Samuel Strickland, of CT > Walworth, Oswego, NY
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This Samuel is the son of Joseph Strickland and Mary Thrall.
History of Wayne county, New York, page 188
Biographical Sketch
Samuel Strickland
was born in East Granby, Hartford county, Connecticut, December 24, 1790, he being the second of five children, three sons and two daughters.Some time in the year 1798, his father, with his family, removed to Redfield, Oswego county, New York, being the first settler in that town.He located near Salmon river, twenty-one miles from the nearest inhabitants, and built a saw-mill and grist-mill on lea branch of that streamAlmost a dozen other families were induced through his influence to join the settlement in the next two years.
About this time, for some reason, he sold out, and the family found their way back to Connecticut. The next year (1801) his mother, having in the meantime lost her husband, apprenticed him to Samuel Smith, and his older brother, Joseph, to one Major Hyde.Smith lived where the State-line station on the Boston and Albany railroad is now located, the line of the states of Massachusetts and New York dividing his farm.He was a wagon maker as well as farmer and agreed to teach his apprentice his trade, as well as farmingBut Smith soon gave up the trade himself and of course did not fulfill his agreement.In the year 1807 he sold his State-line farm and started, as many others were doing, for the Genesee as it was then called.But instead of the railway-car, or even the new repudiated canal-boat, they came with horses and wagon over poor roads through a new country, being twelve days on the road, which was about the usual time occupied in making the journey.He arrived at his new farm in the town of Walworth (then Ontario) on the ninth of August.After getting his family settled and recruiting his team Mr. Smith returned to State-line and brought on Mrs. Strickland (Samuel's mother) and the rest of her family, who arrived the fore part of November, the same year. She settled in the immediate neighborhood of Smith.After living with Mr. Smith a year longer, Mr. Strickland went to live with his mother, with whom he resided until his marriage with Pamelia Barber in November 1814.His mother then sold her farm, dividing the proceeds between her two eldest sons, stipulating for her own support and that of a younger son, who was unable to care for himself.She ever after lived with her son Samuel, at whose house she died in the summer of 1845.He settled on an adjoining farm after his marriage; but he only bought a contract, paying for the improvements, as was then customary.
What an undertaking for those early settlers! to remove a heavy forest, support a family subject to the diseases incident to a new country, all kinds of farm produce extremely low-priced, and these annual payments constantly making their demands, which, if two long neglected, were followed by forfeiture.His wife died of consumption, after a long illness, November 8, 1817, having borne him two children, Nelson F., in whose family he now resides, and one daughter, who died in infancy.He was again married, to Martha Turner, in January, 1819.She was the mother of three children, Orson T. now living in Wisconsin; Pamelia, the wife of Hezekiah Hill, of Ontario, New York; Lucena, who was married to Henry Church in 1850, and died in 1851.
Although commencing with little, he reared his family and cleared his farm, and by the practices of temperance, industry, and frugality, aided by a faithful wife of like habits, he paid for his farm, materially aided his children, and secured a competence for old age.His second wife was possessed with a strong constitution, habits of active industry and careful economy, and was to him a helpmeet indeed.This union was of unusual duration, lasting a little more than fifty-three years.She died of disease of the heart, March 5, 1872.
He made a religious profession and united with the Free-Will Baptist church in Walworth in 1817, being baptized by Reverend Nathaniel Ketchum.He was for many years their clerk, and has ever since remained an active, efficient member, having paid more than five hundred dollars the past year for the erection of a new Free-Will Baptist church at Lincoln, three miles distant.He was never a politician as some understand the term, yet he always had decided political opinions, and carried them out at the polls as he understood them.He cast his first ballot, for James Madison, in 1812, and has not failed to vote at every annual election since.
He served a short time in the War of 1812, at Sodus, New York, and on the Niagara frontier.Although in his eight-seventh year he enjoys excellent health, and retains his mental faculties better than most men of his age.
He does not use tobacco in any form, but instead is an inveterate reader,--a better way to preserve one's mental faculties unimpaired.
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more at http://history.rays-place.com/ny/wa-waworth-ny.htmhttp://history.rays-place.com/ny/wa-waworth-ny.htm, History of Walworth, New York, FROM LANDMARKS OF WAYNE COUNTY, EDITED BY: HON, GEORGE C. COWLES; ASSISTED BY H. P. SMITH AND OTHERS, PUBLISHED BY D. MASON & CO. PUBLISHERS, SYRACUSE, NY 1895
CHAPTER XXVI - HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF WALWORTH.
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Bill Strickland