History of Seneca Co., New York, with illustrations descriptive of its scenery, palatial residences, public building and important manufactories, Part 56

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Publication date: 1876
Publisher: Philadelphia : Everts, Ensign & Everts
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In the year 1795, Isaac Johnson, by trade a shoemaker, came west from Orange County and settled on the east half of Lot 89, which large tract of wild land he had purchased of Judge William Thompson, who himself had obtained it from John Williams, a private in the Second Regiment New York Infantry. The heirs of Mr. Johnson are present owners and residents of the old farm, which is associated with their earliest recollections, for thereon both were born : one, Joseph, in 1789, the other, Honorable William T., io 1803. The reminiscences of these aged sons of Seneca County were well worth a brief attention. The father, with wife and four children, came down the Cayuga by boat, and disem- barked at what was St. Clair's landing. Between the family and home were the forest, the thicket, and uprooted trunks of large trees; and the axe was plied to cut a road to the present farm. And when arrived, what and where was the home! Trees were felled, and where they found the forest and gradually gathered comforts around them, is now the old and valued farm. Benjamin Burgess, of New Jersey, bought the west half, excepting the State's Hundred, and had moved on a few months before Johnson. Two hundred and fifty acres were sold in 1825 to three persons, Covert, Denton, and Dunlap, each taking a part. The Burgess farm is now owned in part by W. S. Smith. A frame school-house was built in 1828 by a Mr. Bailey, in the west part of the lot. The district of which this lot forms part has been attached for school purposes to Ovid, lying adjacent to the south .. On the cast half, Mr. Johnson had built an ashery in 1796, where quan- tities of potash were manufactured. It was conveyed in sleighs to Albany, and


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there sold. Milling was done at Elmira, distant fifty miles, in skiff upon the water, by horseback overland. Mr. Johnson having lost his wife by death, mar- ried again in 1799. His second wife, Miss Mary Thurston, died in Ovid, 1872, at the advanced age of 90 years.


PIONEER SAW-MILL.


A settler named James Bailey, a wheelwright, came upon Lot 88, and, on the farm now owned by Joseph Dunlap, erected a saw-mill in 1800; a black walnut table of his making is still in use by Mrs. Johnson. On the death of Mr. Bailey, his children succeeded' to his farm. A barn was erected upon the lot in 1806 by William Lobdell, upon land now held by D. W. Kinne. Samuel Waldron moved upon the lot, and owned 160 acres, in 1826. The regular improvement of the lot was of recent date; for some reason it was long allowed to remain wild.


On Lot 87 Timothy Jaynes, a blacksmith, had. a shop in 1790. The shed stood about sixty rods west of B. Sutton's dwelling. John Seeley had forty acres, now owned by C. J. Sutton." David DePne was a squatter on the north -. west corner of the lot, and set ont an orchard in 1789. His sprouts were ob- tained from the old Indian orchard, and a few of the old trees yet remain on the farin of Helim Sutton. . Later, and James Secley moved upon the place, and De Pne erected a tavero stand, as noted, upon Lot 75. Where J. Quinn now lives, William Brown was an early settler. The trades were represented upon Lot 93 by a shoemaker and a blacksmith. The former, James Woodruff, lived and labored in his house on the northern part of the lot, where Mrs. Cole resides. Woodruff sold his sixty acres to Benjamin Smolley, and he to Peter Smith. Where now lives H. P. Smith, one Peter Rattan had a temporary home, which was abandoned in 1812. The blacksmith was George Morrow, whose shop stood to the north where the road turns south towards the asylum. Aaron Burr moved at a very carly day upon that section occupied by O. Toner. Elijah Fenton owned one hundred and sixteen aeres on the southwest corner; it was sold to B. Sutton, who bequeathed to his sun, who sold to C. Van Vleet, present owner. Eighty acres were held by Jonas Abens in 1803, part of which were bought by Cornelius Tunison ; the farm lies in the northwest corner of the lot. The history of No. 94, in the southwest of the town of Romulus, goes back to 1789, when Anthony Swarthout settled on the northwest corner of the lot, just north of a ereck which bears his name, and near the site of the old cemetery. His son Barney came with him from Pennsylvania.


FOUNDING OF BALEYTOWN.


About the year 1794 or '95, George and Samnel Baley located at what is now known as Ovid Landing, and gave to it the name of Baleytown. Their business was general merchandise, distilling, and manufacturing potash. Upon the death of one of the brothers, the business passed into the hands of Messrs. Maxwell & Perry, of Elmira. ; Having engaged in a flour speculation, which resulted dis- astrously, the business passed to other hands. About the year 1797, Andrew Dunnett located there, embarked in the same business, and gave what had be- come a village the name of Lancaster, by which name it was known for many years, when once again the original name was adopted and continued to the pres- ent. John Stone came west in 1797, in company with some of the followers of Jemima Wilkinson, fram Connecticut, and took up his residence in Lancaster, where he. engaged in boot and shoe making until his marriage, on July 4, 1798, ta Phylinda Shattuck, daughter of William Shuttuck, from Connecticut. A daughter, Mrs. Judge Coc, was born to them while residents of Lot 80, in 1801.


About the year 1801, Charles Gordon came over from Geneva, and established himself in the mercantile business. Fletcher Matthews kept a branch stare in the place, and George King carried on a tannery. The first cavalry company in this region was organized by Charles. Gordon ; his lieutenants were John Arnold, First, and Henry Montgomery, Second Licutenants. Among its members were Ephraim Kinne and Thomas Blain. There were twenty-five or thirty houses at Ovid Landing when there were no more than six at Ovid. At one time the villagers cherished strong hapes that the court-house would be located there, and the late Alvah Gregory opened a law office in the village. The gardener of the Willard Asylum now resides upon the site. of the lawyer's house and office. . The court-house being located at Ovid, the business of Lancaster began to wane ... By Act of Legislature, passed April 15, 1825, John Maynard, Ethan Watrous, and William Howard were authorized to set up, keep, and maintain a ferry from the landing-place at Lancaster Village to a like landing at the village of Dresden. ` In 1844, P. F. Donaldson purchased the warehouse property, and gave it the name Ovid Landing, and since the location there of the Asylum, it has a post-office by the name of " Willard." Lot 95 was drawn by Michael Decker, .of the Second New York Regiment. . In June, 1789, David Wisner, from Pennsylvania, moved into Romulus and settled upon the south part of the lat upon a hundred-acre piece which he had bought from Elijah Kinne, who lived in Ovid. The price


paid was fifteen shillings an acre. Few realize the obstacles which Wisner bad to encounter. In the woods he set up four crotches, put on poles, and covered all with bark peeled from the trees; in this scanty and savage abode he passed the winter with his wife and four children. Food was not plenty nor in variety; neighbors were miles away and mills were distant, yet the pioneers did not de- spair, and gladly we give them this honor as the first of Seneca County settlers, the pioneers of the town of Romulus. In 1810 or '11, Wisner sold to Elijah Kinne, Jr., who had married his daughter, Hester Wisner, in 1797. Kinne had , been the owner of the remainder of the lot some years, and had a house built upon it. About 1810, Mr. Wisper had erected a frame house, and Mrs. Wisner having injured her arm, rode on horseback to Orange County to have it removed. What heroism, quiet and unostentatious, to make such a journey through the wilderness for such a purpose !


Interest undoubtedly attaches to the aboriginal; why not to him who imme -. diately succeeded him ? James Grace, of the First New York Regiment, is known: to his credit as a Revolutionary soldier ; nothing special marks him as the owner of Lot 96. But when Reuben Denton comes west in 1795 from Massachusetts, in- vests his means in the purchase of one hundred acres of forest, standing as marked by the surveyor upou adjacent trees, in the southwest corner of east half of the lot, builds thercon a log cabin for his family and a shop to carry on a smithery, directs, as overscer of highways in 1798, the construction of passages between set- tlers for facility of intercourse, and raises in thrift a family of eight intelligent chil- ยท dren, the fact is worthy its brief record. A life-time upon this farm affirms con- tent and moderation. Elijah Denton was born in the first log dwelling on the farm in 1798, and died at the age of seventy-seven. And what should be said of Michael Mead, who had no money whereby to purchase land on his arrival in 1796? In a contract made with Captain Elijah Kinne, he engages to work by the month for one hundred acres from either corner of the lot. He labored and gained title to the sontleast corner, upon which he lived and whereon he died. Mead was elected Coustable in 1797, and Fence Viewer in 1798. Upon the farm won by toil and improved by diligent industry, his daughter, Mrs. Wilson, now resides. Upon the west half of the lot settled Ephraim Kinne in 1800, and a part of the land is the inheritance of-his son, Silas, at this time.


Lot 97 was drawn hy John Goodenough for military service, and sold to An- thony Dey, and by him to one Van Ness, of New Jersey. Wishing to hold pos- session, and also to improve, he rented to various persons in 1810. On the south- west corner lived John Brink ; on the southeast corner upon fifty acres dwelt James Nelson, and on the northeast J. P. Dey had acquired fifty acres. In 1834, sale of four hundred acres was made to William C. VanHorn, an Ovid merchant, who disposed of the property to varions partics. A part of the lot is now held by William Kinne. Levi Burling, of the New York Second, had died before the distribution of the Military Lots, and to his heirs fell the ownership of No. 98. The locality has known considerable changes and improvements. In the north- west lived Isaac Johnson, the owner of one hundred and sixteen acres, and the' lumber-manufacturer for the neighborhood, he having erected a saw-mill in 1806. The property passed by sale to William Chamberlain, who erected upon it a grist-mill in 1814, and as horseshoeing could conveniently be done while awaiting the grist, a smithery was put up close by the mill .. This improvement was acquired through purchase by S. and N. Hayt, who took an active part in the local interests of the place. . The Corners assumed their name, and a store building was erected on the northwest corner, wherein merchandise was sold by James Swan and Mr. Shutts in 1817. S. and N. Ilayt were their successors in 1822, and continned the business. A new building was constructed on the south- cast corner of Lot 90, to which the gouds were removed, and a tavern was opened in the old building by John Dickerson, who had heen a tavern-keeper in 1820. John Reynolds had, in 1807, bought one hundred acres on this lot, and had sold to Dickerson at a later period. The record of Romulus closes with Lot No. 100, which was drawn by Thomas Bacon, Sergeant in the First New York Regiment, . and by him sold to Joseph-Wilson, of Pennsylvania. Wilson sold one hundred acres, southwest corner, to Jaseph Verkes, and he to William Purdy, a tailor from Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Of a large family named Purdy, none remain. David Wilson married Miss Nellie . Chamberlain, and came upon the lot subse- quent to Purdy. Since 1816, Mr. Wilson has been a constant resident upon the old farm, in the same house which gave him a home in his early manhood, and now, at the age of eighty-three, is regarded as the oldest man native to the towns between the lakcs. As early as 1812, Messrs. Hatch and Gibbons had bought the land lying between the present road and the lake shore; the firm owned and rau boats upon the lake, and were engaged in the shipment of produce to Albany.


VILLAGES AND POST-OFFICES.


The business of the residents of Romulus is agricultural in the main, yet the germs of what was hoped would be thriving places still have vitality. Of these


PLATE LXVII


B Brandman


ROBERT WOODEN.


THESE BARNS OPPOSITE THE HOUSE .


RES. OF JOHN M. YERKES, ROMULUS, SENECA CO, N.Y.


LIST OF SUPERVISORS TOWN OF ROMULUS, SENECA CO., N. Y.


Benejah Boardman 1794-1796


George Bailey 1797-1799


Hon. John Sayre


1800-1808


Hon. Jonas Seeley 1809-1814


William W. Fowell 1815


Col. Samuel Blaine 1816-1821


Hon. Jonas Seeley 1822


Dr. Mather Marvin 1823


Anthony Dey


1824


Dr. Mather Marvin


1825


Hon. Jonas Seeley 1826


Hon. Samuel Blaine


1827-1829


Hon. John Sayre


1830-1832


Hon. Jonas Seeley


1833


Col. Matthew D. Coe 1834-1836


Edward Sayre 1837


Maj. Cyrus J. Sutton 1838


Nathaniel N. Hayt 1839


Maj. Cyrus J. Sutton 1840


Elijah Denton


1841


William A. Stout 1842


Hon. William T. Johnson


1843-1844


Henry McLafferty


1845


Hon. Peter Van Vleet


1846-1847


Cyrus Kinne


1848


Joseph F. Harris


1849


Fernando C. Williams


1850-1851


Amasa L. Furman


1852-1853


Hon. Helim Sutton


1854


Joseph F. Harris


1855-1857


Hon. Peter J. Van Vleet


1858-1860


Peter P. Post


1861-1862


Richard Steele


1863


William D. Giddings


1864-1865


George W. Jacacks


1866-1867


James Blaine


1868-1872


E. Seeley Bartlett


1873-1874


Aaron V. Brokaw


1875-1876


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are Kendia, Willard, Romulus, and Hayt's Corners. The post-office at Kendia was established in 1862, with Amos Crane in charge, and its locality seems to have been a problem unsolvable to the various Postmasters, who sent its letters to and fro with- out rest, and out of the States into Canada; and one letter returned from its jour- neys, hearing the impress of indignation from baffled search in the inscription, " Where in h-1 Is Kendia ?" Other Postmasters succeeding Crane were Bartlett Cooley, D. S. Benjamin, E. C. Gatloup, down to Henry Garrison, the present. In Kendia there is one store, two blacksmith-shops, a wheelwright-shop, a carpenter- shop, a school-house, and a steam grist-mill, owned by MeWhorter Brothers. Kendia Grange, No. 64, was organized January 28, 1874, at the school-house ; its meetings are held weekly at the Baptist church, southeast of the hamlet, and its membership has increased from thirty to ninety-seven. The business directory to-day gives us the names of active and enterprising men in the various localities of the town as tabled elsewhere in this volume.


HIGHWAYS.


Romulus roads in an early day were laid to points unknown by men forgotten, and herein they are brought to light as one of the potent agencies of the latest civilization. In February, 1776, a road was laid from Bennett's Ferry, on the Geneva road, Cayuga Lake, to the place of Dr. Coventry, on Seneca Lake, and in March following from Appletown, Seneca Lake, to David DePue's, beginning at the lake road on the line between Lots 79 and 86; it followed the line east fifty-seven chains, and from there a crooked live to the bridge east of DePue's. About the same time a road was run from Brown's Brook and Harbor at Cayuga Lake to Captain Hayes's Brook and Harbor on the same lake. On March 28 a road was surveyed from Lancaster to " Boardmansburg" through Lots 93 and 87, between 86 and 87 northward to the place of Peter Bainbridge, on the creek. In 1796 a road was run from the southeast corner of Lot 94 on the Ovid line northwest to the lake road through Lots 93 and 86, and about the same time one from Lancaster along and near the town line, passing David Wisner's, and run- ning east to the house of B. Bryant, on the town line. In the fall of 1796 a road was laid from the DePue Bridge, on Lot 75, in a northeast course to Brown's Brook and Harbor. It passed a clearing made by Abraham, and fol- lowed an old road. On October 10, 1796, John Fleming and George Baley, Commissioners of Highways, surveyed a road from Bennett's Ferry to Mynderse's Mill, thence along the north side of the outlet to the house of Chapman at Seauyes. Among early surveyors, whose services were then in demand, were Enoch Tuttle and James Clark. Much space upon the records is given to the inauguration of roads, and disputes occasionally arose. There was some trouble concerning a road from James McKnight's to Plymouth. Mcknight finally ap- pealed to the Judges of the Common Pleas Court in 1805, which appeal resulted in the following decision as found upon the books : " Whare as James McKnight & Benjamin Dey, of the town of Romulus, have appealed to us Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Seneca respecting a road runing from the house of the sd MeKnight's in Romulus, to Pleymouth, we are of opinion that the road confirmed by the Superintendents is the hest and most eligibelst road, for hublick travle, and we hereby direct the same to be put on record as the Bublick road from the sd Mcknight to Plemouth." Cornelius Humphrey and Grove Smith were the Judges, and their clerk was evidently fresh upon the grounds of English composition. The road on the south line of the reservation was laid in 1805. In 1806, a road was surveyed hetwcen Romu- Jus and Washington. It ran by Seneca Lake, east, till intersection with the road through Lot 47. Romulus was to work from the lake to northwest corner of Lot 45, and Washington the remainder. On December 17, 1806, the Reservation Road was laid by Joseph Wyckoff, Jonas Seeley, and Andrew Smith, Commis- sioners of Highways, and Jephtha Wade was its surveyor. This road hegan at what is now Romulus Centre, and continued as does the present road for a mile and a quarter, and then turned thirty-eight degrees east of north to the southwest corner of the reservation; thence it followed the reservation line north twenty degrees, east three hundred and fifty chains, to the Washington linc.


EARLY RECORDS.


The early records of Romulus are interesting as the organization of govern- ment in a pure democracy, where all had interest and none were denied a hearing. From the record, which few have seen or will see, we make characteristic extracts, illustrative of simplicity, directness, and intelligence. " William Winter, at a town meeting opened and duly held on the first day of April, 1794, in the town of Romulus, County of Onondaga, and State of New York, is appointed and chosen as Town Clerk for the present year." The first officers were as follows : Benajah Boardman was Supervisor and Justice of the Peace; James Seeley, John Fleming, and James Ronalds, were Assessors; Peter Huff, David Wisner, and William Seeley, Jr., Commissioners ; Henry Leck, James Ronalds, Overseers of


the Poor; John Williams and Peter Ronalds, Constables, and the last-Damed person, Collector ; Jacob Striker, James McKnight, Anthony Swarthout, Sr., David DePuc, Elijah Kinne, Jr., Overscera of Roads; John Fleming and John Swarthout, Fence Viewers, and John Fleming and Jacob Striker, Pound Keepers. Following the above, in the Town-hook-which is of coarse unruled paper-are the various "ear-marks" of the farmer's stock, giving date on which said mark was recorded. B. Covert's stock was marked by "a crop off the left ear and a nick in the under side of the right ear," and B. Swarthout " a half cross off the upper side of the left ear, and a half-penny in the lower and another in the upper part of the right ear." Thus it was that every man knew his own and his neigh- bors' stock by certain " crops," "slits," " nicks," "half-pennies," and other devices marked upon the ear, and an estray was advertised in the " Estray Book" of the town and returned to the owner.


EMANCIPATION OF SLAVES.


Emancipation began in New York in the last century, as is verified by the fol- lowing article:


"Know all men by these presents, that I, William Sceley, formerly of the town of New Cornwall, County of Orange, State of New York, hut now of the town of Romulus, County of Ooondaga, and State aforesaid, have, and by these presents do, set free my negro slave named Charles Patterson, to all intents and purposes, as if he had never heen a slave, agreeable to the direction of the act concerning slaves, passed February 22, 1788. In witness whereto, I have set my hand and seal, November 17, 1794.


[L. s.] WILLIAM SEELEY."


This act and those of a like character prove that the desire of gain from un- requited labor was the corner-stone of a system which disappeared slowly south- ward as its unprofitable character in competition with free labor was made apparent.


In 1795, the town-meeting was held at the house of James McKnight, on April 7. B. Boardman was re-elected Supervisor. George Baley was elected Town Clerk, and many of the former officers continued. Of new officials, there were William Brewster, Assessor ; Dr. Coventry, Overscer of Poor; William Shattuck, Commissioner of Highways; Lewis Abrams, Constable ; and John Sayres, Alla MeMath, and Ezekiel Hays, Road Overseers.


In 1797, a bounty of three pounds was offered for each wolf-scalp taken within town bounds, but no record shows that the treasury suffered any depletion from this source. April 2, 1799, it was voted that the town shall be divided, and George Baley, Benjamin Dey, and Benajah Boardman were appointed to deter- mine where the line should run. John Sayre was Supervisor from 1804 to 1808, inclusive. Jonas Seeley succeeding, held till 1815, and then came W. W. Falwell.


SCHOOL'S.


In 1817, notice was to be given in the Ovid Seneca Patriot, or by four posted hills, that the Gospel Lot was to be sold at auction, and the resulting profits used for the furtherance of schools. In June, 1804, the town residents held a meeting and resolved to raise no tax for building a court-house. The location of the building was objectionable to them, and they, as freemen, exercised their right to remonstrate, and meantime withhold their aid. The cause of education has been promoted from the first as a means of self-sustenance. The old pioneers believed that education made better citizens and enhanced the ability of its possessor, and, from 1798 to the present, the interest has been held paramount. On June 10, 1799, there was a school-house standing one mile northeast of Lancaster. From that pioneer structure there has heen a gradual evolution and progress, till Rom- ulus contains nine school districts, each district a frame school-house, each school- house a licensed teacher. These nine schools have offered education to six hun-' dred and seventy-one school-children, and four hundred and eighty-three have made them available. A private school obtained the patronage of but seventeen pupils. Eighteen teachers were required, sixteen licensed by a local officer, two by the State Superintendent; of cach sex an equal number. The value of school-houses and their sites is $5300, and the assessed valuation of property in the town is $863,656.


CHURCH HISTORY.


There is but one church within the limits of the town, whose history closes our record. The ROMULUS BAPTIST CHURCH is the oldest in the Sencca Associa- tion. It was constituted in 1795, with a membership of seven persons. In the early enrollment we find the names of Rov. Peter Bainbridge; Deacons, Elijah Ahhott, John Greene, John Finton, and Samuel Blaine; Brethren Wm. W. Folwell, Barnard Swarthout, and Mahlon Bainbridge, and Sisters Mrs. John Sayre, Mrs. Swarthout, Mrs. Blaine, Mrs. Bainbridge, and Mrs. Denton. A church site was donated by W. W. Folwell. The first building for worship was constructed in


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1808, and rebuilt in 1849. A lot for a parsonage was donated by Mrs. Joseph Hunt, and upon it a residence was erceted in 1856. The church and site are valued at eight thousand dollars, and the parsonage at three thousand dollars. The pastors have been recalled as follows: Revs. David Wisner, John Caton, John Cooper, J. C. Holt, W. W. Brown, E. P. Otis, C. G. Carpenter, D. Wright, O. Young, I. Fargo, J. S. Webber, P. Irving, M. W. Holmes, D. D. Owen, George T. MeNair, and Louis J. Gross, at present in charge. John Caton served with Washington in the Revolution, and on the visit of La Fayette to Waterloo, the general singled out the old veteran in the crowd assembled to give him wel- come, and exclaimed, "Come here, John Caton ; I have not seen you for forty years." The soldiers met as those long parted, and many an eye grew moist at the heart-touching scene. Among the licentiates were Rev. John Griffith, D. D., of Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Rev. B. S. MeLafferty, of Oakland, Cal .; Rev. S. M. Bainbridge, of Elmira, N. Y .; Rev. S. V. Marsh, of Eatontown, N. J., and Thomas Marsh. The society is free from debt, and has seen a membership of two hundred and twelve. A Sabbath-school has one hundred attendants and a library of one hundred and fifty volumes.


RETROSPECT.


Briefly the roll has been called, and a few aged survivora have answered for themselves and their departed comrades, and we have attempted to perpetuate their names and the localities where, with no thought of heroism, those New Jersey aud Pennsylvania pioneers, scattered in the unbroken forest of Seneca, felled the trees with lusty axe-strokes, built their cabins, cleared up lands, set out orchards, laid out roads, and, with a lasting remembrance of their need of Divine guidance to bear their hardships and intelligent successors to maintain self-government, turned aside from their labors on the farm to build them churches and school-houses, that the moral should be quiekened and the intel- lectual developed.




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