- Son of Josiah & Catherine (Hartwell) Upton
Husband of Olive Boughton.
Father of Achsah (Dr. Hiram Thompson), Samuel Boughton (unm.), Josiah (Sophia Roe), James Jr. (Elvira Hawkins), William W. (Maria Hollister), Eunice (unm.), Edward (Achsah Thayer), Olive (unm.), Caroline Hart (Floyd Torrence), Mary Emeline (William C. Moore), Mariah, Charles E. (Louise Racket), Elvira Emeline (Floyd Torrence).
from "Descendants of Josiah and Catherine Upton of Charlemont, (Franklin Co.) Mass.":
"He was fourteen years of age when the death of his father made him the main-stay of the family. In 1797 he went to Victor, NY and worked a year for his brother-in-law, Israel Blood. He then returned to Charlemont, and in the winter of 1798-99 "took his mother, brother, two sisters and a swarm of bees" to Victor on an ox sledge. He bought the land where the Upton homestead now stands from Israel Blood for seven dollars per acre, and built upon it a log house. This was burned by his brother David in drying flax. They then built another log house and afterwards a frame one. The latter was afterwards moved back and forms the wood shed of the present homestead, which was built in the winter of 1817-18. He resided all his life in Victor, where he became wealthy and one of the most influential men in his county. He married April 21, 1808, Olive, daughter of Samuel and Lucy (Tracy) Boughton."
History of Ontario Co, NY, Conover & Aldrich, pub 1893, pg. 194 - 197
... James UPTON came to Victor from Charlemont, Mass., in 1797, and shortly afterwards brought to his new home his widowed mother, Catherine (HARTWELL) UPTON, his brother David, and his sisters Sarah, wife of Israel BLOOD, and Joanna. The brother David removed to Michigan, where his descendants still reside. The sister Joanna married, successively, Norman BRACE and Isaac MARSH, both of Victor, and reared 22 adopted children, but none of her own. James UPTON, long a prominent figure in Victor, who was born in 1779, and died in 1857 (sic 1850), married in 1808 Olive, daughter of Samuel and Lucy (TRACY) BOUGHTON, of Victor. He very early acquired by purchase from his brother-in-law, Israel BLOOD, one of the finest farms in the county, the well known "UPTON Homestead," situated about a mile from Victor village, and afterwards occupied by his son Josiah and his daughter Mary E. MOORE, and now in the possession of Jedediah Hawkins. Upon this farm James UPTON spent a long and useful life. He was frequently chosen to fill important local offices, and was a man of much influence in the county. He reared a large family of children and was able to afford them a good education, and to present each of them the then large sum of $2,000 when they successively went forth from the paternal roof-tree. Of these children, 5 were intimately connected with the history of Victor, viz: Josiah W. UPTON, of Victor, born 1812; was prominent in all affairs of the town until his death in 1888. James UPTON, born 1815; died in Rochester, NY, where his son, Clarence E. UPTON, now resides. Mary Emeline UPTON, who married William C. MOORE. Charles E. UPTON, of Rochester, born 1833; died 1886.
Ontario County Messenger 27 February 1850 issue:
In Victor, on the 19th inst., James Upton, aged 71 years. He was one of the first settlers of that town. [1]
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The Duttons of New England
1779 - 1850 (71 years)
Has 33 ancestors but no descendants in this family tree.
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HARTWELL, Catherine
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