Isaac Alden and Irene Smith
Husband Isaac Alden 1
Born: 5 May 1755 - Ashfield, Franklin Co, MA 1 Christened: Died: 5 Mar 1822 - Warren, Warren Co, PA 1 Buried:
Father: David Alden (1727-1807) 1 Mother: Lucy Thomas ( - ) 1
Marriage: 18 May 1780 - Ashfield, Franklin Co, MA 2
Wife Irene Smith 2
Born: 4 Jul 1757 - Ashfield, Franklin Co, MA 2 Christened: Died: 14 Mar 1834 - Warren, Warren Co, PA 2 Buried:
Father: Ebenezer Smith (1734-1824) 3 Mother: Remember Ellis (1735-1795) 3
Children
1 M Philander Alden 2
Born: 31 Jan 1782 - Ashfield, Franklin Co, MA 2 Christened: Died: 28 Jul 1810 - Lake Ontario, NY 2 Buried:Spouse: Betsey Hall (1779- ) 2
2 F Philomena Alden 2
Born: 10 Dec 1783 - Ashfield, Franklin Co, MA 2 Christened: Died: Jun 1861 or Jul 1861 - Madison parish, LA 2 Buried:Spouse: Dr. Joel Rathbun ( - ) 2 Marr: 22 Aug 1802 2
3 M Joshua Alden 2
Born: 10 Jun 1785 - Ashfield, Franklin Co, MA 2 Christened: Died: 2 Nov 1846 - Bristol, Kendall Co, IL 2 Buried:Spouse: Louisa Fletcher ( - ) 2 Marr: 15 Nov 1827 2
4 M Pliny Alden 2
Born: 28 Mar 1787 - Ashfield, Franklin Co, MA 2 Christened: Died: 14 Nov 1834 - Floyd, Oneida Co, NY 2 Buried:Spouse: Anna Upson ( - ) 2 Marr: 27 Mar 1812 2
5 M Isaac Alden 2
Born: 19 Feb 1789 - Ashfield, Franklin Co, MA 2 Christened: Died: Abt 1870 Buried:Spouse: Sallie Henderson ( -1848) 2 Marr: 27 Apr 1834 2
6 F Fanny Alden 2
Born: 2 Apr 1791 - Ashfield, Franklin Co, MA 2 Christened: Died: 4 Apr 1791 2 Buried:Spouse: Did Not Marry
7 M Jacob Alden 2
Born: 27 Jan 1792 - Ashfield, Franklin Co, MA 2 Christened: Died: 27 Jan 1792 2 Buried:Spouse: Did Not Marry
8 M Dr. Hiram Alden 2
Born: 28 Oct 1792 - Ashfield, Franklin Co, MA 2 Christened: Died: 26 Nov 1838 - Detroit, Wayne Co, MI 2 Buried:Spouse: Melita Huntley ( -1849) 2 Marr: 28 Jan 1816 2
9 M Richard Alden 2
Born: 19 May 1795 - Oneida Co, NY 4 Christened: Died: 2 May 1883 - Warren, Warren Co, PA 4 Buried:Spouse: Betsey Newman (1801-1894) 4 Marr: 27 Jan 1827 4
10 M Enoch Alden 2
Born: 9 Dec 1797 - western New York state 2 Christened: Died: 27 Jun 1833 2 Buried:Spouse: Mary "Polly" Webb ( -1833) 2 Marr: 18 Jan 1819 2
11 M Philo Alden 2
Born: 3 Jul 1800 2 Christened: Died: 6 Nov 1866 - Bellevue, LA 2 Buried:Spouse: Margaret Ellen Riemer (1808-1868) 4 Marr: 15 Apr 1827 - New York City, NY 4
General Notes: Husband - Isaac Alden
There is little record of his life until his removal from Ashfield, Massachusetts, in 1794, to a small settlement at Western, Oneida County, New York. A record speaks of him as a magistrate. He was one of the pioneers of that section of Oneida County. He moved to Williamstown, located in that part of Oneida which is cut off from Oneida County and called Fifth township, Oswego county. He took up land on Mill Brook, where he built a rude log cabin, barn and a saw mill all of logs. The barn joined the house, except for a threshing floor between, all being under one roof. Philo, then the youngest child, was lulled to sleep in a cradle made by his father by splitting a hollow basswood log and placing under it two rude rockers. His, with two or three other families, constituted the first settlers of Oswego County, his nearest neighbor being four miles distant. He seems to have prospered and later built other mills on Fish Creek, which locality later became the business portion of the town. He engaged in farming, milling and logging, making the greatest possible use of the natural advantages offered by forest, stream and lake. The whole family worked hard and endured all the hardship and privations incident to life in a new country. His children one by one left him, but his first tragic affliction was the drowning of his eldest son, Philander, in 1810, when a young man of twenty-eight years.
In 1811, just before the outbreak of the second war with Great Britain, Isaac Alden left his home to make a trip down the St. Lawrence river with a cargo of lumber. Just how or when is not known, but while on this trip he was captured by English soldiers and imprisoned. He was offered his liberty, if he would swear allegiance to the king; but he refused, choosing rather to suffer captivity than to swear allegiance to a power at war with his own country. He was eventually sent to England, a prisoner, from which exile he did not return until 1820. He returned in that year, but so broken in health that he died two years later in Warren, Pennsylvania, where he was living with his son Richard. [GPHAV, 560]
General Notes: Wife - Irene Smith
from Ashfield, Franklin Co, MA
1 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 560.
2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 561.
3 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 563.
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John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 562.
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