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Dear Bill,
I hope you enjoy these as much as I did. I'm just really new at this genealogy sleuthing. Anne Townsend has really been in a wonderful, dedicated pursuit of our family history and I'm eternally grateful to all she has done to help me learn about my family history. These records relate to our PROBABLE ancestors, Abraham and Isaac Elwood, but I'm learning that even if they aren't your specific line, sometimes they can provide a clue to search further. Anne is working hard to prove this link to her satisfaction.
By the way the 1st page was just a cover page for the documents.
September 30, 1946
The Cayuga County Historical Society
203 Genesee Street
Auburn, New York
Attention of the Librarian
Dear Sir or Madam,
My great-great grandfather, Isaac Elwood, a Revolutinary War Veteran, settled in Cayuga County some time between 1787 and 1818 and as most historical societies seem to welcome data on early settlers and their families, I am enclosing for your files a partial history of our ELWOOD family.
This comprises material which I have thus far collected. But it occurs to me that you may perhaps have in your library helpful data that I have missed. If so, any such information would be most welcome.
If you scan my data on Isaac you will note that he and his family are last recorded in Connecticut in 1787 while my first knowledge of him in Cayuga County is when he was “of Scipio” when he gave pension testimony in 1818 – quite a gap. But Isaac was a farmer and farmers, I’ve found, are hard to trace. Have you land records between those dates which might clear up his time of arrival or place of derivation? In Connecticut the Elwoods were Congregationalists but when Isaac’s son, JAMES, and his family moved on to Nunda, N. Y., they wee referred to as Baptists. Perhaps the Baptist were active when the Elwoods came to New York state and thus absorbed them. So perhaps local Baptist records, if extant, might offer something.
The problem that most concerns me however, is that of the parentage and origins of the wife of Isaac’s son, JAMES – 6. Before marriage she was Abigail Hitchcock, b. March 15, 1802 at Pompey, Onondaga County, N. Y. and doubtless the daughter of “SAMA” HITCHCOCK, the only one of the name in Pompey at census time, 1810, who had daughters under ten.
This is emphasized by ABIGAIL’S naming of her first son, as SAMUEL. Just before she reached sixteen, on February 5, 1818, she married JAMES C. ELWOOD – place so far unknown to me. “SAMA” and his family disappear from the Pompey census after 1810 tho a younger “Samuel Hitchcock”, otherwise accounted for, is recorded there in 1820 and 1830. But where did “Sama” go? The 1894 Hitchcock Genealogy fails to either locate or account for him, tho it does suggest perhaps two possiblilities not followed.
Perhaps the Hitchcocks moved into Cayuga County where James Elwood lived sometime between 1810 and 1818. You will note that James and his wife are recorded in the 1820 census as of Brutus Twp. In your county – a township which at that time included Sennet where the Baptists were active. So perhaps the Hitchcocks had settled thereabouts. The Syracuse Library has early church records and early census records of Onondaga County which have been a source of help to me. But I am still left querying, and hoping, too, that you have like records for Cayuga County. In such case I’d be very grateful if you’d check Baptist records in Aurelius and Sennett and Brutus Twp. As well as 1830 and 1820 census records for possible Elwood and Hitchcock data. Do you have 1818 local newspapers in your files which might carry an item of the Elwood – Hitchcock marriage of February 5th. Or perhaps some other source may suggest itself from which knowledge might be gleaned as to Abigail (Hitchcock) Elwood’s parentage or parental family. Any help you could give me would be deeply appreciated.
Thanking you now for any courtesies you may care to extend, I am
Very Gratefully yours,
Charles Bradford Elwood <signature>
P. S. I have corresponded with Mrs. Clara M. Skilton of your city but haven’t heard from her for some time.
Is all well with her?
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Paternal ELWOOD – HITCHCOCK Origins
taken from his manuscript
“THE ELWOOD – MOSHER FAMILY”
by
Charles Bradford Elwood
210 Vernon Street
Saint Paul 5, Minnesota
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5. ISAAC ELWOOD was baptized February 25, 1759 at Green Farms (Westport) Fairfield County, Connecticut, son of RICHARD – 4 & RACHEL (DAVIS, dau. of SAMUEL), ELWOOD; grandson of JOHN – 3 & ELIZABETH (GODFREY; CHRISTOPHER – 1), ELWOOD of Green Farms; probably g. g. s. of JOSEPH – 2 by wife unknown; and, if so, g. g. g.s. RALPH – 1 ELWOOD; London to Salem on “Truelove” 1635; settled on point in that part of Salem which later became Beverly, Mass.; m. (1) bf. Dec. 25, 1637 Elizabeth ______; for 20 years always recorded as ELWOOD; m. (2) March 14, 1655 ELLEN LYNN (b. ca. 1637, parents unknown), at marriage adopting the name Ellenwood, the name borne by most of his known descendants.
Of Isaac’s early life we know little. Like the other Elwoods – both those of Connecticut and those of New York state – he was an early enthusiast for the cause of freedom. In his youth the writer chose as his motto, “Semper fidelis”, not then aware that it was also the motto of the U. S. Marines. Yet, in the light of this history, we gain a better right to its use. The Marine Corps was officially established by the Continental Congress June 25, 1776. At that time Isaac was already a marine, having enlisted on the previous March 15th. He remained in that service until December of the same year. He served aboard the brig, “Defence” under Capt. Seth Harding and, more immediately under his older brother, then Sgt. Thomas Elwood. Thomas remained in the Marines and attained the rank of First Lieutenant, serving on the battleships “Alliance” and “Bon Homme” under commandants Peter Landon, John Barry and John Paul Jones, seeing active service in the historic engagement with the British frigates “Serapis” and “Countess of Scarborough.” The early service of the two brothers is proved by the brig’s pay lists: “ISAAC ELWOOD. Time of entry March 21, 1776. Time of payment Nov. 15.” It would be interesting to know all that befell them while aboard, and their mental reactions as well. We do know that in March 1776 the “Defence” was lying at anchor in New Haven harbor. Sails were soon unfurled and the vessel set sail on Long Island Sound bound for Plymouth harbor (where some seventeen of the writer’s maternal ancestors disembarked from the “Mayflower” in 1620.) Some weeks after the evacuation of Boston, the “Defence”, sailing Nantasket Roads in Boston Bay, encountere the British ship, “George”, and an enemy brig. After a desperate struggle, in which men were killed and wounded, both enemy vessels were captured. Laden as they were with troops and military stores, their seizure was a real achievement. The prisoners taken – members of Col. Campbell’s British regiment, were carried to Boston and later exchanged. Despite this success the brig, “a dull sailor” was taken to New London and abandoned in favor of a better brig of the same name. In summer, later in 1776, the new “Defence”, at sear near the West Indies, captured two more English ships, one laden with sugar, the other with guns. Later a Guinea ship, homeward bound after selling her slaves, was taken, also another British ship laden with fuel. These were taken to New England – doubtless to New London where the sturdy brig ended her victorious year. (See “Families of Old Fairfield” by Jacobus; v. 3, pp. 67 – 68, etc.)
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In December 1778, not later than the 5th, Isaac joined the Coast Guard company stationed at his home port, Green Farms, Connecticut, on Long Island Sound. The guard there was in command of Captain Daniel Godfrey and service under him continued until December 17th. Thereafter the command seems to have shifted to Capt. Thomas Nash. Both served under Col. Samuel Whiting and General Gold Selleck Silliman of the Fourth Connecticut Militia. After his scant month’s service Isaac was relaeased by the militia for service in the Continental Army. Along with many others he and his cousin Nathan Elwood, enlisted on New Year’s Day, 1777, for a term of three years and continued together throughout their service. They were assigned to the Second Connecticut Regiment in Gen. Washington’s brigade as part of a company under another Fairfield County man, Capt. John Mills, under Col. Charles Webb (of Stamford). They were ordered to assemble at Danbury, Connecticut, and from there marched to Peekskill on the Hudson. There they served under General MacDougall until July when General Putnam took command. During summer and early autumn their activities were along the Hudson. On Nov. 14, 1777 they were ordered to join General Washington’s army in Pennsylvania and on December 8th were engaged in the sharp action at Whitemarsh in which a number of officers and men were killed or wounded. Later at Valley Forge they endured all the suffering of that terrible historic winter. With their company they fought at Chestnut Hill and on June 28th assisted in winning the partial victory over Clinton at Monmouth, New Jersey. Colonel Webb, in the meantime had been retired (March 13) because of war disabilities, while Captain Mills followed hin into retirement in May. Col. Zebulon Butler succeeded to the command of the Second Regiment, with General Huntington in command of the brigade. It was in the summer of 1778, when much of their army was stationed at West Point and along the Hudson, that Washington gathered them into camp at White Plains in Westchester County, New York – the largest, most powerful force gathered in a single encampment during the war. Both the First and Second Connecticut Regiments were in the Second Line under General Lincoln. The division finally wintered at Redding, Connecticut, which lies somewhat to the North of Green Farms. There mutiny broke out on Dec. 28th because of the general shortage of clothing, blankets and pay. But General Putnam addressed the troops and succeeded in quieting the mutineers. In May 1779 Isaac’s regiment went into the field on the East bank of the Hudson and early in June encamped in the Highlands opposite West Point – as part of General Heath’s wing. In July, Tryon and his English raiders ravaged the Fairfield, Norwalk and Greenwich areas, causing severe losses for many among the early family. Though the Connecticut regiments were ordered to the rescue, they arrived too late, Tryon had sailed away. In October they were back in camp at Peekskill, but by December they had moved on to winter quarters at Morristown, N. J. where huts had been erected for the men. Despite them, that winter proved the most trying of the Revolution, wherein hunger, cold and lack of clothing, shoes and stockings spelled unbelievable suffering. When Isaac’s period of enlistment ended on New Year’s 1780, his regiment was serving on the outposts. And, hardships notwithstanding, both Isaac and his brother Abraham promptly re-enlisted in Capt. Isaac Jarvis’ company under Colonel Jonathan Deming. And, by early summer they were back in the Coast Guard at Green Farms under Captain Thomas Nash of the Connecticut militia. Thus, it was that Isaac was among those taken prisoner on July 5, 1780. Captured with him were his brother Abraham, William Allen and various others. First taken to Long Island, they were held there five days and then taken to New York City where they were kept until exchanged in the fall. With him in the guard at the time of capture, though not sharing his fate, were his youngest brother Stephen, his cousins Nathan and Abijah Elwood, (sons of his uncle Hezekiah), Samuel Batterson, and several of the Morehouse family. He was still in active service in 1781 when the fall of Cornwallis brought victory for the new republic, which he had helped to bring into being. His brother Abraham’s second re-enlistment ended in March 1782. It seems very probable that his term ended similarly.
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Like many other ex-soldiers he joined the migration into New York state which began soon after the war. His frequent service there doubtless proved it inviting. The last Connecticut record of him and his individual family was that of the baptism of his third child, Isaac Jr., on March 11, 1787. Though one wonders about the years between, he and his brother Abraham were definitely of Scipio, Cayuga County, New York on April 11, 1818 when the matter of pensions first came up. Elizabeth Elwood of Scipio, his wife, also testified. Both men were put on the pension rolls of July 29th, Isaac’s annual pension of $ 96 being retroactive to April 11th. Up to the time of his death he had received a total of $ 1430.36. At the time of the grant Isaac was “of Aurelius” in Cayuga County. When pensions were first allowed, pensioners-to-be not only had to prove their service but also that they were in difficult financial circumstances and at the time he requested his pension, Isaac was reported as a farmer, unable to work, living alone with his wife, Elizabeth (then 61). The couple very apparently began 1820 in Aurelius, but his brother Abraham and his family were in Galen Township, Seneca County (later Wayne) though not recorded there in 1830. One wonders about them and their destiny. Later that year (1820) Isaac seems to have followed his son, Isaac Jr., to Livingston county for the 1820 census places him at Sparta (then part of Ontario County). With him was his wife and a boy not yet ten.
September 4, 1832, while a resident of Mount Morris, Livingston County, New York, he testified relative to the pension application of his friend and fellow soldier, Abijah Batterson (his wife’s nephew), reciting their service together in 1779, 1780 and 1781. At the time of his testimony, Isaac was 74 and Abijah 68 – resident of Chemung, N. Y., (then Tioga County), his home since 1787. We can thank pension evidence quoted mostly from volume 3 of Jacobus’ “Families of Old Fairfield” for much that we know about Isaac and his family, earlier volumes giving considerable on the first Connecticut ELWOODS and related families. This is quite another family than that of Richard Elwood who settled at Fort Klock near Canajoharie, N. Y. in or about 1748 and whose descendants have been well recorded in the 1922 volume of “The New York Genealogical & Biographical Record”. One suspects a common ancestry however through probable descent through the JOSEPH – 2 I have mentioned.
The younger Isaac, perhaps then the oldest surviving son, was in Mount Morris in 1820 (census record) and in 1830 both he and his brother JAMES were recorded there with their families. The latter, however seems more closely identified with the town of Nunda and perhaps lived close to the boundary between the two. In the latter year ISAAC SR. lived at the home of his son, JAMES. This I borne out by the census record which shows a couple 70 – 80 as members of the household. The aged Revolutionary War pensioner did not long survive his wife, Elizabeth. That she died first seems probable because no pension was continued to his widow after his decease. Under date of August 18, 1939 George E. Thompson, Surrogate Clerk of Livingston County, Geneseo, N. Y., wrote me, “ISAAC ELWOOD died on or about June 26, 1832 (1833) according to a petition for administration on his estate. He left him surviving a son JAMES C. ELWOOD who was named administrator of his estate. The estate was never settled hence, no other papers were filed. He did not leave a will.” The day and month of his death checks with the pension records (Connecticut enlistment S. 44804) but the year should be 1833 as his Abijah Batterson testimony was given in Septmeber 1832 while the N. Y. pension office under date of April 16, 1853 (according with a new law extending the adjustment period) states, “The administrators of Isaac Elwood, deceased, a pensioner on the roll of the Albany Agency at $ 96 per annum under the law, has been paid at this Department, from March 4, 1833 to June 26, 1833” – that period prior to his demise when the pension was unclaimed. Isaac Elwood Sr. was thus in his 75th year when he was called and his faithful wife, born the same year as he, must have attained much the same age.
Married March 7, 1781 (church record) at Green Farms, Fairfield County, Connecticut, ELIZABETH BATTERSON (bp. G. F. ch. June 24, 1759; d. 1832-33), daughter of JAMES & ELIZABETH (?BEERS) BATTERSON. (SEE BATTERSON No. 2) When testifying at Scipio, Cayuga County, N. Y. upon the pension request of her brother-in-law, Abraham Elwood (then at Scipio), she stated that she lived at Fairfield (Green Farms Society) where he was stationed and lived at the house where his provision was cooked and dressed. Re – (pension evidence of Aug. 21, 1818.) She was living in 1830 when the Mount Morris, N. Y. census was taken.
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Children (1st 3 b. Green Farms; no deaths for them recorded there):
John – bp. Aug. 25, 1782 - (What became of him?)
Pamelia – bp. July 18, 1784 - (What was her destiny?)
Isaac Jr. – pb. Mar. 11, 1787 – m. Betsey _____.
Recorded in Mt. Morris, N. Y. census 1820 & 1830 but not there after. In household 1830:
Isaac Jr. 40 – 50 (then 43); wife 30 – 40 (thus b. bf. 1800); a boy 5 – 10; one uner 5; a girl 10 – 15; tow 5 – 10; & one under 5. Deeds in County Clerk’s office show a transfer of land in 1837 by “Betsey and Isaac J. Elwood.” Evidently they were selling out and moving elsewhere. Thereafter we find no record of them. In 1820 Isaac Jr. and wife were 26 – 45 and with them were a couple over 45, perhaps his wife’s parents, as well as a youth 16 – 26, a boy 10 –16, one under 10, and two girls under 10. It would be interesting to know who his wife was, his children’s names and what became of them.
Only Elwood recorded at Mt. Morris, 1840; 40 – 50; wife 20 – 30; no children. Were there others?
6. JAMES CHAPMAN ELWOOD, born Sept 4, 1797 in New York State, perhaps near Scipio, Cayuga County, New York where his father lived in 1818 and probably before, followed in his father’s footsteps and became a farmer. He also possessed skill as a shoemaker. The 1820 census shows him as head of a family in Brutus Township (perhaps in or near Sennett which was then in that township), age 16 – 26; wife 16 – 26. Listed with them were two boys under ten and a woman 26 – 45, perhaps Abigail’s mother. At that time they had but one son, the infant SAMUEL, so perhaps the other was a little brother of Abigail’s, herself then but eighteen. Their first child, a baby girl named Mahala (“Mahaley”), had died on the 20th of May that year and the baby Samuel was but a few months old. Surely here was need for a mother’s help and comfort. (The older woman’s identity is thus far undetermined – but this is just a guess.) James and his young family did not linger long at Brutus, having, as has been noted, moved on to Livingston County where his parents and his older brother, Isaac Jr. had already settled. We find them all in the 1830 Mt. Morris census, the only Elwood families then listed there. James was then 30 – 40; his wife 20 – 30; with them was a youth 15 – 20 (perhaps a nephew or a helper); a girl 10 –15, (perhaps a niece); a boy 10 – 15 (Samuel); two boys 5 – 10 (Thomas & Abijah); one under 5 (James Jr.); a girl 5 – 10 (Roxanna); and one under 5 (Harriet). The aged pair 70 – 80 were plainly his parents, Isaac & Elizabeth, then 71. Apparently that part of the township had been added to Nunda prior to 1840 for they do not appear as of Mt. Morris in that year’s census. Nunda, N. Y. on Cashoqua Creek is directly west of what was early Dansville – Aunt Ella’s birthplace – which is on the other branch, Canaserago Creek. Mt. Morris village is on the mail river – the Genesee – northeast of Nunda and northwest of Dansville, all in a dictrict of charm and picturesque beauty.
In 1850 the family was again recorded at Mt. Morris when James was listed as a farmer with real estate worth $ 2000. It was noted that he could not read or write but that his children were receiving schooling. Illiteracy was common in the pioneer days in New York Stare during the period following the Revolution. Schools were few and the struggle for a mere livelihood left the average family with little time for schooling. The census that year – for the first time – gave the names of each member of the family with age and state of birth. These conform perfectly with the list furnished me in 1940 by Cousin Effie Mae (Burchard) Hill (Mrs. William C.) of Elyria, Ohio, daughter of James’ daughter Martha. In 1840 James and his family were the only Mt. Morris Elwoods. The family is accorded several paragraphs in the “Centennial History of Nunda, N. Y. 1808 – 1908” by H. Wells Hand (Rochester 1908): “1825 – The Elwoods” (p. 272)
Mr. JAMES ELWOOD was a shoemaker and sometimes went around “whipping the cat” as it was called; that is he went to a farmhouse and made up their tanned leather into shoes and boots for the family…a custom which did not last ling after the village shoe shops were established.”
“Wesley Bailey owns the farm where James Elwood formerly lived. He also lived where Mark Turner now lives. The house was moved from Chatauqua hollow. Mr. Kellogg, its owner, had espoused Mormonism” (and was anxious to leave for Utah to join Joseph Smith), "and sold his house which was torn down and rebuilt on this spot – then on Cashaqua Trail.”
“As there were a baker’s dozen of the children (15 originally), their children must be in nearly every state in the union.” “
“The JAMES ELWOOD family were Baptists and consisted of himself and wife. James was born in 1797, died 1870 age 73, settled about 1824 with 1. (really 3rd.) “Thomas, of whom it is said “his neck was broken while wrestling with a friend.” 2. Samuel (our grandfather); 3. James Henry; 4. Harriet, married Edwin Batterson, parents of Mrs. Mark Turner, who, with the family have lived for many years in the house which her maternal grandsire rebuilt; 5. Abijah, married (Ellen E.)Rawson, daughter of Colman; he was grandfather of Homer Elwood who finally owned the premises of his maternal grandsire, Colman Rawson, (and had) sons Harry (and) LeDette of Buffalo; 6. Philetus; 7. Mary; 8. Abba Jane; 9. Martha; 10. Clara, married Horton Doty (an error; it was her sister Harriet’s husband’s sister who married young Doty; our Clarissa d. unmarried at 14); 11. George; 12. Charles.”
This article, Cousin Effie Mae tells me, is fairly accurate thought Edwin B. has been left out and the children disarranged as regards to age. The earlier Elwoods an Hitchcocks were Congregationalists and few of the later Elwoods continued as Baptists. The Baptists seem to have offered church facilities at Pompey and Nunda when others were lacking and I am informed that most of the Nunda Baptists later became Presbyterians.
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Children (1st 3 b. Green Farms; no deaths for them recorded there):
John – bp. Aug. 25, 1782 - (What became of him?)
Pamelia – bp. July 18, 1784 - (What was her destiny?)
Isaac Jr. – pb. Mar. 11, 1787 – m. Betsey _____.
Recorded in Mt. Morris, N. Y. census 1820 & 1830 but not there after. In household 1830:
Isaac Jr. 40 – 50 (then 43); wife 30 – 40 (thus b. bf. 1800); a boy 5 – 10; one uner 5; a girl 10 – 15; tow 5 – 10; & one under 5. Deeds in County Clerk’s office show a transfer of land in 1837 by “Betsey and Isaac J. Elwood.” Evidently they were selling out and moving elsewhere. Thereafter we find no record of them. In 1820 Isaac Jr. and wife were 26 – 45 and with them were a couple over 45, perhaps his wife’s parents, as well as a youth 16 – 26, a boy 10 –16, one under 10, and two girls under 10. It would be interesting to know who his wife was, his children’s names and what became of them.
Only Elwood recorded at Mt. Morris, 1840; 40 – 50; wife 20 – 30; no children. Were there others?
6. JAMES CHAPMAN ELWOOD, born Sept 4, 1797 in New York State, perhaps near Scipio, Cayuga County, New York where his father lived in 1818 and probably before, followed in his father’s footsteps and became a farmer. He also possessed skill as a shoemaker. The 1820 census shows him as head of a family in Brutus Township (perhaps in or near Sennett which was then in that township), age 16 – 26; wife 16 – 26. Listed with them were two boys under ten and a woman 26 – 45, perhaps Abigail’s mother. At that time they had but one son, the infant SAMUEL, so perhaps the other was a little brother of Abigail’s, herself then but eighteen. Their first child, a baby girl named Mahala (“Mahaley”), had died on the 20th of May that year and the baby Samuel was but a few months old. Surely here was need for a mother’s help and comfort. (The older woman’s identity is thus far undetermined – but this is just a guess.) James and his young family did not linger long at Brutus, having, as has been noted, moved on to Livingston County where his parents and his older brother, Isaac Jr. had already settled. We find them all in the 1830 Mt. Morris census, the only Elwood families then listed there. James was then 30 – 40; his wife 20 – 30; with them was a youth 15 – 20 (perhaps a nephew or a helper); a girl 10 –15, (perhaps a niece); a boy 10 – 15 (Samuel); two boys 5 – 10 (Thomas & Abijah); one under 5 (James Jr.); a girl 5 – 10 (Roxanna); and one under 5 (Harriet). The aged pair 70 – 80 were plainly his parents, Isaac & Elizabeth, then 71. Apparently that part of the township had been added to Nunda prior to 1840 for they do not appear as of Mt. Morris in that year’s census. Nunda, N. Y. on Cashoqua Creek is directly west of what was early Dansville – Aunt Ella’s birthplace – which is on the other branch, Canaserago Creek. Mt. Morris village is on the mail river – the Genesee – northeast of Nunda and northwest of Dansville, all in a dictrict of charm and picturesque beauty.
In 1850 the family was again recorded at Mt. Morris when James was listed as a farmer with real estate worth $ 2000. It was noted that he could not read or write but that his children were receiving schooling. Illiteracy was common in the pioneer days in New York Stare during the period following the Revolution. Schools were few and the struggle for a mere livelihood left the average family with little time for schooling. The census that year – for the first time – gave the names of each member of the family with age and state of birth. These conform perfectly with the list furnished me in 1940 by Cousin Effie Mae (Burchard) Hill (Mrs. William C.) of Elyria, Ohio, daughter of James’ daughter Martha. In 1840 James and his family were the only Mt. Morris Elwoods. The family is accorded several paragraphs in the “Centennial History of Nunda, N. Y. 1808 – 1908” by H. Wells Hand (Rochester 1908): “1825 – The Elwoods” (p. 272)
Mr. JAMES ELWOOD was a shoemaker and sometimes went around “whipping the cat” as it was called; that is he went to a farmhouse and made up their tanned leather into shoes and boots for the family…a custom which did not last ling after the village shoe shops were established.”
“Wesley Bailey owns the farm where James Elwood formerly lived. He also lived where Mark Turner now lives. The house was moved from Chatauqua hollow. Mr. Kellogg, its owner, had espoused Mormonism” (and was anxious to leave for Utah to join Joseph Smith), "and sold his house which was torn down and rebuilt on this spot – then on Cashaqua Trail.”
“As there were a baker’s dozen of the children (15 originally), their children must be in nearly every state in the union.” “
“The JAMES ELWOOD family were Baptists and consisted of himself and wife. James was born in 1797, died 1870 age 73, settled about 1824 with 1. (really 3rd.) “Thomas, of whom it is said “his neck was broken while wrestling with a friend.” 2. Samuel (our grandfather); 3. James Henry; 4. Harriet, married Edwin Batterson, parents of Mrs. Mark Turner, who, with the family have lived for many years in the house which her maternal grandsire rebuilt; 5. Abijah, married (Ellen E.)Rawson, daughter of Colman; he was grandfather of Homer Elwood who finally owned the premises of his maternal grandsire, Colman Rawson, (and had) sons Harry (and) LeDette of Buffalo; 6. Philetus; 7. Mary; 8. Abba Jane; 9. Martha; 10. Clara, married Horton Doty (an error; it was her sister Harriet’s husband’s sister who married young Doty; our Clarissa d. unmarried at 14); 11. George; 12. Charles.”
This article, Cousin Effie Mae tells me, is fairly accurate thought Edwin B. has been left out and the children disarranged as regards to age. The earlier Elwoods an Hitchcocks were Congregationalists and few of the later Elwoods continued as Baptists. The Baptists seem to have offered church facilities at Pompey and Nunda when others were lacking and I am informed that most of the Nunda Baptists later became Presbyterians.
Helen
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