History of Tioga, Chemung, Tompkins and Schuyler counties, New York, Part 102

Author: Peirce, H. B. (Henry B.) cn; Hurd, D. Hamilton (Duane Hamilton)
Publication date: 1879
Publisher: Philadelphia : Everts & Ensign
Number of Pages: 1112


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Eleazer Ilaskins, private; must. May 21, 1861, three months.


Charles Head, private; must. May 21, 1861, three months. Nelson Bodle, private; must. May 21, 1861, three months. Forbes Cooley, private ; must. May 21, 1861, three months. Elijah Van Auken, private.


Enlisted men, 75 ; men brought from abroad, 36 ; drafted men, 4; substitutes, 6. Total, 121.


23D REGIMENT N. Y. INFANTRY.


Abe Shoemaker, private. Nathan Osborn, private. Orlando Elwell, private. Edward Soper, private. Jerry Bogert, private.


141ST REGIMENT N. Y. INFANTRY-Company C.


Metroy Westbrook, private; must. Sept. 10, 1862, three years.


Thomas Hill, private; must. Sept. 10, 1862, three years; killed at Peach-Tree Creek.


Solomon White, private; must. Sept. 10, 1862, three years. Hiram Beckwith, private ; must. Sept. 10, 1862, three years. George H. Patchin, private; must. Sept. 10, 1862, three years. Luke Edwards, private ; must. Sept. 10, 1862, three years. John Van Oshwich, private; must. Sept. 10, 1862, three years. John W. Coywood, private; must. Sept. 10, 1862, three years. Erastus Doane, private; minst. Sept. 10, 1862, three years. James Van Auken, private; must. Sept. 10, 1862, three years. Corydon M. Gillett, private ; must. Sept. 10, 1862, three years. Wm. H. Van Etten, private ; must. Sept. 10, 1862, three years. Charles Harris, private; must. Sept. 10, 1862, three years. George Harris, private ; must. Sept. 10, 1862, three years. Albert Whittey, private; must. Sept. 10, 1862, three years. Albert Swartwood, private; killed at Peach Tree Creek. Josiah Weeks, private; must. Sept. 10, 1862, three years. Oliver P. Wood, private; must. Sept. 10, 1862, three years. William Wood, private; must. Sept. 10, 1862, three years. Dwight Murphy, private ; must. Sept. 10, 1862, three years. David Swartout, private; must. Sept. 10, 1862, three years.


179THI REGIMENT-Company H.


George Berlew, private; died in the army.


Frederick Fitzgerald, died at Andersonville prison.


William H. White, Daniel Beckhorn, James Beckhorn, John Cretzer, Benja- min Hill, James M. Mitchell, D. C. Van Etter, David H. Shepherd (died from wounds), Ira Perrin, Emannel Ennis, Simeon Rumsey, Myron Bredenburg, D. Hollenbeck, John Patchin (missing), Isaac Fownesby, Jesse Cornell, Harrison Goldsmith.


Daniel Kolman, private; must. Dec. 19, 1864, one year. James M. Swartwood, private; one year.


Seneca Weeks, private ; one year.


3D HEAVY ARTILLERY-Company M.


Jacob Westbrook, private ; must. Oct. 8, 1861, three years. Asa Patchin, private; must. Oct. 8, 1861, three years. Smith Harris, private; must. Oct. 8, 1861, three years ; died from wounds. Edward Maxwell, private; must. Oct. 21, 1861, three years; died in the army. Deunis Armstrong, private; must. Oct. 21, 1861, three years. King Swartout, private; must. Oct. 17, 1861, three years. Elijalı Georgia, private; must. Oct. 17, 1861, three years. Benjamin Georgia, private; must. Oct. 17, 1861, three years; died in the army. Seth Knowles, private; must. Dec. 16, 1861, three years. William J. Tunis, private; must. Oct. 8, 1861, three years; wounded. Washington Head, private ; three years.


137TH REGIMENT INFANTRY-Company C.


Harrison Westbrook, private; must. Nov. 10, 1864, three years. John Knettles, private; must. Nov. 10, 1864, three years. Joshua Westbrook, private ; must. Nov. 10, 1864, three years.


MISCELLANEOUS.


David Vosbury, private, 107th Inf. Myron Van Etteu, private, Ist Vet. Cav., N. Y., 1864. Levi Card, private, 1st Vet Cav., N. Y., 1864. Winsor Lott, private, Ist Vet. Cav., N. Y., 1864. Leroy Bogart, private, 6th N. Y. H. Art., Co. B ; must. Sept. 17, 1863, three years. Abijah Bowen, private, 6th N. Y. H. Art., Co. B ; must. Sept. 17, 1863, three years.


LITH. BY L H. EVERTS, PHILA


THE FALLS OF TAUGHANNOCK. ( FALL 218 FEET.)


TOMPKINS COUNTY.


CHAPTER LVIII.


THE FIRST SETTLEMENTS.


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NOTWITHSTANDING that the territory now embraced within the boundaries of Tompkins County was remote from the flourishing settlements in the eastern part of the State, and was traversed by none of the great trails of the red man, still it received its first settlers as early as 1789. The sanguinary struggle between the Colonists and Great Britain had seareely eeased ere the rude eabin of the pioneer might have been seen in various sections of the county, and


" The axe, that wondrous instrument That, like the talisman, transforms Deserts to fields and cities,"


was already resounding among the stern old monarchs of the forest.


The first settler in the town of Caroline was Captain David Rich, who came from western Massachusetts, and located in the east part of the town in 1795. The Earsleys were also pioneers in this town, who were soon followed by General John Cantine, a large land-owner, in 1798. A portion of the present village of Mott's Corners is located upon his original purehase.


The settlement of Danby was effected contemporaneously with that of Caroline, in 1795, by Isaae and John Dumond, and Jacob and John Yaple, who formed a eopartnership when they located in Ithaea in 1789, which continued after their removal to this town.


The pioneer in the town of Dryden was Amos Street, who located on the present site of the village of Dryden in 1797. In the following year, Ezekiel Sanford, David Foot, and Ebenezer Clarkson, with their families, settled at " Willow Glen." George Robertson was also a pioneer in this town.


Among the early settlers in Enfield were Judah Baker, Asahel Lovell, John White, Peter Bomfield, and John Applegate.


Differences of opinion exist in regard to the first settle- ment made within the present boundaries of the town of Groton ; but, after diligent and patient research, we ineline to the opinion that to John Perrin should be aseribed the honor of the pioneer settlement. He located in Groton Hollow, in 1797, on lot No. 75, then owned by Major Benjamin Hieks, of Canajoharie, who had served with dis- tinetion in the Revolutionary war.


The first settlement in the town and village of Ithaca was made in the year 1789, by Isaac and John Dumond, Jacob and John Yaple, and Peter Hinepaw.


The pioneer settlement in the town of Lansing was made


in the month of March, 1791, by Silas and Henry Ludlow (brothers), and Thomas, Henry's son, with their families, who came from Ithaca. They proceeded down the lake on the iee, drawing their household effects on a hand-sled. When opposite Salmon Creek, they turned their eyes land- wards, and upon reaching the shore passed up the ravine as far as the present site of Ludlowville. They at onee, seeing the advantages to be derived from the excellent water-power at this point, purchased the lot upon which it was located (No. 75), and here, beside the rapid stream, they reared their log-built eabin.


Newfield was settled in the year 1800, the pioneer being James Thomas, who located on the old Newtown road near Poney Hollow. Joseph Chambers, John White, and David Linderman located in the town a few years later.


The first settlement in the town of Ulysses was made by Abner and Philip Tremain (brothers), and Benjamin, Philip's son, in 1792, on the site of the present village of Trumansburg. (For detailed history of the early settle- ments, see town histories.)


CHAPTER LIX.


ORGANIZATION OF TOMPKINS COUNTY.


Organization of Towns-First County Officials-First Justices of the Peace-Erection of First Court-House and Jail-Present Court- House-Jail-Clerk's Office-First Court of General Sessions-First Indictment-First Jury-Court of Common Pleas-First Proceed- ings in Surrogate's Court-The First Board of Supervisors-Public Buildings - Court-House - Clerk's Office-Jail - County Poor- Honse.


THE county of Albany was formed on the first day of November, 1683, and embraced " the manor of Rensselaer- wiek, Schenectady, and all the villages, neighborhoods, and Christian plantations on the east side of Hudson's River from Roeloffe Jansen's Creek, and on the west side from Sawyer's Creek to the outermost ends of Saraghtoga." By subsequent enaetments the county of Albany was made to comprise all that territory. within the province of New York north and west of present limits, and also included the entire State of Vermont.


In 1772 Tryon County was set off from Albany, and named in honor of Sir William Tryon, then provineial Governor. It embraced all the present territory of New York lying west of a north and south line, passing near the centre of the present county of Schoharie. The county-seat was located at Johnstown, April 2, 1784; its name was changed to Montgomery, in honor of General Richard Montgomery of the Revolution.


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HISTORY OF TIOGA, CHEMUNG, TOMPKINS,


The first county sct off from Montgomery was Ontario, in 1789.


Herkimer (originally called Erghemer) was erected from Montgomery, Feb. 16, 1791 ; Onondaga from Herkimer, March 5, 1794; Cayuga from Onondaga, March 8, 1799 ; Seneca from Cayuga, March 29, 1804; and Tompkins from Cayuga and Seneca, April 17, 1817.


Tompkins County, as originally organized, embraced the towns of Hector, Ulysses, and Covert from Seneca County, and the town of Dryden and portions of Locke and Genoa from Cayuga County. The towns erected from Locke and Genoa were called Division (now Groton) and Lansing.


The county retained its original dimensions until March 22, 1822, when the towns of Caroline, Danby, and Cayuta (now Newfield) were annexed from Tioga County.


It was diminished in area in 1853, when a portion of the town of Newfield was annexed to Chemung County, and again, April 17, 1854, when Hector became a portion of Schuyler County.


The county at present consists of nine towns, viz. :


Caroline, organized (Tioga County) Feb. 22, 1811.


Danby, organized (Tioga County) Feb. 22, 1811.


Dryden, organized (Cayuga County) Feb. 22, 1803. Enfield, organized (Tompkins County) March 16, 1821. Groton,* organized (Tompkins County ) April 17, 1817. Ithaca, organized (Tompkins County) March 16, 1821. Lansing, organized (Cayuga County) April 7, 1817. Newfield, f organized (Tioga County) Feb. 22, 1811. Ulysses, organized (Onondaga County) March 5, 1799. The first county officials werc as follows :


First Judge .- Oliver C. Comstock, appointed April 10, 1817.


Surrogate .- Andrew D. W. Bruyn, appointed March 11, 1817.


Clerk .- Archer Green, appointed April 11, 1817.


Sheriff .- Herman Camp, appointed April 11, 1817 (Henry Bloom was appointed sheriff, June 26, 1817).


District Attorney .- David Woodcock, appointed April 15, 1817.


The first justices of the pcace, appointed in 1817, were as follows : W. Wigton, Eliakim Avcry, A. D. W. Bruyn, Henry Bloom, Chas. Bingham, Nathaniel F. Mack, John Sutton, Simeon F. Strong, Joseph Goodwin, John Bow- man, J. Bennett, Samuch Love, John Ellis, William Mar- tin, Peter Rappleya, Chester Coborne, Thos. White, Richard Smith, H. D. Barto, Caleb Smith, Peter Whitmore, J. Weaver, Stephen Woodworth, Lewis Tookers, John Bowker, Chas. Kelly, C. Brown (2d), Jas. Colegrove, and Abijah Miller.


The act of the Legislature organizing the county of Tompkins designated Ithaca as the county-seat, and con- tained a provision, providing that in case of failure to convey a site for the county buildings to the supervisors, and the securing of $7000 to be paid, the new county was to be re-annexed to the counties of Cayuga and Seneca.


The citizens of Tompkins evidently manifested a lively interest in the matter, as the provisions in the enactment


were complicd with, and in 1818 a building for a court- house and jail was erected and ready for occupancy. This primitive hall of justice was a wooden structure, erected on the site occupied by the present court-house.


It at length became inadequate to the wants of the people, and an act having passed the Legislature for the erection of a new building, Stephen B. Cushing, Samuel Giles, and Horace Mack were appointed a building com- mittee, and the present court-house was commenced in 1854 and completed in 1855, at a cost of $12,154.76. It is a commodious brick structure, pleasantly located near the centre of the village. The present jail is a substantial stone building, contiguous to the court house, and was erected in 1850. The first clerk's office was a small one-story brick building with brick floor, and occupied the site of the present clerk's office, which is a ncat and substantial two-story brick structure, erected in 1862, conveniently located on Tioga Street. The second story is occupied by the surrogate.


The following is a copy of the proceedings of the first court of General Sessions, held in May, 1817 :


Tompkins County, May Term, 1817 .- At a meeting of the Court of General Sessions of the peace, in and for said county, at the meeting-house in the village of Ithaca, in the town of Ulysses, on the 28th day of May, 1817.


Present, John Sutton, Esq., Senior Judge; Thomas White, Richard Smith, and John Ellis, Judges and Justices of the Peace; Charles Bingham, Parley Whetmore, John Bowman, and William Wigton, Assistant Justices.


Bills of indictment were presented to said court by. the grand inquest of said county against the following persons, viz. : John C. Murry, Daniel Newell, Humphrey D. Tabor, Daniel Murry, Alvin Chase, Abraham Osborne, and Samuel Osborne. The above were "severally recognized in the sum of $100 each." Their securities were John Town- send, Jr., for J. C. and D. Murry; Jabez Howland, for H. D. Murry ; Isaac Chase, for Alvin Chase ; Isaac Chase and Henry Hewlin, for A. and S. Osborne.


The witnesses, who were also " recognized in the sum of $50 each," werc Joseph Bowen, Chester Coborn, Samuel Rolff, and Wm. Coykendall.


At this term of court a bill was returned by the grand jury for theft or petit larceny against Birdscy Clark. " Mr. Johnson pleaded against the jurisdiction of the court. The court overruled the objection, and ordered that the prisoner give bail or be committed to jail. The prisoner requested and obtained permission to be tried by a special session." A bill of indictment was also returned against Calvin Kel- logg for assault and battery.


The first petit jury was organized at the September term, 1817, and consisted of the following persons :


Samuel Knapp, Marvin Buck, John Collins, Oliver Miller, Abner N. Harland, Horace Cooper, John Sniffen, Aaron K. Matthews, John Waldson, Caleb Davis, Augustus Ely, and Peter Vanvliet.


The first case tried by this jury was the indictment against Messrs. Murry, Tabor, Abraham and Samuel Os- borne, and Alvin Chase, for riot. They were found guilty, and Messrs. Tabor, Daniel Murry, and Abraham Osborne fined $10 each, and Alvin Chase and Samuel Osborne $5 each.


# Organized as Cayuta, name changed March 29, 1822. + Organized as Division, name changed March 13, 1818.


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The first Court of Common Pleas was held at the " meeting-house," in the village of Ithaca, town of Ulysses, on the fourth Tuesday of May, 1817. Senior Judge, John Sutton ; Judges, Richard Smith, Thomas White, and John Ellis ; Assistant Justices and Justices of the Peace, William Wigton, Charles Bingham, and John Bowman.


" The general pleas and the general commissions of the peace having been read, the court opened in due form. The court adjourned for one hour, to meet again at Champ- lin & Frisbie's hotel. The court met agreeably to adjourn- ment ; present as before. The venire for summoning the grand jury having been returned by John Ludlow, Esq., Coroner, their names being called, they all answered. Mr. B. Johnson objected to the grand jury being sworn, because they were summoned by a coroner and the venire directed to him. The court overruled the objection, and directed that the grand jury be sworn. They were accordingly sworn, and John Bowker, Esq., was appointed foreman of the said inquest. At this court it was also


" Resolved, By the Court, that those attornies who were authorized to praetiee in the counties of Seneca and Cayuga, and in the Supreme Conrt, and in good standing as sueh, he admitted in this conrt.


" On the following morning the court, having no further business, adjourned."


The first will recorded and proven was that of John Morris, of Lansing, A. D. Bruyn being at that time surro- gate. It was proven Sept 6, 1817, Isaiah Giles, J. Whit- lock, and Sarah Giles, witnesses.


The second will proven was that of Daniel Bacon, Sept. 10, 1817, Ebenezer Ilewitt, William Clark (2d), and Joel S. Bacon, witnesses.


The first letters of administration were issued May 6, 1817, to Elizabeth Smith, on the estate of Alexander Smith, of Ulysses. The second letters of administration were issued to Barzillai King, Jr., and Henry D. Barto, on the estate of Barzillai King, of Covert.


The first Board of Supervisors of Tompkins County convened in 1817, and was composed of the following per- sons : Ulysses, Johu Sutton ; Dryden, Parley Whitmore ; Division, Samuel Crittenden ; Lansing, Richard Townly ; Covert, Levi Wheeler; Hector, Richard Smith.


THE COUNTY POOR-HOUSE.


The citizens of Tompkins early manifested an interest in the pauper element of the county, and, Nov. 22, 1827, the Board of Supervisors voted as follows :


" Voted by the Board of Supervisors of the county of Tompkins, that it will he henefieial to snid county to ereet a poor-honse therein, and that they do hereby determine to build said eounty poor-house, iu pursuanee of an act entitled ' An aet to provide for the establishment of eounty poor-houses,' passed Nov. 27, 1824.


"By order of the Board of Supervisors of the county of Tompkins. " IF S. WALBRIDGE, Clerk. " Nov. 22, 1827."


" Voted, 23 Nov., 1827, to raise $4000 for above purpose. That the sum of $1500 be raised and levied the present year, $1250 in 1828, and $1250 (being the residue of said $4000) be raised in 1829."


Salmon Sharp, Dryden ; John Guthrie, Gates; Sullivan D. Hubbell, Hector; Elbert Curtis, Danby ; Nicoll Hal- sey, Ulysses ; Gilbert J. Ogden, Enfield ; John White, Newfield ; Nicholas Townley, Lansing; Ira Tilletson, Ithaca; Charles Mulks, Caroline, were appointed to superin-


tend the purchase of a suitable site, and build a county poor-house.


The poor-house is a wooden edifice, situated in the town of Ulysses, about four miles from Ithaca. The building has recently been altered and repaired. It is in very good condition, and has rooms for about seventy-five persons.


The following interesting doeument, from the annual report of the State Board of Charities, is annexed as illus- trating the condition of the inmates in 1876:


" When the examination was made the institution had twenty-four (24) male and fifteen (15) female inmates; total, thirty-nine (39). Two of them only were under sixteen years old; seven were between the ages of sixteen and fifty; thirteen between fifty and seventy ; sixteen between seventy and eighty ; and one was over eighty years of age. Three heeame dependent hefore they were ten years old : nine when between the ages of ten and forty ; thirteen when between forty and sixty ; and fourteen after they had passed the latter age. Fonr had been in the house less than one year; thirteen, one year and less than five years : seven, five years and less than ten ; eleven, ten years and less than twenty; three, twenty years and less than thirty ; and one more than forty years. The entire dependence of all the inmates, at the time of the inquiry, footed up three hundred and thirty years; the average to each person, 8.46 years.


"The birth-places of the inmates were as follows : United States, twenty-eight ; England, two; Ireland, four; other Enropean eonn- tries, two; birthplaces unknown, three. Of those of mature age, ten had a fair common-school education; eight had learned to read ; five to read and write; and the others were without any educational training. Nine of the wien and twelve of the women were said to be totally abstinent ; the others were elassed as intemperate. But little was known respeeting the hahits of the parents of the inmates.


" The authorities of this county maintain a vigorous system of placing dependent children iu family homes, and rely mainly upon these agencies in providing for this elass. The only family found in the house at the date of the inquiry was a weak-minded single woman, fifty-five years old, and her daughter, of feeble intellect, twenty-two years of age. The formuer had been an inmate thirteen and the latter eighteen years. The number of dependents in the families of the in- mates, in three generations, had been forty-six; the number of in- saue, eight; the number of idiots, six; the number of inebriates, thirty-two. Thirteen of those under eare were parents, having in all twenty-seven living children. Of these, one was in the poor-house ; two were bound out; twenty-one were self-supporting ; and the con- dition of three was uuknowu.


" A few of the eases examined will now be noticed : An uneducated hut temperate man, a widower, fifty-five years old, fourteen years an inmate, disabled by disease ; a feeble-minded single woman, aged thirty-seven years, ten years in the house, friendless and wholly de- pendent ; a widowed woman, seventy-five years of age, nneduented and very intemperate, an immate since fifty-six years old, and re- garded as a fixed burden ; an educated man, a widower, grossly inteul- perate, und six years in the institution ; a drunken, feeble-minded single man, thirty-two years of age, sixteen years a pauper inmato and likely to remain through life; a married man, sixty-eight years old, ignorant and intemperate, nine years in the house, und looked npon as a permanent charge ; an idiot, male, sixty-five years of age, an imuate forty-five years, aud entirely friendless; and a weak- minded man, aged twenty-one years, of intemperate parents, recently admitted, and gives no promise of future self-support.


"This county provides for its chronic insane mainly at the Stato institution for this class. The number under county care npon the occasion of the inquiry was six (6). All were mild and harmless cases, receiving no special attention.


" All of the inmates of this house except one were regarded as permanent dependents."


As an interesting statistical document, the report of the poor-house committee for 1877 is subjoined :


To the Board of Supervisors of Tompkins County :


Your committee on Poor-House and Superintendents' Reports would respectfully submit for the consideration of this Board the following report :


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HISTORY OF TIOGA, CHEMUNG, TOMPKINS, .


From the 12th day of November, 1876, to the 15th day of Novem- ber, 1877, there were supported in the county poor-house, county paupers, 454.


From the town of Danby


8


Cost of board and clothing.


Town of Caroline, days' board 927, hoard and clothing cost 155.50


Town of Danby, days' hoard 2207, board and clothing cost 370.21 Town of Dryden, days' board 1062, board and clothing cost 178.14


Town of Groton, days' hoard 1291, board and clothing cost 216.06 55.36


568.99 Town of Enfield, days' hoard 330, board and clothing cost Town of Ithaca. days' board 3392, hoard and clothing cost Town of Lansing, days' board 1830, board and clothing cost Town of Newfield, days' board 810, board and clothing cost 306.97 135.87 Town of Ulysses, days' hoard 1704, board and clothing cost 285.84


The following statement shows the amount of stock and produce sold from the county farm from the 15th day of Novemher, 1876, to the 15th day of November, 1877, and where applied :


Cash for steers sold. $100.00


Cash for yearlings. 65.00


Making a total of. $165.00


Which amount was expended as follows :


To Thomas M. Bower, keeper .. $100.00


To George Rightmire, house physician 31.00


In the hands of the Superintendents. 34.00


Making an aggregate of. $165.00


In conformity to the 30th section, title first, chapter 20th of the revised statutes, the Superintendents of the Poor for the County of Tompkins estimate the ex- penses for the support of the County Poor in the county and towns for the ensuing year at. $3000.00 40.00


For transporting paupers to the County Poor-Honse ...... For temporary relief of county paupers not in Poor- House. 2000.00


For Overseers of the Poor for services. 200.00


For Poor-House keeper's salary. 500.00


Aggregate estimate. $5740.00


To meet the deficiency now existing and provide for the poor ex- penses for the ensuing year your committee beg leave to offer the following resolutions :


Resolved, That the sum of fifteen hundred and sixty-eight dollars and ninety-nine cents ($1568.99) be levied and collected in the county of Tompkins to meet the unpaid drafts drawn on the County Treasurer for said amount, also the sum of twenty-four hundred and thirty-one dollars and one cent ($2431.01) for the support of the poor during the ensuing year.


Resolved, That the sums expended by the Superintendents of the Poor for the support of the poor in the several towns of the county of Tompkins be levied and collected on said towns according to the following statement, which shows the amount dne from the several towns for the support of their poor in the Poor-Ilouse from Nov. 15, 1876, to the 14th day of November, 1877 :




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