The History of Cayuga County 1789-1879 page 423
Town of Scipio/Early Settlements

the first school teachers, and Desire, wife of Frederick A. Snell, of Oskosh, Wis. Philip's children who are living are Silas, at Fairport, Monroe county, Eliza Ann, wife of Isaac Treat, in Throop, Adah, Zillah, wife of Edward Treadwell, in Ann Arbor, Mich., and Susan, also in Ann Arbor. Cordial Jennings, from Middlebury, Vt., settled about 1810, on the long lot, on the lake shore in the south-east corner of the town, where he lived a number of years, when he removed to lot 65, in Venice, where he died February 15th, 1855, aged 81. His wife Lucy, died April 26th, 1861, aged 96. His eldest son, Sherburne H., aged about seventy, lives in Moravia. Another son, Chauncey, lives in Orleans county. Two grandsons, William and Crauson, are living in Venice.

Deacon Uriah Benedict, who was born in Norwalk, Connecticut, September 13th, 1783, removed to Scipio in 1811, and followed carpentering eighteen years after coming here. He purchased a farm, on which he remained sixty-six years, till his death, April 14th, 1877, aged 93. At his death he was the oldest member of the Presbyterian Church of Scipio, of which he was a member nearly seventy years, and a ruling elder for about sixty years. He had ten children, two of whom died in childhood. The rest, four sons and four daughters, married and raised up children. Two sons are ministers of the Presbyterian faith and two are deacons in the same church. Asahel Fitch, from Saratoga county, settled in 1811, in the east part of the town, where Wm. Munger now lives, and where he died December 13th, 1851, aged 79. He was Side Judge and Member of Assembly in 1824. His children were Alvah Fitch, who was born in Saratoga county in 1797, and is still living in Scipio, Judge ----, who lived and died in Lansing, Tompkins county, Charles T., who died in Scipio, where Hiram Wheat now lives, and Cynthia, afterwards wife of Eli Smith, who also died in Scipio. His wife, Martha, died October 2d, 1843, aged 71.

Elisha Barnes came from Pharsalia, Chenango county, in May, 1812, on foot and alone, at the age of about twenty-two, and commenced work with Joel Coe in a distillery, which stood two miles north of Scipio Center. In 1813, he bought half an acre of land, half a mile west of where he now lives, and commenced distilling for himself, continuing the business some twenty years. November 4th, 1823, he married Elizabeth Roberts, who died July 5th, 1865, aged 67. He had four children, three of whom are living, George, in Scipio, Franklin, in Venice, and Eliza, wife of Andrew Champman [sic - Chapman], in Scipio. In 1836, he took up the farm on which he now lives, and on which he has since resided. He was 88 years old August 18th, 1878.

Charles Loring Elliott, an artist of great celebrity, was born in 1812, in a plain wooden structure, standing on the east and west road leading to Sherwood, not far from Scipio Center. He removed with his parents to Auburn, where his father built and occupied a house now standing on the corner of Williams street and Love Lane, at present and for many years past, owned and occupied by the family of E. E. Marvine. Caleb Manchester married his wife Lydia, of Greenfield, Saratoga county, October 1st, 1812, and removed with her the following spring to a farm one and one-half miles south-east of Scipioville, where they lived forty-eight years and raised a family of four sons and seven daughters, only two of whom, Elias C., of Battle Creek, Michigan, and Rev. Wm. S., survive them. In 1861, they sold their home and lived with their daughter, Eliza P. Battey, near Scipioville, who died in March, 1870. Caleb died October 5th, 1868; and his wife at Battle Creek, Michigan, while visiting with her son, June 9th, 1877, aged 84 years. Henry Marsh was an early settler in the town. His son George S., was born here in 1813.

George Slocum came in from Massachusetts in 1814, and died here August 26th, 1867, aged 69. Several settlers came in about that year, prominent among whom was Wm. Alward and his sons Nathaniel, William and Squire, and daughter Betsey, afterwards wife of Justus Allen, who came in from Baskin Ridge, N. J., and settled at Scipioville. William, the elder, froze to death while crossing Cayuga Lake, February 13th, 1816. His age at the time of his death was 52.

Betsey, his wife, died June 27th, 1835, aged 69. Both were natives of Somerset county, N. J. Nathaniel carried on the harness making business till about 1833, and acquired a handsome property. He was connected with the Presbyterian Church at the Square from 1833 till his death in 1848, having been converted the

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