The Tryon Family In America

Author: Wesley Tryon

BUCKLEY JOHNSON 5.87a, twin, and son of Sarah (Tryon) Johnson 4.31c and David Johnson, was born Feb. 24, 1758.

EDITH JOHNSON 5.87b, twin, and daughter of Sarah (Tryon) Johnson 4.31c and David Johnson, was born Feb. 24, 1758.

HANNAH TRYON 5.88a, first daughter of Edward Tryon 4.31d and Mercy (Harris) Tryon, was born at Saybrook, Conn., no date, and was baptized there in February of 1761. She married Josiah Gilbert, of Berlin, Conn., at Rocky Hill, Nov. 11, 1790.

EDWARD TRYON 5.88b, first son of Edward Tryon 4.31d and Mercy (Harris) Tryon, was born at Saybrook, Conn., no date given, and was baptized there Feb. 27, 1763. He probably lived at Killingworth, Conn., and had a wife, name unknown, and one son: Stephen 6.165a.

SARAH TRYON 5. 88c, second daughter of Edward Tryon 4.31d and Mercy (Harris) Tryon, was born at Saybrook, Conn., no date, and was baptized there June 23, 1764.

RICHARD TRYON 5.88d, second son of Edward Tryon 4.31d and Mercy (Harris) Tryon, was born at Saybrook, Conn., no date, and was baptized there Sept. 4, 1768. He married Betsy
Tripp, at Saybrook, Sept. 2, 1790, by Rev. Richard Ely. No date of her birth or death, or of his death. One son is found on the record (there probably were other children):
Joseph 6.167a.
Mrs. Betsy Tryon married second, Nathan Patten, at Middletown, Conn., Mar. 24, 1830, by Charles Remington, elder at the South Farms.

ASA TRYON 5.88e, third son of Edward Tryon 4.31d and Mercy (Harris) Tryon, was born at Saybrook, Conn., no date, and was baptized there in December of 1769. He married Esther Chapman, at Saybrook, Aug. 5, 1790. One son is recorded:
Andrew Sylvanus 6.168a.

JEDEDIAH or JEDEIAH TRYON 5.88f, fourth son of Edward Tryon 4.31d and Mercy (Harris) Tryon, was born in 1771, and was baptized into the First Church of Saybrook, Mar. 21, 1773. He married Belinda Jones, daughter of Daniel Jones and Huldah (Lacy) Jones, at Saybrook, Jan. 30, 1800. (Huldah Lacy was a fourth generation descendant of John Alden and Priscilla Mullins.) Belinda was born about 1777, and was baptized at Saybrook West Parish, June 15, 1777. She died July 13, 18847, aged 70 years. He died at Saybrook, Feb. 5, 1853, aged 81 years, and was buried in Old Junction Cemetery at Old Saybrook. There were nine children:
Harriett Maria 6.169a,
Huldah L. 6.169b,
Jeremiah Jones 6.169c,
Jedediah 6.169d,
Louisa 6.169e,
Elizabeth Ann 6.16Df,
George Washington 6.169g,
Azubah K. 6.169h,
Emilee E. 6.169i.

WILLIAM TRYON 5.88g, fifth son of Edward Tryon 4.31d and Mercy (Harris) Tryon, was born at Saybrook, Conn., date not shown, and was baptized there Feb. 16, 1774. He married
Mabel McKean, daughter of Barnabas McKean and Mabel (Hall) McKean, date not shown. They had ten children:
Adeline 6.170a,
William 6.170b,
Harvey 6.170c,
Harry 6.170d,
Edward 6.170e,
Joel 6.170f,
Horace 6.170g,
Henrietta 6.170h,
Elizabeth 6.170i,
Lora 6.170j.

CHARLOTTE TRYON 5.88h, third daughter of Edward Tryon 4.31d and Mercy (Harris) Tryon, was born at Saybrook, Conn., date not shown, and was baptized there on June 6, 1779.

ABIAH SOUTHMAYD 5.89a, first daughter of Hannah (Tryon) Southmayd 4.31e and Daniel Southmayd, was born at Middletown, Conn., May 13, 1761, and died Nov. 14, 1781, aged 20 years.

DAVID SOUTHMAYD 5.89b, first son of Hannah (Tryon) Southmayd 4.31e and David Southmayd, was born at Middletown, Conn., Aug. 8, 1763. He married first, Patience Sellew, Dec. --, 1796. No record of children to this union. David married second, Eunice Bates, but date not shown. She died Mar. 25, 1802. No children recorded. David at age 40, married third, Olive Fairchild, Mar. 31, 1803. She died Apr. 17, 1821. He was a sea captain, and died at Durham, Conn., June 6, 1838, aged 75 years. No children to this couple.

HANNAH SOUTHMAYD 5.89c, second daughter of Hannah (Tryon) Southmayd 4.81e and David Southmayd, was born at Middletown, Conn., Oct. 14, 1765. She married Samuel Bates,
of Durham, Conn., no date shown. They moved to Hartford, Vermont. No record of children.

JOSEPH SOUTHMAYD 5.89d, second son of Hannah (Tryon) Southmayd 4.31e and David Southmayd, was born at Middletown, Conn., Mar. 2, 1768. He married Cynthia Freeman, in 1793. She was born at Easthampton, Conn., Sept. 29, 1769, and died at Portland, Conn., July 14, 1851, aged 82 years. He died at Durham, Conn., Dec. 2, 1824, aged 56 years. No children were reported.

SARAH SOUTHMAYD 5.89e, third daughter of Hannah (Tryon) Southmayd 4.31e and David Southmayd, was born at Middletown, Conn., Aug. 28, 1770. She married Richard Hubbard, of Durham, Conn., but no date shown. Also no report of children.

ANNE SOUTHMAYD 5.89f, fourth daughter of Hannah (Tryon) Southmayd 4.31e and David Southmayd, was born at Middletown, Conn., Jan. 8, 1773.

ELIZABETH SOUTHMAYD 5.89g, fifth daughter of Hannah (Tryon) Southmayd 4.31e and David Southmayd, was born at Middletown, Conn., no date, and was baptized there June 4, 1775. She died Oct. 26, 1776, at the age of 1 year and 4 months.

UNNAMED SOUTHMAYD 5.89h, third son of Hannah (Tryon) Southmayd 4.31e and David Southmayd, died in infancy.

ELIZABETH SOUTHMAYD 5.89i, sixth daughter of Hannah (Tryon) Southmayd 4.31e and David Southmayd, was born at Middletown, Conn., date not shown, and was baptized there July 5, 1778.

JOHN SOUTHMAYD 5.89j, fourth son of Hannah (Tryon) Southmayd 4.31e and David Southmayd, was born at Middletown, Conn., no date, and was baptized there Nov. 11, 1781. He died at the same place Mar. 3, 1782, at 4 months of age.

LUCY PRIOR 5.90a, first daughter of Lucy (Tryon) Prior 4.31f and Josiah Prior, was born at Middletown, Conn., May 11, 1760. She married Oliver Prout, at Middletown, June 5, 1783.

DIDA or DYDA PRIOR 5.90b, second daughter of Lucy (Tryon) Prior 4.31f and Josiah Prior, was born at Middletown, Conn., May 5, 1762. She married Eli Sizer, of Middletown, Feb. 9, 1786.

JOSIAH PRIOR 5.90c, first son of Lucy (Tryon) Prior 4.31f and Josiah Prior, was born at Middletown, Conn., July 3, 1765, and according to records found, died young.

PRUDENCE PRIOR 5.90d, third daughter of Lucy (Tryon) Prior 4.31f and Josiah Prior, was born at Middletown, Conn., Dec. 19, 1767.

AMY PRIOR 5.90e, fourth daughter of Lucy (Tryon) Prior 4.31f and Josiah Prior, was born at Middletown, Conn., Apr. 4, 1769. She married William Hubbard, at Middletown, Jan. 1, 1789.
THANKFUL PRIOR 5.90f, fifth daughter of Lucy (Tryon) Prior 4.31f and Josiah Prior, was born at Middletown, Conn. Mar. 25, 1771. She married Ebenezer Prout, at Middletown Oct. 4, 1790.

UNNAMED PRIOR 5.90g, second son of Lucy (Tryon) Prior 4.31f and Josiah Prior, was born at Middletown, Conn., in 1773, and died at sea in August 1793.

DANIEL PRIOR 5.90h, third son of Lucy (Tryon) Prior 4.31f and Josiah Prior, was born at Middletown, Conn., Mar. 10, 1775, and records show that he died young.

WILLIAM PRIOR 5.90i, fourth son of Lucy (Tryon) Prior 4.31f and Josiah Prior, was born at Middletown, Conn., no date, and was baptized at that place Oct. 19, 1777. He married Susannah or Susan Harris, in 1800. She was born in 1779, and died in 1842. He died in 1826. One son is recorded:
Daniel Harris Prior 6.190a.

SARAH PRIOR 5.90j, sixth daughter of Lucy (Tryon) Prior 4.31f and Josiah Prior, was born at Middletown, Conn., date not shown, and baptized there on Mar. 6, 1779.

HANNAH PRIOR 5.90k, seventh daughter of Lucy (Tryon) Prior 4.31f and Josiah Prior, was born at Middletown, Conn., no date, and was baptized there Apr. 21, 1782.

CATHERINE CRITTENDEN 5.91a, first daughter of Rhoda (Tryon) Crittenden 4.31g and Daniel Crittenden, was born at Chatham (later called Portland), Conn., date not shown, and was baptized there Dec. 6, 1767. She married Amos Goodrich, at Chatham, Oct. 1, 1789.

DANIEL CRI1TENDEN 5.91b, first son of Rhoda (Tryon) Crittenden 4.31g and Daniel Crittenden, was born at Chatham (later called Portland), Conn., date not shown, and was
baptized there Sept. 17, 1769. According to the records found, he died young.

LUCY CRITTENDEN 5.91c, second daughter of Rhoda (Tryon) Crittenden 4.31g and Daniel Crittenden, was born at Chatham (later called Portland), Conn., about 1772. She married Adahel Wilcox, at Chatham, Oct. 2, 1791. He was born at Middletown, Conn., May 9, 1771, and died there Oct. 31, 1817. Lucy died at Chatham Oct. 25, 1811. No children mentioned.

MOLLY CRITTENDEN 5.91d, third daughter of Rhoda (Tryon) Crittenden 4.31g and Daniel Crittenden, was born at Chatham (later called Portland), Conn., no date shown, and was baptized there Oct. 22, 1775. She married Abel Lewis, at Chatham on Aug. 25, 1793.

DAVID CRITTENDEN 5.91e, second son of Rhoda (Tryon) Crittenden 4.31g and Daniel Crittenden, was born at Chatham (later called Portland), Conn., no date given, and was baptized
at the same place Oct. 18, 1778. He married first, Elizabeth Shepherd, Apr. 25, 1802. She was born July 10, 1781, and died Aug. 19, 1821. He served in the War of 1812. No children of record. David married second, Jemima Strickland, but no date given for this marriage or for her birth. She died June --, 1859, and he died the same year.

DANIEL CRITTENDEN 5.91f, third son of Rhoda (Tryon) Crittenden 4.31g and Daniel Crittenden, was born at Chatham (later changed to Portland), Conn., date undisclosed, and was baptized there Nov. 11, 1781. Daniel married Betsy Taylor, but no further information available. No children mentioned.

SARAH CRITTENDEN 5.91g, fourth daughter of Rhoda (Tryon) Crittenden 4.31g and Daniel Crittenden, was born at Chatham (later changed to Portland), Conn., no date, and was baptized there Apr. 17, 1785. She married Russell Bidwell, a native of Hartford, Conn., and they moved to Middle Granville, N.Y., where they had five children, who were baptized there, but their names not found. He developed a wanderlust and went West, and she returned to her father's house in Chatham, with her five children. In about 1817, he married second, Sabrina (Chapman) Scott, a widow, and fathered seven more children, no names found. He was a drummer in the War of 1812, and died in Crawford County, Pa., Nov. 27, 1860. He was buried in a cemetery near Little Cooley, Pa., and his headstone was inscribed: "A native of Htfd. Ct."

SALLY WATERMAN 5.92a, first daughter of Chloe (Tryon) Waterman 4.31h and Samuel Waterman, was born at Chatham (later called Portland), Conn., Aug. 28, 1770, and died Jan. 2, 1779, at the age of 8 years.

CLARISSA WATERMAN 5.92b, second daughter of Chloe (Tryon) Waterman 4.31h and Samuel Waterman, was born in the village of Chatham (later called Portland), Conn., July 17, 1773.

SAMUEL WATERMAN 5.92c, first son of Chloe (Tryon) Waterman 4.31h and Samuel Waterman, was born at Chatham (later named Portland), Conn., no date, and was baptized there on July 21, 1776. He died at the same place Oct. 31, 1776, aged just 3 months.

CHLOE WATERMAN 5. 92d, third daughter of Chloe (Tryon) Waterman 4.31h and Samuel Waterman, was born at Chatham (later called Portland), Conn., no date given, and was baptized there May 3, 1778. She died at the same place Oct. 10, 1779, aged 1-1/2 years.

SARAH WATERMAN 5.92e, fourth daughter of Chloe (Tryon) Waterman 4.31h and Samuel Waterman, was born at Chatham (later changed to Portland), Conn., date not given, and was baptized there Nov. 10, 1782.

SAMUEL WATERMAN 5.92f, second son of Chloe (Tryon) Waterman 4.31h and Samuel Waterman, was born at Chatham, Conn. (later called Portland), about 1786. Nothing more is known about him.

LOIS TRYON 5.106a, first daughter of Charles Tryon 4.34b and Lament (Brockway) Tryon, no date. She was baptized Oct. 15, 1775, and married Nathaniel Crowell, Oct. 26, 1797. They had two children:
Polly Crowell 6.206a,
Olive Crowell 6.206b.

CHARLES TRYON 5.106b, first son of Charles Tryon 4.34b and Lament (Brockway) Tryon, no date. He married first, Martha Churchill, Mar. 14, 1791, and second, Sarah Smith, Nov. 19, 1796 or 1797.

NATHANIEL TRYON 5.106c, second son of Charles Tryon 4.34b and Lament (Brockway) Tryon, was born in 1770, and died at sea.

PERSIS TRYON 5.106d, second daughter of Charles Tryon 4.34b and Lament (Brockway) Tryon, no date.

ABIGAIL TRYON 5.106e, third daughter of Charles Tryon 4.34b and Lament (Brockway) Tryon, no date.

OLIVE TRYON 5.106f, fourth daughter of Charles Tryon 4.34b and Lament (Brockway) Tryon, was baptized Oct. 27, 1776. She married M. Elias Buckley, of Chatham in 1795. Another source says she married Eliphalet Bailey, at Chatham, June 18, 1795.

ASA TRYON 5.106g, third son of Charles Tryon 4.34b and Lament (Brockway) Tryon, was baptized Sept. 2, 1778.

SETH TRYON 5.106h, fourth son of Charles Tryon 4.34b and Lament (Brockway) Tryon, was born at Middletown, Conn., Dec. 12, 1777, and baptized Aug. 2, 1780. He died in September 1780, just one month old.

SETH TRYON 5.106i, fifth son of Charles Tryon 4.34b and Lament (Brockway) Tryon, was born at Middletown, Conn., Dec. 12, 1779, and baptized Dec. 23, 1781. He married Betsey Wood, July 1, 1807, at Chatham, Conn. They had eight children:
Elizabeth 6.214a,
Hannah 6.214b,
Harriett 6.241c,
Caroline 6.214d,
Walter 6.214e,
Jemima 6.214f,
Frederick 6.241g,
Seth 6.241h.

ELIZABETH TRYON 5.106j, fifth daughter of Charles Tryon 4.34b and Lament (Brockway) Tryon, was baptized July 25, 1784.

ISHAIL TRYON 5.106k, sixth son of Charles Tryon 4.34b and Lament (Brockway) Tryon, was baptized Mar. 12, 1786.

RUTH TRYON 5.1061, sixth daughter of Charles Tryon 4.34b and Lament (Brockway) Tryon, was baptized July 29, 1792.

JANE TRYON 5.132a, first daughter of Simeon Tryon, Esq. 4.38d and Bethiah Harding (Brown) Tryon, was born at Fredericksburgh, N. Y., Dec. 20, 1774, and died at Gorham, Maine, Sept. 18, 1795, aged 20 years. Not married.

JAMES B. TRYON 5.132b, first son of Simeon Tryon, Esq. 4.38d and Bethiah Harding (Brown) Tryon, was born at Fredericksburgh, N. Y., Oct. 9, 1776, and died at Gorham, Maine, June 9, 1797, as the result of falling timbers while helping build the "meeting house," aged 21 years. Never married.

SIMEON TRYON II 5.132c, second son of Simeon Tryon, Esq. 4.38d and Bethiah Harding (Brown) Tryon, was born at New Fairfield, Conn., Sept. 28, 1778, after the death of his father. On Feb. 16, 1802, he married first, Mercy (Cook) Walker, a widow, daughter of Saul Cook and Elizabeth (Snow) Cook. Elizabeth was a half-sister of Bethiah. Mercy was born at Litchfield, Conn., Jan. 30, 1782, and died at Pownal, Maine, Mar. 24, 1825, aged 43 years. There were eleven children recorded to this couple:
Jane 6.221a,
James 6.221b,
Lucy Harding Brown 6.221c,
Simeon III 6.221d,
Bethiah Jane 6.221e,
Elizabeth or Betsy 6.221f,
Dorcas 6.221g,
Aphia 6.221h,
Samuel Lewis 6.221i,
Mercy 6.221j,
Martha Rich 6.221k.
At age 47, Simeon II married second, Jane Cook, daughter of Saul Cook and Elizabeth (Snow) Cook, and sister of his first wife Mercy, in September of 1825. She was born at Litchfield, Conn., Feb.--, 1800, and died Apr. 17, 1880. He died at North Pownal, Maine, Aug. 7, 1844, aged 66 years. There were eight children to this union:
Andrew Jackson 6.2211,
Thankful 6.221m,
Saul Cook 6.221n,
Joseph 6.221o,
James 6.221p,
Winfield Scott 6.221q,
Greenville 6.221r,
Mary Elizabeth 6.221s.

The following paper is entitled: ''Simeon Tryon 5.132c, of Pownal, Maine, known as Squire Tryon, a farmer of 1840, as recorded by his son Joseph 6.221o in 1900'' and gives an outline of his grandfather Simeon 4.38d and his army career, then of his father Simeon II 5.132c as a pioneer in Maine, and was written when he (Joseph) was in his 65th year:

Simeon Tryon, born in New Fairfield, Ct., the third child and second son of Simeon Tryon, of New Fairfield, Connecticut, was a descendant of the fourth generation of William Tryon, of Gloucestershire, England, who settled in Wethersfield, Connecticut, in 1673.

We refer to the record of Simeon Tryon, of New Fairfield, Ct., with mingled feelings of pride and disappointment -- Proud of the public record we find, and of the meagre traditions accompanying them, and disappointed because after persistent and long continued searching, so little more can be found.

Of his father James, no sketch comes down to us. Of his mother, born Jane Wright, it is reported that she was a lady of fine tastes and scholarly accomplishments, and was espeically interested in the liberal education of her son Simeon. Two pillow cases bearing embroidery--souvenirs of her handicraft with the loom and the needle, done around 150 years ago, are now in keeping of Miss Ellen Isobel Tryon 7.312c, of Camb., thoughtfully handed to her by her aunt, Mrs. Lucy H. B. T. Perkham, of Lewiston, Maine. It is traditional of Simeon's mother Jane that she was one of his special tutors in his preparation for college.

This brief sketch, covering a period of 23 years, comprises the sum of our knowledge of Simeon, down to 1769, when we find his name in a catalog of Yale Coll., as a graduate. Also a diploma given at that date by the President and fellows has been brought forward and kept in the family of Simeon, Jr., at Pownal, conferring the degree of Bachelor of Arts, together with another bearing date of 1771 conferring degree of Master of Arts.

We next find a record of his marriage to Bethia Brown, of Eastham in 1773, and of the births of his two first children, Jane and James, at Fredericksburgh, N.Y., in 1774 and 1776.

Also we find in a booklet printed in 1887 entitled "N. York in the Revolution," Vol. 1, page 283, Roll of the 7th Duchess Co., regiment (Fredericksborough precinct), 3d company, beat No. 3, the following names of officers elected:
Capt. Jonathan Paddock
2nd Lieut. Jeremiah Burgess
1st Lieut. Simeon Tryon
Ensign Joseph Dykeman

A note says that these officers were elected Sept. 20, 1775, but that Simeon Tryon went into the Continental service.

Tradition in some measure concurs with these foregoing undisputable statistics. For tradition at least places him as an officer in some company in the Revolutionary War. Let the N. Y. state records be accepted as truth. At present we are not in possession of any records beyond these. Here again comes disappointment. But floating family tradition affords grounds for speculation. It was said in the family of Simeon Tryon, Jr., of Pownal, that Simeon Tryon, Senior, of New F., Conn., was a surgeon in the army, holding the official title of Lieut. or Ensign, and that he was stationed at West Point, that he had taken smallpox, and that his wife Bethia saw him last while he was so afflicted, and that she saw him through a window, and that he died of that sickness. This last is not a matter of doubt. No statement of his burial place has ever been given specifically--neither stone nor name has yet been found.

Plainly Fredericksburgh was a precinct of Duchess County, N.Y. New Fairfield, Conn., is quite near Duchess County, is certainly not far from West Point. Now if we can further learn that the beat of this 4th battalion covered West Point, or was in close proximity, we may reasonably feel that such facts tend to support the tradition of locality. For it appears of records that these four battalions were especially raised to cover particular beats on account of raids or of threatened incursions by the British. Some undiscovered records still may show which beat, if either, included West Point and which battalion was assigned tothat beat.

Again we may surmise at least some slight support of the "surgeon" tradition in the well attested fact that he received degress of Master of Arts in 1771, three years after taking the degree of Bachelor. Surely he must have pursued some literary course; might it not have been in the field of medicine? But we may reasonably ask, if such were the fact, why was he not so designated as Dr. and why did not we have some tradition of his life as Dr. between the years 1771 and 1775, when he first entered the Revolutionary service? What was (his) occupation during those years? Something was said of goods, and of a store keeping somewhere, and about the Tories entering his house, and that his wife Bathia (her own account' protected him by covering him up in bed and protesting to the invaders that he was sick and they must go away.

But such were the disturbances of war at that period and such the state of society, it seems utterly improbable that anz, important facts could be traced. Therefore, speculations concerning those traditions may as well be abandoned as unsatisfactory. But a pursuit of the operations of the 4th N. Y. battalion might possibly result in gaining some other statistics leading to the burial place of the Lieut. At all events, he seems to have passed on before the birth of Simeon.

Simeon's mother tells us that she, with the two boys James and Simeon, and Jane, was brought in a sleigh from N. Fairfield to Gorham, Maine, where she did what she could as tailoress and nurse to raise her family. Of the occupation of the boys at this place we have but little knowledge.

The only known record is of the death of James, simultaneously with Dr. Bowman, at the raising of a meeting house in that town, both by the falling frame. It would seem quite certain that their opportunity for education at that time and place must have been very limited. It is certain that all articles of clothing were homespun and scanty, and that books were equally scarce. It is quite certain that around Gorham were wide stretches of unsettled country traversed by paths, woods, roads, and unimproved highways.


Simeon was heard to say more than once that when a young man around the age of twenty, he walked from Gorham to Pownal to take up his two hundred acre lot, barefooted on frozen ground.

It has always been said that he came there at about the same time with his cousin Herman Brown, who also took an adjoining lot of 200 acres on the north side, not far from the year 1798 to 1800, and they "cleared their farms" as the phrase goes. The woods were still somewhat inhabited by bears and wolves, and quite numerously by foxes and other that have long since disappeared. Partridges, wild ducks, squirrels, mink, and muskrats were numerous. Gold spotted trout and eels were abundant in the rivers.

Mr. Tryon's tillage farm was located precisely at the foot of L.ittle Bradburys Mountain on the west side, and extended over a ridge to a tributary of the Royals River, including a parcel or strip several rods in width across on the west side.

The tillage land is separated from the pasture and wooded portion by a public highway running along the western base of the mountain in its course from Portland and Yarmouth northeasterly to North Pownal, Durham, and northerly towns.

The pasture and wooded part includes the highest and southerly portion of the little mountain, and extends over the hill southeasterly to the valley of the Haskels River, a tributary of the Royals.

The one story brick house which Mr. Tryon built not many years after his possession of the land sits on the easterly side of the road at an elevation of six feet above it in the base of the hill. The cellar and "under-pinning" are built of granite flagstones, split out of a small quarry in the face of the hill above. The bricks were made by Mr. Tryon on the clay spot of the farm at the southwest of the house. A pile of brick for many years lay near the spot, bearing witness to the early work. The nails used in construction were made at the anvil with the hand hammer. The rooms were well finished in pine, and the windows were fitted with folding panelled shutters. And the house stands in good form now in the beginning of the 20th Century, nearly one hundred years built, and with its dry, well drained cellar, its location could not be better chosen today.

This "place" is situated about 200 miles to the northwest of Portland, and about 10 miles above Yarmouth Falls, or Yarmouth village at the mouth of the Royals River, and was always about "one mile and a quarter" from the nearest store (at) North Pownal, distance from Gorham, I should say, as the road goes, nearly thirty-five miles.

Adjoining the house on the south end is a woodhouse (so called) of good size, which was fitted yearly with hard wood fitted for the stoves, dried and packed in for the following winter. Among the woods over the hill there was plenty of beech and rock maple, white maple, and hemlock which was hauled down by the house on sleds every winter.

On the west side of the road opposite the house is the barn, 65 feet long, standing now in good form. The yard is on the side next to the road, surrounded to the road by "sheds" connected with the barn, so that the cattle when "turned out" were somewhat protected from storms. Carriage houses were also connected with them, opening to the road.
Connected with the eastern wing of "sheds" were the carriage houses facing the road. On the left was the wagon house, and on the right the chaise house, standing separate.

The wagons, away up to the forties, were quite heavy, with wide guage, six to eight inches wider than at the close of the l9th Century. The wheels were heavy, with quite large hubs and spokes, more ''dished." The axels were made of wood, with iron or steel straps underneath the ends for bearing on the cast boxes of the hubs. The bodies were framed with sides 6 to 8 inches high, curviform like the present Concord today, having the center bowers lower than the ends, and under each side was bolted a piece of wood about three ft. long, suitably formed for attachment on leather straps sewed together like traces, and fastened to the rear axel and rocker forward. These served as springs for the body. The seat had a framed body and sat on supports that were bolted on the forward ends of two straight pieces that ran along the length of the wagon bottom close to the inner sides, and served for springs, while the supports slanted back near the middle of the carriage to afford a proper position for the seat. Every well-fitted wagon in those days was furnished with a buffalo robe.

The chase was "two-wheeled," the best style, such as is occasionally seen now at the beginning of the twentieth century.

Up in the south corner of the yard was a well of clear water suitable for all uses, supplied by a vein from the hill. This was housed by what was called "the pump shed" which extended up from the barn. Down the inside of this was a long dug-out trough where the cattle were watered.

The stock, away back in the forties, consisted of ten milk cows with as many young cattle, besides steers, a "yoke of oxen," and two or three horses, and about fifty sheep, and a pretty good flock of hens. Adjoining the barn was a stable for horses, connected for convenience of feeding.

The horses kept and used within my memory were two fine mares, one a black, called "Moll" and the other gray, called "The Grey." For driving, the "grey" was used in the chaise, and Moll, in the road wagon. They were also worked in double harness, and singly for leaders before the oxen, on the road and in the field. Moll was a faithful, quickS smart horse, a little "skittish." I rode on her back at every chance I could when from eight to twelve years of age, holding the bridle reins in one hand and holding on to the mane with the other, and took every opportunity to make her canter in side-long direction and cavorting as I had much admired to see horses perform at the annual "general muster" of the military. A popular and much looked-forward-to event of those days, taking place about the time of "digging potatoes."

The "Grey" horse was unsuitable for back riding. She trotted steadily with long strides, and carried the "Two wheeled chaise" in smooth, elegant style. These are mentioned as showing some of the characteristics and likings of Simeon Tryon. He was a farmer at a time when and where it was incumbent to produce most of the necessities of life within the fences that surrounded his own land so distant from any considerable market place. Down beside the road a good sized blacksmith shop, fitted for shoeing oxen and horses and making and repairing "riggin" of all sorts for them. Farming implements, ploughs, harrows, and carts were "ironed" and repaired here, for use on the farm. A blacksmith was occasionally employed to come to do special work. Coal kilns were set up every year of white birch, covered with turf, making quantities of charcoal for the forge. A small room was partitioned off in the "wood house" for keeping wood-working tools. On these premises many of the carts and sleds were made. Up in the rear of the house in the base of the hill was
a large completely equipped mill for crushing apples by horse power, and ''pressing" them to make cider, which was strained through straw and conducted into Hhds. and Bbls. This work
came on every year, "generally speaking."

Near this mill was a stand of bee hives, which was always kept in operation, making honey used throughout the year. Up above the mill were two large black cherry trees that bore fruit yearly in great quantities.

There was a quite large apple orchard that Simeon Tryon planted, sweeping up to the Herman Brown's line. Also two orchards on the west side of the road, bearing all sorts of natural fruit, and several of the trees were grafted and bore large, pleasant tasting apples.

But there was little or no demand in the market for apples in those days. Many were boiled with potatoes and fed to the hogs, for several hogs were raised every year. And often times some neighbors would come and pick up what they wanted "at Halves." Cider apple sauce was made yearly in a big brass kettle, and kept in a barrel in the cellar to be used the following year. Also quantities of apples were peeled, quartered, cored, strung, and hung up to dry. A garden nearby was planted every year, producing yearly beets, carrots, asparagus, cucumbers, etc., and on the sunny side of the ridge a patch was especially prepared and planted for "early potatoes" that could be used in July. Beef and pork sufficient to last the family through the year in tierces and kept in the cellar, that always kept in good order. Several acres of corn and potatoes were planted every year regularly without special regard to price.

It was his custom to dump the gathered ears of corn into a bank on the side of the barn floor in due time in September and send out invitations to an evening husking party. Plank seats were improvised around the heap of corn by the boys and by them the invitations were distributed. In the house a day was occupied in preparation for "supper" for the party.The great brick oven was heated with dry wood, large deep pots of elegant beans and pork were prepared, and the like style of pots with "Indian Pudding." It is not on account of the difference in man, woman, or child's appetite that the difference is found between these puddings and such as may be anywhere made in the present days. Other mothers as well as my own could make them; others as well as myself could appreciate them. They would tumble out of the pot on the great platters in the most attractive form and shade, and were eaten with a Spanish "gusta." The pumpkin pies were elegant--another adjective is not necessary. The long tables cleared away, and the dance, and getting home with the girls at a late hour closed the day. The corn on the ear was mostly packed away on the upper floor over the wood house.

Oats, wheat, and barley in varying quantities were raised every year. Oats and barley were mowed with the seythes and snath. Wheat was reaped with the sicle and later with the cradle, and tied up in bundles with straws parallel and heads at the same end and stacked in "shooks," the top ends tied together with a wythe of the straws, and a larger bundle bound near the butt ends, with the heads spread open from the middle, so that it was set over the stack for a cap. Then it was carted into the barn and threshed with the hand flail. The other grains were often spread over the barn floor and trod out with horses and oxen. In these pursuits the boys had much irksome work. Also in shelling the corn from the cobs, preparatory for the grist mill. It was one of my much liked privileges to take "Moll" and the road wagon and carry the grist about three miles away to be ground at the "run around" mill. But this was away down in my childhood. After I became a man twelve years of age, I did not get such a chance. Nearly all of the men, girls, boys and women, except some of the stalwart puritans, had to work in those days.

Christianity in those days in the forties drew many of the stalwarts around the religious festivals, and sometimes while cattle and horses were suffering, negelected in the cold.

Among the woods over the hill were many hemlock trees, and there was a time of felling the trees and peeling hemlock bark nearly every year for the market. Mr. Tryon most always worked there, as I remember, at the head of his crew. But the works that I write of were carried on many years before I came on the stage, and there was considerable hired help all the way through. Mr. Tryon was often heard to say that he loved to work. His farm afforded him opportunity to work always, and he never took periods of leisure, and was only kept from work by severe and insuperable sickness.

A great deal of cord wood was cut and carried to market. And presumably some ship timber and considerable quantities of lumber stock during the thirty years preceding the forties. During some of those years when the soil was new, larger quantities of hay were cut, and often much was stacked outside from want of room in the barn.

I have heard Mr. Tryon speak of a time when he sold hay at thirty dollars a ton, when he said money was in "circulation." He used to say he liked those times best when prices were high and money was in circulation.

Mr. Tryon's strong tendency and persistent energies for improved methods and facilities were shown in many ways, as well as his aims to do the most that conditions would allow.

Down beside the road beyond the blacksmith shop, he built pits for tanning leather for home use, but with what results I never learned. On the sunny side of the ridge, across the "gully" from the house, during the last of the thirties, he planted or set out nearly an acre of mulberry trees, that I remember seeing in a thrifty state, the branches and leaves quite well loaded with oviform white and yellow cocoons and silkworms. I remember seeing the women in the house reeling off the interminable silk threads from the cocoons while floating in pans of warm water. I have an impression they decided that the climate was too stern for the success of such industry, and here endeth my knowledge of that enterprise.

In these times he raised patches of flax and hemp every year which stock was beat into threads with a "brake" and spun on the now antique wheel and woven into cloth for domestic use, in the attic "loom room" in the house. One of the neighbors told me that Mr. Tryon, desirous of improving his breed of sheep, at one time imported Merinos from England at the cost of 50 dollars each.

I have seen about the premises some well-wrought parts of a machine for threshing grain, including cog wheels and driving chain, constructed similar to the bicycle sprocket and chain,
which had been tried and broken up many years before the death of Mr. Tryon, and before any successful machine had made its appearance in the town.

I am strongly impressed to say of my father, that he was constituted with praiseworthy and persistent ambition, and honorable pride, always earnestly desiring and fondly hoping possibly, or dreaming of home at times, that some of his family or posterity might aspire to emmulate the accomplishments of the young man, apparently of fine promise, whom he had never seen, because at the post of noble service and patariotic duty he had been cut off from the scenes of active life, the young man who was his own father who died before Simeon of whom we write was born.

I do not know my father's height, but I think it was five ft. and 9 inches. One of the elder girls, Dorcas, once told me that his weight was about the same as hers, one hundred and seventy-five lbs. He was said to be very smart and spry, that in his younger days he would sometimes jump over the "four rail fence." However, it is certain that he led a continuously strenuous life. I remember that he was always fitted out with a fine suit of clothes, for occasions. With his suit he wore fine "calf leg" boots, trousers of fine black-ribbed English goods, a fine double breasted silk waistcoat with modest checks, and blue "broadeloth" swallow tail or dress coat with brass buttons, according to the style of the time, and the silk hat. He could put out with his fine gray horse and chaise pretty nearly in the best style. I never had opportunity to see much of him among people away from home. He was a member of the Methodist Church and owned a pew in the meeting house of that denomination in Durham. The Methodist ministers were entertained at his house very often. I know but little of his schooling. He wrote a very plain round hand and was capable of "doing business" as the world would say. He had a commission as Justice of the Peace, and sometimes performed the marriage ceremony, always addressed as Squire Tryon.

It will seem from his years that he had reached the height and full meridian of his manhood in the time of Jackson's administration. He was an unfluctuating Democrat. The paper which he took for many years was the weekly Eastern Argus.

His was continuously an out-of-doors life and had been much exposed to rough weather, and during the last years he was very severely afflicted with rheumatism, and resorted to all known nostrums for external use.

A severe sickness proceeding from rheumatism, and attended with much suffering, confined him to his bed for several months, till the latter part of July, 1844, when the haying, which he always bef ore attended to, now more slowly progressing, was not yet finished, he called his younger children separately to his bedside and in full possession of his faculties, his tongue parched with fever, said to each one "I want you to be good to your mother. I think you won't see ,, me ong.

I remember nothing more of his life. One morning soon after, the women were talking of signs that had appeared to them, the night that father had died. The Methodist minister Elder Twing conducted his funeral service, taking for his text, "It is good for me to have been afflicted that I might learn Thy statues. "* * *

Note.--These last pages have been written hurriedly, as I have just received notice to become immediately engaged in another pursuit, which will draw me from this for the present.

(Editor's Note.--In September 1965, my wife and I spent a night in this old house, at the time over 150 years old, as guests of Philip Tryon 8.47a and Arleen Tryon, and observed and admired the sturdiness and preservation of its construction. )

HANNAH LOVELAND 5.144a, first daughter of Levi Loveland 4.45e and Esther (Hills) Loveland, was born at Glastonbury, Conn., Aug. 25, 1665. She married Elisha Forbes, Nov. 16, 1797.

GEORGE LOVELAND 5.144b, first son of Levi Loveland 4.45e and Esther (Hills) Loveland, was born at Glastonbury, Conn., Dec. 8, 1776, and died there in June of 1777, in his first year.

ESTHER LOVELAND 5.144c, second daughter of Levi Loveland 4.45e and Esther (Hills) Loveland, was born at Glastonbury, Conn., in 1778. She married Samuel Graham.

BETSEY LOVELAND 5.144d, third daughter of Levi Loveland 4.45e and Esther (Hills) Loveland, was born at Glastonbury, Conn., in 1779, and died there May 12, 1791, in her 12th year.

ASENATH or POLLY LOVELAND 5.144e, fourth daughter of Levi Loveland 4.45e and Esther (Hills) Loveland, was born at Glastonbury, Conn., in 1780. She married Martin Owens.

LOIS LOVELAND 5.144f, fifth daughter of Levi Loveland 4.45e and Esther (Hills) Loveland, was born at Glastonbury, Conn., Nov. 26, 1781, and died there on Dec. 8, 1781, less than one month old.

JOEL LOVELAND 5.144g, second son of Levi Loveland 4.45e and Esther (Hills) Loveland, was born at Glastonbury, Conn., in 1782, and died there in 1794, in his 12th year.

CHESTER LOVELAND 5.144h, third son of Levi Loveland 4.45e and Esther (Hills) Loveland, was born at Glastonbury, Conn., about 1784.

ELIJAH LOVELAND 5.144i, fourth son of Levi Loveland 4.45e and Esther (Hills) Loveland, was born at Glastonbury, Conn., May 20, 1789, and died there Sept. 20, 1794, aged 5 years.

BETSEY LOVELAND 5.144j, sixth daughter of Levi Loveland 4.45e and Esther (Hills) Loveland, was born at Glastonbury, Conn., Aug. --, and died there Oct. 31, 1793, aged just one year.

CHAUNCEY LOVELAND 5.144k, fifth son of Levi Loveland 4.45e and Esther (Hills) Loveland, was born at Glastonbury, Conn., Oct. --, 1795. He married Nancy Graham, daughter of Joseph Graham and Nancy (Sanderson) Graham. Nancy was born at Madison, Ohio, and died Sept. 20, 1845. They had six children:
Levi Loveland 6.232a,
Chester Loveland 6.232b,
Sophia Loveland 6.232c,
lmon Loveland 6.232d,
Hannah Loveland 6.232e,
Joel Chauncey Loveland 6.232f.

LOIS LOVELAND 5.1441, seventh daughter of Levi Loveland 4.45e and Esther (Hills) Loveland, was born at Glastonbury, Conn., about 1797.

INFANT HILLS 5.151a, child of Josiah Hills 4.48a and Lydia (---) Hills, birth date not shown, died at Eastbury, Conn., Dec. 28, 1786.

ORSEMUS HILLS 5.151b, son of Josiah Hills 4.48d and Lydia (---) Hills, was probably born at Eastbury, Conn., no date given.

HANNAH HILLS 5.152a, twin daughter of Joseph Hills 4.48e and --- (---) Hills, was born at Eastbury, Conn., July 10, 1788.

MARTHA HILLS 5.152b, twin daughter of Joseph Hills 4.48e and --- (---) Hills, was born at Eastbury, Conn., July 10, 1788.

JOSEPH HILLS 5.152c, first son of Joseph Hills 4.48e and --- (---) Hills, was born at Eastbury, Conn., July 29, 1789.

OBED HILLS 5.152d, second son of Joseph Hills 4.48e and --- (---) Hills, was born at Eastbury, Conn., no date.

BENJAMIN HILLS 5.153a, first son of Daniel Hills 4.48f and Ruth (Dickinson) Hills, was born at Glastonbury, Conn., Dec. 30, 1786.

DANIEL HILLS 5.15Sb, second son of Daniel Hills 4.48f and Ruth (Dickinson) Hills, was born Sept. 15, 1788, and died Oct. 8, 1815, aged 27 years.

SAMUEL HILLS 5.153c, third son of Daniel Hills 4.48f and Ruth (Dickinson) Hills, was born Aug. 7, 1791.

RUTH HILLS 5.153d, first daughter of Daniel Hills 4.48f and Ruth (Dickinson) Hills, was born June 4, 1792, and died Oct. 20, 1828.

LYDIA HILLS 5.153e, second daughter of Daniel Hills 4.48f and Ruth (Dickinson) Hills, was born May 22, 1795, and died Sept. 20, 1829.

DAVID HILLS 5.153f, fourth son of Daniel Hills 4.48f and Ruth (Dickinson) Hills, was born July 19, 1797.

ELIJAH HILLS 5.153g, fifth son of Daniel Hills 4.48f and Ruth (Dickinson) Hills, was born Apr. 25, 1800.

ELISHA HILLS 5.15Sh, sixth son of Daniel Hills 4.48f and Ruth (Dickinson) Hills, was born June 5, 1803.

HEPSIBAH HILLS 5.153i, third daughter of Daniel Hills 4.48f and Ruth (Dickinson) Hills, was borh Feb. 11, 1805, and died Jan. 2, 1898.

HANNAH STANDISH 5.154a, first daughter of Eunice (Tryon) Standish 4.52a and John Standish, was born July 1, 1786.

JOSIAH STANDISH 5.154b, first son of Eunice (Tryon) Standish 4.52a and John Standish, was born Jan. 29, 1788, and died Apr. 20, 1790, just 21 years old.

NANCY STANDISH 5.154c, second daughter of Eunice (Tryon) Standish 4.52a and John Standish, was born Apr. 12, 1792.

JAMES STANDISH 5.154d, second son of Eunice (Tryon' Standish 4.52a and John Standish, was born Aug. 1, 1795.

LAURY STANDISH 5.154e, third daughter of Eunice (Tryon' Standish 4.52a and John Standish, was born Aug. 1, 1795.

JOSIAH STANDISH 5.154f, third son of Eunice (Tryon) Standish 4.52a and John Standish, was born Aug. 29, 1798.

ARTHUR PORTER 5.157a, first son of Hannah (Tryon Porter 4.52d and John Porter, was born in 1799.

JOHN H. PORTER 5.157b, second son of Hannah (Tryon) Porter 4.52d and John Porter, was born in 1799.

MEHITABLE TRYON 5.161a, first daughter of Jesse Tryon 4.52h and Prudence (Hurlbut) Tryon, was born Feb. 5, 1806, and died at the age of 8 weeks. According to the record contained in Stiles' History of Wethersfield, she was buried Feb. 20, 1805, which is obviously an error, as the child could not have been buried a year before her birth.

JULIA ANN TRYON 5.161b, second daughter of Jesse Tryon 4.52h and Prudence (Hurlbut) Tryon, was born Aug. 16, 1808. Records show that she married and had a child who died Nov. 27, 1827, at the age of 2 years, but no further information.

DANIEL TRYON 5.161c, son of Jesse 4.52h, born Bedford, Ohio, Nov. 11, 1810. Married Philena (---). One child recorded for this union:
William 6.258a.

NANCY GRISWOLD 5.162a, first daughter of Jonathan Griswold 4.53a and Huldah (Francis) Griswold, was born July 16, 1791.

MARY GRISWOLD 5.162b, second daughter of Jonathan Griswold 4.53a and Huldah (Francis) Griswold, was born Dec. 22, 1793.

TIMOTHY GRISWOLD 5.162c, son of Jonathan Griswold 4.53a and Huldah (Francis) Griswold, was born June 1, 1795. He married first, Laura Standish, Apr. 19, 1821. She was born in 1796, and died June 29, 1838, aged 42 years. Evidently there were no children, and they separated, because he married second, Emaline Hill, Nov. 13, 1821. Four children to this union:
Jane Eliza Griswold 6.261a,
Timothy Griswold 6.261b,
John Miles Standish Griswold 6.261c,
Huldah Isabella Griswold 6.261d.

UNNAMED GRISWOLD 5.162d, infant child of Jonathan Griswold 4.53a and Huldah (Francis) Griswold, was born and died Sept. 25, 1797, the mother dying in ehildbirth.

CHARLES GRISWOLD 5.162e, first son of Jonathan Griswold 4.53a and Melicent (Francis) Griswold, was born May 24, 1800.

HULDAH GRISWOLD 5.162f, first daughter of Jonathan Griswold 4.53a and Melicent (Francis) Griswold, was born Aug. 27, 1802.

MELICENT GRISWOLD 5.162g, second daughter of Jonathan Griswold 4.53a and Melicent (Francis) Griswold, was born Mar. 4, 1805, and died Mar. 18, 1806, at the age of 1 year.

MELICENT GRISWOLD 5.162h, third daughter of Jonathan Griswold 4.53a and Melicent (Francis) Griswold, was born Sept. 27, 1807.

HENRY GRISWOLD 5.162i, second son of Jonathan Griswold 4.53a and Melicent (Francis) Griswold, was born Apr. 8, 1810.
HANNAH GRISWOLD 5.162j, third daughter of Jonathan Griswold 4.53a and Melicent (Francis) Griswold, was born, but date does not show on the record.

HARVEY GRISWOLD 5.162k, third son of Jonathan Griswold 4.53a and Melilcent (Francis) Griswold, was born Apr. 18, 1810 (?).

SYLVESTR GRISWOLD 5.166a, son of Moses Griswold 4.53e and Martha (Dix) Griswold, no date shown. He was baptized Dec. 27, 1795.

MARTHA GRISWOLD 5.166b, daughter of Moses Griswold 4.53e and Martha (Dix) Griswold, no birth date, but was baptized Dec. 27, 1795.

TRYON EDWARDS 5.170a, son of Elizabeth (Tryon) Edwards 4.57a and Jonathan Edwards, was born at Hartford, Conn., in 1809. He had a degree of D.D., and died at Detroit, Mich., Jan. 4, ---, at the home of his son, Dr. Tryon Edwards, author of "History of the United States," "Life of Columbus," "Dictionary of Thoughts," and others. Tryon Edwards married Elizabeth ---, and they had one son:
Tryon Edwards 6.272a.

ANN TRYON 5.171a, daughter of Moses Tryon 4.57b and Emily (---) Tryon, was born at Wethersfield, Conn., on Mar. 11, 1789, and died at the same place, May 11, 1873, at the age of 84 years. The inscription on her tombstone reads: "Blessed are the meek."

EMILY TRYON 5.176a, first daughter of Thomas Tryon 4.57g and Emily Stillman (Root) Tryon, was born at Rochester, N.Y., about 1819 (?).

JAMES SEYMOUR TRYON 5.176b, first son of Thomas Tryon 4.57g and Emily Stillman (Root) Tryon, was born at Rochester, N.Y., about 1819. He spent his boyhood in Brooklyn, N.Y. From there he went to Hartford, Conn., where he was a trustee in the Hartford Female Seminary, was an insurance agent, and worked in the First National Bank for 16 years. He married Eliza Horsford, daughter of Hon. Jedediah Horsford, of Moscow, N.Y., in 1848. Jedediah was a missionary to the Indians. Eliza was born in New York in 1821. James served several terms as a State Senator, and was a power for good in the influential community of Hartford. He died Jan. 6, 1895, completing his allotted three score and ten.

MARY ANN TRYON 5.176c, second daughter of Thomas Tryon 4.57g and Emily Stillman (Root) Tryon, was born at Rochester, N.Y., in 1821,

JULIA TRYON 5.176d, third daughter of Thomas Tryon 4.57g and Emily Stillman (Root) Tryon, was born at Rochester, N.Y., about 1825(?).

MARY TRYON 5.176e, fourth daughter of Thomas Tryon 4.57g and Emily Stillman (Root) Tryon, was born about 1825(?).

THOMAS TRYON 5.176f, second son of Thomas Tryon 4.57g and Emily (Root) Tryon, was born in 1827.