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• Residence: 1855, Concord, Erie, New York
• Residence: 1860, Westfield, Chautauqua, New York

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• Residence: 1850, Ellicottville, Cattaraugus, New York
• Residence: 1855, Concord, Erie, New York

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TERRIBLE ACCIDENT — On Saturday evening, two men, named Cyrus C. Rhodes and Daniel P. Brown, of Springville, in this county, were killed at the Elk street crossing of the State Line Road. They, in company with a man named Eli Shultes, were in a lumber wagon drawn by two horses, and were on their way to Springville. On arriving at the crossing, the train which left here at 9.40 came dashing along, the locomotive striking the wagon with a tremendous crash, instantly killing Brown, his neck having been broken.— Rhodes had a portion of the back of his head taken completely off, and died in about an hour after he was struck. Shultes escaped uninjured. — Buffalo Commercial.

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Maplewood Cemetery, Sec.16, Lot 602

Cyrus married Amanda Lattin about 1849. Amanda (daughter of Linus Latin and Julia M Root) was born on 15 Aug 1830 in Otsego Co., New York; died on 3 Sep 1874 in Chautauqua Co., New York; was buried in Westfield, Chautauqua, New York. [Group Sheet]

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Westfield Cemetery

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• _UID: CA4C8846F32742389E74C6B1667247E10141
• Residence: 1820, Concord, Niagara, New York
• Residence: 1830, Sardinia, Erie, New York
• Residence: 1840, Concord, Erie, New York
• Residence: 1850, Concord, Erie, New York
• Residence: 3 Jul 1855, Concord, Erie, New York

Eliakim married Aurelia Gunn on 3 Jul 1808 in Wallingford, Rutland, Vermont. Aurelia (daughter of Elisha Gunn and Mindwell Carver) was born on 13 Apr 1788 in Vermont; died on 4 Nov 1849 in Springville, Erie, New York; was buried in Springville, Erie, New York. [Group Sheet]

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Soon after marriage they left Vermont along with other members of the Rhodes and Richmond families and traveled west stopping in Cayuga Co., NY (prob. Sempronius) for several years before moving on to Concord, Erie, NY. Eliakim and his uncle George Richmond were early settlers in the Concord, NY area, both appearing in the 1810 census. The Rhodes family probably didn't move there full time until around 1816. They lived in Concord, Erie, New York from about 1816 to after 1849.

State vs. Eliakim Rhodes. Indicted for passing counterfeit bank bills, &c. respondent, and George Richmond bail for his appearance, in D. 400,00. Bonds called out. - Journals of the General Assembly of the State of Vermont, Rutland Co.

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Maplewood Cemetery

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Linus married Julia M Root. Julia was born on 25 May 1806 in Southington, Hartford, Connecticut. [Group Sheet]

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• Military: 14 Oct 1781, Wallingford, Rutland, Vermont

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served in the Revolutionary War in Capt. Abraham Jackson's Co. Militia, Col. Thomas Lee's Regt,: in service at Castleton, Rutland, Vermont

Benjamin married Judith Richmond in 1780 in Voluntown, New London, Connecticut. Judith (daughter of Eliakim Richmond and Sarah Hackett) was born in 1753 in Cheshire, Berkshire, Massachusetts; died in Jan 1850 in Ashford, Cattaraugus, New York. [Group Sheet]

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• _UID: BE7CBB77F7B945BFB1A3E337EECDC09BA4F5
• Residence: 1800, Wallingford, Rutland, Vermont

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• Arrival: 7 Aug 1818, Maumee Valley, Lucas, Ohio; with his family aboard the small vessel the "Sally"

Elisha married Mindwell Carver on 28 Oct 1782 in Montague City, Franklin, Massachusetts. Mindwell (daughter of Jonathan Carver and Abigail Robbins) was born on 1 May 1762 in Montague City, Franklin, Massachusetts; died on 5 Feb 1825 in Monclova, Lucas, Ohio. [Group Sheet]

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Obadiah and his father were extensive land owners in Connecticut. - Colonial Families of the United States of America, 1920

Obadiah married Mary Stanbury on 4 Jun 1747 in Voluntown, New London, Connecticut. Mary (daughter of John Stanbury and Jane) was born on 20 Jun 1722 in Voluntown, New London, Connecticut; died in in Voluntown, New London, Connecticut. [Group Sheet]

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• Possessions: 4 Oct 1752, Middleboro, Plymouth, Massachusetts; Sells his homestead containing 15 acres of land
• Possessions: 12 Jun 1773, East Hoosick, Massachusetts; Buys 100 acres of land
• Residence: 1777, East Hoosuck, Massachusetts
• Possessions: 11 Sep 1777, East Hoosuck, Massachusetts; Sells 100 acres of land
• Possessions: 25 Dec 1777, Wallingford, Rutland, Vermont; Buys 10 acres of land containing house and barn
• Elected: Between 1780 and 1781, Wallingford, Rutland, Vermont; First Selectman
• Residence: 1790, Wallingford, Rutland, Vermont
• Residence: 1800, Wallingford, Rutland, Vermont

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Revolutionary War Service: Berkshire Co., Mass. militia, Richmond, Eliakim. Col. Joab Stafford's (Independent) co. of volunteers; service, 6 days; company raised from the alarm lists of New Providence, Lanesborough, East Hoosuck, and Gageborough, marched Aug. 14, 1777, and fought in battle near Bennington Aug. 16, 1777. - Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War. Vol. 13, Page 284

Residence Short:
lived in Middleboro, Plymouth, Massachusetts from 1725 to 1752. He lived in East Hoosuck, Mass. from 1773 to 1777. He lived in Wallingford, Rutland,Vermont from 1777 to his death in 1808.

Eliakim married Sarah Hackett on 19 Nov 1747 in Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts. Sarah (daughter of George Hackett and Lydia Thomas) was born on 19 May 1725 in Middleboro, Plymouth, Massachusetts; died after 27 Jan 1808 in Wallingford, Rutland, Vermont. [Group Sheet]

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• Military: 1776–78, Hampshire Co., Massachusetts; during the Revolutionary War as lieutenant in Capt. Moses Harvey's company, Hampshire County regiment,
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• _UID: 4109A5C1E6BE4AEBAC1CE3441D50F7C19D60
• Residence: 1790, Montague, Hampshire, Massachusetts
• Residence: 1800, Montague, Hampshire, Massachusetts

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Gravestone Inscription: Lieut. Nathaniel Gunn died Apr. 22, 1807 in the 82nd year of his age. "Good health, prosperity and peace/With love to Christian friends/Made him bid welcome to the guests, pilgrims, strangers/Where they waited, waited long and sang the praise of the Lord/But sweetness and the heartfelt pang his last years did afford."
Nathaniel Gunn Lieut. is the son of Nathaniel, one of the 40 original settlers of Montague, Mass. From the information that we can gather, it appears that Nathaniel continued to operate the Tavern in Montague that was first built by his father. Other records indicate that Nathaniel served as a Selectmen of Montague for 1778-1779 and again in 1781.

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in Old South Cemetery

Nathaniel married Dorothy Marsh on 21 Mar 1745 in Sunderland, Franklin, Massachusetts. Dorothy (daughter of Ebenezer Marsh and Elizabeth Gillett) was born on 28 Jul 1723 in Sunderland, Franklin, Massachusetts; died on 13 Jul 1805 in Montague City, Franklin, Massachusetts; was buried in Montague, Franklin, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet]

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Gravestone Inscription: Mrs. Dorothy, consort of Lieut. Nathaniel Gunn, died July 13, 1805, aet' 82. "Who, after she patiently endured/As seeing Him who is invisible/And faithfully served her generation/By the will of God she fell asleep."

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in Old South Cemetery

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Jonathan Carver was born in Weymouth, Massachusetts on April 13, 1710. Little is known about his life until he joined the colonial militia in 1755 during the French and Indian War. Much of his time in the militia was spent at forts along the frontier. When he mustered out after eight years, Carver held the rank of Captain. By this time, he was 53 years old. With western lands opening up, Carver bought books on cartography and surveying so that he would be able to make maps of the new frontier.
Captain Carver’s opportunity to explore the expanded frontier materialized in 1766 when a party was organized to map part of the new land and find a western water route which flowed to the Pacific Ocean. Carver was charged with documenting geography as well as the number and location of Indians. He was also told to describe the trade posts that they encountered along the way.
Carver spent the winter of 1767 around Saint Anthony Falls and along the Minnesota River. When the rest of the party joined him that spring, they began to explore the area but quickly ran out of supplies and were forced to turn back. During the rest of 1767 and early 1768, Carver spent much of his time at the frontier Fort Michilimackinac in Michigan where he worked on his journals documenting their exploration. He then traveled to London where he found an editor to liven up his journals for wide-spread publication.
Carver’s book, Travels through the Interior Parts of North America, in the Years 1766, 1767, and 1768 was published in 1778 and immediately found critical acclaim. Unfortunately, the book’s profits did not come soon enough for Carver. He died destitute in 1780.
By 1789 praise for the book had faded and many were questioning the validity of Carver’s exploration claims and accused him of plagiarizing the work of other explorers. The controversy was heightened when Carver’s descendants claimed that two Dakotah chiefs had deeded the Captain thousands of acres of land in what is now southeastern Minnesota and western Wisconsin. Many, including the federal government, saw this claim as fraudulent and it has never been treated as valid.
The controversy over Travels persisted until the original journals documenting his explorations were discovered at the British Museum in the early 1900s. The journals helped prove that his book’s inaccuracies and plagiarism were based on the work of Carver’s editor, not Carver. And while the validity of his land claim has never been fully resolved to the satisfaction of his descendants, Jonathan Carver’s work as an explorer has been exonerated by most historians. - unknown

From HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF SUNDERLAND, MASSACHUSETTS, MONTAGUE & LEVERETT
By John Montague Smith (1899)

CARVER, JONATHAN, from Canterbury, Ct., doubtless descended from Robert Carver (believed to be the grand nephew of John Carver, financier of the Mayflower expedition and first Governor of The Plymouth Colony), who settled in what is now Marshfield, sometime prior to 1636. He married 1746, in Canterbury, Ct., Abigail, daughter of Nathaniel and Phebe (Sevine) Robbins; lived in Montague, perhaps also in Northfield; soldier in the last French and Indian war, and narrowly escaped with his life at the massacre of Fort William Henry; afterwards Captain. In June, 1766, at his own cost and risk, he undertook a journey into the vast territory acquired by Great Britain at the establishment of peace in 1763. "What I had chiefly in view," he says, after gaining a knowledge of the manners customs, languages, soil and natural productions of the different nations that inhabit the back of the Mississippi, was to ascertain the breadth of that vast continent which extends from the Atlantic to Pacific ocean, in its broadest part, between 43 and 46 degrees, northern latitude. Had I been able to accomplish this, I intended to have proposed to government to establish a post in some of those parts about the Straits of Annian, which having been first discovered by Sir Francis Drake, of course belong to the English." The straits of Annian are not known by that name at the present day, but Seattle and Tacoma now flourish in the region where Carver would have established his post. However, the head waters of the Mississippi was the remotest region which he reached. He was everywhere hospitably received by the natives; was five months with the Nandowissies, who made him a chief. But few of them had ever before seen a white man. He arrived at Boston on his return journey, Oct., 1768, and the next year went to London, where he published his book of travels, of which there have been about 20 editions. He entered into a project with Richard Whitworth, Esq., a man of means, to equip an expedition to carry out his original intention and not only that, but to find a passage from the Pacific to Hudson's Bay (The elusive Northwest Passage. King George II was offering a reward of 100,000 Pounds Sterling for its discovery). They were to have erected a fort at Lake Pepin by which to hold the new possessions and open them up to development, but the commencement of the Revolution thwarted their plans.He recognized the value of this section of country, which later explorers pronounced a barren region, incapable of sustaining a large population.

He started on his expedition, from Boston in June, 1766. He travelled in all as much as 7000 miles, by canoe along the shores of the Great lakes alone with one guide, and explored much of the territory in the present State of Minnesota. He spent some time with the Indians, and as a reward for negotiating a peace treaty between them, received from two of their chiefs a deed to 12,000 acres of land on the Mississippi, east of Lake Pepin and the Falls of St. Anthony. (This account is largely thought to have been a fraud or a myth, perpetrated to generate income, but for nearly 50 years a large tract of land appeared on maps of the U.S. designated as "Carver's Tract", and areas of Minnesota still bear his name. See "The Journals of Jonathan Carver" by John Parker, Minnesota Press, for a studied treatment of this issue. ISBN 0-87351-099-2) He returned to Boston in October, 1768, and, having spent his entire fortune in carrying out his explorations, he sailed the next year for England, where he petitioned the Government for a reward for his services. He received nothing, except permission to publish his journal and charts. In 1778 the first edition of his book appeared in London, under the title, "Three Years' Travels Throughout the Interior Parts of North America." For this he received nothing except his expenses, and less than two years later he died in poverty. After his death the book had a large sale, and before the close of the century eight editions had been published.

Jonathan married Abigail Robbins on 20 Oct 1746 in Canterbury, Windham, Connecticut. Abigail (daughter of Nathaniel Robbins and Elizabeth Leavens) was born in 1726 in Canterbury, Windham, Connecticut; died on 9 Nov 1802 in Brandon, Rutland, Vermont; was buried in Brandon, Rutland, Vermont. [Group Sheet]

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• Baptism: 17 Apr 1726, Canterbury, Windham, Connecticut; in Canterbury First Congregational Church

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Abigail's grave stone was very hard to read. We gently removed some of the moss so it was readable. It reads Abigail Carver Died Nov.9,1802 in the 73rd. year of her life. A virtuous wife, a mother dear, To friends and neighbors very near, She left them all in peace and love, We trust she's gone to dwell above. - Notes by esmiley161 on ancestry.com

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Brandon Congregational Church yard