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     Juliette Hayden was born on 10 April 1809. She was the daughter of Hezekiah Hayden and Hannah Hayden. Juliette Hayden died on 2 February 1813 at age 3.

     Isaac's parents died nearly together, leaving ten children, whose ages ranged from infancy to twenty years. With a moderate competence while the parents lived, it became necessary for the family to be scattered after their death. The subject of this sketch came to Windsor when about fourteen years old, learned the blacksmith's trade of Elihu Loomis, settled in Hartford, established a successful business, which he continued until his death. He was enthusiastically interested in the maintenance of the Union and the preservation of the government, 1861-5 and gave two sons to the war, but one of whom returned alive. After the war he made a business trip to Savannah, Ga. On his return the ship was lost on Lookout Shoals, on the coast of North Carolina, and he was not among the survivors. His family afterwards removed from Hartford to Windsor, built a pleasant home, where they still reside. Jabez Hayden. Isaac Strong Hayden was born on 17 April 1811 at Springfield, Otsego Co., NY.¹ He was the son of Hezekiah Hayden and Hannah Hayden.¹ Isaac Strong Hayden died on 31 December 1865 at Lookout Shoals, NC, at age 54.

     Left an orphan when nine years old, under circumstances already detailed in sketches of his brothers, Levi came to the friends of his mother at Haydens, soon after the death of his father, and remained in the family six years. Here "Cousin Levi" attended the district school (with "Jabez") in winter, and applied himself to farm work the balance of the year. At the age of 16 he was apprenticed to Mr. Elijah F. Reed of Hartford, a house and ship joiner, and became a member of his employer's excellent family. Near the close of his apprenticeship he united with the Baptist Church and the influence of that step has been apparent in all the vicissitudes of his subsequent life. Reaching his majority in 1833, he passed the summer months in the embryo city of Chicago, engaged in the construction of small houses, and, as living accommodations at that time were crude, his sleeping quarters were under the roof of the only apothecary shop, kept by Mr. Carpenter.

His health becoming impaired, he returned East in 1835, and shipped as carpenter and mail agent on the new steamer Bangor, plying between Boston and Bangor, Maine. The next year he was advised by his physician to try a milder climate, and sailed as carpenter on board the whaleship Cyrus, fitted out at Nantucket, and bound for the Pacific Ocean. Leaving home Sept. 9, 1836, he returned in April, 1840, with health restored.

The cruises of the ship were sometimes eight and nine months long; recruiting ship at Callao, the Marquesas Islands, Tahiti, and on one occasion at the historic Picairn's Island, famed as the peaceful home of the descendants of the mutineers of the English ship Bounty. The only survivor of the original party found there by Mr. Hayden was the Tahitian wife of Fletcher Christian, the chief of the mutineers.

The colony comprised about 100 persons. He became much interested in them, and has since made mention of them in some published notes. He was presented with two old Bibles of the Bounty, which were well worn in the instruction of the children. Here he burned a pit of charcoal for the ship's use, and aided by the young islanders, cut a tree high up on the cliffs, had it brought to the sea, and transported to the ship, there to be fashioned into an anchor stock.

Only six weeks after reaching home he was again afloat, having shipped as carpenter on the Eben Preble, bound for China. They found the Chinese ports blockaded by the British, on account of the opium war, but obtained a cargo of tea in time to reach home in August, 1841.

In 1842 he sailed again for China in the ship Coromando. The second officer was lost at sea, and Mr. Hayden, for the remainder of the voyage, filled both the post of second officer and carpenter. He afterward made two more voyages to China as second officer, rode out typhoons which wrecked others, had other experiences common to sailors, and returned home early in 1846.

This year Mr. Hayden married and settled in New York, where he engaged in ship-building and repairing, and through the encouragement and patronage of some of the largest shippers, in whose employ he had been, he continued the business successfully through several years, and in 1853 he organized the Long Island City Marine Railway Company, with a capital of $80,000, and was the managing director and superintendent. This railway was of sufficient capacity to take up the largest North River and Sound steamboats. In 1859 he organized the New York Submarine Engineering Company, capital $50,000, of which he was a director and superintendent, and commenced the reduction of Coenties Reef and other rocky obstructions, and wrecks which interfered with navigation.

After the breaking out of the civil war, in Dec, 1861, both the War and Navy Departments applied to the last-named company to aid them with their skill and experience in placing and clearing obstructions under water. Mr. Hayden and Prof. Maillefert responded, and reported to General Burnside at Annapolis, and accompanied the Burnside expedition to North Carolina; were present and participated in the capture of Roanoke Island, and also Newbern, demolishing the channel barricades of the Neuse River; also rendering important service at the reduction of Fort Macon. He next accompanied a force of 8,000 men under General Reno to obstruct the Dismal Swamp Canal by blowing up the locks. An engagement with the Confederates, occurring at South Mills, precipitated the evacuation of Norfolk and the destruction of the rebel ram Merrimac. He was next ordered to proceed, under the protection of the gunboats, to the mouth of the Albemarle and Currituck Canal, and thoroughly obstruct it, which was accomplished by mining and blowing in the banks and filling with a network of trees. News of the occupation of Norfolk by the Union forces having reached General Burnside, Mr. Hayden was ordered to clear out all obstructions from the canals and other channels in the direction of Norfolk, for the passage of our fleet. This was accomplished with great dispatch by the free use of submarine blasts and a working force of contrabands. At Coin Jock Bridge a plot was laid by the enemy for his capture, but it was discovered by his corporal and handsomely defeated.

Mr. Hayden remained in this service until Nov., 1862, sometimes in company with Prof. Maillefert, at others operating separately, as occasion required.

When Burnside was called to the command of the Army of the Potomac he no longer required their assistance, and gave them high praise in the following certificate:

HEADQUARTERS ARMY FO THE POTOMAC, NOV. 1, 1862

I most cheerfully certify and acknowledge the good and valuable services rendered my department by Prof. B. Maillefert and Capt. L. Hayden, engineers of the New York Submarine Engineering Company, by their very efficient plan of submarine can blasts.

The great dispatch with which they removed all manner of sunken obstructions from the channels of the Neuse and Pamlico Rivers; Core, Croatan, and Currituck Sounds; the Albemarle and Chesapeake Canal, etc., etc., making ample and speedy channels for the passage of our gunboats and transports, elicited my warmest commendation, and greatly facilitated my operations in that department. I therefore warmly recommend them for their skill and practical application of knowledge to other departments or individuals requiring similar services.

A.E. BURNSIDE
Major General, Commanding Army Potomac

In March, 1863, Mr. Hayden made a trip of observation to Nassau, Bahama Islands, returning with reports of the magnitude of the movements of the English blockade runners. Later, he prepared a large quantity of clock-work torpedoes, which were forwarded to Rear-Admiral Dahlgren in Charleston Harbor. In May, 1864, dispatches were received from the Secretary of the Navy, asking Messrs. Hayden and Maillefert to report with all possible speed to Rear-Admiral Lee, of the North Atlantic blockading squadron at Hampton Roads, VA. Here, in addition to work similar to that done under Burnside, they equipped tug-boats and ironclads with boom torpedoes, and placed torpedoes and sunken vessels in the channel of the James River opposite Farrer's Island, Mr. Hayden having the general supervision of the torpedo post, fully prepared to resist the Confederate fleet in case of an attach. He was now in the midst of the conflict, the firing back and forth between the Union ironclads and the Confederate Howlet batteries being at times directly over him. Later on he was called to clear other obstructions, such as blowing out the rebel barricades in Elizabeth River, consisting of about fifty sunken vessels, and driven piling; and blowing out the masts of a sunken bark which lay forty-five miles out to sea from cape Henry, endangering navigation.

Their services throughout these years were very exciting and extremely hazardous, from the shot of the enemy, premature explosions, risks of capture and its consequences. Their remuneration was very liberal, as also the courteous treatment extended to them by high officers of both Army and Navy.

Mr. Hayden says he arrived at the zenith of his ambition when he witnessed, on the 14th of May, 1865, the honored veterans of Sherman's army tramp through the streets of Richmond, en route to the national capital, where the representatives of a restored nation awaited to do them honor and bid them God speed to their homes and private life.

The war being over, Mr. Hayden returned to New York, and took an interest in the Morris & Cumming Dredging and Harbor Improvement Company. His experience in ship-building enabled him to create an efficient plant of dredges, barges, and tug-boats with which the company operated all along the coast from Maine to the Rio Grande, and in New York harbor and along the shore front of Jersey City, and in raising sunken rocks from several reefs in New York harbor, and at Hell Gate in connection with General Newton. The company took a contract with the Government of Russia for deepening the channel of the river Neva, and Mr. Hayden went out to superintend the building of a plant, and to arrange for active operations. His experience there gave him great opportunity for observing Russian life and manners, and for learning the favorable social side of the Russian character, as well as the vexatious delays and technicalities of some of their governmental and business operations. His observations extended to the provinces of the far south, where he was directed to survey some of the most important harbors in the sea of Azoph, and at the naval station of Nicolaef.

After nearly two years of close application to this work his health failed, and he returned to New York in July, 1879. The next two or three years were devoted to recruiting his health, after which, having retired from active business life, he made, with his wife, an extended tour in Europe, spending much time at the early homes of the Haydens in England, an account of which will be found in connection with the Rev. Wm. B. Hayden's contribution to this work.

Mr. Hayden has recently build at Roslindale, a suburb of Boston, where he now resides.- Communicated.

The setting of a memorial stone at Haydens, and a reunion of the family, was the result of a suggestion made by the subject of the above sketch while on a visit here five or six years ago. While in consultation with the writer on this subject, and the kindred subject of a continuance of my work on a revision and publication of the Genealogy of the Connecticut Haydens, he said that as I did the work gratuitously others ought to pay the expenses, and he would assume that responsibility (others being invited to participate). My proposition to take for a memorial an imperishable boulder met his cordial approval after he had begun his search among the crumbling monuments in England. His cordial sympathy in the work has supplemented the generous contributions of himself and others thus far, and the guarantee given by himself and two individuals-(large contributors heretofore) to meet any loss incurred in publishing the genealogy, if the sale of the book does not pay the bills of the publisher-lays the Connecticut Haydens under special obligations to Levi Hayden of Roslindale.

March 8, 1888. Of late Mr. Levi Hayden ahs given much attention to getting up the pictures of views he secured in England, and with Rev. Wm. B. Hayden of Portland, Me., in studying up the subject of the Hayden coat of arms. A few days since he wrote me that he would send his check ($165) to Mr. Allen the artist and order the pictures sent to me. Monday morning, March 5th, the express brought the pictures, and the mail brought the announcement that he was dead.

I attended his funeral at Roslindale on the 7th instant. Our associate, Rev. William B. Hayden of Portland, Me., conducted the services. The following are the closing words of his address:

"At last he settled down in his quiet and happy home in Roslindale, where the 'Ancient Mariner,' as of late he was wont to style himself, 'cast anchor' safely in his own chosen port, where he has passed several of the happiest years of his life. His large experience and long, active association with men and things, joined to habits of quick observation, and a retentive memory, had served to store his mind with material, and quicken and develope his intellectual facilities. These, with a fondness for books, furnished him with an inexhaustible fund for interesting conversation, rendering him a most agreeable and entertaining companion, and a welcome visitor in all companies, as well as a most pleasing correspondent. His amiable and gentle disposition and his kindly and gentlemanly manners, ever attentive to the wants and comforts of others, greatly endeared him, not only to his immediate relatives and friends, but also to the whole circle of those who knew him.

"He had no enemies; his acquaintances were all friends. But the crowning quality of his life was his abiding Christian faith and principle. Early in life he formed religious purposes and views. He accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as his Saviour and the Redeemer of the world, and the gospel precepts were the rule of his life, and he has often said that his early stand taken by him, on the side of religion, had proved a blessing through life and a merciful protection amidst the manifold and trying temptations of his eventful and varied career, preserving him in the pathway of a sober, honest, and upright life, while yielding him unspeakable inward support and comfort.

"He entertained sentiments of the broadest Christian charity for believers of all denominations, being ever ready to fellowship any who belonged to the common brotherhood of Christ; exhibiting the Christian virtue of meekness, patience, sterling integrity, and brotherly kindness in an eminent degree.

"His removal from our midst has been so sudden that we can hardly realize that he is gone. Only the Saturday before he had cleared up his desk, putting his papers in order, and remarking as he did so in relation to a family history he for several months been aiding in getting through the press, that he had now accomplished his share of the work, and that his labors were done.

"His task was indeed finished, in a fuller and more comprehensive sense than any of which he then thought. The very next day the summons came

"All the morning he appeared to be in an unusually happy and buoyant state of mind.

"It is a pleasing thought to know that the hour found him in the way of Christian duty, he being on his way to worship in the public sanctuary. He suffered no conscious pain, but stepped, as in an instant, from this visible world into the realms of eternal light."

"His funeral took place from his late residence in Roslindale, March 7th, and was conducted by the Rev. William b. Hayden of Portland, Me., an esteemed friend of the deceased."

By will he left in trust $1,000 for the memorial at Haydens.

Jabez Hayden.


Levi Hayden was born on 17 December 1813 at Springfield, Otsego Co., NY. He was the son of Hezekiah Hayden and Hannah Hayden. Levi Hayden married Margaret Sargent on 26 June 1846. Levi Hayden died on 4 March 1888 at age 74. He was buried on 7 March 1888 at Roslindale, MA.

     Julia Hayden was born on 28 August 1815. She was the daughter of Hezekiah Hayden and Hannah Hayden. Julia Hayden lived at Democracy, Knox Co., OH. She died on 11 March 1885 at age 69.

     Henry Hall died on 24 January 1823. He was born on 24 January 1823. He was the son of Elisha Hall and Fannie Hayden.

     Hayden Hezekiah Hall was born on 17 August 1824. He was the son of Elisha Hall and Fannie Hayden.

     Hannah Hall was born on 30 November 1825. She was the daughter of Elisha Hall and Fannie Hayden. Hannah Hall died on 5 November 1860 at age 34.

     Homer Hall was born on 6 June 1827. He was the son of Elisha Hall and Fannie Hayden.

     Lucy Phelps Hall was born on 8 February 1829. She was the daughter of Elisha Hall and Fannie Hayden.

     Lewis Henry Hall was born on 26 June 1831. He was the son of Elisha Hall and Fannie Hayden. Lewis Henry Hall died on 8 February 1852 at age 20.

     Julia Sevilla Hall was born on 3 December 1833. She was the daughter of Elisha Hall and Fannie Hayden.

     Albert Elisha Hall was born on 14 June 1835. He was the son of Elisha Hall and Fannie Hayden.

     William Alfred Hall was born on 31 July 1837. He was the son of Elisha Hall and Fannie Hayden. William Alfred Hall died on 17 July 1883 at age 45.

     Samuel Edward Hall was born on 28 June 1840. He was the son of Elisha Hall and Fannie Hayden.

     Frances Elizabeth Hall was born on 26 April 1842. She was the daughter of Elisha Hall and Fannie Hayden.

     Esther Louise Hall was born on 2 July 1847. She was the daughter of Elisha Hall and Fannie Hayden.

     Frances J. Marshall was born on 13 August 1837. She was the daughter of Edward Marshall and Julia Hayden.

     Albert H. Marshall was born on 10 September 1843. He was the son of Edward Marshall and Julia Hayden. Albert H. Marshall died on 20 November 1862 at in the Army at age 19.

     James O. Marshall was born on 26 March 1848. He was the son of Edward Marshall and Julia Hayden. James O. Marshall died on 27 September 1854 at age 6.

     Mary S. Marshall was born on 5 August 1851. She was the daughter of Edward Marshall and Julia Hayden. Mary S. Marshall died on 19 September 1851.

     Charles W. Marshall was born on 6 September 1854. He was the son of Edward Marshall and Julia Hayden.

     Elmettie Marshall was born on 3 February 1858. She was the daughter of Edward Marshall and Julia Hayden.

     Lovisa Loomis was born on 6 June 1779 at Windsor, Hartford Co., CT. She was the daughter of Uriah Loomis and Apphia Sheldon. Lovisa Loomis married Strong Hayden, son of Levi Hayden and Margaret Strong, on 16 May 1805 at Windsor, Hartford Co., CT.² Lovisa Loomis died on 24 October 1854 at Bennington, Genesee Co., NY, at age 75.

     Adonijah Ford was born on 21 October 1748 at Norwich, New London Co., CT. He married Martha Holcombe, daughter of Joshua Holcombe IV and Martha Griffin, on 24 August 1772 at Simsbury, Hartford Co., CT.¹ Adonijah Ford died on 2 November 1820 at Akron, Erie Co., NY, at age 72.

     Martha Ford was born on 11 June 1773 at Simsbury, Hartford Co., CT. She was the daughter of Adonijah Ford and Martha Holcombe.

     Origen Ford was born on 2 June 1787 at Simsbury, Hartford Co., CT.¹ He was the son of Adonijah Ford and Sarah Hays.

     Adonijah Ford Jr. was born on 17 July 1775 at Granby, Hartford Co., CT.¹ He was the son of Adonijah Ford and Martha Holcombe.¹

     Almon Ford was born on 12 April 1785 at Granby, Hartford Co., CT.¹ He was the son of Adonijah Ford and Martha Holcombe.¹

     Alvin Ford was born on 16 September 1789 at Granby, Hartford Co., CT.¹ He was the son of Adonijah Ford and Martha Holcombe.¹

     Elisabeth Ford was born on 29 March 1781 at Granby, Hartford Co., CT.¹ She was the daughter of Adonijah Ford and Martha Holcombe.¹

     Martha Ford was born on 4 August 1778 at Granby, Hartford Co., CT. She was the daughter of Adonijah Ford and Martha Holcombe.

     Orpah Ford was born on 14 November 1791 at Granby, Hartford Co., CT.¹ She was the daughter of Adonijah Ford and Martha Holcombe.¹

     Ruth Ford was born on 15 July 1787 at Granby, Hartford Co., CT.¹ She was the daughter of Adonijah Ford and Martha Holcombe.¹

     Ruth Ford was born in July 1783 at Granby, Hartford Co., CT. She was the daughter of Adonijah Ford and Martha Holcombe. Ruth Ford died on 14 April 1784.

     Zilpah Ford was born on 6 September 1800 at Lexington, Greene Co., NY. She was the daughter of Adonijah Ford and Martha Holcombe. Zilpah Ford married Isaac Nichols on 24 December 1820 at Concord, Erie Co., NY. Zilpah Ford died on 15 November 1886 at Concord, Erie Co., NY, at age 86.

     Isaac Nichols was born on 12 March 1801 at Huntington, Fairfield Co., CT. He married Zilpah Ford, daughter of Adonijah Ford and Martha Holcombe, on 24 December 1820 at Concord, Erie Co., NY. Isaac Nichols died on 10 December 1864 at Concord, Erie Co., NY, at age 63.

     Luther Ford Nichols was born on 3 October 1822 at Morton Corners, Erie Co., NY. He was the son of Isaac Nichols and Zilpah Ford. Luther Ford Nichols married Serepta Woolley. Luther Ford Nichols died on 9 March 1903 at Nashua, Wilkin Co., MN, at age 80.

     Julia Ann Nichols was born on 19 July 1828 at Greene Co., NY. She was the daughter of Isaac Nichols and Zilpah Ford. Julia Ann Nichols married Jacob Lampman. Julia Ann Nichols died on 11 July 1919 at Ashford, Cattaraugus Co., NY, at age 90.

     Jacob Lampman was born on 25 September 1827 at Ashford, Cattaraugus Co., NY. He married Julia Ann Nichols, daughter of Isaac Nichols and Zilpah Ford. Jacob Lampman died on 12 November 1917 at Ashford, Cattaraugus Co., NY, at age 90.

     Serepta Woolley was born on 10 October 1824 at Patchogue, Suffolk Co., NY. She married Luther Ford Nichols, son of Isaac Nichols and Zilpah Ford. Serepta Woolley died on 7 November 1884 at IA at age 60.

     Julia Ann Nichols was born on 20 June 1854 at Cattaraugus Co., NY. She was the daughter of Luther Ford Nichols and Serepta Woolley. Julia Ann Nichols married Melvern Elbert Randall on 8 December 1875 at Cedar Falls, Black Hawk Co., IA. Julia Ann Nichols died on 3 August 1904 at Renton, King Co., WA, at age 50.

     Melvern Elbert Randall was born on 25 November 1854 at Syracuse, Onondaga Co., NY. He married Julia Ann Nichols, daughter of Luther Ford Nichols and Serepta Woolley, on 8 December 1875 at Cedar Falls, Black Hawk Co., IA. Melvern Elbert Randall died on 17 March 1923 at Greeley, Weld Co., CO, at age 68.