Nicholas E. DARROW
He died at Clarendon, NY and was the son of John DARROW and Eunice EGGLESTON.
Nicholas married 30DEC1830 Sarah A/E SWEET(b.Saratoga.Co,NY d/o Noah). She had come to Clarendon from Saratoga County, NY in 1815.
They were farmers.
His father, John, worked in Wheatland, Monroe Co, NY from 1811 to approximately 1813 before returning to Columbia Co, NY. There he sold his farm and was nearly ready to move to Genesee Co, NY when he died 22MAR1813.
John DARROW was both a blacksmith and farmer. He was one of the mechanics who made the chain that was put across the Hudson River to block the British fleet(Links at the State Library in Albany NY). He and three of his brothers served in the Revolutionary War.
His mother in June 1815 moved the family to the farm his father had purchased two years earlier. There she married Bradstreet SPAFFORD who had settled in Clarendon about the year 1811 or 1812.
Nicholas lived most of his life(24 years) from 1815 on his farm at Clarendon except for a short time in Murray and Ohio.
He attended the first school house in Clarendon. It stood a little south of Clarendon Village and was built of logs in 1813 and in size was about fourteen by eighteen feet square with a slab floor and benches. The writing desks were made by borrowing holes in the wall and driving pins and putting boards on them.
In 1864, he had been the father of ten children with nine living. One son was serving with the Union Army in the Army of the Potomoc.
..Bio taken from Nicholas' notes found on p.206-207 in the Pioneer History of Orleans County, NY as narrated APR1864.
He died at Clarendon, NY and was the son of John DARROW and Eunice EGGLESTON.
Nicholas married 30DEC1830 Sarah A/E SWEET(b.Saratoga.Co,NY d/o Noah). She had come to Clarendon from Saratoga County, NY in 1815.
They were farmers.
His father, John, worked in Wheatland, Monroe Co, NY from 1811 to approximately 1813 before returning to Columbia Co, NY. There he sold his farm and was nearly ready to move to Genesee Co, NY when he died 22MAR1813.
John DARROW was both a blacksmith and farmer. He was one of the mechanics who made the chain that was put across the Hudson River to block the British fleet(Links at the State Library in Albany NY). He and three of his brothers served in the Revolutionary War.
His mother in June 1815 moved the family to the farm his father had purchased two years earlier. There she married Bradstreet SPAFFORD who had settled in Clarendon about the year 1811 or 1812.
Nicholas lived most of his life(24 years) from 1815 on his farm at Clarendon except for a short time in Murray and Ohio.
He attended the first school house in Clarendon. It stood a little south of Clarendon Village and was built of logs in 1813 and in size was about fourteen by eighteen feet square with a slab floor and benches. The writing desks were made by borrowing holes in the wall and driving pins and putting boards on them.
In 1864, he had been the father of ten children with nine living. One son was serving with the Union Army in the Army of the Potomoc.
..Bio taken from Nicholas' notes found on p.206-207 in the Pioneer History of Orleans County, NY as narrated APR1864.
Nicholas E. DARROW
He died at Clarendon, NY and was the son of John DARROW and Eunice EGGLESTON.
Nicholas married 30DEC1830 Sarah A/E SWEET(b.Saratoga.Co,NY d/o Noah). She had come to Clarendon from Saratoga County, NY in 1815.
They were farmers.
His father, John, worked in Wheatland, Monroe Co, NY from 1811 to approximately 1813 before returning to Columbia Co, NY. There he sold his farm and was nearly ready to move to Genesee Co, NY when he died 22MAR1813.
John DARROW was both a blacksmith and farmer. He was one of the mechanics who made the chain that was put across the Hudson River to block the British fleet(Links at the State Library in Albany NY). He and three of his brothers served in the Revolutionary War.
His mother in June 1815 moved the family to the farm his father had purchased two years earlier. There she married Bradstreet SPAFFORD who had settled in Clarendon about the year 1811 or 1812.
Nicholas lived most of his life(24 years) from 1815 on his farm at Clarendon except for a short time in Murray and Ohio.
He attended the first school house in Clarendon. It stood a little south of Clarendon Village and was built of logs in 1813 and in size was about fourteen by eighteen feet square with a slab floor and benches. The writing desks were made by borrowing holes in the wall and driving pins and putting boards on them.
In 1864, he had been the father of ten children with nine living. One son was serving with the Union Army in the Army of the Potomoc.
..Bio taken from Nicholas' notes found on p.206-207 in the Pioneer History of Orleans County, NY as narrated APR1864.
He died at Clarendon, NY and was the son of John DARROW and Eunice EGGLESTON.
Nicholas married 30DEC1830 Sarah A/E SWEET(b.Saratoga.Co,NY d/o Noah). She had come to Clarendon from Saratoga County, NY in 1815.
They were farmers.
His father, John, worked in Wheatland, Monroe Co, NY from 1811 to approximately 1813 before returning to Columbia Co, NY. There he sold his farm and was nearly ready to move to Genesee Co, NY when he died 22MAR1813.
John DARROW was both a blacksmith and farmer. He was one of the mechanics who made the chain that was put across the Hudson River to block the British fleet(Links at the State Library in Albany NY). He and three of his brothers served in the Revolutionary War.
His mother in June 1815 moved the family to the farm his father had purchased two years earlier. There she married Bradstreet SPAFFORD who had settled in Clarendon about the year 1811 or 1812.
Nicholas lived most of his life(24 years) from 1815 on his farm at Clarendon except for a short time in Murray and Ohio.
He attended the first school house in Clarendon. It stood a little south of Clarendon Village and was built of logs in 1813 and in size was about fourteen by eighteen feet square with a slab floor and benches. The writing desks were made by borrowing holes in the wall and driving pins and putting boards on them.
In 1864, he had been the father of ten children with nine living. One son was serving with the Union Army in the Army of the Potomoc.
..Bio taken from Nicholas' notes found on p.206-207 in the Pioneer History of Orleans County, NY as narrated APR1864.
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