The Ancestors of My Grandchildren

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     Hosea Tiffany was the first settler of the name in Susquehanna county. In the winter of 1789 nine young men of Attleboro, Mass, finding at home an inadequate amount of land, decided to migrate in a body to Western homes. Three were married, and, of the nine, Hosea Tiffany was the only one over thirty years of age. They left Attleboro in the spring of 1790, in doubt of their final destination, finally purchasing a tract four miles long and one mile wide in Harford township, for £1,198. It was apportioned, the young farmers returned to Attlehoro to harvest their crops, and in the spring of 1791 most of them migrated permanently to the settlement. Hosea Tiffany came back in the spring of 1791, sowed crops of rye and wheat, and brought his family in the spring of 1792, arriving by ox-team in March, with Robert Follet and family. Their wives were the first white women to reach the settlement. Hosea Tiffany had one of the two center lots, near the nearest village at Harford. The settlement was then part of Luzerne county, Penn., and Hosea Tiffany became one of its prominent citizens. He was a county commissioner, and in 1799 was appointed justice of the peace, the commission continuing until Susquehanna was set off in 1812. He had married, in Massachusetts, Nancy Wilmarth, and their children were: (i) Nancy, married Capt. Aschel Sweet. (2) Hosea, Jr., who married Polly Sweet, was county commissioner two terms, and lived on a farm below Harford, his son William C. succeeding him on the homestead and serving several terms as justice of the peace. (iii) Amos, who lived on the old homestead, commenced tavern-keeping as early as 1817, and built the "Gow House;" he married Rachel Tiffany, a second cousin, and their children were Virgil, Angeline, Amos V., and Vester.

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     Hosea Tiffany, son of John Tiffany of Attleboro, Mass., born in 1754, was the leader ot the "Nine Partners" who came to the lands of Susquehanna (then Luzerne) county in the spring of 1790 and purchased a tract of land four miles long and one mile wide, lying in what is now Harford township. In 1792 he came with his family and settled permanently. He was one of the county commissioners of Luzerne county before the formation of the county of Susquehanna, and of the new county in 1814; was also a justice of the peace from 1799 until 1812, when Susquehanna county was erected. His cabin home stood on the present site of the Congregational Church in Harford. He had married, in Massachusetts, Anna N. Wilmarth, and their children, born before they came to Pennsylvania, were: Hosea, Amos and Nancy. The father died in 1833. Hosea Tiffany, Jr., was one of the county commissioners in 1822. In about 1813 he was commissioned a justice of the peace, which office he resigned in 1826, but was again commissioned in 1831 and served until his death in 1836. He married Polly Sweet. Amos Tiffany as early as 1817 kept a tavern, residing in the homestead of his father, and later built what was known as the "Gow House," in Harford.⁴