Census of 1850 Orwell, Bradford, PA
J W Payson 25 PA
Elizabeth Payson 35 CT
A E Payson 7 PA
C A Payson 5 PA
Mason Tucker 26 PA
Ambrose Higgins 11 PA
Census of 1860 Orwell, Bradford, PA
J W Payson 44
Elizabeth Payson 45
Cynthia Payson 15
Elizabeth Payson 9
Martha Payson 6
Census of 1870 Orwell, Bradford, PA
John W Payson 54
Elizabeth E Payson 55
Cintha Payson 25 School Teacher
Parintha E Payson 19
Martha R Payson 16
Fred Lackey 13
Her mother was Perintha Bronson Payson, the first wife of John W. Payson, whose children were known by their births before widower John married his second wife in 1850. Perintha named this Cynthia for her own sister, the Cynthia Ann Bronson who married a Thoophilus Humphrey twenty years before he went off to the Civil War, lucky to be one who returned alive. Some think Perintha and Cynthia had no records, but their names are mixed in with those of relatives at their church. They and two brothers were brought from Connecticut in 1839 by their uncle Ira Bronson, after their parents, Dr. Samuel Bronson and Ursula Humphrey, died back in Connecticut. They were of an age soon to pick a church and a spouse.
The family's church in Pennsylvania was Presbyterian, but disavowed predestination. Their particular congregation instead essentially believed God reacted to the moment, not future unknowns. If correcting things wrong right now was the priority, that was put in to action when their uncle Ira brought them all out of Connecticut.
The congregation was content merely to substitute votes by elected elders, for everyone instead having to gather to vote. Had anyone noticed such gatherings were bad in times of contagion? Key "signs of the times" were an excess of early adult deaths and the noticeable number becoming doctors. Tuberculosis was not called that yet, but had grown rampant, as crowding increased. TB's contagion was not well understood, pre-Pasteur.
---------------Research notes from Findagrave member JBrown, 2021, Aug.----------
Excerpts from chapters in a records book follow, and are labelled by church structure. While populations were small, the church was shared with another town, Warren. The still Congregational, things were decided by majority vote of all gathered . Once each had their own church, Orwell became Presbyterian, instead letting elected elders vote on the congregation's behalf.
[Brackets like this mark modern comments.]
Chapter titles and excerpts are from JoyceTice.com. The compiler of the book of records was Victor Charles Detty, Pastor, Federated Church,1930-1943, who in 1999 granted permission to reprint his 1955 compilation at JoyceTice.com . Thus, it is not found at archive.org
==========================================================
SOURCE: "History of the Churches of Orwell" by V. C. Detty , 1955,
==========================================================
From CHAPTER I "Warren and Orwell Congregational Church",
[Warren and Orwell , at first, lacked the population needed to have their own churches]
Page 16 [her Payson grandparents, Betsy and Nathan; her father John with his two siblings, all baptized as infant; the two wives of John, second married in 1850, so children born/baptized in 1840s were from Perintha]
"(quoting Craft, P. 332)
"Mrs. Betsy Payson had two children baptized August 11, 1816; Noah, John Ricks (Wilkes); one Lovina Frances, on May 14, 1819.
"John Wilkes Payson, a son, occupied the farm on the Orwell ridge.... [Orwell Hill?]
"4.John Wilkes, born April 19, 1816, married Perintha Bronson of Orwell township for his first wife, had two children.
"He married second, April 14, 1850, Miss Elizabeth, daughter of Elijah and Martha (Kennedy) Alger of Ellington, Conn., and had three children:
(a) Perintha Elizabeth, (married William Upson); (b.) Martha Rodella, married Warren Ford...
... (c) William Gillespie who died young."
================
From CHAPTER IV, "PRESBYTERIAN MEMBERS, 1830-1850"
Page 60 or so?
"Nathan Payson and his wife were granted a letter of dismissal August 11, 1832 to the church at Warren.
Page 63 [Ira joins officially when letter comes from prior church in Conn., two Bronson children brought with him must have had infant baptism records missing as they were now baptized, presumably after taking a class, aunt Cynthia meets future spouse Theophilus in class and marries the next year, 1843. Perintha either had her records lost/name too damaged to read, or she declined to join this church.]
1841-"The elders were ordained July 17, when Ira Bronson and his wife Laura and their daughter, Laura E., were received members by letter from the Congregational Church in Burlington, Conn."
1842-"received by examination into the communion of the church: ... Lyman H. Bronson, .... Theophilus Humphrey, ...,Cynthia Ann Bronson accepted baptism
"Of this number, Theophilus Humphrey, born Feb 6, 1823 in Orwell, was the youngest son of Dr. Dudley Humphrey, married there July 4, 1843 a little over a year after joining the church, Cynthia Ann Bronson, who was born January 10, 1821, daughter of Dr. Samuel S. and Ursula (Humphrey) Bronson. In 1862 he became a Lieutenant-Colonel of a regiment of Pennsylvania volunteers, and came out of the war without loss of limb. He engaged in business in the Pennsylvania oil industry and lived at Reno, Pa. He later received a pension. His son, Welling Eugene, died from drowning at Walnut Pond, Pa., at the age of 16 years. Theophilus Humphrey retired to a veteran's home in Topeka, Kansas. At his death, his nephew George Frisbie, son of Hanson, formerly of Orwell, and living nearby gave him kindly attention and furnished burial in the plot of George Frisbie.
================
From CHAPTER VI, "ORWELL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, 1856-1897"
Page 77
"Elder Nathan Payson, on April 26, 1856 requested to be released from active service as an elder on account of infirmities of age"
Page 87 [this Cynthia and half-sister Perintha baptized here, others either baptized elsewhere or records here were lost]
"Cynthia A. Payson (baptized April 3, 1847)"
"Perintha Payson (baptized in 1852) daughter of J. W. and Elizabeth Payson, married March 29, 1888, William Upson.
================
From CHAPTER VII "ORWELL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 1897–1926"
[page 113-114 Story of four orphaned Bronsons brought from Connecticut. Her uncle Ira Bronson brought them after their parents died in Conn.. Perintha's youngest brother was merchant Samuel N. Bronson. Samuel and Ira had own bios. Samuel became an elder , his business success letting him contribute financially to the church. Ira's caretaking of others was noted. In addition to fostering the four, Ira had an adopted daughter, Laura.]
1899 --"At the meeting of the session on July 23, note was taken of the death of the clerk, Elder Samuel N. Bronson July 7th..... after nearly 30 years of service as ruling elder. ...
SAMUEL NEWTON BRONSON was born July 2, 1825, son of Samuel Squire Bronson and his wife Ursula Humphrey, daughter of Giles Humphrey and Elizabeth Case, his wife, both of West Simsbury, Conn. Samuel N. Bronson's father, a physician, died at the age of 39 years, and Samuel then made his home with his uncle Ira Bronson (born 1784) who brought him to Orwell in 1839...."
"Ira Bronson .... bought of Asa Carpenter a home in Orwell. He returned to Connecticut, bringing with him the four children of his brother who had recently died. They were: Lyman, Samuel, Cynthia and Perinthia. They lived in the "red barn" while the old house purchased from Asa Carpenter was taken down. The new home was "raised" July 4th, 1840. A big dinner was prepared for the men for there were heavy timbers used in building. Ira Bronson died twelve years later in 1852 after a brief illness with pneumonia. James D. Humphrey took possession of the place, inheriting nearly all of Mr. Bronson's property. His wife, Laura Eastabrooks Bronson, was the adopted daughter of Ira Bronson.
Contributor: JBrown, IA, MN, Calif, AustinTX (48697180)
J W Payson 25 PA
Elizabeth Payson 35 CT
A E Payson 7 PA
C A Payson 5 PA
Mason Tucker 26 PA
Ambrose Higgins 11 PA
Census of 1860 Orwell, Bradford, PA
J W Payson 44
Elizabeth Payson 45
Cynthia Payson 15
Elizabeth Payson 9
Martha Payson 6
Census of 1870 Orwell, Bradford, PA
John W Payson 54
Elizabeth E Payson 55
Cintha Payson 25 School Teacher
Parintha E Payson 19
Martha R Payson 16
Fred Lackey 13
Her mother was Perintha Bronson Payson, the first wife of John W. Payson, whose children were known by their births before widower John married his second wife in 1850. Perintha named this Cynthia for her own sister, the Cynthia Ann Bronson who married a Thoophilus Humphrey twenty years before he went off to the Civil War, lucky to be one who returned alive. Some think Perintha and Cynthia had no records, but their names are mixed in with those of relatives at their church. They and two brothers were brought from Connecticut in 1839 by their uncle Ira Bronson, after their parents, Dr. Samuel Bronson and Ursula Humphrey, died back in Connecticut. They were of an age soon to pick a church and a spouse.
The family's church in Pennsylvania was Presbyterian, but disavowed predestination. Their particular congregation instead essentially believed God reacted to the moment, not future unknowns. If correcting things wrong right now was the priority, that was put in to action when their uncle Ira brought them all out of Connecticut.
The congregation was content merely to substitute votes by elected elders, for everyone instead having to gather to vote. Had anyone noticed such gatherings were bad in times of contagion? Key "signs of the times" were an excess of early adult deaths and the noticeable number becoming doctors. Tuberculosis was not called that yet, but had grown rampant, as crowding increased. TB's contagion was not well understood, pre-Pasteur.
---------------Research notes from Findagrave member JBrown, 2021, Aug.----------
Excerpts from chapters in a records book follow, and are labelled by church structure. While populations were small, the church was shared with another town, Warren. The still Congregational, things were decided by majority vote of all gathered . Once each had their own church, Orwell became Presbyterian, instead letting elected elders vote on the congregation's behalf.
[Brackets like this mark modern comments.]
Chapter titles and excerpts are from JoyceTice.com. The compiler of the book of records was Victor Charles Detty, Pastor, Federated Church,1930-1943, who in 1999 granted permission to reprint his 1955 compilation at JoyceTice.com . Thus, it is not found at archive.org
==========================================================
SOURCE: "History of the Churches of Orwell" by V. C. Detty , 1955,
==========================================================
From CHAPTER I "Warren and Orwell Congregational Church",
[Warren and Orwell , at first, lacked the population needed to have their own churches]
Page 16 [her Payson grandparents, Betsy and Nathan; her father John with his two siblings, all baptized as infant; the two wives of John, second married in 1850, so children born/baptized in 1840s were from Perintha]
"(quoting Craft, P. 332)
"Mrs. Betsy Payson had two children baptized August 11, 1816; Noah, John Ricks (Wilkes); one Lovina Frances, on May 14, 1819.
"John Wilkes Payson, a son, occupied the farm on the Orwell ridge.... [Orwell Hill?]
"4.John Wilkes, born April 19, 1816, married Perintha Bronson of Orwell township for his first wife, had two children.
"He married second, April 14, 1850, Miss Elizabeth, daughter of Elijah and Martha (Kennedy) Alger of Ellington, Conn., and had three children:
(a) Perintha Elizabeth, (married William Upson); (b.) Martha Rodella, married Warren Ford...
... (c) William Gillespie who died young."
================
From CHAPTER IV, "PRESBYTERIAN MEMBERS, 1830-1850"
Page 60 or so?
"Nathan Payson and his wife were granted a letter of dismissal August 11, 1832 to the church at Warren.
Page 63 [Ira joins officially when letter comes from prior church in Conn., two Bronson children brought with him must have had infant baptism records missing as they were now baptized, presumably after taking a class, aunt Cynthia meets future spouse Theophilus in class and marries the next year, 1843. Perintha either had her records lost/name too damaged to read, or she declined to join this church.]
1841-"The elders were ordained July 17, when Ira Bronson and his wife Laura and their daughter, Laura E., were received members by letter from the Congregational Church in Burlington, Conn."
1842-"received by examination into the communion of the church: ... Lyman H. Bronson, .... Theophilus Humphrey, ...,Cynthia Ann Bronson accepted baptism
"Of this number, Theophilus Humphrey, born Feb 6, 1823 in Orwell, was the youngest son of Dr. Dudley Humphrey, married there July 4, 1843 a little over a year after joining the church, Cynthia Ann Bronson, who was born January 10, 1821, daughter of Dr. Samuel S. and Ursula (Humphrey) Bronson. In 1862 he became a Lieutenant-Colonel of a regiment of Pennsylvania volunteers, and came out of the war without loss of limb. He engaged in business in the Pennsylvania oil industry and lived at Reno, Pa. He later received a pension. His son, Welling Eugene, died from drowning at Walnut Pond, Pa., at the age of 16 years. Theophilus Humphrey retired to a veteran's home in Topeka, Kansas. At his death, his nephew George Frisbie, son of Hanson, formerly of Orwell, and living nearby gave him kindly attention and furnished burial in the plot of George Frisbie.
================
From CHAPTER VI, "ORWELL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, 1856-1897"
Page 77
"Elder Nathan Payson, on April 26, 1856 requested to be released from active service as an elder on account of infirmities of age"
Page 87 [this Cynthia and half-sister Perintha baptized here, others either baptized elsewhere or records here were lost]
"Cynthia A. Payson (baptized April 3, 1847)"
"Perintha Payson (baptized in 1852) daughter of J. W. and Elizabeth Payson, married March 29, 1888, William Upson.
================
From CHAPTER VII "ORWELL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 1897–1926"
[page 113-114 Story of four orphaned Bronsons brought from Connecticut. Her uncle Ira Bronson brought them after their parents died in Conn.. Perintha's youngest brother was merchant Samuel N. Bronson. Samuel and Ira had own bios. Samuel became an elder , his business success letting him contribute financially to the church. Ira's caretaking of others was noted. In addition to fostering the four, Ira had an adopted daughter, Laura.]
1899 --"At the meeting of the session on July 23, note was taken of the death of the clerk, Elder Samuel N. Bronson July 7th..... after nearly 30 years of service as ruling elder. ...
SAMUEL NEWTON BRONSON was born July 2, 1825, son of Samuel Squire Bronson and his wife Ursula Humphrey, daughter of Giles Humphrey and Elizabeth Case, his wife, both of West Simsbury, Conn. Samuel N. Bronson's father, a physician, died at the age of 39 years, and Samuel then made his home with his uncle Ira Bronson (born 1784) who brought him to Orwell in 1839...."
"Ira Bronson .... bought of Asa Carpenter a home in Orwell. He returned to Connecticut, bringing with him the four children of his brother who had recently died. They were: Lyman, Samuel, Cynthia and Perinthia. They lived in the "red barn" while the old house purchased from Asa Carpenter was taken down. The new home was "raised" July 4th, 1840. A big dinner was prepared for the men for there were heavy timbers used in building. Ira Bronson died twelve years later in 1852 after a brief illness with pneumonia. James D. Humphrey took possession of the place, inheriting nearly all of Mr. Bronson's property. His wife, Laura Eastabrooks Bronson, was the adopted daughter of Ira Bronson.
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Census of 1850 Orwell, Bradford, PA
J W Payson 25 PA
Elizabeth Payson 35 CT
A E Payson 7 PA
C A Payson 5 PA
Mason Tucker 26 PA
Ambrose Higgins 11 PA
Census of 1860 Orwell, Bradford, PA
J W Payson 44
Elizabeth Payson 45
Cynthia Payson 15
Elizabeth Payson 9
Martha Payson 6
Census of 1870 Orwell, Bradford, PA
John W Payson 54
Elizabeth E Payson 55
Cintha Payson 25 School Teacher
Parintha E Payson 19
Martha R Payson 16
Fred Lackey 13
Her mother was Perintha Bronson Payson, the first wife of John W. Payson, whose children were known by their births before widower John married his second wife in 1850. Perintha named this Cynthia for her own sister, the Cynthia Ann Bronson who married a Thoophilus Humphrey twenty years before he went off to the Civil War, lucky to be one who returned alive. Some think Perintha and Cynthia had no records, but their names are mixed in with those of relatives at their church. They and two brothers were brought from Connecticut in 1839 by their uncle Ira Bronson, after their parents, Dr. Samuel Bronson and Ursula Humphrey, died back in Connecticut. They were of an age soon to pick a church and a spouse.
The family's church in Pennsylvania was Presbyterian, but disavowed predestination. Their particular congregation instead essentially believed God reacted to the moment, not future unknowns. If correcting things wrong right now was the priority, that was put in to action when their uncle Ira brought them all out of Connecticut.
The congregation was content merely to substitute votes by elected elders, for everyone instead having to gather to vote. Had anyone noticed such gatherings were bad in times of contagion? Key "signs of the times" were an excess of early adult deaths and the noticeable number becoming doctors. Tuberculosis was not called that yet, but had grown rampant, as crowding increased. TB's contagion was not well understood, pre-Pasteur.
---------------Research notes from Findagrave member JBrown, 2021, Aug.----------
Excerpts from chapters in a records book follow, and are labelled by church structure. While populations were small, the church was shared with another town, Warren. The still Congregational, things were decided by majority vote of all gathered . Once each had their own church, Orwell became Presbyterian, instead letting elected elders vote on the congregation's behalf.
[Brackets like this mark modern comments.]
Chapter titles and excerpts are from JoyceTice.com. The compiler of the book of records was Victor Charles Detty, Pastor, Federated Church,1930-1943, who in 1999 granted permission to reprint his 1955 compilation at JoyceTice.com . Thus, it is not found at archive.org
==========================================================
SOURCE: "History of the Churches of Orwell" by V. C. Detty , 1955,
==========================================================
From CHAPTER I "Warren and Orwell Congregational Church",
[Warren and Orwell , at first, lacked the population needed to have their own churches]
Page 16 [her Payson grandparents, Betsy and Nathan; her father John with his two siblings, all baptized as infant; the two wives of John, second married in 1850, so children born/baptized in 1840s were from Perintha]
"(quoting Craft, P. 332)
"Mrs. Betsy Payson had two children baptized August 11, 1816; Noah, John Ricks (Wilkes); one Lovina Frances, on May 14, 1819.
"John Wilkes Payson, a son, occupied the farm on the Orwell ridge.... [Orwell Hill?]
"4.John Wilkes, born April 19, 1816, married Perintha Bronson of Orwell township for his first wife, had two children.
"He married second, April 14, 1850, Miss Elizabeth, daughter of Elijah and Martha (Kennedy) Alger of Ellington, Conn., and had three children:
(a) Perintha Elizabeth, (married William Upson); (b.) Martha Rodella, married Warren Ford...
... (c) William Gillespie who died young."
================
From CHAPTER IV, "PRESBYTERIAN MEMBERS, 1830-1850"
Page 60 or so?
"Nathan Payson and his wife were granted a letter of dismissal August 11, 1832 to the church at Warren.
Page 63 [Ira joins officially when letter comes from prior church in Conn., two Bronson children brought with him must have had infant baptism records missing as they were now baptized, presumably after taking a class, aunt Cynthia meets future spouse Theophilus in class and marries the next year, 1843. Perintha either had her records lost/name too damaged to read, or she declined to join this church.]
1841-"The elders were ordained July 17, when Ira Bronson and his wife Laura and their daughter, Laura E., were received members by letter from the Congregational Church in Burlington, Conn."
1842-"received by examination into the communion of the church: ... Lyman H. Bronson, .... Theophilus Humphrey, ...,Cynthia Ann Bronson accepted baptism
"Of this number, Theophilus Humphrey, born Feb 6, 1823 in Orwell, was the youngest son of Dr. Dudley Humphrey, married there July 4, 1843 a little over a year after joining the church, Cynthia Ann Bronson, who was born January 10, 1821, daughter of Dr. Samuel S. and Ursula (Humphrey) Bronson. In 1862 he became a Lieutenant-Colonel of a regiment of Pennsylvania volunteers, and came out of the war without loss of limb. He engaged in business in the Pennsylvania oil industry and lived at Reno, Pa. He later received a pension. His son, Welling Eugene, died from drowning at Walnut Pond, Pa., at the age of 16 years. Theophilus Humphrey retired to a veteran's home in Topeka, Kansas. At his death, his nephew George Frisbie, son of Hanson, formerly of Orwell, and living nearby gave him kindly attention and furnished burial in the plot of George Frisbie.
================
From CHAPTER VI, "ORWELL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, 1856-1897"
Page 77
"Elder Nathan Payson, on April 26, 1856 requested to be released from active service as an elder on account of infirmities of age"
Page 87 [this Cynthia and half-sister Perintha baptized here, others either baptized elsewhere or records here were lost]
"Cynthia A. Payson (baptized April 3, 1847)"
"Perintha Payson (baptized in 1852) daughter of J. W. and Elizabeth Payson, married March 29, 1888, William Upson.
================
From CHAPTER VII "ORWELL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 1897–1926"
[page 113-114 Story of four orphaned Bronsons brought from Connecticut. Her uncle Ira Bronson brought them after their parents died in Conn.. Perintha's youngest brother was merchant Samuel N. Bronson. Samuel and Ira had own bios. Samuel became an elder , his business success letting him contribute financially to the church. Ira's caretaking of others was noted. In addition to fostering the four, Ira had an adopted daughter, Laura.]
1899 --"At the meeting of the session on July 23, note was taken of the death of the clerk, Elder Samuel N. Bronson July 7th..... after nearly 30 years of service as ruling elder. ...
SAMUEL NEWTON BRONSON was born July 2, 1825, son of Samuel Squire Bronson and his wife Ursula Humphrey, daughter of Giles Humphrey and Elizabeth Case, his wife, both of West Simsbury, Conn. Samuel N. Bronson's father, a physician, died at the age of 39 years, and Samuel then made his home with his uncle Ira Bronson (born 1784) who brought him to Orwell in 1839...."
"Ira Bronson .... bought of Asa Carpenter a home in Orwell. He returned to Connecticut, bringing with him the four children of his brother who had recently died. They were: Lyman, Samuel, Cynthia and Perinthia. They lived in the "red barn" while the old house purchased from Asa Carpenter was taken down. The new home was "raised" July 4th, 1840. A big dinner was prepared for the men for there were heavy timbers used in building. Ira Bronson died twelve years later in 1852 after a brief illness with pneumonia. James D. Humphrey took possession of the place, inheriting nearly all of Mr. Bronson's property. His wife, Laura Eastabrooks Bronson, was the adopted daughter of Ira Bronson.
Contributor: JBrown, IA, MN, Calif, AustinTX (48697180)
J W Payson 25 PA
Elizabeth Payson 35 CT
A E Payson 7 PA
C A Payson 5 PA
Mason Tucker 26 PA
Ambrose Higgins 11 PA
Census of 1860 Orwell, Bradford, PA
J W Payson 44
Elizabeth Payson 45
Cynthia Payson 15
Elizabeth Payson 9
Martha Payson 6
Census of 1870 Orwell, Bradford, PA
John W Payson 54
Elizabeth E Payson 55
Cintha Payson 25 School Teacher
Parintha E Payson 19
Martha R Payson 16
Fred Lackey 13
Her mother was Perintha Bronson Payson, the first wife of John W. Payson, whose children were known by their births before widower John married his second wife in 1850. Perintha named this Cynthia for her own sister, the Cynthia Ann Bronson who married a Thoophilus Humphrey twenty years before he went off to the Civil War, lucky to be one who returned alive. Some think Perintha and Cynthia had no records, but their names are mixed in with those of relatives at their church. They and two brothers were brought from Connecticut in 1839 by their uncle Ira Bronson, after their parents, Dr. Samuel Bronson and Ursula Humphrey, died back in Connecticut. They were of an age soon to pick a church and a spouse.
The family's church in Pennsylvania was Presbyterian, but disavowed predestination. Their particular congregation instead essentially believed God reacted to the moment, not future unknowns. If correcting things wrong right now was the priority, that was put in to action when their uncle Ira brought them all out of Connecticut.
The congregation was content merely to substitute votes by elected elders, for everyone instead having to gather to vote. Had anyone noticed such gatherings were bad in times of contagion? Key "signs of the times" were an excess of early adult deaths and the noticeable number becoming doctors. Tuberculosis was not called that yet, but had grown rampant, as crowding increased. TB's contagion was not well understood, pre-Pasteur.
---------------Research notes from Findagrave member JBrown, 2021, Aug.----------
Excerpts from chapters in a records book follow, and are labelled by church structure. While populations were small, the church was shared with another town, Warren. The still Congregational, things were decided by majority vote of all gathered . Once each had their own church, Orwell became Presbyterian, instead letting elected elders vote on the congregation's behalf.
[Brackets like this mark modern comments.]
Chapter titles and excerpts are from JoyceTice.com. The compiler of the book of records was Victor Charles Detty, Pastor, Federated Church,1930-1943, who in 1999 granted permission to reprint his 1955 compilation at JoyceTice.com . Thus, it is not found at archive.org
==========================================================
SOURCE: "History of the Churches of Orwell" by V. C. Detty , 1955,
==========================================================
From CHAPTER I "Warren and Orwell Congregational Church",
[Warren and Orwell , at first, lacked the population needed to have their own churches]
Page 16 [her Payson grandparents, Betsy and Nathan; her father John with his two siblings, all baptized as infant; the two wives of John, second married in 1850, so children born/baptized in 1840s were from Perintha]
"(quoting Craft, P. 332)
"Mrs. Betsy Payson had two children baptized August 11, 1816; Noah, John Ricks (Wilkes); one Lovina Frances, on May 14, 1819.
"John Wilkes Payson, a son, occupied the farm on the Orwell ridge.... [Orwell Hill?]
"4.John Wilkes, born April 19, 1816, married Perintha Bronson of Orwell township for his first wife, had two children.
"He married second, April 14, 1850, Miss Elizabeth, daughter of Elijah and Martha (Kennedy) Alger of Ellington, Conn., and had three children:
(a) Perintha Elizabeth, (married William Upson); (b.) Martha Rodella, married Warren Ford...
... (c) William Gillespie who died young."
================
From CHAPTER IV, "PRESBYTERIAN MEMBERS, 1830-1850"
Page 60 or so?
"Nathan Payson and his wife were granted a letter of dismissal August 11, 1832 to the church at Warren.
Page 63 [Ira joins officially when letter comes from prior church in Conn., two Bronson children brought with him must have had infant baptism records missing as they were now baptized, presumably after taking a class, aunt Cynthia meets future spouse Theophilus in class and marries the next year, 1843. Perintha either had her records lost/name too damaged to read, or she declined to join this church.]
1841-"The elders were ordained July 17, when Ira Bronson and his wife Laura and their daughter, Laura E., were received members by letter from the Congregational Church in Burlington, Conn."
1842-"received by examination into the communion of the church: ... Lyman H. Bronson, .... Theophilus Humphrey, ...,Cynthia Ann Bronson accepted baptism
"Of this number, Theophilus Humphrey, born Feb 6, 1823 in Orwell, was the youngest son of Dr. Dudley Humphrey, married there July 4, 1843 a little over a year after joining the church, Cynthia Ann Bronson, who was born January 10, 1821, daughter of Dr. Samuel S. and Ursula (Humphrey) Bronson. In 1862 he became a Lieutenant-Colonel of a regiment of Pennsylvania volunteers, and came out of the war without loss of limb. He engaged in business in the Pennsylvania oil industry and lived at Reno, Pa. He later received a pension. His son, Welling Eugene, died from drowning at Walnut Pond, Pa., at the age of 16 years. Theophilus Humphrey retired to a veteran's home in Topeka, Kansas. At his death, his nephew George Frisbie, son of Hanson, formerly of Orwell, and living nearby gave him kindly attention and furnished burial in the plot of George Frisbie.
================
From CHAPTER VI, "ORWELL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, 1856-1897"
Page 77
"Elder Nathan Payson, on April 26, 1856 requested to be released from active service as an elder on account of infirmities of age"
Page 87 [this Cynthia and half-sister Perintha baptized here, others either baptized elsewhere or records here were lost]
"Cynthia A. Payson (baptized April 3, 1847)"
"Perintha Payson (baptized in 1852) daughter of J. W. and Elizabeth Payson, married March 29, 1888, William Upson.
================
From CHAPTER VII "ORWELL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 1897–1926"
[page 113-114 Story of four orphaned Bronsons brought from Connecticut. Her uncle Ira Bronson brought them after their parents died in Conn.. Perintha's youngest brother was merchant Samuel N. Bronson. Samuel and Ira had own bios. Samuel became an elder , his business success letting him contribute financially to the church. Ira's caretaking of others was noted. In addition to fostering the four, Ira had an adopted daughter, Laura.]
1899 --"At the meeting of the session on July 23, note was taken of the death of the clerk, Elder Samuel N. Bronson July 7th..... after nearly 30 years of service as ruling elder. ...
SAMUEL NEWTON BRONSON was born July 2, 1825, son of Samuel Squire Bronson and his wife Ursula Humphrey, daughter of Giles Humphrey and Elizabeth Case, his wife, both of West Simsbury, Conn. Samuel N. Bronson's father, a physician, died at the age of 39 years, and Samuel then made his home with his uncle Ira Bronson (born 1784) who brought him to Orwell in 1839...."
"Ira Bronson .... bought of Asa Carpenter a home in Orwell. He returned to Connecticut, bringing with him the four children of his brother who had recently died. They were: Lyman, Samuel, Cynthia and Perinthia. They lived in the "red barn" while the old house purchased from Asa Carpenter was taken down. The new home was "raised" July 4th, 1840. A big dinner was prepared for the men for there were heavy timbers used in building. Ira Bronson died twelve years later in 1852 after a brief illness with pneumonia. James D. Humphrey took possession of the place, inheriting nearly all of Mr. Bronson's property. His wife, Laura Eastabrooks Bronson, was the adopted daughter of Ira Bronson.
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