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*This tannery is 360 feet long, and gives employment to about one hundred men.
+ French's State Gazetteer, p. 182.
¿ Edwards was grandson of President Edwards of Princeton College, and first cousin to Aaron Burr, who was Vice-President of the United States, in 1801, and was brought up in the family to which Edwards belonged. He was member of the State Legislature in the time of Gov. Jay's administration.
Mr. Edwards is said to have built the first saw mill on the Tioughnioga River.
§ Says French, "the first store was kept by Moses Adams and the first tavern by O. Wheaton, in 1799."
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Religious services were instituted as early as 1795, by Rev. Seth Williston, who was sent here by the Connecticut Missionary Society at the solicitation of Mr. Edward Edwards. Two years later the labors of Mr. Williston were rewarded by the organ- ization of the First Congregational Church of Lisle, whose first pastor be became. At its organization the church consisted of eleven professing members, and five who were not professors. William Osborn was elected to the office of deacon in 1801, but it was not until 1810 that he and Andrew Squires, his col- league, were consecrated. Mr. Williston employed only half his time in pastoral duties in this Society, the residue being oc- cupied in missionary labors in Union, Owego and Oquaga. From 1803, when he was installed pastor of this church, till 1810, when he was dismissed from it, he seems to have devoted all his time within the pastoral limits of this congregation. This church "was the earliest organized, it is believed, of any west of the Catskills and south of Utica."* Their first house of worship was not erected until 1822. The present one, which will seat 400 persons, was erected two years later at a cost of $3,000. The present pastor is Rev. R. A. Clark and the num- ber of members, seventy. The Church property is valued at $7,000.
The M. E. Church, of Lisle, was organized about 1815, by Rev. Geo. W. Densmore, its first pastor. The first class was organized in 1830 or '31, with P. B. Brooks as leader. Their house of worship, which will seat 250 persons, was erected in 1857, at a cost of $2,000. The present pastor is Rev. A. W. Loomis ; the number of members, eighty. The value of Church property is $4,500.
The Baptist Church at Center Lisle was organized with seven members, in 1828. Their church edifice, which will seat 400 persons, was erected in 1856, at a cost of $4,400. Rev. Asahel Holcomb was the first pastor ; Rev. Gardner Dean is the present one. There are twenty-six members. The value of Church property is $3,000.
The Congregational Church at Center Lisle was organized with nineteen members, June 14, 1830, by Rev. Seth Burt. Their first house of worship was erected two years later ; and the present one, which will seat 400 persons, in 1855, at a cost of $3,300. Rev. Alvin D. French was the first pastor; at pres- ent there is none. The number of members is sixty. The Church property is valued at $6,000.
* Annals of Binghamton, p. 166.
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The Baptist Church at Killawog was organized with sixty- nine members in 1841. Rev. David Leach was the first pastor. The church edifice occupied by this Society was erected in 1835, and repaired in 1868. It will seat 300 persons. Its original cost was $3,000; its present value, together with all Church property, is $5,000. There are fifty-one members, who are ministered to by Rev. Abner Lull.
The M. E. Church at Killawog was organized with thirty members by Rev. Arvine C. Bowdish, its first pastor, in 1867, in which year was erected their church edifice, which will seat 200 persons, at a cost of $3,000, which is the present value of Church property. The present pastor is Rev. Reuben Fox ; and the number of members, seventy-five.
The M. E. Church at Center Lisle was organized by Rev. D. D. Lindsley, the first pastor, in 1869, in which year their church edifice, which will seat 250 persons, was erected at a cost of $4,500, which is the present value of Church property. Rev. A. W. Loomis is the present pastor.
MAINE was formed from Union, March 27, 1848 .* A part was annexed to Chenango in 1856. It is located about the center of the west border of the County. Its surface con- sists of ranges of hills, separated by numerous narrow valleys, the principal of which-the valley of Nanticoke Creek-ex- tends in a north and south direction, a little west of the center of the town. The hills rise from 400 to 600 feet above the valley of Chenango River. The principal streams are Nanticoke, Bradley and Crocker creeks. Bradley Creek rises a little east of the center, and, flowing in a south-west direction, empties into Nanticoke Creek a little south of the south line in Union ; Crocker Creek enters the town near the south-west corner, and, flowing in a general south-east direction, dis- charges its waters into the same stream, about the same distance north of the south line. Several minor tributaries of
* The first town meeting was held in the school house in the village of Maine, on the 25th of the following April. At this meeting John C. Cur- tis, Sands Niles and Louis Gates were the presiding officers, and Nathan- iel W. Eastman was clerk. In accordance with the resolutions then adopted the following named officers were elected : Andrew H. Arnold, Supervisor : John W. Hunt, Town Clerk ; Marshall DeLano, Superintend- ent of Common Schools ; John T. Davis, Collector ; Cyrus Gates, John Blau- chard and Hanan W. Moores, Justices of the Peace; Orange H. Arnold, Thomas Young Jr. and Wm. H. Tuttle, Assessors; Hanan Payne and Edward Ward, Commissioners of Highways; Dexter Hathaway and Matthew Allen, Overseers of the Poor; Eustis Hathaway, John B. Smith, Joel Benson and Ransom T. Gates, Constables ; Jefferson Ransom, Amasa Durfee and Luke Curtis, Inspectors of Elections; James W. Carman, Sealer of Weights and Measures; and Lyman PoHard, Pound Master.
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the Nanticoke spread, fan-like, over the north part, and all pursue a southerly direction. Little Choconut Creek flows almost due south through the south-east corner, entering the town on the north line of the southern angle which projects into the town of Chenango.
The soil is a gravelly loam largely intermixed with the underlying slate. The inhabitants are chiefly engaged in lum- bering and dairying. Two " farmers' clubs" have been organ- ized, and periodical meetings are held at the residences of the different members, and the deliberations are participated in by the families of the members. Crops, stock, out-buildings, agricultural implements, &c., are critically examined and com- mented upon. The subjects discussed at these meetings are designed to embrace all matters of interest to a farming com- munity. Such meetings nurture amicable social relations and afford opportunities for the interchange of ideas, which will tend to stimulate a spirit of generous rivalry and promote the farming interests of the County at large.
The population of the town in 1870 was 2,035. Its area is 27,319៛ acres, of which, in 1865, according to the census of that year, 15,738ª, were improved.
During the year ending Sept. 30, 1871, the town contained thirteen school districts and employed fourteen teachers. The number of children of school age was 634; the number at- tending school, 556 ; the average attendance, 283 ; the amount expended for school purposes, $3,652 ; and the value of school houses and sites, $5,325.
MAINE (p. v.) is located on the west bank of Nanticoke Creek, west of the center of the town. The principal part of the village is built in the form of a square. Its well laid out and neatly shaded streets present a pleasing aspect. It contains four stores, three churches, (Baptist, Congregational and M. E.) one hotel, a tannery,* a rake factory,t a saw mill, a tin shop, three blacksmith shops, two cooper shops, a wagon shop, two shoe shops, one tailor shop and three hundred inhabitants.
EAST MAINE (p. o.) is located in the east part, south of the center, and contains a cooper shop, wagon shop and blacksmith shop.
BOWERS CORNERS is a hamlet located one mile north of Maine village and contains a store, a shoe shop, blacksmith shop aud wagon shop.
* The tannery contains 132 vats, employs twenty men, annually consumes 2,500 cords of bark and manufactures 12,000 hides.
+ The rake manufactory produces annually an average of from 15,000 to 20,000 rakes in addition to other work of a miscellaneous character.
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The two principal saw mills in the town are Pollard's and Baker's. The latter is a steam mill and is capable of saw- ing from 3,000,000 to 4,000,000 feet of lumber annually, though the yearly average does not exceed one and one-half million feet.
The town was principally settled by families from New
Hampshire, Connecticut and Massachusetts. Benj. Norton settled about three-fourths of a mile above the site of Maine village, in 1794. He was a native of Stockbridge, Mass. In 1797 Alfred and Russell Gates, two brothers, came from the vicinity of Binghamton, where they had located four years pre- viously, and settled in the north-west part of the town, now known as the Gates settlement. They cut their road through the forest from Centerville, a distance of seven miles. At that period they were in the habit of carrying their dinners to work with them; but they were obliged to be as careful in the selection of food as the most confirmed dyspeptic, as any- thing emitting an agreeable odor was sure to attract to them an escort of wolves, whose number and presence were far from awakening pleasurable emotions. Daniel Howard and Win- throp Roe came the same year. Moses Delano and Nathaniel Slosson are said to have been the first settlers in the vicinity of East Maine. They located there about the beginning of the present century, and were followed by Samuel Stone and Heman Payne in 1816, and by William Hogg in 1836. The latter was joined a few years later by a number of his relatives, who gave the settlement the name of Mount Ettrick, in honor of their uncle .* By industry and intelligent farming they have done much to improve the locality in which they settled. "James Ketchum, from Conn., came here from near Binghamton, where he settled about 1790, and located about three miles south- west of Maine village, on lot 155 of the Boston Purchase, in 1802. Timothy Caswell, who appears to have been the first settler in the locality known as the Allen settlement, located there in 1815, and was followed some five or six years later by John Mareau, and in 1836 by Ebenezer and Matthew Allen, from Otsego County. Marsena H. McIntyre, from Otsego County, settled in the north-west corner of the town, in what is known both as North Maine and the McIntyre settlement, on the 7th of May, 1829. The north-east part of the town was the last settled. It is known as " Canada " - a name it owes to the following incident: It was covered with a growth of very fine timber, which persons in its neighborhood were accustomed to appropriate to their own uses. Warrants were
* James Hogg, the Scottish poet, who was born in the forest of Ettrick, in Selkirkshire, in 1772, and who in early life followed the occupation of a shepherd, was commonly known as "the Ettrick Shepherd."
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frequently issued for the guilty parties, but the inquiries of the officers invariably elicited the reply that those for whom they were searching had gone to Canada.
During the war of the Rebellion this town furnished 190 men, nearly one hundred of whom belonged to the 50th En- gineers. Of this number fifteen were killed.
The Congregational Church, located at Maine village, was organ- ized with forty members, in 1818, and re-organized in 1833. Its first church edifice was erected in 1824; and the present one, which will seat 260 persons, in 1840, at a cost of $3,000. The first pastor was Rev. Naham Gould ; the present one is Rev. William T. Hayward. There are 220 members. The Church property is valued at $7,500.
The First Baptist Church of Maine was organized with thirty- one members, by a Council* convened at the Congregational Church, Jan. 21, 1835. The church edifice will seat 300 persons, was erected in 1840, at a cost of $1500, and dedicated in Dec. of that year. Rev. William Gates was the first pastor; Rev. H. R. Dakin is the present one. There are 170 members. The value of Church property is $6,000.
The M. E. Church, located near Union Center, was organized with forty-five members, in 1836, and its house of worship, which will seat two hundred persons, was erected the following year. Rev. S. Stocking, was the first pastor; the present one is Rev. Wesley Sartelle.
The M. E. Church, located at North Maine, was organized with thirteen members, in 1844, by Marsena H. McIntyre, Orange H. Arnold, Russell Robinson and George M. Harden- dorf. Their church edifice was erected in 1870, and dedicated March 8, 1871. It cost $3,000, which is the present value of Church property, and will seat 180 persons. There are thirty-eight members. Rev. Thomas Pitts was the first pastor ; Rev. John A. Wood is the present one.
The M. E. Church, located at Maine village, was re-organized (the date of its 'first organization is not known) with forty members in 1866, by Russell Dodds, Clinton Cleveland, Henry Turner, Matthew Allen, James Howard, Daniel Dudley and Henry Van Tuyl. The church edifice, which will seat 150 per- sons, was erected in 1847 or '8, at a cost of $2,000, which is one- half the present value of Church property. The first pastor
* The Council was composed of the following named delegates: "Revd. J. R. Berdick, Owego, Deacon John Congdon, Binghamton, Revd. M. M. Everts, Berkshire and Lisle, Deacon B. Eldridge, Barker, Revd. J. J. Miller, 1st Green, Revd. N. Church, 2d Lisle."-Extract from book in pos- session of Cyrus Gates.
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was Rev. Edgar Sibley ; the present one is Rev. John A. Wood. There are forty members.
The Abbott Church, (M. E.) located at Dimmick Hill, (East Maine) was organized with forty members in 1868, in which year the church edifice, which will seat 250 persons, was erected, at a cost of $2,200. The church was dedicated by Rev. Daniel W. Bristoe, D. D., Jan. 7, 1869. Rev. - Abbott was the first pastor; Rev. Edgar Sibley is the present one. There are fifty members. The Church property is valued at $3,000.
A Presbyterian church is now in process of erection in the immediate vicinity of East Maine.
NANTICOKE* was formed from Lisle April 18, 1831. It lies upon the west border, north of the center. The surface consists of an upland broken by a few narrow ravines. The highest summits are from 100 to 300 feet above the Susque- hanna, and from 1,200 to 1,400 feet above tide. The town is watered by the two main branches of the Nanticoke and their tributaries. Both these branches flow south, one through the western, and the other through the eastern part. The soil upon the hills is a slaty loam underlaid by hardpan.
The town covers an area of 16,124} acres, of which, in 1865, according to the census of that year, 7,413}, or less than one- half was improved. The population in 1870 was 1,058.
During the year ending Sept. 30, 1871, the town contained seven school districts and employed seven teachers. The num- ber of children of school age was 399; the number attending school, 323 ; the average attendance, 161; the amount expend- ed for school purposes, $1,585 ; and the value of school houses and sites, $2,310.
LAMBS CORNERS, (p. o.) located on Nanticoke Creek, west of the center of the town, contains two churches, (Baptist and M. E.) one store, a wagon shop, a blacksmith shop and two saw mills, one of which (Washington Johnson's) is quite extensive. It is run by steam, and in connection with it are a grist and planing mill. About 300,000 feet of lumber are annually cut, this being done in the spring of the year. The rest of the time is occupied in planing and finishing. The postoffice was established here in 1860 and was removed from Nanticoke Springs.
GLEN AUBREY, (p. o.) (formerly known as Councilman Set- tlement,) located on the east branch of the Nanticoke,
* This name is derived from the Indian name of Nanticoke Creek .- French's State Gazetteer, p. 182.
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near the south line and east of the center, contains two churches, (Christian and M. E.) two stores, three blacksmith shops and one shoe shop. There was formerly a tannery here, but it is burnt down.
NANTICOKE SPRINGS, located on Nanticoke Creek, about one mile south of Lambs Corners and near the south line, derives both its name and importance from the mineral spring located there.
The principal settlements are in the valleys of the streams. They were commenced in 1793 and '4 by John Beachtle, Philip Councilman,* James Stoddard and John Ames, who located on the east Nanticoke. Beachtle was from Luzerne county, Penn., and Stoddard, from Connecticut. The former, and afterwards Ames, occupied the farm now owned by Charles H. and James Stoddard.t Councilman lived by hunting and trapping until he accumulated a sufficient amount to purchase 300 acres of land.
The first settler on the west Nanticoke was Isaac Lamb, who located on the site of the village of Lamb's Corners, in 1804.
The first birth was that of Betsey Stoddard, in 1794, and the first death, that of Miss Bird, sister of Mrs. Stoddard.
The M. E. Church, at Lamb's Corners, was organized with twenty members, in 1852, in which year their house of wor- ship, which will seat 200 persons, was erected, at a cost of $1,000, which is two-fifths of the present value of Church property. Rev. John M. Grimes was the first pastor; the present one is Rev. J. N. Lee. There are forty members.
The Baptist Church, at Lamb's Corners, was organized with forty members, by Eli Levi Holcomb, in February, 1825, but the church edifice, which will seat 250 persons and was built
*The first town meeting was held at Councilman's house the first Tues- day in March, 1832, and was, we are informed, of a stormy nature, as it was introduced by a free fight and several attempts were made to burn the ballot box .- (Statement of Geo. W. Bush and Morgan Spencer.) This meeting resulted in the election of the following named officers: Aaron N. Remmele, Supervisor; H. B. Stoddard, Clerk; Silas Hemingway, H. B. Stoddard, David Councilman and Charles Brookens, Justices; Samuel Canfield and John Councilman, Overseers of the Poor; F. S. Griggs, H. Walter and James Lamb, Commissioners of Highways; F. S. Griggs, A. N. Remmele and J. L. Smith, Commissioners and Inspectors of Schools; Charles Brookens, Hiram Rogers and Silas Hemingway, Assessors; Philip Councilman, 2d Collector; Aurora Brayman and Isaac A. Griggs, Constables; and Silas Hemingway, Sealer of Weights and Measures.
+ On this farm is an apple tree which is claimed to be the largest in the State. Two feet from the ground the trunk measures eleven feet, six and one-half inches in circumference. One branch is over two feet in diameter, and four others average over thirteen inches each. This tree was planted in 1796, by Miss Polly Beachtle, who brought it from Pennsylvania on horse back.
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at a cost of $1,200, was not erected until 1853. Its first pastor was Rev. Granville Gates; the present one is Rev. Geo. W. Bliss. There are forty-five members. The Church property is valued at $3,000.
The Christian Church, at Glen Aubrey, was organized with twelve members, in 1857, by Jonathan, Alison and William Stalker. The first pastor was Rev. Edward Tyler; Rev. James Youmans is the present one. The church edifice, which will seat 150 persons, was erected in 1866, at a cost of $1,800. There are thirty members. The Church property is valued at $2,300.
The M. E. Church, at Glen Aubrey, was organized with thirty members, but when and by whom we are unable to learn. Their church edifice was erected in 1867. It cost $2,500, and will seat' 200 persons. It was dedicated in March, 1868, by Rev. B. I. Ives. Rev. Edgar Sibley was the first pastor; Rev. J. N. Lee is the present one. There are from thirty-five to forty members. The Church property is valued at $3,000.
SANFORD was formed from Windsor, April 2, 1821. It is the south-east corner town in the County, and is the largest one in the County. It covers an area of 52,6744 acres, of which, in 1865, according to the census of that year, 21,024}, were improved. Its surface consists principally of the high ranges of hills which extend between the Delaware and Sus- quehanna rivers, and whose summits are from 500 to 900 feet above the valley, and declivities usually steep .* These high- lands are separated into two parts by the deep, narrow valley of Oquaga Creek. This valley and that of the Delaware are bounded by almost precipitous mountain declivities. The principal stream is Oquaga Creek, which enters the town near the north-east corner, and, flowing in a south-west direction to a point a little south of the center, turns and runs due east until it empties into the Delaware at Deposit. This creek has numerous falls, which furnish an abundance of ex- cellent water power. It has numerous small tributaries, the principal of which is North Brook. The Delaware forms the east boundary of the town, south of Deposit.
Its geological formation consists in the west part of the Chemung group of the Old Red Sandstone, which terminates on the surface about three miles west of Deposit, where the. Catskill group commences. In the former is found a great
* The highest point between the two rivers, by the State Road Survey; is 1,688 feet above tide."-French's State Gazetteer, p. 183.
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number of shells and fossil fish, and in the latter, ferns and other vegetables of enormous size.
In the valleys the soil is a fertile gravelly loam, but upon the hills it is a cold clayey loam, underlaid by hardpan. It is well adapted to dairving purposes, in which the people are largely engaged. The chief wealth of the town consists in its dairy products.
In 1870 the town had a population of 3,249. During the year ending Sept. 30, 1871, it contained twenty-three school districts and employed twenty-four teachers. The number of children of school age was 1,265; the number attending school, 941; the average attendance, 439; the amount expended for school purposes, $7,672; and the value of school houses and sites, $13,064.
DEPOSIT* (p. v.) is situated partly in this town and partly in the town of Tompkins, Delaware county.t It lies on the Dela- ware, at the mouth of Oquaga Creek. It is the center of a large lumber business, and is an important trading station and wood depot on the Erie R. R. which traverses the southern por- tion of the town. In addition to the numerous mechanical and other establishments, which are described more minutely in the Directory list for this village, it contains a printing office, ( The Deposit Courier,) a bank, į an academy,§ a library, | a carriage factory, T and about 1,600 inhabitants.
* It derives its name from having been an important station, or place of deposit, for lumber, preparatory to rafting in the spring freshets. It was called by the Indians " cokeose," or owls nest, which was corrupted by the English into "Cook house," a name by which it is still designated by the old inhabitants.
The earliest mention of this place is found in Boudinot's Star in the West, where it is stated the Indian name was " O-hoot-ose," to which name the same meaning is given.
+ It was incorporated April 5, 1811, but the original limits of the village were entirely within the town of Tompkins. A part of Sanford was an- nexed in 1852; and the charter was amended in 1858.
# The Deposit National Bank was organized February 20, 1854, and was changed to a National Bank July 1, 1854. It has a capital of $125,000. The officers are Charles Knapp, President; James G. Clark, Vice-President; James H. Knapp, Cashier ; C. J. Knapp, Assistant Cashier; H. W. Knapp, Teller.
§ The Deposit Academy was built in 1866. It has accommodations for 200 boarding students. Connected with it is a library containing 150 vol- umes, valued at $300; and philosophical and chemical apparatus to the value of $120. The buildings and ground are valued at $7,700. The Prin- cipal, R. L. Thatcher, A. M., and Preceptress, Mrs. M. E. Thatcher, are as- siduous in their efforts to promote the mental, moral and physical welfare of those entrusted to their care.
II The Deposit Library Association was organized in 1859. The library contains 575 volumes. T. More is President and A. More, Secretary.
T The Deposit Carriage Manufactory, of which Beardsley & Wall are proprietors, employs about fifteen persons and turns out a large number of wagons, carriages and sleighs.
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SANFORD (p. o.) is located on Oquaga Creek, about the cen- ter of the town.
NORTH SANFORD (p. o.) is located on Oquaga Creek, near the north-east corner.
GULF SUMMIT, (p. o.) located near the south-west corner, seven miles from Deposit, is a station on the Erie R. R.
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