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GIBBONS
Genealogy and Family History
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h i s de scent is tra c ed a s far bu.ck a"' t he eev n t h century , to Pe p in d ' Heri st 1, a rul e r o f t h e Fr ank s , efore Ch rl e mabn e . Pa ssin g ~ o~n to -un~r oda ,
- ,... four t h dau ~h t er o f '11lll am t h e on ueror, ho ma rri ed 111 1a d e 1 a rren .
~ 6 ook an 1 i ortant pa.rt 1 t n ✓ ·att.l
of Hus ting s , t hat t he Con ueror g .... v e
h i m l e d s i n ne a rly eve r y c oun ty o f -;:ngl a d ; t .. is 'a rren became t .e firot i!,ar l
of "arre . 1H ll i:-- , ·· a rl of :arre , a Normc:1 Bar on of Danish des cent , :as
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lrst of t . e .a ,.3 ·nown on 1;" 6 lisi. soi l . Befo r e t ho Conquest , r , n r si de.·1 cc ~1· s a t
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1 - ·~ 11 l a-. ae va r ren, f' lrst ~a rl o f ~Ja.
n , marrl ed undreda. , four th
·a u t t e r of ' il l l a:r t e Con ue ror; d i ed
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11 - ' i l liam de ''/arro , seco d i<Aar l of 'Ja rren , married Is F el , dauehter
or Hu - t e ~ re a t, Co ,n t de ver~-ndole, nd ha~
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:s rre. , w o marr ied i\ deli a , dau 6 t e r o
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V - Sir Joh de \·la r en , nl_ht , w o married Allee, d su ,t r of Townah~ d [lr.d
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l - Sir Joh1 de ·1arr en, n i ~ht , 'rlho married Joan , d u _:::nter of S ir Hu ,
e Port,
o f , t ,a l , Qnd had
11 - Plr ~a wa r d e -~rron , Kn i 0 h t , ho arrled aud , d a u 0 h t · r o f Rl c~a r d e
Dked 0 e to . , an had
Vl l - S ir ·~ ward d '/a.rr n , T•n i g ,t , •'. o . a rried Ci eel; , duug.J t r of Si r
i c ,Ol ' s de .:l:i t O ., Kn l t:;ht, a .d had
I~ - Sir Jo . de ·•arr n, -:n i ~h t , ,· J 1.a:rrl d .~a r ga ret , daugr. t er of l r John
S t a ffor , aid had
- Sir La·>'fre · ce de J rr ._ , Kni 0 h t , b orn about 1 394 , . a rr ed ., a r ~, r e t 3u . . kley ,
· 3.U r1t ~r o
u, h Bulkl...,y ( s c ov e r or ,or .,un C. Bul.;: . ey of Cor.n . ) and had
I - Jo.n de a rr 3 , : a ui re, orn 1 41 4 ; marri o • r s ~bel Stan l ey , d~u ~ ' r of
t
Sir J.:>h St u l~y , E _i 0 h o f t e _r t r a. d s te ·:ard o f' t he . ouseco d of Ki ng
y La Four th; t n~ 1r s o. wh o subs uenbly su cc eded t o the t itl e .
ir La ~r .c ~ de 'ar re. , ·n · h t , ma rried 1458 , I abel LelLh , d~us~ te r
o uert L 1 ·h , ~nd had
I I ilJ.ie,., · e ·1u rren, o Taunton, wi1 0 no..c: by is wife ,
, ,
XIV - J ohn d e ,:arr ,n , o r ot t i n ·h a1 , orn 1 525 who y is wife , ••;li zabe t h, ad
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1 lia1n -'arren , who "arr i cd . m.e . '.a 1 , dauch t c r o rho. · s t-.ci' l e of
Cornml l , an h ~\ I I - C rist ophe r 'a r n , who arri ed Alic , 'c :; , o · Devo
und nad Atlf:.R/t~ l\i fAGE
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a .d 1:n t h e year 17 80 l
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t l:· e roads op en s o as pe o .1, c.m.'. l d tra v 1 , or pD J a fi n o .,
. o e of ~Y distr:!..ct, -· ngry wit.'1 ru ' , bu
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d;:.vs and di.d r·.o ot_, r \<, Ork .
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p th :.,..nd I then had
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bl e w1 .; i t . and i n t lle yea r i r 82 t G<:, t o1rn
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�(J. M. Gibbons)
PRrER GIBBONS
A short narrative of m 11 fe. M father was an only son and he lived
y
y
in Boston an d he was a ship joiner and got his living by his trade.
He married Elizabeth W
arrin who was my mother. They ha d t wo children,
a son and a daughter, the son died when he wa s a child before his
father died. M father catching the smallpox died with it and left
y
~y mother pregnant with ~e 'Which wa s about Christ mas 1729.
My mother taking the xmallpox ha d it v ery har d but got well and went
fro m Bosto n to her fat her's in W tharn. where I wa s born the 9th of
al
April 1730 whic h was about three months and a half aft er the de a t h of my
father.
~'hen I wa s about six mont hs old my Aunt How came to vi sit h er pa r ents
soon after she had lost her sucking child and having n o other chi ld
sh e took me and brougjt me home with her an d suckled m six months
e
long er and became mother to me an d I always c all e d her mother. She
was a kind mother to me and so wa s father as kind, he kept me in his
care until I was almost 1? then he bound me to .Tohn Bradish in Hardwick
to learn the trade of tanning and shoemaking. W
hen I wa s 16 father scJ
ld
his farm at W
estborough and moved to Brookfield and let me out for th at
summer to a f a rmer in 'Hestborough w
here I broke my ankle and became a
cripple and so I lost the summer. In the fall I went to him to
Brookfield, he had agreed with Bradish to t ake m as an appre ntice.
e
I went to him in .Tan. 24th 17 47. M sister dying the December following
y
I was left alone, no more of the name left but my mother and she lived
in Boston. I am so slow and blind, I make a gre a t many mistakes,
my mind runs faster thab my pen. But to proceed. Wh en my time was
out with Bradish I worked at shoemaking the m
ain of the summer and in
t rie fall I wa s married to Sarah Green sis ter to Bradish ' s wife, snd
f a ther How gave me 12 acre s of land in Har dwick from a lot of l a nd he
ha d j oining to Bradish's la nd a nd gave me timber to mak e a hued log
house and allowed me to get rails to fen ce my la nd an d s ~i ngle timber
to shingle my h ouse and a s h on w
hich I bu ~lt afterwards and when I
went to Brookfiel d to visit them I was never sen t home empty while
t hey lived and ha d I not a kind father and mother? a n d their children
have used me as a broth er and make me presents and co me to visit me
and write to me those that are yet liv·ing and ha d I not kind Brethren
and Sisters? W
ell, after I had built me a small house I went to mrk
at my tra de the ma i n of the time an d gained pro pert y so fast t h at
when I wa s six and t we nty I thought I was doing well a nd gaining prop ert y so as to be forehanded and was going to set up ta nning the next
spring but ol d 0erjea nt Church coming to Hardwi ck the winter following
invite d me to come and settle this lot and I refus e d it but he got
~Y wife engage d t o go into the woo ds an d the n both of them worried
me out an d got me to yiel d to come and settle on thi s. rock y mountain
an d that jus t undid me an d when I got here I wa s as poor as poverty
itself. I was deceived b y the old man. He told m that he knew to be
e
f a lse in recommendi ng t he land to be be tter tha n it was. However,
I ha d got into the woo ds a nd a h owling wilderness it was. No roa ds
in no direction to lead a nywh e re but by marked trees. The first
summer I had to hire my te am work vmen I could get it an dsometimes it
c ame to nothi ng, a nd wh en it d id well the v ermin of t ' h e woods destroyed ha lf of it, no oth er field for them, and so I worked at sho• e
mak ing to supp ort my fa mily for a num
ber of years. But I kept cle aring my land yearl y and I gained slowly and in about eleven years I
built a 26 f e et b arn and I cut ha y and grain enough to fill it, a nd
had stock enough to eat it and in fiftee n ye ars I built me a house
so th a t I lived in it and ke pt a finishing it an d a dding to it as I
wa s able an d I got to live tolerably co mfort able and ride a good horse
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a nd not wear myself out running afoot as I used to do, and my boys
began to help forwa rd business and my stock increased both cattle and
horses. But the Revolutionary ·ar coming on put a check to my business
My boys instead of helping me I had to support them in the war, a nd I
was cro wded too much, but I lived it through and in the year 1780 I
was surveyor of highways and obliged to keep the roa ds open s o as
pe ople could travel or pay a fine, and t b at made some of my district
angry with me, but I got along through with that job and in the year
1780 I spent ten days and did no ohher wark. The snow was kept blowing
into the path and I kept them a treading till it was full and the n it
blew ov er the :oath a nd then I had no more trouble vri th it, and in
the year 1782 the town put me in constable and made roe collect th em
t wo great
which the mob party was so much against paying, but I
g ot t h rough w
ith that job too and I a m alive yet, but it cost me five
years trouble but I lived it through that time also, and I am still.
living and in good health. But I met with s ome frowns of Providence.
In the time of t he Revolutionary fa r I had got so foreh and ed as to own t
two pairs of cattle, one pair four years old and the other three years
old and in eight months I had but one ox. One three years came to
the door in February and fou nd a wilted tur nip and that killed him
and the man tha t s a i d he could cle a r him killed him in the operation,
an~ in September the bo1s went to bring out t h e oxen and I tol d them
not to bring them through the orchard but they did not mind me, and a
man stood there said he could slip the app le into his mouth and I let
him tr y and h e ma de such a violent push as to put the apple w
here we
never could find it till after the ox wa s de ad, then we found it
crowded under his under jaw. I boug~t another ox to mate the ox t hat was
left.
3o I had a yoke of oxen and two horses an d so I had a small
team and s o I got along, and after that I kept a team until ~li undertook to take ca re of me, an d t he n the l and which was in a few years
reduc-0d down t'o t wenty acre s which I hold yet and intend to h old it
as long as I live for Eli takes no care to save it. I have to take
upon credit all I want ~':cept my victua ls an d I have chosen a man t o
c are for me, and I expect he will be f aithful to me . I have found him
so ye t.
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A Record of my family as near as I can get i t .
I, Peter Gib b ons, was born April 20, 1730.
Sarah, my wife, born
J an. 31, 1731.
3:lis abeth, my ol de s t child, born Nov. 7, 17 52.
Pet er Gibbons 2nd born August 1, 1754.
Lemuel Gibbons, born October 1, 1756.
Bildad Gibbons, born February 2, 1759.
:Mary and Sarah, t w
ins, born Dec. 31, 1760. Died Dec. 31, 1760.
Timothy Gibbons, born Feb. 22, 1762.
Sarah Gibbons, born M 5, 1764.
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Eli Gibbons, born Aug 28, 1767.
Jedidiah How Gibbo ns, born Feb. 18, 1770.
M
ary Gibbons, born Aug. 1, 1772.
Ha~nah Gibbons~
rn Apr. 5, 1775.
A list of my Grandchildren.
Peter's children are:
Oliver Gibbons, born Feb. 25, 1780.
Hannah Gibbons, born Oct. 5, 1781.
Peter Gibbons 3rd., born Sept. 10, 1783 .
W in Gibbons, born Oct. 17, 1785.
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Derrick Gibbons, born Aug. 19, 1737.
Lois Gibbons, born Nov. 19, 1789.
M
iles Gibbons, born Oct. 3, 1791.
Lemuel's chil dre n are:
Amel ia Gi bbons, born June 5, 1781.
W
illiam D. Gi bbons , born AUg. 27, 1783.
---en G. Gibbons, born
179-.
Lemuel Gibbons, born
.
1797.
is t h e best account I c an get.
F i l da d 's chil dren:
Bildad Gibbons, born M
arch 13, 1781. Died Apr. 5, 1781.
Joseph Gibbons, born M y 19, 1782.
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Ben j amin Gibbons, born Nov. 27, 1785.
Clarissa Gibbons, born J une 23, 1784.
Sall y Gibbons, born Oct. 13, 1787.
Orle Gibbons, born Nov. 1, 1789.
Alexander and Anna, twins, born Dec. 1, 1791, and died the same day.
Norman Gibbons, born Nov. 10, 1792.
J ames Gibbons, born Nov. 10 , 1792.
Sylvester Gibbons, born M 13, 1795.
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Ph yle mel y Gibbons, born Feb. 11, 1797, and died Dec. 3, 1817.
Chorintha Gibbons, born Jan. 24, 1801.
W
illiam Green Gibbons, born Apr. 16, 1805.
Ti mothy Gibbon's children:
Timothy Gibbons Jr., born Oct. 9, 1783.
Datus Gt bhons , born Dec. 16, 178 5.
Slisabeth Gibbons, Born Aug13 , 178 7.
Alpheus Gibbons, born Oct. 7, 1787.
Affey Gibbons, born J an 19, 1792, and died June 2, 18 21.
Lucius Gibbons, born June 9, 1794.
Adah Gibbons, born Oct. 16, 1796.
Debby Gibbons· , born J uly 27, 1800.
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Eli Gibbons' children:
Sophia Gibbons, born March l " ?, 1791.
Timot hy W
ells and Lucy (Kellogg )(Kent) Gibbons, twins, born A
pr. 19,1793.
Polly Gibbons, born June 9, 1795.
Nancy Gibbons, born M y 1, 1?9?.
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Ruhamah D. Gibbons, born June 12, 1800.
Eli Dwight Gibbons, born Apr. 1?, 1802.imkEX~XBBE
John G~een Gibbons, born J uly 2 6 , 1804.
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Sarah ?ane Gibbons, born 7 ul y 26, 1808, and died Jul 3 15, 1811.
Henry Benjamin Gibbons , born Aug. 18, 1811.
Isaac Decatur Gibbons, born Feb. 1 , 1815.
J ededi ah How Gi bbo ns' children
Carlos Gibbons , born J uly 12, 1?93.
Damari s Gibbons, born Apr. 13, 1? 96 .
? hyl ura Gibbons, born Oct. 25, 1?98.
A
morett Gibbons, born Aug. 20, 1800., and die ci"':J u ne4, 180~~ .
Hiram Gibbons, born Sept. 26, 1802.
A
moret t 2nd Gibbons , born Feb. 19, 1804.
Eliza Gibbons , b orn Oct. 10, 1806.
Jila rtha Gibbo ns , born J an. 6, 1810, an d died J uly 13, 1810.
~T edediah Jatson Gibbons, born Feb. 18, 1812.
Joseph Gibbons ' chil dren :
Henry Clhampion D.wolf Gibb ons, born Aug. 3, 1781.
Ruhannah D. W
olf Gibbons, b orn J une 3, 1783
Jens erel Robinson, born June 5, 1785.
Joseph D. W
olf Gibbons, born Apr. 6, 1?87.
Sally D . ·., olf Gibb on s , born :Mar. 10, 178 9.
Catty D. ·101f Gibbons, born Nov. 6, 17 90J
Horatio D. ~olf Gibbons, b o~n May 31, 1793.
~ - - -- Tt'.1 i s e bet h D. W
olf Gibbons; born Feb. 24-; 1?96, a n d died Dec. _2? 1 .:.18.12 . _ __
All recorded in Granby
Adaline D. W
olf Gibbons, born , -ar. 12, 1802.
Samuel D. W
olf Gibbons, born Jan. 22 , 1804.
Amanda D. W
olf Gibbons, born Apr. 22 , 1806.
Louisa D. W
olf Gibbons, born M
ar. 27, 1797.
Eli D. W
olf Gibbons, born M
ar. 19, 1799.
Benoni Buttles' children:
Temperence Butt.les, born Sept. 15, 1797, and died Aug. 31, 1798.
Tempe Buttles, born Feb. 17, 1799.
Polly Buttles, born M 1, 1800.
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Hannaµ :?helph Buttles, born M
ar. 15, 1802.
Sarah Buttles, born M y 2, 1804.
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J oel Buttles, born Feb. 11, 18 06 .
Anso n Post, ~Buttles, born Oct. 1, 1807., a nd died Oct. 1, 1808.
Edwar d Final's children:
Hervey Fina l, born Aug. 13, 1 783 .
Luther Fi ~elj ~or n Se pt ~ 15, 1?85.
Calvin Finel, born July 21, 1787.
Sally G. Finel, born J u ne 23, 1789.
Almond Finel, born Jul y 15, 1791.
Betse y Finel, born Dec. 26, 1793.
Lydia Finel, born Feb~ 21, 1796.
P olly Finel, born Aug. 15, 1798.
Emarilla Finel, born Sept. 18, 1800.
Edwa r d Finel, born J une 21, 1803.
Ed wa r d Final found de ad June 19, 1821. I mak e man y mistake s for want
of s ight and m mory. I hop e you will overlook them. I do a s well
e
as I can. I ho-pe you wi 11 find out what I me an . This I wrote when I
was 92 ye Er s a nd 5 months old. Granville Sept. 30, 1822.
Cowdry .
Jedediah How Gibbons married Elizabetl:I Cowdry, daughter of M
oses
Cowdre y an d g rand. daughter of Nathaniel Cowdrey who came ' from Engl and
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l\eid at 10 :30 a.m: Monday in the Carmichael Chamber of
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purchasing dairy supplies.
Oldham and Elsie Cosans of M:~.~"'\}
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whereo r it may be cited t ha t t he town has always ~een no ,ed
for the remarkable lo ngevit y attained by ma ny of , ts i 1habi
i tants. An early sani tary record re~ark s t hat duri ~g a t
I p eriod of fifty years between 1760 and 1810, one out of every ..
thirt y of tqe a nq abita nts reached the age of nf nety~
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the sout h , which rises 1362 feet above the sea 1eveJ!.. 1 Other
n oted elevation~ are Sodom Eill on t h e east, Bald M
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B~d Luc k Eount ? in (the latter_ so named py a pa rt y of u ns 4cc r3 ssr ful hunters ), , Libert y IHill (where a ] iberty p ole wa ~ ereqted
during t h e Revolution), South M
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h owe y er, b ut l i ttle used~ are numerous. The larg E=l s~ of these
i s, Valle y Brook, wh ich ri s es in tbe Iiort s ana f!lows 1-south
ne a rly _.:t hrough the center of t he town. The fr uit f ul v a lle y 4
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through wh i dh t h i s stream pas s es is ~ nown as Grand Valley,
and di v i de s .r.;as t and '.' est Granvi,lle. Other me ntionable s--treams
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are Hubbard's and P ond's Brooks lin t h e south we s t, 1 and Dickinson's
and Tillison's Brooks i n the east. The hill s of Gr a nvil ~e
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favQJ'ed part of ~ sachusett s , ,i,~here Na ture seems to have
di s n la y,ed her most s k illful handiwork. From W
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forty c'hurc h_ stee ples in the val:ley of the Connec ~ic:ut.
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Tolland on t h e west. It has an area of 2:B, 650 ac res of t
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~hic a large ~ ortion is valuable wo~dl a nd. Southwi~ k vil~a ge
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about five miles from Granville Corners, is the nearest 1 ,
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p ossess_ by Toto, a n Indian chie f., ~ho, in ~ at year,
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sol d , it to o'n e James Cornish f or a gun a nd' 16 bras,s but"tons.
Co-rnish disy os-sed of a p ortion o,1 h i s-- i ntere?t to ;;-{i 1
lliam -.Fuller, a n d in 1713 t h ey tra n~ferred the enti!e pro pert y
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to a -company of ro prietors- i ~ 1718. This la st-purc ha-&-e wa?
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tract 1:n Q,uestion wa s fifteen mi'l es in ie ngt ~ , 1seven -mile s
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1-wide at the ,111estern e nd, + f i ve miles w-ide on th€3i- east, an
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ovex e_d an area p L_about ,_ 41,200 acres. The _1>rdpriet.9rs'
records being lost, ma ny f a cts inci de nt to the earl~
-"--settletqe n t are no unobtainable., Alt b ol:lgh the y
purch1
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. o:ft th__ p ro pr_i e'tors _JVa s not confilrme<! u ntil_- 173'di, 1_
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be g an to locate a s e a rly as 173. The pioneer 1 s Sa muel wa
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it is s,aid that during t Q_e first fift y years
of the present century as many as 89 persons 1 bearing his name
re,s ided in East Granville-. - Following
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c ame Daniel Cooley, Jonat1
rnn Ros,e , Samuel Gille'tt, 'Dhomasl
Spelman, Johi:i Root, Ephrai m M
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Brown, Jaoez Dtinham, Peter- Gibbons, Jonat han Church, Asa
~ Seymour ,_ Timot h y, roah~, Daniel a nd Phi n eas Robinson,
Eb enezer an d Amos Baldwin, Aaron, Ebenezer a nd aniel Curtis,
Samuel Coe, David, Daniel a nd Levi Parsons,---Jo hn Bates,
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son, J oh athan, whose descendants are still living ! Jonathan's
t h ree sons were Lemuel, Etha-n, a nd Samuel, al of whom are
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dea d . J:,emuel ha d. a son, Lemuel Jr., who died in t he f a r west;
a son, Tu ite, who is dead, leavi ng a son Levi, who resides
in W
est~ield; a son, Ethan, who was killed by a hGrse earky
in life; and a daughter, who married a Mr . Root of W
estfield. .
Samuel ha ~ a son, Barbour who is dead, and whose son,
Benjamin lives i n Granville ,, JL. Y. ; a son, '3amuel Jr-t. , a nd
another son,~ bot h.i of whom reside i~ Ohio. Etha h ha d t wo sons,
Bela 'and Alpheus, t h e latter leaving a son James, now l i ving
in G~anv1lle. Ethan ha d also three daugh ters. One ma~Pied ·
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Jonathan Rose, who was__j) urned to death at the age 'of one
hundred and three ha d three sons, Sharon, Daniel a nd
Timot,h y. The latter served as a s oldier in the RevolutionaFy
, ar, a n~ after the close of the war earned some diistinction
by conducting a colony of settlers from Granville M
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to G:qa-uville Chio, where he - bec ame one of the judiciary,
and dJed in 1 815. Sharon h a d a large family, co nsisting pf
Giles, Sharon Jr., Peter, Oliver, Dwyer, M
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Abigail. ~r.rhe descen dents of Jonathan Rose now living in
Granvill~_ arEL-Isaac, .Justus, Patri c k , Salem P., Jephtha,
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Thomas Gil~et's sons were Frederick, Thomas-,- and George;
.h i.s daughters, Mollie, ~wh o marriE:d Josiah Kent and died
in Southwick, and Sybil who married Lot Clark; a nd died
in Gran-vtile. The sons are all dea-d, Frederiick--,. . havi ng left
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d a ughters. A son, .Tack son, l : _ ves in , est fi e~d. fJilliam s
w1.dow s~i-i-1 lives in Gra nv-ille, at the age oii eig~ ty
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h~t11· ·1 we11 n , exclaimed Josiah ,1 ttif th i s is 1the '(lay to
heaven, :r ' m lnot going", and utterly disgus ted fie tu:o n.ednis r --"1
h0rse about --'and drove home. He once~a ngr~ly remarked to-L
his . son J onas, t,I beli~ve y ou fre' a son of the d evil" t'Yes, I,
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1824 a t the age of ni nety-four. His children were Pet e r
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York lVi t h al~ his chil dre n , save Ha nnah , v o aied in -Gran h
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thy , the f0ur1 son , had Timoth;v:._ J"r~, Datus aI!dAl .J1eus;
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siding in Eli z abeth, N. J., aged ni net y-one.
~other da ughter(Affie) malrried ;" amuel , Spelman , a nd. die d i n Gra nville,
Ano·t her daughter \~as Samuel Spelma n ' s s e co nd wif.e, and
died in Gr anville. A son Luciµs is still livi ng in Gr a nville.
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Orson F. and ~Elizabeth D. Eli, the fift h son of Peter, th
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arrted Eliachim Pomeroy, and died in Suffield~ Conn.; Polly , w m
ho arried Ti mothy Hoag, a:µd died in M g omery , ~
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die d in Franklin.; Sarah J a ne, who died young; Henry Bl,
who qied in Ne wport, N. Y.; and Decatur, who died in
Springfie l d, Uass. Jedediah, the youngest son of Peter, h ~
e~der, ha d Carlos, whose son, J. M., i~ tne town clerk of
Gra ~ville; a nother son, M
artin T., resid es i n Granville;
anothe r son live s in ~
1estfield; another son, Edwin, died :fl
Ka ns a s. Damariw, a da ughter 'of Carlos, married Lucius
Gibb ons, a nd died i n Granville; Phylura, a nother daughter~
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Hiram died in Hartland, Oonn . (the l a tter's son, M
onroe, lives
i n Springfield; a nother son, W
atson E. lives i n Hartland,
Conn.). Eli ~a, a dau ghter of Carlos, married :11 11i am Stan
ar d , of Gra hb y , Conn ., a nd died there; Je de diah, a sou of
Carlos, lives in Hartla nd, Conn.
t-10f the descer dan ts of t h e Parsons, Israel,, living in Bost9
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rs. Enodh Root, of ·--re s tfi eld, a nd M
rs. Orson F. Gi bb ons
o;t Gr a nvill 1 a re gra ndchildren of Israel, whose aaughter e,
Thirza resides i n Hartfor d , Conn ., unmarrie d . One of his
da ughters, Elmira, ma rrie d J a me s Coole y a nd died in Gra n
vill~; another da ughter, :Mrs. Caleb Rice, died i n Springfl ,
another daughter ma rrie d a M M
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ot he r s on, died unmarrie q ; and M hfield, a nother son, re
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move ~ to New York. Hon. Anson w. Parsons, w
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Senator ir;i. Pen '1ls ylva nia, a nd an e mi ne nt menber of t h e Ju
dici a ry in t ha t St a te, wa s born in Gr anville in 1799.
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George, set t le d in Gra nville ab out 1?41. W
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field), reside in Granville. James P . Cooley, of t h e firm.of _
Noble & Coole y , Gr anville, is a grandson of Rev. Timothy,
as is Timothy J; • CGoley, of ,·estfi el d. The descendants of
Clark living in Granville are Zadock F., Harmon, and Lu
ma n . Neither George nor Daniel left any descenda nts.
Thomas 3 pelman's sons were Aaron, Stephen, Charles,
Daniel, Timothy', and Eber. Hi.s daughte rs, M
ary, who mar
ried J ames Coe; .t!.liza, who married Samuel Ba ncroft; and
Ua rt ha , who marrie d Avel Tillotson. Aaron, the el der son,
ha one son, Elijah , and t h ree daug':i ters, one of whom ma r
rie d Claudius L . Colli ns, and ·moved to Connecticut; anotbf: - +
married - hem Tru m , a nd removed to Vermont; and t he
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third marrie d Asahel Gr a ve s , and we nt to l ew York. Eli
jah, Aaro n 's son, was thrice married. By h is fir s t wife a
had thirteen children; his seco nd w1 fe had six children lt en
h e married ~er, and by h er he ha d four mor e ; his th ird wi~
ha tJ. eight chil dren when he married her. Elij a h's li vingl
t s ce ndants are, So:Lon, a son, res i di ng i n .Je st field; Chapnn
and Levi T., so ns, in Gra nville; 7illi am . .:- • , a gr ands on, t
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rs. George Lewis, a daugb. ter, in ast Granby,
Conn .; l rs. L. V. ~lliott, a daugh ter, i n Pen n Yan , 'T. Y.;
a nd 1./'"rs. D • .3Stanford, a da ug:-: te r , i n ·Elizabeth, rl. J . None
of t he desG e ndan-ts of '~ phen , the seco nd son of Thoma s , t he
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el de r, a re livi ng in Gr ~nville. The only de s cendant in Gran
ville of .Charles, the thir d son, is M s . Leeson Bro wn , a
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gr and@aughter. Daniel, the fourth son, was one of a ~and
of count e rfeiters who, in 1770, occupfed a c ave in Granville_,
where t he y manufa ct ured spurious coi n and passe d it off on
the Indians. Daniel was ca ptured and lod g e d i n jail, whe nce
he e s caped , a nd settled i n Providence, R. I., wh ere he r a ised
a l a rge family. After an a b sen ce of forty ye a rs he retur ne d
to Gra nville, where he died at the age of ninety, never having
been troubled more with reference to his counterfeiting procl iv
ities, Timothy, the fift h son, removed early with h is family
to Gr anville, O.,. Eber, t he sixth son, removed at an e ary
period to Stafford<, Conn. One of his sons, Solomon c., is a
court cri er in Springfield, and another, Sylvester, a physician
in Ohia.
The only1 descendants of John Root in Gran ville are Jacob
and John , sons of Silas a nd ,g ra ndsons of Amos.
Of the Dickinsons, Beville c. and his t hree sons, Ethan,
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Otis, and Lester, are living in Granville. Of the Barlows ~ ~
living in Granville are Heman, a ged ei g' hty seven, a gr aa
of Edmund Barlow, and earl y settler. TheP-e is also at Gre
ville Edmund B., a Great gr an dso n of Edmund.
Re v . Gordon Hall, who died a missionary in I ndia in 1826
was born in Granville in 1784.
Hon. Isaac c. Bates, three time s chosen to Congress from
his native district, wa s born in Granville in 1??9. He died at
North~mpton in 1847, aged sixt-y eight.
Hon. Joh n E . M
ills, a resident of M
ontreal, Canada, from
1815 to 1847, a nd mayor of t hat city, wa s born i n Gr anvile
i n 179?.
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Gamaliel s . Old~, a n emi n ent scholar and divine, who died
i n Ohio in 1848, wa s born in Granville in 1??7.
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.Tuly 11, 1774, t he tcrwn selected as a commtttae ''to inspect
the debate betwe e n the mother country a nd t h e inhabitant s of
America, " Messrs-:- Timoth y Ro-bins on, Luke Hilt ch cock,
011 ver Phelps, ,Tosi ah Harve y , Samuel Bancroft, Nathan
Barlow, and .Toh n Hamilton.
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and a dopted by t h e district we re a s follows:
'l. Resolved, That King George 111 is our rig ' tful sovereign and king, a
tha t we will at all times bear all allegiance due unto hi m.
1 . That· the inhabit a nts of this, His M
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ajesty's Province, and llhe other
co1onies in America are justly ent itled to all the right~,liberties,
an~ priveleges that the inhab itants of Great Britain are entitled to,
w ich rights, liberties and priveleges are in a particular manner conh
firmed tb the inhabitants of this province by charter and that we would
tlumbly re quest and confidently challenge the s e rights liberties and
Rriveleges to us belonging as free and natural born English subjeets.
'' 3. That it is our opinion that the afores a id Acts of Parliament
(Stamp Act, etc.) are ca lculated to perplex and enslave thi ~ , his
M
ajesty's free and loyal province, am are destructive of our
invaluable lipertied and privileges; and have a manifest tendency
to alienat e the affections of his Majesty's faithful subjects,
and1 are in the ~highest degree oppressive and unconstitutional.
"4. That in order to ob t ain redress from the difficulties and
calamities in which we are so deeply involved by the aforesaid
acts of Parliament, it is our opinion that some uniform an d
constitutional r e solves be agreed uppn~ for a universal rule to be
observed through out all the colonies, th e construction of w
hich
"'fe refer to t he wisdom of the General American Congress, soon
to meet. And we woul d humbly offer to their consideration, that
it is ou~ opinion that a suspension of all commerce with Great
Britain, under proper regulations, and a covenant engagement of
non-importation and non-consumption of their manufac tures, to be
solemnly subscribed by the people, will be the most likely means
to produce the desired effect. And that such non-importation and
non-consumption agreement is neither unwarrantable, hostile, nor
treacherous, or contrary to our allegiance due to our king; and
that it is the indispensable duty of eve r y person who would
reserve to himself and posterity the inestimable blessi!lg of
liberty, by all constitutional ways and means in his power, to
endeavor to avert the much-dreaded consequences of those
arb itrary and oppressive acts.
"5. Tha t we greatly a pplaud the patriotic zeal of the merchants and
other inhabitants of Boston, and expecially the vigilance and
assiduity of their committee of corre s onde nc e ; ?nd althoughx we
a pprove of the sentiment and spirit of their covenant present e d
to us to subscribe, yet we are of opinion that the same is rather
premature and too precipitate, as it is a.J!l&tter of the utmost
i mportance to the British An:erican colonies, and requires the most
serious consi deration , fearing it wi 11 breed discord among the
inhabitants, and that a division of sentime nt may be destructive of
the good effect. W propose, therefore, a nd rather choose to defer
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the subscri-1)tion thereto, but wait t h e determination of t h e
American Congre ss. And do, as christions, pro mise and pledge our
faith, that whateger constitutional determination and resolves
shall be agree d upon and published by them, as a g e neral rule of
observance by all the provinces, we ~
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muster e q. a, company o;f 60 men and s ent them promptly for_war--9-..,
under Capt. Lebbeus Ball, whose first lieutenant was Lemuel
Bancroft, of Southwick. To I th i s company the distric--t gave the sum of
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680 _f11nts, an~ 5 pounds of uowder. Fourte~n of Granville's citizens
are s•ld to have perishe d in the service, --among them being
Isaac Cha~man, who fell at Ticonderoga , Deacen Luke Hitc h cock
L- .(who died e_n rout ~ to his home from the army, and was burie d at
Springf ield), Enos Howe, a nd Joh n Bartlett. The latter wa s a
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stint, whi'le t he families of those who went into th e war were
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resolut+on wa s pa ~sed "to petition Congress to avert the
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also "to present a remonstranc e to Congre s s a gainst a n KXXi~rm
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allia nce wi t h Franc e . '" It wa s al so determine d ''to choose a
d e l e gate to meet in county conven t ion in Northamp ton~ July
,1 4, 1812, to t ~ke 1into 1consideration the alarming situation
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shall be thought proper." David Curtis wa ? chos e n to
re p re se nt the d istrict a t the convention.
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f ta ken b y the inhabit a nt s to guard a ga inst dangers f rom the
savage s ~ The first fort was built 'b y Samu e l Bancroft, j.n 1744 ,
and the s ~c ond , s ~ortly a f ter t h e er e ct i on ~f M Bancroft's,
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afforded many of th e s ettlers hav e n s of safe t y whe n e ver the
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years afte r wa rds at the espective ages of eighty t wp, eighty -+ ..
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drop ped de ~d ·one day while at w
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Bancroft, the p ioneer settler, retired to re s t at night in full
health, and was fount! dead- in his bed the nex.;t morning .
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obd, bec ame derangea sfiortly before ni s deat h , a nd for safe 1
keeping, was confined in the dwelling of one of .nis relatives
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under the act of 1 ?86 beca me a town in the latter yea.r, a.l
though, singularl~ enough, representatives were sent to the
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honor of Jahn Cart,e ret, Earl of Granville, altr~ough so__me of
the old reside nts believe that the name was sugge s ted bj the
Gra nd Vall~y, so called, that marks the dividing line between
East and W s t Gra nville'.
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perso ns who have s erved as selectme n an d town crerks will
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Asa Se ymou~, David Curtis, Abraham Granger, Timothy Rose,
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Asa Seymou~, Jacob ··iBates, Titus Fowle±-, Timot 'rJ.y Rose, A
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Israel Parsons, D
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Israel Parsons, John Phel ps, Abraham Granger.
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Amos Root, Joel Robi nson, Abraha m Granger.
Israe l Parsonk , John Phel ps, W Twining 2nd
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Asa Seymbu~ Joel Parsons,, Jame s Ba ~low. _ 1
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Edmund Barlow, D. M. JVh e e ler, ~dwa r d Holc om
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E. H. Se ymour , J ame s O. Rose , Jame s -w. J ohns on .
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Rufus "'mi t h , J ame s H . Se ymour, iVm. Clark.
Rufus Smi t h , 7lm . C. Clark , E . L. Bro,m .
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John Phel ps 1809-ll;Jame s Cooley ,1811, ''15 ,'17,'19,' 21,' 23 1 25,'27;
Johm Ph el ps :lHl.2-13; Joe l P~arsons, ,1814; Pat,ria k Boles. ,l-8lo'l6, ~20,
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phurch ,s, a hotel, p ost office, t wo stores and other minor business interests. It ha s been a t filrivi ng villa ge for many year s ;
a nd bids fair to hold th a t course f 'o r ti me to come.
CRURCl ES
A Congre gational Church
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and so oQ a~ter, in the same year, a church e~ifice was erected
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Mose s Tutt£le, was OI',dai ned in that year, and preached until
1754, He was succeede d , in 1756• by Bev. Jedediah Smith,
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rec ,. , 1 ved i nto church fe l lowship. Later, he 9otlght to i nculI
c a te the Sto ddffr d t doctfine into the minds of his people, and
the opn 0sition he e ncounter ed cre a t ed much disse nsion, a nd
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bers' . Despite his troubles experience, he remaine d the pastor until earl y in 1776, when
his hosti~ity to the Revolutionary caus e compelled hi s retirement and removal from the town.
During t h e i nterval bet ween 1776 a nd 1795 the church wa s
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11f . Cooley ,: a native of Granville, Tf!BS ori~i n;~er~~du~-~fye1
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The villages i n Gra nville are three in number.
lEAST GRAl\TVI LLE
The s ite~ of the e~~liest settleme nt, was originall y called by that
name, and here, as may be i magined, occurred the incidents
with whicfi the early hrstory of th e town -i s connected. Here
is a churc l;l , a pos+ office, the town hall, a store, a nd a collect
tion 9f about forty neat and t hri f ty looking dwellings, which,
in some cases, betoken modera te wealth. An old t av ern
building, once a p-0pul a r :tiostelry, has outlived its usefulness
in t hat res pect, ~nd i s occupi ed as a private~dwelling.
~7EST GR.A: WILLE
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Originally c el led M dle Gra nville when what j.. s now Tolid
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l and was 'fest G:ranvi lle, is a pl e asa ntly located village
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four mil es west of 3:a s t Gr anville, and cont ains , besides a0 out
thirt y dwellings , a s tore, hotel, _p o.st office, a chur ch , and an ,
excellent sc hoo l called The Aca den y. In both these vilages agriculture is he chief supp ort of the inbabi t ants.
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R.Afrv.LLLE CORNER
Known commonly as J ocke y Corne r s , r• est les under the hi gh
h ill upon wh ich Ea st Gra nville s ta :d s , and is re move d ab out
a PJ i l e dista nt ea s twa rd from__ t h e latter p lace.
It c ontai ns a
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Ti mot hy Robinson, a t han Barlow, 011 v er Phel1)s Josi ah Harve y W f"
Titus Fowl~r, 2am'! Thrall, Joh n Hamilton, Clark Coole , Jas.H~mi~t~~oley
Thos. Burbank , David ' Rqbins on, Enoch Bancroft, Jacob Ka te s , Enos - Ban~
era-ft, John :.. helps,, Israel . Parso-ns, T os. Hamil t-on Abrahan Gr an gar
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eymour, David Curtis, Jam es B~rJfw,
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Hezekiah Robinson,Jonathan
B.Ba nc roft, Patrick ~ ole s , Elijah · e ymour, oah Cooley ,Sam'l. Roo-t,
Deni s on Parsons, Levi Parsons, Fr'a neis Feeb le--'? , Aaron I. . Curt is '- James
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, He;nry Clark , Al J>heus Ba ncroft.
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stone monu_pe nt, whic n still stand s, a nd which will long continue to stand as a reminder of the import ant i ncide nt. The
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t he villa gy 0 f , astt Granville in 1802 , in -w:h ioh year the old
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1786, no cnurch edifice was b ui l t until 1788. This structure,
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having ~rem t ~me to ti me been re paired and i mproved, i s still
in us e. M Booge, alt h ough p opu la r a t first, fel l i nto disr.
f avor after a ti me, and whe n i n 1786, he wa s dismissed, t he
church was s ome what di siorga ni z ed. His s 1!lec,essor, Rev • .Joel
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ord~nati on } a rema r kab l y peaceful one; but a fter t hat•, fo r
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i ze d a Bapti s t Ch urc h at wh at i s n 8W c~lled Gr anville Corners ,
and t h ere, .i n 1800" b ui 1 t a hous e of worship. The church
fl ouri shed wi th much vigor fro m t his date for wa rd, a nd in
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Sila s Root ,1 pre~ch? d from 181? u ntil his de a th, in 1846. The
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the memb ~r s1 p was about 90. The fir s t c,n.urch buildi ng,
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A Unive r s alist Church
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a b out 25, bu t t h ery i s at pr e s e nt no re gular pas t or, pr eac hi ;ng ,
b.ei ng supplie d from ti me to time as it c an b e obtained.
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that da te i n t he ma t t e r of sch oo ls , •·1 t i s suppos ed. . . t hat t n e first --+
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has no t 11> ee1 s u fif e r ed to weaken . There i s, a t 0-r anville Corne:r s
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graduat e s , of wh om-I me nt i on i s here ma de of -the' f ollowing ;
Rufus Ha.r_yeJY , ~ Timothy Mr C..ooley, Elijah Bate s , s te pJJ. e n
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Twini ng, Tr µman Bal dwin, Isa ac C. Bates, Roger c. Hatc h ,
David B. Coe, Davi d B. e urtis, Set h M Leavenworth , Gor.
d.on HaJ. l, L orrin C. Hatch, J ohn Seward , Harve y Coe, Chas . +
F . Bate s , Cpa s s . Robinson, Th omas Twi ni ng, Timothy C.
Coole y , Augus,tusr--Pomeroy , David L. Coe, Jame s Coole y , ,
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Stebb i ns , J ,oh n C. Terrett, Ge orge Foot, Loui s E . Root, J unius
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Of t he fi ve bur ying grounds in the_ town, one i s at Gr anville
Corner s , t wo are a t Ea s t Granville, a nd t wo a t :le s t Granvil l e. The olde s t I one is found at Ea st Grenville, nea r where ,_
t he firs t CJ°ngre gatio;na l Churc h wa s b ui lt in 1747, about a
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wa s Samuel Gillet , who died i n 1739, a nd wh o i s s upp os ed to
h ave bee n the fir s t pers on vVh o died in what i s now Gran-+t t
ville. No hea ds tone marks hi s re s t i ng pl a ce, and it ma y
al s o b e remarke d t ha t ma ny of tho s e s e t un p revious to 1760
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through t h e e rosions of ti me. The old e s t insc ri ptions now
l e gi b le i re give n a s f ollows :
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amuel W J.. er J r. , 1758; .Elsa l;vheeler, 1758; Rmi th M
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Ros~, 17~9; l Sarah Pr a~ t, 1757; -- ,Coe, 1759; Annie Ba~low, 1755; Isaac
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Dowd,1'76l; N~th a ni el Hubba r d ,1762; Lyaia Stow,1761;011.v e Tibbit ~1 176~ ;
Deth Coe,1760;--Coe, 1762;Job Stile s Jr.,1766; M rth a Barlow,17o5;
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Nanc y Smi t h ,1769; As a Burt,1774; Sarah Bancro f t,177?; Lyd ia Stiles,1779;
Loude n Di:ckinson 1772 ; Hannah Dick inson, 1778;Sa r a h, wife of Ph-i re a s Pratt
177?; Phi ne a~ Prait JI7 10; ~1Jza, wi f e of 1 of David Rose,1775; Hiram ,
son of Ge r a rd Pratt,1?77; Phoebe, wife or Aaron Coe,177~; three
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s e ven ; s t atira, daughter of Eb er Spelman , 178i ~ Eliza, wife of Aaron ,
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aged s i ~i y fi~ e · Le wma n s on of Dan ie l Cool ey, 1786; Daniel Coo e, 782,
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Phineas Tinker,i782; Re;b e n Rose, ! 783 ; Jus i~~o~il:op
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wi f e of Ahuma z Ree d , 1791; Thomas ope
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Salv;na w
aiworth 1791; Abi gail, wif e of Jonat~an Church , 1Ma M
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essrs . •Jobl e & ,C ooley have o~erate d this f a ctory since 1855.Aro ut a
mile eas-t of the Corner s Hon • .!!.. t h an Robinson~ the present 7t epr'e sentati ve in the Legislature from this district, has another -tl r mn factory
empl oy1ng abottt ~ 5 pe~sons. --tAgriculture i s scarcely in a flouri s hing condition. The soil
is ge nerJ11y sterile a nd stony.- Farmers prefer 1,o buy t heir gm, in,
as the y s a y t he y c a n do so cheaper than the y ca n r aise it.
Good gr a zing land s are plentt ful, a nd stoc k r a ising , together with1 a limi ed pro duction of better a nd c.hee se ~ a.re
the -princi pal purs1:;1 i t i of the husba ndma n. Tobacco is gro wn,
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but t h is i ndu s try , imp orta nt here some ye ars ago i s gra dua lly being abondon~d. The total as s e s s e d valuation of the
townin 18?? was- $ 383,?95, on which there wa s a tax of
$ 60??.61, a rate ~f ne, rly 16 mills on the dollar. The value ·
of manuf~ctur e s i n 1875 was $ 65,680, and that of agricultural
and dome s tic produets $ 1 22,840. The f a rms n~mber 220, and
the dwelling hous es 256.
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REBELLION RECORD
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Chauncey Gqwdy, 10th M
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George s . Harger, 10th M
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James J~tin, 10th M
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Ed. N. Bliss, 27th M
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~illiam H. Banc~off , 2?th M
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U lliam H . Beach, 27th M
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Charles E. Bald~in, 2?th M
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ilo H. Cooley, 2?th M
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s. P. Cooley, 27th M
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Erastus Gook, 2?th W
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George F. Green, 29 th Mass.
H. W-. Green, 2?th M
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John V. Hull, 27th M ~
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J ustus W King, 2?th Ma ss.
J. C. M
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artin Osborn, 27th M
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Roderick Pomeroy Jr., 27th M
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A. B. Pomeroy, 27th M
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Daniel Pomeroy, 2?th M
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Nat han B. Pomeroy, 2?tht M
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John R. Rowley, 27th 1M
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Jas. H. Smith, 2?th M
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John D. Searl, 27th M
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Henry W Tryon, 27th M
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Charles w Terrett 2?th ~.ass
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Calvin J. Treat 27th M
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Daniel Collins,' 27th :Mass_ ,.
Stiles Co'qCh, 31st M
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G90rge Lee, 31st M
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Joseph Tyler, 31st M
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Silas L. Keep, 30th M
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George L. Church , 34th M
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George H. Atkins, 34th Ma ss.
Leigh R. Brewer, 34 th M
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John Cummings, 34th Ma ss.
R~ N. Farnham 34th M
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Geo r ge H. Justin, 34th M . ..
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Frederick Krallman, 34th Ma ss.
Isaac s . N
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Aaron S--. 7 Clark , 46th Ma Sis.
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E. M. Peebles, 46t~ M
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H. F . Rowle y , 46th M
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L. L. Bose, 46th M
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Ira L. Root, 46th M ss.
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Documents relating to Granville history.
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Gibbons Family History and Letters
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A collection of scans made from a large binder of Gibbons family history, genealogy, and letters. Compiled by Muriel Dickinson Leslie and loaned to the Granville Library Historical Room by Darcy Clifford Cooley in 2018.
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From the collection of Muriel Dickinson Leslie.
Generously loaned to the Granville Library Historical Room for digitizing by Darcy and Julie Clifford.
Dickinson
Gibbons
Granville
Joseph Dickinson
Massachusetts
May Noble
Muriel Dickinson Leslie
Peter Gibbons
Tinker
Warren
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Granville Grange Men's Degree Team
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Granville Public Library Historical Room
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Granville Grange Degree Team. Also see newspaper clipping with list of names. Note that Alfred Goodrich is misidentified in the clipping as "Goodyear."
Albert Bateman
Alfred Goodrich
Alfred Goodyear
Alfred Peterson
Banks
Carl Holcomb
Chapman
Charles Hanson
Clark Boughton
David Brooks
degree team
Grange
Granville
Joseph Dickinson
Massachusetts
Milton Hanson
Randolph Peterson
Richard Dickinson
Stephen Roberts
Walter Phelon
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Documents, Articles, Other Printed Material
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An account of the resource
Documents relating to Granville history.
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Granville Grange Degree Team
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Unknown newspaper
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Newspaper clipping of the Granville Degree Team. See image for all names in photo. Note that Alfred Goodrich is misidentified in the clipping as "Goodyear." The Petersen and Hansen names are also mis-spelled in the clipping (should be "sen" not "son").
Albert Bateman
Alfred Goodrich
Alfred Goodyear
Alfred Peterson
Banks
Carl Holcomb
Chapman
Charles Hanson
Clark Boughton
David Brooks
Grange
Granville
Joseph Dickinson
Massachusetts
Milton Hanson
Randolph Peterson
Richard Dickinson
Stephen Roberts
Walter Phelon