History of Saratoga County, New York, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers., Part 104

Author: Sylvester, Nathaniel Bartlett, 1825-1894
Publication date: 1878
Publisher: Philadelphia, Everts & Ensign
Number of Pages: 780

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The following is a list of the elders of the society since its organization : William S. Young, Orlando Barnes, Wil- liam Farquhar, Cleaves K. Hutchinson, William Parker, Isaac Noyes, Jr., and David HI. Yates. The present session is composed of Rev. George S. Bell, pastor, and Elders Isaac Noyes, Jr., William Parker, and David HI. Yates.

ST. JOHN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH, CONKLINGVILLE.

Late in the fall of the year 1868, in response to the re- quest of several individuals, the Rev. C. T. V. Eastman, rector of the Church of the Redeemer, Northampton, Ful-

PHOTO DY PH MCKERNON. ·SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY

J. J. WAIT.

J. J. Wait was born in Saratoga County, N. Y., February 18, 1811. His ancestors were among the early settlers of the county, and met the obstacles of a pioneer life with that resolution and self-sacrifice characteristic of the offspring. He spent his minority, and until he was twenty-four years of age, on the farm with his father, receiving very limited oppor- tunities for any education from books. In the year 1835 he married Miss Louisa, daughter of Jeremiah Baker, and about that time struck out into the busy world for himself; he engaged in the construction of mills and lumbering, which business his father had previously carried on quite largely in connection with his farming. In this business he successfully continued for some thirty-four years. His

health became somewhat impaired by over taxation of body, and for the past two years-to 1878-he has been occupied as a farmer about two miles from Luzerne, Warren county, N. Y.

He has spent a life of active business, been known as a man of strict integrity of purpose, and strong resolution to do whatever he conceived to be right. His wife dying, he married for his second wife Mrs. Bovard, widow of the late John Bovard, by whom he had three children, Effie, Henry R., and Lena, all of whom are living.

Mr. Wait is unostentatious in his ways, and, by his social and courteous address, wins to himself as friends all with whom he comes in contact.

RESIDENCE OF J. J. WAIT, HADLEY, SARATOCA CO.,N. Y.

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ton Co., N. Y., came to Conklingville for the purpose of or- ganizing an Episcopal church. The meeting was held in the Presbyterian church, was well attended, and the society was successfully organized with twenty-four members. Among them appear the names of Thomas and Ann Gil- lespie, Samuel and Auna Kinnear, James and Mary Par- ker, William W. and Eliza A. Foulks, Joseph and Mary J. Ross, Edward and Susan Godsell, John and Aun Hall, Elizabeth MeConhie, John, James, and Edward Keagan, Thomas Jones, and Thomas Evans. The first officers of the church were Thomas Gillespie and Samnel Kinnear, war- dens ; James Parker, John Hall, Sr., Thomas Evans, and William W. Foulks, vestrymen ; Joseph Ross, treasurer. Rev. C. T. V. Eastman continued to hold services in the Presbyterian church and in the school house for about a year. Benjamin Webb then became rector, and continued in that capacity till 1871. He was followed by Rev. Jo- sephi Ritchie, who conducted services for but a few weeks, and was in turn followed by Rev. Mr. Moran, who served about three months. The church was then without a rec- tor for about four years. Services were, however, held during the summer seasons of 1872 and 1873 by Rev. Montgomery Hooper, who passed the summers in this lo- eality. June 24, 1876, Rev. Anson J. Brockway entered upon the rectorship, and continues to hold that relation to the church at present. He resides at Luzerne, Warren Co., and has charge of a,church there also.

The church edifice, which is a neat, yet plain structure, twenty-two by fifty-five feet, with a vestry eight by sixteen feet, was built during the fall of 1870 and the winter fol- lowing. It was finished off in the spring of 1871. The ceremony of laying the corner-stone occurred on the 17th of September, 1870. The Rt. Rev. William Crosswell Doane, S.T.D., bishop of the diocese of Albany, performed the ceremony, which was witnessed by a large concourse of people. The church was the result of the efforts of poor men dependent upon day labor for the means of providing food for themselves and their families, as well as for the means to build churches. The hard times came on, wages were reduced, and the members of the church have found it impossible to fully pay all the obligations incurred by the erection of the building. As a consequence, the church has not yet been formally dedicated. The cost of the building and site was about $2400. It is pleasantly situated near the Sacandaga river, in the castern end of the village. At present the number of members is about twenty-five. The present officers of the church are Thomas Gillespie and John Keagan, wardens; James Gillespie, John Parker, James Davison, David York, vestrymen ; Joseph Ross, treasurer ; James Keagan, clerk of vestry ; William Cameron, collector. Rev. Benjamin Webb or- ganized a Sabbath-school in connection with this church in the year 1870, with about twenty-five scholars, he acting as superintendent. The school has been continued up to the present time. The present superintendent is the rector, Rev. A. J. Brockway.

VIII .- BURIAL-PLACES.

The first burial was that of Betsey, a daughter of Alex- auder Stewart, in 1796. She was but three or four years

old, and was buried in the Stewart burying-ground. The school-teacher, Pitcher, died of consumption, and was buried there a few years later.

IX .- SOCIETIES.

An Odd-Fellows' lodge was instituted at Conklingville in 1851. Jon. A. H. Palmer, N. G. ; Charles Hale, V. G .; Robert Humphrey, Sec. ; John Todd, Treas. ; James Pink- erton, F. Sec., were the first officers. The meetings were held in the hall in Gurdon Coukling's house. The lodge had about fifty members. In 1858 the charter was surrendered.

A lodge of Good Templars was instituted by Dr. Chaun- cey Boughton in 1869. D. E. King, W. C. T .; Mary S. Palmer, W. V. T .; Jacob Palmer, W. Sec. ; and M. Il. Wilcox, L. D., were the first officers. The lodge now numbers thirty-five members.

X .- PLACES OF HISTORIC INTEREST.

There are no places of particular historic interest in this town. Some Indian relics are found occasionally in the valley of the Hudson. At the falls near the Hadley bridge, it is reported that some troops crossed on a plank during the Revolution, and one man, in his haste, was said to have leaped the chasm. The distance across it is some , twelve or fifteen feet. The water beneath is said to be over sixty feet deep. A young man was crossing the river above the falls in a canoe in 1805, when he became fright- ened, lost control of the boat, and, drifting over the falls, was drowned. " Indian rock," so called, is a large rock in the bed of the Sacandaga river, just below the curve known as the " horse-race." It is so called, because a legendary Indian brave was wrecked by it while passing down the river in his canoe.

XI .- INDUSTRIAL ENTERPRISES.

There is considerable land devoted to agriculture, not- withstanding the rough, mountainous nature of the coun- try. Yet lumbering, manufacturing, and similar work largely engross the attention of the people.

Lynwood tannery was built, in 1848, by Gurdon Conk- ling. It passed through several hands, and in 1863 was bought by Henry Poor & Son, of Boston, who still own it. The buildings are forty by seven hundred feet, two stories high, with a rolling-room forty by sixty fect, an engine-house twelve by eighteen feet, and an oil-house, built of stone, thirty by fifty feet, attached. The hide storehouse is thirty by fifty feet. There is also a fine office. The capital in- vested is about $100,000. The power is furnished by five water-wheels, of five feet diameter, and a thirty horse-power engine.

The tannery uses about four thousand five hundred cords of hemlock bark cach year, and twenty thousand hides. The bark is mostly obtained in the town of Day, and is drawn down the river on scows by a small steam-tug owned by the company. The hides come from Texas, Mexico, and South America. The annual product of the tannery is about three hundred and fifty tons of sole-leather, valued at $150,000. The pay-rolls contain the names of about forty workmen.

The paper collar-box factory, owned by James L. Libby,

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of New York, was started in 1872. The buildings are forty by one hundred and forty feet, two stories and a base- ment. Theodore Franklin is the agent in charge of the shop. The shop is driven by a sixty horse-power engine with two boilers. It employs from sixty to eighty hands. The capital invested in buildings and machinery is about $15,000. The shop uses abont ten thousand beech, maple, and birch logs every year. The proprietors own some four or five thousand acres of woodland up the river, and the logs come from that source. The articles manufactured are bent boxes of all kinds and descriptions. The ma- chinery is built with special adaptation to the work required, and turns out the boxes with great rapidity. The value of the yearly prodnet is between $50,000 and $75,000.

The Conklingville woodenware-works, Benj. R. Jenkins, agent, is a mammoth shop. The building is L-shaped, and the dimensions of the respective parts are forty-five by eighty-three and forty by one hundred and eleven feet. The whole building is two stories high (twenty-eight-foot posts) with a ten-foot basement underneath. The power is furnished by three turbine water-wheels of six-foot diameter, one central discharge water-wheel, about the same size, and one thirty horse-power engine. The articles manu- factured are covered wooden buckets in nests, clothes-pins, barrel-covers, grain-measures, wash-boards, and wooden bowls. The annual consumption of logs is about ten thou- sand. They are beech, maple, birch, ash, oak, elm, spruce, basswood, pine, and Jsemlock logs, and mostly procured from three thousand acres of woodland in Day, owned by the proprietors. From seventy-five to one hundred hands are employed in this shop. There is from four hundred to five hundred feet of shafting used.

XII .- MILITARY.

The town of Hadley did not exist at the time of the Revolutionary struggle, and of course none of its citizens participated in the privations of that fateful contest for free- dom. But several of the heroes of that war, after its close, came to Hadley and settled here, and their names attach a share of the glory of the Revolution to the history of this town. Following is a list of those Revolutionary heroes whose names we have been able to obtain : Thomas Reed lived in the town of Hadley, near Jessup's Landing, and died there; John Johnson, Sr., served seven years in the Revolutionary war, lived in Hadley several years, died in Day, Nov. 25, 1836 ; Joseph Gilbert died in Hadley in 1839 ; Edward Sherman died in Hadley ; Abel Iloughton died in Hadley ; Asel Gray served throughout the Revolu- tion, removed to Hadley, and died there in 1827; David Jeffers died in Hadley.

The War of 1812 called forth a few of Hadley's sturdy sons. So far as can be ascertained, none of them ever saw active service. They went to Plattsburg in 1814, and the war ended before they were brought into conflict with the foe. Those who went from the present town of Hadley were John Gilbert, who was a famous drummer, died in Hadley in September, 1872; James Delong, still living at Conklingville at the age of eighty-four years ; Rufus Wells ; Harry Burke, now living in Hadley ; 'Squire Lawton, who died in Hamilton county in November, 1876.

Turner Gray, a son of Enoch Gray, Jr., served in the Mexican war. Ile is now living in Illinois.

This brings us to that great and momentous struggle for national existence that was ushered in by the guns fired at Fort Sumter in April, 1861. In the long, fierce, and des- perate struggle that followed that event Hadley sent many of her noblest sons to battle for the integrity of the flag, the perpetuation of American ideas, and the maintenance of the national existence. Some of them shed their blood and laid down their lives in the performance of the sacred duty. Others passed through the fiery trial and escaped unhurt. All are worthy of a lasting remembrance in the hearts of the people, and their names will render this page lustrous and radiant with the glory of their achievements. As far as can now be ascertained, the following is a correct record of the names and deeds of the citizen soldiery of 1861-65 from this town :

Warren Baker, priv., Co. E, 169th N. Y. Inf .; disch: with the regiment; living in Philadelphia, l'a.

Amasa Bartlett, priv., 115th N. Y. Inf .; enl. 18G1 ; killed in battle.

Charles Black wood, priv., 16th II. Art .; disch. with the regiment; living in Hadley.

George N. Blackwood, priv., 115th N. Y. Inf. ; enl. 1861; disch, with the regi- ment; living at Luzerne, Warren Co., N. Y.

William Blackwood, priv., 115th N. Y. Inf .; end. 1861 ; taken prisoner, and died of starvation at Andersonville, Ga.

Edward Blower, priv., Co. G, 30th N. Y. Inf .; enl. 1861.

John Brown, reg.ment and company unknown ; died in the service.

Joseph Campbell, priv., Co. G, 30th N. Y. Inf .; enl. 1861; wounded, Ang. 30, 1862, at the battle of Bull Run, and died in hospital, Sept. 1862, at Alex- andtia, Va.

Dennis Costello, priv., Co. B, 96th N. Y. Inf .; enl. 1861; disch. with the regi- ment : living in Hadley.

William Dingman, priv., 115th N. Y. Iuf .; en]. 1861; killed at the battle of Drury's Bluff, Va.

John W. Dubo's, priv., 115th N. Y. Inf .; enl. 1861; killed during the seven days' fight before Richmond, Va.

Samuel Ellis, priv., Co. G, 115th N. Y. Inf .; enl. 1861 ; mastered out with the regiment ; living in Hadley.

Elam Evans, priv., 115th N. Y. Inf .; enl. 18G1; killed at the battle of the Wil- dernes», Va., in 1864.

George Evans, priv., Co. C, 115th N. Y. Inf .; enl. 1862 ; died in the service. Samuel Evans, priv., U. S. Regulars.

John J. Flanders, company and regiment unknown; living at Stony Creek, Warren Co.

Jonathan Flanders, company and regiment unknown ; living at Stony Creek, Warren Co.

John Gilbert, priv., 115th N. Y. Inf .; enl. 1861; mustered out with regiment; living at Batchellerville.

Briggs Gray, priv., 115th N. Y. Inf .; end. 1861 ; mustered out with regiment living in lladley.

George Harrington, priv., 12th U. 8. Regulars; lost an arm, and died in hospital from effects of wound.

Eugene Holland, sailor, on board U. S. Frigate " Hartford."

John Holland, sailor, on board U. S. Stentuer " Buckingham."

Charles Jeffers, 2d N. Y. Vet. Cav .; mustered out with the regiment ; living in Hadley.

Rollin Jenkens, priv., Co, E, 169th N. Y. Iuf. ; mustered out with the regi- ment.

Joel J. Loveless, priv., Co. E, 169th N. Y. Inf .; disch. on account of sickness; living in Iowa.

William Mahar, priv., Co. F, 115th N. Y. Inf .; enl. Aug. 13, 1862; mustered out with the regiment ; living in Fulton county.

- Maloney, killed at the battle of Stone River.

John McCormick, priv., Co. G, 30th N. Y. Inf. ; eul. 186] ; disch. with the regi- ment, June 15, 1863; living in Albany.

Zalin Mills, priv., Co. E, 19th N. Y. Inf .; enl, 1862; died in hospital at Wash- ington, D. C.

William Newton, priv., 115th N. Y. Int .; enl. 1862; killed by the explosion of mine at Fort Fisher, N. C.

Charles 11. Palmer, Ist lieut., Co. E, 169th N. Y. Inf. ; died in hospital at Ports- month, Ya.

Mandelbert J. Palmer, corp., Co. E, 169th N. Y. Inf .; died in service, Oct. 10, 1863.

W'in. Il. Palmer, priv., Co. B, 12th N. Y. 11. Art. ; mustered out with regiment ; living in l'hiladelphia, Pa.

John Peart, com. sergt., Co. A, 21st N. Y. Cav .; lost his left leg at battle of Ashby's Gap, Va., in 1864; d.scharged for d.sability; living in Hadley.

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Joseph Reed, priv., 118th N. Y. Inf .; enl. 1862; lost an arm ; disch. for disabil- ity ; living in Hadley.

Frank Rice, priv., - N. Y. Cav .; killed in battle.

Wade Rice, priv., 2d N. Y. Vet. Cav .; enl. 1862 ; mnstered out with regiment ; living in Hadley.

Joseph Ross, priv., Co. G, 30th N. Y. Inf. ; enl. 1861; mustered out with regi- ment; living at Conklingville.

Samuel Ross.

Edwin Ruthven, priv., Co. G, 30th N. Y. Inf .; enl. 1861; mustered out with regiment ; living at Conklingville.

---- Sanlshmry, enl. 1861 ; killed Ang. 30, 1862, at battle of Bull Run.

Wesley Scuvill, enl. 1862; discharged ; living in Fulton county.

Edward Sherman, priv., 22d N. Y. Inf. ; enl. 1861 ; wounded at Bull Run ; lisch. with regiment; living at Pithole, Pa.

Zabin Shippey, priv., HI5th N. Y. Inf .; enl. 1862 ; mustered out with regiment; living in Hadley.

Irving Simpson, priv., Co. F, H5th N. Y. Inf .; enl. Aug. 13, 1862; discb. with regiment ; died at Conklingville since the close of the war.

Charles Stewart, priv., 2d N. Y. Vet. Cav. ; discharged.

Daniel A. Stewart, priv., 93d N. Y. Inf .; disch. with regiment; lives in Hadley.

Truman B. Stewart, priv., 93d N. Y. Inf. ; enl. 1861; discharged.

Walter Sutliff, priv., Co. F, Il5th N. V. Inf .; ent. Aug. 13, 1862; disch. for sick - ness; recently removed from Conklingville.

Henry Townsend, priv. ; died in the service.

Cassins Varney, priv., Co. E, 169th N. Y. Inf. ; died in rebel prison at Anderson- ville, Ga., in 1864.

Obadiah Varney, priv., Co. E, 169th N. Y. Inf. ; died at Davry's island, neur New York, Ang. 6, 1865.

Simeon Wait, priv. ; died in hospital.

Michael Ward, priv., Co. G, 30th N. Y. Inf., enl. 1861 ; living in Albany.

Frederick Washburn, priv., 5th U. S. Reg. Cav. ; mustered out at close of the war; living in Hadley.

Henry Washburn, priv., Co. G, 30th N. Y. Inf ; enl. 1861 ; disch. with regiment ; lives at Conklingville.

ha Washburn, priv., Co. F, 15th N. Y. Iof. ; enl. Aug. 13, 1862; died at Hilton Head, S. C., in June, 1863.

Elbridge Wheelock, priv., Co. E, 96th N. Y. Inf. ; eul. 186] ; killed at the battle of the Wilderness, in 1864.

Wm. Wheelock, enl. 18G1 ; discharged.

Ariel Lovele-s, priv., Co. C, 77th N. Y. Inf. : en1. Nov. 22, 1861.

Richard M. Sprague, priv., Co. G, 115th N. Y. Inf. ; enl. July 29, 1862.

MOREAU.

I .- GEOGRAPHICAL POSITION.

MOREAU is embraced in the Great Bend of the Hudson, in the northeast corner of the county. It is bounded north and east by the county line, south by Northumberland and Wilton, west by Corinth and the county line. It is mostly a part of the Kayadrossera patent, and contains 18,896 aeres of improved land, 4760 acres of unimproved, and of this last amount 3083 are woodland. The population in 1875 was 2315.

To the geographical statement we add the legal deserip- tion of this town and the definition of its boundaries, as found in the revised statutes of the State.

" The town of Moreau shall contain all that part of said county bounded westerly by Corinth, southerly by Northumberland and Milton, and northerly and easterly by the bounds of the county."

II .- NATURAL FEATURES.

The west part of the town is occupied by the rocky and precipitous peaks of the Palmertown mountains. The Ihudson river forms the north, the east, and part of the west boundary of the town. The central and east portions of the town are broken and undulating, with many ravines in connection with the small rivulets. The Snoek Kill and its tributaries drain the southern part of the town. Upon the Hudson river are many rapids and falls, affording val- uable water-power at several points. The town is fertile in its eentral and southeastern parts, which are now divided into highly-cultivated and productive farms. Other por- tions of the town are less desirable, the soil in some see- tions being a coarse sand hardly worth cultivation.

The Palmertown mountains at the west are full of grand and beautiful scenery. Somewhat unnoticed in the popular rush for the Adirondacks and other more distant places in years past, they have not perhaps attracted the attention to which they are entitled. Rising suddenly from the plains of Moreau, a clear, well-defined mountain-range, their wood- erowned summits overlook an extensive country, affording views of surpassing loveliness. To the west and the north nature in its roughest, wildest forms greets the eye, while south and east cultivated fields, flourishing villages, and distant cities offer pietures of rare beauty.

III .- EARLY SETTLEMENT.

To seeure the names of the few families said to have been in the town of Moreau before the Revolution, with dates of settlement, has been a work of considerable diffi- culty. The following account is pretty well authenticated. There may be names not secured, but those who are men- tioned in the following pages are believed to be correctly given.

Elijah Parks came from Salisbury, Conn., in 1766, and in connection with his sons-a part of them already mar-

ried-purchased eight hundred acres of land at South Glen's Falls. Elijah built the dwelling-house, afterwards known as the "okł eastle," and a saw-mill about on the site of the present lower mill of the Morgan lumber com- pany. His son Daniel settled on the flat down the river, the present Bentley place. Lewis Brown, a son-in-law, and Ephraim Parks had another house near that of Elijah, above the old castle, a double log house. These were the first houses at South Glen's Falls, and perhaps the first in town. It is said there were twelve families between Fort Miller and Fort Edward on the west side of the river when the Revolutionary war broke out, but the dates and names are very difficult to obtain ; and as the date of the Parks emigration is well settled by records in the hands of Merwin Parks, Esq., 1766, as given above, this very likely constituted the first opening in the forest of Moreau. In 1775, when the news of Lexington was stirring the blood of Americans all over the land, about the same time that Colonel Ethan Allen was thundering at the gates of Tieon- deroga in the name of the great Jehovah and the Continental Congress, Daniel Parks, a man of gigantie stature, " born to command," gathered a few neighbors from Fort Edward and, without any pretense of orders from Congress or anybody else, not claiming even the authority given by Colonel Allen, pushed through the woods nine miles, and demanded and received the keys of Fort George. This is the tradition in the Parks family, and it is well sustained by the fact that upon Daniel Parks' tombstone, who died in 1818, there is the following inscription : "One of the vet- erans of the Revolutionary war. He was the man that took the keys from the British officer at Lake George in 1775."

This faet in Daniel Parks' life must have been well au- thenticated then, sixty years ago. It is true the capture of the fort has passed into history as the aet of Colonel Ber- nard Romans, and he very probably did reach that point two or three days later, and as a military officer under authority of Congress, assumed charge of the fort. Now for the dates: Ethan Allen's force seized Fort Ticonderoga May 10, 1775 ; Colonel Romans is reported at Fort George the 12th, and soon after left for Ticonderoga. The seizure by Parks must have been at just the same time, or perhaps earlier than the capture of Ticonderoga.

Another theory is given in Holden's " History of Queens- bury": that Colonel Romans, reaching Fort Edward, seeured the assistance of Daniel Parks and other volunteers ; but the tradition in the family, sustained by the tombstone record of 1818, is no doubt correet, that the aet was the independ- ent move of Parks and his associates just previous to the arrival of Romans.

Early in the summer of 1777, while the Burgoyne eam-

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paign was in its earlier stages, and Tories with their Indian allies thronged this vicinity, the house of Elijah Parks was attacked by a murderous band. It is probable that on the first alarm Lewis Brown and Ephraim Parks, who lived in the double log house, hurriedly fled to the " old castle" of Elijah, and made the best defense possible. Some reports say they were not there at first. The exaet particulars of the struggle at the house cannot be given. The intimation in some of the accounts of the massacre that the Tories were led by one Richardson, who desired to obtain the title- deeds or other papers belonging to Elijah Parks, may pos- sibly be true, but it is not credited by Merwin Parks, a grandson of Daniel, now living at South Glen's Falls, who has given considerable attention to this and other legends of the family. It is his opinion that the attack was simply one of the marauding, plundering excursions common to that time, and that there was not probably any question of title-deeds. If any special reason led to the attack, it was probably something growing ont of Elijah Parks' doings as a noted patriot, and out of some service he had rendered against the Tories.

Elisha and Isaae Parks resided with their father, but were away when the attack was made. They arrived to find their father dead, and Elisha, stepping to the door, was shot in the bowels by the Tories still concealed near the house. He had a light in his hand and his wife stood beside him. The wounded man fled to the house of Daniel, below, and the women of Elijah's household also fled. Elisha, with his hands over the wound, reached the house of Daniel, who had just come home, and on the way had heard the guns, but supposed it was his brothers discharging their pieces to load them again for safety through the night. Daniel was only detained from going at once to the seene of the fight by the earnest entreaties of the wounded man that he should try to save his own family. A bed was thrown into a canoe, the wounded man placed upon it, and also the wife and children of Daniel. They were all taken safely across the Hudson, probably to the house of Albert Baker, the second settler at Sandy Hill, who had come there in 1768.

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History of Saratoga County, New York, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers., Part 104

Author: Sylvester, Nathaniel Bartlett, 1825-1894 Publication date: 1878 Publisher: Philadelphia, Everts & Ensign Number of Pages: 780

Author: Sylvester, Nathaniel Bartlett, 1825-1894
Publication date: 1878
Publisher: Philadelphia, Everts & Ensign
Number of Pages: 780