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at Readville, near Boston, where they remained until they were ordered to the front October 23. We quote the "Record :"
"When we went to Readville, Colonel Lee was placed in command of camp, with military jurisdiction over a territorial radius of one mile. Although neither of our field officers believed in the principle of total absti- nence, they realized the evil influence caused by undne indulgence in intoxicating drinks, and for this reason, as well as to set an example to the men under their command, they mutually resolved not to taste any wine or ardent spirits while they were in the service of the United States, a resolution to which they scrupulously adhered. Colonel Lee in particular felt very strongly about this matter, and waged a relentless war against 'traffickers in the ardent' who attempted to establish booths near our camp."
A large proportion of the Forty-fourth were Boston clerks, and there were seventy-five Harvard students in the regiment. Camp life was enlivened by concerts of classical music, and at one time a whole opera was com - posed and rendered by some of the soldiers for the entertainment of the rest. Their attention to their appearance on parade gave them the name of the "kid glove regiment," but it was acknowledged that there was the same thoroughness about their fight- ing. The Forty-fourth was assingned to the 2nd bri- gade, 4th division, 18th Army Corps, Department of North Carolina, and its chief service was in the ope- rations about New Berne and Washington, N. C. Their
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banner bears the names of "Kinston, Whitehall, Golds- boro, Dec. 1862," and "Washington, April, 1863." It was after this engagement of Washington, N. C., (called "Little Washington") that it was reported in the pa- pers that Col. Lee had been killed. Not the least in- teresting page of the "Record" is that which contains portraits of the field and staff officers of the Forty- fourth, with the familiar figure of Colonel Lee in the centre, in his uniform, with sash and sword and mili- tary cap. The regiment was mustered out June 18, 1863.
Two meu born in Westport attained to the rank of Brigadier-General after removing to other places. One was John Tyler Cutting, half-brother of Dr. Sewall S. Cutting, who served in the civil war from the state of California, and was for nine years connected with the National Guard of California as Lieutenant, Major, Colonel and Brigadier-General.
The other was Alonzo Alden, born at Wadhams Mills, July 18, 1834. His father was Isaac Aldeu, a descend- aut of Jobn Alden of the Mayflower. Alonzo Alden graduated from Williams College in 1859 and entered the law office of Gale & Alden of Troy. In 1861 he re- ceived a commission as Lieut .- Colonel of the 169th N.Y. V. He led the charge of the regiment at Coal Harbor, Va., and was the first to stand on the works of the enemy, himself planting upon the redoubt the colors which he had snatched from the hand of the color bearer as he fell, shot dead. Lt. Col. Alden was at this time wounded in the head, but after two months at
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home he returned to duty, this time as Colonel. H. led the 169th at Fort Fisher, and when the fort was captured was placed in command of it. The enemy ex- ploded a mine beneath the fort, and Colonel Alden with a hundred of his men was blown thirty foet in the air. From the injuries received at that time he never recor- ered, and in recognition of his bravery was brevetted Brigadier-General. The remainder of his life was speut in Troy, where he held the office of postmaster from 1866 to 1874.
A list of the daughters of Westport who have married military men would be interesting, but hard to make complete. The husband of Emeline Wadhams, John E. Burton, was Captain of the 11th N. Y. Independent Battery, Light Artillery, U. S. V., and was brevetted Major. The first husband of Frances Wadhams, George D. Davenport, was Captain of Co. B, 5th Vt. Vols., and was killed in action at the Battle of the Wilderness. May 5, 1864. Her second husband, Ebenezer J. Orms- bee, was Captain of Co. G, 12th Vt. Vols., and after- ward Governor of the state of Vermont.
The record of Captain Albion Varette Wadhams, U. S. N., is as follows : Appointed midshipman in the U. S. Navy, Sept. 24, 1864; graduated from the Naval Academy in 1868, promoted to Ensign April 19, 1869 ; to Master July 12, 1870 ; to Lieutenant March 25, 1875. to Lient. Commander July 21, 1894, to Commander March 3, 1899, to Captain Dec. 27, 1904. The naval history of Captain Wadhams presents many picturesque details of service on all our foreign and home stations,
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with presentations at courts and participation in many a sharp, fight. During the Spanish war he was in command of the patrol of our coast from Mobile to Mexico. In 1893 he began lecturing upon his experi- ences in the navy, and has become famous as a public speaker. He makes his summer home at Wadhams Mills, and will sometimes entertain the people there who remember him as a boy with one of the lectures which be has delivered to large audiences all over the United States.
Albion James Wadhams, son of Captain Wadhams, entered the U. S. Naval Academy at Annapolis Sept. 4, 1891; graduated and was commissioned Ensign July 1, 1897, aud Lieutenant, Junior Grade, July 1, 1900. Re- signed May 5, 1901.
The Work of the Women.
And what part did our women take in the war, be- sides the involuntary role of waiting and weeping at home, with the whole interest of existence centered in the news from the front? We are fortunate in that this question can be fully answered, so far as details go, by the records of the Soldiers' Relief Society which was formed as soon as Company A had left for Saratoga. November 25, 1861, is the first date in the little manu- script book which is still preserved by the secretary of the society, and which has been kindly lent to the wri- ter. The constitution is written out in full and the ob- jeet of "The Ladies' Soldier's Relief Society of West-
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port" thus defined : "To meet the present emergency, and respond to the call of the government for aid in re- lieving the wants of the sick and wounded in our army, and also to supply those who may need suitable cloth- ing to make them comfortable." This was womanly work indeed, and it is plain that the society was faith- ful to its calling. The names of fifty women, and twenty-one men as honorary members, are written in the little book. Time goes so fast, and we have every reason to believe that it will go no more slowly after this book is printed than it has gone before, that Ihave added notes of explanation after each name, so far as I was able, so that after another fifty years these women may have yet some slight token of remembrance for the generation to whom they will be great-grandmothers. Every woman in her native town has (if she marries) two distinct names, her own, and her husband's. I have given both these names whenever I could.
Mrs. William Richards (Mary Ann Henderson). Her son Henry was in Co. A.
Mrs. Freeborn H. Page (Phebe Ann Viall). A brother in the Fifth N. Y. Cavalry.
Mrs. William Frisbie (Mary Orr.).
Mrs. Platt Sheldon (Asenath Braman). Two sons in the service, one killed.
Mrs. Henry Eddy (Marietta Hickok).
Mrs. Barton B. Richards (Almira Newell).
Mrs. Wm. Harris (Jane Rachel Kent).
Mrs. T. W. Harwood, wife of the Methodist minister.
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Mrs. Harry J. Persons (Maria Holcomb). A son who died in hospital.
Mrs. Abiathar Pollard (Hannah Douglass).
Mrs. Reuben Whallon (Helen Mary Douglass).
Mrs. Harriet M. Todd (the village milliner).
Mrs. L. Edgerton (Lucetta Loveland). Mrs. Willard Ingalls (Elizabeth Greeley).
Mrs. Ralph A. Loveland, (Harriet Kent).
Mrs. Victor Spencer (Augusta Kent). Mrs. Aaron B. Mack (Jane Mckinney).
Mrs. Edmund J. Smith (Emma Larrabee).
Mrs. William Wadhams (Emeline Cole).
Mrs. Joseph Williams (Elizabeth Sheldon).
Mrs. Guy Stevous (Mabel Stoddard). Two sons in the 77th.
Mrs. Isaac Lyon (Lucinda Holcomb). Her son Wil- liam was killed in Virginia.
Mrs. Wm. H. Richardson (Elizabeth Spencer.)
Mrs. Miles M'F. Sawyer (Caroline Halstead). Four sous in the war, one killed.
Mrs. J. Nelson Barton (Phebe Maria Sawyer, her daughter.)
Mrs. William Davis.
Mrs. Albert P. Cole (Julia Hickok).
Mrs. S. McIntyre.
Mrs. Elijah Newell (Harriet Baker). Two sons in the Confederate service.
Mrs. Harriette Young. A son in the army.
Mrs. Alvin Davis. Son in the 77th.
Mrs. Samuel Root (Cynthia Fisher).
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Mrs. R. Odell.
Mrs. Griffin.
Mrs. C. B. Hatch (Margaretta Winans).
Mrs. Potter.
Mrs. Tatro (husband in the 77th).
Mrs. Jerry Flinn. Her son Silas died in Salisbury, N. C.
Mrs. Capt. Arnold (Marion Barber).
Mrs. A. N. Greeley.
Mrs. M. L. Daniels.
Miss Susan A. Roberts.
Miss M. A. Sheldon.
Miss A. Heath.
Miss H. Holcomb.
Miss Eliza M. Lyon, who afterward married Major C. E. Stevens.
Miss M. M. Holcomb.
Miss Clara Spencer, a little girl six or seven years old.
Miss Ann Gibbs, sister of Captain Gibbs. Honorary Members.
Barton B. Richards, John J. Greeley, C. H. Eddy, Victor Spencer, Aaron B. Mack, Rev. Mr. Harwood, of the M. E. church, Orren Howard, Freeborn H. Page, William Frisbie, Wm. H. Richardson, M. D., Lewis Roe, D. L. Allen, L. B. Newell, just beginning his first school in Westport, William Richards, J. W. Eddy, William Merriam, Walter Douglass, Wallace Olds, Jerry Flinn, Samuel Root, Henry Warren.
The articles collected and completed ready for pack-
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ing at the fourth meeting of the society, Dec. 18, 1861, were as follows : 42 comfortables, 32 pillows and cases, 16 hospital shirts, 3 dressing gowns, 46 white linen towels, 22 brown towels, 50 pair mittens, 12 pair socks, 2 knit caps, 16 pocket handkerchiefs, a large quantity of lint and bandages, a large amount and variety of dried fruit, 1 cheese, 1 vol. military tactics, some other books and papers. This list represents a great many stitches taken by women's hands in a month's time, for not one article was factory made, and there was hardly a sewing machine in town,-indeed, I doubt if there was a single one, The record goes on : "Several gen- tlemen volunteered to assist in procuring boxes, mark - ing, packing, etc. Mr. William Frisbie and Mr. Jerry Flinn both volunteered to carry the boxes to the ex- press office in Vergennes, and Mr. Peter Ferris offered to ferry them across the lake free of charge. The two boxes were consigned to the care of Mr. Frisbie who carried them to Vergennes Monday morning, Dec. 23, 1861, and returned a receipt from the express office for the same. Collected $11.50 to pay the express charges from Vergennes to Washington. The boxes were re- ceived in good order by Co A, 77th Reg't N. Y. S. V., to whom they were sent. After they were opened, the company at their evening dress parade gave nine hearty cheers for the Ladies of Westport, which were taken up and repeated by every company in the regiment. Many letters were written home by various members of the company overflowing with thanks, and stating that the gifts were appreciated as ouly soldiers upon the
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tented field could appreciate such favors from friends at home."
The further records of this society, being probably kept upon loose sheets, have been lost, but their meet- ings and their work were continued. After three years the society was reorganized. It is well-known that the National Sanitary Commission was not thoroughly or- ganized for the gigantic task of supplying the needs of our soldiers in camp and on the battle field until the last years of the war. The Secretary's book begins :
"According to previous notice the patriotic Ladies and Gentlemen of Westport convened in the Methodist church August 15, 1864. Mr. William Frisbie was called to the chair. C. H. Nash (the Baptist minister) elected secretary pro tem. After listening to interesting remarks from gentlemen present, the meeting proceeded to organize a Ladies' Society by electing the following officers :
Mrs. Ralph A. Loveland, President.
Mrs. F. H. Page, Vice-President.
Mrs. William Richards, Secretary.
Mrs. William Frisbie, Treasurer. Directresses.
١٠ Mrs. William Harris. Mrs. D. L. Allen (Clara Page). Mrs. A. M. Olds.
Mrs. James Allen (Mary Cole).
Mrs. Mabel Stevens. Mrs Gold (wife of the Methodist minister). Mrs. Harry Cole.
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Mrs. Platt Sheldon.
Mrs. Henry E. Warren (Mina Frisbie). ic.
Mrs. Samuel Root.
Miss Kate Allen (two brothers in the war).
Miss Delia Frisbie.
The names found in the list of members are, almost without exception, the same as those of the original so- ciety, with these added :
Mrs. Cephas Bradley.
Mrs. Noel Merrill (Pamela Cole). She had two sons and a brother in the army.
Mrs. Reuben Ingalls (Mandana Holt).
MIrs. James Barnes (her husband in the army).
Mrs. C. E. Stevens (Eliza Lyon, married since the organization of the first socioty).
Mrs. Warren Pooler,
Mrs. H. Cole. Mrs. Gibbs.
Mrs. Albert Carpenter (Mary Sheldon).
Mrs. I. B. Newell (Sarah Purmort).
Mrs. Braisted.
Mrs. Alexander Stevenson.
Mrs. Ransom Floyd (Julia Allen, of Panton).
Mrs. Andrew Frisbie.
Mrs. William Douglass (Marian Havens).
Mrs. M. Howard. Mrs. Angier. Mrs. M. Hoisington. Mrs. Stephen Wright (wife of the Baptist minister). Mrs, Sturtevant.
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Misses Almira Greeley, Sarah Lyon, Frances Love- land, Libbie Loveland, Clara Spencer, Frances Rich- ards, Lillian C. Richards, H. Sturtevant, C. Harris, Louise Olds, Louise Dorman, Louise Allen, Alzoa Reed, Carrie Wright, Nona Gold, Juliette Gold, Martha Young, Theresa Clark, Jennie Cole, Louise Cole, Helen Burt.
Additional honorary members : Rev. Mr. Gold, Rev. C. H. Nash, Aaron Clark, Douglass Low, Henry H. Richards, John H. Sawyer, Albert P. Cole, Erastus Loveland, William Harris, E. Frapier, A. M. Olds, Orange Gibbs, Isaac D. Lyon, M. D. Howard, H. B. Howard, Peter Ferris, Charles H. Pattison, William J. Cole, Laurens White, Peter Bacon, Reuben Ingalls, G. W. Stranahan, Lorenzo Gibbs, John Osborne, O. Ben- nett, Frank H. Eddy, Percival P. Hatch, Charles W. Low, J. H. Dorman, Mr. Mitchell, A. Viall, L. Avery, A. Stringham.
The name of the new society was "The Ladies' Sol- diers Relief Society Auxiliary to the Christian Commis- sion of the United States" It was addressed once or twice by speakers sent out by the Christian Commis- sion from its headquarters at Philadelphia, and it was to Philadelphia that the boxes of supplies were sent. The committee for drafting the constitution of the so- ciety consisted of Mrs. Gold, Mrs. Ralph Loveland, Mrs. William Richards and Mrs. Victor Spencer, with the Rev. Mr. Gold and Mr. L. B. Newell. The committee appointed to pack and forward the first boxes of supplies was Mrs. F. H. Page, Mrs. V. Spencer and Mrs. C. E.
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Stevens. "On motion Messrs. B. B. Richards and F.H. Page were invited to assist the committee by furnish- ing boxes, marking, ete., which assistance was cheer- fully rendered." Four boxes were forwarded Sept. 1, 1864, and two afterward, containing articles similar to those in the first which were sent, with some additions, especially currant wine and blackberry cordial. One day all the young people of the village went into the baek part of the town to pick blackberries which were made into cordial and sent to the soldiers. On Octo- ber 21 a festival was held in the basement of the M. E. church at which the ladies served ice-cream, cake and fruit. . The two young ladies appointed to solicit con- tributions were Frances Loveland and Frances Rich- ards. At the festival $114.25 was raised, and $100.00 immediately sent to the Christian Commission. In about two months the society raised $176.05, besides the supplies seut in six boxes. Once a piece of sheet- ing containing thirty-eight yards was purchased "to make into garments for hospital purposes," and the bill was $21.00, making the price of cotton cloth at that time a little over fifty-five cents a yard, the quality probably no better than that for which we now pay seven cents. At one time one hundred pounds of dried fruit and eight gallons of blackberry cordial and currant wine were sent to the soldiers.
This was the first woman's society ever organized (I suppose) in Westport, brought about by the pressure of a nation's need for woman's work. Publie meetings were held in both churches, often addressed by speak-
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ers from abroad. The meetings for sewing and tho transaction of business were held in the basements of the churches, and in the "Rechabitos' Hall" over C. B. Hateli's store. These details, so dry to a stranger, are full of life to one who can remember the women as they sat at work together, talking about battles and camps and hospitals, and dropping many a tear upon the shirts and the mittous. In those days they all wore hoops, and dresses were often flounced from hem to waist. The bats were tiny flat things, and the hair was worn in a large braided coil at the back of the head, called a "chignon."
The figures which have been given by no means rep- roseut all the supplies actually sent, as there were many individual contributions, and there was a large amount of work done at Wadhams, although there seems to have been no regularly organized society there. One piece of the women's work has been more lasting than the rest, a quilt which was made up and sent to the boys of Company A. The blocks were pink, and in the centre of each was a square of white mmslin, Each wo- man took one block to make, and when it was done sho wrote her name in indelible ink on the white square. Can you imagine the soldiers bending over it when it chme and reading the different names? At the end of the war the company gave this quilt to Mrs. A. W. Fav. of Jay, the wife of a soldier in the 118th, who aecom- panied her husband through most of the campaigus. She brought it home with her to Essex County, and bas caused it to be exhibited at the County Fair, where i:
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has been the object of much interest, especially to Westport women.
Although so far from the land of slavery. Westport had at least one contraband of war added to her popula- tion. When Dr. Platt R. H. Sawyer came home from the war be brought with him a black boy named Wil- liam Mallory, who had come into the Union camp, and had attached himself to the doctor as a kind of body- servant. Few Westport children bad at that time ever seen a colored man, and the writer well remembers the interest excited by the arrival of William, who remained for some time in the family. He was very quiet and well mannered, and often admonished us children in points of etiquette. Many years afterward, in 1904, I visited Virginia, and the name of Mallory Avenue in the village of Hampton reminded me of the William of my childhood. I began making inquiries, and 1 found at old colored man who told me that he had known Wil- liam Mallory well, that he returned to Virginia, mar- ijed, lived to middle age, died, and was buried in the graveyard of old St. John's church.
After the war the S. C. Dwyer Post of the G. A. R. was established, embracing the towns of Elizabethtown. Lewis and Westport. Memorial Day exercises are held in rotation in the villages of Lewis, E'town Westport and Wadhams. Successive Commanders of the Post have been Oscar A. Phinney; Daniel F. Payne, C. Wes- ley Daniels, Henry H. Riebards, Daniel S. French and Alembert J. Durand.
Especially interesting Memorial exercises were held
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in the Westport High School in 1902, at which many of the old soldiers were present, and addressed the children upon the subject of their life in the army. Major Stevens read a written account of the history of Company A of the 77th, which has been the basis of the sketch given in this book. One remarkable fact connected with these exercises was that the President of the Board of Education, sitting upon the platform with the gray-headed Union soldiers, - Dr. J. W. M. Shattuck, -- was in the Confederate service as a medical . officer during the war. He was born in Vermont, but was living in Mississippi at the time of the outbreak of hostilities, and returned to the north some time after the close of the war. Several young men boru in West- port fought under the Stars and Bars, Charles and Henry Newell, sons of Elijah Newell, were living in Louisiana at the opening of the war, and cast in their lot with the people with whom they lived. This was also true of Gideon, son of Benjamin Warren.
And so the war was over, and once more the town life went on in the old, well worn way, tilling the soil, trading for the necessaries of life, and keeping up the traditions of old time in the yearly election of town officers.
1866.
Town Meeting beld in the Armory.
Samuel Root, Supervisor .. Reuben J. Ingalls. Clerk. Aaron Clark and Dan F. Payne, Justices. Israel Pattison, Assessor.
William O. Nichols. Collector.
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Charles A. Sweat. Highway Commissioner.
Peter Ferris and Charles C. Duuster, Poor Masters.
A. C. Hall and Albert Pierce. Inspectors of Election.
Hosea B. Howard. Harvey Pierce. Charles H. Sweat. Charles W. Holcomb, Peter Joubert. Constables.
Pathmasters. --- O. B. Howard, Granville Stone. R. W. Arnold. William O. Nichols, George W. Pattison. C. W. Holcomb. William Richards. P. D. Merriam, William T. Williams, James M. Whallon, E. D. Sturtevant. Eli Farns- worth, Edwin Kidder, Sylvester Young. Richard Eggles- ton, Epbraim ITil !. Harvey Smith, Julius Vaughan. Herri. man Daniels, Albert Carpenter, J. J. Greeley, F. B. How- ard, Solomon Stockwell, Luman Hubbard. J. F. Braisted. James E. Smith. Joseph Hodgkins, Jerome Baily, William Pierce, Webster Royce. Riley Palmer, Jerome B. Baily.
Survey bill of a road leading westerly from W. P. & P. D. Merriam's Coal Kilns to the west line of Westport, be- ginniug at a poiat west of said Merriams' store at the cen- ter of the highway, etc.
Survey bill of a road leading bortberly from the town line between Westport and Moriah by the new Furnace, and intersecting the road running from Merriam's Coal Kilos to the West line of Westport, beginning where the road crosses the town line, near a large rock marked T.L. Surveyed by R. H. Lee.
"The New Farnace" here mentioned in the bare chronicle of the road surveys means the iron furnace in the southwest corner of the town, surrounded by the little mushroom settlement which is known in Westport as "Seventy-five," though perhaps more commonly called "Fletcherville" in Moriah. The iron works are thus described in Watson's history, published in 1869.
"This furnace is situated seven and a half miles northwest of Port Henry. It is owned by Messrs. S. H. & J. G. Witherbee & F. P. Fletcher; its erection was commenced in 1864, and it was blown in in August, 1865. The stack is of stone, and the boiler house of brick. The height of the fornace is forty-two feet, and
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the width of the boshes eleven feet. Steam is the mo- tive power of the works, and charcoal the only fuel con- sumed. This is burnt in ten large kilus, capable of containing sixty-five cords of wood. Nearly fifty bushels of charcoal is yielded in these kilus by every cord of seasoned wood. The company own extensive ranges of timber land, which supplies the material for the kilns. The average product per week of this fur- nace has been at some periods seventy-six and a half tons per week. A large proportion of the iron produced here is manufactured in the Bossemer works of Troy. Mr. Thomas F. Weatherbee, is tho resident agent and manager at this furnace."
In the Essex County history of 1885 this furnace is not so much as mentioned, and it was probably not in operation more than ten years, perhaps not so long as that. None of the ore used in this furnace was obtained from Westport mines, although a shaft was sunk on Westport territory a little west of the school house at Seventy-five, to be soon abandoned and known hence- forth by the descriptive title of the '"Humbug mine." Ores from the Moriah mines were worked up as long as the furnace ran, and when it had devoured all the wood upon the mountains for miles around, it stopped for want of fuel, and the machinery was afterward re- moved. The furnace is now a heap of ruins, and the settlement another "Deserted Village" of the Adiron- dacks.
Much more nearly affecting Westport as a town was another iron enterprise, entirely distinct from the his-
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tory of the Moriah mines, which stirred the sleepy little village of the days directly after the war into a momeu- tary activity. As early as 1864 a company known asthe Lake Champlain Ore and Iron Company, purchased an interest in most of the Elizabethtown mines and forges, which had been in operation, more or less, since the es- tablishment of a forge at New Russia, on the Boquet, in 1802. This company was closely connected with the banking firm of Jay Cook & Co. of Philadelphia, which had been the agent of the United States for the war loans during the Civil War, Its representative in this region was Mr. R. Remington, who came first to Eliza- bethtown, and operated there for two or three years, buying the Haasz, Burt, Steel, Odell and Mitchell ore beds, besides the Valley Forge on the Boquet, the Kingdom or Noble Forge on the Black, and eleven thousand acres of woodland, investing, it is said, $100,- 000 in the whole. Anore bed in Westport was also purebased, lying high up on the side of Campbell Hill, just north of Nichols pond. This bed had been opened before 1850,and the ore worked upin the Valley Forge,ou the Boquet, with considerable success. It is said to have made iron of a very fine grain, and extraordinarily duc- tile. Since these are the qualities of the famous Nor- way iron, the new owners of the mine ealled it the Nor- way bed It lies on lots Nos, 166 and 168, Iron Ore Traet, not far from Elizabethtown line. There are two . openings, the northern of which, according to the Bul- letio of the New York State Museum, published 1895,
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