Published in The Monroe County Mail, Thursday, July 16, 1903 – Historical Sketch
Nathan Kingsley Welch was born December 15, 1818, on the farm “taken up” by his father, George Welch. He has continued to reside there, with the exception of two years of his school life passed at East Mendon, and three years spent in Orleans county, after his marriage with Miss Elizabeth DeForest Reynolds, in 1843. In 1846, the returned to the home farm, on account of the death of his father, who was killed by the cars on the crossing south of his home.
Nathan Welch is the only surviving member of a family of eight children, Ann Cleveland, Richard, Mary Holt, Julia Eckler, Madisou, Jane, Nathan and John. Richard died at the age of twenty-two years, and Jane aged eighteen years, but the others lived to the advanced age of eighty or more years. The youngest John, died January 1, 1902, at Carlton, Orleans county, aged eighty-one years. The parents, grandfather Richard and grandmother lie in the old burying ground, one mile south of this village.
According to stories handed from father to son, and verified in part by old papers found in the home, the progenitors of this family went from the British Isles to Holland, to escape English rule (in religion they were Dissenters.) From there they went to Malden, Mass., in ___ where James Welch, enlisted in the King Phillip wars, 1675. From Malden, they cam to New York state, at Fort Ticonderoga and later Fort George, during Indian hostilities. In Volume II, Annals of Albany County, in the library at Albany, which was taken from the Lutheran church at Cohoes Falls, is found, “Born, of Richard Welch and Eva Great, a son, George October 27, 1777. This was the father of Nathan, who with his brother, John, took up farms on East street, Pittsford in 1796. John taking the one now owned by Harrison Olney.
The name of George Welch appears among the first voters of the old town of Boyle, (Pittsford.)
Their father, Richard, left Albany county, with others of the Welch family, and finally settled in Penfield; later bought the farm here, now owned and occupied by W. Henry Barker, and at last went with his wife to live with their son, George on East street, and built the firs log house on that street, in 1798 and in 1812, another log house, a few rods south of the present frame dwelling, built in 1828, where the grandfather, Richard, died in 1823; grandmother Eva Great, 1826; father, [George] killed 1846; mother Susan Kingsley, 1848. Since that time no other death has occurred in the house. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Welch are all living, and are Lyman D. Welch of Pittsford, Jerome Husted Welch of Buffalo, Allen B. Welch of Victor, Mrs. Ella J. Thornell of Batavia, Mrs. Harriet Lake Wixon of Michigan, and Mary E. Welch, who resides at home. Mrs. Welch is an invalid and has been for many years, but Mr. Welch has bee an unusually active and energetic man and has resided here longer, perhaps, than any other resident of the town, being eighty-five years of age, and eight of these have been spent in Pittsford.
Nathan Kingsley Welch was born December 15, 1818, on the farm “taken up” by his father, George Welch. He has continued to reside there, with the exception of two years of his school life passed at East Mendon, and three years spent in Orleans county, after his marriage with Miss Elizabeth DeForest Reynolds, in 1843. In 1846, the returned to the home farm, on account of the death of his father, who was killed by the cars on the crossing south of his home.
Nathan Welch is the only surviving member of a family of eight children, Ann Cleveland, Richard, Mary Holt, Julia Eckler, Madisou, Jane, Nathan and John. Richard died at the age of twenty-two years, and Jane aged eighteen years, but the others lived to the advanced age of eighty or more years. The youngest John, died January 1, 1902, at Carlton, Orleans county, aged eighty-one years. The parents, grandfather Richard and grandmother lie in the old burying ground, one mile south of this village.
According to stories handed from father to son, and verified in part by old papers found in the home, the progenitors of this family went from the British Isles to Holland, to escape English rule (in religion they were Dissenters.) From there they went to Malden, Mass., in ___ where James Welch, enlisted in the King Phillip wars, 1675. From Malden, they cam to New York state, at Fort Ticonderoga and later Fort George, during Indian hostilities. In Volume II, Annals of Albany County, in the library at Albany, which was taken from the Lutheran church at Cohoes Falls, is found, “Born, of Richard Welch and Eva Great, a son, George October 27, 1777. This was the father of Nathan, who with his brother, John, took up farms on East street, Pittsford in 1796. John taking the one now owned by Harrison Olney.
The name of George Welch appears among the first voters of the old town of Boyle, (Pittsford.)
Their father, Richard, left Albany county, with others of the Welch family, and finally settled in Penfield; later bought the farm here, now owned and occupied by W. Henry Barker, and at last went with his wife to live with their son, George on East street, and built the firs log house on that street, in 1798 and in 1812, another log house, a few rods south of the present frame dwelling, built in 1828, where the grandfather, Richard, died in 1823; grandmother Eva Great, 1826; father, [George] killed 1846; mother Susan Kingsley, 1848. Since that time no other death has occurred in the house. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Welch are all living, and are Lyman D. Welch of Pittsford, Jerome Husted Welch of Buffalo, Allen B. Welch of Victor, Mrs. Ella J. Thornell of Batavia, Mrs. Harriet Lake Wixon of Michigan, and Mary E. Welch, who resides at home. Mrs. Welch is an invalid and has been for many years, but Mr. Welch has bee an unusually active and energetic man and has resided here longer, perhaps, than any other resident of the town, being eighty-five years of age, and eight of these have been spent in Pittsford.
Published in The Monroe County Mail, Thursday, July 16, 1903 – Historical Sketch
Nathan Kingsley Welch was born December 15, 1818, on the farm “taken up” by his father, George Welch. He has continued to reside there, with the exception of two years of his school life passed at East Mendon, and three years spent in Orleans county, after his marriage with Miss Elizabeth DeForest Reynolds, in 1843. In 1846, the returned to the home farm, on account of the death of his father, who was killed by the cars on the crossing south of his home.
Nathan Welch is the only surviving member of a family of eight children, Ann Cleveland, Richard, Mary Holt, Julia Eckler, Madisou, Jane, Nathan and John. Richard died at the age of twenty-two years, and Jane aged eighteen years, but the others lived to the advanced age of eighty or more years. The youngest John, died January 1, 1902, at Carlton, Orleans county, aged eighty-one years. The parents, grandfather Richard and grandmother lie in the old burying ground, one mile south of this village.
According to stories handed from father to son, and verified in part by old papers found in the home, the progenitors of this family went from the British Isles to Holland, to escape English rule (in religion they were Dissenters.) From there they went to Malden, Mass., in ___ where James Welch, enlisted in the King Phillip wars, 1675. From Malden, they cam to New York state, at Fort Ticonderoga and later Fort George, during Indian hostilities. In Volume II, Annals of Albany County, in the library at Albany, which was taken from the Lutheran church at Cohoes Falls, is found, “Born, of Richard Welch and Eva Great, a son, George October 27, 1777. This was the father of Nathan, who with his brother, John, took up farms on East street, Pittsford in 1796. John taking the one now owned by Harrison Olney.
The name of George Welch appears among the first voters of the old town of Boyle, (Pittsford.)
Their father, Richard, left Albany county, with others of the Welch family, and finally settled in Penfield; later bought the farm here, now owned and occupied by W. Henry Barker, and at last went with his wife to live with their son, George on East street, and built the firs log house on that street, in 1798 and in 1812, another log house, a few rods south of the present frame dwelling, built in 1828, where the grandfather, Richard, died in 1823; grandmother Eva Great, 1826; father, [George] killed 1846; mother Susan Kingsley, 1848. Since that time no other death has occurred in the house. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Welch are all living, and are Lyman D. Welch of Pittsford, Jerome Husted Welch of Buffalo, Allen B. Welch of Victor, Mrs. Ella J. Thornell of Batavia, Mrs. Harriet Lake Wixon of Michigan, and Mary E. Welch, who resides at home. Mrs. Welch is an invalid and has been for many years, but Mr. Welch has bee an unusually active and energetic man and has resided here longer, perhaps, than any other resident of the town, being eighty-five years of age, and eight of these have been spent in Pittsford.
Nathan Kingsley Welch was born December 15, 1818, on the farm “taken up” by his father, George Welch. He has continued to reside there, with the exception of two years of his school life passed at East Mendon, and three years spent in Orleans county, after his marriage with Miss Elizabeth DeForest Reynolds, in 1843. In 1846, the returned to the home farm, on account of the death of his father, who was killed by the cars on the crossing south of his home.
Nathan Welch is the only surviving member of a family of eight children, Ann Cleveland, Richard, Mary Holt, Julia Eckler, Madisou, Jane, Nathan and John. Richard died at the age of twenty-two years, and Jane aged eighteen years, but the others lived to the advanced age of eighty or more years. The youngest John, died January 1, 1902, at Carlton, Orleans county, aged eighty-one years. The parents, grandfather Richard and grandmother lie in the old burying ground, one mile south of this village.
According to stories handed from father to son, and verified in part by old papers found in the home, the progenitors of this family went from the British Isles to Holland, to escape English rule (in religion they were Dissenters.) From there they went to Malden, Mass., in ___ where James Welch, enlisted in the King Phillip wars, 1675. From Malden, they cam to New York state, at Fort Ticonderoga and later Fort George, during Indian hostilities. In Volume II, Annals of Albany County, in the library at Albany, which was taken from the Lutheran church at Cohoes Falls, is found, “Born, of Richard Welch and Eva Great, a son, George October 27, 1777. This was the father of Nathan, who with his brother, John, took up farms on East street, Pittsford in 1796. John taking the one now owned by Harrison Olney.
The name of George Welch appears among the first voters of the old town of Boyle, (Pittsford.)
Their father, Richard, left Albany county, with others of the Welch family, and finally settled in Penfield; later bought the farm here, now owned and occupied by W. Henry Barker, and at last went with his wife to live with their son, George on East street, and built the firs log house on that street, in 1798 and in 1812, another log house, a few rods south of the present frame dwelling, built in 1828, where the grandfather, Richard, died in 1823; grandmother Eva Great, 1826; father, [George] killed 1846; mother Susan Kingsley, 1848. Since that time no other death has occurred in the house. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Welch are all living, and are Lyman D. Welch of Pittsford, Jerome Husted Welch of Buffalo, Allen B. Welch of Victor, Mrs. Ella J. Thornell of Batavia, Mrs. Harriet Lake Wixon of Michigan, and Mary E. Welch, who resides at home. Mrs. Welch is an invalid and has been for many years, but Mr. Welch has bee an unusually active and energetic man and has resided here longer, perhaps, than any other resident of the town, being eighty-five years of age, and eight of these have been spent in Pittsford.
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