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The first settlement by the whites in the town of Mar- shall was made on that part of the Brothertown tract which was sold to the State. David Barton, who removed here from Connectieut in 1793, is believed to have been the first settler. He was soon followed by Warren Williams, who took up the farm afterwards owned by Horace H. East- man, Esq. Mr. Williams soon sold out to Elder Hezekiah Eastman, the latter receiving his deed from the State in 1795. This deed was acknowledged before Judge Hugh White, and recorded by Jonas Platt, then clerk of Herkimer County. Captain Simon Hubbard and Levi Barker were also very early settlers in the town. The first white child
born on the Brothertown traet was Colonel Lester Barker, who afterwards became sheriff of Oncida County.
Dr. Levi Buckingham, now of Deansville, where he has resided since 1853, is the oldest man in town, having reached the age of cighty-seven in February, 1878. He came to this town from Saybrook, Conn., in the fall of 1816, and set- tled first at Hanover (Marshall Post-office), afterwards locat- ing at Forge Hollow, and finally coming to Deansville. He was the first town clerk of Marshall (in 1829); was super- visor of the town for four years ; represented his district in the Assembly in 1833, and again in 1837; and practiced medicine in the town for more than thirty years.
Isaae Miller, Esq., the first supervisor of Marshall, set- tled about 1794-95. His son, Isaac, born in 1791, was then a child of three or four years. Mr. Miller was from the State of Connecticut, and located at Hanover, where he spent the remainder of his days. His grandson, Isaac Miller, is now a resident of the town of Kirkland, owning a farm a short distance north of Deansville. The maternal grandfather of the latter, Joel Green, was an early settler of Marshall, and located on Hanover Green, a short dis- tance north of Isaac Miller, Sr. He and his father both served in the Revolutionary war, the latter bearing the rank of captain.
The soil in this town is quite fertile, and equals, in aver- age quality, probably that of any town in the county. The surface is hilly and rolling. Extensive quarries of lime- stone have been worked in various parts, their products being excellent for building purposes. Portions of the town, along some of the public highways, have been planted with maple and other trees, and there is a general appear- anee of thrift and enterprisc. The culture of hops is largely engaged in, the principal market being at Water- ville, which is the centre of the hop trade for a large extent of territory.
ORGANIZATION OF TOWN-FIRST ELECTION, ETC.
A " meeting of the freeholders and inhabitants of the town of Mar- shall convened at the house of George Tinker, in said town, on the first Tuesday in March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, pnrsnant to the Act of the Legislature entitled . An Act to divide the town of Kirkland, in the County of Oneida,' passed February 21, 1829 (the first seetion of said Aet), in the words fol- lowing :
"'The people of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enaet as follows :
"'2 1. From and after the passage of this Act, all that part of the town of Kirkland, in the County of Oneida, south of a line beginning at the southeast corner of lot No. 86 in the seventh division of Coxe's Patent; thenee westerly the course of the southerly line of said lot to the easterly line of the town of Angusta, shall be and is hereby erceted into a separate town by the name of Marshall, and the first town-meeting shall be held at the house of George Tinker, in said town of Marshall, on the first Tuesday of March next.'"#
At this meeting the following officers were elected, viz. : Supervisor, Isaac Miller, Esq. ; Town Clerk, Levi Buck- ingham ; Assessors, Charles Smith, Jared J. Hooker, Thomas Lyman ; Overseers of the Poor, Silas Hanehett, James Cawing; Commissioners of Roads, Joseph Page, John Lapham, Horatio Burehard; Commissioners of Schools, Calvin Parker, Lorenzo Rouse, Henry L. Hawley :
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Inspectors of Schools, Truman E. Lyman, Ichabod R. Miller, Joseph P. Eastman; Constables, Bernard Banker, William W. Bulkley, Pardon Tabor; Collector, William W. Bulkley ; Pound-Keeper, Isaac Miller, Esq .; Fence- Viewers, Hosea Addington, Hamlin D. Corbin, Zadock Cutler, Seth Bass, Jr.
The following persons have held the office of Supervisor in this town from 1830 to 1878, inclusive : 1830, Isaac Miller, Esq .; 1831-33, Levi Buckingham ; 1834, Eliphas B. Barton ; 1835, Thomas Lyman ; 1836, Levi Bucking- ham ; 1837, Anthony Peck ; 1838-39, Marinus Hubbard ; 1840-42, Thomas Dean; 1843, Jocl K. Greenslit; 1844- 46, John Dean ; 1847-49, Horace H. Eastman ; 1850, Ashby K. Northrup ; 1851, Eliphas B. Barton ; 1852-53, James J. Hanchett ; 1854-55, Silas Clark; 1856-57, Oscar B. Gridley ; 1858-59, Charles B. Wilkinson ; 1860- 64, Lorenzo Rouse; 1865, John S. Mowrey; 1866-67, Seth W. Peck; 1868, R. Wilson Roberts ; 1869, Seth W. Peck ; 1870-74, Joseph F. Barton ; 1875-76, R. Wilson Roberts ; 1877-78, Spencer F. Tooley. The remaining officers for 1878 are :
Town Clerk, A. D. Van Vechten ; Justices of the Peace, Orris J. Hart, Solomon Hitchcock, William S. Hathaway, Myron Keith; Assessor, Charles A. Gridley; Commissioner of Highways, G. W. Hadcox; Overseer of the Poor, Alonzo L. Brooks ; Collector, Arthur Wilmott ; Constables, Frank Van Vechten, Arthur Wilmott, George Landon, George Collins ; Town Auditors, Robert Hadcox, J. H. Montgomery, J. H. Day; Inspectors of Election, T. L. Hills, M. W. Terry, Charles R. Hewitt; Excise Commis- sioner, Edgar A. Gallup.
RELIGIOUS SOCIETIES.
The Congregational Church in Marshall was organized June 14, 1797, and was the first religious society formed in town. It was at that time in the town of Paris, and early received the distinctive title of the " Hanover So- ciety," being located at Hanover. It was constituted with fourteen members,-seven males and seven females,-and was afterwards increased many fold. It eventually began to decline, however, and the society was finally disbanded, and no meetings have been held for quite a number of years.
The Hanover Church and Society erected their first house for public worship in 1801, and forty years later it was rebuilt. Its early pastors were Revs. John Eastman, from about 1809 to Jan. 8, 1822 ; Ralph Robbins, installed May 9, 1827 ; Richard M. Davis, installed July 2, 1833, and dismissed in May, 1835; and Pindar Field, who began his labors in October, 1846, and was installed Feb. 23, 1848.
The Baptist Church of Paris, afterwards known as the First Baptist Church in Paris, was organized in the present limits of Marshall, July 6, 1797, being but twenty-two days later than the organization of the Congregational Church, as above. Elder Hezekiah Eastman had preached here as early as 1796, and possibly earlier, and when the church was constituted he became its pastor. He eon- tinued his labors till 1809, when he was dismissed, and be- eame pastor of the Sangerfield Church. On the 22d of September, in the latter year, he set out on a missionary
tour to the Holland Purchase, in the western part of the Statc. The other pastors of this church were John Beebe and John G. Stearns. Its records close Jan. 16, 1832, about which time it was disbanded, a part of its members uniting with the Baptist Church in Clinton, then recently formed.
Methodist Episcopal Church, Deansville .- As. early as 1803 the Methodists had a class in this town, which was supplied with preaching onee in two weeks by the West- moreland circuit ministers. In 1828 a society was organ- ized, and steps taken towards the building of a house of worship at Deansville. Nothing further was done until 1837, when the efforts were more successful, and the present church edifice in Deansvillewas begun and made ready for occupancy in 1842, its site being donated by Thomas Dean, Esq., long the agent for the Brothertown In- nians. The present pastor of this church is Rev. E. C. Brown, and the membership about 75. Miss Almira Burr is Superintendent of the Sunday-school, which has about 60 members, teachers, and offieers, and a library of 176 volumes.
The Universalists had for many years a church at Forge Hollow, but it has become extinct.
The Congregational Church at Deansville has a mem- bership of about 40. It employs no regular pastor at present, although meetings are held and preaching sus- tained by supplies. The Sabbath-school is superintended by Miller I. Kinney.
HANOVER-MARSHALL POST-OFFICE.
Marshall post-office, the first one in town, was established at this place about 1823-24 ; Dr. Levi Buckingham was the first postmaster, and held the office during his residence in the place. The present incumbent is John Collins.
The first hotel at Hanover was probably opened by New- man Gridley, about 1813-15. Dr. Buckingham, on his arrival at the village in 1816, built a store on Hanover Green, and went into business with Henry Hawley, who had previously traded at Forge Hollow. The doctor finally sold his interest to his partner, and the latter continued the business for many years, a portion of the time in the old tavern. The first store in town was opened by Isaac Miller, Esq., about half a mile east of Hanover Green.
FORGE HOLLOW
is located southeast of Deansville, and was so named from the fact that a forge for the manufacture of iron was erected here in 1801, by Daniel Hanchett, John Winslow, Thomas Winslow, and Ward White, who made iron from the ore. Several smaller establishments of the kind were afterwards built, which worked only on scrap-iron, manufacturing fur- nacc castings, etc. The earliest settler here was probably a man named Putnam, and Elder Tremain and Timothy Burr were also among the early arrivals. The place has at present but little business. It is located on the east branch of the Oriskany, the valley of which is here quite narrow and shut in by rugged hills.
DEANSVILLE
is the most important village in the town, and occupies a position in its northwest corner, on the Oriskany. It eon-
LITH BY L H EVERTS, PHILADA.
RESIDENCE OF CHARLES A. HOVEY, DEANSVILLE, N. Y.
OLD HOMESTEAD OF THOMAS DEAN.
This place is rendered historic from the fact that for many years it was the home of Judge Dean, the founder of the village of Deansville. It was erected by him in 1800, and was his residence at the time of his death, which occurred in 1846. An extended sketch of his life
- can be found on another page of this book. The place came into the possession of the father of Mr. Charles A. Hovey, who made extensive improvements, and upon his decease it passed into the possession of its present occupant.
FARM & RESIDENCE OF MRS. IRA MELVIN, MARSHALL , ONEIDA CO.,N. Y.
LITH BY L. H. EVERTS & CO. PHILA. PA.
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tains three stores, two hotels, a tin-shop, a millinery and dress-making establishment, a meat-market, a Lodge of Good Templars, a harness-shop, two blacksmith-shops, a wagon- shop, a post-office, and one physician (Dr. E. M. Somers). Main Street is shaded by rows of fine maples. The place has been mostly built up sinee the construction of the Che- nango Canal.
William Northrup, now living in the village, eame here in 1833. His sons, George B. and Orville B. Northrup, are in the mercantile business, in the building ereeted by John Wilmott about 1833, and oeeupied by him as the first store in the place. Mr. Northrup's brother, Royal M. Northrup, kept a hotel in the winter of 1849-50 on the Utiea, Clinton and Waterville Plank-Road, which was finished in the fall of 1849 (chartered 1848). This hotel stood half a mile north of Deansville, in what is now the town of Kirkland.
The second merchant in Deansville was probably George Barker, who built the store now occupied by Fairbank & Van Veehten, on the opposite (north) side of the street from the one ereeted by Wilmott.
The old grist-mill at Deansville was built by Asa Diek, Esq., about 1835-38. It was afterwards operated for some years by a stoek company as a distillery, but has been re- converted into a grist-mill, and is now the property of Mr. Foote.
The Deansville post-office was established about 1832-33, with Thomas Dean, Esq., as first postmaster. The present ineumbent of the office is George Northrup.
The first hotel in the village was probably kept by Wil- lard Northrup. A Mr. Pixley and a Mr. Curtiss were also early, and possibly Mr. Pixley may have been the first. The old building stood on the ground occupied by the present " Hamilton House," and was destroyed by fire. The latter building was ereeted by its present proprietor, William Hamilton, in 1875-76. The building now known as the " Deansville Hotel" was originally erected for a store about the time the eanal was in process of construction. It was first opened as a hotel by Harvey Curtiss (above mentioned).
The Deansville Cemetery Association was organized about 1860, and owns a fine traet of about three and one- half aeres in the town of Kirkland, just north of Deans- ville, which has been laid out with excellent taste.
Among those who have furnished us information, are Dr. Levi Buckingham, Isaae Miller (of Kirkland), Wm. Northrup, members of churches, and numerous others.
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH.
IRA J. MELVIN,
one of the prominent and successful farmers of the town of Marshall, was born on the farm where he spent his life Oet. 1, 1805. He was the son of James and Sybil Mel- vin, who had a family of five children. Ira lived with his father until his decease, in 1840, when the property came
into his possession. In 1846 he married Miss Polly Cutter, who is a native of the town of Marshall, where she was born April 4, 1820. They were blessed with four children,-Emily R., born Nov. 20, 1847, died Sept. 27, 1854; Sarah J., born July 28, 1852; Adis A., born Jan. 12, 1857; Ira E., born April 11, 1858. Sarah was mar- ried December 7, 1875, to Mr. Sanford Crandall, of Mar- shall. We eall attention to a view of the residenee to be seen elsewhere in this volume.
CHAPTER XXXVI.
NEW HARTFORD.
BY an aet passed April 12, 1827, entitled “ An Aet to Divide the Town of Whitestown, in the County of Oneida," the town of New Hartford was formed, including the south part of the territory then belonging to Whitestown, and being the last town taken from the latter, whose area onee comprised the entire western portion of the State. The name New Hartford was applied to the village founded by the early settlers, and was retained as a fit title for the new town when erected. The following aet was passed by the Legislature April 26, 1834, inereasing the amount of ter- ritory in New Hartford :
"¿1. All that part of the town of Kirkland, in the county of Oneida, beginning at the southeast corner of the town of Kirkland; thenee westerly on the Paris line to the centre of lot No. 40; thence through the eentre of lots 40 and 39 to lot No. 38, meeting the line of New Hartford, be and the same hereby is annexed to the town of New Hartford."
Previous to 1855 the village of Clark's Mills lay partly in each of the four towns of New Hartford, Kirkland, Westmoreland, and Whitestown; but by an aet passed November 22, 1855, portions of New Hartford, Westmore- land, and Whitestown were annexed to Kirkland, ineluding the aforesaid village, which is now entirely in the latter town.
The present area of New Hartford is 16,941 aeres, and its population in 1975 was 4397. The surface is diversi- fied by hill, plain, and valley, and many pieturesque loea- tions are found. The timber has been mostly eut away, and the hill-sides in many places are seamed by gullies which have been worn by water sinee the timber was de- stroyed. Owing to the same eause, and the consequent deerease in the rain-fall, the average volume of water is much less than formerly in the streams, and it has been necessary to introduce steam in the various manufae- tories.
The town is watered by the Sauquoit Creek and its branches, the stream flowing in a northerly course nearly through the eentre, and being lined with various manu- facturing establishments. The advantages of water-power offered by this stream were early utilized, although some of the first settlers, with rather an inexcusable laek of judgment, deelared that there was not power enough to run a saw-mill. The error of such a statement was very soon made manifest by actual experiment, and it was found
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that the Sad-agh-que-da, or Sauquoit, was one of the best streams in the State of its size.
The Chenango Canal and the Utica and Clinton Division of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railway cross side by side the northern part of town, passing north of the village of New Hartford; and the Utica and Chenango Division of the same railway follows up the valley of the .Sauquoit, having a station at New Hartford. The old Seneca Turnpike Road (incorporated in 1800) was built through the village of New Hartford, off from the more direct route, through the influence of Judge Jedediah Sanger; and in consequence a large trade sprang up at the village, and continued until the construction of the Erie Canal gave the precedence to Utica, which soon became a thriving place.
EARLY SETTLEMENT AND GROWTH.
In the month of March, 1788, Colonel Jedediah Sanger, who had purchased a thousand acres of land lying on both sides of Sauquoit creek, the tract being about equally di- vided by that stream, arrived and began making improve- ments. His purchase included the whole of the site of the present village of New Hartford, and he contracted to pay fifty cents an acre for it. Before he had lived here a year, he sold the portion on the east side of the creek to Joseph Higbee, for one dollar an acre, thus clearing himself and leaving nearly half the land as profit. Higbee's portion was subsequently surveyed, and found to contain six hundred acres.
From the foregoing it is seen that Colonel Sanger was the first, and Mr. Higbee the second, settler within the present limits of the town. The settlement and develop- ment of the country immediately around progressed rapidly under the management of Colonel Sanger, and the pioneers were all intelligent, persevering men. In March, 1789, a year from the time he made his first improvements, Colonel Sanger brought his family to his wilderness home, and the same year he erected a saw-mill. In 1790 he built a grist- mill, which is still standing, the property at this time of John McLean. The barn built by the colonel is also standing, as is his second house. The latter was his first substantial dwelling, the first residence being a temporary structure of logs. The saw-mill built by him has long since been removed.
The following sketch of Colonel (afterwards Judge) Sanger is taken from Jones' " Annals of Oncida County," the best authority we have found. Judge Jones was well acquainted with him, and they were warm friends.
Colonel Jedediah Sanger was born in Sherburne, Mid- dlesex Co., Mass., Feb. 29, 1751,* "consequently he had a birthday but once in four years." His parents were Richard and Deborah Sanger, who had ten children, he being the ninth. He received a common education, worked upon a farm, and afterwards kept a small store. In May, 1771, he was married to Sarah Rider, by whom he had four children. In 1782 he removed to Jeffrics, Cheshire Co., N. H., where he purchased a large farm. In his dwelling, which was also a tavern, he kept a small store.
In 1784 his dwelling, with all its contents, was destroyed by fire, including a large quantity of groceries which had arrived only the evening before. This disaster ren- dered him bankrupt, and he soon afterwards heard of the " Whitestown country," to which he determined to emigrate as soon as he could arrange his business. In 1788 everything was ready, and he pushed forth to the new field, arriving on the site of New Hartford in March, as pre- viously stated. Prosperous in his new home, he afterwards paid the full amount of his indebtedness to his creditors in the East with interest.
"In 1796 he crected the first grist- and saw-mills on the outlet of Skaneateles Lake, now in the beautiful village of Skaneateles, Onon- daga County. He was one of the active and leading partners in the Paris Furnace, which was erected in 1800, and went into operation in 1801. In 1805 he was engaged in the manufacture of cotton. He spent eleven winters in Albany as a member of the Senate and As- sembly, to each of these bodies having been elected hy the people. He was the first supervisor of Whitestown, and held the office for three successive years. He was appointed first judge of Oneida County upon its organization, and held the office until 1810, when he resigned, as hy the constitution and laws his age (sixty years) dis- qualified him from holding that office."
His first wife died Sept. 26, 1814, and on the 31st of August, 1815, he married Sarah B. Kissam, who died April 23, 1825. His third wife, Fanny Dench, to whom he was married Oct. 3, 1827, survived him some years, and died in May, 1842. Judge Sanger's death occurred June 6, 1829. Upon his monument in the village cemetery was placed the following inscription :
"Sacred to the memory of HON. JEDEDIAH SANGER, who died June 6, A.D. 1829. The founder of New Hartford. His charities are widely extended, and his munificence has reared and supported several edifices devoted to the service of his Maker. His virtucs are indelibly impressed upon the hearts of his countrymen."
The members of his family raised a cenotaph in the Episcopal Church, with the inscription :
"Sacred to the memory of JEDEDIAH SANGER; horn Feb. 29, 1751, died June 6, 1829. ' He, heing dead, yet speaketh.'"
Judge Sanger was the possessor of a master-spirit of energy and decision, and a man of strict integrity. The town of his adoption owed everything to his efforts, and his loss, both as a genial friend and citizen and a business man, was much deplored. In politics he belonged to the school known at that time as Federals.
Another of the very early settlers of this town, and a man prominent in civil and military affairs, was General Oliver Collins, who, it is believed, located in 1789, on a farm a short distance from Middle Settlement, on the Whitesboro' Road, where he had his residence through the remainder of his life. He was a native of Connecticut, and served in the line of that State as a sergeant during the Revolutionary war. Soon after settling in this town he was commissioned captain of the Whitestown militia company, and rose thereafter step by step to the rank of brigadier-general. " While holding this commission the war of 1812 was declared, and in this war also he ren- dered valuable services to his country, having been, in 1814, commandant of that most important military post, Sacket's
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IIarbor .* Here his position was a most trying one. The British in the latter part of this year had the naval as- cendeney on Lake Ontario," and in the absence of General Brown with the main body of the army on the Niagara frontier, the large amount of stores belonging to the gov- ernment at Sacket's Harbor were without a sufficient force for their protection. After consultation with Colonel Mitchell, General Collins called out the militia of Herki- mer, Oneida, Jefferson, and Lewis Counties, en masse. This force amounted to about 2900 men, of whom 2500 were from Oneida and Herkimer Counties. General Col- lins proceeded with his force to the Harbor, where they quartered very uncomfortably, and, owing to almost constant rain, the streets of the village were nearly impassable. To add to these inconveniences, disease made its appear- ance among them, and was attended with great mortality. Many deserted, and after General Collins' term of office at the Harbor had expired he returned to Oneida County, and ordered a court-martial for the trial of the deserters. This court was held in Utica, at the public-house of Major John Bellinger, afterwards known as the " New England House," and the deserting members of the militia were senteneed to have all their baek-pay stopped and be drummed out of camp as far as Deerfield Corners, to the tune of the " Rogue's March," wearing their coats wrong- side out.
Some threats were made that the citizens of Utica never would suffer the sentence to be carried out, but General Collins applied to the commander of a company of regulars then stationed in Utica, and was granted the use of their musie and a corporal's guard of sixteen men to aid him in performing his duty. Although a considerable erowd had collected with the intention of interfering, they did not endeavor to disturb the proceedings when General Collins ordered the guard to load with ball cartridges and said to the assemblage, " If you interfere in this business, gentlemen, it is at your peril, for I will cause more bullet- holes to be made through your bodies than there are button- holes in your coats," and it is perhaps needless to add that the sentence was exceuted to the letter.
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