History of Ontario Co., New York, Part 98

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1874. The farm of C. F. V. Barber, on Ball Hill, was first possessed by Wil- . liam Burns, then by Julius Bigelow, Chauncey Northrup, and John C. Kinney. About 1825, Bigelow erected a distillery in the gully where Lyman Hitchcock later had an ashery. William Sullivan, reported a distant relative to General Sullivan, came to Canadice in February, 1812, and the farm he occupied is known by his name. He died in 1843, leaving eleven children. One only survives, William, aged eighty-siz, and a resident in town.


Deacon Benoni Hogans, in 1812, came into Canadice and built a humble man- sion, ten feet square, in the brush then growing on the farm now owned by Caleb B. Hyde. Two sons, Hiram and Samuel, came at the same time. They sold to Samuel B. Finch, who in a year sold to William Milligan, who disposed of the place in February, 1824, to James Hyde, whose first payments on the land were taken to Geneva on foot, and the last payment was marked by a ride. He hired of Charles Ellis, living on the farm of O. F. Ray, an old mare, the only animal of the horse kind he could procure in the neighborhood. The vehicle in which he rode was a "jumper," made of green poles bent in position, with chain traces and rope lines. Hyde's cabin was fourteen by sixteen feet in dimensions, and had no windows. Four acres were cleared of the one hundred and thirty-five com- posing the farm.


When the road was cut through a " bee" was made, and on that occasion two bear cubs were taken from a hollow tree, the last bears caught in town.


The farm of widow Andruss was first known as a home by Amos Thornton, in 1813. His cabin was burned accidentally, and he sold to William Brown, of Phelps. He and his brother-in-law, Goddard, engaged in the manufacture of potash. Brown gained the name of " Thresher Brown" by traveling on foot to the farm of Shepard Macomber, threshing twenty bushels of wheat with a flail, and reaching home the same day. It was later occupied by Ira Ambrose and George C. Spencer, who sold to Judge Andruss, by whom it was deeded to his son George, who died, leaving it to its present owner. The judge was supervisor in 1851, a justice for years, and died in town. George Andruss was supervisor from 1866 to 1869, and also a justice for a long period. The first settler where Isaac P. Wright lives was one Hyller. A shanty and a patch of ground two to three acres in extent comprised his improvements for the two years of his sojourn. In January, 1816, he gave way to Shadrach Ward, who built a double-log house on the Shank farm, and in 1819 began to keep tavern, a business followed by him for fifteen years. He ran an ashery for a time, and sold to his son William. Owners of the farm were George I. Brown, John Ogden, and Henry Ogden. Nancy Ward, daughter of Shadrack, married Timothy Eaton, who, in 1823, brought the first spring wagon into town from New Hampshire. S. B. Finch and James Bemis were original settlers on the C. A. Coykendall farm. Finch speedily sold to Jus- tice Waldo. Bemis was a blacksmith, and had a shop east of the road. He cleared all the land now cultivated. He sold in 1833 to H. W. Pulver. . Waldo (an early justice) also sold to Pulver, who died on the place. Henry Armstrong, a soldier of 1776, lived one year on the farm of George W. Owen. John Wing followed him and kept tavern there. M. Coykendall, S. Higgins, E. Bailey, W. Winfield, and H. Waite were his successors. The old Kelly farm, near the head of Honeoye lake, was first settled by John Kelly in 1813. He was a Canadian, but acted with the Americans as their spy. He went in a farmer's garb, bridle in hand, but being finally detected made a hairbreadth escape to our lines, and, coming to Hunt's Hollow, located on this farm. He had twelve children. A daughter Catharine, widow of Gideon Sullivan, resides in the town.


Samuel and Dinah Story were the first colored persons resident of the town. They settled on the place owned by James Kelly, and remained a number of years. Daniel Knowles, second son of Springwater's first settler, took up the farm owned by H. H. Hickok, and lived there till his death. . His widow, in 1826, married Abner Goodrich, who kept tavern for a time, and sold in 1827 to J. Wells, he to S. Macomber, and he to Nancy Johnson, who, in 1876, deoded to the present occupant. Peter Welch, in 1813, took up his abode on Ball Hill, and died there. A son, Daniel, is living in the town. Joseph Wemett, of Canada, in 1821 bought of Peter Welch, and his life earned for him a good name. The pioneers upon the farm of Lorenzo Ingraham were Hiram and Samuel Hogans ; a pile of stones marks the site of their cabin. They sold to John Green, who, with Lamb, his father-in-law, put up the old log house now standing on the north part of the farm. They sold to Daniel Draper, who, in 1825, sold to Andrew Ingraham, who died in 1855. (Hunt's Hollow was, in an early day, a stronghold of Methodism.)


In the year 1813, Reuben Mann, and Humphrey, George, and James Adams, three brothers from Syracuse, came into the valley at the head of Canadice lake and took up farms. Mann took up lot 19, on the Waite farm, H. Adams the central portion of Daniel Knowles' farm, and the other brothers lot 16. Jona- than Chaplin built a log house on the south part of lot 11, and cleared about twenty acres. He sold, in 1827, to Abram Wiley, who gave it to his daughter,


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the wife of Josiah Jackman. H. Adams sold to S. Bashford, who died on the place. Mrs. Bashford and her sons, John and Samuel, lived there until 1827, when sale was made to Samuel Skellenger, who dying on the place, bis heirs dis- posed of the farm to Thomas Reynolds. The south part of the farm was selected in an early day by Hiram Pitts for services as a surveyor of the " Hornby Tract," and was first occupied by Elijah Parker. James Adams lived on the south part of the farm until about 1822, when he sold to Simon Pemberton, a mulatto, whose wife was an Indian. William Clare bought him out in 1825, and eight years later sold to Josiah Jackman.


Reuben Mann set out a bed of tansy as a provision for the future, and his fore- thought was not vainly exercised. Whisky and tansy were soon in requisition as a remedy for the " shakes." He sold, in 1822, to Jacob Cannon, and went to Indiana. Thomas Peabody, in 1818, underbrushed eight acres on the bottom, for Mann, for a smooth-bore gun. Cannon, in 1823, made the first brick in town. After making some fifteen thousand he was taken sick, and hired Peabody to burn them. The next season the two ran an extensive kiln. J. Wicks made brick at the same place for two years after Cannon had sold out. B. G. Waite succeeded Cannon upon the place, whereon he died in 1861. When he came to town he drove a span of horses, and in his wagon carried four hundred dollars in silver, which lay at the bottom of an old box partially filled with iron, and without. a cover. A son of Mr. Waite, Edwin G., lives in California, has been in both houses of that State's Legislature, and is now the naval officer at the port of San Francisco. The eastern half of the Waite farm was first taken up by Asa Bush- nell, in 1815. Two log houses once stood there, one just south of the gully be- low the road, the other north of the woods in the south part of the lot. Abram M'Kee, Ralph Stanwood, Robert Baldwin, and Green Waite occupied them at an early date. Mr. Waite, or " Uncle Green," brother to Benjamin, had a large family. It is related that he sought the company of Wm. S. Gilbert at times when downcast by the thoughts of a heavy debt and the support of a family, most of whom were girls. The cloud was lifting, when Gilbert, one day meet- ing him, remarked, " Well, uncle, how goes the matter now ?" "Better,". was the reply ; " I am getting out of debt, and my girls are marrying off, besides." " How many have you at home now, uncle ?" " Only fourteen," was the answer.


During 1814, eleven families were added to the population. Early in spring Ebenezer Knapp settled on the Harris farm, and his brother Samuel took the Wheatley place. Heber Harris soon bought out Ebenezer, and dying, was suo- ceeded by Alba Harris, his son, who is the pioncer visitor of the town. The farm of Amass T. Winch was the temporary home of James Seeley, a man in poor cir- cumstances. He sold to Robert Smith, and returned east. Isaiah Smith, father of Robert, lived with him. Humphrey Bump, the next owner, sold, in 1836, to John Whittaker, who died there. A. W. Austin and W. Marrett .were other owners. Upon the non-resident lands of Ray and Peabody, in the southern part of the town, the first settlers were Jedediah Howland and Eli Darling. Howland soon left. He had two sons, Samuel and Labin ; the former was drafted in 1812, and the latter, taking his place, was killed in battle just three weeks after his de- parture. Dr. Williams and John Reeves were residents of the farm in an early day. Upon the lands of Peabody Jabez Hicks was an early settler. James Bur- nett built a house on the farm of Gabriel Adams, on the shore of Canadice lake. His wife died, and he sold, in 1815, to Jabez Ward, who bought the Amos Dixon property, below the lake, and, in 1817, exchanged it for young cattle. During the following winter he cleared most of the land between Adams' place and the lower road to browse his stock. He sold to Isaac Westbrook, from New Jersey, in 1834. Westbrook died, and his heirs sold to Josiah Jackman, and he to the present owner. Charles Hyde made improvements on the Bullock farm, and sold to Daniel Morley, who was killed by the falling of a limb while chopping, 1828. He sold sixty acres to F. Cratsley in 1824. His widow, in 1834, sold to John Morgan, who resided there till 1858. Benjamin Crane and Patrick Costello are ' now owners of the farm. Amos Jones built a saw-mill at the foot of Canadice lake, and westward of the present mill erected a small cabin, where he boarded the mill hands. Duncan Christie bought out Jones, and on the cabin site built a comfortable house. Owen Peusel is the present owner. John Bowen built a house on the farm of A. B. Becker ; sold to Esra Spencer, who exchanged with his brother. He devised to L. D. Beers, who exchanged for Springwater lands. The farm of A. C .. Brown was first settled by Rufus Garey. Daniel Honeywell built another house near the road. Mrs. Garey was a fortune-teller, and her house was a favorite resort of the many who resorted to Ball Hill for the huckleberries which abounded there in that day in their season. On the farm of Shepard Ma- comber a temporary cabin was built by Alden Whelock. Benjamin Jersey was an early settler there, but of short sojourn. Andrew Wemett lived there in 1821. Schuyler Granger died there. His heirs sold to Henry W. Pulver.


In 1815, Benjamin, Peter, and Philip Snyder came to Ball Hill. The first took the Remy place, Peter the Whitbeck farm, and Philip the east portion of the


lands of the brothers Orlando G. and Andrew Brown. The west part of their farm had been taken the year before by Jonathan Waters, from Sheffield, Massachusetts. Waters, while living there, lost a son, Willis, by drowning in Hemlock lake, and his wife, in an insane fit, literally roasted herself in the fire. Waters sold to Amos Dixon, and, with his children, went to Michigan. Philip Snyder sold to D. Adams in 1838, and from him title descended to Ira Merrills and Jairus Cole- grove, who sold to the brothers named. Benjamin Snyder sold to E. Macomber and H. Green. J. Davidson, S. Phipps, S. R. Hickok, and J. Dewey were suc- cessive owners prior to John Remy, the present possessor. Peter Snyder and Captain Granby, a sea-captain in the war of 1812, were almost simultaneous set- tlers on this farm. The captain soon died. Snyder sold to John Chamberlin, he to I. W. Mitchell, and Hart and Murray, Isaac Gifford, and Jacob Whitbeck ; and so has begun a list to be much lengthened ere 1976 has completed another cen- tury. Passing to the northeast portion of the town, we find the farm of D. W. Beam. Alvin Anderson moved into a log house found untenanted, and laid claim to the north fifty acres. In 1818, John Ray, Sr., took the south portion of the farm. Ray sold to Anderson, who lived on the farm till 1838, when he sold to Nathan N. Herrick, who, in 1844, sold to A. B. Heaslett, who disposed of the property to Levi Persons, and he to the present owner.


The Faulkner farm was settled by Elisha Pryor. The next year Silas Reynolds, Sr., became owner, and sold to a man named Youngs, who died there. R. Ham- ilton and Wilds were residents upon the place years afterwards. Reynolds was a Methodist minister by profession, a shoemaker by trade, and knew many temporary homes in the town, wherein he finally died. In 1815, Eber Weed, from Geneva, purchased and occupied the farm on which William M. Wilson has lived for many years. The old barn built by Weed was the second framed one in town. He sold previous to 1829 to Jonas Skinner, and he, in 1834, to A. Wiley. The farms of William Richardson, Firman Thompson (north part), and the lot of William Ward once belonged to this farm. Matthew Standish, in 1822, built the present house on the Ward lot, sold to Deacon Isaac Merwin in 1824, and he to Wiley in 1834. Since then Bethuel Davis, Sylvester Evens, and Jonas Quick were owners; after them the Wards became possessors. Abel Eastman, in 1820, built a log house on the Richardson portion. M. Standish sold to Wiley, he to Borden, then from Wilson to the present owner. Abram Wiley sold the Wilson portion to I. S. Borden, and he to William M. Wilson, who deeded to his danghter, the wife of Chester Richardson. The first cabin on the lands of Luke Johnson was put up in 1815 by John Badgro. In 1823, Abram D. Patterson, of New Hamp- shire, built a log house on the farm, and in 1835 went to Michigan. Daniel Peabody, from Manlius, built another on the south line, and went west in 1835. The present possessor came into ownership in 1840 of some ninety acres, and by purchase has become owner of two hundred and fifty acres. In 1815, Joshua Herrick settled on the farm once owned by B. G. Waite. Four years later, he sold his interest to Reuben Gilbert. David Phillips lived here, and then Ephraim Tucker. In 1835 the present house was built, and Levi Walling was the first occupant; after him were Nelson Waite, Samuel Darling, Thomas Waite, and lastly, the Tuckers.


David Badgro, on leaving the Grout place in 1816, built upon the site of the house in which Caroline Tucker resides. Jerome. Tucker resided there afterwards. Elijah Goodrich in 1828 built on the premises on the Hemlock lake road, and resided there many years. Ephraim Tucker had siz sons and two daughters. Benjamin and Minerva are living in town. Ephraim once bought of a Spring- water tanner a pair of cow-hide boots, and took a morning walk through a heavy dew to break them. Thoroughly wet, and travel became difficult. Tucker sat down on a log, took off his boots, examined them carefully, and said, with a sigh, " Green enough to do a good spring's work." In 1816, Robert Collister settled on the north place, belonging to Charles P. Wemett. The farm was obtained by I. Chamberlin, who kept tavern for a time, and then sold to Amos Dixon, he to Daniel Perry, and later became the property of the present incumbent. During the same year John Simmons built on the Joel Coykendall farm. In 1824, A. Severance became owner, then Seth Benson, and, in 1831, the present owner. The red house standing west of the road was erected by Ford and Severance on the corner of the Hoagland farm, and variously moved till reaching its present station. In this building was kept the first store in town. Artemus Severance and John Winch were at Plattsburg shortly after the battle there, peddling boots and shoes. One Chapman was first on the Slout furm ; T. Jones, of Richmond, next; then Nathan Beers and Levi Simons, who ran a distillery, and introduced the first fanning-mill into town. Barnard and Rockafellow made potash here. The former kept tavern several years at this place. J. Robinson, D. Snook, J. S. Almy, and J. Howard were predecessors of Nancy Stout upon the place.


Isaiah Smith and his son Robert built upon the farm of William Ganung ; here Robert's father-in-law, Becraft, lived till the place was sold to John Shank, who sold to Brown in 1836. John Ogden, the next owner, sold a few sores to Aca


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Lucas, to enable him to reach the road, and disposed of the farm to Aiken Stark, and he sold to the present owner. The north barn was built by subscription, for mutual accommodation, by the neighbors. Joseph Lobdell and Jesse Stuart were original settlers on the farm of Clark Riz. When Jesse Stuart came to Ball Hill he bought ten bushels of wheat of Seth Knowles, at two dollars and a half per bushel. He paid ten dollars down, worked ten days in harvesting, and threshed wheat in the fall for every tenth bushel ; earning twelve bushels of wheat, and three-fourths of a bushel of timothy seed, which he paid Seth, and was still a debtor. The remainder was thrown in. Upon the farm of John Struble, Thomas Johnson was the pio- neer settler. Amos Peck occupied a house for a year or so on the southeast cor- ner of the farm. In 1833, George Struble came into possession of the place. William Osborn had previously lived upon the farm. The same year, Jenks Bag- ley, from Phelps, made his home near the south branch of the gully in the east part of Henry Thorpe's farm. The place was desolate and unfit for habitation, yet B. Robinson, following him, lived there four years. Henry Carlton, from Rush, built a house near the present one. Various persons have owned the place.


In 1827, George Adams lived upon what is now part of this farm. He was followed after some years by Thomas Hallett. Maurice Brown, an owner of the farm, has been a supervisor, a justice, and is a lawyer resident in Springwater. Jabez Northrup, with a family numbering thirteen, settled on the farm now occu- pied by Stephen Miller. Northrup was a carpenter, and erected a frame house; it .was better and larger than those of his neighbors. Here he lived till 1837, when he died, aged seventy-four years. Before his death, his children, once eleven in number, had so settled about him that the conch-shell could call all the living to their dinner. The family not only cleared the homestead, but three hundred aores in the neighborhood. Anderson Northrup, Dr. Campbell, J. Hewett, MoCrossen and Colgrove, were successive owners. Enoch Macumber, in 1816, took up a part of the farm sold last year by his son Cyrus to Joel Bailey in 1875. Orange Porter was the first settler on the Asa Dalrymple and Alva Caskey farms. After eight years' experience, he sold and went west.


In 1829, Adam Struble became owner, and so remained a quarter of a century ; then sold to W. G. Hoppough, and he to Zelotus Coykendall. L. G. Wordon settled on the farm of F. D. Hoppough. After the lapse of three years, he sold to Jonathan Fox, who ran an ashery for a time, and then sold to E. A. Pond, who was the first town clerk. P. Sprowles resided here two years; sold to Chas. Hyde, Sr. In the year in question, Dr. Joseph Smith built a cabin on the D. S. Beam place. Later owners were James Thatcher, Palmer Roseman, B. Haines, Halsey Whittaker, and J. B. Sayre. Jabez Darling settled the Peter C. Swarts farm. At the expiration of a year, Reuben Huff bought him out. Then came Silas Reynolds, Horace Winfield, Albert MoIntyre, Floyd Richards, and Joseph Winfield. The first school-house in that district was situated on the " Middle road," near the north line of the farm. The south farm was first occupied by a cabin built by David Armstrong ; here William Jenkins afterwards lived. A single man, named Montgomery, began a chopping on the Asa Hartson farm ; while cutting down a large oak-tree one day, a knot falling fractured his skull. He was taken to William Brown's on the Andrus farm and trepanned, but died within a few days. Peter Walling, town clerk for several years, lived on this farm. Eber Woed lived on this farm ten years ; then, selling out, went to Jeru- salem. Specifications and drawings were prepared by Reuben Hamilton for Eber, and a petition was made to our Legislature for assistance to enable him to test the practicability of propelling boats on the Erie canal by steam ; he was possibly one of the first to move in that direction. Superstition was not extinct, since the wife of Eber was accredited to have supernatural power. It is said that at the funeral of Samuel Bashford, on the Knowles farm, a horse shoe nailed over the front door denied her entrance to the house.


In 1815, Ephraim Tucker and Nathaniel Bearmore settled on the farm of Coo H. Coykendall. Justus Davis also took up a portion of the farm, the south half of which is now owned by H. H. Hickox. Andrew Hampton, in 1819, bought of Tucker and sold to J. Chamberlain, and he in 1833 to Jotham Coykendall, and he to the present owner. The place owned by J. Barney was taken by Jonas Quick. The first house on the David Hoppough farm was built by Sisson. Ben- jamin Conklin, son of Abram, built the first house on the Allen Huff farm, in 1816. Andrew Beckworth, in 1816, was the first owner as a settler on the farm of Hiram Colegrove. He sold to Harley White. Daniel Beardsley, in 1818, was the first settler on the place now owned by Lewis Riz. The earliest owners of the John Pursel farm were, in 1816, Abesther Phillips and Ass Farrer. The farma of A. W. Doolittle were taken up in 1819 by the brothers James and Henry Hewitt. The first settler on the east portion of the John P. Lucas farm was a man named Feto, and on the west part lived Van Autrick. James Hamp- ton, the first settler on the Henry Slingerland farm, came from Scipio in 1820. A man named Arnold settled, in 1820, on the farm of Henry Doolittle. About 1837, the Frisbie brothers built a saw-mill in the gully ; they sold in 1838 to


Brown and Mills, Brown to Mills, Mills to Clark, he to Doolittle, and he to Jonathan Ferbusb. It burned down, but no insurance was paid. The high- way from Springwater town line to the landing at the head of Hemlock lake was surveyed May 6, 1815, but the fear of miasmatic disease retarded settlement till 1828. Deacon Adams came from New Hampshire, in 1820, to the farm of Wm. S. Doolittle. On the morning of August 31, 1829, his house was struck by lightning. Three daughters occupied the same bed. One was killed instantly, one lived five days, while the third, lying between the others, was not injured.


THE CHURCH HISTORY OF CANADICE.


The first resident of the town to make profession of religion was Rev. Ebeneser Ingraham, who preached the first sermon in the little log school-house that stood near the elm tree, on the farm of Thomas H. Costello. This was in 1809. The next school-house in that district was near the burying-ground. There, in Jan- uary, 1812, Elder Abijah Wright held a revival, the first in town. In the sum- mer following he baptized the wife of Pitts Walker in a pond made in the outlet, above the log bridge that spanned the stream at the present highway. This was the second baptism in town, the first having been that of Albert Finch, by Elder Ketchum. The elder was from Bristol, and preached during the summer in the log school-house on the Nutt farm. Other early ministers were Caleb Briggs, of Richmond; Warren Dey of the same town ; Jehiel Spicer, Ira Spencer, Silas Reynolds, Isaac Sergeant, Bartlett Clark, Uriel Spencer, Elder Walker, Andrew Ingraham, James Cahoon, Archelius Maker, Homer Blake, Daniel Peabody, Wil- liam Smith, Sylvester Evens, Cyrus Pitts, James Sterling, Elder Hadley, and Benjamin Blake. . These were residents for various periods, and preached more or less as occasion served, besides those on the circuit or sent by conferences.


The PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH of Pittstown, afterwards Richmond, was organ- ised in 1801, and a branch was formed in Canadice in 1828. It was enrolled as a church, in care of the presbytery of Ontario, August 25, 1829, and was denom- inatod the church of South Richmond, or " Richmond Second Church." In 1832 it took the name of Canadice. It was reported yearly as vacant, its organization was transient, and its numbers were not named. No meeting-house was ever erected. Meetings were held in the Doolittle school-house. It gradually declined. Most of the members moved to Ohio, some joined the Methodist Episcopal church, until it became so reduced as to be dissolved January 15, 1839. It was organ- ised by Elder Day, who preached to the society on alternate Sundays, until Elder James Cahoon came to town. William Chamberlin was its deacon. The only members recalled were W. Chamberlin and wife, and two sons, John Becker and Thomas Doolittle, and their wives.


A CLOSE. COMMUNION BAPTIST CHURCH was formed by Elder Caleb Briggs, of Richmond, at the Kimball school-house, on April 12, 1834, the preliminary meeting having been held on March 1 preceding. The persons who composed the church when formed were James Hyde, Ezra Smith, Daniel Pursel, Robert Armstrong, and their wives, John and Edmund Parsel, Elias Welch and Ar- nold Green. It was called the " Regular Baptist Church of Canadice." Mem- bers were added from time to time, until it numbered thirty-nine. On the last Thursday of May, 1835, it was resolved by a council composed of Justin Hudnot and Smith, of Lakeville; Clark and Donaldson, of Nunda; Sabin, Phillips, and Wolcott, of Bristol; Adams and Sutherland, of Richmond; and Elder Briggs, Benjamin and Josiah Fuller, of this church, to " Fellowship this church as a Church of Christ in gospel order." It was taken into the Geneseo River association on June 27, 1835, and into the Livingston County association on June 24, 1848. Its last regular meeting was in September, 1849, when it reported nineteen members in good standing. Elder Briggs was the pastor for a number of years. Regular meetings were maintained during its existence, except in the months of January and February, 1839, when the snow-drifts made roads im- passable. Its first baptisms were Charles and Charlotte Ellis, on June 11, 1834. John Pursel was the first and only deacon; he now resides in Springwater. The only living members are John Parsel and Almira, his wife, John MoCromsen and Rachel, his wife, and Lucy Kingsley (Ingraham).




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