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  1. Ellen Bronson: Birth: 5 JUL 1816 in Oswego,Oswego Co,New York,USA. Death: 21 JUN 1887 in Oswego Co,New York,USA

  2. Edwin T. Bronson: Birth: 29 JAN 1819 in Oswego,Oswego Co,New York,USA. Death: 14 NOV 1880 in Oswego,Oswego Co,New York,USA

  3. Cecelia Bronson: Birth: 1822 in Oswego,Oswego,Oswego Co,NY. Death: 4 DEC 1879 in Oswego Co,New York,USA


Notes
a. Note:   HISTORY: The Descendants of William and Elizabeth Tuttle, Who Came From Old to New England in 1633, and Settled In New Haven in 1639, With Numerous Biographical Notes and Sketches; Also, Some account of the Descendants of John Tuttle of Dover, N.H.; Richard Tuttle of Boston; John Tuttle of Ipswich; and Henry Tuthill of Hingham, Mass; To Which Are Appended Genealogical Notes of Several Alliled Families, By GEORGE FREDERICK TUTTLE, Printed and Published by Tuttle & Co., Official State Printers, Rutland, VT, 1883:
 p.565-566
 "Alvin Bronson, b. May 19, 1783; d. in Oswego (Oswego County), N.Y., April 2, 1881, age nearly 98; at age of 17 was clerk for REUBEN RICE of New Haven about 18 mos., then, in connection with JOSEPH N. CLARK and ISAAC and KNEELAND TOWNSEND, and GILBERT TOWNSEND, W.I.(West India), shippers, went into business on Long Wharf and continued for three or four years. Then Clark and Bronson chartered the schooner "Antelope", loaded her with Northern products for Charleston, S. C. On the voyage the vessel was wrecked on Portsmouth Beach between Capes Fear and Hatteras, during a three days' gale. Having paid salvage to the wreckers and observed all forms due to underwriters, Mr. Bronson bought at the sale of this wreck and of three other vessels, resulting from the same gale, a large amount of material, obtained a master builder and constructed a brig and a schooner suited to the West India trade. This consumed two years; the schooner made several voyages; the brig was completed just in time to be overtaken by Mr. JEFFERSON's embargo and made instead of a West Indian, a Conn. voyage. After the embargo he went one voyage to W. I. as supercargo, and on return brought news of the capture by the French of his schooner "Philander", under BONAPARTE's Berlin and Milan decrees, for having been bound to a British port; she was condemned, sold and bought in by the Capt. of the vessel; she was afterwards captured under the British orders in council for having been to a French port and again condemned.
 Mr. Bronson then united with JACOB TOWNSEND (Gilbert & Townsend) of New Haven, in the lake coasting trade, and with shipmasters and carpenters went to the Falls on the Oswego River, and on the ground now occupied by the thrifty village of Fulton, they cut the frame for a schooner of 100 and odd tons; two vessels were built and stores established at Oswego and Lewiston, when the war of 1812 broke up their business and their houses were invaded, plundered and burned. In 1814 he was appointed military and naval storekeeper at Oswego; after the war the business was resumed and extended by a branch at Black Rock. In 1822 he was elected to the State Senate, and during the two years of his term succeeded in procuring a law authorizing the Oswego Canal. Identified early with this public work he became its advocate and defender through a stormy conflict of twenty-five y ears; so much was he connected with it, in the public estimation, that when he repaired to Albany with a remonstrance against a resolution to repeal the Oswego canal law, meeting Col. AARON BURR in the hall of the Capitol, "he saluted me by saying, 'Ah! you are here to defend your canal.' and added, 'I am with you.' I said I believed all sensible men were with us, to which he replied, characteristically, "Ah! my young friend, if that's all, you have a vast majority against you.'
 In 1829 Mr. Bronson was again returned to the Senate, and in 1830 was chairman of the Finance committee. Near the close of last session an Assembly bill for reducing the legal rate of interest and bank discounts, together with remonstrances from different parts of the state, were referred to the Finance committee. Mr. Bronson made an elaborate report: Senate doc., 166, April 12, 1833. Of this report Mr. GALLATIN said, 'It was an able and well reasoned document.'"
 OBIT: An Oswego correspondent of the N. Y. Sun writes: "ALVIN BRONSON died at his residence in this city this morning. Mr. Bronson was born in Waterbury, Conn., May 19, 1783, and was nearly 98 years of age. He came to Oswego in 1810 and engaged in the lake trade as one of the firm of Bronson, Townsend & Co., and in 1835 he was one of the well-known firm of Bronson & Crocker, who carried on a large commercial business on the lakes and canal until 1858. He was elected to the State Senate in 1822 and re-elected in 1829. During his second term as Senator he secured the passage of the bill authorizing the construction of the Oswego canal. At the session of the Senate of 1824, in order to prevent the vote of New York being cast for WILLIAM H. CRAWFORD, a bill was introduced giving the election to the people. Seventeen Senators--a majority of the Senate--opposed and defeated the bill. These seventeen Senators were known as the "infamous seventeen." on account of the popular clamor against them. Mr. Bronson was one of these, and the last survivor. In the war of 1812 Mr. Bronson had charge of the military stores belonging to the government at Oswego, and, to prevent their being captured by the British, threw them into the river, for which he was taken prisoner and confined at Kingston." He married in Middlebury, Conn., the youngest daughter of Capt. EDWARD O'CONNOR, a Rev. soldier; several children, of whom was: Cecelia b. 1822, d. at Oswego, 4 Dec 1879, m: John Lawrence McWhorter."
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 1850 U.S. Census
 Name: Alvin Bronson
 Age: 63
 Birth Year: abt 1787
 Birthplace: Connecticut
 Home in 1850: Oswego Ward 1, Oswego, New York, USA
 Gender: Male
 Family Number: 336
 Household Members:
 Name Age
 Alvin Bronson 63, m, b-CT
 Mary Bronson 51, f, b-NY (wife)
 Susan White 19, f, Ireland
 Maria White 23, f, Ireland
 Michael Canady 29, m, Ireland
 Edwin Bronson 29, m, Ireland [NY] (son)


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