1858 Colton Map & Photos

 

Great Colton History Web site:

http://www.townofcolton.com/history.htm

and

Colton Museum

http://homepage.mac.com/clstph/coltonhist/PhotoAlbum39.html

and

http://homepage.mac.com/clstph/coltonhist/Personal19.html

Jesse Colton Higley is buried at Pleasant Mount Cemetery.

Birth: 1 Jan 1793 in Beckett, Mass. Death: 16 Jun 1874 in Cotton, NY Married: Narry or Nabby?  ______ d 1824 (see below) Shoreham Vt. Eunice Smith Sept 2, 1830  Children:  Son died young - see below David Higley m Emma Doolittle          Siblings: William Simpson Higley m Lois Turrell Loring - b 1790 d 1792 Charity m Alanson Eben  Durand Anna b 1797 d 1798 Mary Amy m Ebenezer Dunklee Estes Howe Higley m Jane Brown Nicely from Parishville Elizabeth m George Brown then Alexis Russell Almira m __ Beardsley Amanda m Mason Butts

 

1810 & 1820 Census - on Addison Shoreham Vt. census (large family) - could be Jesse Sr.and wife Betty Elizabeth Watson. 

From Rootsweb: Jesse Higley 1st. was the son of Revolutionary War veteran, Josiah Higley 2nd. He was born in Simsbury, Conn. and married Elizabeth Watson in Becket, Mass. and lived there a while. He went to Shoreham, Vt. where he had a thriving farm; sold it and bought lands in Colton, N.Y. which he named for his mother's people( Mother's name Hepzibah Colton, Father's name Joshiah)  who were important families of Conn. In his old age he went with his sons and other relatives as a pioneer to Michigan.

From Rootsweb:Jesse HIGLEY 1st(373), born 21 Mar 1765, Salisbury, CT, died 22 Oct 1838, Lapeer, MI, son of Josiah HIGLEY (375). SOURCE NOTES: Jesse Higley, the fourth child of Josiah Higley, 2nd, and Hephzibah Cotten was born at Salisbury, Conn. on March 21, 1765. He was married to Elizabeth "Betty" Watson at Becket, Mass by Rev. Zadoc Hunn on January 6, 1788. The young couple settled in Becket which was Betty's home town. About 1794 they moved to Shoreham, VT where they lived until 1807 when they moved to Addison, VT.

During this period Jesse acquired competency and established a well-improved home with pleasant surroundings. He also acquired a tract of land in Canada of several hundred acres to which he after removed. The land, lying on the River Tharnes, included a part of the land that is now within the corporate limits of London, Ontario. This property, in time, became quite valuable. When the War of 1812 broke out, the English Government offered to secure Jesse's title to the property as long as he would swear
allegiance to the British Crown. Jesse refused and in consequence lost all his holdings.

Disappointed and despoiled of his fortune, he made his way to New York to start over again. About 1820, well beyond fifty years of age, he entered the unbroken wilds of the magnificent forests of
St. Lawrence County,  NY where he purchased a tract of land and erected a saw mill on the Raquet River. Here he labored to retrieve some part of his lost estate, but fate was not so kind to him. The whole country was in debt after the war and commerce was slow and the people were burdened. As he drew near
the end of his life, Jesse gave up the conquest.

About 1834, at the age of 70, he and his wife emigrated with married children to Lapeer, MI. He died there on October 22, 1838. He was the first of the family to be buried in the Higley private cemetery at the rear of the old Higley house on Peppermill Road. His wife died four years later. He was noted, by those who knew
him, as being a man of integrity, industrious, temperate and frugal.

He and Betty had many children: William Sirnpson, Loring, Jesse Colton, Charity, Anna, Amy, Estes Howe, Eliza, Almira and Amanda.

source: abbreviation: The Higleys and their Ancestry, 1963.
note: The Higleys and their Ancestry, 1963.

source: abbreviation: Pioneer Families and History of LaPeer
County, Mic note: Pioneer Families and History of LaPeer County,
Mich. Married 6 Jan 1788, Beckett, Mass, Elizabeth WATSON (374),
born 17 Jul 1767, Becket, MA, died 15 Feb 1842, Lapeer,

Lakeview Cemetery Shoreham Vt.: http://www.steve-world.com/ShorehamHS/Lakeview%20Cemetery%20List.htm

• 2/11/1824 Infant Son of JC & Narry Higley

• 3/1824 Narry (Nabby?) Higley, wife of JC HIgley

1860 on Colton Census Jesse, Eunice, David

1870 Census for Colton: Jesse C - age 77 - Farmer - born in Ma., Eunice (Smith) - 77 b Vt, David 36 b NY, Emma L- 30 b NY, Gertrude, 2 b NY

Courier Freeman 1988

Potdam Courier Freeman 1913/4

Potsdam Herald Recorder Aug 1, 1924

Northern Light 1831

Plaindealer 1964

Watertown Times May 15, 1972

 

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Main Street 1909

Colton Hotel

Colton Bridge Over Racquette River

Main Street - 1930s

Main Street 1950s/60s

Scenic View

Racquette River South Colton Skyview

Racquette River at Colton

Racquette (Racket) River below Higley Falls

Higley Falls Dam

Power House at Higley Falls Dam

Snell Water Plant at Higley Falls 1908

Bertrand Hollis Snell was the proprietor  - click here for more info:

http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000652

and here:

Amherst Class 1894:

http://www.amherst.edu/~rjyanco/genealogy/acbiorecord/1894.html

Snell Power Plant

Higley Falls Dam Power House

Who was Higley?  Jesse Colton Higley was a pioneer in the area around 1824.....  http://history.rays-place.com/ny/colton-ny.htm

Above Higley Dam

Higley Falls Dam From Above

Summer Camps Above Higley Falls Dam Racquette River

St Paul's Catholic Church - South Colton

South Colton Catholic Church

Catholic Church

St Patrick's Roman Catholic Church Colton

Zion Episcopal Church

Zion Church & Rectory 1912

Episcopal Church

Zion Episcopal Church

Episcopal Church

1907 Episcopal Church

Episcopal Church 1937

St. Lawrence Plaindealer Jan 10, 1939: