Caleb Woodward, son of Caleb, a Scotchman, one of the early settlers of Duchess County, N.Y., settled in Rodman from Warren, Herkimer County, in 1803, purchasing 300 acres of land on Dry Hill, where he engaged for a number of years in the manufacture of potash. His family consisted of two sons and nine daughters. The eldest son, Jesse, was born in 1783, in the town of Oblong, Duchess County, and the youngest son, Milton, in the same place in 1789. The daughters were all married and settled near Rodman. Caleb Woodward was a captain in the Revolution. He and his sons, with others, cut the first road through from Toad Hollow to Nathaniel Harrington's. He died in Canada, aged 91 years. Milton Woodward, in 1816, married Hannah Webb, and settled in the town of Adams, one and one-half miles north of Adams Center, the Sand street road being then but a mere path in the woods. He served in the war of 1812, and was one of the 140 men who carried the "big cable" from Sandy Creek to Sackets Harbor. They had children as follows: Marquis, Oliva (Mrs. Charles Hall), Constant (Mrs. Mary Stickney). Egiva (Mrs. Eleazaer Williams), Minerva, Juliett (Mrs. Henry Gordinere), Ovilla, Benjamin Franklin, Richard Rush, Amelia Maria (Mrs. Louis Sluman), Jenet (Mrs. Isaac Parker), and William Jasper. In 1834 he moved to the town of Rodman, to the farm now owned by B.F. Woodward, where he lived for nearly 30 years, dying in his 85th year. He was twice married, the second time, in 1840, to Mrs. Electa Stickney, who survived him three years. Marquis Woodward, in 1845, emigrated to Van Buren County, Mich., where in 1847, he married Eliza A., daughter of Daniel Taylor, of Litchfield, Conn. In 1865 he and his family returned to Jefferson County, locating in Henderson, afterwards removing to Rodman, where he now resides. They had two sons and two daughters, Leonora A., Oren M., Fremont M., and Carrie A. (Mrs. Samuel Parker). Oren M. Woodward married in 1871, Mellie E., daughter of C. S. and Mary (Smith) Gage, who settled in Rodman in 1833, from Monkton, Vt. Mr. Woodward has two sons, Charles G., born in 1874, and Rollin O., born in 1879. He resides in Rodman, on the farm of C. S. Gage.

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