The Press., 1892-01-07

eighty years and ramDie over this region as it was then, we should find 1t alive with a goodly number of inhabitants. It was then an.important part of the large Hyde district, and the school-house was within it's borders, none having yet been built at the New Furnace. Now it is a remote part of the Staffordville district, and the old Hyde district is forgotten. The old school house has long been gone; the noise of the mill wheels has ceased j; many of the farms are deserted; and most of the houses are no more.
 Among the inhabitants of about eighty years ago were Jacob Hyde and his nephew, Oliver Hyde. The latter lived a little north of the school house, in the house which was burned a few years ago and has been replaced by the new house of Wesley Bradway. The former lived about mile to the west, in house which is still standing close by where Rev. l.. s. Goodell now lives. They belonged to a family quite numerous and influential in Stafford at that time. From the pub lished genealogy of the. Hyde family I learn that they were descendants of Will liam Hyde. who came oHartford in 1886, and was one of the original settlers of that place. This William; Hyde and his son, Samuel, were among the thirty-five original proprfetors of Norwich. This Samuel Hyde marvied Jane Lee and came to Norwich in 1860. He had eight chil- dren, and his eldest daughter, Elizabeth, was the. first white child born at that place. His fourth son, Thomas Hyde, was born in 1879, and married Mary Back us in 1897. These had three sons and three daughters. The second son, Capt. Jacob Hyde, married Hannah Kingsbury. These had four sons and six daughters. The second son, Ephraim Hyde, was born in 1734. He married Martha Giddings, and settled ihl Stanerd, They had nine children ;: Nathaniel, Hannah, sLxdia, Ephraim, Martha, Jacob, Jasper, .Eunice, and Eli. EphrafIn, the fourth child, mar 9,ried Margaret ,Walbridge, and Oliver Hyde, whom we have already mentioned, born in 17s5, was their oldest child. Oliver Hyde married, fand, after NiSing many years near thes old schookA Aeilse, died in 1888, leaving two daughter, Mi. nefsva and Amanda.
 Jacob Hyde, son of Ephfaim Hyde and Martha (Giddings) Hyde, was born in 1767. He married Lydia Hall; daughter of Ephraim Hall, of the Hall district, and, as already stated, was living west af Di- iver Hyde. about eighty years ago. There he continued to live until he died, an old man, in 1S47. His wifsf had died in 1s44, at the age of 77 years.
 Jacob Hyde had four hildpns Ephrafm Hall, Jacob, Hannah, and Lydia. 'Oi these, Jacob died unmarried Hannah married Capt. Samuel Rockwell, and moved to Hartford; Lydia married Dan iel Pinney, son of Daniel Ptnney, and lived and died near her early home; Ephraim Han Hyde magried Nancy Shaw in 1927, and lived in the house where Rev. L. s. Goodell now lives. He hasd Six childxen, Joseph, MariIds, Jacob. Julius, Mary and Elam g., and,, after the death of his wife, married Esther Foster, and had one. more son, Ebert Foster. A lit tie less than forty years ago he moved tc Ellington, where he resided 0ntii his deAth In passing, It is not my purpose tt mention only genealogies and names There are descriptions of places, accounts