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of the razor across the andiron, he left the man half shaved, and the only razor in the vicinity disabled. Mr. Mills' house was so ancient looking a building that it was jestingly called Noah's ark, and Mr. Ilart, the present owner of the farm, insists yet that the garden of Eden must have been there, and says he ean show an apple-tree old enough to prove it. Two miles farther down was the Fitzgerald place.
Ten Broeck was also an early settler on the river-road. At Middletown or Half-Moon village, Wm. Clark was about the first settler. He was the great-grandfather of Mrs. Traverse, now living there. Dr. German was probably there too, as early as the Revolutionary war. His old place was the present residence of Dr. Bottum. Dr. Sabin fol- lowed Dr. German at this point and Dr. Shaw.
There was o tavern at Middletown, established by Shubach Cross, before the Revolution. The barns now attached to the Sheldon house were built in 1800, by Mr. Woodin. An old house in Middletown was the Payne homestead, where Hollister now lives. This was taken down in 1832, by Luther Gates.
Devoe was a very early name in connection with pioneer settlement .. His place was at Crescent, just above the canal aqueduct.
Crescent village grew up almost wholly under the capital expended there by Alfred Noxon, now of Ballston. His enterprise set everything in motion. Before his undertaking, in 1840 to '14, there was little besides a canal, grocery, and one or two dwellings. He established a foundry, paint- works, a block of stores, and a hotel, employing at times from seventy to one hundred men. Grain was shipped from this point, teams in a line half a mile long having been seen waiting for a chance to unload. Large quantities of moukl- ing sand are shipped from this point at the present time. The lower grist-mill at Crescent is on the site of an old saw- . mill, but neither go back of 1800 in history. On the Steena Kill was, however, a saw-mill in 1762. The name of Seouten is mentioned in connection with it. Just below Crescent is the mouth of Bouton creek, where the Indians coming down the Mohawk trail were accustomed to cross to go up the Hudson river ; carrying their canoes overland, or leaving them to be used on their return.
Benjamin Rosekrans was an early pioneer; he lived where his great-grandson, Samuel Rosekrans, now resides. His wife lived to be very old, and her descendants relate many incidents told by her of the fearful times of border warfare. On one occasion during an Indian attack she managed to hide herself and children on a haystack, around which the Indians lay down to sleep after their labors in sacking the buildings.
Timothy Wooden, too, is a name of the carly times. lle settled about two miles north of Crescent in 1768. A grandson is still living near Round lake.
Thomas Flagler, who was an assessor for twenty years or more in the town of Half-Moon, now resides on the place formerly owned by his father-in-law, Peter Davis. Davis bought it probably about 1788-89. He had a large farm, bought at different times of Jacob and Cornelius Teachout, also of Lawrence and MeConnery, showing that these meu were also early settlers, perhaps before 1790.
Mr. Flagler supposes Richard Davis, the supervisor in 1792, to have been a nephew of Peter Davis. Thomas Flagler was born in what is now Clifton Park ; his father, Richard Flagler, having moved there from Dutchess county about 1798.
Peter Ferguson was an carly settler at Half-Moon, no doubt in 1780 to 1785. He lived on the present place of the Anthony brothers.
Jacob Miller was here about the same time. Indeed, quite a colony was in the same neighborhood very early, composed, among others, of John Vincent, Jerry Vincent (brothers), and Miller and Rosekrans, whose wives were sisters of the Vincents. In this same neighborhood Dr. Carey was an early physician, coming there soon after the Revolution. He lived on the present Wandell place.
Another early resident on the river was John Flinn. He kept a tavern as early as 1753. Jacob Wilsey must have been a pioneer before the Revolution on the present Husted place.
A grist-mill was built by Bradshaw on the Dwas Kill at the close of the Revolutionary war. This has since been known as the Steinburg mill, now owned by Hart. Before this settlers probably went to mill at Vischer's ferry.
In very early times Mechanieville was called the Bur- row,-perhaps, as old people say, from some families that were not over-particular as to the title of their mutton, and burrowed out of sight occasionally along the river-bank,- or better, from the old English word " borough."
Mechanicville, on the Half-Moon side of the creek, is principally a place of modern times. It is said by citizens familiar with its history that as late as 1835 there were scarcely more than five buildings here, and these were the Episcopal church, the tavern at Burnap's, a house occupied by Dr. Tibbets, one near the site of the present Methodist parsonage occupied by Serviss, and a house about opposite the tavern; to these should be added probably a canal- grocery, and perhaps one or two more buildings. Dr. Cuer- don had a tavern just north of the brick store, opposite the Episcopal church, in 1788.
Another early settler not yet mentioned was Abraham Traverse, who lived on the present James Raymond place.
The Joshua Taylor spoken of in the list of innkeepers in the year 1788 lived opposite the Powers place, across the present canal. That he kept a tavern is doubted by his nephew, Shubael Taylor, of Clifton Park, but his name is in the list.
John Cnerdon was an early doctor at Mechanieville, as well as an innkeeper.
John Flynn, from Ireland, mentioned among the inn- keepers of 1788, settled on the river-road below the present Fitzgerald place, in 1753. Colonel Fitzgerald was a son- in-law of Mr. Flynn.
Jacob Miller kept a public-house west of the Rosekrans place.
The Swarts saw-mill was just above Mechanicville, where the railroad now crosses Anthony's Kill.
The Snedikers, in 1788, lived southwest of Mechanic- ville ; Andrew Evans, on the Van Veghten place. The Weaver family were in the Mott neighborhood,-that is, in what was called Newtown,-Zebulon Mott's place being
PHOTO BY MYERS, SARATOGA SPRINGS
L. E. Smith
LEWIS E. SMITH.
Samuel Smith, the grandfather of the subject of this notice, originally came from the State of Connecticut, and settled on the east line of Ballston before the Revolutionary war, where he remained until his death. Lewis Smith, his father, was born Jan. 15, 1786, at Ballston, but afterwards removed to Stillwater, in which town he has continued to reside, living at the present time in Mechanieville, on the Half-Moon side. He has always been a farmer, leading an active, out-door life, and is alive to-day at the mature age of ninety-two years, and so far possessed of health and strength as to be able to saw wood, work in his garden, and perform other similar labor. He was never specially inter- ested in political affairs, and is a member of no particular church. His mother's name was Azuba Garnsey. She died in December, 1877, in her ninetieth year. She and her husband had lived together for sixty-nine years, having married Jan. 25, 1809; and at their death their combined ages made one hundred and eighty-one years. They had two daughters and five sons, viz., Esther, Silas G., Lewis E., Daniel G., Isaac M., Elizabeth M., and Charles, of whom the last three are dead, the remainder living in the neigh- borhood of their father's home.
Lewis E. Smith was born Dec. 23, 1815, in the town of Stillwater. He has always resided either in Stillwater, Half-Moon, or Mechanicville. He received an academic education at Wilbraham, Massachusetts, where he went in 1835 and remained three years. On Nov. 6, 1839, he married Phebe E. Peters, daughter of William Peters, of Cliftor Park, and took up his residence at Half-Moon, where he farmed until the spring of 1852. In the fall of 1851 he took stock in the American Linen Thread Company, located at Mechanieville, and the only patent linen thread company then or now in America. He took charge of this business in April, 1853, and has had full charge of it ever since. This company manufactures all kinds of sewing and machine threads, finding a market entirely in this country. They employ about one hundred and fifty people, and are doing a thriving business. Mr. Smith has had three chil-
dren,-Daniel L., Josephine A., and Elizabeth G.,-all of whom are married and live in the vicinity of their old home.
Lewis E. Smith was formerly closely identified with the interests of the national guard of this State. In 1839, Governor William H. Seward appointed him quartermaster of the 144th Regiment, old State militia. In 1843 he was appointed major inspector of the Fifth Brigade of Infantry by Governor William C. Bouek, an office which he con- tinued to fill until the militia was abolished. In 1861 he was named by Congress, with Generals Hooker, Wads- worth, and nine others, as suitable persons for brigadier- generals from New York ; but he did not accept the position because of ill healthı.
In political affiliation, Mr. Smith was formerly a Demo- erat ; but he was never a seeker after office. In 1843 he was elected a justice of the peace, and served as such for five years. After the firing on Fort Sumter he was a dele- gate to the convention held at Syracuse to nominate State officers without regard to party. From that time he iden- tified himself with the Republican party, and was a firm supporter of the war.
In 1872, Mr. Smith was chosen president of the village of Mechanieville, and has been elected every year since, most of the time without opposition. Many improvements have been made under his administration : briek sidewalks have been laid down, an engine-house built, a good fire- engine purchased, and other measures taken to make Me- chanieville one of the most attractive and beautiful villages in the State.
In 1877, Mr. Smith and his estimable wife made an extensive tour through Europe. He has been repeatedly urged to accept the position of commissioner to the Paris Exposition, but has firmly declined. He is an attendant upon the services of the Methodist Episcopal church. Mr. Smith was sixty-three years of age in December, 1877, and bids fair to be spared for a long time to his family and to the community, for the material growth and advancement of which he lias done so much.
RES.OF L. E.SMITH, MECHANICVILLE, SARATOGA COUNTY, NEW YORK
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about a mile west of the cemetery, where stood the early Baptist church.
Richard Burtis kept a tavern on the site of the present one at Clifton Park village.
William Tripp was in the northwest part of the town. Ebenezer Landus was connected to the Woodins. The Woodin pioneer home was the present Hegeman place.
Abraham Deuel lived west of Mechanicville. Jonathan Lossing was a pioneer at Usher's Mills as early as 1780. His daughter, then a child of two years, is yet living at Stillwater village,-nine years older than the federal government.
Old records at Albany indicate that " Half-Moon pre- cinet" had a population of one hundred and one as early as 1714. This statement of course includes Waterford, and how much more is uncertain, as, prior to 1772, the names of Half-Moon and Saratoga are exceedingly indefinite. The population of one hundred and one would indicate fifteen or sixteen families. Most of these were probably at the "Point," and in the vicinity of Crescent, with scattering families farther up the Mohawk, and also up the Hudson. Very little is known either of the names or the history of these families. The name of Taylor is given by some authorities as a settler at Mechanicville in 1763. This is probable, as Stillwater, above, was quite extensively settled from 1760 to 1765.
James Deyoe, from Tarrytown, came to Half-Moon about 1770, and settled about two miles west of Mechanieville, on what is well known in late years as the Deyoe farm. When he first came he leased six acres of land, for which he was to pay a rent of four ears of corn annually. Ile had previously spent a few months in Saratoga, about two miles west of the springs. This place was so infested with rattlesnakes that he decided not to remain. Near the High Rock spring the settlers were compelled to suspend their beds from trees to keep the snakes out. Mr. Deyoe died at the age of one hundred and three years, and his wife at the age of one hundred and five, their married life being con- tinued for eighty-three years.
Among the early settlers of Half-Moon were George Ellsworth aud Joseph Reynolds. They located before the Revolution, a mile and a quarter from Clifton Park village. George Ellsworth was a soldier of the Revolution, grand- father of Capt. Ephraim D. Ellsworth, now of Mechanic- ville. Reynolds also was the grandfather of the captain on the maternal side.
George Ellsworth, the pioneer, left four sons,-William, Charles, James, and George. William was drowned near Cohoes ; Charles settled and died at Schuylerville; James in Northumberland ; George married the daughter of the pio- neer Reynolds and settled on the old homestead. In 1836 he moved to Dunning Street, Malta, and in 1837 to Rose, Wayne county, where he died. His son, Ephraim D. Ells- worth, married Phebe Denton, and settled in Malta. There the future Colonel Elmer E. Ellsworth was born. The family moved to Mechanicville when Elmer was seven years old, and his boyhood was spent in that village. The remarkable life of the young hero, his earnest purpose, his early military ardor, his struggles in business, his ad- vancement in Chicago and at Springfield, his acquaintance
with Abraham Lincoln, his noble ambition, his splendid service and heroic death, have all passed into history, and will live forever upon its enduring page. flis motto was, " There is nothing impossible to him who WILL."
As still further showing the names of early settlers, we add the following list of the founders of the old Baptist church of Newtown,-a venerable body, whose memory is cherished by early settlers still living, or by the descendants of others who received their earliest religious impression within the walls of the old meeting-house, a building long since removed, and the society that worshiped in it extinct ; but though dead yet living in its two young successors,- the church of Middletown and the church at Clifton Park village.
These were the male members of the Newtown'church in 1791 : Peter Groom, Win. Groom, Daniel Derbyshear, James Essex, Matthew Neally, Joshua Miller, Ephraim Dunham, Wm. Goslain, Richard Clute, Timothy Woodin, George Alford, Joseph Peck, Nathaniel Upham, Shubael Waldo, Peter Baker, John Bell, Moses Lent, Andrew Evans, Abraham Weldon, Thomas Mosher, George Ells- worth, Wm. King, and Philip King.
On the farm known as the old Colonel Tenbroeck place, there lived a family who were massacred there by the French and Indians in 1748. A short distance south of this place is a barn built in 1737.
In 1689 it was resolved by the authorities at Albany to remove the fort about the house and barn of Harme Lie- vese at Half-Moon to a more convenient place.
IV .- ORGANIZATION.
NAME.
This town retains the name originally given to the terri- tory around the northern bend of the Mohawk near the present village of Crescent. " The territory between the Hudson and the Mohawk is irregular in shape, and not easily described by any single word. It is sometimes called the Triangle, but a portion of the water front, particularly near Crescent, is curving enough to render the name Half- Moon appropriate, and it no doubt received this designa- tion far back, even to the first settlement of Albany. The junction of the Mohawk with the Hudson was a point of such importance, both for military purposes and for traffic, and was so near to Fort Orange, that it was no doubt known and named soon after the first voyage of Hudson up this noble stream,-a stream that repeats for every generation the name and exploits of the great discoverer. Indeed, Saratoga and Half-Moon are the two earliest names applied to civil divisions above the mouth of the Mohawk and south of the Great bend at Sandy Hill.
The original two districts-the foundation of the county -were Saratoga and Half-Moon, and they were erected in 1772. The names are one hundred and fifty years older than that date.
IIalf-Moon has step by step been reduced from its origi- nal size and its original importance to a town of only medinu extent.
In 1816, Waterford was organized, taking from Half- Moon its oldest settled portion and its points of greatest
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historical interest. Twelve years later, Clifton Park was- set off, taking nearly all the river front upon the Mohawk. This reduced Half-Moon to its present extent. With reference to the name, it should be added that when Water- ford was taken off, in 1816, the name of this town was changed to Orange ; but in 1820 the old name, Half-Moon, was restored.
The district of Half-Moon was organized in 1772, and as districts were similar to towns, it would be interesting to trace the annual meetings and the officers elected in those earliest years ; but the records are missing. This district organization lasted sixteen years, or until 1788, when Half- Moon was organized as a town, making, with Ballston, Saratoga, and Stillwater, the original four towns from which the remaining sixteen have been formed. Fortu- nately, the records of the town-mectings from 1788 down are complete, several books having been saved from the fire which destroyed the office in 1853. As Waterford was not taken off until 1816, and Clifton Park not till 1828, the town officers of the earliest years belonged indiscrimi- nately to the territory of the three towns.
The first town-meeting in 1788 was held at the house of Cornelius Vandenburg. The officers chosen were Jacob Fort, town clerk ; Jacobus Van Schoonhoven, supervisor ; Adrian Hegeman, Jacob I. Lansing, Christopher Miller, Adam I. Van Vranken, Jeremiah Vincent, Israel Van Alstyne, and William Reeves, assessors; Gerret Lansing and James Jones, collectors ; Jas. Dugan, Joseph Mosier, Jacob Miller, and Henry Brevoort, constables ; Adrian Hegeman, Dau. Van Alstyne, and Cornelius Groat, poor- masters ; Andrew Evans, Jacob Ostrander, John Slosson, John Clark, and Jeremiah Vincent, poundmasters and fence-viewers. Thirty-seven pathmasters were chosen, whose names are added, as showing early settlers in every part of the town : Johannes Fulmer, Aaric Banta, Noah Taylor, Jesse Brunsen, Calvin Fuller, John Quince, Ja- cobus Pearce, Nicholas Vandenburg, Gerardus Clute, Jacob Hall, Peter Steenburgh, Chas. Hoffman, Timothy Woodin, Shubacl Waldo, Jerry Cramer, John Devoe, Jr., Jesse Groat, Michael Bassett, John C. Connell, James Shaw, Gideon Close, Peter Faulkner, John Van Vranken, James Grooms, Jeremiah Vincent, Joseph Fowler, Stephen Wiley, John Bell, Abraham Deul, Jacob Clute, Gerardus Clute, Valentine Brown, Edward Rexford, Alexander Brevoort, Jacob Van Vranken, Nathan Evans, and Ezekiel Free.
At the second town-meeting, 1789, new names appear among the town officers and pathmasters as follows : Mat- thew Gregory, Edward Weaver, Benjamin Rosekrans, Na- than Garnsey, Andrew Sconten, Moses Scott, James Mur- ray, Wm. Bradshaw, Jedediah Rogers, Josiah Taylor, Robert Eldridge, John Folmer, John Terpenny, James Scott, Thomas Smith, Benjamin Mix, John Way, Samuel Hicks, John Knowlton, Wm. Tripp, Solomon Burlinghamc, John Carothers, John Darby, Hendrick Vanderwerken, Henry Efner, William Ash, John R. Van Vranken, John C. Connell, Nicholas Vandenburg, John Hamilton, Anthony Leversie, James Murray, Timothy Smith, John Barnes, Israel Brooks, Clemens Young, Ebenezer Landers, James Youngs, and Richard Burtis.
At the third town-meeting, 1790, we find still other
names : Henry Van Hyning, Martin Wilcox, Cornelius Doty, Richard Davis, James Teller, Moses Seott, William Teller, Jr., Valentine Brown, Philip Doty, William Bray- ton, John Way, William Hamilton, George Lane, Nicholas Jansen, Abial Kinyon, John Donaldson, Christopher Northrop, Thomas Little, John Cuerdon, Dirck Hurnstreet, John Rouse, John Miller, James Darbyshear, Stephen Laduc, Jonathan Lossing, Joseph Gilbert, Richard Peters, Matthew Shear, Francis Still, Isaac Doxey, Reuben Woodin, Samuel Sweetland, James Youngs, Alexander Brevoort, Israel Brooks, Robert James, and James Conklin.
We copy the following by-law of 1789: " Hoggs and swine that weigh more than forty pounds may run at large, but less than that must be yoked ; but from the Widow Peebles down to Waterford, and from the river west to the first hill, none may be allowed to run."
This meeting was adjourned " to meet at the house lately occupied by Mr. Sibley, it being the most convenient and eentral place."
A few fragments in the old town books go back of the town organization two or three years, while Half-Moon was yet a district.
In 1785 the highway commissioners were Thomas Smith, Reuben Taylor, Jr., Isaac Fonda, and John Way.
There is a bill of sale for saw-logs, sold by Jerry Arma- gher to Henry Bailey,-some of them at Swarts' saw-mill. This was in 1785, and the paper was witnessed by Jonas Delong and Garret Snediker.
There were forty taverns in the three towns for the year 1788, implying plenty of accommodation for man and beast. They were kept by the following persons, most of whom paid a license of £2: William Fuller, Elizabeth Peebles, Henry Bailey, Daniel Van Alstyne, Joshua Taylor, Benja- min Mix, Nicholas Fords, Christian Smith, Elias Van Steenburgh, Peter Faulkner, John Donald, John Cuerdon, Nicholas Teachout, John Flynn, Jacob Miller, Aaron Com- stock, James Steih, Anthony Leversie, Coonrad Wesley, Moses and Ira Scott, Garret Hannion, Samuel Connery, Matthew Gregory, Joseph Potter, Adam Edson, William Ward, Joseph Sibley, Jacobus Van Schoonhoven, Richard Davis, Joseph Mosher, Simeon Groat, William Waldron, IIezekiah Ketchum, Jacobus Ostrander, John C. Connell, Direk Flansburgh, Jedediah Rogers, John Burhans, and James Scott. There were also four retailers licensed : Robert Fullerton, John Arden, Jacobus Van Schoonhoven, and Samuel J. Hazard.
The following is the complete list of supervisors, town elerks, and collectors from 1788 to 1877, inclusive. The justices of the peace are also given from the time they were elected by the people :
TOWN OFFICERS.
Supervisors.
Town Clerks.
1788. J. Van Schoonhoven. Jacob Fort.
Collectors. Gerret Lansing, James Jones.
1789.
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66
James Duggan.
1790. 66
Job Halstead.
1791. Benj. Rosckrans. Abraham Moc.
Martin Wilcox,
Gerardns G. Clute.
1792. Richard Davis, Jr.
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Nathan Garnsey, Jr.
REINHOLD WERNER.
BREWERY
"HALF MOON BREWERY" RES. OF REINHOLD WERNER, HALF MOON , N . Y.
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Supervisors.
1793. Richard Davis, Jr.
1794.
1795. Benj. Rosekrans.
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1796.
1797.
1798.
1799.
1800.
1801. Zebulon Mott.
1802.
1803. =
1801.
1805.
1806.
1807.
1808.
46
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1809.
1810.
1811.
1812. $6
1813.
1814.
1815. =
1816. 64
46
1817.
1818. Nathan Garnsey. 46
1819.
Asahel Philo.
1820.
1821. David Garnsey.
1822.
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Ephraim Stevens. Benj. I. Hall.
James Swartwout. ..
1823.
1824.
1825.
1826.
1827. =
1828. Asahel Philo.
Peters Siekler.
1853. David W. Wait.
1874. Melbourn Van Voorhees.
1854. Charles H. Fowler.
1875. William L. Putter.
1855. William Ostrander. John O. Mott.
1876. Lelar Knight. William C. Tallmadge.
1856. Selar Knight.
1877. William A. T. Cassidy. 1878. Henry Clark.
V .- VILLAGES.
MECHANICVILLE.
Edward A. Morehouse, who came to Mechanieville in 1825, recalls a clear picture of the village fifty-two years ago. South of the kill, Dr. Cuerdon ; two Boillo families ; a colored family; the old tavern; the blacksmith-shop, still standing and used; farther down, McMulligan. The Cuerton house was partly log, on the site of the present par- sonage. On the Stillwater side, west of main street, More- house's tailor-shop, Vernam's store, John Cross' tavern ; joining the store was Carrington's residence, then a house and store kept by Wm. Pierce. On the east side of the street, Skinner's blacksmith-shop, Farnum's store, where the meat-market is now, a brick house, Squire Hutton's residence, now Widow Boardman's, Carrington's harness- shop, over it Lockwood's shoe-shop, Synott Bloodgood's ; at the corner old-fashioned hay-scales, wagon and all swung up by chains to be weighed ; beyond these eight or ten other buildings, and in the rear the factory and grist- mill, as now. The factory had been erected by Squire Hutton many years before, had been burned, rebuilt, and in 1825 was owned by Bloodgood.
* Jacob C. Defreest was elected supervisor in 1874 and died, and Charles H. Clute was appointed.
Collectors.
Wm. A. T. Cassidy.
1867. John C. Greene.
1868. Chas. II. Cluto.
M. O. Caldwell.
Jacob A. West.
James II. Clark. Francis A. Lansing.
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