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Potter, Darling, private, 86th Regt., Co. H ; enl. Sept. 2, 18GI, one year; disch. May 7, 1865.
Nndd, David, private, 189th Regt., Co. F; enl. Sept. 3, 1864, one year ; disch. May 30, 1865, near Washington, D. C.
Lozier, Byron J., private, 86th: Regt., Co. K ; enl. Ang. 29, 1861, three years ; died at Elmira, N. Y., Nov. 2, 1861.
Finch, Philander W., private, 122d Regt., Co. E ; enl. July 18, 1863, three years ; disch. J- 3, 1865.
Heeley, Richard L., private, 179th Regt., Co. C; eul. March 31, 1864, three years ; wounded at l'etersburg.
Bailey, Stephen A., sergt., 86th Regt., Co. II ; enl. Sept. 7, 1861, three years ; pro. to sergt., May 7, 1862; disch. Dec. 30, 1863; re-enl. 86th Regt., C'o. H, Dec. 31, 1863, three years : pro. to Ist sergt., Aug. 6, 1864 ; to 1st lient., Dec. 23, 1864 ; wounded at Petersburg, March 25, 1805; died of wounds, April 9, 1865.
Jordan, Elias P., private, 56th Regt., Co. H ; enl. Jan. 3, 1664, three years ; killed at Wilderness, May 10, 1864.
Gardner, Benjamin O., private, 86th Regt., Co. K; enl. Dec. 31, 1861, three years ; died of disease, April 13, 1562, at Washington, D. C.
Houghtaling, George R., private, Issth Regt., Co. K; enl. Sept. 15, 1864, one year; disch. May 19, 1865.
Whipple, E. S., private, 14th N. Y. H. Art., Co. H ; enl. Jan. 4, 1864, three years. Brooks, James F., private, 90th Regt., Co. . \ ; enl. Oct. 31, 1861, three years ; wounded in right side at Donaldsonville; taken pris. to Baton Rouge ; disch. March 8, 1864.
Brooks, John L., private, 90th N. Y. Vols., Co. A ; enl. Nov. 8, 1861, three years ; died of yellow fever, Oct. 2, 1862, at Key West, Fla.
Seeley, Horace B., capt., 86th N. Y. Vol -. , Co. K ; enl. Aug. 29, 1861, three years ; pro. to 2d lient., Dec. 9, 1862; to Ist lieut., July 2, 1863; taken pris. ut Gettysburg, July 2, 1863; pro. to capt., Jan. 2, 1865 ; released from prison March 1, 1865.
Gilkey, John W., private, 86th Regt., Co. K ; enl. Sept. 5, 1861, three years ; de- tailed in ambulance corps, Oct. 3, 1462 ; disch. Dec. 31, 1864; re-enl. 5Gth Regt., Co. K, Dec. 31, 1864, three years; served in ambulance corps ; disch. June 27, 1865.
Gilkey, Franklin E., sergt., 86th Regt., Co. K ; enl. Aug. 29, 1861, three years; wounded at Chancellorsville ; disch. Sept. 9, 1864.
Parien, Nelson B .. private, 3d N. Y. Art., Bat. I; enl. Sept. 8, 1864, one year; disch, July 29, 1865.
Bowers, Charles A., private, 1GIst Regt., Co. HI ; enl. Ang. IS, 1862, three years; disch, Sept. 20, 1865.
Cook, Thomas M., private, Ist N. Y. Cav., Co. F; enl. Aug. 27, 1864, one year; disch. June 8, 1865,
Cook, Rufus, private, 136th Pa. Inf., Co. D; enl. July 27, 1862, nine months ; disch. for disal., Dec. 31, 1862; re-enl. 1st N. Y. Cav., Co. F, Aug. 27, 1864, one year ; disch. June 8, 1865.
Thomas, Sylvenus, private, 50th N. Y. Eng., Co. I; en1. Aug. 27, 1864, one year ; disch, June 13, 1865, at Fort Barry, Va.
Potter, Newton, private, 50th N. Y. Eng., Co. I; enl. Aug. 27, 1864, one year; disch. June 13, 1865, at Fort Barry, Va.
Mulkins, Charles, private, 136th Pa. Inf., Co. D ; eul. Ang. 9, 1×62, nine months; died at Mount Pleasant hosp., Washington, D. C., Oct. 11, 1862.
Labar, George, private, 4th l'a. Cav., Co. I; eol. Oct. 21, 1864, one year ; disch. Dec. 5, 1864, at Camp Biddle.
Everet, James S., private, 61st N. Y. Inf., Co. D; enl. Aug. 16, 1861, one year ; died of disease, Sept. 28, 1864.
Jordon, Squire J., private, 86th Regt., Co. K ; enl. Sept. 9, 1801, three years ; died of disease, Feb. 1, 1864, at Brandy Station, Val.
Carpenter, Henry B., corp., 188th N. Y. Inf., Co. E ; enl. Sept. 12, 1864, one year ; wounded at Petersburg : disch. June 2, 1805.
Ilallock, Abram, private, 50th N. Y. Eng., Co. K ; en1. Aug. 29, 1864, one year; disch. June 13, 1865.
Williams, William H., private, 3d N. Y. Art., Co. 1 ; enl. Sept. 8, 1x64, one year ; disch. July 8, 1865.
Williams, Alfred, corp., 188th Regt., Co. E; ent. Sept. 13, 1864, one year ; disch. July 10, 18G5.
Minard, John 11., corp., 75th N. Y. Vols., Co. E; ent. Sept. 17, 1861, three years ; wounded at Winchester; disch. Nov. 25, 1864.
Minard, James I., private, 3d N. Y. Art., But. 1 ; enl. Aug. 31, 1864, one year; disch. July 8, 1865, at Syracuse, N. Y.
Minard, Isaac A., private, Sd N. Y. Art., Bat I; ent. Sept 8, 1864, one year ; disch. July 8, 1865.
Stephens, William O., private, 86th Regt., Co. HI; enl. Jan. 14, 1864, three years ; lost an arm at Spottsylvania Court-House; disch. Sept. 20, 1864.
Stone, George, private, Ist N. Y. Cav., Co. F ; enl. Sept. 15, 1864, one year : dischi. June 8, 1865.
Dennin, John F., private, 2d N. Y. Cav., Co. G ; enl. Sept. 5, 1864, one year ; disch. Aug. 23, 1865.
Rowley, Daniel F., private, 86th Regt., Co. Il ; enl. Aug. 1862, three years ; sup- posed to have been killed ut Wilderness.
Honghtaling, Alfred, private, 2d N. Y. Cav., CD. G; enl. Sept. 5, 1864, one year. Ketchum, Thomas T., private, 188th Hegt., Co. E; enl. Sept. 13, 1864, one year ; disch. July 27, 1805.
Lathrop, Matthew (sub.), private, IlIth Regt., Co. I; ent. Aug. 18, 1864, une year ; disch, June 4, 1865.
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Marlatt, George F., private, 161st Regt., Co. 1 ; enl. Jan. 18, 1864, three years ; disch. Nov. 12, 1865.
Bailey, Charles B., private, 85th Regt., Co. A; enl. Sept. 14, 1864, one year ; disch. May 1, 1865, at Mosley Hall, N. C.
Ilaxton, Alonzo II., private, 15th 11. Art., Co. G ; enl. Jan. 4, 1864, three years ; disch. June 29, 1865.
Webster, Jny, corp., 76th N. Y. Vols. ; enl. Sept. 18, 1861, three years ; wounded in left knee at Fredericksburg; wounded at Falls Church; disch, on acc. of wound, Oct. 22, 1862, at Philadelphia, l'a .; re-enl. 14th II. Art., Co. K. three years ; trans, to 96tl Regt., Co. K ; pro. to 2d lieut., March 24, 1864 ; died of disease at Petersburg, Aug. 4, 1864.
Webster, Chauncey, private, 14th H. Art., Co. HI ; enl. Nov. 9, 1863, three years; disch. Aug. 26, 1865, at Washington, D. C.
Wilber, Henry
Rowley, John W., private, 179th Regt., Co. C; enl. March 31, 1864, three years; wounded on picket, June 25, 1864 : disch. Dec. 4, 1864, by gen. ord. No. 422. Skiner, Ebenezer, private, 3d N. Y. Art., Co. I; enl. Sept 8, 1864, one year; disch. July 3, 1865.
Skiner, Reoben, private, 3d N. V. Art., Co. I ; enl. Sept. 12, 1864, one year ; disch. July 8, 1865 ; died of disease, Ang. 3, 1865.
McFarland, William R., private, Ist N. Y. Vet. Cav., Co. F; enl. Ang. 24, 1864; disch. June 8, 1865, at Camp Prat, W. Va., by gen. ord. No. 83, A. G. A. Lewis, Benjamin F., private, 189th N. Y. Inf., Co. F; enl. Nov. 21, 1864, one year; disch. June 5, 1865.
Baily, George B., corp., 184th Regt., Co. A ; enl. Aug. 24, 1864, one ysar; pro to. corp., May 15, 1865 ; disch. July 12, 1865.
Ackley, Samuel, private, 146th Regt., Co. F; enl. July 20, 1863, three years; taken pris. at Wilderness, May 5, 1864; paroled March 27, 1865, at Wil- mington, N. C .; disch. Aug. 22, 1865.
Lewis, Truman W., private, 184th Regt, Co. A ; enl. Sept. 3, 1864, ons year ; disch. June 29, 1865, at City l'oint, Va.
Dunham, Richard G., private, IlIth Regt., Co. G ; en1. Aug. 26, 1864, one year ; disch. June 4, 1865, by general order No. 26.
Dunham, Richard, private, 14th II. Art., Co. G; enl. Dec. 7, 1863, three years ; taken pris, at Petersburg, June 6, 1864; died at Andersonville, Sept. 10, '64. Spencer, Raymond G., private, 1GIst Regt., Co. I; enl. March 30, 1864, three years; died Ang. 15, 1864, at Vicksburg, Brigade Engineer's hospital.
Rice, George, private, 86th N. Y. Vols., Co. Il ; enl. Feb, 4, 1863, three years ; taken prisoner and died at Andersonville, Oct. 1864.
Marlatt, Ilamilton J., private, 1GIst Regt., Co. II; eul. Ang. 13, 1862, three years ; dischi. Ang. 29, 1863, at B.iton Rouge, La .; re-enl. 161st Regt., Avg. 24, 1864; disch. May 29, 1865.
Dodge, Amasa, private, 45th Pa Inf., Co. Il ; en1. Oct. 18G1, three years; disch. for disability, Aug. 29, 1862; re-enl. 45th Pa. Inf., Co. I, March 9, 1864, three years; wounded at Petersburg, April 2, 1865; diseb. July 17, 1865. Cummins, Norman W., farrier, 7th Vet. Cav., Co. F; ent. Ang. 25, 1864, one year; pro. to farrier about two months after entering the service; disch. June 8, 1865, by general order No. 83, A. G. O.
More, Erastus V., private, Ist Vet. Cav., Co. F; enl. Aug. 25, 1864, one year ; disch June 8, 1865, by general order No. 83, A. G. O.
Ilays, Hiram II., private (sub.), Co. I; enl. Aug. 31, 1864, one year ; disch. Juve 2, 1865.
Marlatt, John G., private, 111th Regt., Co. I ; sul. Aug. 24, 1864, one year ; disch. June 14, 1865.
Ordway, Biatha, private, Ist N. Y. Cav., Co. F ; enl. Aug. 27, 1864, one year ; disch. June 8, 1865, at Camp Pratt, W. Va.
Marvin, William, private, 14th H. Art., Co. M; enl. Jan. 4, 1864, three years; wounded; disch. Ang. 11, 1865.
Cook, David, private, Ist N. Y. Vet. Cav., Co. F; enl. Ang. 29, 1864, one year; disch. June 15, 1865, at Wheeling, W. Va.
Darien, Joseph HI., private, 107th Regt., Co. I; enl. Ang. 7, 1862, three years ; taken pris. March 8, 1865; paroled at Richmond, Va., March 31, 1865 ; disch. May 31, 1865, by general order No. 77.
Holt, Silas W., private, 76th Regt., Co. H ; enl. July 20, 1863, three years ; disch. July 3, 1865, near Washington.
Ten Broeck, Ira W., private, 12th N. Y. Cav .; enl. Sept. 12, 1864, one year; taken prisoner, March 8, 1865 ; disch. July 7, 1865.
Dartle, Jesse, private, 161st Regt, Co. F ; enl. Sept. 6, 1864, one year; died of disease, Feb. 2, 1865.
Wilson, George S., private, 161st Regt., Co. F; enl. Sept. 27, 1864, one year ; disch. Sept. 3, 1865.
4 Wilson, Joseph R., private, 16Ist Regt, Co. F; enl. Sept. 27, 1864, one year; disch. Sept. 3, 1865.
Williams, John R., private, 2d Pa. Cav., Co. L; enl. Jan. 2, 1862, three years ; disch. Jan. 19, 1865.
Miller, Charles M., private, 96th Regt., Co. K ; enl. Feb. 6, 1803, three years ; wounded at Cold Harbor, also st Markett's Heights; disch, at White Hall hospital, Pa., Juns 13, 1865.
Bates, Richard, private, 2d Vet. Cav., Co. G ; enl. Sept. 7, 1864, one year ; disch. Ang. 23, 1865.
Miller, Reuben, private, 96th Regt., Co. K ; enl. Feb. 6, 1864, three years ; taken pris .; sent to Camp Parole, Annapolis; was sick and furloughed until exchanged or discharged, and has never been notified of his exchange. Miller, Alexander T., private, 50th Eng .; enl. Sept. 12, 1864, one year; trans. to 188th Regt., Co. E. Oct. 4, 1864; killed at Hatcher's Run.
Miller, Wesley, private, 96th Regt., Co. K ; enl. Feb. 6, 1864, three years ; killed at Fort Harrison, Sept. 29, 1864.
Pierce, Henry, private, 86th N. Y. Vet. Vols., Co. II; enl. Sept. 2, 1864, one year ; disch. June 2, 1865.
Powers, Eli R., private, 3d Lt. Art., Co. D; enl. March 2, 1864, three years ; disch. July 5, 1865, at Syracuse.
Kelly, William R., private, 107th N. Y. Vols., Co. K ; enl. Ang. 9, 1862, three years ; died of disease, Oct. 9, 1862, at Harper's Ferry.
Miller, Wm. Julian, corp., 188th N. Y. Vols., Co. G ; enl. Sept. 6, 1964, one year ; disch. July 1, 1865, at Rochester, N. Y.
Cornell, Franklin, private, 179th N. Y. Inf., Co. B; enl. March 11, 1864, three years ; wounded at Gettysburg ; disch. April 3, 1865, hy reason of wound. Chase, Charles Wesley, private, 133Gth l'a, Vols., Co. D; eol. Aug. I, 1802, nins months; died of disease, Oct. 27, 1862, at Smoketown hospital.
Tanner, Dennis, private, 5th II. Art., Co. C; enl. March, 1864, three years ; died at Harper's Ferry general hospital, Dec. 10, 1864.
Cummings, George W., private, 86th Regt .. Co. H ; enl. Jan. 14, 1863, three years; wounded at the Wilderness and died May 20, at Howard hospital.
Cook, Jerome B., private, Ist N. Y. Vet. Cav., Co. F ; eul. Aug. 27, 1864, one year ; disch. June 15, 1865, at Wheeling, W. Va.
Cummings, Wallace W., private, 188th N. Y. Vols., Co. E; enl. Sept. 10, 1864, one year ; disch. June 29, 1865.
Lozier, Charles Henry, private, 2d Pa. Cav., Co. B ; enl. March 8, 1864, thres years ; lost & leg, June 11, 1864; disch. March 2, 1865.
More, Willis, private, 2d N. Y. Cav., Co. L; enl. Aug. 31, 1964, one year, disch. June 5, 1865.
More, Lester, private, 2d N. Y. Cav., Co. L; enl. Ang. 31, 1864, one year ; died of disease at Guysboro' general hospital, Nov. 20, 1864.
Rude, William, private, 188th N. Y. Vols., Co. A; enl. Sept. 22, 1864, one year ; killed at Petersburg, March 31, 1865.
Stoliker, Abram, private, 42d l'a. Inf., Co. C; enl. April 25, 1861, three years ; disch. Dec. 20, 1863; re-enl. 190th Pa. Inf., Co. C, Dec. 21, 1863, three years ; taken pris. and sent to Richmond, Aug. 19, 1864 ; paroled Feb. 27, 1865; disch. June 14, 1865.
Williams, Merit M., corp., 188th Regt., Co. E; enl. Sept. 12, 1864, one year; wounded nt Ilatcher's Run, Oct. 27, 1864 ; disch. July I, 1865.
Card, Charles Edward, private, Ist N. Y. Cav., Co. L; enl. Sept. 10, 1863, three years ; disch. July, 1865.
Card, Willis H., private, 86th Regt., Co. II ; enl. Sept. 2, 1864, one year; disch. June 2, 1865.
Wakeley, Daniel C., private, 135th Pa. Inf., Co. D; enl. Ang. 9, 1862, nine months ; disch. May 20, 1863.
Artcher, Jeremiah, private, 187th Pa. Inf., Co. I; enl. March 28, 1864, three years ; disch. Ang. 3, 1865.
Harrington, Aaron, private, 27th PH. Inf .; enl. Sept. 1, 1864, ons year; disch. May 31, 1865, at Alexandria, Va.
Stiles, John, private, 188th N. Y. Inf., Co. E; enl. Sept. 19, 1864, one year : disch. July 1, 1865.
Stiles, Ezra, private, 188th N. Y. Inf., Co. E; enl. Sept. 19, 1864, ove year ; disch. July 1, 1865.
Thomas, Eli P'., private, 188th N. Y. Inf., Co. K ; enl. Sept. 12, 1864, one year; disch. July I, 1865.
Rowley, Daniel, private, 179th N. Y. Inf., Co. C; enl. March 30, 1864, thres years ; killed at Petersburg, July 30, 1864.
Rowley, H. George, private, 86th N. Y. Inf., Co. K; enl. Sept. 9, 1861, thres years ; died March 28, 1862, at camp hospital, near Washington, D. C.
Cook, John R., corp., 86th Regt., Co. K ; enl. Sept.5, 1861, three years; wounded; disch. Dec. 6, at convalescent camp near Alexandria, Va .; re-enl. 50th N. Y. Eng., Co. K, Aug. 25, 1864, one year; disch. June 4, st Elmira.
Cook, James, private, 136th Pa. Inf., Co. D; enl. Ang. 9, 1862, nine months; dischi. June 4, 1863, at Harrisburg ; re-enl. Ist N. Y. Cav., Ang. 28, 1864, one year; disch. June 15, 1865, at Wheeling, Va.
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH.
JAMES CARPENTER.
James Carpenter was born in Exeter, Otsego Co., N. Y., Oct. 18, 1800. His ancestors came from England to Long Island, from whence his father, John Carpenter, went to Otsego about 1795. Ile moved to Chenango County in 1808. He married, in Long Island, Ruth, daughter of Thomas Smith. This couple had six children ; three- Joseph, Mary, and James-attaining maturity. Mr. Car- penter died about 1808; his wife two years previously. James Carpenter was bound to Francis Peeso, a farmer, with whom he stayed till of age. When twenty-five he married Elizabeth, daughter of Peter Dodge, and followed farming in Oxford until 1831, when he came to Troups- burgh. He purchased the farm where he now resides, with
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his son Henry B., paying two dollars and twenty-five cents per aere, " one-fourth down." By energy and industry he transformed a roadless forest into a pleasant home, and, at the age of seventy-eight years, is in possession of health. By his first wife he had ten children : James, born Feb. 5, 1826 ; William and Wills (deceased), twins, July 26, 1827 ; IJenry B., Jan. 12, 1829 ; Ruth E., Oct. 8, 1831 ; Otis A.,
past, Mr. Carpenter has ever been a representative farmer, a kind father, a warm friend, an estimable citizen. For nearly forty years Mr. Carpenter has been a Baptist. Ifis first vote was for Andrew Jackson. He afterwards was a Whig and a Republican. Few fathers have a prouder record in the late war-four sons and two sons-in-law were in the army ; one son, Thomas S., dying in the service.
James Carfuntore
Sept. 28, 1833; Mary, Sept. 26, 1835 ; Milton (deceased), Sept. - , 1837 ; Thomas S. (deceased), June 22, 1839 ; Maria N., June 14, 1842. Mrs. Carpenter died June 23, 1843. Mr. Carpenter married Elvira Hamblin, April 9, 1844. Of this union were born Ellen L., July 31, 1845. Mrs. Carpenter died, aged seventy-two years, Oet. 20, 1877. A sturdy pioneer, one of the few remaining pillars of the 51
In striet integrity, diligent industry, and Christian honesty, Mr. Carpenter has no superior.
Henry B. Carpenter was married to Celestia Bingham, April 2, 1857. She was born Ang. 31, 1834. Their ehil- dren are Eddie (deceased), born March 21, 1859; Ralph H., Oct. 13, 1862; Thomas G., March 3, 1865; Willard M., Oct. 18, 1866 ; and Ettie V., Oet. 21, 1872.
TUSCARORA.
ERECTION AND DESCRIPTION.
TUSCARORA was formed from Addison, Dec. 13, 1859. It includes township No. 1 of the third range of Phelps and Gorham's purchase, and is situated on the south border of the county, east of the centre. The surface is hilly and somewhat broken by the valleys of the Tuscarora Creek and other small streams. The soil is chiefly a clay loam, with gravel and alluvium in the creek-valleys.
EARLY SETTLEMENT.
William Wombough, the first settler of Tuscarora, was a native of New Jersey, and the son of a Revolutionary sol- dier. His departure from the old home was characterized by that impetuosity which was his ruling characteristic through life, and which made for him an abundant success where many others would have failed. After his father's death there arose a dispute about the division of the prop- erty, when William, then a young man, said if they would give him $100 he would leave and let the rest settle it among themselves. He added to this $70 during the next season, and in June, 1804, purchased 187 acres in the Tuscarora Valley, including the present residence of his sou, William Wombough, in the town of Tuscarora, a few rods from the south line of Addison. Engaging in lumbering in a small way, Mr. Wombough was so successful in his various enter- prises that in 1806 he built a small grist-mill and a saw- mill on the stream, just in front of the family residence. His rich bottom lands produced heavy crops of wheat and corn, which were gladly loaned by the settlers up the ereek and others who were less favored, to be paid with increase after harvest. His mill was without a competitor for many miles. Working industriously in the lumber-woods him- self, he invested his gains in lands, becoming in a few years the possessor of a large amount of valuable timber lands. Although within the present bounds of Tuscarora, the ben- efit of his industries accrued to Addison, but little settle- ment being made south for several years. A mile and a half up the valley Amos Dolph made the first settlement at Carrtown, afterwards known as Addison Hill. Amos Towsley, whose son, John Towsley, was a prominent citizen for a number of years, settled between them in 1816. Jesse Rowley settled at the forks of the creek, a mile above Mr. Dolph, but three months after Mr. Wombough, in 1804. Mr. Rowley came from the North River, bringing with him a family of ten, three others being born in Tuscarora, of whom Jemima, wife of John Plimley, who was born in February, 1806, was the first child born in the town. Jesse W. Rowley, son of Jesse Rowley, the present town clerk and proprietor of the long-known " Rowley's Tavern," was born on the place where he now lives, and is the oldest living man who was boru in Tuscarora. He has been either
town clerk or supervisor every year but five since the for- mation of the town. At the time of Mr. Rowley's settle- ment there was no inhabitant between him and Osceola, Pa., nor between him and Woodhill. In 1816, Samuel Colgrove and Mr. Tousley came on the creek above Wom- bough's.
Lying for the most part on the point of land between the Tioga Valley and the valley of the Canisteo, the easy outlet for lumber destined Tuscarora to an early settlement. Heavily timbered, and divided on the south into separate ridges by small streams, and the north and east opened by the Tuscarora Creek, it only required a market to furnish many a winter's work to the hardy lumbermen, whose camp, built of huge logs and roofed with snow-laden boughs, existed for a season, then moved to a more favored locality. The hardy adventurer, who with a family of little ones, attempted to penetrate the dense forest in the south part of the town, before the advance of civilization, is well entitled to remembrance. Daniel Strait, an old soldier of the Revolution, migrated from Chenango County, in 1799, to the Cowanesque Valley, but finding a more favored locality among the thrifty pines upon the point above the " Lindsley Settlement," made the first settlement in southern Tuscarora, adjoining the Pennsylvania line, on what is known as the Morehead place, in 1809. Following the example of other early travelers, he chose winter that he might travel on the ice. After breaking through several times in his journey down the river, he succeeded iu work- ing his passage to a point on the hill, sheltered on the east and west, and overlooking the broad valley far to the south when the dense forest was removed, but then so completely veiled by standing timber as to only admit the midday sun- shine to the little " opening," which had been cleared to erect the first rude log cabin. For seven years he lived here, alone with his little family, the nearest neighbor being on the river, five miles away. The little log cabin lies in ruins near the spring, and the aged veteran sleeps on the hill-side near by. His son, Daniel Strait, Jr., lived to see the modern frame house succeed the log one, the hills checkered here and there with clearings, and he, too, at the age of seventy-eight, was removed from the scene of his labors, leaving two sons, Luke and Joel, who live just over the hill to the west. In 1816, Asahel Thomas joined the elder Mr. Strait, but it was not until 1824, when Joseph Gile came on the hill, and settled where Archibald Manley now lives, that a road was blazed through to Addison. John C. Orr, father of John Orr, a leading merchant of Addison, settled two miles south of Addison, in the north- eastern part of Tuscarora, about 1816; his father, Joseph Orr, coming afterwards, together with other members of the Orr family, and forming the Orr Settlement before any
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others located in that neighborhood. Up Mind Creek Daniel Burdick and Andrew Crowl were among the earliest settlers in the east part of the town. Rev. David Short, a Close-Communion Baptist preacher, grandfather of Robert Short, the well-known and popular Addison blacksmith, located on the Hollis place, joining the Pennsylvania line, southeast of Strait, in 1823, preaching throughout the surrounding country, and industriously working upon his farm.
Warren and Benedict Northrup settled in the Northrup Settlement in 1825.
After Mr. Gile had made a small clearing, and John Webster had settled between him and Rowley's, Rev. Aaron Baxter with his family, Alfred Nichols his son-in-law, and Simeon Freeman, a boy in his employ, settled near the Pennsylvania line, a mile farther west than Strait. Mr. Nichols had a pair of horses and $25 in money. With no experience to guide hiu, but with a resolute will to sue- cecd, he built him a house 14 feet square, and barely high enough to walk into without stooping, and began to cut down the trees about his cabin. Meanwhile, Elder Baxter visited the land-office at Bath, and made an arrangement by which he should receive half a dollar an aere on all lands he might sell; the balance of $1.50 an acre to be paid at the land-office. Through his exertions that part of the town began to settle so rapidly, that in 1830 he had gath- ered 46 of his neighbors together into a church. His col- ony came from Chenango County, and included the families of James Sprague, Migeman Taft, David Hart, Samnel and Enoch Mack, Eliba Albee, Orrin Swan, and Samuel Smith.
In 1827, Elder Baxter cleared 30 acres of land and planted it to wheat, obtaining a large yield, which found a ready sale in the Tioga Valley. In 1826 a single house could be seen in a small opening among the thick, blue hemlock-trees, on the hill to the east of the Tuscarora Val- ley, a mile above the mouth of Mind Creek, exactly in the centre of the town. This was the home of Justus Wright, who came there when his son Isaac Wright, who still lives on the old homestead, was but six months old. Of all the dense forest of that time, there is but an occasional strip of brushwood left. The sloping hill-sides are covered with grass-lands and cultivated fields, sloping to the stream below, and dotted with the farm-houses of a people who have abandoned the woodsman's axe and rifle for the plow and reaper. A mile up the valley shines the spire of the church of South Addison. Baxter's Hill, which shorn of its woods overlooks the valley of the Cowanesque, has passed into the hands of his grandchildren. Just at the foot of the hill, below Wright's, is Parsels' mill and settlement. Aseend- ing the east hill past Mr. Wright's to the south, the trav- eler finds himself overlooking a little valley upon the hill-top, open towards the southwest. Half a mile distant stands the Free Baptist church ; on the hill beyond is the Nichols House, a wayside tavern years ago. Just below, in the quiet nest at your feet, is the farm-house of George H. Freeman, the present supervisor, and one of the leading citizens of the town. There is no more pleasing location in the old settlement. When his father, Simeon Freeman, left the employ of Elder Baxter in 1830, he purchased the woodland from which he reclaimed these fruitful acres, and
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