History of Oneida County, New York : with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers, Part 132

Author: Durant, Samuel W
Publication date: 1878
Publisher: Philadelphia : Everts & Fariss
Number of Pages: 920

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By the following resolution of the board of supervisors, passed Dec. 21, 1871, the bounds of the village were changed :

" Resolved, That all that portion of the village of New Hartford, in the county of Oneida, lying on the northeast side of the Sauquoit Creek, and within the corporate limits of said village, be excluded therefrom, and that hereafter the said Sanquoit Creek shall be the casterly boundary-line of said corporation."

The following is a list of the presidents, trustees, and clerks of the village from 1870 to 1877, inclusive :

1870 .- President, Charles McLean ; Trustees, Richard Cooke, James Armstrong, Jacob Harper ; Clerk, William M. French.

1871 .- President and Trustces, same as 1870 ; Clerk, R. U. Sherman.

1872 .- President, James Armstrong; Trustees, James Campbell, John L. Case, William M. French ; Clerk, De Wayn Palmer.

1873 .- President, James Campbell; Trustees, Joseph E. Graham, John Squires, Stephen Childs ; Clerk, Jacob Harper.

1874 .- President, Richard U. Sherman ; Trustees, Silas W. Root, Grove Penny, John McLean ; Clerk, Jacob Har- per.

1875 .- President, R. U. Sherman ; Trustees, Grove Penny, Alonzo E. Baker, Jacob Harper; Clerk, Jacob Harper.

1876 .- President, John B. Winship ; Trustees, James E. Groves, Grove Penny, A. E. Baker ; Clerk, Jacob Harper. 1877 .- President, John B. Winship ; Trustees, Luther W. McFarland, Truman E. Lymon, James E. Groves ; Clerk, Jacob Harper.

The post-office at New Hartford was established as early, probably, as 1800. Dr. Calvin Sampson was one of the earliest postmasters, and held the office for many years. The present incumbent is Mrs. A. M. Palmer.

In the old cemetery in the village rest the remains of many of the early settlers and persons who lived to a great age. Among them are the following, viz. :

Elder Ithamar Parsons, died July 24, 1828, aged 78 years. Mabel, his wife, died Jan. 22, 1812, aged 57 years. Eli Butler, died April 19, 1802, aged 61 years.

Mrs. Rachel Butler, died Sept. 1, 1805, aged 62 years.

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Ashbel Butlor, died March 2, 1829, aged 03 years. Truman Kellogg, died Nov. 5, 1821, aged 56 years. Leis, wife of Thomas Gaylord, died May 2, 1806, aged 57 years. Abol Wilcox, diod Jaa. 13, 1836, aged 80 years.

Experance, his wife, died Jane 10, 1811, aged 58 years. Eunice, wife of William Palmer, died April 5, 1810, aged 21 years. Jabez Winchester, died Sept. 10, 1838, aged 71 years. Lueretia, his wife, died Ang. 16, 1834, aged 54 years. Deacon Ebenezer Cook, died March 29, 1813, aged 67 years. Abigail, his wife, died Jao. 14, 1814, aged 70 years. Samuel Wells, died Oct. 7, 1803, aged 41 years. Dolly, his wife, died Fch. 9, 1854, aged 89 years.

Mrs. Abigail Grosvenor, widow of Captain Seth Grosvenor, uf Pom- fret, Conn., died Aug. 2, 1816, aged 65 years.

Luey, daughter of Allen and Leey Risley, died Sept. 14, 1803, aged 6 years.

Jacob Hart, died Jan. 17, 1812, aged 58 years.

Jane, wife of Charles MeLean, died June 15, 1827, aged 21 years. Captain Elisha Newell, died Nov. 10, 1799, aged 66 years.

Betsy If., wife of Amos Hull, M.D., died Sept. 11, 1798, aged 21 years. Elizabeth, wife of Amos Hull, M.D., died Oct. 1, 1802, aged 27 years. Eanice, wife of Amos Hall, M.D., died Aag. 5, 1812, aged 33 years. Uriah Lathrop, died April 13, 1814, aged 41 years.

" Mrs. Clemens, reliet of Mr. Jacob Sherril," died Aug. 8, 1820, aged 83 years.

Esther, wife of Joseph Allen, died July 30, 1816, aged 67 years. David Risley, died Aug. 24, 1834, aged 68 years.

Cynthia, his wife, died May 26, 1845, aged 76 years. Salmon Goodrich, died Dec. 18, 18-12, aged 85 years. King Strong, died April 15, 1854, aged 71 years. Daniel Eels, died Jely 17, 1851, aged 94 years. Martha, his wife, died May 26, 1834, aged 73 years. Theodosia Eels, his sister, died Dec. 7, 1850, aged 96 years. Ebenezer Dickinson, died May 5, 1845, aged 73 years. Prudence, his wife, died Dec. 29, 1863, aged 90 years. Jetham Gaylord, died Feb. 5, 1807, aged 58 years. Esther, his wife, died March 14, 1838, aged 87 years. Ozias Wilcox, died Dee. 4, 1838, aged 73 years. Betsy, his wife, died Aug. 23, 1831, aged 55 years. Ebenezer Diekinson, Sr., died Dee. 24, 1824, aged 89 years. Mabel, his wife, died March 13, 1827, aged 89 years. Rhoda, wife of Abel Audrus, died Dec. 20, 1828, aged 84 years. Simeon Hatch, died Feh. 26, 1853, aged 86 years. Rebecca, his wife, died Aug. 29, 1836, aged 68 years. Lois, wife of Arthar Perry, died Aug. 11, 1819, aged 56 years. Mrs. Ruth Seward, died April 21, 1810, aged 81 years. Mrs. Sarah Lane, died Feb. 26, 1799, aged 47 years. Colonel Nathan Seward, died Nov. 9, 1815, aged 57 years. Martha, his wife, died March 24, 1838, aged 80 years. Samuel Abbott, died May 28, 1814, aged 27 years. Sally, his wife, died Oet. 22, 1817, aged 23 years. Betheel Norton, died Sept. 11, 1814, aged 74 years. Lois, his wife, died April 11, 1828, aged 85 years. Ilart Norton, died Sept. 7, 1837, aged 62 years. Lois, his wife, died March 19, 1813, aged 38 years. Susan, his wife, died March 9, 1837, aged 49 years. Ashbel Mallory, died Feb. 1, 1856, aged 83 years. Mary, his wife, died Nov. 23, 1854, aged 74 years. Gideon Savage, died Feb. 26, 1833, aged 82 years. Sarah, his wife, died Jane 9, 1840, aged 82 years. Leonard Goodrich, died Dec. 27, 1837, aged 65 years. Susan, his wife, died Feb. 20, 1859, aged 84 years. Rhoda, wife of Samuel Ilecox, died Oct. 29, 1807, aged 53 years. William Trowbridge, died April 13, 1814, aged 26 years. Louisa, his wife, died July 4, 1813, aged 25 years. Andrew Miller, died Sept. 30, 1820, aged 41 years. David Miller, died June 2, 1865, aged 80 years. George Peacock, died Jade 23, 1824, aged 75 years. Elizabeth, his wife, died May 20, 1820, aged 44 years. Thomas Thornton, died Nov. - , 1826, aged 81 years. Rachel Thornton, died Dec. 29, 1816, aged 63 years. Abigail, wife of Panl B. Prior, died Jan. 14, 1808, age.l 27 years. Hunting S. Pierce, died Mareb 12, 1826, aged 34 years. Thomas Dana, died Aug. 31, 1817, aged 95 years. Martha, his wife, die l Sept. 14, 1795, aged 67 years.

Ezekiel Williams, died Aug. 30, 1849, aged 94 years. Sarah, his wife, died April 9, 1813, aged 55 years. Naney, wife of Lewis Sherril, died July 18, 1822, aged 38 years.

MANUFACTURES OF THE VILLAGE.

Ingrain Carpets .- An Englishman, named Butterfield, very early established a factory for making ingrain carpets, using an old building previously occupied as a cooper-shop. He erected what is said to have been the first ingrain loom, and manufactured the first ingrain carpets in the State. He purchased his yarn elsewhere. Mr. Butterfield finally removed to Oriskany, and worked at Pleasant Valley, in the factory of the Dexter Manufacturing Company, making carpets.

Cut-Nails .- The first cut-nails manufactured in the State are also said to have been made at New Hartford, by Jona- than Richardson, father of Joseph Richardson, now of the village. He made all his own machinery, and it is stated that he purchased wine and liquor casks, and worked up the hoops into shingle-nails. Mr. Richardson died in the ycar 1838.

A tannery was established early by Thomas and Ezekiel Williams, west of Sauquoit Creek and north of Genesee Street. Another was built nearer the creek by Stephen Childs, and was an extensive institution, manufacturing over $30,000 worth of leather annually. It is now used by Armstrong, Baker & Co., for a

Knitting- Factory .- This firm formerly occupied a factory which stood east of the creek, and which had been built and operated by Reed & Allen, for the manufacture of cotton-yarns, batting, etc., under the name of the " Half- Century Manufacturing Company." That building was destroyed by fire, and Messrs. Armstrong, Baker & Co. removed to their present location. Three complete sets of machinery are used, and about 50 hands employed. Five hundred dozen shirts and drawers are manufactured weekly. The goods are principally shipped to New York City. Mr. Baker, one of the firm, is manager, and Samuel Patterson overseer of the factory.

Batting-Factory .- This was formerly a door and sash factory, owned by A. Sweet. The building is owned by J. McLean, proprietor of the grist-mill. It was until re- cently occupied by J. C. Roby, as a batting-factory, but during the winter of 1877-78 changed hands.

A Paper-mill was built early by Samuel Lyon, a paper- maker by trade, who came here from Vermont in the neighborhood of the year 1800. It stood above the pres- ent cotton-factory, and was afterwards moved down next to the grist-mill, which Mr. Lyon had purchased. Paper was made entirely by hand. The mill is now out of existence. J. S. Lyon, a son of the above-mentioned manufacturer, is now living east of the village, on a portion of the old Higbce farm.

New Hartford Cotton-Manufacturing Company .- The main building of this company was erected by a stock com- pany, about 1815-16, the manager at the time being Samuel Hicks. The south addition was built in 1838, by a company formed about that time, consisting of Messrs. Matteson, Hurlbut, and others. The structure is built of stone, and contains 92 looms and 4428 spindles. Eighty operatives are employed, and 29,000 yards of yard-wide

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(4} yards per pound) brown sheetings manufactured weekly. The factory is operated by water-power entirely. The goods are disposed of in Utica and New York City. The officers of the company are : President, William S. Bartlett, of Clinton ; Vice-President, John W. McLean ; Treasurer and Manager, James Harris.

The Whitestown Gazette, the second paper published in the county, or in the State west of Schenectady, was es- tablished by Charles McLean,* at New Hartford, in June, 1796. The printing-office was in the building now used as a parsonage by the Episcopal society of the village. In 1798 the paper was removed to Utica, and its name changed to the Whitestown Gazette and Cato's Patrol. It was the foundation of the present flourishing daily, the Utica Herald. Mr. McLean finally located at Cherry Valley, Otsego Co., N. Y., where he established the Cherry Valley Gazette, the publication of which is still continued.

The physicians of the place are three in number. Dr. Walter R. Griswold has practiced in Deerfield, Trenton, and Rensen, and been a resident and practitioner at New Hartford since September, 1855. He is the oldest in practice of any physician in the place. Dr. Tyler is also an old practitioner, and Dr. A. R. Simmons has practiced in the village for three years.

The village of New Hartford contained, in February, 1878, four stores, two meat-markets, a tin-shop, four shoe- shops, one tailor, one harness-shop, one hotel, five churches, a two-story brick school-house, employing three teachers; three blacksmith-shops (one including also a carriage-shop), a post-office, three physicians, one lawyer (L. B. Root). The population in 1875 was 711 inside the corporation, not including the portion of the village (formerly incor- porated with it) east of the Sanquoit Creek.

NEW YORK UPPER MILLS.

At this place are the upper mills of the New York Mills Manufacturing Company. The old wooden building owned by them has always been known as the " Buhr- Stone Factory," from the fact that it was built for, and long used as, a grist-mill, and contained the first French buhr mill-stones used in the county.

Besides the mills of this company there are three stores, a blacksmith-shop, and a considerable number of dwellings. In the history of Whitestown will be found a history of the New York Mills.

UTICA COTTON COMPANY.

The grounds owned by this company comprise School District No. 2 of the town of New Hartford. The mills are located on the Chenango Canal, north of the village of New Hartford. The cotton-factory was built originally by Dr. Seth Capron, of Oriskany, the Sewards, of Utica, and others, about 1812-14, Dr. Capron being the leader of the enterprise. Until a recent date, when the factory became the property of E. B. Sherman & Co., it had been known, from the first, as the " Capron Factory." The present proprietors are C. C. and H. M. Taber, cotton brokers, of 141 Pearl Street, New York City. Their agent and man-

ager is John C. Roby, present supervisor of the town. Messrs. Smith, Sanford & Co., of Utica, are general agents. The present company has owned the property since about 1865. The factory contains 156 looms and 7056 spindles ; an average of 125 to 130 operatives is employed ; about 500,000 pounds of cotton, or 1100 bales, are used annually, and about 46,000 yards of a light, unbleached sheeting are manufactured weekly.

Before the cotton-mill was built, a paper-mill and a saw- mill had been crected by Seward, Kellogg, and others pre- vious to the war of 1812.

VILLAGE OF WASHINGTON MILLS.

This place is located on the Sauquoit Creek, about two miles above New Hartford. A woolen-mill was built here at an early day by Frederick Hollister, and its manufactures were among the best. This mill was destroyed by fire. At the time Mr. Hollister built this mill he was engaged in the drug business in the " checkered store" at Utica. The mill was also " checkered," and the place received the name of "Checkerville," by which it is still known to many.

A stone factory was built by Mr. Hollister after his first one (frame) was burned, and this was also the victim of the fire-fiend. The present mill was built by Hollister & Stanton about 1844-46, and is a large frame structure. It contains about 36 looms, 8 sets of cards, 8 jacks, 6 fulling-mills, 2 washers, and 6 gigs. When running, it furnishes employment to 120 hands. It is at present idle, and belongs to the estate of the late A. T. Stewart, of New York. It is called the " Washington Mill," and from this circumstance the village derives its name.

Washington Mills Post-Office was established some time between 1840 and 1850. One of the carly postmasters was Adna Ingham, who held the office fifteen years. The present incumbent is Henry Kellogg. The office was es- tablished through the efforts of Hon. O. B. Matteson, then in Congress.

A Hoc- and Fork-Factory was established on its present site in 1865, by Babcock, Brown & Co., from Otsego County. The present proprietors are Messrs. Huntley & Babcock. The manufactures are hoes, rakes, forks, and other articles in the same line. Forty hands is the average number employed. The building is a frame structure, and the machinery is driven entirely by water-power. The brand of the implements manufactured here is the " Queeu City." The value of the annual productions of this factory averages about $100,000, while the capacity is still greater. The factory is located in the lower (northern) part of the village, on the east side of the Sauquoit Creek, from whence the motive-power is derived.

The village contains two stores, two hotels, a blacksmith- shop, a wagon-shop, a woolen-factory, a hoe- and fork-factory, one church, two religious societies, a school-house, and a Masonic Lodge, with a considerable population.

Above Washington Mills is located what is known as

WILLOW VALE,

from the large number of willows which here grow along the creek. At this place are the ruins of a large foundry and machine-shop, formerly owned by Rogers & Spencer.

# Another authority says William McLean.

Charni Seums

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The machine-shop was burned about 1868, and has not been rebuilt. There is also a small saw-mill here.

CHADWICK'S MILLS POST-OFFICE.

This place is located in the extreme south part of the town, on the Sauquoit Creek and the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railway.

The cotton-mill located here, and long known as the " Eagle Cotton-Factory," was built about 1809, by Messrs. Abner Brownell, Jolin Chadwick, and Ira Todd. Mr. Chadwick had been previously employed as overseer in the manufacturing department at New Hartford. Chad- wick and Brownell purchased the water-privilege, which had been located by C. E. Macomber (now of Sauquoit), then a young man of seventeen, who measured the fall of water with his eye very accurately, aud wrote to his brother- in-law, Mr. Brownell, then iu Otsego County, and the latter came with Mr. Chadwick and made the purchase. Ira Todd was also from Otsego County, the family being interested in the " Union Cotton-Mill" at Toddsville. He afterwards removed to Utica and engaged in the buhr-stone business. The present building is three stories high, constructed of stone, and is owned by G. W. Chadwick, and known as " Chadwick's Mills." The superintendent of the factory is Benjamin Groff, Jr. The machinery, in February, 1878, included 214 looms and about 9000 spindles, and it was contemplated to put in 30 additional looms, with a propor- tionate number of spindles. About 150 bands is the aver- age number employed. Both steam and water are used for driving the machinery. About 30 bales of cotton are used weekly, and in the same time over 60,000 yards of yard- wide goods are manufactured, the same being disposed of in the city of New York.

There are at this place, besides the cotton-mills, a store, a post-office, a railway station, and numerous dwellings for the use of the mill-operatives.

Much valuable information has been furnished, in com- piling the history of this town, by John French, Jacob Harper, and other members of families which settled early ; by the pastors and members of churches, proprietors of manufacturing establishments and numerous employees, and many whose names are not now recollected. C. E. Macomber, of Sauquoit, a venerable gentleman of eighty- eight years of age, and a resident of the county since about 1809, also rendered efficient aid in gathering the history of manufactures.

CHAPTER XXXVII.

PARIS.

As will be seen by reference to the history of Kirkland, the town of Paris was namned in honor of Isaac Paris, of Montgomery County, who so generously aided the suffering settlers of the town before it was organized, and while yet included in Whitestown. The town of Paris is situated in the southeast part of the county, and has an area of 18,641 acres. Its western portion-a little less than one-half ---

is included in Coxe's Patent, and the balance in the Free- masons' or Bayard's Patent. The surface of the town is broken by high and abrupt hills, the valleys between them being everywhere exceedingly narrow. This region ap- proaches the mountainous. The most considerable level tracts are on Paris Hill, and in a few other localities. The Sauquoit Creek flows nearly through the centre of the town, and falls in a course of six miles 384 feet. This stream affords excellent power, which is utilized to a great extent. With the exception of Paris Hill settlement, the villages in this town are almost exclusively manufacturing centres, and their population is made up of mechanies and their families.

The town of Paris was formed from Whitestown on the 10th of April, 1792. At the town-meeting held in 1794 it was

"Voted, 12th, That the town of Paris be divided, and that said di- vision lines be drawn in manner following, to wit : Beginning where Whitestown and Paris corner together on German Flats ; thence south- erly, on the line between Paris and German Flats, six miles; thence a direet course to the Beach-tree, so called; thence on the north line of the twenty townships to the Road Town ; thence by the towns of Whitestown and Westmoreland to the place of beginning; and that the remaining part of said town be divided and subdivided in manner following, to wit : The easternmost quarter of the 20th and 19th towns, and all of 18 and 17, together with the remainder of the Freemasons' Patent, he one town; Nos. 1, 2, and 3 another town; the three west- erninost quarters of 19 and 20 another town; and that Nos. 4, 5, 8, and 9 be another town," etc.

These included Sangerfield, Oneida Co., Sherburne, Che- nango Co., and Brookfield, Hamilton, and a part of Cuze- novia, Madison Co. Kirkland was set off from Paris in 1827, and a small portion of the former was annexed to the latter in 1839.

The first town-meeting in Paris was held April 2, 1793, at the house of Moses Foot, Esq., at Clinton, then included in this town.

The following were the officers chosen : Supervisor, David Ostrom, Esq .; Town Clerk, Henry McNiel; Assessors, Joshua Holiburt, Joel Bristol, Dan Chapman, Benjamin Barnes, Ithamar Coe, Joseph Farwell, William Babbott ; Commissioners of Roads, Amos Kellogg, Simeon Coe, Stephen Barrett; Poormasters, Timothy Tuttle, Levi Sher- man ; Constables, Jesse Curtiss, Amos Dutton, Nathan Marsh ; Fence-Viewers, Barnabas Pond, Joseph Plumb, Borden Wilbur, Joshua Preston; Poundmaster, Amos Kellogg.

The Supervisors of this town, from 1794 to 1878 inclu- sive, have been the following persons, viz. : 1794, David Ostrom ; 1795, George W. Kirkland ; 1796-97, Jesse Cur- tiss ; 1798, Thomas Hart; 1799-1805, Jesse Curtiss ; 1806-7, Isaac Miller; 1808-17, Jesse Curtiss ; 1818, Ebenezer Griffin ; 1819, Henry McNiel ; 1820-23, Jesse Curtiss ; 1824-27, Othniel Williams. The act dividing the town and creating Kirkland was passed April 13, 1827, and a second election was held for Paris, at which Henry McNeil was chosen supervisor ; he was re-elected in 1828. 1829, Jared P. Todd ; 1830, Henry MeNiel ; 1831, Theo- philus Steele; 1832, Jeremiah Knight; 1833-34, Jared P. Todd; 1835-37, Constant H. Wicks; 1838, Jeremiah Knight; 1839-43, Naaman W. Moore (William Gallup was elected justice of the peace in 1839, and held the office

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fifteen years) ; 1844, George M. Brownell ; 1845-49, David J. Millard; 1850-51, Sterling A. Millard ; 1852-53, William S. Bartlett ; 1854-55, Eli Avery ; 1856, William Gallup ; 1857, Justus Childs ; 1858-59, Barzilla Budlong ; 1860-62, Harvey Head; 1863-64, F. S. Savage; 1865, D. J. Mil- lard ; Mr. Millard resigned on account of ill-health, and Harvey Ilead was appointed to fill vacancy; 1866, Eli Avery ; 1867, Eli C. Green ; Mr. Green resigned, and Samuel B. Rhodes was elected at a special meeting to fill vacancy ; 1868-70, Harvey Head; 1871-72, Martin L. Hungerford ; 1873-75, Harvey Head ; 1876-77, .William F. Mould; 1878, Harvey Head.

The remaining officers for 1878 are: Town Clerk, Rich- ard S. Giles; Justices of the Peace, George D. Campbell, Lysander Head, W. H. Barnett ; Assessor, Miller M. Gray; Overseers of the Poor, Samuel B. Rhodes, John B. Tomp- kins; Collector, Richard B. Lewis; Constables, Richard B. Lewis, Edwin Loomis, Hobart Osborne, William H. De Groff; Inspectors of Election, District No. 1, William E. Nichols, Charles C. Wicks; District No. 2, Charles H. Johnson, Charles H. Thomas; Town Auditors, Newell A. Johnson, Charles P. Mallory ; Commissioner of Excise, Godfrey W. Miller.

The following extract from the town records will be interesting as a relic of the days of human slavery in New York :

" PARIS, Sept. 1, 1808.

" This may certify that John Frank, a negro man lately owned by and the lawful property of Elijah Davis, we judge to be of ahout thirty-seven years of age, a man of health and capable of procuring a livelihood, and npprove of his manumission.

(Signed) " JOSEPH HOWAND, " JOEL BRISTOL, Overseers of Poor.

" MARTIN HAWLEY, Town Clerk."

At the annual town-meeting held in 1813, it was

" 14th, Resolved, That the meeting highly approve of the intredac- tion of vaccination of kine-pex by Dr. Sylvanus Fancho among the inhabitants of this town of Paris, and in order that the ndvantages of vaccination may be as extensive as possible the several practi- tioners of physick in this towa are hereby appointed a committee to superintend and promete and regulate the same, as to them may appear most beneficial to the inhabitants."

The summit of the Utica and Chenango Division of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad is very nearly on the town line between Paris and Marshall, and is 1014 feet higher than the station at Utica. The head-waters of the Sauquoit and Oriskany Creeks are here very near together. The highest hill in the county lies in the corner of the four towns, Paris, Bridgewater, Sangerfield, and Marshall; its summit; which is in Bridgewater, is 436 feet higher than Paris Hill, and nearly 2100 feet above the level of the sea. Starr's Hill, in Steuben, has long been considered the highest land in the county, but these figures (given us by different persons in Paris) would indicate differently.

This highest peak is known as " Tassel Hill," after a Dutchman named Van Tassel, who once lived upon it; and during the summer of 1877 a signal-station was established at its summit by the State Engineer Corps.

THIE EARLIEST SCHOOLS

in this town were undoubtedly established in the neighbor- hood of Paris Hill, where the first settlements were made,

and others were taught as necessity required at Clayville, Sanquoit, Cassville, and various other places. The schools at present are in good condition and a credit to the town.

RELIGIOUS SOCIETIES.

Paris Religious Society ( Congregational), Paris Hill .- This is the oldest religious organization in town, dating back to the year 1791, as appears in the following extraet from the church records :

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History of Oneida County, New York : with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers, Part 132

Author: Durant, Samuel W Publication date: 1878 Publisher: Philadelphia : Everts & Fariss Number of Pages: 920

Author: Durant, Samuel W
Publication date: 1878
Publisher: Philadelphia : Everts & Fariss
Number of Pages: 920