Ansel Chadwick M.D. (1793 - 1867)

Born 21 Nov 1793 in Lee, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Clarissa (Ogden) Chadwick — married 7 Aug 1817 in Genoa, Cayuga, New York, United States

Descendants

Died 28 Sep 1867 at age 73 in Northville, Genoa, Cayuga, New York, United States

Biography

This profile is part of the Chadwick Name Study.

Son of Archalaus Chadwick and Hannah Goodspeed born in 1793. He married Clarissa Ogden.

Ansel Chadwick removed with his family to Genoa, New York, about the year 1800, when he was seven years old. As a young man he joined the Genoa Presbyterian Church, whose pastor was Jabez Chadwick, possibly his brother, and on August 31,1815, the church records contain this passage:

"At a regular Church meeting, it was stated that Mr. Ansel Chadwick has dishonored his Christian profession & grieved his brothers in Christ by joining with the youth in this place in their youthful follies & vanities. Mr. Chadwick appeared to be sensible of his folly & guilt, & in order to wipe away the reproach, which he has brought upon religion, he exhibited a written confession, which he was willing to make in public. The Church, considering this confession to be full & satisfactory, voted that they would accept of it & would forgive Mr. Chadwick on condition of his publicly assenting to it in the congregation on the Lord’s day. Ansel’s confession was exhibited in church on September 3rd, and the congregation voted to forgive him."

The next record we have is of his marriage, recorded by the Auburn Gazette on August 7, 1817, as follows:

Chadwick, Mr. Ansel, age 26, to the accomplished Miss Clarissa Ogden, age 17, dau. Capt. David Ogden, marr. at Genoa even of 24, inst. by Rev. S. Smith. The Chadwicks’ first son John was baptized in Genoa, and soon after this the family removed to Penn Yan, where Clarissa’s father deeded them a house and lot. Ansel joined the First Presbyterian Church at Pen Yan in 1823 and Clarissa became a member of the congregation three years later. Three of their children were baptized at this church between 1823 and 1828. The church records indicate that Ansel was suspended on August 14, 1828, was reinstated on March 17, 1831, and left the church September 17, 1831, with the intention of settling at Auburn. On November 25, 1832, he sold his house and lot for $50 to Dr. Denison R. Pearl, an Ogden relation who later became the stepfather of his granddaughter Harriet Dimmick. The family actually settled at Northville (King’s Ferry), about eight miles southeast of Auburn and three miles from Genoa. Ansel established a medical practice at Northville and operated a retail druggist’s business, which he sold in 1866, one year before his death.

Ansel Chadwick was b. Nov. 21, 1793 (Lee, Mass.); d. Sept. 28, 1867 (Northville, Genoa, N.Y. ); m. Aug. 24, 1817 (Genoa, N.Y. ), CLARISSA H. OGDEN (dau. of DAVID OGDEN, 7 q.v.), who was b. Sept. 6, 1799 (probably Genoa, N.Y. ) and d. Sept. 23, 1850 (Genoa, N.Y. ).

Children

1. Jane, m. Reuben Smith. 2. MARY OGDEN, bpt. 1823 (Penn Yan, N.Y. ); m. SANFORD CURTIS DIMMICK, 5 q.v. 3. Sarah Goodspeed, bpt. 1825 (Penn Yan); m. Charles Avery. 4. Dewitt Clinton, bpt. 1828 (Penn Yan). 5. Harriet, b. 1836.^[1] Page 60.

Sources

• Sources: Storke, pp. 494, 500, 501; Lee, Mass., Vital Records,

p. 27; Wheeler’s Ogden Family, p. 171; Foley, vol. 7, p. 100, vol. 81, p. 293; D.A.R. Cemetery, Church and Town Records, vol. 8, p. 198; New York State Business Directory for 1859, p. 390; Boyd’s Auburn Directory for 1859, p. 130; family papers of R. P. Ray; Records of the Presbyterian Church of Genoa, N.Y.

1. ↑ http://blacktreegenealogy.weebly.com/uploads/5/2/0/7/5207646/public_202010_20vol._202.pdf

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