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Sacket's Harbor Post-Office was established just previous to the War of 1812, and Ambrose Pease was appointed first postmaster. The office has been continued from that time. The present post-mistress is Mrs. M. Phelps, widow of James Irwin Phelps, who died while holding the office.
The first school at the Harbor, was taught about 1807-8 by a man named Mitchell, in one part of his dwelling. No school-house was built until after the War of 1812-15,
# " Augustus Sacket, the pioneer of Sacket's Harbor, was born in the city of New York, November 10, 1769, where he received his ed- ucation and acquired the profession of law. In 1801, having pur- ehascd a tract in Hounsfield, he eame on and began the first settle- ment at that place, and commenced its improvement with much energy. Upon the formation of a collection district he was appointed the first collector, and at the organization of the County Court was made first judge. In 1809, having sold his property in this county, he removed to Jamaica, L. I., from whence, in 1812, he went to Mcadville, Pa., having there purchased 300,000 acres of land. He soon returned to New York City, and in 1820 he went to Rutherford county, N. C., having become interested in a large tract of land in that State. By a subsequent transaction he became interested in tho islands of the St. Lawrence, and returned to Sacket's Harbor, and in 1827 removed to Newburg. In these varied changes and transactions in land speculations he was ultimately very unfortunate. He died at Albany, April 29, 1827, of a sudden sickness, while ou his way to this county." -- HOUGH.
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when a one story frame building was erected on the site of the present Union school building. This old school-house was used for all public purposes nearly, and served as a school-house, church, lecture-room, etc., for a number of years.
The present Union school building, a two-story brick structure, was erected about 1840, at a cost of $2000. It is intended for three departments, and is the only public school within the incorporation. Excellent schools have been taught in it from the beginning of its use, and facili- ties arc afforded here equal to those enjoyed at many insti- tutions of a higher grade.
The first hotel in the village was built on the site of the store now occupied by R. C. Read and Brother, on Main street, previous to 1805, by Ambrose Pease. It was a story-and-a-half frame building, and well known in its day. At the beginning of the War of 1812 a Mr. Kelsey came from Cape Vincent and purchased it, operating it under his own name thereafter. His property at Cape Vincent, in common with nearly everything there, was burned during the war. After Pease sold out he built the store on the opposite side of Main street now occupied by Camp & Co. as a drug establishment. The old hotel was finally burned to the ground, and for more than twenty-five years the lot was left unoccupied. At last the sons of Captain Daniel Read purchased it and erected the large frame store build- ing now standing upon it and occupied by them.
On the ground where the " Eveleigh House" now stands a hotel was partially built as early as 1806 by a man named Lanning, who sold out before it was finished to Stephen Simmons. The latter completed it and carried it on for several years. The "Eveleigh House" was built by Am- brose HI. Dodge, in 1843-44, and opened for customi in the latter year. The present proprietor is L. H. Collins. The house is built of brick.
The " Earl House" was built in 1817 by Judge Elijah Field, and opened in December of that year. Captain Read was at that time running a packet between Sacket's Harbor and Kingston, Canada, and was intrusted with the task of procuring, at the latter place, the necessary quantity of whisky for use at the opening, which consisted of a grand ball in honor of the occasion. The captain, by hard work, niade the connection, and arrived with the liquor just on time. This house has been largely remodeled and added to, and is now run under the efficient management of R. M. Earl, a retired lake-captain.
In April, 1817, a stone hotel was begun by Frederick White, and finished and occupied by him in the spring of 1818. It was a large building for that day, and presented imposing proportions. After many changes of proprietors it was finally abandoned for hotel purposes, and is now oc- cupied by several families, with some of the rooms vacant. On the upper floor a neat though small room was fitted up for the Masonic fraternity, which finally became somewhat too cramped for that purpose, owing to the increase in membership. The order now has a fine lodge-room fitted up on the next floor below, together with ante-rooms, re- freshment rooms, etc. This house was originally called the " Union Hotel," and though at different times carried on under other names the old appellation has remained in gen-
eral use. White, the first proprietor, was said at the time he built it to have been the wealthiest man in the county, he being then able to reckon the amount of property owned by him at $150,000. He was an able man, but dissipation led to his ruin, and he died a pauper. He had been presi- dent of the old Jefferson County Bank, when that institu- tion was in operation at Adams.
During the summer season many guests from different parts of the country sojourn at the village, and enjoy the pleasures the harbor affords for fishing, boating, and scenery, and the town is then at its liveliest.
INCORPORATION.
" The village of Sacket's Harbor, comprising great lots numbers twenty-two and fifty-four, and subdivision lots one and two, in great lot number fifty-two, of Hounsfield, was incorporated April 15, 1814. Elections of seven trustees were to be held on the first Tuesday of June, annually. Not less than three nor more than five assessors were to be elected annually, together with a collector, treasurer, and as many fire wardens as the trustees might direct. A presi- dent was to be chosen by the trustees from their number, and some proper person for a clerk. The bounds of the village were curtailed April 18, 1831, by the detachment of all that portion north and east of the Pleasant, or Mill creek, which was exempt from the operation of the former act. On the 9th of May, 1840, the act was still further amended."*
The corporation officers for 1877 were as follows : Presi- dent, D. O. De Wolf; Trustees, B. Eveleigh, Richard Con- lin, Barney Hubbard, Lyman Archer, George M. Read, James Boyd; Clerk, Noah E. Bacon.
"On the 2d of March, 1799, Congress first enacted a law applying to the collection of duties on Lake Ontario, by establishing two districts, of which all east of Genesee river was included in Oswego, and all west in Niagara District. In pursuance of the act of March 3, 1803, Sacket's Harbor District was soon after established, and has been since main- tained, having been reduced in extent by the formation of Oswegatchie District, including St. Lawrence county, March 2, 1811, and Cupe Vincent District, April 18, 1818, com- prising all below Point Peninsula, inclusive."* The col- lectors at this port have been : Augustus Sacket, Hart Massey, Perley Keyes, John M. Canfield, Thomas Loomis, Danforth N. Barney, Leonard Dennison, John O. Dickey, Otis M. Cole, Daniel McCulloch, Abram Kromer, Thomas S. Hall, William Howland, Cornelius W. Inglehart (ap- pointed deputy collector, and collection district discon- tinucd), and Deputy Collector David O. De Wolf, who was also a deputy under Daniel McCulloch. Mr. De Wolf has been in office about eight years.
" Congress passed an appropriation of $3000, May 20, 1826, for clearing out Sacket's Harbor, and an equal sum May 23, 1828, for improving the same. On the 3d of May, 1831, the sum of $4000 was appropriated for a bea- con. For improving the harbor at the mouth of Black river (Dexter) the following sums have been appropriated :
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CORNELIUS W INGLEHART.
RESIDENCE of C. W. INGLEHART, COR. OF MAIN & BROAD STS., SACKET'S HARBOR, N. Y.
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July 4, 1836, $5000; March 3, 1837, $10,000 ; July 7, 1838, $22,401."*
A ferry was early established aeross Black River bay, and by an act of March 31, 1821, Charles Colburn and Samuel Folsom were licensed to keep it five years. Ezra C. Folsom was licensed for five years on January 21, 1826. Trips are now made onee a day, or more if required, and the ferry is under the care of the courts.
" In 1815 the Union Library of Sacket's Harbor was formned, with Justin Butterfield, Elisha Camp, Amos Hol- ton, Daniel McGiven, James Goodhue, Andrew B. Cooke, and Samuel Bosworth, trustees, but was of short duration. It was succeeded by the Hounsfield Library, April 10, 1827, with Alexander W. Stow, John McMillan, Nathan Bridge, T. S. Hall, and Samuel Guthrie, trustees. About 500 volumes were collected, but it has been long since sold. The Watertown and Hounsfield Library was formed Jan. 11, 1831, with Eliphalet M. Howard, John C. Herrick, Chauncey D. Morgan, Obadiah Brainard, and Oliver Grow, trustees, which has also gone down."t.
" The Young Men's Association for Mutual Improve- ment," in the village of Sacket's Harbor, was incorporated Marelı 2, 1843. This association, after an existence of a few months, was dissolved.
RELIGIOUS SOCIETIES.
"The first regular meetings in this town were held by Edmund Luff, an English settler, who, at his own expense, ereeted a house, still standing, for religious services, and preached here many years without fee or reward. There being no other meetings in the place, these were generally attended by those of different religious faith. Mr. Lufft was a Restorationist, approaching somewhat the doctrines of Universalists, and was a man very free from that narrow spirit of intoleranec that disgraces too much of what is too often denominated religion. His pulpit was opened to eler- gymen of other faiths, irrespective of name, and both Cath- olies and Protestants enjoyed, when occasion demanded, the freedom of his house. During the war the house was given up for public uses."§
SACKET'S HARBOR PRESBYTERIAN SOCIETY.
" At a meeting convened by legal notice at Sacket's Harbor, in the town of Hounsfield and county of Jeffer- son, on January 12, 1816, for the purpose of forming a religious society at the village of Sacket's Harbor, agrecably to the third section of an Act entitled ' An Act to Provide for the Incorporation of Religious Societies,' passed April 5, eighteen hundred and thirteen, Melanchthon T. Wool- sey and Enoch Ely were unanimously nominated and elected presiding and returning officers of the meeting."|| The first trustees were M. T. Woolsey (of the U. S. navy), Samuel Bosworth, Samuel F. Hooker, Elisha Camp, and Enoch Ely. Meetings were held in the old school-house until a church could be erected. The society was formed principally through the efforts of the officers of the army
and navy stationed here, who were anxious to have re- ligious privileges, although not members of a church.
Rev. Samuel F. Snowden was hired as their first minis- ter, on a salary of one thousand dollars a year, his services to begin March 1, 1817. When the church was formed several of the army and navy beeame members of it. These, on removing, formed societies at distant points,-at Green Bay, Sault Ste. Marie, and elsewhere.
In September, 1817, a site for a church was given by Thomas L. Ogden, and in 1818 an effort was made to raise funds for building a church. The work was attended with success, and in the following year a church was built, the raising taking place September 23, 1819. In the great fire of August 19, T 1843, it was destroyed. The Rev. Mr. Judd and vestry of the Episcopal church soon after ten- dered the society the use of their church on Sunday after- noons, which was respectfully declined, and the session-house fitted up until a new church could be built. A brick church, 48 by 64, on the corner of Broad and Main streets, was built in 1846, at a cost of $6000. A parsonage has also been purchased.
The old church was a large frame building, of an old style of architecture, and was always filled on meeting occa- sions. It was not an uncommon sight to see General Brady march down from Madison Barracks, with three or four hundred troops belonging to the Second Regiment, then quartered there, and take their places in the church, and the spectacle was an imposing one. The soldiers principally used the galleries.
Rev. Mr. Snowden, the first pastor, was paid by subserip- tion, his salary being largely donated by members of the army and navy. After the troops were removed it was found to be not as casy a matter to raise the funds where- with to pay the pastor, and the amount for a number of years succeeding the first two or three was much smaller than that originally subscribed. Mr. Snowden continued in charge of the congregation until 1826, and was followed by Rev. J. Burchard, who came in December, 1826, and stayed about one year. The third pastor, Rev. James R. Boyd, took charge December 11, 1827, and continued until 1830. Rev. J. Irvin was employed in 1831, and installed January 5, 1832. In 1836, Rev. - Wilson was employed, and in 1839, Rev. - Sturges assumed charge, staying one year. He was succeeded, in July, 1841, by Rev. - Payson, and he, in October, 1841, by Rev. - Town- send, who became pastor in February, 1842, and remained several years. Rev. Leicester A. Sawyer was called Octo- ber 29, 1849, and installed as pastor June 11, 1850. The pastors in order succeeding him have been, Revs. George Bronson, installed after Mr. Sawyer had finished a six- years' pastorate, and remaining three years ; Mr. Warriner, one year ; A. T. Young, five years ; and Henry Hickok, the present pastor, now in his twelfth year at the place.
The membership of this society, September 15, 1877, was eighty-six. A Sabbath-school has long been held in connection with the church, and Walter B. Camp is its
# Hough. + Ibid.
# Mr. Luff died at Sacket's Harbor in 1822, greatly respected.
¿ Ilough. | Records of the society.
Dr. Hough. In another place it is given as occurring August 21, and one informant in the village says it was the 23d. It was un- doubtedly in August, and in 1843. All agree on these two points.
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present superintendent. It possesses a fine library of about five hundred volumes.
UNIVERSALISTS.
A small society of this denomination was formed about 1822, but for lack of proper support only continued its existence three or four years.
CHRISTIANS.
Some time in the year 1820 the Christians, a sect of Unitarian Immersionists, began a series of meetings, and continued them for a number of years ; but no permanent organization or society was formed.
METHODISTS.
At one of the meetings held by the Christians, one Samuel Lyon, of Utica, gave notiec that he wished to start a Methodist society, but, as he was not a regularly ordained minister of the Methodist Episcopal faith, the effort failed for the time. However, a class was soon after organized, with about seventeen members, among whom were Judge Elijah Field, John Walling, Alvah Kinney, Asahiel Smith, and their wives, with several others. Meetings were held in the school-house. Samuel Lyon was aided by William Newlan, also of Utiea, in his first attempt to form a class here, which was in 1820 or 1821. A legal society was formed by the Methodists, May 9, 1831, with Asahel Smith, Alvah Kinney, Hiram Stcele, John H. McKee, William Francis, Elijah Field, Daniel Griffin, Samuel Whitby, and Samuel C. J. De Camp, trustees. In 1835 it was reorganized, and in 1841 they creeted a church at a eost of about $3000. It is a frame building, standing on Main street, southeast of Broad.
The names of the early pastors we have been unable to ascertain, but those since 1843 have been as follows : Rev. John Sawyer, began Aug. 4, 1843, and stayed two years ; Rev. Nathan R. Peck, three years from July 27, 1845; Rev. Orlando C. Cole, three years; Rev. John B. Foote, 1852-3-4; Rev. H. M. Church, Aug. 2, 1855; Rev. F. A. O'Farrell, May 10, 1859; Rev. Thoinas B. Shepherd, Mareh 24, 1860 ; Rev. D. Simons, April 1, 1863; Rev. S. Dewey, April, 1864; Rev. A. Cheeseman, April 7, 1868; Rev. George W. Miller, March 10, 1871; Rev. W. F. Ball, April 8, 1872; Rev. H. E. Chase, April 12, 1873; Rev. L. L. Davy, Jan., 1875; Rev. S. M. Fisk, present pastor, April, 1877.
The membership of the church, September 15, 1877, was one hundred and twenty-six. A Sabbath-school has been kept up for many years The pastor of the Sacket's Harbor congregation also has charge of a 'elass at Sulphur Springs, which holds its meetings in the building owned by the Seventh-Day Baptist Association. The church at Sacket's Harbor was built during the pastorate of Rev. Benjamin Phillips, who probably preceded Rev. John Sawyer.
CHIRIST'S CHURCH (EPISCOPAL).
" The Episcopal society first held a meeting about the 14th of May, 1821, and chose Elisha Camp, Samuel O. Auchmuty, William Kendall, Robert M. Harrison, and John McCarty as a committee, which committee transacted
the business until a vestry was chosen for the church."* The church was legally organized August 6, 1821, and the first regularly-elected vestry consisted of the following per- sons : Zeno Allen and Elisha Camp, wardens ; Robert M. Harrison, Samuel O. Auchmuty, William Kendall, John McCarty, Hiram Steele, Thomas J. Angel, Hiram Merrill, and Thomas Y. Howe, vestrymen. The first who officiated and preached here was Bishop Hobart, who, in his re- ports, records having visited Sacket's Harbor, Thursday, P.M., September 14, 1821. The following is the oldest record of a vestry-meeting :- .
"At a meeting of the Church-wardens and Vestrymen, at the rooms of S. O. Auchmuty, in Sacket's Harbor, on the 29th day of Sept., 1821, pursuant to notiee, Zeno Allen, Sr., Warden, in the Chair.
"Present, Zeno Allen, Elisha Camp, Wardens; and MeCarty, Auchmuty, Harrison, Kendal, Steele, Vestrymen.
" Business before the meeting, to determine upon proposals to be made to Mr. Shaw.
" Resolved, That the Secretary of the Board write to Mr. Shaw to inform him that the vestry will give him for each year $600, but to depend on the subseription.
" J. MCCARTY, Secretary." t
The Mr. Shaw mentioned in the above extract was Rev. Henry Moore Shaw, the first rector of the church. Meet- ings at first were held in the old school-house, but in 1822 a subscription was circulated to obtain means for erecting a church. Before it was finished, however, meetings were held a number of years in the Presbyterian church, and afterwards, as late as the fall of 1828, in the school-house once more. Through the efforts of William Waring, arrangements for building a church were finally perfected, and on May 26, 1823, the corner-stone was laid with Masonic ceremonies ; but owing to the death of Mr. War- ing the work was suspended, and the building was not completed for a number of years. The lot on which it stands was donated by Frederick White.
The church, almost in ruins, from having been left to the mercy of the elements before being completed, was finally redeemed from the hands of certain claimants, finished, and services held in it early in 1832, and iu May of the same year an organ was placed in it, procured by means of donations from members of the congregation. The first communicants of this church, and the only ones until 1828, were Mrs. Fanny Canfield and her daughter Jane, both now deceased.
The first confirmation was held by Rt. Rev. Benj. T. Onderdonk, August 12, 1828, the following persons being confirmed: Thos. J. Angel, Richard Canfield, Dinah Schobel, and Sarah Livingston. Bishop Onderdonk, ou the 1st of June, 1833, also confirmed the following persons : Samuel F. Hooker, Amos Catlin, Mary Catlin, Hannah Phelps, Mary Ann Phelps, Mary Cunningham, Jane Loomis, Daniel S. Kimbal, William Tryon, Mrs. William Tryon, and Jemima Luff. At this visit of the bishop the church was consecrated to divine service.
Following is a list of rectors :- Rev. Henry Moore Shaw, from Sept. 29, 1821, to Jan. 1, 1822; Rev. Mr. Rogers, April 6, 1822, stayed a short time ; Rev. M. Beardsley, from April 3, 1823; Rev. William L. Keese, from Jan. 3, 1827 ; Rev. Mr. Adams, from Jan., 1829 ; Rev. Mr. Gear,
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1831; Rev. A. C. Treadway, Oct. 21, 1832; Rev. Mr. Noble, Dee. 10, 1840 ; Rev. Dr. Judd, from Jan. 3, 1843, to 1846 ; Rev. Benjamin Wright, Jr., Sept. 4, 1846; Rev. Rufus D. Stearns, Aug. 12, 1848, to 1852; Rev. G. Hunt- ington, May 17, 1852, to 1856 ; Rev. H. G. Wood, Sept., 1856, to April, 1859 ; Rev. D. C. Loop, April 23, 1859, to 1861; Rev. M. C. Benton, Jan. 1, 1861, to July 1, 1863; Rev. S. R. Humphrey, July 1, 1863, to Sept. 30, 1864; Rev. John A. Bowman, Dee. 17, 1865, to Feb. 24, 1867; Rev. J. Winslow ; Rev. Mr. Bowyer; Rev. Willes; and Rev. Mr. Winnie, the present reetor, residing at Brownville.
The church is a stone structure standing on Main street. It is surmounted by a neat tower and spire.
MASONIC.
The first organization of this order in Jefferson County was what was known as " Ontario Lodge," of which the first recorded meeting was held at Sacket's Harbor April 4, 1805. At that time the officers were as follows : Au- gustus Sacket, W. M .; J. Seaman, S. W .; " Brother" Pike, J. W .; B. Allen, Treasurer ; Isaiah Massey, Secre- tary ; Hart Massey, J. D .; A. Basinger, Tyler. This lodge had in its membership many of the pioneers of the place and other parts of the county, among them Jacob Brown (afterwards Major-General), initiated as an " entered apprentice," Jan. 2, 1806; B. De Witt, Wm. Waring, - Merrick, Giles Hamlin, Gershom Tuttle, Abram Lip- pett, Squire Read, J. Simmons, C. Mills, Joseph Perry, Daniel Potter, and others, and they met not only for the benefits afforded but for mutual enjoyment. Could the old lodge-room in the " Union Hotel" but talk, it could relate many a tale filled with humor about the " doings" of the early Masonie lodges. This room was never used by the Ontario Lodge, as the house was not built until 1817-18, and the lodge was suspended during the War of 1812-15, owing to the prevalent excitement. December 27, 1805, it was at a meeting of this lodge
" Resolved, That the first $100 of unappropriated moneys of the Lodge after this time be granted toward the ercetion of an Academy at Sacket's Harbor.
" Resolved, That Brothers Merrick and Waring be appointed a Committee to see that the above moneys be duly appropriated.""
" Athol Lodge, No. 308, F. & A. M.," was instituted in 1818, with Iliram Steele as Master. The records of this lodge cannot be found in the village; consequently, what is here given will be from the recollection of old members, of whom there are four now residing at Sacket's Harbor, viz. : Capt. Daniel Read, Leonard Denison, John Walling, and David Millington. Among other members of this lodge were Alvah Kinney, Judge Elijah Field, and others. It was continued until 1827. Of the four now living in the village who were members, Daniel Read has already been mentioned. John Walling settled at Saeket's Harbor in the spring of 1819, and joined in the fall of the same year. David Millington settled here in 1814 and joined in 1818. He was from Herkimer county. Leonard Denison came from Stonington, New
London county, Connecticut, and settled at the Harbor in 1812. As early as 1817-18 he joined the Masons in Henderson, and afterward became a member of Athol Lodge. He is now eighty-six years of age. Mr. Milling- ton had a brother-Dr. Abel Millington-who about 1815- 16 emigrated to the State of Michigan, and became inter- ested in a large tract of land in the vicinity of Ypsilanti. He afterwards moved farther west-about 1838-to Kane county, Illinois, and at the then new village of St. Charles invested to a considerable extent in the fine water-power on Fox river, which he largely improved, and finally died there in 1841. A number of his descendants still reside at that place, where a son of the Dr.'s, Darwin Millington, died in 1863 or '4.
" Sucket's Harbor Chapter, No. 68, R. A. M.," was formed Feb. 7, 1820, upon the application of Commodore Melanchthon T. Woolsey, U.S.N., John Clitz, captain, U.S.A., and William King. Its first meeting was held on the 3d of March, 1820, with the following officers, viz. : High Priest, Commodore Melanchthon T. Woolsey, U.S.N .; King, William King; Seribe, John Clitz, captain U.S.A .; Treasurer, Leonard Denison ; Secretary, Henry Smith ; C. of H., Asahel Smith ; P. S., George W. Jenks; R. A. C., Alvalı Kinney; M. 3d V., Capt. William Vaughn, U.S.N. ; M. 2d V., Zeno Allen ; M. 1st V., IIunter Crane.
The chapter was allowed to run down, but, after an in- terval of many years, it was revived in December, 1849, with Thomas S. Hall, H. P .; Jason Phelps, K. ; and Saml. Whittlesey, S. The principal officers for 1877 are: High Priest, Norman Gurney ; King, Elisha C. Soule ; Scribe, Warren Walsworth ; Treasurer, James Boyd; Secretary, George E. Butterfield.
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