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Father Halahan was followed by the Rev. Francis Xavier LaChance, who still ministers to the people. The church property on Pleasant street adds greatly to the attractiveness of the village, as church, parish house aud cemetery are kept in fine order, and much care and labor are expended on the grounds, where the shrub- bery and flower beds are more beautiful every summer.
Murders.
Ouly three were ever committed on our soil. In the summer of 1882 a man by the name of De Bosnys, a Portuguese by birth, came to Essex, and soon married a widow by the name of Betsy Wells. The first of Au- gust they drove to Port Heury, and returned by way of the lake road to Essex. In one of the loneliest spots . of that lonely road over the the Split Rock range, they left the buggy and went into the wood, where DeBos- nys shot and stabbed the woman, covered her body with bushes, returned to the buggy and drove on to Essex alone. There he went into the post office, and while giving directions in regard to letters which might come for him there in future, an officer entered and ar-
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rested him, ouly five hours after the murder had been done. His detection was really due to the loneliness of the spot which he bad chosen, and which he bad reckoned upon as his greatest protection. Travelers were not so frequent upon that road as to pass unno- ticed, and De Bosnys and his wife were seen to pass.the old Gen. Wright place, where Allen Talbot then lived. Soon afterward Mr. Talbot was out in the fields and saw a man skulking in the woods. Meeting a neighbor, William Blinn, who lived in the next house toward Essex, he learned that DeBosuys had been seen passing Bliuu's house alone. As DeBosnys was a foreigner and a suspicious character, search was immediately be- guu for the missing woman, and every movement of the murderer and his victim was easily traced. DeBosnys was tried the next March, instantly convicted, and hung at Elizabethtown April 27, 1883, the second man ever hung in the county.
On the same lonely mountain road, but two miles nearer the village, ocenrred the second murder, in Feb- ruary of 1890. Two old people, Mr. and Mrs. Ransom Floyd, living alone upon their farm, had sokl a rocky pasture high up ou the hills of the Split Rock range, and the check sent in payment lay in the house. One evening a masked man entered and shot them both. It was thought that he meant only to frighten them out of the money, but that she, a woman of extraordinary strength and spirit, though frail in appearance, tore the mask from his face and recognized him, and then in self defence, to escape detection, he killed them both.
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But the check had never been endorsed, and the mur- derer left it behind him, smeared with bloody hands? A light snow fell to cover his tracks, and to this day it is not know whon did the deed.
In August of the same year a brutal wretch, Charles Wright by name, killed an old woman who lived alone on another mountain road, the one that leads from Stevenson's to Mineville. Her name was Bedelia Tay- lor. The murderer was at once apprehended, and al- though there was from the first no doubt whatever of his guilt, it took the people of the state of New York nearly three years to send him to imprisonment for life in Dannemora prison. Many people believe that this man Wright also killed Mr. and Mrs. Floyd, as he was at one time employed upon the farm, and knew the house well. The sale of the land and the receipt of the check had been common talk for days in the neigh- borhood and in the village, and it was supposed that the cheek had been cashed.
Bibliography.
The books of Westport are not many. Aside from the list of books concerning the Champlain valley, every one of which has of course a connection more or less intimate with the history of this township, no book has ever been written about Westport until the pres- ent volume. The actual literary production seems to begin with the first newspaper, the Essex County Times and Westport Herald, published from 1841 to 1814 by
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Anson H. Allen, and continued from 1844 a few years longer by David Turner, under the name of the Essex County Times. This is our one and only newspaper, with the exception of a sheet called the Yankee Nation, of which one issue was printed in the summer of 1898, by a man from Vergennes who did not seem to have serious intentions.
Of contributions to periodicals outside the town, the first that I know are the letters written to the New York Evening Post, descriptive of a winter in Florida, by Lient. Platt R. Halstead, in 1845.
The same year Sewall Sylvester Cutting became editor of the New York Recorder, a religions paper which he con- ducted for ten years, with the exception of three years in which he was editor of Quarterly Christian Review. In 1858 he published" Historical Vindications of the Baptists." His hymns and poems, which were bu- merous and widely read, have never been collected in a volume. One of the most important was the alnmui poem, "Lake Champlain," read before the alumni of the University of Vermont at the Commencement of 1877. Of his many contributions to local history, per- haps the best known is "The Genesis of the Buck- board."
Judge Asa Aikens published one of his law-books, "Forms," before coming to Westport, and another, "Tables," in 1846, while living here.
We have a right to claim in our list Dr. George T. Stevens' "Three years in the Sixth Corps," published in 1866, in Albany, by S. R. Gray, partly from the fact
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of Dr. Stevens' residence at Wadhams from 1857 to'61, and partly because this book describes particularly the war experiences of many Westport men belonging to the 77th N. Y. V. His later scientific works can hardly be claimed in this list.
A little volume of letters of travel, written by Mrs. Francis L. Lee during a western trip taken in 1886, was dedicated to her grandchildren, and published in Bos- ton in 1887. It is "Glimpses of Mexico and California, by S. M. Lee."
Mr. F. V. Lester, at one time Principal of our High School, published in 1899 a school book called "Nine Ninety-nine Problems."
Heraldry.
The armorial bearings of nations and individuals con- nected with our history have made a pleasant study. The Iroquois who owned the land before the white mau came were armigers in the strictest sense, bearing to- temic insignia by which the tribes were distinguished. The totems of the Five Nations were the bear, the deer, the wolf, the tortoise and the beaver, all animals famil- iar to our forests, which might well be quartered upon a shield as the arms of the Iroquois Confederacy.
The first white man who ever saw the shores of West- port, Samuel de Champlain, undoubtedly bore arms, as he came of noble family, but the symbols upon his shield we do not know, since his line is extinct, and no records have yet been found in which the family arms
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are given. The city of Quebec, founded by Champlain, and therefore anxious to do him honor, has spent much time and money in the search, but so far without result.
Should we represent our history by a series of shields, symbolizing the changes in events from 1609 ouward, we should £ place directly after the totems of the Iroquois the royal insignia of France, the three golden lilies on an azure field which were blazoned on the first flag which ever floated over our soil. After- ward came the banner of England, planted upon the walls of Crown Point fort, gorgeous in its many col- ored quarterings. This was the flag to which Ray- mond and his settlers took off' their hats when they went to the fort, and the one which flew from the masts of Carleton's ships when he fought with Benedict Ar- nold in Northwest Bay. Arnold's ships bore the flag of thirteen red and white stripes, with the three crosses of St. George, St. Andrew and St. Patrick combined in the familiar union of the British eusign. Now our school children are taught to salute "the flag of Wash- ington," which is the same as Arnold's except for the starry union which was afterward adopted.
The first owner of land in Westport, William Gilli- land, who surveyed the boundaries of Bessboro in 1761, bore arms,-"azure, a lion rampaut argent," that is, a silver lion standing upright on a shield of blue. The crest is a right hand with a mailed wrist, clenching the handle of a dagger, the helmet above the shield is that of an esquire, and the motto is "Dieu et mon pais"
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("God and my peace" in old French). These arms are still used on the bookplate of the Gilliland family.
Next we may hang the arms of the Irish Bessboro, an earldom of the Ponsonby family in the south of Kil- kenny, which Gilliland doubtless had in mind when he named this patent, although we know of no real con- nection between him and the Ponsonby estate. The shield is red, crossed by a silver chevron, with three silver combs, two above and one below the chevron. The comb is a very uncommon charge in heraldry, but it is explained that an ancestor of the Ponsonby family came into England with William the Conqueror and was appointed barber to the king, assuming three combs upon his shield. The crest is a snake twining about a cluster of three arrows whose points are downward,-a device startlingly prophetic of the New World Bess- boro, if the serpent be a rattlesnake and the arrows the stone headed shafts of the Iroquois. The motto is Pro rege, lege, grege.
The second owner of our soil, Sir Philip Skene, came of a Scottish clan, with a tartan of its own, and arms which were assumed in the time of King Malcolm III. A skene, readers of Scotch tales will remember, is a short hunting dagger, double edged, which the High- lander sometimes carried in his stocking. The story is that King Malcolm was attacked in the royal forest by a wolf, and the wolf was killed by one of the courtiers whom the king rewarded by giving him arms of his own which are thus described :
. "The arms of Skove of that ilk are gules, three skoues
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paleways in fess argent, bilted and pommelled or, on the point of each a wolf's head counped of the third. Supporters, dexter, a highlandman in his proper garb holding a skene in his right hand in a guarding pos- ture ; sinister, another highlandman iu a servile habit, his target on the left arm and the dorlach by the right side, all proper. Crest, a dexter hand proper holding a flagger argent, hilted and pommelled or, surmounted of a wolf's head. Motto, Virtutis regia merces."
But that Sir Philip who sailed on Lake Champlain was not a Skene of Skene, but belonged to that branch of the family called Skene of Halyards, a younger braveb whose cadency is indicated by a crescent as a difference, the shield being otherwise the same as the arms of Skene of that ilk. Therefore if the village of Westport should desire to make use of the arms of the first owner of the soil as armorial bearings for the com- munity, they would be a red shield, bearing three silver daggers with golden handles, the point of each thrust into a wolf's head.
Of the eight men who owned Skene's patent after the Revolution, the twoPlatts, Zephaniah and Nathaniel, came of a family which bore arms, and a brilliant coat it was, which would make a fine show on the seal of the city of Plattsburgh. It was "party per pale, or and gules ; a lion passant argent, armed azure. Crest, a chaplet." That is, the shield is half gold and half red, divided in the middle lengthwise, and upon this glowing back- ground walks a silver lion with toes and tail tuft of blue.
The wife of Platt Rogers was a Wiltse, and the "arms
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de Wiltz" are "or, a chief gules," that is,a golden shield, with the upper third red. Crest, a cap of maintenance,a state ornament often carried before a prince or the mayor of a city on occasions of ceremony. The cap is of red with a rim of gold, and above it are two golden wings "au vol." Whether that first Wiltse who came to Manhattan in 1656 had good right and title to this coat of arms it is hard to tell, but at least many an American claims arms and ancestry with no more de- cisive proof.
. There is no more beautiful coat than that of Wad- hams of Merrifield, the colors being red and silver. The shield is "gules, a chevron between three roses, ar- gent. Crest, a stag's head couped, with a rose between the horns." That is, on a red shield a silver chevron between three silver roses, two above and one below. Crest, a pair of antlers with part of the skull attached, conching them ; the whole of gold, except the rose, which is silver. This shield is found upon the seal of the bishopric of Ogdensburgh, but not the crest, since a bishop bears no crest.
Que department of heraldry belongs almost entirely to the new world, -- that of inventing coats of arms for new commonwealths. Why should not dear old West- port have at least this one article of luxury, which ought not to cost more than a little inventive power, together with a sympathetic kuowledge of her history ? I would here humbly offer an eseutcheon which has shaped itself in my imagination as symbolic of the town. Let us take the Gilliland tivetures, blue and
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silver, the same as those of the lake and the unclouded sky. Let the shield be of silver, to symbolize the gleaming surface of the bay, and let us have a chief of azure, like the sky which bends above it. On this azure chief put three golden fleurs-de-lys, for Champlain, and for the hundred and fifty years of the sovereignty of France. For motto we will take Gilliland's own, "God aud my peace," since nothing could be better for an un- ambitious little town of quiet history. I am more in doubt about the crest than anything else. Shall it be Skene's silver dagger with the wolf's head upon it, or the tomahawk of one of Rogers' Rangers sunk into the head of a lynx ? Or shall we have the graceful two- masted periagua of the Plattsburgh proprietors under full sail, or the first Vermont, with its long trail of smoke? But these are all too elaborate, since good heraldry is not pictorial, but symbolic. The stag's antlers would be better, such as have tossed among our forest trees for untold centuries. If it is left to me, I shall draw the arms of Westport argent, on a chief azure three fleurs-de-lys or. Crest, a stay's head couped. argent. When this is hung upon the wall we will sur- round it with a mantling of rich green, for the foliage of our summer landscape, and the motto shall be "Dier et mon pais." For supporters we might have a woods- man with his axe and one of Rogers' Rangers in full buckskin, but I incline to one of our black bears on the dexter side, with an immense muskalonge, as big as the one Champlain thought he saw, which was certainly of a size to balance that of a bear, on the sinister side.
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This may also symbolize the fish stories of the summer boarder, and shall be the only hint of modern condi- tions. I confess that I contemplate this imaginary shield with some complacency. Perhaps, when the American College of Heralds shall be finally constitu- ted, I shall be given some humble office, -- I think I should like to be Portcullis, -and then I promise you that it shall not be forgotten.
Additional Facts.
The leisurely manuer in which this book has gone through the press has given ample time for the discovery of many additional facts. In a little book in the State Library, "Benedict Arnold's Regimental Memorandum Book, written while at Ticonderoga and Crown Point. 1775,"which was printed in the Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography in 1SS4, are several references to Raymond's Mills. On June Ist Arnold writes, "Sent a boat to Raymond's Saw Mills for Boards to repair the Barracks, &e., at Crown Point. Then June 3rd, "S Carpenters employed in repairing the Barracks. Re- ceived two thousand feet boards from Raymond's mill," a part of which he sent to Ti. The same day "Sent Capt. M'Kenzie in his Battoe to Raymond's mill for boards." This was probably William McKenzie, the first settler upon the site of Port Henry, and doubtless living there at this time, since he was the owner of a battean which could be pressed into the service. June
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4th, "Seut a boat to Raymond's for Ash for Oars and Troughs for Guns," and the 12th and 13th a boat brought boards from the same place. On the 13th he writes, "Sent a boat with Sken's Negroes to dig ore." These were the twelve slaves taken at Skenesboro a few weeks before, who had been left there by Sir Philip Skene for the service and protection of his family. Later in the diary Arnoll notes the arrival of "3 Miss Skeins" at Crown Point, probably to be placed ou board one of the ships to be taken southward. Arnold had ever a winning way with women, and we may im- agine him graceful, deferential, sympathetic, toward the three captive ladies of high degree; while he made good use of their slaves in fitting ont his fleet. He sent the slaves to Skene's ore bed to dig ore, and then had it taken to Skeuesboro and forged into bolts and links and whatever he needed for his ships. June 16th he "sent to Raymond's Mill for Timber and provisions for Skive's Negroes." If he had had to write Sir Philip's name again perhaps he would have invented still an- other way to spell it, but the diary ends June 24th, leaving us with so much more food for the imagination in dwelling upon the life in our first settlement.
In reminiscences of early settlers on the Vermont shore, gathered betimes into the immortal "Hemenway," we find that one Thomas Hinckley lived at Raymond's Mills in the fall of 1778, and was taken captive, with almost every other man on both sides of the lake, and put on board one of the British ships to be carried to Canada. The policy of the British at this time was to
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remove the fighting men and leave the women and children behind to return to the older settlements. These were collected in batteaux, and two of the pris- oners, Elijah Grandey of Panton and Thomas Hinckley, were released for the express purpose of taking these batteaus loaded with women, children and a few hastily snatched household goods, to Skenesboro. Probably the commanding officer intended setting sail at once, and could not wait for the return of two of his own meu from this errand.
It was at this time that Peter Ferris, who had brought his family from Dutchess county in 1766 and settled opposite Raymond's Mills, was taken to Canada and confined in Quebec until June of 1782. His house was burned by an old Tory neighbor, and so we can never see it, with the marks of the cannon balls that . struck it as Carleton fired volley after volley into the retreating ships of Arnold, in October of 1776.
But there was one man living at Raymond's Mill at this period who retained the confidence of the British to such a degree that he was left at liberty while his neighbors and friends were being carried into cap- tivity. His name was Webster, and in this calami- tous November of 1778 he sheltered Lt. Benjamin Ev- erest, a Green Mountain Boy of Panton, who escaped from a British ship as it lay at Ti. and made his way northward through the woods to the Raymond settle- ment. Everest spent one night in the forest, and came at sunrise to Put's creek. Keeping well back on the hills, but always in sight of the lake, he passed the fort
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at Crown Point at a prudent distance, and about mid- day came to Raymond's Mills. As he drew near the settlement, he heard the strokes of an axe ringing clear in the sharp November air in the woods back of the clearing. Skulking behind treos, he came near enough to the axeman to recognize Webster, and made himself known. Webster started to take him to his cabin, but as they came ont of the woods into the clearing they saw the whole British fleet, laden as it was with cap- tured Yankees, come dropping down the lake with a light breeze. The ships came to anchor for the night in mid-channel, directly opposite the settlement, and Everest crept back into the woods once more, hungry and shivering, while Webster went into the house and carried food to the fugitive. Then they agreed upon a plan and a signal. Webster returned to his house and built a roaring fire in the rude stone fireplace with sticks from the woodpile which lay at every frontiers- man's door. After nightfall, when all was quiet on board the fleet, with no sign of search parties sent out for escaped prisoners, Webster opened his door, letting out the light from his fireplace upon the dark woods, and split a few sticks of wood from his woodpile. As the strokes of his axe sounded on the still, frosty air, heard as plainly by the sentries on board the fleet as by Everest hiding in the woods, he whistled a tube which had been agreed upon as a signal that all was well. The sentries heard only a backwoodsman split- ting wood at his door to keep his fire going in the chill autumn night, but Everest heard and sped away in the
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darkness to the place on the shore where he knew Web- ster's canoe was lying, pushed it off and paddled si- lently away. He crossed the lake without attracting attention from either fleet or fort, landed on the shore aud made his way to Castleton.
This story brings out the fact that the Raymond set- tlement was by no means deserted until af er 1778. The settlers probably fled to the south after Arnoll's defeat by Carleton, returning to their farms the next spring, or perhaps not until after the surrender of Burgoyne in 1777. We know that on the Vermont shore the settlers who were driven from their homes during the war al- most invariably returned to them again, sometimes in the face of positive danger.
In a list of early boatmen on the lake we find the names of Elijah Newell and Levi Hinckley, about 1790, who probably sailed boats belonging to the merchant fleet of "Admiral" Gideon King of Burlington. A search for the names and histones of vessels built at the shipyard of Alexander Young at Young's bay has been rewarded by one name only, that of the Emperor. a sailing boat of fifty tons, "built for H. and A. Ferris, at Barber's Point, by Young," in 1810.
As for the early supervisors who deliberated upou our town affairs, the first was William McKenzie, elected in 1796 for the town of Crown Point, the same "Capt. M'Kenzie," I think, who carried boards for Ar- nold in bis battean in June of 1775. He lived near the site of Port Henry, and went to Plattsburgh to meet the four other supervisors of Clinton county. The next.
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supervisor of Crown Point was John Kirby, who lived at Kirby's Point in Ticonderoga. He is said to have been a Tory during the revolution, and Cook says that his family were sent to Canada in batteaux by Carleton at the beginning of the war, returning in 1782. Kirby first knew this region through his service in the old French war.
Then when the town of Elizabethtown was formed in 1798, its first supervisor was Ebenezer Newell, who lived at Northwest Bay. I have erroneously stated on page 169 that this first supervisor was Ebenezer Arnold, a name since proven to belong only to a mythical per- souage coujured up by the mistake of a printer who misunderstood some one's poor penmanship and printed Arnold for Newell in the Essex County History of 1885, whence my information was obtained.
Conclusion.
Closing my book, I am reminded of something in a novel published perhaps twenty years ago, -"Jupiter Lights," by Constance Fenimore Woolson. Cicely had been ill, and was watched over by a nurse whom she exceedingly disliked, a slow, commonplace woman who never read but one book, and that a history of her uative town. "Cicely gazed at her for some time; then she jumped from the couch with a quick bound. "It's
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impossible to lie here another instant and see that history of Windham, Connecticut ! The next thing you'll be proposing to read it aloud to me,", which was some- thing that Cicely could never have endured. This view of the entertaining qualities of a town history was once my own, and it sometimes surprises me yet to reflect that I have lived to put my name to such a volume. Dull and dry it seems to a stranger, but to us who can read between the lines it will be, I know, a real, live book, in spite of all its mistakes and omissions. I ex- pect correction, hearty and plentiful, as soon as it comes to be read, and shall receive it with gratitude. Such is the advantage of writing a book which deals only with facts and not with opinions. I am conscious that the genealogical notes are often incomplete, and it may be asked why certain families have their genealogies given . with some fullness, while other families, no less import- ant or interesting, receive no mention at all. To this question I would humbly answer that my services have been limited by my ignorance. That is, if I happened to know something of a family line I put it down as well as I could, but seldom found time to make many inquires in regard to lines with which I was not famil- iar. Furthermore, I will confess that I have sometimes gazed in wistful silence upon a semi-acquaintance, longing to ask questions about grandfathers and great- grandfathers and similar things, but mindful of the fact that of all bores the worst is the genealogical bore when it would seem that there is something meddle- some in his boring. This is the less creditable to my
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enterprise since I have never, in a single instance, met with anything but the most prompt and pleasant re- sponse to any question I found courage to ask.
No one, I suppose, is allowed to choose the one thing by which he is to be remembered most when action shall have ceased, and thought can no longer make it- self known. But could I choose, I would be satisfied always to be remembered as one who put some years of hard and happy work upon the history of my native town, and made it to be known forever by another name,-the name of Bessboro.
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"Thus much is saved from chance and change. That waits for me and thee. Thus much -- how little !-- from the range Of Death and Destiny."
- From "Praeities and Phryne" by Win. Wetmore Story.
INDEX.
A
C
Academy, 381, 383, 461 Call, . 380
Agricultural Society, 458, 472 Camp meetings, 352, 368, 421.
Aikens, 285, 432, 439, 596' 469.
Alden,
371, 543, Carleton, 114, 132
Allen, 413, 419, 444 Carroll, 127
Anbury,
137 Cemeteries, 27 77
Angier,
302 Champlain,
Armory,
504 Church trials, 420
Arnold,
125, 130, 243. Civil war,
501
526, 598, 603 Clark,
378
Avery,
270 Climate, Clinton,
144
B
Cole,
205, 208, 350
Bacon,
457, 592 Coll. 215
Baptist church. 206, 266, 304. Commission to Canada, 127
319, 340, 366. Company A, 513, 554
370. 397, 405. Comstock. 229, 369
420, 444, 456, Congregational church, 352. 499. 393. 417, 493
Barber, 167, 171, 221, 223. 286 Congress. 134
Barnes, 277, 517, 521, 527 |Convention, 434
Barron. 274 Corlear,
83
Basin Harbor, 173, 181, 185, Costume.
363. 460
242, 248, 259, County seat, 212
Crown Point, 84
Battle of Northwest Bay, 132|Cutting, 332, 353, 369, 596
Battle of Plattsburgh, 266, 431
Battle of Valcour, 132 D
Bessboro,
2, 107, 150, 599 DeLano, 288, 358
Bibliography,
595 Dialect, 73
Boquet river,
41 Dickens, 422
Boquet affair,
257 |Digby,
136
Boundary Commission,
114 Doctors,
483
Boutwell,
345 Douglass, 242, 457
Brainard's Forge.
366 Dunster, 288, 322, 537
Braman. 200, 249. 265, 504 Durfee,
205, 410
Brown, John 458, 479
E
Burgoyne,
136 Early settlement, 177, 186, 237
Button Bay, 115, 138|Eddy, 390, 495
272, 307.
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Elizabethtown, Everest,
F
[ Hinkley, 226, 604, 607
Falls,
200 Hodgkins, 320
Felt,
201 Holcomb, 221, 238. 235, 479
Ferris,
219, 605 Holt, 405
Ferry,
172, 416 Howard, 301. 341
Finney,
227 Hunter, 285, 401, 576
Fire,
580
Fisher,
226
Floyd,
34 Indian occupation, 76 127 Iron, 197, 213, 404, 438, 443,
French and Indian War. 86 451, 453, 468, 557, 563, 587. Fresbets. 365. 471 Frisbie, 168, 265. 271. 287. 305 J
Folks I Used to Know, 163
Jackson, 451
Geology.
Jeuks, 15 Jogues,
217
Gibbs,
411, 533 Johnson,
144
Gilliland, Elizabeth
3, 116 Joubert,
510
130. 141. 182, 184, 260
K
Gilliland, William
105. 112. Kellogg, 357
372
Goff.
Grecley,
142, 183, 593. Kent, 453, 457 Kicney, 335
471
Gross, 388
L
H
Lee, 402, 450, 487, 541, 597 583
215. 344, 364, 439 Lighthouse, 575
Halstead, Platt R. 251. 268. 285, 307, 322, 360. Lobdell. 169. 227. 249. 286. 303 441, 596. Loveland, 193. 373. 419, 439, 473, 504.
19 Low, 226
Hamlets,
Hammoud, 220, 355, 455, Lumber, 360
Hardy, 203
31
Harper.
Hatch, Charles 195, 313, 342,
228 Maps, 40. 85, 109. 148. 150, 187, 218, 313, 317. 394, 427.
471.
119, 376 Maedonough, 250. 267
Hay,
169 Henderson, 217
605 Heraldry, Higby. 387
597
Halstead house,
188. 345
Lazarre,
270
Halstead, John 187, 191. 208. Library,
Livingston Patent, 155
79, 592
Franklin,
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INDEX.
Mack. 457 Patents. 150
Masons. 350, 463 Pattison. 400
McCormick. 156 Payne,
406. 574. 3-9
McKenzie,
603, 607 Peddlers. 497
MeKinney.
356. 371 Pierce,
345
MeNeil.
270, 285. 332 Pipes,
477
Medical society, 488 Pirogue. 454 Plank road. 413
Meigs,
M. E. church. 305, 319, 340. Platts. 182, 600 350. 370. 882. 396. Pollard. 375
406, 445, 500. 564 Ponds.
Merriam, 347 Population. 12. 357. 459. 476,
Militia,
249. 265
494
Modern history.
579! Post office. 321. 337. 416
Mill brook, 204 Productions, 13, 357
Millerism.
427 Putnam, 90
Milltown,
105, 129
Morgan. 157, 213
Mountains,
55 Quebec map,
Murders.
593
Myrick,
316, 343, 348, 438
R
Railroad, 457, 579
Rauney, 391
Name,
2| Ray, 230
Newell. 227. 286, 320, 356. Raymond. 117. 135
491. 556. 607, 608 Raymond's Mills. 120. 145, 603
Newspaper. 413. 423. 425. 435. Reveille, 440. 595.
¡Revivals. 351. 353. 369
Nichols.
227 Richards.
218. 352
Noble, Gen. Ransom 245. 255. Riedesel. 139
257.
Ring, 172 41
Noble. Henry Harmon 43, 400 Rivers.
Northwest Bay.
3 Roads. 560| Rock Harbor. 172
O
Rogers. Robot. 89, 102
Osborne,
456 Rogers, Platt XIV, 152. 154
Osgood's Mill,
155
156, 173, 180. 182. 185. 197. 242. 201
Roman Catholic church, 590
Page. P
432. 495, 574 Root. 378
Papineau war,
39% Royce. XVI
Parkman.
178, 426
33. 566
Norway Furnace,
Roe. 570
233
INDEX.
S
Sawyer, XI. 360. 362. 867. 370. Trainings, 253
374. 437. 462. 310 Troy, 3-4-4
Schools, 170, 177. 339, 881. Turner, 413
383. 447. 462, 4901 U
Schuyler, 84, 114. 116, 126. 140 Uniforms.
280
Shedd, 390 Valcour, battle of 132
Sheldon,
225. 474 Van Vleck.
443
Sherman,
290. 403. 409 Village inaps, 187, 313, 317
Sisco Furnace. 451. 358
Skene,
101. 141. 599. 604
W
Skene's Patent.
150 War of 1812. 240
Slaves,
182 Wadhams, Bishop 327, 601
Capt.
544
Smith,
2442, 429:
Gen. 255, 285, 325.
Snow,
226|
337, 475.
Soldiers of 1812.
284 Washington, 147
277 Webster. 605
226 Westport Farms, 536
393: Westport Inn. 582
Spencer,
227 Wharves,
295, 354, 396, 444, 167.
Steamboat. 209. 309. 417. 422.
436. 411. 446, 466. 496 Whitney, 202
157
Stevens.
473, 525. 526, 596; Williams.
Stevenson, - 200, 408, 400; Wistse.
Stone. 311|Winans,
Supervisors, 169. 170. 572, 607 | Woolsey,
T
Wrecks-Troy, 344
Tavlor, 345
Temperance,
360, 397, 424.
Champlain, 576
447. 448.
Webster, 403
Tompkins. Gov. 245
Sheldon. 473
Town meetings, 169, 297
Town records, 295
264. 284. 324.
Tract, Split Rock
15-
Tract. Iron Ore
158, 21:
Y 223, 389. 411, 607
Trafalgar,
26-|Young.
XIV, 600 210
154. 211
Women of the War. 545
Me Donough. 417
Songs of 1812,
South well,
Stacy,
Smuggling.
241! i
V
Seventy-five. 21, 557
Wright. 173. 243. 254, 257.
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