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TOW OF ROMULUS
SENECA CO., N. Y.
Benejah Boardman
1794-1796
Elijah Denton
1841
George
1797-1799
William A. Stout
1842
Hon. John Sayre
1800-1808
Hon. William T. Johnson
Hon. Jonas
Seeley
1809-1814
Henry McLafferty
William W. Fowell
1815
Col. Samuel Blaine
1816-1821
Bailey
Hon. Peter VanVleet
1843-1844
1845
1846-1847
Cyrus Kinne
1848
1822
Joseph F. Harris
1849
Dr. Mather Marvin
1823
Fernando C. Williams
1850-1851
Anthony Dey
1824
Amasa L. Furman
1852-1853
Dr. Mather Marvin
1825
Hon. Helim Sutton
Hon. Jonas
1826
Joseph F. Harris
1855-1857
Hon. Jonas
Seeley
Seeley
1854
Hon. Samuel Blaine
1827-1829
Hon. Peter J. VanVleet
1858-1860
Hon. John Sayre
1830-1832
Peter P. Post
1861-1862
Hon. Jonas
Seeley
Col. Matthew D. Coe
1833
1834-1836
Richard Steele
1863
William D. Giddings
1864-1865
Edward Sayre
1837
George W. Jacacks
1866-1867
Maj. Cyrus J. Sutton
1838
James Blaine
1868-1872
Nathaniel N. Hayt
1839
E.
Bartlett
1873-1874
Maj. Cyrus J. Sutton
1840
Aaron V. Brokaw
1875-1876
Seeley
HISTORY OF SENECA
the
established
neys,
States into
and out ofthe
rest,
the impress
bearing
Canada;
letter
and one
indignation from baffled
of
from its jour
returned
search
in the
inscription,
?"
Other Postmasters succeeding Crane were Bartlett
E.
C.
Gatloup, down to Henry Garrison, the present. In
Cooley, D. S. Benjamin,
Kendia there is one store, two blacksmith-shops, a wheelwright-shop, a carpentera school-house, and a steam grist-mill, owned by McWhorter Brothers.
"
1
Where in h
Kendia
IS
shop,
.
Grange,
Kendia
its
No.
64,
the Baptist church,
are held weekly
its membership has increased from
at
meetings
and
January 28, 1874,
organized
was
gives us
directory to-day
localities
the town
of
as
the
to
thirty
names of active and
tabled
in this
elsewhere
the
at
southeast
school-house
ninety-seven.
enterprising
hamlet,
The:
business
in the
men
;
the
of
153
YORK.
Poor; John Williams and Peter Ronalds, Constables, and the last-named
person, Collector; Jacob Striker, James McKnight, Anthony Swarthout, Sr.,
David DePue, Elijah Kinne, Jr., Overseers of Roads ; John Fleming and John
Swarthout, Fence Viewers, and John Fleming and Jacob Striker, Pound Keepers.
Following the above, in the Town-book which is of coarse unruled paper are
Kendia, Willard, Romulus, and Hayt's Corners. The post-office at Kendia was
in 1862, with Amos Crane in charge, and its locality seems to have been
sent its letters to and fro with
a problem unsolvable to the various Postmasters, who
are
out
COUNTY, NEW
various
"ear-marks"
the
B. Covert's
was recorded.
in the
nick
the left ear,
right
bors'
town
that every
was
and an
to the
and returned
estray
"
"nicks,"
the left
half
a
ear and a
in the
his
own and
half-pennies,"
"
"
in the
Estray
upper
neigh
devices
and other
was advertised
the
cross off
and another
knew his
man
certain
the ear,
marked upon
the lower
half-penny in
"slits,"
"crops,"
by
stock
and
mark
said
on which
off
B. Swarthout
ear,"
and a
date
"a crop
by
marked
right
Thus it
ear."
the
stock was
the
under side of
upper side of
part of
the farmer's stock, giving
of
various
Book"
of the
owner.
volume.
EMANCIPATION OF SLAVES.
Emancipation began in New York in the last century,
HIGHWAYS.
Romulus
and
herein
roads
in
they
are
February, 1776,
In
civilization.
early day were laid to points unknown by men
brought to light as one of the potent agencies of
forgotten,
an
laid from Bennett's
a road was
latest
the
Ferry,
Lake, and
beginning
the
on
Geneva road, Cayuga Lake, to the place of Dr. Coventry, on Seneca
in March following from Appletown, Seneca Lake, to David DePue's,
at
lake
the
fifty-seven chains,
About the
time
same
from there
and
a crooked
a road was run
86 ; it followed the line east
line to the bridge east of DePue's.
Lots 79
the line between
on
road
and
from Brown's Brook
Lake to Captain Hayes's Brook and Harbor
"
road was surveyed from Lancaster to
the
on
same
Boardmansburg"
between 86
In 1796
87
and
northward
to the
from the
a road was run
Peter
place of
Lots 93
Harbor
Lots 93
Bainbridge,
Lot 94
Cayuga
at
On March 28
lake.
through
of
corner
southeast
and
on
and
the
a
87,
creek.
the Ovid line
on
the same time one
to the lake
86,
from Lancaster along and near the town line, passing David Wisner's, and run
In the fall of 1796 a
of B. Bryant, on the town line.
ning east to the house
on Lot 75, in a northeast course to
road was laid from the DePue Bridge,
road
northwest
Brown's Brook
lowed
Commissioners
Mill,
Scauyes.
Highways,
of
Among
Enoch Tuttle
inauguration
and
of
passed a
and about
and
clearing
John
by Abraham,
made
10, 1796,
Fleming
surveyed a road
from Bennett's
On October
along the
thence
It
Harbor.
and
road.
old
an
through
the
of
side
north
Chapman
at
services were then in demand,
early surveyors, whose
Much space upon the records is given to the
James Clark.
There was some trouble
and disputes occasionally arose.
McKnight
finally ap
which appeal resulted
of the Common Pleas Court in 1805,
"
Whare as James McKnight
decision as found upon the books :
Judges of the
of the town of Romulus, have appealed to us
Common Pleas
of
from the house
as
the
upon
grounds of
reservation was
and
through
and
travle,
Lot 47.
It
ran
Romulus
Washington the
sd
hereby
the Judges,
1806,
to
work
evidently
line
Jonas
south
Andrew
of
between Romu
with
the
road
northwest corner of
17, 1806,
On December
remainder.
Cornelius
the
east, till intersection
from the lake to
put on
clerk was
road on
a road was surveyed
by Seneca Lake,
was
The
and most
to be
Plemouth."
their
and
same
runing
we are of
is the best
direct the
McKnight to
a road
Pleymouth,
to
Romulus,
composition.
In
laid in 1805.
Washington.
and we
were
English
Seneca respecting
the Superintendents
from the
road
Grove Smith
and
by
confirmed
road
of
McKnight's in
sd
the Bublick
Humphrey
County
the
of
road, for bublick
eligibelst
record
the
of
that the
opinion
45,
of
Lot
the Reservation
Commis
Smith,
Seeley,
by Joseph Wyckoff,
This road began at
surveyor.
sioners of Highways, and Jephtha Wade was its
present
road for a mile and
the
what is now Romulus Centre, and continued as does
Road
laid
was
a quarter
corner of
degrees,
and
then turned thirty-eight degrees
east of north
to the
southwest
followed the reservation line
; thence it
line.
and
three hundred
fifty chains, to the Washington
the
east
and
north
reservation
twenty
Know
these presents, that
by
men
all
New
and
act
of
if he had
as
purposes,
concerning slaves,
passed
This
act and
those of a
labor
the
its
as
ward
was
The early records of Romulus are interesting as the
none
ment in a pure democracy, where all had interest and
few have
17,
of
simplicity,
were
denied
a
characteristic
see, we make
"
William
intelligence.
seen or will
directness,
and
The first
year."
Town Clerk for the
present
extracts,
officers were as
follows :
Peace; James Seeley, John
Peter
Huff, David Wisner, and
Fleming, and James Ronalds, were Assessors;
Overseers of
William Seeley, Jr., Commissioners; Henry Leek, James Ronalds,
Benajah Boardman
was
Supervisor
and
Justice
In
1788.
whereto, I have
witness
William
like
the
of
set
1794.
desire
that the
character prove
Seeley."
from
of gain
disappeared slowly
with free labor was
in
character
competition
un
south
made
apparent.
In
B. Boardman
April 7.
Town
town-meeting
the
1795,
Clerk,
and
many
former
the
the house
at
of
James McKnight,
George
Supervisor.
re-elected
was
of
held
was
Of
officers continued.
Baley
new
was
on
elected
officials, there
Coventry, Overseer of Poor; William
were
Brewster, Assessor;
Lewis Abrams, Constable ;. and John
Commissioner
of Highways;
Shattuck,
Ezekiel
and
Hays, Road Overseers.
Sayres, Alia McMath,
Dr.
William
In 1797,
bounty
Baley,
George
Benjamin
the
mine where
line
Jonas
inclusive.
pounds was offered
2, 1799, it
April
source.
three
of
the
no record shows that
bounds, but
town
this
a
Dey,
Seeley
each
treasury
Benajah Boardman
and
wolf-scalp taken within
any depletion from
suffered
that the town
was voted
John Sayre
should run.
for
succeeding, held till
he
shall
divided,
were appointed
1815,
and then came
and
to deter
Supervisor from 1804 to
was
1808,
W. W. Falwell.
SCHOOLS.
In 1817
bills,
to be
notice wa
that the
Gospel Lot
given
was
in the Ovid Seneca
to be
sold at
Patriot, or by
four
posted
the resulting profits
and
auction,
used
June, 1804, the town residents held a meeting
building a court-house. The location of the
and resolved to
and they, as freemen, exercised their right to
building was objectionable to them,
their aid.
withhold
meantime
The cause of education has been
remonstrate, and
for the furtherance
of schools.
raise
no
from the first
promoted
tax
In
for
as a means of self-sustenance.
The
old pioneers
believed
its possessor, and,
and enhanced the ability
that education made better citizens
held paramount. On June 10,.
from lf98 to the present, the interest has been
of
1799 there
that
was a
pioneer structure
there has been a
ulus contains nine school
house
dred
made
a
licensed teacher.
and
seventy-one
them
Eighteen
pupils.
the
available.
districts,
These
each
district
nine schools
school-children,
A
gradual evolution and
and
a
State Superintendent;
and their sites is
of
each
$5300,
the
sex
an
patronage of
equal
school-
to six hun
and eighty-three
licensed
sixteen
each
offered education
four hundred
private school obtained
teachers were required,
progress, till Rom
frame school-house,
have
From
Lancaster.
one mile northeast of
school-house'standing
by
a
but
have
seventeen
local officer, two
The value of
number.
and the assessed valuation of
ofthe
CHURCH
property in
HISTORY.
hearing.
of
chosen as
to the direction
agreeable
corner-stone of a system which
unprofitable
of govern
Winter, at a
April, 1794, in^he town
town meeting opened and duly held on the first day
New York, is appointed and
of Romulus, County of Onondaga, and State of
illustrative
slave,
the town is $863,656.
organization
which
a
February 22,
November
my hand and seal,
8i
rL.
requited
been
never
school-houses
From the record,
fol
by the
I, William Seeley, formerly of the
town of
Orange, State of New York, but now of
Cornwall, County
of
the town of Romulus, County
Onondaga, and State aforesaid, have, and by
these presents do, set free my negro slave named Charles Patterson, to all intents
"
by
EARLY RECORDS.
verified
article :
lowing
following
Dey,
Court
lus
Baley,
to Mynderse's
roads,
& Benjamin
the
fol
were
concerning a road
pealed to the Judges
fresh
George
Ferry
to the house
outlet
from James McKnight's to Plymouth.
in the
and
and
is
as
There is but
one church within
the limits
ofthe
town,
whose
history closes
our
oldest in the Seneca Associa
The Romulus Baptist Church is the
record.
In the
of seven persons.
It was constituted in 1795, with a membership
of Rev. Peter Bainbridge; Deacons, Elijah
enrollment we find the names
early
John Finton, and Samuel Blaine; Brethren Wm. W.
Abbott, John Greene,
John Sayre,
and Mahlon Bainbridge, and Sisters Mrs.
tion.'
Folwell', Barnard Swarthout,
A church site was
and Mrs. Denton.
Mrs. Swarthout, Mrs. Blaine, Mrs. Bainbridge,
donated
by
W. W. Folwell.
The first
building
for worship
was
constructed
in
HISTORY OF SENECA
154
COUNTY, NEW YORK.
1808, and rebuilt in 1849. A lot for a parsonage was donated by Mrs. Joseph
Hunt, and upon it a residence was erected in 1856. The church and site are
valued at eight thousand dollars, and the parsonage at three thousand dollars.
The pastors have been recalled as follows: Revs. David Wisner, John Caton,
John Cooper, J. C. Holt, W. W. Brown, E. P. Otis, C. G. Carpenter, D. Wright,
O. Young, I. Fargo, J. S. Webber, P. Irving, M. W. Holmes, D. D. Owen,
George T. McNair, and Louis J. Gross, at present in charge. John Caton served
with Washington in the
Revolution, and on the visit of La Fayette to Waterloo,
Forty-eighth ; died at Yorktown.
Benjamin S. Coryell, December
the
out
general singled out
the
old veteran
in the
crowd assembled
to
him
give
wel
here, John Caton ; I have not seen you for forty
long parted, and many an eye grew moist at
the heart-touching scene.
Among the licentiates were Rev. John Griffith, D. D.,
of Milwaukee, Wisconsin
; Rev. B. S. McLafferty, of Oakland, Cal. ; Rev. S.
M. Bainbridge, of Elmira, N. Y.; Rev. S. V. Marsh, of Eatontown, N. J., and
Thomas Marsh. The society is free from debt, and has seen a membership of
come,
exclaimed, "Come
and
years."
The
two hundred
library
soldiers met as
A Sabbath-school has
and twelve.
of one
hundred
those
fifty
and
one
hundred
attendants and
a
volumes.
Patrick
Flyn, March 21, 1864, One Hundred and Eleventh.
William T. Smith, March 21, 1864.
John McNanie, March 21, 1864.
Peter McGinnis, single, private, enlisted January 17, 1864, in One Hundred
Sixty-fourth Regiment ; died at Salisbury
Winfield S. Coshen, December 23, 1863,
and
June
themselves
has been called, and a few
their departed comrades, and
roll
and
we
have
have
answered
to
attempted
for
eighth
and
felled the trees
out
with
orchards, laid
Divine
out
roads, and,
with a
to bear their hardships
guidance
.self-government,
axe-strokes, built their cabins,
lusty
turned
aside
intelligent
and
moral
on
should
be
up
to
successors
the
lands,
their
remembrance of
from their labors
school-houses, that the
churches and
lasting
cleared
set
and
number of
here
a
list
of
regiment, letter
the soldiers
of
company,
in the
Rebellion,
and other
items
tliem :
Theodore J.
Sutton, private,
September 3,
1864,
in
One Hundred
Company H,
Thirty-second ; was mustered out July 15, 1865.
Arton F. Sutton, September 3, 1864, in Company
and
Thirty-second Regiment.
Alton
VanHorn,
Thirty-second ;
Was in
war
private, September
H, One
Hundred
and
One Hundred
and
1865.
July 15,
3, 1864, Company E,
till
July 15, 1865.
Chas. W. Rising, September 3, 1864, Company H, One Hundred and Thirtysecond Regiment ; mustered July 15, 1865.
John H. Johnson, private, September 3, 1864, in Company H, One Hundred
and
till
James
Johnson, farmer, enlisted
as private
Thirty-second ; died
December 25, 1864.
and
Addison Van Wagner, September
of
September
fever
at
3, 1864,
Bachelor's
in
Creek,
Company H,
North Caro
3, 1864, Company H, One Hundred
and
Fenton,
September
3, 1864,
in
Company E,
One Hundred
and
Infantry.
.
Philip McGuire, January 25, 1864, Third Artillery.
Emmons, Fiftieth Engineers, January 25, 1864.
Andrew McDermott, December 18, 1863, Company E, One Hundred and
Forty-eighth ; mustered out May 29, 1865.
Charles Bishop, December 18, 1863, Company G, One Hundred and Fortyeighth ; out October 27, 1865.
Patrick Rice, December 18, 1863, Company G, One Hundred and FortyWarren J.
eighth.
private, enlisted December 18, 1864, in Company G, One Hun
Forty-eighth ; died at home.
Hennetta Hugh, December 18, 1864, Company E, One Hundred and Forty-
David
dred
Gleason,
and
eighth.
Boyle, February 19, 1864, One Hundred and Eleventh Infantry.
Smith, December 21, 1863, Sixteenth Artillery.
Gamaliel W. Cary, private, enlisted December 26, 1863; died at Fortress
Charles
Cooley, September 2, 1864, Company L, Fifteenth Regiment ;
David
Vreeland, December 26, 1864.
Nelton, February 13, 1864, One Hundred and Sixty-fourth Infantry.
Roan, December 28, 1863, One Hundred and Forty-eighth ; lost one
Warren
George L.
out
June 13, 1865.
Dennis
hand
September
1864.
Murphy,
2,
John Hamilton, September 5, 1864.
E. Raymond, private, September 2.
Abram Hart, September 5, 1864.
Alex. Watrus, September 5, 1864 ; in Fifteenth Engineers.
Samuel L. Sackett, September 2, 1864.
Timothy Smith, September 5, 1864, in Company L, Fiftieth Regiment.
Daniel C. Dean, September 2, 1864.
Theodore Marsh, September 2\ 1864, in Company D, One Hundred and
eighth
and
Monroe.
Thirty-second.
George W..
Swarthout, December 28, 1863, Company E, One Hundred
John R.
Thirty-second.
Ernest A.
Forty-
Demond, resided in Ovid, December 28, 1863.
David Mann, Varick, January 28, 1864, Third Artillery.
William Wheater, January 25, 1864, One Hundred and Forty-eighth Infantry.
Patrick Roke, February 7, 1864, One Hundred and Sixty-fourth.
John Cary, February 23, 1864, Company C, One Hundred and Forty-eighth.
William U. Kingsley, February 22, 1864, One Hundred and Sixty-fourth
Thirty-second.
One Hundred
lina,
served
and
Andrew
the intel
date of enlistment,
interest connected with
28, 1863, Company H, One Hundred
Forty-eighth.
maintain
with
of
December
Forty-eighth Infantry.
John W.
need of
THE RECORD OF ROMULUS IN THE WAR.
give
Parker,
Infantry.
Blain, December 28, 1863, Company E, One Hundred and FortyInfantry ; mustered out October 27, 1865.
Charles J. Stone, Corporal, December 28,1863, Company E, One Hundred
lectual developed.
We
Infantry.
eighth
farm to build them
quickened and
23, 1863, Company A, Thirty-third Infantry
1865.
George
perpetuate
localities where, with no thought of heroism, those New
Pennsylvania pioneers, scattered in the unbroken forest of Seneca,
their names and the
Jersey
and
McGee, January 4, 1863.
Beck, December 24, 1863 ; killed at Petersburg.
John Hanlon, February 11, 1864, One Hundred and Sixty-fourth Regiment.
George C. Sayer, December 28, 1863, Company K, Fiftieth Engineers; mus
tered January 13, 1865.
A. L. Furman, December 28, 1863, Company I, One Hundred and Forty.
eighth
Infantry ; out October 27, 1865.
Jacob M. Hodge, December 28, 1863, Company E, One Hundred and FortyJohn B.
aged survivors
One Hundred
William H.
eighth
the
Company E,
James
RETROSPECT.
Briefly
12,
prison.
at
Griffith, August 25, 1862, Company G, Fiftieth Engineers.
Benjamin S. Coryell, December 1, 1863, Company K, Fiftieth Engineers.
Marcelas DePue, August 22, 1862, Company G, Fiftieth.
Isaac Conley, November 7, 1861, Company A, Thirty-third.
Arthur Murphy, August 27, 1862, Company E, One Hundred and Fortyeighth.
Daniel C.
13,
Forty-
3,
1864.
Barney Murphy, September 2, 1864.
Emanuel Bateman, private, September 3, 1864.
Fifteenth'
Nathan W. Yoder, September
1864, Company L,
Engineers;
mustered January 14, 1865.
Charles M. Geurin, September 2, 1864.
Matthew Dewire, March 31, 1864.
Terrance Keenan, private, January 1, 1864, Seventy-fifth Regiment.
4,'
Denniston, Company G, Fiftieth,
August
28,
1862 ;
mustered
June*
1865.
Cooley, August 28, 1862, Company G, Fiftieth.
Farr, September 16,. 1861, Company F, Seventy-fifth;
Bartlett
John
Regiment.
John W. Paine, private, September
John Faxon, September 2, 1864.
Cold Harbor.
William H.
26,
mustered
June
1865.
Covert, September 16, 1865, Company F, Seventy-fifth.
VanDuyne, Sergeant, October 7, 1861, Fifteenth Infantry; mus
tered October 7, 1864.
Charles W. Dey, July 29, 1862, Company C, One Hundred and Twenty-sixth
James
Charles P.
Infantry.
Bainbridge, Second Lieutenant, August 30, 1862, Fiftieth Engineers;
13, 1865.
TBruster Sayre, August 28, 1862, Company G, Fiftieth Engineers.
Mahlon
mustered
June
HISTORY OF SENECA COUNTY, NEW YORK.
James
Brooks, private, enlisted August 28, 1862, in Company G, Fiftieth Regi
ment, and died at City Point.
Joseph Darrow, Fiftieth, Company G.
John Sterns, August, 1862, Company G, Fiftieth Engineers ; died in hospital.
Abram Wolverton, August 28, 1862, Company G, Fiftieth died in hospital.
;
John
Wolverton, Eighty-sixth.
Wolverton, July 29, 1862, Company C, One Hundred
William
John
Casterlin, enlisted August, 1862 ; Corporal Company D, One Hundred
Forty-eighth ; lost an arm at Cold Harbor.
Samuel Markle, Cornelius Brokaw, Irvin Smith, April,
1861, Company I,
Thirty-eighth.
Monroe Smith, October 15, 1862, Company F, Seventy-fifth.
and
Robert
and
Twenty-
Infantry.
sixth
D.
Bodine, Corporal, enlisted August, 1862, in Company B, One Hundred
and Forty-eighth ; died at Point of Rocks, Virginia.
Lyman Brock,
Brock, Isaac Gillett, Fiftieth.
John Anderson, August, 1862, Fiftieth.
Edward Anderson, August, 1862, Company E, One Hundred and Forty-
Seymour VanSickle, August, 1862, Company E, One Hundred and Forty-eighth.
Mahlon Markle, August, 1862, Company E, One Hundred and Forty-eighth.
Daniel"
eighth.
Doremus, August, 1862, Fiftieth Engineers..
Henry Garrison, August, 1862, Fiftieth.
James Garrison, August, 1862, Fiftieth.
Stephen Sebring, August, 1862, Fiftieth.
Thomas Sebring, August, 1862, Fiftieth.
Edgar McQuig, August, 1862, Company 0, One Hundred and Twenty-sixth.
Cornelius L. Bailey, August, 1862, Company 0, One Hundred and TwentyEdward
; killed
Andrew
at
Gettysburg.
Pritchard, August, 1862, Company C, One Hundred
Twenty-
and
sixth.
James M.
Bishop,
in
Company G,
Yorktown, Virginia.
One Hundred
Forty-eighth,
December,
Melvin Miller, August, 1862, Fiftieth.
John Roan, August 1862, Company C, One Hundred arid Twenty-sixth ; died
in hospital, Baltimore.
James Bishop, December, 1863, Company E, One Hundred and Forty-eighth.
Jacob Bishop, August, 1862, Company E, One Hundred and Forty-eighth.
Philip Emmons, August, 1862, Fiftieth.
Francis Parker, July 23, 1862, Company C, One Hundred and Twenty-sixth.
Henry Parker, August 22, 1862, Company H, One Hundred and Forty-eighth;
killed at Port Walthal, Virginia, in May, 1864.
Charles Van Wagner, October 15, 1862, Company F, Seventy-fifth.
John Crane, August, 1862, G, Fiftieth.
Daniel Crane, August 25, 1S62, G, Fiftieth.
enlisted
1863 ; died
at
and
PERSONAL
Erastus
Benjamin, August, 1862, Fiftieth.
Leffler, Fiftieth Regiment.
Franklin Haynes, One Hundred and Twenty-sixth Regiment.
John Earnsberger, Company G, Fiftieth.
Clermont King, August 19, 1862, Company E, One Hundred and Twenty-sixth.
Harrison Raymond, One Hundred and Sixtieth.
Charles Brown, September 18, 1861, Company F, Seventy-fifth.
Clarence Lindsley, August, 1862, Company E, One Hundred and Forty-eighth.
James E. Willson, One Hundred and Forty-eighth.
John
Brown, August 19, 1862, One Hundred and Forty-eighth.
Charles W. Smith, private, One Hundred and Twenty-sixth.
Robert McDuffee, of the Forty -fourth, died prisoner in Richmond.
Hiram H. Huff, Company E, One Hundred and Forty-eighth, enlisted
August,
1862; died in hospital at Philadelphia October, 1864.
Joseph H. Brewer, August 28, 1862, Company E, One Hundred and FortyGeorge W.
R.'
eighth, Corporal.
Of the following
to
which
Whether in the
pioneer
Atlantic
There
they
duty
in the forests
journeys
to enter,
.hesitated
which
and
or
war
of
their descendants
coast and
were no
serried ranks of
there
deployed
intervals to
at wide
present
self-
settlers upon
the
a record at once simple and grand.
not
undertake, there
was no obstacle which
their
was no
solitude
resolute and persist
out
from
industry did not surmount. While we see the tide of settlers moving
not a
Berkshire, Massachusetts, Lyme, Connecticut, and other eastern localities,
few removed from New Jersey to establish a home in the forests of Western New
independent in choice, but swayed by the impulse
York. One among the
ent
many
Consider
Israel Brown.
originating migration was the subject of this sketch,
the difficulties of the route to be pursued; and, when arrived
what awaited
let
of
tomed
the
A forest-land
him ?
fever,
and months of
Indian, the failure of
In 1804, fifteen years
the
privileges.
their way
within
began his
journey upon
the
western
a
up the Mohawk River to
crop,
after
labor.
wilderness, Mx. Brown
sail-boat,
Utica,
which conveyed
and on
He must run the gaunt
and suffer a
the first
at
deprivation
him to
we
of accus
had
made
to join them.
He
eager
set out
from thence till
his journey's end,
settlers
Albany, then
followed
find him the
owner of
to find any record,
named we are unable
belonged
except regiment
to
:
Patterson,
Fiftieth ; H. C.
Forty-fourth ; Hix
Dennis,
Campbell,
Forty-fourth ; John L. Frantz, One Hundred and Forty-eighth ; Elonzo Wil
liams, Fiftieth ; Frank Mathews, One Hundred and Forty-eighth ; Anson Corell,
and Forty-eighth ; A. G. Folwell, Fiftieth ; James Hubble; Sev
Lansing, Robert Gipson, Spencer J. Colvin, One Hundred and
Twenty-sixth; Lyman Covert, One Hundred and Twenty-sixth; George W. Con,
One Hundred and Twenty-sixth ; Anthony Covert, One Hundred and Twentysixth ; Edwin Elis, One Hundred and Twenty-sixth ; William Kinch, Seventyfifth ; Gilbert Raymond, Seventy-fifth ; George Raymond, Seventy-fifth ; M.
One Hundred
enty-fifth
Hartigon,
; R.
Seventy-fifth ; John Sturgiss.
SKETCHES.
hundred
tained ; the
the Genesee country, the
they dared
they
Augustus
one
ISRAEL BROWN.
imposed
Gibson, August, 1862, Company E, One Hundred aud Twenty-sixth.
Simpson, Company E, One Hundred and Forty-eighth Resriment, January,
1864.
Charles
sixth
155
wards
He
his industry.
of a
in the
is erected,
cabin
wood expands
purchases
proprietor of a
family
A
Lot No. 66.
patch opened
becomes the
father
of
acres
one
fine farm
hundred
a
go
and
on,
field,
thirty
and
two hundred
of
Years
of nine children.
to
and constant
fine
and
and
labor
main
prosperity
re
acres
adjoining,
and
thirty
acres,
and
the
the frontier has
removed
far away to the prairies of Illinois and the pines of Michigan and Wisconsin. The
Indian is on the reservation. The opulent come west for relaxation and rest. A
It is the pioneer road the Albany and Rochester. Produce
railroad bririgs them.
commands a home
old
and
labored
finally
and
market,
and
enjoyed,
and retires
with sorrowful and regretful
his
children are called
Aaron
Brown,
and
Monuments may
like
the
Sioux,
the farmer is
he looks his last
and
the
development
on
to the
him, until
three daughters
press
old
which
his
quiet ofthe grave.
five
of a
may herald the
wealth, the
outlined in the life
manly effort,
and equity, in this
justice
profit,
from
Mr. Brown grows
like thousands
ofthe nine
he had
remains are
One
borne
after another
have departed.
A son,
are present survivors.
to the memory
of material
for his toil.
whereon
home,
feelings to the
to follow
arise
requited
the farm
and
Custer
slain
courage of
example of
labors
notice of
of
in
combat with
the settler, there is
the life
the war
his fallen comrades; but in
unostentatious diligence and
of
Israel Brown.
pleasure and
VABIOK
Romulus was organized on March 5, 1794. Varick was formed from Romulus
February 6, 1830. The initial town-meeting was held at the house of Benjamiii
April 6 following.
Lemon,
A.
second
meeting was held
April
on
5, 1831,
Jacob Bowman's
at
house, and the proper officers elected then and there. These
deserving of further notice, since therein was practiced pure democ
meetings are
racy,
the
on
fear
in them
arid
or
was
basis,
same
favor.
the
germ of
were
and
debated
and
National
Here
franchises.
with equal
Taxes
State
levied,
Here all were
government.
was open
speech,
regardless of
laid out, and
Romulus until
officers chosen,roads
bridging voted. The government of Varick is merged in that of
distinct formation, and illustrates the ready application of needs to local,- well-en
forced
Its territory lies south of Fayette, and extends near the centre
from lake to lake; The slope of land is slightly northward, and
'
regulations.
County
of the
ridges
are of such
tion is
offered.
gradual asoerit that no
Streams
are small and of
impediment to nearly complete cultiva
little importance. Near the centre of
large swamp; or bog,* denominated
that valuable fruit was produced and annually
"Cranberry'
the'town
exists a
much of
Marsh,"
whereon
gathered
to
date.
a recent
The. influence of this basin of vegetable de"bris is deleterious to health,
drainage is a subject of importance to the residents of the locality.
and
its
at present
located
neva and
Ithaca
farm,
acre
later
and
attest
tion
by
rises
has
passed
whom were
away
the memories
for
and settlers
engross
naturally
the disposition of Government to
of
More than
these lots drawn.
the
since settlement was made upon
Stephen
-Monroe
and
attention,
S. V. R.
her
and while
defenders,
an average
the
first,
building, upon
Woodworth, became the
part,. the
drawn
Edmond
was purchased
of
to the
passed
erty
lies No.
Henry Beers,
ceeded
blacksmith
1810,
about
and
bought
east end of
the
and
and
clearing
to the estate,
and
for
a
time
life's duration
frequently
repairs of
and
affair,
tilling his land.
Watson two hundred acres,
on his trade in a small
shop in
At his
his demise the land
death, Joseph,
passed
to Marcus
his son,
Gambee,
suc
the
David"
bought
Watson
hundred
Dey
lay on the. southwest comer of the lot,, and upon it placed his :son
Tunis, whose daughter^ the TO& of John Mann, is. a present part owner of her
gnuidfetherV purchase.
In 1810, the date of. settlement of this locality, John
on with a
of.
came
Jersey,
Berry,
family and erected a house on the
..
of
one
and seventy-five
which
New'
south-
called
by
lot
bought him out, and it is now owned
Thoinas'S. Wflcox,.a"later'pTtrchas'er from. Manning. The first settler on this
a
was named
Michael
Pennsylvaiiia German,
After
a
time
he
sold,
Shetterly,
and migrated
to Isaac
.
to Seneca
Gambee,
hundred
and "went
to
in 1848;
.Ohio
'
school-house was erected upon
156
the
acres."
Shetterly was
with
his
County,
family, in 1808.
who owned one
corner.
A frame
.
school
for the
In 1830
a
building
is
farm,
the
.with
In 1814 the
.
as
by. W.
Gambee, luce his
in his shop
the lot.
smith's skill
man, known
now owned
Daniel
work
.northe
plow
to. sharpen the share,
shoeing.horses and
making
FIRST FRAME HOUSE.
the
were"
to the
settlers prior
John
close ofthe
last
who was elected overseer of roads
northeast was one
was
William
gret
for them that
we
learn
titles, whereby they lost
of
the forest
making
all
and erected
roads
of ,
labors.
of
a.
feeling of re
the Hoods through defect
in
In vain had they felled the trees
For others had they directed labor in
improvements.
their
their
practicable,
the dispossession
In
century.
in 1799 ; in the
in the northwest
Hood,
Smith, likewise a road overseer in 1802 ; and
Hood, an overseer of highways in 1800. It is with
southeast was
log houses.
the
results of their, may we venture
improved
farm, partially
by William Hood, was
Lot
No. 49, bordering west
and by him rented.
and others reaped
The
hope,
by Zebedee Williams,
upon Seneca Lake, was drawn
by a Revolutionary officer named Mordecai Hale.
Benjatuin Dey, of New Jersey, a surveyor by profession, was the original occu
In 1794 he
pant of this lot, of which he was known to be the entire possessor.
erected a frame house,
the first in the town ; this was two years after his settle
ment upon the lot.
In 1796 he erected a saw-mill on Reeder.'s Creek, and added
to
requited
bought
a grist-mill
the
It may be
in 1800.
town
original
Romulus,
of
said of
and was
Mr.
Dey that
he
was
the
surveyor of
the heaviest land-owner in the
County ;
this arising from payments iri land for his services.
Dey died about 1824, and
willed the lot to his son, Alexander H; Dey, who is now a prominent Detroit
banker.
Dr. Reeder
sician of
of
the town.
1782,
a
purchased of
A. H. Dey,
Lot No. 50 is designated
four-hundred-acre
lot,
designated
and
as
is
a present
the Gospel Lotv
practicing phy
.
Under
by the County Supervisors,
an act
was
to
'be reserved in. each Military Tract for the support of the gospel, arid. the land in
-question was the selection for Romulus.
Mr. Benjamin Dey was one of the
"trustees in charge of the property. Jacob Basum, from Pennsylvania, in 1796
moved
in
and purchased one
'part, and', in
quiet
a
; his heirs
who sold
son,
home
cut
sold
hundred
by his
own
ter is
at present
held
and seventy-three acres
hands from the
forest;
from. the
passed
northwest
his days
and
David Dey willed to Gerald,
John Harris ; the part belonging to the lat
William "Baldridge, of Pennsylvania, bought
by
Mcintosh;
1812,'
one
hundred
he
sold
L.
Dey the
iri
1815,
farm
and
eighty
acres
in
to Alia
and -moved on with
McMath, Jr., who in turn sold
farm now owned by John. Reigle.
and
passed
became the
in
his
to Charles Thompson.
to Albert Jaques
1845,"
J. Y-Mannin^'about
east
blended
and
northeast comer of
in the
old
Abel
name
the tools in use in that elder day.
record
of
carried
by trade,
farm in the
Gambee's forge was kept in play upon wet days in
descendants, of David. Dey,, who were bought out, and the prop
and S. S. Conover.
East of the two lots given
present occupant.
acres,
was a
sixty-acre
1800,
to Michigan.
a crude
from him
Pennsylvania,
of
sold out and removed
-was
to Samuel Sheridan
the intervals
Beers
a
is now;
.there
by
acres
A deaf
had
and
the Second New York Regiment.
lot,'
from the
his
Assessor in
and who served as
hundred
ques
45,
from
John,
of
of one
where
part,
.speculator,
William Gambee.
of
property subsequently
1809,
north
A horse
acres.
num
the early property of the well-known Elkanah Watson, who made a
through, this region in 1791, and later invested with others in
tour
prospecting
John Gambee, a blacksmith by trade, came
the water-powers at Seneca Falls.
out
owner, in
located in the
the
of'
Post, and
was
fifty
some
the
Kelly,
by
by Benjamin Dey, who, in 1818, sold two hundred acres
from the northwest corner to Powlers VanGieson, of New Jersey. On his death,
about 1840, the
property fell to heirs, whose descendants are now scattered. To
Garrett VanSickle and P. Spence tracts were sold by Dey, who likewise disposed
fifty acres, south of the above, to Albert Lutkins, of New Jersey, in the year
1818. His heirs sold to George Conover, who in turn sold to John MeFarland.
Dey willed the balance to his heirs, who from time to time disposed of their lands
to various parties.
Numbered southward, we find Lot 44, which was drawn by
William Jackson, ofthe Second New York Regiment. Jackson sold to M. Dixon,
who sold the entire lot to B. Dey for. an overcoat and twenty-five dollars.
The
property passed by will to the heirs of Dey, the east half to Jane and Mary
Jacobus, who sold to Peter Bush and Hemy Fegles, who in turn sold to James
YariRiper and H. Reed, present occupant. The west half was willed to Julia
It
tract; he
the
settler upon
a school
Upon Lot No. 48 there
was
Pennsylvania.
of
.at
preservation.
Lot No. 43
Twohundred acres werfe purchased
owner, H.^King.
present
Varick. yet', from
has been gained
slopes of
Dey,
Garret. Henion moved ijpbtf-ji! fiftyhis. life.- Iri 1840, Dr. VanTyne bought'fifty acres,.
the lot from John
tillage
reward
passed
46, traversed diagonally by the Ge
in 1807,
a, man
acres.
-hundred
Gideon
1813, by
brother
Early settlement
thereon
to the
No.
a white occupant
He bought the southwest part of
Gambee,
owner
of
the
lot.
John Hilkert came, in 1820,
the
Gambee,
from Pennsylvania; and secured a home upon one hundred and fifty acres in the
This farm was bought and is owned by Solomon Acker. In
northeast corner.
her decease
the west central portion Betsey Gambee had one hundred acres ;
Abner Prior, a commissioned offi
-Marcus Gambee became purchaser and owner.
Mr. Frame is recollected as having been the
cer of the Revolution, drew Lot 47.
in
B. Hopkins.
EARLY SETTLERS.
bered lots
and
sold
one
spot. "Lot.
first, knew
Railroad,
Huckster held
named
that
-upon
owner of one
from James McKnight to
to David
his family.
Dey,
John Mead
who willed
arrived
In time,
to Peter
in this
region
hundred acres, upon which he died.
Harvey Baldridge. Joseph Marcy
The
was a
PILATE"
TL.-XTX
Residence
of
John J. Covert.
Ovid, N. Y.
HISTORY OF SENECA
the
renter upon
the
It
lot.
Lot No.. 51
B. Gambee.
by
John P.
Bush,
Irish
an
in
Hathaway.
northeast part of
time
process of
Revolutionary
Dey by
to the
succeeded
will
lived
who
soldier,
John Crane became owner,
to J.
sold
and
one
it is
held
now
hundred
by
Hathaway, of New Jersey, fifty acres off the northwest corner, in 1803.
Lemmon, of Maryland, bought this piece and one hundred and fifty
additional, and, settling upon it, became known as a leading settler, and was
this
acres
of
local
His house
offices.
to
was converted
a
tavern-stand in
the
northeast
bors,
heirs,
up
and is
Jesse
southeast
bott
corner,
a
put
that
William
shop
Abbott,
to
sold
corner,
than farm work,
other
it is
lots,
the
with
Contemporary
southwest
the
1820
that those
noticeable
settlement and
growth of
the
Here he
Lot 53.
portion of
affair, has later left
that rude
of
a seventy-five-acre piece of ground situated upon
1804, upon
Enos S.
Vail,
hundred-acrc lot
Porter
erected a
its
trace in
no
Hathaway,
the home
was
shop,
later
Wilcox,
the
A
owners.
whose
of
in
and who was useful
barns
building
that
the Peace
man, being a Justice of
John Hagerman took up one hundred
of.
ture.
a public
William Ketchum
Ketchum
day,
that
genius,
be found
could
local
and
found
and
a
A
No. 54.
lodgment upon
and
became
a preacher of
portion of
the cranberry
and
A large
tist, in Steuben County.
western part of
chisel,
settler named
one
hundred
John VanDyne
acres
in the
came westward
eastern portion
is
in
; for nearly
the early, possession
locality
Returning, in our
E.
shores
Watson, who
was
in the
for the
sold
Louden,
John
McCoy, who sold
the
and
owner
of a
for the sporting
of his glory.
resort
acme
pioneer settlers of
lots
to Samuel
race-track
fraternity,
Lerch,
one mile
in
and on gala
and subsequent owner
we
On his
'
from Pennsylvania.
demise,
Judge
Gordan,
of
trans
Rhode Island, became owner and resident, who sold to William Curtis,
fers were frequent, through the hands of one Drake, a collier, from New Hampshire,
present incumJonathan Pontius, Mr. Skinner, and C. Sayre, the
George
and
Olliman,
bentsof the place.
by
John
from
those
and
were purchased
Schuyler,
it descended,
days the hum
Arnot.
spinning-wheel
of
Mr. Markle's home
from the
and
from Pennsylvania, in
Markle,
wellnigh obsolete
*cres
preacher,
through Denton
to Messrs. Webber
lived George
but
Forty-four acres from the southwest part ofthe lot
sold his.home to Alexander
a Methodist
whom
Fountain,
.
was
articles
east end
of
the
of
seat
of a
Gurney, A. B. Palmer,
Upon the
quiet
was
ownership
his farm to Ashur
corner of
of a
manufacture
Jabez
the lot
quarter-lot.
of
In
log
cabin,
these
useful
heard in nearly every
pioneer
housewifery;
northeast
and
Steele,
1830, Mr. Markle sold fifty
Jacob
Lyon, and the remainder to
In
in the
acres
from
and
went on
who
parties
better
to
south
State
present
of
prospects
is
H. C.
owner,
Lisk,
it,
upon
who, moving
erected a
Lieutenant John Stake drew Lot No.
still standing.
hoped to
and
pay for it in installments,
His efforts proved futile,
the
purchased
young, wiry man,
a
the
raise
by
hard
and after much
half,
south
means
cutting
labor, by
saw the land transferred to Joseph
clearing was effected, he
Mr. Hunt died and the land fell to his children, who are pres
The
two hundred
northwest
VanBrunt
Brooklyn.
his
a portion of
farm,
engaged
then,
and
later,
years
hundred
sold one
Jesse Abbott
the
settled
the pioneer,
of
work
Tunis Van
by
were purchased
acres
in the laborious
acres
to
one-
northeast
1805,
was
fixed his habitation in the
and
that of a shoemaker,
and
elapsed,
he
1831 disposed
parted with
the
of
remainder
lot lived, in
in the
able
1809,
a
carpenter,
dent upon Lot No. 51
John
VanCourt,
1807, John
Ayers
sons of
arrival of
now
clearing
Eleven
Isaac D.
Upon the
the
manufactured
by them.
Hart,
age of
in the
lay
VanCourt,
seventy-one, is
had
made
VanCourt,
of
quarter,
his
land.
wild
a resi
was made
the
the
lot,
purchase
J. Renner
and
as
the
as
and
southwest
upon
in
the
side of
east
northeast part of
who
years
and
service proved accept
farms
comprising the
the
he
one-hundred-aere purchase
the brothers
upon
entered
at
His trade
acres.
craft
Darrow, whose
A son,
third
The land
by two
and made a considerable
and
early
was
Slavery
a
hard
was still
their
pub
York, and the journals of pioneers
presence of persons of color
incidentally note the occasional
the owner of
but there was no bar to the freedman's becoming
in force in the State
lished
furnished
accommodate
Joseph
A
this town.
Delaware.
Prior to the
J. Smith.
to
his
tools of
to William A. Coe.
named
This is the land
for their benefit.
worker,
of
of
material
old church.
in 1812
and was occupied
year
the
erection of
simple
acres
twenty
hundred
southeast one
the
and with
for his fellow-settlers from
rough shoes
by
find that No. 55 had been purchased by
Lake,
from the northwest
one hundred and forty-four acres
Seneca
in 1797
to Jacob.
famous
research
of
of
tavern-keeper,
was a
days the tavern-keeper
corner
the
hundred
moved upon one
.
This
ship, to the
a
now
John McKnight, a present occupant.
Sample.
hundred acres, which now constitute the home of J. M.
of the Second Regiment.
Lot No. 58 was drawn by Captain Henry VanDeburg,
Jacob Doremus, from the Jerseys, came out to the wilds of
In the year
.Seneca,
1812,
land is
the
and
reaper,
officer
Finally,
owners.
the-
Charles
remembered as a
circuit.
Bap
he dwelt upon this segment of the marsh, and then yielded to
One hundred and fifty acres in
who bought him out in 1831.
northeast part was
who
Hunt.
ent
out-door
upon
owner
which a considerable
up
lies
attachedto a
selling the timber.
and
of
marsh
its
the'
Timothy Ludlum,
to
conditioned
cleared
the gospel, as a
and
team
family,
present
which
an
owner.
Brunt,
score of years
Thompson,
was
and
living,
Markle, of Pennsylvania,
; Jacob Hathaway,
Cyrus Baldridge, a third owner, was
while
in the cavalry branch of the service, arid, as has been
57.
right to a fine tract without seeing or caring
noticed in general, disposed of his
Seneca
of
Falls, was the second and more nearly
to see it.
Gary V. Sackett,
mostly
in manufacturing the cabin furniture of
cupboards.
Later, Mr. Ketchum aban
engaged
building,
Charles Reed.
J. Reed is
of
later -by the
He
wagon-
was
his
by
hearing
but
lot,
the
of
frame
one-
the Legisla
and when untoward weather prevented
in chairs, tables,
comprised
doned the turning-lathe
acres where
twenty-five acres now the property
settled on
was a versatile
employment, he
His life
and a member of
of a
time the
various own
George
by
died
and
In
later has known
lying
and
commander of a regiment of militia.
appellation as
family
with
children
so remained.
and
and
half-lot.
south
heirs.
accompanied
succeeded
lot,
to that
the
ranks of
Boyer, a soldier
by
Beaches, Gabriel, Elias. and
Michigan of good
there, he sold out to Samuel Doty
in 1806, upon ope hundred
moved
Ludlum
and emigrated thither.
Timothy
He was
work of clearing.
began
the
in the southeast corner, and
acres
in making other improvements.
but
one, a son, is living, a resi
Of this settler's family of four boys and one girl,
dent of Pennsylvania. I. W. Smith bought out Wilcox, and the farm remains
One who came to Varick very early and located upon the
with the Smith family.
entitled
was known as Colonel Samuel Blaine, lie being
part
of
the
northeast
making,
his
with
Beach,
in 1804
was purchased
homes
hands
southwest
trade was that
1804,
bachelor
was a
Lewis
owner, likewise died there,
by
by his
part
stood
transfer through the
it
and
the running away
Ludlum,
central
1807
this spot, where in
successive
other
and
Ephraim
of
and
In
filled the
who
John P.
by
in
their old avocation, and, until villages had begun
speedily became a necessity in
to centre in them the trades, these pioneer mechanics were found scattered through
Another of this class was William Blaine, who acquired and
out, the County.
located in
drawn
was
A lot embracing two hundred acres was purchased in 1808
Orange County, New York. Sayre is remembered as a
from
by Daniel Sayre,
Sayre sold to
prominent citizen, and the incumbent of various town offices.
one hundred
and
heirs
his
sold,
David Dey, and he to Thomas Mann, who dying,
Frank Lynn. During 1808, Samuel
acres were bought and are now owned
the people,
needs of
half
north
second
held
and sold
who were skilled
The
killed
Ab
with
portion,
to Jacob Lyon
who moved upon
to
from the
acres
No. 56
but Jabez
homes,
new
passed
ers.
owner.
Varick
settlement of
land in the
who secured
land
neigh
went
was not until
hundred
owner of one
J. M. Sample.
by
and owned
VanBrunt,
Sample, the
to Thomas
became
Jersey,
It
land
the
farmers
great number of
civil war.
New York Regiment.
the First
them to
from
acres
himself and
Dying,
Mrs. Sullivan.
daughter,
ofa
Tunis
came
In the
New
of
serve
followed his trade
the home
now
forget his calling, and to
at intervals.
to
and not
and
two hundred
Gambee, purchased
during
in the
seen
the
upon the
arriving from Pennsylvania, bought and moved
The first two were men of family.jmd brought their wives and
were
Pennsylvania, by name
from
.
general
Jabez,
1814,
held meetings, and his place became known to people of that day
J.'V. Manning bought the Lemmon farm, and sold one
as a favorite resort.
hundred acres to D. Dildine, a present owner. In the year 1814 a blacksmith
here
and
is
proposition
volunteers
with
the source of
regarded as
Benjamin
intrusted
erected.
prosperity, as small farms are subjected
to better tillage, and the ownership of landed rights is widely extended, sowing
The proof of
as a bar to revolution and as a consequent national safeguard.
lands is
I.
to
John
by
purchased
corner were
southeast
buildings have been
but, in general, from four to six families are found dwelling upon the original
This continued division of
purchase or donation lot owned by an individual.
in the
acres
from the
acres
this no
upon
The inevitable tendency to reduce areas of individual ownership are here fully
illustrated, since in no instance has a lot descended entire to the present owner,
it from
upon
Seventy
but
Baldridge,
had possession, and sold to Peter Van
John Jacobus, drawer of Lot No. 52,
son
transferred to J. Hathaway.
who
in the
Dey,
who
by
At his demise his
southwest corner.
sold
drawn
in 1820.
death,
D. MeGrane.
Riper,
by
D.
acres of
Lodowick
was
Wilson,
Robert
1806 till his
fifty
and
Captain James Gregg, ofthe First New
B. Dey became owner of all but the State's Hundred, which was
York Infantry.
settled
hundred
one
was purchased
157
NEW YORK..
COUNTY,
and
New
of
recollections
held to service,
As in the last
lands.
'war,
where
they
were enrolled
by
regiments
and
did
good
left the ranks free men, so in the days of the
for provincial freedom, gained
Revolution colored men fought nobly, and, battling
Two of those freedmen of the Revolution, by
their own, with its benefactions.
out from New Jersey, and, be
and Benjamin Widgeon,
James
service
in
trench
line
coming the
battle,
and
owners
.came
of
role of pioneers.
held
of
Ray
name
the
or
by
James
fifty
acres each
northwest part of
the
lot,
essayed
lying'
A fifty-acre
Lyon,, by
from the
whom
piece
it
in the northwest
was transferred
by
sale
corner was
to Jesse
early
Abbott;
HISTORY OF SENECA
158
thence it
to Jacob Bristol
passed
and
is the
and
others,
present
farm
J.
of
Lot No. 59 lies
the
half
north
in
eastern side
two, who
in time
to John
and sold
took up
spoken,
one
likewise
VanDyne, who
of
left
acres.
County of Seuec-a. and
Romulus, survives, at the ripe
Sharp and sold to G. MeCary.
it to his children. Giddings,
hundred
sold
northeast
hundred
into the
a resident of
who
in the
and
obtained a
acres on
to Joseph
the
to,
road referred
John
in 1822.
Yerkes,
succeeding owner, died in possession, and later. S. A. Va'nRipier, its
owner, bought it. N. Ayers, of New Jersey, bought forty-nine acres of
present
Jephtha Wade,
and came out
to have followed
pioneer
cooper, he had
a
found
then, one,
had
a
.Gambee,
trade
this road,
of
Henry VanRiper,
to
The Revolution Road traverses the
Ira Giddings bought
years.
have just
of whom we
and embraces a greater part
Connecticut,
away since Sharp came
rolled
sold
marsh,"
Upon
direction.
Sharp,
were children
fourscore
age of
who
Lewis
have
Many yeara
of
"
School District No. 11.
of
a; west-of-south
lot,
the
part of
to the
south of and near
at work
during
to the lake country
a
put
shop
the
his
and erected
precedent,
up
log
Lot No. 59.
on.
he
where
could
is the
site
By-
his farm.
cabin on
The
succeeding to 1823.
yeara
He is known
early as 1809.
as
have been
present
home
A. P; Miller.
of
Jephtha
log house,
and
New
a
the
southeast
an aristocratic procedure
prominence.
The
the
of
regarded
Jersey surveyor, was
settled upon
family
rattlesnake
Wade
as
an
quarter,
occupant of
early
he
upon which
in those times indulged in
was
home iri this
at
obtrusive,
more
this region,
double
erected a
by
and
by
their
which
were
.numbers
.
leaving
family
a
four
of
to Michigan ;
migrated
Cleveland, Ohio.
; it
like
sons and a
one
number of
son, Jephtha
Benona Ward
daughters,
Wade, is
east,
was
.
.Mrs:
Crane
was
its
owner
its first settler, Joseph Brown.
sient and
Crane bought from Isaac
1835.
about
in
man
for
the place
in the north?
acres
Isaac
proprietors.
Allen,
and
he from
suggestively indicates the tran
Western settlement than. the occupation and
Nothing
character of
.formative
business
and occupied
finally divided and sold. A tract of sixty
now. owned by
Doekstater, has. known a number of
some years
have
most of whom
a prominent
the widow,
married
more
Descendants of -families dwell in the Old World
speedy abandonment of lands.
upon lands hereditary with them for centuries, and a hovel is the home of some
dwelt in
whose ancestors
at
moving
of
the
following the same
of Seneca, and often
pioneers
The
ground.
the
themselves, selling out, have
pioneers
of other
States,
Varick
time
of
in
were
from first
homes,
search of
Lot No. 60
occupation.
became the property of Andrew McKnight,
in the year.1798, from Pennsylvania. Engaged in the
Seneca,
soldier, it fell to his fbrturie to be taken
involuntary
made an
which
the
the
he
was released
advanced age of
land
residence
which
is
acres,
the
ninety
and
clearing up
and
the
of
new
bringing
Dey to
farm
Garrett
sell one
by J.
Jersey,
purchased
and
possession,
and
an.
the
and
few,
by
the
lot
immigrant to
1812
war of
as a
he.
with whom
the
at
where
part of
an
Indians,
years;
place,
expiration of
he died in 1853
at
L. Hodge bought, arid held
and
J. Gurney.
four hundred
the lot.
A tanner
by
Some
time
and eighty-eight
trade, he dropped
vigorously upon the work of
his large farm. Four years elapsed,
entered
under cultivation
hundred
old
V. R. Clark
greater part of
want of a neighbor
induced
to his
A. R. Karr
years.
New
included the
business in his
a period of seven
and returned
now.owned
1800, David Dey,
which
for
by
prisoner
the
on
drawn
was
A sixth
the east side
on
former
by
and changes are
Sergeant James Parker^ of. the First. New. York Regiment.
in
schooled
and,
inhere to those first
irianifold advantage which
settlers of
considering the lapse
ruins
the
in the development
secured
experience,
; but in the West, locating and re
isothermal lines westward still, the children
in
option,
pioneers
become
castles now
opportunity to make, an advantageous sale
two acres from the southwest part of his
died in 1810.
The land fell to his
Jacobus,
Isaac,
passed it to Jotham Wilcox, on whose decease it became the heritage of his son
At the same time'that Dey sold to Jacobus
Richard S. Wilcox, present owner.
he also disposed of fifty acres to James Barr, a Pennsylvanian. Barr was, by
trade, a house-carpenter, and. his services were, frequently requisite in the con
struction of the
log cabins in his neighborhood. Along in 1836, Dey
sold a piece. of ground from the southeast side:.to Francis Gurney, whose, nephew,
Jacob Gurney, inherited and holds the farm. Mr. Dey, at the age of eighty-eight
years, passed away in. 1852, having willed the balance of his land to his children,
to
who
.
son
who
.primitive
of whom
S. V. R.
Dey is
the only survivor in this locality.
and resides upon a sixty-eight-acre
property
ing,
of
erected
the lake..
Mrs. Richard V. Dey.
in
J. F. Dart
1802,
and
Solomon
farm, near the homestead, which is
The
D.ey
J. Updike.
the "present
lives in the old, time-worn dwell
the bluff, with front looking out upon.
and
it
year
The
hundred acres,
was settled by Jacob Hathaway, who emigrated from Dover, New Jersey.
J. B.
Karr purchased of Hathaway, and occupies the farm, where he now resides, at
the
John
heirs,
east
one
was owned and occupied
side,
arid
his land
upon
lot,
the
of
by
Updike, present
Baldridge, of Pennsylvania,
house he built
corner, comprising
wife, from the Jersey peninsula. Pickle sold to
owner.
Iu 1*818 tho southwest quarter was occupied
John Pickle
Johnson
a
northwest
One-sixth
age of seventy-two.
in 1810
by
and
who married
his
until
death,
Miss Agnes Barr
the property
when
have recently sold it. A member of the First New York
Ephraim Blanchard, was the original owner from Government
62.
The
was
northwest sixth
.
Samuel Ludlum.
A
by
occupied
early
to the
reference
New
a
1810
census of
Jersey
lived iri
and
to the
passed
Regiment,
who
Lot No.
of
named
weaver,
shows that
HOME MANUFACTURE
then
was
quite
yet affords
its in
during
and
active,
Mr. Ludlum
the war
his
made cloth upon
loom, which was cut into coats and suits by wife, mother, or sister, and also by
the daughter, in the families of the neighborhood, and the settlers arid the young
these "home-made",
men wore
ago
a
Stephen Ludlum became the
R. M.
by
owned
Steele, who
shoemaker, became
disposed
of
thereon
Aaron
Michigan,
Romulus,
originally
early
tially in Varick
the
in Romulus.
and
The
landlord
of a
Stone,
the
he
present owner.
Hunt, who built
a time.
Finally sale was
conveyed to G. I. List, the present
Joseph
by
Peter lived for
land
was
within a year
the
farm in 1822 ;
Ogden,
a
hquse
was
Steele Allen.
to
place was sold
in 1830 to J. H.
Lot No.
1822.
near
circumstance was an
was occupied at a
but
King,
land
the
John
the lot ; this
south end of
to John G.
later
to
renioved
and
eighty, he is still living, a healthy, hearty old
hundred acres was owned by Captain Marion, and the
was settled in
was
the
and
in 1872.
the age of
southeast one
Lot"
Vader
son
the
this property
of
at
where,
The
his
1827,
purchase
entered upon a sixty-two-acre
The latter disposed
man.
which
in
owner
by
on
acres
sixty
who transferred
by whom
Ely
clearing begun,
and
title
southwest corner was owned
Isaae VanTyle,
occupant.
up
Ogden,
in the
piece
acquired
owner of
habitation, in
a
made to
put
J. H.
to
A fifty-acre
"
Lud
pride.
of
a
father in 1824.
is
laudable
garments with comfort and
five children, one of whom recently died in Michigan at the
family
of seventy.
The farm was divided between the children on the death of the
lum had
the
63, on the north border of the town of
that
centre of
town,
occupied and eligible site
remainder
in Romulus.
and
for
The
owing to this favoring
located par
a village now
the immigration period,
during
when
the lot
southeast corner of
father
very early date by Henry DePue, whose
elder DePue opened a tavern-stand and
was a pioneer
the calling
pursued
land-hunters
were
traversing
land, choice, if possible, but landed estate
with
cost.
in
common
at
others, found the business sufficiently lucra?
He,
any
in
it
for
some
time.
On this lot, in 1803, Anna DePue was
tive to continue
intent
woods
.the
This
born.
On the
house
logs for
eulogy
corner of
of
Tilletston,
instruct,
A
cent schools.
in the
in
this
part of
pioneers of
the
locality
which occurred
year
18.06.
whose record comes
knew him.
those who
to
qualified
births
DePue's farm the
school purposes
Sylvester
ers was.
acquisition of
of. the earliest
was one
southeast
of
the
on
A
Among
down to
Varick.
built
a
the old-time, teach
us connected with
profession, he
the
was well
by
long obtained with profit by the adja
instructor was Ira. Parker, a painstaking and well-liked
in the Romulus cemetery, his death having
his
and
second
.schoolmaster,
services were
transpired"
whose remains rest
man,
in. 1812.
gogues,
by
A Scotchman
whose
like
named
many from the severity
cal and whose
penmanship
1813.
Of.
Varick,
upon a
McCullough.
we moderns seldom
seven children
farm
a
DePue's heirs sold, in
of
their
see,
left
by him,
1835,
.
was a
third
of
and whose ability. is
discipline,
was excellent.
half-mile
,
but
whose
The death
of
the ancient,
held in low
instruction
H. DePue
peda
esteem
was practi
occurred
in
living ; one, Mrs. S. Monroe, in
her birthplace, is. seventy years of age,.
Vail, whose son is the present owner.
four
are
north, of
to Luther
A PIONEER PREACHER.
owns
widow
standing upon
Additions have been, made to the structure,
the
drawn
was
'
and
blacksmith-shop upon his
a
to. operate it.
by
by Christopher Queen, of the First New York Regi
ment.
A settler from Pennsylvania, named William Busenbark,. purchased the
southeast quarter in 1803, and,
moving upon it, raised a family. His death
occurred some
years ago, and his heirs sold to William Everett, present res
forty
ident. During the same year in which Busenbark settled, one Bachman bought
one hundred acres near the centre of tho lot, arid the two families came on to
gether.
Cornelius VanHorn bought of Bachman, arid the plat is now owned by
Lot No. 61
doubtless
as a relentless warfare
rapidly reduced. In
stances of danger incurred are. many, but few, if any, receiyed harm from the
Mr. Wade moved south into. Romulus, where he died in 1812,
reptile's fang.
them
was carried on against
1820, Dey erected
men of means
locality,
especially
In
Charles Beaver
aud employed
named
Wade,
in 1805
and
YORK.
mates a comfortable residence..
lot,
White.
of
COUNTY, NEW
Charles
the
Mosher,
south side of
minister
pounded
with one
the
lot,
hundred
combined
in the long-ago days
the meaning
of
of
and
the life
1805.
twerity-five.
acres of a
of a settler with
Doubtless the
the sacred writ, and advised
that
farm, taken froin
of a
man who
Presbyterian
earnestly
his bearers to flee from
ex
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HISTORY OF SENECA
to come, from the
wrath
week-day labor
his
pulpit of
the logs
amidst
neat
Waterloo merchant, R.
have been seen
could
church,
his
scattered over
engaged
Rev. Mosher
cleaving.
in turn disposed
sold
in
even-tide
to
oar as
the land
of
Swift,
Wyckoff,
son, Squire Wyckoff, aged seventy years, is a resident
Michael VanCourt, who had made an
upon the old place.
early settlement upon
the east part of the lot, made a sale, in 1810, of forty acres to Abigail Munson.
Four years later VanCourt died, and his farm, bought by John Buys, was sold
by him in 1828 to Stephen Monroe, who has continued to reside upon it till the
the
well-known
to Peter
who
is in his
and
present,
Rev.
VanCourt,
Clark,
from the
quarter acres
In casting lots for ownership
seventy-third year.
Presbyterian
a
divine,
the
northeast comer of
with
lot.
These parties, Clark
trade
1801,
and
his
his
men, found in
.
Samuel
1803,
as
the
lived in the vicinity,
also
Upon
interesting,
throwing a dead hog into
in
handsomely"
dead,
the
Lot 80 in
Henry Davis,
the
on
and was one of
those
joke,
with
a
practice
by
when employed
the latter
requested
Mr.
words.
His
appropriate
his hat
Herbert, lifting
when
following
the
few
a
monopolized
settled on
occasion,
lake,
the
only be imagined
pronounced
one
with
off
can
times to
at all
the
King
Leander Covert
by
place now occupied
were
supplied
in 1803.
officers
red man's
Isaac Phillips
he
and although
Samuel Gordon
the town
the
stroke of
and
Thurston
and
manufacture,
it
make
indignation
to the
reverence
lightsome
shore.
neighborhoods, ready
to
assist
by the
kept busy.
Daniel Herbert
Herbert to "waltz him
surprise and
own
was not
once owned
most
of wit
in'
early
name appears as one of
Jersey,
sufficiency
Mr. Davis to
he
town
a
northeast corner.
M.
Court, had bought together of H. Howland. The northwest corner was bought
1814. Ayers sold one hundred acres to
by Zebulon Ayers, of New Jersey,
acres to Elijah Karr, and
Wilcox, fifty
fifty acres to Gay and King. There was
half
from New
Van
and
of
save
for the Cayuga
glided out
settlement with shoes of
one-
obtained seventy-three and
disturbed
not else
stillness,
his boat
residents of this neighborhood as
whose
159
NEW YORK.
COUNTY,
in
couplet,
by'
Dr. Marvin, of
an ashery
early date upon the Wyckoff farm ; it was run
town
of
Connecticut, who lived in the
Romulus, where now stands a school-house.
an owner and occupant of a fifty-acre farm on this lot.
Silas Allen, in 1812,
at an
The
by AVilliam Stottle, a weaver, who
Bowman, his father-in-law, was
grave-yard.
The body was carried a mile
hundred
buried in the Romulus
man
acres.
much of
fann
held for
was
and
possession of a
Mrs.
the
Jacob
by
moved out
grated
Earle,
Vreeland,
to Seneca
the
and
was
laid
to William
off
family
A hundred
a good export
has
and
into the ownership of
the lot was an early
passed
southwest corner of
in 1833.
McCarty
from this fann.
New York.
of
Vreeland
A
upon
acres
few
the
one of
demand.
John
fifty
Here he lived
it in 1804.
which
became known far
and
till
wide,
in the city ;
was a carman
early day; sold out in 1831, and emi
were held by Silas Allen, a settler as early
from the
acres
part of
fifty acres was
second
sources of
Buys,
northwest corner of
1813,
and
is
he
when
revenue,
from Lot 77
servation,"
purchased
A
at an
ashery,
proprietor of an
had
whose potash
The
sold
who
his
with
to Michigan.
1806,
family,
the
A. P. Miller.
Romulusville
village of
taken
by
time
a
Edward Barton
as
begun in 1797
was
northeast one
half through the woods, to find its sepulture in a spot where later his dust
kindred company. The death of Stottle took place in 1836. The
and a
has
the
upon
first
the
Lot 69
settlement of
located
of
"
the
a
On Lot 81
hune,
1801,
is
and
For
quarter-century the
a
1838,
property
W. S. Sharp. It is related
innkeeper lived
old
to Ayers
passed
the
Thomas Burroughs
on
Lot
72,
as characteristic of
and
the
it is in
that
times,
and at
his
death,
present possession of
on
the
occasion of
in 1830, by the Rev. Morris Barton, of William
the marriage
Merrill to the landlord's niece, that Buys requested a second prayer from the
"
The re
the families on both sides being, as he said,
very
at Buys's tavern
disaster ;
sad
and
boat, during
a
leave its
the
being
Overseer
an
?"
Himself, Enoch Ter
the lake, and were
1800.
1818,
upon
knocked
boom,
the
upon
moved
master
year
year
by a swing of
was struck
1806 his
dred
is
name
years of
off
age,
the
on
the-
acres
after
lake,
the
near
lot,
occupies
the
into the
off
Lot 81 'in the
east part of
Highways in 1805.
of
-Farther
he had
the
a
town
record of
while
During 1800,
Phillips.
where
farm
west
Richard,
son
On the
end.
Volkingburg lived
two hundred
east
In
acres.
John L. Deal bought
officers.
Volkingburg's
Samuel
of about
one
hun
seventy-four
now about
the
No, 69, fronting
part of
Constable
Williams, a pettifogger, auctioneer, etc., who was elected
His son, John Williams, was the first white child born on the Reserva
hale and hearty
tion, and probably in Varick. He is now eighty years of age, a
family.
Williams
the
yet
owned
farm
is
Fayette.
The
old
resident of
by
John
James Bennett
this place,
upon
Brothers,
hog
John Bryant
No. 68
on
was
the early town officers,
in
in
recorded as
by
in 1794.
TAVERN."
"BUYS'S
death, thy
down the lake, on Lot 73, lived Samuel Phillips, as stated above, in 1803. He
It was occupiedconstructed a frame house which has but recently burned down.
lake, was
still recalled as
take the
he
drowned.
water and
Re
lot, and moved
log tavern stand
cruel
were
almost ashore when
year
Oh !
Why
Daniel Christopher in the
resided
and
and
the
erected
"
being
as one of
early period, and is recollected
Overseer of Highways in 1799, while a short
at an
elected
distance north, on No. 64, David Harris had moved in and settled in 1800, where
J. R. Schuyler now resides. A store was kept in 1801 by Harris, at the place
In 1805 there came one Robert White, arid
indicated as his improvement.
west of McDuffeetown resided John
half-mile
tract.
A
the
same
located on
Blaine,
Mr. Blaine is
from Pennsylvania.
now an aged resident of
Seneca Falls.
Near the lake, on the lot in question, dwelt the pioneer, Joseph Burroughs. On
No. 82, a tailor, froin New Jersey, David Edwards by name, had acquired one
Abram Arnold,
tavern.
hundred
whereon, in 1820, he built and kept a
wicked."
minister,
acceded
quest was
vanced a
like
to,
amount
as
and
for the
that
portion
the lots.
was of
is
lying in Varick,
tains twenty-six lots
situated on
"Reservation,"
of
the
Thoiigh.the lands
later date than in
oft-times reckless pioneer
paid
the
usual
fee, Buys
ad
CAYUGA RESERVATION,
THE
or
the bridegroom had
second prayer.
fertile
were
did
not care
the
and
the
parts of
other
the
east side of
south
the
town,
line of the town
and
being
eon-
that of
the location
beautiful, the settlement
even the brave, hardy, and
town, for
to trespass
the
upon
reserved rights of
the
acres,
Jersey, had about fifty acres on the northwest part, where he died,
VanDuyne, some time about 1830, became its possessor. Colby Lane,
acres on No. 78,
a gentleman from away down East, bought one hundred and fifty
small
a
conducted
and
upon which he erected
ashery, having abandoned one
also
from New
and
Dennis
previously built
celebrity
on
the farm
now owned
man, for
chose rather
respect.
whose prowess was entertained a wholesome
to fell the
build them homes
first
settlers are of
On
pioneers.
and
the past,
the
good old age of
tion herein
there
forest along the banks of
Lake,
The
trouble.
none had excuse to molest, or make them
of its earliest
and scanty material can be gathered
heavy
where
The early settlers
Seneca
northeast
eighty-one,
In
contained.
part of
arid
Lot 77 lives John A. Christopher,
from him
1800,
we
have
John Buys
gleaned much of
at
the
the informa
No.
77, and afterwards
in the history of that lot. Bar
settled on
No. 69, where he kept tavern, as stated
part of the
well as nearly all the settlers in this
ney and Elias Christopher, as
neighborhood in 1806, and
this
in
arrived
County, came from New Jersey. They
on the lake.
settled on what is now as handsome a farm as there is
its
owner, and at his death
At a later day, 1810, Nathan Christopher became
Located
his son, J. A. Christopher, took charge of it, and is at present its owner.
lot are the Methodist Episcopal Church, the Oak
moved to
on
the
Hill
southwest corner of
Cemetery,
appellation
on
he
the
"seven
mowed
"
cating accuracy)
danced all
a
McDuffeetown.
of that name who resided
James McDuffee had
family,
none
one
This hamlet
in the
hundred
by,
and
mostly
the
east
the town.
part, where
Robert and
the
reaching far
out on
the bosom
of
its
neighborhood,
acre's on
of whom are now residents of
received
Joseph McDuffee settled, in 1808, where the church now stands, and
in the
their drums and fifes was nightly heard echoing and re-echoing
ravines near
each summer
acres and
within
His
here is
ence
brings
Cayuga
music of
romantic
Lake, breaking the
stories, among
(the exact
forty-four
the
day,
compass of a
remains
lie
unmarked
by any
indi
ball
and
and over
him.
attended
head-stone,
of
exploit
number of rods
then
and
some
obtained
the
a
vegetation, while the memory of his
On the southeast
of
an idle hour.
in the tales
a growth of rank
perpetuated
two hundred
exist
of
acres of a
74, Henry Gardner, from New Jersey,
his quick ear detected
farm, in 1805. One night, while engaged in husking corn,
hastened within his
the stealthy approach of some wild beast ; being unarmed, he
found the tracks of
he
On
which was not distant.
afterwards,
going back,
house,
passed
had
that
it
showed
which
directly over his foddera panther in the snow,
from
the kick of a horse.
resulted
in
His death, which took place
1813,
pile.
John Gambee,
Reeder.
H.
His farm is now owned by W. H. Gambee and W.
resided upon
Lot
from
70
Pennsylvania, purchased four
and
erected
mill, together
those
sudden
George
ness
Fridley
to
children at
his
it many
and
clover-seed
death,
estate
years.
acres east of
until
its
The land
and
has
Andrew
Lots 66
north
end
the
former.
down,
was washed
by
brook to
same
purchase
owjied
Hood, on
on
the
the
since gone
the road,
lower
upon
saw-mill
later built
erected a clover-mill on
settled
ownership the
hundred
which converted a quiet
a saw-mill.
On No. 62
upon
frame
freshets
in milling
changed
a
with others
this
greater part of
from families
Lot No. 79.
raised
and
which was
rods"
having
He
W. H. Gambee.
as a narrator of extravagant
night."
red
by
by
into
the
site,
by
a
of
raging,
and
Jesse
torrent.
whom
bestowed
busi
it
upon
was
his
hands.
lot, and after various
Robinson, who has lived
south end of
N.
has become the property
East of Hood, George Alexander
of
was
This
one of
an extensive
Abbott, by
Mr. Gambee
other
did
away
resistless
and
the
resided on
a
forty-acre