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| Birth: | 28 Jul 1765 in Lanesborough, Berkshire Co. MA, |
| Death: | Perrysburg, Chattaraugus Co. NY |
| Sex: | M |
| Father: | Waterman EELLS b. 22 Jul 1732 in Scituate, Plymouth Co. MA |
| Mother: | Sarah Bonney TUBBS b. 7 Mar 1730/31 in Pembroke, Plymouth MA |
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| Baptism: 28 Jul 1765 |
| Residence: Bartonville (now Lapham's Mill) Clinton Co. NY |
| Residence: Holland Land Company Purchase NY |
| Residence: 1833 Perrysburg, Chattaraugus Co. NY |
| Fact: 1810 Built sawmill in Bartonville NY |
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Individual:
Eells Family Genealogy 1633-1952
The sixth generation is characterized by removal from New England and settlement, often with the pioneers, on new land and in places in ME, and west of the Hudson River. Families seem to have been smaller and in some branches all the surviving children were daughters. The places where members moved and resided were: In , NY: Walton, DE Co. Pound Ridge, Saratoga, Evens Center, Hamburg, Cherry Creek, Binghamton, Whitestown, Skaneateles, Batavia, Lowville, Clinton, Pemm Yan, Perrysburg, Westmoreland, Cairo, Sherburn, Harpersfield PA: Greenwood, Meadville, Addisville, Richboro, IL: Paris, Quincy OH: Elyria, Norwalk, ME: North Yarmouth, Freeport, Camden, Rockland, Rockport.
1800 "D & E" Census enumeration, Clinton Co.
Pr. = Peru pages 053
Name Town & Page No. a b c d e f g h i j k l
Eels, John Pr.1053 - - - 1 1 - 1 - - 1 - -
Eels, Semian Pr.1053 3 1 - 1 - 1 - 1 - - - -
Eels, Waterman Pr.1053 2 1 1 1 - 2 - - 1 - - -
1798 Tax Assessment for northern New York
edited by
David Kendall Martin, M. A., F. A. S. G
Particular list or description of all Lands, Lots, buildings and Wharves owned possessed or occupied on the first Day of October 1798 in the town of Peru being within the Seventh Assessment District in the Sixth Division in the State of New York, excepting only such dwelling houses as with the outhouses apurtenant thereto and the lots on which they were erected not exceeding two acres in any case [as] are above the value of one hundred Dollars.
Simeon Eells (heirs of Zacheous Newcomb, owners, 210 acres on Rogers road joining Elisha Arnold. One log house ($18). $975.
Waterman Eells (heirs of Zacheous Newcomb, owners), 160 acres of from any road joining Joseph Everest. One log house ($20). One log barn 26 x 20.
Eells Family History 1633-1952 by Rev. Earnest Edward Eells Pg 105
May 2, 1796 District 17; Simeon Eells, overseer, From the History of Clinton & Franklin Co., 1880, Pg 342.
The first settler of what was formerly called Bartonville, on the Little Ausable River, and now know as Lapham's Mill, was Simeon Eells. The tract was included in the Bell Patent, and it is reported that on one occasion the proprietor William Bell, while looking over his land discovered that someone had been cutting timber on various parts of his 4000 acre lot, where upon he began making inquiries among the early settlers of Peru (Clinton Co. NY) with a view of discovering the offenders and bringing them to justice.
He called upon several persons living near the outskirts of his big forest tract, but the only information he could elicit from the honest pioneers (Family tradition relates that "shiftless neighbors stole the timber and laid it to Uncle Simeon) was that Uncle Sim Eells was the only man who had trespassed upon the forbidden ground. At last Bell, worried by his unsuccess, lost all patience, and recognized Eells to be the only "working" man in the locality by his successful raid on his timber, presented him with a 100 acre lot as a reward for his industry.
Uncle Sim's lot, on which he soon erected a log hut, was about half a mile southeast of the railroad bridge, and his industrious habits formed such a striking feature of his character that the old inhabitants still remember how he used to amuse himself by moving his garden fence one day and back the next, when he could find nothing else to do. He built the first sawmill at this point about 1810, the dam of which was very near where the railroad bridge now is. Subsequently another sawmill was built about 100 rods above the first, and afterward several other sawmills were built below.
He left Peru NY about 1833 for the Holland Purchase with his wife, Abigail Berry. He built the first sawmill at Bartonville about 1810. A Capt Wright who lived two miles south of Birmingham Falls (Ausable Chasm) a long time before Keesville was settled says in the "Pictorial Review of Clinton and Essex Co's " that when the first bridge was built across the Ausable Chasm, about 1802, he, Capt Wright, Mr. Manchester, and Mr Warden helped in the work of getting the string pieces across. The string pieces were six in number and were Norway pine hewed on the upper side and averaging about 20 inches in diameter. There never was any railing on the bridge and it was about 13 feet wide. About 1806, or 07 one pitch dark night it was raining very hard, and although there was a ford down the river at Bagg's the river was very high. That night a man stopped at Capt. Wright's and the Captain asked him which way he was travelling and he said he was from Peru. "How did you get across the river?" he was asked and he replied, "On the bridge, of course". "Good gracious, the bridge is gone," said the Captain in great astonishment. The planking had been removed in fear that the timbers were too weak to be safe. "Nevertheless, I crossed on it just the same." Next day Capt. Wright and others traced the horses caulk marks all the way across the stringer over the chasm. Mrs. Eells told her grandchildren that this was her husband, Simeon Eells, and the heading of this article is "Simeon Eells Rode a Horse across Ausable Chasm on a Stringer."
Simeon Eells removed from Peru (Clinton Co. NY) to the Holland Land Company Purchase, Perrysburg NY and surrounding towns, and died there.
Note a cousin Mary Eells Candee married John Cande. In 1803 they moved to the town of Holland Patent NY having purchased for $2,163.37 a plot of 312 acres of land in that town in Oneida Co. NY which was originally granted to Right Honorable Henry Lord Holland. This may be why the family went to the Holland Purchase area?
Also Rev. James Eells of East Glastonbury CT traveled in the fall of 1788 for the New Haven East Association of Congregational Churches sent him and his brother Samuel, on a mission to the "New Settlement in Central , NY. This was Whitestown, Hartford, and Clinton. (Presbyterianism in Central , NY by Fowler, Pg 48).
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- Title: Eells Family History 1633-1952
Author: Rev. Myron Eells; Rev William W Eells; Rev Edward Eells, Rev. Earnest Edward Eells and Walter Gibbs Eells
Publication: 1985
Media: Book
Page: #6.128.3 Simeon Eells Pg 105
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