--part1_8.b7eb76.25c89a71_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 02/01/2000 1:11:54 AM Eastern Standard Time, [email protected] writes: << to a History of Aurora and in Chapter One of the book, it has a JACOB BLAIR, as a early landowner (early 1800's). Is anyone researching BLAIR's or have any info on this particular person?? >> Here is a file that mentions them, you may find it of interest, although it probably would be best to use a search word on it. have another somewhere when time permits M. --part1_8.b7eb76.25c89a71_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; name="Man6.doc" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline; filename="Man6.doc" Samuel Moore, born Simsbury, Conn., 1764, died Mantua 1816 and Eunice (Gillett) Moore, died Mantua 1850, came to=20 Mantua in 1806, settling on lot 24, buying the land of John and Richard Redding. A wagon, a yoke of oxen, two horses=20 and a cow comprised the outfit. Seven children came with=20 them: Virgil, married Elizabeth, daughter of Basil Windsor in 1810, and had one son, Napoleon B. Moore; Mark Moore; Samuel Moore, married Elizabeth Keyes (see page 51) of Auburn, Ohio in 1817, and had the following children: Mark Milton Moore, Homer H. Moore, Amaziah Moore, Samuel Moore, Halsey Gillett Moore, Elizabeth Moore, Francis Oliver Moore,=20 Mortimore G. Moore, Horace Ladd Moore, (see page 45),=20 Walter W. Moore; Eunice Keturah Moore, married Horace Ladd Sr.; Jason Moore, married Christiana Ingell and had the following children: Cheney Jason Moore,=20 Marilla Moore, Martha Moore (Lee); Benjamin Moore, married Fanny M. Sargent and had one child, Perlea Moore (Derthick); Perlea Moore, who was the only child of this family=20 born in Mantua; it was she who provided the pillow of feathers when Jos. Smith was tarred and feathered in Hiram, Ohio. The Moore family were neighbors of Elias Harmon, and the son of Samuel Moore, Sr., bought 109 acres of Roger Moore in Connecticut on lot 18, which is the present home of Walter W. Moore. Roger Moore bought 416 acres in lot 16. =20 This proved to be in the tamarack swamp. Seth Harmon, a brother of Elias, came soon after him and settled in northeast Mantua, on a farm now owned by=20 John Herbert. Seth Harmon came from Suffield, Conn., married Mary Higley. Both lived and died upon the farm=20 where they settled. The only son died in young manhood. Sarah married Decalvus Root, and Martha, Forest Root. Seth Harmon, born 1783, died 1858 in Mantua; his wife died 1857. The farm was sold to George Plum. Another brother of the Harmons, Zacheas, lived opposite Seth, on the southwest corner. He was never married.=20 Ezra Booth lived on this farm later. West from Seth Harmon's lived another brother, Daniel and two sisters, Eunice and Polly. This place was opposite the Sylvester Reed home. Then west again on the northeast corner of what used to be known as Chester Reed's corners, lived another brother, John Harmon, who later lived in Ravenna. =20 Enos Harmon is mentioned in the list of men from Mantua in the was of 1812, and a land deed is recorded in his name in 1809. John Harmon in his recollections of the was of=20 1812 speaks of his two brothers, and we conclude that Enos was a brother, although we find no further record of him. A last glance at the Harmon family finds John on the state road at the Chester Reed corner. Going east, all north of the cross road belongs to Eunice, Polly, Daniel and=20 possibly Enos, until we reach Seth, then south and all on the west side belonged to Zacheas and Elias.=20 Simeon Sheldon of Suffield, Conn., came in 1819,=20 married Eunice, daughter of Elias, and settled on land adjoining. Eight children were born. Edgar Sheldon=20 of Garrettsville is a son. The youngest son, Henry, remained on the old homestead, where N.H. Sheldon, his youngest son now lives, one of the last descendants in Mantua of this branch of the Harmon family. Two brothers and a sister of Simeon Sheldon, George, Seth and Mrs. Phelps, later Mrs. Dayton, lived near the Elisha Crafts farm; Seth=20 on the state road near the May home. He died in 1840. =20 George lived near the corners. Two daughters,=20 Mary A. Sheldon Harnet still lives, Lois Sheldon Holbrook died 1885. The Elias Harmon farm was sold to Hiram Washburn in 1854, where he died in 1877, and his wife in 1879. Daniel, Amanda and John, while still retaining the farm, live north of Mantua Village. The frame house built by Elias Harmon bears the date of 1822. George Plum of Aurora bought the Seth Harmon farm in 1856, later removed to Mantua Center, where he died. =20 His wife, Malinda Pease Plum, is still living. Two brothers, Edward and Daniel, came from Aurora about 1856 and settled at Mantua Center, where Edward died 1907. =20 Daniel was killed at a railroad crossing in Ravenna, May, 1906. Thomas Plum lived north of the Seth Harmon farm. In the fifties, Paletiah and Hannah (Lanning) Bard came to Mantua, residing at Mantua Center. They purchased the Dr. Squire property, later disposing of it to the=20 M.E. Church for a parsonage. Mrs. Bard and a daughter,=20 Helen, moved to Randolph in 1875. F.P. Bard was married in 1871 to Jennie, daughter of Charles Baker, who came to Mantua in 1869. Samuel Baker, brother of Charles, settled at Mantua Center in the sixties, occupying the Holbrook house, Levi and Mary (Esty) Carlton succeeding Mr. Baker. Another family of the fifties was that of Philip and=20 Mary (Ridge) Cann, who came from Devonshire, England,=20 in 1854 and settled at Mantua Corners. He was a blacksmith of great efficiency. His death, in 1893, was caused by being kicked by a horse. Mrs. Cann died in 1902. =20 One son, the eldest, W.H. Cann, was born in England and died in 1876. William and Sarah (Tucker) Ridge, with five children, set out from England and after a sea voyage of eight weeks, came to Mantua in May, 1856. They lived at Mantua Center, where Mr. Ridge was employed as sexton. He died in 1900 in Auburn, at the home of his son, George Ridge.=20 Mrs. Ridge died in 1878. James Blair, another brother of John Blair and Jacob Blair, was an early settler, living in the neighborhood of Jacob Pettibone, Franklin and Oliver Snow. The daughters=20 of James Blair are spoken of in a sketch of Elias Converse. Jacob Pettibone lived on what was known years ago as the=20 Van Wagnen hill, in a house whose last tenant was Irving=20 Seeley. Jacob Pettibone and his wife are buried in the South Cemetery, both dying in 1858. The house is among the oldest in town. In this neighborhood lived the families of William K. Lepperd, Jacob Blair, Jr., and at a later date Charles Seible, a musician of fine ability. It is probable that the first family in this neighborhood was Franklin Snow, who came with his family in 1806. He was born in 1779 at Becket, Mass., and died in 1865 at Avon, Ohio. He Married (1) Lydia Olcott, in Massachusetts, bringing the oldest son, Benjamin F. Snow, with them. Here the following children were born: Lury, born 1807, married Lucius Scoville; Edwin, born 1809, died at Elyria 1886; Rebekah, born 1811, died at Geauga Lake 1887, married Sylvester Squire, born 1809, at Hinsdale, Mass., came to Mantua in 1811, died 1876 at Geauga Lake; Pamela, born 1813, died 1814; Lucia, born 1814, died 1904, at Washington, Ia; Orpha, born 1817. Lydia Olcott Snow died 1820, buried in the South Cemetery. Franklin Snow married (2) Ann Conant and had one daughter, Hannah, born 1824, died 1906, at Oberlin. The family moved to Avon in 1836. He built one of the few houses that still remains almost unchanged in its exterior. Following the Snow family came G.C.Van Wagnen in 1837, who was born 1789, died 1851. There were fifteen children four of whom are still living, one in Kent, Mrs. Hastings, and=20 Mrs. E.S. Joslin in Brownhelm, Charles Van Wagnen in=20 Spokane and James in Sullivan, Ohio. Mrs. Agnes Frost,=20 possibly the best known of any in the family, died in 1908. =20 The parents are buried at Mantua Center. =1A --part1_8.b7eb76.25c89a71_boundary--