Person:William Scriven (1)

He and his wife Mary were both 25 at their wedding

He was a soldier in the Revolutionary War as a part of the American army

Grafton is made up of Grafton Center, situated in the center of the town, containing a Baptist church, two stores, a cheese factory, a blacksmith shop, a boot and shoe shop, a saw mill, a stave machine and about twenty dwellings; and Quackenkill, a hamlet located on the west border of the town. The first settlement was made by tenants under Van Rensselaer. They paid an annual rent of from seven to twenty-two bushels of wheat per hundred acres. Among the first settlers were families named Coon, Dimmons and Owens. Francis West and family, from Rhode Island, settled at an early day where Nathan Lewis now lives. John Babcock, from the same State, settled about the close of the Revolution, where J. D. Slade now lives; he was married to Delma Wager in January 1792.

Elkanah Smith, from New Jersey, settled where Aaron Eldred now lives: he was a soldier of the Revolution. Joshua Banker settled about the same time where Henry Banker lives.

William Scriven and family, consisting of seven sons and two daughters, came from Rhode Island and settled in this town about 1779. Three of the sons,James, Zebulon and John, were Revolutionary soldiers.

A man named Owens, from Rhode Island, with two sons, settled on 200 acres of land, where Stewart Allen now lives. The land was a gift from Stephen Van Rensselaer. Owens was a Revolutionary soldier and received bounty land in the town of Manlius.

John and Thomas Phillips settled where Truman Keller lives; Francis Brock, from Vermont, where Silas Brock now lives, and John and David Mills, where Reuben Hall now lives. John Monroe settled in the north part of the town; a man named Dimmons, where Jabez Hakes lives; Solomon Smith, where Josiah Church lives; Rufus Rix, near the same place, and Captain Charles Ferry, where D. L.Simmons lives. In 1797 Daniel Littlefield, from Mass., settled where Hiram Littlefield lives. Solomon Root, from Connecticut,settled in the town in 1785; Nathaniel Dumbleton, in 1796, on the farm now occupied by Oscar C. Dumbleton. He came from Grafton, Vt., and was the first supervisor of the town. John P. Hayner settled where Samuel Newton lives.

1. ↑ Westerly Births and Deaths, in Arnold, James N. Vital Record of Rhode Island, 1636–1850: First series, births, marriages and deaths. A family register for the people. (Narragansett Hist. Publ. Co., 1891)
   132.

   SCRIVEN, William, of William and Alice, [born] Feb. 23, 1756.

2.   Child, Hamilton. Gazetteer and business directory of Rensselaer County, N.Y., for 1870- 1871. (Tucson, Arizona: W.C. Cox Co., 1974).

   William Scriven and family, consisting of seven sons and two daughters, came from Rhode Island and settled in this town about 1779. Three of the sons, James, Zebulon and John, were Revolutionary soldiers.

3. ↑ Seventh-day Baptist Register
   February 15, 1843.

   In Petersburgh, on the 19th, April 1842, Wm Scrivens, aged 83 years. ...