Wisconsin; Dolly, married Asa
Keen, of Ohio; and Lavina, married Clark Bowker of Wis-
consin.)
(Borodino.)
Mrs. Ruhama, wife of Asa Ferry. Died November 5,
1818, age 40 years.
(Thorn Hill.)
Christina (Buffington), wife of Asa Ferry. Died May
11, 1852, in her 73rd year.
(She was a widow when she married Mr. Ferry, and the
mother of Charles H. Buffington, who died January 6, 1852,
and was buried in this cemetery.)
(Borodino.)
Chester Ferry, (son of Asa and Ruhama Ferry) . Died
March 16, 1876, age 76 years, 6 months.
(He married Saba Buffington, whom he survived. In
the petition for letters of administration upon his estate by
his son, Charles H. Ferry, dated April 21, 1876, mention is
made of the following children : Charles H., merchant, resid-
ing in Syracuse, N. Y.; Asa P., of Rockford, Kent Co.,
Mich.; George H., of Canonsburgh, Kent Co., Mich.; Jane,
married Sylvester H. Sheldon, they are both dead, and
buried in Oakwood Cemetery, Syracuse, N. Y. ; Harriet
Davis, of Rockford, Mich. ; Henrietta Miller, of Canonsburg,
Stevens Co., Mich.; Martha Barnes, of Navarino, N. Y.;
Ruhama Ida, of Ellery, Stevens Co., Illinois; Americus V.,
of Skaneateles, N. Y., and John T. Ferry, of Rockford,
Mich. Harriet died young.)
(Borodino.)
Saba (Buffington), wife of Chester Ferry. Died Feb-
ruary 16, 1873, age 70 years.
(Borodino.)
Harriet, daughter of Chester and (Saba) Sarah Ferry.
Died March 31, 1836, age 3 months, 27 days.
(Borodino.)
98 ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
FILKINS.
George D. Filkins. Died March 30, 1855, age 42 years.
(He married Margaret Fisher, daughter of Dakin and
Sally (Youst) Fisher, and by her had three children:
Ensign D., who was a soldier in the War of 1861, and died
unmarried at the age of nearly 26, in the year 1863;
Angeline, married George Spencer Carr, son of Thurston
and, Lorane (Green) Carr, at Spafford, March 5, 1871
resides in Heber, Arkansas; and Orrissa, married Marcus
N. Seeley, son of Hiram and Betsey Jane (Jacobs) Seeley,
her husband died in 1892 and she now resides in Syracuse,
N. Y.)
(Spafford.)
Margaret (Fisher) Churchell, former wife of George D.
Filkins. Died March 1, 1879, age 66 years, 2 months, 21
days.
(After the decease of her first husband, George D.
Filkins, she married Alexander M. Churchell, son of James
and Hannah (Dobbs) Churchell, as his third wife. She was
buried by the side of her first husband.)
(Spafford.)
Ensign D., son of George D. and Margaret (Fisher)
Filkins. Died September 28, 1863, age 25 years, 10 months,
13 days.
(He was a Union soldier in the War of 1861.)
(Spafford.)
FISHER.
Sacred to the memory of Amos Fisher, who died October
28, 1833, age 82 years, 6 days.
(The Fishers came to this town from Springfield, Otsego
Co., N. Y., before 1820, and settled on the southeastern part
(of subdivision No. 6) of Lot 1, Tully. By his wife, Mar-
garet, Mr. Amos Fisher had the following children:
Rachel, married Osmer Orton of Spafford, N. Y. ; Dakin,
married Sally Youst, of Spafford, N. Y. ; Clarissa Cone of
Mayville, Chautauua Co., N. Y. ; Amos, of Otsego, N. Y. ;
Rebecca married William Billings, of Spafford, N. Y. ; Sarah,
married Ossage Cone, of Pomfret, Chautauqua Co., N. Y.;
Eli, married Nancy , of Spafford, N. Y.; Mary,
married Erastus Wait, of Chagrin, Ohio; Orrissa, married
,5PAFF0RD MORTUARY RECORDS WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES 99
Jeremiah Crane, of Bane, Orleans Co., N. Y. ; John, died in
Spafford, unmarried; and Margaret, married Col. Lewis C.
Davis, Margaret died before her father and left the follow-
ing children : Judson, Joline, Laura, John, and Lewis Davis.
Mrs. Margaret Fisher survived her husband, and is supposed
to have been buried with her husband in the Davis Yard.
(No stone.)
(Davis Yard.)
John Fisher (son of Amos and Margaret Fisher.) Bom
at Springfield, Otsego Co., N. Y. July 15, 1794, died
December 31, 1874.
(He died unmarried.)
(Davis Yard.)
Dakin Fisher, (son of Amos and Margaret Fisher).
Died June 21, 1849, age 68 years, 10 months, 8 days.
" How suddenly he's called away Eternity to view,
No time to regulate his house nor bid the world adied."
(He married Sally Youst, and by her had the following
children : Philip, married Harriet Legg, daughter of Capt.
Otis and Polly (Sabin) Legg; Elihu, married Lydia Ann
Collins, daughter of John and Lucy (Burdick) Collins and
widow of John Orton ; George Y., married Lavinla Burdick,
daughter of Russel M. and Esther (Whiting) Burdick;
Margaret, married (1) GJeorge D. Filkins, and (2) Alex-
ander M. Churchell, son of James and Hannah (Dobbs)
Churchell; Celinda, married William Churchell, son of
James and Hannah (Dobbs) Churchell; and Orrissa,
married Franklin Roundy, son of Capt. Asahel and Hannah
(Weston) Roundy; Mercy, died at 22 years, unmarried.)
(Spafford.)
Sally (Youst), wife of Dakin Fished. Died December
2, 1860, age 77 years, 6 months, 13 days.
" Our Mother's gone but not forgotten."
(Spafford.)
Mercy, daughter of Dakin and Sally (Youst) Fisher.
Died April 8, 1844, age 22 years, 9 months, 24 days.
(Spafford.)
Harriet (Legg), wife of Philip Fisher. Died June 8,
1844, in her 34th year.
(Philip Fisher, son of Dakin and Sally (Youst) Fisher,
married Harriet Legg, daughter of Capt. Otis and Polly
(Sabin) Legg, and had the following children : Otis, married
100 ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
Maria Maxson ; Oscar, married Ann Eliza Frederick, daugh-
ter of Jacob and Rachel (Newkirk) Frederick! Angeline,
died unmarried; William Eaton, married Phebe Ingerson,
adopted daughter of Peter Ingerson ; and Mary, married (1)
Nelson Boughton at Spafford, October 2, 1854, and (2) Silas
J. White, March 19, 1863. In 1885 she resided at Pljrmouth,
Cerro Gordo Co., Iowa. By her first husband, Mary has one
daughter, Angeline, married James Allen, Jr., and by her
second husband she has a son, who is a West Point graduate
and now in the regular Army of the United States. Philip
Fisher is also deceased.)
(Spafford.)
Angeline, daughter of Philip and Harriet (Legg) Fisher.
Died March 27, 1853, age 20 years.
" To live in the memory of those we leave behind is not to
die."
(Spafford.)
William E. Fisher, (son of Philip and Harriet (Legg)
Fisher) . Died March 30, 1868, age 32 years.
(A soldier in the War of 1861.)
" Our son is gone but not forgotten.)
(He married Phebe Ingerson, adopted daughter of Peter
Ingerson of Spafford Hollow.)
(Spaffoi^d.)
Nancy E., daughter of Eli and Nancy Fisher. Died
January 11, 1835, age 8 years, 2 months, 23 days.
(Eli Fisher was a son of Amos and Margaret Fisher;
he was born probably in Springfield, Otsego Co., N. Y.,
before 1802, married his wife Nancy before October 15,
1823, at which time she joined him in a deed, conveying land
in Spafford Hollow on Lot 23, Tully. A few days subse-
quent he purchased 25 acres of Cornelius Williamson, on
Lot 12, Tully. There are no descendants of this marriage
known to the writer. For many years Eli Fisher ran the
Potashery at Spafford Corners, before 1850; he was then
an old man and worked for Levi Hurlbut and Asahel M.
Roundy, and boarded at their houses. He and his wife have
been dead for about fifty years. They have no stone mark-
ing their graves in this town.)
(Borodino.)
Alice, daughter of Edgar and E (Brown) Fisher.
Died October 18, 1881, age 1 year, 3 months, 3 days.
SPAFFORD MORTUARY RECORDS WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES 101
(Edgar Fisher is an Englishman, and his wife is a
daughter of Truman and Abigail' (Moore) Brown of Thorn
Hill, and a granddaughter of Zenas and Abigail Moore. In
1898 Mr. Fisher was residing on the Cornelius Williamson
Farm, on Lot 12, Tully.)
(Spafford.)
FITZGERALD.
Mrs. Anna, wife of Jeremiah Fitzgerald. Died August
15, 1834, age 85 years.
(Jeremiah Fitzgerald came to this town from Walkill,
N. Y., in the Spring of 1806, and settled on 300 acres owned
by him on lot 70, Marcellus. He died in 1817 (and was
buried in the old Boodino Cemetery, on the farm of Alex-
ander Becker, north of the Village of Borodino, now in dis-
use.
(Thorn Hill.;
Jeremiah Fitzgerald. Died September 25, 1816, age 65
years.
In his will, dated August 20, 1810, and probated Feb-
ruary 17, 1817, he mentions his wife, Anna Fitzgerald, and
the following children : William ; Elizabeth, married Warren
Kneeland, son of Jonathan and Mary (Spencer) Kneeland;
Susanna; David, married Phebe ; John, married
Abigail ; and Jeremiah, married Sylvia .
He also mentions his two grandchildren, Jane and James H.
Fitzgerald, children of his daughter, Elizabeth Fitzgerald,
who subseuent to their birth, married Warren Kneeland.
James H. Fitzgerald married Jerusha Eadie, daughter of
James and Martha Smith Eadie.)
(Thorn Hill.)
FORCE.
Sally Force, wife of Henry Force. Died October 8,
1843, age 54 years, 3 months, 5 days.
" Here let me rest my weary head
'Till Christ, my Lord, shall raise the Dead."
(Henry Force resided on Lot 75, Marcellus. He died
September 25, 1847, in this town (no stone) . In the peti-
tion of Dr. Isaac Morrell, a creditor, dated October 6, 1847,
for letters of administration upon his estate, no mention is
102 ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
made of a wife, but of the following children: William;
Kellogg; Jane; Sarah, married Dorwin Day; Adeline, mar-
ried William Campbell; and Henrietta, married Annariah
Manley. All were then of full age except Jane, who was a
minor.)
(Borodino.)
FORD.
In memory of a son of John and Chloe Ford. Died April
14, 1821.
(Cold Brook.)
Daniel, son of John and Chloe Ford. Died April 3, 1820,
in his 10th year.
(John and Chloe Ford resided on the west part of Lot
44, Tully, in Cold Brook. Among their children, besides the
foregoing, were : Elisha, married Smith, and died
in Brooklyn, N. Y. ; John B., married Sally Miner, widow of
Sanford Thayer, resides in Skaneateles, N. Y. ; Lydia, mar-
ried Orrin Town, of Cold Brook, N. Y., and , married
Ansel Bacon.)
(Cold Brook.)
FOSTER.
Albert Foster, (son of Samuel Foster). Born July 24,
1800, (in Salisbury, Litchfield Co., Conn.) Died January
8, 1879, (in Spafford, New York.)
(He married (1) Clarissa Maxson, daughter of Thomas
and (Sessions) Maxson, at Salisbury, Litchfield
Co., Conn., January 2, 1823, and settled first in Hillsdale,
Columbia Co., N. Y., where he remained about eight years,
and from there came to this town and settled in Cold Brook
about 1833. He finally settled on Lot 33, Tully, about 1841,
where he remained until the time of his decease. After the
decease of his first wife he married (2) June 5, 1867, at
Spafford, N. Y., Clarissa G. Reynolds, widow of Horace
Smith, but by her had no issue. His children by his first
wife were : LaFayette, born July 23, 1824, married October
23, 1850, at Spafford, N. Y. Sarah Jane Ripley, born De-
cember 3, 1832, daughter of David and Sarah Jane (Eliot)
Ripley, resides in Sioux City, Iowa, and has three children,
Albro; Emma and Ernest, each married and each having
SP AFFORD MORTUARY RECORDS WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES 103
three children; Thomas Maxson, bom October 1, 1826,
merchant in this town to the time of his decease, December
26, 1898, unmarried; James S., bom November 20, 1828,
died September 29, 1890 at Mitchell, South Dakota, married
April 6, 1852, in Spafford, Frances Ann Ripley, bom
January 17, 1835, daughter of David and Sarah
Jane (Eliot) Ripley; Charles W., bom May 19, 1832, died
April 11, 1875, near Yankton, S. Da., married February
27, 1853, at Spafford, N. Y., Mary A. Burroughs, bom
October 29, 1835, daughter of Alvin Burroughs, and had
four children ; and George I., bom December 29, 1837, mar-
ried at Davis, 111., December, 1873, Phila Smith, resides at
Fargo, North Dakota, and had two children.)
(Cold Brook.)
Clarissa (Maxson), wife of Albert Foster. Bom De-
cember 26, 1798, died May 5, 1866.
(She was bom in Salisbury, Litchfield Co., Conn.)
(Cold Brook.)
Clarissa G. (Reynolds), wife of Albert Foster. Bom
June 1, 1809, died November 5, 1873.
(At the time of her marriage to Mr. Foster she was
widow of Horace Smith, (second wife), with one son by
Mr. Smith, Frederick R. Smith.)
(Cold Brook.)
Bennie, son of James S. and Frances A. (Ripley Foster.
Died March 1, 1860, age 6 months.
(James S. Foster, son of Albert and Clarissa (Maxson)
Foster, married Frances A. Ripley, daughter of David and
Sarah Jane (Eliot) Ripley, and by her had, in addition to
the above, the following children : Clara J., married Osgood
H. Carney, and had three children : Foster Dewitt, married
Cora Westfall and resides in Yankton, S. Da. ; Kate Morri-
son, married Carl E. Bigelow and has one child, Ruth,
resides in Galveston, Texas ; and Carol Earl, died in infancy ;
Cora, married George H. Miner and had six children:
William Vance, married Blanche , two children,
Helen and Grace; Frances, married Ory P. Shaw, one son,
Miner; Cora, unmarried; Charity Eliot, unmarried, and
Laura, died in infancy; Albert David, married Hattie
Whalen and had four children: Fannie, James, Clara, ana
Martha; James and Martha died in infancy; Fannie An-
able, unmarried; Martha Aldrich, unmarried; and Thomas
104 ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
Maxson, unmarried. Mr. James S. Foster died in Mitchell,
S. Da., September 29, 1890.)
(Cold Brook.)
In memory of Lydia, wife of Levi Foster, who died April
21, 1827, age 45 years, 3 months, 1 day.
(Levi Foster came from Onondaga, N. Y., January 2,
1816, and settled on Lot 21, Tully, on the farm now occupied
by Joseph L. Cole (1899), and from there moved to the
Nunnery neighborhood, and resided on Lot 12, Sempronius,
where his wife died. He moved away from town after the
death of his wife, and very little is knowTi of him or his
family at the present time.)
(Nunnery.)
FREDERICK.
Jacob Frederick. Died March 18, 1865, age 69 years.
(Jacob Frederick came to the Marcellus end of this town
before 1823, and settled at or near the Village of Borodino,
but soon afterwards moved to a farm near Spaff ord Village) ,
his wife was Rachel Newkirk, and by her he had the follow-
ing children : Sarah M., married Roswell Brown of Moravia,
Cayuga County, N. Y.; John W., married (1) Miss Jennings
of Poughkeepsie, N .Y., by whom he had a son, William J.
Frederick, member of Board of Underwriters, Syracuse,
N. Y.; he married (2) Mary Antonette Atwater in 1868,
she died in 1879, leaving a daughter, Georgia, who in 1879
married Dr. Ernest F. Clymer of Syracuse, N. Y. ; Lewis W.,
married Louisa Beeman, resided at Homer, N. Y., and Cold-
water, Mich. ; Lucetta, married Horatio Smith, resides South
Butler, Wayne Co., N. Y. ; Ann Eliza, married Oscar F.
Fisher, son of Philip and Harriet (Legg) Fisher, resides in
Homer N. Y. ; Minerva J. married Darius Applebee;
George P., died prior to his father's decease, married S
F , and had one daughter, Mary C. Frederick of
Brooklyn, N. Y. ; Alanson S., married Sarah Thompson,
daughter of Nathan P. and Margaret (Hutchins) Thomp-
son, he and his wife are both deceased ; he is buried in Liver-
pool, N. Y., and she in Spafford Cemetery, left two children,
Roswell T., married Catherine Kingsbury, daughter of
Andrew E. Kingsbury of Homer, Roswell is a real estate
broker in Syracuse, N. Y., and Caroline Frederick, un-
married, resides in Homer, N. Y. ; Calista B., married C. B,
SPAFFORD MORTUARY RECORDS WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES lOfl
Miller of Cazenovia, N. Y., dead ; and Caleb H., accidentally
killed by the cut of a scythe, at the age of eleven years. At
the time of his decease, Jacob Frederick was residing in the
Village of Spafford Corners. He was Low Dutch. John
W. Frederick married for a third wife. Miss Emma Wood,
of Syracuse, N. Y., who survived him. By his third wife
he had no issue; he died in 1895.)
(Spafford.)
Rachel (Newkirk) , wife of Jacob Frederick. Died April
5, 1877, age 79 years.
(Spafford.)
Caleb H., son of Jacob and Rachel (Newkirk) Frederick.
Died August 20, 1846, age 11 years.
(Accidentally killed by the cut of a scythe in the thigh.)
(Spafford.)
George P., son of George and S F. Frederick.
Died February 8, 1845, age 5 months, 20 days.
(George Frederick was a son of Jacob and Rachel (New-
kirk) Frederick.)
Sarah Thompson wife of Alanson S. Frederick. Born
in Spafford, April 11, 1837. Died in Homer, N. Y., March
18, 1898.
(Spafford.)
(Alanson S. Frderick, son of Jacob and Rachel (New-
kirk) Frederick, died and was buried in Liverpool, N. Y.) .
(His wife has no stone.)
(Spafford.)
FULLER.
Alice L., daughterof Francis M. and Mary Fuller. Dlea
April 19, 1863, age 2 years, 6 months, 29 days.
(Spafford Hollow.)
FULTON.
In memory of Robert Fulton who died March 28, 1829,
age 78 years.
" Let not the dead forgotten lie.
Lest living men forget to die."
(Robert Fulton, by his wife Sarah, had three children
who were well kno^vn residents of this town : Eleazer Emer-
106 ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
son, born February 2, 1789, died at Borodino, N. Y., March
30, 1853, married Pamelia ; Robert C, bom 1800,
died January 12, 1852, at Borodino. N. Y., married
; and Amanda, bom August 27, 1803, died at Boro-
dino, N. Y., September 4, 1856, married William Legg and
had one daughter, Eunice A., who married David Becker,
son of Peter and Mary (Eadie) Becker, both dead, and
buried in this cemetery.)
(Borodino.)
In memory of Sarah Fulton, wife of Robert Fulton, who
died May 4, 1846, age 82 years, 4 months.
(Borodino.)
Eleazer Emerson Fulton, (son of Robert and Sarah
Fulton) . Died May 30, 1853, age 64 years, 1 month, 2 days.
(Eleazer Emerson Fulton by his wife Parmelia had the
following children: Albert E., bom 1821, died August 8,
1885, at Lansing, Mich., married (1) Izabenda Bearse,
daughter of Aaron and Phebe (Simth) Bearse, and widow
of Ansel Churchell, and (2) Mrs. Martha Hutton, widow of
Caleb Hutton, of Lansing, Mich., no issue by either mar-
riage; Heman D,, married Eliza L. and resides in
Skaneateles, N. Y. ; and Hiram W., born at Elbridge, N. Y. ;
died at Forbs, Mo., March, 1884 (buried in this cemetery) .
(Borodino.)
Parmelia, wife of Eleazer Emerson Fulton. Died Novem-
ber 4, 1871, age 78 years, 7 months.
" A true wife, a faithful mother,
A devout Christian, a character worthy of imitation."
(Borodino.)
Albert E. Fulton, (son of E. Emerson and Parmelia
Fulton) . Died August 8, 1885, age 64 years, 2 months, 18
days.
(Borodino.)
Izabenda (Bearse) , wife of Albert E. Fulton. Died May
21, 1875, age 58 years, 1 month, 15 days.
(She had one daughter only, Jennie E. Churchell, by her
first husband, Ansel Churchell, who married Erastus E.
Brown, now of Lincoln, Nebraska.)
(Borodino.)
SPAFFORD MORTUARY RECORDS WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES 107
Hiram W. Fulton, (son of E. Emerson and Parmelia
Fulton) . Bom at Elbridge, N. Y., April 23, 1827. Died at
Forbes, Mo., March, 1884, in his 57th year.
(Borodino.)
Ella A., daughter of Heman D. and Eliza L. Fulton. Died
June 4, 1875, age 20 years, 5 months.
(Heman D. Fulton, son of Eleazer Emerson and Parmelia
Fulton, by his wife, Eliza L., had the following children:
Eva P. ; Nellie L. ; Mary E., and Albert W. Fulton ; the first
three reside in Skaneateles, N. Y., with their parents and
the latter in West Satecoy, California.)
H. D. Fulton, 1822-1909.
Eliza L. Town (w.), 1828-1902.
(Borodino.)
Robert C. Fulton, (son of Robert and Sarah Fulton).
Died January 12, 1852, age 53 years.
(Robert C. Fulton married , and had
thee children : Jerome, who died in Preble, N. Y. ;
married John Weston, Jr., and , married John
Colter.)
(Borodino.)
GALE.
John Gale, Esq. Died May 17, 1836, age 71 years.
(John Gale settled in the Marcellus end of the town
before 1807. By his wife, Martha, he had four children:
John, Jr., married Miss Grinnell, daughter of Isaiah and
Jane (Crane) Grinnell ; Samuel, married (1) Sally Manley,
and (2) Rebecca Mead ; Richard, married Amelia E. ;
and Mary, married Zebulon Davis as his second wife, she
died and was buried in Cold Brook.)
(Borodino.)
Mrs. Martha, wife of John Gale, Sr. Died May 23, 1831,
age 69 years, 2 months, 14 days.
(Borodino.)
John Gale, Jr., (son of John and Martha Gale). Died
December 31, 1852, age 53 years.
(Borodino.)
Samuel Gale, (son of John and Martha Gale). Died
October 25, 1864, in 79 years.
108 ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
" And now behold his race is run,
His suffering o'er, his labor done,
May living friends be ready too.
To bid this fleeting world adieu."
(He married (1) Sally Manley, and (2) Rebecca Mead.
The latter died and was buried in Cleveland, Ohio. By his
first wife he had: Betsey Ann, married George Frink
Knapp, son of Elijah and Betsey (Burdick) Knapp; and by
his second wife he had : Judson, married Hulda Davidson,
he was a teacher, School Commissioner, and now resides in
Homer N. Y. ; Cornelia, married Joel Townsend, resides in
Texas ; and Charles, married Eliza , died out West.
Samuel Gale first resided in the Nunnery neighborhood, and
then on Lot 42, Tully, near the county line on the Skan-
eateles and Homer road.
(Thorn Hill.)
In m.emory of Sally (Manley) Gale, (wife of Samuel
Gale, who died March 12, 1821, age 27 years.
(Thorn Hill.)
GAY.
Barnett A. Gay. Died September 17, 1883, age 67 years.
He came from Preble, N. Y., and married Amanda F.
Smith, who is also deceased and buried in this cemetery.
She has no stone. By his wife, Amanda, Mr. Gay had the
following children : Frances, married Albert Kemp ; Martin
Frink, married Ida May Lyon, daughter of George W. and
Cornelia (Barker) Lyon; Theresa, married Wesley Moonj
and Jennie M., married Alexander J. Boutell, son of Samuel
and Catherine (Williamson) Boutell. She is now deceased.)
(Cold Brook.)
Ida May Gay, daughter of George W. and Cornelia M.
(Barker) Lyon. Died May 27, 1884, age 26 years.
(She married Martin Frink Gay, son of Barnett A. and
Amanda F. (Smith) Gay).
(Spafford.)
Mrs. Galista Gay. Died November 25, 1885, age 70
years. (No stone.)
(She was the wife of Robert M. Gay, formerly of Spaf-
ford Hollow.)
(Borodino.)
SPAFFORD MORTUARY RECORDS WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES 109
GARUTHERS— (CARUTHER) .
Thomas Garuthers. Died May 17, 1857, age 73 years.
(His wife Maria, after his decease, married John T.
Gregory. They were all English.)
(Thorn Hill.)
GEER.
Morris Geer. Died at Thorn Hill, December 23, 1888,
age 90 years. (No stone.)
(He was bom in Ireland, and married Mrs. Joanna
Dunn, widow, and by her had one son: James Geer, of
Syracuse, N. Y. Mrs. Dunn by her first husband also had
one son : Peter Dunn.)
(Borodino.)
Joanna Dunn), wife of Morris Geer. Died September
20, 1855, in her 50th year.
(Borodino.)
GIFFORD.
Henry A. Gifford. Died March 18, 1892, age 83 years.
" Dearest loved one we have laid thee
In the peaceful grave's embrace.
But thy memory will be cherished,
'Till we see thy heavenly face."
(Mr. Gifford was the father of Morey Gifford, of
Marietta, N. Y.)
(Thorn Hill.)
Betsey, wife of Henry A. Gifford. Died at Thorn Hill,
July 27, 1881, age 69 years. (No stone.)
(Thorn Hill.)
Filura, daughter of Nicholas and Rebecca (Caton)
Gifford. Died August 9, 1853, age 1 year, 6 months.
(Nicholas Gifford came from the South, and settled in
1853 just north of the county line, on the State's Hundred
on Lot 44, Tully; by his wife Rebecca Caton he had:
Andrew J.; Dennison; Manly; Vinal, married Mercy A.
Barber, daughter of Charles and Betsey (Randall) Barber,
he is now in Auburn State's Prison ; Almus, in 1876 was in
House of Refuge at Rochester, N. Y. ; Devillo, formerly of
Cortland, N. Y. ; Rosetta and Filura, died young. Nicholas
110 ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIA-nON
Gifford died in Auburn State's Prison, April 15, 1876, and
his wife, prior to his incarceration, perished of cold in a
neighbor's dooryard, in Cold Brook, having been driven from
home by her husband, on a cold winter's night, clad only in
her night clothes. She was buried in this cemetery. (No
stone.)
(Cold Brook.)
GILBERT.
Mary (Enos), wife of Nathan Gilbert, and daughter of
Joseph and Chloe Enos. Died February 3, 1886, age 53
years.
(Thorn Hill.)
GILLETT.
In memory of Norman L., son of Ambrose S. and Charity
(Lewis) Gillett. Died October 16, 1828, age 8 years, 7
months, 5 days.
" Ye weeping friends your tears refrain.
This blooming youth shall bloom again."
(He was accidentally killed by the cut of a scythe in the
thigh. His mother. Charity Lewis, was a daughter of
Joseph and Mary (Stanton) Lewis. Mr. and Mrs. Gillett
left Spafford and went West.)
(Lewis Yard.)
GREEN.
Mariam Green. Died October 20, 1866, age 98 years, 8
months, 13 days.
" Asleep in Jesus."
(She was the mother of Mrs. Thurston Carr and Mrs.
Hiram Mason, who were sisters.)
(Spafford.)
Eber, son of Christopher and Elizabeth S. (Newman)
Green. Died July 5, 1834, age 7 years, 3 months, 3 days.
(Christopher Green, son of John and Mary (Hill) Green,
married Elizabeh Newman and lived in Spafford on Lot 1,
Tully. He came to this town from Otisco, and purchased
Sub-division 5 ( S. W. corner) , containing 132 acres on said
lot, of Joel Palmer, who held the same under contract, dated
February 11, 1807. Mr. Green took a deed February 23,
SPAFFORD MORTUAEY RECORDS WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES 111
1818. From this town he moved to Warren County, Pa.,
where he died in 1867. He was bom in Hoosick, Rensselaer
County, N. Y., 1794, and by his wife Elizabeth Newman
had: Harriet, Sally, Morrell, Lyman and Eber, who died
young.
John Green, the father of Christopher, in the United
States Census for the year 1840, was returned as a Revolu-
tionary soldier, residing in Spafford, aged 79 years, and in
the Green genealogy is claimed to be descended from John
Green of North Kingston, R. I., as follows : John ( ) ,
John, Benjamin, John. He was born in Rhode Island
1760-1, married Mary Hill, and resided first In HoosicK,
Rensselaer County, N. Y., and from there came to Spafford,
where he died after 1840. His children were : Christopher,
born 1794, died 1867, in Warren County, Pa., married Eliza-
beth NewTnan ; Henry, born April 16, 1796, died in Spafford,
April 6, 1879, age 83 years, married Anna Maria Coon in
Marcellus April 7, 1831, she was born in Marcellus October
10, 1813, and died in Spafford in 1874; Joel, bom August 4,
1799, married Nancy Frink, daughter of George and Nancy
(Burdick) Frink, August 24, 1826. He was a Seventh Day
Baptist Preacher, he had three children, of whom Albert C.
only survives, he married Caroline F. Meyer and resides in
Mosiertown, Pa. ; John, married Lucy Stoddard, and resided
in Spafford. He is now deceased and his wife has since
married twice and resides in Georgetown, N. Y. He had
three children : Henry A., Philo, and Hannah ; Amon, died
in 1868, married Eunice Belknap, and lived at Eagle,
Warren County, Pa.; Esther, married Samuel W. B. San-
ford, and lived at Sanford, Pa.; Mary, married Seneca
Stevens and lived in Michigan ; and Electa, married Horton
Applebee.
Henry Green, second son of John and Mary (Hill) Green,
born in Hoosick, N. Y., by his wife, Anna Maria Coon, had
the following children:, bom in Spafford: Albert, born
August 11, 1832, died in Skaneateles and buried in Spafford,
married. Melissa Wheeler in Scott, N. Y., December 3, 1852 ;
Alexander, born December 15, 1833, married in Scott,
Matilda Rounds, daughter of Russel and Lydia (Harring-
ton), Rounds, blacksmith, resided in Spafford (dead);
George W. M., born April 17, 1835, married Persis Hazzard
at Great Bend, Pa., resides in Pennsylvania ; Mary A., bom
112 ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
June 12, 1836, died in Otisco, January 20, 1861, married
Erastus GrifRn in Auburn, N. Y., November, 1855; Henry
M., born July 6, 1839, married June 2, 1864, in Preble,
N. Y., Phidelia Riggals, resides in Spafford ; Lucy M., born
September 7, 1840, married (1) in Auburn, May 24, 1869,
George Hinds, (2) Charles H. Sweet, resides in Carthage,
Mo.; Martha L., bom April 3, 1842, ; Rhoda A., bom Novem-
ber 30, 1844, unmarried, resides in Brooklyn, N. Y. ; Ben-
jamin S. born March 5, 1846, died March 22, 1847; Caro-
line, born April 18, 1847, married in Syracuse, N. Y.,
October 20, 1869, Devillo Norton, son of Sejnnour and Sally
(Lyman) Norton, resides in Spafford; Frances, bom Janu-
ary 12, 1849, married George Springer, resides in Brooklyn,
N. Y.; Orlando M., born January 18, 1851, died May 16,
1874, in Spafford; and Helen, bom June 18, 1853, married
William Dennis, resides in Auburn, N. Y. Henry Green
and his wife are supposed to have been buried in Spafford
Cemetery. (No stone.)
(Stanton Yard.)
Albert Green, (son of Henry and Anna Maria (Coon)
Green) . Died March 28, 1878, age 45 years, 7 months.
" There is rest in Heaven."
(He married in Scott, N. Y., December 3, 1852, Melissa
Wheeler.)
(Spafford.)
Orlando M. Green, (son of Henry and Anna Maria (Coon)
Green). Died May 16, 1874, age 23 years, 4 months, 5
days.
" Around my bed stood those that wept.
And sighed to part with one so dear,
But he in Jesus gently sleeps
Without a groan, without a fear."
(Spafford.)
GOLDEN.
William, son of J and Lucy C. Golden. Died
June 18, 1837, age 1 year, 10 months.
(Spafford.)
Abigail (Gale), wife of William Golden. Died February
12, 1840, age 33 years, 5 months, 4 days.
(Borodino.)
SPAFFORD MORTUARY RECORDS WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES 113
Albert, son of William and Abigail Golden. Died March
30, 1835. age 10 years, 9 months, 15 days.
(Borodino.)
GOODRICH.
Jane R., daughter of Richard C. and Christie Ann (Rob-"
ertson), Goodrich. Died November 2, 1843, age 6 years,
7 months, 11 days.
(Richard C. Goodrich, married Christie Ann Robertson,
daughter of James and Isabel (Eadie) Robertson. After
the decease of Richard C. Goodrich, his wife married Daniel
Lyon of Otisco, N. Y., as his second wife. Mr. Lyon and
his wife Christie are both now deceased, and buried in
Otisco.)
(Spafford.)
GOODWIN.
Louis Goodwin. Died June 16, 1856, age 42 years.
(He came to Cold Brook from Columbia County, N. Y.,
but was born in Germany. He married Julania Smith,
daughter of Lemuel D. and Polly (Seeley) Smith, and grand-
daughter of Samuel G. and Ada (Fowler) Seeley.)
(Cold Brook.)
GORDON.
Alexander Gordon. Died October 3, 1885, age 63 years.
(He married Matilda Wallace, a sister of John Wallace;
they were all born in Ireland. In his will dated June 6,
1885, and probated November 18, 1885, he mentions his
wife Matilda Gordon, and the following children : Eliza J.,
married Lyman C. Bennett, son of Stephen and Waity
(Hill) Bennett; William J., married Ella Mason, daughter
of Elbridge Mason; Wallace, (dead), married Helen Nor-
ton, daughter of Erastus and Mary (Isdell) Norton; Car-
son; and Emmett Gordon, married Florence Patten,
daughter of George A. Patten, resides in Borodino, N. Y.
(Borodino.)
Matilda Wallace, wife of Alexander Gordon.
(She was living in 1898 with her daughter, Mrs. Bennett,
in Spafford. Died in 1900.)
(Borodino.)
114 ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
GROVE.
Reuben Grove. Died January 28, 1860, age 25 years, 1
month, 24 days.
(Borodino.)
GREGORY.
John T. Gregory.Bom at Ashton, Somerset, England.
Died at Skaneateles April 4, 1882, age 82 years.
" My dust returns to dust, all for the best,
My soul will go to God and be at rest."
(He married Maria Caruthers, widow of Thomas Car-
uthers.)
(Thorn Hill.)
Maria, wife of John T. Gregory, and former wife of
Thomas Caruthers. Died February 17, 1885, age 84 years.
(Thorn Hill.)
GRIFFIN.
Infant son of Erastus and Lilly (Craig) Griffin. Died
January 1, 1889, age 11 weeks.
(Erastus Griffin married Lilly Craig, daughter of William
H. and Phebe A. (Brown) (Craig.)
(Cold Brook.)
GRINNELL.
Isaiah Grinnel. Died January 19, 1861, age 88 years.
(He resided on Lot 13, Sempronius, where he settled be-
fore 1824. He married Jane Crane, probably a sister of
Stephen Crane, and by her had: John, married and lived
in Orleans County, N. Y. ; Eliza, also married and lived in
Orleans County, N. Y.; Seymour, married Elizabeth Bab-
cock, daughter of John and Betsey (Bulfinch) Babcock;
Ansel, married (1) Asenath Bennett, and (2) Emeline A.
Kinyon, widow of Joseph Monk; , married John
Gale, Jr., son of John and Martha Gale ; and ,
married Jane (widow) , died March 24, 1866, age 89 years.
(Borodino.)
Jane (Crane), wife of Isaiah Grinnell. Died May 24,
1866, age 89 years.
(Borodino.)
SPAFFORD MORTUARY RECORDS WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES HI
Seymour Grinnell, son of Isaiah and Jane (Crane)
Grinnell. Died November 24, 1887, age 74 years. (No
stone.)
(By his wife, Elizabeth Babcock, he had three children.)
(Borodino.)
Elizabeth (Babcock), wife of Seymour Grinnell. Died
at Scott, N. Y., September 28, 1891, age 77 years.
(Borodino.)
Ansel Grinnell, son of Isaiah and Jane (Crane) Grinnell.
Died January 25, 1889, age 72 years. (No stone.)
(He married (1) Asenath Bennett, of Spafford Hollow,
and (2) Emeline A. Kinyon, widow of Joseph Monk. In the
application for Letters of Administration upon his estate,
made by his widow, Emeline A. Grinnell, dated November
12, 1889, she mentions the following children : George Riley,
married Lucinda , she died at Scott, N. Y., June
6, 1886, buried in Borodino Cemetery (no stone) , he resides
in Scott, N. Y.; Eliza Ann, married Adelbert C. Stanton,
resides in Spafford, N. Y.; and Mary L., married George
Emmons, resides in LaFayette, N. Y.)
(Borodino.)
Asenath (Bennett), wife of Ansel Grinnell. Died
October 10, 1862, age 44 years, 10 months, 22 days.
(Borodino.)
Mary Jane, daughter of Ansel and Asenath (Bennett).
Died November 9, 1857, age 1 year, 1 month.
(Borodino.)
GROUT.
Abigail Hudson was born October 15, 1753. Was married
to John Grout, October 15, 1770. Was married to William
Clark, October 4, 1780. Died December 17, at 4 o'clock
A. M., 1820. Age 67 years, 2 months, 2 days.
" God my redeemer lives and often from the skies
Looks down and watches all my dust 'till he shall bid it rise."
(Spafford.)
Adeline M., daughter of John and Elizabeth (Clark)
Grout. Died September 17, 1836, age 19 years, 2 months,
12 days.
(John Grout bom June 14, 1776, came to Spafford before
1819, and settled on Lot 21, Tully; by his wife, Elizabeth
116 ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
Clark, born May 27, 1781, he had the following children:
Joel H., born October 29, 1808, married Lucretia Roundy,
daughter of Daniel and Laura (Hoyt) Roundy; Sylvanus
N., born September 28, 1806, married (1) Julania Stanton,
daughter of Benjamin and Amy (Perkins) Stanton, and
(2) Elizabeth Brown of Scott, N. Y., sister of his brother
John's wife; John, bom October 13, 1831, married Sarah M.
Brown, born August 14, 1831, of Scott, N. Y., they are both
deceased. (In the petition for Letters of Administration
upon his estate, dated June 12, 1891, the following children
are m.entioned: Helen, married Martin J. Boutell, son of
Samuel and Catherine (Williamson) Boutell, resides in
Syracuse, N. Y., Lyra E. Russell, of Rock Rapids, Iowa,
John J. Grout, of Roch Rapids, Iowa, and Ernest Eugene
Grout) ; Caroline E., born February 12, 1814, married
Thomas B, Anderson; and Adeline M., born July 5, 1817,
died Sept. 17, 1836.)
(Spafford.)
Joel H. Grout, (son of John and Elizabeth (Clark)
Grout.) Died February 16, 1858, age 49 years, 3 months,
18 days.
(By his wife, Lucretia Roundy, he had two daughters:
Adeline and Laura, both married and residing in Illinois.
His wife also moved to Evanston, Illinois, after his decease,
and died there in 1895.)
(Spafford.)
Julania (Stanton), wife of Sylvanus N. Grout. Died
March 9, 1849, age 34 years, 8 months.
(Spafford.)
Celia, daughter of Sylvanus N., and Julania (Stanton)
Grout. Died October 3, 1844, age 2 years, 8 months, 15
days.
(Spafford.)
Helen M., daughter of Sylvanus N. and Julania (Stanton)
Grout. Died June 15, 1836, age 8 months, 1 day.
(Spafford.)
Edwin, son of Sylvanus N. and Julania (Stonton) Grout.
Died March 1, 1844, age 3 days.
(Spafford.)
SPAFFORD MORTUARY RECORDS WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES 117
James, son of Eebnezer and Polly (Perkins) Grout.
Died January 4, 1823, age 3 years, 2 months.
" Let parents warning take
And not of a child an idol make."
(Ebenezer Grout was a brother of John Grout, who
married Elizabeth Clark.)
(Spafford.)
GUTSELL.
Charles M., died September 11, 1861, age 2 years, 10
months, 17 days.
Milo J., died September 10, 1861, age 1 year, 3 months,
10 days.
Children of James and Maria (Jacobs) Gutsell.
" Our Little Ones."
" Lovely and pleasant in their lives ;
And in their death they were not divided."
(James Gutsell was a minister ; he married Maria Jacobs,
daughter of Elias and Betsey G. Jacobs.)
(Spafford.)
HALL.
Hannah (Wilcox), wife of Simeon Hall. Died July 20,
1838, age 52 years.)
(Simeon Hall's wife was a sister of Mrs. Rathbone
Barber. Mr. Hall lived on the lower lake road, on Lot 31,
Sempronius, just north of Rathbone Barber. He was not
related, so far as known, to the Samuel Hall family living
east of him. Among his children were: Alzina, married
Darius Plumer; and Sophia, married Solomon Burdick.)
(Spafford.)
Asa Hall, (son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Macumber)
Hall.) Died February 11, 1882, age 70 years, 14 days.
(Samuel and Elizabeth (Macumber) Hall were Rhode
Island Quakers, and came to Sempronius from Mayfield,
N. Y., where their son, Asa, was born, in 1818. Rufus Hall,
the father of Samuel, probably was born of Samuel and
Dinah Hall, in Exeter, R. L, June 8, 1744. He married
Anna Hoxsie. His son Samuel, born May 10, 1772, and
died January 24, 1846, married February 23, 1797, Eliza-
beth Macumber, born February 17, 1772, died September
118 ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
13, 1853, and by her had the following children : Anna, bom
December 29, 1797, died April 28, 1818 ; David, born April
7, 1799, died December 12, 1829, married Juliette Knight,
September 29, 1824 ; Silas, bom October 4, 1800 died August
22, 1804; Mercy, bora June 22, 1802, died unmarried Nov-
ember 2, 1871, buried Spafford Cemetery ; Lydia, born Jan-
uary 25, 1804, died September 25, 1875, married John Rich-
ardson September 28, 1828; Hannah, bora November 27,
1805, died January 2, 1875, married Reuben S. Palmer,
November 29, 1834; Rufus, bora January 10, 1808, died
June 1, 18 — , married Clarissa Belknap, January 6, 1833;
Daniel, bora October 2, 1809, died June 20, 1811 ; Asa, bom
January 28, 1812, died February 11, 1882, married Laura
Ann Babcock, November 16, 1834, and Elihu, born January
30, 1814, died February 12, 1814.
Asa Hall,. son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Macumber) Hall,
married Laura Ann Babcock, daughter of John, Jr. and
Nancy (Stoddard) Babcock, and by her had: Philetus, of
Sempronius, N. Y. ; Arthur F., married Clarissa A. Ripley,
daughter of John L. and Clarissa (Loss) Ripley, October 6,
1869, resides in Spafford, N. Y. ; N. Elizabeth, married Jona-
than D. Ripley, son of John L. and Clarissa (Loss) Ripley,
she died November 13, 1866, and left two children : Arthur,
and Lillian; and Julius J., died November 17, 1845. Asa
Hall was a miller by occupation, and attended the Baptist
Church at Thorn Hill, where his wife was a member.)
(Spafford.)
Laura Ann Babcock, wife of Asa Hall. Died September
30, 1845, age 27 years, 7 months, 3 days.
(Spafford.)
Julius J., son of Asa and Laura Ann (Babcock) Hall.
Died November 17, 1845, age 2 years, 5 months, 27 days.
(Spafford.)
Mercy Hall, (daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth (Macum-
ber) Hall. Died November 7, 1871, age 69 years, 4 months,
10 days.
" Asleep in Jesus."
(Spafford.)
James T., son of Nicholas and Lydia Hall. Died January
31, 1832, age 3 years, 13 days.
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" Adieu my sweet and precious babe,
I give thee back to God.
With flowers I'll deck thy early grave."
(Spafford.)
HAIGHT.
Rhoda F., daughter of Mott and Mary Haight. Died
March 17, 1840, age 5 months.
(Mott Haight was a teacher. He had a brother, William
Haight, who died in Skaneateles, N. Y., about 1884, and on
account of the death of his only child, Arthur Haight, prior
to his decease, it was necessary in probating his will, in
1884, to cite all his collateral kinsmen, who were at that
time as follows: (1) Children of his deceased brother,
James Haight: John Haight of Johnstown, Rock County,
Wis.; Lindley D. Haight, of Clear Lake, Cerro Gordo Co.,
Iowa; (2) children of his deceased brother, Mott Haight:
Arthur M. Haight, of Parma, Jackson Co., Michigan; (3)
children of his deceased brother, Titus Haight: Hannah
V/anzer, of Austin, Cook County, 111. ; Sarah W. Cornell, of
Appleton, OutagamJe County, Wis.; Mary J. Haight, of
Mandana, Onondaga County, N. Y. ; Catherine J. Irish, of
Mandana, Onondaga County, N. Y. ; Henry J. Haight, mar-
ried Eudora Colton, daughter of Alanson and Charity (Ide)
Colton, resides in Borodina, N. Y. ; and Francis E. and
Egbert Cornell, children of Elizabeth S., deceased daughter
of Titus Haight, who married Francis E. Cornell, her chil-
dren then resided with their father at Verbank, Dutchess
County, N. Y. ; (4) Children of his deceased brother, John
S. Haight: Charles H. Haight, of Sycamore, DeKalb Co.,
111. ; Edgar Haight, of Sycamore, DeKalb County, 111. ; Char-
lotte M. Bockes, wife of Dennis Bockes of Skaneateles,
N, Y. ; (5) Children of his deceased brother, Zebulon
Haight: Anna Haight, of Salina, Salina County, Kansas;
Lewis Haight, of Pawnee Rock, Barton County, Kansas;
Amy Arnold, of Stanfordville, Dutchess County, N. Y. ;
Maria Duell, of Stanfordville, Dutchess County, N. Y.;
Phoebe Jane Griffin, of Clinton Comers, Dutchess County,
N. Y. ; Esther Alley, of La Grangerville, Dutchess County,
N. Y. ; Charlotte A. Underbill, of Croton Landing, West-
chester County, N. Y. (6) Children of his deceased sister,
Anna M. Sutton : Silas H. Sutton, of Breckenridge, Summit
120 ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
County, Colorado ; George H. Sutton, of Maple City, Cawley
County, Kansas; Melissa Sutton, of Coffin's Summit, Dut-
chess County, N. Y. ; Sarah E. Gardner, of West 45th Street,
New York City. (7) Children of his deceased brother,
Enoch Haight: Charles B. Haight, of Owosso, Shiawassee
County, Mich. ; and Charles Ripp, Alice I. Fenton, both of
Chicago, Illinois, and Charles W. Kipp, of Clay Center, Clay
County, Kansas, children of Mary Kipp, deceased daughter
of Enoch Haight, deceased.)
(Borodino.)
Ernest C. Haight, (son of Henry I, and Eudora (Colton)
Haight) . Died January 15, 1887, age 11 years.
(Henry I. Haight was a son of Titus Haight; his son,
Ernest C, was killed by accident.)
(Borodino.)
HAMILTON.
Lydia C, wife of John Hamilton. Died June 28, 1852, in
her 53rd year.
(Borodino.)
HARMON.
Joseph Harmon. Died April 23, 1892, age 73 years.
(He came to this town from Sempronius, Cayuga County,
N. Y., and married (1) Mary Jane Williamson, daughter of
Cornelius and Eliza (Ostrander) Williamson, and (2)
Mary Jane Rajnuond, daughter of Nathan and Maria (Wil-
liamson) Raymond, and niece of his first wife. He left no
issue surviving him, his only child, by his first wife, Jennie,
died in 1865. His will, dated December 25, 1883, and pro-
bated July 13, 1892, and the petition for its probate men-
tions his wife, Mary Jane Harmon, no children, but the fol-
lowing next of kin: Elizabeth Burdick (sister), of Homer,
N. Y. ; Orrin S. Harmon, (brother), of Forrestville, Chau-
tauqua County, N. Y. ; Lorinda Case (sister) , of Sempron-
ius, Cayuga County, N. Y. ; Edwin L. Harmon (bother), of
Moravia, Cayuga County, N. Y.; Mary Van Schoick (sister)
of Greenwood, Steuben County, N. Y. ; Maria Graham and
William B. Harmon, (daughter and son of Alexander Har-
mon, deceased brother), both of Sempronius, Cayuga
County, N. Y. ; Morris G. Craft, (son of Almira Craft,
SPAFFORD MORTUARY RECORDS WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES 12l
deceased sister) , of Homer, N. Y., and Frank Harmon, (son
of Franklin Harmon, deceased brother), of Buffalo, N. Y.
At the time of his decease Mr. Harmon resided on Lot 31,
Tully, on the Skaneateles and Homer road, just south of
Spafford Corners — Russel M. Burdick farm.)
(Spafford.)
Mary Jane (WilHamson), wife of Joseph Harmon. Died
February 17, 1879, age 53 years.
(Spafford.)
Mary Jane (Raym.ond) , wife of Joseph Harmon.
(Living in 1898.)
(Spafford.)
Our Jennie, only child of Joseph and Mary Jane (William-
son) Harmon. Died March 16, 1865, age 9 years, 6 months.
" Of such is the kingdom of Heaven."
(Spafford.)
HARRINGTON.
John Harrington. Died September 15, 1869, age 76
years, 7 months, 4 days.
(John Harrington came to this town from Foster, R. I.,
(where he was born), with his wife Catherine, and settled
east of Skaneateles Lake, on Lot 41, Tully. His children by
his wife Catherine were: Catherine, married her cousin,
Whipple Harrington, who died in Homer, N. Y. ; Jenks,
married Lydia Johnson, he died near Oneida Lake; Lydia,
married Russel Rounds, he is dead and she is living in 1898,
with her son-in-law, John Odell, in Spafford, N. Y. ; Cary,
married widow Martha Barker, both dead, reputed son,
Marion Harrington, inherited his estate; Sally, married
Hiram Coon, moved to Michigan ; Paulina, married Simeon
Morris, son of Samuel and Jane Springer Morris; Polly,
married Simeon Morris, son of Samuel and Jane Springer
Morris, as his second wife; a son, drowned in Skaneateles
Lake ; and Phebe, married Truman Worden, both dead, and
buried in this cemetery.)
(Spafford.)
Catherine, wife of John Harrington. Died September 23,
1867, age 78 years, 8 months, 28 days.
" Gone but not forgotten."
(Spafford.)
122 ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
Gary Harrington, (son of John and Catherine Harring-
ton). Died October 23, 1884, age 64 years, 1 month, 2
days.
(His wife, Martha Barker, was buried at Watkins, N. Y.)
(Spafford.)
Stanley D. Harrington, (son of Alfred G. and Vestelina
E. (Woodworth) Harrington). Bom November 23, 1869,
died November 25, 1892.
" A model Christian son, brother and friend.
Industrious, economical, charitable and affectionate,
Courageous in doing right, intelligence lighted his
Path to duty, which he saw in serving God and Humanity.
He has gone to his Saviour in whom he trusted,
And left none but pleasant memories of
His earthly probation. Requiem in pace,
O ! optome filie."
( Jenks Harrington, (son of John and Catherine Harring-
ton) , by his wife Lydia Johnson, had the following children :
Alfred G., married Vestelina E. Woodworth, daughter of
Joel C. and Sarah (Eadie) ) Woodworth; Clarissa, married
Alfred Hitchcock, dead; Sidney, married Phebe Clark,
daughter of Thomas Clark, he died in Cortland, N. Y. ; Rens-
selaer, died unmarried ; Oscar, married in Canastota, N. Y. ;
Almira, married Mr. Hopkins, her husband is dead and she
resides in Cortland, N. Y. ; Norman Manuel, name of wife
unknown; Emily, married Samuel Morris, son of Simeon
Morris, resides in Homer, N. Y.
Prof. Alfred G. Harrington, (son of Jenks and Lydia
< Johnson) Harrington), by his wife Vestelina E. Wood-
worth, had the following children: Lettie, married Amos
Maxson as his second wife, resides in Scott, N. Y. ; Howard,
resides in Spafford, unmarried ; Marius, married Orra Max-
son, daughter of Amos and Lodema (Barber) Maxson;
Lilly, resides in Spafford, unmarried ; Irving, married Lina
Cleveland, daughter of John and Caroline (Doty) Cleve-
land, resides in Spafford, N. Y. ; Stanley D., died in 1892;
William, resides in Spafford, unmarried ; Harrold, resides in
Spafford, unmarried; Howard, died in 1868; Adelbert,
resides in Spafford, unmarried; Alice, married George
Brown, of Cortland, N. Y. ; and Adelle, resides in Cortland,
unmarried. Professor Harrington was a man of fine edu-
cation, and for many years a successful teacher in the
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schools of this State. For a few years last past, he has
been living on a farm in this town, supplementing his labors
on the farm with literary work, for which he has a strong
predilection. The Professor has been honored with the
degree of Master of Arts.)
(Spafford.)
A John Harrington, (not related to above family) at an
early date resided on the Col. Jenney Farm (1899) Lot 32,
Sempronius, he moved to Michigan; wife, Julia M.
Howard Harrington, (son of Alfred G. and Vestelina E.
(Woodworth) Harrington) . Bom February 15, 1859, died
February 23, 1868.
(Spafford.)
Horatio, son of Aimer S. and Arminda Harrington. A
member of Company " D," 122d Regt., N. Y. V. Killed in
Battle of Cedar Creek, Va., October 19, 1864, age 22 years.
" My Country called me."
(Aimer S. Harrington and his wife, Arminda, came to
this town from Brookfield, Madison County, N. Y., about
1850, and settled on Lots 11 and 12, Sempronius; he after-
wards resided on Lot 76, Marcellus, north of Borodino.)
(Borodino.)
HARRIS.
William Harris. Died May 17, 1842, age 54 years, 2
months, 25 days.
(He married Nancy Davis, daughter of Elias and Free-
love Davis, and by her had: Julania, married Rathbone
Barber, Jr., son of Rathbone and Robe (Wilcox) Barber,
dead; Phebe D., married John C. Tinkham, son of Russel
and Mary (Cook) Tinkham, dead; Jane, married her
brother-in-law, John C. Tinkham, as his second wife, dead ;
and Mary, married Fred Hoover of Auburn, N. Y.)
(Davis Yard.)
Mary Flaurence, daughter of Rev. I. and Mary H. Harris.
Died November 6, 1861, age 2 years, 10 months.
" Gone to live with Jesus."
" She sang sweetly here, she sings sweetly in Heaven."
(The Rev. Mr. Harris came to this town from Munroe
County, N. Y., and after a short stay, moved away.)
(Borodino.)
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HARVEY.
Medad Harvey. Born June 3, 1771, died December 16,
1845.
(Medad Harvey come to this town from Fort Ann, Vt.,
about 1800, and settled on Lot 76, Marcellus, where he
remained until the time of his decease. His wife was Anar
Buell, by whom he had the following children : Paul, mai-
ried Sally Hiscock, daughter of James and Elizabeth His-
cock, he died at Thorn Hill, N. Y. ; Lucinda, married Cj^rus
Smith, son of Job and Elizabeth (Keeler) Smith, she died in
Chautauqua County, N. Y. ; Samuel, married Mary Reed,
he died in Cattaraugus County, N. Y. ; Sally, married
Ensign Austin, she died in Skaneateles, N. Y. ; Harriet,
married Sedgv/ick Austin, she died in Sennett, Cayuga
• County, N. Y. ; John, married Theda Reed, he died in Cattar-
augus County, N. Y. ; Rhoda, married Jared Smith, she died
in Skaneateles, N. Y. ; Electa, married Henry Vary (brother
of Charles) , she died in Skaneateles, N. Y. ; Leonard, mar-
ried (1) Jane A. Rathbone, daughter of James and Mar-
garet (Ashley) Rathbone, and (2) , he
died in Illinois; Isabel, unmarried, (1898), living in Chi-
cago, 111. ; Dorwin, married Jane Anthony, daughter of Isaac
and Pamelia (Phelps) Anthony, he died in Chicago, 111.;
and Medad, married Ann Van Atten, died in Illinois.)
(Thorn Hill.)
Anar (Buell) Harvey, (wife of Medad Harvey). Born
June 24, 1775, died September 8, 1858.
(Thorn Hill.)
Paul Harvey, (son of Medad and Anar (Buell) Harvey).
Died August 22, 1852, age 53 years.
(Paul Harvey was born at Fort Ann, Vt., and came to
this town, (Marcellus end), with his parents. He married
Sally Hiscock, daughter of James and Elizabeth Hiscock,
and by her had the following children : Anna, married Seeley
Strong, she died in Ellery, Chautauqua County, N. Y.;
Adeline, she died unmarried at Thorn Hill, N. Y.; Alfred,
married Elsina Patterson, daughter of Volney and Susanna
(Green) Patterson, he resides Ellery, Chautauqua County,
N. Y. ; Eleanor, married Nelson Hillebert, son of John C.
and Elizabeth (Berry) Hillebert, (1898) residing in Social-
ity, Cattaraugus County, N. Y. ; Job, married Chloe Ann
Mason, daughter of Asa and Anna (Shelden) Mason„
SPAFFORD MORTUARY RECORDS WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES 1 25
December 27, 1849, he died at Borodino, N. Y., March 25,
1900, burial in Borodino Cemetery; Mark, married (1) Hen-
rietta Colton, daug-hter of Alanson and Charity (Ide) Col-
ton, and (2) Mary A. Unckless, daughter of John and Mary
A. (Snook) Unckless, (he has a son, Frank Harvey, resid-
ing at Thorn Hill), he resides at Borodino, N. Y. ; Harriet
E., married Darius S. Mason, December 26, 1849, son of
Asa and Anna (Shelden) Mason, she is now deceased; and
Mary, married Samuel Ackles, resides at Thorn Hill, N. Y.)
(Thorn Hill.)
Sally (Hiscock), wife of Paul Harvey. Died August 3,
1879, age 83 years.
(She was born in the town of Augusta, Madison County,
N. Y., and came to this town with her parents, James and
Elizabeth Hiscock, from her native place, about 1812, and
resided with them, (until her marriage), on Lot 69, Mra-
cellus. She was married to Mr. Harvey in this town. It
is claimed that her father was a Soldier of the Revolution.)
(Thorn Hill.)
Adaline Harvey, (daughter of Paul and Sally (Hiscock)
Harvey. Died April 4, 1895, age 79 years.
(She died unmarried. In her will, dated May 11, 1893,
probated June 11, 1895, she mentions: Frank Harvey, son
of her brother, Mark Harvey; and W. Harry Ackles, and
Grace Mills, wife of Frank B. Mills, children of her sister,
Mary Ackles, wife of Samuel Ackles, all residing at Thorn
Hill, N. Y. In the petition for probate, the following
brothers and sisters were mentioned as heirs at law and
next of kin : Job Harvey, Mark Harvey and Mary Ackles, of
Spafford, N. Y., Anna Strong of Jamestown, N. Y. ; Alfred
Harvey of St. Clairville, Chautauqua County, N. Y., and
Eleanor Hillebert of Dayton, Cattaraugus County, N. Y.)
(Thorn Hill.)
Jane A. (Rathbone) Harvey, consort of Leonard Harvey.
Died October 16, 1833, age 24 years.
(Leonard Harvey, son of Medad and Anar (Buell)
Harvey, married a second wife in Illoinois.)
(Thorn Hill.)
Mark Harvey, (son of Paul and Sally (Hiscock) Harvey).
Born August 6, 1832, (living in Borodino in 1899.)
(Borodino.)
126 ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
Henrietta Colton, wife of Mark Harvey. Bom November
30, 1836, died June 15, 1888.
(Borodino.)
Mary Ann Unckless, second wife of Mark Harvey. Bom
July 31, 1841. (She was living in 1899.)
(Borodino.)
Paul A. Harvey, (son of Mark and Henrietta (Colton)
Harvey) . Bom June 11, 1871, died March 21, 1891.
" Trusting that all be well."
(Borodino.)
Harry J. Harvey, (son of Mark and Henrietta (Colton)
Harvey). Bom December 22, 1869, died March 15, 1891.
" To die is gain."
(Borodino.)
Jessie, daughter of Frank and Josie A. Harvey.
Died January 6, 1887, age 2 years, 11 months, 15 days.
(Frank Harvey, son of Mark and Henrietta (Colton)
Harvey, married Josie A,
(Borodino.)
HAY.
Bethany Hay, (daughter of Henry and Bathsheba (Sat-
terly) Hay. Who departed this life March 15, 1832, in her
12th year.
** God calls and I must go
And leave all fleeting earthly things below."
(Henry Hay lived on the Samuel Gale place, on the Skan-
eateles and Homer road, next to the county line on lot 42,
Tully. He moved from Spafford in the Spring of 1835.)
(Spafford.)
HAYES.
Maria S., daughter of Erastus and Irena Hayes. Died
May 13. 1829, age 20 years, 7 months, 9 days.
" She is forever gone from things below,
Gone from a world where sorrow grows.
Gone to a world of joy and rest.
To dwell forever with the happy blest."
(Thom Hill.)
Hosea Horace Briggs, son of Erastus and Irena Hayes.
Died September 3, 1828, age 15 years, 5 months, 11 days.
SPAFFORD MORTUARY RECORDS WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES 127
(He was accidentally killed. Erastus Hayes first settled
on the east part of lot 89, Marcellus, April 11, 1825, moved
from there to lot 22, Tully, February 12, 1835, and from
thence went West about 1850, with his only surviving child
and son, Hiram W. Hayes. Erastus Hayes originally came
from Otsego County, N. Y., and settled on Lot 50, Homer,
N. Y., in 1807, and from there to the Marcellus end of this
town, as above stated, in 1825.
Hiram W. Hayes, son of Erastus and Irena Hayes, mar-
ried Almeda Tinkham, daughter of Daniel and Adah (Wind-
sor) Tinkham, and by her had: Cynthia Maria, married
Orphaniel Bessey, she died in Spafford, leaving no issue;
Briggs, married Mary McCormack, he died in Michigan;
Candace, married Dana Root, husband dead, and she now
residing in Quincy, Mich, (four children) ; Calvin, married
(1) Calista Ripley, daughter of John L. and Clarissa (Loss)
Ripley, and (2) out West, he is now (1899) residing in
Pomona, California; Olive, died unmarried in Spafford,
N. Y., and Arzena, married a Mr. Slocum, and died in
Michigan. Hiram W. Hayes was in 1898 residing with his
son Calvin, in Pomona, California.)
(Thorn Hill.)
HAYFORD.
Mercy, wife of John Hayford. Died January 10, 1849,
in her 82nd year.
(Borodino.)
Benjamin Hayford. Born in 1812, died in 1887.
(He married (1) Elizabeth French, daughter of Titus
and Elizabeth French, (2) Mercy French, sister of his first
wife, and (3) Lottie M. Baker. In the application for
Letters of Administration by Orrin I. Hayford, his son, of
Borodino, N. Y., filed March 31, 1887, mention is made of
Lottie (Loretta) M. Hayford, his widow (since deceased),
and of the following children : Orrin I. Hayford, of Boro-
dino, N. Y. ; Annette L. Harrington, of Berren Springs,
Mich.; William Francis Hayfrod, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa;
Eliza J. Quick, wife of Charles B. Quick, of Borodino, N. Y. ;
and Cyrus Duane Hayford, born October 18, 1840, (by
second wife), married Mary Schoonmaker, daughter of
Moses and Sarah (Barker) Schoonmaker, resides in Tully,
128 ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
N. Y. Cyrus D. Hayford had two children: Blanche and
Alice M. Hayford. Blanche is now deceased.)
(Borodino.)
Elizabeth (French), wife of Benjamin Hayford. Bom
in 1812, died in 1846.
(Borodino.).
Mercy (French), wife of Benjamin Hayford. Born in
1822, died in 1858.
(Borodino.)
Lottie M. (Baker), wife of Benjamin Hayford. Died
August 5, 1895, age 66 years.
(Borodino.)
William Hayford.. Died at Borodino.
(He married Asenath French.)
(Borodino.)
HAVENS.
(Borodino.)
Ebenezer Havens, son of Daniel W. and Abigail (Burling)
Havens. Born March 23, 1803, died January 18, 1875.
Daniel W. Havens was born in Washington County, R. I.,
about March 20, 1762, and settled in Scott Hollow, at the
head of Skaneateles Lake. He was a shoemaker by occu-
pation ; a member of the Seventh Day Baptist Church, and
was buried in the Seventh Day Baptist Cemetery at Scott,
Cortland Co., N. Y. His wife, Abigail Burling, of German
extraction, survived him about three years, and then died
and was buried at the same place. Their children were:
Abbie, married Joseph Cummings of Cortland County,
N. Y. ; Whitman, enlisted in the War of 1812, nothing more
of him ; Clark B., married Robey Barber, daughter of Rath-
bone and Robe (Wilcox) Barber, both dead; Ebenezer, mar-
ried Laura Pettis, daughter of Joseph Pettis; and Daniel,
he also enlisted in the War of 1812, and never returned.
Clark B. Havens, son of Daniel and Abigail (Burling)
Havens, by his wife, Robey Barber, had the following chil-
dren, all bom in SpafFord: Adelia, married Dr. Charles
Merrell, formerly of Skaneateles, N. Y., now deceased;
Hezekiah, married Daintha Oland, of Skaneateles, N. Y.;
he was killed by a falling limb of a tree; Sally, married
Stephen Randall, son of Stephen and Ruth Randall, she
died and Randall married for a second wife Diantha Oland,
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widow of Hezekiah Havens. Randall was finally drowned
in Skaneateles Lake; Christina, married Jessey Pullman,
son of John and Mabel (Pettis) Pullman; Annette, married
, now deceased; twin of Annette, died
young; and Elizabeth (" Betsey"), married Gordon Mason
and moved to Illinois. Clark B. Havens married a second
wife in Illinois, where he resided for a time before his
decease, but by her had no issue.
Ebenezer Havens, son of Daniel and Abigail (Burling)
Havens, married Laura Pettis, March 9, 1825, on Randall's
Point, on Skaneateles Lake, in the town of Spafford N. Y.
By her he had the following children, all born in this town:
Mary Jane, born July 29, 1827, married (1) James Apple-
bee, and (2) William Bulfinch Allen, son of Sumner and
Mary (Sherman) Allen, resides in Spafford, has one son by
Allen: William B., Jr., married Mrs. Ann Thompson;
Joseph, and Daniel, twins, born December 4, 1829, died
young; Dwight, born July 13, 1830, married (1) Henrietta
Ball, (2) Mary Willett, he starved to death in Danville Rebel
Prison, N. C, in the War of 1861 ; Abigail E., born May 27,
1832, married (1) Washington Morris, son of Samuel and
Jane (Springer) Morris, dead, and (2) Samuel Allen;
Nancy Maria, born March 11, 1837, married (1) Andrew
NeAvman, and (2) John Jacob Volkart; Matilda A., bom
December 25, 1838, married (1) Nathan Bond, and (2)
Harvey Randall, son of Stephen and Ruth Randall, she
resides in Wisconsin ; Lauretta E., born May 23, 1840, mar-
ried Ichabod J. Wallace, son of William and Pamelia (Eddy)
Wallace, her husband is dead, and she resides at Glen
Haven, N. Y., had one son Morgan, married widow Flora B.
Wallace, and died June 9, 1891; Cornelia, born December
15, 1841, died young; and Ebenezer, born May 19, 1843,
married Myra Bradford, March 17, 1879, resides at Glen
Haven N. Y.) (No stone.)
(Spafford.)
Laura Pettis, wife of Ebenezer Havens. Born May 23,
1805, died March, 1884.
(She was a daughter of Joseph Pettis, and was born in
Jefferson County, N. Y. She came to this town when a
small child, and resided until her marriage on Randall's
Point, on the east side of Skaneateles Lake. She and her
husband, Ebenezer Havens, were two honest, upright, pure
180 ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
minded and good people, and were generally respectd. They
were well known to the writer in his boyhood, and he
treasures their memory with the warmest affection.) (No
stone.)
(Spafford.)
HENRY.
Phebe, wife of Alexander Henry. Died August 9, 1866,
age 42 years, 2 months, 26 days.
" Go home, dear friends, and dry your tears.
For I must lie here until Jesus appears."
(Alexander Henry married for a second wife Harriet
Anthony, sister of George H.)
(Cold Brook.)
HIBBARD.
Jane (Brown), wife of James Hibbard, and daughter of
Jacob and Deborah (Morris) Brown. Bom April 10, 1846,
died May 24, 1876.
(Spafford.)
HIGBEY.
Eugene A., son of William A. and Jane Higbey. Died
July 23, 1842, age 11 months, 3 days.
(Mr. Higbey also had a son John, and a daughter, Fidelia
Higbey.)
(Spafford Hollow.)
HILL.
John C. Hill. Died April 18, 1882, age 47 years.
(He was bom in England. He had the following:
George, married Nancy Randall, daughter of George Henry
and Harriet (Knight) Randall ; , married
Wilson Scribner ; , married Walter Moxsie,
son of Charles Moxsie, and William B. Hill.)
(Spafford Hollow.)
William B. Hill, (son of John C. Hill). Died February
28, 1889.
(Spafford Hollow.)
Mary A., wife of Edward Hill. Died February 15, 1869,
age 18 years.
(Spafford Hollow.)
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Ella J., daughter of Edward and Caroline Hill. Died
May 21, 1881, age 6 years, 2 months.
(Edward Hill was a brother of John C. Hill.)
(Spafford Hollow.)
James Hill, son of Alexander and Ann (Kinyon) Hill.
Born June 19, 1828, died in 1892.
(Alexander Hill married Ann Kinyon; they came from
Cambridge, Washington County, N. Y., and settled first on
the Vincent Farm, in the town of Scott, and afterwards on
a farm on the Saneateles and Homer road, just south of the
county line, in the town of Scott, Cortland County, N. Y.
His wife died in Scott and was buried there ; after her death
he returned to Cambridge, his native place, where he died
and was buried. His children by his wife, Ann Kinyon,
were: Patience, died unmarried and was buried in Scott,
N. Y. ; William, moved to California, where he married and
still (1898) resides; Ann, died unmarried and was buried in
Scott; James, married Orphana Doty, daughter of Willard
and Achsah (Bacon) Doty, no issue; Avaline, married
Charles B. Lyon, son of David and Harriet (Arnold) Lyon,
husband dead, and she resides in Spafford, no issue. Alex-
ander had a brother, William Hill, who died in this to^vn.)
(Spafford.)
Orphana (Doty), wife of James Hill. Bom in Lems
County, March 26, 1834, died May 31, 1898. (No stone.)
(She was descended from Edward Doty, who came from
England in the ship, " Mayflower," and settled at Plymouth,
Mass., in the year 1620, as follows: Orphana, Willard,
Warren, Samuel, Samuel, Samuel, Edward Edward. She
left no issue of her marriage with Mr. Hill. In her will,
dated May 25, 1878, and probated June 21, 1898, she men-
tions no husband or children, but the following next of kin :
Warren Doty (brother), of Homer, N. Y. ; Abigail Eadie
(sister) , of Spafford, N. Y. ; Caroline Cleveland (sister) , of
Spafford, N. Y. ; Bertha Churchill (niece), of Onondaga
Valley, N. Y. ; Mary Robinson, (niece) , of Spafford, N. Y. ;
Floyd Harrington (grand nephew), of Spafford, N. Y. ;
Job Harvey (executor but not related) , of Spafford, N. Y. ;
Mary Norton (grand niece), of Homer, N. Y., and Nellie
Barber (grand niece) , of Scott, N. Y.)
(Spafford.)
William Hill. Died May 3, 1877, age 66 years.
132 ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
(He was a brother of Alexander Hill, and came from
Cambridge, Washington County, N. Y. He married the
widow Mary Jane Cotteral, daughter of Michael Vincent of
Scott, N. Y. Their children, all born in Spafford, were:
Juila A., bom June 18, 1847, married Jerome Mason, son of
Hiram and Maria (Green) Mason, resides at Thorn Hill,
N. Y.; Alice A., bom January 19, 1852, married Jay C.
Roundy, son of Uriah and Mary Ann (Tinkham) Roundy,
she resides at Thorn Hill, N. Y. ; and Sarah M., bom July
23, 1857, m-arried John Burns, son of Frank and Harriet M.
(Streeter) Burns, resides at Borodino, N. Y.)
Mary J. Vincent, died March 24, 1911, age 89.
(Borodino.)
HILLEBERT.
John C. Hillebert. Died February 15, 1844, age 72 years,
1 month, 24 days.
(He married first Elizabeth Berry, sister of Jonathan
Berry, and second Anna Phillips, (widow) , mother of Mrs.
Dr. Isaac Morrell. In his will, dated December 28, 1843,
and probated March 25, 1844, and in the petition for pro-
bate, mention is m.ade of his widow: Anne Hillebert, of
Spafford, N. Y., and his children : Elizabeth, married Elisha
Newell, of Spafford, N. Y. ; Mary, married William B. Bax-
ter, of Spafford, N. Y.; Charlotte, married Mr. Merritt of
Spafford, N. Y. ; Sophia, married Zara Berry, of Spafford,
N. Y. ; Jane, married John M. Weston, (brother of Edmund
C. Weston), of Spafford, N. Y. ; Amelia Ann Hillebert, of
Spafford, N. Y. ; John J., married Elizabeth Berry, daughter
of Jonathan and Thankful Berry, of Ellery, Chautauqua
County, N. Y. ; James M., married , of
Chautauqua County, N. Y. ; Nelson, married (1) Emeline
Peck, and (2) Eleanor Harvey, daughter of Paul and Sally
(Hiscock) Harvey, of Chautauqua County, N. Y.; and
Warren, who died at 27 years, unmarried.)
(Borodino.)
Elizabeth (Berry), wife of John C. Hillebert. Died Sep-
tember 18, 1822, age 45 years, 4 months, 28 days.
(Thorn Hill.)
Warren, son of John C. and Elizabeth (Berry) Hillebert.
Died February 18, 1839, age 27 years, 5 months, 23 days.
(Borodino.)
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HINMAN.
Wait Hinman was a threshing machine manufacturer,
and resided in the Village of Borodino, where he purchased
in 1829 ; he married Maria Albro, daughter of Stephen and
Freelove Albro, (Stephen Albro was a Revolutionary sol-
dier) and by her had the following children: Albert,
married Clarissa Spaulding, daughter of George and Mary
(Westgate) Spaulding, he died in Waterloo, N. Y. ; George,
married Ruth Smith and died in Manlius, N. Y. ; Aaron,
died when a young man, unmarried, in Syracuse, N. Y. ;
John, residing in 1898 in Syracuse, N. Y., unmarried; and
Harriet, married Jerry Woodmansee, and died in Tully,
N. Y.
George Hinman (son of Wait and Maria (Albro) Hin-
man) by his wife, Ruth Smith, had the following children:
Henry, married (1) Caroline Klein, (2) Rose Wealthy, and
(3) Harriet Sheldon, daughter of Lansing and Emily A.
(Ferris) Sheldon, he is an expressman, residing in Syra-
cuse, N. Y. ; Frank, civil engineer, resides in Syracuse,
N. Y., unmarried; and Anna, married (1) Irving Northrup,
(2) Howard Penoyer, and (3) Frank Bower, resides in
Syracuse, N. Y.
Truman Hinman and his wife, Delia, came to the Mar-
cellus end of the town before 1810, and for several years
after that date resided on lot 76, Marcellus, near Willow
Glen, and at one time owned the State's One Hundred
Acres on that lot. How they are related to Wait Hinman,
if at all, is not known. He sold out his interest on that lot
about 1822.
HINDS.
Adin Hinds. Died September 16, 1833, age 42 years.
" He died in the triumphs of faith.
Through a crucified Redeemer."
(Thorn Hill.)
George L. Hinds, a member of the 149th Regt. N. Y. Vols.
Inft. Died December 18, 1878, age 35 years.
(He married Lucy Maria Green, daughter of Henry and
Anna Maria (Coon) Green. After his decease his widow
married Charles H. Sweet and moved to Missouri.)
(Spafford.)
134 ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
HISCOCK.
James Hiscock. Died February 24, 1834, age 75 years.
He and his wife, Elizabeth Ann Cody, came to this town
from Madison, Madison County, N. Y., in 1812, and settled
on lot 69, Marcellus, they were the father and m.other of
Sally Hiscock, who married Paul Harvey, son of Medad and
Anar Buell Harvey. Job Harvey, grandson of James His-
cock, claims he was a soldier of the Revolution.
(Thorn Hill.)
Elizabeth, wife of James Hiscock. Died December 24,
1827, age 73 years.
(Thorn Hill.)
HOLMES.
John Holmes, (son of Samuel and Mercy Ann (Winsor)
Holmes). Died July 8, 1846, age 62 years, 9 months, 26
days.
(Samuel Holmes, of the town of Scituate, in the County
of Providence, R. I., married Elnathan Brown, of Cumber-
land, R. I., at the latter place, August 15, 1751, and by her
had the following children, recorded in Scituate: Molley,
born November 2, 1752; Samuel, born November 17, 1754;
and Margaret, born September 9, 1757. We have no record
of other children, although there may have been others.
Samuel Holmes, son of Samuel and Elnathan (Brown)
Holmes, married at Smithfield, R. I., Mercy Ann Winsor,
daughter of Elder John and Mary (Smith) Winsor, Decem-
ber 19, 1779, and by her had the following children, born
in Smithfield, R. I.; Salom.e, born May 5, 1780 ; Stephen, bom
August 8, 1781; John, bom September 12, 1783; Cynthia,
born June 6, 1787, married Larned; Sydney; and
Samuel, born April 23, 1795, died at Brocton, N. Y., at the
age of 82 years, married at Spafford, N. Y., about 1814, by
John Babcock Justice, Eunice Calkins, of the same place.
Samuel Holmes, Sr., was a gunsmith by trade. He served
during the Revolution as First Lieutenant and Captain, in
the 3rd Company of the Smithfield Battalion, in the R. I.
Militia. After 1795 he first moved with his family to
Little Falls, N. Y., and thence to Spafford, where he was a
resident at the organization of that town and was selected
as one of the road masters at the first election in 1812. His
SPAFFORD MORTUARY RECORDS WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES 135
son, Samuel, during the War of 1812, enlisted in the United
States Service and was at Sackett's Harbor, N. Y.,
during the year 1814, as a part of the command of General
Jacob Brown. After the war he was a pensioner of the
United States, by reason of his service during that war.
Samuel Holmes, Sr., was a brother-in-law of Daniel Tink-
ham, formerly of this town, they having married sisters.
After the war of 1812 he moved from this town, and died
near Canandaigua, N. Y.
John Holmes, son of Samuel and Mercy Ann (Winsor)
Holmes, married Lydia Barnes, and by her had the follow-
ing children, born in this town : Avalinda, married Harvey-
Barnes of Spafford; Winsor, married Candace Ripley,
daughter of John L. and Clarissa E. (Loss) Ripley, (no
issue), resides at Spafford, N. Y.; Mercy, died in 1897,
unmarried, Borodino cemetery. (No stone.) Juliette,
married Rev. Windsor Brown, resides at Borodino, N. Y. ;
Ann Eliza, married H. Linus Darling, son of Jacob W. and
Mary (BufRngton) Darling, both dead, Borodino cemetery;
John, Jr., married Rebecca Crane, daughter of George W.
and Mary Ann Crane, he and his wife are both dead, the
latter died at Fairmount, November 9, 1894, at the age of
57 years, and was buried in Borodino Cemetery. (No
stone). And Sidney, he moved to Evans, Erie County,
N. Y. Mr. Holmes resided at the time of his decease in the
Nunnery Neighborhood.
John Holmes, Jr., son of John and Lydia (Barnes)
Holmes, married Rebecca Crane, and by her had the follow-
ing, born in Spafford: Georgie, married, David Olmsted,
son of Jeremiah and Lavina Olmsted, resides In Geddes,
N. Y. ; Nettie, married Frank Streeter, of Borodino, N. Y. ;
Jay Stanley Holmes, of Geddes, N. Y. ; Ann Eliza, and
Francis A., died young.)
(Borodino.)
Lydia (Barnes) Holmes, (wife of John Holmes, Sr.)
Died January 10, 1878, age 84 years, 9 months, 29 days.
" Children dear, weep not for me,
For you'r not long to stay;
If Jesus permits I will sit
And wait for you at the gate."
(Borodino.)
136 ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
John Holmes, Jr., (son of John and Lydia (Barnes)
Hohnes) . Died February 13, 1888, age 57 years.
(Borodino.)
Rebecca Crane, wife of John Holmes, Jr. Died Novem-
ber 9, 1894, age 57 years. (No stone.)
(Borodino.)
Ann Eliza, daughter of John, Jr., and Rebecca (Crane)
Holmes. Died August 14, 1859, age 15 months.
(Borodino.)
Francis A., son of John, Jr., and Rebecca (Crane)
Holmes. Died February 18, 1862, age 2 months.
(Borodino.)
HOWTIN.
Nettie. Died March 14, 1875, age 8 months.
Charles R. Died October 5, 1880, age 2 years.
Children of W. H. and Ann Howtin.
(Thorn Hill.)
HOXSIE.
Rowland Hoxsie, (son of John B. and Ruhamah (Bentley)
Hoxsie) . Died September 1, 1869, age 78 years, 9 months,
28 days.
(Rowland Robinson Hoxsie came to this town from
Greenwich, Washington County, N. Y., about October 19,
1816, and first settled on the east part of lot 71, Marcellus,
bordering on the west shore of Otisco Lake ; from there he
moved to Thorn Hill where he remained until his decease.
He was a stone mason by trade and assisted in building
some of the locks on the Erie Canal, but in this town and in
Marcellus he followed farming. He married (1) Almira
Chapman, daughter of Amasa and Lydia (Hunt) Chapman,
and by her had four children : Theodore, married
Alexander; Lydia, married Briggs, of Buffalo,
N. Y. ; Mary Jane, married Dudley; and Dr
Augustus Chapman, married Anna Poole, he died in Buffalo,
N. Y. For a second wife Rowland R. Hoxsie married Lucy
Griffin of Otisco, N. Y., and by her had : Rowland Robin-
son, Jr., bom in 1846, married and resides in Skaneateles,
N. Y.; John Adams, bom in 1848, married ,
ex-Sheriff of Onondags County, resides in Syracuse, N. Y.;
SPAFFORD MORTUARY RECORDS WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES IZj
and Albert Mitchell, born in 1850, married ,
and resides in Syracuse, N. Y.
Mr. Rowland R. Hoxsie had a brother, John B. Hoxsie,
who also resided in this town on lot 69, Marcellus, and who
died after 1833 and before 1837. His widow, Lucy Hoxsie,
after his decease, married John M. Cowan, of this town.
By his wife Lucy he had one son: Wanton Hoxsie, who
died April 15, 1837, aged three years. Where he or his
son were buried is not known.
R. is omitted on two stones.
(Thorn Hill.)
Almira (Chapman), wife of Rowland R. Hoxsie. Died
September 23, 1840, age 35 years, 6 months, 1 day.
(Thorn Hill.)
Lucy (Griffin), wife of Rowland R. Hoxsie. Died
October 22, 1852, age 33 years, 3 months, 8 days.
(Thorn Hill.)
Ruhamah (Bentley), wife of John B. Hoxsie. Died
November 19, 1826, age 59 years, 11 days.
(Where her husband, John B. Hoxsie, is buried is not
known.)
(Thorn Hill.)
Hamilton, son of John B. and Ruhamah (Bentley)
Hoxsie. Died November 17, 1823, age 18 years, 10
months.
(Thorn Hill.)
HUFFMAN.
Janjes D. Huffman (son of George Huffman) .
Still living in 1898.
(Cold Brook.)
HUNT.
James Hunt. Died June 24, 1895, age 66 years.
(He married Lavina M. Orton, daughter of Zenas and
Sally Orton.)
(Borodino.)
Lavina M. (Orton), wife of James Hunt. Died January
7, 1884, age 45 years.
(Borodino.)
Infant son of James and Lavina M. (Orton) Hunt. Died
March 16, 1870, age 3 months, 4 days.
(Borodino.)
138 ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
Nancy (Converse)' wife of Alvinza Hunt. Died Jan-
uary, 1831, age 20 j^ears, 6 months.
(Mr. Hunt married (1) Nancy Converse, and (2) Phebe
Converse, step-daughter of Samuel Conklin. He moved to
Michigan..)
(Thorn Hill.)
HURD.
Charlotte (Brown) , wife of Charles Hurd, and daughter
of Jacob and Deborah (Morris) Brown. Born April 10,
1846.
(She was living in 1898. She married first Byron Van
Benschoten, and second Charles Hurd. She was a twin
sister of Jane Brown, wife of James Hibbard. Resides at
Glen Haven, N. Y.)
(Spafford.)
HUTCHENS.
Col. Phineas Hutchens. Died June 17, 1870, age 85 years,
3 months.
(Colonel Hutchens was born in Herkimer County, N. Y.,
March 16, 1785, and came to this to-wn among the first
settlers and prior to 1812, and settled on Lot 22, Tully, and
rem.ained there until his decease. Among his brothers and
sisters were the following, some of whom also came to this
town: John, married Maria Roundy, daughter of Uriah
and Lucretia (Needham) Roundy, in Spafford in 1816, went
West, where they both died and were buried; Levius; Ros-
well, married a Miss Sennett and settled in Oakland County,
Mich. ; Parthena, married Orrin Britt and settled in Medina,
N. Y. ; Albanus, married Anna ; and a sister, who
married a Mr. Bennett.
Col. Hutchens married (1) Margaret Giberson, January
27, 1811, and by her had two children: Caroline, born
November 8, 1812, died in 1891, married Chester Patterson,
son of Calvin and Sarah (Thompson) Patterson, February
28, 1834, in Spafford, both dead, buried in Borodino; and
Margaret, born February 19, 1814, married Nathan P.
Thompson, son of Reuben and Sally Thompson, March 3,
1836, husband dead, and she residing in 1898 in Homer,
N. Y. Mr. Hutchens' first wife died in Spafford, February
SPAFFORD MORTUARY RECORDS WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES 139
23, 1814, and he married for a second wife Betsey Bocker,
January 11, 1815, and by her had eight children: Louisa,
born October 19, 1815, died May 2, 1883, married Frederick
McKay, son of Augustin and Polly (Partridge) McKay,
October 8, 1837, both dead, buried in Spafford Cemetery;
Parthena, born August 12, 1817, died January 29, 1862,
married (1) Lewis B. Marshall and (2) Samuel Crane, botii
dead; Jane, born February 22, 1819, died September 5,
1849, married (1) Kimberly, and (2) Lark S.
Livermore, she died before her father and left one son:
Charles B. Livermore, then a minor, residing at Chariton,
Iowa; Roswell, born May 14, 1821, died January 16, 1854,
at Spafford, unmarried; Phineas, Jr., born May 9, 1823,
died June, 1880, married Elizabeth Lewis, daughter of John
R. and Roxana (Moon) Lewis, he left no issue, wife moved
to Illinois; Clarissa, bom July 7, 1825, died September 11,
1831; Orrin, born November 17, 1827, married Mary Mc-
Daniels, March, 1854, no issue, resides in Spafford in 1899 ;
and Lucy, born April 6, 1830, died April 5, 1882 married
Lyman C. Bennett, son of Stephen and Waity (Hill) Ben-
nett, she had one child : Phineas H. Bennett, who died young,
she was buried in Spafford Cemetery. Mrs. Hutchens died
July 25, 1831, and Mr. Hutchens married for a third wife
Lydia Smith, but by her had no issue, her death occurring
January 25, 1856. Mr. Hutchens, during the war of 1812,
v\^as First Lieutenant in Capt. Asahel Roundy's Company,
in the 98th Regt., N. Y. Militia, (Lieut. Col. Christopher
Clark commanding) , which served for a short tour of duty
near Sackett's Harbor, N. Y., in the year 1814. He subse-
quently obtained the rank of Colonel in the New York
Militia. Col. Hutchens, during his residence in this town,
was an active, public spirited and useful citizen, and served
his town in a creditable manner, in the discharge of the
duties of the various town offices to which, from time to
time, he was elected, including among others : Supervisor,
Assessor, Poor Master, Town Trustee, Commissioner of
Highways, and School Commissioner. He was a man of
marked character, great physical strength, and had a pleas-
ing sense of humor. Between him and Capt. Asahel Roundy
there was always an intimate relation and abiding friend-
ship, and the two men, who generally acted in unison in
public affairs, had a strong influence in shaping the political
140 ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
and economic policy of the to^vn during their active career^
which extended dovm to nearly the close of their joint lives.
Mr. Hutchens and his family generally attended the Baptist
Church, of which part, at least, were members.)
(Spafford.)
Margaret (Giberson), wife of Col. Phineas Hutchens.
Died February 23, 1814, age 23 years.
(Spafford.)
Betsey (Bocker), wife of Col. Phineas Hutchens. Died
July 25, 1831, age 40 years.
(Spafford.)
Lydia (Smith), wife of Col. Phineas Hutchens. Died
January 25, 1856, age 74 years.
(Spafford.)
Clarissa, daughter of Col. Phineas and Betsey (Bocker)
Hutchens. Died September 11, 1831, age 6 years, 2 months,
4 days.
(Spafford.)
Roswell Hutchens, (son of Col. Phineas and Betsey
(Bocker) Hutchens). Died January 16, 1854, in his 33rd
year.
" Thy name, dear brother, is engraved
On the hearts that loved thee."
(Spafford.)
In memory of Urania,, daughter of John and Maria
(Roundy) Hutchens, who died December 21, 1816, age two
days.
" We'd scarce received the blooming gift.
When mourned the pleasure gone."
(Spafford.)
HUTTON.
Caleb Hutton. Died July 21, 1881, age 75 years.
(Mr. Hutton was Low Dutch and came from Ulster
County, N. Y. He married Hannah Sessions, half sister of
Amasa Sessions. After her decease he moved to Grand
Ledge, Mich., where he married a second time. After his
death, which occurred at Grand Ledge, his body was brought
back and buried beside his first wife. His widow Martha,
subsequently married Albert E. Fulton, as his second wife.)
(Thorn Hill.)
SPAFFORD MORTUARY RECORDS WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES Ml
Hannah (Sessions), wife of Caleb Hutton. Died Novem-
ber 25, 1865, age 68 years, 9 months.
(Thorn Hill.)
HYDE.
Oliver Hyde. Died November 15, 1837, age 83 years, 13
days.
(He was a soldier of the Revolution. By his wife Polly,
he had a daughter, Prudy, who married Isaac Biills as his
second wife. His daughter, Esther E. Hyde, died unmar-
ried; he also had two daughters, Roxana and Lydia.)
(Thorn Hill.)
Polly, wife of Oliver Hyde. Died October 1, 1833, age
75 years, 3 months.
(Thorn Hill.)
Esther E. Hyde, (daughter of Oliver and Polly Hyde).
Died November 24, 1840, age 40 years, 5 months, 15 days.
" We trust she's gone to the world of bliss
Where sorrow ends and suffering ceases,
To join the happy throng above.
And shout free grace to the God of Love."
(Thorn Hill.)
IDE.
Rev. Rogers Ide. Died June 2, 1863, age 75 years, 1
month.
" I have gone home."
(The given name of his first wife was Esther. In the
application for letters upon his estate by Daniel P. Anthony,
guardian, etc., dated February 13, 1864, mention is made
of his widow : Ada Ide, of Dillsburg, Dearborn County, Ind.,
and the following children: Charity married Alanson E.
Colton, of Spaff ord, N. Y. ; David Ide, of Eaton Valley, Erie
County, N. Y. ; and Esther Mary, married Elkanah Bur-
roughs, of Danville, Vemellia County, Illinois. Mention is
also made of the following : David H. Ide, son of Daniel M.
Ide, then a minor residing in Illinois; Roger Ide, Lemuel
Ide, Eliza Ide, and Daniel Ide, four children, and two grand-
children of his deceased son, Hiram Ide, all then residing
in Illinois.)
(Borodino.)
143 ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
Esther Ide, wife of Elder Rogers Ide. Died December
21, 1855, age 76 years, 4 months, 24 days.
(Borodino.)
Henry Ide, (son of Rogers and Esther Ide). Died
December 21, 1892, age 83 years, 9 months, 3 days.
(He married (1) Harriet Colton, daughter of Gideon and
Rhoda (Fowler) Colton, and (2) Elizabeth, and had the
following children by his first wife : Francis, married Mary
Olmstead, daughter of Isaac and Eunice (Case) Olmstead;
Henry, Jr., married Jannette Rathbone, daughter of La-
Grand and Juliette (Legg) Rathbone; Hortense, married
Otis Cross, son of Truman and Eunice (Legg) Cross; Mary
Jane, married John Kinyon, of Otisco, N. Y.; and Harriet,
who died at the age of four years. By his second wife he
had one daughter, Blanche, who married a Mr. Borden, and
was at that time of the age of nineteen years and resided
in Auburn, N. Y. All others whose residence is not given
then resided in Spafford, N. Y.)
(Borodino.)
Harriet (Colton), wife of Henry Ide. Died January 13,
1871, age 59 years, 1 month, 11 days.
(Borodino.)
Harriet Ide, daughter of Henry and Harriet (Colton)
Ide. Died November 23, 1837, age 4 years.
(Borodino.)
Ina, daughter of Henry, Jr., and Jennette (Rathbone)
Ide. Died 25, 1881, age 10 years, 3 months, 28
days.
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