History of Oneida County, New York, 1667-1878, Part 158

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Publication date: 1878
Publisher: Philadelphia, Everts & Fariss
Number of Pages: 932


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27.109


Chloride of sodium


562.891


Chloride of potassium


4.057


Chloride of lithium


2,375


Silieic acid


.588


Grains in one imperial gallon. 781.291


Uncombined Acids or Bases.


Silicic acid ..


.588 grains.


Sulphuric acid


37.170


Chlorine ...


418.411


66


Carbonic acid.


10.047


Ilydro-sulphuric acid.


9.870


Lime ....


89.271 66


Magnesia


11.424


Potassa


2.562


Soda ..


298.487


Lithia.


.838


Total


878.668 grains.


Gases in Solution .- Sulphuretted hydrogen, 25.55 cubic inches.


Professor Noyes, of Hamilton College, who made an early analysis of this water, said of it, " From what I have seen of its salutary operation, I am confirmed in the opinion I first formed of its medical properties, especially in serofula, diseases of the skin, and many diseases of the stomach. It is very similar to the Harrowgate water, England." It is said to be very beneficial in many forms of disease not ne- eessary to repeat here. Dr. Hunt is always found willing to


furnish information concerning his spring, and is consider- ably enthusiastic over it, as he ean well afford to be. There is also a ehalybeate spring, of great efficaey in eases of debility.


THIE "ROYAL BLOCK-IIOUSE,"


which stood on the south bank of Wood Creek, near its entrance into Oneida Lake, was built about 1722 (?), on a slight elevation. It was about eight rods square, and sur- rounded by a ditch ten feet deep. The entire fortifieation has now disappeared, the ground having been un dermined by Wood Creek and fallen into that stream.


THIE SETTLEMENT


of this town was begun in 1791. On Christmas eve of that year George A. Smith-better known by his Dutch sobri- quet of " Yearry Smith"-arrived with his family at the tavern of Judge James Dean, in Westmoreland. The next day they started for their new home in the wilds of Verona, through a deep snow, and over swamps and through thickets. Their progress was so slow that they did not reach their destination until Jan. 1, 1792, although they were in the town in the last days of 1791. Mr. Smith was quite prom- inent among the pioneer settlers of the town, and died about eleven years after he located. His daughter, Eve, born March 25, 1795, was the first white child which saw the light in the town.


The second settler was Asahel Jackson, of Berkshire Co., Mass., who located at the mouth of Wood Creek in May, 1796, and built a house near the old " Royal Bloek-House." Very soon after he opened a publie-house for the accommo- dation of boatmen. Mr. Jackson only lived about ten years after his arrival, and after his death his widow kept the tavern another ten years, when she married a man named Eggleston. The construction of the Erie Canal was a death- blow to the prosperity of a tavern in the locality where this one stood, and that business was soon given up. When Mr. Jackson settled he had no neighbor within eighteen miles except Mr. Smith, above mentioned.


The next, or third settler in the town was a Frenchman named La Whiten de Wardenou, who arrived either in 1796 or early in 1797, and made his home at a place ealled " Oak Orchard," on Wood Creek. He and his wife were descendants of French families of considerable rank. The following short sketeh appeared at one time* in the Rome Sentinel, and, as fietion, was really interesting, especially to the inhabitants of Verona and the vicinity of Oneida Lake. We reproduce it here as worthy of preservation :


"[From the American Lady's Album.] "CELESTE: A ROMANCE OF ONEIDA LAKE.


" BY J. M. T. TUCKER.


[Suggested by remarks of HI. Baldwin, Esq., at the Plank-Road Cele- bration, Brewerton.]


"CHAPTER I.


"' They flee ! But see! Why turn they now to gaze Upon the gloomy, reddening sky ?'


" Early in the evening of a pleasant day in April, 1793, might have been seen in a richly-furnished parlor in Havre a young lady of mod-


* A few years previous to 1850.


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erate stature and moderate personal attractions. A elose examina- tion, however, revealed a mind whose powers were developed in one of the most intellectual pairs of eyes ever placed beneath a brow. These, although not the only tokens of intelligence, never failed to im- press the observer, when they met his own, with the superiority of their possessor. Connected with these were strong developments of benevolence, and of a noble and generous heart. She was a being to be loved for herself-for her amiable qualities-by one whose mind was not enslaved by sensual passions.


" As we introduce her, she was sitting by a window, apparently awaiting the arrival of some one. She leaves the window and pro- ceeds to her room, and presently returns to receive the message of her father requiring her to prepare for a journey to London in twenty- four hours. . With a pale and agitated counteuanee, and with a trew- bling hand, she indorsed the message,-


"' I will be ready to depart. CELESTE.'


Handing it to the servant, she orders him to retire, and again takes her place, weeping, at the window.


" The eloek had struek the hour of twelve. All was still in the mansion of the rich merchant La Fargo. A dull taper was burning in the room of Celeste, which revealed equipage for a journey in readiness, and a male servant armed and in disguise. The lady was still at the window. A carriage appeared at a distance in the street leading from the mansion. Presently one of the windows is elosed, as if by accident. Instantly, with a still and cautious tread, the lady leaves the window, and in a moment is moving toward the street from a rear entranee. The carriage is muffled,-the watch allow it to pass at a signal from its occupant, and turn away smiling as the shining metal dazzles in the lamplight upon their palns, whispering as they meet, ' Fine fellow that ! Fine operation, b'gar!'


"The lady is in the carriage, and soon all is still again in that mansion aud in the streets.


" It is morning soon, and a couple habitel as travelers, with bag- gage, with male and female servants, appearing to be of middle age, descend from a hotel and repair to a ship bound for the United States. The wind is fair, and soon they are uuder way.


"Great excitement prevails in the mansion of La Fargo. The hour of breakfast has come, and the summons does not bring down the heloved daughter. A servant is dispatched. The father turns pale lest she is siek, and will be unable to perform the journey. Perhaps she has destroyed herself! No, she is too sensible for that. Perhaps-


"'Speak, girl! Why does not your mistress come to breakfast ?'


"' Not there ! Here is a letter I found addressed to your honor.'


"' Not there! A letter! hand it to me !'


"' HAVRE, 1793, 12 midnight.


"' DEAR FATHER,-I am sorry to leave you ; but regard the separation your departure with me to England would create between myself and him who has long ocenpied the strongest affections of my heart a great affliction. As a father, you have my love,-will ever have it. As a husband, La Nonresse has my heart,-must control it. Be not alarmed. Ere breakfast passes to-morrow I shall be on my way to America,-from which place you shall hear from me. " Affectionately, farewell. CELESTE.'


"' Gone to America! Marry La Nouresse! Never! My ear- riage! My pistols ! Ho, there, De Nair ! Quiek, you blockhead !'


"' De Nair has gone, too, master, and broken the heart of his poor mother.'


"'To the ship, then,-let us away,-police !'


"'Oh, the ship has gone,-been gone two hours!'


"CHAPTER II.


" Four years had elapsed. A gentleman and lady were seen walk- ing along the beach of one of the sweetest little lakes in the State of New York, ealled Oneida. A convenient log house, not splendid, like a city mansion, but comfortable, stood a little distance from the shore. The forest around thewu was echoing with the sound of the axe and the falling trees. Out upon the bosom of the lake daneed the eanoe, as the waves sped before the wind. Here and there in the distance around them, inland, the smoke eurled as it arose and parted upon the air, showing that they were not altogether alone. Were they happy ? Listen. Said La Nouresse, as he fixed his soft, expressive eyes upon Celeste, --


"'Four years have passed sinee we left our home in France; tell me, love, are you happy ? Do you regret our adventure ?'


"' I have but one answer to give; and as they say the truest lan- guage of the heart is expresse:l in song, I will answer you.' Then in a voiee melodious and distinct as the harp she saug :


"'Let others seek, in wealth or fame, A splendid path whereon to tread ; I'd rather wear a lowlier name,


With love's enchantment round it shed.


Fame's but a light to gild the grave, And wealth can never ealm the breast ; But love, a halcyon on life's wave, Hath power to soothe its strifes to rest.'


"' And have you no wish to exchange onr rude dwelling and these wild seenes for the gayety or retirement of your native city ?'


"'Oh, not the smiles of other lands, Though far and wide our feet may roam, Can e'er untie the genial bands That knit our hearts to home,'


again sang Celeste in the same sweet voice; but added, 'Still I am happier here,' as she gently leaned her head upon the breast of her husband.


" La Nouresse felt the blood rush to his face as his heart vibrated to the magie power of that love which had transplanted the angelie being from the soil of her birth and culture, surrounded by all the advantages of wealth and distinction, into a foreign elime, and upon a wilderness soil, subject to deprivation and many hardships. And when he reflected that, in flying from home and a father's stern com- mand, to escape the doom of a union with a nohleman because she loved an untitled, unwealthy merehant, he was proud of his seclusion. That being was a treasure which titles and wealth could not estimate.


"Onee Celeste had written to her father. She had painted the seenes in which she moved with all the poetry and romance of life. She represented her situation with that enthusiasm which it inspired in her own heart. She made her home in the ' American Wilderness' a transcript of Eden before the expulsion.


" To that letter an answer was sent in full of bitter unforgiveness. It was a severe blow to the gentle heart of a daughter. But she reasoned correctly that, as to the choice of her life's companion, if she had made that life a delight, the complaints of her father, however well designed, were unreasonable: filial love cannot ask the sacrifice of a life to the pleasure of another's will. Life is our own, its happiness our own.


"CHAPTER III.


" Another four years had passed away. It was late at eveuing. The gentle breath of spring, perfumed by the fragrant wild-flowers that adorned the luxuriant openings, and that erept to the very threshold of the happy cottage, was moving across the bosom of the lake, and wildly murmuring in ripples along the shore, while the voice of the night-bird was heard in echoes among the forest hills. Upon the floor of the cottage daneed a bright-eyed little boy, whom his mother, in her forgiving love, had named La Fargo, after his unfor- giving grandfather, and upon the grass-plat in front of the dwelling in many gambols frolicked the dogs, who had not yet retired; aud withal it was a happy seene.


" A coach is seen far away down the road leading from the Mohawk turnpike, and running for many miles upon the lake-shore. Nearer it approaches, until, near the house of La Nouresse, it stopped, and the driver ealled out,-


"'Can you direet us to the residence of a gentleman whose name is La Nouresse, anywhere in these parts ?'


"'I have the honor to be that person,' was the reply.


"In a moment the coach stood before the door. A gentleman alighted. He was apparently ahout fifty-five years of age, richly dressed, and wealthy. The darkness obseured his face, and he was not recognized by the owner of the dwelling, who politely invited him to walk in, while himself dirceted in securing the beasts. A shriek from his wife soon called La Nouresse into the house again. On entering the door he saw the stranger prostrate upon the floor, and his wife in a swoon by his side. The man was dead. He had discovered himself to his long-absent daughter, and being overcome hy the intenseness of his feelings, fell at her feet, uttering the first aud the last,-the only words,-' Daughter! Forgive!'


"Deep was the affliction of that little family that night. Long and tenderly, with tears, sat Celeste hy the cold form of her father. That sweet word 'daughter,' and the sweeter word ' forgive,' were oft pronouneed amid the disturbed slumbers of the night.


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" The last tribute of respect had been paid to the departed father. Upon examining his papers, a will, prepared previous to his de- parture from France, was found duly attested, making Celeste the heir of one million franes and all his estates at Ilavre. Besides this, among his papers addressed to his daughter, which he had prepared previous to leaving, and during his voyage, to provide against sud- den death, was a full expression of his entire approbation of the marriage of Celeste with La Nouresse, and an account of the great injury done him by the nobleman who had won his confidence, and through whose influence .he had, by misguided ambition, been in- dueed to attempt her compulsory union with a villain, instead of being united to the worthy person of her heart's first ehoiee.


" Five years more had passed. La Nouresse had disposed of his property in America and was among the wealthiest, most respected merchants in Havre. One of his daughters is the bappy wife of an American merchant, a son of a New England mechanie, who resides in New York. That merehant with his lady visited the shores of the beautiful lake this summer. Such are life's changes and romances."


This pleasant little fiction was not without foundation in fact, for, after " Celeste" and De Wardenou had exchanged vows of eternal constancy, she was confined by her friends in a convent, to prevent her marriage. She, however, es- caped ; the twain were married and sailed for America. He had invested a large fortune in merchandise, and brought it to New York City, where misfortune fell to his lot, and he lost nearly his whole property, after which he moved to the vicinity of Queida Lake. Their first-born child siekened and


died in 1797, to the great sorrow of its parents. This was the first death in town. As the necessary coffin could not be procured, the child's cradle was substituted in its place. When the Western Inland Loek Navigation Company was erecting a structure at the "Oak Orchard," a few years later, they disinterred, in digging for a foundation, a eradle containing the skeleton of a child, which was undoubtedly all that remained of the loved babe of De Wardenou and his wife. The second death among the settlers was that of a daughter of Josiah Newland, named Abigail; the precise date of her decease is unknown.


In the spring of 1798 the southern part of town was settled by numbers who had the year previous bid off at auction various tracts in the Oneida Reservation, for the purpose of becoming "actual settlers" thereon. Among tlie arrivals this year were the following, viz .: Russell Brooks, Martin Langdon, Noah Langdon, Samuel Avery, Joseph Eames, John Bosworth, Oliver Pomeroy, Ithamar Day, Eleazer Ellis, Fisher Ellis, Jedediah Phelps (from Rome, where he had settled in 1784), Stephen Benedict, Jabez Loomis, Jonathan Warren, John Tilden, John R. Todd, Levi Skinuer, Lieutenant Billington, Peter Whelan, Robert Robbins, Rodman Clark, Caleb Clark, Solomon Bishop, and Moses Brown.


Others who located in this year (1798) and later were Simeon Parsons, Joseph Couch, Benjamin Blackman, Achus Rathbun, Artemas Brewer, Nahum Joslin, Elias Cagwin, Daniel B. Cagwin, Dr. Alexander Whaley, Joseph Green, and Gideon Todd. The first framed house iu town was built by Robert Robbins.


Previous to 1805 two men were killed in the north part of town, at a barn-raising, one of the bents being left in an insecure position and finally falling, causing the instant death of one of the men, and fatally injuring the other, who lived but a few days.


The most virulent typhus fever broke out in this town in August, 1805, and carried off many of the citizens, the first being Miss Elizabeth Day, daughter of Ithamar Day. Captain Oliver Pomeroy, one of the pioneers of the town, died with this fever, Oct. 9, 1805.


With the exception of its northern and northwestern portions, Verona was settled and improved very rapidly. The parts mentioned began to be filled up faster upon the completion, in 1820, of the middle scetion of the Erie Canal.


As provided in the act ereating the town of Verona, the


FIRST TOWN-MEETING


was held at the house of Martin Langdon, on the 2d day of March, 1802. This house stood about half a mile west of what is now Verona village. The following officers were chosen, viz. : Supervisor, Jedediah Phelps, Esq. ; Town Clerk, Eleazer Ellis; Assessors, Martin Langdon, Peter Whelan, Caleb Clark ; Collector, Stephen Benedict; Poor- masters, Jonathan Warren, Noah Langdon; Commissioners of Roads, Isaac Weld, John Bosworth, Alexander Enos ; Constable, Stephen Benedict; Overseers of Highways, Reuben Langdon, David Shed, George Seton, Situeon Par- sons, Isaac Weld, Thomas R. Clark, Eleazer Ellis, Squier Holmes, Eliel Nichols, Park Adams; Fenee-Viewers, Jede- diah Phelps, Caleb Clark, Jabez Loomis ; Pound-Keeper, Joseph Eames.


Among those living in the town in 1802-4 were Eli Whelan, Eleazer Ellis, Alexander Beebe, John Bozworth, Oliver Pomeroy, Keeler Starr, Dan Bozworth, Noah, Joseph, Martin, and Reuben Langdon, Daniel HIall, Nathan Ellis, Thaddeus Wilson, Calvin Giddins, Robert Robins, Thomas G. Day, Ebenezer Loomis, Jabez Loomis, Simeon Parsons, Obed Williams, Enoch Hitchcock, Richard Brown, Thomas R. Clark, James Bewel, John Gray, Joseph Eanes ; and in 1805, Stephen Clark, Ephraim Robbins, Samuel Pratt, Achus Rathbun, Constant Bozworth, Samuel Whaley, Dr. Alexander Whaley, Elias Cagwin. These had mostly set- tled several years previous.


The Supervisors of Verona, from 1803 to 1878, inelu- sive, have been as follows: 1803-6, Jedediah Phelps, Esq .; 1807-19, Stephen Benedict, Esq .; 1820, Joseph Grant, Esq .; 1821, Stephen Benedict; 1822-23, Joseph Grant ; 1824-25, Stephen Benedict; 1826, Alexander Whaley, M.D. ; 1827-31, Nathaniel Fitch ; 1832, Ichabod Hand ; 1833, Alfred Patten ; 1834-37, James J. Carley ; 1838, De Witt C. Stephens ; 1839, James O. Gates ; 1840-41, Justus E. Gillett ; 1842-43, Alfred Patten ; 1844, no ree- ord ; 1845-46, James S. Whaley ; 1847, Willet Stillman ; 1848-49, Thomas G. Halley; 1850, Archibald Hass ; 1851, James S. Whaley ; 1852, no record ; 1853, Solomou P. Smith ; 1854, Calvin Bishop; 1855, no record; 1856, Martin Tipple ; 1857-58, Orson Foote ; 1859-60, Salmon Tuttle; 1861-62, George Benedict; 1863-64, J. Platt Goodsell ; 1865-66, George H. Sanford; 1867-69, Henry S. Stark ; 1870, Willard H. Bennett ; 1871-73, Henry S. Stark; 1874, Delford Patten ; 1875-76, William Williams; 1877-78, Henry S. Stark.


The remaining officers for 1878 are: Town Clerk, Josiah Andrews ; Justices of the Peace, Ezra Mansfield, O. Elmer,


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HISTORY OF ONEIDA COUNTY, NEW YORK.


J. S. Hyatt, W. M. Reynolds, Josiah Andrews ; Collector, Frederick Eisch ; Commissioner of Highways, M. V. B. Warner; Assessor, George Hoffman; Overseers of the Poor, William H. Sheffield, John McMahon ; Constables, Martin S. Crossett, Delbert Peckham, David Doty, James McMahon ; Town Auditors, Newell Hall, Francis Mills, N. Warner Fitch ; Inspectors of Election, District No. 1, George H. Kline, Theodore Cagwin, N. Warner Fitch ; District No. 2, James Drummond, John Rant, John Mar- cellius ; District No. 3, Hermon Roberts, Alfred Briggs, Michael Murphy ; Excise Commissioner, William B. Nel- son ; Game Constable, Josiah Walrath.


Abel Gillett, from Hartford Co., Conn., came to this town in 1806 and settled on a farm east of Verona village, now owned by his son, Justus E. Gillett. The latter came with his father, and is at present residing with his son-in- law, J. W. Dodge.


Noah Leete located a mile and a half south of Verona village in 1809, and afterwards moved to it. His grandson, R. B. Leete (son of Harley N. Leete), is the present post- master at the village.


Solomon Bishop, from Whitingham, Vt., settled in Hampton village, in the town of Westmoreland, in 1797, and in 1803 came to the town of Verona, and located on the farm now owned by the heirs of David Osgood, where he resided until 1808, when he removed to the place now owned by his grandson, Calvin W. Bishop. Solomon Bishop was a Revolutionary soldier, and was present at the surrender of Burgoyne. His son, Calvin Bishop, possesses his father's old gun-barrel. The latter person is the youngest of eleven children, and until 1871 lived on the farm last occupied by his father. He at present resides in the village of Verona, and is the oldest resident of the town, probably having made it his home since 1803.


Wells Rathbun, whose father, Achus Rathbun, a Quaker, settled in 1802, was until his death the oldest resident.


Salmon Tuttle, now living near New London, is a native of the town of Camden, in which his father (Zopher Tut- tle) was an early settler. Mr. Tuttle's wife is a daughter of Aaron Bailey, one of the pioneers of the town of Vienna. Mr. Tuttle located at New London iu December, 1835.


Esquire Orville Elmer is probably the oldest resident of the village of New London or its vicinity. L. D. Smith is also an old resident, and Henry Bissell, whose place is near that of Mr. Tuttle, is a native of the town. Of the early settlers in this portion of Verona the descendants are but few in the locality, those now occupying the neighborhood being mostly inuch later arrivals, a few only having lived here more than forty years. Property in this vicinity has changed hands many times since the construction of the canal.


EARLY SCHOOLS.


The earliest schools in town were kept in the neighbor- hood of Verona village. The first two were at Blackman's Corners, and what is now Verona Depot. The dates at which they were commenced are not now recollected.


A select school was at one time established near the Bishop place, and sustained for several years. The school


-a very good one-was first in charge of a Mr. Ayres, and afterwards of Miss Phelps. The schools at present in existence are equal to those of any town in the county.


RELIGIOUS SOCIETIES.


" The first sermon preached in the town was by the Rev. Joseph Avery, of Tyringham, Berkshire Co., Mass., while upon a visit to his son, the late Samuel Avery, one of the first settlers. The first preacher employed by the people was a Mr. Masey, a candidate for the ministry, who preached a portion of the time in this, and the other portion in an adjoining town, for one season.' * He was followed by Stephen Williams, of New Hampshire.


The first church organization in town was Congregational in denomination, and was formed Aug. 5, 1803, in a barn, which is yet standing in Verona village. Its founders were Revs. Peter Fish and Timothy Cooley, missionaries, one a Congregationalist and the other a Presbyterian. The members numbered 23.


In November, 1806, the first religious society was formed " to provide the privileges of the gospel for themselves and families," the articles of agreement being signed by 65 heads of families. A Methodist preacher, in the fall of 1805, held a revival at Lowell, in the town of Westmoreland, which spread into Verona, and about 40 were added to this church. Its first pastor was Rev. Israel Brainard, who was installed Sept. 23, 1807. In 1828 the church and society (having previously built a meeting-house two miles east of Verona village) divided, and a second Congregational Church and Society was formed, which erected a new house of wor- ship in the village. This status of affairs continued until June, 1837, when they reunited, and occupied the building at the village. The present membership of this society is something over 100, and its pastor Rev. Charles F. Joues. The predecessor of the latter, Rev. D. I. Biggar, was pastor here for ten years. Among the earlier pastors were Revs. Luther Myrick, E. Spencer, - Lewis, Benjamin Lock- wood, Charles F. Butler, Washington Stickney, Henry Kendal, Nathan Bosworth, and J. S. Barteau. The Sun- day-school in connection has a present membership of about 100, and a library of several hundred volumes. Its Super- intendent is I. W. Young.


METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, VERONA VILLAGE.


This society was organized as a separate station in 1833. It had previously been connected with the old Westmore- land circuit, and a church was built in 1830. The latter has been largely repaired and remodeled. The building now in use as a parsonage was formerly occupied by Dr. Main as a store, and was purchased by the society in 1836 for the purpose of a parsonage and chapel, and has been used as such since that time. The following is a list of pastors of this church : 1834-35, Rev. Isaac Stone; 1836, David Kingsley ; 1837, J. D. Torry ; 1838, William H. Pearne; 1839, L. B. Weaver ; 1840-41, Lyman A. Eddy ; 1842- 43, M. Adams; 1844, J. D. Torrey; 1845-46, Isaac Foster; 1847, Robert Fox; 1848, William Burnside; 1849-50, Ephraim C. Brown; 1851-52, T. B. Rockwell ;




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