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New Comers
Around 1830 we find a few more familiar family names. Jordan Seely had settled
in town about 1822. His son John became a prominent justice and like John Norton was known as the Squire. The name
Gilchrist first appears in 1831 on the town records, where we find the names of Andrew and Robert listed in road
district No. 35. They were of Scotch-Irish descent. In 1831 the name of Edward Rowe appears; also in that year
appears the name of Clemons Gibbs. He was in road district No. 5. A. Paul and Silas Nelson had settled in the west
part of the town as early as 1813. Timothy Allen had settled on the east road in 1814 and Asahel Newton in 1820.
The Newton homestead is the present McMurray farm. Edward Rowe started farming in pioneer manner by clearing new
land on the hills in the east section of the town. The remains of his farmstead, now long abandoned and growing
up to woods, is near the Lease Land by the McGan farm. The Weer family, which became prominent in town during the
Civil War, settled in the East Hartford section about this time. Another of the later families was Reynolds of
East Hartford, of which Job J. was a member.
SORCE:
The Story of Hartford
A History
Compiled by: Mrs. Isabella Brayton, Town Historian
in collaboratin with John B. Norton.
Hartford, NY 1929
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Washington County Local History
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