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Scotia, and sought a home in the new county, was John Patten, a native of Perthshire, who came to this county, and, upon his arrival, entered the employ of Judge Cooper. In 1810 he purchased land in Fly Creek valley. His family consisted of nine children. A daughter, Mrs. Janette Williams, now ocenpies the old homestead. David, a brother of Jolin Patten, settled in the town at the same time, and purchased lands at Pierstown, where he erected the first brewery in the county.
The elose of the Revolutionary war witnessed the arrival in this town of many brave soldiers who had participated in that sanguinary struggle, and who, during eight long and dreary years, had endured its hardships and sufferings. Prominent among this number was Abner Pier. In an encounter with the Indians during the war he was scalped and left in the woods to die. The savage, as he dashed into the forest, with the sealp of his supposed vietim dang- ling at his side, little thought him otherwise than dead. and had he visited the spot soon after, and witnessed the signs of returning consciousness, he doubtless would have eon- sidered it an intervention of the Great Spirit in behalf of the pale-face. Pier recovered from the shock, and subse- quently settled in the locality known as Pierstown. From him the place derived its name. Major George Pier, also a pioneer in this vieinity, was a soldier in the War of 1812. He was celebrated as a musician.
A prominent resident at Pierstown was Hon. Isaae Wil- liams, of houored memory, who settled in 1793. He oecu- pied a prominent position among the citizens of the county, and served in various official capacities. He was sheriff in 1810, and subsequently re-elected to that office. He was a member of congress iu 1813, 1817, and 1823. A son, Isaae K. Williams, resides in Cooperstown, and is foreman in the office of The Freeman's Journal,
Darius Warren emigrated from the land of " steady habits," and in 17SS Joeated in this town, and was the first person who received a deed of land from Judge William Cooper. He had a family of three sons and four daughters. The sons were Julius, Russell, and Cyrenus.
Julius died at the age of eighty years. Russell, now at the advanced age of eighty years, and Cyrenus at seventy- seven, are still residing on the original purchase. Russell has two sons and one daughter, aud Cyrenus one daughter, living in the vicinity.
The Stephens were also carly settlers in this neighbor- hood.
Jonah Sprague, a native of Rhode Island, came in 1791, and located on " Whipple Hill," where he remained a few years, and subsequently removed to a farm which he pur- chased of Ira Tanner in 1797. He married Esther, a daughter of Oliver Bates. He was a member of the 12th Regiment Artillery, New York State militia, in 1813. and served with the army near Sacket's Harbor. The regiment was commanded by Colonel Elijah H. Metcalf. Mr. Sprague remained on this farm until his death, which occurred in 1820. Mrs. Sprague died in 1850. Two sons are now living, viz., Jenks Sprague. M.D., a resident of Hastings, Minnesota, and Colonel Hezekiah B. Sprugne, of Upper Fly Creek valley, who now owns and occupies the farin where he was born in 1802.
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Oliver Bates was also an early settler in Upper Fly Creek valley; he located in 1793 on lands north of the Sprague farm. Rudolphus Elderkin is also mentioned as a pioncer in this vicinity; he located in 1790. Shelden Elderkin, a great-grandson, resides in the vicinity.
In company with Rudolphus Elderkin came William Lathrop, from Connecticut ; he owned a store, ashery, and distillery. A granddaughter now occupies a portion of the farm upon which he located. In those early days wild animals were in abundance, and the settlements were much · annoyed by the depredations of wolves and bears. Wolves were great cowards during the day, but in the night season made havoc upon the sheepfolds. Bruin was not considered dangerons to human life, but had a propensity for visiting the pig-pens; and woe to the unfortunate "porker" that came within his grasp. It is related of Mrs. Lathrop that she onee made a charge with a broomstick on a bear that was making it unpleasant for the pigs, and sueeeeded in driving him from his prey.
Nehemiah Fitch was also an early settler in this vicinity. On a portion of the farm now owned by Buckingham Fitch his grandfather, Stephen Fitch, was a pioneer.
The following are also mentioned as pioneers in this locality, viz. : William Hawkins, Aaron Bigelow, George Roberts, Sylvanus Lord, Othniel Strong, and Ira Tanner.
One of the first school-houses in the town, out of Coop- erstown, was built on the Sprague farm some time prior to 1790. The first teacher was Ephraim Skinner.
Jesse Teft and Samuel Westcott are remembered as early · carpenters. Dr. Bennett was a pioncer physician and school- teacher. A Revolutionary soldier named Silas Wells and one Sutherland were early settlers.
Among the honored representatives of "ye olden time" was Erastus Taylor, who emigrated to this town from Ben- nington, Vt., when there were only three log houses on the site of the present flourishing village of Cooperstown. He purchased a tract of land, embracing 500 acres, lying in Fly Creek valley, three and a half miles above the village. Ilis family consisted of four sons and two daughters. The longevity of the Taylor family is remarkable : Eleazer died aged eighty-seven years, and Daphne at the age of seventy-tlirce. The following are still living in the vicinity : Joanna, aged eighty-one; Alexander, aged seventy-six ; Amon, aged seventy-three; and Lester, aged seventy.
The healthful climate and fertile soil attracted others, and four years after the location of Erastus Taylor, his father, Thomas Taylor, came to the town, accompanied by his sons Thomas and Chester, and three daughters, Cynthia, Lucy, and Arena, and settled on the same traet purchased by Erastus. Thomas' family consisted of two sons and two daughters, whose descendants reside in the vicinity. Numerous descendants of Chester, Alexander T., Amon, Daphne (Mrs. Jarvis), and Elvazer are numbered among the prominent citizens of the town.
Norman and Bingham B.beoek, with their sister, Eliza, reside on the farm formerly occupied by their father aud grandfather. Martin Coates, an early settler, occupied the premises where his father located in an early day. On the uld homestead of Reuben Hinds lives a daughter of that pioneer, Mrs. Pickens.
A prominent settler in Upper Fly Creek valley was N .. hemiah Hinds, who located in 1816. Many of his de ..... ants are numbered among the influential citizens of the: town.
Among other old settlers in the valley are mentioned i! names of Josephi Sprague, Platt St. John and father. Andrew Scribner, Levi Pierce, and John McCulloch.
An cuterprising pioneer above Fly Creck village was John Badger, who in an early day had a trip-hammer and pail-factory, long sinee abandoned. He had two sons. Orestes and John R. Badger. A grandson is a merchant at Fly Creek village.
A useful man in this vicinity was John Rockwell, who eame to the village in an early day, and combined the trale of a goldsmith with farming and clock-making. Eliphalet Williams, a pioneer below Fly Creek village, operated a cloth- and carding-machine on Oaks creek, at what is now known as the stone mill.
On the present site of the butt-factory a wire manufae- tory was established in 1812, which did a profitable busi- ness until the close of the war. The tariff act was then repealed, and the wire-factory elosed. The building was subsequently changed to a paper-mill, and still later to a grist-mill. This was operated for a time and transformed to a twine-manufactory, and finally was destroyed by fire. The present building is of stone. Vine Welch was an early settler. He had two sons, Vine Jr., and Rensselaer.
Pioneers on the old " turnpike" were Isaae Russell, who located about one and one-half miles from Cooperstown, and Oliver Gardner, about two miles from Cooperstown. The former in addition to farming officiated as "gate-keeper" on the " turnpike." Isaae Loomis came in at an early date, and located near Oaksville. His original location was until recently in the possession of his deseendants.
The cotton-mill in Oaksville called the Otsego print- works was erected by Russell Williams in 1830.
From Litchfield, Conn., eame John Baldwin, in 1832, who located on a farm formerly owned by one Crafts. Mr. Baldwin died in 1861. A son, Leonard Baldwin, resides in the town.
John Wiley, Sr., an honored pioneer, came from Scho- dack, Albany county, in 1807, and settled near the Wiley sehool-house. A son, John Wiley, Jr., resides with his granddaughter near the original location.
Other settlers in this vicinity were Stephen Cronk. Jonathan Price, Asa Kenney, Edward Mervis, Summer Heeox, Levi Brockway, and Samuel Benjamin.
Daniel Roberts, a son of Deacon James Roberts, a pioneer of Burlington, was born in Burlington, and subse- quently moved into this town and settled on a farm near Oaksville. A son, Jonathan P. Roberts, now resides en lands located a short distance west of the old homestead.
As an illustration of early prices, it is related that where is now located some of the best farming lands in the town. 180 acres were leased by Jonathan Price, a pioneer from Rensselaer county, for less than fourteen cents per acre per annum. On the premises now owned by G. E. Beadle, about four miles distant from Cooperstown, Lis father, Homer Beadle, was an early settler.
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amt ex. of New England for an abode in the wilderness . . unuel Hartson, who emigrated from the " Granite w.a., and located in this town in 1798, then but seventeen +14 of age. U'pon arriving at the age of twenty-one, he ,.":d.and a farm at "Snowton Hill." A daughter, the . A: f William Kinney, now seventy-six years of age, marks on the old homestead. William Kinney, Jr., was Jurz in Burlington, in 1799, and removed to this town in : :: where he has since resided. A sturdy pioneer in the wine part of the town was William Kinney, Sr., who came I -. es ('onnectieut in about the year 1791. He was a wheel- ++ -.: , and learned the trade of Stephen Morse.
J.J. liah Peck, John Russell, Daniel, David, Abraham X and Aaron Marvin, were also early settlers.
j'att St. John was a pioncer. and his widow, with her podchildren, reside on the old homestead. A New Eng- a Jer named Richard Davidson, accompanied by his sons, 4-1 B. and Titus, was also a pioneer. Titus' widow wwwles on the old homestead with her son Lewis.
A veteran of the Revolution who early selected a home La this picturesque region was Jerry Carter. He was some- what distinguished among the pioneers as having been a water to General La Fayette. Some of the descendants of Charles Bailey, who came from England and early settled Lere, now occupy the old home. Deacon Sumner Turner's Esther was also a pioneer.
In the days of stage-coaches the various taverns along Ibe routes were institutions of great importance to the trav- dr. One of these primitive institutions, and the first on the old turnpike through this town, was kept by Levi Brock- way. Here many a weary traveler was chcered alike by levi's fireplace, venison, and whisky. The latter com- caality in those days was a common beverage, and served to cheer but not inebriate.
The first tavern in Oaksville was kept by John and James Roberts. Thos. Lewis, an old settler from Rhode I-land, is also remembered as the keeper of an inn on the turnpike between Burlington and Oaksville.
The first mill in the town was erected at Toddsville, by Samuel Tubbs, in 1790.
Tildsville derived its name from Jehiel Todd, who came from Connecticut in an early day and settled in that locality, and built the first paper-mill in this section of country. He had two sons,-Lequel and Ira.
The first grist- and saw-mill at Oaksville was built in 1397 by Geo. Johnson. An old building is now standing on the turnpike above Oaksville, which was used as a store sin about 1800 by one Drake. This building stands near The site of the Brockway tavern.
Many years after the building of the Great Western turnpike it was frequented by the Oneida Indians, who ¡ much time in their wigwams, located between Fly track and Cooperstown.
Among the earliest and most prominent settlers at Fly trak were the Cheneys, consisting of Ebenezer Cheney, of Y. pored memory, accompanied by his three sons, - William, J. - p.h, and Ebenezer. JJr. They were natives of Connecti- " !. The father and one son, William, were soldiers in the Revolutionary war. Joseph Cheney built a log house and tt me barn, and subsequently a farm-house, which he kept as
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an inn soon after the opening of the turnpike. As an instance of the estimation in which he was held, it is related that during the surveying of the line for the turnpike some dif- ferenees of opinion arose as to the proper location through this town, and Judge William Cooper, to whom the matter was referred, told them that they must make the road to accommodate Joseph Cheney, who had built a new house and was an enterprising man.
A son of Joseph Cheney, Colonel J. A. Cheney, resides on a portion of the old homestead at Fly Creek.
Stephen North, also a native of Connecticut, was a prom- inent settler in this vicinity. His sons, Albert, Linus, and Stephen, Jr., were leading citizens, and the founders of the Presbyterian church.
David Shipman, the " Leatherstocking" and " Deer- slayer" of J. Fenimore Cooper's novels, was a resident of this town, living in a log cabin on the cast bank of Oaks creek, about equi-distant between Toddsville and Fly Creek village. Aden Adams, of Cooperstown, aged eighty-one, states that he knew David Shipman well. He dressed in tanned deerskin, and with his dogs roamed the forest, hunt- ing decr, bears, and foxes. Cooper says that he went west, and there leaves him. Colonel Cheney, however, states that he returned to his old home and lived several years after- wards. His wife died, and was buried in wet ground. the water partially filling the grave. Elder Bostwiek, a Bap- tist minister from the town of Hartwick, officiated at the funeral, and upon remarking to Leatherstocking that it was a poor place to bury the dead, the old hunter answered, " I know it, and if I live to die, I expect to be buried there myself." He did " live to die," and was buried in the Adams cemetery, where he lies with no marble slab to mark his resting-place. " Leatherstocking" had one son, Samuel Ship- man, who reared a large family of sons and daughters .*
On Dec. 31, 1874, died Mrs. Sarah Clinton, in the nine- tieth year of her age. She and her husband, the late Simeon Clinton, were born at Fly Creek. Mrs. Clinton was a daughter of John Adams. Her sister, Dolly, mar- ried Samuel Wilson, who built the well-known white house near the west line of this town, which has ever since re- tained the name. They moved to Worthington, O., where they died. These families received their deeds from Judge William Cooper, and were the first to settle north of Tubb's mills, on the Oaks Creek valley, and eut the first road through on the east side of the creek. This was in the days of Judge Wm. Cooper, when his patent was a wilderite -s. Then bears, deer, wolves and other wild animals were a great terror to the inhabitants,-the wolves making ni_lt hideous with their demoniac howls.
Among other early settlers, remembered as leading citi- zens in the days gone by, were two brothers, Abraham and David Marvin, who came from Balston Spa, N. Y. They located on farins at Fly Creek village, and the former
# There seem to be conflicting statements in regard to " Leather- stocking." Calvin Graves, who has resided in Cooperstown > : " 1794, says that he knew Shipman, the " Leatherstocking" . fc ofet's novels, well, and that he was never married. He lived a rovin : .... his only companions being his dogs and gun. Mr. Graves o Des : ited the obl hunter's cave in company with him, and bas ing re. b. i here during eighty - four consecutive years, it would seem that is- statements were entitled to eredil.
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erected the first grist- and saw-mill above Tubbs', on Oaks creek. Warren and Stephen Babbitts, from New England, were early settlers, and some of their descendants reside in the town.
John Adams, a pioneer, located in Fly Creek valley in 1790. A descendant, Aden Adams, aged eighty-two years, resides in Cooperstown.
Other aetors in early-day scenes were Esek Bradford, Gideon Wood, Abraham Bliss, Colonel Eldredge, Timothy Sabin, Stephen Allen, Lieutenant Loomis, Zebulon Gibbs, Henry Garlick, J. Fisk, P. Gardner, and G. Herrington.
The Van Horns were also prominent and early settlers. Numerous descendants of the family are residents of the town.
In the early days, when " going to mill" meant a journey of fromn ten to fifty miles, and all wool used in the manu- facture of clothing was " carded" by hand, the erection of a grist- or carding-mill was an event of no small importance, and when the first carding-mill was built by Leander Plumb, near Oaksville. it was hailed with satisfaction, and rendered substantial benefit to the settlers. Plumb was also the first clothier in the town.
Benjamin and Michael Keyser settled in Fly Creek vil- lage in 1816. The latter served in the War of 1812, and was with the army at Plattsburg. In the year 1813 Clark Brow came to Fly Creek as a workman in the machine- shop of Jarvis & Todd. He built and operated the, first cotton machinery in this section of country.
Fly Creek and Oaksville are pleasant hamlets, the former located on Fiy creek, and the latter on Oaks creek.
At " Five-Mile Point" is located a delightful summer hotel, which was ereeted in 1850 by its present popular and gentlemanly proprietor, Mr. J. D. Tunnicliff. This is one of the most picturesque localities for which Otsego lake is celebrated, and has been rendered famous by the Ameri- can novelist, J. Fenimore Cooper. Near " Five-Mile Point" is the canon through which " Deerslayer" made his escape when pursued by the Hurons. The Hurons were whooping and leaping behind him. He saw, by the for- mation of the land, that a deep glen intervened before the base of a second hill could be reached. A fallen tree lay near him, in a line parallel to the glen at the brow of the hill. To leap on it took but a moment. Previous to dis- appearing from his pursuers, however, " Deerslayer" stood on the height and gave a cry of triumph, as if exulting at the sight of the descent that lay before him.
The Five-Mile point was the place selected by " Hetty" for landing, after her escape from the ark. The point in , question was the first projection that offered on that side of the lake where a canoe, if set adrift with a southerly air, would float clear of the land, and where it might be no great violation of probabilities to suppose it might even hit the castle. Such then was Hetty's intention, and she landed on the extremity of the gravelly point beneath an overhanging oak (" Deerslayer").
II. Gates Spafford, in 1510, says, " Otsego, a township, the capital of Otsego County, with a post-office called Cooperstown, is situated at the head of the Susquehanna river, sixty-six miles from. Albany, and twenty-eight miles from Utica, bounded north by Herkimer county, east by
Otsego lake or Springfield and Middlefield, south by Hurt wick, west by Richfield, Exeter and Burlington. It- ex- tent, north and south, eleven miles, with a medial width of five miles. In the northwest corner is Canaderaga or Schuyler's lake, which discharges Oaks' creek centrally across the town to the head of the Susquehanna, just below its origin in Otsego lake. This is a fine stream for mills. and there are superior advantages also for waterworks at the outlet of Otsego lake, which is in the southeast corner of this town at the village of Otsego or Cooperstown. The surface is considerably diversified with hills and valley-, but the lands are arable, or fit for meadow or grazing, and are well cultivated. There are in all three houses of wor- ship, two of which are in Cooperstown, and fourteen or fifteen school-houses. There are eight grain-mills, eight saw-mills, three fulling-mills, three carding-machines, an oil mill, paper-mill, and two nail-factories."
The Hope cotton-mill, located in this town, was built in about the year 1815. It is now owned by Mrs. Jane A. Carter, of Cooperstown.
CIVIL HISTORY.
The following is a list of the supervisors from 1804 to 1878, and town clerks from 1825 to 1878. The first rec- ords of this town were burned a number of years since, and we are unable to give the names of clerks prior to 1825. The list of supervisors for that period was taken from records in the office of the county clerk :
Supervisors.
Town Clerks.
1804
Elijah H. Metcalf.
1805.
1806.
66
1807
66
1808
66
1809
Robert Campbell.
1810
1811
1812
Oliver Cory.
1813
1814
16
1815
1816.
1817
1818
A. Metcalf.
1819
1820
William Sprague.
1821
1822
1823
1824
Samuel Starkweather.
1825
George Morell.
Geo. Pomeroy.
1826
1827
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1828
1829
44
4
1830
1831
1832
Orestes Balger.
1833
Elihu Phinney.
16
1831
1835 ..
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1837
1838
46
1839
1$10
John Hannay.
1841
.Geo. A. Starkweather.
Hiram S. Babcock.
1812
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1813
1811
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46
1816
1817
Elisha Doubleday. Seth Doubleday. ..
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16
1-19
Henry Phinney.
1-50 George Jarvis.
Lewis M. Doubleday. .. ..
Lewis R. Palmer.
1.852
Richard A. Lesicy.
E. D. Persons.
1853 E. P. Byraul.
16
Henry P. Meteall. ..
Geo. Jarvis.
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Photo. by W. G. Smith, Cooperstown.
RUSSELL WARREN.
. Russell Warren was born Jan. 21, 1797, in the town theo, Otsego Co., N. Y., the sixth child of Darius and Mary Warren. The father and mother were natives of "' unecticut, and were married Dee. 26, 1782. They had wirn children, four daughters and three sons, as follows : 17 .: lothe, born May 5, 1784, wife of Edmund Pearsall ; Juliny, born June 28, 1786. a sketch of whose life and por- trait appear on another page of this work ; Charlotte, born It: 31, 1788, died Oet. 1. 1873; Lydia, born March 28, 1221, wife of Anson Fuller, died July, 1854; Lucretia, !. in April 23, 1793, widow of William Johnson, still wing in the town of Otsego. near " Leather-Stocking Falls ;" Kawell, subject of this sketch ; Cyrenus, born Aug. 9, 1 .w. a farmer, also living in Otsego. The family moved fr in Old Lebanon, Conn., to New Lebanon, N. Y., and from 13 .. re ( March, 1787) to the town of Otsego, and settled on ~ firm still owned and occupied by the subject of this n.t.h .- the third family in the neighborhood.
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Russell Warren was married Oet. 17, 1826, to Sophia Is Cook, daughter of Joseph and Abigail Cook. She was . m April 1, 1797. Two children were the result of this marriage, viz., one still-born, and Joseph, born Nov. 28, 1 . : 4. married to Laura Miller. They had two children, a * o) atyl daughter, Russell and Sophia. Mr. Warren's first » liel Dec. 4, 1829. He married. April 10, 1831, Mary Ann Calkins, by whom he had two children, viz., Mia, born March 20, 1532; Freeman C .. born Nov. 10, 1. 33, married to Esther Sabey, and died Jan. 28, 1877. il., wound wife died Dec. 31, 1835.
For his third wife he married Jane Calkins, sister to his moved wife, Nov. 21, 1836, who was born Aug. 12, 1810.
Six children was the result of this marriage, viz., Merey Jane, born Jan. 12, 1838, living with her father ; Mary Elizabeth, born April 27, 1840, died Feb. 20, 1842; Sarah Adelaide, born Oet. 24, 1841, died Nov. 21, 1849 ; Susan, born Aug. 20, 1845, died Sept. 18, 1845; Willard C., born Sept. 19, 1847, married to Harriet Williams; Ade- laide is their only child ; they reside on the first spot occu- pied by their grandparents ; Charles Herbert, born Dee. 5, 1850, died Jan. 7, 1864.
Mr. Warren's third wife died March 3, 1853. August 8, 1854, he married Maria Cook, sister to his first wife. by whom he had no children. She died July 29, 1871. Mr. Warren has devoted his whole life to farming. In politics he is Republican, though he has never been diverted frou his chosen pursuit by the attractions of public life. At an early day he drew a quarter ticket in the State lottery, from which he realized (87500) seven thousand five hundred dollars. At that time it was a large amount of ready money to come into the possession of a farmer. But, unlike most others who become possessed of sudden wealth, Mr. Warren made good use of the money.
By honorable dealing and strict attention to business, he has accumulated a handsome property, and has always been looked upon as one of the substantial men of his township. Though in his eighty-second year, and en- frebled by old age, his memory is clear, and few have kept better " posted up" in all matters relating to his town and county. He has always refrained from the use of strong drink or profane language. Ile has always enjoyed the confidence of his neighbors, and the love and respect of all who have known him.
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