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MARY ANN DE MOTT.
GEN. JOHN DE MOTT.
RES.
r
GENERAL JOHN
lodi, Seneca co,n. y.
DE
MOTT,
LODI.
This township originally comprised a portion of the
Military township
was set off from Ovid in
1817, and Lodi taken from Covert
Covert
1826.
It is the
Lake.
The
lying
the
a
the summit,
Jackson
are
beautiful cascade,
Falls,"
fine
a
Lodi
and
to
Indian's
This town
Creeks; upon the
feet
in height, called
fifty
frontispiece
the
seen upon
said
that
slippery-
walnut,
cucumber, white
extent in the eastern
such an
" Basswoods."
the
as
beech,
elm,
thorn,
principal
stream
"
of
this
red
las
very tall,
Lot 45
General John L.
by
he drove
the
him
to seek a
home far from the
Sullivan
Indian from his
Jackson
encamped on
self, he
white-
oath :
hemlock,
portion
and straight
Sullivan, LL.D., in his inva
hunting grounds,
much-loved
':
all
felled,
Run,
the
April,
point now
Lodi
called
Landing,
Point
the
Indians,
when en-route
Indian burial-place
was an
by the dwelling of Henry
and
from Newtown to Kanadesaiga.
of considerable
note,
on
the
subse
site
At Goff's
now occupied
in the
settlement
now occupied
1789,
his son, G. F. Faussett.
Justice of the Peace in
and was
John
son now resides.
east part of the
Stephen Smith
now resides
was an
early
in Lodi Village.
Frederick VanLew located
VanLew,
now resides
was a soldier
early inn
an
and
in the
on
the traveler
Levi Ellis
it in the
the
trust
Katy Cashun,
William
Lot
his
now resides
about the year
Robert Oliver
was
Mr. Ellis
gift of
1800,
on
settled on
Lot
was an
early
35,
in
perhaps officiated
and
settler on
in
that
Lot
77,
settled, prior to 1800, in the south
located the same year on Lot 75.
35,
His son, Captain Richard
of Captain Richard,
44, in*about 1800,
John
located
by
were
VanLew,
was a
pioneer,
the
on one of
and. the
principal
on
this
lot,
Charles E. Wyckoff.
premises
of
thoroughfares,
Abram
subsequently occupied
A daughter of Squire
Tertulius Goff
now
Lot 36 in the
owned
year
by
1800,
copy
of
the
the
I
that I
and
the
shall think
or
article
any
will
not
pass
County
said
is
account
any
not
justly
thereof wherewith I
day
April,
of
or
nor will
think the
shall
article
any
chargeable,
County
Silas Halsey.
1794.
Silas Halsey, Justice
Peace."
the
of
FIRST PHYSICIAN.
Frances,
married
Montgomery
and now resides
on
this lot
captain named
are
of
and
town,
a
son
son-in-law of
Judge
flouring-mills
1800
of
on
and
Barto,
65,
and
who
Henry
settled
on
Trumans
of
1800,
Lot
on
J. La Tourettee.
Lot
Silas
Ovid,
early
settled, in
Bishop
of
Dr. Sanford.
of
Halsey,
married
some time after
and
Halsey Sanford,
Silas
Stephen
village.
Williams settled
is
1872,
subsequently
grist-
the
General
daughter
a
in that
located the
in
physician
early settler on Lot 37.
Wedding"
his "Golden
in
Mrs.
Lot 46.
55 ;
the first
was an
Montgomery
burg,
Sanford,
A
sea-
introduced the
merino
settled
at
the
now
on
same
the
town,
A Mr. BoDine
premises.
Abram La Tourettee
James VanVleet located
Slaight
south part of
Lot
37, on
the
on
John
early day
Smith were
and
91, in
38,
on
lands
the
northeast corner
on
Lot
also
78,
early
where
settlers
southern portion of
the
this
early
early settler, and located on
by Casper B. Vescelius, Esq.
settler on
was also an
an
premises now owned
Lot
the
an
Paul Cooper was
now resides.
Cornelius Wyckoff settled
Lot
on
settled on
in
Jeremiah Slaight
there.
and still resides
lot, where A.
settled
A Mr. Lameraux
is located Lodi Centre.
this lot.
the
lot.
now owned
by'L. Prince
from New
in
and
Wil
the
Jersey,
Henry Voorhees,
Wyckoff;
on
lands
south
part
of
Lot
now
owned
on
the
located
year 1800, and
38,
by W.
Voorhees.
A
Mr.
M. and J. N. Voorhees, grandsons of John
Kelly and Wil
liam Roberts were early settlers on Lot 47, the latter locating on the southwest
corner on premises now owned by D. L. Case.
Nicholas Gulick, with a family of nine children, came from Loudoun County,
Virginia, and settled in an early day on Lot No. 26. They came in by way of
"
"
now Elmira, through
now Athens, Pennsylvania,
Tioga
"
now Havana, to the head of Seneca Lake, where they came
Catherine's
liam M.
and
about
Newtown,"
Point,"
upon
.
occupied
Sebring
positions
of
upon
the
pursued
old
Indian trail
the track of Sullivan's
and
their course to the
present
town
of
Lodi.
along which they
Mr. Samuel Gulick, son of
Lot No. 43.
William
Dr.'
Sebring,
Mrs..
Goff's Point in
his grandson, J. P. Goff..
and
of
Town,"
which
several
townsmen.
in Ovid.
keeper
fire-place, venison, and whisky.
the owners of Lot 43, and located
erected a grist-mill
and
brother
his
present stone grist-mill of
the
settled on
also
Jacob Smith
1812.
He
son
settler on
early
within
his
1801.
the
Lot
was cheered alike
and
year
site of
was an
Lot 43.
town,
on premises
Lot 63. His grandson, Stephen B. Smith,
Henry Warton settled ou Lot 44, in the year 1800.
on
war of
the
Pennsylvania,
settler on
Lot 75.
on
1802,
Gaultiy
A Mr. Rice
town.
part of
James Jackson
James Bramble
years previously.
his
southwest
a
in Lodi Village.
sides
who now occupies
from
by George Faussett,
by
capacity
where
was made
following is
Halsey, son of Silas, settled on the west part of Lot 45, on premises
by H. W. Halsey. Silas Halsey purchased Lot 37, where he settled
His daughter, Mary Ann, widow of General John DeMott, now re
in 1790.
Spanish
He located in the
1789.
year
in Lodi
The
sheep in the town, bringing them, as he said, from across the sea.
Mr. Williams disposed of his place to a Mr. Bogart, grandfather of J. Bogart,
Jackson.
FIRST SETTLEMENT.
The first
Peace.
the
of
now owned
celebrated
quently as Golf's, Point, was a large Indian orchard, which was partially destroyed
by Sullivan's soldiery. On the farm of Mr. Gulick was also a favorite campingground of
Halsey, the first Supervisor of the old 3Iilitary
1, 1794, and sworn into ofiice before him
and
sincerely promise and swear that I will in
knowledge
and ability,
my
faithfully and impartially ex
trust reposed in me as Supervisor of the town of Ovid, in
"Sworn before me, the first
Halsey,
Smock's,
as
Nicho
of
April
"
Dr. Jared
known
Silas
Justice
a
Onondaga,
of
tannery
distance
of
I disallow any account
is justly chargeable.
1876.
once
David,
of
a short
do solemnly
to the best
County
Oliver
INDIAN ORCHARD AND BURIAL-PLACE.
At the
by
Ovid,
being at the time
"
very fine workmanship was found, thoroughly imbedded in the growths of the
tree, and in all probability was placed there by Sullivan's soldiers when on this
campaign.
This souvenir of that invasion is in the possession of Samuel Gulick,
it in
William Himrod, brother
and erected a
since abandoned.
who was elected
Seneca Lake.
a
at whose residence the writer saw
long
I, Silas Halsey,
36,
This tannery subsequently passed into the hands
was purchased
ecute and perform
the premises now owned
on
large oak-tree, measuring about three feet in diameter, was
in the crotch, about eighteen feet from the ground, a horse-shoe of not
and
and was
things,
Lot
beautiful Seneca.
waters of the
one and one-half miles east of
1812,
year
of
white
A TROPHY OF THE INDIAN WAR.
In the
Gulick,
town
Basswood
the town that that
timber was
is
work.
cedar,
Ralph Smith.
by
now owned
the same time on
Lodi Village.
north of
Silver Thread
and crab-apple.
part of
The
when
Gulick,
1800, on lands
settled about
thereof wherewith
was also crossed
1779,
Samuel
by
The
Michael Coryelle was also an early settler on this lot. Joshua
Wyckoff located on the northeast corner of Lot
46, on premises now owned by
P. D. Post and Augustus Woodworth. David Himrod settled on the same lot in
alon*
arrow.
and compelled
It is
feet.
fifty
portion
The bluff
Mill
and
and
may be
Seneca
on
except a small
Cayuga Bridge.
latter-
occasional
known
locally
in
borders
and
north,
in height from ten to
hundred
butternut,
an
predominates
sion
County,
and
originally covered with a dense forest, consisting mainly of
black oak, white and yellow pine, basswood,
maple, ash, hickory,
chestnut,
as an
varies
Run, Sheldrake
one
west
inclines toward Cayuga Lake.
which
view of which
wood, elm, aspen,
was
toward the
was
and
red,
town in the
southwest corner
Seneca Lake
shore of
streams
January 27,
surface slopes
east of
Ovid.
of
soon after removed
to
Nicholas,
Gulick
mer
now
and
eighty-five
Samuel S.
Gulick,
representing Schuyler
present
County
Clerk
years
of
of
age,
sons of
County
resides
Samuel,
in the State
on
occupy
positions, the for
and
latter is the
official
Legislature,
.the
Seneca County.
143
HISTORY OF SENECA
144
S. Miner
located
Lot No. 79.
saw mill on
early settlers on Lot No. 91. The latter
The Slaight family were early settlers on
Mr. Osgood located in an early day on Lot No. 66, and erected a
and
where
.the
Mr. Stevens
a
his
were
widow now resides.
by the
site now occupied
Three sons, Hub
H. VanLew.
mill of
bard, Covert, and Hiram, reside in the County; the two former are residents of
Lodi, and the latter resides in the town of Ovid. George Bishop was an early
settler on Lot No. 56, where his widow now
resides; he has three sons living in
the town.
County,
Captain Isaao Miller was also an early settler, who came from Orange
located on Lot No.. 56, where J. Myers now resides. David Cory-
.
and
No.'
elle, from New
Jersey, settled on the eastern part of Lot
56, on premises
now occupied
J.
Keady.
Peter
VanVleet
came
from
the
same
by
State, and
purchased a portion pf the southern part of Lot No.
46, where his grandson,
Isaac VanVleet, now resides ; another early settler on this lot was Charles Mersherall, who located on the southeast corner, on premises "now owned by A.
Wyckoff.
Dominie Brokaw
on premises
a
McNeil
.H.
A daughter
cemetery.
niece, Mrs. Royal. Huff.
Daniel
was a prominent minister
the
year
was
were
also
early
western
also an
early settler,
Abram
settlers
the town.
part of
a son
of
Ferry,
on
;
town,
in the
1843, and was buried in the
Brokaw, is. still living with
who
located
C.,
a son of
grandson, George W. Brokaw.
in the
resides
James VanLew
He
.owned
Brokaw,
the
northeast corner of
Catherine
his,
of
Daniel Brokaw
by. a
on premises now
iri the
39,
Sniffen.
by J.
Church, and died in about
now owned
Dutch Reformed
old
Lot No.
settled on
the
latter,
and
James,
now
named
Burgun Covert
sey, in
1791,
and
first
lands
settled on
now owned
the Delaware
New Jer
River,
by the Kinnies, near the village
Ovid, and soon after, in about the year 1798, he located oh Lot No. 48, with
a
family of four sons, viz., Joshua, John, Joseph, and Jacob. Joseph was a cap
tain in the war of ISl 2.
Squire Burgun Covert, a son of Joseph, subsequently
settled on Lot No.
where
he now resides, at the advanced age of seventy-two.
57,
He has two sons living iu the town, Claudius and William R., the former a suc
cessful merchant at Lodi Village, and the latter a farmer at Townsendville.
Two
daughters of Burgun Covert, Jane and Catherine, were in the party of six per
sons first married in the old
military township of Ovid, who crossed Seneca Lake
in 1793, and were united in the bonds of
matrimony by Squire James Parker,
a follower of the "Universal
Jemima Wilkinson, who then resided in
Jerusalem, Ontario County, now Torrey, Yates County. Joseph W., a son of
John B. Covert, now occupies the premises where his father located, and, with
the exception of Mrs. Starrett, a granddaughter of Joseph
Covert, he is the only
remaining member of the Covert family now residing on that lot.
of
the first
was
settler
Lot No. 58,
on
and
erected a rude
loa;
Squire Charles Kelly was an early
structure, covering it with basswood bark.
who
came
from
the
State
of
New
settler,
Jersey, and located on the same lot. He
brought
with
he
where
seven
VanLew
a small willow
it took
located;
lakes.
tween the
nished
him
were
root
It blew down
cords
early
riding-whip,
few
Enoch
of wood.
years
in the
placed
Ruloff
58.
Abram
ground near
the kind be
of
piled, fur
being
and
Frederick
Voorhees,
the
Voorhees,
only son of
cut and
since, and,
Stewart,
Lot* No.-
settlers on
he
became the largest tree
and
a
which
Ruloff, now occupies the old homestead. Mr. Dennis early located where Archi
bald Knight, grandson of Israel Knight, also a pioneer, now. resides. James C.
Knight, son of Israel, is a successful merchant at Farmer Village. Dorus Larison was an
early settler on Lot No. 58. Elijah Townsend, Abram Hall, Ezekiel
Wentworth, Richard Compton, Mr. Travis, and Joseph Stewart were early set
tlers
on
Lot No. 68.
The latter
of
Enoch Stewart,:, of the triple
has
Townsendville,
Townsend, son of Elijah, resides on the old home
Luke K., grandson of. Richard, now occupies the old
and
Compton homestead.
Herriot
tional
was a graduate of an
training
his classes,
ship,
and
of
the
youth.
the
and relate
those of
taught them
was an
Robert Herriot
and a
sendville,
of
Smith
gunsmith named
by
his
and
Lew,
lives in
Many
great
scholars who
near
the
are still
Richard
Townsendville.
time in the educa
and spent much
older citizens of
interest that he
Master Herriot.
Whelpley early located
of
manifested
left
in the
the fine
retain
Kelly
Lodi
and
a
Isaac Drake
were members
art of penman
style of
brother-in-law
and
writing
named
Captain Wakeman
early settlers on Lot 93, the latter locating on ground now owned by Rev. Z.
Horton. Ebenezer Ellis was an early settler on this lot, and was
locally celebrated
were
for his
violinist, and was known
Abram I. Miller and his sons, Jacob
1806,
a
tree.
eight,
skill as a
the
year of
the
great eclipse.
Gilbert T.now
and
has held the
resides at
office of
as
"
and
Jacob
Fiddler
Gilbert
Elijah, Gilbert,
town.
has
Townsendville,
Justice
of
the
at
the
settled
killed
by
advanced-
Peace nearly
on
Lot 86
in.
falling
of.
the
in the
was a major-general
He became
commander.
Hall, Syracuse,
wix
Cole
residents of
are
the rebellion,
war of
he
Schuyler
Havana,
unfortunate
County,
the
and
and
gallant
affair at
He died in 1875.
is the
and
latter
Washington
and was a patriotic
General Hiscock.
shot
California,
States Senate.
in the
somewhat notorious
where
at
resides
now
Cornelius
and
that Commonwealth in the United
represented
Stan
David
proprietor of a cele
brated watering-place, called the " Havana Magnetic Spring
A daughter
of David Cole is the wife of Jacob Meeker, who resides on Lot 64.
Joseph,
age of seven
Z.
and
Kelly were early settlers
Townsendville, and still
on
physician at
early
influential
from the
the
Dr. Alfred Sears
there,
is
and
east
Ontario in
the
and
80 is
an elevation of
was an
a prominent and
laud
summit of which nine counties are opened out
may be
distant hills of
to the
Lot 47.
resides
citizen.
On the line between Lots 67
Hill,"
Cayuga
seen
Onondaga,
and
in
Prospect
panoramic view
Tompkins, Schuyler,
while
plainly visible in the south,
Wayne in the north.
Chemung
west,
and
"
called
are
"
;
and
Yates"
Little
and
TAKING REVENGE ON A TORY.
John Emmons,
fought,
massacre
of
Revolution,
the
were
also
that
of
that savage
Wyoming.
and a
Mr. Van Wagoner,
characterized
butchery
VanWagener
which
gone clown
his Indian
and
was a
the inhuman Colonel
has
to
had
who
VanWagener
in Lodi.
settlers
early
same elements
the instigator
Butler,
the
the
composed of
tory,
a soldier of
British,
the
with
John
history
as
out on a
allies were
skirmishing expedition, and, coming to a dwelling, massacred its inmates, anil
while yet
searching for one more victim, the Indians came to a cradle, where a
little
lay
child
ing-knives
still
in its innocence ;
as
they
blood
dripping with the
he determined
gazed
of
the cherub,
upon
the slain, the fierce
to further
his
their
with
spirit of
the
scalp-
red man
by taking
VanWagener appeared, on the scene, and, brushing
the Indians away, plunged his bayonet through the body.
He was ever after
known as the man who killed the child; and at a certain election, held at Kelly's
was
the life
the
of
Corners,
and
and
quelled,
the
in
babe,
not
wreak
vengeance
when
about
the
patriotic
old
1825,
year
both Emmons
who
soldier,
had
VanWagener
and
through the
passed
were present,
eight
of
campaign
dreary years, and in whose mind were yet fresh the butcheries of Cherry Valley and
Wyoming, together with the child-murder of VanWagener, threw an end of a
in'
rope over -a
beam
fastened the
other end around
write
it,
some
time.
the
old
the room
tory
Andrew
by
was
they
where
were
VanWagener's
dangling
in the
Emmons gradually lowered
punished the wretch
and quick as
standing,
thought
; in less time than it takes to
After keeping him suspended for
neck
air.
him, feeling
had in
that he
a small
degree
for his inhumanity.
Emmons,
son
of
the
old
soldier,
erected
the
on
mill
Lot
58,
now
C. E. Wyckoff.
VILLAGE OF LODI.
building erected where now is located the thriving village of Lodi
log dwelling which occupied the present site of the Eagle Hotel,
owned
by Mr. Foster. In about the year 1810 General John DeMott
a
dwelling now occupied by Claudius C. Covert.
The first
was
now
a
erected
General DeMott
tensive business in
Covert
of
the first
'General
militia,
also
merchant
the
was
a
village, and
County
was
conducted
mercantile
prominent,
He died in this
early merchants.
in the village
physician
in the
is located the
DeMott
represented
Congress in 1845.
Halsey were
The first
was
a store where now
BoDine.
and
major-general of
ineraber
T.;
locating
Covert.
the town of
Ellis."
was soon after
the latter
settled
Conspicuous among the names of the pioneers of Lodi is that of David Cole.
His sons, Elijah, David, Cornelius, Gilbert, and Washington; were born in this
early settler a short distance north of Town
Mr. Mon Fort early located on Lot 81. Mr.
Eastern college,
92,
descendants residing in the town, viz., Stephen V. and Dennis VanPhoebe Jane, wife of Peter Voorhees, and the wife of W. B. Coryelle, who
owned
A
now resides.
several
mar
John
riage mentioned above..
stead at
father
was
Lot
settled on
Joshua G. Skinner
in 1818, on
H.,
premises now owned by B. C. Farr, and erected a saw-mill near by on Lot 91.
Jerry Ganong, Dennis Vandine, Webster Winn, and Zebulon Randolph, were
also
early settlers. Joseph Howell located on Lot 57, on premises now owned
Burgun Covert ; and Richard Cadmus settled on lands now the pro
Squire
by
perty of George Hunt, P. Holton, and William R. Covert. Thomas Miller and
his son, Oliver, settled on the northwest corner of Lot 57. Ucal Howell, a prom
inent Methodist, early located on the same lot, on premises now in the possession
Wilhelmus Miner was also an early settler on this lot, and
of Alpheus Covert.
Friend,"
A Mr. Gulladet
Caleb Sayre early
and
his son, Daniel
where
Samuel,
from Durham's
came
Judge White
tury.
Cure."
John Knight
in Farmer Village.
resides
COUNTY, NEW YORK.
man.
and
in the Legislature,
village
Dr. Lewis Post.
ex
an
establishment
in 1870.
became
of
a
and
was
Cooper
and
Dr. John L. Eastman
ty--
a quarter of a cen
was also an
Lodi
early
physician.
contains two
churches, Dutch Reformed
and
Methodist,
seven mercantile
HISTORY OF SENECA
establishments, one
represent
hotel,
post-office,
the business interests
of
and shops of various
kinds.
The
to-day: General merchants, Covert &
COUNTY,
following
BoDine,
Casper B.
Postmaster,
Keyes, C. V. H.
Vescelius; Physicians,
Lewis Post, J.
Dunn,
Morris ; Hotel, Daniel Foster.
Townsendville is a hamlet in the southeastern part of the town-, and contains
several dwellings and two stores, one kept by Gilbert Townsend
(2d), who is also
other
Ansel
and
the
Austin.
Postmaster,
by
Charles R.
Lodi has a healthful climate, as is evidenced by the longevity of its inhabitants.
following is a list of those over eighty years of age residing in the town :
The
Sybil
Neal,
REFORMED CHURCH OF LODI.
This
it is
six; Elizabeth
Neal,
Stewart, eighty-one ; Mary Montgomery, eighty-five ; Edward
Converse, eighty-eight; Betsey Stevens, eighty-six; Esther Watson,
three ; Samuel Gulick, eighty-five ; Catherine Starkey, eighty-one.
eighty-five ; Anna
eighty-
The first town-meeting in Lodi
was
held
at
the
house
of
John Ingersoll
on
John
nelius
LODI
LODGE,
NO.
345,
F. AND A. il.
dispensation, October 26, 1825, with John DeMott,
W.M.; William C\ Bishop, S.W.; William VanLew, J.W. It was subse
quently changed to Seneca Lodge, No. 476. During the Anti-Masonic excite
Covert Lodge
VanLew, J. W.
present officers of the lodge are,.C. C. Covert, W. M.; Wm. T. Bowlby,
S. W.; Wm. E. Howard, J. W.; James Gulick, Treasurer; Geo. W. Golding,
Secretary ; John H. Stevens, S. D. ; Chas. T. Smith, J. D. ; Wm. L. Knight,
S. M. C; John Neal (2d), J. M. C; E. S. Miller, Chaplain; Nathan Lewis,
Mott,
.
W. M. ; William
Booth, S. W. ;
-Tyler.
SONS
Lodi
OF TEMPERANCE.
of
Sons
LODI
of
Temperance,
GRANGE,
NO.
was. organized
October
within the
boundaries
of
the "Empire
State"
that has
of
have
this
served
Smith,
Joseph
Deacons.
Stull,
Revs. Abram
church as pastors :
Bennett, John A. Liddle, Garret J. Janeston, Geo. J. VanNate, J.
VanDoren, Isaac H. Collier, and H. Parks McAdams, the present pastor.
there have been eight pastorates in this congregation, the longest, twelve
In
all
the shortest, one
and
years,
this
of
church since
The
year.
its
has been
fine brick
church edifice was erected
twenty
thousand
dollars.
in
a
flourishing
and
is
METHODIST
or
hundred
1873,
member
The
ten.
and
at a cost of about
this church
connection with
superintendence of
is
P. V. N. BoDine.
TOWNSENDVILLE.
CHURCH,
The first Methodist Church
in
the
under
seven
in 1872
The Sabbath-school in
condition,
into the
whole number received
organization
present
in the
established
town
present
Lodi
of
"
the
was
Taunton
Townsendville, and
26, 1836, and the followingDavid Cole, Gilbert T. Miller, Gilbert
named persons were chosen trustees:
Townsend (2d), H. P. Kinch, Jedediah Townsend, Gilbert Ganong, and C.
Miner. The present church edifice was erected in 1839, during the pastorate of
Rev. Delos Hutchins. The church was remodeled in 1862, during the adminis
organized
Church."
tration
of
was
In
in
Steamburg,
at
Hector,
Settlement,
Methodist Church
second
house,
berlain
President
was
lot
church
under
date
1832,
for
"
words :
was
he
which
Withhold
when
it
of
by
and
chapel,
the
Ucal
fees,
and
was near
9, 1830. Rev.
Howell,
Secretaiy.
by
indorsed
School-
Israel Cham
The deed for
Anna his wife,
Seba Murphy, in October,
Isaac Miller
by
Bogart's
on
and
the back the
following
friend, when it is in the power of thine
building was erected in 1831 and '32, and
from thy
The
church
worship in
order
in Lodi
and was recorded
no
not good
house
sold
was
charged
a
LODI.
November
and
to the trustees
10, 1831,
M."
S.
hand to do it.
Lodi,
the meeting,
made
October
of
was used as a
of
CHURCH,
organized
the village of
southwest of
is located
where
two out
are
Schuyler County.
METHODIST
The
there
with this church
connection
Smith's
one at
called
incorporated December
Rev. S. Nichols.
appointments,
other at
1810,
the year
about
The society
of
the
a circuit with others until about
the court,
and
the society
year
in the
merged
1865,
one at
Lodi.
The
1837,
Board
of
Lodi Village
at
church
but it
was allowed
Trustees
William C.
Meetings
were
Kelley,
were
and
held
was
to expire,
Hiram G.
the
the Third
Gulick,
Ezra
Horace Brown.
at
the
A
and wife.
assumed control of
Society, in July,
May 17, 1847. The first
Cleveland, Nichol H. Wyckoff,
as
organized
and was reorganized
school-house
intervals, being included in a circuit
deeded, under date of April 9, 1849,
in the village, for
a
to the
above-named
time
A
other appointments.
at
irregular
trustees, by General
raised, and Mr. William C.
instrumental
in erecting the
chiefly
subscription was
funds,
and was
lot was
church
Kelley
church
Methodism in this vicinity is largely indebted to Mr. Kelley for his
He afterwards moved
self-sacrifices in the interests of the church and society.
and subsequently to Missouri, where he died a few
to the State of
edifice.
Wisconsin,
years since.
The house
remodeled and
enlarged
of
worship
in 1861.
was erected at a cost of about
The following-named
$2200,
persons
have
and was
officiated
J. U. Brown, E. Wood, 0. Trowbridge,
pastors, viz., Revs. John Powell,
Crow, A. N. Fillmore, A, E.. Chubbuck, J. G. Gulick, W. Mattison,
Nutten, J. S. Edson, J. W. Wilson, and J. B. Shearer.
David
D.
POPULATION.
the country
The
a score of
.not
not a
regularly
and the fol
The Lodi society was organized June 2, 1874,
installed, viz. : Walter J. Traphagan, M. ; Edwin Smith, 0. ; Isaac
S. ; H. D. Brundage, L. ; J. K. Miner, A. S. ; H. D. Eastman, C. ;
constituted grange.
Joseph W.
McCoy,
persons
213.
Societies for the purpose of fostering the agricultural interests
have rapidly sprung into existence, and to-day there is perhaps
towns
Shepherd C.
Asa
John DeMott
3,
Division,
65,
1873. The following are the charter members : C. C. Covert, W. P. ; M. Francis,
W. A. ; S. 0. Root, R. S. ; Miss Sarah Tumerson, A. R. S. ; W. V. Gould, F. S. ;
Miss Frances Saulisbury, Treasurer; E. S. Miller, Chaplain; Mrs. Almira Miller,
A. C. ; James D. Brown, C. ; Miss Martha Brown, I. S. ; Geo. Jackson, 0. S. ;
Mrs. Jennie Jackson, Miss Janette Hetterschied, Mrs. Emma Gunderman, Miss
Kate Hull, Miss Ann Caywood, Miss Alice Root, Frank M. Jones, J.- C. Her
rington, Watson Gulick, Orlando Gould, Edwin Dumm.
No.
January 9, 1823, a new consistory was chosen,
Addison
Richard
.The
persons who consti
following-named persons, who were ordained February 11, 1823:
John I. Sebring, Folkred Sebring, Ruloff Voorhees, Elders ; Cor
met under
ment, the charter was surrendered to the Grand Lodge. It was surrendered
March 7, 1829. The present. lodge was instituted July 11, 1854, with John De
the
as
Dominie Brokaw formed the
who remained when
1822.
autumn of
15, 1809, or, perhaps, more properly
Church,"
the
Kelly,
Wyckoff,
Mapes,
the
SOCIETIES.
April
First Reformed
those
The following-named
.Henry
.
.of
"
the
church were
in the
composed
the "First Reformed Protestant Dutch
which was organized
a continuation of
secession
March
7, 1826, when the following officers were chosen : John De
Supervisor
; John Ingersoll, Town Clerk ; Noadiah Shannon, Cornelius De
Mott,
R. Halsey, Constable and Collector ;
Joseph
C.
Kelly, Assessors ;
Mott,
Gideon
Constables
Samuel
N. Feagles,
Kept,
Gulick, Andrew German, Elijah
;
Townsend, Commissioners of Highways ; Morris Sherwood, J. McGonery, Clau
dius C. Coan, Commissioners of Common Schools ; Henry McGonery, David Cole,
Trustees of School Fund; Claudius C. Coan, John C. Emory, G. L. Miller,. In
spectors of Common Schools ; John Gottery, Henry McGonery. Overseers of the
Poor ; Chas. Kelly, John Ingersoll, Pound Masters.
The present town officials are, James Jones, Supervisor ; John H. Stevens, Town
Clerk ; Casper B. Vescelius, Delos H. Townsend, Elisha Reeves, B. M. Huff,
Justices of the Peace ; Abram Wyckoff, G. Townsend (2d), W. J. Traphagan,
Assessors ; William Lameraux, Overseer of Poor ; Abram Campbell, J. S. Brooks,
Aaron Shannon, Commissioners of Highways ; James H. Stover, Herman W.
Halsey, Geo. S. Himrod, Inspectors of Election; Peter Lott, H. D. Eastman, A.
0 Brokaw, Town Auditors; Benj. S. Stevens, Collector; F. Parker, E. Stevens,
L. P. Osgood, John G. Farr, Constables ; John Budd, Game Constable.
Tuesday,
'offshoot from
an
Ovid,"
of
tuted this
ship
CIVIL HISTORY.
is
church
Church
eighty-seven; Jane
Huffman, eighty-four; Sophia Wilson, eightyeighty-two; Jane Bramble, eighty-five; Lydia S. Cox,
145
CHURCH HISTORY.
S. 0. Root, M. B. Ellison & Son, Peter LaTourette; Druggist, Chas. A. WoodL. C. Galloup; Hardware and Tinner, John H.
.worth; Jeweler,
Stevens; Con
veyancer and
NEW YORK.
lowing
Lameraux,
Wm. Minor, Treasurer ; S. B. Mundy, Secretary; W. W. Sears, G. K.; Mrs. E.
Smith, O; Mrs. Helen Crisfield, P.; Mrs. Martha Minor, F.; Mrs. E. S. Mundy,
in
in
Lodi, in 1835, was 1772 ; in 1840, 2236 ; in 1845, 2246
1855, 2018; in 1860, 2067; in 1865, 1892; in 1870,1825
population of
1850, 2269;
1875, 1896.
in
;
;
MILITARY RECORD.
officers
X. A. S.
The
following
from the
town of
Allison, Oscar,
1862.
is
a record of
Lodi,
with
enlisted
in
those who
enlisted
their promotions,
Company E,
in the
war
of
discharges, deaths,
First New York
the
Rebellion,
etc. :
Cavalry, October 6,
HISTORY OF SENECA
146
COUNTY, NEW YORK.
H.,'
Baker, Charles E., enlisted in Company C, One Hundred and Twenty-sixth
Regiment, August 8, 1862 ; discharged with the regiment.
Bond, John, enlisted in Company C, One Hundred and Twenty-sixth Regi
ment; wounded at the battle of Gettysburg, July 2, 1863; discharged with the
regiment.
Bailey, Cornelius.
Brown, James D., enlisted in Company E, One Hundred and Forty-eighth
Regiment, August 28, 1862 ; discharged with the regiment.
Bennett, James M., enlisted in Company E, One Hundred and Forty-eighth
Regiment, in September, 1862.
Budd, Daniel P., enlisted in Company E, One Hundred and Forty-eighth
Regiment, August 28, 1862, and was discharged with the regiment.
Baker, Marcus M., enlisted in Company E, One Hundred and Forty-eighth
Regiment, in August, 1862.
Brown, Lewis, enlisted in Company E, One Hundred and Forty-eighth Regi
regiineht.
ment, August 28, 1862, and was discharged with
in
and Forty-eighth
enlisted
One
Hundred
Brokaw, Richard,
Company E,
Regiment, August 28, 1862, and was discharged with the regiment.
Bush, Charles, enlisted in the Ninth New York Artillery, January 20, 1864,
and was discharged
May 15, 1865.enlisted
in Company E, One Hundred and Forty-eighth Regi
Blew, Abram,
December
1863.
ment,
28,
Cole, George W., enlisted in Company H, New York Cavalry, October 6, 1862,
the'
and was
discharged
with
the
the
Curry,
A.,
1864 ; discharged
enlisted
with
Darling, Wilmer S.,
the
in
Company A,
Fiftieth
Regiment, February 29,
regiment.
enlisted
in
Company E,
1864 ; discharged with the regiment.
Faussett, Robert F., enlisted in Fiftieth
charged with
Fiftieth
Regiment,
Regiment, August 25,
September
10, 1862 ;
dis
the regiment.
Freer, Richard, enlisted in Company E, One Hundred and Forty-eighth Regi
ment, August, 1862 ; discharged with the regiment.
Freer, Christian, enlisted in Company E, One Hundred and Forty-eighth
Regiment,, in August, 1862; discharged with the regiment.
Fenner., Ezra, enlisted in Company E, One Hundred and Forty-eighth Regi
ment, August 28, 1862 ; discharged with the
Fenner, Philip,, enlisted in First New York Artillery in August, 1864; dis
regiment.-
charged, with the
regiment.
.1862;
House,
the
regiment.
William
charged with
the
N.,
Hundred and Forty-eighth
Kitson, Shadrack, enlisted in Company
1862
discharged
with the regiment.
August
Regiment,
28,
;
Kitson, Elonzo, enlisted in Company E, One Hundred and Forty-eighth Regi
wounded and discharged; date unknown.
ment, August 28,
in Company E, One Hundred and Forty-eighth
Ralph
enlisted,
S.,
Knight,
died
September 7, 1863, at Norfolk, Virginia.
August
28, 1862;
Regiment,
in
Lockwood, Jonathan, enlisted
Company E, One Hundred and Forty-eighth
Regiment, August 26, 1862; date of discharge unknown.
Light, James G., enlisted August 26, 1864; discharged with the regiment.
Larasey, James, substitute for James Flood, enlisted in Third New York Ar
tillery, September 3, 1864; discharged with the regiment.
Lameraux, Hiram, enliste'd in the One Hundred and Forty-first Regiment,
regiment.
September 10, 1862 ; discharged with
enlisted
iri
McDowell, Charles,
Company M, One Hundred and Fiftieth Regi
discharged
with the regiment.
August
29, 1864;
ment,
in
enlisted
Miller, Henry O,
Company M, Fifteenth Regiment, August 26,
.E,.One
.1862;
the'
with
the
regiment.
McEvery, Michael, enlisted in Fifteenth Regiment, August 26, 1864 ; discharged
with
the
regiment.
McEvans, Thomas,
enlisted
in Seventy-fifth Regiment.
Neal, Ferman,
Company E, One Hundred arid Forty-eighth Regi
ment, August 28, 1862 ; died July 19, 1864.
Pinrieer, Henry D, enlisted in Company D, One Hundred and Forty-eighth
Regiment, August 28, 1862 ; died July 19, 1864, from wounds received at battle
enlisted
in
Cold Harbor.
of
Kase, enlisted in Company F, One Hun
dred and
Regiment,
29, 1864 ; discharged with the regiment.
Quinn, Francis, substitute for Lewis Townsend, enlisted September 2, 1864.
Reaves, Francis M., enlisted in Company M, Fifteenth Regiment, August 26,
Quinn, John,
substitute
for David L.
Forty-eighth
August
with
the
regiment.
in Company E, One Hundred and Forty-eighth
Rappylee, Samuel,
August
1862.
Regiment,
26,
Rappylee, Milton, enlisted in Seventy-fifth Regiment in 1861, and re-enlisted
in January, 1864.
Sprague, Bolles C.
Sprague, James.
Stout, Hiram, enlisted in Company E, One Hundred and Forty-eighth Regi
ment, August 28, 1862-; discharged March 10, 1863.
Smith, James W., enlisted -in Company JE, One Hundred and Forty-eighth
Regiment, August 28, 1862 ; promoted to Sergeant February 5; 1864; wounded
June 3, 1864.
Sylvanus T., enlisted in Company E, One Hundred and Forty-eighth
August 28/ 1862 ; died August 14, 1864, at Point of Rocks, Vir
enlisted
'
Smith,-
Regiment,'
ginia.
Gallusha, Jerome, enlisted in Fifteenth New York Engineers, August 25, 1864;
died at. Lincoln Hospital, May 23, 1865.
Gardiner, Hezekiah C., enlisted in Company E, One Hundred and Forty-eighth
the regiment.
Regiment, August 28, 1862 ; discharged
Richard
enlisted
in
V.j
Gibson,
Company E, One Hundred and Forty-eighth
August
discharged
with the regiment.
Regiment,
28, 1862;
Gunderirian, Abram V., enlisted in Company E, One Hundred and Fortyeighth Regiment, August. 28,
discharged with the regiment.
enlisted
in
First
York Artillery, August 29, 1864; dis
New
Richard,.
Huff,
charged with
.1864
1865.
1864 ; discharged
regiment.
Eugene
*
1864 ; discharged
regiment.
Covert, James, enlisted in Company E, One Hundred and Forty-eighth Regi
ment, August 28, 1862, and was discharged with the regiment.
Covert, Anthony, enlisted in Company E, One Hundred and Forty-eighth
Regiment, August 28, 1862 ; died from wounds received at the battle of Peters
burg, and was buried on the field.
Clawson, Firman W., enlisted in Company E, One- Hundred and Forty-eighth
Regiment, August 28, 1862, and was discharged with the regiment.
Covert, Elisha, Jr., enlisted in Company E, One Hundred and Forty-eighth
Regiment, August 28, 1862 ; discharged with the regiment.
Conley, John ; date of first enlistment not known ; re-enlisted in Third New
York Light Artillery, August 29, 1864 ; discharged with the regiment.
Clawson, George W., enlisted in Fifteenth Regiment, August 29, 1864 ; dis
charged with
enlisted in
Jackson, George
Company E, One Hundred and Forty-eighth
28,-1862
; discharged with the regiment.
Regiment, August
Jordon, Desmon O, enlisted in Company E, One Hundred and Forty-eighth
Regiment, August 28, 1862; discharged with the regiment.
Jones, Henry V. L., enlisted in Company A, Fiftieth Regiment New York
Engineers, August 29,
; mustered out at Fort Barry, Virginia, June 30,
enlisted
in Fifteenth
Regiment,
August
25, 1864; dis
regiment.
Forty-eighth'
Regi
Sharp, John M., enlisted in Company E, One Hundred and
ment, August 28, 1862 ; promoted to First Lieutenant.
Swarthout, Geo. H.,enlisted* in Company. E, One Hundred and 'Forty-eighth
August 28, 1862";
at
Camp Lee, near Richmond.
Skinner, iJolrn'W.; enlisted in. Company E, One. Hundred and: FortyTeighth
Regiment, August 28, 1862"; discharged. with the regiment;
Hundred
Smith, Andrew J., -enlisted Captairi ; enlisted in
and Forty-eighth
August 28, 1862 ; discharged, with the regiment.
Shannon, Geo".. N., enlisted in Coiripany H, Fifteenth Regiment, August 26,
1864; discharged with theregihient.
Stevens, Geo. B., enlisted in the Fiftieth Regiment, August 26, 1864 ; dis
.died
.Regiment;
.Company .E,
-One
Regiment,'
charged with
the
regiment.
1864.'
Hermon, Peter, substitute for Delos Townsend, enlisted August 29,
Hyatt, Enos R., enlisted in Company E, One Hundred and Forty-eighth Regi
ment, February
1864; discharged with the regiment.
Hildibidol, Henry, enlisted in Company E, One Hundred and Foriy-eighth
June 3,
Regiment; died from
Jackson, Henry, enlisted in -Company E, One Hundred and. Forty-eighth Regi
ment, August 28, 1862!
Jackson, Charles B., enlisted in Company E, One Hundred and Forty-eighth
Regiment, August 28, 1862 ; discharged February- 16, 1863.
.29,
1864.-
Slaight, Waterman,
1864
discharged
enlisted
with
the
in
Company M,
Fifteenth
Regiment,
Atfgust
29,
regiment.
E.'
Shannon,
Silas
One Hundred
W.,
and
substitute
Forty-eighth
for
B.
VanVleet, enlisted
Regiment,
26,1864;
-August
in
Company F,
discharged
with
wounds,"
the
regiment.
Fiftieth'
Stevens,
John
H.,
enlisted
1864 ; discharged with
the
in the
Engineer Regiment,. August
29,
regiment.
Stout, Isaac H., substitute for John M. Coryelle,
Regiment, August 29, 1864; discharged with the
enlisted
in the Sixty-first
PILATE'
HW
Elijah
Townsend.
John Townsend.
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RES.
r
JOHN TOWNSE.NI
TOWNSENDVILLE, SENECA CO., N. Y.
TOWN OF
LODI,
SENECA CO., N. Y.
Hon. John DeMott
Charles
1826-1827
1828
Kelley
William F. Coan
1851-1852
Isaac Waddell
1853-1854
Hon. John DeMott
1829-1830
Dr. Alfred Sears
1855-1856
John Ingersoll
1831-1833
Hon. Peter Lott
1857-1858
Henry R. Halsey
1834-1835
John DeMott
1859-1860
Gen.
1836-1838
Tunis G. Osgood
1861-1862
1839-1840
Samuel S. Gulick
1863-1864
Nicholl H. Wyckoff
1841-1842
James Flood
1865-1867
Gilbert T. Miller
1843-1844
James Jones
1868-1872
Hon. J. H.
1845-1846
Samuel S. Gulick
1873-1874
Hon. Augustus Woodworth
1847-1848
Lewis Post
1875
Nicholl H. Wyckoff
1849-1850
James Jones
1876
Halsey Sanford
Hon. William C.
Kelley
Halsey
HISTORY OF SENECA
Swarthout, N. 0., enlisted in Company E, One Hundred and Forty-eio-hth
Regiment, August 28, 1862.
Stevens, Abram B., enlisted in the One Hundred and Forty-eighth
Regiment,
December 28, 1862 ; discharged with the regiment.
Stevens, Isaac H.
Turbush, David, substitute for Elijah Colmon.
Tillyear, Phineas, enlisted in Company M, Fifteenth Regiment, August
29,
1864 ; discharged
with
Van Vleet, John
ment
; died from
the regiment.
DeMott,
enlisted
wounds received
Van Vleet, James
F., Sergeant,
in the One. Hundred
and
Seventh Regi
in Georgia.
enlisted
in the One Hundred
and
Seventh Regi
ment.
VanLew, Frederick, enlisted in Company E, One Hundred and Forty-ei*hth
Regiment, August 28, 1862,
Whipple, George, enlisted in Company E, One Hundred and Forty-eighth
Regiment, August 28, 1862 ; wounded and discharged October, 1864.
Woodworth, Elbert, enlisted in Company E, One Hundred and Forty-eighth
Regiment, August 28, 1862.
Wilson, Edwin J., enlisted in the Fifteenth Regiment, August 26 1864.
Wilson, Charles, enlisted in the Fifteenth Regiment, August 26, 1864 ; dis
.
.
charged with regiment.
Whipple, Oscar,
charged with
Cattand,
discharged
in the Fifteenth Regiment in
enlisted
August,
1864 ; dis
the regiment.
David
with
S.,
the
enlisted
in Seventh New York
Battery, January,
1864 ;
regiment.
Sherwood, George, enlisted in the One Hundred and Forty-eighth Regiment,
December, 1863 ; discharged in May, 1865.
Chestnut, Andrew, enlisted in Company. C, One Hundred and Twenty-sixth
Regiment, August 22, 1862 ; died February 6, 1864.
Ellis, Jeremiah T., enlisted in Fiftieth Regiment ; died March 29, 1864.
Hall, Edward, substitute for Elijah Townsend.
Licht, John M., enlisted January 20, 1864.
Brown, Lewis, drafted.
Waterbury, George, enlisted in Eighth United States Infantry, January 10,
in
1865.
Kane, Martin, enlisted in Eighth United States Infantry, January 20, 1.865.
Shannan, John, enlisted in Eighth United States Infantry, January 20, 1865.
Sanders, 'James, enlisted in Eighth United. States Infantry, January 20, 1865.
Scheurur, Christopher, enlisted in Eighth United States Infantry, January 20,
1865.
Meyer, Jacob, enlisted in Eighth United States Infantry, January 20, 1865.
Ray, John, enlisted in Eighth United States Infantry, January 20, 1865.
.Atkinson, James, enlisted in Eighth United States Infantry, January 20, 1865.
Bauer, William, enlisted in Eighth United States Infantry, January 20, 1865.
Colvin, Charles, enlisted in Eighth United States Infantry, January 20, 1865.
Moran, Peter, enlisted in Eighth United States Infantry, January 10, 1865.
Bennett, John, enlisted in Eighth United States Infantry, February 20, 1865.
AtheStor, Wm. H, enlisted in Eighth United States Infantry, February 20, 1865!
Brady, James, enlisted in Eighth United States Infantry, February 20, 1865.
Clark, Robert, enlisted in Eighth United States Infantry, February 20, 1865.
Davis, Henry, enlisted in Fighth United States Infantry, February 20, 1865.
Hiram, Willis, enlisted in Eighth United States Infantry, February 20, 1865.
Keafer, Peter, enlisted in Eighth United States Infantry, February 20, 1865.
Lachenal, Andrew, enlisted in Eighth United States Infantry, February 20, 1865.
Nank, Otto, enlisted in Eighth United States Infantry, February 20, 1865.
O'Conner, Patrick, enlisted in Eighth United States Infantry, February 20, 1865.
O'Neal, Cornelius, enlisted in Eighth United States Infantry, February 20, 1865.
Rill, Ferdinand, enlisted in Eighth United States Infantry, February 20, 1865.
Rice, John, enlisted in Eighth United States Infantry, February 20, 1865.
Smith, John, enlisted in Eighth United States Infantry, February 20, 1865.
Weis, Charles, enlisted in Eighth United States Infantry, February 20, 1865.
Tanares, Charles, enlisted in Eighth United States Infantry, February 20, 1865.
Hogan, Patrick, enlisted in Eighth United States Infantry, February 20, 1865.
Waite,Washington, enlisted in Company A, Thirty-third Regiment, in April,
1861 ; died
at
Washington.
Morrell, Thomas,
discharged
with
the
Kelley, Thomas,
enlisted
in
Company
A,. Thirty-third
Regiment, in 1861
regiment.
substitute
for S. O.
Root,
enlisted
September 1, 1.864.
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NEW YORK.
147
Jones, Edward, substitute for B. F. Ellison, enlisted September 12, 1864.
Denniek, William, substitute for Chas. A. Neely, enlisted September 12, 1864.
Keenan, Francis, substitute for William M. Voorhees, enlisted September
12.
l
'
1864.
'
Joyce, James, substitute for -Herman D. Eastman, enlisted September 12, 1864.
Risby, John, substitute for Abram Wyckoff (2d), enlisted September 12, 1864.
Baldock, Frederick, substitute for Peter Lott, enlisted September 12, 1864.
Parker, Andrew, enlisted December 30, 1863.
Desmond, John, enlisted December 30, 1863.
Hammill, John, enlisted December 30,
Waterman, George, enlisted December 30, 1863.
Catheart, Nathan, enlisted December 30, 1863.
Triax, Rcnselear, enlisted December 31, 1863.
Bird, Abram, enlisted December 31, 1863.
Jackson, Edward, enlisted December 31, 1863.
Bigelow, L. R., enlisted December 31, 1863.
Richards, Edward, enlisted December 31, 1863.
Wyant, H. G, enlisted December 31, 1863.
Galan, William, enlisted March .21, 1864.
Butler, Edward, enlisted March 21, 1864.
Miller, H. G., enlisted March 18, 1864.
Brien, John O., enlisted March 21, 1864.
Smith, Selah, enlisted December 31, 1863.
Sharpe, Philip Kline, enlisted in Company I, Thirty-third Regiment, May 11,
1861 ; died in hospital, at Annapolis, Maryland.
Roach, Peter, enlisted in the Thirty-third Regiment, May 11, 1861.
Miller, David P., enlisted in the Thirty-third Regiment, April, 1861.
Quinn, Peter, enlisted in Company A, Thirty-third Regiment.
Rappylee, Winfield S., discharged with the regiment.
Nevins, Winfield S., enlisted in Company H, One Hundred and Second Regi
ment; discharged with the regiment; re-enlisted February 29, 1864.
Swarthout, James P., enlisted in Company H, One Hundred and Second Regi
ment, January 14, 1802.
Darling, Anthony C, enlisted in Company II, One Hundred and Second Regi
ment, January 14, 1863 ; discharged with the regiment.
Root, T. W., Captain, enlisted in Company H, One Hundred and Second Regi
ment, January 14, 1862.
Swarthout, J. V., enlisted in the One Hundredth Regiment in 1861 ; died in
hospital.
Huff, James A., enlisted in Company H, One Hundred and Second Regiment,
January 14, 1862 ; re-enlisted.
Madison, Covert, enlisted in Company C, One Hundred and Twenty-sixth Regi
ment, August 8, 1862 ; discharged with the regiment.
Covert, W. R., enlisted in Company C, One Hundred and Twenty-sixth Regi
ment, August 8, 1862 ; discharged with the regiment.
Gunderman, Conrad, enlisted in Company C, One Hundred and Twenty-sixth
Regiment, August 8, 1862 ; wounded at Harper's Ferry ; left arm amputated.
Gunderman, John, enlisted in Company C, One Hundred and Twenty-sixth
Regiment, August 8, 1862 ; discharged with the regiment.
Herrington, W. H., enlisted in Company C, One Hundred and Twenty-sixth
Regiment, August 8, 1862 ; wounded in battle of Gettysburg ; discharged Decem
ber, 1863.
Hammill, Matthew, enlisted in Company C, One Hundred and Twenty-sixth
Regiment, August 6, 1862; discharged December 15, 1863.
Hubbs, Daniel, enlisted in Company C, One Hundred and Twenty-sixth Regi
ment, August 8, 1862.
Peterson, Henry, Captain, enlisted in Company C, One Hundred and Twentysixth
Regiment.
Swarthout, Benjamin, Captain, enlisted in Company 0, One Hundred and
Regiment, August 8, 1862 ; discharged July 19, 1865.
Grant, J. T., enlisted in Company C, One Hundred and Twenty-sixth Regi
ment, August 8, 1862 ; killed at battle of Gettysburg, July 3, 1863.
Kelley, George, enlisted in Company C, One Hundred and Twenty-sixth Regi
ment, August 8, 1862 ; killed at Gettysburg, July 3, 1863.
VanLew, M. O, Lieutenant, enlisted in Company C, One Hundred and Twentysixth Regiment, August 8, 1862 ; killed at Suffolk, March 9, 1864.
Arnold, Lewis, enlisted in Company E, One Hundred and Forty-eighth Regi
ment, August 28, 1862 ; discharged December, 1863.
.
Twenty-sixth
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HISTORY OF SENECA
148
PERSONAL
JOHN DE MOTT/
GENERAL
COUNTY, NEW
YORK.
SKETCHES.
Asylum, in the town of Romulus. Peter, Jr., was born in Wy
oming County, Pennsylvania, October 18, 1763, and married Ruth Weisner,
Pennsylvania, in about the year 1786, who was born May 6, 1762, in Wyoming
County, Pennsylvania, and died in May, 1832. Eleven children were born to
them.
Alexander was a soldier in the
of 1812 ; Peter,
Jr., died September*
9, 1829, and he and his faithful wife lie side by side in the beautiful and ro
north of
Willard
of'
The
subject of
this
born in
sketch was
N.
Readington,
J., October. 7,
1790.
his parents to the new country when but three years of age, and
town of
fourteen
after the invasion of Sullivan, who passed through
years
only
educated
to
year
1779.
He
was
in
the
of
extermination
Lodi in his campaign
He
came with
.the
mercantile pursuits
aptitude
in the
for business
store of
John
which placed,
fore attaining his majority. He
years before his death, and that
McMath, near Ovid, and
him
the head
at
in trade
continued
prosperity to his untiring energy
citizens of the South Jury District
liberality ;
General DeMott
vives.
family in his
Though
large
of a
until a
.Village
past prominence and
of
and
the wealthy
many
their indebtedness to General
Ann
Mary
with
and
very popular,
it
Halsey, daughter of the
Halsey, who still sur
their boys
neighborhood named one of
to be
used
"
John
that every third
said
DeMott."
business man, giving close personal attention to the details
always interested himself in public affairs, and was thor
an active
1801,
1845,
business,
to Washington
tendered his
and
to the Government.
services
In
and
has been
he
when
in
at
Ovid, Seneca County, New York, April 20,.
during life. He resided in Ovid until
an active agriculturist
to his
removed
present
in the
location.
Colonel Smith has held
He
various
in the militia,
until he occupied the rank of colonel, and in this capacity discharged the duties
of commanding officer with entire satisfaction.
November 23, 1829, he mar
offices
life,
civil
ried Eliza
and also
Bawker,
Three
1804.
military.
rose
step
by step
Dutchess
County, New York, who was born December 10,
of this "marriage, viz., Archelaus G., bom June
2, 1832 ; J. DeMott, born DecemberlO, 1832; Mary
of
children were
born
12, 1831, and died March
Ann, born February 11, 1839.
Colonel Smith is
he
oughly posted. He was fond of the military, and in the militia service rapidly
rose from the ranks through every grade of office, until he became Major-General.
When the civil war broke out, though then past seventy years of age, he promptly
repaired
cemetery at Ovid.
Colonel Ralph Smith was born
mantic
few
the late Jehial H.
and sister of
was
its.
be
establishment
.acknowledge
John DeMott for their early start.
In June, 1811, he united in marriage
Halsey,
large
Lodi
at
of
village owes much
and uniform
late Judge Silas
of a
soon evinced an
-war
four hundred
in
seen
and
a representative
forty
another part of
and surrounded
active,
this
by
all
the
land.
He is
work.
and
agriculturist,
acres of valuable
A
in his
now
comforts of a
is the
view of
owner of more
his
home,
seventy-sixth
happy
than
ete., may be
year, hale
arid
home.
civil
honorably filled nearly every office in his town, county, and dis
In 1833 he served in the Legislature. In 1840 he was an unsuccessful
life he has
trict.
candidate
for
session of
the Twenty-ninth
influential
and
He
Congress,
was
bank
and
After the
member.
in this
and
the
bills
He died
illness
of
July 31, 1870,
three
weeks
"
Like
he
in the
passed
of
of
that
and served
deemed
the stormy
during
his friends
by
made
.the
tour
of
Europe.
County Bank,
the first safety-fund
the
Seneca
citizens of
*
remember
his
institution.
eightieth year of
his
age.
At the
the
drapery
pleasant
of
his
couch about
THE TOWNSEND FAMILY.
an active
close of an
away peacefully,
oho who wraps
And lies down to
many
was
the term he
Seneca
the
of
He
close of
County,
well-known signature upon
was elected
Congress]
the first President
chartered
in 1844
him,
Townsend, emigrated from Putnam
County, New York (then Dutchesss County), to Seneca County, New York, in
His wife, Martha, and six
the year 1800, and settled on the old homestead.
The trip, made with a lumber-wagon and horses,
children came with him.
The time between the
through an unbroken forest, consumed seventeen days.
of November, sur
12th
on
the
hours.
He
landed
here
is
twelve
places now
Elijah
rounded
dreams."
table
the
by
primeval
provision
with
COLONEL RALPH SMITH.
Among
a more
the many
worthy
place
of whom we write.
.
in the
esteem and confidence of
Colonel Ralph Smith
was of
County,
none occupied
his fellow-townsmen than he
German, origin,
and
his
Smith, emigrated to America some time before the
French arid Indian war, and located in Northumberland,. Wyoming County,
Pennsylvania. He served in the French and Indian wars as a lieutenant, and
He suffered terribly in the butchery of Wyowas a brave and trusted officer.
ming, having his wife, one son, and one daughter massacred, and two other
children
of
them.
taken prisoners,
He had
one
during the last years
of
and
son,
his
nothing was afterwards heard
daughter, Maiy, left to comfort him
probably murdered,
Peter, Jr.,
eventful
and a
life.
as
In the fall
of
1789, Peter, Jr.,
to Ovid
son of
Peter, Sr., and father of the subject of this sketch, came
of land, and after sowing three acres of wheat, returned, and in the following
year, 1790, retraced his steps to the. new purchase, bringing with him his father
In 1812, Peter,'Sr., died, aged about eighty years, and was buried
and: sister.
tract
barn he built
are still
sary
repairs.
He
raised a
of
born
and purchased a
his
February 8,
age..
part of
his
He
own
rests
bears
were
plentiful,
and supplied
his
years.
He lived to see the country in which he
become beautiful, cultivated fields. The house
he left them,
same as
with
the
exception of neces
of eleven
in the cemetery
a
few
rods north of
his
old
home,
He
year
once-
a
his grandfather, John Townsend (who is buried
born May 18, 1810. He is the youngest of the family.
the old
homestead,
having lost his farm by
which
and
girls.
children, five boys and six
family
ninety-sixth
the
in
1767, and died March 17, 1862,
Elijah), was
still resides on
father
'in
Deer
named after
beside his son
He
and
the
John
farm.
John
great
grandfather, Lieutenant Peter
several
and
was
Seneca
early, settlers of
for
of
forest.
its timber
settled cleared of
prominent and
the father
Townsend,
the
in the house in
dishonesty
of
the
which
he
bom.
His
the Lodi
Bank,
was
managers of
it became his (John Townsend's)
it from the Sheriff's hands. He married Emeline Meeker in
four boys and five girls. Their respective
of nine
he held
stock
thirty-five years ago,
duty to redeem
1835, and has a family
children,
deceased;.
Martha, Elizabeth, Lewis M., Elijah, Sarah M.,
Helen, Robert H., J. Meeker, M.D.; and Ida;
children
He and his wife are still living, and enjoying excellent health. Their
The family and their ancestors have always.
are all alive, with one exception.
names are
follows:
(Lewis'
been
very healthy race; the
died in his ninety-second year.
a
grandfather on
the
mother's side
Meeker),
J2CVT
TPTLA.TE
After sowing
mer.
HON. SILAS HALSEY.
six acres of
with about a quart of apple
SiiAS Hambt was horn in Southampton, Long Island, October 6,
He
1743 (old
style).
cine at an
early age,
he
desire for the study
and pursued a course of
In 1764 he
town, New Jersey.
where
manifested a
remained an
returned
honored disciple
native
JBsoulapius
of
county,
until
inent rank among the pioneers,
1776,
where
he
home in the
and seek a
remained
for
a period of
three
wilds of
son,
in
resided
and
ruined
soldiers, who
four
ency of that
permitted
noble-hearted
to
return
Sheriff
of
the
and
by
following
resumed
his
officers
with a
family
a
month of
at
of
the Senecas.
May, he erected a cabin
Cooley's Point (Lodi
Arriving
in the town
Landing), then
of
He
was
nearly
such
capacities,
forty
in the
space
delegate
Justice
as
His public
and
the
of
the
County
employment
Few men, in that early
years.
public
a
Constitution in 1801,
few have left to
and
eye,
industry, integrity,
and patriotism.
Death laid his
served
19th
day
year of
his
the strong man,
upon
he
the
and on
away, in the
passed
ninetieth
age.
seek
The boast
And
Await
Herki
The
Judge S/las
hand
pallid
November, 1832,
of
time in the
County
of Absem-
Member
the State Senate. He was
revision ofthe
generations a richer example of
Ovid (now Lodi),
of
in the
some
larger
a
succeeding
County and in many other official capacities until
home in"*the country
of
Onondaga, Cayuga, and Seneca.
filled
4ay,
clem
the year 1792. In April of that year he left his native county to
and was eleoted
minor official
embraced a period of
Erskine, he was
He
in many
Courts in
dilapidated homestead in
medical practice.
nursery
occupant of
Peaoe, Supervisor, County Clerk, etc., and was Judge of
pleasant
year, through the
British officer, General
and
British
laid waste its
died, leaving him
to his desolate
Southampton, where he
as
wife
In the
Bmall children.
occupied
an
during the administration of President Jeffer
and afterward a member
served
toil,
great personal exertion and
the buildings
In 1778 his
surroundings.
of
family by
former comfortable home was
while his
and
helpless
a
planting
from
served eight successive years.
to the Convention for the
Killingworth, Conn., in destitute circumstances, supporting his
young
capacity he
which
Member of Congress
Connecticut,
He
years.
in
bly,
when, in consequence of his patriotic proclivities, he was compelled
to leave his home
and
obtained
the old Indian Orchard at Cooley's
Point, he returned, and in the
following year oame with his family to their wilderness home, far
from the busy scenes and haunts of men. He soon took prom
of medi
study in Elizabeth-
to his
wheat,
seeds,
all
of
heraldry, the pomp of
that
aUke
that
beauty, all
tho inevitable
power.
wealth e'er
glory lead but to the
paths of
gave.
hour;
grave.
Halsey.
#:l
that his constituency could desire. Honest
the legislative hall respected and honored
HON. JAMES DeMOTT.
The
In
Mr. DeMott.
On his
paternal
side, as the name indicates, his family is of French extraction, and has
been traced by some of the name to the Huguenots. His ancestors, on the
maternal side, immigrated from Holland during the latter part of the six
teenth century. Among the heirlooms of this event is an old chest, at
elected a
mi
When
one
time he
and
an
the lake down to th9
landing
where
education, to be useful in society, tbe
meagre school advantages of
those
good account.
nient, he
could
him, out of
Often,
be
when the enjoyment of candle-light was not conve
seen prostrate
before the large
house, eagerly taking his lessons by tho light of
axiom of
a
worthy mother,
whose courage
fireplace, in the old log
a wood
in adversity
lire.
never
It was
a
trite
flagged, that
"
a
foeman worthy
impressively
of
their
original
of
with profound
had been
he
He
As
elected
remarked
In argument he
steel."
delivery.
style of
and
reasoner, with
politics he started
It has
clear and
out
in
an
of
his
return
homestead
from the
married
corrup
and possessed
residence
in
farm, the greater
West, in
the Ketho-list Church
He has been
political
size,
years*
exception of a six
spent on the old
purchased upon
worthy member
previous to his death.
a
the prevailing
was a man of medium
With the
his life was
unfrequently assuming
declaim in unmeas
would often
disgust, against
Judge DeMott
tbe day.
part of which
years
in
parfy,and not
above all parties.
Michigan, most of
about
1842.
He
forty-three
three times.
Living
age, without a home or a child to depend on during
years, he wisely concluded upon a third wife, the widow of the
alone at an advanced
his
declining
Covert, a proper companion for one of his age. He Uved,
however, only one year and a half from his last marriage. It is gratifying
to know that he finally fell in his own home, with pleasant surroundings)
His ability, honesty, end purity of life are
where he was well eared for.
well conceded by aU who knew him.
During the last few years of his life,
although his hearing and vision were considerably blunted by the touch of
time, his'memory a feculty that had always been a remarkable charac
late Dr. Peter
Judge James De Morr.
the
necessity, to depend mainly upon personal effort
and perseverance.
Endowed with a well-developed, logical mind, and a
remarkable memory, his few advantages in cemmon school were turned to
oompelled
and
of a good constitution.
in
fcmily had stopped. For a few months Abraham located temporarily on Iiot
28, in the present town of Lodi, near what afterwards became the home
stead of the late Nicholas
Gulick, a Eevolutionary soldier, and also an early
settler. In a short
time, however, he made choice of the northwest corner
of Lot No.
9, in the present town of Ovid, containing about one hundred
and fifty acres of land. Here he resided till the time of his death, which
ocourred on January
9, 1834. James was the only one of the sons who
made agrioulture a life pursuit.
Early impressed with the necessity of an
vetoed
terms,
tions
Journey was along SulUvan's line of march, via Easton, Wyoming,
Newton, and the head of Seneca lake. They arrived at Baileytown (Wil
lard), early on Sunday morning, Just three weeks and four days from tho
driving the stock from the head of
In 1846-47.
was
usually acted with that party, until
the United States Bank. Since that time he has generally
independence
ured
This
and assisted
logical,
been in opposition to the Democratic
had returned and settled somewhere along their old line of march. On the
30th of June, 1793, Abraham DeMott and family, with such stock as could
be driven, left Beadington, N. J., to seek a new home in the wilderness.
old,
in 1819.
again
day a Jeffersonian Democrat, and
Jackson
there, afterward, one could be found who
was seven years
clear,
early
Soldiers returning to their homes in the several States, carried with them
fevorable reports, both of the beauty and fertility of the country through
At this time James
same office
been aptly said that he was born a thinker
independent views cf men and events. In
Indians,"
campaign against the " Six Nations of
and it is a mem
fact that, owing to this more than to any other one event, an early
Impetus was given to settle in what was then called the " Lake Country.''
of starting.
to the
and
In 1830 he
never
they found in him
was
his
and
also re-elected
Ovid,
of
final.
considered
generally
(as he generally would be before i acted) of the Justice of
hesitated to measure arms with the most able counsel,
satisfied
his cause, he
orable
days
trust, he loft
At
above, Judge DeMott possessed a legal turn of mind, and it was not unfrequently the case, in matters of reference, that he was called as counsel.
child
Here
the Peace in the town
of
were
Supervisor, and
a daughter ; and by his second
28, 1784. By his first wife he had one
wife he had seven ohildren, all living to a good old age except the twin
brother of James, who died in childhood. James, the eldest of the sur
viving children by his last wife, was born in Readington, Somerset County,
N. J., June 17, 1786. In the fall of 1779, Gen. Sullivan successfully com
they had passed.
Justice
His decisions
least one hundred and eighty-five years old.
Abraham DeMott, the father of James, was born in Somerset County, N.
J.r March 8, 1T51. He married Hannah Van Dorn, his second wife, April
time
his peers.
acting Judge of the Court of Common Pleas. Naturally, he possessed
a legal turn of mind, that was admirably
developed, on more than one oc
casion, in his clear and consistent charge to the Jury. In 1827 be was
WmemL
fact, a complete history of the County cannot be written
without associating therewith the name of
which
by
was
subject of this sketch is well identified with the early settlement of
Seneca County.
pleted
faithful to his
and
"where there ie
upon
his
a will
youthful
every laudable
there is
mind,
This
way."
healthful
was
stimulus
early impressed
to persevere In
at his majority he had acquired
had but few equals in arithmetic
Oa arriving
undertaking.
a good common
always a
and proved a
English education,
and
Dicemfer 16, 1810, he waamarried to Alice Hogarth,
In tbe war of 1812 he went
nd continued on the farm wiih his father.
for which
as lieutenant under Capt. Sutphen to the northern frontier,
and
English
grammar.
out
service
he
1824 he
death. In the (all of
receiving a pension at the time of his
called the
elected to the State Legislature on what was then
was under the second Constitution, when Seneca
teristic in his life
interest
was
to
numerous
to the
friends,
last,
and was a source of
who availed
themselves of
his society as long as he lived. Ha was able to recount dates and events,
not only in the history of his own County, but of the State and nation, with
surprising aocuracy. A few years since, when a brief history of the sev
eral towns
in his
was
Clintonian ticket,
County sent two members.
remained unimpaired
and gratification
where
it
memory
County was being
compiled, the
work came
to
a point
be successfully completed without depending upon the
Judge DeMott. Two entire evenings were spent by the writer
could not
of
^'Tbis
with such men as
Ontario,
Daniel Bhoad
Dr. Faulkner,
and Thurlow
Weed,
of
of
was
his
colleague.
He
served
Livingston, Judge Bowen Whiting, of
Monroe.
His
record as a
legislator
was all
at
his house in
listening to an interesting recital
and published as
1876, in the
delivered from his lips.
eighty-ninth year of
his
age.
of events that was penned
He died cn the 18th of
7ebruary,
.
pjlate
BARBARA
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to lake.
from Ovid
Lands
generally tillable,
are
ment was made at a
pedition of
a
are
the
and
Sullivan
power
Newtown had been
is
soil
town,
; secondly,
luxuriant
fought,
the towns
deep
worn
channels.
and
primarily,
as
the
death-blow
the beautiful
and
location,
The battle
unknown region.
Knawahole
of
grounds
there abruptly fall
and
as a revelation of
hitherto
The high
clay loam. The settle
is full of interest. The ex
a gravel
its
soil of a
from lake
and extends
have
and
date,
history
doubly a memorable event:
was
formidable Indian
the
of
small,
and
very early
temperate climate, and
of
horder
south
Streams
two hundred feet.
some
to
the
County,
the
centre of
hilly, and slopes northward.
somewhat
into
extend
the
south of
The surface is
Catharines
destroyed,
down, and the Indians were collected in force at
Geneva when, on September. 4, 1779, the advance guard of Sullivan's army went
into camp about half a mile northeast of the present asylum, while the main force
encamped near the
school-house in Ovid.
Trouble with the pack-horses
houses
burnt,
and orchards cut
Combs'
caused a
day's delay.
the 5th
of
village was
Septetaber
the finest
apple-
extensive
2-1, 1791,
tember
tent
"
A
destroyed.
the
on
peach-orchard,
within
houses,
well-finished
twelve years
later,
half-mile
a
orchards
the party
escaped
axe of
the
formerly
vestige
We
is
now
to be
This is
seen
and
gregated
hut two
follow the other,
of
remnant
fifty
Cayuga
and
years
and close
Lakes,
elapsed,
following
and men
came
the
on
site of
had
and civilization
are
seen
told to
in Canada.
that
inviting
upon
of
its
thither
came
forest
search of a
large assembly
the Indian home ; thus speedily did
tread closely
regions
listeners
Jersey
Pennsylvanians in
saw
meeting
destined shortly
the
eager
from New
Watson
a
people collected at a
men
and
settled
were
Not
con
one race
the retiring footsteps
of
half-
Assistance in
the
Judges J. D. Coe
to whom thanks
thiB
Sulfradge, was
Mabel
compilation of
and
W. T.
are given
matter will enhance
in
the
Johnson,
for
following
and
material
has been furnished
Messrs. Helim Sutton
ourselves and others
to
whom as
and
E.
by
Sayre,
time progresses
John,
It has been generally understood that the primitive settlement was made in
by David Wisner, in 1789, on Lot 95, where L. Jones is located, but
it is also known that one Abram Brown lived on Lot 71, and had peaches of his
own
upon
it,
in the
year
1791 ;
and
John D.
Coe, Sr.,
who,
on one occa
sion, passed the night with him, partook of the fruit. The inference is that
Brown was the first settler in what is now Romulus. Anthony Swarthout came out
with Wisner and stopped upon 94, where stands Willard Asylum, and, a little
Johnson, on No. 89, Haynes Bartlett,
65,
McKnight, on No. 64. Alia McMath, in 1801,
bought four hundred acres from the west end of this lot. He put up a log cabin
just north of the creek, into which he moved his family, and they found them-
later,
No.
-
settlements were
and
begun
Messrs. McMath
by
Isaac
.on
and
home without any of its comforts. McMath sold to James McKnight
hundred and eighty acres, shortly after the original purchase, and the latter
McKnight
erected a small house south of the creek, where P. Pontius owns.
sold to David Brooks, of New Jersey, and he to Daniel and Jesse Cooley, who con
selves at a
one
veyed
to
his farm.
Lattimer) the latter
His son,
Parker, and he to Pontius.
McKnight, afterward opened
to
as well as
McMath died
public
house,
upon
as was
characterizes
as
in the
whose
name
intervals for four
is
known,
not
An Irish
years.
two
out
years
neighbors'
he lived
seven years
births
his place,
upon
died
and
at
the
Early
age of eighty-five.
his children, Kezia, in 1795, John, in 1797, and A. B. Bartlett,
Kezia moved to Michigan, where he died. Thomas Combs was a New
were of
in 1799.
Jerseyman,
in
who came on
bought
and
In the
hundred
in the
central
then to
James
acres
Bartlett,
John Sayre
occupant.
J.
and
farms in the lot.
Lot No. 66,
southeast part of
its
Everett,
were owners of one-hundred-acre
one
to Benjamin
was sold
to Thomas N.
finally
and
1798,
In time the land
the lot.
lives the
where
widow
John
Folwell,
Bainbridge was the pioneer, and westward of him was his brother Mahlon. Sales
have been made from time to time, and the southwest portion is closely settled.
Lot No. 67
the farm
passed to other
named
Cooper
liam
Jr.,
acres
in
old
found
at work
the
spirit of
clearing land
passed
given
migration,
way to
and at
the
upon
hands
through the
south
of
Wil
down to B. Van
Jacob H.
J. H.
Ogden,
King,
improvement, and his family moved to Michigan.
paid to the soldier, John Green, by John D. Coe,
Blaine,
sterling
were
native state
and,
after a
Mr. Coe
land to his
for
hundred
twenty
and
The land
acres.
re
while clearingsbecame
a number of
years,
many
neighboring lots. Simon Vreeland became an occu
residence of five or six years, departed with his family
home
it
The
southeast
during 1814,
second
Rockland
and
son, M. D.
and
preferable,
disposed
by
now owned
of
and
third
the
Coe,
followed his brother's
seemed
Gurney
was a resident of
sons.
A
barn.
1817,
thither.
It is
has
upon adjacent and
and a good
The
who
possessor,
success aroused
was
which contains seven
who moved upon
out
their
; the land has successively
Joseph
70,
1813,
wild
;
pounds
elsewhere.
his
next
Terhune died upon his
in its
in
news of
John Terhune
given
large
pant
this lot ; their
.band
McCarty,
mained
was the
A
tract.
occupies part of the
69, lying south of Romulusville, was owned and occupied by white
of men had moved into these fields and be
First, a hardy
hundred
west
and
McCarty
in 1802.
the date
H. E. Burton
families.
owned and cultivated a piece of ground on
William
stay was brief.
James Blaine.
Lot No.
dying, the heirs gold to Steele,
blacksmith, and carried on a
who
was a
by Peter, son of Joseph Wyckoff, prior to 1807. His
Pruden, by John Sayre, Esq., was of remote date. At his death
to Miss
men
Hunt,
William Hunt
was occupied
marriage
family
Joseph
by
was owned
he to I. VanOstrand.
and
shop in 1806.
Lot No. 68
for Lot No.
this town
teacher,
a
labor,
neighbors rented a rpoin
from Pennsylvania, and, upon this lot,
later, in the erection of a grist-mill upon
the creek.
John Sample bought of Michael Baldridge, and lives upon the place.
The property of Alexander passed to his son Alexander, thence to his heirs,
present owners.
Haynes Bartlett, from Orange County, New York, in 1794, pur
chased two hundred acres from the north side of No. 65.
A blacksmith by trade,
Fortyhe erected a shop upon his farm, and made his own and
repairs.
Baldridge, came
improvements resulting,
made
Fifteen
PRIMITIVE SETTLEMENT.
the
a teache'r, and
probably the only one they had. The
Anna McMath to Alexander Baldridge and John Bain
and
Alexander
and
Ostrand.
value.
hired
light
with
gain,
bridge took place in 1808. Michael Baldridge, of Pennsylvania, owned one
hundred acres on the southeast of the lot. In 1806, three young men, William,
come established
civilized peoples.
of
In 1806
having
marriages of
Folwell
orchards,
love
same
a school which was continued at
man, Robert
Brooks,
The Senecas
is
there
opened
their
destructive
the
present generation.
McKnight dwelling, and,
memoirs :
stronghold.
thousands, who
Five thousand
years "had elapsed ere
for worship
the
as
and
regions."
Ten
features.
to explore and settle,
hundred
one
to the assembling
a prelude
inclosed between Seneca
attractive
girdled,
the
many
Sep
by destroying
and marks of
seen
in this vicinity,
to see
these fertile
are
the
of
part of
pitched
follows in his
wrote as
in every direction.
Sullivan broke up their last
a powerful nation.
possess
home,
the trees
to be
are yet
soldiery
were astonished
here.
to
Many
of
an
This
and on
notice,
Elkanah Watson
of
he
and
Seneca Lake.
of
Here Sullivan's conquering army wreaked its vengeance
corn, wigwams,
The
by
improved surroundings,
with neat and
Indian
the former village,
etc.
On
stone quarry.
army went into camp at Canadia (Kendaia).
seen ; it stood upon rising ground, surrounded
portion of the
site of
the
asylum ravine was crossed near
the
yet
and
forty
village of some
was
The
and evinced
customary,
was
year
example
one
the farm to Morris
and
the
this
State,
portion of
following
received
he sold to
Thomas Mann
County,
built
the west
in the
Denton
Barton, a
and
John D.
Coe,
frame house
a
third; he
erection
of
Gurney,
moved
buildings.
and returned
Presbyterian
Benjamin Warne.
deeded
Judge
minister.
Coe,
now
eighty-six years of age, has been in the Legislature, served as Side Judge for five
in the agricultural society of the
years, and has long held the ofiice of treasurer
County.
Various
lake in the days
reasons conspire
fix the
when communication was
stated that Abram
Ezekiel Hays
to
Brown
and
was
possibly
the
primal
settlements upon stream or
We have
only possible by water.
first settler in this part of Romulus.
Captain Andrew Smith
each
had
a
landing
on
Lot No.
149
71,
150
HISTORY OF SENECA
COUNTY, NEW YORK.
Martha's Creek, as early as 1802. Zebedee Williams had a tenacre piece of ground hear the lake, and carried on a store for some years.
He
was bought out
John
St.
Clair
in
St.
Clair
built
a
and
1814.
Mr.
by
distillery
the
at
home
created a
for
market
A
grain.
two manufactures the 'farmers found
diversion
the
of
turned
to
of -trade
'
to
went
A
ruin.
grist-mill was also put
from
Wicker,
house for
a
point.
barn,
The
There
was an
early
B. VanOstrand
record shows
the
on
part,
John.
and
the property came
fifty
acres
The
is
south side
in the
owned
down to his heirs.
southeast
Mrs.
to S.
and sold
corner,
heir to Miller's property,
married an
William Brewster
that
old
Lot
Finton in 1805.
in the
73,
is
and
a present
lot.
the
east side of
Both
1801.
year
John
Sayre,
the former in the
part, on the lake road,
these men sold to John
northern
When Mr. Finton died the farm
it is owned, in part, at
the west side from Brewster.
apple-
Daniel
and
the latter in the
and
road,
of
passed
his
to
descendants, by
Walter Carson bought a fifty-acre -field on
John Fleming, in 1790, moved to a farm on the
whom
meet
Indian
name,
an owner of
were settlers on
frame
a
for Baptist
which was used
Rev. John Caten.
the ministration of
He built
same given
was
central
from
and
and
of
inhabitant.
this vicinity, who obtained their
was an old-time settler.
large
and erected a
residence,
during
John Brown
to
and ran a row-boat
the
of
son,
property in 1835. After an experience of ten years, he sold 'out and reEast. Captain Abel Frisbee was an innkeeper and ferryman. In 1798
from that
ings
the
Miller.
they
could raise.
the
other channels crippled
man named
between
and
up,
business, and the mill and still
New York City, became a purchaser
grain
Peter, Mahlon,
Samuel Bainbridge, In the northeast corner stood the cabin of
by
Stephen Miller ; here he lived, toiled, and died ; such, too, was the record of his
Reeves
what
to his sons,
passed
the heirs
The
for
sale
he lived upon the southeast corner of the lot,
Aurora for the accommodation of the people of
mail
death it
mouth of
present.
and
Robert
Fleming, his sons, were his
successors.'
In
this'
lot,
orchard on
the
as was also
tubs,
rels;,
other,
now
The
and
owns,
ih the
was a resident
erected a
the fruit
was
1800, John Green lived
serviceable,
the
repair and construction of cider-bar
to
gave employment
receptacles,
1803,
eighty acres, had
owned
from it.
cider pressed
who, in
Bryant,
he
and
Edward Dean
where
did many a,
and
shop,
a cooper named
the
northwest corner of
Nathaniel
Green,
on
lot,
central
portion,
where
for his
handy job
The Scobeys, from New Jersey to
John had married Miss Homan in
upon
the
northwest
their tour
foot to their forest
on
difficulties
to contend with,
home, devoid
and a
them with the advantages
trasting
Cayuga, were
Cayuga, and,
the first
settlers upon
crossing
the
least
not claim at
hundred
of one
hundred
now
full
of occupant
to
as an opponent ef
are not a
few
west one
hundred
at
part of tho old
a
solitary
on
education,
day
this
This
them,
toil, and,
acres
the
ground of
its
privately hold the
lived James Voorhees,
homestead,
Ball, who
In priority
of occupation
five
of
was owner
three
remembered
dangerous thing.
being a
his
George
son
There
Upon the
same opinion.
and
upon one
sons and
Mr. Brown is
State's Hundred in the
south
holds
still
a
southeast corner was
family, all of whom have scattered
upon 78, Isaac Vandeventer, from the
therein
raised
family
a
in the town.
survivor
while the
other places.
From
1803,
about
Israel Brown dwelt
a
Jerseys, was a settler upon two hundred acres on the northeast. The tract went to
a son Christopher, whose name appears as a Fence
Viewer, in 1797. The farm was
sold to Washburn
Race, of Seneca Falls. The lands upon the lot have changed
ownership, suffered division, and now have various owners. As early as 1814
the neighborhood united to build
a
teacher,
Levi Hart
and
frame school-house, wherein John Ogden
of like profession about the same period.
a
was one
was
Lot 84 borders
part was occupied
Wakeman.
emigrant
with
is
and
Identified
by
To this
this country
with
Cayuga Lake.
upon
A farm
Stephen
Sherwood,
came a Mr. Prout,
spot
the army,
of
had
and
Lot 72 is the
history
from Orange County.
.1779,
to
returned
route
was
northeast
of
was a
Methodist
employed
lot.
Sayre, a carpenter by trade, and an
Western journey he was accompanied by
In his
to the task
between Horse Heads
in the
the
John
men were equal
lying
to Miss
had been through
He
stay.
their'
wagon,
day
early
who, in
in the
was married
remembered as a resident upon the southeast part of
Haynes Bartlett ; these
Mr. Sayre
and
moving through with a
the head of Seneca Lake.
of
the first court-house in
Elmira,
built in 1794. Arriving upon his land, which comprised a fourth of the lot, he
found shelter for his wife and child. Naturally qualified for the business, he
raised a tavern and store, but preferred the duties of an
innkeeper, which he dis
charged for a period of thirty-five years.
He was appointed a Postmaster in 1806,
and
the office
retained
term in the
occurred
ih
until
Legislature
1848,
at
to
removal
1804,
of
the
its
construction of
and was
age of eighty.
Romulusville. Mr. Sayre served a
Side Judge many-years. His death
While Sayre
was
Samuel'
Romulus,
Seeley
per week
jacket
made,
and
Mahlon
pocket.
settlers prior
to Mr!
was a courier
the
ih
mail was carried
Peter
and
Sayre,
between Elmira
Bainbridge,
a
the
Stephen Miller
and
Sayre.
The birth
latter
a
Pennsylvania, in 1 807,
fell to his
the land
bridge
son.
made
owned
of
W. W.
Baptist minister,
moved on about
the
familiar
same
the
north
Opposite
old site.
Joshua Tuttle
near
by.
on
part,
was on
In time he
the
sold to
inhabitant of the
named as an
place of
1796,
Folwell, who
came
"
life.
dwelling therein,
he
which
settled
by many a
the central part,
who,
at
season's
running
the
age of
toil upon
seventy years,
its fields. Mahlon
north and south
through the lot.
upon
Bain-*
At his
Silas Beers.
The latter
to
sold
John B. Pruden
In
nine acres.
acres, Stephen Miller
obtained seventy-five
one
hun
in 1816.
Thus rapidly did the larger tracts dismember to supply the demands, of settle
The chiseled inscription upon the marble slab tells birth, age, and death.
Our record enrolls the names and place of labor of men who laid the foundations
the
of
mightiest. of nations.
OLD-TIME TAVERN.
The
first
probable
the
resident
south side.
upon
now reside.
died,
tilled,
and a
old weather-worn
builder,
the
custom and
Peter. Huff,
was
the latter
and
Upon the farm
Joseph Wycoff, from 1794 till his
were
No. 75
death, in
moved
by
owned
1810.
into
family lay
Peter, his
whose
At his death the land descended to Jacob
In time the former
and
Fayette,
where
the
John VanOstrand lived
For sixteen
fields
years the old
family growing to maturity learned to shift for themselves. An
tavern stands upon this lot as a remembrancer of David DePue,
and of a
by-gone time.
necessity to
Riding
upon
horseback,
now
was a
rare,
the pioneers.
Benjamin Sutton, by trade a carpenter, came west in 1791, from Orange County,
New York, and settled upon forty acres on the south side of Lot 86. In making
in company with his wife, two boxes were carried
Mrs. Sutton rode, while her husband walked alongside.
in this manner were in search of a permanent home, and gave
the
journey
upon a
while various
ment,
utable
infant
the
villages were
American
upon
who came
character
to
resort of gamblers and other
which precede and go with our
classes,
hoi*se
Those
which
settle
disrep
pioneers.
EARLY BIRTHS.
Among early births was that of Elizabeth Sutton in 1793, Helim Sutton, now
living in the neighborhood, in 1803, and Cyrus J. Sutton, a life-long resident of
the
old
mvid
place, in 1806.
meaning
and
To these and like
truthfulness in the
pioneers
the
language
poet
of
has
a
lines,
"How dear, to my heart are the scenes of my childhood,
When fond recollection presents them to view,
The orchard, the meadow, the deep-tangled wildwood,
And every loved spot which my infancy knew !"
John Wisner
sion,
pursued
lives'
Folwell,
is a
1790,
The primary settlement of Lot 74 be<mn
dwelt Bostion Williams, and west of him
ment.
time
The estate
the first
and a child
dred, and John Sayre one hundred and twenty-five. The last named moved on
in 1821, and a son Edward yet survives, aged seventy. John B. Pruden bought
fifty acres, Ebenelzer Conkling fifty acres, while he had owned one hundred since
1807, giving him one hundred and fifty, and George Wycoff had thirty acres, on
were
County)
Fleming,
Her birth dates
Rochester.
southeast corner
John Bainbridge
in 1814.
the
in from Bucks
of
the birthplace, of Elsie
of Romulus.
1804, Beers sold out to Richard D. Doremus, a carpenter, from New Jersey, whose
son Garrett, aged sixty-eight, resides upon the old farm.
Two brothers, named
residents
of
were
owners
of
rest
the
of
the
Auburn,
Dill,
lot, and. sold their rights
On'
occurred on
his"
and, erecting a
Dr. N. W.
the
was
bag- within his
this"
lot."'
Sayre, "in
of
the
Upon the
while'
farm"
southwest parfwas
the Postmaster at
Geneva. One trip
small green
Eliza'
as
mason, lived
a
notable as
the city
descendants
acres
is
present resident of
sons.
seventy
who at an
the town
part of
to the town
upon
POSTAL SERVICE IN 1806.
exhorter,
now stands upon
Robert Chambers is
moved away.
white child native
in 1800.
con
their unostentatious
whether
Scobey,
while
who
Wm.
by
Lewis
side,-
northern
northeast corner.
daughters there is but
to
Reeder,
farm in the
FIRST NATIVE WHITE BIRTH.
people
welcome
realization of years of
enjoyed, say
a recollection.
the
acres on
in the
acres
improved
Stephen
and
No. 77.
.
lives do
No house
road.
acres of a
side, lived William Brewster.
west
McLafferty and
lake, the young
his log cabin, built
way hy torchlight through the woods to
quarter.
Picture the scene of these brave-hearted
couple wended their
-with
the
hundred
lot in 1805.
neighbors.
upon
the
east side of
upon one
in
owned
fifty acres
his calling
at
in the
his house.
northwest
Liquor
was
part, and,
a weaver
generally enjoyed,
by
profes
and consid
the"
light
living upon and near this lot could
obtain spirits fresh from the still of David
Price, at a date as remote as 1803.
Jonas Seeley, marrying a Miss Seeley, moved upon the large farm now held by
ered
of a
necessity,
and
those
HISTORY OF SENECA
Mr.
Larkins,
COUNTY,
early as 1798. Sophia Fenton, aged seven ty-six, and a resident
daughter of Mr. Seeley, and was born upon the
place.
Mrs.
also
a
Conkling,
daughter, is at present living in Romulus. Judge Seeley filled
the place of Side Judge several years, and departed this life on his old
farm. The
early settlers upon No. 79 were Joseph Folwell, of
who owned one
of
as
town, is
the
centre
west
Watrus,
died;
Kinne, and he deeded it to his sons. Mr. Day owns a portion of the
tract; Johnson's farm passed to his children.
One hundred acres on the northeast of No. 85 was in
1800 the property of
Sullivan Wakeman, from Balltown, New York. The farm winch
adjoins the lake
was bought
by Stephen Sherwood, and has come down to Levi Markle. The
pioneer Wakeman moved upon the Holland
where he continued through
to S.
Merritt,
The farm is
farm
by
John
Edward VanVleet
Plymouth,
dozen
and
here laid out,
lake,
of abandoned
lators
and
the
sites,
uncertain
In tlie
the
south
prior
site of
purchase,
life.
;
to 1800.
to
and
stood
who sold
preacher,
purchased
Anthony
An Indian
States,
future
village.
hamlet.
Hun
Asa Smith
and
lived William Shattuck
upon
southern portion
the lot.
southwest corner of
situated
in 1795 ; his
The father
Lot 80.
the
son
William
difficult to
and
the son
was a
located
owned
cabin, to
which
down
of
MECHANICS.
1803, John Stone, formerly a shoemaker in Barleytow.n, came over from
Cayuga County, and located on the northern part, where he died. The farm is
owned
by Colonel Swarthout. A man named Dalls lived for a time on the east
part of the
lot, then sold to B. Sutton, who deeded to John, his son. The mar
riage of Dr. Eliphalet Shattuck to Jane
Wiley, both residents of this section,
took place on January 18, 1798.
The adaptability to condition of former
old
a
feature
weaver, shoemaker,
house
their farm
of
blacksmith,
Wherever it
settlement.
and other
tradesmen
possible, the
was
pursued
calling in
their
shop, but many gave up all practice of their trade, and ulti
mately became excellent farmers. Sutton Turner was the owner of one hundred
acres of No. 81 in 1810, and
finally sold to Samuel Bailey, and migrated West.
or
adjacent
Near the
family
centre
was
of
lot dwelt
the
and
numerous,
employed as overseer of roads
where, in
pioneers seem to
1827
an
have
M. E. Kinne
by
The
by
in
named
minister
the
made good
John Caten.
adage
that
"
His
Lot 91.
his demise
pioneers of
had
family
an
exodus
that
removdd
to
Seneca
of
kept in
stand was
he died his son, J. T. Martin,
up the
for half a century, was finally burned
took
inn,
April, 1876. A post-office was established at Romulus Centre some
time in 1860, with Mr. Martin, Postmaster.
It was discontinued in 1874, and
one established at Hayt's
Corners, with Postmaster Combs in charge. As early
as. 1797, William Stout, carpenter, from New Jersey, owned part of the western
portion of the
lot, and John Hagerman settled on the northwest ground. Wil
old
which
stood,
down in
world
Lot 83
all over.
Ross
and
William
west
corner,
acres
;
and
one
next
the northeast
was occupied
Wilson,
acres.
north of
him
corner was
ability
hundred
the east
acres on
southeast corner
Rev. Roberts
in
sold
traveled the wide
by several pioneers in the year 1803.
a Revolutionary soldier, owned the
North
was
Palmer
side.
had
Roberts,
John
sold
D. Gould
of
Ross
was
a
tailor,
David
who
removed
one
and
and
Hays,
hundred
afterwards
a
Diamond Gould
had
Burt,
to Isaac Johnson,
and
William
Uriah Townsend's
and reputation.
1800,
to
have
the former
hundred
preacher of some
who
one
in-law to the
tary
of
State
a
bride in the
the
Catharine
married
southeast part of
south
lot,
the
side,
Dowers,
Deacon
while
he
where
erected a
Miss Hoagland from farther
person of
Miller,
a
practicing lawyer in Auburn, became the owner
his father upon the western part. Three brothers to
settled
Lot 90
York
hundred
Regiment, by
was occupied
of a
fifty-acre
lot,
"
two
the
in 1804.
sold
to
Wissenfelts,
by
Hall,
a
New
of
York,
and
Secre
who
lieutenant in the Second New
for
sold
probably
Lawrence
by
he
which
sold
trade,
The
to Solomon
Hayt
sold,
The
trifle.
a
and
southwest
the property
lived
Delevan; he,
purchased
part
passed suc
to L.
him,"
Miller, and
Hurlbut, a
of Father Hurlbut,
by
the
his calling,
and
and
his
C.
from Stephen
It may truly be said
his memory is blessed
and an excellent man.
None knew him but to love
living.
finally
County, where he died.
In the year 1795, Isaac Johnson, by trade a shoemaker, came west from Orange
County and settled on the east half of Lot 89, which large tract of wild land he
had purchased of Judge William Thompson, who himself had obtained it from
John Williams, a private in the Second Regiment New York Infantry. The
heirs of Mr. Johnson are present owners and residents ofthe old farm, which is
old gentleman
returned
to
associated
their
with
Joseph, in 1789,
of
son-in-law and pursued
father,
barked
at what was
thicket,
to the
were
recollections, for thereon both
Honorable William
Seneca
County
were
T.,
in 1803.
well worth a
were
The
brief
born: one,
reminiscences
attention.
The
four children, came down the Cayuga by boat, and disem
St. Clair's landing. Between the family and home were the
with wife and
the
earliest
the other,
these aged sons of
cut a road
with
Dutchess
and uprooted
present
felled,
farm.
trunks
And
and where
of
large trees ;
when
arrived,
they found
and
the
axe was plied
what and where was
the forest
and
gradually
to
the
gathered
them, is now the old and valued farm. Benjamin Burgess, of
bought the west half, excepting the State's Hundred, and had moved
Jersey,
owned
was
have been known.
various owners
few
acres on
it
Governor
Mr. Lincoln.
of
cessively to Smith, Harris, and G. Townsend. On the east end was Z. Hayt,
who built a shop in 1806, and carried on his trade of shoemaker on what is now
known as Hayt's'Corners. Nathaniel Newman, Hayt's half-brother, was owner
on a
Oh
Charles
by
whoni
in 1800
New
Methodist
Seward,
the administration
drawn
was
Lewis
acres.
The Goulds
during
south
fifty
William H.
statesman
comforts around
upon
who was a resident
to Junius.
Pennsylvania,
in the
acres
in this vicinity; the date is
settled
sale of one hundred acres, now owned
by Widow Bryant, to Judge
Ezra's sou, II. S. Miller, owns the old farm cleared by the father. The
Miller brothers are of the past. The Auburn member of the
family was father-
home ! Trees
satisfactory than many
men
of
to
sold
in his
a rest more
to
Lewis F., Elisha, and Ezra, came on and made improvements.
S..V. R. Johnson, and Peter Post is present owner. Elisha,
named
forest,
finds
Elijah
were
Dunlap,
piece of ground on
he brought
He
liam A. Stout is a present owner of his father's and Hagerman's farms. He has
lived seventy-three yeara upon the old place, and where he played when a child
age
and
emigrated
DeMott.
weaver
great and prosperous
A tavern
the Waldron tract.
and when
the
larger scale,
region on a
become the
now owns
at
and
.
preachers'
Upon Lot 82, in 1797, dwelt a settler from
He was
name, who owned one-half its area.
1799,
inter-lake
gone and
William Martin,
business.
to have
seem
generally the
New Jersey, Samuel Waldron
State.
Baptist
wildest."
children are
Michigan,
a
Both
the second, made
In
is
a small
lake.
the
Elijah,
mechanics
John
two hundred
on
Waldron
The first
-FARMER
1800 there
and
establish.
after
No. 87.
northwest corner of
PIONEER
Purdy.
of
Between 1790
There
blacksmith,
a legal
practitioner, whose career as a farmer was terminated by sale to Joseph
Sutton in 1812. This last party also bought the claim of Clinton Shattuck,
another son, who sought to utilize his education in
teaching a school, in a log house
which stood on
the southeast corner,
acres on
west side of
Landing."
School District No. 6 is
the
the
acres on
Barney
deserter, and came to this neighborhood, which bears a remembrance of his dexterity
in flax-dressing, a business then general
among the farming class. In 1800,
Cyrus Dodge was a settler on fifty acres of Lot
99, where Lane resides, and died
upon it.
His brother Josiah dwelt upon
fifty acres, now the home of W. S.
Smith. Both were carpenters from Vermont, and were builders of barns for E.
Kinne, Reuben Benton, and others. Josiah moved to Genesee County, where he
died. The land was sold to John P. Nevins, who in turn made sale to D. E.
Morris. Josiah Nelson and Alexander
Dunlap were early settlers. A landing
existed at this place as
early as 1800, and bore the name "Porter's
enterprise of specu
Phineas Tuthill
hundred
enterprise, and about 1816 built a warehouse and bought grain,
boated by Messrs. Purdy & Gibbons. Peter Smith settled for a time
C. Warne resides, and afterwards went west. One
McCue was a
where
Seneca Street, and half a
A warehouse, between the road
and short-lived
forty
one
which was
and a
illustrate the
degree
some
Schuyler.
and a
this premature
the
building
1815, James Purdy had
Michigan, where, at last accounts, Yerks was still living at an advanced age. Cap
tain VanLew, from off the Delaware
River, purchased a portion of Lot 92 from
William Hayt, and was a resident in 1817. The
Whitneys, John, Nathan, and
James, were settlers by the lake in 1803. They appear to have been men of
school
that-
In
William Yerks held
HAMLET,
the
of
A
corner.
Mr. Murnogan.
lot,
Main Street
scattered oyer
northeastern part of
took the
the lot
the lot in 1800.
were residents upon
wards
the
stands opposite
dreds
with a
there
cabins were erected
a cabin near
in early,
came
was made
and
this
part of
SHORT-LIVED
was
Dey
Sale
north side.
the southwest
on
the southwest
on
early day, in a small frame
lived John Caten, a Baptist
at an
central part
now owned
flourished
orchard
lived in
moved on
1799, and owner of one hundred acres on the
Walter Watrus, a resident where J. H. Gilmore
occupied a
from the
acres
who
later,
road, and,
he to J. VanVleet.
and
four hundred
old
Seeley,
in
and
Watson,
In the
lot.
this
on
he
Mrs.
by
the
west side of
Dr. Ethan Watson
taught
side; William
south
a road-overseer
where
side,
lives.
was
the
on
part,
James
the
acres on
151
Captain
a
Pennsylvania,
hundred
NEW YORK.
months
before Johnson.
Two hundred
and
fifty aeres were
sold
in 1825
Covert, Denton, and Dunlap, each taking a part. The Burgess
in part by W. S. Smith. A frame school-house was built in
The district of which this lot
1828 by a Mr. Bailey, in the west part of the lot.
school
purposes
for
to
part
attached
has
been
forms
Ovid, lying adjacent to the
had
built
an
Johnson
south.. On the east half, Mr.
ashery in 1796, where quan
to three persons,
farm is
tities
now owned
of potash
were
manufactured.
It
was conveyed
in
sleighs
to
Albany,
and
HISTORY OF SENECA
152
there
ried again
at
the
done
was
horseback
by
water,
fifty miles, in skiff upon the
overland.
Mr. Johnson having lost his wife by death, mar
His second wife, Miss Mary Thurston, died in Ovid, 1872,
Milling
sold.
in 1799.
advanced age
90
of
distant
Elmira,
at
COUNTY, NEW YORK.
fifteen
paid was
In the
encounter.
'
."he
.
.
lot,-
the
His
in 1789.
and set out an orchard
tained from the old
farm
Indian orchard, and a few of the old
Helim Sutton. Later, and James Seeley moved
of
Pue
tavern stand,
William Brown
by
and
Where
blacksmith.
a
labored in his house
Woodruff
the
on
in 1812.
a
Sutton,
who
turns
road
very early day
Fenton owned one hundred
to B.
the
part of
Tho blacksmith
to the north where the
sold
northern
James
former,
lot,
Woodruff,
lived
and
section
sixteen
Morrow,
the
towards
south
that
upon
George
was
and
resides.
the
stood
shop
Aaron Burr
O- Toner.
by
occupied
acres on
whose
asylum.
Elijah
corner; it
southwest
was
bequeathed to bis son, who sold to C. Van Vleet, present
were held
by Jonas Abens in 1803, -part of which were
Eighty acres
by Cornelius Tunison ; the farm lies in the northwest corner of the lot.
The history of No. 94, iu the southwest of the town of Romulus, goes back to
1789, when Anthony Swarthout settled on the northwest corner of the lot, just
owner.
bought
north
His
.
of a creek
son
Barney
bears his name, and near the
with him from Pennsylvania.
which
came
the'
been the
site of the old cemetery.
it.
About
known
as
year
Ovid
was general
for
wilderness
Elmira.
astrously, the
the
come a village
to
at what
Baleytown.
is
now
Their business
of
the
and
in
other
embarked
name
when once again
John Stone
name of
flour speculation,
hands. About the
in the
a
same
Lancaster, by
business,
which
1797,
year
was
himself in
Fletcher Matthews kept
such a purpose
!
.to
of
his
Revolutionary
credit as a
Lot 96. But
his
soldier; nothing
when
Reuben Denton
in the
purchase of one
means
directs,, as
tlers for
acres of
1798, the construction
facility of intercourse, and
in'
raises
thrift
owner
Massachusetts, in
forest, standing as marked
hundred'
highways in
overseer of
the
as
in 1795 from
a
half
the
of
a
smithery,
between set
of passages
dren,
tent
the
family of eight intelligent chil
and
farm in
is worthy its brief record. A life-time upon this farm affirms con
moderation.
Elijah Denton was born in the first log dwelling on the
Michael
1798, and died at the age of seventy-seven. And what should be said of
Mead, who had no money whereby to purchase land on his arrival in
1796 ?
In
.
for
month
hundred
one
title to the
southeast
half of the lot
west
land is the inheritance
Lot 97
upon which
corner,
Kinne,
corner of
the
he lived
engages
to
work
lot. He labored
by the
and gained
he died.
and whereon
Mead
1797, and Fence Viewer in 1798. Upon the farm won by
diligent
by
industry, his daughter, Mrs. Wilson, now resides.
improved
and
Upon the
from either
acres
he
Constable in
was elected
toil
Captain Elijah
a contract made with
drawn
of-his
Silas,
son,
1800.*
Ephraim Kinne in
settled
at
the
and a part of
this time.
John Goodenough for military sen-ice, and sold to An
to one Van Ness, of New Jersey.
thony Dey, and by
Wishing to hold pos
session, and also to improve, he rented to various persons in 1810. On the south
was
by
.him
lived John Brink ;
fsale
who
by
Nelson,
of
four hundred
disposed
the
and on
the
on
southeast
J. P.
northeast
acres was made
Dey
fifty
VanHorn,
A
fifty
upon
acquired
to William C.
the property to various parties.
of
William Kinne.
comer
had
an
the
part of
acres
dwelt
In
1834,
acres.
Ovid merchant,
lot is now held
Levi
Burling, ofthe New York Second, had died before the
Military Lots, and to his heirs fell the ownership of No. 98.
locality
Andrew
west
lived Isaac
had be
lumber-manufacturer for the neighborhood, he having erected a. saw-mill in
1806.
The property passed by sale to William Chamberlain, who erected upon
to the
pres
it
a
grist-mill
the
Johnson,
in
1814,
awaiting the grist,
a
the local interests
was
1822,
and
smithery
the
of
erected on
James Swan
the
owner of one
northwest
Mr. Shutts in 1817.
and
and continued
up
store
in
George
east corner of
Lot
the business.
90,
could
close
and
N.
by
Hayt,
A
and sixteen
In the
acres,
mill.
who
assumed
north
and
done
conveniently.be
the
The Corners
place.
the
S.
by
improvements.
hundred
horseshoeing
as
was put
through purchase
was acquired
building
considerable changes and
the
while
This, improvement
.
took
active part
an
their name,
in
and a store
corner, wherein merchandise was sold by
S. and N. Hayt were their successors in
new
branch'
a
him
special 'marks
comes west
of
in
business.
the. mercantile
house built
a
has known
known for many
original name was adopted and continued
came west
had
and
years,
frame
erected a
The
1797, in company with some of the followers of
Jemima Wilkinson, from Connecticut, and took up his residence in Lancaster,
where he. engaged in boot and shoe
making until his marriage, on July 4, 1798,
to Phylinda Shattuck, daughter of William Shuttuck, from Connecticut.
A
Mrs.
Judge
was
born
them
to
while residents of Lot 80, in 1801.
daughter,
Coe,
About the year 1801, Charles Gordon came over from Geneva, and established
ent.
Wisner had
some
distribution
dis^-
resulted
and gave what
it
name
which
lot
of
?'
the'
engaged
passed
Dunnett located there,
years,
distilling,
Having
business
located
Baley
County
or
Interest undoubtedly attaches to the aboriginal; why not to him who imffie-James Grace, of the First New York Regiment,' is known'
diately succeeded him
James
death
manufacturing potash. Upon
the business passed into the hands of Messrs. Maxwell &
brothers,
the
Samuel
and
to it the
and gave
merchandise,
Perry,
'95, George
or
Landing,
of one. of
of
1794
remainder,
1810, Mr.
de
not
settlers
house, and Mrs. Wisner
having injured her arm, rode on horseback to Orange County to have it removed.
What heroism, quiet and unostentatious, to make such a journey through the
upon
west, corner
FOUNDING OF BALEYTOWN.
About the
the
owner of
Seneca
'll'J Wisner sold to Elijah
Hester
daughter,
Wisner, in 1797. Kinne had
his
married
In 1810
did
the pioneers
of
fact"
Mrs. Cole
where
had
who
Romulus.
of
first
the
by the surveyor upon adjacent trees, in the southwest corner of east
lot, builds thereon a log cabin for his family, and a shop to carry on
lives,
Lot 93
were represented upon
the pioneers of the town
distant,
as
yet
De
and
now
honor
we give them this
gladly
Kinne, Jr.,
were.
vests
his sixty acres, to- Benjamin Smolley, and he to Peter Smith.
lives H. P. Smith, one Peter Rattan had a temporary home, which
was abandoned
at
The
the place,
upon
away
and
the
sold
now
moved
The trades
remain on
Where J. Quinn
Lot 75.
upon.
was an early. settler.
shoemaker
a
noted,
.as
were ob
sprouts
trees yet
,
erected a
and
spair,
Bailey, a wheelwright, came upon Lot 88, and, on the
farm now owned by Joseph Dunlap, erected a saw-mill in 1800 ; a black walnut
table of his making is still in use by Mrs. Johnson.
On the death of Mr. Bailey,
his children
to his farm.
A barn was erected upon the. lot in 1806 by
William Lobdell, upon land how held by D. W. Kinne. Samuel Waldron moved
upon the lot, and owned 160
The regular improvement of the
acres, in 1826.
lot was of recent date ; for some reason it was long allowed to remain wild.
On Lot 87 Timothy Jaynes, a blacksmith, had. a shop in 1790. The shed
stood about
sixty rods west of B. Sutton's dwelling. John Seeley had forty
acres, now owned by C. J. Sutton.*. David DePue was a squatter on the north
west corner of
Wisner had
set
variety-
James
named
woods
children.'
years.
PIONEER SAW-MILL.
settler
he
realize the obstacles which
up four crotches, put on poles, and covered
all with bark peeled from the
passed
trees; in this scanty and savage abode
the winter with his wife and four
Food was not plenty nor in
to
neighbors were miles
A
Few
shillings an acre.
building was constructed on
to which the goods were
removed,
and a
tavern
the
south?
was opened
King carried on a tannery. The first cavalry company in
this region was organized by Charles. Gordon ; his lieutenants were John Arnold,
First, and Henry Montgomery, Second Lieutenants. Among its members were
in the
Ephraim Kirinc
by Thomas Bacon, Sergeant in the First New York Regimentj
by
Joseph-Wilson, of Pennsylvania. Wilson -sold one hundred
southwest
acres,
corner, to Joseph Verkes, and he to William Purdy, a tailor from
Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Of a large family named Purdy, none
David Wilson married Miss Nellie. Chamberlain, and came upon
lot subser
quent to Purdy.
Since 1816, Mr- Wilson has been a constant resident upon, the
old farm, in the same house which gave him
and
a. h0me in his early
the place,
Ovid
and
Landing
and
when
Thomas Blain.
there
were
There
no more
were
twenty-five
than six at
thirty houses
or
Ovid.
At-
one
at
time the
strong hopes that the court-house would be located there, and
Gregory opened a law office in the village. The gardener of the
villagers cherished
the late Alvah
.
Willard Asylum,
now resides upon
located
the site:
of
the. lawyer's house
and office.
The
Ovid, the business of Lancaster began to wane,.. By
15, 1825, John Maynard, Ethan Watrous, and
William Howard were authorized to set up, keep, and maintain a ferry from the
landing-place at Lancaster Village to a like landing at
village of.Dresden.
In
court-house
Act
of
being
Legislature,
at
passed
:.
April
-
.the
1844. P. F. Donaldson
Ovid
the
Landing,
name of
and-
since
the
" Willard."
New York Regiment.
into Romulus
piece which
purchased
.
In
the
warehouse
location there
Lot 95
was
June, 1789;
and settled upon
the
of
property,
the
Asylum,
and gave
it has
drawn by Michael. Decker,
David
name
a post-office
.of
by
to Dickerson
which was
later
Kinne,
the. lot. upon
who
a
The. record
of
a
tavern-keeper
acres on
Romulus
this lot,,
arid
in 1820.
had
Lot. No.
closes with
sold
100,
sold
.
to
.remain.
.
.
.manhood,
now,
at
the
between the
age of
eighty-three, is
lakes..
regarded as
-As-early-.as;1812,
the
oldest man native'to
Messrs. Hatch
and
Gibbons
the. towns
bought
.had
the land
lying between the present road and the lake shore ; the firm owned and
ran boats upon the lake, and were engaged in the shipment of produce to Albany.
the, Second
hundred-acre
lived in Ovid.
period.
been
drawn
him
and
at a
VILLAGES AND POST-OFFICES.
Wisner, from Pennsylvania, moved
south part of.
he had bought from Elijah
it the
building by John Dickerson, who had
John Reynolds had, in 1807, bought one hundred
old
The
price
The business
of
germs of what was
the residents
hoped
would
of
be
Romulus is
thriving
agricultural
places still
in the main,
have
vitality.
yet
the
Of these