History of Tioga, Chemung, Tompkins and Schuyler counties, New York, Part 123

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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" Early and late about his farm he goes, A diligent worker with his own hard hands,


He plows tho rolling upland, and he sows,


And in waste places elears the wooded lands. No idle help is ho, who always stands Ovor himself task-master; day by day Sees somo new labor ended; his commands, Like a sagacious captain's, all obey-


And now they hive the bees, and now they toss the hay !"


Caroline is geographically situated in the southeast corner of the county. Its surface is an upland, broken by a series of irregular ridges running northeast and southwest. The soil is a gravelly and ealeareous loan, the former predomi- nating in the north part of the town, the latter in the south part. The soil and surface are admirably adapted to graz- ing, as well as to general agricultural productions. The area of the town is 30,323 acres, of which considerably more than two-thirds is improved. The streamis are Owego Creek, forming the east boundary, and Six-Mile Creek, and their branches. The Owego empties into the Susquehanna, Six-Mile Creek into Cayuga Lake, and thence into Lake Ontario. The courses of these streams are generally through deep narrow valleys, bordered by steep hill-sides.


THE SETTLEMENT


of the town was commenced by Captain David Rich, who emigrated from the western part of Massachusetts, and ar- rived in the east part of the town in 1795. He was then about thirty-five years of age and married. On his way hither he tarried for a short time in New Jersey, thence came to Apalachin, in Tioga County, and remained there till spring, when he followed up the Owego Creek, and settled on land he had previously loeated. The settlement thus made became permanent, and after the lapse of over eighty years, his descendants still own and occupy the farm upon which their ancestor made the first settlement in the wilds and solitude of that early day. Captain Rich lived to the age of ninety-two, dying in March, 1852. For many years he kept a public tavern, and a glanee at the old town records* shows he held a fair share of offices. He reared a family of two sons and several daughters, of whom but one daughter, Elmira, widow of Nathan White- more, of Union, Broome Co., N. Y., survives. A grandson of the captain, O. P. Rich, resides on part of the old homestead. The second family to settle here were the Earsleys, who likewise remained fast-rooted on the parent spot, changed, indeed, by progress and development, but changed to them, it may be said, only by time. Widow Earsley came from New Jersey with five sons and five daughters, arriving here about one week after Captain Rich. Mrs. Earsley had previously been on the premises, performing the journey with her eldest son, Richard, on horseback, and sleeping one night upon the ground, with her saddle for a pillow. In the early spring of 1795, she eame on with her five sons, and as many daughters,- namely,-Richard, William, John, Johnson, and Joshua, Eleanor, Sally, Betsy, Mary, and Kate. Richard died soon after their arrival. Of the girls, Sally married Henry Quiek, an early settler from Ulster County, whose descend- ants are numerous in and about the town ; Betsy married Pardon Yates, and is still living, at the advaneed age of ninety years, in Apalachin ; Mary married Philip Yaple, of Danby ; two of her sons, Peter and Horace Yaple, now live in this town; Mary and Kate were twins, and by a remarkable coincidenee were both likewise buried on the same day, one in Caroline and one in Barton, Tioga Co. The grandsons of Mrs. Earsley now living in the town are


* See list of town officers, under head of "Civil Organization."


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Richard, Nathan B., and Francis ; the granddaughters are Mrs. Emily Robison, Mrs. Annie Patch, and Mrs. Ruth M. Surdam, all widows, and Sallie, wife of John W. Beck- man. The two families, the Richs' and Earsleys, were for a few years, perhaps three or four, the only settlers in the town.


General John Cantine, of Ulster Co., N. Y., at an early day became identified with this section, and in 1798 purchased a tract of land, in shape two miles east and west and one mile north and south, upon a part of which now stands the village of Mott's Corners. General Cantine was a prominent settler, and for many consecutive years a mem- ber of Assembly, and also a State senator and a member of the Constitutional Convention, being one of those who voted against its ratification In 1804, when past seventy, he was high sheriff of Tioga County. He first came to this region as one of three commissioners on the part of the State to survey and adjust either the pre-emption- or transit- line, to settle the dispute over the Massachusetts Purchase. As will be seen by incidental mention elsewhere, General Cantine was a man of considerable enterprise, and did much towards the early development of the town. He died April 30, 1807, at the age of seventy-four years. He had three sons, John, Jr., Charles, and Moses. John Cantine, Jr., continued to live in the old " Mansion House," and carried on the mill until 1825, or thereabouts, when he re- moved to Ithaca. Charles was a farmer, and lived and died in Caroline, and has several descendants in town. Moses J. became a printer, and was for several years one of the pro- prietors of the Albany Argus, a leading paper in the State at one time.


Soon after General Cantine, Joseph Chambers and Rich- ard Bush came in from Marbletown, Ulster Co., N. Y. The former settled the Michael C. Krum farm. Deacon Richard Bush, soon after arriving, erected a large square house, constructed of hewn logs, and commenced a tavern, the first in town, long known as the old " Bush stand." It long stood as a landmark in " ye olden time" on the south side of the road, on land now owned by H. S. Krum.


Hartmore Ennist came in 1800, from Marbletown, and settled on the old Sullivan place. He lived and died herc, and is buried on the farm. He left one daughter, who mar- ried Abram Chambers.


When Cantine erected his mills, in 1800, he brought with him Benona Mulks, a millwright, for the purpose. The two had been old and intimate friends in early life. One day during the erection of the mills, Mr. Mulks, coming up the creek hunting and fishing, chanced to pass the land now owned by Eli Boice, and then, for the first time, conceived the idea of buying the land and removing hither with his family. On the premises, near the bank of the creek, was a large spring, and the situation of the land, the spring, and a few of his old neighbors already settled near, bent his mind toward the project. After viewing the land, in company with his son John, he effected the purchase, paying thirty-four shillings per acre for it. He arrived with his family June 15, 1801, and took possession of his log cabin, built the pre- vious year. Many of his descendants are residents of the town.


Early the following spring, 1801, Levi Slater left Mar-


bletown, and by permission obtained before leaving there, moved into the empty cabin, until he could himself build a dwelling, which he immediately did, on the present site of Slaterville. His family consisted of his wife and one child, the late Justus Slater, of Jersey City, then about one year old. Capt. Slater was about twenty-eight years of age, and during his future life, all passed here, he was, in turn, far- mer, school-teacher, surveyor, distiller, merchant, lumber- man, and for many years justice of the peacc.


John Robison came in the same spring that Captain Slater did, also from Marbletown. He located next east of Slater's, on the spot where C. H. Deuel's house now is. Several of his descendants are residents of the town.


The same year Lemuel Yates came in from Apalachin, and settled on what is now called the old Yates farm.


The settlers east of Slaterville being mostly from New England, the appellation " Yankee Settlement" came in vogue, in contradistinction to the " Dutch Settlement," as the Matthew Jansen locality was called. Jansen came in 1802; Benjamin Tracy, the same year; Daniel Newkirk, about the same time. Rev. Garret Mandeville came in from Ulster County, and settled near Mott's Corners, in 1803 ; several of his descendants live in the town. John Rounsevell (or Rounesville) came in 1800, and settled on what afterwards became the Dr. Speed homestead. He was accompanied by Joel Rich, and they came from New Hampshire, though originally from Massachusetts. Roun- sevell subsequently lived several years in Newark, Tioga Co., and afterwards at Paddock, where he died, in 1844. He was the father of the late Charles J. Rounsvell, of the Centre, who represented this county in the Assembly in 1849. His daughter, Harriet, now the wife of Henry Krum, was the first white female born in this town .*


George Vickery settled the N. M. Toby farm, and Syl- vester Rounsevell the one where his son Madison now lives, in 1804; John Doty the C. L. Wattles farm, same year. Deacon Booth, a soldier of the war of 1812, Jona- than Norwood, Robert Freeland, all came in during the years 1804-5. Henry Quick, from Marbletown, Ulster Co., settled the farm now owned by his son, Daniel H. Quick, about the year 1804, and was the first of the name who came here. His brother Jacob came afterwards, and likewise others more or less related to him. He married Sally, daughter of Widow Earsley.


In 1805 a few families came in from South Maryland and Virginia, by the names of Boyer, Hyde, Speed, and Patillo, all of whom became prominent citizens, except the last, and became largely interested in real estate by pur- chase, they collectively having bought several thousand acres. They brought their slaves in with them, t and held them generally until the final abolition of slavery in this State, in 1827. Augustine Boyer was a native of Kent Co., Md., and inherited considerable wealth. The Speeds came from Mecklenburg Co., Va. Dr. Joseph Speed studied medicine with Benjamin Rush, M.D., an eminent physician of Philadelphia, and one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. Dr. Speed located in Philadelphia, and practiced medicine there several years


* See farther on.


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successfully, and on his arrival here was quite a wealthy man, partly the proceeds of his profession and partly inher- ited wealth. He first settled on the old Deuel farm, and lived there many years, his old log house and negro-quarters remaining on the place many years after he left it. From there he removed to the old Speed homestead, and con- tinued to live there until near his death, which occurred whilst on a visit to his son, near Baltimore, Md. He was a brother-in-law of General Harper, of Virginia, at one time a senator in Congress from that State, who was a son-in-law of Charles Carroll of Carrollton. The doctor had several sons and daughters, of whom William P. Speed, of Caroline, and one of the slaves, now living at Ithaca, at a great age, are the only survivors of the party who came in 1805, W. P. Speed being then an infant. Henry Speed, an uncle of the doctor, also emigrated with the party, and settled southeast of the others. He was the father of John James Speed* and Mrs. Robert H. Hyde. John James Speed, Jr., represented Tompkins County in the Assembly in 1832 (his colleagues being John Ellis and Horace Maek), and soon thereafter removed to Ithaca, and became a prom- inent merehant and manufacturer there.


Aaron Bull came in from Litchfield Co., Conn., in 1805; and settled on the Aaron Scutt farm, partly in the town of Dryden. His children now living are Moses, Henry W., Justus, and John, and Mary (wife of James B. Hogan, of Watkins). John is a merchant, and proprietor of the grist-mill at Slaterville. Matthew Bull, a brother- in-law of Aaron, came in the same year, and settled on land immediately east of the latter.


Among other early settlers were Moses Reed, Joseph Goodrich, Andrew Van Luven, and Jonah Cass (both early school-teachers), Isaae Miller (early merchant), Elias Gotee, Nathan Gosper, Joseph Smith, Mareus Barmerton, Barthol- omew Green, John Doty, Captain Alexander Stowell, and others.


From 1812 to 1820 new settlers were quite numerous. Among those who came we might mention Abraham Boiee, Jr. (son of Abraham Boice, of " Boiceville"); he came in from Ulster County in 1812, and settled first in Dryden, and soon thereafter on the farm now occupied by Edward J. Thomas. Dr. James Ashley, father of Samuel P. Ash- ley, came from Bristol Co., Mass., in 1814, and settled on the Charles B. Higgins farm. Seven years later, Col- onel Simeon Ashley (a brother of the doctor) came in, and settled near by the latter. Deacon Isaac Hollister came in from Ulster Co., N. Y., in 1812, and settled on the farm now occupied by John J. Cooper, and owned by George N. Atwood, who married one of his daughters. His sons were Kinner, Timothy, and Justus.


In 1816 Jonathan Snow came in from Worcester Co., Mass., and settled on the farm now owned by Simon V. Snow. He had two sons, James H. Snow (farmer) and Jonathan W. Snow, who was killed by lightning July 29, 1852. Three of his daughters are living, namely, Mary, wife of John J. Peters ; Louisa, wife of Robert Doty, of Bureau Co., Ill. ; and Susanna, widow of John Jones.


John Taft, a native of Worcester Co., Mass., a soldier


in the war of 1812, came into Caroline, and settled in 1820. He resided in the town until his death, in October, 1876. He had one son and three daughters. His son, William H., entered the Union army, as second lieutenant in the 137th New York Volunteer Regiment, and died of typhoid fever, near Harper's Ferry. The oldest daughter married James H. Snow ; the second is unmarried, and owns the old homestead ; and the third married William P. Ashley, and resides near Slaterville.


Peter Lounsbery, father of Cantine, Edward, and Richard Lounsbery, arrived from Ulster County in 1820, and settled on the homestead now occupied by his son Richard. His daughters are Julia, wife of George Woleott, and Catha- rine, wife of Moses T. Denman. Mr. Lounsbery was a member of Assembly from this county in 1844, and held several term offices prior and subsequent to that time.


Marlin Merrill came in from Connecticut in 1830, and settled first at Mott's Corners, and afterwards on the farm now occupied by Charles Bogardus. Several of his de- scendants reside in the town.


Charles Cooper came into the town in February, 1816, and settled on the farm now occupied by Truman Spauld- ing. The sons are William, J. A. D., and Hiram Cooper.


Michael C. Krum came in from Ulster County in 1838, and settled on the farm where he now lives. He was su- pervisor of the town in 1852. The same year Elizur Good- rich, father of Levi L. Goodrich, came in, having previ- ously settled in Berkshire, Tioga Co., in 1820. He was for- merly a sea-captain, and hailed from Connecticut. He died in 1870, in the eighty-first year of his age.


George Blair, father of Austin Blair, ex-member of Con- gress from Michigan and ex-Governor of that State, was an early settler in Caroline, where the latter was born.


Lyman Cobb, the author of "Cobb's Spelling-Book" and other school-books, was an early settler in this town, and one of its most prominent educators.


The first log house erected within the limits of the town was that built by Captain David Rich, in 1795.


The first frame house was the old " Mansion House," erected by General John Cantine about the year 1801. It is still standing, a venerable landmark of the past, which, though time-worn and dilapidated, deserves to be pre- served on account of its antiquity.


The first white birth in the town is elaimed by some to have been that of John Middaugh, some time during the year 1800; but as this elaim is not sufficiently authenti- eated by the necessary dates, the honor must be bestowed upon Harriet, daughter of John Rounsvell, and wife of Henry Krum, who was born January 25, 1801, and is still living at Slaterville.


The first grist-mill was erected by General John Can- tine, in 1800, at what is now Mott's Corners. It stood about opposite to the site of the present " Upper Mills."


The first saw-mill was also erected by General Cantine at the same time he built the grist-mill, and on the same site.


The first tavern was kept by Richard Bush, in 1801. It was for many years known as " Bush's Stand."


The first tannery was built by Solomon Robison and Daniel Hedges, in 1816.


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The first distillery of which we have any definite ac- eount was erected by Levi Slater, abont 1810.


The first store was kept by John James Speed, Sr., in a small log house on the C. P. Tobey farm, probably as carly as 1807.


The first sehool-house ereeted was a small log addition to the residence of John Robison, on the present site of Slaterville, in 1802.


The first church edifice was that erected by the Dutch Reformed Society, about the year 1820 ; followed, in 1823, by the union church at Speedsville.


CIVIL ORGANIZATION.


Caroline, so named by Dr. Joseph Speed, in honor, it is said, of one of his daughters, was organized Feb. 22, 1811, and transferred to this county, Mareh 22, 1822. The first town-meeting was held on the second Tuesday in April, 1811, at the Bush Tavern.


The following were chosen as the first town officers, namely : William Rounsvell, Supervisor; Levi Slater, Town Clerk ; Ephraim Chambers, Nathaniel Tobey, and Laban Jenks, Assessors ; John Robison, Nathaniel Tobey, and Moses Reed, Commissioners of Highways; Charles Mulks, Collector; John Robison and Joseph Chambers, Overseers of the Poor; Richard Chambers and Robert Hyde, Constables ; Dr. Joseph Speed, Charles Mulks, and Robert Freeland, Fence-Viewers ; Richard Bush, Pound- master.


At the town-meeting of 1817 it was voted "That who- ever kills a fox in this town shall be entitled to a bounty ; for killing a wolf, $5 ; for killing a wild-cat, $1."


At the town-meeting in 1816 it was " Resolved, That Lyman Rawson be prosecuted for retailing 'speerits' with- out a license."


Ephraim Chambers and John Robison were the first justices of the peace in this town, commissioned by the Council of Appointment. The office was made elective by the people in 1827. The first justices eleeted were Dr. James Ashley (1 year), Milo Heath (2 years), Aaron Curtis (3 years), and Dr. Silas Hutchinson (4 years).


Supervisors, 1811 to 1878, William Rounsvell (2 years), John J. Speed, Sr., John Robison (2 years), Robert Free- land (2 years), Augustine Boyer, Robert Freeland, Augus- tine Boyer, Levi Slater (5 years), Robert Freeland (3 years), William Jackson (3 years), Samuel H. Dean (3 years), Henry Peers, Spencer Hungerford (2 years), Ly- man Kingman (5 years), James R. Speed, Lyman King- man, John Chambers, Dr. Daniel L. Mead, Lymnan King- man, Samuel E. Green (2 years), William Cooper, Henry Krum, Michael C. Krum, Edward Hungerford, Robert H. S. Hyde, Herman C. Reed, John Bull (2 years), Charles J. Rounsvell, John J. Bush, Peter Lounsbery, William H. Blair, William Curtis, James H. Snow, Samuel E. Green (2 years), Sharrard Slater, Samuel P. Ashley, Ly- man Kingman, Sharrard Slater, John Wolcott (4 years), Chauncey L. Wattles (3 years), Epenetus Howe (2 years).


Town Clerks, 1811 to 1878, Levi Slater (7 years), John J. Speed, Sr., Levi Slater, John Cantine, Moses Cass (3 years), John Mulks, Nathaniel Tobey (7 years), John Chambers (2 years), David Mulks (2 years), Jacob Slater


(4 years), John Chambers (5 years), Peter Meddough (3 years), David Slater (2 years), Jeremiah Harkin (2 years), Arnold James, Jeremiah Harkin (5 years), Jacob Slater, John Wolcott, Charles J. Rounsvell, Orrin D. Lull, Moses R. Higgins, John Wolcott, Charles L. Davis (3 years), Richard Lounsbery (3 years), John Lawrence, Charles L. Davis (5 years), John W. Gass, Charles L. Davis, Ben- jamin M. Lawrence.


Justices of the Peace, 1831 to 1878, Peter Louns- bery, Jonathan Norwood, Levi Slater, Leroy W. Kingman, Peter Lounsbery, Cephas Barker, Levi Slater, Jonathan Norwood (vaeancy), Seth Jenks, Peter Lounsbery, Jona- than Norwood, Samuel H. Dean, Seth Jenks, Peter Louns- bery, Jonathan Norwood, Solomon Robison, George Wol- cott (vacancy), James Deland, George Wolcott, Abraham H. Rounsvell, Peter Meddaugh, Wm. P. Speed (vacancy), Francis Losee, George Wolcott, William H. Taft, James Heath, William P. Speed (vacancy), Franeis Losce, Peter Quick, George F. Sanders, Mason Clark, Solomon Robison, Sharrard Slater, George T. Sanders, Mason Clark, Solomon Robison, Sharrard Slater, George T. Sanders, Mason Clark, Solomon Robison, Aaron Curtis (vacancy), Epenetus Howe, Jr., Peter Lounsbery, Charles J. Rounsvell, Arnold James, George Muir (vacancy), Daniel B. Gilbert, Benjamin Losee, Charles J. Rounsvell, Matthew Bull, Daniel B. Gilbert, Richard Lounsbery, Charles J. Rounsvell, Matthew Bull, Solomon K. Blackman, Abel T. Lott (vacaney), James Boice, John J. Peters, John W. Gass, John Cross.


The present town officers, other than those included in the above lists, are James K. Boice, Benton Reed, and Horace E. Patch, Assessors; Henry S. Krum, Commis- sioner of Highways ; Henry Quiek and Ira Bogardus, Over- seers of the Poor; Reuben G. Tucker, Collector; George Muir, Abner A. Hawkins, James Mulks, and Levi D. Bacon, Constables ; Edward A. Vermilya, Philip Quiek, and David B. Torry, Inspectors of Election, District No. 1; Alfred Lawrence, Jr., William B. Wolcott, and Davis C. Krum, Inspectors of Election, District No. 2.


SLATERVILLE


is located near the north line of the town, on Six-Mile Creek. It derived its name from Levi Slater, the first settler and a prominent citizen of the place. Among other early settlers (most of whom are mentioned in the history proper of the town) were John Robison and family, Benona Mulks, and three married sons, Charles, John, and Benona, Jr., Joseph Chambers, Lemuel Yates and his father-in-law, Francis Norwood, and others. The village, like most rural settlements, grew to a certain point and stopped about there. Such was the fact with regard to Slaterville. It had its early store, mills, distillery, tavern, church, and school, and kept on in the even tenor of its way until 1871, when an impetus of a very valuable nature was given it by the discovery of an excellent quality of mag- netic water, the curative properties of which soon became familiar to the afflicted. As showing the mineral matter contained in the water, we subjoin an analysis of it, made by Charles T. Jackson, M.D., Assayer of the State of Massa- chusetts, who found that the water contains 6.4 per cent. of solid mineral matter, including carbonate of iron, carbonate


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of lime, the sulphates of soda and lime, nitrate of potash, and the chlorates of calcium and magnesia. Soon after the discovery of the water, Mr. W. J. Carns purchased the " Slaterville House," enlarged and improved it, added baths and other essential appendages of a liealth institution, drilled for the water, arranged and beautified the grounds surrounding the house, changed the name to the " Magnetic Spring House," and opened it to the publie.


The Fountain House, of which Moses Dedriek is pro- prietor, was built by the Hornbeck Bros., in 1872, and in 1875 sold to the present proprietor. It is conveniently fitted up, and, like the "Magnetic Spring House," is gradually gaining popularity.


The village now contains two general stores, one hard- ware-store, one grocery-store, three blacksmithies, two wagon-shops, one flouring-mill (owned by John Bull & Co.), two large hotels (mentioned above), two churches,- one Methodist Episcopal and one Dutch Reformed, close by,-one departmental public school, a resident physician, --- William Gallagher, M.D.,-and one minister of the gospel. The population is fairly estimated at 275.


The post-office was established in 1823, and John Rob- ison was appointed the first postmaster. After the lapse of fifty-five years, Miss Nancy E., granddaughter of John Robison, is the postmistress, having been appointed to the office by Postmaster-General Creswell, in November, 1872.


The Slaterville flouring-mill was first erceted about the year 1820, by Solomon Robison, and rebuilt by the same in 1836. It stood until 1863, when it was destroyed by fire. Jason D. Atwater built the present mill in 1866. John Bull & Co. are the present proprietors.


WEST SLATERVILLE.


This little hamlet was formerly ealled " Boiceville," from the circumstance that Abraham Boice settled there in 1814.




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