The History of Cayuga County 1789-1879 page 424
Town of Scipio/Early Settlements

former year in Auburn. He was zealous in promoting the interests of the church. At his house were held prayer meetings presided over by himself, and ably addressed by his wife, who was an excellent and highly cultured woman. It was his custom to send his large family carriage through the neighborhood every Sunday to pick up those who desired to attend church, but had no conveyance. Only two of his family are living, William, in Nunda, Livingston county, and D. R., in Auburn. Squire married a daughter of John Boughton, of Ledyard, and settled near the Square in the north-west corner of the town.

Others who came in about this time were Deacon Samuel Leonard, from Connecticut, who settled and died near Scipioville; Wm. Graham, a Revolutionary soldier, who settled at Merrifields Corners, one and one-half miles east of Scipioville, where he died February 2d, 1844, aged 92, and who had two daughters, one of whom died young, and the other, Jane, married Ozam Merrifield, who gave to the Corners, his name; and Eli Stillson, who settled at Barbers Corners, where he taught the district school in the winters of 1815 and '16. Noah Dennis, a civil engineer, was also an early settler in that locality, and taught the district school there in the winters of 1817 and '18. He died in 1834, in his thirty-eighth year. Anthony Tallman, from Rensselaer Co., was an early settler, but in what year we could not determine. His son Squire P. T. Tallman, was born in Scipio, in 1817, and married Mary, daughter of Thomas Cushman, who was Justice sixteen years. Lewis B. Smith came in before 1816, in which year his son Elijah, who is now living in Scipio, was born here. Mitchel Baldwin and Philip H. Buckhout settled here in 1816. Mr. Baldwin was from New Jersey. He died in Aurelius in 1872. Mr. Buckhout was from Westchester county, and settled in 1817, at Scipioville, where he carried on the wagon-making business until compelled by old age to discontinue it. He is living a little east of Scipioville, and was 85 years old April 14th, 1878. Two sons are living, Edward, in Ledyard, and Byron B., in East Saginaw, Michigan. His wife, Amanda, daughter of Wm. Allen and Betsey Watkins, the first couple married in Scipio, died October 8th, 1876, aged 75.

Cornelius Weeks came from Dartmouth, Massachusetts, about 1816, and settled first a little west of Poplar Ridge, in Ledyard. A year afterwards he removed to the place now occupied by his grandson, Wm. Penn Sisson, a little west of Barbers Corners. Daniel Sisson, father of Wm. Penn Sisson, married Mr. Weeks' only daughter, Charlotte, and succeeded Mr. Weeks to the farm. Mr. Weeks died January 25th, 1867, aged 89; and Daniel Sisson, June 28th, 1867, aged 65. Calvin King came in from Saratoga county about 1818, and settled at Barbers Corners, on the farm now owned by Abner S. Gifford. He died March 30th, 1851, aged 62. Of his children, William is living in Chicago, Edward B., in Scipio, and Jane, wife of Elisha Marsh, in Beatrice, Neb. Ira Akin came from Johnstown, Fulton county, about 1816, and settled one mile south of Scipio Center, on the farm now owned by Alson Hoskins, where he resided till the death of his wife, when the family broke up and he went west and died there. His children were Edward, who married a daughter of Nathan Morgan, and removed to Janesville, Wisconsin; Ira, who married Olive Tone, and settled a little over a mile north of Scipio Center, where he died, leaving two children, Yale, living in New York City, and Whelpley, in Auburn; John, who removed to Ohio; and Deacon Isaac, who married Phebe Tompkins, and settled about two miles east of Scipio Center, on the farm now owned by Artemas Ward. He afterwards removed to Scipio Center, where he died April 9th, 1877, and his wife, October 22d, 1878. They leave seven children, viz.: John W., William, Morrell J., all of whom living in Scipio; Ann, wife of Horace Allen, in Nevada; Mary Jane, wife of Harden Brayton, in Chicago; Caroline, wife of Philo Sperry, in Michigan; and Harriet, wife of Henry Slocum, in Scipio.

Jeffery A. Farnam, Amaziah Griswold, Wm. Main, Elnathan Smith and Thomas Parker were among the earliest settlers, but we are not advised of the year in which they came. Farnam, who was born October 17th, 1773, came in from Connecticut, and settled near the Square or "No. 1." He died November 12th, 1842; and his wife a few years since, aged ninety-seven. Henry Farnam, now a resident of New Haven, Conn., an engineer of some prominence and formerly superintendent of a western railroad, is a son of his. Griswold was from New Lebanon, Columbia

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