The north country; a history, embracing Jefferson, St. Lawrence, Oswego, Lewis and Franklin counties, New York, Volume 1, Part 1

Author: Landon, Harry F. (Harry Fay), 1891-
Publication date: 1932
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Go 974. 7 L23n v. 1 Landon, Harry F. b. 1891. The north country; a history


The North Country


A History, Embracing


Jefferson, St. Lawrence, Oswego, Lewis and Franklin Counties, New York


By HARRY F. LANDON


IN THREE VOLUMES


ILLUSTRATED


VOLUME ONE


HISTORICAL PUBLISHING COMPANY INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA 1932


COPYRIGHT 1932 HARRY F. LANDON WATERTOWN, N. Y.


1128215


To Harold B. Johnson Who Inspired the Love for North Country History which Resulted in this work


Introduction


"The History of the North Country" is an effort to present the history of Northern New York as a composite picture, at the same time including accurate biographical sketches of hundreds of men and women who are making North Country history today. It is a local history in the sense that it has taken the five counties of Jeffer- son, Oswego, St. Lawrence, Lewis and Franklin, whose historical development has been largely along identical lines, and considered them as a contiguous whole. It is not a local history, however, in the hackened sense that it is a mere compilation of town histories and town records.


The writer of this narrative has attempted to present in these pages a picture of the life of the people of the North Country from the day of the pioneers to the present time. He has felt that in the homely life of its people is to be found the real history of a given section. He has tried to make it an interesting and colorful but above all an accurate and truthful narrative, so he has gone behind existing county histories to the sources. From old documents, from ancient reports, from diaries and journals, yellowed with age, and from newspaper files, covering a period of well over a hundred years, he has drawn the material which has gone into the making of this history.


To give a complete bibliography of the books and manuscripts consulted in the preparation of this work would take many pages. Existing county and town histories have all been consulted of course, particularly the noteworthy histories of Hough. The Jesuit Relations ought to be mentioned. There is no better source material on the pre-settlement period of North Country history than these early mis- sionary reports. The Constable Journal and the Journal of the Castorland Company, both in manuscript in the State Library at Albany, have proved invaluable. But in developing the history of Northern New York during the period of settlement, principal recourse has been had to the files of North Country newspapers from 1817 to the present day. Thousands of these old newspapers have been read in an effort to gain from their yellowed pages a picture of the people whose homely doings they recorded. Particularly have the files of the Sackets Harbor Gazette, the Oswego Palladium, the St. Lawrence Republican and the Watertown Jeffersonian, covering a period of many years, been searched diligently and painstakingly.


V


HISTORY OF THE NORTH COUNTRY


And the author has not hesitated to draw freely from the research of distinguished students of North Country history of the present day. Invaluable help has been received from Mr. Richard C. Ellsworth, secretary of St. Lawrence University, Mr. Harold B. Johnson, whose library on Northern New York history is probably the most complete in existence, Miss Alta Ralph, whose researches into the French regime in Northern New York are well known, Dr. C. T. Leete of Potsdam, Mr. Clarence E. Kinne of Watertown, an authority on North Country industrial history, Mr. Clarence C. Smith, Mr. L. L. Allen, historian of the New York State Grange, and many others.


For well over a century Northern New York, as we understand the term today, was disputed ground, a frontier land, a battle ground of the nations, because that country which controlled the St. Law- rence river controlled the great water highway into the interior of the continent. In the days after Waterloo to the haven of its great forests came many of the distinguished figures who had followed the Eagles of the Emperor, to dream of the day when the Corsican would be free once more to lead again the legions of France. Where in the pages of history will one find a more fascinating tale than the story of the Patriot War or a more grotesque one than that of the Fenian raids? An obscure grave in a North Country churchyard bears the mortal remains of a niece of Napoleon; on a great boulder in the brooding silence of the Adirondacks are chiseled the simple words, "John Brown"; a plain, marble shaft in a graveyard at Can- ton serves notice that there sleeps Silas Wright.


It is an interesting chapter in American history that one finds up here in this North Country. If the writer has been able to tran- scribe something of the color and romance of it to these pages, he has been amply repaid for the years of research which have gone into the making of this history.


HARRY F. LANDON.


Watertown, N. Y., Nov. 1, 1931.


vi


Table of Contents


Chapter I-The Onondaga War Trial 33


Chapter II-Border Warfare 61


Chapter III-The Great Land Patents 87


Chapter IV-The Coming of the Pioneers 108 1


Chapter V-The Birth of the Counties


1


139


Chapter VI-"Mr. Madison's War" 159


Chapter VII-A President Rides Through the North 184


Chapter VIII-The Settlement of the Towns. 206


Chapter IX-The Landed Gentry and their Homes. 242


Chapter X-The French Emigres.


.261


Chapter XI-Stage Coach, Packet and Canal Boat.


278


Chapter XII-The "Patriot War" 322


301


Chapter XIII-The Reign of Silas Wright.


Chapter XIV-The Golden Age of the Academies 355


Chapter XV-The Iron Horse Reaches the North 383


Chapter XVI-The Birth of the Cities 407


Chapter XVII-The Civil War and the Fenian Raids 434


Chapter XVIII-The Development of the Resort Region 456


Chapter XIX-The Development of Agriculture and Industry. 481


Chapter XX-A Half Century of Growth 50


Chapter XXI-The North Country of Today 531


vii


Historical Index


Adams


120,


216


Barnard, Henry


433


Adams, Levi


118


Barney, Andrew Jackson


435,


440


Adams Collegiate Institute


370


Barney, Dr. Lowery 397


Abolitionists 396,


397


Barnum's circus in Northern New York 403


Academies


in


Northern


New


York


355-


370


Barnburners


349, 352-


354


Adirondacks, 470-480; early hotels


477,


478


"Adirondack Murray"


470,


471


Adirondack Park 478-


480


Bartholomew, Deacon Oliver 422


Agricultural Insurance Co.


406


Baseball, first game in Northern New York 440


Northern New York 481-


486


Beach, Allen C.


422


Alexandria


218


Benedict, Col. Thomas B. 162


Alexandria Bay 458,


464


Bernhard's Bay 111


Alger, John, tavern


129


Bernhard, John 111


512


Allen, William F.


349


Allen, Leonard L.


488


Algonquin Paper Co.


503


Aluminum Company of America


503,


504


Ames Iron Works


492


American House, Hannibal 285


American House, Watertown 285


Anderson, David W.


498


Angel, William H.


432


Black River & Utica Railroad_392,


393,


Angle, W. N.


435


Blair, Francis P., at Thousand Islands 460


Anthony, Susan B., lecture in Wa- tertown


419


Anti-Masonic party 325-


329


Antwerp


218


Armstrong, Secretary 171,


172


Bombay


228


Bonaparte, Joseph 268-


270


Bostwick, Isaac W. 431


114


Asbury, Bishop, visit to Northern New York 155-


156


Augsburg, Frank A.


503


Boyer, Frederick


529


337


Brainard, O. V.


432


Brant, Joseph


86


82


Brantingham, Hopper


93


Brick Hotel, Evans Mills 286


Broadhead, Capt. Charles


99


401


Bangor


186,


202


Bronson, Alvin 175, 287, 288, 410, 411


Bronson, Judge Ethel


257


131


Bronson, Isaac H.


335


Baptists


York


396


Big Mouth, Iroquois chief


57-


58


Black Lake, discovery. 49


Black River 98


Black River Association of Con- gregational Churches 132


Black River Canal


291-


Boardman, Rev. George 215


Boldt's Castle, Thousand Islands. 469


Arthur, President, visit to Thou-


sand Islands


464,


465


Boussont, Jean Baptiste 107,


Boyd, Rev. James R. 365


Bradish, Luther


335, 336,


Automobiles, early, in Northern New York 516,


517


Averill, James 432


Bachellor, Irving


524,


525


Backus, Col.


168,


Bagley & Sewall Co. 500,


501


Bailey, William


123, 229,


259


228


Brockway, Beman


350,


Banks, early


200, 201,


Bank of Lowville 431


Brant, Molly


93


169


Brewerton, Fort


293


Black River Institute


364-


366


Algonkians


34 Bicycle races


Barre, de la, governor general of Canada, 55; conference with Iroquois 56-


58


Agriculture,


development


in


"Big Blow"


in Northern New


Blodgett's Tavern, Denmark 285


ix


HISTORY OF THE NORTH COUNTRY


Brown, Jacob 120, 141, 160,


161, 162, 169, 170, 182, 193, 194,


219


Clark, John


422


432


Brown, John


397


Clarke, Charles E. 422


Brown, Levi H.


422


Clarke, Edwin W.


412


Brown, Lysander H. 422


Brown, William C.


428


Clarkson family 92,


252


Brownville


120,


219


Claus, Col. Daniel


78


Brunel, Marx Isambert 97,


98


Buck Island 77


Butler, Walter, death of 85


Butterfield, Levi


"Camp's Ditch"


293,


294


Camp, Elisha


221, 252,


257


Camp, Talcott H.


422


Campbell, Dr. James


498


Coit, James J.


259


Cape Vincent, French at


262


Card, Rev. Peleg


131


"Comet" blows up in Oswego har- bor


413


Carlisle, Floyd L. 498, 504,


505


Congregationalism


130,


131


Carlisle, Lewis


516


Conkey, Capt. John


463


Carney, P. E., recollection of old


railroad days


390-


392


The Constable family 247,


248


Carrying the Cable 181


Carthage, 100; fire of 1884


.511, 533,


534


Constable, town of


Constable, William 89, 91, 96, Constableville (Shalers) _106, 113, Constantia


208 128


Castorland Company 96-


101


Castorland Journal


97


Cooper, Judge William


92, 114,


123


Caswell, Gurdon, paper mill


495


Copely, Alexander


432 503


Central Square


Counties, birth of 139-


144


County fairs


195-


198


Champion Congregational Church .135,


136


Covington, Gen.


119 424


Champlain canal (proposed)_290,


291


Crossman, Charles .459,


460


Champlain, Samuel 45-


432


"Cup and Saucer House"


272-


273


Chassanis, Citizen Peter


96


Curtis, N. M.


435,


464


Checkered House 285


484


Dablon, Father


52


Cheese factories 483-


484


Dairy industry in Northern New York 484-


486


Dairymen's League


485,


486


Chrysler's Farm, battle of 172


229


Dayan, Charles 431 165


Dearborn, Maj. Gen.


268


Church, Daniel W. 117, 122, Church, Rev. John W. 131 Dejardines, Simon 97


Civil War, 434-449; drafts and


De Kalb


123,


239


Denmark


281


bounties, 440-443; "'copper heads" in Northern New York,


Denmark meeting 1804 141


Denonville, Marquis,


expedition


58


against the Iroquois


239


x


1


443; relief work, 446; soldiers


come home


446-


449


Circuit riders


130


DePeyster


Clayton


217


Clayton, early hotels 467,


468


Cleveland, President, at Thousand Islands 465-


467


Clinton, De Witt 147-155, 196, 197


Clinton, Rev. Isaac 359


Coffeen, David


119


Coffeen, Henry 119,


142


Canton


122, 123, 235, 236,


373


Collins, Jonathan


142


Colton


236


Constable Hall


247,


248


Constable, James


127 229 129


Carthage Sulphite Pulp & Paper Co.


498


233


Case, Rev. William


170


Cooking, pioneer


127,


Champion, Gen. Henry


Champion Paper Co.


498


93 Cowan, Jonathan Crawe, Dr. John M.


172


Chittenden, Congressman 341


Cholera epidemic 295-


298


Davis Sewing Machine Co. 492


Chateaugay


105, 109, 123,


Chaumonot, Father 52


Chauncey, Commodore Isaac _164, 174 De Feriet, Baroness Janice .267-


123 De Grasse Paper Co. 499


47 Crossman House 459, 460, 464, 465


Chapman, Augustus


281 Coplan Steel Co.


Champion


107, 118, 219,


220


77


Carleton Island


Conkling, Roscoe P.


520


Clarkson College 519,


119


Circuses, early 204, 403, 404


Cheese boards 483,


HISTORY OF THE NORTH COUNTRY


Desvatines


93, 94,


95


Dexter Sulphite Pulp & Paper Co.


498


French, Cliff


143


French Emigres in Northern New


York


261


Frenchman's Island


93


French and Indian War in North-


ern New York


67-


74


Doty, Chillus


118,


143


Douglas, Frederick,


lecture


in


Watertown


419


Frontenac, Fort, 56, 66, 70; cap-


ture of


72


Drinking in early Northern New


York


294-


296


Fulton


429,


532


Fulton banks


429


Fulton Female Seminary 370


Fulton, Luke


487,


488


Eames Vacuum Brake Co. 501


Easton, William L. 431


Gaines, Rev. Absalom Graves 377


Gaines, Dr. Charles Kelsey. 377


Giles, Rev. Charles 265


Gould Paper Co. 500


Gouverneur


240


Gouverneur family 92


Gouverneur Wesleyan Academy _ 369


Granby, town of


208


Granges in Northern New York.


486-


488


Grant, A. P.


Grant, President, visit to Thou- sand Islands, 462-464; speech in Watertown 463


Greene, Dr. A. S.


347,


421


Gunnison, Dr. Almon 378


Haddock's balloon trip


404-


406


257


Haldimand, Fort


80-


82


455 Hall, George, Corporation 502,


503


Fine, Judge John.


336, 337, 344,


427


Hall, George 502


234 Hamilton (Waddington) 122, 147, Hamilton, Alexander, purchase. 90


Hammond


241


Hannibal, town of 209


Hannibal, military town of 88


432


Harison family, The 248,


249


Flower, Roswell P. 527,


528


Football, era of professional_517- 519


Foote, Stillman


122,


123


Ford, Major David


121, 161,


193


Ford, Judge Nathan


105, 106, 116, 140, 255


Forsythe, Capt. Ben.


164, 166,


167


High Falls 99


Hitchcock Lamp Company.


492,


493


Hoard & Bradford 490,


491


Fowle, Theodosius


240


Hoard, Charles B. 402


Hoffman, John O. 93


Hogan family 250


Franklin Academy, Malone .369,


370


Franklin county, birth of. 143,


144


Hogan, Michael 92,


250


Franklin County fairs 198


Hoit, Gates


123


Fredericksburg 213


Holley, Marietta


521,


522


French, Abel


118


Hopkins, Jesse


257


514,


515


Ellisburg


120,


220


Ellis, Lyman.


120, 127, 142,


220


Embargo Act


156, 157,


158


Emerson, Ralph Waldo, in Adi- rondacks


472


Eskimos


34


Farms, number of in Northern New York


481


Farwell, Eli


422


Federalist party in Northern New York 254-


Fenian raids


449-


Fine View


Fish, Major Nicholas


Fisher, Dr. Ebenezer


Fisher's Landing 468


Fisk, Rev. Richmond 377


Fitzgibbons Boiler Co. 502


Flanders, Francis D. 443


Flower, Col. George W. 423,


439


Harison, George F. 260


Harison, Richard 92


Hasbrouck, Louis 121


Henderson 221


Henderson, William 93


Hennepin, Father 58


Heuvelton


234


Fort Covington (French Mills) __ 123


Forty-niners 393, 394


Fowler 239


389


431


Doig, Andrew W.


Frontenac, Count,


expedition


against the Iroquois


58-


60


Duer, William


411


Dutton, Rev. Nathaniel __ 130, 132, 133


"Eben Holden"


524


Edwards 239


Election returns for Oneida coun- ty 1801 and 1804. 124,


125


Electric lights in North Country_


335


xi


Diamond Match Co. 502


Dickinson, town of 229


Dodge, Edwin


240,


468 92 375


Harger, Charles G.


HISTORY OF THE NORTH COUNTRY


Hopkins, Judge Roswell 122


Hopkinton


122, 186,


241


Hounsfield


221


Lafargeville 223


Hubbard, Noadiah


116, 118,


220


Lambert, Rev. Chauncey


134,


Hungerford House, Watertown


424


Land prices


Landed proprietors 90


Lansing, Judge Robert


422


Lansing, Robert 528,


529


Hunt, Simeon


143


Hunter Lodges 303,


304


La Salle


58


Lawrence 241


Lee, Rev. John Stebbins


375


Lee, Captain William 121


Le Moyne, Father Simon 51-


52


Lery, de, Lieut., expedition against Fort Bull 67-


68


Le Ray, James D.


185, 194, 195, 262-


264


Ingersoll, Robert


430


LeRay mansion


264-


265


48


LeRay, town of


221,


222


Irving, Washington 114-116,


183 Le Ray, Vincent 174,


184


Le Roy, Herman 92, 238,


252 431


Island Paper Co. 498 512


Ives, Arthur C., bicycle tour


Ives, J. C.


412


370


Jay, John


90


Jackson, "Stonewall"


397


Long Falls


100


Jefferson County Bank 200,


201


Lord, Capt. Newton B.


439


Jefferson county, birth of 143


Lorraine


222


Lost Dauphin Legend 273-


276


Lottery tickets


299


Low, Nicholas


90


Johnson, Guy, calls council at Os- wego


76


Johnson, Sir John, flight of


76


Lowville, 230; in the fifties. 431,


537


Lowville Academy 359,


360


Johnston, William 305-


309


Judson, David C. 432


Kelley, Daniel


118


Kelley, William


92


Kent, Artemus, dairy 191,


192


Macomb, Alexander, Purchase_88, 89


Madison Barracks


195


Madrid 234


Keyes, Perley


286,


287


Malone, 186, 227, 428; Fenians at, 450-455; fire of 1888 _.__ 511, 536, Mannix, Capt. Edward J. 450, 451,


454


Kingsford Foundry & Machine Co. 491


Manufacturing in Northern New York 199, 200, 488- 504


Maps, first


Jesuit


of


Northern


New York 54


Maple Island legend 444-


446


Marcy, Governor, in Watertown .. 306


Martin, Gen. Walter_93, 117, 162, 231


Martinsburg 117,


231


Lacey, Capt. John


439


Massena .. 105, 235, 503, 504, 535, 536


La Famine 54-


55


Massey, Hart


157,


329


135 137


Hungerford, Orville


344, 351, 353, 387,


422


Hunkers


349


La Presentation, 61; fall of 73,


74


Hyams, Godfrey J. 445


Hydro-electric developments_504-


506


Indians


33


Indian place names 42-


44


Indian river, discovery.


49


Indian sites in Northern New York 36-37, 38, 39,


40


Iroquois


41-42,


Irwin, May


470


Lewis County Bank


Lewis county, birth of 143


Lewis County Fair 198


Leyden, old town of 109


Lisbon


122, 139,


235 68


Jefferson County Fair __ 195, 196, 197


Jesuits, 47-54; contributions to geography


51


Lowell, James Russell, in Adiron- dacks 472


Johnson, Sir William


64, 75,


76


Lundy's Lane, battle of 182


Lyman Exodus 238


Lyme, town of 222


Lyons Falls


100


King, Preston, 336, 337, 344, 347, 352, 354, 375, 401; elected United States senator, 402, 427; at Thousand Islands 460


Kingsford Starch Works 491


Kingsford, Thomas 491


Kiniston, N. W.


282


Kirby, Fred M.


510


Knox, S. H.


509


La Farge, John


223, 271-


272


LaFarge Mansion 272


Kent, Moss


119, 142,


257


Keyes, Judge Perley.


202, 203,


204


536


xii


1


Ives Seminary, Antwerp


L'Observation, Fort


HISTORY OF THE NORTH COUNTRY


McClennan, Lieut. Thomas, his


expedition against Oswegatchie


81


McCormick, Daniel 92


McMullen, Neil


103


McVickar family


91,


251


Mc Whorter, George H. 412


Meacham, Col.


298


Onondaga war trail


33, 36,


79


"Ontario"


188


Mendell, Capt. S. J. 436


Merriam, Ela 282


Merrick, E. C.


432


Orleans House


223


Orleans, town of 223


Orwell, town of


210


Oswegatchie, Fort


61, 77,


81


Mexico, town of


209,


Mexico, old town of


109


Oswegatchie road 116


Oswegatchie trail


37,


49


Military tracts


88


Oswego, 61, 62, 65, 66; capture by


Mitchell, Lucien C.


Monroe, President, visit of __ 192-


195


Montcalm, Marquis 69-72,


Moody, Capt. Medad


329


Moody, "Uncle Mart" 472


208


Moore, Louis W.


517


Moore, W. H.


509


Mormons in Northern New York.


299,


300


Morris, Gouverneur


106, 147,


253


Morris, Gouverneur, mansion


147


Morristown


121,


235


Morse, Rev. Pitt


215,


373


Oswego's first newspapers


285


Oswego Hotel


Oewego Paper & Bag Corporation 497


Oswego Shade Cloth Factory. 492


Oswego Starch Factory 491


Oswego State Normal School 371


Oswego trail


35, 93,


103


Outterson, James A.


498,


499


Packet lines


283-


284


Paddock's Arcade, Watertown


417


Paddock, Loveland


432


Pamelia


224


Panic of 1837 334,


335


Paper mill era 493-


500


Parish, David


145, 162, 163, 174, 184, 199


250


Parish, George


Parish iron works 199


427


Parish mansion 146,


431


O'Brien, Capt. John


435,


436


Parish, Russell


Parishville 186,


236


Parker, Capt. George 435


Ogden, David A. 244, 253, 255,


256


Ogden family


244,


245


Parmelee, Rev. Ishbel 130


Ogden, Gouverneur


256


Parsons, Rev. Stephen 131


Ogden, Mrs. Gouverneur


244


Patents, land


87


105


Patriot War


301-


321


532 386


Oswego canal


286-


289 144


Oswego County Fairs


198 209


Oswego Falls.


112, 153, 208,


187


Mullen, Joseph


351, 401,


423


Murat, Prince


270,


271


Murdock, Rev. James


130


Natural Dam


147


Nevin, Capt. David . 435,


436


New Haven, town of


210


Newton Falls Paper Co.


499


New York Air Brake Co.


501


New York Union Telegraph Co. 513,


514 505


Niagara-Hudson Corporation


Nichol's Pond, battle of


47


Ninety-fourth New York Infantry


440


Ninth United States Infantry


Noble, Edward J. 468,


515 469 241


Norfolk


385


Northern Railroad 384,


461


Nott, Claude


Ogdensburg, 105, 106, 115, 121,


145, 146; capture of, 166, 167, 234; in the fifties. 425-428, 534 One Hundred Eighty-Sixth Regi- ment returns from War _447 448 Oneida county assessment roll of 1803 124


Meade, Gen. George C. in North- ern New York


451


Ontario, Fort, 166; destruction of during Revolution 81,


82


Methodism 133 364


Mexico Academy


363,


Mexico Village


210


210


Oswegatchie river, first charted. 5


Meyer, John 111


502 Montcalm, 68-72, 75, 79, 97, 103, 112; early commerce of, 154- 74 155; capture in War of 1812,


175-178, 207, 208, 211, 288-290; flouring mills, 409; becomes a city, 407-411; fire of 1881. _510,


Mooney, Barnet


Oswego & Syracuse Railroad_385, Oswego board of trade


410


Oswego county, birth of


Oswego county turnpikes 410


Parish family


249,


432


O'Connor, Capt. Edward


103


Ogden, Col. Samuel


xiii


HISTORY OF THE NORTH COUNTRY


Paul Smith's 477,


478


Republican party, birth in North 399- 402


Peck, Carson C.


509


Peck, Rev. Jesse T. 369


Peel, Sir Robert, sinking of_304-


306


Richland, town of 212


Penet Square


223


Roberts, Benjamin 105


Perch Lake mounds


40


Rodman, town of 224


Pettingill, Rev. Amos


Pharoux, Peter


97,


99


Roosevelt, John 89,


90


Phelps, Rev. Royal


131 Roosevelt, Nicholas J. 89, 90, 259


Roosevelt purchase 89


Rosa, V. V. 432


Phoenix


Picquet, Abbe


62, 63, 64, 65,


72


Pierpont


237


Rossie


238


Rossie iron works


199


Rotterdam, New


95, 96, 110, 111, 148,


149


Routes into early Northern New York 110-


113


Rowe, Dr. Joseph Eugene. 520


Ruger, William 344


Russell


186,


238


Pontiac


75-


76


Rutland, town of 225


Population


of


Northern


New


York


531


Sacket, Augustus


221,


257


Portable Steam Engine Co., Wa-


tertown


420,


421


Potter, Stephen L.


435


Port Ontario


212


Potsdam


123,


237


Potsdam & Watertown Railroad


389-


390


Sandy Creek, battle of.


180


Saranac Lake


472,


476


Savage, Annette


269,


270


Schools, select


204,


205


Scott, Gen. Winfield


165,


182


Scriba


212, 213, 257, 258,


259


95


Scriba Mansion


257-


259


Schuyler, D. J. 223


Seaver, Joel 435


Racquette River Paper Co. 499


Railroads in Northern New York


_383-


393


Raymond, Benjamin


123, 237, 255,


366


Raymond, Sewall


237


Real, Count Pierre Francois 261


Redfield


104, 112,


211


Reforestation


506


Sherman, Dr. Abel


143


Sherman, George C. 422,


432


Sherman, Wooster 432


Sherman Paper Co. 497


Sillcox, L. K.


502


Sixteen New York Volunteers 439


Sixtieth New York Infantry. 440


Six Town Point


68,


70


Rensselaer Falls


236


Skillings, Whitney & Barnes


493


Pierrepont, Hezekiah


92,


251


Pierrepont, William C.


387,


432


Pike, Gen. Zebulon


165,


168


Pinckney


231


Pioneer life


Pitcairn


239


Platt, James, first mayor of Os- wego


410


Poncet, Father Antoine 49-


51


Russell Arsenal


238


Sackets Harbor, first battle of. 163


Sackets Harbor, second battle of


169, 170


Potsdam State Normal School.


371,


372


432


Prevost, Sir George


168


Pulaski, 212; in the fifties, 430;


fire of 1881


510, 532,


533


Pulaski Academy


370


Pullman, George


462


Seven Years War 67


Seymour, George N. 432


Sewall, Edmund Q. 422


Sewall, Henry D. 327


Shaler's (Constableville) 113


Sharpe, Peter


103


Sheridan, Gen. Phil, at Thousand


Islands


463


Remington family, paper manu- facturers 496,


497


Remington, Frederick 525


Remington-Martin Co. 499


Remington Museum of Art 525


Revolution in Northern New York


76-


86


Philosophers' Camp, Adirondacks 471,


472 112


Ross, Major John, commandant at Fort Haldimand 82


Rosseel, Joseph


145


125


Sackets Harbor


194


Sage, Capt. Nathan


104, 112,


208


52


Salmon river


Pratt, Solomon


Scriba, George


91,


xiv


Road, old French 101


131 Rome & Watertown Railroad_386- 389


Philadelphia, town of 224


HISTORY OF THE NORTH COUNTRY


Smith, Paul 473, 477, 478


Spalsburg, Capt. Edgar B. 439


Slaves owned in Northern New


York 156


Spanish-American war


515,


516


Spear, Rev. David


130,


132


Stage coaches


278-


283


Stage coach junctions


280-


283


Staples, Oren G. 461


Starbuck, James F.


422,


463


State fair in Watertown 402, 403


Steamboat, first on Great Lakes


188


190


Thousand Island House


462


Thousand Island Park 467


Tibbetts, John


122,


140


Three Rivers


150, 151,


152


Sterling Mansion


424


Tippecanoe and Tyler, too, cam- paign in Northern New York


340-


343


Tompkins, Governor


165,


173


Towns, settlement of 206


Townsend, Dr. Richard 145,


156


Trails, Indian


35, 36, 37,


38


St. Lawrence county, creation of_


140


Trinity Church, Watertown, burn- ing of 415


Trudeau, Dr. Edward L.


473-


475


Trudeau Sanatorium


474-


475


379


Turner, Alexander J.


122,


140


Turin


117,


232


Twenty-fourth New York Volun-


teers


439


Union Academy, Belleville ___ 360- 363 Union House, Sackets Harbor 285


United States Hotel, Oswego


285


Underground Railroad


396-


399


Van Buren, Martin


_286, 287, 324, 332, 333, 338-340, 460


Van Dieman's Land 320,


321


Van Rensselaer, Henry


253,


432


Van Valkenburgh, Maj. Law- rence 95,


103


Vaughan, William


103


Swegatchie (Oswegatchie)


61


Vary, Willet H. 488


Vera Cruz


95,


104


Velocipedes


in


Northern


New


York


511,


512


Vining, William H.


Volney, town o


213


Von Schoultz, Col.


310, 311,


315


Walker, Dr. Mary


523


522,


Taylor, Rev. John 38-40,


131


Walrath, Edson J.


488


War of 1812


159


Wardwell, Daniel


401


514


Washington Hall, Watertown,


418


Ten Eyck, Egbert


119,


142


Water storage


506


Tenth Heavy Artillery, homecom- ing 448- 449


Ten Towns


88,


89


Theresa, town of 226


Thompson, Jonathan


282,


283


Thousand Islands, 51, 457, 458; first cottage, 461; visit of Presi- dent Grant, 462-464; visit of President Arthur, 464-465; visit of President Cleveland, 465-467; famous residences, 468-470; public camp sites 480


Sterling, James


432


Sterling, Micah 202, 203, 204


Stevens, Oliver


93, 149,


150


Stevenson, Robert Louis, in Adi-


rondacks


475-


477


St. Lawrence Academy, Potsdam 366- 368


St. Lawrence County Fairs 198


St. Lawrence river boating songs 457


St. Lawrence turnpike_185, 186,


187


St. Lawrence University


.372-


St. Lawrence University


state


school of agriculture


379-


382


St. Leger's Expedition 77-


80


St. Mary's Cathedral, Ogdens - burg




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