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Book Title: The Old Chimney Stacks Of East Haddam

CHAPTER XIV. 
ACKLEY—PALMES—HARRIS—MARTIN.

  The old road running east from the Col. Orrin Warner farm was formerly a main
thoroughfare, and on it lived several of the old families. On the spot where
Henry Martin now lives were raised three generations of Ackleys. Three brothers
by the name of Ackley came over from England about 1740. Elijah built the house
where Abby Ann now lives solitary and alone, over one hundred and thirty-five
years ago. It has always remained in the family. Alvin Ackley died there about
twenty-five years ago, aged eighty-five. Several members of the family moved
West. Julius Ackley died here recently. The farm originally extended up to the
Wicket Lane School House. Enoch and Jeremiah Ackley came from Chatham. The
latter acquired a comfortable home at Goodspeeds, and has been one of Boardman's
managers for many years. Enoch bought the Alfred Gates place, halfway between
the two landings, and moved there about 1867. He was an eccentric and withal a
popular character. He lived with great frugality and appeared to be working hard
to get out of debt. He was a regular man-of-all-work for the neighborhood. If a
man wanted some coal shoveled in, snow paths made, or a ditch dug; if a
housewife wanted her carpets shaken, or her rooms whitewashed, Enoch was the man
to do it. When he could not get a job he played checkers. If he had invented a
family coat-of-arms it would probably have been a shovel and whitewash brush
engraved on a checker-board, with a rooster for the crest. He was without
personal pride, yet he was proud of his four pretty daughters, and they were
popular girls. He was genial, obliging and well liked—but "poor." When he died,
three years ago, he was found to be worth about one hundred and twenty-five
thousand dollars!

  The house now owned by Christopher Brockway was called the Samuel Palmes'
place—Palmes died there at the age of ninety-five. His son Guy, the father of
Oliver, John and Sarah, died recently at the residence of his daughter, in
Colchester, having reached nearly one hundred years. The family is of Scotch
descent, its ancestors in this country having first settled in New London.
Samuel was a tanner, and when a young man, worked and learned his trade at a
tannery on the farm known as "Palmes Place." The old vats still exist. He
subsequently built a tannery and dwelling house on the river road just north of
Shailor Cone's. Just below Abby Ann Ackley's is an old chimney where once lived
Joe Warner, who was the grandfather of Joseph Warner of Hadlyme. Running east
from the Ackley farm is an old road known as Pike's Lane. On this road lived one
Thomas Riley, who, in his younger days, according to tradition, sailed over the
seas with Capt. Robert Kidd. Farther east, on the road leading from Mt.
Parnassus to Hadlyme, is the old Parker homestead, now owned and occupied by
Ozias Parker, the youngest son of a large family. His brothers all left the town
in their early days to seek their fortunes, and were very successful. John lives
in Madison, Conn.; has one son. Elial lives in Deep River. Avery is a jeweler in
Flemington, N. J.; he has two daughters and one son. His oldest daughter married
Henry A. Fluck, a popular lawyer of Flemington. Acenath, their only sister,
married Aaron T. Niles, and after his death married Russell Babcock, of North
Lyme. She is now a widow. Ozias has several times represented the town in the
State Legislature, and has worthily filled the most important town offices. His
oldest son, Francis, graduated at Wesleyan University, and is now a promising
lawyer in Hartford.

  Further north, on the same street, are remains of the homestead of the Andrews
family. The owner of the farm moved .about the year 1810 to Ohio, which was then
considered the far West. His nephew become a popular and eloquent preacher of
the Congregational faith, and about the year 1870 was called to the charge of
the first Congregational Church in East Hampton, Conn.

HARRIS.

  In an old red house on the Ripley Tracy farm on Mt. Parnassus, lived Samuel
Harris, who moved there from Salem early in the present century, Selden Harris,
of Montville, was born there in 1809, He afterwards moved to Salem and
Westchester, but returned to Millington, and bought what is now the town farm of
William Cone, Esq., in 1828, After living there just twenty years, he sold the
farm to the town, and moved to the Swan farm adjoining, where he died in 1851.
His wife was Anna Otis, of Salem. She survived him but a few years. Their
children were: Selden, Rachel Ann, Lydia, Harriet, Nathaniel and Elizabeth.
Selden married Mercy Baker, of Montville. They died childless. Rachel Ann
married Col. Aaron T. Niles. They had three sons and two daughters. Hosford B.
is the only living representative of the family. Harriet died at the age of
twenty. Lydia married James Ely Swan. They had one son and four daughters.
James, the son, married Julia Doane and moved to Colorado in 1871, where he is
now a successful farmer. His wife is dead. He is the only living representative
of the family. Of the daughters, Pernella married David Emmons; Harriet married
Joseph H. Arnold; Catharine married Sherwood Cone; Caroline married Frank W.
Swan. All of them died in the early prime of life of consumption. Dr. Nathaniel,
now living at the Landing, has long been well known as the leading physician of
the town. He married Juliet Mason, of New London. She died in 1874, leaving ten
children. Elizabeth Harris married Ephraim Martin, and lives on the Dyer Emmons
place in Millington. They had two children: Harriet died young. Anna married
Charles Clark and lives in Millington, on the William Ayres farm.

MARTIN.

  Jonathan Martin, a weaver, came over from England and settled near Lyman
Newbury. The old cellar is now filled up. He had nine sons—Jonathan, William,
Ephraim, Elihu, Peter, Samuel, David, Joseph and _____

  Jonathan 2d's children were Jonathan, Elihu, Joseph, Esther, Mable, Oliver,
Richard, Henry and Wells.

  William's were Hannah, Robert, William, Justin, George, David, Lucy, Charles,
Warren, Nancy and
Edwin.

  Peter's were Julianna, Palmer, Maria, Janette, Almira, Henry, Edward, Ripley
and Abby.

  David's were Emma, Cone, George, Harriet and Isaac.

  Joseph's were Margaret, Niles, Ephraim, Esther, Edgar, Isabella and Datus.

  Samuel's were Mary, Samuel, Harlow, Henrietta, Adaline, Hezekiah, Ellen and
Catharine.


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THE OLD CHIMNEY STACKS OF EAST HADDAM, MIDDLESEX COUNTY, CONNECTICUT,
BY
HOSFORD B. NILES,
Author of Genealogy of THE NILES FAMILY.
NEW YORK: LOWE & CO., Book and Job Printers No. 210 Fulton Street.
1887


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