Aylward, John, was born in County Kilkenny, Ireland, in 1815, the sixth in a family of nine children of James and Margaret (Cossin) Aylward. Only two of the nine children emigrated to America, John and a sister, Ella. After the death of her husband the latter returned to Ireland and died there. Only John and a sister, Alice, are now living. John married in Kilkenny, November, 1847, Julia Murphy, born in Kilkenny, May, 1829. In 1848 he emigrated to America, and for the first twenty years lived in West Claremont, N. H., and Mount Holly, Vt., for the most part in the latter place. In 1868 he purchased of Moses Pollard the farm in Plymouth which he still owns and carries on. Mr. Aylward has demonstrated what perseverance and good management will do in making a good living and " more too '' on a Vermont mountain farm. His children are James S., born December 31, 1848, in Claremont; John P., born June 16, 1850, at Wells River, Vt.; and Edward, born December 10, 1854, at Mount Holly. James S. married Sarah A., daughter of Harvey McWain, and lives in Ludlow, Vt. Their children are John, Ann and James. John P. and Edward carry on the home farm.
Bailey, Warren, born in Chester, Windsor county, Vt, September 28, 1840, lived at home in Chester and Cavendish until he was twenty-one years of age. On the 23rd of October, 1862, he volunteered as private in Company C, Sixteenth Regiment Vermont Volunteers, Colonel Wheelock G. Veasey commanding, and was with the regiment in all of its engagements, notably Gettysburg. He was mustered out August l0, 1863. He married March 9, 1865, Abbie W.. daughter of Andrew and Lydia Maria (Weston) Baldwin. She was born in Lowell, Vt., February 8, 1842. Her father was born March 8, 1805, in Cavendish, died June 5, 1880. His wife, born November 10, 1811, died April 2, 1887. Their children: Joseph A., born April 21, 1833; Edgertun, October 17, 1835; Mary B., August 20, 1837; Abbie W; and Thomas, born August 14, 1845. After marriage, Mr. Bailey lived three years in Cavendish, then three years at North Hill, Ludlow. In 1871 he purchased the farm in Plymouth, known as the "Old Ballard Place," in the east part of the town, and has lived there since. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Bailey are Alfred S., born in Cavendish, December 30, 1866; Elwin A., born in Ludlow, February 26. 1869; Alva W., born November 29, 1872; Edson H., born September 8, 1876; and Mary C, born November 4, 1881. The latter three reside in Plymouth.
Boynton, Parker A.-This gentleman is descended in the fifth generation from Nathaniel Boynton of Westford, Mass. The line is first Nathaniel; second, Amos ; third, Isaiah ; fourth, Amos; fifth, Parker A. Nathaniel was twice married; his first wife was Hannah Perham, by whom he had eight children. His second wife was Elizabeth Shedd, and by this union there were six children, of whom second Amos Boynton was the fifth. He married, January 9, 1770, Mary Parker, of Westford, and their children were Isaiah, Amos, Joseph, Mary, Abigail and Lydia. Isaiah was born in Westford, Mass., in 1770, came to Vermont about 1791, and settled in Plymouth on what has always been known as the Boynton farm. He married Rebecca Page, December 18, 1796. The latter died May 12. 1816. He married, second, Hannah Parker, September 16, 1816, who died June 13, 1872. Isaiah Boynton died June 12, 1851. He had eight children by the first and two by the second marriage. Amos Boynton, the fifth child by the first marriage, was born November 11, 1807, at the homestead in Plymouth. He married, February 20, 1831, Cornelia Bates, daughter of Oren and Lois Bates. (For further notice of the Bates family see Warren Taylor's biography in this volume.) Their children were Lois A., Rebecca P. and Parker A. Lois A., born April 10, 1835, died August 28, 1843. Rebecca P., born August 5, 1839, is the wife of Gilman Bond, a farmer living in Cavendish ; they have one child, Lois M. Parker A. lives on the farm of J. H. Bates in Cavendish.
Cheney, George, was born in Mendon, Rutland county, Vt., November 16, 1828, the fourth in a family of seven children of John W. and Abigail (Eastman) Cheney. His father moved from Mendon to Shrewsbury, Vt., where he died in 1836, at the age of forty-two. When six years of age George went to live with Cephas Wilder, at the " Notch," Plymouth. He lived there until he was twenty-one years of age. He has been three times married. He married, November 13, 1855, Clara, daughter of Thomas and Athelia (Pollard) Moore. Sarah E., wife of Darwin Dow, farmer, living in Chester, Vt., is their only child. Mrs. Cheney died April 12, 1864. He married, April 12, 1866, Roann, daughter of Daniel and Julia Whitney. George A. Cheney, born May 16, 1868, in Woodstock, Vt., is the only child by this marriage. He lives with his father. Roann Cheney died January 3, 1878. Jane Maria, daughter of Samuel B. and Eunice (Sawyer) Bradley, was his third wife, whom he married January 8, 1879. She was born in Beekmantown, N. Y., September 6, 1830. Her father was born in Great Barrington, Mass., March 13, 1794, her mother in Rochester, Vt., March 13, 1800. After his first marriage Mr. Cheney settled upon the farm now owned by J. R. Sargent in Plymouth. Next he purchased a farm in Woodstock, which he sold in 1871, and purchased the farm in Plymouth, between the " Notch " and '' Five Corners," known as the " Headly farm," where he now resides.
Davis, Joseph A., was born in Compton, Lower Canada, October 5, 1824, the third in a family of six children of Gaylon and Rhoda (Hoisington) Davis. The latter was the widow of Ralph Howard at the time of their marriage. They were both natives of Windsor, Vt. Their children were Gaylon, jr., Aaron (deceased), Joseph A. William H., Orlando (deceased), and Susan. All were married and raised families. The father died in Bridgewater, and the mother in Windsor. When Joseph A. was ten years of age he was bound out to Francis Perkins for seven years, but remained only three years. He learned the carpenter trade, and has followed it as a business since he was twenty-one years of age. He married September, 1845, Samantha, daughter of Abijah and Betsey Hudson. Since his marriage, with the exception of a year and a half in Windsor, he has lived in Plymouth. He enlisted January 5, 1864, as a private in Company C, Sixth Vermont Volunteers. In October, 1864, he was transferred to Company E, Tenth Regiment of the Reserve Corps, and served in that regiment till the close of the war. He was mustered out at Washington, July 20, 1865. He was in all engagements in General Grant's advance on Petersburg, and received a rupture at Brandy Station, Va., on which account he receives a pension. The Tenth was stationed at Washington, D. C, when Lincoln was killed, and when they wanted forty men of the regiment to do duty that night, those who would volunteer to step forward two paces, Mr. Davis was one of the number. He had done duty the night before and did duty the night thereafter, making three nights without rest. Though Mr. Davis owns and carries on a farm in Plymouth, he devotes most of his time to his trade as a builder. His first wife died May 12. 1866. He married second, 1869, Matilda Potter, widow of George Potter. Her maiden name was Gove. His children are Sylvanus, killed in the battle of the Wilderness ; Orzina, wife of Gustavus Curtiss, of Woodstock; Orlando, married Hattie, daughter of Mason Davis; Addie, wife of A. W. Taft, of Woodstock; Norman, married Eva, daughter of Mason Davis; Alice, wife of George Potter, of Plymouth; Lora, wife of Herbert Cook, of Rutland ; Ella, wife of Ransom Hastings, of Plymouth; Delia A. (deceased) ; Clara, wife of Allen Carlysle, of Plymouth; Mary, wife of Warren Flanders, of Cavendish; Edgar (deceased) ; and Bertie E. (deceased). Mr. Davis has seventeen grandchildren.
Dix, Samuel, farmer, living in the southeast corner of the town of Plymouth, is a descendant in the eighth generation from Anthony Dix, who landed in Plymouth, Mass., in the ship Ann, 1623. He was a sea captain; was captured by pirate Bull in 1632, and after his escape, settled in Salem, Mass. He was wrecked on Cape Cod, December 13, 1636, and drowned. His wife's name was Tabitha. The line from Anthony to Samuel Dix, above named, is as follows: First, Anthony; second, Ralph; third, John; fourth, Samuel; fifth, Samuel; sixth, Samuel; seventh, Stephen; eighth, Samuel. Ralph, born December 4, 1643, wife's name Esther, died September 24, 1688. John, born in Ipswich, Mass., March 12, 1658, died in Reading, Mass., May 12, 1745, was twice married, and had four children by his first and six by his second wife. His son Samuel, the second child by the last marriage, was born February 7, 1705, married Hannah Batchelder, March 17, 1730, by whom he had eight children, of whom Samuel was the third, born March 23, 1736, in Reading, Mass.; was graduated from Harvard College in 1758 ; pastor of Congregational Church of Townsend of thirty-six years. He received a blow from an axe at a raising, and died a few days thereafter, September 21, 1802. He had seven children, of whom Samuel was the second, born September 5, 1763, and died October 21, 1839, aged seventy-six years. He was married October 31, 1785, to Chloe, daughter of John and Mary Dix, an own cousin. Of his five children, Stephen was born in Townsend, Mass., May 18, 1790, married September 8, 1821, Mary P. Gilson. Mr. Dix died September 11, 1867, and his wife May 1, 1864. His father, Samuel Dix, moved from Townsend, Mass., and settled in Cavendish, Vt., in 1793. He had eight children, all of whom are deceased (1889) except Samuel and Benjamin. Samuel Dix was born in Plymouth, Vt, January 24, 1824. His father moved from Cavendish and settled in Plymouth on the farm now owned and occupied by Samuel in 1827. The house was built by a Mr. Spaulding in 1797. Samuel Dix married, July 26, 1862, Ellen S., daughter of Thomas and Mary M. (Davis) Cummings, who was born in Rockingham, Vt., October 14, 1848. Her mother died June 10, 1852. Her father died from camp fever in Baton Rouge, La., September 18, 1862. Her brother, Lyman C, also a soldier in the War of the Rebellion, is a resident of Chester, Vt. A sister, wife of Charles Sisson, lives in Keene, N. H. Children of Mr. and Mrs. Dix are John D., born September 18, 1863, married October 2, 1888, Jennie, daughter of Heman and Caroline (Ordway) Gilson, of Wautoma, Wis., born July 27, 1869; Chloe M., born October 6, 1870; and Ernest S., born September 9, 1879.
Foley, William, was born in Middlebury, Vt, March 18, 1849, the second in a family of five children of Miles and Margaret (Cavenaugh) Foley. His father and mother were natives of County Wexford, Ireland. They were married in Ireland, and their eldest child, Margaret, was born there. They emigrated to America in 1847, and settled in the village of Poultney, Rutland county, Vt. Miles Foley was a contractor on the D. and H. Railroad. He subsequently bought a farm in Hampton, Washington county, N. Y., which he carried on until his death, which occurred in 1854. His widow afterwards married James Cullen, now a resident of Fair Haven, Rutland county. When about ten years of age William left home and worked for Rodney Ray till he was 22 years old, attending winter schools. After leaving Mr. Ray he purchased teams, and followed teaming; from 1871 to 1888, in Poultney and Fair Haven. December 21, 1888, he purchased the "Boynton" farm in Plymouth, which he now carries on. He married January 27, 1879, Julia A., daughter of Michael and Mary (Agan) McCague. Mrs. Foley was born in Fair Haven, October 20, 1856. Their children are John D., born January 15, 1880; Edward J., born November 21, 1882 ; and William H., born June 21, 1884.
Gould, Simon, was born in Shrewsbury, Vt., November 26, 1828, the second child of ten children, of Chester and Hannah (Oilman) Gould. His father was twice married. Chester Gould, the father, was born in Guilford, Vt., June 16, 1799, and died at his home in Shrewsbury, March 6, 1869. He carried on farming for fifty years in Shrewsbury. Elder Guernsey, who preached his funeral sermon, writes of him : " He was ever ready to lend a helping hand, and by his industry and frugality, neighborly kindness and charity. he ever maintained a character worthy to be remembered and imitated by those who survive. Hannah Gould, his second wife, was born in Oilman, N. H., December 19, 1809. She died at the homestead in Shrewsbury, May 21, 1877. She was the daughter of Simon and Abigail Gilman, who moved from New Hampshire to Shrewsbury and died there; Simon, March 19, 1853, and Abigail, June 5, 1864 Phebe was twice married. Her first husband was Alonzo N. Russell; her second, J. P. Greene. She died in Cavendish, November 7, 1887. Stephen married Elizabeth B. Fleming, of California. He went to California in 1849, and here their only child, William B. Gould, was born, May 1, 1862. His wife died in 1862, and he died in San Francisco, in 1865. Their orphan child was brought from California to Vermont by his uncle, William Fleming, and has always been treated, cared for, and educated by his uncle, Simon Gould, as his own child. William B. Gould, the nephew, married November 5, 1880, Louise D., daughter of Edgar and Mary M. (Horton) Glynn. Jared married Martha Brown. He is a tinsmith, living in Enfield, Mass. Harriet is the widow of Martin B. Hartshorn, and resides in Reading, Mass. Dwight C. was a soldier in the War of the Rebellion, and died at White Oak Church, near Richmond. John B. is a farmer living in Shrewsbury, and married Delia Calkins. Otis A. married Orsie Clark, and lives in Clinton, Oneida county, N. Y. Anna was twice married; her first husband was William B. Fleming. She is now the wife of Lewis Tasheira, and lives in San Francisco. Upon the death of his father, Simon Gould became the owner of the homestead farm in Shrewsbury, and carried it on for many years. He still owns it, but since 1885 he has made his home at his nephew's, William B. Gould, who owns and carries on what was known as the William Merrill farm, on the east shore of Echo and Mirror Lakes, Plymouth.
Greene, Levi J. Isaac Greene, grandfather of Levi J., married a Miss Chamberlain, raised a large family, and died in New York. His wife survived him, and died in Cavendish, Vt. Their son Isaac married Polly Parker, of Cavendish. Their children were Mary, Eliza F., John P., James S., Joshua P., Levi J., Henry C, Hannah M., and Abner F. The first four and Henry C. are deceased. All were married, and, except Henry C, had children.
Greene, Isaac, father of Levi, moved from Cavendish and settled on a farm in the southwest part of Plymouth in 1817. He died there May, 1853. His wife survived him many years. She died in Rutland, at the residence o£ her daughter, Hannah M., now Mrs. Thomas A. Cheney.
Greene, Levi J., was born in Plymouth, February 25, 1825, and has been a life-long; resident of the town. He married, April 5, 1855, Philinda A., daughter of Moses and Hannah (Sawyer) Hall. Mrs. Greene was born in Plymouth, September 29, 1829. Her father was the son of Nathan Hall, one of the early settlers of Plymouth. The children of Moses and Hannah Hall were George W., Philinda A,, Ellen A., Daniel M., Mary Ann, Sally A., Ada E., and two who died in infancy. Mr. Greene built his residence at Plymouth Union, now kept as a hotel, in 1853. Besides keeping hotel, he has carried on carpentering and carriage-making, also the business of an undertaker. He has been selectman four years, town treasurer ten years, justice of the peace four years, and has represented the town in the State Legislature four years. These positions of public trust sufficiently attest the estimation in which he is held by the community in which he has spent his life. Mr. and Mrs. Greene have one child, Ruth, born June 8, 1862, married March 28, 1889, to Will D. Boyd, now living in Westminster, Mass.
Hall, Christopher C. Nathan Hall came from Massachusetts and settled in Plymouth, Vt., about the year 1795. He married Ruth Johnson, by whom he had children as follows: Delia, Jonathan, Moses, Nathan, jr., Daniel, George and Sybil. Nathan, jr., was born in Plymouth, August 30, 1809; married February 1832, Prudence B., daughter of Elijah and Hannah (Clark) Hubbard. Their children were Stillman (deceased); Christopher C, Eleazer A. and William J. (deceased). Eleazer A. married Maranda B., daughter of Elisha and Phebe Sanderson. Their children were Alice (deceased) and Maranda. He is a manufacturer of lime, a lumberman and farmer. William J. was twice married. By his first wife, Carrie Sawyer, he has one child, Maud, living. By his second wife, Anna Benham, he also has one child, Parma. He died in Mendon in 1880. Christopher C. was born in Plymouth, July 25, 1836. He married November 1, 1866, Lora R., daughter of Stephen and Laura H. (Hutchinson) Ayers. Mrs. Hall was born in Plymouth, October 13, 1851. Their children are Ida M., born September 24, 1867, married October 23, 1889, Walter E. Slack ; Matt Clark, born November 10, 1869; Lula M., born June 28, 1873, died February 7, 1890; Willie J., born November 20, 1878; Pansie B., born October 11, 1880; James A., born September 1. 1886; and Walter C, born October 15, 1888. Mr. Hall enlisted October 23, 1862, as a private in Company C, Sixteenth Vermont Volunteers. He received his discharge August 10, 1863. He re-enlisted October 1, 1864, in the navy, on board the U. S. S. Monadnock. He was in both engagements at Fort Fisher, in Charleston, S. C, upon the retaking of Fort Sumter, and in the James River upon the capitulation of Richmond. He was discharged July 1, 1865. Mr. Hall has carried on farming and lime burning in Plymouth since the war. He has served as selectman of the town four years.
Hall, George W., died at the age of sixty-one, leaving a widow and one son, Charles M., now residents of Plymouth Union. Daniel M. is a farmer living in Minnesota. Mary Ann is the wife of Levi B. Moore, merchant at Plymouth Union. Ada E. is the wife of John W. Pierce, farmer in Plymouth. Moses Hall was born August 30, 1800, died March 10, 1882. His wife was born January 7, 1802, died March 31, 1886.
King, Simeon Hunt James King, great-grandfather of Simeon Hunt, was an Englishman by birth. He was taken a prisoner from a merchant vessel, by a French man-of-war, and was brought as a captive to America. Escaping his captors, he enlisted in the English service, and served through the French and English war, subsequently settling in Hamstead, N. H. His wife's maiden name was Dilly Harriman. They died and were buried in Sutton, N. H. Of their children Nathaniel, grandfather of Simeon Hunt, was born in Hamstead. When eight years of age his father moved to Sutton, N. H., where he resided till he was twenty-one years of age. In 1789 he visited Tunbridge, Vt., where he purchased a tract of land upon which he settled. In 1794 he married Miss Lydia Noyes. They reared a family of five sons and eight daughters. In 1804 he became a Free Will Baptist minister, and was an earnest and successful minister of that persuasion for more than half a century. He died in Northfield, Washington county, Vt., October 18, 1852. His wife survived him seventeen years. She died February 5, 1869, at the advanced age of ninety years and six months. For the term of thirteen years Elder King was a representative for the town of Tunbridge in the Vermont Legislature. Of these thirteen children, Nathaniel, father of Simeon Hunt, was the sixth and eldest son. He was born in Tunbridge, in 1806. He was a farmer by occupation. He was twice married. His first wife was Amanda Hunt; his second, Rebecca F. Whitney. He had six children by the first, and two by the second marriage. He held many of the town offices, and for four years was one of the associate judges of Orange county. He was for many years a member of the Free Will Baptist Church of Northfield and Tunbridge. Of his eight children only three, viz.: Orlando H., harness-maker in Northfield and Tunbridge; Henry C, merchant in Lawrence, Mass.; and Simeon Hunt, are living. The latter was born in Tunbridge, Orange county, Vt., March 12, 1836. With the exception of eight years in Northfield, he lived till he was thirty-six years of age in his native town, where he received his education in the district school. He married, October 17, 1865, in Reading, Harriet Amanda, daughter of Dennison and Mary H. (Sumner) Miner. Mrs. King was born in Plymouth, January 25, 1844. Her grandfather, Andrew Miner, born in Stonington, R. I., married Malvina Hicks. They had five children, two sons and three daughters, of whom her father, Dennison, was the youngest. He was born in Brattleboro, Vt., April 30, 1804, and died in Reading, September 22, 1878. He married Mary H. Sumner, February 13, 1829, who survives him, and lives with her son, Almon D. Miner, in Reading. They had thirteen children, of whom four sons and five daughters are living, one of them in Nebraska, and the others in Plymouth and the adjoining towns. In 1871 Mr. King moved from Tunbridge and settled in Plymouth, and in 1877 purchased the farm known as the "Deacon Clark farm," situated in that portion of Plymouth known as the " Kingdom." He is a Republican in politics. Both he and Mrs. King are members of the Congregational Church at Tyson. Their children are .Jessie Amanda, Abbie Lillian, and Nathaniel.
McDermott, James, was born in Ballymote, County of Sligo, Ireland, July 12, 1837. He emigrated in 1857. His father, James McDermott, emigrated with his family two years afterwards, settled in Plymouth, and both he and his wife, whose maiden name was Margaret Scanlan, died there, and are buried in the cemetery at the "Notch," in Plymouth. He has had two brothers, John, who resided at Rutland, Vt., until his death May 10, 1889, and Owen, who resides in Janesville, Wis. He has two sisters, Mary and Margaret, the former, wife of John Harrison, living in Shrewsbury, Vt., and the latter, wife of James Malloy, farmer, living in Plymouth. Upon his arrival in America James McDermott settled in Plymouth. He enlisted as private in Company G, Second Vermont Volunteers, and was with the regiment in all of its engagements after the battle of Antietam. He was wounded in the battle of the Wilderness, and receives a pension. He was mustered out June 19, 1865. At the close of the war he returned to Plymouth. He married, October 3, 1867, Mary, daughter of Patrick and Mary (Holpin) Crosby. Mrs. McDermott was born in Plymouth, August 15, 1850. Her father was a native of Ireland, emigrating to America; he settled in Plymouth and died there. His wife survives him and lives with her son, Patrick Crosby, in Ludlow. Philip W. Crosby, son of Patrick, was killed at the battle of Fredericksburg. John Crosby, another son, lost an arm in the battle of Spottsylvania; now living in Ludlow. In 1872 Mr. McDermott purchased of his brothers-in-law, John and Patrick Crosby, the Crosby farm, situated on the eastern shore of Adsulule Lake, which he has since carried on. The children of James and Mary McDermott are William Monroe, born August 5, 1868; Mary Winifred, born September 14, 1871, died March 19, 1877 ; Philip W., born August 27, 1873 ; and James W., born April 3, 1878.
McWain, Harmon.-This family is of Scotch origin. It is supposed the first of the family who emigrated from Scotland was the great-grandfather of Harmon, and that he settled in the town of Hartland. His son, Andrew, married Polly Lampson. Their children were Andrew, jr., Abraham, Asa, Jacob. Lydia V., David J., and Archibald. Andrew, jr., lived and died in Canada; Asa, in Batavia, N. Y.; Jacob, in Shaftsbury, Bennington county, Vt.; Lydia V., was the wife of Dr. Knight, of Grand Blanc, Genesee county, Mich. She and her brother, David J., lived and died in Grand Blanc; Archibald, at Owasso, Mich. All these children left families in the localities where they lived. Abraham McWain married Abigail, daughter of John and Hannah (Carpenter) Whitehorn, in Wallingford, Rutland county. He died there in 1828 ; his wife at the residence of their son, Harmon, in Plymouth, April 29, 1869. The children of Abraham and Abigail McWain were LucretiaT., Harmon, Mary Malona, John W., and Malvina M. Harmon McWain was born in Dorset, Bennington county, Vt, September 5, 1817, and passed most of his minority there. In 1844 he married Sarah S. Beebe, who died in 1848, leaving a daughter, Sarah A., born August 8, 1847, the wife of James Ailward. Harmon McWain married, October 6, 1850, Amanda M., daughter of Luther and Betsey (Jenne) Coolidge. Her grandfather, Captain John Coolidge, a Revolutionary officer from Lancaster, Mass., who at the close of the war was paid for his services in Continental script, which afterwards became worthless, thinking to better his fortune in the new country as it was then, removed his family to the wilds of Vermont. Many were the hardships endured, but at last plenty smiled upon them, and at the time of his death, March 23, 1822, left each of his three sons and two daughters a farm. Luther Coolidge, his second son, father of Mrs. McWain, was born on this place May 6, 1781, where his father first located, and died there June 11,1856. Her mother, Betsey Jenne, was born in Poultney, Vt., April 27, 1790. The maternal grandfather of Mrs. McWain was the Rev. Prince Jenne, the first settled minister in the town of Plymouth, having been sent from Massachusetts as a missionary to establish churches in the new settlements in Vermont, and after a long and faithful ministry died in 1836, aged seventy-eight years. Mrs. McWain was born August 16, 1830, where she now lives, and has lived since her marriage with the exception of the first six years, when they resided at East Dorset, Bennington county. Of their seven children six are now living. Jennie R. McWain, born October 4, 1852, married Merritt A. Sawyer, in 1875, and resides in Woodstock, Vt. They have four children: Merle, born August 7, 1876; Mary Angela, born January, 1878; Clifton W., born August, 1879; Wayne Harmon, born September, 1881, died April 10, 1884; Charlie Field, born March, 1886. Harmon A. McWain, M.D., born December 10, 1855, graduated in medicine at the University of Vermont, at Burlington, in 1882. He is now located in Chicago. Martha B. McWain, born March 22, 1858, wife of Norris D. Wilder, resides at Plymouth Union. Frank Ellsworth McWain, born November 8. 1861, died April 10, 1864. Flora A. McWain, born November 18, 1864. wife of Charles H. Scott, of Tyson, Vt. Lettie E. McWain, born March 12, 1867, wife of F. C. Morgan, M. D., of Felchville, Vt. Stella A. McWain, born August 25, 1870, and Lillian Amanda, born December 10, 1879.
Pinney. L. Norton, was born in Plymouth, October 5, 1820. His grandfather, Jonathan Pinney, supposed to have emigrated from England about 1760, settled in Guilford, Windham county, Vt., where he married Priscilla Grover of that town. He learned the trade of carpenter and joiner in England, serving the required seven years with a master. He came from Guilford to Plymouth about the year 1800 and settled on the place now owned by Wallace Bedell, which lies in a valley in the northern part of the town, to which he gave the name of Pinney Hollow. He had eleven children, all of whom were born in Guilford and came with their parents to Plymouth, viz.: Lizzie, John, Jonathan, Eleazor, Priscilla, Solomon, Horatio, Gracia, Amial, Joel and Delino. Five of the sons and two of the daughters after marriage settled in Pinney Hollow, the other daughter settled at Plymouth near by, the youngest son died young, the oldest son settled in Broome county, N. Y., and Joel, the seventh »on, settled in St. Lawrence county, N. Y. Jonathan Pinney had a sister, Catharine, who married Jacob Grover and came to Plymouth from Guilford, Vt., and settled near Grover Point, in the northwest part of the town. He was a hero of the Revolution, married three wives, and raised twenty-four children. He drew a pension of ninety-six dollars a year for his military services. Solomon, the fourth son, was married by Ephraim Moore, esq., to Anna Burt, daughter of David Burt, formerly of Windsor and then of Plymouth, on the 30th of December, 1877. Solomon Pinney was born in Guilford, November 9, 1787, and came to Plymouth with his parents when about fourteen years old, and learned the trade of carpenter and joiner, which he followed until married. He was a volunteer in the War of 1812, and was out in the Army of the North for three months. After marriage he settled on a farm near where his father first located. He built a saw-mill on the site of the one his son, L. Norton, now runs, and subsequently a grist-mill in company with his brother Jonathan. He died November 25, 1845, and his wife Anna died May 28, 1880, and both lived through life after their first settlement on the same farm where their son Horace E. now lives. Their children were Naham B., L. Norton, Allen B. (deceased), Jeanette H., and Horace E. Naham B., born December 20, 1818, is living in Mechanicsville, Vt., has retired from mercantile business and is attending to farming and blooded stock raising. He has only one child, Mrs. May H. Seward, who lives on a farm near Mechanicsville, Vt. His wife, Celista Mann, of Ira, Vt., has been dead for a number of years. Jeannette F. is the wife of Zera Clark, esq., of Hartford, Windsor county, Vt. Horace E., born April 18, 1836, married at Woodstock by the Rev. Moses Kidder, March 22, 1859, to Sarah J. Cilley, lives on the homestead farm of his father, and cared for his mother after the decease of his father during her life. Their children are Athelia J., who married Wilber A. Spaulding, a farmer in Pinney Hollow; Allen H, who married Jennie Hudson of Bridgewater, Vt.; and Nettie S., who lives with her parents. L. Norton Pinney, the second son, has been a life-long resident of Plymouth. He married, in February, 1852, Angeline, daughter of Benjamin and Caroline (Nason) Carpenter. She died November 19, 1879. Their children are Alice J., wife of James E. Blanchard, a farmer living in Pinney Hollow, who has two children, Clarence E. and Eddie J., both living at home; and Byron W., who married Jesse Hughes of Plainfield, N. H., and whose children are Loren N. and Harry L. Norton Pinney has for years carried on the manufacture of toy stock on a branch stream of the Otta Quechee in Pinney Hollow. June 2, 1840, he lost his left hand by the bursting of a musket, and on January 16, 1887, he lost all the fingers of the right hand, saving the thumb only, in a planing machine. This illustrates what a man may accomplish with only a thumb left, as by the use of it he is enabled to dress and feed himself and do much of the shop work. In politics he is a Republican, in religion a Universalist. Since the death of his wife he has made his home with his daughter, Mrs. Blanchard.
Ravlin, Henry E., was born in Huntington, Rutland county, Vt., May 1, 1825, the seventh son, in a family of sixteen children, of David and Louisa (Gay) Ravlin. David Ravlin, his father, at the age of twenty-one, came to America from Ireland, as a British soldier, but upon arrival in this country he deserted the British service, joined the Continental army and served in that till the close of the war. At the close of the war he settled in Shelburne, Vt., and married there. He died in Leslie, Jackson county, Mich., December, 1854. Henry E. Ravlin married August 24, 1845, Esther M., daughter of Eli and Hannah Manly of Chittenden. Rutland county. After his marriage he resided in Chittenden, Brandon, Middlebury, Ripton, Pittsford and Rutland. From the latter place he settled in that part of Plymouth known as "Nineveh," in 1887, where he resided up to the time of his death, which occurred August 16, 1890. In October, 1861, he volunteered, as private, in Company F, Vermont Cavalry, Colonel Piatt commanding, and was mustered out of service in 1863. While in the service he received an injury that resulted in partial spinal paralysis, on which account he had drawn a pension of twenty-four dollars per month. Mr. and Mrs. Ravlin had seven children, one of whom is now living, viz., Orris E. The latter married Chestina Davis, and they have one child, Willie H. Another son, Orlando F., died in the army at Pensacola, Florida.
Sanders, Albert F.-Isaac Sanders, grandfather of Albert F., was born in Fitzwilliam, N. H., August, 1775. He married Susan Woods, aunt of Walter A. Woods, the manufacturer of mowers and reapers at Hoosick Falls, N. Y. She was born in Pepperell, Mass. After marriage they settled in Cavendish, where their eight children were born, viz.: Susan, Isaac L., Mary Ann, Rosalinda, Nelson, Laura, Rebecca and Harriet. Isaac L. was born February 19, 1807. He married, March 24, 1831, Lovisa S., daughter of Edward and Abigail (Seward) Wilder. She was born September 2, 1810. Her father was born in Sterling, Mass., October 18, 1779; her mother, June 11, 1787. Isaac L. lived in Cavendish until he was twenty-nine years old, then removed to Westfield, Orleans county, Vt., where he lived fourteen years, then thirteen years in Lowell, and finally settled in Albany, Orleans county, where he still resides. He is a wheelwright by trade, but has followed farming since he left Cavendish. The children of Isaac L. and Lovisa S. Sanders are Laura, Lorette, Isaac, Lestina, Mary, Annis, Martha, Lucy, George W. and Albert F. Albert F. Sanders was born in Lowell, Orleans county, Vt., March 17, 1851. He lived at Lowell until he was seven years of age, a year with his grandfather, Edward Wilder, in Ludlow, then with J. G. Priest, at Plymouth, till he was of age. He married July 4, 1878, Alida F., daughter of William T. and Rebecca P. (Brown) Merrill. Mrs. Sanders was born in Plymouth, November 11, 1853. William T. Merrill, son of Abraham and Sally (Tolbert) Merrill, was born in Weathersfield, Vt., July 22, 1814. His wife was born in Plymouth, August 1, 1812, and was the daughter of Israel P.and Sally (Briggs) Brown. Sally Brown was the daughter of Asa and Elizabeth (Paul) Briggs. Adam Brown, Mrs. Sanders's great-grandfather, was the first town clerk of Plymouth. After marriage Mr. Sanders settled on the Isaac Greene farm in Plymouth. In 1879 he purchased the farm on the east shore of Echo Lake, known as the " Amos Polland farm," which he still owns and carries on. Mr. Sanders is a Republican in politics Mr. and Mrs. Sanders are members of the First Congregational Church of Plymouth. They have one child, Amy A., born July 24, 1883.
Sanderson, Elisha F., was born in Bridgewater, April 14, 1823. He married, March 5, 1852, Phebe W., daughter of Thomas V. and Susan (Sanderson) Vose. She was born in Bridgewater, September 23, 1822. She has two brothers living, and one sister deceased, viz.: Pliny F., living in Rutland; Thomas V., at Wood Lake, Minn; Sally M., wife of John F. Bugbee. She died October 15, 1852. Mr. Sanderson owned and occupied a portion of the home farm after marriage. He enlisted as private in Company G, Sixteenth Vermont nine months' men, and was in the battle of Gettysburg. He was mustered out August 10, 1863. He sold his place in Bridgewater, and in 1865 settled at Plymouth Union, where he has carried on the manufacture of chair stock ever since. He has one child, Miranda V., born January 30, 1853, wife of Eleazer A. Hall, of Plymouth. Her children are Eugene S., Coro B., Julian A., Nellie A., Ada E., and Lindsey S. Arthur Spoffard, a grandson of Mrs. Sanderson by a former husband, has been brought up by and is living with Mr. and Mrs. Sanderson,
Scott, Dr. Charles A., was born in Cavendish, Windsor county, Vt.. January 6, 1819. His grandfather, Thomas Scott was born in Massachusetts, July 25, 1761. At the age of fifteen he enlisted as a private and served through the War of the Revolution. He married Olive Proctor, born April 12, 1760. Thirteen children were the issue of this union, eight of whom were born in Massachusetts, five in Vermont. Thomas Scott moved from Littleton and settled in Cavendish about the year 1795. He died in Potsdam, N. Y., in 1857, at the advanced age of ninety-six years. His wife died in Cavendish in 1829. Of the thirteen children, eleven were married and raised families. The two that were not married died in Cavendish. The eleven moved out of Vermont and settled in other States. Isaac Scott, the seventh of the thirteen, was born in Littleton, Mass., December 7, 1792, married, April, 1818, Polly Eaten, who was born April 29, 1797, in Stoddard, N. H. She was the daughter of William and Bethiah Eaten. After marriage he lived in Cavendish until 1837, with the exception of three years passed at Crown Point and Ticonderoga. In 1837 he moved to Ohio, settling at Troy, and died there January 25, 1881. He, with three of his brothers, were soldiers in the War of 1812, and he received a pension on that account. His wife died in Ohio, in October, 1873. Their children were Dr. Charles A., Nathan E., and Luther P. Nathan E. was twice married, but left no children. He died at Karns City, September 21, 1880. Luther P. is station agent on a branch of the Pennsylvania Central Railroad in Indiana. Dr. Scott bought his time of his father when he was eighteen years of age; received his preparatory education in the common school with three terms at the Chester Academy. He commenced the study of medicine at the age of twenty-one with Dr. Abraham Lowell, of Chester, with whom he remained one year. The next two years he studied with Professor Joseph Perkins. He was graduated from the Castleton Medical College in 1843. In 1844 he commenced the practice of his profession in Plymouth, Vt., and has followed it continuously ever since, and is at the present time, 1890, the only physician residing in the town. The Doctor is a member of the Vermont State Medical Society, also of the Connecticut River Medical Society. He represented the town of Plymouth in the Legislature in 1869 and 1870, and was a member of the State Senate in 1872. He has also filled the offices of justice of the peace, selectman and superintendent of schools. In politics the Doctor is a Republican. He has been a member of the Plymouth Congregational Church for many years. Dr. Scott married January 29, 1845, Betsey E., daughter of Spafford and Sally (Parker) Watkins. She was born in Reading, August 24, 1826. Mrs. Scott is the sole survivor of her father's family. Children of Dr. and Mrs. Scott are Clarence W., born August 20, 1849, married Hattie Field, April 30, 1888. He was graduated from Dartmouth College in 1874, and is at the present time professor in the Department of Agricultural and Mechanical Arts of that College. Charles H., born May 1, 1838, educated in the common school and Ludlow Academy, married December 22, 1886, Flora A. McWain. They have one child, Betsey Amanda, born January 19, 1889. He represented Plymouth in the Legislature in 1886 and 1888 and was selectman from 1886 to 1889. He is a farmer and stock dealer and resides at the homestead in Plymouth. When Dr. Scott first settled in Plymouth he located at the " Kingdom," then the most considerable settlement of Plymouth, but in 1879 he removed to Tyson, where he has since resided.
Slack, Joel, grandfather of Eben K., a native of Massachusetts, married, in Winchester, Va., Lydia March. Their first child, Esther, was born in Virginia in 1803, and in the same year he came to Plymouth and built a log-house on the place now owned by Maynard Brown. The next year, 1804, he moved his family from Virginia and settled on the above place. Here his children, Reuben K. and Joel M., were born, the former in 1807, the latter in 1811. He died there in 1845 aged seventy-seven, and his wife May 18, 1857, aged seventy-four.
Slack, Reuben K., married Prudence Bartlett, of Bridgewater, in 1834. The children were Joel B., born 1835; Martin Van Buren, born 1837, died April 14, 1860; Eben K., born 1838; Mary Esther, born 1840, died February 27, 1860; Addie Oliva, born 1847. Reuben K. died at the homestead, April 7, 1860, aged fifty-three years eleven months. His wife is living with her daughter, Mrs. Leighton Fullam, at Ludlow.
Slack, Eben Kimball, was born in Plymouth, Vt., February 5, 1838. He married, first, Jennette Louisa, daughter of David and Louisa (Pollard) Burt. She was born in Plymouth, March 22, 1840, and died November 3, 1864. October 10, 1865, he married Anna E. Burt, sister of his first wife. She was born in Plymouth, February 21, 1846. David Burt, her grandfather, married Abigail Wooster, in Windsor, Vt., October 18, 1792. They had seven children, of whom her father, David, was the fifth born in Plymouth, September 22, 1799; he died in Rockingham, Vt., July 29, 1881. Louisa Pollard, his wife, was the daughter of James Pollard, one of the early settlers of Plymouth; she died April 15, 1889, aged eighty-three. James Pollard, born 1770, died April 9, 1856; Rhoda, his wife, born 1775, died July 6, 1802. The homestead now owned by Mr. and Mrs. Slack passed from James Pollard to David Burt, thence to his daughter Mrs. Slack. By his first wife E. K. Slack had one child, Ellen Mary, born January 31, 1861, died October 7, 1804. The children by the second marriage are Orrie A., born January 29, 1867, married, October 10, 1888, Walter M. Cook, of Plymouth; Walter E., born October 1, 1869, married October 23, 1889, Ida M. Hall, of Plymouth; Lena Barbara, born August 31, 1883, and Winifred L., born April 10, 1886. Mr. Slack carries on the farm named above. He is a good farmer and a good Democrat. Both he and Mrs. Slack are members of the Christian Church of Woodstock.
Taylor, Newell N., was born in Plymouth, December 2, 1827, the second in a family of nine children of Nathan and Sally (Moore) Taylor. John Taylor, a native of Carlisle, Mass., came to Plymouth in 1784. He married Abigail Wheeler. Nathaniel was the fifth son of John and Abigail Taylor. He was born in Plymouth and married Sally, daughter of Ephraim and Betsey Moore. Her father was among Plymouth's early settlers, and located at the " Notch," where his grandson, Ephraim Moore, now resides. He was a prominent man of the town, holding many of its trusts. After marriage Nathaniel Taylor settled on the farm in North Plymouth now owned and occupied by Horace Ward. He died in Keene, N. H., May 25, 1873, where he resided at the time of his death. His wife died at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. Sprague, in Plymouth, October 20, 1875. Their children were Julia, died when a year old ; Newell N., Norman, Ryland N., Julia (.second). Seneca W., died when a year old; Seneca W. (second), Jerome, and Adaline. Of the seven living children, all are married except Norman. Julia, Mrs. Sprague, and Newell N. are the only children residing in Plymouth. With the exception of three years in Minnesota, Newell N. Taylor has passed his whole life in Plymouth, following farming as his occupation. He married January 29, 1803, Mary R., daughter of William and Rebecca Merrill. Mrs. Taylor was born in Plymouth, September 30, 1844. Their children are Dora M., wife of Willis P. Bowman, clerk in Proctorsville, one child, Arthur; Sherman N., Carlos A., Myrtie A., Ruby A., Sadie A, and Willie S. Mr. Taylor now owns and carries on the farm at the " Kingdom," in Plymouth, known as the '' Weaver farm."
Townsend, M. J., was born March 15, 1853, in Pittsfield, Rutland county, Vt., the youngest in a family of six children of Moses and Azubra Townsend. He married, March 26, 1883, Mary Jane, daughter of Daniel and Mary (Boyle) Hayes. Mrs. Townsend was born in Ludlow, Windsor county, April 17, 1860. Daniel Hayes, her father, emigrated from Ireland in 1848. and settled in Ludlow. In 1865 he purchased and moved on to a farm in the southwest part of Plymouth township, which he now carries on. In 1885, Mr. Townsend purchased and moved onto the Isaac Pollard farm, in the extreme southwest corner of Plymouth. He carries on this farm, but is also a successful speculator in stock and other farm products. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Townsend are Moses Joy (deceased), Bessie Ann, and John Hayes.
