Winchester Township (part 1 of 30)

Winchester Township

Was established about 1820, and called Scott, from the name of the township in which it was then situated, Winchester not then being a part of Scott. The office retained this name until April 1, 1880, when it was changed to Winchester.

The first Postmaster was Joseph Eylar, who served until 1811, when lie was succeeded by James Sparks; the third was Isaac Prutzman ; the fourth, John Frow, 1847-61 ; the fifth, Jos. Eylar, 1802-04; the sixth and present incuiybeiit is Aaron Shrivel*.

This office, situated about three miles north-east of Winchester, was established about 1868, with Sanford Burba as first Postmaster, who has since been succeeded by W. L. Albert, present incumbent.

Winchester Lodge I. O. O. F., No. 508

This lodge has passed through varied changes, and suffered by removals, expulsions, sickness and deaths, but lias weathered the storms, and retains an efficient organization with 27 members at this time, July, 1880. The present officers are :

One man taught this school for loss than $25 per month I From 1848 to 1855, tho date of tho building of the fourth school house, two teachors woro employed for tho schools, with one or two exceptions. Sinco the year 1855, the number employed in the while schools, has in one or two instances reached four. The following persons have held the position of principal teacher sinco the organization of the special district, in 1865:

The enumeration for the year 1879, shows a school population of 181, of which 14 are colored. The schools are in session about eight months in the year.

By Prof. W. A. Clark

The history of the Winchester public schools extends over a period of seventy-two years, during the first fifty-seven of which it existed as a sub-district, first of Scott, then of Winchester township. A correct chronology of the events of this period would be difficult to obtain. No certain record can be found, and we are forced to rely solely upon the personal recollections of individuals.

For thirty years prior to the organization of Winchester town, ship in 1838, the school was a sub-district of Scott township. From 1838 to 1865, it was. known as "District No. 4," of Winchester township. In 1865 it was organized into a special district. Under this new organization, which was that of schools in corporate villages, it had six directors and a board of examiners. This special board of examiners was discontinued several years ago.

The first school house within the present limits of the village was a log house built in 1808, upon a little eminence east of town. This knoll is now the cemetery grounds ; and the graves of Judge Eylar and wife mark the site of the building. This house was used for school and church purposes for eighteen years. In 1826 another building for school purposes was erected on the "public square." This was also a log structure, and is still standing in the rear of the residence of J. A. Lemons. It was occupied until 1848. In 1839 the Legislature by a special act authorized the sale of the building, together with the ground upon which it stood, Col. Wm. Robbins, II. I. dc Bruin, Esq., and Dr. N. D. Thompson were appointed commissioners for that purpose. They effected a sale, and applied the proceeds to the erection of a new building. A lot of land was bought of J. M. Darlinton, on the west side of town ; and on it was erected a ono-story brick building of one room, the third school house built for the district. This building was used for school purposes until 1855. when it was found to be insufficient for the accommodation of the district, and was sold. It is now occupied by David Fisher as a private residence. Thos. Ramsey was the contractor for the new building, and received "eight hundred dollars and the old house" for building the uew one. This house is a frame with two rooms, and a hall, and was built upon a lot "13 rods square," purchased of James Dunlap for *1130.50. It was occupied until 1871, when the present building was erected.

The present house is the fifth school house built for the district. It is a two-story brick, 32x68, containing [f<5ur commodious rooms and hall ways, and cost $4,000. The frame house after being sold and passing through several parties hands, was finally purchased by the school board, and is now used for the colored school.

taught in 1808. For forty years following that time one teacher seems to have been sufficient, but ho undoubtedly had at times "a full school." In the records of 1847, is found the following:

By The Pastor

The history of this church cannot be given as fully as is desirable, owing to the fact that there are several breaks in the records of its earlier transactions; we give, however, its history, with as much regularity and consecutiveness as the records will permit.

The first church meeting, of which the records give account, was held at the house of Spencer Records, south of Fincastle, Brown county, O., Sept. 18th, 1813. At this meeting Elder Chas. B. Smith was called to the pastorate of the church, and Brother Records was chosen Deacon, and Brother Laycock, Clerk of tho church. On the 2Sth of August, 1814, the church held a meeting at the house of Brother Records, at which, the church chose to be known as the "Regular Baptist church at Brush creek, in Adams county, State of Ohio ;" and adopted the Articles of Faith. The constituent members signing the Articles of Faith at that meeting were as follows :

Brother Thomas was the first person baptized by the church, his baptism occurring in June, 1814. From this date to 1818, the church met very irregularly and with but little success, Elder Chas. B. Smith continuing with them as Pastor. On the 23d of May, 1818, the church dissolved, and on Jan. 28th, 1820, a meeting was held at the house of Bro. Spencer Records, at which time a reorganization of the church was consummated on their former Articles of Faith. There were present at this reorganization of the church, Spencer Records, Deacon ; Wm. Laycock, Clerk ; Solomon Sparks, Abraham Thomas, Henry Pile, Elizabeth Records and Catherine Sparks. At this meeting the church dismissed b\ letter Brother and Sister Records, and Brother Wm. Laycock. From 1826 to April 20th, 1828, the church failed, "through various causes," to have meetings. Elder II. Johnson began to preach for the church about this time, whether as pastor or not, the records do not 9tate. During the time that Elder Johnson preached for the church, there were received by baptism 18. and 15 by letter and experience. The Strict creek Association held its first session with this church, August, 1829. In 1830, the church began to build a meeting house, aud appointed John Wallace, Salomon Sparks and Nathaniel Cloud, Trustees, to attend to the building of the new church house, to be erected on a lot in Winchester, purchased of Samuel Bawldrige. Brother Rhoads was also afterward appointed as Trustee of the church. The church had no pastor, so far as Hie records show, until 1832, but during the interval Elders Johnson, Smith, Spohn and others, preached occasionally for them. Elder Hiram Bennett was called to the pastorate in June, 1832, and continued his labors with the church about nine years. During his pastorate about 150 were received by baptism, 60 dismissed by letter, and 15 oxcluded.

Elder Wm. Allgood was called to take charge of tho church in Sept. 1841, and entered upon his pastoral labors Nov., 1841. He resigned in July, 1848, the church having received during his pastorate, 5 by baptism, 9 by letter, dismissed by letter, 25, and excluded 9.

At tho September meeting, 1848, Elder Eli Fry was called, and partial arrangements made, but were dissolved at the next meeting. In Nov., 1851, the church called Elder James Gabri c* to the pastorate, who began his labors at once, and continued to sorvo the church until 1863. While Elder Gabriel was pastor, the church received 28 hy baptism and 13 by letter ; dismissed by letter, 37, and excluded 6.

Elder Gilman Stone, a licentiate of Providence, R. I., was soon after called, and was ordained in July, 1853. Ho resigned in April, 1854, and tho church immediately recalled Elder Gabriel, who continued until Sept. 1855. During the pastorate of Elder Stone and the socond pastorate of Elder Gabriel the church received by baptism, 3; dismissed by letter, 17 ; excluded 1. On the 27th of February, 1830, tho church agree to build a brick church In Winchester, 30x40 feet, and tho building committee report I he house completed Jan., 1833.

Iu Oct., 1855, Elder nuson took charge of the church, and at their meeting the following month tho church resolved to build a new meeting house, 36x54 feet, with 14 feet to ceiling. Iho building committee consisted of Samuel McNeil, Ezra Sparks, Jas. Carson and B. C. Colburn, who were instructed to sell the old house and lot, and to purchase a new site for the new building. This, the second house of worship built by the church, was dedicated thc21)lh of March, 1857.

During the time that Elder Iluson was pastor, the church received 5 by letter, and dismissed 4 by letter. Elder Samuel Wallace ncxl took charge of tho church in 1857, and resigned March, 1861. While lie was pastor the church received 55 by baptism, 15 by letter, and excluded 5. Elder A. B. White was called, March, 1861, and began labor in May, 1861. Ho was ordained iu June following, and while he was with the church, 7 were received by baptism and 4 by letter ; 9 dismissed and 7 excluded.

In April, 1864, Elder G. W. Taylor was callod, and continued with the church about one year, during which, 1 was received by baptism, 4 by letter : 2 dismissed by letter, 7 excluded. Elder F. C. Fear was called Sept., 1865, and continued until Nov. 1867. While he was pastor tho church received 2 by baptism, 4 by letter; 10 dismissed and 1 excluded. Elder Wm. Haw was called Jan.. 1868, and continued as pastor until Dec., 1872. During his pastorate the church received by baptism, 13 ; by letter, 8 ; dismissed 10, excluded 4. No pastor from Dec., 1872 to Oct., 1873, but had occasional preaching by Elder D. Trichler.

Elder G. AT. Thompson was called Oct., 1873, but resigned March, 1874. Charles A. McManis was licensed to preach Nov., 1873, and was ordained in March, 1874, the church having called for his ordination in February previous.

Elder Joseph Smith was called to the care of the church April, 1874, and closed his pastorate April, 1879. During the time he served the church, 5 were received by baptism, 3 by letter, 2 restored ; and 8 dismissed by letter, 1 excluded.

From April, 1879, to Nov., 1879, the church had no pastor, but occasional preaching by Elders Joseph Smith and S. G. Lindsey. During this interval the church received 1 by baptism and 1 by experience.

In Oct., 1879, the church called Elder L. II. Denman to tho pastorate, who is now acting pastor. He entered upon his pastoral duties Nov., 1879, and from that time to the present (July, 1880) the church has received by baptism, 6 ; by letter, 8 ; dismissed by letter, 3.

The total membership at present is 71. The church has had in all 11 Deacons, 9 Clerks, 9 Trustees, and 6 Treasurers, during her existence of over 66 years. And in that length of time, 15 different ministers have been iu the pastorate, an average of a little over 4J^ years to each pastorate.

May thorough consecration and an unwavering faith mark her future course and progress, and success crown her every effoi't for God's glory I

The grand-father «f this sketch, Joseph Darlinton, one of the oldest and best known citizens of Adams county, was Clerk of the Court over forty years. At an early day ho bought 1,000 acres of land, on a part of which ho laid off the village of Winchester in 1815. The remainder of this land was divided among his children. One of these children, John M. Darlinton, married Folly Beard. Jan. 27, 1818, and in March of the same year, moved on his new home, a part of the thousand acres, where his wife died some ten months after their marriage. Mr. Darlinton married for a second wife, Mary Naylor, February 10, 1820. By this marriage there were born unto him six children, three of whom survive, Ilarvev A. Darlinton, Newton M. Darlinton and John N. Darlinton. The last named, who is the subject of this akVteh, was married February 28, 1872, to Rachel A. Smith, hy which marriage they have three children, George Edward, Mary Nancy, George Wilson. Mr. Darlinton occupies a portion of the old farm adjoining the village of Winchester.

James Doyle. - The subject of our sketch was born in Washington county, Penn., in 1807; came at tho age of thirteen to Highland county, O. In 1823, he settled in Decatur, where he learned the blacksmith trade. He removed to Winchester in 1825, where he started a drug store, which he cal'ried on Until his doce&se. October, 1879. He was for many years a member of the Christian church.

thp township, that was born In it. Ho Is engaged In the manufacture and sale of wagons, carriages and buggies. He has been engaged In this business from early life. He doca a prosperous business.

Dr. John Grossman, - Was born in Union couuty, Pa., In 1806, camo to North Liberty in 1845, resided there three or four months, then removed to Brush creek, Winchester township, where he stayed from April to October. 1847, from tlienco he went to Youngvillo and stayed a year, and from there settled near Winchester, where ho lived until his decease in 1877, in his 73d yoar. His widow still survives, and resides with her son, William A. Grossman, on tho old homestead. Mr. Grossman renrod a family of three children, two eons and one daughter, Ira A., Mary E. and William A. Grossman. Ira A. was killed by the Indians at Sweetwater Ridge, Nebraska, In 1863. Mary E. married John B. Campbell, and now lives in Kansas. William A. married Sarah B. Denning, December 13, 1870. They are tho parents of two children, John Eldon and William A. Grossman. Mr. Grossman owns and occupies the old homestead, one-half mile west of the village, engaged in farming.

Jesse Hall, - Came to this county in 1816. In 1827 ho married Sarah M. Cochran. They are the parents of ten children, only two of whom are now living. Among tho sous of this family three were physicians, one a bookeeper, one a professor of languages in some institution of learning. The oldest son, J. M. Hall, is a practicing physician. The daughter, Mrs. E. J. Anderson, lost her husband, J. K. Anderson, iu the service in the rebellion. He died of sickness. Mrs. Hall's father, Mr. Cochran, was a sea captain. He was also a soldier in the war of 1812.

Rees Hiatt. - This gentleman's ancestors were natives of Virginia. His grandfather and father both camo and settled in Highland county where the grandfather died. Rees Iliatt was born near Leesburg, Highland county, Ohio, Sept. 6, 1840. In 1863 lie married Ellen Greathouse. They have had horn unto them four children, two of whom are dead. Soon after his marriage, he settled one and one-fourth miles north of Winchester, whore he still resides In 1874 his wife died, and ho married for a second wife, Elsena Alexander. Mr. Hiatt has a farm of 120 acres of good land. He makes a speciality of thorough bred stock. He has at great expense procured a herd of short-horn Durham cattle from the best herds in Kentucky, which he cultivates with great care and good judgment.

David M. Kane. - Stephen Kane, the grandfather of David M. Kane, emigrated with his family from Penn., in 1808, and first settled on Beasley's Fork. He served iu the war of 1812, and in 1814, moved to Cherry Fork, and located about two miles above North Liberty. Here he and his wife both lived and died. He married Mary Kirker. They reared a family of children, one of whom was named James. This son was four years old when his parents came to Adams county. He spent his early life at home, helping to clear and improve the farm. By untiring industry and perseverance, he obtained a farm near Eckmansville, where he settled and still resides. He married Mary Gaston. These are the parents of David M. Kane, the subject of this sketch. David M. Kane was born Aug. 12, 1834. He received such an education as the scholars of that period afforded. At sixteen his prospects for a finished education were good, but these prospects were blighted by the death of his two older brothers. In 1855, he bought the farm on which he now resides, and has improved, adorned and beautified it,|until to-day there is no more comfortable or prettier residence in Adams county. In 1860, he married Sarah J. Moreland, daughter of Thomas Moreland, who was a native of Ireland. Mr. Moreland came to this country at an early day, and in 1826 married in Green county, Ohio, Miss Anna Reed, who was a native of Penn. David M. and Sarah J. Kane are the parents of four children ; Rosa M., Dora A., Willie M., and Jennie Maud. The Kane family are cultured and refined, and we record with pleasure that Mr. Kane takes an interest iu education, which is rapidly placing his family in' the front ranks of education lovers in the country. Rosa M., is already in the teacher's profession, and the other children aro given the benefit of the best educational advantages in the couutry.

A. C. Lewis, M. D. - The subject of this sketch was born in Herkimer, N. J., June 17, 1709 - came to'Gallipolis, Ohio, in 1828 - studied medicine with Dr. S. S. Fowler." of Cincinnati, and graduated at the Miami Medical College in 1855. He married Miss Eveline Tweed, in Williamsburg, Clermont County, Ohio, Nov. 14,1834, came to Winchester July 16, 1835, where he commenced the practice of his profession, which he has since followed. He reared a family of three children, Alice, Emma, and Annie. His wife died Feb. 7. 1857. He married for a second wife Francis A. Hopkins, of Greene county, Ohio. There is but one person now living in Winchester that was here when Mr. Lewis Came to the place in 1835. At that time there was but one church in the village, the Baptist Churoli, which is used by W. T. Hughes as a wagon shop. A small log school house stood on the public square. It had a few small windows in It, and slab seat9. There were then but two regular physicians in the county; there aro now thirty. Mr. Lewis >6 the oldest resident physician in Adams county.

T. M. Youno, - Was born in Wayne township, Adams county, in 1835, was married In 1855, followod farming until his marriage, when he commenced tho milling business which he has since followed. In 1873 ho bought the flouring mill of James Rees, in Winchester, which ho has continued to run to the present date. This is one of the host mills in the couuty, aud under the management of Mr. Young Is doing a large business. It was built by Mr. Rees about 1868."

W. R. Dufff.y. - The ancestors of W. R. Duffcy wore natives of Ireland. Ilia grandparents, both paternal and matornul, Uvod near Londomlerre. Ills paternal grandfather, Micluel Duffey, was horn in 1753, and died in June 1838, and his maternal grandfather, Thomas Ramsey, was born in 1749, and died in Sept. 1833. They came to America about the year 1772, and both were soldiers in the Revolutionary War. They both married iu 1779 or 1780, and settled in Fayette county. Pa., near New Genava. His grandfather Duffey married Nancy Cross. They raised four children, James, William, Francis and Elizabeth. Mr. Duffey and all his family emigrated to Ohio in the spring of 1807. They came down the river on a flatboat - there wero no steamboats then - and landed at Manchester. From thcro they went to Brown county, Ohio, and settled about three miles northwest of Winchester, where his wife died, lie married for a second wife Mrs. Nancy Boatman. By this marriage ho had a soil named Michael, who is now living in Ilcndricks county, Indiana. Of the four children by Mr. Duffey's first marriage wo know but little. James died, leaving a widow who still survives. Sho is now in tho 89th year of her ago and in reasonable good health. William served in the war of 1812, and he died in Brown county, Ohio, aged about 70 years. Elizabeth died in Scott township, Oct. 5,1877, iu her 92d year. Francis was born iu Pennsylvania in 1784. He married Miss Elizabeth Ramsey, January 3, 1806, and came with his father's family to Ohio in 1807, and settled in the same neighborhood in Brown county that his father did. Francis and Elizabeth Duffy were the parents of thirteen children. Mary, Agnes, James, Thoma9 R., Michael, \Levinah, Eliza, William R., (the subject of this sketch.) Rebecca C., John C., Tnbitha R., Elizabeth J., and Martha A. Mary never married. She died April 27, 1864. Agnes marrjed Daniel Sharp, Aug. 11, 1855, who died in February 1875. The widow still survives, James never married. Ho died Dec. 24, 1832. Thomas R., died, aged 5 years. Michajl married Jane Cross,' Dec. 7, 1837. They are the parents of eight children. Levinah married Samuel Smith, Oct. 10. 1837. They have reared a family of eight children. Eliza married Andrew McManis Oct. 10, 1837. They reared a family of three children. William R. married Catherine Moore, late of Washington county, Penn., April 11, 1853. Rebecca C., married James Duffoy, Dec. 6, 1849. They have had 6even children but two of whom survive. John C., married Martha A. Patton, Aug. 27, 1851. His wife died Sept. 9, 1857, leaviug three children. He was again married in Aug. 1860 to Satyra Waite. By this marriage wero born unto him three childr.cn. His second wife died in July 1870, and in Sept. 1872, he married for a third wife Mrs. Druzilla J. Wallace. In 1875 Mr. Duffey died, and his last wife still survives, living at the pleasant home with her parents near Winchester. Tabitha R., married John M. Humes, Dec. 16, 1852. They were the parents of five children. Mr. Humes died a soldier in the Uuion army in May 1862. Elizabeth J., married John B. Breckinridge, May 30,1857. She died leaving one child, May 20, 1858. Martha A., married James Bierley in March 1865. They live in Manchester, Ohio, and have had two children, one survivor. Thomas Ramsey, the maternal grandfather of W. R. Duffey, married a Miss Elizabeth Cross. They were the parents of eleven children, William, Samuel C., Rebecca C., Charles, Thomas, Isabel, Joseph. Robert W., Elizabeth, James C., and one that died an infant. Of these children we can gather but little. Thomas and Charles died in the army in the war of 1812, and Elizabeth married Francis Duffey, who were the parents of "A R. Duffey. Thomas Ramsey's first wife died, and he afterwards married for a second wife Mrs. Elizabeth Mears, who survived him several years. Mr. Ramsey and "both his wives died in Penn., on the farifi where ho first settled. In 1825 Francis Duffey bought bf James Welle, of Wcllsvilic, Ohio, a farm in Wayne township, now Winchester, two and a half miles south-east of the village of Winchester and settled on it, and there lived until his decease, March 1, 1846. His widow continued HtL-dccupy the old home until her death, July 5, 1856. This old farm was originally settled by Nathaniel Patton in 1801. Mr. Patton cleared up a considerable portion of the land and planted an orchard on it over seventy-five yoars ago, some of the trees of which aro still living. The first school house in the neighborhood was built on this farm. - The largo elm tree seen in tho engraving in front of the house, was but a small shrub when tho settlement was first made. In the eighty veare that have since passed by, it has grown to be a tree of three feet in diameter. In April 1872. this tree was strode by lightning and considerably shattered, but it is now regaining its former vigor, and promises to be good for another century of healthy growth. Mr. Patton, who bought this land of Beasley and EBispn, found his title defective and lost most of his labor. He left it aud moved to Indiana in the full of 1824, where ho

Iiuuili settled in the wilderness. AV. II. DufTev who is the prin- , i 1 1 1 1 subject of this sketch, and eighth in the family of Francis and lOlizubelh DnIVoy, was born in Brown county, Ohio, in 1 S'Ji ). married Catherino.Moore as before staled. Me now owns ami occupies this old farm - the homestead of his father. lie is a gentleman of good taste, an original thinker, and farms intelligently. For the last twenty years he has been more or less extensively engaged in sheep-raising, keeping from 100 to 400 heads and with satisfactory results, lie thinks sheep and cattle are the most profitable stock for a farmer to raise to improve the soil of the land : more grass and less grain is his motto, lie is from experience a strong advocate for the use ot fertilizers to improve the productive properties of the land, though it pays a good percent, to set the hind in grass alone. Mr. Duffey has a taslp for keeping a' pair of good horses in saleable condition with fine harness, and saddles for them. He says a team will eat loss grain in good flesh than when in poor condition, and will always be readier sale and command better prices than in poor condition. I u politics he is a straight Republican from conscientious convictions of duty and right. 1 lis sentiments were anti-slavery from his early years, and he advocated and voted that ticket, apparently unsuccessfully until 1S60, when Abraham Lincoln was elected to the Presidency. He has voted with that party since, and thinks that under Republican management every branch of the Government has been admirably successful. and that financially it stands the second nation on the globe, that the financiers of the world concede this, and that they are not likely to he mistaken. Mr. Duffey and his wife arc kind, good people, always ready to aid the poor and relieve the needy; none are ever turned from their door hungry or in want. After Mr. Humes lost his life in his country's service, the widowed mother and her orphan children were kindly provided with a comfortable home on Mr. Duffey's farm, and have since shared his hospitalities. Of Mrs. Hume's five children two are dead, the other three, John M., Martha E., and Mary B. Humes are all married. John M., married C. A. Freeland, Dec. 21, 1876. He lives on Mr. Duffey's farm, is a Republican, and prospering financially ; lias one child named Thomas Clyde. Martha E. married R. S. Black, Sept. 11, 1878, and resides at Unity, Adams County, Ohio. Mary B., married N. M. Brown, Oct. 1, 1879. They reside at Unity, and have one child. Although never blessed with children of their own, Mr. and Mrs. Duffey have generally had children about them. Martha C., the youngest daughter of John C'. Duffey is now living with them and is quite a pleasant girl.

Isaac Roberts. - Stephen Roberts, the grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was born in Bucks county, Pa., April 29> 1702. He came with his father to what was then Fairfax county, now Louden count)', Va. lie married Deborah Williams, w'liose ancestors came from England, and were members of the society of friends, some of her relatives being opposed to war remained loyal to the .British CrowiPduring the Revolution, and with others got the appellation of Tory , which perhaps was no undeserving. Miss William's relatives settled at the same place and about the same time that Mr. Roberts did. The fruits of their marriage was eight children, six sons and two daughters* all of whom married, raised families and have since died except John Roberts, who was the third oldest, being born on the 22d of August, 1792, and who is the father of the subject of this sketch. War having been declared by the United States against Great I D i tain in .June, 1812, he, on the 13th of April of the following i- volunteered for six months in Capt. Landen Osburn's Com- I'ittli Regiment, Va., Militia, and served out his time of eu- - uent in the vicinity of Norfolk, and was honorably discharged, -in the following year, 1814, came a general call for all able - lake up arms, as the British were threatening the Capitol, and to this call he responded, and was on his way to gain his company which, by some mcaii9 had got in the advance of him, but before our troops had reached the Capitol it had been fired, and the light of the burning buildings could be distinctly seen, lie also served one month in the vicinity of Baltimore, which city the American troops were shielding from. Gen. Ross, who after burning the Capitol determined on its destruction, but in the skirmish which ensued Gen. Ross was killed, and before day the campfires of the British were extinguished by throwing hides of cattle over them which they had slaughtered, and in the <1 ^ » L -;!--«< moved off and took shipping near North Point, and the u": ui Baltimore was at an end. This ended Mr. Robert's -mi 1- l,:H '' '- L the fall of 1835 lie came to Adams county, of w Li' li he has been a citizen since. An anniversary scene occurod 11 l*l,' having season of this year - 1880. If the passer-by had rhani'cd to look into the meadow he could have seen this man who lias seen the sun of eighty summers out with his old-time v \ '-! ho. while his son Isaac and grandson Samuel were each laying the grass behind them with the improved mower; and what W!l< IMor,' interesting was the ages of the parties at work. Namuel, 29: Isaac, 62, and John Roberts, 88. Isaac Roberts the 'iihjr, t of this sketch, was born Aug. 36, 1818, in London county, N :n,'l as his parents possessed little of this world's goods l-aae wa< early learned to labor, and alter becoming quite a large i \ has worked for 12, hf cents per day. In the summer 1 ^ >>. w bile working on a farm for the enormous sum of $5.50 per month, he formed the acquaintance of a millwright by the name of Joshua Harlcn, who lived in Washington county, Maryland, and contracted with him to learn the trade. lie was to serve as an apprentice for three years for the sum of $50 per year and to clothe himself, which, by close economy he did, and never received all of his money at that. Having finished his apprenticeship he worked as ajourneyman two or three years then went into business for himself and met with good success. On the 18lh of Oct. 1846, he married Lucinda E. Wince, of London county, Va. She was the daughter of Phillip and Catherine Wince, whose maiden name was Shaffer, and who was from the above county. Phillip Wince was born in Pa., on the Delaware River, near l'hila. These parents are buried in London county, Va. Mr. Roberts remained in Va., and followed his trade until two children were born to them. He being away from his children much of the time he decided to change his occupation. Having friends in Ohio, he in the fall of 1850 brought his little family and located in Adams County. There has been eleven children in all born to them, six sons and three daughters, but in the month of Jail. 1865, three children were taken from them two sons and one daughter ; their ages being four, five and eleven years. The rcmainingchildren are all at home except the oldest who is married and lives in the neighborhood. The home of this family is a pleasant one, adorned by flowers and surrounded by ornamental trees and foliage a9 can be seen in the engraving.

Source changes here: from A History of Adams County, Ohio, from Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time, Including Character Sketches of the Prominent Persons Identified with the First Century of the Country's Growth .., by Evans, Nelson Wiley, published 1900; 236,401 words in this source stream.

County Affairs 166

Paid Joseph Darlinton, Esq., by order of court, under the act regulating fees of civil officers for services when the state fails, etc, at 60 dollars

Paid John McDaied, Esq., sheriff of Adams county under the act regulating the fees of civil officers, agreeable to an order of court, at 60 dollars per annum, from the 11th of November, 1823, to the 1st ot June,

Paid Joseph Darlinton for drawing a deed from the trustee of the town of West Union, and for receiving and filing the sheriff's receipt to the judges of the Presidential election and giving certificates therefor 1 00

This is the northwestern township of Adams County. It borders Jackson Township, Brown County, on the west, and Concord Township, Highland County, on the north. It is one of the more recently formed townships of the county, having been organized January 2, 1838, from territory four by six miles, off the west side of Scott, and a strip two by four miles off the north end of Wayne Township. It contains something more than thirty-two square miles or about 20,000 acres of land.

The western part of the township is undulating, with low marshy areas at the head of the small streams whose waters reach the North Fork of Eagle Creek to the southwest or one of the forks of Ohio Brush Creek that flow across the northern portion of the township to the eastward.

The eastern part of the township is more hilly and the land rougher, than the western portion. The soil in the western part is chiefly the white clay^ or boulder drift. These clay soils are rich in all the material of vegetable growth except organic matter, which being supplied by intelligent crop rotation, will gradually improve in productiveness. On the other hand, where the virgin soil has been sapped of its organic matter and not restored by intelligent cultivation, the lands have become cold and barren. It is remarkable that in traveling along the highways through this section, an observer will see on the one side fine fields of corn, oats, wheat, or grass, the products of intelligent farming; and on the other dreary fields of running-briers, poverty grass, and sedge, the harvest of ignorance and sloth.

The eastern part of the township along the numerous small streams and creeks possesses a good limestone soil - the uplands, however, are the yellow and white boulder clays. Under proper care and cultivation the uplands of this township would afford abundant pasturage for large flocks of sheep and herds of cattle. While the valleys Wt>uld grow fine crops of clover, corn, wheat and tobacco.

Every portion of Winchester Township aflfords fine springs of pure limestone water. These springs are found at the heads and along the courses of the numerous small creeks that flow through the township. Just below the site of every pioneer cabin in this township is a fine spring of water. These are factors which, when properly utilized, will make the township a grand pasturage area.

Three branches of the West Fork of Ohio Brush Creek traverse this township. From the northwest flows Little West Fork; from the west, arising in Eagle Township, in Brown County, flows West Fork prefer; and from the southwest flows Elk Run, a wicked, rapid stream, in whose waters many a life has gone out in attempting to ford it when swollen. These three creeks unite on the eastern border of the township and form what is known as West Fork of Ohio Brush Creek, one of the most beautiful streams in the State. These streams have cut deep channels through the blue limestone underlying the surface, and in the deep pools along their courses, sheltered in these shelving layers of limestone, are found the gamest black bass that ever spun the reel of a sportsman's rod.

Among the first settlers in what is now Winchester Township was Joel Bailey. As early as 1799 he had come to Adams County and was one of the first court constables when Washington, at the mouth of Ohio Brush Creek, was the seat of justice of the county. He afterwards, perhaps about 1805, settled on what is now the? Roush farm at the junction of the Buck Run and Seaman pikes east of Winchester. Here he built a stillhouse and a horse mill. He reared a numerous family, decendants of which are scattered from the Alleghenies to the Pacific coast.

It is said that the first shoolhouse in this township was a log structure which stood near the present cemetery at Winchester. Richard Cross, a relative of the Alexander family, which settled about 1805 in that portion of Adams County now included in Eagle Township in Brown County, was the first teacher. When Joel Bailey resided near Elk Run his older children attended a school held in a little log cabin on the old Aid farm in the eastern portion of Jackson Township, Brown County. This was about the year 181 1. Spencer Records was one of the first schoolmasters in the township.

The churches in the township are Calvary M. P. Chttrch in the Kennedy neighborhood in the northeast part of the township, and Centenary M. E. Church about three miles north of the village of Winchester. In the village of Winchester, Methodist Episcopal, Presbyterian, and Baptist organizations are maintained. Of these latter the M. E. Church was organized in 1830 and the Baptist in 183 1. In 1887 the Presbyterians erected a very handsome frame church at «a cost of five thousand dollars. The Baptist organization was formed at the house of Spencer Records on West Fork, on the farm now owned by George Baker, in 1813. Elder Charles B. Smith was the first pastor, and had charge of the congregation until about the year 1820.

In the northern part of the township are a number of small mounds, the work of the pre-historic inhabitants of this region. Some of the larger ones have been partially explored by treasure-hunters but without success, only some fragments of human skeletons, and trifling trinkets of stone and shells having been found.

The first mill in the township is said to have been erected in 1809 on the site of Winchester by Richard Cross. It was an old-fashioned clumsy horse mill. About this date Spencer Records, who then resided on the farm now owned by George Baker, built a mill on Brush Creek near where the county line between Adams and Brown Counties crosses that creek. It was a treadmill. Afterwards Records built a "tub-wheel" mill on the site of what was later known as the old McCormick mill now in Eagle Township, Brown County. This mill was patronized for miles about as being the best mill in that region at that time. It had but one pair of buhrs, and Records dressed the stones himself from a kind of quartz found in the Sunfish hills.

In 1820, Ezra Sparks owned the treadmill where Winchester now stands. About this date Joseph Marlatt erected a water mill on Brush Creek at the mouth of Horner's Run, and a little later Stephen Tolle built one on Elk Run.

Some Bemikiscences

In Howe's History of Ohio there appears some "reminiscences" of "Abolition Mobs," written by R. C. Rankin, of Ripley, Ohio. The scene of one of those "terrible^* mobs is laid in a grove near Winchester.

Being interested in this matter of recording "pioneer scenes and incidents" the writer was greatly surprised to learn of this "scoop" having been made by a rival chronicler in the vicinity of the writer's own "vine and figtree." With a view of gathering some additional facts relative to the matter, the writer sought among others an interview with Mr. O. R. Smith, or "Reece" Smith, as he is familiarily known, to nearly every person in Adams County. Mr. Smith has resided in Winchester from his boyhood to the present day, and knows personally more of the history of the village and township of Winchester, perhaps, than any other person living. He is a prominent Mason, a Methodist, and a substantial business man.

Referring to the "mobbing" of Rev. John Rankin at Winchester as recited in the volume above named, Mr. Smith said: "I remember the incident as well as if it had occurred yesterday. It was in 1837, or perhaps 1838. Rev. John Rankin, Rev. Dyer Burgess, a gentleman named Weed, and John Mahan and some of the Hugginses from the neighborhood of Sardinia had announced an Abolition meeting to be held here in town (Winchester), but from some cause they were not permitted to speak in any of the churches, and so were obliged to hold their meeting in the grove out near where Dr. Noble's residence now stands. There were in Winchester at that time a few sympathizers with the movement among whom I may mention Dr. A. C. Lewis, Milton Colter and Rev. Hiram Burnett, a Baptist minister. But the majcH-ity of our citizens looked upon the movement at that time with disfavor, yet they made no attempt at its suppression. It was a matter in which men took sides in argument, which sometimes ended in bad feeling, as so often do political wrangles.

On this occasion there were a great many people in town from the surrounding country and as usual in those days there was some drunkenness and a great deal of loud and boisterous talk, but not at the place of meeting.

William Stockwell, an old sea captain and author of "Stockwell's Narratives," who then livd^d on Brush Creek near McCormick's mill, and some others, with a fife and drum corps, marched about the streets ; and I remember that while here in town John Boone Fenton, Barney Mullen and Andrew Swearengen were about to get into an encounter with James Huggins and some of his friends, but they were kept apart by old Joel Bailey and others with cooler heads. There were no clubs or canes drawn at the meeting, and no personal encounters during its progress. I remember that Robert Patton was present, but he neither threw nor had he occasion to throw anyone off the speakers' stand.

The story in Howe's History is purely a fiction of the imagination. I might add that the opponents to the Abolition movement were not confined to any one political party - they were in the ranks of both Democrats and Whigs. Barney Mullen and Andrew Swearenger before mentioned were Democrats, while John Boone Fenton and Captain Stockwell were Whigs."

General Morgan and his staflF arrived in Winchester about nine o'clock in the morning, and took up their headquarters in the hotel then kept by Nicholas Bunn on Main Street. There were no telegraph lines nor railroads in Adams County. The people depended upon the mails for their news from the outside world. The Cincinnati newspapers were carried from Maysville and Ripley on the Ohio Riv-er by the way of Cherry Fork and Winchester through to Hillsboro in Highland County.

General Morgan was anxious to see the Cincinnati newspapers, and remained in Winchester until four o'clock in the afternoon in order to capture the mail when it arrived. Becoming impatient he sent a detail of soldiers to meet the carrier, Gibson Paul, who was relieved of the pouches near the old Howard Alexander farm on the Cherry Fork pike.

Old Johny Frow was then postmaster and when Morgan's men took the captured pouches to their commander's room at the village hotel, the obliging postmaster hurried thither with the keys and proffered his assistance in opening the pouches and assorting the mail. General Morgan was staggered at the proposition for the moment, but quickly recovering himself, he replied that he would "assist the obliging postmaster down stairs," if he did not betake himself that way at once. The General assorted the mail himself.

After scanning the dispatches in the latest newspapers. General Morgan rode out to the old cemetery and delivered an address to his men there in camp, in which he advised them of their perilous situation. They then began to prepare in great haste for a renewal of the march, and left in great excitement, taking the Grace's Run route for Harshaville, Wheat Ridge, Dunkinsville and Locust Grove near where the army encamped that night. In the hurry and excitement an officer left his horse saddled and bolstered in Bunn's stable.

The following from Anna Meek McKee, of Chillicothe, graphically describes the exciting scenes in Winchester during the stay of the famous cavalr}^ commander and his "raiders." Capt. Hines was under guard in the house of Norvalle Osburn and made his escape from there. He was directed to the cellar under the house of Hiram Israel De Bruin where a portion of the wall was taken out through the opening in which Hines crawled back under the kitchen floor. The wall was then carefully replaced, and Hines remained under the floor until after the departure of Morgan and his men. Then he was helped from his place of hiding as related below by Mrs. McKee:

"The summer of '63 I spent in Winchester, Adams County, Ohio, with my grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. H. I. De Bruin. When we learned that General Morgan had crossed the river and was in Ohio the consternation was terrible. On the morning of July 15, I think it was Monday, a rumor of his coming into Winchester was spread abroad, and before we could gather our wits he was in the town about 8 o'clock A. M. The whole army came and most of it stayed all day. Morgan with his body guard rode up to the old Sparks (then Bunn's) tavern and took possession of it. The men began to raid and rifle the homes and stores. A number of men called at the hcmie of I. H. De Bruin, who was in the army, and asked his wife for the key to the dry. goods store which had been locked on hearing the news of their coming into town. Mrs. De Bruin promptly gave them the key, and after being in the store a short time they locked it up and returned the key, and paid in confederate money for what they had taken saying to her that the store would not be disturbed again, which proved to be true. (It was thought by some that such was the case because they must have found in his desk evidence of the fact that the proprietor was a Free Mason and that over the store was the Masonic Lodge Room, General Morgan himself being a Mason.) Not so with the store directly across the way, for they rifled it of everything, and what they could not carry away, they tried to destroy, tying their horses's and mules' tails and manes with ribbons and destroying many things before our eyes, scattering pins, needles and small things over the floor of the store and in the street. Never will I forget what a sight that store was, belonging to Mr. Dick Thompson.

"One of the chaplains, Charles Price, of Nicholasville, Kentucky, spent quite a whild on the piazza of my grandfather's home. He came to ask some questions about Hillsboro, knowing that they were not far from that town, especially of Dr. Samuel Steel, who was the Prebyterian minister in Hillsboro, who many said favored in looks H. I. De Bruin, and we thought he was under the same impression for he came up asking if we knew Rev. Samuel Steel. My grandfather referred him to me as being a resident of Hillsboro. He was a relative of Dr. Steel's wife and I had a pleasant chat with him because he knew many in Hillsboro who had visited in Kentucky. He was very interesting and very courteous.

"At three o'clock P. M. a great stir and commotion occurred on Main Street where the house of H. I. De Bruin stood just a half block from where they had entered the town, and here they had in a carriage a prisoner. Captain Hines, of Winchester, Ky. The commotion was caused by the escape of this prisoner. They rode up and down this street swear- ing that they would bum to the ground the house in which he might be concealed. We were all unconcerned and innocent when, had the fact been known, our horrified faces might have told the secret, for my dear grandmother, then sitting on the piazza as calm as any of us, had secreted him. He had run into the back part of Mr. Jerome De Bruin's home, who lived just south of grandfather's, and Jerome had brought him to grandfather's house, and had quietly taken grandmother back to him. Oh, what a woman was she ! I can hear her yet saying to the prisoner, 'Are you deceiving me ?' and his reply, 'God knows I am not, for His sake protect me." And she who had given three of her sons to her country was brave enough to protect him. He was hidden in such a place that he could hear all of the soldiers' ravings over his loss.

"About four o'clock the raiders began to leave the town, and it did not take long for all to get out, they seemed to be in a hurry. General Basil Duke, of Confederate fame was with them. I remember him well. After they had gone, Captain Hines was brought from his hiding place, and after having his supper was sent out north of town where some militia from Hillsboro were stopping.

That same evening word came of Hobson's approach with his seven thousand men. The night was spent in preparing sandwiches and other things for his great army which began to arrive early the next morning. Only the General and his staff stopped for a few hours, he having his headquarters in the best rooms of the De Bruin home. The army passed on in pursuit of Morgan, but not before they had a cup of coffee and a sandwich, which most of them took while on their horses, and they were a tired looking set. Captain Hines was brought in to see General Hobson who gave him a pass to Hillsboro and a horse to ride there and a pass to return to his home. He was wounded and at home on a furlough and this was how he came to be captured. He went to Hillsboro and spent a night at the home of Judge W. M. Meek before going on his journey home.

"After General Hobson and his staff had dined and he had finished his official business, they followed after the army. There was no time lost. Expedition seemed to be his watchword. All the time I was almost paralyzed with fear, but I have always been glad for the personal experiences of those memorable days."

The school eniuneration outside the village of Winchester is 297. The average wages paid teachers is thirty dollars per month. There are six subdistricts and each is provided with a frame schoolhouse twentyfour by thirty feet, one story high. The surroundings of these "colleges of the people" are uninviting. The play-gounds are bare of shade trees or ornamental shrubs, and present a picture of neglect.

In the village of Winchester there is a graded school attended by the pupils of school age within the special district. The present school building is a plain brick structure with four rooms and was erected in 1871. The estimated value of buildings, grounds, furniture and apparatus is $2,000. The school term is seven months; the principal receives sixty dollars per month and the under teachers from thirty to forty dollars each per month. The school enumeration is 232. This special district was organized in 1865. 32a

The Indepei^Ktent Agricultural and Mechanical Association of Adams, Brown and Highland Counties, was organized under the laws of the State in 1859. The first fair was held October 2, 3, 4, and 5, i860. Moses Patterson was the first President and I. H. De Bruin, Secretary. The grounds of the Association occupied a beautiful tract of twenty acres south of the village about one-half mile. From its organization until about the year 1882 this was one of the most popular fairs in southern Ohio. Prom 6,000 to 10,000 persons attended here annually, and the Association paid dividends of from ten to twenty per cent to stockholders. But from bad management about the date last above mentioned the attendance began to grow smaller each succeeding year until 1897, when exhibitions ceased to be held. In 1899, the grounds were disposed of by the stockholders, and will be subdivided into lots for building purposes.

Scott PostoFFice was established in 1820 and Judge Joseph Eyler was the first postmaster. On the first day of April, 1880, the name was changed to Winchester. It is a money order office.

The first railroad built in Adams County, the present C. P. & V. was a narrow gauge from Batavia Junction, called the Cincinnati and Eastern. The first passenger train entered Winchester, August 7, 1877. It was an excursion train of flat cars, and carried a motley crowd of enthusiasts from along the line to the terminus of the road. Here the train was engulfed on its arrival in a struggling mass of humanity seeking a first view of a locomotive and train of cars.

was laid out November 8, 1815, by Joseph Darlinton, and named by him for Winchester, Virginia, near which he was born and reared to man's estate. The original plat contained seventy lots. Afterwards Joel Bailey laid off an addition of eighty-two lots, known as south Winchester. The village was incorporated in 1865, ^^^ has about 800 inhabitants. Joseph Eyler kept the first hotel on the northwest comer of South Street. James and Joseph Baily opened the first store in a log building that stood on lot forty-four, in 1819. Dr. A. C. Lewis was the first resident physician. The first tannery in the village was owned by Joseph Eylar ; and the first oil mill was built by Levi Sparks in 1830. Moses Patterson operated a carding mill and a steam flouring mill frcmi 1851 to 1863. These together with the tannery adjoining were burned in the fall of that year.

R. A. McMillan is the prc^rieor of a fine roller mill in the village at this time. The village contains two hotels, three dry goods stores, three drug stores, two family groceries, and one sawmill. The Masons, Odd Fellows and Knights of Pythias each maintain lodges. The Winchester Bank was organised in 1885 with Hon. L. J. Fenton as cashier.

In the present year, 1900, the citizens seem to have awakened somewhat from a lethargy of tiie "Sleepy Hollow" sort, and with some enterprising "newcomers," such as Messrs. Mecklin, McMillan and others, have succeeded in building in the town a bent wood works, canning factory, and a shoe factory.

Pioneer Character Sketches

was born April 9, 1799, in Botetourt County, Virginia. He was the oldest son of Daniel and Katherine (Heistand) Amen. He, with his parents, came to Ohio about the year 1808. Thety traveled in a four-horse wagon. They settled in Highland County, near East Monroe. They lived there a few years when his father bought some land a mile south of Sinking Springs in Adams County, and built the stone house that still stands there, and removed to it in about 181 2. There the boy, John, lived until he was grown. He attended district school in winter time. His was a rather hard and uneventful life. When twelve years of age, he drove a team of four horses and sometimes oxen, hauling pig iron from Marble Furnace to the Rapids Forge, a foundry owned by John Benner, near Bainbridge, a distance of twenty miles, starting at four o'clock in the morning and returning the same day or night. His life was all work, no play. When twenty-one years old, he left home to work in the store of his brother-in-law, David Johnson, at Georgetown, for the sum of four dollars a month and his board. He saved his earnings and when twentyfour years old, he married Melinda Craighead, the daughter of a wellto-do farmer living two miles from Georgetown. Mr. Craighead was a Kentuckian with aristrocratic notions. He thought the young clerk was no match for his daughter, but the young people were married, making the trip to the ministePs, both riding horseback on one horse. Soon after their marriage, they went to the old stone house, making their home with his parents for several months, until a cabin was built for them on a farm owned by Daniel Amen, two miles north of Sinking Springs, where they lived and worked about six years, when, on account of failing health, he and family came to Sinking Springs, where he engaged in business for more than thirty years, enjoying the quiet village life. He was a great reader. Though very economical, he did not stint himself or family in reading matter. In politics, he felt a great interest, but had no desire for office. He was an Abolitionist when it was dangerous to own being a friend to the slave people. His house was a station on the underground railroad from which no slave was ever caught. He was fearless when he knew he was right. On one occasion, a family of seven slaves were brought into the community. A large reward was offered, and the pursuers or slave catchers were close behind them. Fearing to trust his son or any young person to carry them on, he had two fiery horses hitched to a covered wagon, and although he was a small man, and alone, drove away ju«t after dark, loaded the family in th? wagon and hurriedly drove them to Marshall, eight miles north, when another party took charge of them. He used to boast he had helped more slaves to liberty than any one else n^ar, and that he never had one captured in his charge. He was a member of the Presbyterian Church and held ,the office of deacon for sixty years. In the year 1865, his wife died. After her death, he sold his old home and went to reside with his three married daughters, all of whom lived in Portsmouth, Ohio. He had one son, Daniel, who died, when thirty years of age, leaving two sons. The oldest, Harlan P. Amen, is president of Phillips Exeter Academy, New Hampshire, and the younger son, J. J. Amen, is a prosperous business man in Missouri Valley, Iowa.

The last four years of John Amends life were spent at South Salem, Ohio, at the home of his eldest daughter, Mrs. E. McColm, who had removed from Portsmouth. He died at the age of eighty-eight, on December 27, 1887. Unto the last week of his life, he read the daily papers with all the interest of a young person. His last vote was for Governor Foraker. The fall before he died, he was taken to the election by a granddaughter. He was proud he had helped to elect the Highland County boy for Governor. His daughters are all living, Mrs. McColm in Norfolk, Nebraska; Mrs. P. J. Ree'd, in Cody, Neb., and Mrs. C. Gillilan at Sinking Springs, Highland County, Ohio.

Of all the men who have lived in Adams County, none has enjoyed this life more or made it more pleasing to those around him than the subject of this sketch. James Anderson may have had fits of bad temper, but the writer never saw him in one or ever heard of him having one. He was always brimful and running over with good humor. He always persisted in looking at the bright and cheerful side of things and was always ready to laugh and to make those about him laugh. Trouble rolled away from him like water rolls away from a duck's feathers. The writer never knew him until he was between fifty and sixty years of age and the foregoing describes him then. His acquaintance from twentyfive to fifty would have been precious and valuable. He was a man to drive away despondency and to lift the world up. He had the keenest sense of humor of any man of his time in the county and yet he met and performed all the serious duties of life as a man and Christian should. Nature endowed him with great natural and physicial vigor and he never wasted any of it, but expended it in proper channels.

He was bom in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, March i, 1796. His parents brought him to Adams County m 1807.^ They took up their residence one mile north of west Union and there he resided until 1866 when he removed to Sardinia where he made his home until his death. May II, 1886. His father was Robert Anderson and his mother was Elizabeth Dickey, both from Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. His father and mother died in Adams County and are buried in the old Trotter graveyard near the Wilson Children's Home.

Mr. Anderson was married June 2, 183 1, to Mary Baird, sister of Robinson Baird, and daughter of James Baird, a brother of Judge Moses Baird. She only survived until May 7, 1840. By his wife, Mr. Ander- son had the following children: George Washington, who married a daughter of Wade Baldridge; James Newton, William Henry, John, Elizabeth, and Mary. Washington is deceased. His widow and family reside at Webb City, Missouri. James Newton resides in Tulare, California; Elizabeth is the wife of Dr. Theo. Smith, of the same place. Mary is deceased. She died at Santa Cruz, Cal. Col. William H. died at McLean County, Illinois.

On November 7, 1844, he was married to Isabella Bryan Huggins, widow of Zimri Huggins. She had the following children by her first marriage : Nelson A., and 'Herman W.

To the last marriage were born the following children : Irwin M. ; Benjamin Dickey, bom June 8, 1847, residing at Santa Cruz, Cal.; and Martha Caroline, bom February 12, 1850. She married J. Porter Mc- Govney. He died and she married Frank Major. They reside at Salmon City, Idaho.

Mr. and Mrs. Anderson reared the three sets of children without a jar. They all got along happily together. Mrs. Anderson had the same happy and genial disposition as her husband. When the furnaces were opened in Adams County, Mr. Anderson did a great deal of work for them in hauling iron to the river and supplies to the furnaces. He was a man never ambitious for public honors or offices, but he had a prominent place in the militia because his talents deserved it.

On June 26, 1838, he was commissioned by Governor Vance as Major of the First Cavalry Regiment, First Brigade, Eighth Division of the Ohio Militia, and on August i, 1839, he was commissioned by Governor Shannon as Lieutenant-Colonel of the same regiment. When it is remembered that he was elected to those positions by those who knew him best, the honor will be more appreciated.

In 1862, he was selected as Captain of the '^Squirrel Hunters" and took his company to Aberdeen to repel Morgan's Raid. James Anderson had a wonderful memory. He could remember every incident of his life and everything which had ever been told him. He was fond of telling of David Bradford's celebrated drive down the Dunbarton Hill. Bradford, who had a coach at Dunbarton, just repaired, wanted it down at the Sample Tavern at the foot of the hill. It was winter and the hill was covered with ice. He hitched two horses to the coach in front of the tongue and drove them from Dunbarton down the hill to the Sample Tavern. Bradford said it was a poor horse that could not keep out of the way of a coach. While Mr. Anderson was fond of telling humorous stories, yet he was a most earnest and conscientious man. He was anti-slavery. He was first a Whig and afterward a Republican. He was brought up an Associate Reform Presbyterian and adhered to that faith all his life. He was an elder for over thirty years. As a farmer, he lived comfortably and easy. He was not the man to worry himself to make money. He was honest and honorable in all his dealings. His life was a more valuable lesson than that taught by the Greek Philosophers, for he was up to their ideas and was a Christian beside. In August, 1886, his widow removed to California, where her son, Benjamin D., resides. She was bom July 2, 1806, and died May 6, 1896.

was born in Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, December i, 1796. His father, James Arbuthnot, came from Scotland when quite young and married Mary White, whose parents came from North Ireland. James Arbuthnot grew up to manhood on a farm in Ohio County^, West Virginia, graduated from Jefferson College in 1820; attended the Theological Seminary at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, and was licensed to preach by the U. P. Presbytery of St. Clairsville, Ohio, in 1823. He commenced his ministerial work at New Athens, Harrison County, Ohio, the same year and organized the academy at that place which in a short time grew into a college. In 1827, he moved to Savannah, now in Ashland County, Ohio, where he preached until 1840 when he moved to Greenfield, Ohio, and preached half the time there and the balance of the time at Fall Creek until 185 1 when he moved to North Liberty, Adams County, where he founded the North Liberty Academy. He remained at North Liberty until 1854, when he moved to Unity in the same county and was pastor of the U. P. Church there for twenty years until compelled to quit preaching on account of old age. He was married December 30, 1823, to Eliza Armstrong, who died April 23, 1846. To this union there were bom ten children, nine daughters and one son, namely: Nancy, Frances M., afterwards married to George M. Thurman; Ann E., afterwards married to Dr. W. P. Spurgen ; Maria, Clara N., Ada, afterwards wife of Rev. J. G. McKee ; Mary, Celia, afterwards wife of A. R. Clark ; Sarah J. and James A. The daughters are all dead and his only surviving child is Col. James A. Arbuthnot, of Brookfieldy Mo.

Rev. James Arbuthnot died at his home at Unity, April 18, 1880, in his eighty-fourth year. He was a man of strong convictions and would never consent to compromise anything which he felt to be right. He was one of the original Free Soilers and voted for Binney and Hale as the Free Soil candidates for President. Rev. D. McDill, D. D., said of him: "He was a wise, good, unassuming, godly man. He made no claims to oratory, but in preaching, spoke plainly and deliberately. His sermons were instructive and edifying. All who knew him recognized his sincerity and goodness."

. Rev. James Arbuthnot married for a second wife Mrs. Mary Watt, in 1848, who died in 1876. She had a daughter who married Rev. N. R. Kirkpatrick at Ada, Ohio, and another who married R. P. Finley, of Youngsville, Ohio.

The Reverend William Baldridge was born in Lancaster County, Penn., February 26, 1761. His parents were from Ireland and members of the Irish Covenanter Church. The year after his birth they removed to tlie banks of the Catawba River in Lincoln County, N. C, where he resided until 1776, when he joined a cavalry company and served as a soldier during the Revolutionary War. Of this pyetiod of his life, the most interesting of all, we have no record, but from the course of his after life, we know that he did his duty as a soldier, conscientiously, and faithfully. He did not consider that in his seven years' service to his country, he had done more than his duty or that he deserved any special commendation therefor. After returning from the war, he prepared for college under the instructions of Rev. Robert Finley, and attended Dickinson College in Carlisle, Penn., where he graduated in 1790 at the head of a class of twelve. Immediately after his graduation, he took up the study of theology, privately, with the Rev. Alexander Dobbins and studied under him one year. The second year of his theological' studies he pursued under the Reverend Doctor Nesbit, of Carlisle, Pa. He was licensed to preach by the Presbytery of Pennsylvania, Associate Reformed, in 1792, and ordained by the same Presbytery in 1793. On July 17, 1792, he was married to Rebecca Agnew. She was born December 12, 1772.

On October 18, 1793, he accepted a call to two churches in Rockbridge County, Virginia. One of them was a mile from the Natural Bridge. It has long since disappeared, the building destroyed and the congregation dissolved. His other church was Ebenezer, about five miles northeast of Lexington. He labored as regular pastor of these two churches, both Associate Reformed, until 1803 when his pastoral relation to them was dissolved, but what was an anomaly in Presbyterian practice, he remained their stated supply until 1809, when he removed to Adams County, Ohio, to accept a call as pastor to the Cherry Fork and West Fork congregations. In 1797, he was moderator of his synod and delivered an important judicial decision in a case before that body. During his residence in Virginia, he was twice offered the presidency of Washington College, now Washington and Lee University, but declined each time on the ground that it was his duty, as he saw it, to remain in the pastoral work. From 1803 to 1809, n^any of his congregation had emigrated from Virginia and located in Adams County, Ohio, at either Cherry Fork or West Fork. These former parishoners of his secured his call- to the two churches of the two localities. During his residence in Virginia, he had been a faithful and acceptable pastor and had endeared himself to his people, and while there, the following children were born to him and his devoted wife: James R., May 22, 1793; Alexander H., January 13, 1795; John Y., December 20, 1796; William S., May i, 1799; Samuel C., and Rebecca G., twins, February 18, 1801 ; David A., May 25, 1803; Wade, August 25, 1805 f Agnew, December 5, 1807. With these eight boys and one girl and his wife, he made the journey overland to Ohio, in June, 1809, 2uid locating at Cherry Fork at the age of 49. He spent the remainder of his life there. The following children were born to him and his wife Rebecca, in Ohio: Joseph G., June 16, 1810; Ebenezer W., August i, 1812; William, August 17, 1814; Mary Jane, October 26, 1817, at whose birth the mother died. This daughter, Mrs. Mary Jane Waller, a widow, is now living with her daughter, Mrs. Julia Tappan, at Avondale, Ohio, the last survivor of her brothers and sisters.

On May 16, 1820, Rev. William Baldridge married Mrs. Mary Logan Anderson, a widow, and by her became the father of two children, Benjamin L., bom February 9, 1821, and Nancy M., October 18, 1822. His daughter, Rebecca, married Joseph Riggs, December 8, 1819, a very prominent citizen of southern Ohio, and by him became the mother of a numerous family of sons and daughters, the former of whom and their descendants have distinguished themselves in financial circles, in the ministry, at the bar and on the bench. Of the Reverend Baldridge's sons, Samuel C. and Benjamin L. became ministers and Alexander H., Agnew and Ebenezer W. became physicians. Of the literary works of the Rev. Baldridge, we have but three sermons which were published in the As- sociate Reformed Pulpit. These indicate that he was a fine sermonizer. But he especially excelled in pastoral work. He knew all the members of his congregation, and all their children by name, and knew their peculiarities. He made his pastoral visits regularly in eaCh family and gave religious instructions in such manner as to make it attractive, and to fasten it to remain in the minds of those he visited. The Rev. Marion Morrison, now residing at Mission Creek, Nebraska, relates an incident of one of his visits to his father's, Judge Morrison's house, in which he heard a conversation between an older brother and the Rev. Baldridge, in which the latter sought to induce his brother to take a college education with a view of entering the ministry. This conversation so impressed young Morrison, then eight years of age, that he, in consequence thereof, took a college education and entered the ministry where he has labored successfully all his life. The Rev. Baldridge died in the midst of his labors on October 26, 1830.

Sixty-nine years having elapsed since his death, oblivion has claimed much that we would like to know of him, but the fact that he held but two pastorates in his lifetime; that he resigned the first and that death alone removed him from the other, speaks well of him as a minister. Sixteen years in the same churches in Rockbridge County, Virginia, and twenty-one in Adams County, Ohio, covered his ministerial work. He preached well in the pulpit and cared well and effectually for his people in their homes. The fact that Cherry Fork church grew and prospered during and after his labors in it speaks well for his work. The fact that for years past and that today the church at Cherry Fork is large and prosperous ; that its influence is well recognized in the county and in its Presbytery and Synod; that it has sent out so many grand men and women to other parts of the country, is largely due to the labors of the Rev. William Baldridge between 1809 and 1830. He took the church four years after its organization and builded it for twenty-one years.

But while he was an efficient pastor, teacher and g^ide in the churches for thirty-seven years, he did something even greater than that. He reared a family of twelve sons and two daughters to be godly men and women, to be good citizens and to take honorable and prominent places in the world's work. Moreover, he laid the foundations of character in his sons and daughters, so deep, so wide, so strong in piety and moral truth that after seventy years, his descendants are men and wcwnen of the same stamp of moral worth, high character and sterling piety that he bore himself. Could he have done better as a life work than herein related ? We think not. He performed his work so well and so thoroughly that it will last so long as descendants of his survive to illustrate and exemplify it. He sleeps in an unknown and unmarked grave in the Cherry Fork Cemetery.

was a very marked and memorable member of our earliest bar. He came of a Connecticut family of note. One brother, Henry Baldwin, of Pennsylvania, was one of the Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States ; another, a wealthy planter of Tennessee ; a third lived in Connecticut.

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almost as speedily developed his uncontrollable love of liquor, fun and frolic. He soon distanced all competitors for legal business save William Creighton, Jr., whose patient industry still retained him the larger and by far more lucrative practice. As between the two, it was the race between the hare and the tortoise again, and with the same inevitable result. One of the malicious stories of that day was, that certain other lawyers became so jealous of Baldwin's popularity and business success, that they e»ncouraged the latter's passion for drink, so that his career might be shortened as much as possible.

In 1803, '4, '5, and '6, Baldwin, notwithstanding his dissipation, did a large amount of work. But from the latter date, there is a rapid decadence of his practice apparent in the records of the Court, and, by 1808, his name but rarely appears, save only as defendant in suits for tavern bills, borrowed money, and applications for the benefit of the insolvent law. We learn from Saflford's "Life of Herman Blennerhasset" that Baldwin had been the irnited States Marshal for the State of Ohio, and that he was much embittered against President Jefferson for depriving him of that office. Aaron Burr advised Blennerhasset to retain Judge Jacob Burnett, of Cincinnati, and Baldwin, for the defense of both themselves in the trials for high treason, which they expected to undergo before the courts of Ohio, but which trials never took place. In a letter written to his wife, under date of December 17, 1807, Blennerhasset says: "I have retained Baldwin and Burnett. The latter will be a host with the decent part of the citizens of Ohio ; and the former a giant of influence with the rabble, whom he properly styles his 'bloodhounds.' "

It is very suggestive of the character of Baldwin, that at almost every term of his practice we find this entry upon the journal: "Ordered that Michaiel Baldwin, one of the attorneys of this Court, be fined ten dollars for contempt of Court, and be committed to jail until the fine be paid." Poor, brilliant, boisterous, drunken, rollicking Mike ! By reason of commitments for contempt of court and capiases for debt, he became familiar indeed, with the inside of the old jail which stood at the northwest corner of Second and Walnut Streets.

He was a member of the Constitutional Convention and tradition asserts that he wrote almost the entirety of the first Constitution of Ohio in the bar-room of William Keys' tavern, using a wine keg for his seat, and the head of a barrel of whiskey for his desk. A queer origination, truly, for the organic law of such an empire as Ohio grew to be, before that Constitution was superseded!

He was Speaker of the House of Representatives in 1803, 1804 and 1805. Fond of gambling, of course, for he seems to have had all the modem accomplishments. It is told that he opened a game of vingt et un for the benefit of such members as craved excitement. Baldwin, being banker and dealer, of course, won all their money and most of their watches. The party broke up and went to their several rooms', drunk, long after the "wee sma' hours" of the night.

Mike, used to such life, was in the Speaker's chair, on time, next morning, rapped the House to order, and proceeded with business. A call of the House was soon demanded, and the fact made officially apparent that there was no quorum present. The Speaker sent out the Sergeantat-Arms for absentees, and that officer, in the course of an hour or two.

filed into the hall and in front of the Speaker's chair, some dozen or more of the half-asteep, and only partially sobered, gamesters of the night before. Thereupon Baldwin rose, and with dignified severity of manner, began to reprimand them for their negligence of the trusts reposed in them by their constituents, and reminded them of the great cost per diem to the infant State, of the sessions of the General Assenibly, etc., until one of the party of culprits broke abruptly in upon the harrangue, with the exclamation, "Hold on now, Mr. Speaker ! how the hell can we know what time it is, when you have got all our watches !"

At the June Term, 1804, the tavern-keeper, William Keys, sued Baldwin upon an account which aggregated twenty-five pounds, thirteen shillings, ten pence, a copy of which account is filed. Every item in it, save three, was for drinks in one form or another - ^brandy, spirits raw, bowls of toddy, punch, treats to the club, etc. The three exceptional items were suppers for himself, for which he was charged one shilling and six pence for each. But with each supper there appears a charge of three shillings for a pint and a half of brandy - a proportion of drink to meat which strongly reminds one of the bill rendered by Dame Quickley to Sir John Falstaflf.

"Drinks for the Club" were undoubtedly Mike's treats to the "Bloodhounds," an organization of the rough and fighting men of that day, which Baldwin had gotten up and which he controlled. The "Bloodhounds" did his electioneering and fighting for him ; and more than once delivered him from the jail by breaking in the door, or tearing an end out of that structure.

His brothers twice attempted to relieve him from the embarrassments of his debts, and for that purpose, sent him bags of coin amounting to a considerable sum. On these occasions, it is said he hired a negro for porter of the money, and went around to his creditors seriatim, allowing each one, irrespective of the amount of his account, to have one grab into the open-mouthed bag until it was gone.

His widow survived him for many years, and when not less than seventy years old, contracted a second marriage with Adam Stewart, of this county. An old citizen, speaking to us of "Kitty Baldwin" in her prime, remarked, "I tell you, she was the proudest widow that ever walked the streets of Chillicothe."

was born in Pennsylvania, October 6, 1792. He was the son of a farmer. His father had twelve children, of whom our subject was the eldest. His Christian name was his mother's maiden name. He obtained his education partly in Pennsylvania and partly in Ohio. His parents were born in Pennsylvania, but they came to Adams County and occupied rented farms for awhile. As soon as could be done, our subject's father bought a farm five miles from West Union and two miles from Bentonville, where Robinson Baird was reared to manhood. He always felt the want of a more complete education, and for this reason he took a great interest in the public schools. He very frequently served as local school director of his district.

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Robinson Baird was a very strict Presbyterian. He was brought up that way and never wandered from it. He believed in the strict observance of the Sabbath and practiced it. He was a soldier of the War of 1812, was out both winters of 1812 and 1813, and endured many hardships. His Colonel was John Bryan. In politics, he was a Whig so long as that party existed. As a Whig, he voted for Jphn Quincy Adams, when he was a candidate for President. There were only two others in his township who voted for Adams. He was a member of the American party when it was in existence, and afterwards of the Republican party.

He was married to Elizabeth Williamson, the third daughter of Rev. William Williamson, on June 13, 1815. She was bom in South Carolina, on July 14, 1795. There were bom to them ten children, two of whom died in infancy. Their oldest son, James T^ was bom March 18, 1816. He married Elizabeth Parker, July i, 1842. He was a millwright by occupation, and was killed in St. Louis while working in a steam mill by the bursting of a boikt. He had two sons who were in the Civil War from 1861 to 1865. Nancy M. was bom October 31, 1820. She married James Mclntire, April 26, 1842. Major Mclntire served in the Seventh Ohio Cavalry during the Civil War. He is now deceased. His widow survives him with a large family of children. Another daughter, Jane W. Baird, was born March 25, 1823, and married A. H. MehaflFey, September 2, 1846. Her daughter, Catherine, boro March 20, 1825, was married to Jacob Mosier, May 27, 1846. A son, Thomas W. Baird, was bom May 4, 1827. Joshua M. Baird, bom October 5, 1829, married Margaret Graham, June 24, 1852. Harriet N. Baird, bora November 7, 1833, married John L. Summers, Febmary 28, 1855. Elizabeth V. Baird, bom May 7, 1836, married Charles Fitch.

Robinson Baird died March 26, 1870. His wife survived him until August 17, 1876. Mr. Baird never sought public office, but was content to live the simple life of a farmer. He has numerous descendants, scattered over the United States, and from those known, we would say that he impressed upon them the same serious, honest, upright character which he bore all his life.

was bom in West Union, December 3, 1813. His father was Samuel Bradford and his mother, Ruth Shoemaker. They were married August II, 181 1, by Job Dinning. Her father was Peter Shoemaker, who lived below the iron bridge, and whose will was recorded in 1799. Samuel Grimes Bradford was Sheriff of Adams County in 1812 and 181 3.

In October, 1810, he was appointed Recorder of Adams County to succeed General Darlinton. On the seventh of July, 1813, he was Captain of a militia company. He left a deed partly recorded and started with his ccMnpany for the war. He never returned. He died August 13, 1813, in the army and is buried at Urbana. His widow was married June I, 181 5, to Col. Samuel R. Wood, by whom she had five children, Mrs. S. P. Kilpatrick, of Dunbarton ; Mrs. George Sample, of Cincinnati ; Mrs. Rev. Lock, of Illinois; Mrs. Herdman, of Iowa; E)avid Wood, of Newport, Ky., and Frank Wood, of Urbana, Ohio. David, the brother of our subject, who married a daughter of Rev. John Meek, lived and died in West Union. He, his father, General Bradford and his mother, Barbara Grimes, are buried in the stone enclosure in Branson's field just north of the village cemetery at West Union. General David Bradford was one of the most important factors in the early settlement of Adams County. He owned a number of lots in the town of Washington and resided there while it flourished, and when it collapsed he went to West Union. When West Union was located he bought lots lo, ii, i8, 19, 65 and 75 at the opening sale. He built the Bradford House in 1804 and, from that time until his death, kept tavern there. He was County Treasurer of Adams County from June 6, 1800, until June 6, 1832. As he died in 1834 at the age of sixty-nine, he very nearly had the treasurer's office for life. In 1804, he was made a Quartermaster General of the militia. He was a very popular man, and from holding the County Treasurership so long without any complaint, must have been a very honest one, but we must get back to our subject, his grand-son, Samuel G. Bradford. He clerked in an iron store in Cincinnati when he was about nineteen years of age for James M. Baldridge. When he was twenty years of age, he returned to West Union. He was married here on November 6, 1834, to Amanda M. T. Tapp. By her, he had six children, Francis A., wife of Henry B. Woodrow, of Cincinnati ; James H. Bradford, of Winchester; Jennie, the wife of Gabriel McClatchy; Matilda* who died a young woman; Harriet, widow of Capt. George Collings, of Indianola, Iowa, and Samuel N. Bradford, who lives in West Union. In the same year, he succeeded to the management of Bradford's Tavern, now the Downing House. He conducted it until 1840, when he leased it. He contributed $200 to the erection of the Maysville and Zanesville Turnpike. In 1835, he took a drove of horses to Mississippi and sold them. On his return, he purchased the George Darling farm, formerly owned by Major Finley and moved there. His wife died May 2, 1847. In 1849, ^^ returned to West Union and engaged in the tannery business with Edwards Darlinton.

On Ootober 29, 1850, he was married to Miss Sarah W. Smashea, who survives him. He continued the tannery business until 1851, when he drove a notion wagon through the country until 1853. From that date until 1863, he traveled and sold tinware for A. F. Shriver at Manchester. In i8i54, he went into the sutler business with Thomas Ellison and remained with him until the end of the war. Then he went to Mississippi and raised cotton until 1868. After that, he engaged in the grocery business at West Union with his son, Samuel N. Bradford. After continuing that business for a short time, he took the mail contract between West Union and Winchester and drove a hack on it for four years. After that he conducted a livery stable in West Union until his death which occurred November 29, 1890.

In politics, he was a Whig and afterward a Republican. He was a large, fine looking man in old age, and in youth, he was handsome. He was genial and companionable. He was always ready to do a kind act for a friend. He was esteemed highly by all who knew him as a good man and upright citizen. What characterized him above his fellow men was his love of children and of horses. When surrounded by children and encouraging their amusement, he was never happier. He was always pleased to have good horses and to be looking after them. He was in his feelings and in his thoughts a relic of the older time in which he was always delighted to dwell. He passed away in peaceful sleep - "as one who wraps the drapery of his couch about him and lies down to pleasant dreams."

was born near Lancaster, Pennsylvania, January 3, 1762. His father, James Baird, came from near Londonderry, in the north of Ireland. His mother was a Miss Brown, also from Ireland.

Moses Baird married Mary Adams, July 5, 1787, at Lancaster, Pennsylvania, a woman of remarkable natural endowments and of distinguished and cultivated ability. They had one son, Robert, bom in Pennsylvania, in 1788.

They located in Adams County in the rich Irish Bottoms, at Sandy Springs, on the Ohio River, and took up a tract about a mile square. Those who located with them were Joshua Truitt, William Early,J[onathan Kenyon, Abner Ewing, above, and John Adams, and Simeon Truitt, bdow.

Moses Baird was one of the Justices of the Peace of Adams County and one of its Common Pleas Judges under the Territory. He was elected a Commissioner of the County in 1803 and served three years. He was elected an Associate Judge of the County February 10, 1810, and served until April 10, 1821. He died November i, 1841, and is buried in the Sandy Springs cemetery. He was tall, slender and active. He had a light complexion, brown hair, blue eyes, was nearly six feet tall, wore side whiskers and shaved the rest of his face. He was an easy, fluent talker, clear and concise in his expressions. He was an excellent judge of human nature and could judge a man on sight. He had easy manners, was pleasant and approachable. He was a good farmer and manager. He lived like a lord on his mile square of land. He raised all the crops he required and had five orchards of apples, peaches, plums and cherries. He had a great lot of stock, horses, cattle, hogs and sheep. He had all manner of fowls. He grew his own flax and sheared his own wool and made it into cloth on his own farm. His wife was a woman of great social attractiveness. She was one of the pioneer doctresses and a noted mid-wife, and died April 13, 1835, of a putrid sore throat, (diphtheria?) which came of attending a child which had the same disease. She and her husband were members of the Sandy Springs Church, and her religion was such that its influence could be felt by all who associated with them. Susan A., their youngest daughter, was the wife of James McMaster, who is still livmg (1899) at Sandy Springs, aged eighty-four. Their youngest son. Chambers, has a separate sketch herein. Their first three children, Robert, Elizabeth Adams and James A., made themselves homes within the original tract taken .up by their father. The others went into the Great West, and the descendants of Moses Baird are a great multitude, whom the census taker could enumerate, but it would take him a long time and a great deal of labor.

In writing a sketch of a person, in order to understand his life fully, it is sometimes well to begin several generations before he was bom.

Dyer Burgess traced his ancestry to Thomas Burgess, who came from England to Salem, Mass., in 1630, but who settled at Sandwich, in Plymouth Colony. This Thomas Burgess is recorded by Dr. Savage as being a chief among them. In the church organized at Sandwich, Mass., in 1638, he was an original member, and he served the town in every office, humble or honorable, from land surveyor to deputy at the Court at Plymouth. He became a large landholder, and his patriarchial estate was still held by a lineal descendant in the sixth generation, in 1863.

Thomas Burgess died February 13, 1665, aged eighty-two years. His graye was honored by a monumental slab, imported from England. Aaron Otis says that this was the first monument set up for any pilgrim of the first generation. So that while Dyer Burgess' ancestor did not cc«ne over in the Mayflower, he was only ten years behind the first settlement, and of the same stock as the Pilgrim Fathers, and it is easy to see where he got his obstinacy and firmness of purpose.

The genealogy of the Burgess family was published in 1865, by the Rev. Ebenezer Burgess, of Dedham, Mass. From this, it appears that Thc«nas Burgess, who came from England, had a third son, Jacob. He married a Miss Nye, and had a son, Ebenezer, bom October 2, 1673, who married Mary Lombard. Ebenezer had six children, all baptized September 23, 171 1. Among them was a son Samuel, married to Jedidah Gibbs, March 30, 1732, and they had eight children. His wife died March 10, 1732, and he married Deborah Berse, November 7, 1754, and had four children by her. Jabez Burgess, one of the eight children by the first marriage, married Hannah Lathrop, May 3, 1754, and removed to Tolland, Conn., in 1783.