. History of Steuben County, New York, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers. Steuben, Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustin, Baron von, 1730-1794. 7^4c^<yiy Christopher Hurlbut, Jr., whose portrait is here pre- sented, was born in Wyoming Valley, Pa., Dec. 17, 1794, and was next to the youngest of a family of eight children, seven of whom lived to a mature age. He married Ellen Tiffany, of Palmyra, N. Y., June 4, 1823, by whom he had six chil- dren, Myron, Edmund, Lydia, Nancy, Elizabeth, and Abigail. He was a farmer, and a man of unblem
. History of Steuben County, New York, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers. Steuben, Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustin, Baron von, 1730-1794. 7^4c^<yiy Christopher Hurlbut, Jr., whose portrait is here pre- sented, was born in Wyoming Valley, Pa., Dec. 17, 1794, and was next to the youngest of a family of eight children, seven of whom lived to a mature age. He married Ellen Tiffany, of Palmyra, N. Y., June 4, 1823, by whom he had six chil- dren, Myron, Edmund, Lydia, Nancy, Elizabeth, and Abigail. He was a farmer, and a man of unblemished character, and died Eeb. 8, 1875, having lived seventy-seven years on the ^'old Hurlbut homestead," in Arkport. As Christopher Hurlbut, Sr., was the head of the family here, and the founder of the village of Arkport, a more minute history of him is given. He was born in Groton, Conn., May 30, 1757, and died in Arkport, IST. Y., April 21, 1831. He descended in the follow- ing direct line from English ancestors : John, Jr., John, Sr., Stephen, Samuel, and "Lieut. Thomas Hurlbut, who came front England about 1630, and settled in Connecticut. April 3, 1776, Christopher enlisted in the Continental army and served under the immediate command of Gen. Washing- ^ In 1777 he visited Wyoming Yalley. In February, 1778, he left Groton for Hanover, Luzerne Co., Pa., to pre- pare a home for his father's family, and returned in June to assist in moving them to the valley. When they arrived at Lackawasen, on the Delaware, they were met by the fugitives flying from the " Wyoming massacre," which put a stop to their further progress for that season. Christopher helped bury the victims of the '' massacre," and the family in Kovember, 1779, settled in their new home in Hanover. In 1782 he married Elizabeth Mann, of Wysox, Pa. Their chil- dren were Abigail, John, James, Sarah, Elizabeth, Nancy, Christopher, and Edward; all but the latter were born in Hanover, Pa.
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