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Note: Note: Jonathan Cady, a millwright, and family moved from NH to VT on the Onion River in 1802, then returned to NH in 1808. Then the family moved to Otsego Co., NY for one year and then to Troupsburg, NY. 1800 Westhersfield, VT Census 1810 Peacham, Caledonia, VT 1820 Troupsburg, Steuben, NY US Census #1 Jonathan Cady 1 in agriculture 1 male 16-26 1 female 10-16 1 female 26-45 1 female 45 + 1 male slave Above this listing is Ransom Cady Second above this listing is Julius Morey Third above this listing is Hiel Cady 1840 Troupsburg, Steuben, NY Census #7 Jonathan Cady 70-80 (1760-1770) 1 female between 60-70 (1770-1780) 1850 Troupsburg, Steuben, NY Census #10 Ransom Cady 52 Farmer $2000 Nancy (wife) 47 3 children: Nancy 20 Nahala 14 Ann B. 8 Jonathan Cady 85 NH Memories of Gilbert Cady written in 1884 Ransom Cady, was born Feb. 1798 Clarmont, Cheshire Co., New Hampshire. Here he spent the first half of his life. When he was four years old, his father then moved to the state of Vermont on the Onion River, where he spent the next six years of his life, being then ten years of age. His father then moved back to his birthplace (Claremont) with his wife and four children and here the fifth child was born (Hiram ). He then moved to Otsego County, New York, where he lived for one year, removing then to the town of Troupsburg, NY and settling on a piece of land near Wesley Griggs. Now in imagination go back with me 62 years and imagine you see coming along through the woods from Addison to Troupsburg an old horse team hitched to something we would be at a loss to know what to call it, loaded with a few dilapidated goods for setting up housekeeping in any country. We may also see a sturdy, broad shouldered man about forty years of age, and his wife, a small, dark eyed woman and five children, some riding and some going a foot and camping out at night, cutting roads through a howling wilderness from Rowleys to what was to be the home of Ransom Cady, a boy then fourteen years old. He lived there two years and then with his father and mother, brothers and sisters moved to what is now Hornellsville, but then it was comparatively a wilderness and assisted his father, who was a millwright by trade, to build the first sawmill ever built on the Canisteo River. They remained there three years and then came back to Troupsburg, locating on the State Road near where they first lived. He remained at home, working alternately for his father and here and there, wherever he could find work until he was twenty four years old, when he married Nancy Washburn of Middle Township, Deleware County, New Yor k. The marriage rite was performed by Squire Ives in a log house near where Gaylord Simmons now lives. At the time they were married their united wealth was not sufficient to buy a straw tick. The first year of their wedded life they lived in the house with John Mascho of Elkland. They then began keeping house on the hill this side or A. Sopers where th ir first child, William W. Cady was born. They were there one year and then moved down on the place now owned by E. M urdock where they lived for two years and then moved on to the place where he now lives and built a log house on the upper side of the road where the rest of his children were born. They had eight children, three boys and five girls; two of the boys died in infancy. The remaining six children lived to grow up to manhood and womanhood. There has been born to him 32 grandchildren; 16 girls and 16 boys. He now has living, 24 grandchildren, 12 girls and 12 boys, also 9 great grandchildren, 7 boys and 2 girls, making the direct descendants of Ransom Cady 48 souls, 35 living at the present. NOTE: His daughter, says her father, Gilbert Cady, wrote the above family account about 1884. -
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