THURSDAY, MAY U, 1885.
THE FIRST SETTLERS.
The Earliest Residents of the Present
Town of Owego between Big Island
and the Owego Creek, Ninety-four
Years Ago.
The old town of Union, in the county
of Tioga, as formed by the Legislature,
16 Feb. 1791, extended from the Che-
nango River to the West Owego Creek,
and from the Pennsylvania line to the
South side of the military tract, and, of
course, included the whole of the present
town of Owego. It was organized 5
April, 1791, by the election of town offi-
cers, and three months later, was divided
into road districts. Dr. D.W. Patterson*
of Newark Yalley, who had occasion in
his researches to examine the town re-
cords at Union recently,copied and gave
to us some portions of them. The first
portion of the record is as follows :
JuiiT 12,1791.	•
The division of the Town of Union in-
to Road districts by the Commksionsra
of Highways, Benjamin Bates path-
master for the first Road District, Begin-
ning at tha Owego Creek, thence up ths
Susquehannah River as far as the head of
ths big Island.
Names of the People allowed to said
Bates for making said Road.
No of Days
Jaimes McMaster. .12
Phineas Thompson 5 y%
Benanuel Dswel.... 2
John Caster.......2
Jehs Barney....
Robert McMaster 8%
Amos Draper.....7^
JohnMcQuig...... 5>s
John N eland....2)£
Johm Carmon.....2>£
Elias Williams... 4
Timothy Sibley.,.. 2>$
Daniel Foggerson 3
Dan’l Foggerson Jr 2
No of If ays
Rubin Harrington 3X
Jacob Harrington 8%
Jeremiah Harring-
tsn..........2
William Bates___6
Amos Meade...... 4>{
James Barns..... %% .
Benjs min Selden,. S
Thomas Jordan.... 3^
Elisha Bates..... 8.%
Stephen Dean..... 8
Benjan Marsh.....2
Stephen Aylsworth 2
Benjamin Bates... )
This division don by the Commissioners of
Highways this 12th day of July ,1791.
The town of Owego was formed, at
the same time, 16 February, 1791, and
was wholly west of the Owego creek.
The town of Tioga was formed from
Union, 14 March, 1800, and included
what is now Owego, Newark Yalley,
Berkshire, and Richford. Berkshire,
was formed from Tioga, 12 February,1808, and Tioga was left of the saine size
as the present town of Owego, except a
small change oh the eastern border^
which was made a few years later.%
Spencer, including Candor, was taken
from Owego, 28 February, 1806, leaving
to Owego the territory which now in-'
eludes Tioga, Nichols, and Barton. The
inconvenience of having “Owego Vil-
lage” and the post office of that name,
within the town of Tioga, led to a change
of names by the two towns which was
authorized by the Legislature, in 1813,
since which Owego Village has been
within the the town of Owego.
The first volume of town records in
Owego,was for thirteen years,the record
of the town of Tioga, as may be seen on
examination. Perhaps some of the
men above named lived on the south
side of the river. Before 1791, the town
of Chemung was bounded on the East
by the Owego Creek.
9 Descendants of some of the first set-
tlers in the list above still reside in the
town of Owego.
James McMaster, of Florida, Mont-
gomery Co., was the original owner, by
purchase from the Indians, of the land
on which Owego is built. He owned
eighteen square miles of land, now
known as the McMaster Half Township.
He was a soldier in Gen. Clinton's army!
and passed through Owego with a force
of 1,500 men, in 1779, to join Gen. Sul-
livan’s force at the mouth of the Che-
mung. He came here again, in 1785,
with his brother, Kobert McMaster, and
three others, but did not settle here un-
til 1788.
Amos Draper, an Indian agent and
trader, came, in 1787, from Kingston,
Pa., and was the first white settler.
John McQuigg, a Revolutionary sol-
dier, came from New Hampshire, in
1788.
Emanuel Duel was also a Revolution-
ary soldier. He came, in 1790, and set-
tled in the north part of the village.
Daniel Ferguson, another Revolution-
ary soldier, settled at Flemingville.
Jacob Harrington was a deer-hunter
and resided in the northern part of this
village, near the Huntington creek. •THURSDAY, MAY 21,1885.
THE FIRST SETTLERS.
The Earliest Residents of Berkshire
and Newark Valley— McMaster’s
Half Township.
Last week we gave a list of the first
settlers of the town of Owego, between
Big Island and the Owego Greek, as
taken from the town records of Union,
which was at that time in the county of
Tioga. The following list of the earliest
. settlers of the towns of Newark Valley
and Berkshire is taken from the same
source.
Abraham Brown Fathmaster of 16 District
from S. W. cor. of lot 432 to Korth line of Js.
McM aster’s half township, 1798. [Town Rec-
ords of Union, p. 50,]
No of Day*
Joseph Gleason,Jr 3
Josiah How......3y%
Ephraim Cook____3)4
Jessa Gleason...5
Daniel Gleason... 4
Josiah Seeley...3
Calab Gleason___5y*
Aze 1 Hovey.....5 %
Asa Leonard.....4)4
Ebenez Cook.....3)4
Josiah Ball.....8)4
Stephen Ball....3
William Ball....3
Daniel Ball.....4)4
Josiah Harris___ 3
Benjamin Oney... 3
Zelotes Oney....8
Abraham Brown.. 4)4
Jeremiah Cammel 3
Consid. Lawrence. 3
No of Day*
Abraham Johnsons
John Brown...... 5
Levy Bailey ....3
Benja’in Sparrow. 3
David Sherman
Farrand .......5)4
Uriah Simons....3
Elijah Wilson...4)4
Peter Wilson....3)4
Thomas Thayer.".. 3
Asa Bement......6)4
Enoch Slosson...6)4
Ezborn Slosson.... 3)4
Solomon Williams 4
Joseph ‘Hufford... 3
John Freeman.... 3)4
Barney Freeman.. 3
Abel Lawrence.... 3)4
Michael Jenks.... 4)4
The bounds of this district include the
whole territory between the present
North line of Berkshire and the South
line of Newark Valley, and the people
who were here knew perfectly well that
only the West Half Township had Mc-
Master's name attached to it. “McMas-
ter’s East Half Township” is a misnomer,
which has come into use through igno-
rance.Ufa (tette
THURSDAY, MAY 28,1885.
Abstract of School Bill of District No#
2, in Newark Valley, for Tern* Be-
ginning; 19 May, 1818, Continued
About Sixteen Weeks. Whole
Amount of Wages $21.28, or $1.33
per Week.
SCHOOL BILL, MAY 19TH, 1818.
Days’
Days	Board. Pupils.
Jacob Remele			$ 1.42	7	2
[ Esbon Slosson		. 55	57	3	1
Otis Lincoln		. 80	84	3	1
John Rewey.		 \ Oliver Williams...	.249	2 61	10*	4
	.140	1.47	&	2
Timothy Williams.	,. 68-	71		1
1 Stephen Williams.. i	..209	2.19	8	3
			(•	2
Henry Williams...	.151	1,58	\7yZ	
[Ezekiel Rich				2.22	8	3
1 Daniel Churchill...	.201	2.11	10*	4
Enoch S. Williams. 155		1.62	6	3
1 Jessa Truesdell		.164	1.72	8	3
Mial Dean		.169	177	9	3
! Anson Higbe		.. 43	45	3	1
[Total	14 ....	2030	$21.28	96*	33
PROBABLE LIST* OF PUPILS.
Jacob Remele.
Esbon Slosson.
Otis Lincoln—
f----Remele.
-Rem el e.
John Rewey.,
Oliver Williams....
Timothy Williams.
Stephen Williams..
Henry Williams....
Ezekiel Rich........
Daniel Churchill____
Enoch Si Williams...
Jesse Truesdell....,
Mial Dean..
Anson Higbe......
Who the teacher
. Semantha Slosson.
: WilFm Slosson Lincoln.
'Eunice Re wey,
Elbridge G. Rewey,
•	* Hannah Rewey,
Emily Rewey.
> Cynthia M. Williams,
*	• \ Albert Williams.
.. Nancy Williams.
(Catharine M Williams,
.. < Charles D. Williams,
(Horatio S. Williams,
f Lucy Maria Williams,
*	* \ Amanda M. Williams. *
( Mary Ann Rich,	<{
Chauncey Leroy .Rich, j
(Unknown. —--------—-~t-
f Joseph P. Brown,	|
J Amos P. Brown,
•	* j Seymour Churchill, 1
( George 'Churchill.
Eliza Ann Williams,
Almerin Williams,
Juliet Williams.
‘Eunice B. Truesdell,
Charles A. Truesdell,
(Unknown,
f Sarah Dean.
,. 4 Deidamia Dean,.
(i LeRoy Dean.
.. Lucy Ann Higbe.
was cannot be ascertain-
s ^ WllUdyn s'
ed, but she was either Catherine Draper or
Betsy Williams; and the fact that she board-
ed with Henry Williams at various times
leads to the belief that Betsy Wiliams was
the teacher, as Henry was her brother and
her parents lived with him..
THURSDAY, JUNE 18, 1885.
Early Settlers on the Boston Parchase.
Remele.
Jacob, son of Jacob Remele and wife,
was baptized at Stockbridge, Mass., 6
July, 1785. He was a shoemaker, and
settled at Newark Valley, where he
bought the old plank house, which Solo-
mon Williams built east of the grist
mill, and moved it to the east bank of
the oreek, on the south side of Silk
street, where it was burned, 5 January,
1871. Here he was living, in December,
1820, with his wife, who was between
twentv-sis and forty-five years old.
They had two sons and two daughters,
under ten years of age. Two of their
children were in school in District No.
2, in the summer of 1818. It is known
that they had a child, born 25 Jan.
1814, and that one of their children was
drowned 10 May, 1815, a young girl
having tried to cross the creek on a foot
bridge made of a single pole, with the
child on her back. Several people in
Newark Valley remember some of these
things, while some are matters of record;
but no one has yet been consulted who
can remember the Christian name of
Mrs. Remele, or that of any of the
children.
Any facts in the histor y of this house-
hold will be thankfully received and put
on record. D. Williams Patterson.
Newark Valley, N. Y., 15 June, 1885.
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Early Settlers on the Boston Purchase.
Any additional records relating fo
persons mentioned under this title which
may be sent to D. Williams Patterson,
Newark Valley, N. Y., will be thanks
fully received and put on record.
STANIiEY.
Moses Stanley dwelt on Berkshire
west hill, near the north part of
the town, on a road which has long
been closed. The census taken in
December, 1820, calls him a joiner,
makes him and his wife between twenty-
six and forty-five years old, and gives
them one son between ten and sixteen
years old, and two sons and two daugh-
ters less than ten years old. It is known
that he was here as early as October,
1807, and that one of his children was
born 26 Aug., 1808, and another 29 Oct.,
1810.
Susanna Stanley, probably his wife,
joined the Church at Berkshire, now
Newark Valley, 7 Feb., 1813, and was
dismissed 22 June, 1823, a few monthp
after the Church at Bichford was organ-
ized. She had five children baptized:
Lucy and Lovina, 17 March, 1813; a
daughter, 12 Oct., 1813; Mary, 8 Jan.,
1815; and Chauncey, 2 Aug., 1818.
THURSDAY, JULY 16, 1885.
Early Settlers on the Boston Purchase.
[Any additional records relating to persons
mentioned under this title which may b© sent
to D. Williams Patterson, Newark Valley, N,
Y., will be thankfully received And put on
record.]
HOSFOBD.
Joseph Hosford, who was born about
1722, came from Stockbridge, Mass., to
Brown’s Settlement, with his sons and
died at Newark Valley, 1 May, 1806,
aged 81 years.
Of his children, only two are sow
known; Joseph and Samuel.
Joseph Hosford, son of Joseph, was a
soldier of the Revolutionary War, and
being poor, his friend, gthe Hon. Amos
Patterson, of Union, N. YM gave him
twenty-two acres of land in the southwest
corner of lot 103, on the west side of the
East Owego Creek, on which he settled.
He brought his family to Newark
Valley, in the spring of 1796, and lived
for a few weeks in the house with Ezbon
Slosson, where the lecture room of the
Congregational church now stands; while
building his own log house, which stood
on the west side of Spring Brook, a few
rods southwest of the^turning *shpp,
which has been occupied successively by
Enoch S. Williams, Jesse Truesdell,
Samuel Moses, and, in 1885, by Aaron
C. Stevens.
This land he sold to Enoch S. Williams,
and moved, about 1810, to Hunt’s
Hollow, Livingston Co., N. Y.,
where he died about 1843, of apoplexy.
The street, which now lies about twenty
rods south of his little farm, was named
Hosford street, as a memorial of him.
He married at Stockbridge, Mass.,
1 August, 1793, with Mary Williams,
sometimes called Polly, daughter of
Azariah and Beulah (Brown)"®Williams,
and grand daughter of Deacon Samuel
and Mercy (Patterson) Brown, of Stock-
bridge, where she was born about 1772;
baptized 1 Aug., 1773; and joined the
Church, in 1783. She was dismissed
with several others, 5 June, 1803,_to theChurch about to be formed at Tioga, if.
Y., [now Newark Valley,] which she
joined 20 Nov., 1803, the first Sunday
after its organization, and her name is
the eighth on the list of members. The
record says she was dismissed in 1809,
but she remained in town till the middle
of February, 1810, then moved to Hunt's
Hollow; where she died about 1841.
Their children were:
L Electa Hosford, bap. at Stockferidge,
Mass., 18 Oct., 1795.
II.	Charles Hosford, bap. at Newark
Valley, 14 Feb., 1810.
III.	Eunice Williams Hosford, bap. At
Newark Valley, 14 Feb., 1810; died at
Bloomfield, N. Y.
IV.	Mary Hosford, bap. at Newark’
Valley, 14 Feb., 1810; married with
——-Parker, and settled at Hebron,111.
V.	Abigail Hosford, bap. at Newark
Valley, 14 Feb., 1810. Her husbamdV
name is not known.
VI. —:----Hosford, died at Newark
Valley, 14 May, 1807, an infant.
VII.	Franklin Hosford, bom, at New-
ark Valley, 22 Feb., 1809; bap. there 14
Feb., 1810, and settled at Hunt's Hollow,
N. Y., on his father's homestead.
Ike teette
THURSDAY, JULY 30, 1885.
Early Settlers on the Boston Purchase.
[Any additional records relating to persons
mentioned under this title which may be sent
to D. Williams Patterson, Newark Valley, N,
Y., will be thankfully received and put on
record.]
HOSFORD,
Samuel Hosford, son of the first Jo-
seph, came from Stockbridge, Mass., to
Brown's Settlement as early a^ 1810
About 1812 he was living in a log house
with Pynchon Dwight,where Lucius W.
Spaulding now lives. Later, perhaps
about 1825 or 1830, he dwelt on a small
farm, then owned by the Rev. Marcus
Ford, on lot 179, where Loring Ferguson
had formerly lived. _	_____■His family record has not been found,
and only four of his children are now re-
membered:
I.	Bhoda Hosford, died at Berkshire,
13 May, 1811, perhaps at the house of
Elijah Belcher, in whose family she had
lived.
II.	Sally Hosford, joined the ] Church
30 Sept., 1821, from Chenango Point.
\ She lived for many years in the family
of Bev. Marcus Ford, and married at his
house with Samuel Hill, and was dis-
missed from the Church as Sally Hill.
They settled at Bichford.
III.	Irene Hosford joined the Church
at Newark Valley, 4 Jan., 1829, and was
afterward dismissed as Irene Morenus.
Her husband, Joseph Morenus, once
selected a place for his home on lot 139,
on the west hill in Newark Valley, on
| land of Oliver Williams, and obtained
permission from Williams to build his
j house on it. The place selected was
where, in former ages, a large tree had
5 been blown over, and he thought the
hole left by its roots would make an ad-
mirable cellar without cost of digging,
i He went one morning to begin the work
and looking about saw a dead hemlock
tree about four feet in diameter, which
he feared might at some time fall on his
cabin, and decided to cut it and so make
safety sure. At noon he had the tree
flying exactly across his cellar where he
I feared it would fall. On consideration
he decided that th ^ cost of removing the
tree would be more than the value cf the
cellar, and concluded to abandon the
| enterprise and go home to dinner.
I IV. Lucinda Dolly Hosford, joined the
Church at Newark Valley, 3 Apr., 1831.THLPSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17,1885.
Settlers on the Boston Purchase!
[Any additional records relating to persons
mentioned under this title which may be sent
to D. Williams Patterson, Newark valley, N,,
Y., will be thankfully received and put on i
record.]	I
ADDIS.
Samuel Addis married with Submit
Bartlett, who was born at Guilford,
Conn., XO April, 1764, daughter of Abra-
ham and Submit Bartlett. They moved
from West Stockbridge, Mass., in the
spring of 1806, in company with Samuel
Johnson, and settled on the south part
of lot fifty-eight, in Newark Valley, on
the farm previously owned by John
Freeman and Jonas Muzzy, and built
thereon a small framed house. They
dwelt there till the spring of 1810, then
went to live in the family of Hart New-
ell, whose wife was a younger sister of
Mrs. Addis; and moved with them in
the spring of 1824 to Sempronius, now
Moravia, N.Y., where she died, without
children, 19 Sept., 1825,having been en-
tirely blind for thirteen years. He went
to Canada and died there, but at what
time or place is not known.
SPARROW.
Benjamin Sparrow was born at Mill-
ington, in East Haddam, Conn., 9 Nov.,
1762; and was baptized there 9 Jan.,
1763. He was the eighth ohild of John
and Anna Sparrow from Eastham,
Mass. He was an inhabitant of
Brown’s Settlement early enough to be
taxed three days’ work on the highway,
in 1798. At that time it wonld seem that
he lived north of David Sherman Far-
rand’s, and south of John Brown’s, per-
haps where the Rev. Jeremiah Osborn
dwelt a few years later. In 1804, he
was living on lot 52, of MoMaster’s Half
Township, on the north-east corner,
where George Southwick has since lived;
and it was in his log house, at this place
that Dr. Tinkham died. It is a matter
for regret that so little is known of him
and his family or connections.
” ■	1———• ,v———
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1,1885.
Early Settlers on the Boston Purchase,
[Any additional records relating to persons
mentioned under this title which may be sent
to D. Williams Patterson, Newark Valley, N,
Y., will be thankfully received and put on
record.]
JOHN FREEMAN.
John Freeman settled on a long, nar-1
row farm of fifty-five and a half acres,on j
the south side of lot 58, in the Grand
! Division. In 1798, which was probably
his first year on this place, he was taxed
to work three and a half days on the
highway. In 1800, he was one of the
nine pathmasters in the now town qf
Tioga, and on the first of April,
1801, was elected one of the highway
commissioners. On the sixteenth^ April,
1801, he and Henry Moore laid the high-
way now known as Whig street, in New’
ark.Valley, from Enoch Slosson’s barm
(which stood on the present green) to “in-/
tersectthe road leading to Jenks Set]
• tlement ” which intersection was at whai^
! has long been known as Moore’s Corner.
| He sold his farm, 5 Dec., 1801, for four
, hundred dollars to Jonas Mrszy, and,
j probably, soon left the place. His wife
\ was not named in the deed, but signed
it as Arne Freeman, and it was witnessed
by Peter Wilson and John Freeman, Jr.,
who was, probably, a son of the grantor.
The farm has been occupied by Jonas
Muzzy, Samuel Addis, Samuel Johnson^
Mrs. Nancy Rich, George E. Rich, and
William Floyd Monell. It is the same
on which; “a Mr. Fellows” is said to|have
lost his life by a falling tree, in 1798, j
on the same afternoon that his father left
him in possession and started for his home
in New England. There are indications
that the young man'who was killed, in-
stead of being “ a Mr. Fellows,” , was a
son of this John Freeman, and that he
was killed in 1797, the year before the
father came with his family ; and it so, i
that year must have been one of peculiar
sadness to the settlers; Isaac Brown and
John Carpenter having died suddenly in
April, and William Solomon ‘Lawrence i
and — Freeman having both been j
accidentally killed in the summer. John
Freeman, pretty surely the same, wasliving in Spencer, nT^L, now Caroline,}
Tompkins county, on the north half of
lot number 11, in North-west quarter of
township number 11, of the “twelve
townships” purchased by Watkins and
Flint, and mortgaged it 24 April, 1806,
to Oliver Huntington,to secure him from
any claims of dower which might be j
made by Freeman's daughter, Sally
Steward, the widow of Henry Steward,
upon certain land which Steward had
sold to Huntington.
Barney Freeman, a son of John Free -,
man, lived writh his father or near him,
perhaps on the same lot, and was taxed,
in 1798, to work three days on the high-
way. He was baptized and joined the j
“First Church in Tioga,” now Newark l
Valley, 20 Nov., 1803,” on the first &un- j
day after its organization; he being its
tenth member, and the first to join it
“on profession of faith ” No record
of wife or children has been found. He
died in November, 1808, according to the
Church record, perhaps at his father's, ,
in Caroline. He was long remembered
as having unusual ability in vocal music
and as being “quite a Ringing master.”
o.fx/zexU-

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26. 1885. /
Early Settlers on the Boston Purchase.
0
[Any additional records relating to persons
mentioned under this title which may be sent
to JD. Williams Patterson, Newark Valley, N,
Y., will be thankfully received and put on
recor^.3
LAWBBNOB,
t
William Solomon Lawrence was an
early settler in Newark Valley, on lot,
sixty-three, where Hart Newell dwelt till
1824, followed by Lyman Barber, whose
house was burned in Nov.,1856, where his
daughter, Mrs. William Tracy Loring,
now lives. Mr. Lawrence was born
[probably in Canaan, Conn. , about 1757,
$ljjtest son of Jonas Mid Tryphena (Law*
jrence) Lawrence; married 12 Oct. J 1780,
yith Esther Button, and ha<3i ,:r eight
J children, according to the genealogy of
[the family, the time of their arrival in
fBrown's Settlement is -not now known,
t '	-	• i
nor the exact date of his death, which
took place at Tioga Centre in the latter
part of the summer of 1797. He had
been to pheshequin, Penn. , to buy some j
wheat, and on the way home his horses i
were frightened by a dog, became^ un- j
manageable, overturned the wagon, and
threw him out. His head struck against
some drags of wood, which lay by the
roadside, breaking his skull, and causing
immediate death.
I His widow married (2d) 20 Sept.,1801,
jwith Abel Stafford, of Owego, and re-
moved with him to Canada, where she j
drowned herself in a trough of water.
Cyrus Lawrence, one of the sons of
William Solomon and Esther (Dutton)
Lawrence, was born about 1792; a farmer
Olive Dewey, who was,probably,born at
Stockbridge, Mass., daughter of Abner
Dewey. They dwelt first on the farm
afterward owned by Jonathan Belcher,
and now by Hiram Holden, and in
December, 1820, on lot 52 of McMaster’s
half township, (where Benjamin Sparrow
had formerly lived) but never succeeded
in accumulating much property, and
left that place, early in 1821, without
giving his neighbors a farewell feast, or
an opportunity to bid him a formal fare-
well, and settled next, near Batavia, N.
Y., where he took his own life by hang-
ing. His first appearance in a business
way was 21 Aug., 1813,when he was em-
ployed by his brother-in-law, John
Bement, in digging stone for John Bew
ey. Later in that year he burned a
quantity of coal for Rewey.
His wife’s brother, Truman Dewey,
furnished her with six dollars and a half,
5 May, 1813, though John Dbment, and
five dollars more, 6 July; 1813; and it
seems probable that her marriage took
place in the spring of 1813. The census,
taken in December 1820, shows that
| their household contained four sons and
I two daughters, all under ten years of age,
^nd the following names have been ob-
I tained from various sources.
, I. William Lawrence, the eldest. |
| II. Amy Lawrence.	1
j III. Erastus Lawrence,
j IV. Charles Lawrence.
( V. LaFayette Lawrence.
VI. ------ Lawrence, a daughter.
name unknown.» ~#Died, June 2d, in Newark Valley, at the
residence of Mrs. M. E. Hotchkins, Emily S.
Bean, sister of Mrs. 0. L. Bloodgood and Miss
Laura Bean, and daughter of the late Frederick
and Lucy Bean, of Maine, Broome County,
N. Y. The funeral services were held on Fri-
day, June 5th. The floral offerings were
beautiful, one of the finest designs being a
large pillow of stocks and roses with the words
‘‘At Rest,” from friends at Fair Haven.
OWEfiO TIMES-
THURSDAY, JUNE U, 1885.
OWEGO TIMES.
THURSDAY, JUNE 11, 1885.
Obituary*
Mrs. Fannie Worthington, widow of Gad
Worthington, and mother of Mrs. W. H.
Bristol, of Glen Mary, died at the residence
of her son, G. B. Worthington, in Batavia, N.
Y., on Tuesday last, aged 92 years. Among
the early settlers in Tioga County were Mr.
and Mrs. Gad Worthington, who came from
Lenox, Mass., to Berkshire, and afterwards
moved to Owego, the latter portion of their
lives being passed in Batavia. For many
years they were identified with the progress
and development of the primitive settlement
here, aiding energetically in industrial, social
and religious affairs. They were two of the
three members from whose meetings for read-
ing service at their homes originated the con-
gregation of the Episcopal Church in this
locality. There were much in their natures of
the sturdy stability and unwavering steadfast-
ness to principle and honor, and of exemplary
traits, that have characterized so many of New
England birth, and formed the essential ele-
ments in the successful and upright lives of
the men of the present day.
Mrs. Worthington survived her husband some
twenty years, and with a remarkably clear
mind and few of the infirmities incident to ex-
treme old age, and with gentle and untiring
ministrations about her, peacefully entered
into rest, to awaken to heavenly reward for
earthly well doing.Production Note
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