I found this posted on the Oneida County, NY website and was wondering if
anyone has an Amasiah in their line.
There are a bunch of Amaziahs and Phebes but nothing matching this.
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Gideon Vary was born in the town of Stephentown, Rensselaer county, NY.,
December 29, 1824, son of Nathan and Phoebe (Carrier) Vary. His grandfather,
Samuel Vary, settled in Dutchess county, prior to the Revolutionary War, and
emigrated to Rensselaer county; and his grandfather, Amasiah Carrier, was
also a pioneer in Rensselaer county.
Nathan Vary came to Oneida county in 1840. He was a Federalist, and voted
for Washington; and later a Whig, and voted for Henry Clay. He died in 1850.
Gideon Vary has always been succesfully engaged in farming. He bought and
cleared twelve acres and has added to it, until he had 500 acres, 100 acres of
which he sold
in 1894. He is a Republican and has been justice for twenty-four
years, and supervisor of Ava for two years. In 1846 Mr.
Vary married Jane,
daughter of Daniel E. Edgerton of Ava, who died in 1893, and he is now married to
Erminie Leader
of Utica, NY. He has reared and educated two sons of
his brother Samuel, who died in Michigan: Nathan C., who is engaged in
farming in Ava, and Ezra, who was for twelve years teller of the Farmer's Bank in
Rome, NY,
and now a manufacturer of knit goods at Rome. Mr. Vary is a
member of the Baron Steuben Lodge No. 264, F & AM.
Our County and its People, A Descriptive Work on Oneida
County, New York,
edited by Daniel E. Wager, 1896
Neal F. Carrier
Holland Patent, NY
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