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51	"They removed to Norwich in 1660. His home lot was on the opposite side of the street from that of his father-in-law, William Hyde, and was, in 1858, in the possession of two of his descendants, the widow, Lucretia Carew, and her daughter, the widow of Roswell Morgan, Esq.	POST, John (I1739)
52	"Thomas Aulls, settled with his father, William Aulls, in the town of Urbana in 1793 and about 1800 removed to the farm in the town of Wheeler, now occupied by his son Ephraim Aulls. He there made the first clearing and erected a log house and afterwards made a frame addition thereto. He gave diligent attention to clearing and improving his farm. He was the first justice of the peace in that part of the town of Bath afterwards set off to Wheeler. He was a good man and a member of the Presbyterian Church and died on the farm he settled about 1847." Pleasant Valley--(Town of Urbana.) The settlement in that well known prolongation of the bed of Crooked Lake, famed as Pleasant Valley, was the first made under the auspices of Captain Williamson, and was for many years the most prosperous and one of the most important in the country. The soil was exceedingly productive, and yielded not only an abundance for the settlers, but furnished much of the food by which the inhabitants of the hungry Pine Plains were saved from starvation. For the young settlers in various parts of the county, the employment afforded by the bountiful fields of the valley during haying and harvest, was for many years an important assistance. In the midst of pitiless hills and forests that clung to their treasures like misers, Pleasant Valley was generous and free-handed--yielding fruit, grain and grass with marvelous prodigality. The fist settlers of Pleasant Valley were William Aulls and Samuel Baker. Mr. Aulls, previous to the year 1793, was living in the Southern part of Pennsylvania. In the spring of 1793, he made the first clearing and built the first house in the valley. In the autumn of the same year he brought up his family. The house which he built stood on the farm now occupied by John Powers, Esq. Samuel Baker was a native of Bradford County, in Connecticut. When 15 years of age, he was taken prisoner by a party of Burgoyne’s Indians, and remained with the British army in captivity till relieved by the Surrender at Saratoga. After this event he enlisted in Col. Willett’s corps, and was engaged in the pursuit and skirmish at Canada Creek, in which Captain William Butler (a brother of the noted Col. John Butler), a troublesome leader of the Tories in the border wars of this State, was shot and tomahawked by the Oneidas. In the spring of 1787, he went alone into the West, passed up the Tioga, and built a cabin on the open flat between the Tioga and Cowenisque, at their junction. He was the first settler in the valley of the Tioga. Harris, the trader, was at the Painted Post, and his next neighbor was Col. Handy, on the Chemung, below Big Flats. Of beasts, he had a cow, of “plunder,” the few trifling articles that would suffice for an Arab or an Arapaho; but like a true son of Connecticut, he readily managed to live through the summer, planted with a hoe a patch of corn on the flats, and raised a good crop. Before autumn he joined by Captain Amos Stone, a kind of Hungarian exile. Captain Stone had been out in “Shay’s War,” and dreading the vengeance of the government, he sought an asylum under the southern shadow of Steuben County, where the wilderness was two hundred miles deep, and where the Marshal would not care to venture, even when backed by the great seal of the Republic. On Christmas day of 1786, Mr. Baker leaving Captain Stone in his cabin, went down the Tioga on the ice to Newtown as previously mentioned, and thence to Hudson ,where his family was living. At the opening of the rivers in the spring, he took his family down the Susquehanna to Tioga Point in a canoe. A great freshet prevented him from moving up the Chemung for many days, and leaving his family, he stuck across the hills to see how his friend Captain Stone fared. On reaching the bank of the river opposite his cabin, not a human being was seen, except an Indian pounding corn in a Samp-morter. Mr. Baker supposed that his friend had been murdered by the savages, and he lay in the bushes an hour or two to watch the movements of the red miller, who proved, after all, to be only a very good-natured sort of a Man-Friday, for at length the Captain came along driving the cow by the bank of the river. Mr. Baker hailed him, and he sprang unto the air with delight. Captain Stone had passed the winter without seeing a white man. His Man-Friday stopped thumping at the Samp-morter, and the party had a very agreeable re-union. Mr. Baker brought his family up from Tioga Point, and lived here six years. During that time the pioneer advance had penetrated the region of which the lower Tioga Valley is a member. A few settlers had established themselves on the valley below them, and around the Painted Post were gathered a few cabins where now are the termini of railroads--the gate of coal and lumber trade, bridges, mills and machinery. Elsewhere all was wilderness.. The region, however, had been partially explored by surveyors and hunters. Benjamin Patterson, while employed as hunter for a party of surveyors, discovered the deep and beautiful valley which extends from the Crooked Lake to the Conhocton. Seen from the brink of the uplands, there is hardly a more picturesque landscape in the county, or one which partakes more strongly of the character of mountain scenery. The abrupt wooded wall on either side, the ravines occasionally opening the flank of the hills, the curving valley that slopes to the lake on one hand, and meets the blue Conhocton range on the other, form at this day a pleasing picture. But to the hunter, leaning on his rifle above the sudden declivity--before the country had been disfigured with a patchwork of farms and forest--the bed of the valley was like a river of trees, and the gulf, from which now rise the deadly vapor of a steam sawmill, seemed like a creek to pour its tributary timber into the broader gorge below. In his wanderings the hunter occasionally stopped at the cabins of Tioga, and brought report of this fine valley. Mr. Baker did not hold a satisfactory title to his Pennsylvania farm, and was inclined to emigrate. Capt. Williamson visited his house in 1792, (probably while exploring the Lycoming Road,) and promised him a farm of any shape or size, (land in New York, previous to this, could only be bought by the township,) wherever he should locate it. Mr. Baker accordingly selected a farm of some three hundred acres in Pleasant Valley--built a house upon it in the autumn of 1793, and in the following spring removed his family from Tioga. He resided here till his death in 1842, at the age of 80. He was several years Associate and First Judge of the County Court. Judge Baker was a man of a strong practical mind, and of correct and sagacious observations. Before 1795, the whole valley was occupied. Beginning with Judge Baker’s farm, the next farm towards the lake was occupied by Capt. Amos Stone, the next by William Aulls, the next by Ephraim Aulls, the next by James Shether. Crossing the valley, the first farm (where now is the village of Hammondsport,) was occupied by Capt. John Shether, the next by Eli Read, the next by William Barney, the next by Richard Daniels. Nearly all of these had been soldiers of the revolution. Capt. Shether had been an active officer, and was engaged in several battles. Of him, Gen. McClure says:--He was Captain of Dragons, and had the reputation of being an excellent officer and a favorite of Gen. Washington. He lived on his farm at the head of Crooked Lake in good style, and fared sumptuously. He was a generous, hospitable man, and a true patriot.” The Shethers were from Connecticut. Judge William Read was a Rhode Island Quaker. He settled a few years after the revolution on the “Squatter lands” above Owego, and, being ejected, moved westward his household after the manner of the times. Indians pushed the family up the river in canoes, while the men drove the cattle along the trail on the bank. Judge Read was a man of clear head and strong sense of orderly and accurate business talent, and was much relied upon by his neighbors to make crooked matters straight. The Cold Spring Valley was occupied by Gen. McClure in 1802, or about that time. He erected mills, and kept them in activities till 1814, when Mr. Henry A. Townsend entered into possession of the valley, and resided in the well known Cold Spring House till his death in 1839. Mr. Townsend removed from Orange County, in the state, to Bath in 1796. He was County Clerk from 1799 to 1814--the longest tenure in the catalogue of county officers. Mr. Lazarus Hammond removed from Dansville to Cold Spring in 1810, or about that time, and afterwards resided near Crooked Lake till his death. He was Sheriff of the county in 1814, and, at a recent period, Associate Judge of the County Court.	AULLS, William Jr. (I1445)
53	"Thomas Aulls, settled with his father, William Aulls, in the town of Urbana in 1793 and about 1800 removed to the farm in the town of Wheeler, now occupied by his son Ephraim Aulls. He there made the first clearing and erected a log house and afterwards made a frame addition thereto. He gave diligent attention to clearing and improving his farm. He was the first justice of the peace in that part of the town of Bath afterwards set off to Wheeler. He was a good man and a member of the Presbyterian Church and died on the farm he settled about 1847." "At the first town meeting, held in 1821, Thomas Aulls was elected supervisor. He was re-elected in 1822. In 1823, Grattan H. Wheeler was elected, and was succeeded by Thomas Aulls again in 1824. How long Mr. Aulls continued to serve as supervisor we have no means of knowing. The records show no other name till 1830, when Jonathan Barney was elected."	AULLS, Thomas (I1449)
54	"Thomas came to America with his parents about 1638 and was granted a house-lot adjacent to that of his father in Hartford in 1640. Sometime thereafter, Thomas Jr. removed to Saybrook, Connecticut. Though the "Bliss Genealogy" of 1881 states that this occurred after his father's death , it is more likely that Thomas removed to Saybrook in about 1644, where his marriage to Elizabeth is recorded, as are the births of six of their children. At Saybrook his allotment of land was east of the Connecticut River, in what is now Lyme. He sold this land July 23, 1662 to John Comstock and Richard Smith, having removed with his family to Norwich, Connecticut two or three years previous. His homestead at Norwich was still occupied by his descendants in 1880, seven generations of the same name having successively inherited the homestead and dwelt therein."	BLISS, Thomas (I2398)
55	"Thomas Kilborne senior warden of this church settled in Connecticut with his family in 1635 and the following year whilst attempting to rescue captives was killed by Indians."	KILBORN, Thomas (I8761)
56	"Was charged with 'leaving his wife and children, and we have great cause to think he intends to take a young woman with him in a private and scandalous manner."	MOORE, John (I5063)
57	"WHEELER GENERAL DESCRIPTION The town of Wheeler was formed from Bath and Prattsburgh Feb.25, 1820, and was named from Capt.Silas Wheeler, the first settler. A part of Avoca was taken off in 1843, and a part of Urbana in 1839. It lies in the interior of the county,northeast of the centre, and has a high, rolling surface, in many places of great variety and picturesqueness, and richness of soil, particularly in the valleys. The farms are among, the finest in the county, and under a high state of cultivation, the soil being a clayey and shaly loam, well adapted both to pasture and tillage. The principal streams are the Five- and Ten-Mile Creeks, and some small lateral tributaries. EARLY SETTLEMENT.Capt. Silas Wheeler in honor of whom the town was named, was the first permanent settler. He was a native of Rhode Island,but then recently from Albany Co., N. Y. He was a soldier of the Revolution, and was with Benedict Arnold in his perilous march through the forests of Maine, and at the assault of Quebec stood near Montgomery when be fell. He was four times taken prisoner, twice by land and twice upon the high-seas as a roving, privateersman. After his second capture upon the coast of Great Britain he was confined in jail at Kinsale, Ireland,and condemned to be hanged as a pirate. He escaped by the aid of a friendly Irishman and of the distinguished orator and statesman, Henry Grattan. Mr. Grattan procured for him a passport, protected him from press-gangs and the police, and secured for him a passage to France, whence he returned to America. He settled in the town of Wheeler (then included in Bath) in 1799. Capt. Wheeler's first trip to mill is worthy of record, as it gives an insight into the hardships and privations of the new settler. There were at this time three mills in the neighboring- towns, viz., at the Friends' settlement, at Naples,and at Bath. The mill at Bath was not running for want of something to grind. Capt. Wheeler's first business was to make a cart, which he did after the most primitive style ; the wheels were sawn from the end of a log of curly maple, the box was made to correspond, and with a yoke of oxen attached to this vehicle he started for Naples. Two pioneers went before with axes to clear the road, while the captain with his bovine vehicle, bounding over logs and stumps, and floundering through the bushes, followed.The first days march was six miles, the second brought them to their destination. Capt. Wheeler was famous throughout all the land for his anecdotes, and many an otherwise weary hour has been beguiled by listening to his adventures. He died in 1828,aged seventy-eight, with his son, Gratton H. Wheeler, on the property now owned by his grandson, G. H. Wheeler. The Gulf road to Bath was opened by Capt. Wheeler, and the Kennedyville road was opened a year or two afterwards. His children were two twin daughters, Ruth and Sarah and a son, Grattan Wheeler."	WHEELER, Captain Captain Silas (I3450)
58	"Where he came from, or if his ancestors had lived for many generations in Essex Co., is not known. He was in Debden, and was a witness to the will of William Hall (whose daughter he married), 4 Oct 1515. In 1525 he and William Kellogg were taxed in earliest Subsidy Returns for Debden now found. From this time until his death in 558, his name appears at various times in the tax rolls. The names of all his children are not known as he did not mention them in his will, and the earliest entries in the parish register are iin the year after his death. The Manorial Court Rolls indicate that he had at least two sons, William and Thomas. From the frequency of the name in the registers of Debden, it would seem to have been the home of several Kellogg families, and the similarity of Christian names of Kelloggs in neighboring parishes a generation later, indicates that all were descended from the Debden family."	KELLOGG, Nicholas (I2964)
59	"While running a race his horse flung him against a log fence so that he forthwith died" This took place June 10, just 10 days after his marriage.	SHAW, Josiah (I8318)
60	<i>Canada, Lower Canada Census, 1825</i>. Salt Lake City, Utah: FamilySearch, 2013.	Source (S1268)
61	<i>Washington, Death Certificates, 1907-1960</i>. Salt Lake City, Utah: FamilySearch, 2013.	Source (S1270)
62	<p>â€œNew Hampshire, Marriage and Divorce Records, 1659â€“1947.â€ Online index and digital images. <i> New England Historical Genealogical Society</i>. Citing New Hampshire Bureau of Vital Records, Concord, New Hampshire.</p&	Source (S1266)
63	<p>Fonds Cour SupÃ©rieure. Greffes de notaires. BibliothÃ¨que et Archives nationales du QuÃ©bec, MontrÃ©al, QuÃ©bec, Canada.</p> <p>A full list of sources can be found <a href='##SearchUrlPrefix##/search/dbextra.aspx?dbid=61062' target='_blank'>here</a>.</p>	Source (S1262)
64	<ul><li><i>Census of 1851 (Canada East, Canada West, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia)</i>. Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa, Canada.</li><li><i>Census of Nova Scotia, 1851</i>. Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada: Nova Scotia Archives and Records Management (NSARM): Nova Scotia Board of Statistics, 1851.</li></ul><p>NS Archives and Records Management gives no warranty as to the accuracy, completeness or fitness for the purpose of the information provided. Images may be used only for purposes of research, private study or education. Infringement of this condition may result in legal action.</p><br><p>Images are reproduced with the permission of Library ad Archives Canada.</p>	Source (S1260)
65	<ul><li>Archives of Ontario. <i>Registrations of Deaths, 1869-1948 (MS 935, reels 1-694), </i> Archives of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.</li><li>Archives of Ontario. <i>Registrations of Ontario Overses Deaths, 1939-1947.</i> MS 944, reels 1-11. Archives of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.</li><li>Archives of Ontario. <i>Division Registrar Vital Statistics Records, 1858-1930.</i> MS 940, reels 5-10, 16, 21, 26-27. Archives of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.</li></ul>	Source (S1271)
66	'The Connecticut Nutmegger,' Vol. 7, No. 2, Sept. 1974, pg. 173 lists a Sarah Platt, dau. of John b. May 4, 1678 in N orwalk, CT. Sarah Platt was born on 21 May 1678 in Norwalk, Fairfie ld County, CT. She died on 10 November 1750, age 72.	PLATT, Sarah (I12790)
67	'The First Century of Springfield,' p. 551 (no other info.recorded). Benjamin Cooley was here in 1644, his name appearing in the records of that year. Two years after his arrival he was chosen a selectman and served in that office 18 years, the longest period of service given by one person. He was much employed in town affairs and was on all important committees during his active life. Samuel Terry was bound to service by William Pynchon to Benjamin Cooley, 'weaver,' for three years and six months, and it would appear that Cooley must have been engaged in weaving in England before coming to this country. His marriage is not on record here.	COOLEY, Benjamin (I2381)
68	'The History and Antiquities of the Name and Family of Kilbourne,'by Payne Kenyon Kilbourne: Thomas Kilbourne, the common ancestor of all the Kilborne's (now spelled variously - Kilborn, Kilburn, Kilbourn, Kilbourne, etc,) on the Western Continent (USA) was born in the parish of Wood Ditton, in the County of Cambridge, England, 1578, where he was baptized on the 8th of May of that year. The next mention found of him, is contained in the will of Agatha Borrowdale, who, in 1613, bequeathed to him and others, certain property in trust for benevolent purposes; for the care of which he was to receive,at the end of every seven years, 'a ring of gold of the price of 30s. ' Unlike most of the pioneers of New England, he was a member of the Church of England, as appears from the fact that he was a Church Warden of his native parish in 1632. He married Frances (?) and had eight children (10- sic) viz, Targaret, Thomas, Elizabeth, George, Mary Lydia, Frances, and John. On the 15th of April, 1635, Thomas Kilborne, with a portion of his family, embarked from London for New England, in the ship 'Increase,' Robert Lea, master, as appears by the following paragraphs from the Massachusetts Historical Society, 3rd series, Vol VIII, p. 243, viz: '15th April 1635. These parties hereafter expressed are to be transported to New England, embarqued in the Increase, Robert Lea, Master, having taken the oath of allegiance and supremacy, as also being conformable to the orders and discipline of the church, whereof they brought testimony per certificates from the Justices and Ministers where their abodes have lately been. Husbandman, Tho. Kilborne (aged 55), his wife Frances Kilborne (aged 50), children Margaret Kilborne (aged 23), Lydia Kilborne(aged 22), Marie Kilborne (aged 16), Francis Kilborne (aged 12), John Kilborne (aged 10).' The family settled in Wethersfield, Connecticut, where Thomas Kilborne,Snr. died previous to 1639, at which date lands were recorded to 'Frances Kilborne, widow.' Mrs. Frances Kilborne died in 1650.	KILBORN, Thomas (I8761)
69	(Savage in error gives his birth as 7 March 1691).	KELLOGG, Daniel (I12814)
70	10 children, all born Saybrook, CT.	POST, Abraham (I1741)
71	10 mo 13 da	PEARSON, Elliot (I3327)
72	10 mo 14 da	CRANE, Elizabeth (I3363)
73	11 mo 12 da	Family: Unknown BEEMAN / Sarah PEARSON (F1397)
74	11 mo 22 da 1690/91	CLARE, Jane (I3415)
75	11 mo 3 da	Family: John PEARSON / Elizabeth CROXTON (F1418)
76	12 mo 26 d	Family: Nathan PEARSON / Rebecca SYMONS (F1401)
77	1461 Ethan Stone Rd, Manning, SC 29102	Source (S462)
78	1688, 11 mo 30 d	PEARSON, Sarah (I3441)
79	1705, 7m, 29d	FARQUHAR, William (I5188)
80	1711, 6 mo, 19 d	PEARSON, Peter II (I3388)
81	1714, 9 mo 22 day	PEARSON, John (I3420)
82	1717, 11m, 16d	PEARSON, Rachel (I3421)
83	1718, 12 mo 6 day	PEARSON, Nathan (I3422)
84	172(page torn) 11 mo 10 day	PEARSON, Jonathon (I3424)
85	1720, 11 mo 20 day	PEARSON, Mary (I3423)
86	1724, 2m, 15d	HUTTON, Samuel (I9268)
87	1728, 3mo, 13d	PEARSON, John (I3442)
88	1730-1745 Household Examination shows the following family Goran Mattsson with no other entries, possibly indicating he has died. wife: Karin Andersdotter, birth date illegible Sunnano; son: Eric Gorsson, b. Sunnano. wife of Eric: Brita Olsdotter, remainder illegible.	OLSDOTTER, Brita (I22101)
89	1730-1745 Household Examination shows the following family Goran Mattsson with no other entries, possibly indicating he has died. wife: Karin Andersdotter, birth date illegible Sunnano; son: Eric Gorsson, b. Sunnano. wife of Eric: Brita Olsdotter, remainder illegible.	GORSSON, Eric (I22100)
90	1730-1745 Household Examination shows the following family Goran Mattsson with no other entries, possibly indicating he has died. wife: Karin Andersdotter, birth date illegible Sunnano; son: Eric Gorsson, b. Sunnano. wife of Eric: Brita Olsdotter, remainder illegible.	ANDERSDOTTER, Karin (I22110)
91	1730-1745 Household Examination shows the following family Goran Mattsson with no other entries, possibly indicating he has died. wife: Karin Andersdotter, birth date illegible Sunnano; son: Eric Gorsson, b. Sunnano. wife of Eric: Brita Olsdotter, remainder illegible.	MATTSSON, Goran (I22109)
92	1733, 2m, 19d	Family: William FARQUHAR / Ann MILLER (F1761)
93	1733/4, 12 mo 6 da	Family: Peter PEARSON, II / Rachel BOGUE (F1399)
94	1735, 4 mo, 21 da	PEARSON, Peter (I3418)
95	1737-1766 Household Examination shows the following family. Petter, b. May 16, 1724. wife: illegible name, b. Jan 23, 1722. unknown relationship: Britta. son: Andreas, b. Oct 14, 1744. son: Jonas, b. Feb 15, 1747. son: Johan son: Friedrick, b. Feb 14, 1752. son: Nils daughter: Margretha, b. Aug 12, 1754. daughter: Maria, b. Jan 10 or 20, 1757.	NILSDOTTER, Ingrid (I22178)
96	1737-1766 Household Examination shows the following family. Petter, b. May 16, 1724. wife: illegible name, b. Jan 23, 1722. unknown relationship: Britta. son: Andreas, b. Oct 14, 1744. son: Jonas, b. Feb 15, 1747. son: Johan son: Friedrick, b. Feb 14, 1752. son: Nils daughter: Margretha, b. Aug 12, 1754. daughter: Maria, b. Jan 10 or 20, 1757.	SVAN, Peter (I22177)
97	1738, 8 mo, 4 day	Family: Robert BOGUE / Rachel PEARSON (F1419)
98	1738, 8m, 4d	Family: Robert BOGUE / Rachel PEARSON (F1419)
99	1739-1771 Household Examination shows the following family unit in Sunnano, Torsang, SWEDEN. Goran Mattson, b. 16x2 wife: Karin Andersdotter, b. 1678	ANDERSDOTTER, Karin (I22110)
100	1739-1771 Household Examination shows the following family unit in Sunnano, Torsang, SWEDEN. Goran Mattson, b. 16x2 wife: Karin Andersdotter, b. 1678	MATTSSON, Goran (I22109)

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