| 1785 |
Governor George Clinton
buys land from the Oneida Indians - this land
later mapped and surveyed, becomes Guilford. |
| 1786 |
Mass gives up its claims
to land west of the Unadilla River - this portion
becoming part of New York. |
| 1787 |
Settlers begin moving into
area of land which becomes Chenango Co. |
| 1793 |
Township of Fayette, which
was settled two years earlier, is now named
"Oxford." |
| 1794 |
Joel Johnson arrives in
the area which becomes Guilford. |
| 1797 |
John and Loretta Dibble
settle at the site of the hamlet of Guilford. |
| 1798 |
Chenango county is formed
from Tioga and Herkimer counties and Oxford
becomes part of the new county. |
1799
|
Daniel Johnson, son of
Daniel, goes to the wilds of New York to visit
his brother and buys 160 acres. There he builds a
log house next to his brother Joel's property. |
| 1800 |
Sometime before this year,
Ebenzer Root settles five miles southeast of
Oxford Village (formed from Jericho), having come
from Great Barrington, MA. |
| 1800 |
Daniel Johnson returns to
Connecticut and brings his wife Mary (Norton) and
their young family back with him to New York. |
| 1800 |
Cousins Aaron & Joel
Root arrive in Guilford from Great Barrington,
Berkshire, MA |
| 1802 |
Seth M. Johnson, son of
Daniel and Mary, is born on the 4th of October.
His siblings, whose dates of birth are not yet
known, are: Hiram, Alpheus, Joel, Samantha (who
marries Ethan Pier), Louisa (who marries Lyman
Bradley), and Mary (who married Ithuel Blake). |
| 1802 |
Oliver Ingersoll arrives
in Guilford from Great Barrington, MA. |
| 1804 |
Thomas Horton Ingersoll
arrives in Guilford from Great Barrington,
Berkshire, MA. |
| 1804 |
Jerusha Root, daughter of
Ebenezer and Cynthia (Whipple), is born on the
22nd of February and marries Seth Johnson
sometime before 1829. |
| 1805 |
Charlotte Root, daughter
of Ebenezer and Cynthia (Whipple), is born on the
5th of July and later marries (1) Ira Dibble; (2)
Charles Godfrey. |
| 1807 |
Coventry is formed on the
7th of February, named after town of same in CT
in which many of the first settlers came. One of
those given a grant was Elihu Root, one of the VT
sufferers; and Seth Johnson was among those who
had come to Coventry in about 1792. |
| 1807 |
Polly Root, daughter of
Ebenezer and Cynthia (Whipple), is born on the
16th of April and latter marries Willis Gridley. |
| 1809 |
Daniel Root, son of
Ebenezer and Cynthia (Whipple), is born on the
29th of May. |
| 1810 |
The 1810 Census
for Bainbridge lists household of Seth Johnson in
Jericho - one male between age of 26-45; three
females under aged 10; andone female between
16-20 years of age. |
| 1811 |
Harriet Root, daughter of
Ebenezer and Cynthia (Whipple), is born on the
22nd of February and later marries John Young. |
| 1813 |
Guilford separates from
Oxford and is known as "Eastern." |
| 1814 |
Jericho is named
Bainbridge. |
| 1814 |
Alanson Root, son of
Ebenezer and Cynthia (Whipple), is born on the
19th of November but dies about three years later
in 1817. |
| 1815 |
David Ingersoll, son of
Philip and Elizabeth (Bowsman), marries Hannah
(Holcomb) on 12 March in Coventry - she the
daughter of Levi and Lois (Gleason). |
| 1815 |
Levi Ingersoll, son of
David and Hannah (Holcomb) is born on the 7th of
December in Coventry. |
| 1816 |
Snows every month of the
year causing starvation. The severe cold is
linked to the volcanic eruption in Indonesia at
the Island of Tambora in April of the previous
year. |
| 1817 |
Guilford receives this
current name but people continue to refer to it
as "Fayette" or
"Fayetteville" for several decades. |
| 1817 |
Silas and Cyrus Root, twin
sons of Ebenezer and Cynthia (Whipple), are born
on the 10th of February. |
| 1817 |
William Niles Ingersoll,
son of David and Hannah (Holcomb) is born on the
27th of July in Coventry. |
| 1829 |
Hiram Titus Johnson, son
of Seth and Jerusha (Root), is born in May. |
| 1833 |
Daniel Johnson, son of
Seth and Jerusha (Root), is born on the 21st of
April. He becomes a prominent dairy farmer and
stock raiser in Guilford and dies in 1915. |
| 1833 |
On November 13th, a
meteorite passes over Guilford and set fires. It
Impacts in Colesville - is part of the Leonids
Meteor Shower from comet Temple Tuttle. |
| 1835 |
Philip Ingersoll, son of
Daniel and martha (Briggs) and husband of
Elizabeth Bowsman, dies in Bainbridge on the 26th
of December. |
| 1836 |
Elizabeth
Bowsman-Ingersoll, wife of Philip, dieds on the
15th of May in Bainbrridge. |
| 1842 |
Ebenezer Root, who was
born in Great Barrington, Berkshire, MA on 17 Dec
1760, dies at the age of 82 on the 12th of
February. |
| 1847 |
Milton H. ROOT, age 55
marries Almira UNDERWOOD age 38, of Guilford on
March 2nd. |
| 1847 |
Betsey Fosburg (born about
1787), wife of Stephen, dies on May 15th and is
buried in West Bainbridge Cemetery. |
| 1847 |
On the 22nd of October,
daughter Alice B. is born to Samuel B. and Maria
Johnson. |
| 1847 |
Sarah S. ROOT, age 20 of
Guilford, marries Joseph YALE, 23 of Catskill on
the 2nd of November. |
| 1847 |
Sarah Johnson, daughter of
Setha nd Jerusha (Roots) is born on 19th of
November. She later married John H. Bower and
resided in Chicago, IL. |
| 1849 |
On the 13th of September,
daughter Malissa Abigail Root is born to Silas
and Matilda. |
| 1849 |
Julia A. ROOT, age 24 of
Guilford, marries Harlow NEWTON 24 of Bainbridge,
on the 2nd of October. |
| 1849 |
On the 15th of October,
William IRELAND age 23 of Bainbridge marries to
Mary MANNING age 22, also of Bainbridge. |
| 1849 |
Williard Daniel Bradley,
son of Louisa (Johnson) and Lyman Bradley, is
born in Guilford. He later marries Eliza Twigg. |
| 1850 |
On the 10th of July, L.C.
Johnson age 28 of Coventry, marries Amanda M.
CRISMAN age 20 of Coventry by Rev. Aaron Parker. |
| 1852 |
Hiram Titus Johnson, son
of Seth and Jerusha (Root), dies in Oregon City,
OR on the 23rd of December, but is laid to rest
in West Bainbridge Cemetery, his headstone
reading: "He sought that distant land for
his home, But found there his grave." |
| 1854 |
In Oxford, John B. Root
marries Martha B. SHAPELY on 23 March. |
| 1854 |
Andrew J. Root marries
Euphriamine KING on 16 Nov in Oxford. |
| 1855 |
Guilford is flooded when
the dam breaks. Most of its buildings are
destroyed. |
| 1855 |
James Root marries Martha
U. MILES in Oxford on January 10th. |
| 1855 |
Stephen Fosburg, who was
born about 1783, dies on the 15th of October and
is buried in West Bainbridge Cemetery. |
| 1856 |
Cynthia Whipple-Root, wife
of Ebenezer, ies on the 15th of February. she was
born in Battleboro, Windham, VT in about 1789. |
| 1859 |
Lyman Bradley, husband of
Louisa (Johnson) dies in Guilford in August. |
| 1862 |
The 114th regiment is
formed which includes several Guilford men who
fight in several southern states during the Civil
War. |
| 1864 |
Guilford's bucket brigade
saves the town from a fire which destroys a block
of buildings below Furnace Street on Main. |
| 1864 |
Lottie Johnson, born about
1789 in CT dies in August at the age of 75. |
| 1869 |
Daniel Johnson is listed
in the Guilford business directory as a farmer
owning 200 acres. |
| 1870 |
Ithuel Blake, widowed
husband of Mary (Johnson) and farmer of Coventry
dies in Guilford in March. |
| 1874 |
Milton H. Root, who was
born in Massachusetts in about 1792, dies at the
age of 82. |
| 1880 |
Hannah Holcomb-Ingersoll,
wife of David, dies in Coventry on the 12th of
May. She was born in Unadilla, Ostego, NY on 14
Mar 1796 and was daughter of Levi and Lois
(Gleason). |
| 1889 |
Jerusha Root-Johnson,
daughter of Ebenezer and Charlotte, and wife of
Seth Johnson, dies on the 8th of July. She is
laid to rest at the West Bainbridge Cemetery. |
| 1897 |
Another fire wipes out the
same block below Furnace Street. |
| 1898 |
Harriet Root-Young is
residing this year with her sister Jerusha and
brother-in-law Daniel Johnson. She is considered
intelligent, well informed , and a lady held in
high esteem by her acquaintances. |
| 1901 |
Harriet Root-Young dies on
the 26th of October. |
