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Tri-Counties Genealogy &
History by Joyce M. Tice
Tri-County Bible Records
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Bradford County PA
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Chemung County NY
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Tioga County PA
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BIBLE RECORDS
Havens Family of Columbia Township, Bradford County PA
HAVENS FAMILY BIBLE
Columbia Township, Bradford County, Pennsylvania
***Statement written by Charles Haven at a reunion at his home in 1868
in Havenss Family Bible****
Memorandum of a few early events in my life to my children on my 64th
Birthday. I was born in the town of Sullivan, Chesire County, New Hampshire
on February 22, 1804. My father's name was John Haven and my mother Abigail
Fay. I, with my father's family of six sons and one of two daughters moved
to the wilderness of Pennsylvania in early winter of 1815 when I was eleven
years old. We came on two sleds, one drawn by a pair of horses, the other
by two heavy yoke of oxen. We found good sleighing the whole distance.
One horse team made the trip in fifteen days, but the oxen team took eighteen
days. My father and two brothers came the year before, summer of 1814,
bought a possession and built a log house. Chopped and cleared five acres
and sowed wheat, it was about where Charlie Smith's barn is now and on
the little flat above the barn at the foot of the hill farther west. This
we harvested the first summer. Also chopped, cleared and sowed to wheat
ten acres near the Haven schoolhouse and as far south as a row of apple
trees that Nahum Haven planted. Our nearest grist mill was Long's Mill
near Troy, PA., nine or ten miles distance. Nearly all the way was woods.
I commenced to chop and clear my farm when I was twenty years old and married
Clarissa Dart, formerly from Vermont, but then of Charleston, Tioga County,
Pennslyvania, the 23rd day of February 1826. Settled on my farm and here
since. I have hauled wheat to Elmira, New York 20 miles and sold it at
0.62 to 0.69 cents per bushel to pay for land that cost in it's wild state
at $3.00 per acre. I have done nothing but regular farming: was never a
speculator and consequently was obliged to be economical and work hard
as well as my wife and my family. I am 64 years old today and feel my work
is almost done.. Signed 22 January 1868 by Charles Haven
A copy of this was given to me by my uncle, apparently copied from a
family bible. Charles Haven (or Havens) was not a direct ancestor of ours,
but could have been a brother or cousin of my 3rd Great Grandfather John
Havens who was born around 1815 (11 years after Charles). The "s" may have
been added to the name Haven later on.. Submitted by Lauren Welty Tennent.
Note from Joyce M. Tice: Charles died on Feb 15, 1868 shortly after writing
this document summing up his life.ys
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Published On Tri-Counties Site On 12 NOV 1997
By Joyce M. Tice
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