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The first century of our official existence now closed, has been one of progress and advancement verily from barbarism to civil- ization, in its highest forms.
It has witnessed the triumphis of steam and electricity as applied by the ingenuity of man, not only for motive and propel- ling power, but also in many other and diversified forms, to im- prove the condition, alleviate the labors and promote the highest and best interests of man-and no where has all this become more manifest, than to the dweller in a rural community, like ours.
We stand here, to-day, upon the threshold of the second cen- sury of official existence, and having taken a retrospective view of the century which has passed, let us now look forward to the fu- ture, with trust and confidence in the Divine Being, that He will mercifully direct the events of the future, as He has the past.
In closing, while thanking you for your kind attention, and with acknowledgments to all who assisted me, in collecting histor- ical material, I can find no words more fitting, as adapted to this occasion, than those of a patriotic Statesman of New York, now deceased, whose name will ever stand high upon the scroll of our public men :
" The past is full of noble examples, animating us with patri- otic love of our State and Nation, but we must not confine our attention to the past. The present and the future have their obli- gations. It is our duty to emulate the patriotism of our fathers. In all that concerns our Town, County, State, and common country, let us not only be mindful of the past, but in everything that affects education, morality, progress and patriotism, be ani- inated by the spirit of the motto, emblazoned upon the shield of our State-EXCELSIOR,"
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APPENDIX TO HISTORICAL ADDRESS.
APPENDIX A.
Abstract of Land Patents in Romulus Military township, taken from the State records at Albany :
Names of Patentees.
Lot.
Acres.
Subdivision.
Acres.
Edmund Kelly
. .
43
500
Benjamin Dey
100 S. E.
Wm. Jackson.
44
600
Teunis I. Henion.
45
600
I 191.9
John Gambee
2
68.8
Elijah Miller Michael Shetterly . "
6
48
Anthony Dey
7 64
(Survey 50 acres)
.50
Col. Cornehus Van Dyck.
46 500
Abner Prior.
47 500
Jacob Hallett.
100|S. E.
John Armstrong
48 600
Mordecai Hale ....
49' 600
*Gospel and School Lot
50 600
Charles Thompson.
I 180.20
David Dev
100
Alla McMath
173.46
John Mead ...
100
Capt. James Gregg
51 600
John Jacob . ..
52 600
Thomas Owens
53 500
Robert Mcclellan
i IO0 S. F ..
Col. James Livingston
54 600
+Literature Lot
55 600
John B. Schuyler
144
Jacob Lowdor
96
James Barr
192
James Karr
18
Purchaser Unknown.
18
Peter W. Yates, Survey 50 acres.
N.W. 50
John P. Boyea
56, 600
John Stake
57 550
1
John Beardsley
50
Capt. H. Van Deburgh.
58
600 S. E.
*Deeded by Trustees of Lot.
+Sold and deeded by Union College,
1
1
3 79 14
1
73.3
5 46.5
John Beardsley.
IOO S. F.
Gerrit W. Van Schaick, survey 50 acres
N. F. 50
I
.
..
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John Gamber
600 I 137
Elijah Miller
164
..
John Buys.
60
J. A. Wade and others
1
155
Nathaniel Ayres.
46.4
Abel Bacon .
5
119.8
(Survey 50 acres)
S. W.
50
James Parker
60
600
Christopher Queen
61
600
Ephriam Blanchard .
62|
600
Gen. Alex. McDougall.
63 500
Robert Troup
100 S. E.
Benj. Goodale.
64 600
Richard Moore
65
500
Peter Bainbridge.
IO0 S. E.
Eleazer Yeamans.
66 600
Joshua Davis .
67
600
Arthur Hurley.
68 600
Joseph Jones
69 600
John Green
70
600
Peter Green ..
71
600
James Goodall.
72
600
Timothy Green.
73 600
Jeremiah Smith.
74
600
Lieut. Jonathan Lawrence, jr.
75 600
Lieut. Peter Tappan.
76
600
Abiel Petty ..
77 500
Jeremiah Van Rensselaer ..
IOO S. E.
George Stock ..
78
500
Wm. Gilleland, jr.
100 S. E.
Lieut. Col. Cornelins Van Dyck
79
500
Elkanah Watson
100 S. E.
Thomas Bryan
80
500
100 S. E.
Daniel Dawson
81
600.
Alex. Munro
82 600
Richard Platt
83 600
Samuel Dodge
841 600
Chas. McKenny.
85 600
Abraham Hodge ...
86
600
Lieut. John Stagg, jr
87
600
Thomas Brooks ..
88
500
John Beardsley
100 S. E.
John Williams.
89
600
Lieut. Chas. F. Weissenfels
90
600
John Cosgrove ..
91
500,
Robert Mcclellan
100 S. E.
Lieut. Col. Benj. Walker
(2
500
W'm. Gilleland.
93|
600
Robert Provoost.
94
500
Jacob Hallett
100 S. E.
Michael Decker
95, 500
Cornelius C. Elmendorf.
IO0 S. E.
James Grace
06 600
1
.
Philip Van Cortlandt
1 591
3 160
Isaiah Burch. .
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John Goodcourage.
97|
600
Levi Burling
98|
500
John Robinson
IOO S. E.
Florence Marony
99
600
Thompson Bacon.
100
600
Patents for 500 acres and 650 acres each were issued during the month of July, 1790 -- while patents for 100 acres or 50 acres or other subdivided lots were issued at later dates.
Awards made by Onondaga Commissioners in cases of disputed titles in Romulus Military township.
Lots.
Names.
Acres.
Date of AAward.
43
Benj. Dey.
500
Nov. 14, 1798.
4.4
Peter W. Yates 50 S. E.
500
Nov. 9, 1799.
John Beardslee.
IO0 S. E.
Dec. 13, 1800.
10
Benj. Dey
600
Nov. 14, 1798.
50
Gerrit W. VanSchaick.
50 N. E.
Aug. 16, 1800.
51
Benj. Dey.
600
Dec. 4, 1798.
52
Isaac Hathaway .
50 N. W.
Nov. 5, 1799.
53
John Rogers heirs
100 S. F.
Nov. II, 1800.
Elkanah Watson
50 N. E.
May 6, 1800.
56
C. Glen & B. Bleecker
600
Dec. 27, 1800.
57 Geo. M. Woolsey
550
Nov. 15, I799.
58 Nicholas Fish ..
600
Sept. 10,
1800.
59
Caleb Benton
50 s. W.
Jany. 30,
1802.
60 Elkanah Watson.
600
Dec. 3,
1798.
62
Margaretta Varick
50 S. W.
Aug. 15, 1800.
63
Robert Troup.
100 S. E.
Aug. 16, 1800.
64
James McKnight.
600
Nov. 24,
1800.
67
Margaretta Varick
50 N. W.
June 3,
I799.
69
Caleb Benton
50 N. W.
Jany. 30,
1802.
71
James Reed.
600
Oct. 31,
1799.
74
Robert Dill.
550
Nov. 16, 1798.
77 Calvin Sanger
500
Nov. 15,
1798.
79
500
Sept. 12,
1799.
IO0 S. F.
Nov. 22.
1798.
80 Peter W. Yates
50 S. W.
March 19, 1801.
81 Gerrit W. Van Schaick
Aug. 16, 1800.
86 Elkland Watson
600
Dec. 8, 1800.
88 Nathaniel Platt.
500
Ang. 5, 1799).
John Beardslee ..
100 S. E.
Dec. 13,
1800.
Wm. Thompson.
550
March 30, 1798.
Gerrit W. VanSchaick.
50 .N. W.
Nov. 17,
1798.
92 John Robison
500
Dec. 28, 1798.
John D). Dickinson.
100 S. E.
Oct. 17, 1790.
(5 Elijah Kinne, Jr
500
Feby. 24, 1802.
David Wisner.
100 S. W.
Feby. 24,
1802.
97
(John Dey
600
Feby. 23,
1802.
70 John D. Coe.
600
Nov. 15, 1799.
Peter W. Yates
50 S. W.
March 19, 1801.
Elkanah Watson
100 S. E.
Nov. 28, 1798.
50 S. E.
March 19, 1801.
G.W.VanSchaick, & H. Bleecker
Copied from the "Book of Awards," filed in Cayuga County Clerk's Office These Awards bear date during a period from March 30, 1798, to Feby. 24. 1082. The awards made as to Lots 60, 70, 71 and 79 were dissented to.
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WEST CAYUGA RESERVATION. IN TOWN OF VARICK.
From records at Albany it appears lots were patented as follows :
Lots. To Whom Patented.
Date of Patent.
No. of Acres.
58
Christian Kuney
59
William Hill.
Not ascertained ..... 250
Lewis Nothnagle
January 4, 1814. . .. 250
Jacob Lautenschlager ..
David Harris
February 11, 1814 .. . 155
()2
Andrew Hood.
September 17, 1811 .. 250
63
John Ansberger
April 27, 1832 ..
250
64
John Leisenring pt
November 6, 1816 .. .
Amelia J. Schuyler pt.
December 30, 1863 .
Charles Thompson pt.
Seneca P. King pt.
65
Elijah Miller.
November 9, 1816 .. . 238
66
John Gamber.
July 25, 1818. 250
67
Henry Singer.
May 30, 1809. 250
68
Elijah Miller.
November 9, 1816. . . 213
69
John Williams
March 5. 1816. 208
70
John Gamber.
July 5, 1810. 250
71
Thomas Lowdon and George Clouser ..
July 8, 1813.
250
72
Samuel Falkingburgh
January 7, 1811. 200
73
Henry Pace.
May 30, 1809. 200
74
Henry Gardner.
Not ascertained. 250
75
William Hill.
April 20, 1815. 200
76
Samuel Phillips
May 30, 1809.
208
77
Elias Christopher
July 8, 1813.
214
78
Abraham Arnold
August 8, 1811
250
79
William Emmons.
July 6, 1815 .
250
80
Isaac Parker and Abraham Hoagland.
January 16, 1817
216
81
David Quigley.
June 14, 1816.
223
82
David Edwards.
June 1, 1815
195
83 Henry Gardner ..
February 29, 1808
140
84
Daniel Christopher
May 30, 1809.
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APPENDIX B.
"Memorial of inhabitants between the Seneca and Cayuga lakes in the Military Tract"-presented to the Legislature June 27, 1795.
"Your petitioners, did in the year 1788, settle themselves between the lakes with the expectation of enjoying the lands, on which they were each settled and as at that early day they were not informed that the said lands were assigned for Military purposes.
Your petitioners therefore pray, that they may not be looked upon as intruders and violators of the laws, and as they have made large improve- ments between the Lakes, which a few years ago was wild, savage and un-
September 17, 1811 .. 250
William N. Bannister ..
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cultivated, but now has become an inhabited, fruitful and fertile country, which in a few months we expect to leave to the legal owners of the soil --- your Petitioners think it reasonable, that a compensation should be made to them for their improvements.
Signed by twenty-three persons including
NATHANIEL SWARTHOUT, ANTHONY SWARTHOUT, JOHN SWARTHOUT, DAVID DEPUE, DAVID WISNER, JAMES COOLEY, JAMES KING.
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CENTENNIAL OF ROMULUS.
APPENDIX C.
Supervisors of Romulus to 1830.
1794, 95, 96
. GEORGE BAILEV
1797, 98, 99, 1800
1800, Sept. 2 . JOHN SAYRE (vacancy)
1801, to 1808, inclusive
JONAS SEELEY
1809, to 1814, inclusive.
WM. WATTS FOLWELL
1815,
1816, to 1821, inclusive.
JONAS SEELEY
1822,
MATHER MARVIN
1823,
ANTHONY DEY
1824,
MATHER MARVIN
1825,
JONAS SEELEY
1826,
SAMUEL BLAIN
1827, 28, 29
Supervisors from 1830.
1830, 31, 32
. JONAS SEELEY
1833,
MATTHEW D. COE
1834, 35, 36
EDWARD SAYRE
1837,
. CYRUS J. SUTTON
1838,
NATHANIEL N. HAYT
1839,
CYRUS J. SUTTON
1841,
.WM. A. STOUT
1843, 44
HENRY MCLAFFERTY
1845,
.PETER J. VANVLEET
1848,
JOSEPH F. HARRIS
1850, 51
AMASA L. FURMAN
1852, 53
. HELIM SUTTON
1854,
. JOSEPH F. HARRIS
1858, 59, 60
PETER P. POST
1863,
RICHARD M. STEELE
1864, 65
. W.M. D. GIDDINGS
1866, 67
GEO. W. JACACKS
1868, 69, 70, 71, 72 .
E. SEELEY BARTLETT
1873,74
AARON V. BROKAW
1875, 76
JOHN M. YERKES
1877,78
. JOHN MONROE
1879,
WILLIAM STEWART
J 880,
.JAMES BLAIN
1881,
. RYNEAR C. ALLEN
1882, 83
EDWARD VANVLEET
1884, 85,86
CYRUS E. KINNE
1890,
DON P. BLAIN
1891,
CHAS. W. RISING
1892, 93
DARWIN C. KINNE
1894,
JOSIAH YERKEŞ
1840,
ELIJAH DENTON
1842.
. WM. T JOHNSON
1846, 47
CYRUS KINNE
1849,
FERNANDO C. WILLIAMS
1855, 56, 57
PETER J. VANVLEET
1861, 62,
. . JAMES BLAIN
1887, 88, 89
BENAJAH BOARDMAN
JOHN SAYRE
SAMUEL BLAIN
. JOHN SAYRE
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Town Clerks to 1830.
1794,
1795, 96 .W.M. WINTER
. GEORGE BAILEY
1797. 98, 99, 1800. .. JOHN Sayre 1801, 2, 3,
.DANIEL SAYRE
1804, 5, 6, 7
JOSEPH WYCKOFF
1808, 9, 10, II
.. . SILAS ALLEN 1812,
EBENEZER CONKLIN
1813, 14,
DAVID EDWARDS
1815, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22 EBENEZER CONKLIN
1823, 24 .. WM. H. KING
1825, 26, 27 MATTHEW D. COE
1828, 29 .JOHN GEDDES
Town Meetings. Where Held.
1794 at Benajah Boardman's.
1795, 96, at James McKnight's.
1797, to 1800, inclusive, at John Sayre's.
1801, to 1819, inclusive, at David Depue's.
1820, 21, 22, at John Buys.'
1823, at Skillman Doty's.
1824, at David Edwards.'
1825, at George Alexander's.
1826, at David Depue's.
1827, 28, 29, at George Alexander's.
1830, 31, 32. 33, at Ira Giddings'.
1834, at Henry M. Schooley's.
1835, at William Martin's.
Since 1835, town elections have been held at the centre of the town at Martin's, or in School House near there. In 1890, the town was divided into three election districts, for the holding of General State elections, with election polls at Willard, Hayt's Corners, and Romulus Village.
Supervisors of Varick.
1830, ANTHONY 'DEY
1831, 32, 33 . SAMUEL BLAIN
1834, 35, 36
.. CHARLES LEMMON
1837. JOHN A. CHRISTOPHER
1838,
. DANIEL H. BRYANT
1839.
JOHN A. CHRISTOPHER
18.40,
DAVID HARRIS
1841,
. JESSE ABBOTT
1842, 43
ROBERT R. STEELE
1844,
DANIEL H. BRYANT
1845, 46, 47
JESSE ABBOTT
1848,
JOSEPH GAMBEE
1849, JESSE ABBOTT
1850, ROBERT R. STEELE
1851, .. JESSE ABBOTT
1852, SOLOMON C. GAMBEE
1853,54
ABRAHAM LERCH
1855,
...
WILLIAM BURROUGHS
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1856,
GEORGE S, CONOVER
WILLIAM BURROUGHS
1857, 58. 59 1860,
JOHN MONROE
1861,62
REV. DIEDRICH WILLERS
1863, 64
ALFRED HUNT
1865, 66
DIEDRICH WILLERS, JR.
1867,68
. CALVIN WILLERS
1860. 70
ALFRED HUNT
1871,
BURROUGHS ROBERTS
1872, 73.74
HENRY F. TROUTMAN
1875.
. RALPH P. ROBERTS
1876,
DAVID H. MANEE
1877,78.
DR. FRANK H. FLOOD
1870, 80
JOHN V. CRANE
1881. 82. 83
. HENRY C. LISK
1881. 85. 86
DANIEL. C. BURROUGHS
1887, 88, 80
OLIN E. EMENS
1890,
. JOHN MCKNIGHT
1891,
ARTHUR H. BROOKS
1892, 93. 94
OGDEN WHEELER
Town meetings in Varick from 1836 to 1855, were usually hell alterna- tely at John Y. Manning's at the west end. and Samuel Lerch's on Military Lot 54, at the Northeast end. Since 1856, town meetings alternate between Bearvtown and Romulus village. From 1842 to 1855, general elections were held in two election districts, at Manning's and Lerch's and since 1856 at Bearytown and Romulus village.
APPENDIX D. Teachers Boarding and Wood Lists.
The following will exhibit a true copy of the wood and board found during the quarter last past, ending January 21st, 1825, viz :
Mr. J. Hathaway, i cord of wood, ten days board. Mr. T. Mann, I cord of wood, 12 days board.
Mr. D. Garrigus, 15 cord wood. 6 days board .
Mr. A. Baldridge, 3 days board, 44 cord of wood.
Mr. R. Barr, 5 days board, I cord of wood.
Mr. D. Dey, 12 days board, i cord of wood.
Mr. A. McKnight, 3 days board, 12 cord of wood.
Mr. S. McMath, 4 days board.
Mr. E. Beach, 3 days board, 44 cord of wood.
Mr. Jac. Lowden, f days board, 34 cord of wood.
Mr. James Lowden, 6 days board.
Mr. A. Lyon. I days board. 12 cord of wood.
Mr. Markle, i cord of wood, 8 days board.
Mr. Bargar, I days board, 12 cord of wood.
Mr. Wilcox, 2 days board.
Mr. Karr. 2 days board, 12 cord of wood.
Mr. Smith, 1 days board, 12 cord of wood.
Capt. T. Ludlum, 12 cerd of wood, i days board.
Mr. J. Beach. 44 cord of wood. Dispute this if you can.
R. WEBSTER, Teacher.
Copied in 1879, from the original, in possession of Jacob A, Mann, of Varick, since deceased.
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APPENDIX E.
Return of Electors, in the town of Romulus, County of Cayuga, 1801.
Heads of Families.
Electors
Electors
Electors not possessed of ,Frecholds, but who rent tene-
possessed of Free possessed of Free holds of the val- holds of the val. ute of £,100.
uc of £,20, und under £.100.
m'ts july value of 40 shillings.
John Seeley
1
Mahlon Bainbridge.
E
William Seeley.
I
Jacob Hathaway.
Thomas Combs
Į
Haynes Bartlett
1
James McKnight.
Alla McMath.
I
William Mount
Peter Quigley.
William Brewster
[
Jesse Brewster.
John Bainbridge
James Goble .
I
Michael Baldridge
Frederic Kisler
J
Ehel Goble.
John Fleming
-
Stephen Miller.
I
1
Jonathan Lewis
1
William Stottle
Joseph Ker.
William Buzenbark
William Barney
John Tindall
Joseph Hunt .
1
Silas Beers ..
Jamies Seeley
Timothy Janes
1
Jonas Seeley.
Charles Stewart
David Price.
1
Benjamin Sutton
1
Asa Smith
Walter Watrus
1
James Watrus ..
William Shattuck.
-
Eliphalet Shattuck
John Stone
James Wiley
William Blain
I
Alexander Brown
J
Jonathan Baitman
J
.
I
I
Abner Bainbridge
I
Phineas Tuthill
I
-
I
I
11
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CENTENNIAL, OF ROMULUS.
James Bailey
-
Abner Bailey. Jonathan Bailey.
1
Thomas Burgess
Benjamin Burgess.
1
James Woodruff.
William Osborn.
William W. Dekay.
Joshua Hallock.
1
Samuel Bailey
1
Andrew Dunnet.
George Wilkin. 1
John Halbert ..
1
James King
Francis Antony
Thomas Parkins
Israel Harris.
1
Peter Huff . ..
1
David Depue.
1
-
Jesse Kilpatrick
Walter Ker
Joseph Finton
Joseph Wicoff.
1
John Terhune
Albert Earl
William Huff.
William Hood
1
John Hood.
1
George Hood.
1
Andrew Hood
I
Joseph Haynes
2
John Alexander
-
James Alexander
1
Robert White
John Williams
-
Barna Swarthout
John Swarthout.
David Wisner.
I
Ephraim Kinne ..
1
Nat Swarthout
I
Anthony Swarthout.
Joseph Lewis.
-
Jeremiah Decker
-
Reuben Denton.
1
Michael Mead.
1
Samuel Reed.
1
Zebedee Stout
1
John Sage ...
1
Samuel Waldron
1
Francis Hagerman
1
John Hagerman.
1
Daniel Mathews.
1
Abel Baker .
1
.
Bastian Williams
1
Michael Van Cort
1
1
1
1
1
Elijah Kinne.
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Peter Huff, Jr
lames Brown.
1
Andrew McKnight
2
James Barr
1
Henry Beers.
I
Samuel Easton.
1
Josiah Easton.
I
Ezekiel Beachı.
Į
Jabez Beach ..
Jonas Beach ..
-
Isaac Hathaway
1
Joseph Hathaway
[
I
James Lamb.
Benjamin Lemmon
1
John Hathaway.
1
James Cooly
Asa Whitehead.
Henry Gray
Thomas Lowden
Isaias Lewis
I
George Lamb
I
John Sinclear
I
David Lamb.
Charles Woodruff
Sears Beach ..
Benjamin Dey
-
Peter Basum.
Anthony VanAkin.
John Arnold
Peter Stottle
George Stottle ..
Lewis Lafever
I
William Purdy.
Thomas Purdy.
1
Charles Dickerson
James Merit.
John Waldron.
John Birt.
1
Thomas Blain
I
Philip Bunu.
-
John Whitney.
1
Amos Denton.
1
Stephen Sherwood
Elijah Chard.
William Rowley.
L
Joseph Barber ..
I
1
1
Jacob Lowden.
I
Į
1
1
I
Joseph Yerkes
I
1
I
George Dewy
%
Samuel Whitney
I
1
Robert Wilson
George Waldorff
Abraham Waldorff
1
1
John Lacy.
Edward Spalding
1
1
1
Gabriel Beach ..
1
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Samuel Brown.
I
Jacob Brown
1
John Boice, Jr
Jacob Boice ..
1
John Boice.
Joshua Tuthill
1
Daniel Sayre. -Dunlap
I
Adonijah Osborn.
Andrew Smith. 1
David Smith
1
David Burroughs.
I
Abel Frisbie.
Isaac Johnson 1
1
Samuel Gordon.
I
Samuel Falkenburg
I
1
James Ker. ..
1
Sam'l Ker
Elijah Graton ..
I
Benjamin Badgley
I
John Sayre .. 1
I, John Sayre, do certify this Census to be true, according to the best of my knowledge and belief.
October 20th, 1801.
JOHN SAYRE.
NOTE-The spelling of names herein, conforms to the original list.
APPENDIX F.
"The Rev. Diedrich Willers, D. D., died at his residence, in the town of Varick, Seneca County, N. Y., on Sunday, May 13th, 1883, in the 86th year of his age.
He was born at Walle, near Bremen, Germany. February 6, 1798. Hc entered the army of Hanover, September, 1814, and served in the German division of the allied army for nearly five years; was an active participant in the memorable battle of Waterloo, Belgium, June 16, 17, and 18, 1815, with the allied army, under the Duke of Wellington.
In this battle, the company of which he was a member, consisting of 120 men, was reduced to 12 privates and two non-commissioned officers, and the battalion of 400 men, to less than 80 survivors.
He continued with the allied forces, as army of occupation in France, for three years, after the downfall of Bonaparte, when he was honorably discharged and awarded a silver medal in recognition of his military services.
lle arrived in the United States in November 1810), and engaged in school teaching, while preparing for the ministry, and so thorough was his application, that he was ordained to the ministry in 1821.
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He was settled in that year, as pastor of the German Reformed Church, at the hamlet of Bearytown, in central Seneca County, and ministered to that people, for a consecutive period of sixty years and eight months, and until January Ist, 1882, when his resignation took effect, rendered necessary by growing infirmities.
While ministering to his own people, he served also, at different pe- riods at six other preaching points in the county, and at seven or eight other pomts in Tompkins, Cayuga, Wayne, Livingston and Niagara Counties, performing a large proportion of the travel, incident to so extended a field of labor, on horseback, especially during the first half of his ministry.
During this ministry, he preached about 5,800 regular Sunday dis- courses, almost equally divided between the German and English language, besides many funeral and special discourses, and performed a large amount of ministerial labor, in the solemnization of marriages, and in the adminis- tration of the rites of baptism and confirmation.
He received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from Franklin Marshall College, at Lancaster, Pa." GEORGE S. CONOVER,
In General John Sullivan's Indian Expedition, State publication, of 1887.
APPENDIX G.
Diedrich Willers, Jr., son of Rev. Dr. Diedrich and Frances Willers, was born in Varick, N. Y., Nov. 3, 1833. He was educated principally in the District school and under the direction of his father.
In his youth he taught school for several years, and afterwards gradu- ated as a student-at-law, at the Albany Law University.
He was elected Supervisor of Varick, in 1865, and 1866. He had also served as Private Secretary to Governor Horatio Seymour in 1864. His service in the office of the Secretary of State at Albany, at different periods, covered six years as a clerk, eight years as Deputy, and two years as Sec- retary of State, to which office he was elected at the State election in Nov. 1873.
In November 1877, he was elected Member of Assembly for Seneca County, and served as such in the Legislature of 1878.
J. WILFORD JACKS, Chairman of Executive Committee.
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AFTERNOON SESSION CONTINUED.
At the conclusion of the Historical address, the audience joined with the Farmer Quartette, in singing "Auld Lang Syne." The Waterloo Organ Company kindly furnished printed sheets, containing well known musical selections rendered during the day.
The President announced the "Sentiments" prepared for the occasion, and the name of the person selected to respond to each --- in the order in which the same appear herein :
" THE SIX NATIONS OF INDIANS."
Responded to by Hon. George S. Conover, of Geneva, as follows :
"The town of Romulus, at one time comprised all the terri- tory between Cayuga and Seneca lakes, from Ovid to Lake Ontario. This territory, as well asthe whole of Seneca county, at the time of the advent of the white people, was owned and occu_ pied by the Cayuga Indians, and within its bounds were many Indian villages, some of which, like Skoiyase, Kendaia, Canoga, and Nuquiage, were of considerable importance. The locations of other towns, which existed long anterior to the settlement of the county by the white people, have been identified, but their history is unknown. From the remains that have been found, however, some of them must have been of large size. One of these was in the neighborhood of the Baptist church, in the present town of Romulus, and another, which had quite an extensive fortification and must have been an important village, was near the center of the southerly half of the present town of Fayette.
It is well known, that the Cayugas comprised one of the Five Nations, associated with the Senecas, Onondagas, Oneidas, and Mohawks, which comprised the League of the Iroquois, formed by Hiawatha, to which confederacy the Tuscaroras were after- wards admitted. From that time, they were known as the Six Nations of Indians. Other Indian tribes were within their bounds, being the captives or remnants of other nations that had been nearly exterminated, and had been adopted by and brought under
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the subjection of the Six Nations, forming in reality an integral part. The settlement of Kendaia is a good illustration.
To these Six Nations of Indians, we owe a peculiar debt of gratitude. The struggle between the French and English for the supremacy of the country, which occurred about the middle of the eighteenth century was a long and bitter contest. For a time, the Cayugas and Senecas were more or less under the influence of French emissaries, but at last, through the exertions of Sir William Johnson, they were in a great measure won over to the interest of the British, and with their active assistance, the tide of war was changed, and all the French possessions and interests passed into the hands of the British, and the result was, that we are to-day an English, instead of a French-speaking people.
In the course of time, the revolutionary war occurred, and the Six Nations became the firm allies of the Britishi. It is quite the fashion at this time, to excuse and palliate the acts of the Indians during that war; but their warfare was cruel and barbarous, and for this we owe them no kindly remembrance.
As the revolutionary war drew to a close, it became apparent that the colonists were to be successful. Inasmuch as the confed- eration was simply a naked league of thirteen states, fighting for their independence, it 'almost seemed as if victory would be followed by disintegration. At this time, the question as to the title to the Western territory, became an important one. New York, Virginia, Massachusetts, and Connecticut, had conflicting claims to more or less of the same territory. This claim the other states resisted, contending that as the territory was wrested from a common enemy, it should be considered as joint property, to be disposed of by Congress, for the common good. Upon this ques- tion, popular feeling was so strong, that the withdrawal of some of the states seemed imminent. At this crisis, while the infant Union was trembling in the balance, New York, with a magna- nimity unsurpassed in history, executed to the general govern- ment, a deed of all the Western territory lying beyond the present limits of the state. This deed, with all the conflicting claims, was referred by Congress, to a committee of five, who made a long and
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