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CHAPTER LXXXVI.
CHATEAUGAY.
Geographieal and Descriptive-Natural Features-Falls-Intermit- tent Spring-Land Titles and Grants-Early Settlement, Settlers, and Pioneer Incidents - Publie-Houses-Stores - Learned Pro- fessions-Physicians-Lawyers-Highways -- Railroads - Men of Prominence-Civil Organization-First Town-Meeting and Town Officers-Supervisors and Clerks from 1799 to IS80-Officers in 1879 -- Notes from the Records-Statistics.
GEOGRAPHICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE.
THE town of Chatcangay forms the northeast corner of Franklin County. Its northern boundary is the Province of Quebec, in the Dominion of Canada. On the south lics the town of Belmont, Franklin Co. ; on the cast the towns of Clinton and Ellenburgh, in Clinton Co. ; and on the west by the town of Burke, Franklin Co. It comprehends an area of 28,756 acres, and in 1875 had a population of 2719.
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NATURAL FEATURES.
The surface of the town is undulating, with a general inclination towards the north. The soil is a clayey loam interspersed with clay, and is quite productive under carc- ful cultivation. There are no elevations of special moment.
The Chateaugay River and its branches furnish the prin- cipal water-supply of the town. The former flows northerly through the entire extent of the town, and affords several excellent water-privileges.
Marble River enters the town from the east, near the centre, and flows northwesterly through the central portion.
About a mile south of the village of Chateaugay there occurs on this river a beautiful cascade, which from the singular wildness and sublimity of the surrounding scenery is well worthy the admiration of those who derive pleasure from the contemplation of the wild and picturesque. The fall oeeurs in a ravine which the stream has worn through the Potsdam sandstone to the depth of nearly 200 fcet, and the principal fall is at the outlet of a narrow gorge, and has a vertical height of about 50 feet.
Another series of smaller cascades occur on the same river within the town.
Intermittent Spring .- About half a mile east of Chateau- gay village occurs an intermittent spring, which has been the subject of much curious study. It rises from two sources through the sand, and in such volume as, in ordinary seasons, to carry power sufficient for mechanical purposes. The water is remarkably clear and cold, is never known to freeze, and discharges bubbles of gas (said to be nitrogen) in considerable quantities while running. There is no cer- tain period of its intermitting, nor does this appear to be affected by rains. Sometimes the period of its flowing will last for a year or two, but it is generally dry towards the close of summer. Once it failed in the month of Feb- ruary. It is said generally to stop quite abruptly, not occupying more than twenty-four hours from the time it begins to fail till it is dry. On again starting it will increase slowly, and not attain its full flow before a week or two. There is a smaller but constant spring less than a mile northeast of this, which discharges gas, but the nature of these gaseous emanations has not been ascertained. This spring in early times attracted the attention of the Indians, who called it Hu-nah-a-ta-ko-wah, " a big spring rushing out of the ground."
LAND GRANTS AND TITLES.
The original territory of the town comprehended town- ships 5, 6, 7, and 8 of the old Military Tract. On the erection of St. Lawrence County, Great Tract No. 1, of Macomb's purchase, and the St. Regis reservation, were an- nexed; and in forming Franklin County townships 9 and 10 of the old Military Tract were annexed, and 5 and 6 taken off. Tract No. 1 was taken off in 1805 in forming Harrison (Malone), and by the two acts erecting and ex- tending Belmont, and in the erection of Burke, it has been reduced to its present limits, embracing the easterly half of township No. 7, with the exception of one tier that lies in Belmont.
Townships Nos. 6 and 7 (the former now in Clinton County) were patented by the State to James Caldwell, of
Albany, on Feb. 25, 1785, with the usual conditions of patents. On March 6, 1785, Caldwell sold the tract to Col. McGregor, of New York, for £500 currency. On the 19th of December, 1795, Col. McGregor sold to John Lamb, Wm. Bell, George Bowne, Joseph Pearsall, Henry Hay- dock, and Edmund Prior, merchants of New York, as ten- ants in common, but in different proportions, of the lands in townships 6 and 7. The tract was to be divided into lots, for which the purchasers agreed to ballot, according to their respective interest therein.
The following is the list of the lots that fell to the share of each so far as relates to No. 7, or the present towns of Chateaugay, Burke, and a small part of Belmont : Col. Mc- Gregor drew lots 1, 2, 6 to 12, 14 to 21, 23 to 27, 30, 33, 35, 37, 38, 39, 41, 42, 44, 50, 53, 54, 56 to 59, 61 to 65, 68, 69, 70, 72, 75, 78 to 81, 84 to 87, 90; John Lamb drew 76, 71, 3, 13, 22, 55, 82, 77 ; William Bell drew lots 43, 32, 66, 20, 75, 36, 52, 60, 313, 89; George Bowne drew 4, 73, and 33; Joseph Pearsall drew 34 and 40; Henry Haydock drew No. 88; Edmund Prior drew No. 5; Thomas H. Brantingham, who owned a part of each of these townships, drew lots 51, 28, and 67, which were con- veycd to Col. McGregor.
EARLY SETTLEMENTS, SETTLERS, AND PIONEER INCI- DENTS.
The first white settlements in the county were made in the town of Chateaugay, in the year 1796, by Benjamin Roberts, from Ferrisburgh, Vt., and Nathan Beeman, from Plattsburgh. At this time the frontier settlement was in Beekmantown, six miles west of Plattsburgh.
The following account of Mr. Roberts' pioneer journey has been already printed, but is found to be substantially correct, and hence reproduced :
" Having decided upon emigrating far beyond the limits of civilized life, Mr. Roberts left his home in February, 1796, with his family and goods, and arrived safely at Plattsburgh, where he left his family, and attempted to proceed with a portion of his goods to his destination. With the assistance of some of the land proprietors, and others, who felt an interest in the proposed settlement, they proceeded with a number of teams as far as was practicable (about eighteen miles), where they were compelled from the depth of the snows to abandon the undertaking, and leaving their load concealed in the woods with hemlock boughs, they returned to Plattsburgh. In March, Mr. Roberts, with Levi Trumbull, a young man whom he had hired, set out with an intention of making sugar, and there being a firm erust on the snow, they started with a hand-sled for the place where their load had been deposited, and taking a fire-pail, iron kettle, and an old-fashioned Dutch iron pot, holding about ten gallons, some provisions, an axe, and tap- ping-gouge, they proceeded with these, drawing them on the sled by hand, to Chateaugay, a distance of twenty-two miles, along a narrow path that had been partly cut through the fall before, in anticipation of a road. Mr. Roberts had also provided a hut the fall previous, which was not covered. They soon fitted up a quantity of basswood troughs, and commenced making sugar. While occupying this camp they were on one occasion visited by an Indian who sold
JUDGE GIDEON COLLINS.
Judge Gideon Collins, son of Joshua and Tabitha Col- lins, was born in Dutchess Co., N. Y., in 1779, and settled in Chateaugay, Franklin Co., N. Y., in 1803. He was a farmer by occupation. He married Tabitha Sweet. The following are their children : Zaida (deceased), married Alanson Roberts; Catherine (deceased), married George Smith ; Adeline (deceased), married W. Hollenbeck, five children survive her; Maria (deceased), married Eli David- son, three daughters survive her; Delia E., married, Oct. 19, 1837, Daniel P. Hodges, was born in Peru, Clinton Co., N. Y., Sept. 7, 1808. He was a farmer, hotel-keeper, and merchant respectively. He settled in Malone, N. Y., in 1854. He died May 12, 1860. Mrs. Hodges gener- ously contributes this in memory of her honored father and brother. Lucy M. (deceased), married John Mott; George T. (deceased), married Harriet Webb ; and Albert L., married Ann Eliza McGregor, and has two children.
Mrs. Gideon Collins was a member of the Baptist Church, and was a lady highly esteemed. She died March 2, 1860.
The judge was a Democrat in politics, and as such was one of the leading men of the town. We quote from the pen of others their estimate of him and his son George T. : " One more of the old settlers gone. Gideon Collins died at his old homestead, where he has lived many years, in the town of Chatcaugay, on the 27th day of December, 1875. He was one of the first settlers of the town, and is the last one of those that cleared up the first forest. He was nincty-six years of age, was born in Dutchess Co., N. Y., in the year 1779, and moved into this town in the ycar 1803. He re- fused to take any medicine during his illness, declaring he had lived long enough. He lived to see respectable families grow up. Albert Collins, Esq., now residing in the town of Chateaugay, is his son. Mr. Collins was a man much respected in the community where he lived. He held the office of justice of the peace for many years, and had been supervisor of the town, and also judge of the county. At . the time he settled in town everything had to be backed from Plattsburgh. He often went there on foot, and brought home supplies upon his back. His mind was clear until the last, and he could relate incidents of early days that would not fail to interest the hearer. During his siek- ness, which was but of short duration, he secnied to be anxious to cross over the river to meet the loved ones gone before."
GEORGE T. COLLINS.
" By the death of this gentleman, who died at his residence in Chateaugay April 26, 1872, our town has lost a citizen of more than ordinary note. Mr. Collins was born in this town in the year 1820, and has ever since made it his home. Possessing the advantages of more than ordinary natural gifts, and having had in early life opportunity for cultiva- tion, his superior qualifications for places of public trust were conceded, and such places frequently proffered himn. Most of these he declined with characteristic diffidence. A few were accepted and honorably filled. In the fall of 1869 he was elected school commissioner of District No. 1 in this county, and very efficiently and satisfactorily per- formed the duties of the office until February, 1871, when, finding his health failing, and being too conscientious to receive the emoluments of an office to which he could not do justice, he resigned.
" But it was not in his public life that Mr. Collins won the special admiration of his friends. It was that unselfish, generous, and genial life, that high sense of honor and moral integrity which nothing could shake, that made him in the highest sense honored and respected. Possessed of a noble soul, capable of forming genuine and enduring friendship, and ever ready to unite with another in the love of the sovereign good, he won many and lasting friends. He could have little sympathy, however, with the hollow and selfish leaders of parties and creeds. The pos- itive elements in his character would admit of no compro- mise of principles, and hence he was merciless in his erit- icisms of unscrupulous men. But the man who came to him with a frank and honest heart-whatever his station in life-found in him an appreciative friend. To the poor or less fortunate in life he was attentive, considerate, and ever ready with any available assistance to render the rugged path of life smoother.
" He was extremely social, and very pleasing and enter- taining. He would sit long hours with his friends and discourse in a clear, comprehensive, and logical manner upon publie matters, or read from or talk of his favorite authors.
" He is dead, but still lives, and will continue to live in the hearts and memory of many friends."
Photos, by Fay & Goodell, Malone.
PHILIP BRYANT.
ARUNA S. BRYANT.
ARUNA S. BRYANT,
son of Philip and Sophia (Shepard) Bryant, was born April 21, 1812. Philip Bryant was born in Connecticut Nov. 20, 1780. He removed to Erie, Pa., where he died, at the age of seventy-five. He was a soldier in the war of 1812; was a Democrat in politics, and held the positions of deputy sheriff and justice of the peace. Sophia Shepard was born Sept. 3, 1787, and resided in Caldwell's Manor, Canada. She died May 29, 1846.
Aruna S. Bryant's parents settled in Chateaugay, Franklin Co., N. Y., in 1804, on what is, or was, known as the "Platt Place." His father was a farmer in good circumstances. His father's family consisted of the following: Cornelia, Caroline, Aruna S., Philip D., Sophia M., David B., Jona- than M., Jennet, Clarinda, and Sarah A.
At seventeen years of age Mr. Bryant worked on the farm for three years at ten dollars per month. April 9, 1833, he was married to Caroline, daughter of Dr. Erastus and Abigail Douglass, of Chateau- gay. She was born Oct. 17, 1812, and died Jan. 25, 1862. Their children were : Abigail, born Sept. 22, 1834, and Philip E., born Jan. 23, 1836.
Abigail married Timothy Bryant, who was a sol- dier in Company H, 1st Regiment of New York Volunteers ; enlisted Nov. 5, 1862, and honorably
discharged June 30, 1865, serving nearly three years in the war of the Rebellion. They have one son, William A.
Philip E. Bryant married Miss G. Miller. Their children are James, Charles, and George. Philip is a farmer, living on the liome farm.
Aruna S. Bryant married, for his second wife, the widow of Governor Horace Eaton, of Middlebury, Vt., October, 1862.
Governor Eaton was a prominent man in his day ; was a politician, mathematician, philosopher, and statesman. He was a member of the Legislature for several years; was State senator, Lieutenant-Governor, and Governor of Vermont for two years; superin- tendent of public instruction for three years, and professor in Middlebury College eight years. He was a staunch Republican, and in his death the State of Vermont lost one of her mnost valued citizens.
Aruna S. Bryant is a Democrat, and has held various town and county positions; has been deputy sheriff six years, assessor a number of years, janitor of the State senate two years, and at the present writing is inspector of elections. He is an exemplary member of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Cha- teaugay, to the support of which lic contributes lib- erally of his time and money.
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them a moose, the flesh of which they eut up and smoked over their fire as they were making sugar. At the close of the sugar season they left their sugar, smoked meat, and kettles, in their eamp, and returned to Plattsburgh.
" In the early part of April Mr. Roberts again started with his family, consisting of a wife and four children, and several hired men. These were Levi Trumbull, Joshua Chamberlain, Kinkade Chamberlain, Ethan A. Roberts, and Jared Munson. Their outfit consisted of a yoke of oxen, and a pair of steers for leaders, attached to a sled containing a few artieles of indispensable use, but they had not pro- ceeded more than a mile beyond the house of a Mr. Delong, the last settler in Beekmantown, when one of the oxen gave out from fatigue. He was here unyoked and left to provide for himself, as the spring was just opening, and vegetation had advaneed enough to afford a seanty supply of food, and Roberts proposed to his wife to return with her young children to the settlement until another oppor- tunity offered; but with heroie resolution she insisted upon sharing the hardships of the undertaking, and resolved to proceed. The husband having placed in a rude bark sad- dle such provisions upon the odd ox as he was able eonve- niently to earry, and suspended from the yoke of the steers a paek containing a few artieles of first necessity, he took upon his own baek one of his boys, and led the way, driving his eattle before himu, and followed by his wife bearing an infant in her arms. His men and two other boys, then mere lads, bearing eaeh burdens as their strength permitted, brought up the rear. What could not be taken was left covered up on the sled. A part of their load was a barrel of rum, which was left, except a eopper tea-kettle full whiel they took along; and this being exhausted to within a quart, the remainder was preserved for Mrs. Roberts. Wherever night overtook them, they eneamped in such a place as they might happen to be. They were from Mon- day until Saturday in performing the journey of about forty miles, and reached their sugar-eamp about noon on Saturday, finding all safe. During this toilsome march Mrs. Roberts was often compelled to pause and rest, and, as they aseended the last hill, she inquired despairingly how much farther it was to the end of their journey.
" The remainder of the first day and the next were spent in covering their hut with bark, and they completed this labor just in time to save themuselves from a drenehing rain. A set of table-furniture was made of wood upon which to cat, consisting of trenehers and forks. To supply the family with provisions, the odd ox was sent onee a week to Plattsburgh, with Chamberlain as driver, and with the regularity of the mails this animal performed his weekly trips, bearing upon his back a supply of flour and pork, upon which they relied for support during the first season. The party commenced a elearing on the south bank of Marble River, about half a mile north of the present vil- lage of Chateaugay, and during the summer of 1796 about 40 aeres were eut and partly cleared. A small patch of potatoes and turnips was got in, the seed of the former being brought on the backs of William Roberts and Nathan Beeman, from Cumberland Ilead. To ceonomize weight, the seed ends and eyes of the potatoes were only brought. Beeman, from Plattsburgh, had been on several times dur- 58
ing the summer, and having made arrangements for moving, brought on his family in the fall. Mrs. Roberts had been in the settlement three months without seeing the face of any one of her sex until the arrival of Mrs. Beeman."
The children referred to in the foregoing narrative as accompanying their parents on their adventurous journey were William, Samuel, Eliakim, and John Roberts, the lat- ter of whom still resides in town at an advanced age. Alan- son Roberts, also an aged eitizen of the town, was the first male ehild born in town. A daughter, Harriet, married Jonathan Thompson, who was a pioneer stage-driver on the old Military Turnpike, and subsequently an influential citizen of the county. Theodorus P. Roberts, another son, resides in town at a good age. Michael was another son. Susan is the wife of Hon. William Andrus, of Malone. Catharine was one of the wives of O. Sunderland, who is an aged eitizen of the town.
In 1801, Benjamin Roberts removed with his family to the present town of Clinton, Clinton Co., where he kept hotel for many years on the old turnpike, and where he passed the remainder of his life.
Nathan Beeman has been referred to as one of the early companions of Benjamin Roberts. He became a perma- nent settler of the town, and his descendants are still rep- resented in the town and county. In his youth Mr. Bee- man resided at Ticonderoga, and aeted as the guide to Allen and Arnold in the surprisal of that fortress in Mareh, 1775. He, like other children, was allowed the range of the preu- ises, and was familiar with the entire appointments of the place. Under his guidanee Ethan Allen was conducted to the chamber of the British commander, who was surprised and captured without resistance. In relating this oeeur- renee Mr. Beeman said that Capt. Delaplace, after somue . conversation with Allen, happening to see him in company with the provineials, inquired, " What ! are you here, Na- than ?" This question aroused a sense of conscious guilt and shame for having betrayed the confidenee reposed in him, in rewarding kindness with treachery. Mr. Beeman died in Chateaugay in 1850.
Within the first few years after the first settlement of the town a large number of settlers eame in, mostly men of fautily, from Vermont, seleeted and purchased lands, coru- meneed small improvements, and made arrangements for making a permanent settlement. Among these were John Allen, Samuel Haight, Lewis Ransom, Jacob Smith, Azur IIawks, Noah Lee, Gilbert Reynolds, Jesse Ketelum, Silas Pomeroy, David McMullen, Claudius Britton, Samuel Tur- ner, Stephen Vaughan, Peleg Douglas, David Mallory, Thomas Smith, Gates Hoit, Ezekiel Hodges, Samuel Stoten, Israel Thayer, Avery Stiles, and Moses Corban.
David Mallory, during the second year of the settlement, eommeneed the erection of the first grist-mill on Marble River, about a mile and a half northwest of the present village of Chateaugay. A mortar was rigged up during the first season by excavating a hole in the top of a stump, the pestle being suspended from a bough in such a manner that the force of the grinder was required only in bringing down the pestle. The principal milling, however, was done in Plattsburgh, and the trip generally required a week. The mill was built for Nathaniel Platt, of Plattsburgh, who
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was somewhat interested in the titles of the town. The millwright was Elisha Howard, of Vermont, and it was completed and set in operation in 1797. A saw-mill was built by the sante parties near the grist-mill the same year.
The settlement grew quite rapidly for several years, principally on the Fort Covington and the Malone roads, the former of which was opened as a winter road about the year 1798. These became the thoroughfares of emigrants from Vermont on their way to the St. Lawrence, and at the time of the war a thriving settlement existed. Numbers then returned to Vermont, and some of them never re- turncd.
The town of Chateaugay was duly incorporated on March 15, 1793, and then included the whole of the present county of Franklin. As a consequence, much of interest relating to the other towns of the county is to be found in the Chateaugay records. The following names of the early inhabitants of the tract occur with great uni- formity in the records : Israel Thayer, Simcon Reed, Solon I. Nichols, Azur Hawks, Silas Whiteous, Nathan Beeman, Samuel Holenbeck, George W. Burnap, James S. Allen, Jacob Burnap, Stephen F. Morse, Gilbert Reynolds, Jesse Ketchanı, Moses Egglestone, Nathaniel Day, James Brewer, James N. Brown, Orady Day, Jehial Barnum, Justin Day, Jr., Thomas Smith, James Wyllys, Amasa Fairman, Lo- renzo D. Andrews, Benj. Roberts, John Newton, Amos Shepherd, Caleb Brand, Samuel Beeman, Merrit Puert, Peleg Douglass, Walcutt Alvord, Reuben Allen, Amos Hitchcock, Warren Bottsford, Nathan H. Prime, Lewis Graves, Joshua Beaman, Erastus Finney, Thomas Slyter, Gideon Collins, Ira Smith, Jonah Martin, Andrew Currier, Jonah Martin, Jr., Simeon Pond, Joshua Nichols, Tim- othy Beeman, Rufus Jones, Peter B. Davenport, James Hatch, George W. Douglass, Nathaniel Ayers, Richard Monger, Harry Barnum, John White, Obed Rust, Samuel Beeman, John Martin, David Shepherd, Jonas Martin, Jeduthan Sherman.
Space will only admit of special mention of a few of these and other early settlers of the town.
William Bailey was one of the earliest and most promi- nent and influential of the first settlers of the town. Before he settled in Chateaugay, he was employed by the State to survey the lands set apart for the Canadian and Nova Scotia refugees.
Large tracts of land, lying in Clinton County, were set apart in 1784 and 1786 for these refugees, and for sueh of the inhabitants of the State as liad served in the United States army, and were entitled to land-bounties under the act of 1782. These tracts were surveyed and subdivided, and many of the lots were occupied under the State grants. The greater portion, however, were forfeited for want of actual occupation, and the lands were afterwards patented by the State to other persons. Among those acquiring title by patent was Mr. Bailey, who purchased an exten- sive tract in the present town of Chateaugay. He moved there in the year 1800, and cleared and cultivated a large farm near the " Four Corners." At an early day he built a forge on the Chateaugay River, near the falls, which he intended to supply with ore from a bed at the south end of the Upper Chateaugay Lakc. This bed, when first opencd,
presented every indieation of containing a large supply of ore, but it soon became exhausted, and the forge was aban- doned. Mr. Bailey also erected a paper-mill at Chateaugay, which continued in operation for several years. This was the first paper-mill in Northern New York. He removed to Plattsburgh in 1811, and died in 1840.
Stephen Vaughan eame from Wallingford, Vt., in 1803, and cleared a piece of land and crected a log hut where Sydney Silver now lives. He removed his family, consist- ing of his wife and a daughter, Sally, to the town in 1804. Three other children-Nancy, who became the wife of Caleb Seabury, Frederick B. Vaughan, still living in town, and Polly, who became the wife of Noble Martin-were born in town. He died in 1812.
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