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Souvenir 
 
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 SherburneCentennial 
 
 CELEBRATION 
 
 AND DEDICATION OF MONUMENT TO THE PROPRIETORS 
 AND EARLY SETTLERS, 
 
 HELD OX 
 
 Wedqesdqy, Jqije 21st, 189*;j. 
 
 ALSO SKETCHES OF FAMILIES AND OTHER 
 HISTORICAL DATA. 
 
 PUBLISHED RV 
 
 M A R C I U S D . R A Y M O i\ D 
 
 TARRYTOWX, N. V. : 
 1893- 
 
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P R P: F A C E . 
 
 The publication of the proceedings at the celebration of the 
 Centennial of Sherburne, a fitting finale to that notable occasion, 
 "VN^as made possible by the liberality of the subscribers to the 
 Monument Fiuid, an overplus remaining in the hands of the 
 undersigned after all other expenses were prt)vided for, which it 
 was thought could not be better expended than in the way of 
 issuing this volume, a copy of -which to be presented to each 
 subscriber tt) the Forefathers' Monument as a Centennial souvenir, 
 thus preserving in suitable and attractive form the history of that 
 highly interesting event, which would be especially prized by 
 those wdio vjere unable to be present, and would in itself be a 
 valuable record of the annals of the to^s^'n. 
 
 So the -work was tmdertaken, and carried forward to comple- 
 tion, although attended with some unexpected and unavoidable 
 delay. As will be seen, an appendix containing interesting and 
 valuable data connected with the history of Sherburne, has 
 been added to the Centennial proceedings, so that the record may 
 be preserved for future reference. 
 
 With this sim]5le statement this Centennial \-olume is issued in 
 the h<i])e that it may lie of interest to all who shall receive it, 
 and that the appreciation with which it is received will be 
 a sufficient justification for its publication. 
 Tarrytown, \'. V., Oct. i, 1893. 
 
 M. D. R.WMOND. 
 
C O X T V. NTS. 
 
 PAOE 
 
 Pkki.iminaky, ..... j_7 
 
 Address ok Welcome, ..... S-io 
 
 Presentation OK MoNUMKNT, ... 11-15 
 
 Response, ...... 16 
 
 Centennial Orai'ion, ..... 17-25 
 
 Centennial Poem, .... 26-31 
 
 Historical Address, ..... 32 Oi 
 
 Evening Exercises, ..... 62-63 
 
 Centennial Letters, .... 64-69 
 
 Monument Account, ..... 70-71 
 
 Sherburne Congregational Chl'rch. (With illustrations) - - 72-75 
 
 West Hill Church, (With illustrations) - - - 76-83 
 Family Sketches, (With portraits) - - - 84-97. 101 -105 
 Physicians of Sherburne, - - - - .98 
 
 Miscellaneous Memoranda, - - - - 99. io7 
 
 Finis, with View of Old River Bridge, ... 100 
 
 Addenda, ...... 101-108 
 
 Jn Memoriam, ...... 106 
 
 Old Assessment Roll for 1801, .... 108 
 
 I L L 11 S T R A r I n N S . 
 
 Views of Sherburne, .... Frontis Piece 
 
 Vif:ws ok Centennial Monument. 
 
 Six Portraits ok Proprietors with Autographs. 
 
 Page ok Portraits ok Descendants ok the "Fathers." 
 
 Portraits with Family Sketches. 
 
 Picture of Rexiokd Falls. 
 
 Portrait of Col. Wm. S. Smith. 
 
 Fac Simile of old School Report. 
 
 Fac Simile ok Old Map ok Proprif.tors. 
 
The Sherburne Centennial. 
 
 I I^ celebration of the Centennial of Sherljurne was 
 fittingly accomplished on Wednesday, the 2 1st of June. 
 ! It was well to be done, and it ■wasAvell done. The e\-ent 
 -^ so ctjmmeniorated was dignified by the manner of its 
 commemoration. In the inception it was modesth' undertalcen, 
 and it was carried forward w'ith dignity to the close. All the 
 addresses and utterances of the occasion Avere on the lines of the 
 social, political and religious theses of the Fathers. There ^vas 
 no apology for their Puritanism or their patriotism; no withhold- 
 ing of tribute or of praise. The crown of laurel was lovingly 
 placed upon them by their lo\-al descendants. 
 
 The celeliration may be said to have grown out of the purpose 
 to erect a Monument to the earl}- settlers, the preliminar\' move- 
 ments toward which were made some time pre\ious, and the 
 dedication of which was an important feature of the Centennial 
 e.xercises. 
 
 The formal organization for the Centennial took place at a 
 conference of citizens hehl in Sherburne on Tuesdav evening, 
 January 31, 1893, with Geo. W. Lathrop, Chairman, Charles A. 
 F"uller, Secretary, and Geo. R. Whitmore, Treasurer. At a later 
 met'ting it was decided that the celebration be held on tlie 2 1st of 
 June, and the foUo^ving appointments %vere made : 
 
 President of the Day, — Hox. D.WH) L. FOLI.ETT, of Norwich, N. Y. 
 
 Orator, — Rev. Lewis Ray Foote, D. D., of Brooklvn, N. Y. 
 
 Poet, — Philo L. Hatch, M. D., of Santa Barbara, California. 
 
 Historian, — Marcius Denisox RaV-Moxh, of Tarrvtown, N. Y. 
 All of whom in due time formally accepted the honoralile offices 
 so tentlered them. 
 
CKNTKN'MAI. CO.M.M ITI EES. 
 
 At a imx'tinL;' holil I^'riday c\'cnini;\ May \2. the I'ullowin;^ ])rc- 
 liniinar\' action ^vas talvc-ii : 
 
 It \v;is unanimously voted that the exercises he held on the grounds of the Congrega- 
 tional Church. 
 
 That tlie clergymen of the town be a committee to extend an invitation to all ministers 
 who have resided in Sherburne. 
 
 That I). L. Atkyns, Esq., and Stephen Holden. Esq., be a committee to extend a like 
 invitation to all members of the bar who have residc<l here. 
 
 'I'hat the doctors of tlie village be a like committee to extend an invitation to all physi- 
 cians who have resided here. 
 
 That Charles L. Walker, Charles L. Carrier and Edson L. Whitney be a committee to 
 invite all merchants who have resided in Sherburne. 
 
 That Lucius Newton, David Dart and Andrew Davis lie a committee to invite farmers 
 who have resided here. 
 
 'I'hat the Sherburne Brass Band be invited to furnish music for the occasion. 
 
 That M. D. Botsford, H. H. Tucker and E. R. Failing be a committee on music. 
 
 That some descendant of a first settler and a contril)utor to the mottument be requested 
 to present the same to the town, and that Albert R. Gladwin, Supervisor, accept the same 
 in behalf of the town. 
 
 That Stephen Holden, Rev. J. C. Barber and George W. Lathrop be a committee on 
 progi'am. 
 
 That Charles L. Kershaw be a committee to solicit funds. 
 
 That John H. O'Brian be a committee to invite jirinters who have resided here. 
 
 That (Jeo. W. Lathrop be a committee on Centennial Exhibit. 
 
 That the \'illage Oflfieers be a reception committee to see to it that the hospitalities of 
 the village be extended to visitors. 
 
 The fiillowiiiu; Comniitti.'i.' to ha\-c- (.-hartiie of the exercise.-s on 
 Centennial day ^^•as also appointed : 
 
 Gkiikck W. LvTHKop, Georgk B. Wiiiimokk, As.\ Foot, 
 
 CiiARi.KS A. FuLLKK, Lewis A. V/\N Wac.n KK, M. D., Stephp;n Hoi.de.n, 
 
 J. Hawlev Benedict, John H. O'Brian, Albert R. Gi.aiiwin. 
 
 ()k1)i:r dk iiii: n.w. 
 The foliowinLj was the order ot e.vereise.-^ for Centennial day: 
 
 At sunrise a salute will be fired from Hunt's Mountain, and the bells of the village 
 churches will be rung. 
 
 E.xereises on the Congregational Church grounds, commencing at i r. m., as follows: 
 
 Music by the Band, "Old Sherburne. " 
 
 Prayer by Rev. Edmund M. Mills, Ph. D., D.D., Elmira 
 
 Music by the Band. 
 
 Address by President of the Day, Hon. David L. FoUett, Norwich. 
 
 Address of Welcome by Dr. Homer G. Newton, Sherbin-ne. 
 
 Music liy the Band. 
 
 Unveiling of the Monument by Plumb Post, G. A. R., No. 493. 
 
 Presentation of Monument by Mr. (Jeorge W. Lathroj), Sherliurne. 
 
 Response by All:)ert R. Gladwin, Sui)ervisor, Slicrbiu'ne. 
 
 Music by the Band. 
 
 Oration by Rev. Lewis Ray Foote, D.D., Brooklyn. 
 
 Music by the Band. 
 
 Poem by Dr. Philo L. Hatch, Santa Barbara, CaUfornia. 
 
 Historical Address by Marcius D. Raymond, Tarrytown, N. Y. 
 
 Reception in the evening at the Church parlors. Reee]ition Committee. President and 
 Trustees of the \'illage. 
 
CENTENNIAL EXERCISES. 7 
 
 The toIli)\vin,L!; cxcerjjts s^ivinii; some account of the exercises are 
 taken from the columns of the Sherburne Nctus, which juililished 
 a full and handsoniel)- illustrated report of the proceedin,i;-s : 
 
 "A slight shower Tuesda\' night partially laid the dust which 
 had accumulated so deeph' uijon our streets, and Wednesday 
 dawned clear, with every i>rospect of a charming day — in fact 
 the day was all that the most ardent friends of our Centennial 
 could ask for. Many dwelling houses were neatly decorated and 
 a gala-dav appearance was manifest. The ringing of bells antl 
 the firing of d\-namite ushered in the day. 
 
 "The monument ^\-as in ]josition, and was all that could be 
 desired. A convenient platform had been erected upon the church 
 green and chairs placed under the trees for the accommoilation of 
 the large audience present prepared to honor this first hinidredth 
 anni\'ersary of our township. Upon the platform were man\- of 
 the oldest and most representative of Chenangf)'s citizens, besides 
 manv frcnn other sections of the country, -who were descendants 
 of the pioneers whose earl}- struggles were thus commem- 
 orate^l. 
 
 "Shortly after two o'clock the meeting was called to order by 
 Judge Holden, who apologized for the absence of Judge Follett, 
 his official tluties making it impossilile for him to lie ])resent. In 
 his absence, Hon. Walstene D. Pudney, of Cleveland, Ohio, a 
 member of the legislature in liis adopted state, and a nati\-e of 
 this place, ^vas called upon to preside. Upon taking the chaii-, 
 the chairman spoke of the (lisai(]:>ointment felt by all for the 
 absence of Judge Follett, as he would have spoken words %vhich 
 would have lieen refreshing. But he could not let the occasion 
 pass without a word or two. He referred feelingly to the tv^'o 
 handsome memorial columns on the green, both rejjresenting 
 principles sacred to every son of Sherburne. Such occasions as 
 these are of the greatest benefit in purifying and enobling society 
 and the state. 
 
 "Prayer was then offered by Rev. PLdmund M. Mills, Ph. D., 
 D. D., of Elmira, in which he invoked God's blessing on this 
 community, its churches, its schools, and its people." 
 
ADDRESS OF WELCOME. 
 
 CV HUMKK G. NEWION, M. I). 
 
 I-'r lends and (hicsts of Sherburne : 
 
 Itis a pli-'asant task assigned to inc, on 
 hc'lialf (>r the citizens of Slierbiirne, to 
 \\elconu- \'ou to your old home, or that 
 of \-oiir fatiiers. It is dif'Heult to real- 
 ize the emotion with ^vhi^■h many of 
 \'on revisit the scenes of your earl\' 
 life. \'ou talk' o\-(.'r with friends tlu' 
 old da\'s and \iiii almost live again in 
 •^them. \'ou are l)o\'s and girls together 
 in the old home. Father and mother 
 are there, brothers and sisters and 
 frientis di'ar, and lung dead it ma\" he, 
 f%s^^^=^'^' li\-e again in your memory. J-^aeh has 
 
 his treasure of mentory, saci-ed to himseik Hut it is not for 
 pleasure alone that we are met to-day. You have come as 
 pilgrims v a shrine. 
 
 Some of vou are proud to trace }-our lini'age to the first families 
 of Sherburne. You come not only with an offering of veneration 
 and love, but you bring a memorial to the kithers fitting and ac- 
 ceptable. What more lifting than this granite memorial td the 
 men of granite \\diiim it mi^'mnrializes. We. too. citizens ot 
 Sherburne, claim in some sense, to be sons ot the lathers ^vith 
 you. For have we not a valuable heritage from them — lands and 
 homes, institutions, religion and patriotism .' 
 
 Different is the welcome given you to-day from that which the 
 fathers received. If I remember the record aright, as Columbus 
 had his Viking ])redecessor, so the fathers were not the first upon 
 the soil of Sherbui-ne. A ^\•oman was here before them, and slu' 
 welcomed them royally, lirewing her beer and liaking bread for 
 their entertainment. 
 
ADDRESS OF WELCOME. 9 
 
 But if l()\'e]\' ^voman ^VL•ll.■(ln^e(l tlK-m, and if ](i\-cly women 
 stanclilv stood l)csi<.k' tlicin ; if the Indian was gentle and true to 
 them, \'et it Avas a wild \vnnt\ into ^vhieh they came. They ^vere 
 surrounded In- sombre mai^'nificence. Many centuried ])ines oc- 
 cupii-Ml the huid. Your fathers were weicomeil to a stur<ly eon- 
 quest of homes under a thousand difficulties. But these men who 
 had conquered freedom for themselves were equal to cfinquering 
 for freedom a land ^\■orthy of it. 
 
 These men and ^vomen, and a himdred bands lik'e them, after 
 the Revolution pushed westv^'ard and nortliAvard and southward 
 to la\- founilations deep and Avide and ■wise for a majestic rejiublic 
 of freemen. The\' did not build l)etter than the}' kne^\'. We 
 honor the men thtit gave themselves to preserve the Union, the 
 \-aliie of which thev well kne^v from personal experience and a 
 ha])])\- history. But these men, Avith a vast faith in a freedom 
 whieh thc\- had seen in a vision, fought l)ra\'elv to attain it, and 
 then when battles were ended, set themselves to building the 
 purest democracies the Avorld has ever seen — town bv to^vn and 
 state l>v state, until a great Union by free men ^vas jjossible. 
 
 II' such justice and regard for the rights of men as early 
 Shcrluirne ])resented, if such reverence and obedience to God and 
 His laws were common throughout the land to-day, then indeed 
 Would the state be worth iH-eser\'ing even at the cost of millions 
 of lives and billions of money. 
 
 Ikit I will not trespass further ujjon the ju-ovince of the his- 
 torian. It were ungracious to keep you standing upon the 
 threshold when so rich a feast is waiting for you. So again in 
 tlu- name of Sherburne I give you welcome. In s])irit, too. \ve 
 ^\'ouM shake hands with many throughout the laiid ^\•hom busi- 
 ness engagements, distance, feebleness or age have forbidden to 
 meet witli us to-day. And especially would \\-e send the greetings 
 of Sherburne to that good old mother of patriots in the mountains 
 of North Carolina, w^hose precious memories of Sherburne a 
 hiuidred _\-ears have not dimmed. How gladly were she here, 
 Avould we take her around the old home, and sho\v her the 
 beautiful land that has been evolved from the wilderness. Her 
 heart wouhl warm at the fulfilment of the fathers' plans. The 
 
lO ADDRKSS OF WKI.COM K. 
 
 wilil-wiiod is i;-i)iK\ an<l in its i)l;K'e aro t'l-rtile fit-jils and lKi])])y 
 liomcs. Grot-Mi valK-ys ami iiiils lit,- i>\K-n X'< tlic siinlii^ht Heckcd 
 with beautit'ui sliadows. Cjcntly siopin-^ uplands are covered witli 
 contented flocks and herds. There is beauty everywhere. Go up 
 on the hillsides on a da\- in sjjrin.y;, or in leafy Jiuie, in hazy 
 Septi-'Hilier or <;-olden October, and j^reater beauty you will not 
 behold this side the heawnly hind. 
 
 Welcome, dear fri(,'nds, and when \-our feet shall turn this way 
 again we promise \'ou lrt_-sh welcome. And "after life's fitlul 
 fever" is o\-er, and \'ou woidd rest, old Mother Earth hath ni.) 
 warmer spot u])on her bosoni than wdiere the fathers pitched 
 their ti^Mits. 
 
 UNVEII.IXC; TIIK MU.NL.MEXT. 
 
 " Upon the conclusion of Dr. Newton's admirable address, and 
 while the Rand played. Plumb Post G. A. R., by special invita- 
 tion present, stood in a hollow scpiare around the monument, and 
 the <lraper\- ^\•as lifted by Miss Carrie ]\. Raymond, the dau;,.^h- 
 ter of A. G. Ravmond, a member of the Post, and ,i;reat-grand- 
 dau<jhter of Xewcomlj Ra\'mond, one of the original ]:)ro])rietors, 
 who assisted in the captun^' of Lord Cornwallis and his army at 
 Yorktown in ijHt. And it was a \-ery i)retty })icture that was so 
 presented. 
 
 "The handsome ]iile of granite now stootl to view, an emblem 
 which it wcuild seem another lunidred \-ears of time could not 
 affect, commemorative of the hardships and perseverance of those 
 few hardy ]>ioneers wlio Hrst l)ra\-ed the ])erils of the wilderness 
 to make themseh'es a honu'. It was uni\-ersally admiiX'd, as 
 being in style and matt.'rial typical of the men ;uid times which 
 it commemorates. " 
 
 The presentation of the monument was then made by Mr. 
 George W. Lathrop, of Sherburne, a descendant of one ot the 
 first proprii.'tors. 
 
1 1 
 
 PRESENTATION OF iMONUMENT. 
 
 Bv (;k()R(;e \v. lathroi'. 
 
 Mr. President, Ladies and (ieii/leiiieii, and Fellow Citizens of S/ier- 
 l>!irne : 
 
 I ^Vln.ll(l like to bring before ymir niimls, tlie name of (ine (if the 
 sons cif Sherburne, who is, aljsent, not bein;j; af)le In endure so hmg 
 a journe\-. ( )ne who was born but a stone's throw from this spot, 
 \vho in boyhoinl played and walked in these streets, and who in 
 later _vears beautified them with trees whieh now shade our walks ; 
 \vho still later, \\'ende<l his wa\' \vestward, and finall_\' made a 
 beautiful home in Janesville, Wis. I refer to Mr. John De Witt 
 Rexford. He has had from the first a g'reat interest in the Sher- 
 burne Centennial, and freeh' used l)oth monev and inlluence to^vard 
 the monument just iui\'eiled, and it is he \vho shouhl liave had the 
 honor instead of m\'self, of presenting so beautiful a structure to 
 the good people of Sherburne. 
 
 The erection of a Mimunient or Memorial Stone to be dedicated 
 at this Centennial on which should be engra\'en some of tlie pri- 
 me\l facts in the history of this to^\•n, and on \vhich shouhl alstj 
 appear the names of some of those who ^vere most prominently 
 connected \vith its early settlement, suggested itselt as a thing 
 very appropriate to be done in connection with this celebration. 
 So the work ^vas undertaken on the proper basis that the 
 fund for that ])urpose should f)e made up entireh' In' the descen- 
 dants of the jjroprietors and early settlers whose memory should 
 be so perpetuated. And it is ver}- pleasing in this connection to 
 be able to say, that the resjxmse has been heartv, generous, and 
 sufficient. It was fitting that the stone selected should be plain 
 and massive, rather than ornamental, typical of the times and 
 the men, whose character was as firm and imyielding as this 
 Ouincy granite, a name distinctively associated Avith patriotism 
 as -svell as witii the grand old commonwealth of Massachusetts, 
 whieh was the early home of the ancestors of most of the 
 pioneers of Sherburne. 
 
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 12 rKKSKNTA HON OKMOMMKNI'. 
 
 Till- iKuiU's (if tlu' i,'K'\>'ii l'i-ci])rii.'ti IPS, so c;il K-il, |)rii|>i.-rly a]i])i'ar 
 ■ii))(iii till' Irimt (if this MiiiiuiiK-nl wliicli has Just hi-i'ii iin\'i.-ilc-il 
 ill \'(nii" [iiX'SLMUf. AikI hrst anmni;' them, liy common consent at 
 tiic licad of the list, is the hundi-c.l nanu' of Natlianicl Gray, tlic 
 ])alriarch and icaiK-r of the new settlement, — a man of sovnid 
 judii;nient and hii;-li chai-aeteT. 1 h.- liad l)ee'n an olHeLT in ihi.' 
 l*"reiieh war, in C'apt. I'dmoi'e's t'ompaiu I mm Sharon, Conn. ; had 
 man-ied lor liis first \\-ilc, Dehoraii, the daut^hter of Deacon 
 Melatiah Lalhro]), theri of Dover I'lains, N. Y. He was an early 
 pioneer in i^iehmoml, ]k'rl<shii-e Co., Mass., was afterwards 
 of Kent, Conn., and Duanesburt^h, N. Y. ; was of the ])arty 
 of ])ioncers wlio pros|)eeti,'il for new homes in tlie valK-y ot the 
 ChenanL;M, and ]>ersonall\- made the contract for tile l'roi)rii.-tors; 
 was one of the deacons chose-n at tin- or;^'anizat ion ot the I'irst 
 CongrcLijationa] Clnirch, ami was the first Justice ot the Peace 
 ajjpointcd \\ithin tlie ])iX'sent limits of the town of Sherburne. 
 He continued to reside here until his death, \\ liieh occurred June 
 24th, iSlO, in the 75th year of his ai;'e. 
 
 John (ira\', Jr., \\-hose name lollows, in later }-ears known ;is 
 Jud<2^e [ohn (ii-a\-, \\'as a son of John, Sr., and a neplie-w ot Na- 
 thanicd; was a soldier of the Ri.\ol u t ion, and married a daug;liter 
 of Rev. Hlacldeach Hurrilt; was a Supervisor of the town, and 
 Associati.- lusticeol the Counts". Remo\'etl to Chautauqua Co., 
 iiSi9, wlu'ix' he died Ai)ril 24, 1X59, in his goth year. 
 
 Elijah Cira_\- was the son of Nathaniel, a soldier of tlie Re\'olution 
 and good citizen. Died at Marengo, 111., 1S47. 
 
 Abram, James and Newcomb Raymond were brothers. Abram was 
 one of the first deacons of the First Congregational Church, and was 
 afterwai'ds for main- years a deacon in the West Hill Church. Was a 
 son-in-law of John Gra>-, Sr. Died in Sherburne, May 12, 1830, in 
 his 73d \-car; buried on the West 11 ill. 
 
 James Rayinond was a son-in-law of Re\-. Mr. Hurritt. lienioNcd 
 to Venango Co., I'a., \\-here he died Nov. 15, 1S52. aged 85 \-ears. 
 
 Newcomb Ra)-niond \\-as a sohlier ot the Rcxolution and a son- 
 in-law of John Gra)', Sr. Continued to resi<le here until his tleath, 
 January 26, 1852, aged 89 years. 
 
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PRESENTATION OF MONUMENT. I 3 
 
 Josiah Latlirop, kno\\-n as Capt. Lathnip, was a soldier of the 
 Revolution, a larsj;c land owner and prominent citizen. Died in 
 Sherlnirne, March 7, 1854, in his 97th year. 
 
 Eleazer Lathrop, brother of Josiah, was the largest land owner 
 in the new settlement and a good citizen. Died in Brockport, N. 
 'S'., 1842, in his 77th \-ear. 
 
 Joel Hatch, Re\-olutionar_\- soldier, Justice of the Peace, Supervisor, 
 machinist, was a son-in-law of Nathaniel Gra\-, and an invaluable 
 member of the community. Died 1855, in his 91 st \-ear. 
 
 Timothy Hatch, brother of Joel, and brother-in-hn\' of Rev. Mr. 
 Burritt, was a soldier of the Re\ ulution and deacon of the Congrega- 
 tional Chui-ch. Died in Sherburne, 1847, ^ige^l 90 years. 
 
 Cornelius Clark, the \alued surveyor of the settlement, was also a 
 soldier of the Re\-olution. He died in Sherburne, 18 10, in the 65th 
 }"ear of his age, and is buried on the West Hill. 
 
 On the opposite or south side of the stone, under the head of "other 
 early settlers," are appropriate!}' placed thirteen other names, as 
 follows : 
 
 Judge Isaac Foote, pre-eminentl\- one of the first and most promi- 
 nent citizens of this town and of this count)-. Was a soUlier of the 
 Revolution. Died in Sm}-rna, 1842, in the 97th \-ear of his age. 
 
 Deacon Samuel Foote, earl)- of Sni\-rna and Sherburne, and 
 especiall)' jirominent in W'est Hi!) annals. Removed to Jamestown, 
 N. Y., died 1848, aged 78. 
 
 John Gra\-, Sr., a soldier of the French ^\■ar and of the Re\'olution. 
 An early Supervisor of the town and influential in public aftairs. 
 Died in Sherlnirjie, 1822, in his 83d year. 
 
 Elisha Gray, son of Nathaniel and son-in-law of Rev. Mr. Burritt. 
 A prominent citizen ; the first school teacher in Sherburne. Died 
 in (3hio, 1 823. 
 
 John Hibbard Avas the original ownierof lot No. 14, comprising the 
 southern part of this village, and his early residence was not far from 
 the present home of Joshua Pratt. Died at this place 1830, aged 70. 
 
 Orsamus Holmes, a Revolutionary soldier from Vermont, ^vas the 
 first Town Clerk, an esteemed citizen here and in Chautauqua Coimt)-, 
 whither he removed. Died in Ohio, 1835, aged 78 years. 
 
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 I'RKSKNTATION OK MONIMKNT. 
 
 John Latlirop, brother of Josiali, was a farmer, resided at tlie Uuartcr, 
 where he died in 1825. 
 
 Ezra Latlirop. hrotlier of Jolm, was a sohlier of tlie Re\-olution, 
 removed to Ontario Count}-, where he died 1825. 
 
 Major Joseph Dixon, a commissioned officer in the Continental 
 arm}-; a hiri^e land owner and influential citizen of Sherburne. Was 
 a brother-in-law of the Ra\-niiind brothers. Died at Sni}rna, 1839, in 
 his 85th year; buried on Sherburne West Hill. 
 
 Joel Rexford, early of the 8th township; a s^ood citizen, and kin of 
 the Sherburne Rexfords. Connected with the West Hill Church and 
 biu'icti there. 
 
 Joel Northrop was a soldier of the Revolution from Westchester 
 Co., N. Y. Was one of the first trustees of the Con5^re<rational Societ}'of 
 Sherburne. Li\ed at the Quarter ; died 1802. 
 
 Capt. Nathaniel Austin was a unitjuc character in the new settle- 
 ment. Died 1803. 
 
 Joshua Talcott, Sr., was an earl}- resident of the West liill. Died 
 there July 19, 1804. 
 
 Most of these came .is earl}- as 1793, and the others shortl}- .after- 
 wards, and all were more or less prominently identified with the new 
 settlement. The names of others might j^roperl}- have been placed 
 upon the stone hail there been room for them. 
 
 The contributors comprise the followint^ : 
 
 J. D. Rexford of Janesxille, Wis., and other descendants of Corne- 
 lius Clark. 
 
 M. D. Ra}-mond of rarr}-town, Geo. N. Ra\-mond of Dubuque. Iowa, 
 Mrs. Geo. H. and Chas. \\". Raxmoiid of l-',lL;in. 111.. I'ulton Giffortl of 
 Mendot;i. 111.. Mrs. H. A. Kinsley of Angola, and L. G. Ra\niond of 
 Angelica, N. Y., of the ilescendants of Newcomb Raymond. 
 
 Mrs. C. B. Raymond and her daui^fhter. Miss Helen S. Ra}-mond. of 
 Boston, and Mr. I-'.. V. Ivisign, of Madison, ()., of the descendants of 
 James Ra}-mond. 
 
 Mrs. I). 1;. Sackett, and Miss IClizabeth Gray, of Cranford, N. J., 
 J. F. Gra}-, and Gen. John B. Gray of New York, of tlie descendants of 
 Judge John Gray, Jr. 
 
 P. R. Gra}- of h'lizabeth, N. J., grandson of l-"Iish;i Gr;iy. 
 
PRESENTATTON OF MONUMENT. I 5 
 
 George W. Lathrop, and Mrs. Rev. Dr. D. K. Bartlett, of the de- 
 scendants of Capt. Josiah Lathrop. 
 
 James R. Lathrop of New York, Mrs. Nichols of Washington, and 
 tiie Tracy Brothers, of Mansfield, O., of the descendants of Eleazer 
 Lathrop. 
 
 Henry Lathrop of Sherburne, and Gardiner Lathrop of Kansas City, 
 of the descendants of John Lathrop. 
 
 Wni. W. Lathrop, Esq., of Scranton, Pa., of the descendants of Ezra 
 Lathrop. 
 
 The Misses Kenyon of Buffalo, grand children of Bethiah Gray 
 Hilibard, the daughter of Nathaniel and Bethiah Newcomb-Raymond- 
 Gray. 
 
 Wells B. Hatch, of Syracuse, Mrs. Minnie Carrier of Elmira, Hon. 
 H. H. Hatch of Bay City, Mich., Miss Julia Carrier of Elmira, Mrs. 
 Dr. Mitchell of Minneapolis, Re\'. Dr. R. L. Bachman, in the name 
 of the late Mrs. May Rose Bachman, of L^tica, of the descendants 
 of Joel Hatch. 
 
 Yale Hatch of Highniore, .S. U., Farrand Hatch of Sugar Cirove, 
 111., sons of Elam, and Dr. Jethro Hatch of Kentland, Indiana, 
 son of Jethro, of the descendants of Deacon Timothv Hatch. 
 
 Hon. John J. Foote and John C. Foote, of Belvidere, 111., of the 
 descendants of Judge Isaac F"oote. 
 
 Mr. H. A. Foote, of Ne^v York City, son of Judge Elial T. Foote, 
 and grandson of Samuel Foote. 
 
 Manville Austin of Washington, D. C, of the descendants of 
 Capt. Nathaniel Austin. 
 
 Dr. F. K. Rexford of Ypsihmti, Mich., a grandson of Joc-l Re.xford. 
 
 Joshua Pratt of tlie descendants of Joshua Talcott, Sr. 
 
 Mrs. F. A. H}'att, ot Perr_\-\'ille, Madison Comity, a grand- 
 daughter of John Hil)l)ard. 
 
 Alida C. Avery, M. D., of San Jose, Cal., Miss Caroline P. Di.von 
 of Westfield, Chautau(|ua County, the Dixon Brothers and Frank 
 A\-ery, of Smyrna, of the descendants of Major Joseph Dixon. 
 
 This embraces the list of contributors to the Munument Fiuid. 
 
 And now, Mr. Gladwin, to your care and keeping as the Super- 
 visor and representative of this town in your official capacit^•, in 
 behalf of the contributors, I commit this Centennial ]Monunient. 
 
i6 
 
 kKsroxst i!V Ai i;i;kr k. (;i,.\ii\vin. 
 
 Mr. President, and Gentlemen of the 
 Centennial Committee : 
 In tlic name of the Town of Sher- 
 ImriU', .-iml in lu'liall' of its inluibi- 
 tants, it becomes my pleasant clui\- 
 and privilege, to accept from \dur 
 hands this monument. I am \er\- 
 glad to express to \()ii, \\liat I k'now 
 to In- the unanimous feeling among 
 our peo])le, of delight, and satisfac- 
 tion, w ith _\'our work". To Mr. Ray- 
 mond, who originati'd. and l)\' tireless 
 ^^ elTort ])erfected, this nKjnument, 
 l)elongs the highest i)raise. All who 
 have assisted in this nohle enter])rise 
 and especially, Messrs. Rexiord, 
 Tatlirop, Holden, P'uller, O'Hrian, Whitmore and Dr. Newton, are 
 entitled to great credit for what has lieen accomplished. And now, 
 gentleman, in heliali of the Town of Slu-rliunu-, I thanh' \'ou. I 
 thank \'ou in l)ehalf of the relatives and friends, Ji\'ing, of Nelson 
 C. Rexford, who so generously gave to the Town of Sherburne our 
 beautiful Rexiord l'"alls. I thank' you in behalf of the relatives and 
 friends, living, of Dr. Devillo White, who, in erecting x'onder 
 monument to the memor}' of the bra\'e UK'n, whose names are 
 inscribed thereon, erected also a monument l<i himself. I thank 
 }"ou, in behalf of ail those persons, scattered abroad o\'er our land, 
 who claim Sherljurne as their birth])lace and who always show a 
 deep and abiiling interest in evervthing that ])ertains to the welfare 
 antl ])rosperity of theii' natis'e town. I tlianl^ \<)u, in behalf of ever\' 
 residi'Ut of this town, whose ever\- feeling and i.'X])erienee is 
 hallowed by the most dear, and tender associations of the ])ast, 
 who love to recall and revive the memorv of dear friends, who 
 ^\■ere born here, li\-ed here, and arc buried here, and who in their 
 liv'es did their share in ])romoting tlie pros])erity of dear old 
 Sherburne. May the 2 ist day of June, 1S93, ever be a sweet and 
 blessed memory to all here present, and to all who shall hereafter 
 look- upon this a[)propriate- and suggestive me'mm'ial. 
 

 
17 
 
 CENTENNIAL ORATION. 
 
 BY REV. LEWLS RAY FOOTE, D. I). 
 
 Mr. PrL'sidciit, Ladies and Gcntlciucn : 
 
 H(i\v (liftereiit the .scene wliich greets iis to-ilay, in this Vailev 
 of tile Clienango, from tliat whieli greeted the noljle men and 
 women vvlio settled this town one hundred years ago. Then, an 
 almost primeval forest, whose chief occupants were the \volf and 
 the bear, and a fe^v rude log huts, met their gaze. To-da\-, a 
 smiling landscape, covered with flocks and herds, dotted with com- 
 fortable homes, school houses and churches, together ^vith this 
 gem of a village, in its bosom, greet us with all their glad signifi- 
 cance. The Indian name Chenango, signifying "lieautiful ri\-er," 
 gives us the Indian's impression of the original natural beauty of 
 this region, which was known from the first to the settlers, as the 
 " Chenango Country." 
 
 In selecting" the human instruments, to set the mold and give 
 shape to the institutions of this settlement, God gave the best rep- 
 resentatives of our most representative Commonwealth, — Connec- 
 ticut. Roth in nature and men, good materials were furnished 
 for a beautifid town. The manifest divine purpose has been real- 
 ized. A beautiful township, emd village, under a beautiful name, 
 are before us. Sherburne will take her place amongst the towns 
 of the land, as one of the most picturesque, and e.vcellent, amongst 
 them all. In xny college days, as I rode on the stage through the 
 valley to Clinton, I used to change a word of Goldsmith's line 
 and say, 
 
 " Sweet Sherburne ! Icjveliest village of the plain." 
 
 Passing years ha\-e onl\- deepened that impression. I come to 
 this valley each summer, from the exacting toils of a great city, 
 with ever increasing attachment for the place, and the people. 
 My imagination when seeking repose for wearied mind and body, 
 finds no more pleasing earthh' spot on which to dwell. How 
 many dear friends on earth and in heaven, and ho\v man"\" sacred 
 recollections, will ever Ije linked to the name of "Sherburne." 
 
I 8 rKXTKNXIAI. OKATKIX. 
 
 " Still o'er these scenes my memon' wakes, 
 
 And fondly broods with miser care ; 
 Time but th' impression deeper makes, 
 
 As streams their channels deeper wear." 
 
 Tlic first settlers ^\■erc Puritans. Soon utter tlie Rt'volutionary 
 War, in uhieh tlie\- bore an honorable part, tiny left tlieir native 
 State of Conneetieiit, and sou,o;ht a home in tin.' State of New Voik. 
 They made a temporary settlement near vMban}-, bnt came ulti- 
 mately to litis town, and became its original proprietors. The 
 fact that ihey weri.' Puritans, and the fact that the institutions of 
 oiii' towns, and nf our cmnit ry, wdiich distino;uish us before the 
 world, are oi Puritan ])lanting and training, have led me to ask 
 }-ou to consider with me, for a short time, some of the t'ssential 
 features of Puritanism, as necessary to the ""rowth and ])erma- 
 nencv of the Re[)ublic. To inan\' the A\'ord Puritan has an 
 unjjleasant soitnd. But so far as I am accjitainted with trust- 
 worthy history, the world owes its most jjriceless jewels, free- 
 dom of thout^ht, and liberty of conscience, to the Puritan. So far 
 as civil and religious freedom are enjoyed lo-da_\', thev have been 
 won frotn unwillino; hands by Puritans — and thotigli they had their 
 imperfections, yet they stand before the \\'orld, to-tla\-, as the 
 In-avest and the purest people the world e%'ersaw. If these thitigs 
 be so, thi.-n it is most fitting for us to consider on this Memorial 
 occasion, what it was in Puritanism that w'as so valuable. I use 
 the term "the essential featitres of Puritanism," for there was 
 much that went ttnder the name that ^\•as not essetitial to it. The 
 name was given as a nickname about the time Queen Elizabeth 
 ascended the Itnglish throne, 1558. Society, at that time, was di- 
 vided into \\vi> parties knowti as Cavaliers, and Roundheads or 
 Puritans. Life and manners geiierall \- were bad and low. Pro- 
 tanity was so common that even the Queen embraced it in her 
 letters. Untruthfitlness and impttritv \vere rife. The class who 
 rose as the reform party were called the Puritans. And it did 
 not take nutch to lead one to l)e called a Puritan. If one did not 
 get drunk- and went to churi.h he was classed as a Puritan. 
 
 The Papacj- and the Prelac_\- were both taintetl \\-ith tyrann\- and 
 vice. Forms and ceretiaonies were of greater \alite e\en in the 
 
CENTENNTAI. ORATION. I 9 
 
 Episcopal Church than ])urit\' of character. The Puritan resisted 
 tlie tyranny and the vice both in the State and in the church. He 
 did not \\'isli to leave tlie EiJiscopal Church. Baxter was an Epis- 
 coiDalian. He afterwards became a chaplain in Cromwell's army. 
 The Puritan took his stand on the \vord of God, and conscience, 
 and fought for ci\'il and religious lifiert}'. He ojjposetl any religi- 
 ous ceremons- he did not find enjoined in the Scriptures. The 
 \\-orld owes it to the Puritan that the English speaking people are 
 protestant. The English Puritan was sincerely religious. He 
 loved God and was devoted to his service. The degradation of the 
 English in the time of Elizabeth was shown in their amusements. 
 Bear Ijaiting was one of their fa\-orite pastimes, in which the 
 Queen ^vas a common participant. Macaulay ridicules the Puritan 
 because he was opposed to bear baiting, and the May pole. Mac- 
 aulay says he opposed these sports because he was opposed to the 
 pleasure of the people. But Macaulay ought to have known that 
 it \vas because of the debaucheries and indecencies of the people, 
 in connection with bear baiting and the May pole, that the Puri- 
 tan opposed them. When Macaulay says that the Puritan " hated 
 bear baiting not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it 
 gave pleasure to the spectators, and that he generally contrived to 
 enjoy the double pleasure of tormenting both spectators and the 
 bear," he allo\\\s his prejudice to guide his pen, instead of the truth 
 of the case. For it is well established to-day that the people lost 
 all sense of decency and self-respect on those occasions, and that 
 it was on these grounds that the Puritan oj)posed them. And this, 
 in a word, gives us the reason for, and the character of, the Puri- 
 tan's existence. He \vas the Reformer of his dav. You may find 
 him in Enghunl, Scotland, Ireland, Holland, Germanv, France, 
 Switzerland and America. \Vhere\-er you find him, you ^\-ill hnd 
 him resisting t\'ranny and vice in Church and State. 
 
 Such is the essence of Puritanism. But it originated not in Eng- 
 land alone. Neither is the Puritanism of America, sim])l\- the 
 reproduction of the Puritanism of England. The Puritanism of 
 America is superior to that of England. The Puritan of America 
 became cosmopolitan and combined ultimately the excellencies 
 which belonged to the Puritans of the wt)rld. No, the Puritanism 
 
20 CKNTKNMAI, (IKAIION. 
 
 of AnuTica is imt llu- I raiisplantini;' simiil\- <>[' English I'uritanisin ; 
 neither did the New l-iiii^land Puritans invent all of the good things 
 in onr institutions wiiich they did not bring with them from Eng- 
 land. It has been largely foi-gotten in studying New England 
 Puritanism, that our Pilgrim Fathers had been long resident in 
 Holland; oiu- of tlu' finest Ri.-]iublies tlu' world had ever seen. 
 Institutions whii,li \\l' prizi.' so highh-, and whieli England does 
 not even possess to-dav, eanu' Ironi llollaml, where the\' hail 
 nourished for si'ores of vcars. Oui- Irei.' sihools and our endowe-il 
 eolleges, eanu- from llollan<l. The first i'wv sehools in America 
 opened to all and supported liv the go\L'riHni.'nt, were established 
 1)\' the Dutch sett lers of New \'iu-k. lioll.uid was a land of sehools 
 supported l)\' tiK- StatL' \s'here e\n'i-\' ehi Id wlmU to school. Popular 
 education, as we know it, nc\-er has obtained in Etiglatul to this 
 day. She made an approach to it in 1870. 
 
 Then too our to^^■nship with touni government, one of (nir emi- 
 nent Amerieati institutions, clid tiot come from Englaml, neither did 
 our Ne\v England Puritan in\-ent it, as some ha\'e su]i])osl'<1. 'I 1k' 
 township and the town meeting, ^\•ith use of the writteti ballot. 
 are Puritan, luit not Etiglish Puritan. TIk' written ballot was not 
 used in England until the year 1872. Too nuich has lieen atti-ibu- 
 ted to England, and to the brain of the \e%v l-'.ngland Puritan. 
 Jefferson sai<l : "These wards called townships, in Xew England, 
 are the \-ital prineijjle nf their government ; and have prt)\-ed 
 themselves the wisest in\'ention e\'er de\'ised f)y the wit of man for 
 the perfect exercise of self go^'el■nment, ami hir its preservation." 
 It would appear that Jefferson attributed this blessing to the brain 
 of the New i%ngland Puritan, when in tact it was di.'ri\ed from the 
 Puritan of Holland. The same thing is true of our system of re- 
 cording deeds and mortgages, which does ncit obtain in England to 
 this da\-, because it would tai,ilitatt.- the common i.)eo])lc holding- 
 land. Our Puritan lorelathers found this idea in Republican I lol- 
 land. l-"rom which we see how pr( dilic republ ics are, in beneficent 
 institutions lor t he ])copk', w hen controJK'd byunsellish men. I am 
 Irving to bring to your mind fjoth the t.'ssence, and the cosmopcili- 
 tan origin of .\mei-ican Puritanism. 
 
 1 think- the essence of Puritanism is the ilesire for the best form 
 
CENTENN1A1, ORATION. 21 
 
 of civil government, and tlie best exjiression of the religions lite. 
 I believe these things exist in America ti)-ila\-. And one great rea- 
 son is, that the world has been drawn iipim tor the ideas and 
 suggestions ^\'hich are here incorjiorated into our institutions. 
 Just let me name seven prominent men in theearly histor\- ot New 
 York who rejiresent the same number of nationalities, to illus- 
 trate. There is Schuyler of Holland, Herkimer of German, Jay of 
 French, Livingston of Scotch, Clinton of Irish, Morris of Welsh, 
 and Hoffman of Sw'edish descent. I do not think it is too much 
 to sa}" that ^ve have the grandest civilization in the \vorld. And 
 such men as flerbert Spencer sa}- we are to have the grandest 
 ci\'ilization of the future because of our composite i^haracter. I 
 agree with Herbert Spencer. l^ut I think we are to ha\'e the 
 grandest civilization of the future, Ijccause we are a repuldic, and 
 because we are Puritan, and because we draw our Puritanism 
 from the "world. Gladstone says we have "the natural Ijase for 
 the grandest continuous empire ever established by man." Our 
 natural base and our natural character, essentially Puritan, being 
 maintained, the gro^vth and the permanencv of the Republic are 
 assured. I sa\- ^i:;r(nvtli as \\'ell as permanencx'. For all good 
 things possible to our Republic are neither yet secured nor perfected 
 The Puritan kindled the spark of libert\' anil he alone has pre- 
 served it. He is the natural op])onent of despotism, \'ice, and 
 corruption. He always has a high standard of puldic dut}' and 
 private honor. He always feels bound to appl\- the ma.x'ims of 
 religion to the ordinary conduct of life. Some have complained 
 of his intolerancy, and liaN'c charged his intoleranc\- to his being 
 Calvinistic and a Rei^ublican. To that it <.)nly needs to be said 
 that Holland was both Calvinistii.- and a Republic, and she was 
 not charged with being intolerant. The intolerance of the Nc^v 
 England Puritan was not an essential feature. He was intolerant, 
 but <.)nly in self defense. He was patriotic. He was law abiding. 
 He may ha\-e erred in the rigor with which he observed the 
 Sabbath, Init he asjiircd to an ideal ofiservance of the divine 
 command. To him l)iety and patriotism fiecame a seamless 
 garment. Christ and Coiuitry to him ^^•ere insei)aral)Ie. 
 
 There would seem to have been something incongruous in this 
 
22 CENTENNIAL ORATION. 
 
 occasidii il'tlu' t'inin(lcrs ol' this town had nm \tcv\] Rcvt il utinnary 
 sohlicrs. For a true I'urilan was sure tn In.- idem itieil with cx'crv 
 cause tliat represented righti-'ousness and lil>ert\-. A I'uritaii 
 soldier lias always been a diilicult one to eneoiuUer. Maeavday 
 slurred the Puritan, Init he ])ays the hijj^hest coni])linient to the 
 Puritan soldier tor Ijravery, tor ])urity, and ]>ersonal upriL^litness, 
 that any soldier ever received. But as soldier, as ciiizi.-]i, and as 
 Christian, the Puritan Avas always pre-eminent. \'(ui could not 
 iiave a Puritan without a belief in Cjod, an<l ])ersonal righteous- 
 ness. He was a serious man. The Cavalier might be a man of 
 fun and frolic, but the Puritan's sensi.' of obligation to God and 
 his fello\vs made him serious. To him life ^vas both real and 
 earnest. He believi'd in ri.!L;-lit and wroui:;. He ma<le distinctions. 
 To him right was always right, and wrong ^^'as ahvays ^vrong. 
 He felt that right should be rewarded and that wrong should Ije 
 punished. He ^v'as a man ol thought and a man of affairs. He 
 judged f(_>r himself whetlu'r ihini^s were right or wrong. He had 
 a l)iblical standard of excellence for life, nnunu'rs, and go\-ern- 
 ment. 
 
 And while I am delineating the character of the Puritan in 
 America, I am at the same time portraying tiie character of the 
 founders of this town as I liave learned it from pvn and lip. 
 These men whose names are cut in that granite block', beautiful- 
 1\' il lustratc-d in tlu'ir lite heri.', the essential features of the best 
 Puritanism the world ever sa\\'. Nathaniel Gray ^\•as the hrst 
 Justice of the Peace appointed in the town. He was tin- patriarch 
 of the settlers, — a man without an enemy — a burning and shining 
 light in the church. He and Abraham Ra\-mond were chosen 
 deacons of the First Congregational Church of Sherliurne, at the 
 time of its organization in 1794. They ^vere like David and Jona- 
 than to each otlur. To the other settlers they \\-ere like Moses 
 and Joshua, both as leaders, and in their ])erson,al inlluence ox'er 
 them. Whoever read of an\- community of men who bore more 
 honorable relations to one another.' They wen.' ni.'\'er l^nown lo 
 dispute a Ixumdarv lini', whi'n it was once fi.xed, nor did any ot 
 them ever \\:\Vi.- a legal dispvite with one another. Tlu'v liouglu 
 of and sold to each otlier, allowing the buyer to measure anil 
 
CENTENNIAL ORATION. 23 
 
 ■weigli The i;-i>ods tor hiniselt'. It was siicli men who laid the 
 i'l mnihitiiins of this ti)\\'n. 
 
 The American Puritan had no respect for persons. He knew 
 no privileged classes. Therefore it is not Puritanism to regard a 
 great thief as a great financier, and to give him ct)urt favors on 
 that account. The Puritan believed something, and had the cour- 
 age of liis convictions. He formed his convictions on the Word 
 of God. The first English martyrs were Puritans, and thev never 
 flinched one hair's breadth from their apprehension of the truth, 
 nor made the first overture for release. Phe Puritan feai'ed God. 
 He feared no one else. Puritanism often meant individualism, 
 l.iecausc it was often needful for the Puritan to stand alone. Like 
 trees, it makes men strong to stand alone. The Puritan had to 
 think for himself. The king and the priest might think, and act 
 too, for the Cavalier. But the Puritan was trained to think and 
 act for himself. Such training would naturalh- lead to constitu- 
 tional government. Such training prepares for Democratic insti- 
 tutions, tor Republics and a representative form of church gov- 
 ernment. It is not at all strange that Bryce, member of Parliament 
 though he is, should intimate in his American Commonwealth, 
 that Great Britain has much to learn in the matter of government 
 from America. As constitutional monarchies see the good things 
 of our Republic they will ultimately appro])riate them. As the 
 nations of the earth are prepared for the change they will become 
 Republican. 
 
 The Puritan •was a public spirited man. As Jefferson has said, 
 the core of our system of government is the town and the to^vn 
 government, and that means thought and more or less pulilic 
 spirit. A man in this land is educated to look about him and 
 consider the ]3ublic good. As a matter of fact the Puritan has 
 always extended his sympathies to that \\iiich lay beyond him. 
 Whatever will uplift his own commiuiity, his own country, or 
 the world, is germane to his thought. The Germans in their thirty 
 years' war had no warmer symisathizers than the Puritans of 
 New England, who ever remembered them in prayer. Benevolent 
 institutions like schools and colleges, libraries, hospitals, asvlums, 
 Avhatever may uplift a self respecting communit\', sjjring from 
 
24 Cl'.N'lENMAI. OKAIIOX. 
 
 Puritanism as naturally as li<;;ht ilows from the sun. Such thint^s 
 arc thC' nat^iral I'ruit of Rc]nil)li(.-s fosti.'rcMl by tin- i-sscntial features 
 III Puritanism. .\ Puritan Ke|iul)lie means a t^i'neral uplilt into 
 ])ui-(.'r I i\'in,i.;' ami liiL;'Iu-r ill ink inj.;'. The ])i-iuei])les ol inwn life 
 anil thai ot a niuniei| )al ily are iIk- same. What NeA\- N'ork ami 
 PriMiklyn, ami all our lai'i^'e i.'ilies iK-eil ami must lia\'e, is ihal iheir 
 business shall be transai'ted as X'our town bu>iness is transatted, 
 itemized and audited, and ihee ihemseUxs g(.)Verm.-d in broad 
 <la\dis^ht. and not un<ler a blanket. It is not Purilaniial to be 
 ruK'il by mono])!!! ies or by eoi-ru]it eor])orations, or eorru|)t |)oli- 
 ticians. Ihe Puritan is ne\er too indilfi.rL-nl or too indolent to 
 oppose such l(.)es of i1k' j)ublie L;-ood. ( )ne Puritan will ehase a 
 thousand C'avaliers. and two ^\■\\] put ten thousand lo iL:;nom- 
 inious llit;'hl. The Puritan was a |:)raetieal man. He kne^\■ 
 what he wanted, and he t^'ot what he went alter. That there %\'ei-e 
 faults in the Puritan system is only to say that it ^\■as human. 
 Hut it lias j;'i\-L'n us the Ik'sI L:;o\'ernnient, and the most noble and 
 unselfish men the sun shines upon. Alter a hundred x'l'ars of 
 experiiiK'Ut \\e aix- preparetl to say that the places \\-heri.' lile is 
 safest, and riclu'st in all good thin.gs, where ci\'il izat ion is highest, 
 where libertN- is most ]irized and most tenderly cherished, ^^dlere 
 woman is most honored ; — ihcse ])laces are IIk' places wdiL-re the 
 essential features ol Puritanism lui\"e been most dis])layed. The 
 logical connection of these facts with tlie growth and i)ermanency 
 of the l\e]>ublii.- ought to bi.' a]ipai-ent to the most casual obser\'er. 
 A king \s'ho is a bad man makes a bad ruler. The peo])le in a 
 Ri.' pub lie a IX' the king. lithe ])eople are bad iIk' go\-ernment must 
 b>.' bad. The belK'i- tin- peopk' the better the government. The 
 ^vorse the pi.'opb' the worse the go\-i.'rnment. (iood go\-ernnient 
 must mean inpialitx' in tr^'almenl, anil no fa\"oritism to anyboily. 
 Every cit\' and to\\-n in our land, (.ursed l)y misrule, dishonest}", 
 degradalion and ignorance, needs nothing so miuh as these es- 
 sential lealures of Puritanism. Sla\-ery went down before this 
 Puritan idi'a, and e\'er\' i,'\il ihing our smial fabric contains ini- 
 mical to its welfare, wliellu-r it lii'S in tlu- ^\•rong use of inili\idual 
 or (.■orporale wealth, in ikprax'ed ap|)elil(.', or inordinate lust, or 
 in the wickt'd use of ])o\ser, tlu'se must all go iIoanui belore the 
 
ckntp:xnial oration. 25 
 
 essential features of Puritanism. Good laws and good government 
 to-day wherever found, are the outeome of these prineij)les 
 Brave, pure, unselfish men the \\-orld over are seeking the good 
 of mankind hv these well tried jjrineiples. 
 
 The Puritans \vere nut ])iipiilar in their day. The Puritans of 
 Fi'anee were the Huguenots, and I'" ranee murdered them In' the 
 tens of tlnuisands, and exiled tlK'Ui b\' the hundreds of thousands. 
 The statue of Coligny recently inn'eiled in her splendid capital is 
 but a tardy apolog}- for her crime. At least 50,000 of the Puritans 
 iif Holland, including William df (Grange, whoso much resembled 
 (uir Lincoln, both in character and in the manner of his death, 
 were slaughtered by the Spanish Incjuisition. The bhicid of the 
 martyrs is the seed of the churi.'h. The blooil of such Puritans 
 was the seed of a more perfect expression of the institutions for 
 \vhich they died. America is the fiest rejiresentation in the ^vorld, 
 tc)-da\-, of these institutions, because she has received into her 
 b(id\- politic the best Puritan blood of the ^\-()rld. The highest 
 ha])piness of man, as well as the gro^vth and elevation of man, 
 will lie in the future as in the past, along the lines of these es- 
 sential features of Puritanism, and if the institutions of America 
 are to expand and lie permanent, they must be essentiallv 
 Puritan. 
 
 Two ])iles of granite to-day grace this beautiful green. The 
 one, l)ears the names of the fathers; the other, bears the names 
 of the sons; the one, fiears the names of the foun<lers; the other, 
 bears the names of the defenders of our countrx'. Placed a<lja- 
 cent to each <.itln'r, so fittinglv, upon \'our beautiful commons, both 
 alike witness to the same Puritan featin-e, and declan.' that the 
 names they bear are both alike, safe 
 
 " On Fame's eternal camping ground." 
 
 jftl^jS^^^KWWo 
 
26 
 
 CENTENNIAL POEM. 
 
 I!V I'HII.O 1,. HATCH, M. I). 
 
 O'er this broiid L'ontini.'nt there broods on waitinj? wings, 
 This hour the angel of the centuries, who sings 
 In numbers high as heaven, of by-gone years — 
 Aflame with minstrelsy the listening world now hears. 
 
 In liarmony coincident, we celebrate the birth 
 
 Of .Sherburne. For i/s no other spot on earth 
 
 Can such rich treasures of the past ])()S.sess, 
 
 Of what is found in man, earth-bora, true nobleness. 
 
 Offspring of the century, born 'mid these hills and vales. 
 From homes remote in this wide land, to-day we meet to raise 
 A monument to kindred sires, for whom there e'er prevails 
 
 A hallow'd wealth of sentiment that coins our words of jjraise. 
 
 From this grand line of ancestors in Sherburne's envied past. 
 
 An heritage of .glorj' comes, we hold with natal pride I 
 
 All hail ! to those exalted ones, from first imto the last ! 
 
 All hail I to each, we proudly say I Of heaven we're justified. 
 
 But what are these surroundings here, which meet our wondering eyes, 
 
 Wherever we may turn to look, if north, or south, or west? 
 
 Or to the cloudless orient, they fill us with surprise 
 
 To see w-hat is, — recall what was, — the archives tell the rest. 
 
CENTENNIAL TOEM. 2 
 
 Bring out the records, — call the roll, for list'ning far and near, 
 The fields and groves, and every knoll, are waiting now to hear 
 Familiar names read o'er again, from out the buried past. 
 Which thrill the hearts of living men who here their homage cast. 
 
 Lathrop, Raymond, Hatch and Gray, 
 
 Gifford, Newton, Hubbard, Green, 
 
 Avery, Northrop, Farrell, Day, 
 
 Ben-e-dict, and Valentine ; 
 
 Elmore, Austin, Gardiner, Lee, 
 
 Foote, Clark, Pratt, Purdy, Reese ; 
 
 Whitney, Hibbard, and we see 
 
 The names here listed still increase. 
 
 Lyon, Ryne.x, Ladd, and Mead, 
 
 Dixon, Thompson, Talcott, Dwight, 
 
 Rexford, Sanford, Lynde, — indeed, 
 
 The roll must close with Holmes and White, 
 
 Although the record still goes on 
 
 With names as worthy of recall: 
 
 For time forbids us to prolong 
 
 The list — to(.> gi'eat to mention all. 
 
 These names are not for measure formed but synonyms of worth. 
 And each a sterling man adorned, who lived to bless the earth. 
 Among them, not a man wiis found but formed of " Just the stuff " 
 That helped to make the country free, and Britain cry " Enough !" 
 
 One of the stalwart list 'tis said, a boy when he began. 
 
 The British fought for seven years, while growing up to man ; 
 
 And when at last in Yorktown siege, the redoubt works were scaled. 
 
 The first were he to enter in ! His name shall now be hailed. 
 
 'Twas Newcomb Raymond, full well known to be both good and true. 
 
 And wise as most men often are, yet one thing never knew ; 
 
 And that was when the orders came for his retreat. 
 
 He faced about, and forward marched, and never knew defeat. 
 
 He heard no voice but duty's, and however by it tasked, 
 'Twas done at once, and squarely, without a question asked. 
 And such was every man of those who broke old Sherburne's sod. 
 The glory of his countrj-, an honor to his God. 
 
 This world was made for just such men to have and enter in, 
 \\'here briars and thorns, fierce winds and storms, had come from mortal sin, 
 The seeds of which the fall had sown, and rode the blasts that hurled 
 Them right, and left, and up, and down, from Eden'round the world. 
 
28 CENTENNIAL POEM. 
 
 But whore's the forest once so dark, 
 Through which yon river flowed ? 
 The echoes of the woodman's axe ? 
 The fires that once there glowed? 
 The shadowed, fern-hedged silent path, 
 Th;it wound o'er hill and dale, 
 Along which once the red-men strode, 
 They called "the liuntcr's trail?" 
 Of which we've heard in prose and verse. 
 Strange tales of wolves, and bears; 
 Wildcats, panthers, lynx, yes worse, 
 Their screams from night-hid lairs. 
 
 The mountain heights, the ocean depths, the track of stars and sun ; 
 
 The cour.se of all things here below, like the river to the sea, 
 Dee])-carved doth leave the truth engraved, till time's long race is inin. 
 
 That change is moulding all that is, and all that yet shall be. 
 
 O, change ! Eternal change, persistent e'er since time began ; 
 
 In mystery, in silence, by infinite endeavor. 
 Thou hiust bordered, canopied, and hedged the jiath of man. 
 
 And on through all the ages wilt shajie it still forever. 
 
 Our ancestors were factors by which these changes came, 
 And left to us examples high, of what may still be done 
 
 In other s])heres of enterprise, with sacrifice the same. 
 And triumphs just ;ls laudable, when victory is won. 
 
 Thus laid they here foundations good and broad, and strong and dce]> 
 As those beneath the buttressed hills, in which their ashes sleep. 
 And everything they luiilded, stood, a fortress on a rock. 
 And time has proved it "very good," a.s we will by this block 
 With which our homage now is paid, — the most that we can do. 
 And with it here to-day is laid a tribute long their due. 
 
 Sherburne, the ri]3cned fruitage 
 
 Of a severed, drifting spray. 
 
 Of that exotic flower 
 
 That took its name from May ; 
 
 At length through ixitient toilings 
 
 Of those who wrought alone, 
 
 To-day becomes immortal. 
 
 By the planting of this stone. 
 
 Which hence sliall be a record 
 
 Of each justly honored name 
 
 Retained within the archives 
 
 Or on the faded listings 
 
 Of poll-tax, church or school. 
 
 The last of which no instance gives 
 
 Of one from dimce's stool. 
 
CENTKXXIAL rOP:M. 
 
 Hurrah ! we shout together, for the bravest and the good ! 
 
 The mothers and the daughters, with the fathers and the sons. 
 Who cut their way from Litchfield straight through the brush and wood, 
 
 While the former as brave-hearted, kept ready charged the guns ; 
 
 For savage beasts around them, and foes on every side. 
 Alert OTth hate and hunger, and treacherous as sin,— 
 
 Who mutely dogged their progress as Indians do, and hide. 
 To wait for midnight darkness, their scalpings to begin ! 
 
 They left their way behind them across the the bridgeless streams. 
 Illumined by their courage, as now by arc-light gleams. 
 And early felled the forests, built houses, barns, and field. 
 And soon the upturned acres their garnered fruits did yield. 
 
 Their homeful, rugged dwellings, like Jonah's wondrous gourd. 
 At once to full proportions grew, without sawn joice, or bo;u-d : 
 The walls of logs and chinkings, by native clay made tight ; 
 The roof of "shakes" log holden, oiled paper for their light ; 
 Mud-plastered sticks for chimneys, a fireplace built of stone ;— 
 The rest hewn out of puncheons,— a crane, and all was done. 
 
 Each dwelling represented, a school, a church, a court, 
 Where ignorance a sin was judged, and sentenced, a-la-forte ; 
 And soon a fact the natives learned ;— they saw their coming fate: 
 If whitemen's honor failed to bring their trust, it scorned their hate. 
 
 No time was lost to learning. The best of common schools. 
 
 At once were set in order, under well appointed rules. 
 
 From Litchfield fresh imported, the germs of tliose which now 
 
 Still guide our latest teachers, who to them wisely bow. 
 
 Since then, what strides <if learning ! Before the fact we pause 
 
 In the silence of astonishment, yet not of doubt, —because 
 
 In every section of the land, wherever we may turn. 
 
 Scarce second to the spires we love, that make our hearts to burn. 
 
 Behold the stately structures rise, for education given, 
 
 That onward, upward, miiltiply,— thank God. by Rome unriven. 
 
 Away the cunning craft of Popes, in tactics dark and dire. 
 
 That stealthily, is striving hard, to kindle smokeless fire 
 
 Beneath our noblest free school cause, built wisely, justly, well ; 
 
 On broadest stones of righteous laws. Why bum it ? Who will tell ? 
 
 Except that knowledge freely had, Rome's blinded slaves set free, 
 And spurns her power, however mad, both here, and o'er the sea. 
 America, so prosperous grown, an evil eye ne'er spares 
 This foe, her fields at night has sown with seeds of deadly tares. 
 
 Eternal watching, hour by hour, alone our country saves 
 From ruin, bv this sleepless power, that would of us make slaves ; 
 Yet better things we fondly hope, because we know our foe. 
 In time with it to grimly cope, before its final blow. 
 
30 CENTENNIAL I'OEM. 
 
 Our shi]) of state, each angry storm, across her steady way. 
 
 Has staiichly rode untouched by harm, without an hour's delay 
 
 To her grand purpos'^, s-xiled for man, o'er waves of pregnant time ; — 
 
 A voyage, we trust of Heaven's own plan, — a mission vast. — sublime. 
 
 No nation hence have we to fear, with all its ])owers of death ; 
 But, mutters from the poor we hear, yet breathed in lowest breath. 
 Against a king, who lifts his head, the foe of labor old ; 
 Who dares with insolence to tread this land ! His name is Gold. 
 
 Awake ! O countrymen, awake, before his fatal chains 
 
 Have boun 1 you fast, when he will take yovir all till naught remains 
 
 But servitude to lordly greed, like that of older lands. 
 
 Which gives no ear to human need, while binding feet and hands. 
 
 'Tis yoiu- last hour to use the power of freemen to be free ! 
 
 Your fathers fought to leave their dower of equal rights to liberty. 
 
 Not yet the battle quite with swords, for bidlots still are yours. 
 And bullets they, your powder words, while coole.5t aim assures 
 The victory, because your guns are ten to one of theirs, 
 And right with numbers, never runs, when men are born her heirs. 
 
 Right sure 1 am no Sherburne son. will ;isk for this digression 
 Apologies; nor mutely hold the thought that some concession. 
 Should, hat in hand, creep through tliese lines, for speaking of the dangers 
 Which rim the sky for by and b\'. with clouds to us yet strangers. 
 
 The darkest one that ever rose. 
 
 Concealed behind, a light 
 For those whose faith rests in repose. 
 
 Whose hope is anchored right. 
 And firmly planted on the rock, 
 
 Our fathers laid before : 
 It, greed nor Gold, nor any power. 
 
 Shall crush forevermore I 
 Platooned amid Columbia's hosts. 
 
 We, Sherburne sons will stand, 
 A cordon firm as granite posts. 
 
 Around our father-land : 
 Till enemies, to friends have turned. 
 
 And all the world confessed 
 That since our fathers freedom earned. 
 
 None other is so blessed. 
 
 This province where our friends are laid, is halo'd by the fact 
 At every line of progress reached, by thought as well as act, 
 It represented well has been, by women, and by men 
 Who took the front by right within each honored place : Amen ! 
 
CEXTEXXIAL POEM. 
 
 Surprised, — aghast with wonder, at the change which has been wrotight, 
 
 By one completed century, and by the cycle brought, — 
 
 We are reverently asking what another such shall bring. 
 
 From the noontide, and the gloaming, of Time's extended wing. 
 
 Events are swiftlj' coming, casting shadows on the sky. 
 
 That fix the gaze of millions who cannot answer why 
 
 The mystic light is holding them, half paralyzed with awe, 
 
 While persistently affirming, " All comes by changeless law." 
 
 The Mighty God no statue is ! He is the law itself ! 
 
 Himself revealed in changes, as he declares Himself ! 
 
 He bids us finite mortals, to unquestioning believe 
 
 Whatever He declareth, and thus His truth receive. 
 
 His infinitudes mysterious, we cannot understand : 
 
 But if sincerely willing, we may his plain command ; 
 
 As did those Christian ancestors, good Sherburne's righteous dead, 
 
 Who lived by faith unswerving, in all that God has said ; 
 
 And left a hallowed atmosphere, still resting on this place. 
 
 Like incense of the Holiest, in the Temple of His Grace. 
 
 In the days of small beginnings, when America was young, 
 
 And potent possibilities were yet undreamed, — unsung. 
 
 The lines of full possession had scarce the mountains crossed. 
 
 But, in their rocky fastnesses indefinite were lost. 
 
 Till the coming generation was born, and grown, — inspired 
 
 For the conflict of subjection of further lands acquired. 
 
 Whose conquests need no telling ; — the world has known them long: — 
 
 Too great in moral fruitfulness, for minstrelsy, or song. 
 
 Suffice to say that Sherburne, in America's expanse 
 
 Has never been recalcitrant, but always in advance, 
 
 Be the conflict with the forests, the mountains, or the plains. 
 
 The natives, or rebellion ; her victories remain. 
 
 All hail once more our noble sires ! All hail cries every son ! 
 We glory in our heritage by you so grandly won ! 
 In this memorial shaft here placed, we pledge with joyous tears. 
 To follow you, while still we live, in the coming Hundred Years ! 
 
 In tlie absence of the Poet, Dr. Pliilo L. Hatch, who was unal)le 
 to be present, Miss Elizabeth Latlirop, a ihuij;-hter of Mr. Henr\' 
 Lathrop of Sherburne, and great-grand-daughter of John and 
 Prudence Hatch Lathrop, who were of tlie earliest settlers, and 
 kindred of the writer of the poem, was invited to read it. It 
 proved to be an admirable selection, that gifted \-oung lad\- being 
 fully equal to the occasion. 
 
HISTORICAL ADDRESS. 
 
 H^■ \IAKiirS I). K.V\Mi i\Ii. 
 
 History \v\\\ always PL-inain a tlu'ini.' of fascinatin,u; inte-rest — 
 till' romance of a realism stranger tlian fiction, \siili a l^Iow of 
 feeling and sentiment running along its lines of tliought and action. 
 Even wlien tlie \\"liite heat of life has horned tn the ashes of 
 forgelfulness, we walls' wilh uncoN'ered heads amid llie cniml)ling 
 ruins of tlie p:ist, its very myster}- moving to awe and reverence. 
 Histor\' is recorded fact in tlie jirogress of a race, the ff)i.uiding of 
 a nation or the building of a \\-orld. It may be engraven with a 
 sword, a pen of iron, or a glacier, but the thought and ])urpose 
 back of it all, and inciting it all, is what gives character to the 
 event. The heroes of Thermopx-la- and Bunlcer Hill and Balaklava 
 were made incarnate hy the s]iirit that inspired them, while 
 gladiators who contended with l>rute courage for the Avorld's 
 a]jplaud ha\'e ])erished in oblivion. The world takes account of 
 noble deeds, but demands a reason belore a nanu- is writti-n on 
 the scroll of fame. H\' mianimous consent the patriot bra\-e are 
 placed upon the list, — those who have done st)met]iing for the 
 Ijcncfit of the race ; who have stood for the good and the- true ; 
 who ha\-e marched i'.i the advance of progress and liberty ; who 
 in all the ages have set over against the rights of kings the kingly 
 rights of men, and have at last emerged from the contest bearing 
 aloft tlie banner of the free. 
 
 This the sufficient justitication of this Centennial celebration : 
 The e\'ent so commemorated, uniipie in itsi^ll' and \\-orth)' of 
 commemoration, — the setting u]) of the stand;iril of Christian 
 civilizatio;, in the w ilderness, was dignified b\- the actors in it, and 
 the halo of their heroic, patriotic li\'i.\s. Ii was the culmination of 
 hopes long cherished, the coming to a promised land they had long 
 desired to enter. The hopes and asjiirations of other generations 
 that had preceded them fovuid an answer in the da^vn of those 
 better days after the long waiting. Dissenter, and Covenanter, 
 and Huguenot, fleeing from persecution and op])ression, had 
 found a temporary lionu' on New Englaml's rock-ribbed coast. 
 
HISTORICAL ADDRESS. 33 
 
 Now, at last, tlioy had come to tlicir own. And tlu-ir loyal sons 
 and daughters do well to hail this da}- with jubilant acclaim ; to 
 fling out their banners ; to let music swell the breeze and the glad 
 summer air be resonant with the sounds of rejoicing — the \"ery hills 
 to clap their hands, the fields to smile in beavity, and the forests 
 to wave their bannerets. For Sherl)urne, dear old Sherburne, was 
 born a hundred years ago — well born, and all the prophesy of its 
 bright promise fulfilled in this \-alley of our dreams, and \-our 
 own beautiful town. 
 
 There can be but one primeval period of life to any place or 
 people, and that must ever h.ave about it an increasingly fascinat- 
 ing interest as the years go \iv. While virtue endures and 
 patriotism remains an inspiration we mtiy well recall with filial 
 pride and affection the memory of those who have gone on before 
 us — '\\'ho wrought and toiled and suffered and endured, and who 
 laid the foiutdations of our goodly heritage. The lirave deeds of 
 the days of old will indeed live in song and story so long as our 
 countrv shall endure. Standing here this Centennial of Sherburne, 
 it is fitting to recall something of its early history -while loved 
 voices from out of the pe\st, which have long been hushed in the 
 eternal silence, still find an echt) in our hearts. The son may well 
 turn back and crown his honored sire -with laurels, and so we 
 bring our voti\'e ofterings to-day. 
 
 But to begin at the beginning: That is the difticulty. The first 
 })ages of history are necessarily pre-historic. Darkening shado\vs 
 cover it : A dense and mightN' forest, the outgro^^■th of other 
 primeval forests long since decayed, in \vhich the ^vild lieast roams 
 at ^vill and the ^vigwam of the stealth}- savage here and there 
 ajipears. At the earliest record it \vas a hunting grmmd of th*^ 
 Oneidas, scattered bands of whom had their homes here. 
 Occasionally they returned to their favorite camping grcjunds in this 
 vicinit}' long after their pale-face successors had taken possession, 
 the\' having reserved the rights of hiuiting and fishing as an article 
 in the conveyance of their \'ast domain. Evidences of its earl}' 
 occupation by the aborigines still exist in this tou'nship. "About 
 four miles north of this village," as stated by Mr. Hatch in his 
 historx", "and one mile ^vest of the Handsome Brook, are the 
 
34 IlISrOKUAI. ADDRESS. 
 
 remains ufa striuiiirc woriliy nt ilu- i.-.\aiiiinatiiin <it' ami(|uarians 
 — an cnil)anl<nu-nt of coarst.' i:;ra\-i.-l, huih in ihu t'nrm i>\ a liorse 
 shoo, the open ends towards the north ; evidently an old Indian 
 fortification. I'"lint arroAv ])oints are fre(|uently found in tlie 
 vicinil)-." On the Tiniothx' ihiuh farm ox'er the ri\'er and on the 
 fh'st u])land not far from its banks are evidences of Indian burial 
 or eat'lu's fcircorn in nmunds still to be seen. On the farm of 
 Newcoinl) l\a\niond, lU'ar the so-eallctl "cove" at the l)end ol the 
 ri\-cr, ari.' ihc uninislak'able e\-idences of an old cam])in<^ >.(roinid 
 in the blackened earth and stones, covering a considerable area, 
 aiul in the adjoining fields hundreds of flint arrow heads have 
 been fomid, some of them rare specimens of their kind, and near 
 bv a ])erfect stone tomahawk was turiu-d u]> with a plo\v not many 
 years since. The remnant of the Indians who remained ajjpeared 
 to be not unfriendlv to the early settlers, indeed, it «-oiild not have 
 been safe hir them to ha\'e bei.'n otherwise, and the chief among 
 tlu-m all — the notorious Abram Antone — who paid the jjenalty of 
 his crimes, which l)y his tribal standard were but a just retribution 
 exercised ni)on liis eiu'inies, by execution at Morrisville, September 
 12, 1X33, set up the plea that he liad been a friend to the struggling- 
 colonies and had been employed as a trusted scout by Washington 
 himself. The storv of his sudden appearance in this neighborhood 
 to the late Alfred Ra\-mond, anneil to the teeth with deadly knives 
 and rille, while a large n.'\\ard was offered for his capture and 
 olticers of the law were in pursuit, remains a vivid impression. 
 His daughter Peggy, with her painted basket-ware, and her vagrant 
 hiisb.ind. '■ .\be," her brothers Moses and Cornele, and others of 
 the lamilv, were a familiar ])icture \\-ithin the memory of many. 
 But their footfall is no more hearil, tlu'ir shado^vs are no more 
 seen, and they ha\c gone, all gone, let us hope, to the happy 
 hunting grounds of that mysterious race. 
 
 Tlu'se lands were purchased from the Oneida Iitdians at a treaty 
 held at h'ort Schuyler, October 22, 1788, Gov. George Clinton and 
 others acting as Commissioners for the State, and Avere a part of 
 the Twentx' Townships so called. By an act j)assed on the 25th 
 of February, 1 7S9, these towns were surve}-etl and di\-ided ittto 
 lots numbering from l to 100. At this period the whole of tlie 
 
HISTORICAL ADDRESS. 35 
 
 northern ])art nt" this cduntv as at present constituted, was 
 incliiileJ in the town of Whitestown, present Oneida County. 
 It wiis at this treaty that the significant incident occurred between 
 Gov. Clinton and a sachem of the Oneidas, in Avhich the governor 
 was made to appear at a disadvantage when asked by the sagacious 
 savage to keep moving along upon the log where he was sitting until 
 there "was no further room to move, as indicative of the purpose of 
 the ^\•hite man to keep the poi ir Indian moving on until there was no 
 further place for him. It was the end of Indian domination in Central 
 New York. 
 
 Pursuant to an act passed March 22, 1791, these lands were sold 
 l)y the State, Col. Wm. S. Smith being the ])urchaser, for himself 
 and others whom he represented, of the 8th and 9th townships, 
 present Sherburne and Smyrna, as well as of several other towns, 
 embracing altogether 150,000 acres, at 3 shillings and 3 pence ]jer 
 acre, the Land Commissioners of this State having ciccepted his 
 offer at a meeting held by them in the city of New York, July 
 13th, I 791. 
 
 The sturdy l.iand of pioneers who were destined to locate here, 
 and who had lieen tarrying for awhile tentatively at Duanesburgh, 
 started on a tour of observation in this direction soon after these 
 lands were ad\'crtised for sale by the State wiseh' jjiloted bv Josiah 
 Throo].), chief of the engineering corps who had sur\-e}-ed the twcnt\' 
 townships the year previous. The party consisted of Nathaniel 
 Gra\' and the Surveyor, Avho, it is stated, came on horseback', ami 
 ElishaGray, Joel Hatch, Newcomb Raymond and James Ra^•mond, 
 who came on foot, with their packs on their backs. It is said they 
 reached the valley just east of Norwich, having crossed theUnadilla 
 on their way Ixdow the present site of New Berlin. They then 
 followed the river up its course as far as this jjlace, reaching here, 
 according to Mr. Hatch, after five days of hard tra^■elling, in June, 
 1791. The}- do not ai)i)ear to ha\-e i)roceeded farther, and finall}' 
 decided upon tlie southwest ipiarter of township No. 9 as tlteir 
 choice of site, preferring that to the northwest cpiarter, as stated 
 b}' Sciuire Hatch, from the fact that while there was about the 
 same amount of flat lands in each, in the former (southwest) it 
 was not di\-ided by any hill, and consequently the families could 
 
36 
 
 IIISTORK Al. adukkss. 
 
 ]\vc iikitl' toi^i-'tlicr as one ccmimunitv. Tin- ri-svilt proves the wis- 
 dom of tlieir ilioiec. Tllov evi.k-nt 1 \' l\'iu-w "wIutl' they were al I" 
 An inciileiit of theif loiir of oUservation l)ere at tliat time as 
 shfnvinsj; sometliing- of the i)erils that ^v(nll<l confront tiieir families 
 in the frontier life wliieli awaited tliem, is woinh n^datint;. One 
 iiiti^ht (lurint;- tlieir sojovirn liere tliey ha<l stopped al llie eamp of 
 some friendl\' Indians near the swam]) on the wesl side of the 
 river, afterwards owned hv Mr. Joshua I'ratt. in iIk- earl}- morn- 
 ini;' an Indian t;-irl was missed from tlie eamp and then it was 
 remembered that slu' had not relurni.-d from a \'isit made the 
 evening before to some neis^diboring loilges on the oilier side. I he 
 ominous l)arl<inL;" of doL:;s \\as heard midway between, and the 
 Indians and their exjjloring j^uests, following;- uj) the trail, soon 
 found the frightened girl crouehing under the body of a protecting 
 tree, tlelended b\- her faithful dogs from a luige jjanther that A\-as 
 glaring upon them as if ready to sjiring. A nniskxl ball soon laid 
 it low. and the treml)lini4- girl A\-as iX'seued from the deadly ])eril 
 to wdiieh she had been L'Xjxised all the night long by the ferocious 
 beast. 
 
 The e.\])lorers returned by iIk' northern routi.', through the 
 present town of Paris, and brought a good rejjort of the land to 
 their families attd associates. Nathaniel (iray was then dispatched 
 to New \'ork eit\- to negotiate for iIil- lands. He there found to 
 his disappoint iulmiI that the\' h;id al rt-ady been sold by the State 
 to Col. Smith. He returned to Duanesburgh, but on consultation 
 made a second trii.) to New \'ork-, on which occasion he succeeded 
 in making a contract with the owner of the desired lands. This 
 was dated Decemf)er 9, 1791. the jiuixhase inchnling 6,222 1-2 
 acres at $1.25 i)er aci-e. The deed was not taken utitil later, Col. ' 
 Smith hitnsidf having only bought by contract, and did not receive 
 his patent mitil April 16, 1794. lit the meantime other settlers 
 had made contracts for other tracts of land in this atid the eighth 
 townshij), J. \. Race, date of July 25, 1792 : Chas. Hush, July i, 
 1792; John (jilmore, August 6, 1792, and T'rince I'"reeman, same 
 date, all in the present town of Sht-rburne, wdiile Jose])li I'orter 
 settled in Smyrna as early as 1792, and the following year his 
 brother-in-law Josejdi Tobev, came on from Con\s'ay, Mass., and 
 
HISTORICAL ADDRESS. 37 
 
 settled adjoining him. The title to the 8th to\vnship was conveyed 
 to John Lawrence, Esq., of New York, date of April 17, 1794, and 
 Col. Smith's remaining interest in Sherburne ■was conveyed in 
 '795 ^^y '^'^'^'o separate deeds to Judge J<_)iin Watts of New York, 
 by whom it was sold in lots and parcels tf) settlers. In this con- 
 nection it is interesting to note that in all these sales of land by 
 the State this important stipulation was made, that one family at 
 least be settled upon each tract of 640 acres within seven years 
 from the date of deed. The result was strenuous effort on the 
 part of purchasers of these townships to effect settlement. What 
 a saving clause that would have been had the general government 
 adopted it, and how it would have prevented those large holdings 
 of land in the hands of speculators, a source of disquietude and 
 a menace to the state. 
 
 The storA' of the settlement of the southw'est cpiarter of this 
 township is told in particular here because it was the only 
 organized New England colony in all of this region, and it 
 iinparted a like character to the settlement of both these town- 
 ships, the 8th and 9th, Avhich in this Centennial Celebration are 
 rightfully considered as having a common interest, having been 
 originally one in name and civic organization. The Proprietors, 
 so called, eleven in number, -whose names appear upon the front 
 of this monument, \vere, \vith a single exception, of kindred blood, 
 and New England origin. In the earlier days they had been 
 neighbors in Kent and Sharon, Conn. During the Revolution the 
 families had become somewhat separated, but afterwards they 
 sought a common home together, and so planned this settlement. 
 Having made the purchase as stated in 1791, in the spring of 1792 
 they came on for a further survey of the land and to make 
 preparation for bringing in their families the succeeding year. 
 
 Here we have an exact date of record, thanks to the careful 
 surveyor, Cornelius Clark, in his own clear caligraphy, ■written 
 down in his field book: "On Thursday, the 17th dav of May, 
 began surveying for the company." Eater ai)pears in connection, 
 the year 1792. Then, after various memoranda follow the iiames 
 of his assistants, closing \vith "Cornelius Clark, Capt. of ye 
 Mess." It ■was this survev that ■vi'as the basis of the invaluable 
 
88 HISTORICAL ADDRKSS. 
 
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 I inap 111 till- smilhwcst quartcT, iliscuvL-red a tVw years since, of 
 wliicli a nunil)i.-i- of tac-similc copies hnvv l)L'cn made. It i;ivt;s 
 llie number of tlie lots, of the acres in each, and to w'hom allotted. 
 It shows tiiirty-fi\-e o\s'ners, besides the ministerial gospel lot, 
 including 33 acres still standing in the name of the Proprietors. 
 The list shows Mleazer Lathroj) to ha\'<.- had the largest holding, 
 612 acres. 
 
 The choice of lots fell to Nathaniel Gra\', the patriarch and 
 leader of the settlement, and he chose ^\diat was designated as 
 No. I, running east from the river and hounded on the east by lot 
 No. 35, and on the north by the Quarter line, including Robinson 
 Hill, Mr. Asa Foote's place, and extending so far southward as to 
 include the Quarter Cemetery, which ^vas in good part a gift from 
 liim. The plan to make the center of the town there was soon 
 developed. The log ln)uses of Nathaniel Gray, and of his son 
 Elijah adjoining, ^vho appear to have been joint owners of the 
 premises, were located on the north side of the present north and 
 south road and north\\'esterly from the burying ground, as has 
 recently been stated by the daughter of Elijah, Mrs. Amanda 
 Gray Lee, who still survives at Cedar ^Mountain, North Carolina, 
 in her now loist vear, cherishing tender memories of dear old 
 Sherburne ; and then in the deed given to James Elmore, date of 
 June 28, 1798, to the present Asa Foote premises, the description 
 is given as follow.s : " Ik-ginning at a stake where the roadscross 
 each other, east of north from Nathaniel Gray's house," clearly 
 indicating the location of that house, — the two houses, as already 
 stated. This is of historical interest, as the first school in 
 Sherburne was taught there, and the Congregational Church in all 
 probabilty organized there. 
 
 Al)ram Dixon, a son of Major Joseph Dixon and iie]ihew of 
 I^lijah Gray, thus descril:)es a visit to that primiti\-e Gray home- 
 stead, winter of 1794-5: "Deacon Gray, (who was my step- 
 grandfather,) and his son Elijah Gray, (whose wife was my 
 mother's sister,) had built a double log house, one part of which 
 was occupiecl as a school house si.v hours a day. We tound the 
 school in full blast, under the care of Elisha Gray, brother of my 
 uncle Elijah, who at the same time occupied the same room as a 
 
HISTORICAL ADDRESS. 39 
 
 dwelling for his family, consisting of his wife and three children : 
 Nathaniel, about my own age, and Amanda and Hannah, and it 
 .served as kitchen, parlor, dining and sleeping room, except that 
 we, the children, ^v-ere sent up the ladder into the loft, to bed !" 
 Tliis Amanda is Mrs. Amanda Gray Lee, of Cedar Mountain, N.C. 
 The late Simeon B. Marsh, in a reminiscent cnmmunication to 
 The SItcrhuruc Nezus, date of 1870, relates the following incident 
 connected with that house worthy of reproduction here : " There 
 were a remarkable number of natural singers with good voices 
 among the families that then composed the congregation. A Mr. 
 Fuller "was the first teacher of music employed by the people. 
 The singers being assembled one evening for practice in Deacon 
 Gray's log house the floor suddenly gave way in the midst of a 
 tune and sank in the shape of a funnel, ^vhere men, w^omen, table, 
 chairs, cradle, baby, books and all were luicomfortably huddled 
 together ; and the story went that Mr. Fuller kept on with his 
 tune, singing and beating time until he had finished it. Fortun- 
 ately the cellar was not deep and consecjuently no one was hurt, 
 without it was by excessive laughter ! " And so these staid and 
 steady going sons and daughters of the Puritans did occasionally 
 unbend. 
 
 The summer of 1792 was a busy and eventful one in the new- 
 settlement. The pioneers, mainly if not wholly composed of the 
 original Proprietors, are said to have made their headquarters in 
 a hastily constructed cabin near the mouth of the Handsome 
 Brook, which the Indians called Toto. There the only ^voman 
 who accompanied this party, Mrs. Betsey Gray Raymond, wife 
 of Abram Raymimil, presided over the culinary department of 
 the camp. Her graphic narration of those early experiences is 
 still retained in the memory of at least one person who in after 
 years heard it from her lips. A bedstead was formed for her by 
 small poles extended from between the logs, and she ^vas the 
 only one honored ^vith such a piece of furniture. On awakening 
 in the morning she Avould be greatly amused to see the heads of 
 the colony in different directions on the floor. Evidently there 
 was a good deal of indi%-iduality in that ]irimiti\e group. The 
 repressions of conventi(.>nalism had not yet moukled them into 
 
40 HISTORICAI. ADDKKSS. 
 
 one common i;^roovo. They were :utivi.ly engaged in selecting 
 sites for and in the erection nt' their rude li)g cabins, in making 
 rough roadwa}'s for communication, and in felling the forest. 
 
 One of the first things they did -was to build a saw mill on Mad 
 Brook, on the south side, some distance belo-w the Falls. And it 
 Avas there that the first sermon was ])rcaclu-(l in Slu-rburnc, or in 
 all this region, by the Rev. Hlackleach Kurritt, the noted patriot 
 preacher, \vho had suffered imprisonment in the notorious Sugar 
 House at Ne^v York, as the penaltx' for his zeal and abilit}' and 
 courage during the perilous days of the Revolution. He had 
 been the pastor of the little flock while they tarrietl at Duanes- 
 burgh, and had now come on to ^•ie^v the land, and to see how 
 his neighbors and kindred (three of his daughters married three 
 of the pioneers) were prospering in their to be new homes. He 
 happily chose his theme for that occasion from Isaiah. " The 
 wilderness and solitary place shall be glad for them, and the 
 desert shall rejoice and fdossom as the rose." And ^\■i1hout stoj)- 
 ping, after the manner of some modern theologians, to speculate 
 as to whether the grand old prophet really \vrote it or not, he 
 went straight on and expounded it as the Word of God. It was 
 indeed a happily chosen theme. A love of song and joyous hope 
 had survived the hard lessons of the veteran preacher's life and 
 still glowed in his heart. So he lifted up his v'oice in this 
 prophesy of ])romise, and on the determines! faces of that sturdy 
 band of pioneers, and on their strong arms and brave and rever- 
 ent hearts he saw written its sure fulfillment. With prophetic 
 vision he beheld the mighty monarchs of the primeval forest 
 whose crested spears flashed in the simlight, fall before the 
 stroke of the woodman's axe ; in place of the silence of the deep 
 w^oods or its wierd moanings, he heard happy voices ; where had 
 been the lair of the wild beast or the trail of the stealthy savage 
 he sa\v the jocund farmer drive his team afield ; he heard the 
 busy hum of industry, he saw the thriving happy homes, the 
 cultivated farms and glebes crowning the summits of the hills ; 
 he heard the sweet music of the Sabbath bells, and saw the 
 church spires pointing heavenward while faithful pastors led the 
 way. He saw it all ,-ind rejoiced in it all. It was fruitfid ground 
 
HISTORICAL ADDRESS. 4I 
 
 fur the preacher on which to sow his seed. His hearers were not 
 idle dreamers ; they Avere not waiting for some favorable turn in 
 the wheel of fortune ; they did not sit down and wait for God to 
 fulfill his OAvn promises "without effort on their part ; they did 
 not expect their Isaiah to go forth and hew do^vn their forests. 
 The}' had already commenced to l)uild their log liouses and let in 
 the sunlight. 
 
 During the later summer and fall, having accomplished the 
 w^ork they had set out to do, all the pioneers returned to their 
 families, except Abram Ravmond and his ^vife, whij removed to 
 a little settlement at what is now Norwich, where they remained 
 during the winter, their cattle subsisting on browse and their 
 family on pounded corn. The follo^ving spring, the pioneers re- 
 turned to Sherburne, on \vhich occasion it is related of Ne^vcomb 
 Raymond that, taking a bag of corn on his back he walked to 
 Greene, by marked trees, Avhere he had it ground, and so made 
 the return trij) with the bag of meal. But this is only one of 
 the minor incidents of hardship of those primitive days. 
 
 The spring and early summer of 1893 witnessed a lively 
 emigration in this directif)n. And it was not confined alone to 
 the Proprietors and their families, most of whom came on at that 
 time, but many of their friends and neighbors joined with them, 
 and others who had heard of the fertile and beautiful Valley of 
 the Chenango came this ^vav prospecting with the view of set- 
 tlement. It was a part of the great overflow of Ne^v England, 
 of that Yankee invasion of Ne\v York which had steadily ex- 
 tended its irrepressible advance all along the borders from the 
 days of Wouter Van T\villcr imtil n(nv. In a comparativel}' short 
 period the ^vhole township was taken up and populated. There 
 were the Grays from Beverly, Mass., by way of Windham County 
 and Sharon, Conn., t^vo of whom, Nathaniel and John Gray, Sr., 
 had been soldiers in the French war, 1758, and the latter a 
 member of the Committee of Public Safety in King's District, 
 present Columbia Co., during the Revolution, — both prominent 
 members of the new settlement ; there were the four Lathrop 
 brothers, Capt. Josiah, Eleazer, John and Ezra, stalwart sons of 
 Deacon Melatiah, who was of Kent, Conn., and Dover Plains and 
 
42 IIISTORTlAI. ADDRESS. 
 
 Canaan, N. Y., descendants (d ihe hdnorable Lathri)]) laniily of 
 New I'dii^land, from Ri'v. Jolm Latliro]), the noted Dissenter: tlie 
 Hatch brothers, Squire Joel and Deacon Timothy, sons of Major 
 Jethro Hatch of Kent, Conn., and descendants of Jonathan early 
 of Hartwieh on the Cape — men of marked individuality, without 
 ^vhom the S(.'ttlement ^\•ould ha\-e been incomjdete ; the three 
 Raymond brothers, Newcomb, James and Abram, sons ot David 
 and Bethiah Newcomb Raymond, from Kent, Conn., by way of 
 Duanesbiirgh, of a family of Huguenots early of Norwalk, Conn., 
 and still earlier (1630) of Beverly, Mass., — sturdy, patriotic, true 
 men ; Cornelius Clark, a New Jersey Scotchman with a Dutch 
 Bible, and a compass and chain, and knowledge of how to use 
 them — LUi invaluable aid to the settlers and a useful member of 
 tJic new community; the eminently respectable Elmores from 
 Columbia Co., N. Y., whither they had come from Sharon and 
 Hartford, Conn.; the honoral)le Benedict family from Xorwalk, 
 Conn., by way of Westchester Co., N. Y. ; the Northrojis from 
 IMilford, Conn., by way of Westchester Co. ; Lorain and James 
 Curtis from the Curtis family of Stratford, Conn., liy way of 
 Berkshire Co., Mass. ; the Isaac Foote family, so ]u-ominenI in 
 the earlv davs here, from Colchester, Conn., and of Samuel Foote, 
 kindred of Isaac, from Gill, Mass., both descendants of Nathaniel 
 Foote earlv of Wethersfield, Conn.; the Dixons from Manchester, 
 Vt., bv wav of Kent and Lebanon, Conn.; the Rex fords from New 
 Haven and Barkhamsted, Conn. ; the Pratt family from Conn., 
 b}- way of Spencertown, Columbia Co., N. Y.; the Talcotts from 
 Bolton and Wethersfield, Conn.; the White family from Vermont 
 In- wav of Jericho, N. Y.; the Guthries from Litchfield, Conn., 
 and Brimfield, Mass.; the Paddlefords from Litchfield Co., Conn.; 
 the Purdy family from Westchester Co., descendants of Francis 
 and Mary Purdy early of Fairfield, Conn. ; the Babcock. and 
 Briggs, and Wilcox, and Lyon, and Reynolds, and Carpenter fam- 
 ilies from Rhode Island ; the Reese and Race families from 
 Stockbridge, Mass.; the Percivals from the Cape, byway of Lee, 
 Mass.; the Gardiners from Gardiner's Ishunl, by way of Stoning- 
 ton and Colchester, Conn.; the Newtons, also from Colchester ; 
 the Collins, and Billings, and Davis, and Sexton families from 
 
HISTORICAL ADDRESS. 43 
 
 Somers, Conn.; the Averys from Stonington, Conn., by way of 
 Durham, N. Y.; the Allen and Simons families from Gill, Mass.; 
 the Thompsons and Wilbers from Dutchess Co.; the Lynda and 
 Carver families from Brookfield, Mass.; Orsamus Holmes from 
 Springfield, Vermont; the Gortons from Ne-w London, Conn.; the 
 Stebbins family from Hartland, Conn.; tlie Burritt and Welles 
 families from Stratford, Conn.; the Brown, Whitney, Rose, and 
 Eaton families from Winhall, Vt.; the Hibbards and Meads from 
 Greenwich, Conn. ; the Perrys, Haxtons, and Scovilles, trom 
 Columbia Co., N. Y. ; the Follett family from Vermont ; the 
 Mudge family from Sharon, Conn., and Columbia Co., N. Y.; the 
 Rynex from Schenectady Co.; the Kinsley's from Conn., and the 
 Austins from Sheffield, Mass., by way of Clinton, N. Y. 
 
 Many others might be named but there is not time here to call 
 the ridl of all these worthies. Altogether they contained some 
 of the best blood of NeAV England, and the Sherburne of to-day 
 indeed honors itself in hiinf)ring these men of an hundred years 
 ago. The^' Avere mostly in the prime and vigor of manhood, and 
 did not shrink from the great task before them. Through their 
 toils, and struggles, and labors, and patriotism, and heroism, the 
 Nation had birth, and they were regnant with its new life. 
 
 Such ■were the settlers of those early days. They brought their 
 religious convictions with them, and that was a very important part 
 of their character. It is stated that the advance company arrived 
 on a Saturday night in March, 1793 ; that the}' assembled for re- 
 ligious worship on the second Sabbath follov\-ing, and that the 
 custom was continued by them ever after, \vhctlier the}' had a 
 preacher of the Word ^^-ith them or not. Their first organization 
 was that of the Congregational Church of Sherburne, date of 
 Julv 6, 1794, which has ever been and still remains a tower of 
 strength in this communitx", and c)n its grounds this Centennial 
 is very properly celebrated to-day, and this monument set u]). 
 They believed something, thev knew what they believed, and 
 they were ready to stand fur it against the \v(irld. They were 
 plain and unpretentious, as modest as lirave, fuit as firm antl un- 
 yielding as this granite; freedom-loving, God fearing, the typical 
 sons of New Enefland. 
 
44 HISTORICAL ADPRKSS. 
 
 To go l)ack to tlie gciusis of things: The ^\•onlc■n of ShcTl)nrne 
 must not he forgottt-n; tor tin.- gohlcn thrcatls of their lives are 
 woven in all tiie warp and woof of its history. What wives and 
 mothers anil s\veethearts and hel])meets they were ! They were 
 like tlu'Wdinan eulogized in Holy Writ: "She riseth also while it 
 is yet night and giveth meat to her household." •' She seeketh 
 wool and flax and worketh willingly with her hands;" "She 
 maketh tine linen and sellcth it ;" "She layeth her hands to the 
 spindle, and her hands hold the distaff;" " She is not afraid of the 
 winter for her household, for all her household are clothed with 
 scarlet;" "The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her ;'* 
 " Her children rise up and call lier blessed." 
 
 To particularize a little: Diantha Kurritt, wife of John Gray, Jr., 
 had been a school teacher in Vermont before her marriage, and 
 was a woman of literary taste, as a i:)oem written Ijy her, still 
 preser\-ed, testifies; Melissa Hurritt, wife of James Ra\nionil, was 
 noted for strong traits of character ^\ hich are perpetuated in 
 her descendants; Martha (I'at.sy) Hurritt, wife of Elisha Gray, 
 w^as a woman of more than usual ability — all daughters of Rev. 
 Blackleach Burritt and Martha Welles his wife, who was a direct 
 descendant of Thomas Welles, the noted Dissenter, distinguish- 
 ed as one of the early Colonial Go\-ernors of Connecticut ; 
 Mabel Gray, the lovable and belo\-ed wife of Newcomb Ra\"inond, 
 was a daughter of John Gray, Sr. ; Betsey Gray, another daughter 
 of John Gray, Sr., was the wife of Deacon Abram Raymond, and 
 the pioneer woman of Sherburne; Ruth Gray, the only daughter 
 of Nathaniel Gray and Deborah Lathroj), (his tirst wife) who was 
 the sister of the four Lathrop brothers, was the wife of Squire 
 Joel Hatch; Ruth Welles, a sister of the wife of Rev. Blackleach 
 Hurritt, was the wife of Deacon Timothy Hatch; Mercy Raymond, 
 \sho was the wife of Major Joseph Dixon, and Sarai Raymond, 
 the wife of Elijah Gray ; Bethiah Newcomb-Raymond, wife of 
 Nathaniel Gray (by a second marriage of each) and the mother ot 
 the two sisters and the three brothers Raymonil — all these, and 
 others, might W(.ll be mentioned as types of the women of the 
 early days in Sherlnirne, and lu)\v ■sv'orthy the}' were of the trib- 
 ute which is loyall}' and gratefully paid them this day. 
 
HISTORICAL ADDRESS. 45 
 
 From the time of the tirst settlement until Mareh 5, 1795, when 
 the 8th antl 9th t<)\\'nshiptf were organized as a distinct civic 
 autonomy under the name of Sherburne, they were nominally 
 under the jurisdiction of the town of Paris, yet nothing appears 
 in the records of that township of that date referring to matters 
 in either of these two towns; not the appointment of a single 
 ofHcer, or the laying out of a single road district — no reference 
 whatever — from which it may be inferred that they \N'ere left to 
 govern themselves, ^\■hich they were C|uite capable of doing. 
 
 The act of the Legislature incorporating this town on the date 
 
 named, specified that the first Town Meeting should be held "at 
 
 the dwelling house of Timothy Hatch," \vhi'di was a log house, 
 
 located on the upper cross road over the river, not far from 
 
 the present Wiley residence ; and it was there held on the first 
 
 Tuesday in A])ril, 1795, Isaac Foote acting as Moderator. The 
 
 following officers were then and there chosen : 
 
 Supervisor — Isaac Foote. 
 Town Clerk — Orsamus Holmes. 
 
 Assessors — John Hibbard, Joseph Simons, Josiah Lathrop. 
 Constable and Collector — Eleazer Lathrop. 
 
 Overseers of Highways — Joel Northrop, Abner Calkins, James Raymond, Stephen 
 Parker, Joseph Guthrie. 
 
 Pound Keeper — Newcomb Raymond. 
 
 Commissioners of Highways — John Lathrop, John Guthrie, Timothy Hatch. 
 School Commissioners — Isaac Foote, Orsamus Holmes, John Hibbard, Josiah Lathrop. 
 Fence Viewers — Joel Hatch, Ichabod Munger. 
 
 Isaac Foote was continued as Supervisor for three years, then 
 John Gray, Sr., three years, then Jesse Hutchinson two years, 
 Joseph Simons, three years, 1803, '5, '8; Joel Hatch, 1804, '9, '12; 
 John Gray, Jr., 1810-11 ; Stephen Benedict, from 181 3 to 1826, 
 inclusive; Tilly Lynde, 1827, '31, '32; Smith M. Purdy, 1828; Milo 
 Htuit, 1829-30; James N. Cassells, 1833-35; James Thompson, 
 1836-37; Philo Robinson, 1838-39 ; Devillo White, 1840 ; William 
 Newt<)n, 1 84 1. 
 
 For Town Clerk, Orsamus Holmes was continvied until his 
 removal from the place, in the spring of 1803; James Elmore was 
 his successor, holding the office until 181 8; then Samuel Stebbins 
 until 1831 ; then Devillo White five years; Joseph Benedict, 1836; 
 William Cook, 1837; Joshua Pratt, Jr., 1838; Stephen Benedict, 
 from 1839 to 1842; William Cook, 1843; John P. Deitz, 1844. 
 
46 IIISTORHAI, AOnRESS. 
 
 Isaac Foote and Nathaniel (iray \vcr<.' the first Justices of tlie 
 Peace appointed, date of l'\li. iS, 1795, and as \vill he seen, jjrior 
 to the incorporation of the tnwu. Later, in 1798, Joel Tliom])S(>n, 
 Elijah Sexton, Nathaniel Kint;. were made Justices, and the latter 
 a Master of Cliancery, iSoi. Da\id Dixon was api)ninted Justice 
 of the Peace in March, 1S04. Also Joel Hatch, Josejih Simons, 
 Jonathan Pettit, Stephen Benedict, Elisha Mills, Lyman S. Rex- 
 ford, Joseph Gvithrie, and James Sheffield, at various times ^v'ere 
 appointed to that office. It was a judicial position of no little im- 
 portance in the earh^ da^•s, and it is not derogation of any others 
 to say that none more magnified ihe office than did Squire Joel 
 Hatch, who \\'as in himself a i|uaint and original i)ersonality 
 around whom treidition loves to linger in interesting reminiscence. 
 His summing up of strong, hard common sense in his significant 
 " On the general ^vhole !" his abilitv to make up his mind and 
 keep it made, as instanced in the trial before him on an occasion 
 ^vhen one of the la^vyers in the case strongly protested against his 
 dropping off into a nap during the continuance of his argument, 
 to which he tersely and characteristicall}" replied, "Never mind ! 
 Go on ! I decidetl this case more than an hour ago !" and to the 
 surprise of the indigiiant pettifogger the sequel proved that it 
 was in fax'or of his client that the Squire had decided; — his self 
 forgetfulness, as instanced in his humorous attem]>t to shave su- 
 gar for his coffee from a whetstone; and his going to a neighbor's 
 to borrow a steel-yard and carrying away a strip of dried pump- 
 kin which he had all unconsciously taken in its stead, -^these are 
 but a few flash lights u])on his iniitjue indi\'iduality, \vhich on 
 occasion to\vered up to his full stature, as illustratetl in the fol- 
 lo\ving incident taken from Hatch's History of Sherburne. It 
 appears he had gone to Alban_\- in the Avinter of 1808, as a duly 
 accredited agent, to present a petition to the Legislature asking 
 for a division of the 8th and 9th to\vnships. On appearing, he 
 found a stroiig array in o])])osition. After some time had been 
 spent upon the question lie was invited to give such information 
 as he was able upon the subject. He arose at o;ice, and was en- 
 tering into the merits of the case in his peculiar manner, riveting 
 the attention of the house to such a degree that the opposition 
 
HISTORICAL ADDRESS. 47 
 
 became annoyed, when in order to break him down they raised the 
 question of his right to speak there, washing to kno\v if he was a 
 Member, etc. This interriijjtion and these remarks were con- 
 strued by him as an infringement upon his right of petition, for 
 the securing of which he had shouklered his musket in the Rev- 
 olutionary war, and it arousetl the spirit and energy of the okl 
 hero. His stentorian voice instantly rang through the hall as he 
 exclaimed : "I came here with a petition from the people ! I am 
 one of the people ! I have a right to l:)e heard, and I ^\•ill be 
 heard !" From tiiat moment he was listened to ^vith e\'ident de- 
 light by the large majority of those present, and it is scarcely 
 necessary to add that Squire Hatch's petition prevailed. 
 
 The first election of Justices of the Peace li}" the people ^\•as at 
 the general election in 1827, Mills Landon, Jonathan Copeland, 
 Smith M. Purdy, and Joseph Guthrie being then chosen. The first 
 Justice of the Peace elected at Town Meeting was in 1835. 
 
 James Pllmore was the first Postmaster in Sherburne, having 
 been appointed in January, 1801. He was also the first merchant, 
 and it is said also hung out the first sign for an inn, though there 
 •were several other inn-keepers before him, Samuel Picket hav- 
 ing taken out a license for that purpose as early as 1797. James 
 Elmore erected the first framed house in towni, on the site of Mr. 
 Asa Foote's present residence, something over a mile north of this 
 village, a part of which still remains in its primitive condition. 
 It ^vas there that Judge Isaac Foote delivered an address (jn the 
 occasion of the death of Washington, the last of Deceniber, 1799. 
 Mr. Elmore was succeeded as Postmaster by Jnhn Guthrie, and 
 afterwards Mr. S. P. Scoville, whu Avas a merchant in Sherburne 
 village, and a brother-in-la\v of Mr. Elmore, hehl that office for 
 many years. 
 
 In this connection it is interesting to notice that the West Hill 
 is frecpientlv mentioned in tlie town records, early as 18 16, as 
 Sherburne West Village, and this place ^vas spoken of, in the Olive 
 Branch, published on the West Hill, date of 1S06, as "Sherburne 
 Turnpike Village." In fact that place had i)riority of existence, 
 its principal rival in the early days being the settlement at ^vhat 
 became kno\vn as the Quarter, and RoViinson's Hill. In the latter 
 
48 HISTOKRAI. ADDRESS. 
 
 part of 1802, a store was oponctl on ilic West Hill bv Gerritt Y. 
 Lansing, Jr., of Albany, \\li() luul previously to his going there 
 been for a time at Herkimer. The store ^v'as located on the north 
 east corner of the cross roads in a wooden building some years 
 since torn down, and it was lor inan\' \-ears a jdace of much 
 business activity, it being the principal trading post for all the 
 surrtnnuling country. Mr. Lansing was succeeded by his enter- 
 prising clerk, Tilly Lynde, in i<So5, and it was there that he 
 accumulated what in those days was considered a handsome 
 fortune, he having been one of the most prosperous and success- 
 ful merchants that ever lived in Sherburne, as well as having 
 achieved much prominence in jmblic life. Soon after the store 
 was started an inn was erected by Samuel Foote of the 8th town- 
 ship, on the south-west corner, (the present Sexton homestead,) 
 and in 1803 Mr. Foote was appointed Postmaster of the office 
 thci'c estaljlished. The mails from Coopcrsto\vn west to Homer, 
 and north and south between L^tica and Oxford crossed there at 
 that time, making it a place of transfer of importance. In 1810- 
 I I Tilly Lynde was the Asst. P. M. 
 
 On the 25th day of November, 1800, a new church society was 
 formed on the West Hill entitled "The Second Calvinistick Society 
 of Sherburne," which was evidently intended to absorb and sup- 
 idant the First Congregational Church and Society, which luid 
 already been formed on the east side of the river, and it came 
 very near doing so, comprising as it did at the outset a large 
 majority of the men and families of influence in the community. 
 After a long time spent in trying to agree upon a common 
 centre, \viiich must of necessity be upon one side of the river or the 
 other, the effort was finally given up, and a Church was organized 
 on the West Hill date of October 18, 1803, and soon thereafter a 
 meeting house was built — believed to be the first church edifice 
 erected in Chenango County, and which is still standing, though 
 used now these many years for other purposes. The following 
 year the East or First Congregational Society erected a church 
 building on the West side of the road on Robinson Hill. 
 
 And so the rivalry between the two village sites for supremacy 
 was continued. In the wa\- of numbers, and business, and ma- 
 
llISTORICAL ADDRESS 49 
 
 terial prosperity, the West Hill, receiving as it did the strong and 
 undivided support of the 8th township, had the decided advan- 
 tage, but neither of them ^vas to win the coveted prize; for in the 
 meantime the present village of Sherburne, which at the first 
 ^vas considered an unfavorable site, and promised nothing better 
 than good farm land ^vhen once it was cleared up and the low 
 levels on its borders drained, began development. Nature had 
 presented an almost impassable barrier to the location of a center 
 of business at the Quarter or \-icinity, in the shape of Granville 
 Hill rising abruptly to the eastward, making communication in 
 that direction very difficult. A better highway for travel and the 
 freighting of goods and j^roduce early became imperative, and it 
 ^vas found in the divide of the hills made by Mad Brook in its 
 westward course to this valley. The outlet was here. This was 
 the natural approach from the east and to the east, and \\'hen 
 once the road ^vas laid out which afterwards came to be knoA\'n 
 as the Great Western and the Cherry Valley Turnpike, bisecting 
 as it did the north and south road, the Chenango Valley Turnpike, 
 at this point, the center of business for this township, and the 
 site of the village to be, \vere fixed as absolute as if a decree had 
 been entered to that effect. And from that day this place steadily 
 increased in population and business importance. 
 
 One of the first to observe and foresee and take advantage of 
 the new situation, was Dr. Asa White, who had early settled on 
 the cross road near the upper river bridge ; and he put his faith 
 in the future of this place into practice by the purchase, in 1802, 
 of this south-east corner, comprising all that part of lot No. 12, 
 originally allotted to John Gray, Sr., lying south of the east turn- 
 pike road and extending to the lands of John Hibbard on the 
 south, and to the cjuarter line on the east, embracing altogether 
 tliii'tv-four acres, including the site upon ^vhich this Centennial 
 celebration is held and this monument stands, the title being di- 
 rect to him from the Proprietors. The erection of his inn and 
 residence on this corner follo^ved, and that was the beginning of 
 the village of Sherburne. A store was built over opposite on the 
 north-east corner, by Alfred Gray, son of John Gray, Sr., the 
 original owner of those premises, and Stebbins & Scoville built 
 
50 HISTORICAL ADDRKSS. 
 
 an inn un tlic sc iiith-\vi.'st corner, site of the present Daniels 
 House as early as 1803. about which time Zacch.tvis W. Elmore 
 commenceil in trade in a small way on the west side of South 
 Street, opposite the Congregational Church grounds, and after- 
 wards JosliiKi Pratt, h'Jias Habcock, and others, successi\'ely 
 engageil in l)usiness here. 
 
 The future village was booming, and the Oiuirter and the West 
 Hill took note of it with jealous eye. So early as icSio the removal 
 of the church building from Robinson's Hill to the borders ot 
 this village was undertak'en, — a recognition of the fact that the 
 sceptre luul departed from thence. And so this place grew and 
 its future was made secure. The village was incorporated as 
 such April 16, 1830. The building of the Chenango Canal, 
 commenced in 1833 and completed in 1837, marked an era of 
 phenominal grt)wth and speculation liere. In fact, property' was 
 then sold in this village at prices that would frighten the steady 
 going burgher of to-day. A great collapse followed the panic of 
 1837, but fortunately the canal was undisturbed by it, and "the 
 soil still remained in its ])lace!" 
 
 The growth of the town ofSliefburne ^vas rapid and continuous. 
 Tile nuniber of qualified voters in 1795 A\'as 79; by 1807 they had 
 increased to 423, t^vo being colored men ^vho hail the property 
 qualification. By the census of 1800 the population was 1,282, 
 and in 1810 increaseil to 2,520, although in the meantime the 8th 
 to-wnship had been set oft" as Smyrna. On the last assessment 
 roll for highways on Avhich both to^vns appear as one, 1808, are 
 588 names of male adults liable to such duty. Tlien, too, it must 
 be remembered that this remarkable movement of population 
 took place when the facilities of travel and transportation were 
 exceedingly limited. 
 
 According to Mr. Hatch's History the name of Sherburne came 
 in this way : "After the bounds had been agreed upon, the 
 question was asked by one of the members of the Legislature, 
 ' What name shall we give it ?' The reply was : 'The inhabitants 
 of that place alwavs sing in their religious meetings a time called 
 Sherburne, and I think that name will suit them better than any 
 other.' And so it was called Sherburne." What sweet association, 
 
HISTORICAL AUDKESS. 5I 
 
 and lii)\\' suggestive. Tlic pioneers, with all their plainness and 
 the severe exaetions of their lives, had an imdertone of deep 
 sentiment in their natures ; were lovers of song, — and so they 
 gave us Sherburne, as a sweet synonym of their symphonies. 
 
 Sherburne and Smyrna were like twin brothers in the early 
 days when they were one. The latter gave the town its first 
 Supervisor in the person of Isaae Foote, a name ^vell placed upon 
 this monument, and one which we will all rise up to honor this 
 day. He \\'as in every sense an eminent citizen, and Sher- 
 burne may w'ell be pnnid to claim an interest in him. Then 
 agaiit the 8th township furnished a worthy Supervisor and Mem- 
 ber of Assembly in the person of Joseph Simons, and another 
 Supervisor in Jesse Hutchinson. But it was inevitable that the 
 two towns should finally be divided, as they were in 1808. The 
 area of the townships was originally as follows: 8th, 25,780 
 acres; 9th, 24,205, to \vhich has since been added by act of the 
 the Board of Supervisors in 1852, from New Berlin, the district 
 known as Skinner Hill, containing 3,231 acres, making altogether 
 27,436 acres in this town as at present constituted. 
 
 Sherburne has a wealth of agricultural resources, and has 
 always been rated higher per acre on the tax roll than an\- other 
 town in this county, in that respect showing the wisdom of the 
 fathers in their selection. It \vas hea\'ily timbered in pine, hem- 
 lock, maple, beach, elm, chestnut, butternut, oak and hickf)ry. Its 
 alluvial meadows were rich, and its uplands produced large crops 
 of grain, wheat and corn being the staples in the early days. No 
 town in the county was ever its equal in those respects. The 
 percentage of unproductive lands is at the minimum. Its dairies 
 have had a reputation second to none. The number of sheep in 
 the town in 1845 was 21,873, ^"'1 much attention was then paid to 
 wool raising. But only very briefly can such data be referred to 
 here. 
 
 To return to the old Town Records: They are models of neat- 
 ness and particularity, exceedingly well kept, a great credit to the 
 painstaking care of the various Clerks who have served this town 
 from the days of Orsamus Holmes and James Elmore until now. 
 Only one book, extending from 1795 to 1800, of the general record 
 
52 IIISTORICAI. ADDRKSS. 
 
 is missini^, lH'li\'\'eil to bi_- in tlir hands (if some one unwillingly 
 "who has borrowed it. Has never been in the jjossession of the 
 present Town Clerk. It is invaluable, and should be found and 
 returned. Some other books and records of that period are how- 
 v\'er i)reser\'ed. The general election record goes back' to 1799. 
 
 The records give evidence of a favoring view, in fact of advanced 
 opinions, concerning internal navigation, in the following cpiaint 
 resolution ]iasscd at the annual Town Meeting held March 2, 1802: 
 "Agreed, that a i)etition be sent to the Legislature praying that 
 the several towns w^here the Chenango River passes through, 
 that each tow'n be taxed a sufficient sum to clear said river so that 
 Arks ina\' pass ! " Nothing small about tliat. v\nd Caj)t. Nathaniel 
 Austin did essay to take his Ark down the ri\er the follo\\-ing 
 sjjring, and sailed aw'ay never to return. A brave, adventurous 
 spirit \vas his. At 17 }'ears of age he was married, having previ- 
 ous!}- been a soldier of the Revolution. At twenty he was the 
 father of three sons, and a prisoner sentenced to death for ha\ing 
 ])artici])ated in Shay's Rebellion. However, by the aid of his \\-ife, 
 he escaped, and nfterwanls Avas one cjf the jiioneers of Sherburne. 
 He organized the first Military Co. in this town, 1796, electing 
 himself as Captain. 
 
 Wolves, bears and ])anthers, roamed through the thick forests, 
 \n\t none of the settlers were injured b\- them, though there were 
 some narrow escapes. There were plenty of deers, and for sev- 
 eral years they "were occasionally seen in the v\^oods hereabouts. 
 As late as 1805 it was voted that a bounty of $10 be paid for 
 "the k'illing of a grown Avolf \\ithin the bounds of this town and 
 $5 for a young one." At the Town Meeting in 1806 it was "Voted 
 that swine, rams and wolves be the same as last vear," showing 
 that the "varmints" ■were not yet exterminated. No bounty aj)- 
 pears to have been offered on bears although cjuite common in 
 those days, their meat pn)babl\- being considered a sufficient 
 compensation for their destruction. In fact, an old Revolutionar}' 
 soldier could look an ordinary bear out of countenance. 
 
 That the Forefathers were unjustly chargeil with being addicted 
 to the drink habit, and did not look with favor in those early days 
 \ipon making this a "drv" town, is decisively negatived by the 
 
HISTORICAL ADDRESS. 53 
 
 following sigMiificant extract made Irom the record: "At a s])ccial 
 Town Meeting- held at the East Meeting House, on Tuesday the 
 17th of Jannar}-, 181 5, Joel Hatch, Moderator, voted to petition the 
 Legislature of this State at their next session to make a law' to 
 prevent persons from drinking." A radical movement certainly, 
 and a])pro\-ing at least of local prohibition. 
 
 Of tile list of Jurors, date of iiSoi, comprising 1 14 names, the 
 following classification of occujtations is given: Yeomen, 98; 
 carpenters, 3; cord\N'inders, 3; joiners, 2; esquires, 2; clothier, i; 
 hatter, i; tajdor, i; mason, i; blacksmith, i; merchant, i. A 
 significant exhibit, showing the rural character of the settlement. 
 
 In the early clays it was unciuestionably expected that Sher- 
 burne ^\'ould l5e the County seat, and the location of the jail 
 limits at the Four Corners in 1799, was such an indication. As 
 Chenango Countv was at first constituted it was indeed well situ- 
 ated for such a center, — a local Capital — and that fact doubtless 
 accounts in part for tlie unusually large number of prominent 
 men wlio located here, giving the place so much imjjortance. 
 But the erection of Madison County in 1806, by which Sherburne 
 was left on the extreme northern l.ioundar\' of Chenango, ^■oided 
 all sucli expectations, and }et this tow-n had a ])redominating in- 
 fluence in this county for many years after that division was 
 made. 
 
 The military record of Slierburne in the early times is not very 
 full but is interesting as showing the martial spirit that prevailed. 
 As already stated, Capt. Nathaniel Austin organized a company 
 of militia, date of April 11, 1796, ^vith Joseph Guthrie, ist Lieut., 
 and George Anderson, Ensign. Joseph Dixon was 2d Major and 
 Nathaniel King Paymaster of Col. Clemens' Chenangt) County 
 Regt., 1800. In 1803, John Guthrie was Paymaster; Asa White, 
 Surgeon; Nathaniel Austin, Major; Isaac Foote, Jr., Adjutant; Joab 
 Gardner, Surgeon's Mate; Josiah Lathrop, Joseph Guthrie, and 
 Bigelow Waters, were Captains; Daniel D. Gardiner, Joshua Tal- 
 cott, Jr., Wicks Smith, Al])heus Hall, Joel Lee, and Noah Robinson, 
 Lieutenants; and John Gra}', Jr., Ensign, all of the 105th Regt., 
 and all of Sherburne. 
 
 In 1810 the records show Reuben Gray, Captain; Edward Gra} , 
 
54 IIISTORICAI. ADIlKESS. 
 
 GardiiLT ami Hlmipv \\':it(.TS. Lii.-iiti.'nants; Xathani(.-1 V.. Griiv and 
 Calvin Coe, Ensigns, and Tilly I. yndc, Ouartt-rmastcr, (afterwards 
 Knsign.) In 1812 Marsena Alk-n was a LitutL-nant, and Reuben 
 Gray (afterwards, 1817, Lient.-Col. nt a Chenango County Regt.,) 
 was Captain of the Siierhurne Company that marched to the 
 frontier under Col. Thompson Mead. The following military or- 
 der issued \>y Col. Mead, per Tilly Lyntle, Adjutant, date oi May 
 12, i<Si2, is ])ertinent to the forgoing: 
 
 "Capt. Bigelow Waters, Capt. Joseph Billings, Capt. Solomon 
 Kelsey, Capt. Reuben Gray, Capt. Rufus Rose, and Capt. Amasa 
 Foote, are hereljy ordered and directed to jniraiU- their respective 
 Companies at John Guthrie's in Sherburne, on Friday, the 22d of 
 May, at 9 A. M., to furiiish their several c|uotas to march to the 
 frontiers." 
 
 In 1 814 the Brigade Returns of Gen. Obadiah German show 
 Joshua Pratt, Jr., Cajitain; Theojiholus Robinson, Lieut., Johi\ 
 Nash, Ensign, and Samuel Guthrie, Surgeon, in the I05tii Regt. 
 Asa White tendereil his resignation as Major of tin- First Scjuad- 
 ron of Light Dragoons, Feb. 19th, 1814, giving as a reason for his 
 doing so, that he was "about to quit the State." 
 
 A large proportion of the early settlers had been Revolution- 
 ary soldiers, and one, Nathaniel Brown, is said to have been of 
 the celebrated Boston Tea Party ; but the roll t)f honor is too 
 length}' to be presented here, as is also that other roll of honor 
 of Sherburne's .sons in that late-r contest for L^nion and Liberty 
 represented by this narrowing band of the Grand Army of the 
 Republic here to-tlay, showing that to the sons, as well as to the 
 fathers, patriotism -was a crowning glory. 
 
 The first church formed here, as already stated, was the First 
 Congregational, date of July 6, 1794; the First Baptist Church, in 
 the borders of the town near Earlville, and now located in that 
 place, Jmie 24, 1802, with Polder John Mudge as jiastor; the Second 
 Congregational Church, on the West Hill, October 18, 1803, Rev. 
 Joshua Knight, jiastor; the Open Communion Baptist Church, on 
 the P^ast Hill, organized as a branch of the Plainfield (Otsego Co.) 
 Church, P\'b'3- 8, 1809; Christ Church, PIpiscopal, June 7, 1828, 
 Rev. PLdward Andrews, Rector; the Second Baptist Church, of 
 Sherburne village, July 2, 1836; the Methodist Church, March 12, 
 
HISTORICAL ADDRESS. 55 
 
 1839; UnivLTsalist, Aut^ust 25, 1849; '^''"^l St. Malachi's, Roman 
 Catholic, has had a house of worship here since 1858. 
 
 The history of the schools of Sherburne woiihl make a very in- 
 teresting chapter of itself, but can only be briefly alluded to here. 
 The first school in towni, says Mr. Hatch in his history, 'svas at 
 the house of Nathaniel Gray, the winter of 1793-94. "A peda- 
 gt)gue by the name of Gardner ^\•as cmi)loyed to teach it. When 
 exercising a class in spelling, he put the \v(jrd 'book.' The 
 scholar spelled it b-u-k, and the teacher pronounced it right. 
 Edward Gray, a son of John Gray, Sr., disputed this, wherevipon 
 the master, in order to maintain the dignity of his station, under- 
 took to correct him corporeally an<l a scuffle ensued from which 
 the teacher came out second best. The result ^vas the school was 
 broken up for the winter." So little progress had Volapuk made 
 at that early period. The school was taught the second winter in 
 the house of Elijah Grav, adjoining, Elisha Gray being the teach- 
 er, and in the same ])hice the winter following, 1795-6, the 
 official report of which in the neat caligraphy of Isaac Foote, one 
 of the School Commissioners of the town, gives names of all the 
 puj)ils, the number of da}'s during ^vhich they attended, and the 
 heads of families so represented. P'rom that report it appears 
 that there were two teachers during the winter — a Mr. Hartshorn, 
 from December i, 1795, to Janiuiry 30, 1796, at $8 per month; and 
 for the balance of the winter Elisha Gray at $10 per month. The 
 report of the District at the p-orks, also appears for the latter 
 part of the same ^vinter. Mr. Lemuel Hojikins was the teacher 
 there at the munificent salary of $9 ])er month. There were 
 51 pupils reported in the first named district, and 25 in the latter. 
 The first school house in the town is said to have been built at 
 the Quarter, 1797, and was used also as a place for holding meet- 
 ings on Sundays. Tlie second, was in the district on the West 
 side of the river, built the following year. From that primeval pe- 
 riod what a development. Only passing reference can be made to 
 the old Academy, established in this village about 1840, and ^\•hich 
 is looked back to with fond memory by so many of the sons and 
 daughters of Sherburne as their cherished Alma Mater. 
 
 The early literary taste of the pioneers was attested by the 
 
56 IlISTORICAr. ADDRESS. 
 
 incnrporatiiiii (if tlu- SliL-rliuriK' I'VmIlmmI I.il>r;iry, J;imiar\' lO, iSoo, 
 some of the btnik's l)i.-l()n<;-iii^ tci whieli aix- still in existence. 
 
 The first ne\%'s])aper i)uhlisiie<l in llu' tii\\-n and in tliis countv, 
 Avas The Wistcni Oracle, hy Abraham Rcmieyn.at Slierbnrne Four 
 ■Corners, 1S03, a hie of AX'hieli is in the Centennial e.vhibit. The 
 ne.\t was The Olive Branch, published by Pliinne}- & FairehiM, on 
 tile West Hill, commencing in May, 1806, and ciintinued tliere un- 
 til April, 1808, when it wa.s removed to Norwich. It was printed 
 b\- John Fhu'el I-'airchild, who marrietl Flizal)elh Mi.-rrill, daugh- 
 ter of Thomas Merrill ol tlu' I'^dui- Curners. The printing office 
 was located on a lot piirchasetl of Oliver Wells, the hrst goldsmith 
 in Sherburne, and was between the West Hill Meeting House 
 and L\-nde's corner. Mr. I""aii-child's name ai)])ears (in the list of 
 qualihed voters of this town for 1807. Files of that paper, b}- the 
 ct)urtesv of Lew'ison Fairchild, Esq., of Cazenovia, are in the 
 Centennial exhibit. In the volume of the j)a])<.'r published after its 
 removal to Norwich, 1808, Mr. Fairchild advertises for sale, "A 
 house and lot in the rich and flourishing town of Sherburne, a 
 few rods west of the Meeting House 011 the WV^st Hill." So it will 
 be seen that Sherburne had liegun to put on airs even at that 
 earlv dav. The Republican Messenger, published by Jonathan Pettit 
 and James Percival, appeared in the present village of Sherburne 
 in 1810, but \\-as not long continued. So much for the press of 
 the earh' times in which Sherburne took' the lead of an}" other 
 town in the count}'. 
 
 The ])(ilitical histor}' of the tiA\'n, a \'er}' interesting chaj)ter, 
 can onlv be briefiv touched ujion here. In the earlier da}'s the 
 i)ioneers seenied to be nearl}' all of one mind in regard to public 
 affairs. In fact, at the annual Town Meetings, which were pri- 
 niarilv held at the log house of some one of the settlers, or at 
 some wavside inn, and afterwards alternati.-l}' at the Fast and 
 West Meeting Houses, the minor officers were chosen by the uj)- 
 lifted hand, and others, by "going around," whatever that might 
 be. Per!ia]xs the passing of the quaint old original ballot box to 
 be seen in the Centennial exhil)it. On the c|uestion of the war 
 of 181 2 the majority were Federalists ; in the anti-Masonic times 
 the majority were anti-Masons; in 1832, '34, '36, and '40, the 
 
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 Col. \V\\. S. SA/[IT^. 
 
 Born Nov. S. 1755; (jRAnuATF.n at Princeton, 1774; Major and Aide-de-Camp 
 TO Gen. Sum. IVAN Aug. 15, 1776: I.ieut.-Coi.. ok Lee's Addiiional Con 11- 
 
 NKNTAI. KeGT. ISiJaN. I777; TRANSKEKRED TO SpESCER'S ReGT. APR. 22, I779; 
 
 Adjutant AND Inspector. Stake of Gen. LaFayeti'E to Jui.v, 17S1; Stake of 
 Gen. Washington KRoM Jur.v, 1781; Sec'y Legaiion to London, 17S4: Mak- 
 RiKD .•XniGAii, Adams, 1780; 1'rksideni- Society Cincinnati 1795-7; U.S. Mar- 
 siiAi, \-j'&-); SuKVEYoK OK the Fort of N. V., iSdd; Originai. Owner of Sher- 
 burne 1791; Member Congress 1812-14; Died June 10, 1816; Buried on tub 
 West Hill. 
 
HISTORICAL ADDRESS. 57 
 
 Whio-s wore lai-ovly in The majority at the general elections; in 
 1S44, a hu-o;e Abolition vote and a small Democratic majoritv; in 
 1848 and '52, again Wliig; in 1856, an.l since that time, largely 
 Republican; in fact the banner town of that party in the county 
 at the general elections. In passing we may remark upon the pres- 
 ent lack of the local color and elan which characterized the great 
 historic struggles of 1840 and 44, the like of which, with their Log 
 Cabins and Hard Cider, and Processions, and Pole Raisings, and 
 Cannon Firing, will never be seen again. Yes, what a storv might 
 be told of that old brass cannon which heralded forth in notes of 
 thunder from its brazen throat alike the victories r,f the Whigs 
 and the Locofocos in those exciting daws. 
 
 The honor of l)eing the first white male child born in the town 
 is claimed alike for Lorenzo Hatch and Justin Guthrie. The first 
 white female infant was Abigail Raymond, born 1793; the first 
 marriage was that of J,,hn Hibbard and Betsey Sartwell, 1795; 
 the first tleath among the pioneers was that of Joel Northrop, 
 1802; the first grist mill on the Handsome Brook, the present 
 Furman Mill. The Kershaw Mill, so called, was l)uilt at an early 
 day In- Llisha Mills, and afterwards ou-ned successivelv by Fitch 
 Raymond and Wells Hatch. Capt. Josiah Lathn,p had 'a mill <,n 
 the river, not far from what was afterwards known as the Feeder 
 Dam. 
 
 Among the men prominent in pul)lic life in the early davs here 
 were Lsaac Foote, Member of Assembly, State Senator, Countv 
 Judge; Joel Thompson, Member of Assembly, Countv Judge, 
 Member of Congress; Tilly Lynde, Member of Assembly, State' 
 Senator; John Gray, Jr., Associate Justice. Later, Smith M. 
 Purdy, County Judge and Member of Congress; Demas Hubbard, 
 Jr., Member of Assembly and Member of Congress; Clark Burn- 
 ham, Member of As.sembly and State Senator; Roswell Judson, 
 County Judge and Surrogate. Two other names are prominently 
 connected with the early history of Sherburne, that of Col. Wm'. 
 Smith and Judge John Watts; the former the original purchaser 
 of the township from the state, and the latter receiving the title 
 of a large portion of it from him. Col. Smith achieved distinction 
 as a .soldier of the Revolution, winning the high honor of becom- 
 
58 
 
 IIISTOKICAI. AnUKKSS. 
 
 inn' an .\iili.--cli.-(."anii> Id \\ asliini^tnn ; at llu- tlnsf ol tlu' A\ar was 
 ap])<>inti'il Si.-(,r<.'tary ot Letjation to Ldndnn \\-licri.' lu' niai"rii.'il i1r> 
 only (laui;'liicr (it John Ailanis, tlu-n Minister to Enghmil. Was 
 aftcTwards V. S. Marshal, Surveyor ot the Port of Now York, ami 
 retiring to his estate at Smith's \';illey, Lebanon, Madison County, 
 he was eleeti'd Member of Cont;'ress. ,\t his death, in I.S16, he was 
 buried f)eside his mother and his brothers in tin.' Slu'rlnirne West 
 Hill Cemeterv, where a stone has i-eeenll\- bi.'i.'n plaeed at his 
 i^ra\'e by his deseendants. Jud,L;\' jnhii Watts, ol Xl'W ^'ork, was 
 a lamiliar |n.'rs(inalit \' in times within tlu' memor\' of those now- 
 living, ^\•hen he sjjent jmrtiiins of tlie summer eaeh yt'ai- at liis 
 Manor Housi.' so ealied, Just abo\-e the Kershaws. He aided 
 niati.'rial I \' in the loundint;' of Christ Church at this iihico, being 
 <ini.' of the largest eonii-ibuiors. He was the grandl'atlu-r of gallant 
 Gen. riiil Kearney, who often N'isited Sherlnirne with him in his 
 youth, and inherited this ])ortion of his instate. Another grand- 
 son. Gen. J. Watts Del'eyster. of Tivoli and \\w \'orl<. still 
 sur\M\'es, and is i|uite inti.'rested in SlnTburne. 
 
 Hon. Joseph beiU'dict, wdiom wi.' all delight to honor, now in his 
 93d yL-ar, and present with us on this oeeiision ; \dur \'eni.'rable 
 fellow townsman, Miv William Cook, wdiosi,' name lor more than 
 three-quarters of a eeiiturv has been a SN'Uonym lor urbanil_\' 
 and uprightness in this eoimuunit v ; Ur. lX'\illo White, the son (d 
 that otlu'r elder Dr. Whiti.', w hose bo\-hood home was on this spot, 
 for half a eenturx' and more oui.' of the strongest ])ersonalit ii-s in 
 this town, whose miquenehable ]>atriotisiii incited him to erect 
 that other and ntdde monument here to other sons of Sherlnirne 
 wdio Won imjierishable honors in defense of the l-'lag which the 
 Fathers luul u])lield on other HeUls of glory; and then there is that 
 son of Sherburni.' trom brookhn wdiosi.' ehxpient oration has so 
 stirred our hearts lo-da\'; and a son of Sherburne, Hon I)a\'id L. 
 Follett, \\ ho has Worn the I'rmine unsullied in the highest courts 
 of this State. A groat-grandson n[' one cd' the Proprietors is a 
 Missionary in far awa}- Corea, and the great-great-grandson ot 
 another has lollowed tlu- star of (.-mpire to tlu- Ha\vaiian Islantls 
 where with his Journalistic pi.-n he is stri\-ing to hold aloft the 
 Stars and .Stripes ,it ll(inid\du. 
 
HISI-OKirAI AUDRESS. 
 
 ■59 
 
 JAMl-.S TAI.COTT C 1 !■ lOKU, 
 
 y\niiin_<;- tlu- suns aiiil (l;uiL;-litcrs 
 of Slierbunu', ciiluT by birth, ilo- 
 sccnt, nr aili ipticm, whu ilcser\'L' 
 to be incntiniK'il Ikti.-, arc James 
 Talcott Gifforib tlic t'oumler n\' the 
 city of Elgin. 111.; Mrs. Rrv. 1). V. 
 Sackett, of Cranfurcl, X. I., the only 
 living chilli of one of tlu' I'l-oprie- 
 tors, (danghter ot Jolm Cray. Jr.,) 
 \%Mio was born in Sherburne, one 
 of the foun'lers of l-".linira l'\'inale 
 Collegw an<l a lads' of rare gifts 
 and Worth; .Mrs. Aniaiiila (ira\- 
 Lee, of Cedar Mountain, X. C, the 
 <laughter of Elijah Gray, another of 
 the Proprietors, wdm celebrated her centennial in Xo\,.'niber last, 
 hav'ing been born before the settlement of Sherburne, and still 
 retaining gri.'at interest in. anil lo\-e lor this honu- of hi.-r childhood; 
 Philander Raymond, a son of James Raymond, one of the 
 Proprietors, who was the blunder of Idledo, ().. and loremost in 
 tile dewjopmeni of tin.' great iron indiistrii-'s in weslei-n Pennsyl- 
 vania; iJr. Saniui-1 Ciuthrie, li-om Hidmfield, Mass., distinguished 
 as the discoN'erer of anaesthetics; 1)|-. 1-dial T. f'oote, son of .Samuel 
 Foote, ol .SherburuL' and Smxrna. eminent as a ])hysician and in 
 public lile in Cliautauc|iui Count\', wdio was much interested in the 
 history of this [ilacc; Dr. John I''. Grav, a grandson id" John Gray, 
 Sr., Avhose log house stood neai' wdiat is now known as the L"])ham 
 corner, who was the lirst 1 loiud'opathist iii iIk- cit_\- of Xew ^'()rk, 
 v^'on fame and fortune' there, aiid ever (.'hei-ished a wondeidul Io\-e 
 for his birthi)laec; Abigail Rasunoiid .Smith, daughter of ,\bram 
 Ra\"mond, the first white Avonuni to cross the Rock\' Mountain.sas 
 a Missionar}' to the Indians in i1k' farther West ; Rev. (). P. y\IR-n, 
 son of Deacon Marsena Allen, of .Slierl)urne and Smyrna, and a 
 bapti/e<l chihl ot ihe old West Ili|] Church, for over thirty years a 
 faithful Missionary at Harpoot, Turkev'; .\nudia Xewton Little, 
 the fairest daughter of the famih", and of this Cluirch, wdu) gave 
 her life as a Missionarx" in far awa\- India; Alida C. .\\-er\-, M. D., 
 
6o 
 
 HISTORICAI. ADDRESS. 
 
 MAJOR CURTIS HURRITT RAYMOND. 
 
 tor iiKiin' \cars Profes.snr of Physi- 
 ology and Pliy.sician in (.liargf of 
 Va.ssar College, now of San Jo.sc, 
 California; Gen. John 1^. Gray of 
 -New Viirk. a grandson of Judge 
 John Gray, Jr.. one of the Pro])rie- 
 tors, who won distinction as 
 Adjutant General of the State of 
 Missouri iluring tlu' war nf the 
 Rebellion; Major Curtis Hurritt 
 Raymond, late of Boston, grandson 
 of James Raymond; Major Curtiss 
 C. Gardiner, of St. Louis, ]\Io., 
 grandson of Capt. Daniel Denison 
 Gardiner of Sherburne West Hill ; 
 Prof. Hubert A. Xe^\■ton, of \'ale, 
 distinguished a?< a scholar and scientist the ^vorld over; Hon. 
 Herschel H. Hatch, of Bay City, Mich.; the late Hon. Wm. Pitt 
 Lynde, of Milwaukee; Rev. Shubael Carver, of Xnrth Bergen, \. 
 Y.; Jas. R. Lathmp, Su])t. of the Roosevelt Hospital, New York- 
 City; T. H. Matteson, celebrated as an artist; Sidney T. Fairchild, 
 prominent in public affairs, and his brother Lewison Fairchild, 
 sons of John F. Fairchild, publisher of the " Olive Branch" on Sher- 
 burne West Hill, both baptised children of the old church there, 
 may well be claimed as sons of Sherburne. A son of the former, 
 Hon. Chas. S. Fairchild, of New York, has been Att'y Gcn'l of this 
 State, and Sec'y of the Treasury of the United States. 
 
 Hon. Chas. M. Grav, formerly Mayor of Chicago, was a native 
 of Sherburne, and grandson of John Gray, Sr. Alvan Liitlirop, 
 A. M., a grandson of Eleazer Lathrop, noted as a teacher; John H. 
 Lathniji, LL. D., eminent as a Professor and educator; Abram 
 Hi.xon, State Senator; Rev. Raymond Di.xon, the first graduate at 
 Yale from Sherburne; Judge Cowing, of Ne^v York Cit}-, grand- 
 son of Samuel F'oote; Judge Thacher, of Hornellsville, grandson 
 of Amos Graves early of Sherburne; and Hon. John J. Foote, of 
 Belvidere, a grandson of Judge Isaac l*~oote ^^■ho \\ as formerh- a 
 New York State Senator. 
 
HISTORICAL ADDRESS. 
 
 6r 
 
 Orrin S. Wood, Esq., of Staten Island, ^vas Ijorn in Sherburne 
 1817, the son of Benjamin Wood, a brother-in-law of the late Hon. 
 Ezra Cornell, ^\•ith ^\•honl he was associated in the development 
 of Amerieau Telegraphy, the first telegraph operator in the world, 
 who has achieved fame and fortune on the lines of honorable en- 
 terprise; and his sister, Mrs. Ezra Cornell, the mother of PLx-Gov. 
 A. B. Cornell, of whom it is said : •■ At four }-ears of age she came- 
 to live in Sherburne, spending four other }-ears in the excellent 
 public schools r)f that place. Those Sherburne school davs did 
 more than aught else to rijjen the beauty of her childhood into an 
 especial charm of girlhood. They served to implant firmly her 
 strong, calculating miml, which in mature years urged forward 
 her venerated husband to foiuid a University the broadest in the 
 land." What a comidiment to Sherluirne. 
 
 The migrations of the early settlers were most remarkable. 
 Like the true sons of the Pilgrims they \vent marching on, peopling 
 other towns and cities in other states until we find them now in 
 nearly every part of the Union and the islands of the sea. On this 
 Centennial day how man}" of them are turning their longing eves 
 hitherward with the desire to mice more view these loved scenes, 
 exclaiming meanwhile with all the ardor of the Scottish jioet, "M\' 
 heart's in the highlands, my heart is not here." And so ^\-c bid 
 them hail, and all the worthies of the past, and all its tender mem- 
 ories, on this day of days, this Centennial of dear old Sherburne. 
 
 "We sleep and wake and sleep, but all things move; 
 The Sun flies forward to his brother Sun ; 
 The dark Earth follows wheel'd in her ellipse ; 
 And human things returning on themselves 
 Move onward, leading up the golden years." 
 
62 
 
 EVENING EXERCISES. 
 
 The evening exercises lieUl in the Congrej^ational Church were of a 
 \cr\- interesting character, although the attendance was lessened by 
 tile storm which hail interru]:ted the latti-r part of the exercises of the 
 afternoon. However, there were a goodl_\- number present, and 
 altogether it was a highly enjoyable occasion. 
 
 Mr. M. D. Ra\-mond was called to preside, when, after music b)- 
 the choir, the reading of extracts from a large number of letters from 
 friends not able to be present, and which appear herewith on following 
 pages, proceeded. Re\-. Shubael Car\er, of North Bergen, Genesee 
 Co., a a Well j)reser\"ed octogenarian, who is a nati\'e of Sherburne and 
 passed his youth and earl\- manhood there, was then introduced as the 
 first speaker of the exening, and he proceeded to make a quaint, old- 
 fashioned address. 
 
 Hon. W'alstcne D. Pudne\-, of Cle\eland, Ohio, was introduced as a 
 good representati\e of the N'ounger sons of Sherburne, who having worn 
 the blue w ith honor in the war for the Union, had won success on other 
 fields; and he hapi)il\- and in a patriotic spirit responded, doing honor 
 to his nati\'e and his atlopted State. 
 
 Dr. Elbert M. Somers, of Deansville, Oneida Co., a highly esteemed 
 son of Sherburne, whose public and private life has full)- realized all 
 the bright promise of his youth, and who when he went from here took 
 with him one of the loveliest and most gifted of the daughters of Sher- 
 burne as his wife, was then called out, and spoke substantiall\- as 
 follows: •• \'(>u ha\e been so handsomel)- entertained of the pulpit and 
 tile ]jress on this occasion that >'ou must listen with scimelhing of im- 
 jxitience, I fear, to the less attractive words of a member of the silent 
 profession, \e\ertheless I stand up cheerfully to be counted as one 
 of the nati\-e born citizens of the town of Siierburne. Although forty 
 )-ears of m_\' life have been spent elsewhere, 1 ha\'e ne\'er ceased to re- 
 member the good friends of ni)- earlier }x-ars with sincere respect and 
 affection. Indeed, it has been an axiom with me oft repeated, that to 
 
EVENING EXERCISES. 63 
 
 have been born in the town of Sherburne was to liave been well born. 
 Out of the forest prime\'al the fathers car\'ed this goodl_\- township, now 
 ckithed in ricliest robe of deej^est green, and decked with gorgeous 
 flowers of rich perfumes. It was ours to first look out upon this land- 
 scape of surpassing beaut}', where a Cropse)-, a Bierstadt, and a Matte- 
 son lingered long to drink in its beauties and transfer them to can\'ass. 
 The laborious and accomplished Historian of the occasion has to-day 
 made us proud of our heritage, proud of our parentage, and deeply 
 thankful for the memories that cluster here." 
 
 Re\'. Dr. E. M. Mills, of Elmira, followed with some oratorical ]:)\-ro- 
 technics which added to his reputation as a brilliant off-hanti speaker, 
 and much enlivened the occasion. 
 
 Edward F. Lawrence, Esq., of the Elmira Adi'crtiscr, a son of 
 Sherburne who is doing honor to his nati\e place, e\'inced his abilit)-, 
 when called upon, to think on his feet and.to speak as he thinks, in a 
 wa}- original and vivacious. 
 
 James R. Lathrop, Esq., the able and cultured Supt. of the Roosevelt 
 Hospital, New \'ork, who was an officer in the war for the Union, when 
 called upon responded in a thoughtful wa\-, speaking a word for the 
 American youth in American homes, closing his excellent remarks by 
 the reading of a poem written b)- his father, the late Al\-an Lathro]), 
 on visiting Sherburne, his native place, some fift_\' \'ears ago. 
 
 Capt. Chas. A. Fuller, on being called out with a complimentary 
 word by the chairman, happil}- and patriotically responded, but did 
 not succeed in his effort to belittle the great services he rendered in 
 aiding to make the Centennial a success. 
 
 Re\". J. C. Barber, Messrs. Tucker, Peck, and J. H. Shep.u'd, George 
 Buchanan, Cornetist, and Mrs. Botsford, Organist, furnished \er\- ac- 
 ceptable music, including old " Sherliurne," and a pleasing feature was 
 the felicitous rendering of a song entitled "The Chenango Valley," 
 b)- the Dixon Brothers, Mrs. Billings and Frank A\ery, all grand- 
 children of Major Joseph Dixon, the tune composed and words written 
 by the late Simeon B. Marsh, formerl}- the Precentor of the Congrega- 
 tional Church. 
 
 A few farewell remarks b\- the chairman, ;i few kind words and the 
 benediction b\- the pastor, Re\'. A. F. Xorcross, ami the Centennial 
 anni\ersar\- of Sherburne had jiassed into history. 
 
64 
 
 CENTENNIAL I.KTTr.KS. 
 
 LKTTKK FROM MRS. AMANDA CRAY LEE. 
 
 a child 
 
 mingled in those scenes. 
 
 Cki).\k Moir.NTAiN, North C.\roi.ixa,'[^ 
 June loth, 1S93. ) 
 Diar Mr. Ravniond: 
 
 I thank you very much for the invitation to at- 
 tend the Centennial, and which I would be so 
 .i;lad to acce])t but cannot, as I am not stronjj 
 enough to undertake a journey to dear old Sher- 
 l)urne. The many interesting sketches received 
 together with the corrcs]iondenee preceding 
 tliem, have renewed and strengthened my affec- 
 tion for the place, always beloved and never 
 forgotten. 
 
 I would love to be with you all on the memo- 
 rial day, but since that is impossible, 1 send love 
 and greeting to all of the children and grand 
 children of Sherburne who take an interest in 
 one who is, I think, the only survivor of the little 
 band of pioneers of a hundred years ago, and 
 who may well be called the "oldest inhabitant." 
 
 The happiest days of my life were spent in 
 Sherburne — days of .glad sunshine and music. 
 1 dream of them now, almost forgetting the 
 one's of labor, and trial, and sorrow, that have 
 intervened since that far awa)- time when, as 
 Your Kinswoman, 
 
 ^^Vv^-^^-^^^ -d^^C, 
 
 LETTER FROM MRS. ELIZA R. WHITEMAN, 
 
 Mii.TON, Ork.con, June 4th, 1S93. 
 
 Dear Mr. Ravmotid: — How I wish I could be with you all on Centennial day. I could 
 see the remnant of my old friends, and there will never be another such an opportunity. 
 And to meet them all with the thrilling oneness of sjiirit that must prevail on that day 
 would be a treat indeed. There will be wrinkles in the faces, and gray hairs on the tem- 
 ples of those who were just in their prime when I saw them last, but that only serves to 
 remind us of the lapse of time which you come to celebrate. 
 
 As I cannot be with you on that occasion I send as a reminder of my interest in it, the 
 first Ballot Bo.\ ever used in Sherburne. They elected their town officers for the first few- 
 years by acclamation. Then, at a Town Meeting held at my grandfather's house, it was 
 jiroposed to vote b\- ballot. Grandfather took a box which he had bought from the 
 Indians, covered with straw laid in fancy checks and rows, and varnished. It is about a 
 foot long, 3 inches high, and 6 wide. He thought it too pretty to spoil by cutting a hole 
 in the top, so he turned it over, and they put in their ballots through a hole which he cut 
 in the bottom. How would you like to look into a ballot box which was used 95 or more 
 years ago, and which never knew fraud, or trickery, or decejition ? Once, when speak- 
 ing at a Prohibition meeting in Washington Territory, I said, "When I have an ojjportu- 
 nity to vote for Temjierance, my grandfather's ballot box will not be too good to have a 
 hole cut in its top !" But the time has not yet come I am sorry to say, for making a slit 
 in the top of the historic old ballot box. 
 
 The softened tints in which we view at this distance the lives of our ancestors, are the 
 work of time's mellowing lumd. How much clearer the nobility of their sacrifices for 
 those who were to come after them, stxinds out against the background of the retreating 
 century. The gi'and roll of its cycles has swept into oblivion all that should be forgotten, 
 and left us a jirecious legacy, that time only preserves and hallows, (lod be with you all. 
 
 (Grand-daughter of Joel Hatch.) Eliz.a R. Wmiik.m.\n. 
 
CENTENNIAL LETTERS. 65 
 
 Cranfori). N, J., Ma)- 25, 1S93. 
 
 Denr Coiisi'/i Rayvwnd: — Your kind letter inclosing invitation and programme of the 
 memorial exercises of our own dear old Sherburne reached us last evening, for which 
 many thanks. We are glad of the privilege of contributing something toward a mon- 
 ument to be erected there in honor of the Fathers, whose memory is precious and whose 
 lives are worthy of emulation. I cannot well express my high appreciation of all that you 
 have done and are doing to honor our common kinsmen. How I wish I could show 
 you how truly I value what you have done for my pleasure in these declining years by 
 your earnest work in all these matters. Much regretting that I thall be imable to be pres- 
 ent at the Centennial, with a thankful, loving heart I wish you and yours peace. 
 
 Your Kinswoman, 
 
 (Daughter of John Gray, Jr.) D. E. Sackktt. 
 
 Angola, N. Y., June 3d, 1893. 
 
 Dear Cousin: — The invitation to Centennial from you received. Would be very happy 
 tf) go if circumstances were such that it were best, but I cannot well leave mother, (the 
 widow of the late Irad Raymond and now in her gyth year, formerly of Sherburne,) tor 
 any length of time. It would be so nice if she could only go to Sherburne once more, 
 and attend the celebration, but her days of enjoyment of this life are passed, and she is 
 <inly waiting to be transferred to the other shore in full hope of a glorious immortality. 
 Hope you will have a grand time. Yours Truly, 
 
 (Lirand-daughter of Ncwcomb Raymond.) Harriet A. Kinsley. 
 
 DuBUijUE, Iowa, April 22, 1893. 
 Dear Cousin: — 
 
 Dear old Sherburne has a warm place in my heart and memory, as in the two years 
 1S43 t" '45. I was there living, walking in the foot-prints and having the kindly care and 
 association of one of those "Eleven Proprietors" whom you propose to honor — my grand- 
 father and namesake, Newcomb Raymond, a grand old Patriot. While living there I 
 learned to love its hills and vales, and more sincerely those of our kindred who have gone 
 on before, blessed be their memory. ^Vhile the everlasting hills remain silent monuments 
 of their pioneer lives and sacrifices, yet it is fitting that a Memorial Stone be set up to 
 commemorate in an especial manner their honorable connection with the settlement of 
 Sherburne. Sincerely Yours, 
 
 G. N. Raymond. 
 
 North Conway, N. H., June 5, 1S93. 
 To Hon. M. D. Raymond, Tarr>-town, N. Y. — 
 
 Miss Helen Sawyer Raymond regrets exceedingly that the recent affliction, in the loss 
 of her respected father, the late Honorable Major Curtis Burritt Raymond, prevents her 
 from being present at the Centennial Celebration in commemoration of the settlement of 
 Sherburne, N. Y., on Wednesday, June 21st, 1S93. 
 
 Madison, O., June 6, 1S93. 
 
 My Dear Mr. Raymond: — I regret to say that it will be impossible for me to attend the 
 Sherburne Celebration. I should be delighted to contribute anything to its success, but 
 my engagements will not permit. The memory of the brave men and women who laid 
 the foundations of this fair land cannot be too often recalled or too much revered. It is 
 our inheritance and our example. We should be jiroud that the blood of those who stood 
 by this Nation in her birth-throes with their fortunes and their lives, flows in our veins. 
 Since we cannot place the tribute of our affection and our praise in the warm clasp of 
 living hands, let us carve it upon the enduring granite. 
 
 Hoping that the day may be auspicious, I remain, 
 
 \'ery Truly Yours, 
 
 (Grandson James and Melissa Burritt Raymond.) E. F. Ensign. 
 
66 CENTENNIAL LETTERS. 
 
 i2(j \V. if)TH St., Erie, Pa.,) 
 June 19, 1S93. )" 
 Hus. M. 1). Raymond: — 
 
 .1/)' /'<•<!;• Ktiis»hin:—\ consider myself honored by receiving an invitation to be jjres- 
 ent at the celebration commemorating the settlement of Sherburne, and in counting 
 myself a descendant of some of the ])ioneers who lived there a century ago. I am 
 heartily in sympath\- with the sentiment that insjiired those who have arranged this re- 
 uni(_)n of the different branches of a widely scattered family, and which will tend to 
 cement the bonds of kindred, while honoring an historical anniversiiry. 
 
 I regret that I cannot be present on the occasion, and extend to you all my best wishes 
 for a happy day. Very Sincerely, Your Cousin, 
 
 Adklaide Lkk Stanclikke. 
 (Grand-daughter of Amanda Gray Lee.) 
 
 359 Prospect Ave., Buffalo, N. Y., May 28, 1S93. 
 Mv l^tar Mr. Ravmoiiif: — Your kindness in sending an invitation to attend the Cen- 
 tennial Celeliration at Sherburne is greatly appreciated. 1 regret that I cannot be there, 
 for I should enjoy the exercises very much, and I shtmld like to see the monument. That 
 ])leiusure is only deferred, however, for I shall certainly make a pilgrimage to the home of 
 my fathers some time. Your Cousin, 
 
 Ada M. Kenvo.s. 
 (Great-grand-daughter of Nathaniel and Bethiah Newcomb-Raymond Gray.) 
 
 Westfiki.d, N. v., June 10, 1S93. 
 
 Dear Mr. Raymond: — I thank you for the invitation to be present at the interesting 
 ceremonies of the 21st inst., and I wish that I could accept it. The occasion should be a 
 memorable one, and I am sure that the people of Sherburne will give such expression to 
 their appreciation and gratitude, as will make the day a proud and happy one to all the 
 descendants of the pioneers. Sincerely Yours. 
 
 Grand-daughter of Major Joseph Dixon.) Caroline P. Dixon. 
 
 MiNNEAi'ui.is. Minn., Mav 23, 1S93. 
 Mr. M. D. Raymond: — 
 
 .S»'.' — 1 am interested to know that the Centennial of Sherburne is to be celebrated 
 some time in June, and that a monument is to be dedicated to the early settlers, of whom 
 was my grandfather, Joel Hatch, and my great-grandfather, Nathaniel Gray, my father, 
 the late Revillo C. Hatch, having been a son of the former. I cannot be there myself, as 
 I have been an invalid for several j-ears, but I wish to have a part in that memorial. It 
 is rather late I know, but I do hope I may feel I have a share m honoring those men and 
 women who first settled in Sherburne. Yours Sincerely, 
 
 Makcia a. Mitchell. 
 
 St. Lol'is, Mo., June 16, 1893. 
 M. D. Raymond, Esq., Tarrytown. N. Y. : 
 
 My Dear Kinsman : — I have received the invitation you sent me to attend the first 
 settlers' Celebration at Sherburne, N. Y., on the 21st inst., and I will thank you to con- 
 vey my acknowledgments to the Committee of Arrangements. I have delayed my reply 
 in the hope that I might accept of it, but circumstances over which I have no control 
 have compelled me to deny myself the pleasure. The occasion is one I could have 
 enjoyed immensely for the reason that it calls to my mind the fact that among the 
 early settlers who came from the land of " Steady Habits" was my great-grandfather 
 William Gardiner, who was also your great-grandfather, and the remains of both him- 
 self and wife lie buried there. Also, his son Daniel Denison Gardiner, who was my 
 grandfather, was an early settler there, and his son, Lyman Gardiner, my father, was 
 boni there, July 25th, 179S. 
 
 May the skies shine serenely upon the Valley of the Chenango at Sherburne on the day 
 of the Celebration, and may the gathered multitude contempUite the scene of a century's 
 growth with grateful hearts to Almighty (lod. Sincerely Yours, 
 
 CuRTiss C. Gardiner. 
 
CENTENNIAL LETTERS. 67 
 
 Bei-videkk, Ii.i... June 14, 1893. 
 Hon. M. D. Raymond: — 
 
 Dear Sir : — Yours duly received. I am sorry I cannot attend the Centennial on the 
 2ist. My son, John Crocker Foote of this place expects to be present. I feel that all 
 descendants of the early settlers of Sherburne should be \ery grateful to you for all your 
 interest in this matter, and for your many historical sketches. The labor has not been 
 for pay, but without money compensation. It has been a labor of love — love for those 
 early Fathers who ever)-\vhere have done so much towards laying the foundations of our 
 country on such principles as will tend to jieqjetuate the blessings of constitutional liber- 
 ty throught the land. Your sketches have been truthful, — based upon facts, — and we the 
 descendants have no reason for being ashamed of the expositions you have made. For 
 one I thank you for having put into print the history- of the " Early Settlers." I have pre- 
 served all your historical sketches in a scrap book, and this will be ])reserved by others 
 who will feel as proud of their ancestors as you have made me feel of mine. 
 
 Again thanking you for the kindly invitation to attend the Centennial, I am 
 
 Most Truly Yoiirs, 
 
 (Grandson of Judge Isaac Foote.) John J. Foote. 
 
 New York, June 20, 1893. 
 
 My Dear Mr. Raymond : — I had hoped to be with you on Wednesday, but much to 
 my regret, I shall be unable to do so. Please express my thanks to the Committee for 
 their kind invitation. My grandfather, Samuel Foote. was one of the pioneers of Sher- 
 burne, and my father, Elial Todd Foote, spent his boj'hood there, so that I feel interested 
 in this Centennial. I therefore send greeting in behalf of the descendants of Samuel 
 Foote and Sibyl D. Foote, to the good people of Sherburne and those who celebrate the 
 day with them. May it be a day of thanksgiving for the blessings of the la.st hundred 
 years, and for our Christian ancestry. 
 
 Let eloquence, jjoetry, music and history combine to make the day interesting for 
 young and old — " Let joy be unconfined, ' and (confidentially, for the good people of 
 SherlBurne,) if the young people want to partake innocently in the enjoyment of an old- 
 fashioned counry dance, with their music, let us not bid them nay; and let us "keep up 
 with the procession." All honor to the pioneers of Sherburne! and may their virtues be 
 perpetuated in their descendants. Yours Truly, 
 
 H(jraceA. Foote. 
 
 Office of Argus &• Radical, (Daily and Weekly,)) 
 Beaver, Pa., June 10, 1S93. / 
 Dear Friend Raymond; — 
 
 I would like exceedingly to attend Sherburne's Centennial Celebration, and hoped I 
 might, but find at last that I shall be unable to do so. I have not seen tlear old Sherburne 
 in 35 years, and I know the place is not what it was, but memory still loves to linger in 
 that dear spot, the home of my boyhood. The invitation you were kind enough to send 
 me was greatly appreciated, and believe me, I am very sorry to have to decline. 
 Your old Friend and Companion of Boyhood's Days, 
 
 Smith Curtis. 
 
 Bay City, Mich., June i, 1S93. 
 M. D. Ravinond, Esq.: — I should ver\- much like to be present at the Centennial anni- 
 versary but business engagements will prevent. 
 
 Very Truly Yours, 
 (Grandson of Joel Hatch.) H. H. Hatch. 
 
 Oakland, California, June 12, 1893. 
 Mr, M. D. Raymond; — 
 
 I claim the honor of being a "son of Sherburne" though I have never been there in 
 my life, and am interested in its Centennial. All honor to its pioneer settlers. 
 
 (Grandson of Ezra Lathrop.) H. D. Lathrop. 
 
68 CF.XTFNMAI. I.KTTF.RS. 
 
 State ok Nkw Yurk, Exkcutivk Chamber.) 
 Albany, June ig. 1S93. > 
 G. W. Lathrop, Esq., Chairman Com, 
 
 Sir: — Governor r 
 him of the ple;isun 
 nienKiraticin of the settlement of Sherburne. 
 
 Th;inking you in his beliaU' for the eourtcsy so extended, I remain 
 
 T. S. Williams, 
 Private Sfc'y. 
 
 Esq., Chairman Com,: 
 
 " rei^rets exeeethnjfly that his engagements for June 21st will deprive 
 re of attendini; the Celebration to whieh you have invited him in com- 
 
 Yale CoLLECK, June 7, iSt)3. 
 
 Mv Dear Mr. }{oltit-ii:—\ have delayed reply to your invitation, on behalf of the Com- 
 mittee, to speak at the evening entertainment on the 21st of June, in hojies of being able 
 to accept it, and be with you on that occasion; but as the time draws near I am more and 
 more convinced that I ought not to incur the fatigue involved in my going to Sherburne 
 at that time. It is one week before Commencement, a busy season for us. My judgment 
 is not with my wishes in the matter, and it tells me I ought not to try my strength over- 
 much at this time, 
 
 I knew many of the first settlers of Sherburne as old nren when I was a boy, and I 
 have very great respect for what they were and what they did. They deserve our admi- . 
 ration and unstinted honor. Yours Most Truly, 
 
 Hubert A. Newton. 
 
 PouLTNEV, Vt,, May 29, 1S93. 
 Dear Mr. Ra\')iioiid: — Yf>ur kind invitation to be present at the Centennial Celebration 
 on June 21st. is received, but my age and feeblenees in my 93d year, is an obstiicle which 
 I could not ventiu'e to overcome. My first pastorate was in Sherburne, and from begin- 
 ning to end it was to me a very happy one, and I have always hoped a prosperous one to 
 the church and acceptable to the people. May the Lord be with you all. 
 
 Yours Tnily, 
 
 I. N. Sl'RAGUE. 
 
 Beloit, Wis., June 2, 1S93. 
 Deacon George IV. La//irop:— Thanks for the kind invitation to be present at the Cen- 
 tenni;il of the settlement of Sherburne, my dear old native home. Oh, how I wish I 
 could. Should like to so much; should expect to see .so many of my old acquaintances, 
 whom I shall never see again if not at that time. If I am not there pleiise remember me 
 to all. Shall be with you in spirit if not in body. Yours Truly, 
 
 Andrew B.. Knapp. 
 
 Ypsilanti, MiriL, June 17, 1S93. 
 Mr. M. D. Raymoii(/:—\ would much like to be with you and others who are expected- 
 to meet in Sherburne on Wednesday next to celebrate tlie Centennial of Sherburne's first 
 settlement, but circumstances will not permit. I hope you will all have a good time, en- 
 joy much, and do honor to the Fathers, who by severe toil, suffering many privations, 
 were, with their noble wives, our mothers, laying the foundations of a society that their 
 descendants mav well be proud of. \'erv Respectfullv Yours, 
 
 F. K. Rexkorp. 
 
 59 E. 2i.st St., New York, May 30, '93. 
 Hon. March's D. Raymond: — 
 
 Dear Sir: — 1 appreciate your remembrance and invitation to the Sherburne Centennial 
 and nothing would give me .greater ple;isure. if possible, than to be jirescnt on an occa- 
 sion so interesting as connected with the life of my dear old grandfather, to whom I owe 
 mider Providence, the happiness of my life, and the place where 1 passed many happy 
 days, but 1 fear I cannot. Please communicate my acknowledgment of the invitation to 
 the Committee. Yours Trulv, 
 
 (Grandson of Judge John Watts.) I- Wal rs de Puyster. 
 
SHERBURNE CENTENNIAL. 69 
 
 Among other Centennial communications received were letters 
 from President Stryker of Hamilton College, Orrin S. Wofxl, Esq., 
 of Staten Island, Rnwland J^. Lacey, Esq., President of the Fair- 
 held County Historical Society of Bridgeport, Conn., M. T. L}-nde, 
 Escj., of Ciihunbia Heights, Brooklyn, Rev. Dr. R. L. Bachman, ot 
 Utica, Rev. Otis A. Dike, of Warsaw, formerly pastor of the 
 Baptist Church at Sherljurne, A. G. Nichols, Esq., of Kingston, 
 step-grandson of PUeazer Lathrop, Raj'mond C. Gray, I^sq., of 
 Covington, K}'., Miss May Davidson, Pllgin, III., Mrs. C. B. Ray- 
 mond, Boston, Mass., Hon. Rufus B. Cowing, New Yorl<, T. Yale 
 Hatch, Highmore, South Dakota, Farrand Hatch, Sugar Gro\e, 111. 
 
 The following articles ^\'cre placed in a Ixix under the l)ase of 
 the Monument : 
 
 List of Subscribens to the Monument Fund, Pictures of Capt. Josiah Lathrop, James 
 Raymond, and Newcomb Raymond, (three of the Proprietors,) copies of the Sherburne 
 JVf7tis, Tarrytown Argus, Carbondale Leader, Utica Morning Herald, Binghamton 
 Repiibliian, Hawaiian Star, Sherburne T raitscript. Western Oracle, (jniblislied at Sher- 
 burne Four Corners, 1S04,) the Con^rregatioualist, copy of the Sherburne Congi'egational 
 Church Manual, 1893, copy of last Report of Proceedings of the Board of Supervisors 
 of Chenango County. 
 
 The following articles were in the Centenni;il exhibit : 
 
 By Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Lathrop : Deacon Melatiah Lathrop's Account Book, date of 
 176S; Crayon Portrait of Capt. Josiah Lathrop, photograph of Eleazer Lathrop, Crayon 
 of Simeon B. Marsh; copy of Shakspeare 1795, Spectator, 1S14, John Moore's Views of 
 Italy, 17S4, Conquest of Canaan, 17S5, Connecticut Evangelical Magazine, 1S02-3; Capt. 
 Josiah Lathrop's Conch Shell, 1793, Josiah Lathrop's Tobacco Bo.x, 1793, Josiah Lath- 
 rop's Steel Square, 107 years old, Josiah Lathrop's Mahogany Table, no years old, pack- 
 age of Deeds dating from 1751 to 1S23, files of the Western Oracle, (Four Corners) 1S04. 
 
 Exhibited by M. D. Raymond: Old Deed from Proprietors to Newcomb Raymond, 
 first Ballot Bo.x used in Sherburne, old Bible jjresented by Col. Wra. S. Smith to' Sher- 
 burne West Hill Church, School Report for of Winter 1795-6, files of the Ohve Branch 
 printed at Norwich, 180S-10, and single copy of same printed on Sherburne West Hill, 
 1S06; Portraits of Newcomb Raymond, John Gray, Jr., Joel Hatch, James Raymond, 
 Col. Wm. S. Smith, Judge John Watts, Rev. Dr. I N. Sprague, Philander Raymond 
 Gray and Family, Melissa Burritt Raymond, Hon. Chas. M. Gray, and others. 
 
 The following were among the Centennial guests present : 
 
 Hon. Joseph Benedict, Utica. S. Comstock and wife, Springfield, Mass. 
 
 Rev. Shubajl Carver, North Bergen. Dr. Elbert M, Somers, Deansville. 
 
 Rev. Lewis Ray Foote, D. D., Brooklyn. Dr. E. M. Somer.s, Jr., Jersey City, N. J. 
 
 Hon. Walstine D. Pudney, Cleveland,'©. Maud E. Somers, Brooklyn. 
 
 Jas. R. Lathrop, wife and daughter, N.Y. L. G. Raymond and wife, Angelica. 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. il. D. Raymond, Tarrytown. Mabel and Cornelia Raymond, " " 
 
 Mrs. J. E. See, son and daughter, " William Butler Newton, Parma. 
 
 Miss Bertha Caqienter, " Albro Newton, Brooklyn. 
 
 Miss Mary Judson, Chicago, 111. Howard D. Newton, Norwich. 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. Edward Purdy, Brooklyn. Julia Carrier, Elmira. 
 
 Stanley Ormsby and wife, Eaton. Wells Burritt Hatch, Syracuse. 
 
 E. Lawrence, and daughter, Elmira. Mrs. Rev. Dr. D. K. Bartlett, Albany. 
 John C. Foote, Belvidere. 111. Henry Hopson, L^tica. 
 
 F. C. Hyatt and wife, Perryville. Hon. Albert F. Gladding, Norwich. 
 
70 CENTKNNIAI. MdMMKNT. 
 
 Tlu' ix'port of rcccij)ts and ilisljursemcnts of the IMoiuinK-nt 
 Fund is or will be of historie interest. The list of names of the 
 subscribers to tliis fund there i)resenled may well be entitled a 
 roll of honor, for it is sim]ily their due to say, tiiat if these 
 loyal sons anil daughters of the Fathers had not resi>onded to 
 the call made upon them for that pur])ose, no Monument would 
 have been erected, the Centennial ^\-ollid not have l)eeu celebrated, 
 and conseqvK-ntly tliis Centennial souvenir \vould not have been 
 issueil. This is a self-e\idi.'nt proposition, but ma\' well be stated 
 here. It will be noticetl, and doubtless with some surprise, that 
 several of the names which a])pear upon the Monument are not 
 re])resented on the sul)scription list by any of their descendants 
 It is but simple justice to sa}-, that in no case has it been from a 
 lack of invitation to contribute something toward that object, 
 and ill sonic instances thesi- in\'itations were several times re- 
 peati'd, without results. It shovild pi'rliaps be here stated that 
 the surplus remaining f)ver from the Monument Fund has not 
 been sufficient to ])roduce this volume, and the publisher of it 
 will ha\-e to look to the disposal of a fe^v e.xtra copies issued, to 
 make u]> the deficiency. This much in justice to himself. 
 
 The Motiument is placed on the grounds of the Congregational 
 Church, ^\"hich comprise the south-east corner at the crossing of 
 the two principal streets of the \'illage. a handsome green, on 
 which the beautiful Monument in meinor\- of the Union soldiers 
 t)f Sherburne also stands. The Centennial Monviment is-massive 
 rather than oniamental, and was intended to be typical of the 
 times, and the men in whose honor it was erected. It is of the 
 best Quincy granite, the bases of rough rock' work with beveled 
 edges. The disc is also rustic ^vith polished panels bearing the 
 inscri])tic)ns. The dimcnsiotis are : First base, 4 feet 6 inches 
 square, 2 feet rise; second base, 3 feet 6 inches square, i foot 2 
 inches rise; disc, 3 feet square, 4 feet 10 inches high, making the 
 total height 8 feet. The weight is about 8 tons. 
 
 The photgra])hic representations of the Monument so clearly 
 present the names and inscriptions thereon that they need 
 not be repeated here. It suffices to say in conclusion, that the 
 work has elicited uni\'ersal encomiums. 
 
MOXTMEXT FUXD ACCOUXT. "Jl 
 
 RECKIPTS. 
 
 J. I). Rexford,of Janes\-iUe, AVis., for self and other descendants of Cornelius Clark, $200 00 
 Mrs. G. W. Lathrop. of Sherburne, N. Y., a great-grand-daughter of " 12 50 
 
 Geo. W. Lathrop, of Sherburne, a grandson of Josiah Lathrop, - - 12 50 
 
 Mrs. Rev. D. K. Bartlett, of Albany, N. Y., a descendant of Josiah Lathrop, - 10 00 
 James R. Lathrop, of New York, a grandson of Eleazer Lathrop, - - 25 00 
 
 Mrs. Chas. H. Nichols, of Washington, D. C, a grand-daughter of Eleazer Lathrop, 25 00 
 Tracy Bros., of Mansfield, Ohio, descendants of " 25 00 
 
 Chas. Henry Lathrop, of Sherburne, grandson of John Lathrop. - - 10 00 
 
 Gardiner Lathrop, of Kansas City, " " - - - 25 00 
 
 William W. Lathrop, of Scranton, Pa., grandson of Ezra Lathrop, - - 5 00 
 
 Mrs. Curtis Burritt Raymond, of Boston, for his g^randfather, James Raymond. 50 00 
 Miss Helen Sawyer Raj-mond, of Boston, great-grand-daughter of " ' 5000 
 
 E. F. Ensign, of Madison. Ohio, a grandson of ■' 15 00 
 
 '"" "" ---- - comb Raymond, 100 00 
 
 10 00 
 10 00 
 10 00 
 I 00 
 I 00 
 I 00 
 I 00 
 I 00 
 
 M. D. Raymond, of Tarrj-town, N. Y., a grandson of New 
 Geo. N. Ra\Tnond, of Dubuque, Iowa, " 
 
 Mrs. G.B.R'., and Chas. W. Ra\-mond, Elgin, 111., " 
 Fulton Gilford, of Mendota, III. 
 LaJIont Gardiner Raymond, Angelica, N. Y., 
 Wm. H. Raymond, Springfield, Ohio, (by a brother)" 
 Hervev Raymond, late of " 
 
 Corneha Raymond " " " " grand-daughter 
 
 Angeline Raymond Peet, late of " " " 
 
 Mrs. Harriet Raymond Kinsley of Angola, N. Y., " " " i^ 
 
 Mrs. Diantha E. Sackett, of Cranford, N. J., daughter of John Gray, Tr., - 30 00 
 
 Elizabeth Gray, " great-grand-daughter " ' " - 37 50 
 
 John Frederick Gra}-, of New York, great-grand.son " - 37 50 
 
 John B. Gray, of New York, grandson " - 2500 
 
 Philander Raymond Gray, of EUzabeth, N. J., great-grandson of Nathaniel Gray, 10 00 
 Adelaide and Caroline Kenyon, of Buffalo, great-grand-daughters " 500 
 
 Mrs. Marcia Mitchell, of Minneapohs, Minn., " ' " 1000 
 
 as grand-daughter of Joel Hatch, 1000 
 
 Herschel H. Hatch, of Bav Citv, Mich., grandson of " 2=; 00 
 
 Wells B. Hatch, of Si,Tacu'se, ' " "5 
 
 Mrs. Minnie Carrier, of Elmira, grand-daughter of " 2 
 
 5 00 
 00 
 
 Miss Julia Carrier, 
 
 Rev. Dr. R. L. Bachman, of Utica, for his late beloved wife. May Rose Bachman 
 
 a great-great-grand-daughter of Nathaniel and Deborah Lathrop Gray, ' 2 00 
 
 Timothy Yale Hatch, Highmore. South Dakota, grandson of Timothy Hatch 10 00 
 
 FaiTand Hatch, of Sugar Grove, 111., " " jq 
 
 Dr. Jethro Hatch, of iventland, Ind., ■• " 5 
 
 Herbert Dixon, of SrajTna, a grandson of Major Joseph Dixon, - - 5 
 
 Joseph Dixon, .. ' .. .. ' ^^ 
 
 Almenzo K. Dixon, of Earlville, " •• - - 5 00 
 
 00 
 
 00 
 
 I 00 
 
 00 
 
 10 00 
 00 
 00 
 
 Caroline P. Dixon, of Westfield, grand-daughter of 
 
 Frank Avery, Smyrna, a grandson of ■ • . . . % 
 
 Alida C. Avery, M'. D., San Jcse, Cal., gr-daughter '■ - - - i „„ 
 
 ^Irs. F. A. Hyatt, of Perr>-ville, N. Y., grand-daughter of lohn Hibbard, - 30 00 
 
 John J. Foote, of Belvidere, 111., grandson of Isaac Foote,' - - 05 
 
 John Crocker Foote, " great-grandson " - - "5 
 
 Horace A. Foote, New York, grandson of Samuel Foote. 
 
 Maimlle Austin, Washington, D. C, grandson of Nathaniel Austin 
 
 Dr. F. K. Rexford, Ypsilanti, Mich., grandson of loel Rexford 
 
 Joshua Pratt, Sherburne, grandson of Joshua Talcott, Sr - - - 05 00 
 
 00 
 00 
 20 00 
 
 5 00 
 00 
 
 DISBURSEMENTS. 
 
 Paid C. E. Tayntor & Co., New York, for Monument 
 
 L.xtra expenses in connection with same, - - - 35 00 
 
 Paid for illustrating and printing the Centennial Souvenir, - 207 00 
 
 $qS6 
 
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COXCRKC.ATIONAT. CIirRCn. 
 
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 Til c 1-" i rst Congregat ion- 
 al Church of Sherburne 
 was organized July 6th, 
 1794, with the I'dllowing 
 constituent members: Na- 
 thaniel Gray and Bethiah 
 Ne^vcomb-Raymonll Gray 
 his wife, Elijah Gray and 
 Sarah Raymond Gray his 
 wife, Abram Raymond and 
 1 Betsey Gray Raymond his 
 \vife, Tinii )th\- Hatch and 
 Ruth Wells Hatch his wife, 
 I'disha Gray and Martha 
 Patsy) Burritt Gray his 
 wife, Josiah Lathrop.Ele- 
 azer Lathrop, Mabel Gray 
 wife of Ne^\•comb Ray- 
 mond, Melissa Burritt wife 
 of James Raymond, Ruth Gray wife of Joel Hatch, and Ezra 
 Lathrop and Mariam his wife. Nathaniel Gray and Abram Ray- 
 mond were chosen Deacons. The Society was incorporated March 
 5, 1798, when Eli Marsh, Joel Northrop and Orsamus Holmes 
 w^ere elected Trustees. 
 
 For the first few years there \vas no pastor, and only occasional 
 preaching when some itinerant Missionary came along. Mr. Hatch 
 has given such a grajjhic account of those occasions in his History 
 that it is copied herewith: "Their advent would be hailed as an 
 event long to be remembered. Messengers would be sent in every 
 directiiin, imtil all, howx'ver scattered or renuite, had heard the 
 news. Svich ^vas their hungering and thirsting to hear the living 
 preacher, that, at the appointed time, the women and th^ aged 
 -svould be seen on horseback wending their way among the trees 
 of the forest; and pedestrians of both sexes and all ages filling 
 up the picture. Their house of worship had no tall spire jjointing 
 to heaven, no bell to summon to praver, no ceiled ■walls, nor 
 cushions filled with softest down. Its walls were round logs, and 
 
CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH. 73 
 
 the ruiif of boards, or perhaps of barlv. Wlien their increasing 
 numbers reipiired a more commodious Iniilding, some newly 
 erected barn would lie substituted." 
 
 As early as 1798-9, a large school house had been erected at the 
 Quarter, on the ^vest sitle of the road running ncjrthward past the 
 Newton homestead, near to the bridge over the Handsome Brook, 
 and thereafter for several years, the meetings of the church Avere 
 ordinarily there held, it being provided with a movable pulpit for 
 that purpose. The late Simeon B. Marsh, in a reminiscent article 
 by him published, says of that primitive jjeriod : " M}' earliest 
 recollections of public \vorship were in that school house, with 
 Deacon Gra\- in the jiulpit ; his peculiar tone of voice in reading 
 a psalm or h\-mn still sounds in my ears, thoutjh some seventy 
 3'ears have since come and gone." 
 
 The following copied from Cornelius Clark's old Field Book, 
 date of Xovemljer, 1802, shows that the liuilding of a meeting 
 house Avas already planned for, and the site selected: "Survey 
 of Meeting House Lands from Nath. Gray and James Elmore: 
 Beginning at Robertson's (Noah) corner, thence South 49 degrees 
 West 16 rods; thence N. 44 W. 20 rods; thence N. 46 East 16 rods; 
 thence South 44 West 21 1-2 rods. Note — From Robertson's cor- 
 ner to Jas. Elmore's, 7 rods and 15 links." And that "was the site 
 on which it was finallv l.)uilt in the latter part of 1803 or early in 
 1804, soon after the effort to unite the two societies on a "common 
 centre" had fttiled. Mrs. Amanda Gray Lee says she \vell remem- 
 bers its being raised — was present. It ^vas at first a rude affair, 
 the seats Ijeing rough, loose Ijoards placed on blocks. Mr. Hatch 
 says: "They ^vorshipped in this house nine or ten years before 
 it %vas lathed or plastered, or in any measure done off inside. 
 Even the pulpit had never seen the smoothing plane, if Ave except 
 the top shelf or table and seat. For two or three years it was not 
 glazed around the galleries, and for the first one or two "^vinters, 
 some c)f the windows were not even hoarded up." It Avas over 
 twenty years before stoves were introduced. The removal to its 
 present site, in 1810, \vas not a slight task. The deed for the new 
 site from Mr. Marsh is dated July 9, 181 1; consideration, $63.75. 
 The steeple and vestibule were added in 1821; the bell, 1832. 
 
co.\( ;k kg ation a i. r i n ■ ki 1 1 . 
 
 A new clivirch, on the 
 ])ivsent site, ^\■^ls erecte<l 
 ill 1S57, the ohl chiiivii 
 being sold tf) the Catho- 
 lic society. That church 
 was burned Sept. 21,1 880 
 anil the j^reseiit beautiful 
 edifice, most complete in 
 all of its appointments, 
 and an honorto the town, 
 cnmnienced in 1881. was 
 dedicated in Feb., 1 883, 
 havinj^ been erected at a 
 cost of $25,000, of which 
 $ 5 ,000 was from a becjuest 
 b}- the late Dr. Devil lo 
 White. The fine organ, 
 which cost $2,500, was a 
 present frum ]\Ir. Joshua 
 Pratt. The bell was a 
 gift fmni Ilciratici \V. .Sanlnrd. while a large memorial window 
 represents a special conlril)ution from the Xewton family. 
 
 Nathan Bailey Darrow, who taught the Quarter school 1800-2, 
 is said to have been the first regular sermonizer, preaching as he 
 <lid from the school house pulpit each recurring Sabbath. On 
 Jan. 2, 1803, he was ordained as pastor of the church at Homer. 
 Rev. Roger Adams, who was instalknl in August, 1806, was the 
 first regular settled pastor. His voice failing, he resigned three 
 years afterwards. His sheep mark' appears on the old records 
 date of May 27, 1809, showing that in more than one respect he 
 was a good shepherd. Rev. Abner Benedict was the ne.xt pastor, 
 from August 1811, to 1813; a man of considerable learning and 
 abilitv. Rev. John Truair \vas the third pastor, was installed 
 July 5th, 181 5. During his ministr\-, which continued live years, 
 there ^vere over two hundred additions to the church. Rev. Ly- 
 man S. Re.\'loi-(l supplied the pul])it for some time after. Rew 1. N. 
 Sprague, was the ne.xt, and one of the mo.-;t belo\-ed of all \\lu) 
 
COXriREGATinXAI. (lURCH. 75 
 
 ever ministered to that ehureh, a love that was and is most heart- 
 ily reciprocated. Quietly spending the evening oi' his days at 
 Poultney, Vt., his native place, near the spot -where he ^\•as born, 
 no^v in his 93d year, nothing delights him more than to recall 
 his pastorate at Sherburne, which he says was among the most 
 pleasant of all during his long and active ministry. He Avas in- 
 stalled June 8, 1825, and remained until October, 1834. Rev.' 
 Henry Snyder was then stated supply for a time. Rev. Geo. E. 
 Delevan, 1838-39; proved unsatisfactory and was asked to resign. 
 Rev. Luther P. Blodget, an able expounder, 1839-41. Rev. James 
 S. Brown. 1842-3; too extreme in his Abolition \-iews to please 
 the church. Rev. A. C. Tuttle, 1844-53 ; a devout and worth}- 
 man, but rather strong Presbyterian ; the Abolition withdraAval 
 occurred during his pastorate, but ■v\-as more than made up by 
 additions from the great revival during the winter of 184S-9. 
 Rev. Oliver Bronson, of precious memory, 1853. Rev. Archibald 
 McDougal, 1854-60. Rev. E.Curtis, 1860-7. . Rev. Samuel Miller, 
 1867-74. Rev. James Chambers, 1875-82. Rev. D. \V. Teller, 
 1882-88. Rev. \Vm. H. Kelley, 1889-90. Rev. Albert F. Xorcross. 
 from March 1st, 1891. 
 
 The folhnving have served the Church as Deacons: Chosen 
 1794, Nathaniel Gray, Alirani Raymond; 1803, Timoth}- Hatch ; 
 1 8t2, Stephen Northrop; 1816, Calvin Coe; 1821, Stephen Bene- 
 dict; 1828, Williams Avery; 1838, Samiiel Thurston; 1846, Zac- 
 clijeus Waldo Elmore, John F.Smith, Isaac Andrews, Jr., Andre^v 
 B. Knapp; 1850, Charles Benedict; 1865, Simeon B. Marsh, H. T. 
 Dunham; 1874, Samuel M. Foote, George W. Lathrop; 1883, Har- 
 lan P. Freeman, William H. Miller. 
 
 The recentlv issued Church Manual, gives the total member- 
 ship since its organization as 1,288. Among the names so pre- 
 sented are many that recall tender and hallowed associations, more 
 especially as connected with the old Church, when great congre- 
 gations worshipped there, and thetruth was mightily manifest in its 
 influence upon the hearts and consciences of men. This Church 
 has been a power for good in the commimity all these years, and 
 its record for doing and giving is equalled by few. It has given its 
 sons and daughters as wqU as its substance. Present members, 226. 
 
WKsr nil. I. riirKcii. 
 
 THE OLD WEST HILL MEETING HOUSE. 
 
 The ;il)ii\'L' rL--])r(i(hiLti(in of the nhl Meeting House on the West 
 Hill, is here jjrcsentetl as of liistoric interest, it having Ijeen the 
 first church edifice erected in tlie town, and probably in the 
 count}'. It was built in the fall or sununer of 1803, a Society House, 
 of smaller dimensions, having previously been erected on a lot 
 adjoining. It was remo\-ed to its present site, where it is used 
 lor other purposes, in 1847. The Society was organized under 
 the title of "The Second Calvinistick Congregational Society of 
 Sherburne," at the house of James Guthrie, as the old records 
 inform, on "Tuesday ye 25th of November, 1800." On that 
 occasion Deacon Abram Raymond and Mr. Joshua Talcott being 
 chosen Inspectors, and Orsamus 1 lolmes Clerk, the following 
 Trustees of the Society were duly elected: First Class — Elisha 
 Gray, James Guthrie; second class — Elijah Se.xton, Josiah Lathrop; 
 third class — .-Xbram Raymond, Eli Marsh. 
 
 The old Church on the West Hill was organized, as the records 
 also state, " At a meeting of a number of the members of 
 
WEST HILL CHURCH. "JJ 
 
 the Calvinistick Congregational Societ}- of Sherhnrnc, holden at 
 the house of Elisha Gray in s'd Sherburne, the i8th day of Octo- 
 ber, 1803," with eleven constituent members, to wit: Isaac F"oote, 
 Sedate Foote, Henry Finn, Margaret Finn, David Dixon, Tri]:)hena 
 Dixon, Sarah Talcott, Elizabeth Merrill, Elijah Sexton, Ebenezer 
 Baker, and Gambo Dasset; the latter a colored man, a native of 
 Gambia, Africa. There were soon a large number of additions, 
 and the ne^v Church and Societ}' went prosperously forward. 
 Abram Raymond ^\'as the first Deacon, and afterwards Isaac 
 P'oote, Jr., and Joseph Adams were also chosen to that office- 
 On the (lav of the organization, a call was tendered Rev. Joshua 
 Knight, who had jjreviously preached there on several occasions. 
 He was ordained and installed as pastor of that Church at a 
 Council convened at the residence of Major Joseph Dixon on the 
 29th of February, 1804, remaining in that cr)nnectit)n for nearl}' 
 twenty years, emd until he ^vas deposed from the ministry after 
 a long and remarkable trial based upon his expressed purpose tf) 
 marry his step-daughter, which he did about a 3'ear afterwards, 
 on the 22tl of October, 1824, both he and his ^^■ife being imme- 
 diately thereafter excommunicated by the Church. 
 
 Mrs. Ruth Knight, whose untimely death, January 22, 1823, was 
 followed by all this difficulty, \vas an estimable woman, daughter 
 of Judge Hezekiah Talcott of Herkimer, and afterwards of the 
 West Hill, had previously been the wife of Peleg Kenyon, of New- 
 ])ort, who had left her and her infant daughter heirs to his estate. 
 
 At a meeting of the Church hehl on the 2d of Januar\', 1824, 
 Isaac Foote, Sr., Moderator, and Isaac Foote, Jr., Clerk, it was 
 voted to give Rev. Samuel Manning a call, which he accepted, re- 
 maining as pastor until December, 1827, \vhen he removed to Flv 
 Creek, Otsego Count}-. He was afterwards for a time pastor of 
 the Congregational Church at Smyrna. There was no settled 
 pastor afterwards, but the pulpit was filled with supplies more 
 or less regular, until the final disbanding of the church Januarj^ 
 20th, 1834, a large number having previously withdrawn, some 
 to unite with the Church organized at Smyrna, June 26, 1824, and 
 others to join the First Congregational Church of Sherburne. So 
 briefl^' the storv of the old Church on the West Hill is here told. 
 
WKST Hll.I, ClirRCII. 
 
 Tin-: CHL'RCH-VARD GRi';i-:.\. 
 
 The passing traveller of a summer's day may note the beauty of 
 the far reaehing vista, and his eye may rest for a moment with 
 ])leasiiral)le satisfaction on the attractivi.' siid where the "fore- 
 fathers of the hamlet" sleep, as he passes o\cr the summit of 
 Sherburne West Hill, but if he should perehanee be one of those 
 who three score years and more ago were familiar witli that 
 place, and had returned after so long an absence to re-visit the 
 scenes of other days, he would tarry there by the wayside, and 
 look long and lovingh^ upon the spot once so familiar to him and 
 still so dear to him. He would miss the old Meeting House, in 
 olden times the most eonspictious feature in the landscape, but 
 there is still the church yard green, and God's acre just beyond, 
 where sleep the beloved dead. 
 
 No ^vonder such a \vavfarer is lost in reverie, in the dream- 
 land of long ago ; no wonder it all rises in review before him. 
 
WF.ST HILL CHURCH. 79 
 
 and tliat he peoples the living present ^\'ith the forms of the 
 forgotten past. In fancy he is carried back to the da}"S of his 
 youth, and every bright prospect that then allured him, ever}' 
 emotion that mo\'ed him, every hope that lighted up his life no^v 
 returns to him. 
 
 Perhaps he recalls when the old, then the new Meeting House, 
 ^vas erected. Perhaps he saw its foundations laid, the super- 
 structure rearetl, and ^vatched its completion. Perhaps he had 
 often mingled in the congregation that there -worshipped ; had 
 joined in their devotions, and in their songs of praise. He recalls 
 the austerity of their religious life, its simplicit}' as Avell as its 
 severitv. He remembers the dignity of the Fathers, their Puritanic 
 punctiliousness, their unflinching courage, their unyiehling faith; 
 ho\v everv levity ^vas hushed in the shadows that fell on the 
 Meeting House green. 
 
 But our lone traveller is scarcely thinking of this, though all 
 unconsciously it ma_y pass in revic^v. He is rather perhaps in 
 imagination beholding some fair face and form that had to him 
 the fascinating grace of a pure and loving girlhood, iind perhaps 
 he remembers hf)w his heart beat faster at the sight of her, even 
 in the staid Meeting House congregation. It ^vas a' real sentiment, 
 a pretty picture of the long ago, and he loves to recall the tender 
 memory on this summer's day. 
 
 Perhaps the forms of a father and a mother, a brother or a 
 sister, rise before him, once so dear and precious, Avho Avere 
 carried from that church to yonder burial place, Avere bedewed 
 in tears the bright green turf rests above them. Perhaps he re- 
 members how he there for the first time stood up in the presence 
 of the great congregation and gave his affirmation of the Christian 
 Faith, as he looked up to a nearer Heaven. 
 
 All these thoughts, and many others may have recurred to him, 
 as to another, for to none ^vhose ancestors ^vorsllipped there, and 
 ^vhose dust reposes there, can that ever be common ground. It 
 has been to them consecrated by the most sacred associations, 
 and must forever remain a place of holy and tender memories. 
 And so the wayfarer dreams of forgotten loves and unrecorded 
 historv. 
 
8o 
 
 WEST 1111. 1, L 111 Ri 11. 
 
 Under the care of the West Hill Cemetery Associatii>n, which 
 has succeeded the Conj^regational Society organization, this has 
 been made a beautiful rural cemetery, of rare attractiveness. 
 The old Hur\'ing; Ground was originally a gift to the Society from 
 Justus Bosch Smith, who, together with his brother, Col. Win. S. 
 Smith, the original ]iro]irietor of Sherburne, Irom the Slate, and 
 another brother, and their motlier, and a ne|)he\v of the Clarkson 
 famih' of New Yoi'lv, are buried thei-e. That ])ortion of the plot 
 h'ing on the south side of the Quarter Line, \\'hich passes through 
 it, and called the Church Green, but which is now a part of the 
 Cemeterv, was purchaseil 1)\- tile Society from IClisha Gray. 
 
 On this and succeeiling pages, is presented a full list of the 
 original members of the Society, and of the Church, from the 
 time of its organization until its dissolution, together with the 
 baptised children of the Church, all I'mm the original records: 
 
 MEMBERS OK THE SOCIETY. 
 
 Iiaac Footc, 
 John Gray, 
 .loseph Simous, 
 Isaac Foote, jr., 
 Amasa Foote. 
 LebheuR Hunt. 
 AardU Hnt<-liiu.son, 
 Noali Hiitfliinsou, 
 Abd Hutohiuson, 
 Thiima-4 Vosc. 
 Samuel Foote, 
 James Sears, 
 A^JoUos Alleu, 
 William Collins, 
 Elijah Sexton, 
 Joseph Dixon, 
 Elisha Gray, 
 Newcomb llaymouil, 
 Abram Itaymond. 
 James Havmond, 
 Timothy Hatch, 
 John Gray, jr.. 
 
 Adams, Joseph 
 Adams, Hiram 
 Adams. Isaae 
 Adams, llaiy 
 Allen, Marseiia, 
 Allen, Ruth, 
 Allen, Lydia, 
 Allen, Harriet G. 
 Babcock, Harriet 
 Babeoek, Mary 
 Babcoek. I'olly 
 Baker. F.benezer 
 Brown, Amanda 
 Brown, James 
 Brown, Hannah 
 
 Xathauiel Gray, jr., 
 Elijah Gray, 
 Eleazer Latbrop, 
 Isaac Kaymond, 
 Joshua Talcott, jr., 
 David Bal<er, 
 Daniel D. (iardiner, 
 Ali'xiuuler McCulloch. 
 Moses lbi])luns, 
 Joshua I'latt. Sr., 
 Joshua Tratt. jr., 
 Henry Gardiner, 
 David Dixon, 
 
 I Gerrit Lansing, jr., 
 Elkanah Sjiencer, 
 
 ' John Percival, jr., 
 Samuel Guthrie, 
 -Toel Thompson, 
 Roswell Harrison, 
 
 *Perrv Carver, 
 Daniel West, 
 Eli Marsh, 
 
 William Ladd. 
 Sti'phen I'ooper, 
 Asa Cnopi'r, jr., 
 Elias Ladd, 
 Joshua Talcott. 
 James Guthrie, jr., 
 Joseph Billings, 
 Joseph Collins, 
 Samuel Hall. 
 Moses Hall, 
 Luki> Hall. 
 Noah Wood. 
 Obadiah Sjpencer, jr. 
 Edward Ivibbee, 
 Daniel Hebard, 
 Sanuiel Thompson, 
 Andrew Bates, 
 Benjamin Guthrie, 
 James Guthrie, 
 John Guthrie, 
 Elijah Foster, 
 1 Asa Northrup, 
 
 MEMBERS OK THE CHURCH. 
 
 Bidwcll. Mary 
 Bates, .\ndrew 
 Bates. Itleula 
 lieut, liflieeea, 
 Benton, .\iina 
 Beekwith. Sylvanus 
 Burns, William 
 Bush, Cena 
 Barlow, Betsey 
 Case, Russell 
 Case, Roxey 
 Case, Roger 
 Case, Mary 
 Case. ,Tane 
 Castle, Catharine 
 
 [ Catlin, Warren 
 
 Catlin, Mrs. 
 
 Carver, Perry, 
 
 Carver, Keziah Warner 
 
 Carver, Samuel 
 
 Carver, Barsheba 
 
 Carvc^r, Orriuda 
 
 Carver. Harriet 
 
 ( 'haiiman, John 
 
 Chapman. Chas 
 
 Chaimian. ^Irs. 
 
 Collins. .Joseph 
 
 Collins. .Joseph W 
 I Collins, Betsey 
 
 Collins, Eunieb 
 
 W. 
 
 Ephraim Whitney, 
 Or.samus Holmes, 
 \mos Cole. 
 Jesse Hutchinson, 
 .\llen Hammond, 
 Selah Picket, 
 Elijah Long. 
 Obadiah Hamugtou, 
 Phin>as Graves, 
 .Tosepli I'.i'nton, 
 Nathanii'l l.oomis, 
 ■lesse Chapman. 
 Gambo Dasset, 
 Stephen Parker, 
 Ebene/.er Baker, 
 William St. John, 
 James Brown, 
 Theophiliis Robinson, 
 W^illiam Brown, 
 Gidecm Rudd. 
 Israel Farrell. 
 
 Collins, Grace (Mrs. 
 
 Gardiner Kenyon,) 
 Cook, Louisa 
 Cole, Amos 
 Cole, Mrs. 
 Cole, Widow 
 Cole, Louisa 
 Cole, Lucy 
 Cole, Miriam 
 Cowls, Clarissa 
 Cooper. Sally 
 ( 'rew. Sarah 
 Dasset. (rambo 
 Dixon, J(tseph 
 Dixon, Mercy Raymond 
 
WEST HILL CHURCH. 
 
 Dixon, Rnth 
 
 Dixou, Hamiah 
 
 Dixon, Willistou 
 
 Dixou, Jliltiiu 
 
 Dixon, Daviil 
 
 Dixon, Triphcua 
 
 Dixon, Lydia 
 
 Dixon, Archibald 
 
 Dixon, Betbiah 
 
 Dix, Jobn 
 
 Eblred, Kmiben 
 
 FaiTiunton, James 
 
 FaiTfll, Israel 
 
 Farrell, Mrs. Peggy 
 
 Fiiirfll, Laura 
 
 Farrell, Aurelia 
 
 Farrell. Aurora 
 
 Farrell, Phila 
 
 Farrell, Seniantba 
 
 Farrell, FeKgy 
 
 Farrell. .\nianda 
 
 Finn, Henry 
 
 Finn. Margaret 
 
 Fox, Laura 
 
 Fox, Allen 
 Fox, Polly 
 Fox. Rculieu 
 Fuote. Isaac 
 I'oote, Isaac jr , 
 Foote, Samuel 
 Foote, Sibbel 
 Foote, Sedate 
 Foote, Asabel 
 Foote, Harriet 
 Foote, Mary 
 Foote, Sally 
 Foote, Henry 
 Foote, Harriet 
 Foote, Amasa 
 Foote, Hiram 
 Gardiner, Henry 
 Gardiner, Eutb Percival 
 Gardiner, Widow Esther 
 Gardiner, Sarah 
 Gardiner, Fidelia 
 Gaylord, Julia 
 GiRord, Asu 
 Giiiord, Dinah 
 Gifford, Jas. T, 
 GWord, Experience 
 Gifinrd, Susan 
 Gitl.ird, Mrs. Lucv 
 Gillct, lietsey 
 Gillet, Wealthy 
 Gray, Elisha 
 Gray, Martha Bun-itt 
 Gray, Nathaniel jr., 
 Guthrie, John 
 Guthrie, Sally I 
 
 Guthrie, Elaie 
 Guthrie, Clarissa 
 Guthrie, Susan 
 Guthrie, Milan 
 Hatch, Philo 
 Hatch, Wells 
 Hat^h, Polly 
 Haninmnil, George 
 Hanininnd, Mrs. 
 Hammond, Lucina- 
 Hammond, Chester 
 
 ' Hammond, Emma S. 
 
 Hammond, Fanny 
 
 Hammond, Anna M. 
 
 Hammond, George G. 
 
 Hammond, Charles G. 
 ' Hammond, Harriet 
 
 Hall Keubv 
 
 Hall, Percis 
 
 Hall, Anna 
 
 Hall, Clarissa 
 
 Haight. .John 
 
 Hauiy, Widow 
 
 Hauly, Esther 
 
 narrower, Susan 
 
 Heacock, Lydia 
 
 Hopkins, Diantha 
 
 Ho])kius, Amanda 
 
 Merrill, Elizabeth 
 .\Ierrill, Flavia 
 ! Miller, Polly 
 Mudge, Isaac 
 Mudge, Charlotte 
 Mimn, John 
 Ormsby, Hannah Ray- 
 mond 
 Omisby, Margaret 
 Otis, Charles 
 Otis, Elizab.'th 
 Partridge, James 
 Payne, Kufus .Jr., 
 Payne, Semantha 
 Parker, Anna | 
 
 Parker, Isaac ! 
 
 Parker, Eunice 
 
 Hibbard. Betbiah Gray Parsons, Mrs. John 
 
 Hunt, Lid^eus 
 Hunt, Mrs, 
 Hunt Warren 
 Hunt, Joseph 
 Hunt, Sarah, 
 Hubbard, Demas 
 
 Hubbard, Fanny 
 
 Hutchins(.>n, Hannah 
 
 Hutchinson, Semantha 
 
 Hvde. Cluulotte 
 
 Hyde. Grace 
 
 Ingram, Isaac J. 
 
 Ingram, Mrs. 
 
 Johnson, Miles 
 
 Johnson, Wni. Sr. 
 
 Johnson, Mrs. 
 
 .Johnson, Caleb 
 
 Jones, Caroline 
 
 Jones, .Joanna 
 
 J^tnes, Densy 
 
 Jones, Rhoda 
 I Johnson, Wm. Jr. 
 
 Judd, Leonard 
 
 Kellogg, Sally 
 
 Kenyon, Polly Knight 
 
 Kenyon, Gardiner J. 
 
 Kingman, Horiel 
 
 Kinslev, Mrs. Abiel 
 
 Knight, Mrs. Ruthe 
 
 Knight, .Joshua G. 
 
 Knight, Hi'zekiah G. 
 
 Knight. I'.uthc A. 
 
 Ladd, Lovina 
 
 Lathrop, Lewis 
 
 Lathrop. Betsey 
 
 Lathrop, Mai ilia 
 
 Lathrop, Sarah 
 
 Lathrop, .\my 
 
 Leonard, Timothy 
 
 Leonard, .\senath 
 Long, Avis 
 Long, Esther 
 Lord, Russell 
 Lord, Mrs. 
 Lord, Alfred 
 Lord, Jerusha 
 Lynde, Harriet 
 Manning, Betsev 
 McCullocb, Sally 
 JlcCulIoch, Lydia 
 Mc('ulloch, Cynthia 
 MeCuUoch, Temperance 
 
 Parsons, Oren 
 
 l^age, George 
 
 jPage, Ruth 
 
 iPage, Thankful 
 
 Page, Ruth Almira 
 iPage, lebabod 
 
 Pettis, Elisha 
 
 Pettis, Deborah 
 
 Pendfield, Delia 
 
 Pease, George 
 
 Pease, Hester 
 
 Pease, Clarissa 
 
 Pease, Louisa 
 
 Pease, Warner 
 
 Percival, John 
 
 Percival, Ruth Crocker 
 
 Percival, Nabby 
 
 Percival, Lucinda 
 
 Percival, Samuel 
 
 Percival, John Jr., 
 'Percival, Montgomery 
 
 Percival. Eunice 
 
 Percival, Almena 
 
 Plumb, Nancy 
 
 Pi irter, Aaron 
 
 I'urdy, Jeremiah 
 Purdy, Mrs. Laura 
 I Raymond, Abram 
 Raymond, Betsey Gray 
 Raymond, Ncwcomb 
 Raymond, Mabel Grav 
 Raymond, Melissa Bur- 
 
 ritt 
 Raymond, David I 
 
 Raymond, Mercy 
 Raymond. .Sally" 
 Raymond, Jerusha 
 Raymond, Alfred 
 Raymond. Aljigail 
 Raynionil, Harvey 
 Raymond, Irad 
 Raymond, Laura 
 Raymond, Josiah 
 Raymond, Lodema, 
 jRexfbrd, Joel 
 Rexfonl, Jlrs. Susan 
 I!'-xford. Rhoda 
 liexford, Wcltbv 
 Rexford, Almira 
 Rexford, Harriet 
 Rexford , Roxana Cratil 
 
 da 
 
 Rexford WelthyLoverna 
 Robinson. Mrs.Theoph- 
 
 ibis (.Vnna Carver,) 
 Robins, .\niaziah 
 Rollins. Davis 
 Rouse, Miles 
 Kudd, Gideon 
 Rudd, Mary 
 Sanford, Caridine 
 Sanford, Charles 
 Sexton, Elijah 
 Sexton, Sibbel 
 Sexton, Asel 
 Sexton, Mrs. 
 Sexton, Lovina 
 Shattuck, Polly 
 Snow, Eber 
 Snow, Mrs. 
 Southworth. Marv 
 Spencer, John T.' 
 Spencer, Susannah • 
 St. John, William 
 St. Johu, Wm. G. 
 St. .John, Mrs. 
 St. John, Cynthia 
 Starr, Abigail 
 Stowel, Paul 
 Stowel, Caroline 
 Stowel, Joseph 
 Stowel, Pamelia 
 Stowel, Content 
 Strew, John 
 Strew, Miranda 
 Stuart, Anna 
 Stuart, Calvin Ashley 
 Sutlitf, Polly 
 Talcott, Hezekiah 
 Talcott, Mrs. 
 Talcott, Sarah 
 Talcott, Pidlv 
 Talcott. Ruth 
 Taylor, Josejjh 
 ; Thompson, Betsey 
 Thompson, Wm. M. 
 Thomp.son, Catharine 
 Thompson, Mary 
 Thompson, James 
 Thompson, John 
 Thompson, Hiram 
 Thompson, Elizabeth 
 Treadwell, Herman 
 Vose, Mercv 
 Warner, Samuel 
 Warner, Mrs. Irena 
 Warner, Betsev 
 Warner, Jerusha 
 Warner, Irena 
 Warner, Hiel 
 Waterman, David B. 
 Waterman, Jerusha 
 ^ Webber, Amasa 
 I W(^ed, Ann 
 Weed. Alvia 
 ; Weed, Sarah 
 Wells, Tirza 
 West, Daniel 
 West, Mrs, 
 I Wood, Ira 
 I Wood, Asenath 
 i Young, Lois 
 
82 
 
 TIIK WKST IIII.I. CHURCH. 
 
 April ii), 1804.— IJeiijaniiu Newcoiiili, son of 
 DiacLin Abiam Uavniond. 
 
 Mav G.-^Uoaima. daushtpr "f ¥My.<h Si-xtou. 
 
 JulV 1. -IksMi'v, Criaeo. Wani-n. ISIiiiam and 
 Mori-!a. L-liililrer' of Mr. .Iiis('i)h Collins. Also 
 Noali. .\s(iiatli. .Tulius, Ira and IVrmelia, child- 
 ren of Mr. Noah Wood. 
 
 5Iav 211.— Lvdia Foote. 
 
 August 12.-^Luke, IJhouby. Simon and Fanny, 
 chililron of Mr. Luko Hall'. Also Euuico and 
 Ahiah. childrc^n of Jlr. William Collins. 
 
 Sl■l)tomhl^r l(i.- Jamos and Margaret, childrou 
 of Mr. Henrv Finn. 
 
 September in.— I'olly Knight Kenyon. 
 
 Sejit. 23. — Clarissa CUithrie. 
 
 NovemhiTl Calvin, George, Hester, Electa, 
 
 Warren and Clarissa, children of (l(H)rge Pease. 
 Same day. Ilarcia and Rachel, children of Wil- 
 liam Ladd. 
 
 November 25.— Cynthia, daughter of William 
 St. John. 
 
 Dec. 2.— Lue andSaluiou Sauford. the children 
 of Andrew Bates. 
 
 Third Sunday in February, 1805.— Alfred, sou 
 of Isaac Uavniond. 
 
 .Tulv 2S.— Kuxauna Cratilda. Francis Karthalo. 
 anil We.lthy Loverna, children of Simeon Hex- 
 ford. .\lso Louis, a son of .Joseph CoUius, and 
 Mcrcia, a daughter of Solomcm .Jones. | 
 
 August 4.— Barnabas, son ot Andrew Bates. 
 
 August 25.— Joshua Grier, sou of Ilev. Joshua | 
 Knight. 
 
 Seiitiuuberl.— Almena, daughterof John Per- 
 civai. 
 
 September 8.— Abigail, Elsie. Fanny. Chancey, 
 Phiieiuou, Almond, Lewis, Samuel and Charles, 
 children of Benjamin Guthrie. 
 
 Mav 18, 1806.— Betsey Steins, daughterof Wil- 
 liam Burns. Also Chloe, daughter ot Samuel 
 
 Foote. 
 
 Mav 25.— .\bigail, daughterof William Collins. 
 
 .lulV 211.— Nathaniel Pardy Allen, son of Wil- 
 liam Ladd. 
 
 First Sabbath, September.— Holburn. Cynthia, 
 Hannah, Semantha, .\.aron, Lewis, Nelson and 
 Laura, children of Aaron Hutchinson. 
 
 'J'hird Sabbath, September.- Justin Foote. 
 
 December 7. Hezekiah Talcott, son of Rev. 
 Joshua Knight, and Alanson Carver bou of 
 Theophilus Robinson. 
 
 Second Sabbath in Julv, 1807.— Harriet Foote. 
 
 Third Sabbath. October.— Hanford St. John. 
 
 2.Jth October.— At Deacon Raymond's, Harriet 
 A., .\iina M.. PoUv M.. Feter. Charles W., and 
 William W.. children of Mrs. Chapman. 
 
 Tliird Sabbath in March. 1808.— Mary Adams. 
 
 Fourth Sabbath in March.— Warner, George. 
 Nettleton, Sally and Mary, children of Lebeus 
 Hunt. 
 
 Seccmd Sabbath, .\pril.— Daniel Spencor Hall. 
 
 Third Sabbath Sept.— Israel 0. Farrell, son of 
 Dr. Furrell. 
 
 Third Sabbath. Oct.— Sally I Sarah i and Fidelia 
 Gardiner, daughters of Henry Gardiner. 
 
 Fourth Sal)bath,Oct. — Ruthe Amanda Knight 
 daughter of Rev. Joshua Knight. 
 
 Third Sunday December. — Roxanny Baxter, 
 adopted daughter George Hammond. 
 
 Fust Sunday April. 1809.— Emeline Wood. 
 
 Fourth Sabbath, June.- Charles Foote. 
 
 Second Sabbath .August.- Sidney Thompson 
 F'airchild, son ol John Flavel and Flavia Sler- 
 rill F'airchild. 
 
 Third SabliathMarch, 1810.— Levi Backus Col- 
 lins. 
 
 Fourth Sabbath March. — Lewis Lathrop .St. 
 John. 
 
 Second Sabbath April. Thiunas Tracy Pettis. 
 
 Fourth Salibath, May. — Whitman Harvey 
 Knight, sou of Rev. Joshua Knight. 
 
 Second Sabliath .Tune. — Luna Cordelia Ray- 
 mond daughter of Deacon Abram Raymond. 
 
 Seconil Sabbath .\ugust. — Esther Johnson. 
 
 Third Sabbath October.- Andrew Farrell. 
 
 Fourth Sabliath November.— Andrew Thomp- 
 son Goodrich HamiiKJiid. 
 
 Fourth Sabbath January, 1811 Sally Foote. 
 
 Fourth Sabbath .March. — Semantha Aiin Ray- 
 mond, daughter of Deaciui Abram Raymond. 
 
 Second Sabbath May. — .Iiihu Henry Gardiner. 
 
 Third Sabbath Juu. -Caroline .Saphronia Wood. 
 
 First ■• Aug. — Li:'wisou Fuirchild. 
 
 Third " '" — Parmelia, Eunice. Jere- 
 miah. Kittridge, Caroline. l*aui, .Toseph, and 
 .Alexander, cliUdren of Joseph Stowel. 
 
 Second Saliljath Sept — Marianua Foote Adams. 
 
 Fourth " " — Hannah Chajjinan. 
 
 Second " Oct. — William Elijah Ham- 
 mond, and William Mudge. 
 
 l^ourth Sabliath Jau'y, 1812.- Shubiel Carver. 
 
 Third " May .\ngeline Gardiner, at 
 
 the home of her father, Henry Gardiner. 
 
 Fourth Sabbath Juue.— Cynthia Stowel. 
 
 Aug. — Eliza .\lmira Carver. 
 Oct. — Mary .\nn Farrell. 
 Nov. — Asa Gifl'ord Knight. 
 Feb'y, 1813.— Clarissa Hatch 
 
 Fourth 
 
 Fourth 
 
 First 
 
 Fourth 
 Rayiunud. 
 
 Third Sabbath, April. — Clarissa St. .John. 
 
 First '" May. — Emeliue Mudge. 
 
 Second " .lune.—Sereno Chester Hammoud. 
 
 First ■" July. — Ruth, .\lmira. Harriet, Ca- 
 
 leb Starr, childre'u of George Pease. 
 
 First Sabbath August.— Mary Foote. 
 
 Third ■' Sept. — Erastus Gilbert Hall. 
 
 Fourth " Oct. — Charles Henry I'oote. 
 
 Third " Nov. — Louisa Pettis. 
 
 Fourth " Nov. 1814. — Miriam, Silas Wat- 
 tles, Zenath. Lewis, Stephen, Amos. Benjamin 
 and Louisa, children of Amos Cole, and George 
 Hunt. 
 
 Second Sabliath June. — Matilda Carver. 
 
 Fourth " June. — Caroline Hammond 
 and Hannah Stowel. 
 
 First Sabbath July Achsa Farrell. 
 
 I'ourth 
 First 
 
 son Fox. 
 Fourth 
 Fourth 
 
 Hammond 
 Fourth 
 F'ourth 
 Fourth 
 Fourth 
 First 
 
 V/ 
 
 July. — Miranda F'airchild. 
 Sept. — Laura, Sophia, and Edi- 
 
 Nov Joseph H. Kuight. 
 
 May, 1815 Henry Laureus 
 
 July.— Betsey Hartwell Johnson. 
 Aug.— Albert Mudge. 
 Oct — Louisa Long. 
 .\pr. 181B. — Minerva Hammond. 
 .\ug. — George Allen Stowel, al- 
 so Clarinda St. John. 
 Second Sabbath. August.— Miriam Fox. 
 Third •■ .Aug.— Amanda Hopkins, Polly 
 
 Sutlift', Miriam Sackett Hatch. 
 
THE WEST HILL CHURCH. 
 
 8: 
 
 Second Sabbath Se^t.-Williain W.-llin-tou Col- 
 1ms also SKlney Tlionipscn. .Nallv Luci-ftia, Em- 
 mett Lowell, aufl Cbai-les Levistone, ebildreu of 
 ill's. Laura I'urdv. 
 
 Tbird Sabbath Sei)t.-.Joshiia Kuight Ravuiond, 
 aud Fauuy Amelia Fi>ote. 
 
 Fourtli Sabbath Sept.-Luay, Ann, Caroline, 
 •Tobn. Hiram Plielie. Emeline, Eliza, Adaline, 
 fhildrfii cil .bibu (jiitbrif. 
 
 Third Sabbath Oct.— .John Norton Pcrcival 
 
 Fourth '• Oct.— Damiiu Case and Lewis 
 Hall Case. 
 
 First - Nov.-Orsou Pardv, Samuel 
 
 I'erL-ival, Louisa Canton, children of Marsena 
 Allen, aud also John Spencer's children. 
 
 Third Sabbath March, ltil7.— James Alanson 
 Kuight. 
 
 Fourth .Sabbath March.— William Clark Brown. 
 
 Second '■ April.-Salina. Emma, Asa 
 Foote, Lucy, Emehne, Aaron, Delos, Sallv Lo- 
 vina, children of Aaron Porter. 
 
 Third Sabbath May.— Montgomery Percival's 
 cluldren. 
 
 Fourth '■ May.— Eleanor Eunice Hammond.^f 
 
 Fourth " June — Isaac Foote. 
 
 riiird " .July.-Sistcr Lncinda Hamniond'si 
 children, Mary, Harri-t. Welthv, Wolcott 
 
 Second Sabbath Sept.-Sister Pollv SutlitTs 
 children, Hope, Milo, .lulius. Nelson 
 
 Fourth Sabl.alh Sej.t.- .b.seph Hunt's child- ' 
 A!r"i'- ^'■■■'''■'■- I{;'.V,V:1. E.lwm. Henry VValbridg.;. 
 Mahnda. also William Henry Guthrie. 
 
 Firet Sabbath Oct.— .Sister MercvVose's child- 
 ren. Wdliam, Hannah, Henrietta G"orge 
 
 Second Sabbath Oct.— Emily Almira Cole. 
 I'^i," II " ■ , Oct— «i«ter Nancy Plumb's 
 children, Harriet, Ehza, .Sarah, Ann 
 
 Fourth Sabbath Oct.-Oryille Wells Hatch and 
 Eleuor Hatch. 
 
 Fourth Sabbath Noy.-Joseph ClarU Leonard 
 and Charles \^ . Hammond. 
 
 Third Sabbath Apr. lsl8.-Addison Raymond 
 Porter. 
 
 Fourth " 
 Hubbaril Fox. 
 
 Fourth Sabbath May.— Cynthia SutlitT. 
 
 Third ■■ June.— Emeline Mah-iua Perciyal 
 
 Fourth June.— Deusy Hunt. 
 
 Third ■• Aug.-Erastus Strong Foote, and 
 Cii-( irge Mudge Page. 
 Stmy.'l'"'^ '"^"'''Jath Oct.-Seraantha Content 
 
 Oct.— Leander Mur'ge. 
 Noy.— Rnth Allen, David Vose 
 Febr-y INlll.-Elizabeth Adams 
 
 Third Sabbath April.— Laura Fo.\ 
 Second ;■ May.-Laura Ann Porter 
 
 ■{"!"-■•— James Herv;.v Alien 
 T, . T, ■'"'y — Keuben Eldred's r-loirl 
 ren: Rosma, Russell, Rosella, Rosamond, liit 
 
 motf S^l'l^^tli J"ly-Samuel John Mills Ham- 
 
 Am:;rhR:^b!^:^'^"«'"*-«*'^«"'^ins son of 
 
 Third Sabbath Sept.-Emma H. Lord 
 Gitt'oi"u;uthrie " -J""*^ ^'^^"'"nil James 
 
 First Sabbath gct.-Wells Hatch's children. 
 ^VuJJ.Wanl.|l^h;ft^^-"■■schilaren: 
 
 Ihud Sabbath Nov.-Martha Foote. 
 
 Third 
 Fourth 
 mond. 
 Second 
 
 April, lS21.-Abraham Mudge. 
 June.-Henrietta Candis Ham- 
 
 Third 
 Fourth 
 
 July.-Almis Hyde Pereival. 
 .■lug — .A niou Putnam Strew. 
 ^""— Elisha Warner Carver. 
 
 Inrd^abl^thS-pt.-BetseyFooll.- 
 .1 Sabbath Jan.. l.S22.-Charles Thon 
 
 '-third 
 
 Fourth 
 
 First 
 
 F'ourth 
 
 Fifth 
 
 ■I'hird ■ 
 
 First 
 
 Fourth 
 
 Second 
 
 Sept ■■>8_F1 *"'."' -i^eivis natcn 
 
 Apr.-Amanda Matilda Hatch.and ' Lym'an S.Re.xtbr'rAri'p":™,^;™/;';:', 
 
 ii.>,. iTf .^"•;;"^--' loomiisou. 
 .(laj .-Maria Woodbii.lg,. Lord 
 July.-Lelos Prisbrev Le„uard 
 Sept.-Louisa Almira Itexford. 
 
 — Huldah Fo.x. 
 ,." —Betsey Hamnumd. 
 
 m'.', v'Tsv?*'"u "'""^t'' J Hammond. 
 Tn ./ ' ''^--^--Harriet Amelia Porter. 
 
 Ji h-^ 1'V '■ '"? ^"?"»"'« Thompson. 
 Julv .—Philo Lewis Hatch. 
 
 by Rev. 
 .Knight. 
 
 Third 
 Fourth 
 Fourth 
 Johnson. 
 Third 
 Third 
 Second 
 Fourth 
 Fourth 
 Fifth 
 
 Apr.— Justus Moorhouae Carver 
 iMay —Edward Foote. 
 ■Tune.— Eunice Lucinda Knight. 
 Aug — James Thompson Leonard 
 Nov — Elizabeth Foote. 
 
 o„ 1 h" IV JJo^'— Laura Loiusa Chapman 
 
 aud Henry W. Hammond. 
 Fourth Sabbath Jan., 182(l.-,So])hia Buckley 
 
 First.- '■ March.-Timothy Hammond, 
 at the house ot George Hammond. 
 
 Second Sabbath April.-Children of Hannah 
 Thompsim: Sylvester. Sarah. Ford, Henry 
 Alexander, Libbie and James Randolph 
 
 DiA:^-,^iV?^^;r"^"''^'^'^'-i-^.'^"^erof 
 oi';ie;.i:^m^/^S^^j:--Manning,daughter 
 
 gUU:;;!|?bf|^!:S----- 
 Ap;i3.-wiiii^j;^s^^^:?::-"""'"^-"- 
 
 Nov •>7~?o?n-!r''";'-''" ?°" «f I™<lKaymond. 
 
 of wi;/: ind ^'m^^rtcSi!'' ""' '*"""' '^^'"'-" 
 
 May 7 — Lorin Ccdlius, son of Gardiner Keu 
 ■ Thb',1 S^l't'";,' '^''S''*"^ °t Willis on Dixon 
 Rev Sa,u,t 'm'' J'""---Caroline Matilda, dau. 
 nev. tiamuel Manning, George Portr^- a„/i <■",. 
 thia and Eliza, chikh^.'n c'f kaac J * Li'.aam ^ 
 
 April l.-Ruth, daughter of Alfred aud™arah 
 
 July".' W™""'{'' "'"l-,^ F''"tilla Thomprm 
 Juij to. 1.S2SI.— Amau.la Jlelvina Buel. 
 
FAMILY SKKTfUES. 
 
 Al.FKKl) RaVMi i\l), the Slll)ject i)f 
 
 this sketch, was born in Sherburne, 
 Nov. 4th, 1798, the son of Xewcoml) 
 ami Mabel Gray Raymond, he beint; 
 one of a family of three daughters 
 and five sons, of whom Harvey, ^vho 
 was unmarried, Sarah, who married 
 Aaron Porter, Jerusha, who married 
 Philo Hatch, Augustine, who married 
 Nancy Crary Williams, Laura, who 
 married James T. Gifford, and Geo. 
 ]]. Ra\-m(>nd, ^\ilcl married Catharine 
 Sherwood, and allerwards Mary A. Coles Weston, all removed to 
 Elgin, 111., aiding in the founding of that city. The other brother, 
 Irad, who married Caroline Jones, remo\-ed to Evans, X. Y. 
 Alfred Raymond united Avith the Church on the West Hill, the 
 first Sabbath in June, i8i5, and he \vas for some time Chorister 
 ui that Church. Afterwards, in 1828, he withdrew, and joined 
 the First Congregational Church of Sherlnirne, of which he con- 
 tinued a member during the remainder of his lite. In his early 
 manhood he taught school several winters, and with a good tle- 
 gree of success. He had marked literary taste, ■w^as fond of music, 
 a lover of nature and of art, was possessed of fine feeling, and 
 many engaging manly qualities. He held the offices of Town School 
 Commissioner, and Justice of the Peace, for one term each; ^vas 
 an earnest patriot, a Whig, a Republican, and an iipright, honor- 
 ed citizen. Alfred Raymond married Sarah Gardiner, daughter of 
 Henry Gardiner of Sherburne, and grand-daughter of William 
 and Esther Denison Gardiner of the descendants of Lieut. Lion 
 Gardiner of Gardiner's Island, on the 13th of Aju-il, i826,b-\- ^vhom 
 were eleven children, viz: Ruth and William H., of Springfield, O.; 
 Angeline, dec'd; Marcius Denison, of Tarr3-town, N. Y.; Edgar and 
 Edwin, t\vin brothers, dec'd ; Alfred Gray, of Sherburne ; Sarah 
 Cornelia and Hervey, dec'd ; Lamont Gardiner Raxinond, nf An- 
 gelica, N. Y., and Amelia Newton Wells of Clinton, N. Y. Sarah 
 Gardiner Raymond died Feb. 6, 1849, and he married second, the 
 widow Nancy Crandall Purdy. He died at Sherburne, Dec. 3, 1S80. 
 
FAMILY SKETCHES. 
 
 Hon. Chas. 'SI. Gray, whose pic- 
 ture is here presented, was a good 
 representative of the Gray family, 
 so numerous and prominent in the 
 earlv davs of Slierburne. He was 
 born June i 3, 1807, the son of Alfred 
 Gray, who had a store on the now 
 Upham corner, and a grandson of 
 John Gray, Sr., whose primitive log 
 house stood near by. He went to 
 Chicago in 1833, engaging in its 
 activities. In 1S54 he was Mayor of 
 that city, and continued an honored citizen until his death in 1885. 
 
 The Grays of Sherburne were all of the families of John, Sr., 
 and Nathaniel. John had John, Jr., who had John F., Alfred W., 
 Patrick \V., Nathaniel, Rev. Blackleach Burritt, and daughter Di- 
 antha. Nathaniel, called •' Elder Gray," \\-ho had among other 
 children Rev. Calvin Gray; Anna who married Wm. Rynex. Al- 
 fred, who was the father of Hon. Chas. M., and Capt. Geo. M., of 
 Chicago, and several daughters. E(h\'ard, who married the daugh- 
 ter of Elder John Mudge, was a blacksmith, and removed to Gen- 
 esee County 1826. Reuben, who was Captain of the Sherburne 
 Conipan}', war of 1812. John Gray, Sr., died at Sherfnirne, 1S22. 
 
 Nathaniel Gra^^ the elder brother of John, was born in Leba- 
 non, Conn., Mar. 17, 1736, his mother and his grandmother both 
 being of the Hibbards of Windham County. By his first marriage, 
 with Deborah Lathrop, he had Elijah, who married Sarai Ray- 
 mond, and had son Nathaniel, died aged 22; Amanda, who was 
 born at Florida, N. Y., Nov. 23, and still survives; Persia who 
 married Mr. Powell, Marilla, Juliet ^vho married Eber Ke)-es, and 
 Joseph Gray. Elisha Gray son of Nathaniel had Melissa, and 
 Alanson, who removed to Kentucky, was twice married, and left 
 numerous descendants, John T., the celebrated bridge builder, and 
 Philander Ra}'mond Gra\-, of Elizabeth, N. J., being of his sons. 
 Ruth, daughter of Nr.thaniel and Deborah Gray married Joel Hatch. 
 Bv Nathaniel Gray's second marriage w^as a daughter Bethia, 
 ^vllo married Daniel Hibbard. Nathaniel Gray died June 24, 1810. 
 
FAMILY SKETCHES. 
 
 Till'; I.atlircips wlici A\-(,Tc of the 
 pioneers of Sher1)urne, were of the 
 descendants of Rev. John Lnthrop, 
 the noted dissenter, earlv of the 
 Massaeluisetts Cohln^•, and sons of 
 Deacon Mehitiah Latliroj) and I\Iere\" 
 Hatch his wife, wlio ^\-as jjrominent 
 in Kent, Conn., at Do\'er Plains, and 
 Canaan, N. Y., where he was mem- 
 ber f)f the Committee of Public Safe- 
 ty during the Revolution, and there 
 died SejJt. 5, 1787, aged 73 years. 
 Josiah Lathrop, born 1757, married Rachel Perry and had Zil- 
 pha; Lewis, who married Marilla Marsh and had John Milton 
 who died while a student at Hamilton College, 1837, Harriet A., 
 ^^•hll married Nelson Brow'n and had daughter Ellen L., now Mrs. 
 Rev. D. K. Bartlett of Albany, Cornelia, -who married Seneca B. 
 Rexford, and George W., who married Mary E. Havely, and re- 
 sides at Sherburne. Erastus and John Lathrop were sons of Josiah. 
 Ezra Lathrop born at Kent, 1751, married Mariam Thurston; 
 lived in the north-east part of Sherburne; had Salmon ^vho mar- 
 ried Aurelia Noble, and removed to Carbondale, Pa.; Betsey, M^ho 
 married Stephen Northrt)p; PlJeazer, who graduated at Andover 
 Theo. Seminary, died at Port Gibson, Miss., 1832; other children. 
 John Lathrop married Prudence Hatch; lived at the Quarter; 
 had John Hiram, who graduated at Yale, 18 19, and became em- 
 inent for his learning; Marcus, ^\'llo married Amanda Ht)]jkins 
 and removed to Clinton, had son Col. \Vm. H., killed in the war for 
 the Union; Charles H., son of John, born 181 1, married Louisa 
 Newton, and had son Charles Henry \\-ho lives in Sherlnirne. 
 
 Eleazer, born 1766, married Eunice Nichols and had son Alvan 
 born at Sherburne Jan. 6, 1800, whose picture is at the head of 
 this sketch. Was a teacher and Professor and a cultured gentle- 
 man. He married Caroline daughter of Phinehas Allen of Pitts- 
 field, Mass., and had Charlotte E., Sarah M., and Charles R., Su])t. 
 Roosevelt Hospital New York. Diantha, daughter oi ICleazer, 
 married Judge Tracy of Honesdale, Pa. Hollister, son of Eleazer. 
 
FAMILY SKETCHES. 
 
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 Capt. William Newtox was one 
 of the strongest personalities in the 
 tt)wn of Sherburne for a period of 
 fifty vears and more. He was born 
 in Cdlchester, Conn., Oct. 15, 1786, 
 son of Ashael Newton, who ^vas 
 a soldier of the Revolution. He 
 came to Sherburne to live as early 
 as 181 1, having previously marrietl 
 Lois Butler, a daughter of Deacon 
 Richard Butler, of Wethersfield, 
 Conn., where she \vas born Dec. 12, 
 1790; a woman possessed of rare qualities, a strong, well bal- 
 anced character. Mr. Newton built a mill and engaged in the 
 manufacture of ^voolen goods, but being twice burned out he 
 turned lii.s attention to the business of contracting on the canals 
 then in process of building, in which he was very successful, 
 investing the proceeds in a large farm at the Quarter known as 
 the Newton homestead, and where they continued to reside the 
 remainder of their days. Their children were as follows : 
 
 William Butler, born 181 1, resides at Parma, N. Y. ; Louisa, 
 the widow of Chas. A. Lathrop, resides Avith her son Chas. Hen- 
 ry Lathrop, at Sherburne; Lucinda, married first, Ira Williams, 
 and had daughter Maria, married 2d, David C. Buel, dec'd; War- 
 ren Newton, law^-er and banker, died at Norwich, Dec, 1891; 
 Maria, born 1820, died 1836; Amelia Mercy, married Rev. Chas. 
 Little in Septemljer 1847, ^^'ent as a Missionary- to Madura, India, 
 where she died July 18, 1848; Isaac S. Newton, graduate of Yale, 
 able lawyer, dec'd ; Lucius, a respected citizen of Sherburne, 
 resides on the homestead; Hubei't A., graduate of Yale, and since 
 1855 Professor of Mathematics in that noted Universit.v; Albro J. 
 Newton, a prominent citizen of Brooklyn ; Homer G. Newton, 
 graduate of Yale, studied Medicine, Surgeon in the war for the 
 Lhiion ; resides in Sherburne. 
 
 William Newton, one of seven brothers, was the father of seven 
 sons : A remarkable family. Capt. Newton died Aug. 3, 1879, 
 aged 93 years. Mrs. Newton died Feb. 6, 1885, aged 95 years. 
 
FAMILY SKKTCIIKS. 
 
 JosHL'A Pratt is xhv most con- 
 s])iciunis mcinher of a family long 
 notcil in Sherburne for its promi- 
 nence in business and financial af- 
 fairs. In fact, may well be entitled 
 the foremost native born citizen of 
 the town noT.v residing there. He is 
 tlu- third Joshua in successive gen- 
 erations, his fatlu-r and grainl lather 
 havingeacli of ihcin borne thatname. 
 Joshua, Sr., came to Sherlmrne from 
 Spencerto^vn, Columbia Co., having 
 j)revitnisly resick'd in C(.)nnecticut, jirobaljh- at Kent. Me look up 
 a farm on the road to Earlville, opposite the Ladd place so called, 
 and his son Joshua, Jr., who had been a school teacher on the 
 frontiers, ami \\-ho had married Jemima, daughter of Joshua Tal- 
 cott, Sr., of the West Hill, i8o2, also for a time lived there. Josiiua, 
 Sr., died Jan. 2, 1821, aged 87, and his gra\c is on the West Hill, 
 he and his family having lieen identified with the church there. 
 Joshua, Jr., removed to Sherburne village, and was for man\- 
 years engaged in business on the site of the present Bank build- 
 ing, also farming and other outside operations, raising a large 
 family, including Caroline, widow of Dr. White, nf)^\• in her 90th 
 year. Julia .-\nn, married Mr. Kerslnnv, Adaline, marriecl Milton 
 Sutliff, Joshua, (3), Talcott, married Carcjline Timnicliff, and re- 
 sides on larm west of the river, formerly his father's, Walstein, 
 Eiisha, who removed to Iowa, Charles, and Mary Eliza. 
 
 Joshua I'ratl (} ) whose jMjrtrait ap])ears herewith, born Oct. 18, 
 1810, married first, Rebecca N. T'ratt, who left a daughter, deceas- 
 ed; married second, Anna, daughter of Joel Pratt, Jr., and grand 
 daughter of Capt. Joel, brother of Joshua Pratt, Sr., her mother, 
 Hannah Hull Pratt, having been the daughter of Hannah Hopkins 
 and Asher Bull, and grand-daughter of Capt. Consider Hopkins of 
 Hartford, Conn. By this marriage are surviving, Grace, the wife 
 of Dr. Homer G. Newton, and Carrie Pi'att. Mc'rcliant and banker 
 for sixty years and more, Mr. Pratt still holds on the even tenor 
 of his way. 
 
FAMILY SKETCHES. 
 
 Dr. Devii.i.o White was a son 
 of Sherburne whn spent his whole 
 life in the place of his nativity, and 
 from early manhood up to his 
 over four score vears, he was one 
 of the nif)St potent individual forces 
 in that community. For not only 
 as a ])h\"sician diil he hold first 
 j)lace against all rivals in all the 
 region about, but his strong per- 
 sonality asserted itself continually 
 in the field of [icilities and finance. 
 He was a unique character, a sui generis, almost unconsciously 
 exerting a persistent, controlling power among men. Certainly 
 no one ever wielded greater influence in the town of Sherburne 
 for so long a period as did Dr. Devillo White. 
 
 His grandfather, William White, who was an ofificer in the 
 Revolution, was one of the " Vermont Sufferers," New^ York State 
 refugees, who ^vere awarded lands in Jericho, near present Bain- 
 bridge. His grandmother, Eunice Rogers, was a descendant of 
 the noted Dissenter John Rogers who was burned at the stake. 
 His father, Dr. Asa White, had married Sally Corbin. and came 
 on to Sherburne in 1798. Lived for a time on the Otto Reese place, 
 then on the cross roads near the upper river bridge, then remov- 
 ed to present Sherburne village and erected a residence and inn 
 on the south-east corner, site of the Soldier's Monument after- 
 wards erected by his son, Dr. Devillo White, who was born Feb. 
 II, 1801, and married Caroline Pratt, eldest daughter of Joshua 
 Pratt, Sr., in 1824, soon after the completion of his studies. 
 
 Dr. Asa White, ^vhile engaged in looking after lands in which 
 he was interestetl in the far west, and whither he had driven with 
 his own outfit, perished in a snow storm on one of the prairies of 
 Illinois, Dec. i8th, 1819, in his 48th year. Dr. Devillo took up his 
 father's practice as soon as he was able, and his skill and energy 
 carried him successfully forward. The Doctor riding rapidly past 
 in his old one-horse shay, all unconscious of everything around 
 him, will long remain a picturesque picture. He died May 10, 1882. 
 
l-AMII.V SKKICIIKS. 
 
 Hon. JosKi'ii Hkxedkt is a pic- 
 tiires(|vie charactt-T, ami has been 
 identified witli Slicrbiirne for more 
 liian llircc-quarters of a ccntiir\-. 
 Horn in the town of BedlOrd, 
 Westcliester Count}-, A])ril I I, l8oi, 
 he is the tliird sun dl Deacon 
 Stejjhen Benedict wlio was after- 
 wards for so many years a promi- 
 nent citizen of Sherburne. He is 
 connected through a h)nt;- line of 
 ancestry with tlie ancient and hon- 
 oral)le family of Benedicts, who were the descendants of Deacon 
 Thomas Benedict of Nottingham, England and Norwalk, Conn., 
 his grandfather having been Col. Joseph Benedict of tiie Revnln- 
 tion. 
 
 He came to Sherburne \\"ith his father's family in the fall of 
 1805, and his youth and earh' manhood were spent there. He 
 married first. Electa, daughter of Jnhn Rees, and second, Mrs. 
 Schuyler Hubbard, formerly of Morrisville. He studied law, was 
 Town Clerk of Sherburne 1836, Member of Assembly for (Jneida 
 County 185 I and 1854, and afterwards candidate for State Senator. 
 He is a hii;'hly respected citizen in the city where he has sjjent 
 so many years of his useful and honorable life, and in Iiis 93d 
 year still retains considerable vigor. 
 
 Noah Allen, Sr., and his sons Noah, Jr., and Apollos, ■who were 
 early of Smyrna, having come from Gill, Mass., 1797, were of the 
 descendants of Edward Allen, of Ips^vich, 1636. The}' were con- 
 nected with the West Hill Chin-ch, an<l prominent there. Deacon 
 Marsena Allen, a son of Apollos, lived for a time in Sherl^urne. 
 He married Harriet Gates Percival, sister of Mrs. Henry Gardiner 
 and daughter of John Percival, who was a native of Sandwich, 
 Mass., a soldier of the Revolution from Lee, Berkshire Co., and a 
 pioneer in the 8th township. Marsena Allen was tiie father of 
 the late Samuel P. Allen, and of Rev. E. P. Allen, for many years 
 and still a Missionary at Harj)oot, Turkey. 
 
FAMILY SKETCHES. 
 
 Judge Tilly Ly.vde is one of the 
 most interesting characters connec- 
 ted with tlie early history of Sher- 
 burne, ha^■ing won his w^ay to fame 
 and fortime there witlmut the aid 
 of anv adventitious circumstances. 
 He came to the West Hill as a clerk 
 for Garret V. Lansing, the ])it)necr 
 merchant there in the latter part of 
 1802, and Dec. 24, 1804, he opened 
 the little store as sole proprietor, 
 pushing forward so rapidly on the 
 lines of success that he soon laid the foundations for an ample 
 fortune. Also in public life he became prominent, having been 
 elected Associate Judge in 1 8 16, and retired from business. In 
 1818 he was chosen Member of Assembly; in 1820, State Senator, 
 holding that oilfice until 1825; in 1826-8, Member of Assembly; 
 in 1827, 1830-31, Supervisor, and in 1832 was candidate for Con- 
 gress. From an unknown youth he had in these 3'ears become a 
 man of property and dignity, and all at the now rural hamlet of 
 Sherburne West Hill. It was a wonderful success. 
 
 In the meantime he had wisely married Miss Eliza Warner, 
 though tradition has it he had mourned his first love, a lieautiful 
 girl who has slept these many 3'ears beneath the churchyard 
 green. Miss Warner had come on from Sunderland, Mass., with 
 her kinsfolk, the Carvers, and was engaged in teaching school at 
 the Four Corners one summer, where he met her, and her culture 
 and grace, and blooming womanhood, captured his heart. They 
 were married Sept. loth, 1812, and as the result of that union 
 four sons were born to them, three of whom, Wm. Pitt, Watts 
 Sherman, and Charles James, graduated at Yale, the former be- 
 ing afterwards Attorney General of the Territory of Wisconsin, 
 and Member of Congress from that State, his home being at 
 Milwaukee. By a sad tragedy, the other two brothers named, 
 were lost In' the burning of the steamboat Erk\ on lake Erie, the 
 evening of Aug. 9th, 1841. The youngest and only surviving 
 son, Martins T. Lynde, resides in Brooklyn, where his father died 
 
92 KA.Mll.V SKKTCHES. 
 
 in 1857, Ik- liaving removed from Sherburne to Cortland in 1832. 
 Mr. M. T. L\-nile has been twice married, having by liis first wife 
 Elizabeth Ti-owbridge, a daughter Emily T., his seeond marriage 
 being with Martha Ruggles of Poultney, Vermont. 
 
 Charles W., a brother of Judge Lynde, who was associated 
 with him in business for a time, married Cynthia, the daughter of 
 Judge Thomjjson, then of Sherburne Four Corners, and i-emo\-i.'d 
 to Cortland, where he was Surrogate and State Senator. A sister 
 Harriet mari-ied Milo Hunt, and a sister Sally married Edmund 
 Sanford, and so became the mother of his sons. The Lynde broth- 
 ers and sisters \\-ere the childi\'n of John antl Sarah Warner 
 L\-nde, and born in HrooK'field, Mass. 
 
 The Hatch faniih- ot Sherburne, \vere of the descendants of 
 Thomas Hatch born in l^identuwn, Kent Co., England, 1603, who 
 with his wife, Grace Lewis, came to this country with Gov- 
 Winthrop in 1630, through Jonathan of Barnstable, Benjamin his 
 son, who died at Tolland, Co., 1729, and Timotliy his scm, born 
 at Falmoiith, Mass., Oct. ig, 1695, and wlu) removed to Kent, 
 Conn., 1739. His son Jethro, called Major Jethro, a Deacdn in 
 the Church at Kent for many years, and prominent citizen, had 
 among other children, Timothy, burn Dec. 12, 1758, Joel, Aug. 29, 
 1764, and Prudence, the youngest daughter, who married John 
 Lathrop, one of the pioneers. Joel Hatch married Ruth Gray, 
 daughter of Nathaniel, 1787, and was one of the prominent Pro- 
 prietors and early settlers of Sherburne. They had daughter 
 Deborah, married Rufus Rose, and had Julius Kirk and Mark- 
 Rose ; Joel, Jr., married Maloney Kingsley and had Bethuel and 
 Mary Eliza, (both of Oregon;) was author of the History of Sher- 
 burne; Milo, who married Deborah, youngest daughter of Rev. 
 Blackleach Burritt; Theron, unmarried; Julius, graduate Hamil- 
 ton College, lecturer on Astronomy, married Harriet Bicknell, 
 and was the father of Hon. Herschel H. Hatch of Bay City, Mich.; 
 Julia, twin sister of Julius, who married Erastus Newton; Re- 
 liance who married Joseph Carrier, and died at Elmira, 1S93; 
 RevilloC, twice married, and died at Fayetteville, N. Y., Sept. 30. 
 1890; Esther, unmarried. 
 
FAMILY SKETCHES. 93 
 
 Timothy Hatch, son of Major Jethro, liorn at Kent, 1757, mar- 
 ried Ruth Wells, sister of Martha Wells, ^v'ife of Rev. Blackleach 
 Burritt, and was one of the Proprietors and Pioneers of Sher- 
 burne; took up a large farm on the west side of the river and 
 resided there witli his son Ehim until his death. Elam married 
 Peggy Farrel, daughter of Dr. Israel, and had T. Yale, Israel Bur- 
 dette, Farrand, Franklin D., and daughters Margaret and Martha. 
 Elam and his wife removed to Sugar Grove, 111., and died there. 
 Burdett died at Denver, Yale resides at Highmore, S. D., and Far- 
 rand at Sugar Grove. Jethro, son of Deacon Timoth3% had daugh- 
 ter Marcelia, and sons Fa^-ette, and Jethro Jr., who is a physician 
 and jirominent citizen of Kentland, Ind. Wells Hatch, another 
 son, had a large family and removed to Virginia. Ci>I. Lorenzo 
 Hatch, son of Timothy, w'as four times married and by the last 
 marriage, with MissStebbins, left a son Lorenzo W., who was killed 
 during the ^var, in the Shenandoah Valley. 
 
 Sylvanus Hatch, brother of Major Jethro Hatch of Kent, had 
 Rev. Solomon, a Baptist Minister, who married Lucy St. John, a 
 sister of Wm. St. John of Sherburne, and had Clarissa, who mar- 
 ried Stephen Purdy and lived at the F"our Corners, and Philo 
 Hatch, Avho married Jerusha Raymond and lived for a time on 
 Sherburne West Hill, Avhere Philo L. Hatch, the Centennial Poet, 
 was born. Also had a daughter, Amanda Matilda, who married 
 Theophilus Renwick, and resides at Sacramento, California. 
 
 Isaac Foote settled in the Sth township on a large farm on the 
 road fr(jm Smyrna to Sherburne I<"our Corners 1794-5. He was 
 born at Colchester, Conn., Jan'y 4, 1746, and married Mary Kel- 
 logg of that place. They had Mary, who married Deacon Joseph 
 Adams; Isaac Foote, Jr., who married Harriet Hyde, daughter of 
 Gen. Caleb Hyde of Lenox, Mass., and had Justin, Harriet, Charles, 
 Henry, Daniel, Elizabeth, and Isaac, Jr., late of Norwich, dec'd; 
 Amasa, \vho married Sarah Kellogg; John Foote, ^vho ^vas 
 a lawyer, resided at Hamilton, married first Mary B.Johnson, and 
 second Mrs. Harriet Bryan, daughter of his uncle, Hon. Ebenezer 
 Foote, had son Hon. John J. Foote now- of Belvidere, 111.; and 
 Hiram, who married Mary G. Strong. In the early days riding on 
 
94 FAMILY SKKTCIIES. 
 
 horseback from place to place on his court circuit with his saddle- 
 bags containing his docket and law papers, and then in the later 
 years with his powdered hair and silver knee buckles, Judge 
 Isaac I'^Kite, Avas ahvays a imicpK' and dignified character. 
 
 Samuel I'oote, who was a pioneer in the 8th township and on 
 the West Hill, was a Icinsman of Judge Isaac Foote. He was 
 from Gill, Mass., and had m;irried Sil)l)il Doolittle, of Hinsdale, 
 N. II., and had Elial T., who became a Physician, Senator, Judge 
 and Historian, married Anna Cheney, and was the father of Mrs. 
 S. C. Crosby of Jamestown, Dr. C. C. Foote, dec'd, and Hor;ice A., 
 and James H. Foote, New York. Deacon Samuel also had son 
 Erastus, a prominent la^\•yer in Milwaukee; Chas. Doolittle, Obed 
 Hyatt, and daughters Lydia, Philena, Mary D., Chloe, and Sedate, 
 who married John K. Cowing, and was the mother of Judge Cow- 
 ing of New York. Deacon Samuel Foote removed to Phnnouth 
 1817, and from there to Jamestown, N. Y. Died 1848. 
 
 Asa Foote, father of Asa of Sherburne, Nathaniel, and other 
 sons, Israel Foote, father of Samuel no-w of Sherburne, and Rev. 
 Lewis Ray Foote of Brooklvn, are all kindred of Judge Isaac Foote. 
 
 The Rexfiirds of this place are the descendants of Arthur R>,'.\- 
 ford, early of Ne^v Haven, Benjamin, who was of Sherburne 1804, 
 having been born there Jan. i, 1776. He married Mary, daughter 
 of Cornelius Clark, and had Sarah, who married Jacob Havely, 
 Emily, avIio married Dr. Hiram Adams, Benjamin F., a prominent 
 lawver, ^\•h() married P^h'ira P. Babcock and li\'ed at \iir\vich; sons 
 Col. Willie, and Benj. F., of New York. Daniel A., who married 
 Fanny M. Lincoln of Troy, father of the Misses Rexford of Sher- 
 burne. Mary, and Nelson C, ^vho ^vere unmarried. John De 
 Witt, who married Cynthia Maria Babcock, hn\-ver and banker, 
 resitles at Janesville, Wis. Seneca Butts, A\-ho married Cornelia 
 Lathrop, and died at Sherburne, July 11, 1856. Zina, brother of 
 Benjamin, married Lucy C. Rose of Sherburne, and dietl at 
 Fabius, 1855. Joel, Jr., li\ed in Smyrna and Sherburne. Joel 
 Re.xford, Sr., uncle of the foregoing, was of Smyrna at an early 
 day. Had son Simeon, ^vho was the father of Dr. F. K. Rexford 
 of Ypsilanti, Mich. Also son Rev. Lyman S. Rexford. 
 
(KdRMKRI.V lALLKI) SHERBURXE FALLS.) 
 
FAMILY SKETCHES. 95 
 
 Major Jcisoph Dixon, a i)rominont citizen in the jiioncer days, 
 was born in Lebanon, Conn., Sept. 30, 1854, son of Archiljald. 
 Afterwards lived at Kent, where he enlisted as a soldier of the 
 Re\'olution. Married Mercy Raymond, sister of the Raymond 
 brothers, 1782, removed to Manchester, Vt., and from there to 
 Sherburne, 1794-5, having purchased the large farm afterwards 
 owned by Deacon John F". Smith south of the West Hill. Had 
 sons Raymond and Al)ram who graduated at Yale, the former of 
 whom studied for the ministry, and the latter was State Senator 
 from Chautauqua Co. ; Milton, the father of the Dixon family of 
 Smyrna ; Hannah, who married Williams Avery ; Alanson, 
 who lived in Elgin, 111., and Williston, killed by an accident. 
 1827 Joseph Dixon died May 18, 1839. David Dixon, brother of 
 Major Joseph, resided in the north part of the present ^•illage of 
 Sherburne. Was a non-commissioned officer in the Revolution, 
 and the Badge of Merit was besto-wed upon him for six years 
 continuous honorable service. Died in Sherburne, Oct. 14, 1820. 
 
 Deacon Williams Avery, ^\•hose family was prominent in Sher- 
 burne, was the son of James and Amanda Lee Avery, who came 
 from Durham, Greene Co., prior to 1816, and lived on the cross 
 road not far from Kershaw's Mill, on the farm now owned by 
 Dennison Pudney. Williams Avery purchased the Gardiner farm 
 on the west side of the river, spring of 1837, and there his father 
 died 1838. It was long known as the Avery homestead, and a 
 generous hospitality was dispensed in that stone mansion, and a 
 stalwart family there grew up. Mr. Avery had married Hannah, 
 daughter of Major Joseph Dixon, and had Harriet, who married 
 Luther Bowen and no'w a widow at Atchison, Kansas; Thomas, 
 S., who studied medicine and died suddenly at Rochester, in the 
 prime of his splendid manhood, July 19, 1847; George W., who 
 studied medicine. Surgeon in the war for the L^nion, died at Nor- 
 wich 1888; Orlando W., of Smyrna; Alida C, M. D., of San Jose, 
 Cal.; James W., of Memphis, and Joseph D., of Fremont, Ne- 
 braska. Deacon Avery was a school teacher in his early days, a 
 man of strong characteristics and marked character. Had brother 
 Abel, sisters Marv, Amv, and F'annv who married ClarkBurnham. 
 
96 I'AMii.N' sKi:Tcin:s. 
 
 The GanliiuTs early of Slu-rhurnc W'esl Hill, Capt. Daniel D.. 
 and Ileiiry, were sons of William Gardiner who was of the Gar- 
 diner's Island family, and born at Groton. Conn., Sept. 5, 1741. 
 He niarrii.-d ICsther Denison and removed to Colehester, Conn., 
 ^\■here most of his ehildren ^vere born. Was a soldier of the 
 Rcvohition, and remo\-ed to the Forks, near Earlville, about 1798, 
 where he (-lied Mar. 21, 1800. The widow Gardiner died at the 
 residenee of lier son Henry at ^\•hat is now the Sidney Sanford 
 plaee on the West Hill. William also had sons Josepli and Isaae, 
 and daus;hters Esther, who married Capt. Bigelow Waters and 
 lived at Earlville; Hannah, who married Hon. John W. Bullcley 
 of Lebanon, and Sarah, wlm married first John D. Hlish, and 
 second, Sanford Rodgers, anil third, Samuel Burlingham, ^vho 
 was the father of Justus Bosch Burlingham of Earlville. Henry 
 Gardiner married Ruth Pcrcival. He afterwards purchased the 
 James Raymond farm and built the stone house on the ^\'est side 
 of i1k' river now owned and oecupietl b\- Chas. Henry Lathrop. 
 His L-lde.st (laughter Sarah married Alfred Raymond. Delia 
 mari-ied D. A. Denison and still survi\'es at Belvidere, 111., An- 
 geline died, unmarried, John H. married Almira, daughter of 
 Ephraim Whitne}-, and died at Rochester, 1891. 
 
 The Elmores of Sherburne were of the famih' of Thaddeus 
 Elmore who was born at Sharon, Conn., married Elizabeth, the 
 daughter of Zaccheus Waldo, and removed about 1783, to Canaan, 
 Columbia Co., N. V. Was a descendant of Edward Elmer who 
 came from England to Boston 1632. afterwards of Hartford, Conn. 
 James Elmore, son of Thaddeus, ^vas of Sherburne as early as 
 1798; was the first merchant and Postmaster, living at the pres- 
 ent Asa Foote place, and also keeping an Inn there. He married 
 Lydia Percival daughter of John, and had David who married 
 Charlotte Rose, and Eliza Ann, who married Asher Holmes, son 
 of Orsamus. Thaddeus, Jr., was also of Sherburne date of 1801, 
 and Zaccheus W., known as Deacon Waldo, one of the first mer- 
 chants in Sherburne village; four times married, his first wife, 
 Miranda, daughter of Noah Robinson. Elizabeth Elmore, sister of 
 Zaccheus, married S. P. Scoville, merchant and P. M. in Sherburne. 
 
FA^ril.V SKETCHES. 97 
 
 Stephen Pinnh-, whose name appears on the ohl map of the 
 Proprietors as the owner of lot No. 23, was born March 3, 175 i, 
 the son of Peter and Phebe Carpenter Purdy, who ■were of Green- 
 M'ich, Conn., and then of Pittstcnvn, N. Y. Peter was a brotlicr of 
 Ebenezer who ^^■as tlie father of the Purdys early of North 
 Norwich, and whose son James married Phebe, sister of Stephen, 
 l)y which both In-anches of the family were united in the late 
 Mrs. Col. Samuel Ha^t^^'ell. Stephen Piirdy had married Mary 
 Pellet, daughter of Deacon John Pellet, who with her father's 
 family had narro'wiy escapetl from the Indians at the time of the 
 terrible Wyoming mas.sacre, they having made their early home 
 in that \"alle\-. Mr. Purdv came to Sherburne ^vith his wife and 
 two children in 1798, and continued his residence there until his 
 death. Mar. 27, 18 12. Was a worthy member of the North Nor- 
 Avich Baptist Church. Daughter Anna married Amos Mead and 
 removed to the western part of the State; was the mother of an 
 interesting family. Stephen Purdy, Jr., married Nancy, daughter of 
 Israel Crandall, and had Stephen and Lewis, deceased; Mrs. Juliet 
 Pollock, Etlmond, who married Nanc}' Champlain, Permelia \\dio 
 married S. W. Lobdell, all of Sherburne, and P^lnora H., who 
 married M. D. Raymond and resides at Tarr^'town. 
 
 Jeremiah Purdv, born in Rye, Westchester Co., son of Mon- 
 mouth, married Lydia, sister of Judge Joel Thompson, near 
 ^vhom he lived at Sherburne Four Corners. Was previously for 
 a time at Duanesburgh ; was a member of the West Hill Church 
 and afterwards prominent as a Methodist. Had Cyrus B., who 
 married Laura Yeomans, Jeremiah, Jr., Monmouth, Thomas, and 
 \\' illard, who married Lucina Lewis and had Lewis, Cyrus, James 
 T., and Edward H., who married first, Ruth E. Gridlev, then her 
 sister Harriet, and third, Caroline E., daughter of Israel Foote, 
 by whom a son Frederick Purely. Jeremiah died June 16, 1842. 
 
 Josiah Purdy, brother of Jeremiah, kept the first Inn at the 
 present Bentley house, Sherl)urne Four Corners, prior to 1799, 
 and removed from there to Georgetown. 
 
 Nancy Purdy, daughter of Abner and grand-daughter of Eben- 
 ezer, married Frederic Sexton ; ^vas mother of Tama and Frederic. 
 
 All descendants of Francis Punh', earlv of Fairfield, Conn. 
 
98 
 
 PHYSICIANS OF SlIKRiaKNi;. 
 
 A Dr. Lacy was the first ]3hysician in Sherburne, but only remained a short time. 
 
 Dr. Asa White, was in early days the principal physician, and one of the most skillful in all 
 that re.ujion. He was succeeded by his son Devillo who retained the first place during his 
 long and useful life, a sketch of whom with portrait is given in another i)lace. 
 
 Dr. Daniel Knight ])ractised there as early as 1S07, and until about 1820 after which he 
 removed to North Norwich. 
 
 Dr. Israel Farrell settled on Sherburne West Hill, 1S07, and continued in jiractice until 
 his death in 1833. A .son, Andrew, .studied with his father and practised at (Juilford. 
 
 Samuel tJuthrie. born at Brimfield, Mass., 1782, married Sibbel Sexton daughter of 
 Elijah Sexton ; was living on Sherburne West Hill in 1804, and probably studied med- 
 icine with Dr. Farrell; afterwards resided in the village; he was not only a skillful phy- 
 sician, but he invented percussion pills and a lock to explode them ; received serious in- 
 jurj- while experimenting with the s;ime. Also an original discoverer of choloroform, for 
 which he received a medal from abroad. Removed from Sherburne to Sackett's Harbor 
 1S17, where he died Oct. 19, 1S4S. Had a son Alfred born at Sherburne Apr. i, 1S05, 
 studied medicine, practised in Chicago, originated the g^eat hydraulic works in that city, 
 also the originator of the U. S. Steamboat Inspection laws; died 1SS2. Edwin, another 
 son, born at Sherburne Dec. 11, 1806, studied medicine, removed to Iowa, was Captain of 
 a Company in the Mexican war, and died at Castle Perote from wound received at Pa.ss 
 La Hoya. Guthrie County, Iowa, named in his honor. 
 
 Dr. Huckins Storrs born in Mansfield, Conn., 17S6, wasof Sherburne as earlyasiSiS, and 
 was for a time a jxirtner of Dr. Devillo ^V'■hite. Removed to Utica about 1S27, and died at 
 Cohimbus, July 21, 1S32. He had married Cornelia Wells, a sister of the first wife of Lyman 
 S. Rexford, and she afterwards married Dr. Alfrederick Smith and removed to Little Falls. 
 Her daughter, Catharine Storrs, married Robert H. Wells of Albany, and had son Wm. 
 Storrs Wells, who is of the firm of Fairbanks & Co., New York. 
 
 Dr. Elijah K. White, who died at Sherburne June 6, 1S43, was a Post Surgeon in the 
 Seminole Indian war, and had come on from F"lorida the Fall previous, to visit his brother. 
 Dr. Amos Kingsley White, but found on arrival that he had already died, Oct. nth, 1842. 
 He therefore took up his brother's practise, but died himself a few months afterwards, as 
 already stated. A small monument in the Episcopal Churchyard marks their jointgraves. 
 They were gifted men and their early death was seemingly inscrutible. Dr. E. K. White left 
 a widow, alady of rare worth, who returned to Canaan, Columbia Co., her early home, and 
 successfully engaged in teaching a boarding school there for many years. She died at the 
 residence of her only son, Henry K. White, a prominent lawyer at St. Joseph, .Mo.. Jan. 
 27, 1S90. Drs. A. K. andE. K. White were the sons of Dr. Vassal White of Berkshire Co., .Mass. 
 
 Dr. E. S. Lyman studied with Dr. Devillo White, from April 18, 1S31, having previously 
 married his sister, Mercy White, and after his graduation was a partner with him lor 
 several years. Was continuously in practise there for over 50 years, and in fact until his 
 death, Nov. 20, 1892, retaining until the last the high confidence of the community. His 
 eldest son. Dr. Francis Lyman, died at Washington, D. C, Acting Asst. Surgeon, U. S. 
 A., aged 25 years. A young man of high promise. Another son, Henry C. Lyman, M. 
 D., has been successfully engaged in practise at Sherburne since 1872. 
 
 Dr. Ira C. Owen was born in the town of Lebanon, Madison County, N. Y., on the 
 Sth of April, 1S22. Came to Sherburne in 1S46. Was the pioneer Homoeopathisi there. 
 Is still in active and successful practise. 
 
 Drs. Kenyon and Van Wagner, are in present practise at Sherburne. 
 
 Dr. Fort Van Keuren, for several years in practise at Sherburne, died March 27, 1881. 
 
 Dr. Byron Marks was in practise at Sherburne for a considerable period. John Kellogg, 
 Aaron Bligh, and Geo. Cleveland, afterwards of Waterville for many years, were at 
 Sherburne for short periods. Also, later, Drs. Crandall, Jaynes, Whitney, and Crumb. 
 
 Elial T. Foote, son of Samuel, studied with Dr. Samuel Guthrie at Sherburne, and be- 
 came eminent as a physician at Jamestown, N. Y. 
 
 Among those born in Sherburne, or studied there, who have practised medicine else- 
 where, are Drs. John F. Gray, the celebrated Homoeopathist late of New York, Alfred 
 W. Gray, Patrick W. Gray, (sons of John Gray, Jr.,) Squire White, (br(.)ther of Dr. Asa) 
 Thomiis S. Avery, (5eorge W. Avery, Alida C. Avery, now of San Jose, California, Ly- 
 man R. Raymtmd, of Oherlin, O., Scoville Lee, Lj-man Rose, Marcius Simons, late of 
 Portland, Chautauqua Co., Elbert M. Somers, of Deans\-ille, N. Y., Philo L. Hatch, of 
 San Jatinto, Cal., Homer Adams, Noah Weld, John Lynde, F. R. Lyman, a grandson 
 of Dr. E. S. Lyman and great-grandson of I>r. Asa White, and Newton Bentley. 
 
MISCELLANEOUS MEMORAXnA. 99 
 
 Lawyers of Sherburne— Ezra Osbom, Jonathan Pettit, Willard Weldon, Smith M. Pur- 
 d)', (County Judge) Hon. Joseph Benedict, Lyman S. Rexford, Benjamin Re.xford. Ira P. 
 Barnes, Arba K. Maynard, Roswell ludson, (Judge and Surrogate) Demas Hubbard, 
 (Member of Congress,) Frank Hubbard, Isaac Newton, (District Attorney,) Geo. P. Averv! 
 David L. FoUett, (Supreme Court Judge,) D. L. Atkyns, Stephen Holden, (A.ssociate 
 Judge,) Hon. Chas. A. Fuller. 
 
 College Graduates of Sherburne — Raymond Di.xon, Abram Dixon, Lyman S. Rexford, 
 Samuel S. Stebbins, John H. Lathrop, Watts Sherman Lynde, Wm. Pitt Lynde, Charles 
 James Lj-nde, Rev. Wm. W. Robinson, Isaac L. Cushman, Isaac S. Newton, Hubert A. 
 Newton, Homer G. Newton, Yale; Rev. Ebenzer Raymond, Christopher Columbus Fos- 
 ter. Israel Foote, Smith Curtis, LTnion College; Rev. Eleazer Lathrop, Alvan Lathrop, 
 Rev. Isaac F. Adams, Julius Hatch, Herschel H. Hatch, Joseph Guthrie, Rev. Lewis r! 
 Foote, D. D., Hamilton College; Rev. Shubael Carver, Rev. J. W. Fox, and Rev. Jona- 
 than Copeland, at other colleges. 
 
 Among the merchants early of Sherburne were James and Zaccheus W. Elmore, Gar- 
 rett V. Lansing, Jr., Tilly and Chas. Lynde, of the West Hill, Alfred Gray, Joshua Pratt, 
 Sr., and Elias Babcock; later, Alexander Holmes, Samuel H. Williams, S. P. Scoville h'. 
 N. Fargo, Harvey Raymond, Joshua Pratt, Jr., Walstein and Elisha Pratt, William Cook,' 
 \\'alter and David Elsbre, Nathaniel Smith, Albert and Egbert Uphani, Edson Whitnev', 
 F. B. Coats; in the grocery trade, Whitford &• Fuller; foi-\varders, Joshua Pratt, Daniel 
 Seneca B., and Nelson Rexford; jewellers, Peter I. Davison, Chas. Davison; stoves and 
 tinware, Nahum Starr. 
 
 The following incident of the early days was related by the late John Foote of Hamilton 
 a son of Judge Isaac Foote, in a letter dated Jan'y 21, 1S74: "You remember when 
 Utica was a small village, but I remember that a Do'ct. sent me there after medicine when 
 I was 10 years, at about 1796. The road was indicated by marked trees and Indian paths, 
 6 houses on the wa\-, 40 miles. At what is now LTtica there were then 3 buildings — a log 
 tavern, a small frame for a house partly covered, and a drug shop 10 by 12 set on posts 
 drove into the quagmire like the foundation of a com house. It was a quagmire all the 
 way to what is now N. Hartford, 4 miles, where (only) Judge Sanger lived." 
 
 The following incident as related by the late Dr. Devillo White in a letter to Dr. Elial 
 T. Foote dated Feb. 16, 1S74, is worth preserving : "I can recollect when the first store 
 was built at the Forks, (Earlville) by Alfred Gray, by being sent with a message to Gray. 
 Father told me on the start not to let the grass grow under the horse's feet. At first did 
 not know what he meant, but as soon as I did, used the whip, ran the horse at full speed, 
 and let Mr. Gray mn him back. The horse was gone 50 minutes ; 10 miles. If I recol- 
 lect right, was not over 7 or S years old," Which evidences the Lr's "get there" qualities 
 developed at that early age. 
 
 The foUowmg memoranda of the settlers on the West Hill at an early day was made bv 
 Erastus Foote, son of Samuel Foote, the first innkeeper on the West Hill : "List of old 
 settlers on West Hill, Sherburne, at my earliest recollection: Lansing, merchant; Tilly 
 and Chas. W. Lynde his successors ; Mr. Roswell Harrison who built the house after 
 wards owned by Tilly Lynde ; Edmund Sanford, hatter; Deacon Joseph Adams, Mr" 
 Daniel Hibbard, Mr. Roberts, Mr. Cushman, cabinet maker; Fairchild, printer; Seth P' 
 Hart, saddle and harness maker; Frank Smith, left handed fiddler; Deacon Gray, old Mr' 
 
 Snow, Mr. Philo Hatch, who built a house on the corner north of father's. South Mr' 
 
 Johnson, a cooper; Maj. Joseph Dixon; Daniel Hammond, brick maker; Perry Carver' 
 Culver and Lyons; on the road west from Maj. Dixon, .Mr. Patrick, Lyons, and Allen' 
 Hammond. West— James Thompson, Dr. Farrell, John Lynde read with liim ; Henr\- 
 Gardiner, Isaac Gardiner, Calvin and Demas Hubbard, Mr. Gillett, afterwards' Deacon 
 Catlin's, Rev. Joshua Knight; across the Creek, old Mr. Wing, and' Charles Brown the 
 stuttering man. North— Capt. Daniel D. Gardiner, James Guthrie, afterwards Deacon 
 Gilford's; Joseph Guthrie, Deacon McCuUoch, Fred'k Smith, or Gardiner, kept tavern 
 just before we cross the bridge; Capt, Ladd, Daniel Calkins, Maj. Waters, 'Mr. Otis, Mr'. 
 Graves, Capt. Daniels, Justus B. and James Smith, &c. On the road running northwest 
 from Smyrna was Wilcox, Benj. CJuthrie, old Mr. Jenks, Capt. Sexton, Mr. Wood, Capt 
 Hall, Dr. Stowell, Mr. Kershaw, the miller. In relation to location of the Asherv you 
 are mistaken. I had located in my mind and spoke to Mr. Lynde without telling where 
 I located, and he at once named the same place I had located'it. It was down east and 
 back of Capt. Gardiner's towards the river just at the edge ot the swamp in the woods." 
 
 L cFC. 
 
100 
 
 KIMS. 
 
 As a picture of the simplicity that characterized the primitive days in Sherburne, the 
 following memoranda copied from the original record in Cornelius Clark's old Field Book 
 date of 1/1)5; "Corn luisking, myself and girls, 4 days." Again: "Molly, i day. .Myself 
 and Molly 6 days. Molly, i day." And this was the Molly (Mary\ Clark who afterwards 
 was the wife of Benjamin Rexford, and so the mother of the noted Rexford family of 
 Sherburne. 
 
 The following is from an interview by Judge Stephen Holden with the late Alfred 
 Raymond: "In early days Albany was the only market ; no wool to sell before 1S12; 
 flax for home use ; rope walk in Sherburne 1S20 ; double drag and patent plows intro- 
 duced 1S24-5 ; wlieat jjroduced as high as 50 bus. per acre ; corn do.. So ; potatoes, 400 ; 
 9g miles from West Hill to Albany ; potatoes i2Ac., and butter do. War 1S12, wheat sold 
 as high as 15 shillings. Cold season iSi()-i7 com almost a total failure, wheat, $2 ; seed 
 corn in 1S17 worth $4 to $7 per bushel. Frost 1S16 killed corn in Aug.: snow in June. 
 WiUl jiotatoes doubtful." In regard to the cold season of 1S16, the widow of Irad Ray- 
 monil now of Angola in her 97th year, says that wheat was worth $2 per bushel, and 
 calico $2 per yard that year. 
 
 It \v(nil(l be pleasant to add many another page to the story of 
 the earlier anil later days in Slierhtirne ; to ])ortra}' other scenes, 
 to record other facts, to add other names to the list that well de- 
 serve to be remembered, to present other pictures of dear Slier- 
 burne days which will be enshrined in memory, and to delve still 
 deeper into the archives of the past ; but these leaflets presented 
 may be ])reserved for the benefit of the future historian, who \vill 
 elaborate at his pleasure \\'lien another Centennial, or Semi- 
 centennial shall have rolled around with its records of the yet 
 to be. The poet well sings of Sherburne, and in old "Sherbune's" 
 ryhme and rythm and JKinnonies, we will let him sing: 
 
 "While shepherds watched their Hocks by night, 
 
 All seated on the ground. 
 The angel of the Lord came down 
 
 And glory shone around." 
 
ADDENDA. 
 
 Cornelius Clarlc, son of John anJ Anna Clark, was born at 
 Freehold, New Jersey, Apr. 9, 1746, John being the son of William 
 Clark, who, as his tombstone denotes, was " of the Kingdom of 
 Scotland." Cornelius married Mary Grandin, daughter of Daniel 
 and Sarah Throck-morton Grandin, her mother being the daughter 
 of Job Throckmorton son of John who came from Eversham, 
 England, in ship Lion, 1636, and finally settled at what has since 
 been called Throg^'s Neck, in Westchester County, N. Y. 
 
 Cornelius Clark' was engaged in the battle of Monmouth, and 
 it is said that his wife saw the dramatic meeting of Washington 
 and Gen. Lee on that historic field, their then residence being in 
 that vicinity. They afterwards removed to Duanesburgh, N. Y., 
 and there joine<l tlic Slu'rlnirne coh)ny, of ^\-hich he became an 
 important memljer, being the Surveyor of the lands. He ^vas 
 awarded lot No. 7, where he continued to reside until his death. 
 May 10, I 8 10, his hig house liaving been on the first rise of land 
 from the river flats, on the jiresent Andrew Davis farm, the north 
 road from Deacon Hatch's then passing that way, also a road 
 leading across the river on his land to Abner Calkin's Mill o]3posite. 
 
 Thev had st)n Jnlm who lived near them, also Daniel, and Job ; 
 daughter Anna, who married Asa Calkins, Mary, who married 
 Benjamin Rexford, Catharine, who married Kies Wilder, Rachel, 
 who marrieil Benjamin Kiiigsle\-, and otlier children. Mrs. Clark 
 died Aug. 9, 1836, at the Rcvford homestead in Sherl.nirne. 
 
 Cornelius Clark was not only a Surve}'or and a farmer, but ap- 
 pears to have also been a coo]:)er and blacksmith. The i'o]]()^^•ing 
 tribute is copied from a notice published at the time of his death: 
 "For a course of years (.luring his residence here, he was highly 
 useful to his fellow citizens as a Surveyor and ScriA-ener. Several 
 respectable connexions are left tn lament their priwation." 
 
102 FAMILY SKETCHES. 
 
 Reuben Davis came from Somers, Conn., to Sherburne, in 
 Feb., 1798, and settled on tlie farm afterwards owned by Edgar 
 Baldwin. He lived there but a short time, then moved to where 
 Jacob Reese now resides, and from there to the eastern part of the 
 town on the old turnpike leading to Columbus, and kept an Inn. 
 ■where the general elections for the town were .sometimes held. 
 The farm is now owned by Mrs. Gager. He had married Mehita- 
 ble Sexton, a sister of Frederic Sexton, Sr., and thirteen children 
 were born to them, ten boys and three girls. Two of the boys 
 died young. Seven of the sons lived to be over seventy, and three 
 to be over eighty. All were raised in a hotel and not one was 
 ever known to be intoxicated or to use tobacco ; all became men 
 of some means. Eleven of the children married and had families. 
 Henry married a Miss Campbell, moved to Chili, N. Y. Orlando 
 married Mrs. Davenport Adsit, spent most of his life in Sherburne, 
 but removed to Milo, N. Y., and died there. Horatio moved to 
 Chili, N. Y., and there married. Reuben, Jr., married Sarah Ann Lob- 
 dell; lived at Sherburne. George married Sarah Ann \Vaterman; 
 lived and died at Sherburne; had daughter Abigail, and sons An- 
 dre^v and Warren, the former of whom lives on the homestead, 
 the old Cornelius Clark farm. Fannie married Deacon Charles 
 Benedict ; lived and died in Sherburne. Norman married Eliza- 
 beth Campbell; lived and died at Chili. Hiram married first a 
 Miss Scott and after her death, Caroline Hart, of Sherburne; 
 moved to Chili ^vhere he died. Julia Ann married Israel Farrel, 
 Jr.; is living at Washington, D. C. William married Helen Pope; 
 lived and died in Sherburne. Mary married Stephen Pope who 
 died at Smyrna; she after\v-ard married a Mr. Little and resides 
 in California. Reuben Davis, Sr., died May iS, 1844, aged 78. 
 
 Elijah Sexton, brother of Stephen the father of Frederic, was 
 from Somers, Conn., and ^vas an early and prominent citizen of 
 the 8th to^vnship; Justice of the Peace. He and his wife Sibbel 
 were members of the West Hill Churcli ; she died 1818, and he 
 married Thankful Spencer. Had Elijah, Jr., John L., Norman, and 
 daughter Sibbel who married Dr. Samuel Guthrie. Elijah Sexton 
 died March 28, 1839, in his 85th year. 
 
FAMILY SKETCHES. IO3 
 
 James Raymond, who married Melissa, daughter of Rev. Black- 
 leach Burritt, and lived on the west side of the river, had son 
 Philander who married Cynthia Rose and had sons Curtis Burritt, 
 Marsden, and James, all highly educated, and commissioned offi- 
 cers in the war for the Union. Philander had daughter Cynthia, 
 who married John T. Gray, grandson of ElishaGray of Sherburne, 
 Mary C, wife of Rev. J. P. Preston, and Sidney H. James Ray- 
 mond had daughter Celestia wlio married Horace Ensign, and 
 lived at Madison, O. Major Curtiss Burritt Raymond was born 
 in Sherburne; his later life was spent in Boston where his wido^v, 
 Lydia Newell Osgood Raymond and daughter Helen Sawyer Ray- 
 mond, reside. 
 
 Deacon Abram Raymond, married Betsey Gray, daughter of 
 John Gray, Sr., and had Mercy, David, Rev. Ebenezer, who re- 
 moved to Oregon and left descendants there, John, who removed 
 to Abingdon, Pa., Abigail, who married Aivin T. Smith and went 
 to Oregon as a Missionary to the Indians, 1840; C}'nthia, Lodema, 
 Electa A., and Semantha Raymond. 
 
 Isaac Raymond, cousin of Newcomb, James and Abram, was 
 of Sherburne 1797, and the original owner of lot No. 19, as per 
 Proprietor's Map. He remained there several years and then re- 
 moved to Chatham, Columbia County. 
 
 Zaccheus Ra^'mond was living in Sherburne. Road Dist. No. 14, 
 1 8 14. Fitch Raymond, son of Joshua of Bedford, N. Y., was the 
 owner of the Kershaw Mill for .several years from about 1820. 
 His wife Anna Mead died June 1 i, 1820, buried at North Norwich; 
 married second. Electa Brown of Sherburne. 
 
 All descendants of Capt. Richard Raymond, of Beverly, Mass. 
 
 Abraham Mudge, Avho \vas of Sherburne, for a fe\v years, and 
 removed to Bainbridge, was the son of Abraham, Sr., who had 
 married Anna Gi-ay, sister of Nathaniel and John Gray, Sr. His 
 son Isaac married Mercy, daughter of Deacon Abram and Betsey 
 Gray Raymond, antl li\'ed in Sherburne and Smyrna. Had Wil- 
 liam, Albert, Leander, Abraham, and Raymond Mudge. 
 
 Rev. John Mudge the pioneer pastor of the Baptist Church near 
 Earlville, was kindred of the above. 
 
I04 FAMILY SKETCHES. 
 
 John Hibbard. one of the earliest settlers of Sherburne, and the 
 original owner of lot No. 14, comprising a large part of the pres- 
 ent village of Sherburne, his log house, and afterwards his more 
 commodious dwelling house, no^\- somewhat removed and still 
 occupied as a residence, having been located not far from Jf)shua 
 Pratt's homestead. His marriage with Betsey Sartwell, March 4, 
 1795, is .said to have been the first in the township. The bride 
 Nvas from Vermont, where she was born May 18, 1773. Was a 
 sister-in-law of Orsamus Holmes. They had nine children, among 
 whom were Daniel, \vho lived and died in Sherburne, and left 
 descendants tiiere, and Almira, who married Josiah Benedict, and 
 had Mary Klizabeth, who married Mr. F". A. Hyatt and resides at 
 Perryville, Madison Co. John Hibbard ^vas born at Greenwich, 
 Conn.. May 18th, 1760, and died at Sherburne, Oct. 17. 1830. 
 
 Daniel Hibbard, brother of John, also born in Greenwich, Conn., 
 married at Sherburne, 1796. Bethiah, daughter of Nathaniel and 
 Bethiah Newcomb-Raymond-Gray, patriotically born July 4th, 
 1776, at Kent, Conn. They lived on Sherburne West Hill for 
 several years, where he worked at shoe-making. In 181 1 they 
 removed to Sheri<lan, and the History of Chautauqua County says 
 he was a man of excellent repute among tiie pioneers of that 
 ])lace. He died at North Kast. I'a.. 1840, ageil 75. She died at 
 Jamestown, N. Y., Oct. 24, 1834. Tliey had son Luther who has 
 son Daniel Hibbard at Pomona, Cai.; daughter Laura, wlio had tuti 
 sons in the war lor the Union, aiicl Mar>- Hil)bard, born on Sher- 
 burne West Hill, July 1, l8o5, who married Capt. Joseph Kenyon, 
 whose first wife was Hannah, sister of Demas Hubbartl, Sr., of 
 Sherburne, an<l live<l at Jamestown, where he was a prominent 
 citi/.en and Postmaster. Removed to BiilTalo 1 864, and tlied there. 
 Ha<l Darwin, Caroline S., Horace F., and Mary Adelaide, who, 
 with her sister, holds resijonsil)le jjosition in t)ne of the public 
 schools of Buffalo. Mrs. Kenyon still survives. Of her mother, 
 it is saiil that La P'avette remarked. nvIkmi she was presenteil to 
 him during his visit to this c<unitry in 1824, "She is the most 
 beautiful woman that 1 have seen in America!" Perhaps he re- 
 membered that her half-brother. Newcomb Raymond, had served 
 under him with iionor at Brandvwine and \'orkto\vn I 
 
KAMILY SKETCHES. lOj 
 
 Uriel Lee, burn in Warren. Litchfield Co.. Conn., came to Sher- 
 burne -with his family 1802. Removed to Sheridan, Chautauqua 
 Co., and was among the pioneers there, 1807. His son Joel. \vho 
 was a commissioned officer in the war of 1812. married Amanda 
 Gray, daughter of Elijah, one of the Sherburne Proprietors, 1814, 
 and had Wellington Lee. who invented the Steam Fire Engine, 
 and raised the sunken ships at Sevastopol. He married Harriet 
 E. Gray, daughter of Dr. Patrick W., and grand-daughter of John 
 Grav, Jr., one of the Proprietors ; a son Wellington. Joel and 
 Amanda Gray Lee also had Daniel Uriel, who was an officer in 
 the war for the L'^nion, and his son. T. C. Lee, enlisting at 15, 
 won his Lieutenancy on the field of Gettysburg. A daughter 
 Caroline celebrated her Golden Wedding with her husban>l, Mar- 
 tin Strong, at Waterford, Pa.. Oct. 4th. 1892. They have an in- 
 teresting daughter. Mrs. Adelaide Lee Stancliff. at Erie. Pa. Elias 
 Baudinot Lee. son of Joel ami Amanda Gray Lee. \N'as mortally 
 wounded in command of his Regt.. the 2iith Pennsylvania Vols., 
 as Major, in the final assault at Petersl>urg, Va., April 2. 1865. 
 Sarah A., married James M. Porter, and died at Aiken, S. C. 1S70. 
 Helen, married James. G. E. Earned, deceased, and she now resides 
 at Cedar Mountain. North Carolina, with her venerable mother, 
 who accom[ilished her Centennial on the 231.1 of Nov., 1S92, and 
 still survives. loel Lee died 18^6. 
 
 Lorain Curtis was at Sherburne early as 1799: wife. Elizabeth 
 Burget ; her mother, Elizabeth Rees, sister of Jacob and William 
 Rees, pioneers in Sherburne. Was a miller; for a time kept an 
 Inn on the now Talcott Pratt place near the river bridge; then 
 was at the old St. John Grist Mill near the tannery; had son John, 
 and by second marriage, Dwight. John Curtis learned tanner's 
 trade with Hubbard brothers. West Hill ; then lived in Sherburne ; 
 engaged in shoe-making, firm of Curtis & Whitford; removed to 
 west side of the river in house adjoining his tannery; went to 
 California 1850, and died soon after arrival. Married Elsie Jones, 
 1824: had Elizabeth, (married Lemuel Robinson^i Delos. George, 
 Helen, JMaria, Densie. Pllsie, Theodore, and Smith Curtis, publisher 
 Ar^'-us & Radii-a/. at Beaver, Pa., the onlv survivor of the family. 
 
I06 IN MF.MnRlAM. 
 
 Lieut. Lorenzo W. Hatch, son of Col. Lorenzo, and grandson of Timothy Hatch, 
 enHsted in 3d N. Y. Artillery. At that time he was at school at Cazenovia. Two of his 
 comrades on their way to enlist called at his room to say good bye. He got aboard the 
 stage to accompany them a little way, but becoming interested in their talk went on with 
 them to Auburn, and himself joined the Company. He served his term of three years, 
 much of the time in the Dept. of North Carolina under Gens. Burnside and Foster. 
 Was engaged in at least ten battles, prominent among them being those at the capture of 
 Ft. Macon and of Newbern in .March and April 1S62, and of Kingston, Whitehall and 
 Goldsboro in the December following. He was wounded but once in these engagements 
 receiving an injury just below the knee. At the end of his term of service he returned 
 home for a short time but soon re-enlisted- this time in the 15th N. Y. Cavalry. Being 
 wounded in the mouth shortly after, he received a furlough and remained at home a short 
 time, but reading the need of more men he hastened back to the field though he could 
 not eat solid food and his furlough had not yet expired. He received a commissi<m as 
 Lieutenant, serving at that time in Western Virgmia, near Cumberland, Md. Was sent 
 out in command of a recounoitering party at Green Spring Run, Va.: was surrounded and 
 surprised by the enemy on the night of Nov. 11, 1S64. When he saw his situation he 
 fought bravely, and having empted his revolver with deadly effect, drew his sword, crj-- 
 ing, " Never surrender, boys, never surrender'" At that instant he was shot through his 
 heart. His age was about 22 years. His body was brought to Sherburne and buried at 
 the Quarter Cemetery. 
 
 IsR.^EL O. FooTE, born in Sherburne, Nov. 9, 1S34, entered Hamilton College fall of 
 1S54, remained till 1S57, and graduated from Union 1S5S. Went .south and taught in Miss., 
 and Texas until sunimer of 1S60. Taught in Sherburne following winter, when lie com- 
 menced studying law in MorrisWUe. But with his sense of duty and love of country, he 
 could not be deaf to that country's call for men. Enlisting in Co. C. 6ist Regt. N Y. 
 Vol. as a ]3rivate, he was promoted to a Sergeantey. Was in the campaig^ns of 1S62 about 
 Richmond. In August following he was sent to the general hospital in Phila., very much 
 reduced in health. It was not until late in the fall that he had so far recovered as to re- 
 turn to the field. At this time he writes : "I feel as though my dut)- leads me again to 
 the army: though I may not be able to endure the exposure, still it must be tried." He 
 retiuMied to his Regt. though his strength was not sufficient to endure the hard service of 
 the field, and when the fatal advance was made up the heights of Fredericksburg on the 
 13th of Dec, the weak but faithful soldier pressed forward in the charge and fell before 
 that hail of death, and his grave is among the unknown and unnumbered on that disas- 
 trous field. 
 
 George R. Miller, was born at Sherburne, Jan. 2, 1S41. Enlisted in the 114th Regt. N. 
 Y. v., Aug. 4, 1S62, and was killed at the battle of Oquequan Creek, near Winchester, 
 Va., Sept. 19, 1S64, and buried by his comrades on the battle field. George was the first 
 martyr to fall from the 114th Regiment on that day. He was struck by a shell and killed 
 instantly while marching in line of battle. He was a good soldier, loved and respected 
 by all who knew him ; a devout Christian. 
 
 EiH-.AR J. WiLLEV, born Jan. S, 1836, at Hamilton, enlisted Sept. 2d, iSfji, in Co. C, 
 6ist Regt. N. Y. v.; was fatally w-ounded at Fair Oaks, Va., June i, 1S62: died at White 
 House Landing, June 7, and buried there. He wrote to his mother, "I have a severe 
 shot in my side, but the Dr. says not necessarily fatal. A wound in my left arm. slight, 
 (lood-bye to you all, and if God so orders that we meet no more on earth. Father, Mother, 
 Sisters, Brothers— may we all meet in Heaven. From your loving Edgar." 
 
 Capt. Isaac Plumb, of the6ist N. Y. V., one of the Boys in Blue of whom Sherburne 
 wa.s justly proud, died as the result of a wound received at,Cold Harbor. 
 
 Lieut. Frank Garland, of the 6ist N. Y. V., gallant and patriotic, gave his life for his 
 country in the great struggle on the historic field of Gettysbxirg. 
 
 Jacob Havely bravely fell in the terrible onslaught at Port Hudson, and Sanford Brooks 
 was among the slain for Freedom and Union at Fair Oaks. 
 
 Much of the above memoranda is from a memorial address by Dr. Homer G. Newton 
 at the Congregational Clnirch, Sherburne, Feb. 8, 1SS3. 
 
MISCELLAXEOUS MEMORANDA. IO7 
 
 The following is a partial list of the Revolutionary Soldiers who were of Sherburne : 
 Major Joseph Dixon, Josiah Lathrop, Orsamus Holmes, Isaac Foote, 
 
 David Dixon, Ezra l.athrop. Joel Northrop, Joseph Simons, 
 
 Newcomb Raymond, Timothy Hatch, \VilUam Gardiner, Elijah Sexton, 
 
 John Gray, Joel Hatch, Augustine Odell, John Percival, 
 
 John Gray, Jr., James Curtiss, Richard Odell, Thos. Higgins, 
 
 Joel Thompson, Andrew Stafford, Amos Cole, Joseph Guthrie, 
 
 Asa White, Samuel Stebbins, Josepli Rose, Jesse Wheeler, 
 
 Bigelow Waters, Aaron .Mills, Isaac Sheldon, Timothy Dunn, 
 
 Jeremiah Purdy, Nathaniel Austin, John Holmes, Timothy Stanly. 
 
 The following incident copied from Hatch's History evidences how party spirit some- 
 times stirred up the Fathers. This occurred about the time of the war of 1S12: New- 
 ccmb Raymond having business at the County seat, on his return called on Col. Mead, 
 who kept a pubUc house near North Norwich bridge. They got into a political discus- 
 sion upon certain measures then before the country. Col. Mead defended and Mr. Ray- 
 mond opposed them. Mr. Mead growing warm, e.xclaimed that all who were opposed were 
 "Tories." This declaration roused the lion. "Col. Mead ! when you were in your cradle, 
 I was following General Washington, leaving my foot-prints marked on the snow and ice 
 in blood ! To be called a Tory by you, is too much for flesh and blood to bear. Nothing 
 but your being in your own house saves you from a thrashing ; and if you say it again, 
 that shan't save you !" The fire and bearing of this man, who was among those who, at 
 midnight, under Generals Hamilton and LaFayette entered the first redoubt taken from 
 Cornwailis at Yorktown, bayonet in hand, without flint in his musket, awed the Colonel, 
 and he said no more. 
 
 Of the tragedies of Sherburne may be noted the accidental drowning of John l.athrop 
 son of Josiah. in the river, iSiS; death of WilUston Dixon by being run over by a team in 
 front of his father's house in June, 1S27; the accidental shooting of the lad Philander 
 Sheldon, by Mr. P. C. Elmendorf, while hunting pigeons in the woods on the west part 
 of Newcomb Raymond's farm, 1S42 ; and the murderous drowning of a little boy in the 
 canal at Sherburne at an earlier date. A reward of $250 was offered in the Olive Branch, 
 date of July 21, 1S09, for the arrest of the person or persons who were guilty of snatching 
 the bodv of Mr. George Riddel from his grave near the West Hill Meeting House. The 
 offer of this reward was made by Jonathan. Jonathan, Jr., Daniel and Geo. Pettit. 
 
 The following incident is related of Dr. Asa White in Hatch's History of Sherburne : 
 "In the early days of his ride he was called to visit a patient residing about ten miles dis- 
 tant, and his path led him through a dense forest for about ten miles. Midway some 
 pioneer had commenced the erection of a log house, so far completed as to be ready to re- 
 ceive the roof, and a narrow doorway had been cut through on one side. Receiving a 
 bushel of corn as compensation for his services, the Doctor set out on his return. Night 
 overtook him soon after he entered tlie woods, when he was seen and followed by a pacTc 
 of hungry wolves. Hurrying forward he led his horse into the half finished house, took 
 a seat with his bag directly over the doorway, and defended himself and horse by swing- 
 ing a long pole backwards and forwards until the dawn of day — the wolves most of the 
 time in close proximity and determined to force their way into the enclosure." 
 
 The p.ipulation of the township of Sherburne by the census of iSgo was 2,847; of the 
 village, included in the foregoing, 960. Assessed valuation of the township, iSg2, was 
 $i.535.<J77; of the village, $319,387.50. The assessment roll for 1801, the earliest known 
 to be in existence, will be seen on the succeeding page. The number of acres assessed to 
 non-residents in the qth township, (Sherburne,) 1S04, was only 3,516, while in the 8th 
 townshi]5, (Smyrna,) there were i2,Soo; showdng how much more rapidly the former was 
 settled than the latter. 
 
 An old map date of 1809, of the Chenango Turnpike, extending from Oxford to San- 
 gers in New Hartford, sho»s the part north from Sherburne still unfinished, 
 
 A correspondent of the early days pays John F. Fairchild, publisher of iheOlh'f Branch, 
 the handsome compliment of being the handsomest man in Sherburne ! 
 
 The first lawsuit of record between Sherburne litigants took place at a session of the 
 Court held at Elisha Payne's in Hamilton, October, 1799. The entry upon the ancient 
 docket is, "Asa White vs. Lorain Curtis. Decision in favor of defendant: 25 cents and 
 costs!" In those days the courts evidently dealt in elemental justice. 
 
io8 
 
 \SSESSMKNT ROLL 
 
 OF 
 
 Alloni;Huti!liinsonJ2,6:)2 
 
 Reuben Davis, 
 
 168 
 
 ApoUo-i AUiMi, 
 
 
 .Matthew D.ivis, 
 
 185 
 
 Noali Allr'n, Jr.. 
 
 20:i 
 
 Job Davis, 
 
 16'i 
 
 WiU.iii Alloii, 
 
 
 Ephraim Drew, 
 
 113 
 
 Daiiii-l Anili)r.S!)Q, 
 
 881) 
 
 Joel Ellis, 
 
 20 J 
 
 Jamus Auiloi-sou, 
 
 i.ou;; 
 
 Freeman Ellis, 
 
 193 
 
 Goorse Audorsuu, 
 
 1,-tU 
 
 James Elmore, 
 
 610 
 
 Tlu^ina^ Andni'sim 
 
 , 420 
 
 Thaddeus Elmore 
 
 200 
 
 Natliauiel Au>(iu, 
 
 8(i:) 
 
 WilLird Eddy, 
 
 80) 
 
 Stc'plic'U Austin, 
 
 Mlt 
 
 Zacdiariah Eddy, 
 
 281 
 
 JoiiaU Averill. 
 
 
 Isaac Foot", 
 
 1,633 
 
 William Ali'Dtt. 
 
 21 
 
 Isaac Foote, Jr., 
 
 332 
 
 Juliu Billiiif,'s, 
 
 488 
 
 Samuel Foote, 
 
 570 
 
 Josoph BiUiiifjs, 
 
 1,312 
 
 Timothy Ferris, 
 
 100 
 
 Ai-nold Brig^s, 
 
 221 
 
 Benjamin Ferris, 
 
 704 
 
 Cri'iir^e Bri^-^s, 
 
 l,:t.->l 
 
 Israel Ferris, 
 
 300 
 
 lUifus Bi-i'„'s,'.-<, 
 
 1.5:1 
 
 Elijah Foster. 
 
 838 
 
 David BakiT, 
 
 32S 
 
 Henry Finn. 
 
 2.12 
 
 Elxmozci- Baker, 
 
 320 
 
 Jastm Far^^ii. 
 
 332 
 
 John Brown, 
 
 (it 
 
 Willi.un Finks, 
 
 284 
 
 Natliauiol Brown, 
 
 '.1211 
 
 Shubal Fuder. 
 
 
 Natliauirl B. Brown, 4")6 
 
 Joseph Faulkuer, 
 
 
 John J. Brown, 
 
 31.5 
 
 William Faulkner, 
 
 300 
 
 Danit^l Brown, 
 
 
 Peter Finch, 
 
 
 Edward Ball, 
 
 
 Nathaniel Gray, 
 
 535 
 
 An Iruw Bath's, 
 
 200 
 
 Elijah Gray, 
 
 40:1 
 
 William Bnrns, 
 
 20 
 
 Elisha Gr.iy, 
 
 150 
 
 Jarod Benodiot, 
 
 2 53 
 
 Nathauiid Gray, Jr., 51"! 
 
 Natliau Benedict, 
 
 310 
 
 John Gray, 
 
 884 
 
 Richard Briant, 
 
 420 
 
 John (iray, Jr., 
 
 70 
 
 David Briant, 
 
 45.1 
 
 John Gould, 
 
 310 
 
 Koliert Bolt in. 
 
 130 
 
 Beujamiu Guthrie 
 
 631 
 
 Alii-ivni Bnrj<hardt 
 
 i;io 
 
 James Guthrie. 
 
 1.441 
 
 Moyi's Bronson, 
 
 220 
 
 James Guthrie, Jr. 
 
 1,7,12 
 
 Elisha Bronson, 
 
 220 
 
 John Guthrie, 
 
 
 .lohn Beuten. 
 
 847 
 
 Joseph Guthrie, 
 
 1,142 
 
 Oliver Bartlett, 
 
 
 Daniel D. G.irdine 
 
 •• 32.;, 
 
 Wvrnm Barllett, 
 
 4)3 
 
 Henry Gardiner, 
 
 1.31: 
 
 Isaac Bill, 
 
 224 
 
 Jolui Gilmore, 
 
 213' 
 
 Asa Cooper, 
 
 200 
 
 .Jacob Grow, 
 
 4i5| 
 
 Stephen Cooper, 
 
 20:1 
 
 .\lpheus Hall, 
 
 438 
 
 Samuel Converse, 
 
 701 
 
 Moses Hall, 
 
 2?0 
 
 Joseph Collins, 
 
 81G 
 
 Luke Hall, 
 
 6I0I 
 
 William Collins, 
 
 518 
 
 Noah Hall, 
 
 610 
 
 James Cornwell, 
 
 
 Samuel Hill. 
 
 310 
 
 Isaac Criry, 
 
 100 
 
 .\arou Hutchinson 
 
 , 7011 
 
 Nathan Cr.iry, 
 
 53 
 
 Abel Hntchiusou, 
 
 30il 
 
 William Crane, 
 
 
 Noah Hute'.iinsou, 
 
 33 s 
 
 Amos Cole, 
 
 658 
 
 Samuel Hait. 
 
 481 
 
 Cornelius (Mark, 
 
 620 
 
 Lebeus Hunt, 
 
 2J0^ 
 
 Daniel Clark, 
 
 45 -i 
 
 Allen Hammond. 
 
 5;i0: 
 
 John Clark. 
 
 400 
 
 Henrv Herrick 
 
 388! 
 
 Abner Calkins, 
 
 1.7011 
 
 Hn,'i; Herrick. 
 
 3s; 
 
 ,\sa (Calkins, 
 
 432 
 
 John Herrick. 
 
 
 Asa Calkins, Jr., 
 
 150 
 
 Jcdiii Hibbird, 
 
 1,351 
 
 David Calkins, 
 
 189 
 
 Daniel Hibbird, 
 
 3,10, 
 
 John Ci-andiiU, 
 
 300 
 
 ,Joel Hatch. 
 
 1,039 
 
 Freeman Crandall 
 
 28 1 
 
 Timothy Hatch. 
 
 972 
 
 .Tames Curtis, 
 
 119 
 
 Orsamus Holmes, 
 
 1,030 
 
 lioraiu Cnrlis, 
 
 400 
 
 Daniel H illis. 
 
 140 
 
 Nathan Cutler, 
 
 140 
 
 Tlioni IS H irrison. 
 
 47.s: 
 
 .Joseph Dixon, 
 
 1,829 
 
 Thomas Howard, 
 
 4501 
 
 Itichard Dout^las, 
 
 89 
 
 John H<.)lliday, 
 
 450 1 
 
 SUERBURN1-: KOK 1801. 
 
 Thomas Jenks, 
 Solomon .Jones, 
 Abram St. John, 
 Fr'.'derie'.i Kashow 
 Jolin Kashow, 
 Stephen Kelsey, 
 Charles Kelsey, 
 Samuel Kelsey, 
 Sylvanus Kelley, 
 Edward Kibbe, 
 Josiali I^athrop, 
 
 David Rhett, 
 
 266 
 
 NON-RES 
 Benjamin Walker, 1,320 
 
 Eh^azer Lathi 
 John Lathrop, 
 Ezra Lathrop, 
 Elias Ladd, 
 William Ladd. 
 l»''ujamin Lyon, 
 (. yrns Lyon, 
 Joel Lee, 
 Joel Lee, Jr.. 
 Daniel ,Mc Master, 
 David Miller, 
 ' Noah Munn, 
 John Muir. 
 E|ihraim .Morev, 
 Eli Marsh. 
 John DeMott, 
 David Norton, 
 John Nichols, 
 .\sa Northrop, 
 Stephen Northrop. 
 B"iijainin Northrop 
 .Joel Norfirop. 
 .A.u;,'nstin Odle. 1 
 Austin Odle, 
 U msoiu Odle, 
 William Odle, 
 Ncdson Otis. 
 John Percival, 
 John Parsons, 
 Getn-ge Pease, 
 Eber Parker. 
 Stephen Parker. 1 
 Sel.ih Picket. 
 Samuel Picket, 
 Josiah Purdy. 
 Jfiremuih Pnrdy, 
 Stephen PurJy, 
 Svlvanus Peterson, 
 Elisha Powell. 
 Jonathan Pet;it, 
 James Pettit, 
 Ge irgF Pettit, 
 Samuel Pixlev, 
 John Parker," 
 .Joseph Parkhurst, 
 Nathan Porter, 
 John Palmer, 
 Philo Perry, 
 Klam Parsons, 
 Joel Peck, 
 Jonah Poyer, 
 Isaac Raymond, 
 
 IDENTS. 
 
 John Watts, 
 
 2)5 
 513 
 575 
 237 
 3J8 
 73' I 
 185 
 33J 
 
 130 
 !,0,33 
 .,30s 
 ..881 
 719 
 200 
 300 
 43.1 
 4011 
 81 
 340 
 258 
 68 < 
 200 
 33; 
 3111 
 528 
 22^1 
 448 
 23) 
 304 
 452 
 , 300. 
 817 
 ,0j8! 
 
 4)0 
 570 
 5 JO 
 491 
 253 
 .212 
 224 
 70U 
 27i 
 213 
 508 ] 
 15,.) I 
 281 
 775 
 
 125 
 
 30 
 281, 
 
 140; 
 158 
 110 
 23'. 
 25.11 
 7251 
 312' 
 
 Nowcomb Raymond, 728 
 .James Raymond, 700 
 .\braui liavniond, 720 
 Siine'on Ki'xtord. 2,029 
 Abijah Rogers, 334 
 
 I Noah Robinson, 
 1 John Rees, 360 
 
 ; John Rees, Jr., 300 
 
 Jacob Rees, 681 
 
 Joseph Rose, 
 Nathaniel Rose, 
 .Joseph Simons. 1.600 
 Jouathan Simons, 
 Elijah Sextim, 834 
 
 Darius .SpcuTV, 490 
 
 James Seiver, 154 
 
 William stover, 815 
 
 ObadiaU Spencer, 1,280 
 Oliadiah Spencer, Jr., 
 Elk cnah Spencer, 122 
 Elisha Stanly, loo 
 
 Tliaddens Stanly, 100 
 Peier Shaw, 
 William Shaw, 344 
 
 .Samuel Shaw, 55J 
 
 John Suttoe.. 4O0 
 
 William Smith, 348 
 
 •Job Spencer, 273 
 
 Zadock Seymour, 728 
 St'*plien Skinner, 440 
 James Sherburne, 570 
 Asel Stebbins. 284 
 
 Walter Slingerland. 100 
 Weston G. Thomas. 2o.| 
 Joel Thompson. 633 
 
 Caleb Thompson, 585 
 .Samuel Thompson, 7o9 
 Sam'l Thompson, Jr. 300 
 Thos. R. Tracv. 483 
 
 Joseph Tobey", 492 
 
 Joshua Talcott, 1,408 
 Joshu.i Talcott. Jr.. 510 
 riios. Vorce. 264 
 
 Aaron Van Vleet. 108 
 Hopsou Wilcox. 1.562 
 Hazard Wilcox, 612 
 
 Rnssel Wilcox, 5s2 
 
 Lillvbridge Wilcox, 604 
 John Wilcox, 60i 
 
 Seth Wells, 
 
 N lah Wood, 415 
 
 Abram West, 
 Stephen Welton, 448 
 Levi Welton, 575 
 
 Joseph Weeks, 200 
 
 David Wilber, 332 
 
 Asa White, 184 
 
 Bigelow Wat ^rs, 1,129' 
 Elijah Whitney, 140 
 
 Ephraim Whitney. 150 
 Dyer Young. 
 
 Total. 
 
 11.545 John Lawrcuc 
 
 S112.523 
 
 33.383 
 
 Total assessment of real and personal estate . - - 
 
 Given under our hand this 27th day of .\ugiist. 1801. 
 
 Jo.vATiiAN Pettit. Samuel Picket, 
 
 J159,03S 
 
 Apollos Allen, Assessors. 
 
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LAND OWNERS DESIGNATED ON MAI' OE PROPRIETORS. 
 
 Nathaniel Gray, 
 John Gray, 
 
 F.I.ISHA (JRAY, 
 
 NiiwcoMii Raymond, 
 Abram Rasmonu, 
 JamI'.s Raymond, 
 JosiAH Lathrop, 
 John Laihrop, 
 Ezra Laihrop, 
 Elkazkk Lmhrop, 
 TiMoiHY Haich, 
 Joel Hatch, 
 Isaac Ray.monl, 
 Cornelius Clark, 
 Amos Cole, 
 Orsamus Holmes, 
 Stephen Purdv, 
 Benjamin Ferris, 
 George Anderson, 
 Daniel Anderson, 
 James Anderson, 
 Guv Darrow, 
 Alexander Miller. 
 Elijah Foster, 
 Nathaniel Gray, Jr. 
 Frederick Kashow, 
 Joseph Herrick, 
 Joseph Dixon, 
 Francis B. Bowker, 
 Joel Norihrop, 
 John Hikhard, 
 Mr. Hah', 
 Ministerial Lot, 
 The Proprietors, 
 John Miller, 
 
 Lot No. 
 
 ACBES 
 
 I 
 
 i33f 
 
 I 2 
 
 130 
 
 10 
 
 130 
 
 20 
 
 130 
 
 5 
 
 ■25 
 
 8 
 
 I24f 
 
 '6. 17, 27, 33 
 
 533^ 
 
 2, 4. 9. 39 
 
 498f 
 
 18 
 
 184I 
 
 1- ■.>• 15- 38. 43 
 
 612 
 
 6, 32 
 
 23of 
 
 3 
 
 133^ 
 
 19 
 
 100 
 
 3- 7 
 
 192J 
 
 14 
 
 115 
 
 13. 45 
 
 1892 
 
 23 
 
 100 
 
 II, 12, 22 
 
 224 
 
 10, 17, 24, 26 
 
 300 
 
 8,9 
 
 261 
 
 25 
 
 :20 
 
 28 
 
 100 
 
 37 
 
 io8i 
 
 4> 
 
 ■03^ 
 
 29 
 
 100 
 
 1 1 
 
 100 
 
 21 
 
 100 
 
 30. 31. 3^' 
 
 300 
 
 34 
 
 100 
 
 35 
 
 i33i 
 
 14, 35 
 
 262 
 
 40 
 
 100 
 
 - 
 
 50 
 
 44 
 
 33 
 
 42 
 
 io3i 
 
ADDITIONAL MP:M0RANDA. IO9 
 
 Joshua Talcott, Sr., who was early of Sherburne West Hill, be- 
 ing the first occupant of what was afterwards long known as the 
 Demas Hubliard farm, was from Bolton, Con'n., where his first 
 wife, Jemima, had died. He was the father of Joshua, Jr., and 
 Harvey Talcott, of Smyrna, and of Jemima, who married Joshua 
 Pratt. He died July lyth, 1S04. 
 
 Judge Hezekiah Talcott, k'indred of Joshua, was born in VVeth- 
 ersfield. Conn., June i-S, 1739, and came to the West Hill from 
 Herkimer Co., being drawn thither l>y the fact that his two sons- 
 in-law. Priest Knight and Asa Gifford, resided there. He lived on 
 what was afterwards known as the Wooster ]>lace, where he died 
 Dec. 3d, 1824. 
 
 Rev. Dr. J. D. Fulton, the noteil Baptist divine, is a native of 
 Sherburne, being the son of Re\-. John J. and Chirissa Dewev 
 Fulton, his father having been the pastor of the old Baptist 
 Church near P^arlville, at the time of his birth, March i, 1828. 
 
 Among the teachers at the old Sherbtirne Academv whose 
 names will lung be connected with it, were Rev. Dr. James Eells, 
 and Rev. I. F. Pettibone. Tluir memory is indeed precious. 
 
 Amos Cole, who was one of the earliest settlers was, accoriling 
 to the tombstone data on the West Hill, four times married, him- 
 self surviving until his 93d year. Had among other children 
 sons F'estus and HeMiry who were fine musicians, the latter ha\-- 
 ing been for a time organist of the Congregational Church. 
 
 Eber Snow was the blacksmith on the West Hill during the 
 early days, and it was his pretty daughter who became the wife 
 of Dr. Seba Mead, who was for many years the principal ph\-si- 
 cian in Sin\-rna. 
 
 Nathaniel Gray was tlu' first agent for Judge Watts in the dispo- 
 sal of his Sherburne lands, and in the summer of 1804 he stopped 
 with him for a time in his then jvist ccunjjleted new house which 
 is still standing nearl\- opjjosite the Quarter Cemetery. In the old 
 Field Book of the survey of those lands made by Rix Burlingame 
 in 1796, are references to Mr. Gray having sold this or that lot of 
 land. 
 
no ADDITK^NAL M KMOK ANDA. 
 
 Hatch's History says tliat the first bridge over the river was 
 built near the junction of the Handsome Brook, to accommodate 
 foot passengers, wliile teams forded tlie stream a sliort distance 
 below. It consisted of one large tree in width and three in length, 
 leveled on the upper side with the hewing axe Stakes driven a 
 few feet apart near the outer edges, \vere interwoven with withs, 
 to protect women and children from falling into the stream. A 
 ^voman by the name of Lathrop, rode across the britlge ^vith a 
 child in her arms, to the astonishment of her friends and neighbors, 
 in safetv. It ^\•as considered a hazardous umlei-taking, even to 
 lead a horse over the structure. A Frenchman, rather than ride 
 through the river, made the attesnpt, when, inifortunately, the 
 horse fell upon the bridge, with his I'eet dangling on both sides, 
 and was prevented from falling into the water by the stakes antl 
 withs, which held iiim there, until the neighbors could be rallied, 
 from a quarter to one mile around, in sulticient numljers to lift 
 and support the horse across the remainder of the bridge, ^^•hieh, 
 with considerable difficulty, tiiev were enabled to accomplish. 
 
 It was near the eastern end of this bridge th.at the pioneers 
 built their first rude log cabin, and trailition says it \\-as near that 
 place that Joel Hatch and .Xeweomb Raymond i-loseil up their 
 celebrated grindstone i-o-pannership by a di\'ision of the stock' 
 on hand after the radical inamiei- that Solomon propt)sed to the 
 two disputing \\-idows I And they were the liest of friemls e\er 
 after. 
 
 Among the school teachers of the earlier tlays not already men- 
 tioned, are Col. Lorenzo Hatch. Philander Raymond, Caroline 
 Mudge, Hannah Chai>man, Charles Allen, (ii.-orge W. W'ooster 
 Semantlia Ra\-niond. and .Adaline Crandall, in the District on 
 the west side of the river; one the West Hill, Deacon Joseph 
 Adams, Irad Ra\-mond, Ji'.mes T. Giltbrd. Williams Aver\' ; in 
 the Quarter District, winit-r of 1S24-5, Israel l-"oote; winter of 
 1825-6, Alfred Raynu)nd. .Mr. Mandeville was a very successful 
 teacher in the Sherburne Union School \vhen first establisheil; 
 M^as afterwards Attorney General of California. Lysander Chap- 
 man ^vas the terror of all the unrul\- schools in the town, .md ad- 
 ministered cor])oreal ])unishmen.t with unsparing rigor 
 
ADDITIONAL MEMORANDA. Ill 
 
 As an instance of liow helpful the neighbors were to each oth- 
 er in the earl}' da\-s; Henry Gardiner, then living on the present 
 Sidney Sanford place, had his barn struck by lightning one Satur- 
 day night and consumed by fire. At the close of service on Sun- 
 day Priest Knight announced that there would be a "bee" to help 
 Mr. Gardiner on the following da}-; and by Tuesda}' night it had 
 been fully rebuilt. And this reminds that Andrew Davis still 
 points out the stump of a noble pine tree that the Hatches gave 
 towards rebuilding Capt. Newton's Woollen Mill when it had been 
 burned in 1816, it being riven into shingles for that purpose. 
 
 Asa Foote, Sr., ^vas a Millwright, and he rebuilt the no^v Ker- 
 shaw Mill \\-hL'n it had been burned about 1820, after which it is 
 said that he owned it for a sln)rt time. 
 
 Mills Landon, for many vears prominent in Sherburne, Justice 
 of the Peace, &c., and who married for his second wife a sister of 
 Mill' Hunt, removed to Spencerport. X. V., 1835, and died there in 
 1864, in his 83d vear. A son resides in Rochester. 
 
 Sidiiev Averv was a cabinet-maker at Sherburne for a perit)d 
 prior \o 1845, ^^'ken he removed to Beh'idere, Ilk, where he didl 
 1888, in his 88th year, leaving three chi dren Mrs. D. D. Sabin, Bel- 
 videre, \Vm. D., of Chicago, and Rev. Eugene H. Averv of Vinton, 
 111. Mrs. Avery was a daughter of Deacon Dickey. A choice family. 
 
 Deacon Chester Hammond resided in the 8th township, but his 
 children were all baptised at the oKl West Hill Church including 
 j^ons. Rev. H. L. Hammond, eminent as a clergyman, ami Col. 
 Chas. G. Hammond, who was President of the I'nion Pacific R. 
 R.,and ]iroininent as a financier and philanthropist. His daugh- 
 ter, Eleaner Eunice, married Mr. Hurd, and resides at Galesburg, 
 Ilk; her st>n. Dr. Henry M. Hurd, is Supt of Johns Hopkins Hos- 
 pital at Baltimore, Md. 
 
 The Inn kept by John Guthrie when he was Postmaster and 
 flourished for a time, was on the site of the present Daniels 
 House, his predecessors having been Bela S. Scoville and Samuel 
 Stebbins, and afterwards he was succeeded by Gardner Babcock, 
 whose daughter became the wife of Judge Roswell Judson ; a 
 Mr. Morris alsf) kept the jilace, and for a time it was called the 
 Morris House. 
 
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