Bouton-Boughton Family

2.676 ii. Paulo WNA Lavinia Wilmarth, b. Boughton Hill, Aug. 11, 1823, m. Aug. 29, 1847, Spencer I. Cleaveland ; settled at Victor, N. Y. 2,676* iii. Elizabeth Sophronia Wilmarth, b. Boughton Hill, March 22, 1825 ; d. Oct. 24, 1845. 2,676^ iv. Sarah Rogers Wilmarth, b. Boughton Hill, Jan. 6, 1827 ; d. Jan. 6, 1847. 2,676« V. Edward Giddings Wilmarth, b. Boughton Hill, Nov. 3, 1828 ; d. March 7, 1833 ; buried on Boughton Hill. 2,676** vi. Mary Clementina Wilmarth, b. Boughton Hill, Dec. 7, 1831; d. March 9, 1838; buried Boughton Hill. 2,676* vii. Montgomery Chester Wilmarth, b. Boughton Hill, Dec. 9, 1833 ; d. June 29, 1834. Children of Spencer I. and Panlowna L. Wilmarth Cleareland, of Bonghton Hill, N. Y. 2,676^1. Sarah Theodocia Cleaveland, b. May 9, 1849 ; d. Sept. 5, 1849. BOUTON-BOU HTON FAMILY. 277 2,676f ii. Orella Sophronia Cleaveland, b. Dec. 1, 1851 ; m. May 27, 1S78, Eugene M. Brown ; she d. Dec. 12,. 1879. 2,676*» iii. Frederick Wilmarth Cleaveland, b. April 28,. 1858 ; d. Sept. 25, 1858. 2,676^ iv. Henry Augustus Cleaveland, b. Dec. 16, 1859 ; d. Dec. 18, 1859. 2,676' V. Llewellyn Spencer Cleaveland, b. Lagrange county, Ind., Dec. 4, 1862 ; m. May 1, 1888, Laura M. Stout. Children of Nidiolas and Abigail Bonghton (dan. of Hezekiahy Jr., and Abigrall Penojer Bongrhton) Smith, of Yictor, N. Y. 2536 2.677 i. AvA Smith, b. Victor. He went to North Carolina with his uncles, 1799 ; m. there twice, one a French lady ; was drowned in North CaroHna. 2.678 ii. JDavid Smith, b. Victor ; d. unmarried. 2.679 iii. Anna Smith, b. Victor ; m. Josiah Morehouse ; moved west. 2. 680 iv. Ira SraTH, b. Victor ; m. Mahala Red way . 2.681 V.Sally Smith, b. Victor ; m. Erastus Ingersoll; settled in Michigan and died. 2.682 vi. Erastus Smith, b. Victor ; died unmarried. 2.683 vii. Betsey Smith, b. Victor ; m. David Wooster, a Baptist minister. 2.684 viii. Philenus Smith, b. Victor j res. Pennsylvania. 2.685 ix. Hezekiah Smith, b. Victor ; m. Maria Lee ; moved to Michigan. Child of Ara and Smithy of North Carolina. 2677 2.686 i. Lurania Smith, m. Rufus Humphrey. Children of Bnftis and Lnranla Smith Humphrey. 2680 2,686» i. Mary Humphrey, m. Rev. Mr. Nelson. 2,686»^ ii. Angeline Humphrey, d. unmarried. 2,686^ iii. Oliver Humphrey, died by an accident in youth. Other children's names not known. Children of firastns and Sally Smith Ingersoll, of Michigan. 2681 2,686** i. Erastus Ingersoll ; history not known. 2,686« ii. Meijlnia Boughton Ingersoll, married Walter Sprague. 2,686^ in. Angelina Ingersoll. 2,686f iv, Eliel Ingersoll. 2,686** V. Orville Ingersoll. 2,686* vi. Anna Ingersoll. 278 BouTON-BouGiB^>fir Family. Children of Joshua and Sally Bonghton (dan. of Hezekiah and Abigrail Penoyer Bonghton) Ketchnm^ of Stockbridgre. 2587 2.687 i. Jared Ketchum, b. Stockbridge, Mass. 2.688 ii. Lewis Ketchum, b. Stockbridge. 2.689 iii. Sally Ketchum, b. Stockbridge, was an invalid. 2.690 iv. LucRETiA Ketchum, b. Stockbridge. DESCENDANTS OF JARED BOUGHTON, Son of Hezekiah and Abigail Penoyer Bonghton. [From Recollections by his daughter Mrs. Melania Bonghton Smith.] (vi.) Jared Boughton, b. Salem, Westchester county, N.' Y., Feb. 19, 1766, m. Columbia county, N. Y., 1787, Olive Stone (dau. of Charles and Tryphena CoUins Stone), b. Old Stockbridge, Berkshire county, Mass., Jan. 2, 1770. Hezekiah Boughton and his family were residents of Old Stockbridge, Mass., and Jared Boughton, his son, with his wife continued to make their home there for some time after their marriage. In the spring of 1788, having heard of the fertile country of the Genesee, he and his brother Hezekiah started on an exploring expedition in search of a new home. They went first to Chenango, where Charles Stone, father-in-law of Jared, had previously bought a large tract of land. Not liking the country they were about to return, but being informed of the council held with the Indians by Phelps & Gorham at Geneva, with a view to the extinc- tion of the Indian title to their large purchase of territory in western New York, they found company and went thither, arriving a few days before the close of the ti'eaty. They were well pleased with the country, but being unable to purchase until the land was surveyed they returned to Stockbridge. The treaty was held in July, 1788. In the fall of the same year William Walker, agent and surveyor for Phelps & Gorham, Enos Boughton (brother of Jared), clerk and assistant of Walker, with others came on to Canandaigua, where they erected a store-house and other buildings for the accommodation of the party. These were the fii'st build- ings erected in that town. In the course of the fall Enos obtained from Walker a contract for township 11, range 4, of the Phelps & Gorham tract, now the township of Victor, Ontario county. JAUED KOUGHTON. J 1 i BOUTON-BOUQHTON FAMILY. 279 In May, 1789, Jared Boughton, his brother Enos, Horatio Jones, a surveyor, and brother-in-law of Enos, with hired hands came to the new purchase. The township, six miles square, was surveyed into lots and prepared for sale. The fatner, Hezekiah Boughton, reserved somewhat more than one-fourth, including what was afterward called Boughton Hill. The remainder was mostly sold before spring. Jared Boughton had brought with him a supply of seeds and some farming implements. He raised summer crops for immediate use, built a log house and sowed several acres of wheat for the next year. This was the first improvement made by white men m that town. There had been an Indian village on the Hill and the Indians had burned oflf the timber and kept the ground clear, apparently for their own planting. Thus there was a large ti-act nearly ready for the plough. On this the wild grass grew luxuriantly, furnishing abundant pasturage for the cattle and sheep which were brought on in June by Hezekiah Boughton and a cousin, Jacob Lobdell. In October most of thp party returned to Stockbridge. The homecoming of the brothers was saddened by the death of their mother, Abigail Penoyer Boughton, which had occurred in the summer. The intention of Jared Boughton was to avail himself of the winter, to take his family and effects in sleighs to their new home. They waited in vain for sleighing until Feb- ruary, when, a few inches of snow having fallen, they started on the long journey. Seymour Boughton, younger brother of Jared, accompanied them as assistant and companion. There were two children, a son Selleck, not quite two years old, and a daughter Melania, only four months old. The way was through an almost uninhabited wilderness, if we except Indians and wild beasts. There were no roads except such as were cut through the woods ; the streams were without bridges. The Cayuga lake was crossed on the ice, which was so softened by the lateness of the season that with the horses at full speed the sleigh tracks filled with water behind them. When no other shelter was reached they camped under the trees when night overtook them. Of one of these instances Mr. Boughton wrote — having passed the previous night at the house of an Indian interpreter and his squaw wife — '' We had traveled thirteen miles. Col. Reed's family and mine, fourteen in number, camped that night under a hemlock tree, built a camp of hemlock boughs, had a warm brisk fire, made chocolate ; and although my wife had a young 280 BouTON-BouGHTON Family, child, we had a comfortable time."- They arrived at their cabin in Victor, March 7, 1790. Olive Boughton, the wife of Jared, was the first white woman who came to that town, and for three months she was the only one. Her second son, Frederic, was the first white child born there. He was born June 1st, 1791. In October, 1790, seven or eight months after the arrival of Jared Boughton in Victor, his father came, with the youngest son, Seymour, and the unmarried daughter, Theo- dosia. The married daughters came not far from the same time, and the family were all together in the new western home. The father gave farms to his married children, and built a house for himself and the two unmarried ones. He gave land on Boughton Hill for a cemetery, and a public square. On this square a school house was built, where for many years most of the Boughton ideas were taught to shoot. He laid out a broad highway, extending from Bough- ton Hill to the south line of his possessions, which was also the line betwen Victor and East Bloomfield. All these were donated to the town. In the division of property among the children, Enos and Jared Boughton settled on Boughton Hill. The latter built his house under the shadow of a great oak, which had escaped the fires, and beneath which were several Indian graves. Here the fam- ily passed a number of happy years. Hezekiah Boughton, the father, died in 1798. Soon after, Enos became involved in financial trouble. To relieve him, his brother Jared, and Daniel Sawyer, who had married the sister Theodosia, sold their possessions, paid the debts, and hoping to retrieve their fortunes, removed with their families— Enos and his family going with them — to North Carolina. Jared and his family were detained at Old Point Comfort, Virginia, by sickness. One of his children, a daughter aged eighteen months, and a niece of Mrs. Boughton aged eighteen years, died there. They had left Victor in June, and arrived at the place of their destination in September. Their plan was to manufacture lumber from the white cedar which abounded in the swamps there. They hired slaves from their masters and set to work. The lumber was sent in vessels to northern cities, where it sold readily. After a year or two Enos and his family returned to Victor. The others worked on. Soon they were able to purchase vessels. The elder sons were placed in a school in Edenton, N. C. The two eldest daughters were sent to a boarding school in Providence, R. I., where they remained two years. At the end of ten years their object was so far accom- BOUTON-BOUGHTON FAMILY. 281