Grand Lodge of New York Masonic Lodge Histories Lodge Nos. 201-230

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Benjamin Rudd, b. 16 May 1786 in Franklin, New London, CT; d. 6 Feb 1876 in Rome, Oneida, NY; son of Prosper and Eliza Rudd; m1. Hetta Starks, b. 10 Oct 1790 in Rensselaer, NY; d. 7 Aug 1827; d/o Israel Stark and Sarah Ashby. Colonel Benjamin Rudd, was a Justice of the peace for ten years, Colonel of Militia, and served in the War of 1812.

Children:

i. Anna Stark. b. 11 Dec 1825 in Western Oneida, NY.
ii. Eliza Lord. b. 18 May 1827 in Western Oneida, NY.

On 30 Sep 1830 he second married Abigail Salisbury, b. 15 Feb 1790; d. Rome, NY, 27 May 1875 age 85.

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Joshua Hatheway / Hathaway

Joshua Hatheway at sixteen served at Bennington under Stark, was graduated at Yale after the war, and was admitted to the Herkimer bar in 1795

On 4 Jul 1817, ground was first broken at Rome for the excavation of the Erie Canal. The place selected for the ceremony was a few rods west of what was then the United States arsenal, near Wood Creek, and to Oneida County Judge Joshua Hatheway, of Rome, was assigned the honor of casting the first shovelful of earth. [see related article on this at Appendix II]

Proceedings of the New York State Historical Association ..., Volume 14, by New York State Historical Association, page 323.

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JOSHUA HATHEWAY. (Yale 1787.)

Mr. Hatheway was born in Suffield, Connecticut, August 18th, 1761, and was a nephew of Shadrack Hatheway (Yale 1738). His family located in Bennington, Vermont, shortly before the outbreak of the American Revolution, and at the age of sixteen years, with his father, six brothers and two brothers-in-law, he participated in the Battle of Bennington. When peace returned, he finished his education, studied law with Judges Smith and Robinson and settled at Bennington, where he practiced law until 1795.

During this period he joined an enterprise to form a new town in Vermont, in which several farms were to be set aside for public education. One was to be devoted to common schools, another for a grammar school and a third was to provide the income to aid the youth of the town to obtain a college education. More than twenty graduates of Yale and Princeton joined him in the affair, the list of names including Doctors of Divinity, College Presidents, United States Senators, Governors and Judges, as well as a few of his classmates.

In 1795, with his family, he removed to Fort Stanwix, which was the name of the post office until 1802, now Rome, N. Y., where he practiced law for many years. A partnership with James Sherman under the firm name of Hatheway & Sherman was of quite long standing. When the County of Oneida was formed he was appointed County Treasurer and in 1808 Surrogate. About this time he abandoned the Federal party and became a Republican.

His classmate in Yale, Gaylord Griswold, member of Congress from the Herkimer district, who came to the county with Thomas R. Gold, his chum in college, wrote to Mr. Hatheway expressing great sorrow for his apostacy. Subsequently, Judge Hatheway was appointed and reappointed Surrogate and Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, holding one or the other of these positions during a period of nearly thirty years.

During the war of 1812, he held the rank of Quarter Master General and for a short time commanded the post at Sacketts Harbor.

He was the only member of the Oneida County bar who served in the American Revolution and had the rare distinction of participating in two great wars.

He was a man of great piety, unswerving integrity, profound learning and great dignity. His portrait, by Daniel Huntington, hangs in the home he erected in 1806, in which he died and where his granddaughter, Mrs. J. S. Dyett, now resides. He died in 1835 at Rome, NY.

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Hathaway / Hatheway Family

http://fam.eastmill.com/f96.htm#f41642

see also http://www.ziaweb.net/family/individual.php?pid=I00913&ged=carolinerichards.ged

Simeon Hathaway / Hatheway b. 25 Jun 1719, Suffield, Harford, CT; d. 12 Apr 1804, Old Bennington, VT; son of Shadrach Hathaway and Dorothy Kent; m. 11 Jan 1742, Suffield, CT, Deborah Austin, b. 17 Dec 1721, Suffield; d. 16 Jan 1802.

Children, b. at Suffield, CT:

i. Deborah b. 31 Aug 1743; d. 16 Jan 1827

ii. Simeon [Jr.] b. 07 Oct 1745; d. 30 Sep 1836

iii. Shadrach b. 22 Sep 1747; d. 25 May 1815; m. Anne H. ____

iv. Lucy b. 25 Jul 1749; d. 09 Sep 1751

v. Levi b. 15 Jun 1751; d. 10 Nov 1831; m. 23 Nov 1755, Bennington, VT, Ester Hawley

vi. Abraham b. 23 Oct 1753; d. 02 Nov 1794

vii. Alfred b. 16 Dec 1755; d. 14 Jan 1829

viii. Betsey b. 31 Jan 1756; d. 08 Sep 1837

ix. Erastus b. 27 Aug 1758

x. Joshua b. 13 Aug 1761 [twin of Nathan]; d. 08 Dec 1836; m. 19 Feb 1791, Bennington, VT, Elizabeth Lord, b. 23 Jan 1766, Rome, Oneida, NY; d. there 4 Nov 1824; d/o John Haynes Lord and Rachel Knowles; children, as per below; he m2. 3 Nov 1825 Mary House, b. ca 1778.

xi. Nathan b. 13 Aug 1761 [twin of Joshua]

xii. Silas b. 23 Jun 1763; d. 09 Nov 1831; m. Tyrphosa Jevett

xiii. Hannah b. ca 27 Aug 1765

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Children of Joshua Hathaway [Sr.] and Elizabeth Lord:

Jay b. 29 Jan 1792, Bennington, VT; m. Oct 1817 Zeruiah Cleveland; child: Franklin, b. 12 Jul 1818 [he was nephew of Joshua, [Jr.] and the surveyor of Madison, WI, noted in Appendix I below]

Sarah b. 10 Nov 1793; m.20 Jul 1816 Samuel Beardsley, b. Feb. 25, 1790

Joshua [Jr.] b. 09 Nov 1810, Rome, NY; d. 4 Jul 1863, Milwaukee, WI; m. 10 Oct 1842 Ann Jeanette Hathaway [his 2nd cousin], b. 1 Sep 1818, VT; d. 25 Sep 1894, Milwaukee, WI. [see further of his biography at Appendix I below]
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Biographical Sketches of the Graduates of Yale college . . . , by Franklin Bowditch Dexter, page 550.

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Joshua Hathaway was born in Suffield, Connecticut, on August 13, 1761, the son of Simeon Hathaway, and nephew of Shadrach Hathaway (Yale 1738). His father later removed to Bennington, Vermont, and was engaged in the battle of Bennington, in August, 1777, with seven sons, of whom the graduate was one. Joshua Hathaway was admitted to College in February of the Freshman year, and united with the College Church on profession of faith in January of his Sophomore year.

Upon graduation he studied law, and after settling in practice in Bennington, married on February 19, 1791, Elizabeth Haynes, third daughter of John Haynes Lord (Yale 1745), of Hartford, Connecticut.

In 1795 he removed to Fort Stanwix, now Rome, New York, and was admitted to the bar of Herkimer County. When Oneida County was organized, in 1798, he was given a commission as Justice of the Peace, which he held for some thirty years. He was also appointed the first County Treasurer, and held that office until 1802. He held many other local offices of trust, and was the first Master of the first Lodge of Masons in Rome in 1800.

He was at first actively associated with the Federalists in politics; but became dissatisfied with the policy of that party in the presidential contest of 1800, and acted thereafter with the Democrats.

About 1810 he was appointed by President Madison Postmaster of Rome, and he retained that place until 1833, when he was succeeded by his eldest son. As an illustration of the dignity with which he clothed his office, it is narrated that whenever the mails arrived for distribution, he commanded silence on the part of spectators present, required them to be seated, and said: "Gentlemen, take off your hats, for the United States mail is now to be opened and distributed."

In 1808 he was appointed County Surrogate, but was turned out by the Federalists in February, 1813. In March, 1815, he was restored to his old place, and held it until 1819, when he was again displaced because of a split in the Republican party. In April, 1821, he was again appointed Surrogate, and was finally superseded by a younger candidate in his own party in 1827. When restored to the office for the last time, in 1821, he was also made one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas, and held the place until 1833.

In 1813 he accompanied as Quartermaster to Sacket Harbor the regiment raised in Rome.

On July 4, 1817, as President of the village, he was entrusted with the duty and privilege of breaking the first ground for the construction of the Erie Canal, in Rome.

He died in Rome on December 8, 1836, in his 76th year. His wife died in Rome on November 4, 1824, in her 49th year. They had four sons and five daughters,—all of whom grew to maturity excepting one son and one daughter.

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Letter from Bro. Gen. Jacob Brown, Sackets Harbor, NY, to Bro. Joshua Hatheway, Rome, NY

May 29, 1813

The above letter is an eyewitness account of the second battle of Sackets Harbor, on the shores of Lake Ontario, written by the commander of the American forces there, Gen. Jacob Brown, to his friend Joshua Hatheway, Quartermaster General and formerly the commander of the defenses at Sackets Harbor. The town, situated near the entrance to the St. Lawrence River at the far eastern end of Lake Ontario and opposite the Canadian town of Kingston, was a vital defensive point for the Americans, challenging British control of the St. Lawrence and the lake, and preventing a British thrust into New York State. If either side could control both sides of the entrance to the St. Lawrence, they could control the Upper Great Lakes. Taking advantage of the American action against York, which drew troops away to the western end of the Lake, the British decided to strike. On the 28th of May, 1813, the British Great Lakes squadron under the command of James Yeo appeared off Sackets Harbor, carrying troops under the command of the Governor-General, Lieut. General George Prevost. Having been forewarned by several men who escaped the Battle of Henderson Bay the previous day, the Americans had some time to reinforce their defenses before the British could attack. The British landed on the 28th, but launched their main attack the next morning. They easily routed the American militia, but the regulars under Brown were able to fight off repeated attacks on their fortifications. Prevost, fearing the arrival of more American troops, ordered a retreat which nearly became a rout. Brown was the hero of the day, and was later rewarded with a commission as brigadier general. He must have immediately written this letter describing the action: "Dr. Sir, I received an order some days since from Genl Dearborn to take comm. at this Post. Comd. Chauncey is up the lake. We were this morning attacked as day dawned by Sir George Prevost in person who made good his landing with at least a thousand picked men. Sir James Yeo commanded the fleet after loosing some distinguished officers and of course some gallant men. Our loss is very severe as to the quality of those who have fallen. The enemy left many of their wounded on the Field - but I have no doubt carried off many more. We shall probably be again attacked as Sir George must feel very sore. All I can say is, whatever may be the result we will not be disgraced." A superb battlefield letter reporting on one of the most significant military actions of the War of 1812.

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See Appendix I for an interesting recollection of Joshua Hatheway and his nephew, Franklin, surveying in the Wisconsin wilderness.

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Revival of the Lodge

The first movement to revive the Lodge was made during the winter of 1850-54 by Seldon A. Emmerson and Samuel B. Stevens, who induced others to join in reorganizing the Lodge. On 5 Feb 1851 a meeting was held in Odd Fellows’ Hall, when a petition was prepared and arrangements made to complete the organization. The petition was signed by:

Armstrong, Jesse

Barbour, A. D.

Bentley, Benjamin

Edgerton, Lorenzo

Edwards, Gersham

Emmerson, Seldon A.

Gage, Joseph D.

Grant, Justus L.

Halbert, James
Brackney, William

Parker, Israel S.

Adams, Horace

Purdy, Solomon

Reese, William

Stevens, Samuel B.

Stimson, Nathaniel

TIllinghast, James

Ward, Stephen

Wells, Justin J.

Williams, Alphonse

Wrightman, Joshua

Four of the above were survivors of the old Lodge [noted in bold type].

On 16 Jun 1851 a warrant was issued which named as officers:

Seldon A. Emmerson, Master

Samuel B. Stevens, SW

Solomon Purdy, JW

The first meeting place of the Lodge after its revival was in the Armstrong Block on South James Street, where it remained until 5 Nov 1853 when a fire destroyed the building.

It afterwards occupied the Odd Fellows’ Hall, No. 133 West Dominick Street, until 24 Jun 1856, when it moved into rooms over the Fort Stanwix Bank (later the Rome Savings Bank), where it remained until 14 Feb 1870, when it moved into a building owned by Samuel B. Stevens, who had been a active member of the Lodge since 1828.

On 11 Feb 1880 it moved into rooms which had been specially arranged for Masonic purposed in the Glessman-Hower Block, where it remained until 11 May 1908, when it moved into the Masonic Temple, which had just been erected on the site of the Washington Street Opera House.

The first movement having for its object the erection of this building was inaugurated by R.’.W.’. Oswald P. Backus in 1901; the project at first met with scant favor, but persistent effort and constant agitation finally won the day and resulted in the purchase of a site for the Temple. During the winter of 1907-08 the Association which had been formed with the assistance of the other Masonic Bodies completed the necessary arrangements for the erection of the Temple. The cornerstone was laid by R.’.W.’. Arthur M. Scripture, DDGM, 20 Jul 1907.

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