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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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