The Press., 1892-01-07

other house still further south, on the same side of the road, and nearly opposite an old house-spot known as the Warner place.
 Not far from hundred years ago Broadstreet Tyler settled in Willington. He had four sons, Dudley, Perry, Will liam, and Ara. All the family, except Ara, moved to Otsego County, New, York, some seventy years ago, or more. Ara Tyler, born in 1798, married Abigail Fer " in 1914, and lived on Ferry Hill, where he died in 1S63 His wife was born in 1798 and died in 1874.
 I shall not attempt to record the va- rious changes that took place within the four. houses on Ferry Hill, from the time that the last was built. The two central ones, being the oldest, soonest felt the ef- fects of time. When Ara Tyler died, his house, too, was deserted. Not many years after James Ferry, 2d, built his house he and Jesse Foskit exchanged farms. After the death of the latter, James Ferry, 8d, purchased his fathers former place, and lived, on Ferry Hill many years.
 On the old road, twice mentioned as running north and south, near the head of the reservoir, is all old house-spot. It Is not far from the line of the Staffordville and Hall districts, and cannot say to which distfict it belongs. I have heard the place associated with the name of Crouch, but the house and its inhabitants belong to the dim and distant past
 On the right of the road running downi the northwest side of Ferry Hill is an old cellar, already mentioned as over- grown with trees. Here, little less than eighty years ago, a widow, whose name was Vinton, lived, and earned her nveli- hood by spinning. The house remained few years and was then removed.
 The next house-spot is some distance south of the road and east of the old saw mill site. There stood house, and per- haps 1t was occupied, eighty years ago. Benjamin Agard, 2d, had lived there, but removed at about this time, or some time before, to a house a little further west and on the other side of the stream. Not far from the middle of the last century Benjamin Agard, 1st, married Elizabeth Hall, and lived in Mansfield, Conn. This Benjamin Agard is said to have been born in this country, whither his father had come from across the sea- Elizabeth Hall was sister of Ephraim Hall, who died in the Hall district in 1916, at the age of. eighty-four years. Benja- min Agard, 1st, had seven children: Nathan Cor John), who died at an early age; Joshua, who married Ruth Need- ham, and settled in Wilmington, Conn. Joshua and Caleb, who married and went to Pawlet, Vt; Mehitable, who died at an early age; Elizabeth, who married John Crouch, and went to Pawlet, Vt and Benjamin.
 About 115 years ago Benjamin Agard, 2d, married, for his second wife, Sarah Hiscock. She was the daughter of Nathan Hiscock, who had seven children, Nathan, David, Stephen, Hannah, Lydia, Molly l and Sarah, and who Is said to have died It the age Of one hundred years. Benia- min Agsrd, a, ard bis wife, Sarah i, haa Ieight chIldrens Nathan, who married
 married Hannah, daughter of Ephraim
 Hall, and lived in the Hall district, where As died At theIs ainety wears; Lydia,
 vhp 7naszied N Abbey, snd went to INlldd1ebury Vt; Chloe, who married | Sylvenas Conant, and lived in Mansfield, Conn. 1; Sally, who married Jesse Turner, and also lived in Mansfield Polly, who married John, son of Ephraim Hall, and 1 lived in the Hall district until her hus- bands death in 1857; Benjamin, who brought up large family in house still standing near the place of his boyhood home; Nancy, who married Rufus David son, and lived in Wales, Mass. and Han nah, who married Jasper Needham. As already stated, Benjamin Agard, 2d, lived in house a little west of the saw mill, not far from eighty years ago. He had previously lived little further east, and, for time, still earlier, on the place WhC1O 1hOOP1Aiuo SueAOA uLoC1 Wtto uNCo
 in the Hall district, and on Stewart It'll.
 He died in the house that stood west of
 the saw-mill, about seventy-two years
 ago. His wife survived him, and died in
 1S4s, at the age of ninety-five years. The house near by, now worn and old, was
 built some seventy or eighty years ago.
 Here, Benjamin Agard, 3d, lived until his
 death in 1872. h.. We have spoken several times of the
 saw-mill. It stood a. short distance be-
 low the road that, winds up Ferry Hill, on
 the stream that comes from the pond 8 little above. It is said to have been built
 by Nathan Agard, eldest son of Benjamin
 Agard, 2d, but it was owned by Benjamin
 Agard, seventy or eighty years ago. A dam, made massive by stone and earth,
 was built across the stream, and she'd
 like building was erected on one side. A large log made the central shaft of Q rude
 wheel, and long saw, which moved up
 and down, slowly cut the logs into board. Descending the steep hill toward Staf-
 foi idville, the traveller now comes to three
 houses on a little elevation. There were no houses here eighty years ago. The N middle one was built by Abner Ferry sew
 eral years later, and the other two have
 been built in still more recent times. AL
 win Tyler, son of Ara Tyler, lives in the
 middle one, and George s. Fiske, Alvin Tyler's son-in-law, in the one little
 north, while James Ferry, Sd, who was
 born on Ferry Hill eighty-three years ago,
 lives in the other. ~
 {" A little. further down the road, and
 nearly opposite the new mill, is part of
 an old house still standing Here stood o 4xzIaioh IEx.x.l-