Research by J. Kelsey Jones:
Enumerated in Sunderland, Bennington County, Vermont in 1790 with one male of age sixteen and upwards (born before 1774), three males under age sixteen (born 1775-90), and six females. One could assume that one of the females was his wife and the other five females were daughters. The daughters probably consisted of Betsey, Lydia, Clarissa and two daughters whose names are currently unknown, one being the mother of Hiram Andrus and one being the mother of several children by Oliver Arnold.
Samuel Lanpher, Sarah Lanpher, wife to said Saml, & Miriam Huit, all of Manchester in the County of Bennington, State of Vermont "convey land in Manchester to Josiah Lockwood of Sunderland, consisting of "thirty nine acres of the north end of Lot No 15 second division," dated 22 March 1797. Signed by Samuel Lanphar, Sarah her x mark Lanphar, Miriam Huet (Manchester Deed 5:96-97). Sarah and Miriam were sisters and this was land they had inherited from their deceased father, Stephen Soper.
The Selectmen of Manchester leased unto Samuel Lanpher, "a certain farm or tract of land lying & being situated in Manchester & in No 10 in the first division containing 100 acres known by the name of Society Lot." The lease outlines certain provisions and payments and the description indicates "to the river bank," dated 27 April 1797. Signed as Samuel Lanpher, lessee (Manchester Deed 5:86).
Enumerated in Manchester, Bennington County, Vermont in 1800 with one male under age ten (born 1791-1800), one male of age ten and under age sixteen (born 1785-90), one male of age sixteen and under age twenty six (born 1775-84), one male of age forty five and over (born before 1755), one female under age ten (born 1791-1800), two females of age ten and under age sixteen (born 1785-90), one female of age sixteen and under age twenty six (born 1775-84), and one female of age forty five and over (born before 1755). Enumerated in neighboring households were Solomon Soper and Jonathan Corey, both of whom would remove to the same area in Pennsylvania as the Lamphere family. They perhaps removed together and the date may have been 1802 when Jonathan Corey sold 153 acres in Manchester on 15 April 1802 and removed to what is now eastern Rutland Township, Tioga County, Pennsylvania, which bordered what is now Columbia Township, Bradford County, Pennsylvania, living not far from the Lamphere and Soper families. Solomon Soper and family settled in western Columbia Township, Bradford County, near the Tioga County line and lived not far from the Lampheres in the same township. Jonathan Corey's son, Harris Corey and family and Solomon's son, Levi Lamphere and family would both remove to Cincinnati, Ohio and were enumerated in neighboring households in 1820.
"Samuel Lamphair and Sarah Lamphair both of Manchester in the County of Bennington & State of Vermont," sold to Elijah Bush, "one equal fourth part of the north half of Lot No 11 in the first division in said town of Manchester," "which said fourth part as aforesaid fell to me the said Sarah Lamphair as being an heir & Daughter of Stephen Soper deceased said fourth part contains about seven acres & one half of land." Dated 4 December 1801. Samuel signed and Sarah signed by mark (Manchester Deed 6:178).
On 15 April 1802, Samuel transferred the land he had acquired five years earlier by lease, to Samuel Pettibone. Signed as Samuel Lamphair (Manchester Deed 6:505). One of the witnesses was Jonathan Corey. The date is also the same date that Jonathan Corey sold 153 acres in Manchester. The Corey families removal to Pennsylvania, and living not far from the Lamphere family, is outlined earlier in this sketch.
Samuel Lamphar and Sarah his wife deeded land in Manchester to Sereno Swift, "the said Sarah as Daughter & one of the heirs of Stephen Soper, late of said Manchester, deceased." Dated 7 December 1802. Samuel Lampher signed and Sarah Lampher signed by mark (Manchester deed 6:268).
Samuel and family evidently removed to Bradford County, Pennsylvania by 1805 when his daughter became the second wife of Oliver Arnold and had a child, Franklin Arnold born 25 July 1806. Oliver Arnold had been living in the Ulster and Tioga areas of what would become Bradford County for several years before the Lamphere family arrived.
Samuel Lamphere and Richard Lamphere appear on an 1808 assessment list (probably created in 1807 for the 1808 tax year) of Tioga Township, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, the township at that time covering a broad swath from east to west of the northern portion of present Bradford County, Pennsylvania. Shortly, thereafter the area became Smithfield Township, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania and within a few more years Bradford County, Pennsylvania.
Samuel Lamphere appears on the 1810 census enumeration of Smithfield, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania (Bradford County where he resided had not yet been formed). Smithfield covered several present day townships in Bradford County. The family consisted of one male of age sixteen and under age twenty six (born 1784-94), one male of age twenty six and under age forty five (born 1766-84), one male of age forty five and over (born before 1765), one female of age ten and under age sixteen (born 1795-1800), one female of age sixteen and under age twenty six (born 1784-94), and one female of age forty five and over (born before 1765).
In 1812, sixty five residents in what would become Columbia and Wells Townships, Bradford County, Pennsylvania, later that year, signed a petition for a road, which included, "Samuel Lanphar and Levy Lanphar." "To the honorable the President and Judges of the Court of General Sessions of the County of Lycoming your Petitioners would respectfully show that a train of settlements consisting of the improvements of your petitioners exists from the New York line near the seventy ninth milestone & up Seelys Creek and on the lands dividing the waters of Sugar Creek and Seelys Creek and also on sugar Creek State to the State road near Moses Tailors & that it would be for the general benefit of these settlements if a County road should be laid out communicating with the public road leading on to New Town & that their settlements are by a number of miles too far to the westward to derive any benefit from the State road leading from Sugar Creek down Bentlys Creek to New Town in New York. Your Petitioners therefore request that your honors would authorise & direct that a County road should be established beginning at the public road leading to New Town New York about sixty rods east of the seventy ninth milestone running from thence to pirsue the most direct & convenient course so as to form a Junction with the State road near Moses Tailors on Sugar Creek the distance being about fourteen miles and your Petitioners as in duty bound will ever pray &c." The proposed road, in present terms, was to be constructed from the state line to Mosherville to Coryland to Austinville to Sylvania, following the present routes of 328, 549, Coryland Road, Baptist Hill Road, Lodge Hill Road, and Iron Mine Road.
Samuel and Levi Lamphere appear on the 1813 assessment list of Smithfield Township, Bradford County, Pennsylvania. Smithfield included a much larger area than present day and Columbia Township where they lived had not yet been formed.
Samuel Lamphere apears on the first assessment of Columbia Township, Bradford County, Pennsylvania in 1814 with 5 improved acres, 88 unimproved acres, 1 house, 3 horses and 2 cows. There were notations to deduct one cow and that the house and land were transferred from Aaron Squires. Levi Lamphere also appears on the same assessment with 44 unimproved acres, 1 house, 1 horse, and 1 cow with a notation to deduct 1 horse and 1 cow.
Samuel appears on the 1815 assessment list of Columbia Township with 50 improved acres, 185 unimproved acres, 2 horses, and 2 cows. Levi Lamphere does not appear.
On 7 February 1815, Samuel Lamphar (spelling in deed) and Abigail Lamphar, his wife, of Columbia Township, Bradford County, Pennsylvania, deeded 95 and 4/10 of an acre in Columbia Township "whereas the said Lamphar is now seated" to Benoni Watkins of Columbia Township on warrant parcel 963 (Bradford County Deed 2:236). Warrant parcel 963 consisted of 1,094 acres and was situated where the present village of Austinville is located in Columbia Township, Bradford County, Pennsylvania. Any members of the Lamphere family who may have died when living there would have probably been buried in the historic Morgan Cemetery, where Nathaniel Morgan has a memorial inscribed 1813 and which was a community cemetery.
Samuel appears on the 1816 assessment list of Columbia Township with 50 improved acres, 185 unimproved acres, 2 horses and 2 cows. There was a notation that 135 acres were transferred to Benoni Watkins.
Samuel appears on the 1817 assessment list of Columbia Township with 24 improved acres, 70 unimproved acres, 1 horse and 2 cows. Richard Lamphere and Levi Lamphere appear on the same assessment list, each with 1 cow. Samuel appears on the 1818 assessment list with the same acreage, 3 horses and 1 cow. Richard and Levi are noted as both removing from the township. The 1819 assessment list contained the same acreage with the notation it was transferred to John Calkins and that Samuel removed from the township.
Samuel first appears on the 1818 assessment list of Burlington Township, Bradford County, Pennsylvania with 12 improved acres, 20 unimproved acres, 1 house, 2 horses, and 2 cows.
Samuel was enumerated in Burlington Township in 1820 with two males of age ten and under age sixteen (born 1805-10), one male of age forty five and over (born before 1775), and one female of age forty five and over (born before 1775). The two males of age ten and under age sixteen were likely his grandsons, Hiram Andrus and Hiram Woodard that were named in his Will.
Enumerated in Burlington Township in 1830 with one male of age sixty and under age seventy (born 1761-70), and one female of age fifty and under age sixty (born 1771-80).
Samuel last appears on the 1834 (compiled fall of 1833) assessment list of Burlington Township with 23 improved acres and 2 cows.
Samuel applied for a pension 3 February 1834, while a resident of Burlington, Bradford County, Pennsylvania, and stated he was 81 years of age and was born 15 March 1752 New London, Connecticut. He volunteered for nine months in 1775 at Nine Partners, New York under Captain Smith Sutherland to pursue Tories in that neighborhood along the Hudson. In July 1776, after the expiration of his term of nine months, he enlisted in a company commanded by Captain John Steiback at Rhinebeck, New York for the term of six months, which was under the command of Colonel Morris Graham, Lieutenant Colonel Charles Graham, and Second Lieutenant Stephen Edget. He was employed in guarding the East River and then went to White Plains, New York and was in the battle of White Plains. He was then stationed at Peekskill, New York until discharged in June 1777. He then removed to Manchester, Vermont and volunteered there in the spring of 1778 under Captain Thomas Barney and was involved in scouting parties and went to Lake Champlain. He signed his name as Samuel Lamphere. He was inscribed on the rolls of the State of Pennsylvania at $56.66 per year, certificate issued 18 February 1834 with arrears to 4 September 1833 and a semi-annual allowance for a total of $170.00 (Pension file S5671).
KNOW All men by these presents that I SAMUEL LAMPHERE of the township of Burlington County of Bradford and state of Pennsylvania do make and ordain this my last will and testament in manner and form following viz I give and bequeath to Hiram Andrus, my grandson five sheep after one year from this date one yoke of two year old steers which I lease to the said Hiram Andrus for the term of four years from the first day of the present month to be leased to him in manner and sale for letting out steers, Provided the said Hiram Andrus does well with the steers while the lease runs and tries to manage well for himself he is forever after the lease runs out to have the steers as his own to be left at the discretion of my executor viz Allen McKean. I give and bequeath to Ann Woodward daughter of Hiram Woodward my grandson two sheep to be given to her after one year from this date. I give and bequeath to Eleanor Woodward daughter of the said Hiram Woodward two sheep to be given to her at the expiration of one year from this date likewise I give and bequeath to Ann & Eleanor Woodward one bed after my wife Mary has done with the same or at her decease. Provided by wife Mary sees or thinks proper to give the bed to the said Ann & Eleanor Woodward at any time she is to give such bed clothes together with the bed as she my wife Mary may think proper. I give and bequeath to Hiram Andrus one drag & teeth. I give and bequeath to Harriet Curry my grand daughter one black walnut chest to be given to her after my wife Mary has done with the same or after her death. I give and bequeath to my daughter Lydia Jones one dollar. I give and bequeath to my son Levi Lamphere one dollar. I give and bequeath to my daughter Clarissa Curry the like sum of one dollar. I give and bequeath to Julia Arnold my granddaughter one bed and bedding to be given to her whenever my wife Mary thinks proper to do the same. All my goods and chattels such as cider barrels, plough irons, crops of mine which are now on the ground together with one good cow are at my decease to be sold at private sale or public vendue by and of the discretion of My Dear Wife & Allen McKean the same to be sold for the purpose of satisfying or discharging outstanding debts of mine. I give and bequeath to my dear beloved wife Mary one cow and Eleven sheep. All the rest and residue of my estate goods and chattels what is left if any after paying my debts I give and bequeath to my Dear beloved wife Mary the lease or use of the same during her natural life and after her death the same to be divided & given to my children together with hers. I nonimate and constitute and appoint Allen McKean executor to settled and collect all my debts and my wife Mary executrix of this my last will and testament hereby revoking all other and former wills by me made at any time heretofore. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 18th day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two. Signed Samuel Lamphere.
Signed sealed and published and declared by the said testator Samuel Lamphere as and for his last will and testament in presence of us who subscribed our names as witnesses thereto in the presence of the said testator.
Joseph Hilton
Lewis Adams
Leonard Upham
So much of the clause of the foregoing Will as bequeathed to Eleanor & Ann Woodard daughters of Hiram Woodard each two sheep to be null and void and the said four sheep I give & bequeath to Mary Lamphere my wife to her disposal & use forever after my decease. And likewise to much of the foregoing as bequeathed to Ann & Eleanor Woodard daughters of the said Hiram Woodard one to bed to be null and void and of no effect and the said bed I give & bequeath to Fanny Curry daughter of Ezekiel Curry after the decease of Mary Lamphere my wife. I also appoint Ezekiel Curry together with Allen McKean as administrators to settle my estate after my decease. Signed Samuel Lamphere.
Witness this 4th day of March one thousand eight hundred thirty four.
Signed sealed published and declared by the said testator Sam'l Lamphere as and for his last will and testamenmt in presence of us who subsribe our names as witnesses thereto in the presence of the said testator.
Myron Ballard
Charles Dewey
So much of the foregoing will as bequeathed to Mary Lamphere my wife fourteen sheep to be as follows after the decease of Mary my wife the said fourteen sheep I give and bequeath to Clarissa Curry my daughter and her heirs. Also so much of the foregoing will as appoints Ezekiel Curry one of the administrators to settle my estate after my decease to be null and void and of no effect. I hereby nominate constitute and appoint Allen McKean together with Mary Lamphere adminstrators and executors of settle my debts collect all dues dispose of property arrange affairs of my estate make bargains relating thereto after my decease and all such bargains sales settlements disposals arrangments of my estate & affairs to be valid and effectual as much so as though done by myself My wish and will is that there be no letters of administration taken out to settle my estate But the settlement of the same to be made by the above named persons viz Mary Lamphere my wife & Allen McKean.
Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this the eighth day of March one thousand eight hundred & thirty four. Signed Samuel Lamphere
Signed sealed published and declared by the said testator Samuel Lamphere as and for his last will and testament in presence of us who have subscribed our names as witnesses thereto in the presence of the said testator.
Ely Loomis
Nehemiah Pratt
Ephraim Blakesley
Will proved 12 May 1834.
The several children attributed to Samuel, by researchers, namely Sarah born 1778, Betsey born 1780, Mary born 1783, Ruth born 1785, and Samuel born 1787 in Connecticut are not his children, but a different Samuel Lamphere, as the Samuel Lamphere of this memorial lived in New York and thence Vermont during those births. The Samuel and Sarah Lamphere who these children were born to never left Windham County, Connecticut and died there (Pomfret church records).
No memorial marker. No documentation he is buried here. A 1939 Bradford County survey of veteran burials, over one hundred years after his death, indicated he was buried at the Old Methodist Church Cemetery in Burlington. He was more likely to have been buried at the Hilton Cemetery near where he lived and where some family members are buried (grandson Hiram Woodard). Samuel lived very close to the cemetery versus The Old Methodist Church Cemetery about 3.8 miles east from where Samuel resided. Moses Calkin was a near neighbor, served with him during the Revolutionary War, and filed a deposition on his behalf when Samuel applied for a pension and he is buried in the Hilton Cemetery. There are several burials at Hilton that predate Samuel's decease. There is a crude native headstone and footstone marking a grave in the row in front of his grandson, Hiram Woodard, which could be Samuel. He is not buried in Overton Township, which some have indicated and he never lived in Overton Township, which is far removed from Burlington Township.
Children:
1. Richard Lamphere.
2. Levi Lamphere.
3. daughter m. Woodward.
4. daughter m. Andrus.
5. Lydia Lamphere married Stephen Jones, resided Columbia Township for a short time after marriage.
6. daughter married Ephraim Cleveland.
7. daughter m. Oliver Arnold.
8. Clarissa Lamphere born 12 August 1794 married Ezekiel Curry.
In PIONEER AND PATRIOT FAMILIES OF BRADFORD COUNTY, PENNSYLYANIA by noted historian Clement F. Heverly, 1913, he stated - "Samuel Lamphere, a soldier of the Revolutionary war, came from Connecticut to Columbia with Nathaniel Morgan in 1800. In 1817 he exchanged his place with John Calkins for a property in West Burlington where he died March 18, 1834, aged 82 years. His wife, Mary, survived him and a daughter who had married Ephraim Cleveland." It is in error as Samuel Lamphere did not remove to Bradford County with the Morgan party. The Morgans, Battersons, Canfields, Bennetts, and Watkins families were the five families who removed from Connecticut and were enumerated in Ulster Township, Luzerne County (that portion that became Columbia Township, Bradford County), Pennsylvania in 1800. Samuel Lamphere had not lived in Connecticut, but in Bennington County, Vermont for over twenty years and where he and his family were still enumerated in 1800. Because of Samuel's close proximity to the Morgan family within a few years is perhaps how the error occurred.
In THE GENEALOGY OF THE CLEVELAND and CLEAVELAND FAMILIES, 1899, Stafford C. Cleveland prepared a family history of Ephraim Cleveland and stated "after marriage moved first to Freehold, Conn., and thence to the valley of Sugar Creek, Pa., on land claimed by the State of Conn. Stopped first n. (near) Sheshequin, rem. later to a point on same creek, 3 miles w. (west) of site of Troy. There he bought of Mr. Holcomb, a pioneer, his small beginning in the woods, and remained there several years. The location was beautiful, although in the midst of a dense wilderness. Sold the place, 1810, for $600, and removed to the Chemung Valley. He bought land of Mr. Pumpelly, agt. (agent) for the ohnson Tract on the hill side E. (east) and 2 miles from place inhabited by Catharine Montour, an ill-chosen spot. Lived there 4 years and sold for $100. With their family of 7 children they emigrated spring of 1814 to Cincinnati, going by way of Olean, Cattaraugus co., N. Y., and the Alleghany and Ohio rivers. The excellent mother d. (died) suddenly of pleurisy. [Er could not find her grave at Cincinnati, 1819.] It was the singular freak of the father to return at once to Catharine. He m. (married) a 2d wife and soon fell sick of malarial fever, and d. (died) after a lingering illness of several months, leaving the family quite destitute. There was no alternative for the children but to scatter about among families for such service as they could render. Their parents had been affectionate, but had been able to leave them nothing but their own unstained character and reputation for integrity and personal worth. At an early period in Pa. (Pennsylvania) they had become members of the Baptist church." The genealogy printed in 1899 indicates that - "Ephraim Cleveland b. Salisbury, Conn., July 21, 1773, d. Catharine Montour, Chemung Valley (now Schuyler co.), N. Y., Jan. 5, 1815, m. 1st, Salisbury, Oct. 11, 1795, Keziah Noble of S., b. Nov. 22, 1774, d. Cincinnati, O., May 10, 1814, da. Peter. He m. 2d, Mrs. VanGorder, wid.Ch. by 1st m.: Cynthia Cleveland, b. Oct. 7, 1797, d. Apr. 7, 1799, Er Cleveland, b. Mar. 25, 1799, n. Sheshequin, Bradford co., Pa., Luther Cleveland, b. Feb. 2, 1801, on Sugar Creek, n. Troy, Bradford co., Pa., Lucinda Cleveland, b. July 15, 1802, on Sugar Creek, n. Troy, Noble Cleveland, b. Mar. 7, 1804, on Sugar Creek, n. Troy, Maria Cleveland, b. Nov. 7, 1805, on Sugar Creek, Edward Cleveland, b. June 4, 1807, d. 1809-11, by falling into a kettle of boiling maple sap, Sementha Cleveland, b. July 4, 1810, Catharine, N. Y., Charles D. Cleveland, b. Apr. 21, 1813, d. June 27, 1815, 2d m. (marriage), s. p. (sine prole, without issue)."
Ephraim Cleveland was enumerated in Wysox, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania in 1800 with one male under age ten (born 1791-1800), one male of age sixteen and under age twenty six (born 1775-84), and one female of age sixteen and under age twenty six (born 1775-84). The one son in the household would agree with the son born in 1799 in the above genealogy. They lived in that portion that later became Columbia Township, Bradford County, Pennsylvania. Thus, the Cleveland family and Lamphere family certainly knew each other until the Cleveland families removal to Catharine, New York.
Luther Cleveland's obituary appears in the Havana Journal, Montour, New York, February 10,1872 and it reads in part - "Luther Cleveland was born on Sugar Creek, Pa., Feb. 8d, 1801, of parents who were of Connecticut birth and training. Ephraim Cleveland the father, and Keziah Noble, his wife, had settled there in tbe wilderness on land claimed by the State of Connecticut, and near the site of the present village of Troy in the County of Bradford." This obituary would agree with the Cleveland Genealogy that Ephraim Cleveland married Keziah Noble. Thus, if Samuel Lamphere had a daughter marry Ephraim Cleveland, she was perhaps his second wife and had first married a VanGorder.
The HISTORY OF BRADFORD COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA, 1878 stated - "Nathaniel Merritt came from Vermont in September, 1807, and settled on John McKean's farm. When Mr. Merritt came in, Samuel Baldwin lived on the Smead farm, and Ephraim Cleveland on John Calkin's farm." These farms were in what is now Columbia Township. This would seem to indicate there was some acquaintance of the families as Samuel Lamphere traded his property (perhaps the property that Ephraim Cleveland had owned) with John Calkins when he removed to Burlington and John Calkins resided on the property in Columbia Township.
Enumerated in Sunderland, Bennington County, Vermont in 1790 with one male of age sixteen and upwards (born before 1774), three males under age sixteen (born 1775-90), and six females. One could assume that one of the females was his wife and the other five females were daughters. The daughters probably consisted of Betsey, Lydia, Clarissa and two daughters whose names are currently unknown, one being the mother of Hiram Andrus and one being the mother of several children by Oliver Arnold.
Samuel Lanpher, Sarah Lanpher, wife to said Saml, & Miriam Huit, all of Manchester in the County of Bennington, State of Vermont "convey land in Manchester to Josiah Lockwood of Sunderland, consisting of "thirty nine acres of the north end of Lot No 15 second division," dated 22 March 1797. Signed by Samuel Lanphar, Sarah her x mark Lanphar, Miriam Huet (Manchester Deed 5:96-97). Sarah and Miriam were sisters and this was land they had inherited from their deceased father, Stephen Soper.
The Selectmen of Manchester leased unto Samuel Lanpher, "a certain farm or tract of land lying & being situated in Manchester & in No 10 in the first division containing 100 acres known by the name of Society Lot." The lease outlines certain provisions and payments and the description indicates "to the river bank," dated 27 April 1797. Signed as Samuel Lanpher, lessee (Manchester Deed 5:86).
Enumerated in Manchester, Bennington County, Vermont in 1800 with one male under age ten (born 1791-1800), one male of age ten and under age sixteen (born 1785-90), one male of age sixteen and under age twenty six (born 1775-84), one male of age forty five and over (born before 1755), one female under age ten (born 1791-1800), two females of age ten and under age sixteen (born 1785-90), one female of age sixteen and under age twenty six (born 1775-84), and one female of age forty five and over (born before 1755). Enumerated in neighboring households were Solomon Soper and Jonathan Corey, both of whom would remove to the same area in Pennsylvania as the Lamphere family. They perhaps removed together and the date may have been 1802 when Jonathan Corey sold 153 acres in Manchester on 15 April 1802 and removed to what is now eastern Rutland Township, Tioga County, Pennsylvania, which bordered what is now Columbia Township, Bradford County, Pennsylvania, living not far from the Lamphere and Soper families. Solomon Soper and family settled in western Columbia Township, Bradford County, near the Tioga County line and lived not far from the Lampheres in the same township. Jonathan Corey's son, Harris Corey and family and Solomon's son, Levi Lamphere and family would both remove to Cincinnati, Ohio and were enumerated in neighboring households in 1820.
"Samuel Lamphair and Sarah Lamphair both of Manchester in the County of Bennington & State of Vermont," sold to Elijah Bush, "one equal fourth part of the north half of Lot No 11 in the first division in said town of Manchester," "which said fourth part as aforesaid fell to me the said Sarah Lamphair as being an heir & Daughter of Stephen Soper deceased said fourth part contains about seven acres & one half of land." Dated 4 December 1801. Samuel signed and Sarah signed by mark (Manchester Deed 6:178).
On 15 April 1802, Samuel transferred the land he had acquired five years earlier by lease, to Samuel Pettibone. Signed as Samuel Lamphair (Manchester Deed 6:505). One of the witnesses was Jonathan Corey. The date is also the same date that Jonathan Corey sold 153 acres in Manchester. The Corey families removal to Pennsylvania, and living not far from the Lamphere family, is outlined earlier in this sketch.
Samuel Lamphar and Sarah his wife deeded land in Manchester to Sereno Swift, "the said Sarah as Daughter & one of the heirs of Stephen Soper, late of said Manchester, deceased." Dated 7 December 1802. Samuel Lampher signed and Sarah Lampher signed by mark (Manchester deed 6:268).
Samuel and family evidently removed to Bradford County, Pennsylvania by 1805 when his daughter became the second wife of Oliver Arnold and had a child, Franklin Arnold born 25 July 1806. Oliver Arnold had been living in the Ulster and Tioga areas of what would become Bradford County for several years before the Lamphere family arrived.
Samuel Lamphere and Richard Lamphere appear on an 1808 assessment list (probably created in 1807 for the 1808 tax year) of Tioga Township, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, the township at that time covering a broad swath from east to west of the northern portion of present Bradford County, Pennsylvania. Shortly, thereafter the area became Smithfield Township, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania and within a few more years Bradford County, Pennsylvania.
Samuel Lamphere appears on the 1810 census enumeration of Smithfield, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania (Bradford County where he resided had not yet been formed). Smithfield covered several present day townships in Bradford County. The family consisted of one male of age sixteen and under age twenty six (born 1784-94), one male of age twenty six and under age forty five (born 1766-84), one male of age forty five and over (born before 1765), one female of age ten and under age sixteen (born 1795-1800), one female of age sixteen and under age twenty six (born 1784-94), and one female of age forty five and over (born before 1765).
In 1812, sixty five residents in what would become Columbia and Wells Townships, Bradford County, Pennsylvania, later that year, signed a petition for a road, which included, "Samuel Lanphar and Levy Lanphar." "To the honorable the President and Judges of the Court of General Sessions of the County of Lycoming your Petitioners would respectfully show that a train of settlements consisting of the improvements of your petitioners exists from the New York line near the seventy ninth milestone & up Seelys Creek and on the lands dividing the waters of Sugar Creek and Seelys Creek and also on sugar Creek State to the State road near Moses Tailors & that it would be for the general benefit of these settlements if a County road should be laid out communicating with the public road leading on to New Town & that their settlements are by a number of miles too far to the westward to derive any benefit from the State road leading from Sugar Creek down Bentlys Creek to New Town in New York. Your Petitioners therefore request that your honors would authorise & direct that a County road should be established beginning at the public road leading to New Town New York about sixty rods east of the seventy ninth milestone running from thence to pirsue the most direct & convenient course so as to form a Junction with the State road near Moses Tailors on Sugar Creek the distance being about fourteen miles and your Petitioners as in duty bound will ever pray &c." The proposed road, in present terms, was to be constructed from the state line to Mosherville to Coryland to Austinville to Sylvania, following the present routes of 328, 549, Coryland Road, Baptist Hill Road, Lodge Hill Road, and Iron Mine Road.
Samuel and Levi Lamphere appear on the 1813 assessment list of Smithfield Township, Bradford County, Pennsylvania. Smithfield included a much larger area than present day and Columbia Township where they lived had not yet been formed.
Samuel Lamphere apears on the first assessment of Columbia Township, Bradford County, Pennsylvania in 1814 with 5 improved acres, 88 unimproved acres, 1 house, 3 horses and 2 cows. There were notations to deduct one cow and that the house and land were transferred from Aaron Squires. Levi Lamphere also appears on the same assessment with 44 unimproved acres, 1 house, 1 horse, and 1 cow with a notation to deduct 1 horse and 1 cow.
Samuel appears on the 1815 assessment list of Columbia Township with 50 improved acres, 185 unimproved acres, 2 horses, and 2 cows. Levi Lamphere does not appear.
On 7 February 1815, Samuel Lamphar (spelling in deed) and Abigail Lamphar, his wife, of Columbia Township, Bradford County, Pennsylvania, deeded 95 and 4/10 of an acre in Columbia Township "whereas the said Lamphar is now seated" to Benoni Watkins of Columbia Township on warrant parcel 963 (Bradford County Deed 2:236). Warrant parcel 963 consisted of 1,094 acres and was situated where the present village of Austinville is located in Columbia Township, Bradford County, Pennsylvania. Any members of the Lamphere family who may have died when living there would have probably been buried in the historic Morgan Cemetery, where Nathaniel Morgan has a memorial inscribed 1813 and which was a community cemetery.
Samuel appears on the 1816 assessment list of Columbia Township with 50 improved acres, 185 unimproved acres, 2 horses and 2 cows. There was a notation that 135 acres were transferred to Benoni Watkins.
Samuel appears on the 1817 assessment list of Columbia Township with 24 improved acres, 70 unimproved acres, 1 horse and 2 cows. Richard Lamphere and Levi Lamphere appear on the same assessment list, each with 1 cow. Samuel appears on the 1818 assessment list with the same acreage, 3 horses and 1 cow. Richard and Levi are noted as both removing from the township. The 1819 assessment list contained the same acreage with the notation it was transferred to John Calkins and that Samuel removed from the township.
Samuel first appears on the 1818 assessment list of Burlington Township, Bradford County, Pennsylvania with 12 improved acres, 20 unimproved acres, 1 house, 2 horses, and 2 cows.
Samuel was enumerated in Burlington Township in 1820 with two males of age ten and under age sixteen (born 1805-10), one male of age forty five and over (born before 1775), and one female of age forty five and over (born before 1775). The two males of age ten and under age sixteen were likely his grandsons, Hiram Andrus and Hiram Woodard that were named in his Will.
Enumerated in Burlington Township in 1830 with one male of age sixty and under age seventy (born 1761-70), and one female of age fifty and under age sixty (born 1771-80).
Samuel last appears on the 1834 (compiled fall of 1833) assessment list of Burlington Township with 23 improved acres and 2 cows.
Samuel applied for a pension 3 February 1834, while a resident of Burlington, Bradford County, Pennsylvania, and stated he was 81 years of age and was born 15 March 1752 New London, Connecticut. He volunteered for nine months in 1775 at Nine Partners, New York under Captain Smith Sutherland to pursue Tories in that neighborhood along the Hudson. In July 1776, after the expiration of his term of nine months, he enlisted in a company commanded by Captain John Steiback at Rhinebeck, New York for the term of six months, which was under the command of Colonel Morris Graham, Lieutenant Colonel Charles Graham, and Second Lieutenant Stephen Edget. He was employed in guarding the East River and then went to White Plains, New York and was in the battle of White Plains. He was then stationed at Peekskill, New York until discharged in June 1777. He then removed to Manchester, Vermont and volunteered there in the spring of 1778 under Captain Thomas Barney and was involved in scouting parties and went to Lake Champlain. He signed his name as Samuel Lamphere. He was inscribed on the rolls of the State of Pennsylvania at $56.66 per year, certificate issued 18 February 1834 with arrears to 4 September 1833 and a semi-annual allowance for a total of $170.00 (Pension file S5671).
KNOW All men by these presents that I SAMUEL LAMPHERE of the township of Burlington County of Bradford and state of Pennsylvania do make and ordain this my last will and testament in manner and form following viz I give and bequeath to Hiram Andrus, my grandson five sheep after one year from this date one yoke of two year old steers which I lease to the said Hiram Andrus for the term of four years from the first day of the present month to be leased to him in manner and sale for letting out steers, Provided the said Hiram Andrus does well with the steers while the lease runs and tries to manage well for himself he is forever after the lease runs out to have the steers as his own to be left at the discretion of my executor viz Allen McKean. I give and bequeath to Ann Woodward daughter of Hiram Woodward my grandson two sheep to be given to her after one year from this date. I give and bequeath to Eleanor Woodward daughter of the said Hiram Woodward two sheep to be given to her at the expiration of one year from this date likewise I give and bequeath to Ann & Eleanor Woodward one bed after my wife Mary has done with the same or at her decease. Provided by wife Mary sees or thinks proper to give the bed to the said Ann & Eleanor Woodward at any time she is to give such bed clothes together with the bed as she my wife Mary may think proper. I give and bequeath to Hiram Andrus one drag & teeth. I give and bequeath to Harriet Curry my grand daughter one black walnut chest to be given to her after my wife Mary has done with the same or after her death. I give and bequeath to my daughter Lydia Jones one dollar. I give and bequeath to my son Levi Lamphere one dollar. I give and bequeath to my daughter Clarissa Curry the like sum of one dollar. I give and bequeath to Julia Arnold my granddaughter one bed and bedding to be given to her whenever my wife Mary thinks proper to do the same. All my goods and chattels such as cider barrels, plough irons, crops of mine which are now on the ground together with one good cow are at my decease to be sold at private sale or public vendue by and of the discretion of My Dear Wife & Allen McKean the same to be sold for the purpose of satisfying or discharging outstanding debts of mine. I give and bequeath to my dear beloved wife Mary one cow and Eleven sheep. All the rest and residue of my estate goods and chattels what is left if any after paying my debts I give and bequeath to my Dear beloved wife Mary the lease or use of the same during her natural life and after her death the same to be divided & given to my children together with hers. I nonimate and constitute and appoint Allen McKean executor to settled and collect all my debts and my wife Mary executrix of this my last will and testament hereby revoking all other and former wills by me made at any time heretofore. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 18th day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two. Signed Samuel Lamphere.
Signed sealed and published and declared by the said testator Samuel Lamphere as and for his last will and testament in presence of us who subscribed our names as witnesses thereto in the presence of the said testator.
Joseph Hilton
Lewis Adams
Leonard Upham
So much of the clause of the foregoing Will as bequeathed to Eleanor & Ann Woodard daughters of Hiram Woodard each two sheep to be null and void and the said four sheep I give & bequeath to Mary Lamphere my wife to her disposal & use forever after my decease. And likewise to much of the foregoing as bequeathed to Ann & Eleanor Woodard daughters of the said Hiram Woodard one to bed to be null and void and of no effect and the said bed I give & bequeath to Fanny Curry daughter of Ezekiel Curry after the decease of Mary Lamphere my wife. I also appoint Ezekiel Curry together with Allen McKean as administrators to settle my estate after my decease. Signed Samuel Lamphere.
Witness this 4th day of March one thousand eight hundred thirty four.
Signed sealed published and declared by the said testator Sam'l Lamphere as and for his last will and testamenmt in presence of us who subsribe our names as witnesses thereto in the presence of the said testator.
Myron Ballard
Charles Dewey
So much of the foregoing will as bequeathed to Mary Lamphere my wife fourteen sheep to be as follows after the decease of Mary my wife the said fourteen sheep I give and bequeath to Clarissa Curry my daughter and her heirs. Also so much of the foregoing will as appoints Ezekiel Curry one of the administrators to settle my estate after my decease to be null and void and of no effect. I hereby nominate constitute and appoint Allen McKean together with Mary Lamphere adminstrators and executors of settle my debts collect all dues dispose of property arrange affairs of my estate make bargains relating thereto after my decease and all such bargains sales settlements disposals arrangments of my estate & affairs to be valid and effectual as much so as though done by myself My wish and will is that there be no letters of administration taken out to settle my estate But the settlement of the same to be made by the above named persons viz Mary Lamphere my wife & Allen McKean.
Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this the eighth day of March one thousand eight hundred & thirty four. Signed Samuel Lamphere
Signed sealed published and declared by the said testator Samuel Lamphere as and for his last will and testament in presence of us who have subscribed our names as witnesses thereto in the presence of the said testator.
Ely Loomis
Nehemiah Pratt
Ephraim Blakesley
Will proved 12 May 1834.
The several children attributed to Samuel, by researchers, namely Sarah born 1778, Betsey born 1780, Mary born 1783, Ruth born 1785, and Samuel born 1787 in Connecticut are not his children, but a different Samuel Lamphere, as the Samuel Lamphere of this memorial lived in New York and thence Vermont during those births. The Samuel and Sarah Lamphere who these children were born to never left Windham County, Connecticut and died there (Pomfret church records).
No memorial marker. No documentation he is buried here. A 1939 Bradford County survey of veteran burials, over one hundred years after his death, indicated he was buried at the Old Methodist Church Cemetery in Burlington. He was more likely to have been buried at the Hilton Cemetery near where he lived and where some family members are buried (grandson Hiram Woodard). Samuel lived very close to the cemetery versus The Old Methodist Church Cemetery about 3.8 miles east from where Samuel resided. Moses Calkin was a near neighbor, served with him during the Revolutionary War, and filed a deposition on his behalf when Samuel applied for a pension and he is buried in the Hilton Cemetery. There are several burials at Hilton that predate Samuel's decease. There is a crude native headstone and footstone marking a grave in the row in front of his grandson, Hiram Woodard, which could be Samuel. He is not buried in Overton Township, which some have indicated and he never lived in Overton Township, which is far removed from Burlington Township.
Children:
1. Richard Lamphere.
2. Levi Lamphere.
3. daughter m. Woodward.
4. daughter m. Andrus.
5. Lydia Lamphere married Stephen Jones, resided Columbia Township for a short time after marriage.
6. daughter married Ephraim Cleveland.
7. daughter m. Oliver Arnold.
8. Clarissa Lamphere born 12 August 1794 married Ezekiel Curry.
In PIONEER AND PATRIOT FAMILIES OF BRADFORD COUNTY, PENNSYLYANIA by noted historian Clement F. Heverly, 1913, he stated - "Samuel Lamphere, a soldier of the Revolutionary war, came from Connecticut to Columbia with Nathaniel Morgan in 1800. In 1817 he exchanged his place with John Calkins for a property in West Burlington where he died March 18, 1834, aged 82 years. His wife, Mary, survived him and a daughter who had married Ephraim Cleveland." It is in error as Samuel Lamphere did not remove to Bradford County with the Morgan party. The Morgans, Battersons, Canfields, Bennetts, and Watkins families were the five families who removed from Connecticut and were enumerated in Ulster Township, Luzerne County (that portion that became Columbia Township, Bradford County), Pennsylvania in 1800. Samuel Lamphere had not lived in Connecticut, but in Bennington County, Vermont for over twenty years and where he and his family were still enumerated in 1800. Because of Samuel's close proximity to the Morgan family within a few years is perhaps how the error occurred.
In THE GENEALOGY OF THE CLEVELAND and CLEAVELAND FAMILIES, 1899, Stafford C. Cleveland prepared a family history of Ephraim Cleveland and stated "after marriage moved first to Freehold, Conn., and thence to the valley of Sugar Creek, Pa., on land claimed by the State of Conn. Stopped first n. (near) Sheshequin, rem. later to a point on same creek, 3 miles w. (west) of site of Troy. There he bought of Mr. Holcomb, a pioneer, his small beginning in the woods, and remained there several years. The location was beautiful, although in the midst of a dense wilderness. Sold the place, 1810, for $600, and removed to the Chemung Valley. He bought land of Mr. Pumpelly, agt. (agent) for the ohnson Tract on the hill side E. (east) and 2 miles from place inhabited by Catharine Montour, an ill-chosen spot. Lived there 4 years and sold for $100. With their family of 7 children they emigrated spring of 1814 to Cincinnati, going by way of Olean, Cattaraugus co., N. Y., and the Alleghany and Ohio rivers. The excellent mother d. (died) suddenly of pleurisy. [Er could not find her grave at Cincinnati, 1819.] It was the singular freak of the father to return at once to Catharine. He m. (married) a 2d wife and soon fell sick of malarial fever, and d. (died) after a lingering illness of several months, leaving the family quite destitute. There was no alternative for the children but to scatter about among families for such service as they could render. Their parents had been affectionate, but had been able to leave them nothing but their own unstained character and reputation for integrity and personal worth. At an early period in Pa. (Pennsylvania) they had become members of the Baptist church." The genealogy printed in 1899 indicates that - "Ephraim Cleveland b. Salisbury, Conn., July 21, 1773, d. Catharine Montour, Chemung Valley (now Schuyler co.), N. Y., Jan. 5, 1815, m. 1st, Salisbury, Oct. 11, 1795, Keziah Noble of S., b. Nov. 22, 1774, d. Cincinnati, O., May 10, 1814, da. Peter. He m. 2d, Mrs. VanGorder, wid.Ch. by 1st m.: Cynthia Cleveland, b. Oct. 7, 1797, d. Apr. 7, 1799, Er Cleveland, b. Mar. 25, 1799, n. Sheshequin, Bradford co., Pa., Luther Cleveland, b. Feb. 2, 1801, on Sugar Creek, n. Troy, Bradford co., Pa., Lucinda Cleveland, b. July 15, 1802, on Sugar Creek, n. Troy, Noble Cleveland, b. Mar. 7, 1804, on Sugar Creek, n. Troy, Maria Cleveland, b. Nov. 7, 1805, on Sugar Creek, Edward Cleveland, b. June 4, 1807, d. 1809-11, by falling into a kettle of boiling maple sap, Sementha Cleveland, b. July 4, 1810, Catharine, N. Y., Charles D. Cleveland, b. Apr. 21, 1813, d. June 27, 1815, 2d m. (marriage), s. p. (sine prole, without issue)."
Ephraim Cleveland was enumerated in Wysox, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania in 1800 with one male under age ten (born 1791-1800), one male of age sixteen and under age twenty six (born 1775-84), and one female of age sixteen and under age twenty six (born 1775-84). The one son in the household would agree with the son born in 1799 in the above genealogy. They lived in that portion that later became Columbia Township, Bradford County, Pennsylvania. Thus, the Cleveland family and Lamphere family certainly knew each other until the Cleveland families removal to Catharine, New York.
Luther Cleveland's obituary appears in the Havana Journal, Montour, New York, February 10,1872 and it reads in part - "Luther Cleveland was born on Sugar Creek, Pa., Feb. 8d, 1801, of parents who were of Connecticut birth and training. Ephraim Cleveland the father, and Keziah Noble, his wife, had settled there in tbe wilderness on land claimed by the State of Connecticut, and near the site of the present village of Troy in the County of Bradford." This obituary would agree with the Cleveland Genealogy that Ephraim Cleveland married Keziah Noble. Thus, if Samuel Lamphere had a daughter marry Ephraim Cleveland, she was perhaps his second wife and had first married a VanGorder.
The HISTORY OF BRADFORD COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA, 1878 stated - "Nathaniel Merritt came from Vermont in September, 1807, and settled on John McKean's farm. When Mr. Merritt came in, Samuel Baldwin lived on the Smead farm, and Ephraim Cleveland on John Calkin's farm." These farms were in what is now Columbia Township. This would seem to indicate there was some acquaintance of the families as Samuel Lamphere traded his property (perhaps the property that Ephraim Cleveland had owned) with John Calkins when he removed to Burlington and John Calkins resided on the property in Columbia Township.
Research by J. Kelsey Jones:
Enumerated in Sunderland, Bennington County, Vermont in 1790 with one male of age sixteen and upwards (born before 1774), three males under age sixteen (born 1775-90), and six females. One could assume that one of the females was his wife and the other five females were daughters. The daughters probably consisted of Betsey, Lydia, Clarissa and two daughters whose names are currently unknown, one being the mother of Hiram Andrus and one being the mother of several children by Oliver Arnold.
Samuel Lanpher, Sarah Lanpher, wife to said Saml, & Miriam Huit, all of Manchester in the County of Bennington, State of Vermont "convey land in Manchester to Josiah Lockwood of Sunderland, consisting of "thirty nine acres of the north end of Lot No 15 second division," dated 22 March 1797. Signed by Samuel Lanphar, Sarah her x mark Lanphar, Miriam Huet (Manchester Deed 5:96-97). Sarah and Miriam were sisters and this was land they had inherited from their deceased father, Stephen Soper.
The Selectmen of Manchester leased unto Samuel Lanpher, "a certain farm or tract of land lying & being situated in Manchester & in No 10 in the first division containing 100 acres known by the name of Society Lot." The lease outlines certain provisions and payments and the description indicates "to the river bank," dated 27 April 1797. Signed as Samuel Lanpher, lessee (Manchester Deed 5:86).
Enumerated in Manchester, Bennington County, Vermont in 1800 with one male under age ten (born 1791-1800), one male of age ten and under age sixteen (born 1785-90), one male of age sixteen and under age twenty six (born 1775-84), one male of age forty five and over (born before 1755), one female under age ten (born 1791-1800), two females of age ten and under age sixteen (born 1785-90), one female of age sixteen and under age twenty six (born 1775-84), and one female of age forty five and over (born before 1755). Enumerated in neighboring households were Solomon Soper and Jonathan Corey, both of whom would remove to the same area in Pennsylvania as the Lamphere family. They perhaps removed together and the date may have been 1802 when Jonathan Corey sold 153 acres in Manchester on 15 April 1802 and removed to what is now eastern Rutland Township, Tioga County, Pennsylvania, which bordered what is now Columbia Township, Bradford County, Pennsylvania, living not far from the Lamphere and Soper families. Solomon Soper and family settled in western Columbia Township, Bradford County, near the Tioga County line and lived not far from the Lampheres in the same township. Jonathan Corey's son, Harris Corey and family and Solomon's son, Levi Lamphere and family would both remove to Cincinnati, Ohio and were enumerated in neighboring households in 1820.
"Samuel Lamphair and Sarah Lamphair both of Manchester in the County of Bennington & State of Vermont," sold to Elijah Bush, "one equal fourth part of the north half of Lot No 11 in the first division in said town of Manchester," "which said fourth part as aforesaid fell to me the said Sarah Lamphair as being an heir & Daughter of Stephen Soper deceased said fourth part contains about seven acres & one half of land." Dated 4 December 1801. Samuel signed and Sarah signed by mark (Manchester Deed 6:178).
On 15 April 1802, Samuel transferred the land he had acquired five years earlier by lease, to Samuel Pettibone. Signed as Samuel Lamphair (Manchester Deed 6:505). One of the witnesses was Jonathan Corey. The date is also the same date that Jonathan Corey sold 153 acres in Manchester. The Corey families removal to Pennsylvania, and living not far from the Lamphere family, is outlined earlier in this sketch.
Samuel Lamphar and Sarah his wife deeded land in Manchester to Sereno Swift, "the said Sarah as Daughter & one of the heirs of Stephen Soper, late of said Manchester, deceased." Dated 7 December 1802. Samuel Lampher signed and Sarah Lampher signed by mark (Manchester deed 6:268).
Samuel and family evidently removed to Bradford County, Pennsylvania by 1805 when his daughter became the second wife of Oliver Arnold and had a child, Franklin Arnold born 25 July 1806. Oliver Arnold had been living in the Ulster and Tioga areas of what would become Bradford County for several years before the Lamphere family arrived.
Samuel Lamphere and Richard Lamphere appear on an 1808 assessment list (probably created in 1807 for the 1808 tax year) of Tioga Township, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, the township at that time covering a broad swath from east to west of the northern portion of present Bradford County, Pennsylvania. Shortly, thereafter the area became Smithfield Township, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania and within a few more years Bradford County, Pennsylvania.
Samuel Lamphere appears on the 1810 census enumeration of Smithfield, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania (Bradford County where he resided had not yet been formed). Smithfield covered several present day townships in Bradford County. The family consisted of one male of age sixteen and under age twenty six (born 1784-94), one male of age twenty six and under age forty five (born 1766-84), one male of age forty five and over (born before 1765), one female of age ten and under age sixteen (born 1795-1800), one female of age sixteen and under age twenty six (born 1784-94), and one female of age forty five and over (born before 1765).
In 1812, sixty five residents in what would become Columbia and Wells Townships, Bradford County, Pennsylvania, later that year, signed a petition for a road, which included, "Samuel Lanphar and Levy Lanphar." "To the honorable the President and Judges of the Court of General Sessions of the County of Lycoming your Petitioners would respectfully show that a train of settlements consisting of the improvements of your petitioners exists from the New York line near the seventy ninth milestone & up Seelys Creek and on the lands dividing the waters of Sugar Creek and Seelys Creek and also on sugar Creek State to the State road near Moses Tailors & that it would be for the general benefit of these settlements if a County road should be laid out communicating with the public road leading on to New Town & that their settlements are by a number of miles too far to the westward to derive any benefit from the State road leading from Sugar Creek down Bentlys Creek to New Town in New York. Your Petitioners therefore request that your honors would authorise & direct that a County road should be established beginning at the public road leading to New Town New York about sixty rods east of the seventy ninth milestone running from thence to pirsue the most direct & convenient course so as to form a Junction with the State road near Moses Tailors on Sugar Creek the distance being about fourteen miles and your Petitioners as in duty bound will ever pray &c." The proposed road, in present terms, was to be constructed from the state line to Mosherville to Coryland to Austinville to Sylvania, following the present routes of 328, 549, Coryland Road, Baptist Hill Road, Lodge Hill Road, and Iron Mine Road.
Samuel and Levi Lamphere appear on the 1813 assessment list of Smithfield Township, Bradford County, Pennsylvania. Smithfield included a much larger area than present day and Columbia Township where they lived had not yet been formed.
Samuel Lamphere apears on the first assessment of Columbia Township, Bradford County, Pennsylvania in 1814 with 5 improved acres, 88 unimproved acres, 1 house, 3 horses and 2 cows. There were notations to deduct one cow and that the house and land were transferred from Aaron Squires. Levi Lamphere also appears on the same assessment with 44 unimproved acres, 1 house, 1 horse, and 1 cow with a notation to deduct 1 horse and 1 cow.
Samuel appears on the 1815 assessment list of Columbia Township with 50 improved acres, 185 unimproved acres, 2 horses, and 2 cows. Levi Lamphere does not appear.
On 7 February 1815, Samuel Lamphar (spelling in deed) and Abigail Lamphar, his wife, of Columbia Township, Bradford County, Pennsylvania, deeded 95 and 4/10 of an acre in Columbia Township "whereas the said Lamphar is now seated" to Benoni Watkins of Columbia Township on warrant parcel 963 (Bradford County Deed 2:236). Warrant parcel 963 consisted of 1,094 acres and was situated where the present village of Austinville is located in Columbia Township, Bradford County, Pennsylvania. Any members of the Lamphere family who may have died when living there would have probably been buried in the historic Morgan Cemetery, where Nathaniel Morgan has a memorial inscribed 1813 and which was a community cemetery.
Samuel appears on the 1816 assessment list of Columbia Township with 50 improved acres, 185 unimproved acres, 2 horses and 2 cows. There was a notation that 135 acres were transferred to Benoni Watkins.
Samuel appears on the 1817 assessment list of Columbia Township with 24 improved acres, 70 unimproved acres, 1 horse and 2 cows. Richard Lamphere and Levi Lamphere appear on the same assessment list, each with 1 cow. Samuel appears on the 1818 assessment list with the same acreage, 3 horses and 1 cow. Richard and Levi are noted as both removing from the township. The 1819 assessment list contained the same acreage with the notation it was transferred to John Calkins and that Samuel removed from the township.
Samuel first appears on the 1818 assessment list of Burlington Township, Bradford County, Pennsylvania with 12 improved acres, 20 unimproved acres, 1 house, 2 horses, and 2 cows.
Samuel was enumerated in Burlington Township in 1820 with two males of age ten and under age sixteen (born 1805-10), one male of age forty five and over (born before 1775), and one female of age forty five and over (born before 1775). The two males of age ten and under age sixteen were likely his grandsons, Hiram Andrus and Hiram Woodard that were named in his Will.
Enumerated in Burlington Township in 1830 with one male of age sixty and under age seventy (born 1761-70), and one female of age fifty and under age sixty (born 1771-80).
Samuel last appears on the 1834 (compiled fall of 1833) assessment list of Burlington Township with 23 improved acres and 2 cows.
Samuel applied for a pension 3 February 1834, while a resident of Burlington, Bradford County, Pennsylvania, and stated he was 81 years of age and was born 15 March 1752 New London, Connecticut. He volunteered for nine months in 1775 at Nine Partners, New York under Captain Smith Sutherland to pursue Tories in that neighborhood along the Hudson. In July 1776, after the expiration of his term of nine months, he enlisted in a company commanded by Captain John Steiback at Rhinebeck, New York for the term of six months, which was under the command of Colonel Morris Graham, Lieutenant Colonel Charles Graham, and Second Lieutenant Stephen Edget. He was employed in guarding the East River and then went to White Plains, New York and was in the battle of White Plains. He was then stationed at Peekskill, New York until discharged in June 1777. He then removed to Manchester, Vermont and volunteered there in the spring of 1778 under Captain Thomas Barney and was involved in scouting parties and went to Lake Champlain. He signed his name as Samuel Lamphere. He was inscribed on the rolls of the State of Pennsylvania at $56.66 per year, certificate issued 18 February 1834 with arrears to 4 September 1833 and a semi-annual allowance for a total of $170.00 (Pension file S5671).
KNOW All men by these presents that I SAMUEL LAMPHERE of the township of Burlington County of Bradford and state of Pennsylvania do make and ordain this my last will and testament in manner and form following viz I give and bequeath to Hiram Andrus, my grandson five sheep after one year from this date one yoke of two year old steers which I lease to the said Hiram Andrus for the term of four years from the first day of the present month to be leased to him in manner and sale for letting out steers, Provided the said Hiram Andrus does well with the steers while the lease runs and tries to manage well for himself he is forever after the lease runs out to have the steers as his own to be left at the discretion of my executor viz Allen McKean. I give and bequeath to Ann Woodward daughter of Hiram Woodward my grandson two sheep to be given to her after one year from this date. I give and bequeath to Eleanor Woodward daughter of the said Hiram Woodward two sheep to be given to her at the expiration of one year from this date likewise I give and bequeath to Ann & Eleanor Woodward one bed after my wife Mary has done with the same or at her decease. Provided by wife Mary sees or thinks proper to give the bed to the said Ann & Eleanor Woodward at any time she is to give such bed clothes together with the bed as she my wife Mary may think proper. I give and bequeath to Hiram Andrus one drag & teeth. I give and bequeath to Harriet Curry my grand daughter one black walnut chest to be given to her after my wife Mary has done with the same or after her death. I give and bequeath to my daughter Lydia Jones one dollar. I give and bequeath to my son Levi Lamphere one dollar. I give and bequeath to my daughter Clarissa Curry the like sum of one dollar. I give and bequeath to Julia Arnold my granddaughter one bed and bedding to be given to her whenever my wife Mary thinks proper to do the same. All my goods and chattels such as cider barrels, plough irons, crops of mine which are now on the ground together with one good cow are at my decease to be sold at private sale or public vendue by and of the discretion of My Dear Wife & Allen McKean the same to be sold for the purpose of satisfying or discharging outstanding debts of mine. I give and bequeath to my dear beloved wife Mary one cow and Eleven sheep. All the rest and residue of my estate goods and chattels what is left if any after paying my debts I give and bequeath to my Dear beloved wife Mary the lease or use of the same during her natural life and after her death the same to be divided & given to my children together with hers. I nonimate and constitute and appoint Allen McKean executor to settled and collect all my debts and my wife Mary executrix of this my last will and testament hereby revoking all other and former wills by me made at any time heretofore. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 18th day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two. Signed Samuel Lamphere.
Signed sealed and published and declared by the said testator Samuel Lamphere as and for his last will and testament in presence of us who subscribed our names as witnesses thereto in the presence of the said testator.
Joseph Hilton
Lewis Adams
Leonard Upham
So much of the clause of the foregoing Will as bequeathed to Eleanor & Ann Woodard daughters of Hiram Woodard each two sheep to be null and void and the said four sheep I give & bequeath to Mary Lamphere my wife to her disposal & use forever after my decease. And likewise to much of the foregoing as bequeathed to Ann & Eleanor Woodard daughters of the said Hiram Woodard one to bed to be null and void and of no effect and the said bed I give & bequeath to Fanny Curry daughter of Ezekiel Curry after the decease of Mary Lamphere my wife. I also appoint Ezekiel Curry together with Allen McKean as administrators to settle my estate after my decease. Signed Samuel Lamphere.
Witness this 4th day of March one thousand eight hundred thirty four.
Signed sealed published and declared by the said testator Sam'l Lamphere as and for his last will and testamenmt in presence of us who subsribe our names as witnesses thereto in the presence of the said testator.
Myron Ballard
Charles Dewey
So much of the foregoing will as bequeathed to Mary Lamphere my wife fourteen sheep to be as follows after the decease of Mary my wife the said fourteen sheep I give and bequeath to Clarissa Curry my daughter and her heirs. Also so much of the foregoing will as appoints Ezekiel Curry one of the administrators to settle my estate after my decease to be null and void and of no effect. I hereby nominate constitute and appoint Allen McKean together with Mary Lamphere adminstrators and executors of settle my debts collect all dues dispose of property arrange affairs of my estate make bargains relating thereto after my decease and all such bargains sales settlements disposals arrangments of my estate & affairs to be valid and effectual as much so as though done by myself My wish and will is that there be no letters of administration taken out to settle my estate But the settlement of the same to be made by the above named persons viz Mary Lamphere my wife & Allen McKean.
Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this the eighth day of March one thousand eight hundred & thirty four. Signed Samuel Lamphere
Signed sealed published and declared by the said testator Samuel Lamphere as and for his last will and testament in presence of us who have subscribed our names as witnesses thereto in the presence of the said testator.
Ely Loomis
Nehemiah Pratt
Ephraim Blakesley
Will proved 12 May 1834.
The several children attributed to Samuel, by researchers, namely Sarah born 1778, Betsey born 1780, Mary born 1783, Ruth born 1785, and Samuel born 1787 in Connecticut are not his children, but a different Samuel Lamphere, as the Samuel Lamphere of this memorial lived in New York and thence Vermont during those births. The Samuel and Sarah Lamphere who these children were born to never left Windham County, Connecticut and died there (Pomfret church records).
No memorial marker. No documentation he is buried here. A 1939 Bradford County survey of veteran burials, over one hundred years after his death, indicated he was buried at the Old Methodist Church Cemetery in Burlington. He was more likely to have been buried at the Hilton Cemetery near where he lived and where some family members are buried (grandson Hiram Woodard). Samuel lived very close to the cemetery versus The Old Methodist Church Cemetery about 3.8 miles east from where Samuel resided. Moses Calkin was a near neighbor, served with him during the Revolutionary War, and filed a deposition on his behalf when Samuel applied for a pension and he is buried in the Hilton Cemetery. There are several burials at Hilton that predate Samuel's decease. There is a crude native headstone and footstone marking a grave in the row in front of his grandson, Hiram Woodard, which could be Samuel. He is not buried in Overton Township, which some have indicated and he never lived in Overton Township, which is far removed from Burlington Township.
Children:
1. Richard Lamphere.
2. Levi Lamphere.
3. daughter m. Woodward.
4. daughter m. Andrus.
5. Lydia Lamphere married Stephen Jones, resided Columbia Township for a short time after marriage.
6. daughter married Ephraim Cleveland.
7. daughter m. Oliver Arnold.
8. Clarissa Lamphere born 12 August 1794 married Ezekiel Curry.
In PIONEER AND PATRIOT FAMILIES OF BRADFORD COUNTY, PENNSYLYANIA by noted historian Clement F. Heverly, 1913, he stated - "Samuel Lamphere, a soldier of the Revolutionary war, came from Connecticut to Columbia with Nathaniel Morgan in 1800. In 1817 he exchanged his place with John Calkins for a property in West Burlington where he died March 18, 1834, aged 82 years. His wife, Mary, survived him and a daughter who had married Ephraim Cleveland." It is in error as Samuel Lamphere did not remove to Bradford County with the Morgan party. The Morgans, Battersons, Canfields, Bennetts, and Watkins families were the five families who removed from Connecticut and were enumerated in Ulster Township, Luzerne County (that portion that became Columbia Township, Bradford County), Pennsylvania in 1800. Samuel Lamphere had not lived in Connecticut, but in Bennington County, Vermont for over twenty years and where he and his family were still enumerated in 1800. Because of Samuel's close proximity to the Morgan family within a few years is perhaps how the error occurred.
In THE GENEALOGY OF THE CLEVELAND and CLEAVELAND FAMILIES, 1899, Stafford C. Cleveland prepared a family history of Ephraim Cleveland and stated "after marriage moved first to Freehold, Conn., and thence to the valley of Sugar Creek, Pa., on land claimed by the State of Conn. Stopped first n. (near) Sheshequin, rem. later to a point on same creek, 3 miles w. (west) of site of Troy. There he bought of Mr. Holcomb, a pioneer, his small beginning in the woods, and remained there several years. The location was beautiful, although in the midst of a dense wilderness. Sold the place, 1810, for $600, and removed to the Chemung Valley. He bought land of Mr. Pumpelly, agt. (agent) for the ohnson Tract on the hill side E. (east) and 2 miles from place inhabited by Catharine Montour, an ill-chosen spot. Lived there 4 years and sold for $100. With their family of 7 children they emigrated spring of 1814 to Cincinnati, going by way of Olean, Cattaraugus co., N. Y., and the Alleghany and Ohio rivers. The excellent mother d. (died) suddenly of pleurisy. [Er could not find her grave at Cincinnati, 1819.] It was the singular freak of the father to return at once to Catharine. He m. (married) a 2d wife and soon fell sick of malarial fever, and d. (died) after a lingering illness of several months, leaving the family quite destitute. There was no alternative for the children but to scatter about among families for such service as they could render. Their parents had been affectionate, but had been able to leave them nothing but their own unstained character and reputation for integrity and personal worth. At an early period in Pa. (Pennsylvania) they had become members of the Baptist church." The genealogy printed in 1899 indicates that - "Ephraim Cleveland b. Salisbury, Conn., July 21, 1773, d. Catharine Montour, Chemung Valley (now Schuyler co.), N. Y., Jan. 5, 1815, m. 1st, Salisbury, Oct. 11, 1795, Keziah Noble of S., b. Nov. 22, 1774, d. Cincinnati, O., May 10, 1814, da. Peter. He m. 2d, Mrs. VanGorder, wid.Ch. by 1st m.: Cynthia Cleveland, b. Oct. 7, 1797, d. Apr. 7, 1799, Er Cleveland, b. Mar. 25, 1799, n. Sheshequin, Bradford co., Pa., Luther Cleveland, b. Feb. 2, 1801, on Sugar Creek, n. Troy, Bradford co., Pa., Lucinda Cleveland, b. July 15, 1802, on Sugar Creek, n. Troy, Noble Cleveland, b. Mar. 7, 1804, on Sugar Creek, n. Troy, Maria Cleveland, b. Nov. 7, 1805, on Sugar Creek, Edward Cleveland, b. June 4, 1807, d. 1809-11, by falling into a kettle of boiling maple sap, Sementha Cleveland, b. July 4, 1810, Catharine, N. Y., Charles D. Cleveland, b. Apr. 21, 1813, d. June 27, 1815, 2d m. (marriage), s. p. (sine prole, without issue)."
Ephraim Cleveland was enumerated in Wysox, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania in 1800 with one male under age ten (born 1791-1800), one male of age sixteen and under age twenty six (born 1775-84), and one female of age sixteen and under age twenty six (born 1775-84). The one son in the household would agree with the son born in 1799 in the above genealogy. They lived in that portion that later became Columbia Township, Bradford County, Pennsylvania. Thus, the Cleveland family and Lamphere family certainly knew each other until the Cleveland families removal to Catharine, New York.
Luther Cleveland's obituary appears in the Havana Journal, Montour, New York, February 10,1872 and it reads in part - "Luther Cleveland was born on Sugar Creek, Pa., Feb. 8d, 1801, of parents who were of Connecticut birth and training. Ephraim Cleveland the father, and Keziah Noble, his wife, had settled there in tbe wilderness on land claimed by the State of Connecticut, and near the site of the present village of Troy in the County of Bradford." This obituary would agree with the Cleveland Genealogy that Ephraim Cleveland married Keziah Noble. Thus, if Samuel Lamphere had a daughter marry Ephraim Cleveland, she was perhaps his second wife and had first married a VanGorder.
The HISTORY OF BRADFORD COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA, 1878 stated - "Nathaniel Merritt came from Vermont in September, 1807, and settled on John McKean's farm. When Mr. Merritt came in, Samuel Baldwin lived on the Smead farm, and Ephraim Cleveland on John Calkin's farm." These farms were in what is now Columbia Township. This would seem to indicate there was some acquaintance of the families as Samuel Lamphere traded his property (perhaps the property that Ephraim Cleveland had owned) with John Calkins when he removed to Burlington and John Calkins resided on the property in Columbia Township.
Enumerated in Sunderland, Bennington County, Vermont in 1790 with one male of age sixteen and upwards (born before 1774), three males under age sixteen (born 1775-90), and six females. One could assume that one of the females was his wife and the other five females were daughters. The daughters probably consisted of Betsey, Lydia, Clarissa and two daughters whose names are currently unknown, one being the mother of Hiram Andrus and one being the mother of several children by Oliver Arnold.
Samuel Lanpher, Sarah Lanpher, wife to said Saml, & Miriam Huit, all of Manchester in the County of Bennington, State of Vermont "convey land in Manchester to Josiah Lockwood of Sunderland, consisting of "thirty nine acres of the north end of Lot No 15 second division," dated 22 March 1797. Signed by Samuel Lanphar, Sarah her x mark Lanphar, Miriam Huet (Manchester Deed 5:96-97). Sarah and Miriam were sisters and this was land they had inherited from their deceased father, Stephen Soper.
The Selectmen of Manchester leased unto Samuel Lanpher, "a certain farm or tract of land lying & being situated in Manchester & in No 10 in the first division containing 100 acres known by the name of Society Lot." The lease outlines certain provisions and payments and the description indicates "to the river bank," dated 27 April 1797. Signed as Samuel Lanpher, lessee (Manchester Deed 5:86).
Enumerated in Manchester, Bennington County, Vermont in 1800 with one male under age ten (born 1791-1800), one male of age ten and under age sixteen (born 1785-90), one male of age sixteen and under age twenty six (born 1775-84), one male of age forty five and over (born before 1755), one female under age ten (born 1791-1800), two females of age ten and under age sixteen (born 1785-90), one female of age sixteen and under age twenty six (born 1775-84), and one female of age forty five and over (born before 1755). Enumerated in neighboring households were Solomon Soper and Jonathan Corey, both of whom would remove to the same area in Pennsylvania as the Lamphere family. They perhaps removed together and the date may have been 1802 when Jonathan Corey sold 153 acres in Manchester on 15 April 1802 and removed to what is now eastern Rutland Township, Tioga County, Pennsylvania, which bordered what is now Columbia Township, Bradford County, Pennsylvania, living not far from the Lamphere and Soper families. Solomon Soper and family settled in western Columbia Township, Bradford County, near the Tioga County line and lived not far from the Lampheres in the same township. Jonathan Corey's son, Harris Corey and family and Solomon's son, Levi Lamphere and family would both remove to Cincinnati, Ohio and were enumerated in neighboring households in 1820.
"Samuel Lamphair and Sarah Lamphair both of Manchester in the County of Bennington & State of Vermont," sold to Elijah Bush, "one equal fourth part of the north half of Lot No 11 in the first division in said town of Manchester," "which said fourth part as aforesaid fell to me the said Sarah Lamphair as being an heir & Daughter of Stephen Soper deceased said fourth part contains about seven acres & one half of land." Dated 4 December 1801. Samuel signed and Sarah signed by mark (Manchester Deed 6:178).
On 15 April 1802, Samuel transferred the land he had acquired five years earlier by lease, to Samuel Pettibone. Signed as Samuel Lamphair (Manchester Deed 6:505). One of the witnesses was Jonathan Corey. The date is also the same date that Jonathan Corey sold 153 acres in Manchester. The Corey families removal to Pennsylvania, and living not far from the Lamphere family, is outlined earlier in this sketch.
Samuel Lamphar and Sarah his wife deeded land in Manchester to Sereno Swift, "the said Sarah as Daughter & one of the heirs of Stephen Soper, late of said Manchester, deceased." Dated 7 December 1802. Samuel Lampher signed and Sarah Lampher signed by mark (Manchester deed 6:268).
Samuel and family evidently removed to Bradford County, Pennsylvania by 1805 when his daughter became the second wife of Oliver Arnold and had a child, Franklin Arnold born 25 July 1806. Oliver Arnold had been living in the Ulster and Tioga areas of what would become Bradford County for several years before the Lamphere family arrived.
Samuel Lamphere and Richard Lamphere appear on an 1808 assessment list (probably created in 1807 for the 1808 tax year) of Tioga Township, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, the township at that time covering a broad swath from east to west of the northern portion of present Bradford County, Pennsylvania. Shortly, thereafter the area became Smithfield Township, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania and within a few more years Bradford County, Pennsylvania.
Samuel Lamphere appears on the 1810 census enumeration of Smithfield, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania (Bradford County where he resided had not yet been formed). Smithfield covered several present day townships in Bradford County. The family consisted of one male of age sixteen and under age twenty six (born 1784-94), one male of age twenty six and under age forty five (born 1766-84), one male of age forty five and over (born before 1765), one female of age ten and under age sixteen (born 1795-1800), one female of age sixteen and under age twenty six (born 1784-94), and one female of age forty five and over (born before 1765).
In 1812, sixty five residents in what would become Columbia and Wells Townships, Bradford County, Pennsylvania, later that year, signed a petition for a road, which included, "Samuel Lanphar and Levy Lanphar." "To the honorable the President and Judges of the Court of General Sessions of the County of Lycoming your Petitioners would respectfully show that a train of settlements consisting of the improvements of your petitioners exists from the New York line near the seventy ninth milestone & up Seelys Creek and on the lands dividing the waters of Sugar Creek and Seelys Creek and also on sugar Creek State to the State road near Moses Tailors & that it would be for the general benefit of these settlements if a County road should be laid out communicating with the public road leading on to New Town & that their settlements are by a number of miles too far to the westward to derive any benefit from the State road leading from Sugar Creek down Bentlys Creek to New Town in New York. Your Petitioners therefore request that your honors would authorise & direct that a County road should be established beginning at the public road leading to New Town New York about sixty rods east of the seventy ninth milestone running from thence to pirsue the most direct & convenient course so as to form a Junction with the State road near Moses Tailors on Sugar Creek the distance being about fourteen miles and your Petitioners as in duty bound will ever pray &c." The proposed road, in present terms, was to be constructed from the state line to Mosherville to Coryland to Austinville to Sylvania, following the present routes of 328, 549, Coryland Road, Baptist Hill Road, Lodge Hill Road, and Iron Mine Road.
Samuel and Levi Lamphere appear on the 1813 assessment list of Smithfield Township, Bradford County, Pennsylvania. Smithfield included a much larger area than present day and Columbia Township where they lived had not yet been formed.
Samuel Lamphere apears on the first assessment of Columbia Township, Bradford County, Pennsylvania in 1814 with 5 improved acres, 88 unimproved acres, 1 house, 3 horses and 2 cows. There were notations to deduct one cow and that the house and land were transferred from Aaron Squires. Levi Lamphere also appears on the same assessment with 44 unimproved acres, 1 house, 1 horse, and 1 cow with a notation to deduct 1 horse and 1 cow.
Samuel appears on the 1815 assessment list of Columbia Township with 50 improved acres, 185 unimproved acres, 2 horses, and 2 cows. Levi Lamphere does not appear.
On 7 February 1815, Samuel Lamphar (spelling in deed) and Abigail Lamphar, his wife, of Columbia Township, Bradford County, Pennsylvania, deeded 95 and 4/10 of an acre in Columbia Township "whereas the said Lamphar is now seated" to Benoni Watkins of Columbia Township on warrant parcel 963 (Bradford County Deed 2:236). Warrant parcel 963 consisted of 1,094 acres and was situated where the present village of Austinville is located in Columbia Township, Bradford County, Pennsylvania. Any members of the Lamphere family who may have died when living there would have probably been buried in the historic Morgan Cemetery, where Nathaniel Morgan has a memorial inscribed 1813 and which was a community cemetery.
Samuel appears on the 1816 assessment list of Columbia Township with 50 improved acres, 185 unimproved acres, 2 horses and 2 cows. There was a notation that 135 acres were transferred to Benoni Watkins.
Samuel appears on the 1817 assessment list of Columbia Township with 24 improved acres, 70 unimproved acres, 1 horse and 2 cows. Richard Lamphere and Levi Lamphere appear on the same assessment list, each with 1 cow. Samuel appears on the 1818 assessment list with the same acreage, 3 horses and 1 cow. Richard and Levi are noted as both removing from the township. The 1819 assessment list contained the same acreage with the notation it was transferred to John Calkins and that Samuel removed from the township.
Samuel first appears on the 1818 assessment list of Burlington Township, Bradford County, Pennsylvania with 12 improved acres, 20 unimproved acres, 1 house, 2 horses, and 2 cows.
Samuel was enumerated in Burlington Township in 1820 with two males of age ten and under age sixteen (born 1805-10), one male of age forty five and over (born before 1775), and one female of age forty five and over (born before 1775). The two males of age ten and under age sixteen were likely his grandsons, Hiram Andrus and Hiram Woodard that were named in his Will.
Enumerated in Burlington Township in 1830 with one male of age sixty and under age seventy (born 1761-70), and one female of age fifty and under age sixty (born 1771-80).
Samuel last appears on the 1834 (compiled fall of 1833) assessment list of Burlington Township with 23 improved acres and 2 cows.
Samuel applied for a pension 3 February 1834, while a resident of Burlington, Bradford County, Pennsylvania, and stated he was 81 years of age and was born 15 March 1752 New London, Connecticut. He volunteered for nine months in 1775 at Nine Partners, New York under Captain Smith Sutherland to pursue Tories in that neighborhood along the Hudson. In July 1776, after the expiration of his term of nine months, he enlisted in a company commanded by Captain John Steiback at Rhinebeck, New York for the term of six months, which was under the command of Colonel Morris Graham, Lieutenant Colonel Charles Graham, and Second Lieutenant Stephen Edget. He was employed in guarding the East River and then went to White Plains, New York and was in the battle of White Plains. He was then stationed at Peekskill, New York until discharged in June 1777. He then removed to Manchester, Vermont and volunteered there in the spring of 1778 under Captain Thomas Barney and was involved in scouting parties and went to Lake Champlain. He signed his name as Samuel Lamphere. He was inscribed on the rolls of the State of Pennsylvania at $56.66 per year, certificate issued 18 February 1834 with arrears to 4 September 1833 and a semi-annual allowance for a total of $170.00 (Pension file S5671).
KNOW All men by these presents that I SAMUEL LAMPHERE of the township of Burlington County of Bradford and state of Pennsylvania do make and ordain this my last will and testament in manner and form following viz I give and bequeath to Hiram Andrus, my grandson five sheep after one year from this date one yoke of two year old steers which I lease to the said Hiram Andrus for the term of four years from the first day of the present month to be leased to him in manner and sale for letting out steers, Provided the said Hiram Andrus does well with the steers while the lease runs and tries to manage well for himself he is forever after the lease runs out to have the steers as his own to be left at the discretion of my executor viz Allen McKean. I give and bequeath to Ann Woodward daughter of Hiram Woodward my grandson two sheep to be given to her after one year from this date. I give and bequeath to Eleanor Woodward daughter of the said Hiram Woodward two sheep to be given to her at the expiration of one year from this date likewise I give and bequeath to Ann & Eleanor Woodward one bed after my wife Mary has done with the same or at her decease. Provided by wife Mary sees or thinks proper to give the bed to the said Ann & Eleanor Woodward at any time she is to give such bed clothes together with the bed as she my wife Mary may think proper. I give and bequeath to Hiram Andrus one drag & teeth. I give and bequeath to Harriet Curry my grand daughter one black walnut chest to be given to her after my wife Mary has done with the same or after her death. I give and bequeath to my daughter Lydia Jones one dollar. I give and bequeath to my son Levi Lamphere one dollar. I give and bequeath to my daughter Clarissa Curry the like sum of one dollar. I give and bequeath to Julia Arnold my granddaughter one bed and bedding to be given to her whenever my wife Mary thinks proper to do the same. All my goods and chattels such as cider barrels, plough irons, crops of mine which are now on the ground together with one good cow are at my decease to be sold at private sale or public vendue by and of the discretion of My Dear Wife & Allen McKean the same to be sold for the purpose of satisfying or discharging outstanding debts of mine. I give and bequeath to my dear beloved wife Mary one cow and Eleven sheep. All the rest and residue of my estate goods and chattels what is left if any after paying my debts I give and bequeath to my Dear beloved wife Mary the lease or use of the same during her natural life and after her death the same to be divided & given to my children together with hers. I nonimate and constitute and appoint Allen McKean executor to settled and collect all my debts and my wife Mary executrix of this my last will and testament hereby revoking all other and former wills by me made at any time heretofore. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 18th day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two. Signed Samuel Lamphere.
Signed sealed and published and declared by the said testator Samuel Lamphere as and for his last will and testament in presence of us who subscribed our names as witnesses thereto in the presence of the said testator.
Joseph Hilton
Lewis Adams
Leonard Upham
So much of the clause of the foregoing Will as bequeathed to Eleanor & Ann Woodard daughters of Hiram Woodard each two sheep to be null and void and the said four sheep I give & bequeath to Mary Lamphere my wife to her disposal & use forever after my decease. And likewise to much of the foregoing as bequeathed to Ann & Eleanor Woodard daughters of the said Hiram Woodard one to bed to be null and void and of no effect and the said bed I give & bequeath to Fanny Curry daughter of Ezekiel Curry after the decease of Mary Lamphere my wife. I also appoint Ezekiel Curry together with Allen McKean as administrators to settle my estate after my decease. Signed Samuel Lamphere.
Witness this 4th day of March one thousand eight hundred thirty four.
Signed sealed published and declared by the said testator Sam'l Lamphere as and for his last will and testamenmt in presence of us who subsribe our names as witnesses thereto in the presence of the said testator.
Myron Ballard
Charles Dewey
So much of the foregoing will as bequeathed to Mary Lamphere my wife fourteen sheep to be as follows after the decease of Mary my wife the said fourteen sheep I give and bequeath to Clarissa Curry my daughter and her heirs. Also so much of the foregoing will as appoints Ezekiel Curry one of the administrators to settle my estate after my decease to be null and void and of no effect. I hereby nominate constitute and appoint Allen McKean together with Mary Lamphere adminstrators and executors of settle my debts collect all dues dispose of property arrange affairs of my estate make bargains relating thereto after my decease and all such bargains sales settlements disposals arrangments of my estate & affairs to be valid and effectual as much so as though done by myself My wish and will is that there be no letters of administration taken out to settle my estate But the settlement of the same to be made by the above named persons viz Mary Lamphere my wife & Allen McKean.
Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this the eighth day of March one thousand eight hundred & thirty four. Signed Samuel Lamphere
Signed sealed published and declared by the said testator Samuel Lamphere as and for his last will and testament in presence of us who have subscribed our names as witnesses thereto in the presence of the said testator.
Ely Loomis
Nehemiah Pratt
Ephraim Blakesley
Will proved 12 May 1834.
The several children attributed to Samuel, by researchers, namely Sarah born 1778, Betsey born 1780, Mary born 1783, Ruth born 1785, and Samuel born 1787 in Connecticut are not his children, but a different Samuel Lamphere, as the Samuel Lamphere of this memorial lived in New York and thence Vermont during those births. The Samuel and Sarah Lamphere who these children were born to never left Windham County, Connecticut and died there (Pomfret church records).
No memorial marker. No documentation he is buried here. A 1939 Bradford County survey of veteran burials, over one hundred years after his death, indicated he was buried at the Old Methodist Church Cemetery in Burlington. He was more likely to have been buried at the Hilton Cemetery near where he lived and where some family members are buried (grandson Hiram Woodard). Samuel lived very close to the cemetery versus The Old Methodist Church Cemetery about 3.8 miles east from where Samuel resided. Moses Calkin was a near neighbor, served with him during the Revolutionary War, and filed a deposition on his behalf when Samuel applied for a pension and he is buried in the Hilton Cemetery. There are several burials at Hilton that predate Samuel's decease. There is a crude native headstone and footstone marking a grave in the row in front of his grandson, Hiram Woodard, which could be Samuel. He is not buried in Overton Township, which some have indicated and he never lived in Overton Township, which is far removed from Burlington Township.
Children:
1. Richard Lamphere.
2. Levi Lamphere.
3. daughter m. Woodward.
4. daughter m. Andrus.
5. Lydia Lamphere married Stephen Jones, resided Columbia Township for a short time after marriage.
6. daughter married Ephraim Cleveland.
7. daughter m. Oliver Arnold.
8. Clarissa Lamphere born 12 August 1794 married Ezekiel Curry.
In PIONEER AND PATRIOT FAMILIES OF BRADFORD COUNTY, PENNSYLYANIA by noted historian Clement F. Heverly, 1913, he stated - "Samuel Lamphere, a soldier of the Revolutionary war, came from Connecticut to Columbia with Nathaniel Morgan in 1800. In 1817 he exchanged his place with John Calkins for a property in West Burlington where he died March 18, 1834, aged 82 years. His wife, Mary, survived him and a daughter who had married Ephraim Cleveland." It is in error as Samuel Lamphere did not remove to Bradford County with the Morgan party. The Morgans, Battersons, Canfields, Bennetts, and Watkins families were the five families who removed from Connecticut and were enumerated in Ulster Township, Luzerne County (that portion that became Columbia Township, Bradford County), Pennsylvania in 1800. Samuel Lamphere had not lived in Connecticut, but in Bennington County, Vermont for over twenty years and where he and his family were still enumerated in 1800. Because of Samuel's close proximity to the Morgan family within a few years is perhaps how the error occurred.
In THE GENEALOGY OF THE CLEVELAND and CLEAVELAND FAMILIES, 1899, Stafford C. Cleveland prepared a family history of Ephraim Cleveland and stated "after marriage moved first to Freehold, Conn., and thence to the valley of Sugar Creek, Pa., on land claimed by the State of Conn. Stopped first n. (near) Sheshequin, rem. later to a point on same creek, 3 miles w. (west) of site of Troy. There he bought of Mr. Holcomb, a pioneer, his small beginning in the woods, and remained there several years. The location was beautiful, although in the midst of a dense wilderness. Sold the place, 1810, for $600, and removed to the Chemung Valley. He bought land of Mr. Pumpelly, agt. (agent) for the ohnson Tract on the hill side E. (east) and 2 miles from place inhabited by Catharine Montour, an ill-chosen spot. Lived there 4 years and sold for $100. With their family of 7 children they emigrated spring of 1814 to Cincinnati, going by way of Olean, Cattaraugus co., N. Y., and the Alleghany and Ohio rivers. The excellent mother d. (died) suddenly of pleurisy. [Er could not find her grave at Cincinnati, 1819.] It was the singular freak of the father to return at once to Catharine. He m. (married) a 2d wife and soon fell sick of malarial fever, and d. (died) after a lingering illness of several months, leaving the family quite destitute. There was no alternative for the children but to scatter about among families for such service as they could render. Their parents had been affectionate, but had been able to leave them nothing but their own unstained character and reputation for integrity and personal worth. At an early period in Pa. (Pennsylvania) they had become members of the Baptist church." The genealogy printed in 1899 indicates that - "Ephraim Cleveland b. Salisbury, Conn., July 21, 1773, d. Catharine Montour, Chemung Valley (now Schuyler co.), N. Y., Jan. 5, 1815, m. 1st, Salisbury, Oct. 11, 1795, Keziah Noble of S., b. Nov. 22, 1774, d. Cincinnati, O., May 10, 1814, da. Peter. He m. 2d, Mrs. VanGorder, wid.Ch. by 1st m.: Cynthia Cleveland, b. Oct. 7, 1797, d. Apr. 7, 1799, Er Cleveland, b. Mar. 25, 1799, n. Sheshequin, Bradford co., Pa., Luther Cleveland, b. Feb. 2, 1801, on Sugar Creek, n. Troy, Bradford co., Pa., Lucinda Cleveland, b. July 15, 1802, on Sugar Creek, n. Troy, Noble Cleveland, b. Mar. 7, 1804, on Sugar Creek, n. Troy, Maria Cleveland, b. Nov. 7, 1805, on Sugar Creek, Edward Cleveland, b. June 4, 1807, d. 1809-11, by falling into a kettle of boiling maple sap, Sementha Cleveland, b. July 4, 1810, Catharine, N. Y., Charles D. Cleveland, b. Apr. 21, 1813, d. June 27, 1815, 2d m. (marriage), s. p. (sine prole, without issue)."
Ephraim Cleveland was enumerated in Wysox, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania in 1800 with one male under age ten (born 1791-1800), one male of age sixteen and under age twenty six (born 1775-84), and one female of age sixteen and under age twenty six (born 1775-84). The one son in the household would agree with the son born in 1799 in the above genealogy. They lived in that portion that later became Columbia Township, Bradford County, Pennsylvania. Thus, the Cleveland family and Lamphere family certainly knew each other until the Cleveland families removal to Catharine, New York.
Luther Cleveland's obituary appears in the Havana Journal, Montour, New York, February 10,1872 and it reads in part - "Luther Cleveland was born on Sugar Creek, Pa., Feb. 8d, 1801, of parents who were of Connecticut birth and training. Ephraim Cleveland the father, and Keziah Noble, his wife, had settled there in tbe wilderness on land claimed by the State of Connecticut, and near the site of the present village of Troy in the County of Bradford." This obituary would agree with the Cleveland Genealogy that Ephraim Cleveland married Keziah Noble. Thus, if Samuel Lamphere had a daughter marry Ephraim Cleveland, she was perhaps his second wife and had first married a VanGorder.
The HISTORY OF BRADFORD COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA, 1878 stated - "Nathaniel Merritt came from Vermont in September, 1807, and settled on John McKean's farm. When Mr. Merritt came in, Samuel Baldwin lived on the Smead farm, and Ephraim Cleveland on John Calkin's farm." These farms were in what is now Columbia Township. This would seem to indicate there was some acquaintance of the families as Samuel Lamphere traded his property (perhaps the property that Ephraim Cleveland had owned) with John Calkins when he removed to Burlington and John Calkins resided on the property in Columbia Township.
Gravesite Details
In the publication, Pioneer and Patriot Families of Bradford County, Pennsylvania by Clement F. Heverly, 1913, a noted historian, indicated on page 351 that Samuel Lamphere was buried in the Hilton Cemetery, which I would agree with.
