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Joseph Williams, must. Jan. 4, 18G4. 

 Samuel A. Stephens, must. Jan. 4, 1864. 

 Newman Harding, must. Dec. 4, 1863, 

 Hiram Hallett, must. Nov. 25, 1863. 

 Lewis J. Quant, must. Dec. 4, 1863, 

 Jeremiah J. Baird, must. Jan. 4, 1864. 

 Miles Hallett, must. Jan. 1, 1864. 

 David C. Osborn, must. Jan. 1,1864. 

 William H, Baker, must. Jan. 4, 1864. 

 John H. Colier, must. Jan. 5, 1864. 

 James A, Allen, must. Dec. 31, 1863. 

 Franklin Hallett, must. Dec. 31, 1863. 

 William G. Brady, must. Dec. 31, 1863. 

 Van K. Ellison, must. Dec. 31, 1863. 

 Oscar Swarthout, must. Dec. 31, 1863. 

 Nafhan H. Crosby, must. Jan. 5, 1863. 

 John Hadley, must. Dec. 31, 1863. 

 John S. Campbell, must. Dec. 31, 1863. 

 David Loughery, must. Jan. 4, 1864. 

 George B. Sherman, must. Jan. 4, 1864. 

 Adelbert Buck, must. Dec. 31, 1863. 



SECOND CALL. 



Foster Gregory, must. March 14, 1864. 

 Luther Mattison, must. March 14, 1864. 

 Wm. W. Sanford, must. April 8, 1864. 

 Nathan Thomas, must. Feb. 20, 1864. 

 Jesse Campbell, must. Dec. 31, 1863, 

 George W. Thomas, must. Feb. 20, 1864, 

 Sanford Downs, must. Dec, 17, 1863. 

 James H. Stewart, must. Feb. 22, 1864. 

 Homer Stewart, must. March 9, 1864, 

 Larry Ireland, must. Feb. 22, 1864. 

 James B. Chilson, must. Dec. 26, 1863, 



THIRD CALL. 



James S. Williams, must. May 13, 1864. 

 James Arpel, must. May 13, 1864, 

 William Kilter, must. May 13, 1864. 

 William Brower, must. May 13, 1864. 

 Charles Brayman, must. May 16, 1864. 

 Oliver Clark, muse. May 9, 1864. 

 George Archer, must. March 31, 1864. 

 James A. James, must. March 23, 1864. 

 Henry Cole, must. March 16, 1S64. 

 Aaron R. Shearman, must, March 17, 1864. 

 Andrew M. Cornell, must. March 14, 1864. 

 Wm. Armstrong, must. March 5, 1864. 

 J. W. Robinson, M.D., must. March 16, 1864. 

 James Wood. 



FOURTH CALL. 



Lemuel H. Curtiss, must. Aug. 20, 1864; substitute. 



Albert B. Baan, must. Aug. 17, 1864; substitute. 



Horace P. Butler, must. Aug. 17, 1864; substitute. 



Commodore Thurber, must. Aug. 19, 1864 ; substitute 



John H. Reynolds, must. Sept. 3, 1864; substitute. 



Albert H. Ordway, must. Sept. 20, 1864, 



Elias S, Baker, must. Sept, 27, 1864; discharged. 



N. F. Rosa, must. Sept. 26, 1864. 



Simeon C, Turner, must, Sept. 21, 1864. 



Marshall Hallett, must. Sept. 26, 1864. 



Edwin Taylor, must. Sept. 28, 1864. 



William H. Marvin, must. Sept. 30, 1864, 



Lorenzo B. Linsey, must. Sept. 28, 1864. 



James E. Wilson, must. Sept. 30, 1864. 



Jesse Bovier, must. Sept. 30, 1864. 



Jesse W. Yaw, must, Oct, 8, 1864. 



Charles Millard, must. Sept. 28, 1864. 



Curtiss D. Cross, must. Sept, 21, 1864, 



Truman C, Shaver, must. Sept. 21, 1864. 



Hosea Bruner, must. Sept. 30, 1864, 



Edwin P. Angell, must. Sept. 28, 1864. 



Warren Denning, must. Sept. 21, 1864. 



William H. Olmsted, must. Sept. 21, 1864. 



John J. Arnold, must. Sept. 21, 1864. 



Cassius M. Hadley, must. Sept. 28, 1864. 



Joseph Cunningham, must. Sept. 28, 1864. 



Wilson Robinson, must. Sept. 28, 1864. 



Isaac Vorhis, must, Sept. 28, 1864. 



Alonzo Hamer, must. Sept, 28, 1864, 



Milton E. Crane, must. Sept. 30, 1864. 



Argus Seram, must. Oct. 4, 1864. 



Chester Monroe, must. Oct. 3, 1864. 



Michael Higgens, must. Oct. 13, 1864. 



Daniel A, Griswold, must. Oct. 3, 1864. 



Chauncey Foot, must. Sept. 30, 1864. 



Benjamin Clark, must. Oct. 3, 1864. 



Theodore Tourney, must. Oct. 1, 1864. 

 Benjamin Greeley, must. Oct. 7, 1864. 

 William Mathews, must. Sept. 30, 1864. 

 A. T. Shoemaker, must. Oct. 3, 1864. 

 John Gibson, must. Sept. 28, 1864. 

 Stephen P, Marsh, must. Sept. 26, 1864. 

 Henry Swarthout, must. Sept. 27, 1864. 

 George S. Wilson, must. Sept. 27, 1864. 

 Jonathan Van Schover, must. Sept. 26, 1864. 

 Edward W. Marsh, must. Sept. 26, 1864. 

 J. M. Kauna, must. Sept. 24, 1864. 

 John S. Colbroth, must. Sept. 30, 1864, 

 John Mattison, must. Sept. 26, 1864. 

 Martin L. White, must. Sept. 28, 1864. 

 Jos. R. Wilson, must. Sept. 27, 1864. 

 Moses Hurderden, must. Dec. 29, 1864. 



BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 



NATHAN STEPHENS. 



Nathan Stephens was born in Harderstown, N. J., Dec. 

 8, 1788. 



According to history, Henry Stephens, whose father, 

 Nicholas, was an officer in Oliver Cromwell's army, after 

 the death of the " Protector" emigrated to America, first 

 settling in Stonington, Conn., 1660, with his two brothers, 

 Thomas and Richard. 



The line of descent from Henry Stephens to Jedediah 

 Stephens, the first settler of this branch of the Stephens 

 family in the Canisteo Valley, is as follows : (1) Henry ; 

 (2) Henry ; (3) Jedediah ;* (4) Jedediah 2d, the first set- 

 tler of Steuben County of this branch; born May 11, 

 1757, at Canaan, Litchfield Co., Conn., married in Groshen, 

 Orange Co., N. Y., to Abigail Corey, Jan. 1, 1778 ; was a 

 volunteer soldier of the Revolutionary war and served six 

 years ; was in the Indian battle of Wyoming, July 3, 1778, 

 where his brother, Rufus, was killed. He owned a farm at 

 Wyoming ; was taken prisoner by the Penuamites, under 

 Gen. Plunket, but after a few days released. 



In May, 1790, with his wife and family of five children, 

 Abigail, Silas, Nathan, Sylvina, and Cynthia, removed from 

 Wyoming and settled on lot No. 10, in the town of Canis- 

 teo, on the place now owned by his grandson, Joshua C. 

 Stephens, the property having been in the family since. 

 He purchased six hundred acres of timbered land, some 

 fifty acres of which he cleared prior to his death, Jan. 26, 

 1830. He was a man of little book knowledge, but pos- 

 sessed of much native ability, and upon settling in the neW 

 country was soon recognized as a worthy citizen. While 

 Canisteo belonged to Ontario County, in 1793-94 he rep- 

 resented his town as supervisor. In early life he was a 

 member of the Congregational Church. About 1800 he 

 became a member of the Methodist Church, and from 1812 

 to the time of his decease, was a local preacher of that 

 denomination. 



* Jedediah Stephens, Sr., married Mary Rathbone. Their children 

 were Joshua; Anna, born March 17, 1753; Eunice, born June 12, 

 1755; Jedediah, born May 11, 1757 ; Ira, born July 18, 1759; Rufus, 

 born May 2, 1762 ; Sylvania, born Jan. 14, 1764; Nathan, born Aug. 

 4, 1766; Cynthia, born Sept. 26, 1768. 



Joshua Stephens married Oct. 27, 1767, Christiana Dutcher; Anna 

 Stephens married Jeremiah Baker, Sr. ; Eunice Stephens married Elijah 

 Rude; Jedediah Stephens married Jan. 1, 1778, Abigail Cory; Ira 

 Stephens married Sibyl Ransom; Cynthia Stephens married Francis 

 Saturlee. 



