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1,342,265
6.30
I873
750,633
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1888
1,328,264
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1903
1,369,746
8.65.
1874
1,565,296
8.II
1889
1,333,308
7.50
The following is a list of the supervisors of the town:
John H. Jones,
1803-4-5-6-10
John H. Jones, Jr. 1845-52-68-69-70-71-74
Thomas Lennon. 1807-8-9
John Kennedy ...... 1846-47-48-49-50-51-53
Wm. A. Mills.
18II-12-13
Hiramı D. Crosby .1855
Jellis Clute. . 1814-15-19-20-21-23-26
Thomas Jones.
1856-57-58-59
Abraham Camp.
1816-17
Joseph Buttrick
1818
Anthony M. Wooster.
1867-72-73-75
Elihu Scofield.
IS24-25
Allen Ayrault.
I827
A. B. Cooley
1879-80
Felix Tracy.
I828
Dorns Thompson
ISSI-82-83-91-92
George W. Patterson. 1829-38
John Denton. .
1884
Daniel H. Bissell
1830-32-33-34-35-36
Horatio Jones, Jr
1831
Win. H. DeForest
1893-94-95
Daniel P. Bissell
1837-41
A. W. Wheelock 1896-97-98
Harry Wheelock
1839-40
John F. White. 1899-00-01-02-03-04
Win. W. Wooster.
1842-43-44-54
Win. B. Wooster .... 1860-61-62-63-64-65-66
Joseph White
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Wm. C. Dwight 1876-77
James C. Wicker. 1878
I. T. Wheelock. 1885-86-87-88-89-90
On the 18th of December, 1904, occurred near Cuylerville in his home of sixty years the death of John Perkins, who had passed his hundredth birthday on August first preceding, and who was the old- est inhabitant, and probably at the time of his death the longest resi- dent of the county. Ile came to this county from Vermont in 1815 with his father Elisha Perkins, his mother and seven brothers and sisters; they did not remain in Leicester but settled in Livonia: their settlement there did not continue long, however, and they soon re-
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turned to Leicester, where Mr. Perkins always therafter resided. He left surviving five living sons and daughters and eight grandchildren -- the children of a deceased son and daughter. Mr. Perkins retained his mental faculties to the end and recalled vividly the notable scenes and events that came within his long experience. At the annual meeting of the Livingston County Historical Society held in January, 1904. Mr. Perkins was elected to honorary membership in deference to his great age and respected citizenship.
As with several other towns the civil war record of Leicester is in- complete. At a town meeting held in April, 1864, the town auditors were authorized to pay money to the needy families of soldiers at their discretion, the total amount not to exceed $150. In August of that year bounties of $300 were offered for one-year volunteers and $600 for three-year volunteers, and the sum of $525 to each drafted man who furnished a substitute. A month later another special town meeting was held when the supervisor was authorized to pay a sum not exceeding $1,000 to each recruit credited to the town.
The following interesting sketch of. Leicester was prepared by Rev. E. W. Sears some years ago and read before the Livingston County Historical Society :
"The Fathers built on a large scale, we shall see by referring to 1802, the year that Genesee county was organized. It was taken from Ontario county, and embraced in its territory what is now Orleans, Niagara, Erie, Chautauqua, Cattaraugus, Allegany, Wyoming and parts of Livingston and Monroe counties. Leicester was organized March 1802. The original bounds of Leicester were as follows: Com- mencing on the eastern transit at the southwest corner of South Hampton; thence east to the Genesee River; thence south on that River to the southeast corner of Leicester (as it now is) or to a point near the junction of the Canaseraga Creek and Genesee River; thence south to Steuben county, and on the west line of Steuben county to the Pennsylvania line; thence west on the Pennsylvania line to the east transit; thence north on the east transit to the place of beginning. Being about twelve miles east and west and sixty miles north and south. At an earlier date the capital of the Six Nations of Indians all residing in the State of New York was located in this town. This Indian town, called Beardstown, named after Little Beard, a bad
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Indian, was located on the ground now occupied by the village of Cuylerville. Little Beard was one of the leaders of the brutal murder of Lieutenant Boyd and Parker. Beardstown contained about 150 houses. It was burned in 1779 by General Sullivan. The first town meeting in the town of Leicester was held on the first day of March, 1803, at the house of Joseph Smith, near the very spot now occupied by James W. Colt's farm house, between Cuylerville and Moscow. At this meeting the following officers were elected: John H. Jones, Supervisor; Geo. A. Wheeler, Town Clerk; Samuel Ewens, Alpheus Harris and Dennison Foster, Assessors; Perez Brown, Constable and Collector; Benjamin Gardner and Adam Wisner; Overseers of the Poor; George Gardner, William Mills and Joel Harvey, Commissioners of Highways.
"This Joseph Smith at whose house the town meeting was held is the man who was a prisoner with Captain Horatio Jones among the Indians, and he and Jones received a large tract of land as a gift from the Indians.
"The Indians at an early day had a council house at Squakie Hill; here was to be seen and heard the war dance and song. The names of some of these prominent Indians were Straight Back, Tall Chief, Bill Tall Chief, Sharp Shins, Kennedy Blinkey, Tom Jemison, Jim Wash- ington and Captain Cook. At Big Tree, John Montour was killed by Quaway, a Squakie Hill Indian.
"In 1805 a little more than half ofLeicester's territory was taken off, and Angelica was organized into a town. In 1814 Perry was taken from Leicester, and it contained what is now Castile and part of Cov- ington. In 1818 Mount Morris was taken from Leicester, and organized into a town. In 1819 a portion was taken from Caledonia and Leicester, and York was organized into a town.
"The first tavern was kept by Leonard Stimson in 1797, sixty or eighty rods north of the Jones bridge. Still later one at Pine Tavern, kept by Joseph Simonds; one near Hiram Crosby's, kept by Francis Richardson; one at Teed Corners, kept by Pell Teed; one at old Leicester, kept by Joseph White; on the farm owned by Rev. Geo. Lane, one was kept by Dennison Foster. In 1813 Samuel M. Hopkins came to Leicester; in the following year he agreed with his brother- in-law, Jesse Wadhams, to erect a large hotel at old Leicester. Wad- hams commenced the work. when some difficulty arose between Mr.
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Hopkins and some of the inhabitants of Leicester village. Hopkins, believing he was not fairly used, abandoned the idea of doing anything for the place. He also induced Wadhams to give up the idea of build- ing there. Mr. Hopkins immediately formed the idea of a village at another place. Accordingly a village plot was surveyed and named Moscow; this was made in 1814. The first hotel built in Moscow was built in 1814 by Jesse Wadhams; he was succeeded by Gideon T. Jenkins. It is now the residence of Harvey Wemple. Homer Sher- wood built a hotel and was succeeded by Colonel J Horsford, who kept it for twelve years. The place is now owned by Gilbert MI. Cooley. In 1815 a clothing mill was erected by Peter Roberts and Samuel Crossman in the gulf north of the Newman place. During the same year one was built by Peter Palmer on the creek north of Moscow. The Moscow Academy was one of the first institutions in the country.
"The following have been members of the State Legislature from Leicester: Gideon T. Jenkins, Samnel M. Hopkins, Felix Tracy, Col. J. Horsford, John H. Jones, Lyman Odell and Geo. W. Patterson. Mr. Patterson was in the Legislature six years, and afterwards was Lieutenant Governor. In 1814 Samnel M. Hopkins was elected Con- gressman and in 1850 Col. J. Horsford was elected to Congress for one term. Leicester was fortunate in securing among its earliest settlers earnest, intelligent men. A glance at the industries of that early day will show they were men of push. The utilizing of the Genesee River for obtaining merchandise and the getting to market the produce of the county; the flat boat, the Tracy, Lyman and Perkins warehouses, were things of interest and profit, not only for Leicester, but for towns west and south. Warsaw, Pike and Rushford brought their products and took back with them merchandise, so that Leicester was an important item in their calculations. The first saw mill was built by Ebenezer Allen, at Gibonsville, in 1792. The first grist mill was built by Phelps and Gorham, on the west branch of Beard's Creek at Rice's Falls, in 1797; it burned down in 1818, and was rebuilt the next year. The grist mill just north of the Moscow square was built in 1818, by Samuel M. Hopkins. Isaac Barber built a grist mill at the falls near Hiram Crosby's. Col. Wm. T. Cuyler built one just east of Cuyler. ville, in 1844. He also built a distillery in 1851; it was burned in 1855. Colonel Cuyler rebuilt it the next year, much larger and more expensive. This was the last distillery that Leicester had; the first
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one built in town was built by Judge John H. Jones, east and a little south of Jellis Clute's old home. Leicester was twenty-seven years old before she had a church built. The first one built was the Method- ist Episcopal, in 1829. The Presbyterian, in 1832. The Christian and the old School Presbyterian, in 1838. The Baptist, in 1844. The U. P. at Cuylerville, in 1845. The first permanent white settlers were Captain Horatio and John H. Jones. The Joneses were quite num- erous; at one time there were thirty voters in Leicester of that name.
Judge John H. Jones' family furnished the town with Supervisors for sitxeen years; the father five years, his son J. H., seven years, and Thomas, another son, four years. Because of their close similarity, I mention William W. Wooster's family. William W. Wooster, the father was supervisor four years, his son William B., seven years, and another son, Anthony M., four years. These two families served Leicester as supervisors for thirty-one years. In 1837 and 'S the Genesee Valley canal was commenced, and opened for travel in 1840. Perhaps the greatest gathering that Leicester ever had was at Cuyler- ville, Aug. 20th, 1841, when the remains of Lieutenants Boyd and Parker were taken up and removed to Mount Hope, Rochester. An appropriate address was delivered by Samuel Treat, Esq., in Colonel Cuyler's grove. The military companies with their music made a fine display. Thus a day passed not soon to be forgotten by those who were present. The opening of the Genesee Valley canal made Cuyler- ville the head of navigation for the towns southwest of Leicester. Be- tween 1830 and 1840 Leicester had a very fine independent rifle com- pany. J. Horsford was its first captain, and Charles Derr was its last. Wm. A. Mills and Hiram D. Crosby served the company as captains also, in the '30s. There was in the southeast corner of Leicester a little hamlet known as Dutch Corner, lying on the branch, containing all log cottages occupied by Mr. Fish, William and Peter Langs, Franklin Sears, Jacob and Peter Labour, Mr. Vangorder, Henry Boughton and the schoolhouse and Sears's shoe shop: in the south- west corner of the town was the little hamlet of Gibsonville, where there was a grist mill, which was changed into a paper mill; this was conducted in 1850 by Smith and Whitney.
"The industries of Leicester have changed wonderfully in the last fifty years. At Moscow and Cuylerville, fifty years ago, there were quite a number of persons engaged in manufacturing wagons and car-
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riages; now there are none. Quite a number were engaged in the boot and shoe business-two shops at Moscow and one at Cuylerville; also there were two or three tailor shops and two harness shops; now there are none. Quite a number were engaged in the manufacturing of fanning mills, including G. W. Patterson and H. C. Allen, now there are none made in town. There have been five grist mills, all run by water; now there are none. Also eight sawmills all run by water but one; now none. Also eight or ten distilleries; now none."
SKETCH OF HORATIO JONES.
The following account of Captain Jones was prepared in 1879 by Colonel William Lyman, his son-in-law. Colonel Lyman, who was himself a pioneer of this county, died in 1883 at the age of nearly ninety years. He removed from Connecticut in 1814 to Geneseo, where he was employed in the office of James Wadsworth and later in the store of Spencer & Company. In 1816 he opened a store at Havens in the town of Sparta, and in 1818 removed his business to Moscow, where he continued it until 1837. Colonel Lyman was a brother of Mrs. Allen Ayrault, of Geneseo, and of Mrs. Sleeper, of Mount Morris. Mr. Lyman was a great reader, a close observer and had a very keen sense of humor :
"My acquaintance with the family commenced in 1814, and in 1821 I married a daughter, born in 1802, with whom I passed fifty-four years of happy wedlock. (I cannot get along without mingling some of my own history with that of Captain Jones). It being a noted event in what was then called an open wedding and as many of the guests have since played important parts in the drama of life, I will give some of their names. Mrs. James Wadsworth, wife of the pioneer of landed estate, and he that was afterward General James S. Wadsworth, who lost his life in the Wilderness, near Richmond, Virginia; Mrs. Samuel M. Hopkins and family: Judge Charles HI. Carroll and family; Judge Hez. D. Mason; Colonel Fitzhugh and family, one of the daughters, Miss Elizabeth Fitzhugh, who was afterward wife of James Birney, a candidate for the Presidency of the United States, was one of the bridesmaids; Miss Ann Fitzhugh, who was afterward Mrs. Ger- rit Smith; Dr. D. H. Fitzhugh; Dr. D. H. Bissell and many others, with a sprinkling of guests from Canandaigua and Rochester. At my golden wedding in 1871 there were alive six of the original company
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and two of them were present. Intimately connected thus with the family and on friendly terms, I was let into the inner history of Cap- tain Jones' early life and his present status (most of which was deliv- ered from his own mouth). Captain Jones' father was a mechanic, in which capacity he was called upon almost constantly to repair rifles and locks, which generally terminated in the trial of the weapon, in which Horatio Jones participated and he came to be an expert marks- man. After the surprise that ended the conflict he turned and ran, followed by two Indians with loaded rifles. One of them said he was a boy, let us save him. They put after him and found that it required their best exertions to keep within hailing distance and when he fell they were in such hot pursuit that one ran by him before he could stop and the other came up and claimed him as a prisoner. To retard his progress some blankets were tied around his body which were allowed to drag in the wet grass and impede his locomotion. For two days
they traveled in a northwest direction, fearing to shoot game lest the report of their guns should lead to the knowledge of their whereabouts. But on the third day a bear was shot and butchered and the intestines fell to him. These he emptied, took them to the creek, turned them and washed them thoroughly, placed them on the coals and when cooked were not unsavory for a person who had a standing appetite for three days. On arriving at Nunda, near where Portage now stands, preparation was made for running the gauntlet, and as they approached the spot they went down an abrupt descent. At this point half a dozen young squaws came up intent on joining the sport with their sticks and whips and rushed by the prisoner, and came so familiarly near as to brush him. As the last one brushed him he accelerated her motions by a vigorous push that helped her to over- take the one that preceded her and she in turn overtook the one who preceded her and so on until all fell in a promiscuous mass at the foot of the declivity. In their hot haste to join in the sport they had neg- lected their toilet and the thorns that supplied the place of pins were not driven home and their flowing robes floated to the breeze and exposed portions of their bodies that would otherwise have been con- cealed. It was a mass of animated, struggling humanity, heads and points. Those that were under could not get up because of the heap above them, while those above were too much exposed without some arrangement of their apparel to change position. Although the ex-
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hibition lasted but a short time, it was very amusing and brought a loud guffaw from the Indians who were spectators. When the lines were formed between which the prisoners were to pass, Jack Berry took Jones to the head of the lines and pointed to him the goal which if he arrived at in safety he was free. As he approached he observed that the occupants stood with uplifted weapons on each side and when the word was given to start, Jones chose a close connection to one side, and as the sailor would say, 'hugged the shore,' i. e., run so close that they had no room to swing their arms and got through almost without a scratch and plunged into his future home and was met by his adopted mother, who furnished him new moccasins, deerskin shirt and breeches, and when he was dressed she was very proud of him. Of a handsome form with curly hair and a very white skin, she fur- nished him a long beautiful feather that he was allowed to wear in his cap. It was soon understood by the young Indians that the pet had rights that it was prudent to respect. As he was eating his soup a young Indian amused himself throwing little bits of sticks into it. He was cautioned to stop, but persisted. Jones rose to his feet and the Indian retreated and ran past the fire over which was suspended a kettle of boiling vegetables. The hard-shell squashes protruded and as Jones passed he seized one and dropped it under the hunting-skirt of the Indian, which brought him to a halt and a reclining posture. As he rolled over he spread the hot squash and as the scald healed it produced a seab from his head to his heels. The mother of the boy wanted Jones punished, but the chief said as the boy was the aggressor he must take the consequences. An Indian had been out and pulled up some bushes and was transporting them on his shoulder, and as he came up to where Jones was leaning over the fence he stuck the roots into Jones face and was cautioned, but he repeated, when a sudden, horizontal, backward movement of Jones' arm brought the force of his hand in contact with the bridge of the Indian's nose, and as the bridge was unable to sustain the shock it eaved in and left the point of the nose cocked up and as it was considered a trademark, the Indian carried it as long as I knew him. Se-nun-ge-wah was an In- dian about Jones' age, and being active and fond of wrestling he would frequently challenge the pet to a trial of strength. He was allowed . for prudential reasons for a while to carry off the honors of the con- tests, but Jones found that he could easily handle his man and con-
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cluded to convince him of the fact and on the next occasion downed him. The Indian was not satisfied and insisted upon another trial, which resulted as before. Unwilling to believe in Jones' superiority of strength, a third trial was insisted upon. This was to be decisive and Jones with a hip-lock brought him down heavily. The Indian jumped up and said, 'You hurt me and I'll kill you,' and ran for his hatchet. Jones stood firm and as the Indian came up said, 'Cousin, this was a trial of strength and you challenged me. I was successful, and if my cousin thinks me worthy of death, here I am.' Swift as the eagle cleaves the air the hatchet was dispatched, but in an oppo- site direction, and the right hand was extended which was grasped and a friendship established that lasted as long as life. If the Indian's rifle brought down a buck or doe, a nice piece was selected and laid aside, 'That's for my friend!' and it would soon find its way to Jones's table. If an Indian is sick his panacea is pork (quish quish). I was present when the Indian and squaw presented themselves on the Captain's porch, and said: 'I am sick; have you any pork?" "Yes: there is the barrel, take what you want.' They went to the barrel and took out several pieces that did not suit, but when they came to some nice side pieces, they cut off just what they wanted and put all the rest back and packed it nicely and covered it with brine: tock their piece and went off. At a council held in Buffalo several years afterward when I was present, Captain Jones prepared several pounds of tobacco as presents to his old friends. Before opening the council a little time is allowed for the exchange of civilities and Jones dealt out by the hand to each of his old acquaintances a handful, but when he came to Se-nun-ge-wah he gave him a package containing a pound. The Indian saw the distinction, dropped his head, got up and went out of the council house. I followed him. He seated himself on a knoll, looked at his package and burst into tears and cried like a child. I left him and never saw him again.
"In December 1786, Captain Jones was at Geneva under the hill, on the flats. Here his first son was born, who was afterward named Wil- liam and at mature age was called Bill or Colonel Bill. This was an epoch. He was the first male white child born west of Utica, or Fort Stanwix, and the event was memorable. Something was to be done. The Indian cradle was a hollow log dug out, without rockers. But here was a white male child that was entitled to civilized treatment.
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He must have a Christian cradle, but how? No boards, no sawmill, no saw, no chisel, no mallet, no hammer west of Utica, But a boat had been poled up the Seneca river ; had been stranded and deserted. Armed with his hatchet, hunting-knife and hemp-line he started for the boat; found it; brushed off the snow, laid out his plan so as to get enough lumber and no more. Getting his lines he commenced with an unerring stroke of his hatchet he detached sufficient lumber and put it in a pile. How to transport sufficient lumber for a cradle would be thought a trifling matter, but then it was no sinecure to carry it by manual strength over ravines, creeks, fallen timber, treacherous snow paths, and instead of light seasoned lumber it was heavy pitch pine, saturated with water. But nothing daunted, secur- ing it with his hemp line he swung it upon his back and commenced his homeward march. To say that the skin of his back was not abraded or that his limbs were not scratched and torn by the under- brush and his physical endurance was nearly exhausted when he reached his cabin, would be misrepresentation. The next day it was brought into shape with a foot board, a head board and rockers. It was useful, but not ornamental, and I venture the assertion that no cradle has performed more service for seventy or eighty years than 'Bill's' cradle. Its motion has been almost constant and it has fre- quently been engaged for months ahead. The pioneer, the new set- tler, the Indian woman, all, considered that they had a common inter- est in Bill's cradle, and it remained as a monument to the rising gen- erations until a short time ago, but it has now passed into oblivion, or by the carelessness of tenants it has been incinerated for kindling wood and has reverted to its native elements.
"At this location John Jacob Astor, the millionaire, purchased his first bear-skin of Captain Jones, and boarded with him for a time, This he remembered in 1830 or '33, when Jones visited him in New York; he remarked to Jones, 'What nice Indian cakes your wife used to give us when I boarded with you.'
"In 1789 Captain Jones removed from Geneva to the west side of the Genesee river, near Beardstown. To guide his stock through an un- fenced country with nothing to guide them but an Indian foot-path, required all the attention of the male portion of the cavalcade, while Mrs. Jones and Sally Griffith were mounted each on a horse to which was lashed the best bedding. Mrs. Jones had one child strapped to
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her back and one in her arms, beside the paraphernalia of house-keep- ing, while Sally Griffith was on another horse with Bill in her arms and bedding strapped behind. When they arrived at Flint creek Mrs. Jones passed through without difficulty, but Sally's horse's feet got tangled in the roots and plunged and threw Sally and Bill into the creek. Mrs. Jones deposited her two boys and plunged into the creek to save her first-born, which she succeeded in doing, and passed the rest of the way in safety.
"It was necessary that a large amount of money should be taken out to Niagara to pay the troops and other expenses, but to find a safe con- veyance was somewhat difficult, for the settlements were far apart and the inhabitants along the road had not a settled character for honesty and morality. The money was expected and it was generally known would be carried by some agent who would not prove a protector of the treasure. But as the confidence of the governor was centered up- on Jones, who would be most likely to carry out their wishes, he was applied to and accepted the trust. He secured a powerful animal and armed with tomahawk and scalping knife and leaving directions where the treasure would be found in case of accident to him, the course and distance from his fire, he started. Having got beyond where Ithaca now is, night coming on, he dismounted and made arrangements for the night. A horse that has been brought up in the woods has a very shrill whistle if danger approaches and does not stray far from camp. He built a large fire so that he was not afraid of attack from wild ani- mals, and laid down and went to sleep, but was awakened by the ap- pearance of a real or imaginary Indian boy, who said to him, 'If you don't look out your bones will lie in a pile.' He got up and found his horse had approached the camp and was alarmed. After an ex- amination he discovered nothing wrong and he lay down and fell into a slumber when the same boy with the same message came to him again. Again he examined and again he reposed when the same boy and the same message was delivered, which induced him to saddle his horse, although it was still dark. His horse was a powerful one and as he gave her the line she plunged ahead and soon overtook a man who said, 'You move early.' He avoided conversation and in a little while observed another person who was disposed to pick a talk, but he passed ahead and soon came to a large fire with a large kettle boiling, which he imagined was intended for his especial use. This conviction
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