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53. JEREMIAH (4) --Arthur (3), Philip (2), Arthur (1) -- married July 24, 1768. Phebe
Ann Allen, daughter of Jonathan, and dwelt in Quidnesett. "She died at about fifty years of age." He married his second wife, Anne Spencer, daughter of Her ............. Spencer,
--------11th, 1795, [N . K. Rec.] She died April 8. 1816; and he Jan. 21, 1827, aged 88 years.
Their children were as follows :
148. i Russel (5) b April 20, 1769, m. Mary Burnett; dw. Shaftsbury, Vt.
149. ii Elizabeth (5) b. Jan. 27, 1771, m. (1) John Dimon; dw. in North
Kingstown.
150. iii George P. (5) b. Sept. 15,1772, m. Mary Brown; dw. Coventry, R. I.
161. iv Rachel (5) b. March 29, 1773, (twin) m. Curket Chadsey; dw.
North Kingstown.
v Philip (5) b. March 29, 1773, (twin) died Dec. 15, 1774.
vi Dyer (5) b. Dec. 22,1775, died in infancy probably.
vii William (5) b. Jan. 11, 1777, lost at sea, April 14, 1798, probably.
viii Caleb (5) b. Nov. 1, 1778, died at sea of small pox, date not known.
ix Allen (5) b. June 11, 1781, died at sea of yellow fever, date not known.
x Isaac (5) b. Jan. 6,1784. m. Sarah Cory; dw. North Kingstown. R. I.
153. xi Samuel Rhodes (5) b. Feb.11, 1787, m. Alice P. Chadsey; dw.
Monmouth, Ill.
154. xii Phebe Ann (5) b. May 17, 1791, m. John Chadsey; dw. in North
Kingstown. .
xiii Charles (5) b. March 18, 1793, unmarried; dw. in North Kingstown,
where he died.
The dates of the births of the children of Jeremiah and Phebe may not be entirely correct. They were all recorded in the North Kingstown records which were injured by fire.
54. WILLIAM (4) -- Arthur (3), Philip (2), Arthur (1) -- was born Feb. 2, 1753. and married June 5, 1774, Catharine Havens,* who was born in Newport, R. I., Dec. 11, 1758, and who was a daughter of Rhodes Havens, of North Kingstown. Her father died previous to her marriage.
* (A sister Sarah b 2-11-1766 Margrut, b.10-3-1767.)
In December, 1775, he removed from Rhode Island with his wife and a child, a month old, in a wagon with a few cooking utensils. to the town or Canaan, N. Y., where they spent their days. They were among the first settlers of the country, commenced life with very
limit Page 86 ed means, endured the toils and privations
incident to the settlement of a new country, and being frugal and perseveringly industrious, they, with the blessing of God, acquired a competency, raised a numerous family who were permitted to " rise up and call them blest."
Mr. Aylsworth, although a man loving retirement, was ever ready to help the distress, but made no ostentatious display of his deeds. He died Oct. 23, 1820, in his 68th year, and his wife July 6, 1822, in her 64th year.
Their family of children consisted of five sons and eight daughters :
155. i Freelove (5) b. Nov. 8, 1775, m. Lambert Van Valkenburgh.
156. ii Ruth (5) b. Feb. 22, 1777, m. Henry Vander Pool; dw. in Canaan, N. Y.
157. iii Ruhama (5) b. Jan.. 29, 1779, m. John Whiting; dw. in Canaan, N. Y.
158. iv Sarah (5) b. Aug. 10, 1780, m. Azariah Clark; dw. Canaan, N.Y.
159. v Elizabeth (5) b. July 6, 1782, m. Elijah Wood, dw. Southbury, Conn.
160. vi William (5) b. March 4, 1785, m. Nancy Weed; dw. Clarence, Erie Co., N. Y.
161. vii Nancy (5) b. Feb. 24, 1787, m. Benj. T. Stevens; dw. Greene Chenango Co.,
N. Y.
162. viii Sylvester (5) b. Feb. 3, 1789, m. (2) Polly De Forest; dw. Utica, N. Y.
163. ix Asahel (5) b. Feb. 11, 1791, m. (2) Harriet Conkling; dw. Attica, Ind.
164. x Philura (5) b. Oct.. 12, 1792, m. Asa Perry; dw. Richmond, .Mass.
165. xi Daniel Greene 5) b. .June 27, 1795, m. Elvira Betts; dw. Kinderhook, N .Y.
166. xii Catharine Havens (5) b. April8, 1797, m. Daniel Perry; dw. Burlington,
N. Y.
xiii Charles Dyer (5) b. April 8, 1805; d. April 24, 1806.
Ten of the above family and nine who married into the family were hopefuly pious. [Register.]
The record of this family is taken largely from the REGISTER, the pamphlet previously referred to, and which was compiled by Sylvester Aylsworth of this family.
The Will and Testament of William Aylsworth
The
Last Will and Testament of William Aylsworth of the Town of
Canaan in the County of Columbia deceased.
In the name of God Amen. I William Aylsworth of Canaan of County
of Columbia and state of New York being weak and sick in body
but of sound and disposing mind and memory. Thanks be given unto
God therefore [_____] into mind the mortality of my body knowing
that it is appointed unto all men once to die - do make this my
last Will and Testament - as follows
First and principally I command my soul to Almighty God who gave
it - and my Body I commit to the earth - trusting in a Glorius
Resurrection - touching such worldly Estate as it has pleased
God to bless me with in this life. I give divise and dispose of
the same as follows to wit-
Imprimis I give and divise of my beloved wife Catherine
Aylsworth of one equal half part of my farm known as my
homestead situate in Canaan where upon I live - with a lot
called the pasture lot or sheep pasture lying on the east side
of a Road leading from the Widow Preston's to the Widow [____] -
also a lot of two [___] East thereof and [___] [___] [___] David
& William [Spines?] land, to have when my said wife ceasing
her natural life - also I give to my said wife one thousand
dollars - my young sorrel horse - two cows - twelve sheep &
all the swine I possess at my decease - the one half of all my
household furniture & the one half of my farming utensils to
use and dispose of at her pleasure. - This devise to my said
wife in Lieu of Dower.
Imp.- Whereas I have heretofore given to my four sons to wit-
William, Sylvester, Asahel & David each two thousand dollars
- I confirm the gifts and release them from all liability to
restore the same. But in as much as this [appears wet here] the
County of Niagara forms part of the two thousand dollars [___] I
do there for give and divise to my said son the said Farm
whereon he lives in [___] aforesaid to have and to hold its
app____ [_____] his heirs and assigns forever.
Item- Where I have given or intended to give to my six daughters
to wit- Freelove Van Valkenburgh, Ruama Whiting, Sarah Clark,
Elizabeth Wood, Philura Aylsworth and Catherine Aylsworth one
thousand dollars each - I order and direct my executors herein
after mentioned to charge to each of my said daughters such a
portion of the one thousand dollars as shall during my life have
been paid or advanced as portion or part of her portion of my
state - and to pay my aforesaid daughters respectively such sums
as will make with that have already received the said one
thousand dollars to each and I request my said executors to
invest whatever may be coming under this divise to my daughter
Ruhama Whiting in Real Estate and the the Title in fee to her-
To my daughter Elizabeth Wood I give the Booking[sp?] stove the
[__]has in use.
Item- I give and divise to my daughter Nancy Stevens in addition
to what I have heretofore given her - the house and lot of which
she now lives to have and hold [___] her heirs and assigns
forever.
Item I give and bequeath unto my five grandchilden named
[Catherine?] , John , Fanny, Mary & Ruth Vanderpoel children
of my deceased Ruth Vanderpoel, one hundred and eighty dollars
each when they shall arrive respectively at the age of
twenty-one years or on their marriage if married under that age.
Item- I give a divise and bequeath all the rest and residue of
my state real and personal (in the [__] the division of that
[__] of my real estate given to my wife for life) to my sons
William, Sylvester, Asahel, Daniel , my daughters Freelove,
Ruama, Sarah, Elizabeth, Philura & Catherine and to my five
named grandchildren of my deceased daughter Ruth Vanderpoel to
be equally divided among the before named children and
grandchildren share and share alike, the said five grandchildren
representing one share only and taking as much and no more than
one of my said children take under this clause or divise in my
will to have and to hold them their heirs, executors and
administrators forever. Lastly I hereby nominate my two sons
Asahel Aylsworth and Daniel G. Aylwsorth my executors to this my
last Will & Testament to see that same fulfilled according
to the true intent and meaning thus making void all former wills
by me heretofore made, making this only to be my last Will &
Testament. In witness where of I have here unfo set my hand
& seal this twenty first day of October in the year of your
Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty. Signed and Sealed by
the testator William Aylsworth as his last Will and Testament
int he presence of
Chester Beale
Clarissa Beale Wm. Aylsworth
Louisa Wainwright
State of New York, County of Columbia SS.
Be it remembered that on the nineteenth day of November in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty
personally appeared before me Jame I Van Alen surrogate of the
County of Columbia, Chester Beale who being sworn did depose
& say that he was William execute the preceding instrument
as and for his last Will and Testament. That at the time of the
execution thereof he said William was of sound mind and memory
to the best of the knowledge and belief of this diponent and
that Clarissa Beale, Louisa Wainwright and this diponent
severally subscribed their names as witness thereto in the
presence of the testator and of each other.
James I Van Alen Surrogate
Transcribed and provided by Kim Karner
Note: Bracketed areas were not readable.
55. DYER (4) -- Arthur (3), Philip (2), Arthur (l) -- married March 3. 1773, Mary Spencer, who was a daughter of John Spencer, of East Greenwich. [E. G. Rec.] Her father died previous to their marriage. They dwelt in North Kingstown, where he died March 30, 1777.
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Children
i Eunice (5) m. John Dimond; their children, Mary and Betsey, died young.After her death he married her cousin, Elizabeth, daughter of Jeremiah.
ii Ezra (5) lost at sea on his first voyage, probably April 14, 1798, with his
cousin William, son of Jeremiah, and his cousin Dyer Essex.
iii Mercy (5) was an invalid, remained single; had for her support twenty
acres of the homestead by her grand-father's will, and died about 1831.
56. ARTHUR (4) -- Arthur (3), Philip (2), Arthur (1) -- was born Nov. 15, 1763, and married Sept. 14, 1783, Abigail Dyer. who was born July 14, 1766, and who was a daughter of Col. Charles and Mary (b. Mar. 24, 1737, m. 1762) (Hazard *) Dyer, and dwelt on the Quidnesett homestead, where he died March 14. 1834. and she Apri116, 1858.
Their children were as follows :
i Mary (5) b. June 2, 1784, m. John Reynolds; dw. North Kingstown, R. I.
ii Hazard Dyer (5) b. March S, 1786, m. Anna Havens, dw. Wales. Erie Co,
N. Y.
iii William (5) b. Nov. .., died at sea about 1836.
iv Samuel Dyer (5) b. May 18, 1797, m. Sarah Pierce; dw. in Quidnesett.
v Turner (5) b. Feb. 13, 1799, m. Hannah Arnold; dw. Belfast, N Y.
vi Penelope Dyer (5) b. Dec. 27. 1804, m. Marchant Weeden ; dw.
North Kingstown, R. I.
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* See: "The California Pioneer Family of Ariel Merrick Makepeace Hazard." Found in Los Angeles Public Library. [The Website editor]
57. SARAH (4) -- Arthur (3), Philip (2), Arthur (1) -- married Nov. 2,1765, Benjamin Tanner, son of Palmer Tanner, and dwelt in North Kingstown, where they died. His will was made July 12. 1792, and proved Sept. 21, 1792. Her will was made Nov. 10, 1801, and her estate settled Feb. 2, 1804.
Their children's names as reported were as follows :
i Palmer, m. Margaret Austin, of James, Dec. 17, 1789 (?)
ii Benjamin, m Fones
iii Henry, died at sea (a single man) about 1796.
iv Hannan, m. Sylvester Sweet.
v Mary, m. Rhodes Weightman.
vi Susah, m. Henry Austin.
vii Ruth, m. Ezekiel M. Gardner .
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viii Lydia, m. Levi Johnson.
ix Sarah, m. Gould Gardner.
x Anna, m. William C. Potter.
xi Elizabeth.
xii Lucy.
58. MARY (4) -- Arthur (3), Philip (2), Arthur (l) -- married July 24, 1768, Richard Essex, son of Hugh Essex, of Warwick, and dwelt in North Kingstown, where she died Dec. 20, 1812, and he Jan. 3, 1815.
They are said to have two sons and four daughters:
i Dyer. lost at sea with two of his cousins, .probably April 14, 1798.
ii Hugh, was a soldier, probably.
The names of two daughters were perhaps:
iii Polly..
iv Waty
CATHARINE (4) -- Arthur (3), Philip (2), Arthur (l) -- married Nov. 30, 1781, Samuel Sweet, of East Greenwich. It is said that she died in Woodstock, Conn., about 1815, and that he died Aug. 5, 1821.
69. FREELOVE (4) -- Arthur (3), Philip (2), Arthur (1) -- married (1) ..........Carr. who died of camp disease in the Revolutionary War. They had one daughter, who married ................. Lawton.
She married (2) Nathan Hill, and dwelt in Exeter,. They are said to have had three sons and two daughters:
i Arthur.
ii Nathan, was a Baptist preacher and died in Exeter about 1867.
iii Rufus, died .about 1867 in Exeter.
iv Thankful, died Nov. 16, 1821.
v ...........
60. OTHO NIAL (4) -- Job (3), Philip (2), Arthur (l) -- married in 1805, Charlotte Bowerman, who was born in the year 1779, and who was the daughter of David Bowerman, and dwelt in Ernesttown, County of Lennox, Ontario. He died in 1821, and she in 1869.
Their children were five sons and four daughters:
172. i Haskell (5) b. Apri1 1806, m. Luana Burr; dw. Waterford Pa.
173. ii Catharine Eliza (5) b. Oct. 19, 1807, m. John McFaul; dw Prince Edward
Co., Ont.
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174. iii Sarah Ann (5) b. Feb. 20, 1809, m. Charles McFaul; dw. Prince Edward
Co., Ont.
175. iv John Bowerman (5) b. Oct. 30, 1810, m. (1) Anna Powell; dw. Lee, Oneida
Co., N. Y.
176. v Jonathan Fairfield (5) b. 1812, m. Margaret Gilchrist; dw Richmond, Ont.
iv Elizabeth (5) b. Oct. 1814, unmarried, d. 1832, in Thurlow, Ont.
177. vii Nial (5) b. 1816, m. Ruth Morden; dw. Prince Edward Co., Ont.
178. viii Bowen Wesley (5) b. Oct. 30, 1819, m. Rebecca Morden ; dw. Prince
Edward Co., Ont.
179. ix Lydia Maria (5) b, May 12, 1821, m. (1) Spencer Powell; dw. West
Warren, Mass.
Otho Nial may be a perversion of the Scriptural "Othniel."
61. JOB (4) -- Job (3), Philip (2), Arthur (l) -- returned to the States a few years after his father settled in Ernesttown, and married, in the vicinity of Albany probably, Sarah Martin. They had his father's homestead, and before the war of 1812 he went back to the States a second time, when his wife's brother, John Martin, and her two sisters and their husbands, Peter Smith and Samuel Joslyn, returned with him, but the locality the Martins came from is not certainly known. She died in 1816, and he in 1850.
Their children's names in the following list may not stand in their natural order :
(See "Aylsworth Family Reunion, Bath, Ont, Aug. 10,
1929.")
180. i Bowen (5) m. Sophia Vannorman ; dw. near Odessa, Ont.
181. ii Marlin (5) m. Margaret Ockerman ; dw. Ernesttown, Ont.
iii Sarah (5) m Elias Mills; said to have had one daughter, and to have died
at 17 years of age.
182. iv Green (5) b. June 1, 1800, m. Catharine Sharpe; dw. Ernesttown, Ont.
v Joel (5), died young.
vi Catharine (5), unmarried; died 1818.
183. vii Robert Perry (5) b. May, 1809, m. Mary Ann Gordon; dw. Syracuse, N. Y.
184. viii Rufus (5) b. 1811, m. Mary Hawley; dw. Hinchinbrook, Ont. P. O. Godfrey.
185 ix William Martin (5) b. May 19, 1813, m. Deborah A. Parks; dw. Bath, Ont.
x Joel (5), unmarried; dw, much at Newburg, Ont., and in its vicinity.
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186. xi Elsey (5) m. ............ Davis; died Kingston, Ont., 1848. She had three
children, Jane, John, and ------------, all moved to the States.
Job (6) son of Bowen (5) and Sophia, says that Job (4) was born in the year 1763, and died in the Autumn of 1847, at the age of 84 years. The family of Job (3) Aylsworth is referred to in the town council minutes ot North Kingstown, R. I., Jan. 14,1762. If Job (4) was born in , 1763, Otho Nial (4) who
was older than Job (4), was born perhaps in 1761, and neither of these sons could then have been the children of Sarah Aylsworth, Job's second wife, whom he married in 1765. If the statement of Job (6) be correct, both Otho Nial (4) and Job (4) were the children of the first wife, Sarah (Clark).
62. ELSEY (4) -- Job (3), Philip (2), Arthur (l) -- was born in Rhode Island Nov. 10, 1772, married in Rensselaer Co., N. Y., Dec. 8,1787, John Bristol, who was born Oct. 21, 1759, in Ulster Co., N.Y., and who was a son of Abraham Bristol, a Baptist preacher .
They lived a while, probably about five years, in Rensselaer Co, but followed her parents to Canada and settled in Ernesttown, near Bath, where he died Oct. 28, 1849, and she in 1854. a notice of her death published at the time states that she lived until her descendants numbered 219, of whom 165 where then living, two
of them belonging to the fifth generation; that she had her senses to the last, and that she had been a consistent member of the Wesleyan Methodist church for over sixty years.
In a biographical notice of John Bristol, published at the time, we are told that he experienced religion in the twenty-seventh year of his age while under the ministry of Rev. Freeborn Garrettson, and joined the M. E. Church in the United States, where he remained for seven years; that in the year 1793 he emigrated
with his wife and family to Canada, where shortly after he was made a class-leader, which office he filled for forty years. His last illness was brief, being taken ill at five o'clock in the afternoon and dying about eleven at night.
Their family of children consisted of five sons and six daughters:
i Elsey (5) m. 1811, John Campbell, blacksmith; dw. Prince Edward Co., Ont.,
and had three daughters. She died in 1874.
ii Esther (5) m. 1812, Lewis Fretz, farmer; dw. Fredericksburgh, Ont. and had
three sons and seven daughters; she died in 1859.
iii John Wesley (5) farmer, b. Feb. 26, 1793, m. 1816, Catherine Fretz, b. 1800,
and died 1860. They dwelt in Napanee, and had three sons and ten
daughters.
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iv Coleman (5) farmer, b. Feb. 8, 1795, m. 1822 Catharine Way, dw. near Bath,
and three sons and six daughters.
v Benjamin (5) farmer, b. May 3, 1797, m. July 8.1819, Ruth Spencer,
b. Oct. 21, 1797, dau. of Corey and Matilda (Bull) Spencer, from
Dutchess Co., N. Y.; dw. in Picton, Ont, and had one son and three
daughters.
vi Sarah (5) m. Joseph Rose, farnier, she had no children.
vii Susanna. (5) m Daniel Way; dw. in Prince Edward Co., Ont.
viii Elizabeth (6) m. John Boothe, farmer, and had one son and two daughters.
ix Lavinn (6) died at the age of 3 years.
x Norris Haskell (6) m. Mary Anderson; dw. Madoc, Ont., had six sons and
three daughters.
xi Joel Ensign(6) b. 1811, m Rachel Denyes; dwelt Thurlow, Ont.
Lewis and Catharine Fretz were brother and sister, as were also Daniel and
Catharine Way.
63. ELIZABETH (4) -- Job (3), Philip (2), Arthur (l) -- was born in 1774, and married in 1795, Morris Brisco, son of Isaac and Ruth (Hawlew) Brisco, of Ernesttown, and settled near Bath, Ont., where he died Feb. 9, 1849. aged 85 years, 8 months, and 15 days, and she Sept. 29, 1858, aged 84 years, 5
months, and 13 days.
Children.
i Sarah (5) If this name has a proper place here she probably died young.
ii Isaac (5) m. Mary Jane McIntyre, who came from the States, dw. near
Napanee, Ont, where he died June 25, 1863, aged 56 years, 2 months
and 20 days. They had four sons and two daughters.
iii Ruth (5) unmarried, d. July 8, 1877, aged 78 years. 8 months, and 19 days.
iv Benjamin (5) b. March 29, 1801; dw. in Napanee, Ont.
v Esther (5) m. Peter Miller; dw. near Bath, Ont., where she d. in 1869; they
had seven sons and three daughters.
vi Sarah Ann (5) m. Luke Carseallen; dw. near Napanee, where she died in
1849; they had one son and four daughters.
vii Catherine Elizabeth (5) m. William Anson Shorey; dw. Plainfield, Ont.
where she died in 1876; they had four sons and three daughters.
viii Nathan Abijah (5) b. March 18, 1809, unmarried; dw. Napanee, Ont.
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64. ESTHER (4) -- Job (3), Philip (2), Arthur (l) -- was born 1776, and married Robert Perry, a Methodist preacher, son of Robert and Jemima (Washburn) Perry.
They were probably dwelling in Ernesttown when her early death in 1803 resulted in the dispersion of the family. It has been found impossible to obtain satisfactory details of their family history.
The following, however, is offered respecting their children:
i Elizabeth (5) m. Henry Ham; dw. in Fredricksburgh, Hamburg, Ont.
ii Robert (5) m Polly Sharp; dw. on Moira Island, kept a public house, also
said to have lived near Madoc, County of Hastings.
iii Anna (5) was reared by her uncle Bowen Aylsworth, m. John Werrico, a
daughter m. George Darley and dw. perhaps near Collingwood, Ont.
iv Nial (5) called the World's Preacher, was reared by his uncle Otho Nial;
dw. as is supposed at least, in southern Wisconsin or in the State of
Illinois.
v James (5) m. Elizabeth Ward, and went to the United States early in life.
vi Esther (5) m. Davis Hawley, whose family is supposed to live near
Cloyne P. 0., Ont.
They
had a son
Peter
Perry
Hawley
who mar.
Leah
Elizabeth
fox
Leah mar.
Hiram
Keach and
they had
John
Wesley
Keech
born in
Cloyne,
Ont.
1882.
(Update
provided
by J.W.
's
granddaughter
Nora
Keech
McLean of
Alberta,
Canada.)
65. BOWEN (4) -- Job (3), Philip (2), Arthur (1) -- was born Feb. 27, 1778, probably in the town of Schodack, Rensselaer Co., N. Y., and was ten years of age when his parents settled in Canada. He married Nov. 21,1797, Hannah Perry, who was born Aug. 3, 1781, and who was the daughter of
Robert and Jemima (Washburn) Perry, of Ernesttown, Ont. They settled immediately on a farm three miles north of Bath, where they dwelt together sixty-six years, his death occurring upon the sixty-sixth anniversary of their wedding day, Nov. 21, 1863. She died at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. Mary Lucas,
in Camden.
He was a man of somewhat abrupt address, wasting few words in empty compliments, but of great equanimity of character, contented, prudent, and unostentatious, hewing square to the line of settled convictions. His
religious character was, in a measure no doubt moulded and stayed by the piety of his excellent
wife. Within the circle of his acquaintance he was referred to as a model of industry, economy, and perseverance. About four years previous to his death a part of one of his feet was carried away by gangrene, and the part, contrary to expectation, healed and left him comparatively well again. An extended obituary
notice appeared in the "Christian Guardian" of Toronto. Nov. 30, 1864, to the establishment of which paper he contributed. He also
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Canada.
Bowen and Hannah commenced housekeeping May 1, 1798, he being twenty, and she sixteen years of age. Her father, who entertained views somewhat aristocratic, was displeased with their marriage, and withheld from them for a time a father's sympathy, which, however, found expression a few years later in an endeavor
to present her with an outfit of furniture, which he, without previous warning, placed at her door. She declined to receive the gift, but no doubt esteemed the generous overture as an indication of his parental approval, and accepted cheerfully her proper place in his affections.
Robert Perry was born in Rehoboth, Mass., in 1761, and was married to Jemima Washburn,
(Ancestors:
Simeon
Washburn
(7) &
Jemima
Gary;
James
Washburn
(6) &
Elizabeth
Leonard;
Josiah
Leonard
(5) &
Marjoram
Washburn
(5);
John
Leonard
(4) &
Sarah
___?;
Solomon Leonard
(3) &
Sarah
Chandler;
Roger
Chandler
(2) &
Isabella
Chilton;
James
Chilton
(1) &
Susanna
Furner)
(Marjoram
(5)
Washburn
above had
a brother
James (5)
and they
were the
children
of James
Washburn
(4) and
Mary
Bowden;
John
Washburn
(3) &
Elizabeth
Mitchell
(3);
Experience
Mitchell
(2) and
Jane
Cooke
(2);
James
Cooke (1)
& Hester
Mahieu;
Mayflower
Pilgrims.)
of Attleboro, in March, 1772, and settled in Rutland, Vt., then a new country, in September of the same year. He had two brothers, David and Peter, who adhered to the Revolutionary cause while Robert clung to Britain, and was
among the New England Royalists. After a reverse in the British cause between the years 1777-79, his family and others were driven into Lower Canada, where Hannah and two of her brothers, Daniel and David, were born. Robert Perry and family, with other New England Loyalists, removed, or were removed by the military
authorities, from Lower Canada to the Bay of Quinte country about the year 1786-6, when Hannah was four or five years old. Often has she in after, years related the particulars of that trying period, and of later periods in the settlement of this part of the Province, with clearness and precision. For eighty years she
and her husband, her children and relatives, have been identified with the domestic, social, civil, political, and religious progress of this part of Canada, Their record would make up much or its history. * * * She remembered the voyage up the Bay of Quinte in the small French boats and its incidents, such as the fine
sight of the tents pitched upon the shore (near the place where Bath was afterwards built) by a fatigue party that had preceded the main body or the settlers; the firing of musketry by the shore party to attract attention, the firing of the boat party in reply; the hearty cheers of both when they neared the shore, and the
preparation made for their reception. * * * Hannah took her place, according to her age, at the family christening shortly after the settlement in Ernesttown, where her father a1Jowed the Rev. J . Langhorn to baptize all his children. * * * They were glad when a man from the United States, by the name of McCarthy, a lay
preacher of the school of Whitfield, came among them. Robert Perry at once opened his house to him. Hannah was present when he was arrested, as stated in Playter's History of Methodism in Canada, in her father's house on the Sabbath day while preaching, by an armed man under the authority of certain military dignitaries,
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sent should take root in Canadian soil. But how wondrously, by the prevalence of Presbyterianism and Methodism in Canada has the presentment to which Mr. Perry gave utterance when he saw Mr. McCarthy put into a small boat and shoved off from the shore in charge of some soldiers after which he used to
call " a mock trial," been fulfilled, though Mr. McCarthy's doom may never be known until the last day. "You may, ' said he, " banish. or drown, or burn McCarthy, but God will raise up a hundred from his ashes." * * * Hannah, then about eleven years of age, was
converted and joined the first class formed by Dunham in the neighborhood, and probably the second or third in the Province, as it was during the first year of his superintendency. She continued a member until her death, viz., about seventy-four years. Her oldest brother, Robert Perry, Jr. , of those days, became a
traveling preacher of great power in the M. E. Church, and two of her brothers, David and Daniel, local preachers. Another brother, the late Peter Perry, of Whitby, was associated with M. S. Bidwell, now of New York, as the celebrated representatives of Lennox and Addington from 1824 to 1836, whilst her only other brother, the Hon.
E. Perry, of Coburg, is now a member of the Legislative Council. * * * Her father, Robert Perry, when he died in 1837 left about 300 descendants. Hers must approach 250 in number. She leaves thirteen children, one hundred and three grand-children living, besides the great grand-children, of whom
there are ninety, if not more. * * *
When Lorenzo Dow visited Canada for the last time, about thirty-six or thirty-seven years ago, he preached three times in the neighborhood and was entertained by her together with about sixty others who staid over night on the premises to here him preach on the second day. * * Among her children one is a
traveling minister among us, and quite extensively known, three are local preachers, others stewards, etc., whilst of her grand-children two are traveling ministers in another Methodist body in the Province. * * * Her father literally died of old age. She reached her eighty-fifth year. She was
buried at the cemetery at Violet Church. [Extracts from a biographical notice of Hannah Aylsworth in the Wesleyan Daily Recorder, May 28, 1869.]
Their family of children consisted of eleven sons and four daughters :
187. i Benjamin (5) b. Aug. 22, 1798, m. 1st Maria Simmons; dw. Ernesttown.
188. ii Job (5) b. April 6, 1800, m. Anna McGillivray; dw. Ernesttown.
189. iii David (5) b. Nov 17,1801, m. Nancy Fraser; dw. Ernesttown.
190. iv John (5) b. Nov. 19, 1803, m. Catharine Hartman; dw. in Napanee, Ont.
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191. v Robert (5) b. Aug. 20, 1805, m. Hannah Almira Brisco; dw. Napanee, Ont.
192. vi Henry Ryan (5) b. Feb. 20, 1807, m. Hannah Fraser; dw. Ernest town. 193.
vii Elizabeth (5) b. April 14, 1809, m. Nathaniel Lucas; dw. in Belleville, Ont.
194. viii Daniel Perry (5) b. Feb. 14, 1811, m. Lucinda Fralick; dw. Dorchester, Ont.
195. ix Isaac Brock (5) b. Dec. 4,1812, m. Julia Ann Miller; dw. Collingwood, Ont.
196. x Mary Jemima (5) b. Apri14, 1815, m. John Lucas; dw. in Camden, Ont.
197. xi Sarah Ann (5) b. March 20,1817, m. Ira Haines; dw . . .
198. xii Peter Perry (5) b. March 6, 1819, m. Matilda Fralick; dw. Tamworth. Ont.
199. xiii Mercy (5) b. June 17, 1821, m. William Ellis Bell; dw. in Ernesttown, Ont.
xiv Ebenezer (5) b. April 8, 1823, died Aug. 31, 1824.
xv Esther (5) b. May 9, 1826, died May 12, 1836.
66. CATHARINE (4) -- Job (3), Philip (2), Arthur (1) -- was born in 1785, and married in 1803 William Rogers, a carpenter, of Ernesttown. They dwelt in Ernesttown a number of years and moved west, sojourning at Cobourg, Port Hope, Whitby, and Brantford, and passing beyond the knowledge of their
relatives at some uncertain period, are said to have emigrated to the Western States about 1850 perhaps, and possibly to the northern part of Wisconsin.
Children.
i Reynold.ii Benjamin.
iii Lewis Fretz.
iv Haskel1.
v Sarah Hope.
vi Priscilla.
67. CALEB (4) -- Philip (3), Philip (2), Arthur (1) -- was doubtless born in Rhode Island, and married Huldah Weightman, probably in Rensselaer Co., N. Y.
They emigrated to Canada about 1790--91, and settled permanently on the north side of the East Lake, in the town of Hal1owell, Prince Edward County, Ont., where they died.
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Children.
200. i Arthur (5), the eldest, m. 1st Abigail Richmond.201. ii Aaron (5) m. Christine Alger; dw. Peterboro, Ont.
iii Noel (5).
iv Caleb (5) m. Catharine Cryderman; dw. Oshawa, Ont.
202. v George (5) m. Nancy Bowerman; dw. vicinity of Rochester and Seneca
Lake.
vi Asa Wightman (5) youngest of family, m. Rhoda Bentley.
203. vii Elizabeth (5) eldest daughter, m. Asa Werden; dw. Hallowell.
204. viii Huldah (5) m. Daniel Hare; dw. Hallowell.
205. ix Deborah (5) m. Joseph Losee; dw. Athol.
206. x Lois (5) m. Caleb Platt; dw. Hallowell.
207. xi Wealthy (5) m. William Bronson.
[Added data not in book: Children born in Renisselaer Co., NY. Arthur 1773, Aaron 1775, Caleb 1777, Noel 1779, Asa 1780 & George 1783. Born in Hallowell, Ontario, Canada: Elizabeth 1785, Huldah 1787, Deborah 1789, Lois 1791 (husband born 1767, died Jul. 24, 1830, age 65) & Wealthy 1793.]
HENRY (4) -- Philip (3), Philip (2), Arthur (l) -- married Mary Huntley, probably in the States, though perhaps in Ernesttown, and settled on the east shore of Pictou Bay, where he died shortly afterwards.
They had two daughters :
208. i Lucretia (5) b. March 24, 1791, m. John Darling; dw. Hallowell.
209. ii Deborah (5) m. Abraham Warren; dw. Hallowell.
Mary (Huntly) afterwards married Daniel Pettit, and dwelt in Prince Edward Co. Her father died in Ernesttown.
69. ANDREW (4) -- Thomas (3), Chard (2), Arthur (l) -- was born Oct. 10, 1763, and named by or for Andrew Brown, said to have been a nephew of Mary Brown, wife of the immigrant Arthur. He married, in Hoosick, N. Y., Lydia Hicks, who was born Sept. 17, 1767. in the State of Connecticut,
probably. They dwelt in Hoosick a number of years, but in 1808 settled permanently in the town of Barnbridge, Chenango Co. N. Y., where he died July 13, 1840, and she Feb. 10, 1855.
Their family of children consisted of seven sons and three daughters :
i Hannah (5) unmarried, died June 4, 1850, aged 60 years and 6 months.
ii Amos (5) died young of scarlet fever, in Hoosick, age about 13 years.
210. iii Thomas (5) b. Feb 7, 1794, m. 1st Betsey Newton; dw. in Barnbridge.
211. iv Clarissa (5) b. 1796, m. Charles Morris Newton; dw.
Barnbridge.
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212. v Prudence (5) b. April 10, 1799, m. Marshall Newton; dw. Barnbridge.
vi Arthur (5) died young of scarlet fever in Hoosick, aged about 3 or 4 years.
213. vii Dexter (5) b. June 2, 1804, m. 1st Nancy Taylor; dw. last East Pike, N. Y.
214. viii Robert Hicks (5) b. April 16, 1807, m. Elizabeth Arnold; dw. Hunlocks
Creek, Pa.
215. ix Benjamin Lewis (5) b. July 1, 1809, m. Mary Ann Briggs; Afton, N. Y.
216. x Chadiah (5) b. July 6, 1812, m. Mahala Myers; dw. Roulette, Potter Co., Pa.
70. SUSANNA (4) -- Thomas (3), Chad (2), Arthur (l) -- was born Dec. 7, 1765, and married, Elijah Stone, who was born Feb. 11, 1768-9, in Pittstown, Rensselaer Co., N. Y. eldest son: of Archibald and Rhoda (Dewey) Stone. * They dwelt in Hoosick, N.Y.. until the year 1806,
when they moved to the Province of Quebec and settled in the town of Farnham -- some think Dunham -- in the County of Missisquoi, where she died May 5. 1820. He died at the residence of a Mr. Blair, near Ellisville, Fulton Co., Ill., Nov. 23, 1844, and was buried at Ellisville.
The children of Susanna and Elijah Stone were :
217. i Nathaniel (5) b July 11, 1778, m 15t Patience Fordyce; dw. last in
North English, Ia.
ii Triplet children, who died in infancy.
iii David Major(5) b. Feb. 17, 1793, m. . . . . dw. Farnham, Quebec.
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* Archibald Stone was born about 1735 to 1741, probably in Woodstock, Conn. and was a tanner by trade. He built the first tannery in Hoosick. N. Y. and died in 1811. His father is thought to have come from Springfield. Mass., and his brothers' names to have been, Abner, Isaac, and Nathaniel. The name or his
sister who married a Mr. Smith is not known. Isaac was a weaver, and Nathaniel a manufacturer of leather pantaloons, mittens and gloves. The latter dwelt in Bennington, Vt., during the Revolutionary War and took part In the battle of Bennington. Rhoda Dewey was born March 3, 1751, perhaps in Pittstown, Rensselaer
Co., N. Y., and died in Lockport. N. Y., 1818. She may have been the second wife of Archibald. Their family:
i Elijah.
ii Cornelius, m. Martha
Talmadge.
iii Jedidiah Dewey, m.------ Smith.
iv Electa, m. John Duncan.
v Anise, unmarried.
vi Susan, b. Jan. 8, 1778. m. Nathan Peggs; dw. Rome. N. Y.
vii Lucy, b. Dec. 25. 1780, m. Roland Sears, dw. Lockport, N. Y.
viii Rhoda, m. Whitcomb Ames.
Perhaps also: .
ix Anna.
Mrs. Rhoda Ames, wife of Whitcomb Ames, of the above, died suddenly, Oct. 16, 1848, in Morristown, St. Lawrence Co., N. Y., aged 66 years. She left an aged husband and two daughters, with several grand-children.
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iv Isaac (5) b. March 28,1797, m. 1st Polly
Aylsworth; Black River Conference.
v Asenath (5) b. Feb. 1799, m. John Fordyce;
dw. Farnham, Quebec.
71. TABITHA (4) -- Thomas (3), Chad (2), Arthur (l) -- was born March 14,1768, and married Feb. 25, 1786. in Hoosick, N. Y., Samuel Wrightman, of Hoosick, who was born June 8, 1757. She was his third wife. They first dwelt in Hoosick, but eventually settled in Burlington, N. Y., where she
died Aug. 1, 1823, but he died June, 1830, at the residence of his son John, in Guilford, Chenango Co., N. Y. She was buried in the family cemetery on their farm south of Burlington P.O.
They had one child :
218. i Thomas Aylsworth (5) b. Nov. 26, 1786, m. Sally Baker.
71a. ELHANAN (4) -- Thomas(3), Chad (2), Arthur (1) -- was born Aug. 31, 1772, and married Jan. 21, 1793, in Foster, R. I., Mary Harrington, who was born June 12, 1769, and who was a daughter of Nathaniel and Mary (Bates) Harrington,* of Foster, who were married Nov. 6, 1748. Mary Bates was a
daughter of James Bates, of Coventry. They dwelt in Hoosick, N. Y., until the winter of 1796-7, when he settled in the Butternut Creek Valley, in the town of Burlington, Otsego Co., N. Y., where she died Sept. 9, 1855, and he Oct. 17, 1857, and were buried in the Brick School House Cemetery.
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* Nathaniel Harrington's will was made March 6.1816, and proved April 8, 1816, and mentions his sons, Caleb, Nathaniel, and John, his daughter, Polly
Aylsworth, wife of Elhanan Aylsworth, and his grand-son, Wate Morse.
Mary, daughter of Gov. Jenckes, married May 20, 1722, Joseph Herndon, Jr.. who was doubtless the father of Nathaniel Harrington. Mary had a brother, Captain Nathaniel
Jenckes, from whom Nathaniel Harrington was probably named. Mary's mother was Martha, daughter of Rev. John Brown, son of Chad.
Their family of children consisted of four sons and five daughters:
219. i Martha (5) b. Oct. 20, 1793, m. Wm. Campbell; dw. in Burlington.
220. ii Nathaniel (5) b. March 31, 1795, m. Harriet Parsons; dw. in Burlington.
221. iii Tabitha (5) b May 19,1797. m. Joseph Neff.
222. iv Allen Harrington (5) b. April 12, 1799, m. Lefer Tebbits; dw. in Manard
Co., Ill.
223. v Polly (5) b. March 26,1801. m. Rev. Isaac Stone; died in Verona, N. Y.
224. vi Susan (5) b. Aug. 13, 1813, m. Sylvester Reed; dw. in Burlington.
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225. vii Mahala (5) b, March 1, .1806, m, Orrin Reed; dw. in Burlington, ,
226. viii Hiram (5) b, Sept. 24, 1808, m, Betsey Morgan; dw. Ashtabula Co., O.
227. ix Perry (5) b, Nov, 21, 1812, m. Luna N. Delong; dw, Burlington.
The following extract from a letter is inserted as a tribute to the memory of this estimable woman, and serves at the same time to illustrate filial devotion, refined sentiment, and scholarly taste of the writer of the letter, her youngest son:
My DEAR HOMER - The solemn task devolves upon me of informing you that your grand mother is no more. She died yesterday at precisely 20 minutes past 11 o'clock in the forenoon. I have just returned from the funeral, which was held at the brick school-house. The discourse was preached by Rev'd Mr Shank, of Hartwick, from Heb. 4 :9, and now all that was earthly of that feeble tenement is sleeping well in the city of the dead. I was in almost constant attendance at her bedside for about fifteen hours before her death, and I must say, that seat was to me the seat of wisdom. It was my lot, it was my choice. Thought, busy thought! Reflections of the past mingled with the scene before me. On a dark but cloudless night, the 12th of June, 1769, her history began. Then onward was the fair and sprightly girl, the blooming bride, the pioneer to a distant wilderness, the pious mother, the frugal and diligent house-wife, the invaluable neighbor, blessed by the sick and the poor. Then the aged matron who had outlived her own generation, and through the mutations of time became a stranger in her own neighborhood. In her downward progress her strength failed, then her memory, then her reason, and finally her speech. Her last few years, as you are well aware, were years of helplessness and dependence, as also years of pain. Knowing that her time had come I took my station by her side on Saturday evening about 8 o'clock to moisten her parched lips and minister to her relief as far as human agency allows. At 4 o'clock in the morning I called the family. She sank away slowly as the sun rose higher and higher, the hard breathing, the hollow moan, the heaving bosom, and the pallid features, all admonishing us that the soul had but a brief lodgment in its earthly tenement. then to close the last scene, a gasp and the gulf was passed which separates this world of trouble from the land of rest. There was the heart to whose pulsations I owe my vital breath; there was the hand that labored for my comfort; and there was Page 100 the eye that watched over my helpless infancy, but that heart, that hand, that eye, have been touched by the icy finger and was now committed to the unrevealing silence that is only broken by the last trumpet, Then, farewell, dear mother, thy memory well deserves the tribute of tears. O, how insignificant is all the patient toil by which I have sought to sooth thy declining years! * * *
BURLINGTON, N. Y., Monday. 5 o'clock, P. M.
Sept. l0th, 1855
72. MAJOR (4) COLEGROVE -- Juda (3) Aylworth, Chad (2) Arthur (l) -- was born March 15, 1759, and married Susanna Taylor, who was born July 22,1748.
They dwelt in Foster, R. I., until after the birth of their son Stephen, when they left their native State and finally settled in Edmeston, Otsego Co., N. Y., where she died July 10,1822, and he Jan. 19,1830.
Their family of children consisted of three sons and one daughter :
i Amy (5) b. May 13, 1782, m. Benaija Alger.
228. ii Asa (5) b. Feb. 16, 1784. m. Eunice Mather.
229. iii Stephen (5) b. Nov.15, 1787, m. Mary Aylsworth.
230. iv Isaac (5) b. July 2,1789, m. Sarah Keith.
73. DANIEL (4 -- Peleg (3), Chad (2), Arthur (l) --was born Jan. 28, 1774, and married Anna Hopkins, in the State of Rhode Island, from which State they afterwards moved, and dwelt in Marengo, Wayne Co., N.Y.
231. i Mary or Polly (5) b. April 8, 1799, m. Daniel Harper; dw. Galen, Wayne
Co., N. Y. ,
ii Anthony (5) b. March 9,1801, unmanied; was for 35 years in the U. S. Naval
service, and died in Tekonsha, Calhoun Co., Mich., Dec. 6, 1853.
iii Arunah (5) b. May 11,1803; thrown from a horse and killed Oct. 29, 1821.
232. iv Daniel (5) b. July 7,1805, m. 1st Betsey Huntly; dw. York ,. (P. 0.) Mich.
233. v Anna (5) b. Aug. 14, 1807, m. John Wright; dw. Junius, Seneca Co.. N. Y.
234. vi Warren (5) b. Jan. 18,1810, m. 2d Mary Ann Howe; Ackley Station (P. 0.) Pa.
235. vii Welcome Young (5) b. March 12, 1812, m. Marian Adkins; dw. in
Oswego, N. Y.
236. viii Albert (0.) b. Feb. 12, 1815, m. Sarah Allen; dw. New London, Conn.
237. ix Nathaniel (5) b. March 20, 1820, m. Mary Hatfield; dw. in Ellisville, Ill.
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74. ABEL (4) -- Peleg (3), Chad (2), Arthur (1) -- was born March 12. 1716, and married April 2, 1809, Susanna Leach, who was born Aug. 26,1786, in New London, Conn., and who was a daughter of Stephen and Susanna (Smith) Leach (who dwelt in New London until late in life and moved to New Berlin, N. Y.) and lived in Edmeston, N. Y.
Children.
238. i Hiram (5) b. Jan. 31, 1810, m. 2d Eliza J. Coppenbarger; dw. near Neosho,Newton Co., Mo.
239. ii Norman (5) b. Jane 13, 1811, m. 1st Alice B. Dilley; dw. in Rochester, N. Y.
240. iii Anna (5) b. Dec. 20, 1812, m. Lewis Kenyon; dw. Dwight, Ill.
241. iv Abel (5) b. July 25, 1814, m. Anjalana Fitch; dw. Baffalo, N.Y.
242. v Susanna (5) b. Feb. 27, 1816, m. Alanson Brown; dw. Rochester, N. Y.
243. vi Maria Louisa (5) b. Aug. 16, 1818, m. O. W. Calkins; dw. Erie, Pa.
244. vii Alzina (5) b. Aug. 21, 1820, m. Henry P. Dickinson; dw. in Rochester, N. Y.
245. viii Sarah (5) b. Dec. 27, 1822, m. Charles C. Jenks; dw. in Chicago, Ill.
246. ix Eliza Jane (5) b. Sept. 26, 1824, m. 1st Lawrence II. Fitch; dw. Rochester, N. Y.
x Harriet Newell (5) b. Aug. 7, 1827, unmarried; died Aug. 1848.
75. ANNA (4) -- Peleg (3) Chad (2), Arthur (1) -- was born May 11, 1786, and married April 1, 1804, Neamiah Leach, who was born Oct. 27, 1779, and who was a son of Stephen and Susanna (Smith) Leach, and dwelt in New Berlin, Chenango Co., N. Y.
Children.
247. i Rhoda (5) b. March 1, 1805, m. Daniel Bolton Ainsworth ; dw. in NewBerlin.
247a. ii Athalinda Beckwith (5) b. Aug. 6, 1806, m. Harvey Sherman; dw in New
Berlin.
247b. iii Apel (5) b. Dec. 29, 1807. m. Almira Ainsworth; dw. near Ellisville, Ill. i
247c. iv Sally (5) b. Sept, 7, 1809, m. Henry Burwell; dw. in Norwlch, N. Y.
247d. v Amos (5) b. July 1, 1811, m . . . . ; dw. near Ellisville, Ill.
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247e. vi Almira (5) b. Feb. 14, 1813, m. Feb. 15, 1837, Ebeneser Ross; dw. in Auburn,
O., no children.
247f. vii Eliza Ann (5) b. Dec. 4, 1814, m. 1st James Davis; dw. in North Pitcher, N. Y.
247g.viii Lavinia (5) b. Oct. 29, 1816, m. Brown Tiffany; dw. in New Berlin.
248. ix Emeline (5) b. June 17, 1819, m. James Harvey; dw. in New Berlin.
248a. x Susanna (5) b. May 18, 1821, m. Henry Sherman; dw. in Norwich, N. Y.
248b. xi Neamiah (5) b. July 6, 1823, m. Marcia Harrington; dw. in Preston, N. Y.
248c. xii Julana (5) b. Sept. 30, 1827,m 1st Joel Barber; dw. in Ostelic, N. Y.
76. MARTHA (4) -- Peleg (3), Chad (2),Arthur(1) -- was born April 11, 1788, and married, March 1, 1807, George Davis, who was born July 23, 1786. in Scituate, R. I., and who was a son of William Davis.
They dwelt in Columbia, Herkimer Co., N. Y., and in other places in that State, and emigrated to the vicinity of Ellisvi1le, Ill., where she died Aug. 6, 1836, and he in Feb. 1842.
Their children were twelve in number, but only six attained maturity:
249. i Roba (5) b. Feb. 22, 1810, m. William Pearce; dw. Westfield, Union Co., N. J.
250. ii Mary (5) b. Sept. 1, 1812, m. Thomas Crabtree; dw. . . . , ,
251. iii Dr. Charles (5) b. June 1, 1814, m. 1st Aurelia Williams; dw. in Henry, Ill.
252. iv Anna (5) b. 1817, m. John B. Scott; dw. Fairfield, Iowa.
253. v Lucinda (5) b. Aug 27,1824, m. John B. Scott; dw. near Leroy, Kan.
254 vi Dr. George (5) b. May 2, 1827, m Emily K. Sheaf; dw. in Peoria, Ill.
vii Peleg (5) died at the age of 9 years.
viii Abigail Jane (5) died at about the age of 16 years, in Fulton Co., Ill.
The other four children died in infancy.
77. PELEG (4) -- Peleg (3), Chad (2), Arthur (l) -- was born Feb. 28, 1790. and married about Sept. 12. 1812, Hannah Wilcox. who was a daughter of Ebenezer and Elizabeth (Hirams) Wilcox, of Oxford, Chenango Co., N. Y. In March. 1814, they settled in the town of Abington, Luzerne Co., Pa., near Waverly P. 0., where he died Jan. 9, 1858, and she Jan. 29, 1858. They were religious people.
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Children.
255. i Aaron (5) b. Aug. 5, 1813, m. Betsey Ann Turner; dw. near Waverly.256. ii Benjamin (5) b. Oct. 18, 1815, m. Priscilla Green, dw. near Waverly.
iii Hannah (5) b. July 23, 1817, died July 25, 1817.
257. iv Sarah Ann (5) b. Jan. 22, 1819, m. Smuel Crossman; dw. East Benton, Pa.
258. v William Perry (5) b. Feb. 25, 1821, m. Sylinda (Greenej dw. near Lennoxville,
Pa.
259. vi Esther (5) b. March 18, 1823, m. Simeon Gumaer; dw. Tp. Benton,
Lackawanna Co., Pa.
vii Peleg (5) b. Jan. 20, 1825, died Jan. 31, 1825.
viii Peter (5) b. Jan. 30, 1826, died Jan 31, 1826.
18. DAVID (4) -- Peleg (3), Chad (2), Arthur (l) -- was born Sept. 8, 1792. and married Jan. 18, 1816, Ada Curtis, and dwelt in the western part of New Berlin, Chenango Co., N. Y., where he died Feb. 8, 1876.
Children.
i Electa (5) b. Aug. 25, 1816, unmarried; died in New Berlin, Sept 22, 1860.
260. ii Willis (5) b. Feb. 24, 1818, m. Mary M. Wilkinson; dw. in Cannonsburg,
Kent Co., Mich.
iii Polly (5) b. May 24, 1820, m. Dr. Charles Davis; dw. in Henry, Ill.
261. iv Leonard (5) b. June 21, 1822, m. Harriet Rowley; dw. in New Berlin.
v Miranda (5) b. Nov. 25, 1825, m. Oct. 10, 1848, Josiah Rowley, dw. in
Norwich, N. Y. She died Oct. 31,1873, without children.
vi Andrew Jackson (5) b. Nov. 7, 1827, died Aug. 20, 1830.
vii Andrew, 2d, (5) b. March 19, 1830, drowned in Chenango Lake July 11, 1847.
262. viii Maria (5) b. May 9, 1832, m. Henry Johnson; dw. Norwich,
ix Almira (5) b. Feb. 5, 1835, died Aug. 13, 1851.
263. x Betsey (5) b. Aug. 30, 1837, m. George Davis; dw. in Dundee, Kane Co., Ill.
264. xi Mary (5) b. Jan, 23, 1841, m. Orville Sherman; dw. in New Berlin.
79. AMY (4) -- Peleg (3), Chad (2), Arthur (l) -- was born Jan. 3, 1795, and married, Oct. 17, 1818, Myron Toles, who was born Jan. 16, Page 104 1799, who was a son of Ebenezer and Lucy (Fitch) Toles, or Edmeston, N. Y. They dwelt successively in Edmeston, Burlington, New Berlin, and Butternuts, in Otsego Co., N. Y ., where she died April 16, 1862, and he March 7, 1871.
Children.
265 i William Nelson (5) b. April 9, 1820, m. Augusta Morse; dw. Morris, OtsegoCo., N. Y.
ii Mary Ann (5) b. Oct. 29, 1821, m. Henry Hastings; dw. near Gilbertsville,
N. Y.
iii Lucy Aurilia (5) b. June 28, 1823, died in Butternuts Feb. 23, 1875.
iv Myron Wilson (5) b. April 2, 1824, m. Catharine Matteson; dw. near
Gilbertsville.
v Philip Henry (5) b. Jan. 30, 1827, died March 8, 1830, in Edmeston.
vi . . . . . . . (5) infant daughter, b. March 15, 1829, d. in infancy.
vii Henry Philip (5) b. Oct. 15,1830, m. Mary L. Leach; dw. in near Gilbertsville.
viii Ellen Maria (5) b. Jan. 9, 1833, m. Edgar Bassett; dw. Edmeston, N. Y.
ix David Franklin (5) b. Nov. 27, 1835, m. Sarah E. Garey; dw. Gilbertsville.
x Emma Jane (5) b. Aug. 3, 1838, m. 1st John Hastings; dw. Gilbertsville.
80. PHILIP (4) -- Peleg (3), Chad (2), Arthur (1) -- was born April 20, 1797, and married Dec. 2, 1827, in Sagamore Co., Ill., Chloe Goodell, who was born May 11, 1809, who was a grand-daughter or Rev. --------Cooley, of Cazenovia, N.Y. They settled at Meredosia, Ill , in 1828, and moved to Fulton Co., Ill., in 1837, where she died July 19, 1839.
Children.
i Philip Sidney (5) b. Feb. 1, 1830, died March 18, 1848.ii Charley (5) b. Nov. 7, 1831, died at about 1 year of age.
266. iii Anna Mary (5) b. Aug. 18, 1834, m. John H. Rowland; dw. Babylon Mills, Ill.
267. iv Chloe Helen (5) b. July 8, 1837, m. William Eusley; dw. Atterbury, Ill.
His second wife, Elizabeth Beers, was born April 7, 1822, and died July 9, 1859.
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v Arthur (5) b. March 29, 1843, died May 10, 1847.268. vi Martha Miner (5) b. April 26, 1844, m. Eldredg Keeling; dw. Wyoming, Ill.
vii Zachariah (5) b. Aug. 8, 1848, died Sept. 9, 1849.
269. viii Clarissa (5) b. July 11, 1850, m. John O'Hara; dw. Cuba, Ill.
270. v Susan Margaret (5) b. Jan. 14, 1852, m. Henry Short; dw. Babylon Mills.
271. x John (5) b. June 30, 1854, m. Victoria Cole; dw. Babylon Mills.
His third wife was Cynthia, eldest daughter of Allen H. (5) and Lefee (Tibbets) Aylsworth. She died March 11, 1863, and he Dec. 22, 1883.
Children.
xi Ida (5) died at the age of three or four years.xii Emma Luella (5) died July 20, 1863, at the age of six months.
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH.
Philip Aylsworth was born in Foster, R. I., and reared in Edmeston, N. Y., where his parents dwelt at that period, and having remarkable natural gifts early acquired an education and engaged in teaching public schools from 1816 to 1822 in Luzerne Co., Pa., Seneca Co, N. Y., and in his own county, where he was school superintendent. In the spring or 1822 he went to the State or Illinois, and on the 11th day of May of that year established a ferry at the present site of Beardstown, on the Illinois River, and in 1827 surveyed and platted that city, naming it for his intimate friend. the proprietor or the land. Thomas Beard. He and his wife settled on the present site of Meredosia, on the same river, July 11, 1828, where he established a ferry, and immediately spent eight days alone with a horse and a hatchet blazing a trail through the timber and trailing a path through the tall prairie grass, between his ferry and the bluffs at Quincy, then little else than a mere landing. The railroad between these two points traverses this old trail, varying from it but slightly at a few points. He established his ferry just below the outlet or that lake called by the French traders who sometimes stopped there at that time Mere d'Sier. A cross with his name inscribed upon it still marked the grave of Osier, a trader who had been buried within a few rods of the place where he first landed his few effects and began his improvements. This beautiful city owes its euphoniousPage 106 name to his happy thought or anglicizing the above phrase for the name of the place of his own founding.*
He remained at Meredosia seven years surveying land for the government and collecting taxes; served in the Black Hawk War as major; dwelt two years in Sycamore County, and in 1837 built the Babylon Mills on Spoon River, where he afterwards resided, and after which time he was identified with the interests of Fulton County.
Another item is worthy of mention here. To avoid the hardships settlers were then frequently subjected to by having their lands bought from under them by speculators, Mr. Aylsworth drafted a bill for Congress to act upon, giving settlers the prior right of purchase. This draft he gave into the hands of Joseph Duncan, afterwards Governor of the State, then the only representative in Congress from Illinois. Mr. Duncan failed to get any action upon it in 1829, but in 1830, owing largely no doubt to Mr, Aylsworth's earnest correspondence in the meantime with eastern representatives, Congress passed the bill with but slight alteration of the original draft -- the first pre-emption law ever passed by Congress.
To the latest years or his life he continued in the enjoyment of his faculties in a remarkable degree, reading the finest print without the use of glasses, which he never used, and writing the smooth and delicate hand of his earlier years. His memory continued good to the last. He died at the age or 87 years, 8 months, and 2 days, and was buried on the heights or the bluffs near Babylon Mills, where several members of his family lie buried.
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* This statement, which is from Mr Aylsworth personally, of course sets aside a published derivation of the name "oster," a willow. It would be difficult, no doubt, to persuade even a French trader to believe that the lake is made of "oster," and if the lake was bordered with willows, which in fact was not the case, the most inconsiderate Frenchman would have paid more regard to his plurals.
